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  1. A co teraz?
    Kasa Oszczednosciowa nastepstwem Wolnego Handlu
    First Published: 1989
  2. A is for Anachronism
    First Published: 1972
    Experiences of a teacher.
  3. Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
    Malicious Government Prosecution
    First Published: 2013
    The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy.
  4. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information
    His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government
    First Published: 2015
    It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars for the crime of releasing information. As someone who transformed the way we all use and love the internet, Aaron should have gotten a medal of honour, not a death sentence.
  5. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Information Freedom
    They Can't Stop the Movement
    First Published: 2013
    Aaron Swartz was a target of a deliberately vicious, sadistic government campaign in which the federal government wanted to make his pain an example to the entire progressive techie community. What's more, his death was the outcome of a policy that is a threat to human freedom.
  6. Abahlali baseMjondolo
    Connexipedia Article
    A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
  7. Abandonando el Interés Público
    First Published: 2000
    Las sociedades industriales aprendieron, en el curso de décadas, que los intereses privados no pueden ser usados para salvaguardar el interés público cuando entran en conflicto con sus propios intereses. Fue una lección dura, aprendida con el costo de muchas vidas, pero el resultado fue que gradualmente, pieza por pieza, país a país, una infraestructura pública de regulaciones y agencias y procedimientos fue obtenida para proteger la salud pública y la seguridad. Esa infraestructura está siendo minimizada ahora, no sólo por fuera, sino por dentro de las propias instituciones gubernamentales.
  8. Abandonando o interesse público
    First Published: 2001
  9. Abandoned in the Cold and Dark
    Living Under Siege people of Gaza
    First Published: 2013
    The world has forgotten Gaza, its women and children. The people of Gaza are being crushed under the Israeli blockade which severely restricts essential supplies coming into the strip. The blockade is as bad as the war; it’s like a slow death for everyone in Gaza.
  10. Abandoning the Public Interest 
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
    The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
  11. Abandoning the Public Interest - Bulgarian text
  12. Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Simplified) Text
    First Published: 2001
  13. Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Traditional) Text
    First Published: 2001
  14. Abandoning the Public Interest - Farsi Text
    First Published: 2000
  15. Abandoning the Public Interest - Japanese text
    First Published: 2000
  16. Abandonner l'intérêt publique
    First Published: 2001
    Les sociétés industrielles ont appris au cour de décennies, que les intérêts privées ne peuvent être fait confiance de sauvegarder l'intérêt publique si il y à conflit avec leurs intérêts. C'étais une dure leçon apprie aux coûts de plusieurs vies, mais le résultat à été graduellement, pièce par pièce, pays par pays, une infrastructure de régulations publiques et d'agences et procédés mis sur pied pour protéger la santé publique et la sécurité. L'infrastructure est maintenant sapée pas seulement de l'extérieur, mais du gouvernement même.
  17. L'abbandono dell'interesse pubblico
    First Published: 2000
  18. Abbas fears the Prisoners' Hunger Strike
    First Published: 2017
    The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. Back home, things are heating up. There is anger in the West Bank, both on the streets and within the ranks of Abbas's Fatah movement. The trigger is a hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners..
  19. Abbey, Edward
    Connexipedia Article
    American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. (1927-1989).
  20. Abbie's Road 1936-1989
    Twenty-Three Years After His Passing, We Republish Abbie Hoffman's 1989 Obituary by His Student and Co-Conspirator
    First Published: 2013
    "There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning," he wrote while he was on the run. Of all his accomplishments, he would probably like to be remembered as the guy who levitated the Pentagon. But the real miracle of Abbie Hoffman was how he raised the collective spirit of our nation, and of the human race.
  21. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
    First Published: 1969
    A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
  22. Abdi, Dekha Ibrahim
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    A global peacemaker from rural Kenya who has engaged in peace work and conflict resolution in many of the world's most divided countries. Her comprehensive methodology combines grassroots activism, soft but uncompromising leadership, and spiritual motivation drawing on the teachings of Islam. (Born 1964).
  23. Abettors of war crimes will be held accountable
    First Published: 2009
    Taking action to bring perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to justice.
  24. Abolish High School
    Easy Chair
    First Published: 2015
    Solnit says that we need to recognize that high school doesn't work for most young people, and suggests abolishing it.
  25. Abolition of Slavery Timeline
    Connexipedia Article
    Timelines tracing abolition in specific countries, abolition of the trade in slaves and abolition throughout empires.
  26. The Abolition of Work and Other Myths
    First Published: 1995
  27. Abolitionism
    Connexipedia Article
    A movement in Western Europe and the Americas to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves.
  28. Aboriginal Newspapers List
    Lists aboriginal publications (past and present) held in print or microform in the collection of Library and Archives Canada.
  29. Abortion Caravan
    Connexipedia article
    In February 1970, members of the Vancouver Women’s Caucus (1968–1971) gathered to begin planning the Abortion Caravan, Canada’s first national feminist protest.
  30. Abortion and Conscience
    First Published: 2012
    I am as in favour of a woman’s right to abortion as I am hostile to Creationism. I recognize, however, a fundamental difference between insisting that all biology teachers teach the theory of evolution and forcing a doctor to perform an abortion against his or her will. I recognize, too, a fundamental difference between defending a woman’s right to choose and insisting that this includes the right to compel a doctor to perform an abortion. Not to recognise such distinctions is to distort the very idea of morality.
  31. An Abortion Doctor's Jailhouse Journal
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    With Dr. Tiller’s death, we are painfully reminded of how “abortion doctors” are subject to ongoing harassment and even death. The question of what motivates such doctors to continue to provide abortions is once again front and center.
  32. Abortion, Infanticide, Humanity, Free Speech
    First Published: 2012
    Abortion is right, and infanticide is wrong, because there IS a moral boundary between the fetus and the newborn.
  33. Abortion procedures
    First Published: 1992
  34. Abortion Stays Legal
    First Published: 1991
    Bill C-43 was defeated in 1991, keeping abortion legal in Canada.
  35. Abortion Victory
    First Published: 2016
    On June 27, 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court, in Whole Women's Health vs. Hellerstedt, not only struck down key provisions of a 2013 Texas law restricting abortion, but also set a standard by which similar legislation can be measured.
  36. About Connexions
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2011
  37. About Connexions - Farsi
    First Published: 2011
  38. About Connexions - Japanese
    First Published: 2011
  39. Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
    First Published: 1865
    The speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration at the start of his second term as president.
  40. Abraham Serfaty, communist, anti-Zionist, democracy activist, Moroccan Jew, dies aged 84
    First Published: 2010
    Towering Moroccan activist Abraham Serfaty died Thursday aged 84, after a lifelong struggle for freedom, first against the French colonial rulers and then against King Hassan II's monarchy.
  41. Abridged Version of Judgement by Justice K Macay in the case involving Atlantic, Redpath and St. Lawrence Sugar Ref
    First Published: 1976
    Abridged text of judgement to aid citizens to understand the issues involved.
  42. Abstract Labour and Value in Marx's System
    First Published: 1927   Published: 1978
    The lecture develops one of the main themes of Rubin's Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, thus providing a useful introduction to the latter work, while developing beyond it in important respects. The lecture aims to bring out more clearly than had the Essays the distinction between the social commensurability of labour that is characteristic of any society that is based on the division of labour, and the specific form in which this commensuration is achieved in capitalist society, the form of abstract labour.
  43. Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement
    First Published: 2011
    Journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement’s protests and marches are not only exposed to police brutality but also to a sort of judicial lottery when detained. The situation varies from state to state, according to local laws, but the freedom to report news and information is being violated almost everywhere, not only for professional journalists but also for bloggers and for activists who want to cover the protests themselves.
  44. The Absurd Consequences of a "Right to Privacy"
    First Published: 2017
    British MP David Davis’s text messages poking fun at the appearance of a female colleague make him the latest whipping boy for those determined to root out sexism and misogyny in public life, the Daily Mail reports. Curiously, they also make him the latest poster boy for exponents of an expansive "right to privacy."
  45. The Absurdity of Hi-Tech Servitude
    What You Sacrifice to Hold a Job in the New Economy
    First Published: 2010
    In terms of "jobs," war is evidently a burgeoning growth-industry. Back in the "Homeland," the demands of "internal-security" offer new openings for countless other "surplus-persons" in need of some "employment"—as law-enforcement and anti-terrorism personnel, prison guards—or prison inmates.
  46. The Absurdity of "Independent" Kosovo
    A Saga of Injustice and Hypocrisy
    First Published: 2008
    The West's entire approach to Kosovo has been marked by sordid dishonesty and bad faith, supporting national self-determination and the right to secession in one place and territorial integrity in another, cheering on ethnic cleansing by one ethnic group and demanding war crimes trials for another, trumpeting the virtues of majority rule when it's convenient to do so and threatening to impose sanctions and penalties on majorities when that's convenient. For the Americans, Kosovo is nothing more than the hinterland of a giant military base.
  47. The Absurdity of Saying "White Privilege'
    First Published: 2017
    Using rhetoric like "white supremacy" and "white privilege" is a way of stereotyping the whole of "white" people and lumping everyone into one group. This is the surest way to turn potential allies in the struggle for justice into adversaries; by doing so we end up perpetuating the very divides that the "system" depends on to splinter people apart.
  48. Abu-Jamal, Mumia
    Connexipedia Article
    An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. (Born 1954).
  49. Abundance for everybody
    'Conscious food' supports a thriving urban activist community in Bolivia
    First Published: 2016
    A group of Bolivian activists engage in 'conscious eating' while resisting capitalism and climate change and valuing everyone's work.
  50. Abusive Conditions as China Goes Capitalist
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    The second meeting of the 10th National People’s Congress, held in March 2004, made some amendments to the Constitution. The clause “citizens’ legitimate private property will not be violated” has been added to further defend private property rights and inheritance rights.
  51. Academe's Poisonous Call-Out Culture
    First Published: 2017
    I cannot help thinking that something has gone seriously wrong when a scholar who is not transphobic or working against the interests of trans people, but, in fact, considering an important question, is labeled as "doing harm."
  52. The Academic Boycott Debate
    First Published: 2006
    An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
  53. Academic Boycott of South Africa
    Connexipedia Article
  54. Academic Bullying the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy
    First Published: 2017
    Workplace bullying is an increasing problem. Books are being written about it, and there is even a Workplace Bullying Institute. The problem isn't restricted to the business world. Books such as Faculty Incivility: The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It, Bully in the Ivory Tower: How Aggression and Incivility Erode American Higher Education, and Workplace Bullying in Higher Education suggest that bullying is a particular problem among academics.
  55. Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning'
    Higher Education in Crisis
    First Published: 2014
    It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creation of a slew of amenities (the "climbing wall" phenomenon) and offering a unique college "experience." Non-elite colleges and universities are the losers in this process, fighting with each other for a dwindling number of state tax dollars amidst huge increases in tuition costs.
  56. Academic Freedom Threatened in Ontario Universities
    First Published: 2009
    While most academics would agree that a university should be a place where critical debate is fostered, what is academic freedom when the freedom to attend classes without being bombed isn't even assured? Academic freedom falters it seems when it comes to Palestine, whether in the Middle East or in North America. Not only is there no realizable academic freedom for Palestinians, but also, even in North America, students and faculty raising critical viewpoints about Israel find themselves muffled, accused of anti-Semitism, threatened with disciplinary action, or, in the case of former Depaul University professor, Norman Finkelstein, out of a job entirely.
  57. Academics can change the world -- if they stop talking only to their peers
    First Published: 2016
    Public outreach or engagement is not valued enough in universities where the emphasis is on research journal articles with tiny readerships for communication. The "publish or perish" culture is a reality at universities all over the world.
  58. Academics Urge Government Climate Action
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2009
    More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
  59. Academics Who Serve as Israel's Useful Idiots
    First Published: 2018
    How derisively would we have treated an academic - an expert in human rights, no less - who argued back in the 1980s that those who supported a boycott of apartheid South Africa must have been secretly anti-white or anti-Christian because they did not equally prioritise a boycott of Israel?
  60. Acceptable Losses
    Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen
    First Published: 2016
    A close look at the crisis in Yemen, a country rife with povery and water shortages and further devastated by a prolonged campaign of bombing and military action.The military campaign, supported by the United States, is an effort by the Saudi governemnt to oust a tribal group in north Yemen who follow Zaidism, an off-shoot of Shia Islam.
  61. Access Community - Media
    First Published: 1976
    Proposal for funding for a community media resource unit.
  62. Access to Housing, A Regional Perspective
    First Published: 1980
    This report is the result of two concerns. On the one hand, it is a response to the perceived lack of information of the needs not being met by the current housing market in the lower mainland region of BC. Under current government programs, local voluntary organizations have a great deal of responsibility for developing, at the local level, special needs housing projects. The second main concern of the report is to examine the problems facing these voluntary organizations and the availability of resources at their disposal.
  63. An Account from Madison
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    Among the first publicized actions in opposition to the union-busting Budget Repair Bill was the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) February 14th delivery of valentines to Governor Walker’s office. Colin, an adjunct professor of English and a new member of Solidarity, recalls: “We marched on the sidewalk, not the street…People would look at each other to make sure others were chanting. Some clearly felt embarrassed and most didn’t know the chants.”
  64. An account of my involvement with Solidarity - Bob Potter
    First Published: 2013
    Bob Potter's previously unpublished 2004 recollections of his involvement in the libertarian socialist group Solidarity in the 1960s and 70s and some of its key figures like Ken Weller and Chris and Jeanne Pallis.
  65. Accounts of Wrath
    The Family Farm Under Siege
    First Published: 1983
  66. Accumulation and Control of Labor
    First Published: 1999
    Bob Brenner has written a book that is clearly important and I respect him for tackling the issues and working on them so assiduously. His work is clear and I have found it very useful in clarifying my ideas but I find it hard to agree with it.
  67. Accumulation by Dispossession
    Connexipedia Article
  68. Accumulation, Imperialism, and Pre-Capitalist Formations
    Luxemburg and Marx on the non-Western World
    First Published: 2010
  69. Accumulation, the State, and Community Struggle Impacts on Toronto's built Environment, 1945 to 1972
    PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 1985
    First Published: 1985
  70. 'Accusing Israel of apartheid is not anti-Semitic': Holocaust historian
    First Published: 2023
    A growing number of Jewish academics are using the term apartheid to describe Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
  71. Acerca de Connexions
    First Published: 2011
    Connexions es un proyecto canadiense creado para conectar a las personas que trabajan por la justicia social, con información, recursos y otras personas.
  72. The Acheron in Motion
    First Published: 1918
    The healthy class instinct of the proletariat rebels against the schema of parliamentary cretinism. 'The liberation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself,' says the Communist Manifesto. And the'working class' is not a few hundred elected representatives who control society's destiny with speeches and rebuttals.
  73. ACLU sues US over separation of mother, child seeking asylum
    First Published: 2018
    American Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. government of unlawfully separating a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter by holding them in different immigration facilities 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) appart.
  74. ACLU Wants 23 Secret Surveillance Laws Made Public
    First Published: 2016
    The ACLU has identified 23 legal opinions that contain new or significant interpretations of surveillance law -- affecting the government's use of malware, its attempts to compel technology companies to circumvent encryption, and the CIA's bulk collection of financial records under the Patriot Act -- all of which remain secret to this day, despite an ostensible push for greater transparency following Edward Snowden’s disclosures.
  75. An Act of State Terrorism
    First Published: 2010
    We have to appeal to the core of people who have already been active on one level or another around the Palestinian question, or those who are already convinced, to re-galvanize the movement, and go out and convince yet wider layers of people. We must argue the Palestinian case, and also push the case more generally to very wide layers of people.
  76. Action on Legal Aid
    First Published: 1977
    Brochure that describes several organizations dedicated to the delivery of legal service to individuals and groups.
  77. Action Proposals
    First Published: 1980
  78. Action Will Be Taken 
    Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
    First Published: 2004
    Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
  79. Activating the Genocide Convention 
    First Published: 2023
    There is no doubt that Israel's actions amount to genocide. Numerous international law experts have said so and genocidal intent has been directly expressed by numerous Israeli ministers, generals and public officials. I can see no room to doubt whatsoever that Israel's current campaign of bombing of civilians and of the deprivation of food, water and other necessities of life to Palestinians amounts to genocide.
  80. Active Participants in Genocide
    First Published: 2024
    In obedience to Israel, the Western political and media class is isolating itself from public opinion on Gaza in ways hard to believe.
  81. Activism: Marathon or Sprint?
    #shifthappens
    First Published: 2015
    The 1% are killing the planet partly because the elite players have chosen to look no further into the future than the next fiscal quarter. Meanwhile, our culture exists to train and condition the 99% to maintain an equally narrow perspective.
  82. Activist archiving in Toronto
    First Published: 2013
    People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
  83. Activist Endurance
    A Look Back at the 2004 RNC
    First Published: 2014
    Even in the face of urgent, ecocidal issues, dissent is a marathon, not a sprint. With authentic solidarity, a daily ego check, and an enduring willingness to evolve, we can each find our pace and help make a difference.
  84. Activists Arrested at ArborGen GE Trees World Headquarters
    First Published: 2015
    A new organizing initiative called "GE Trees Fall" launched with a four day GE trees action training camp outside of Asheville North Carolina, over September 24th to the 27th, 2015.
  85. An activist's guide to basic first aid
    A short guide to health care and first aid
    First Published: 2006
    A short guide to health care and first aid to be used on demonstrations or during direct action when injuries are possible, such as large pickets, blockades or demonstrations.
  86. Activist's Handbook
    Articles for activists on organizing.
  87. Activists Track Down Racist Trolls Who Thought They Were Anonymous and Brilliantly Embarrass Them
    A Brazilian group is turning racist social media messages into signs everyone can see.
    First Published: 2015
    Recently, the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced it had turned off comments on stories about Tamir Rice because "just about every piece we published about Tamir immediately became a cesspool of hateful, inflammatory or hostile comments."
  88. Les actualities televisees: le monde recree au service du pouvoir.
    First Published: 1980
  89. Actually, I Am Anti-Police
    First Published: 2017
    The I'm not anti-police stance would work if, and only if, police brutality could be separated from the nature of policing. But it can't. That's because the major purpose of policing is to maintain the supremacy of the ruling class.
  90. Adalen shootings
    Connexipedia Article
    A series of events in and around the sawmill district of Ådalen, Kramfors Municipality, Ångermanland, Sweden, in May 1931 during which five persons were killed by Swedish military troops called in as reinforcements by the police.
  91. Adapt or Die: Millennials, Technology, and Net Neutrality
    First Published: 2017
    The Internet is changing the way we think, concentrate, and process information. Studies are showing the Internet is lowering our concentration because the Internet offers constant distractions. It’s reducing our attention span, and it’s ruining our interpersonal communication skills. Basically this technology is dehumanizing us.
  92. Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies are Working Together to Build a More Privacy-Friendly Web
    First Published: 2015
    Eckersley and Toner talk more about the coalition between tracker and ad-blocker companies that will respect a 'Do Not Track' policy.
  93. Addiction and Control
    First Published: 2009
    Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
  94. Adding up to Zero
    First Published: 2020
    I just learned that Canada's biggest meat company is now proclaiming itself both "carbon neutral" and "carbon zero."
  95. Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
    First Published: 1997
    It behoves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice. All of us need to do more in supporting the struggle of the people of Palestine for self-determination; in supporting the quest for peace, security and friendship in this region.
  96. Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
    First Published: 1850
  97. Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
    First Published: 1865
    The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.
  98. Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace 
    First Published: 2007
    In order for peace to set sail there should be some guiding principles. The most important is equality. This is not to say that the conflict is between two equals. Overwhelming Israeli power and unconditional United States support has no comparison on the Palestinian side, other than the tragic balance of terror that has been reached with Israel through suicide bombing. But neither side should be treated differently from the other.
  99. The Adequacy of Basic Income Assistance Benefits (Gain) in December 1980
    First Published: 1981
    In Vancouver, people who live on Guaranteed Available Income for Need (GAIN) are facing a shortfall in income of between $50 and $200 every month, according to the most recent study by interviewing those who came to them for Christmas gifts.
  100. Adivasi Movements in India: An Interview with Poet Waharu Sonavane
    First Published: 2012
    Waharu is a Bhil Adivasi, long-time poet and activist. Since the 1970s, he has been organizing for Adivasi self-sufficiency among his community near his hometown in western India.
  101. ADL Spies
    The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League
    First Published: 2013
    2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the exposure of a nation-wide spying operation run by the ADL that went back at least five decades.
  102. The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues
    First Published: 2002
    The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that claims to be a defender of civil rights, has engaged in a vast spying operation directed against American citizens opposed to Israel’s policies in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza and to the apartheid policies of the government of South Africa.
  103. ADL's Massive Spy Operation
    Zionist Fingermen for Apartheid, Salvador Death Squads
    First Published: 1993
  104. Adolph Reed Jr.: The Surrender of America's Liberals
    First Published: 2014
    Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Bill Moyers about his provocative titled article in the March issue of Harper's Magazine, and why the left is no longer a significant force in American politics.
  105. Adorno, Theodor W.
    Connexipedia Article
    German-born international intellectual, sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. (1903-1969).
  106. Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality
    First Published: 2017
    Vials reexamines Adorno's Authoritarian Personality, F-scale, and their implications for a Trump America.
  107. Ads are coming to get you
    Billions of pieces of data crunched to target your screen.
    First Published: 2013
    The amount of personal information we donate to the Internet giants, and their ability to monitor our every move, are now being fed to ad exchange sites that bid within milliseconds for the space on our screens.
  108. Advancing Food Sovereignty to Transform Economies
    First Published: 2015
    Food sovereignty can transform local, national, and regional markets to support countries’ domestic economies and allow us to create wealth, both in production and knowledge.
  109. Adversarial Interoperability
    First Published: 2019
    A round-up of the EFF's writing on 'adverserial interoperabillity' which is necessary for creating a decentralized internet free from corporate monopolies.
  110. Adverse Health Effects of Noise
    First Published: 1995
    The effects of noise are widespread and impose long-term consequences on health.
  111. Adverse Health Effects of Noise- Japanese text
    First Published: 1995
  112. Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it
    First Published: 2011
    We are subjected to ever more pervasive messages to consume, encouraging dissatisfaction. Yet this column depends on it.
  113. Advice on Hiring a Media Trainer
    First Published: 2002
    Media training is highly recommended for any media spokesperson, whether a novice or a veteran.
  114. Advocacy Journalism
    Connexipedia Article
    A genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose.
  115. Advocates Argue Free Transit Benefits Us All
    First Published: 2014
    Pablo analyzes the economic, environmental, and social benefits that a fareless public transportation system would provide Canadian cities.
  116. L'Affair Miliband
    First Published: 2013
    The demonization of Ralph Miliband raises a few issues avoided by both the Tory and the liberal press. These relate to Miliband’s own political views on Britain, its political institutions as well as the world at large; the context of the first Lord Rothermere’s addiction to Mussolini and Hitler and their English offspring in Britain (Oswald Mosley and gang but not them alone) right up till September 1939 and the question of patriotism and its compatibility with leftwing views.
  117. The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles
    First Published: 1997
    Principles of secular humanism.
  118. Affirmative Action or Class Solidarity?
    First Published: 2007
    Affirmative action continues the game of pitting people against each other. It distorts what people mean by racial justice, which would require decent jobs for all. Instead the government promotes unemployment while it encourages competition among racial groups. There is only one "group" that the powerful do not want us to identify with-the working class. The ruling elite know that they can keep groups based on race or gender fighting each other forever. The elite cannot control a united working class.
  119. Affirmative Distraction: Elimination of Affirmative Action at U-Massachusetts
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    The west wind has blown east. The elimination of affirmative action in Texas, California, and Washington's public university systems seemed like a phenomenon isolated to highly competitive west-coast state universities—until February 1999, when the University of Massachusetts announced that it too would eliminate the use of race-based admissions policies and scholarship programs.
  120. Afghan media respond to Taliban threats against TV channels
    First Published: 2015
    In an alarming statement published on the group's website on Monday 12 October, 2015, the Taliban said the two TV channels are legitimate targets and no employee, anchor, office, news team or reporter associated with either station is safe henceforth.
  121. Afghan Young Women Protest Killing Women
    First Published: 2012
    Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read 'where is justice?', take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan women in less than a month in three provinces of the country.
  122. Afghanistan
    First Published: 1857   Published: 1858
    An encyclopedia article by Engels.
  123. Afghanistan 1979-1992
    America's Jihad
    First Published: 1995
    An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
  124. Afghanistan is Collapsing. Get Out: Now!
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the disastrous results of US and NATO intervention in Afghanistan, a conflict which has little to do with eliminating international terrorism.
  125. Afghanistan: the Smell of Defeat
    Cut-and-Run Time
    First Published: 2012
    The United States hasn’t liberated Afghanistan. It hasn’t rebuilt Afghanistan. It hasn’t removed the warlords from power, curtailed opium production, established strong democratic institutions, or improved life for ordinary working people. The US hasn’t achieved any of its strategic objectives.
  126. Africa in the 1990's
    First Published: 1991
  127. Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
    First Published: 2018
    A World Bank report indicates a massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations (TNC). There are two ways to address TNC capture of African wealth: bottom-up through direct action that blocks extraction, or top-down through significant reform.
  128. Africa rising? The economic history of sub-Saharan Africa
    First Published: 2015
    An overview of the economic history of sub-Saharan Africa since independence (around 1960 for most countries).
  129. Africa's whistleblowers
    'All I did was tell the truth'
    First Published: 2018
    In Africa, those who denounce corruption face hardship and physical danger even when there’s a legal framework that should protect and guarantee them a fair hearing.
  130. African-American Self-Defense 
    Guns and the Freedom Struggle
    First Published: 2015
    A Review of "This Noviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Cvil Rights Movement Possible" by Carles E. Cobb. Jr.
  131. African-American Socialist Pioneer
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    In holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America, Winston James singled out Hubert Henry Harrison for his “pioneering role in what became known as the New Negro radicalism of the 1920s.” Yet, James noted, Harrison remained an understudied figure who had not been the subject of a major biography.
  132. African-Americans and Black Oppressors
  133. African Americans and Immigrant Workers
    First Published: 2018
    Malik discusses job competition and tensions between Afrcian Americans and Hispanic workers, more specifically between African Amercians and undocumented workers. He illustrates this through the example of a conflict in a Chicago bakery.
  134. African Americans' Forced Labor
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    As Americans we are taught that slavery was abolished after the Civil War. A close reading of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution reveals, however, that this was not exactly the case. Although this amendment did outlaw slavery for the majority of American citizens, anyone convicted of a crime could still, quite legally, be kept in a state of bondage without claims on civil liberties and without remuneration for their forced labor.
  135. African Americans Ignored in the Age of Obama
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    A truly equal and diverse United States is not possible unless all Americans come to grips with the origins of the race issue, its centrality to U.S. politics, and why African-American issues must be central to revitalizing the civil rights and labour movements — which also requires rebuilding the dream for full equality by direct action.
  136. African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions 
    First Published: 2011
    An inclusive account of the source of popular discontent and an insight into the struggle for democratization, from the popular uprisings in Northern Africa all the way into the heartland of the African continent.
  137. African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions (Book Review)
    First Published: 2012
    This book sets out to place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
  138. African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in 'Slave Markets' in Libya
    First Published: 2017
    Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day 'slave markets' in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports "can be added to a long list of outrages" in the country.
  139. African Mine Workers' Strike of 1946
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike, by mine workers of Witwatersrand, which started on August 12, 1946 and lasted around 1 week. The strike was attacked by police and over the week, at least 1,248 workers were wounded and at least 9 killed.
  140. African Odyssey Turns to the South
    The Great Migrations
    First Published: 2012
    Chronicles the economic hardships faced by Africans and the means they take to alleviate their suffering.
  141. Africa's Farm Revolution - Who will Benefit?
    First Published: 2014
    A farming revolution is under way in Africa, pushed by giant corporations and the UK's aid budget. It will surely be good for the global economy, but will Africa's small farmers see the benefit?
  142. Africa's Pioneering Marxist Political Economist, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the pioneering work of Egyptian-French Marxian economist Samir Amin, who died on August 12, 2018.
  143. Afro-American Progressive Association
    First Published: 2020
    The Afro-American Progressive Association (AAPA) was one of the first Black Power organizations in Canada, and one of the liveliest.
  144. Afro-Asian Collaborations
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of “creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.”
  145. AFSCME 3299 Fights Back
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    In February 2009, four months after the economy crashed, the members of AFSCME Local 3299 ratified a contract with the University of California that has rightfully been called “historic” for the relative gains won by the union on wages and the wage structure. The union represents service and patient-care technical workers, who struggled for more than 18 months to win this agreement.
  146. After 9/11: Whose Security?
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    Since 9/11 the United States has been obsessed with "security" in a very particular sense—protection from intentional threats to our safety and well being, as in "Office of Homeland Security," "our national security," "the conflict between civil liberties and security considerations," "security was tightened," or, more mundanely, "security guards."
  147. After Alleged Election Fraud and Protests, Honduran Congress Moves to Regulate Hate Speech Online
    First Published: 2018
    The Honduran Congress is debating a law that seeks to regulate hate speech and "fake news" on the Internet. Honduran activists and opposition political parties say the proposal would function as a gag law aimed at silencing government critics.
  148. After Barr Ordered FBI to "Identify Criminal Organizers," Activists Were Intimidated at Home and at Work
    First Published: 2020
    Four people in Cookeville, Tennessee were questioned about antifa after posting about Black Lives Matter rallies on social media.
  149. After Katrina: A View from the Ground
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    interview with Isaac Steiner. Against The Current interviewed Isaac Steiner, a member of Solidarity in Atlanta, about his experiences in a grassroots reconstruction project in New Orleans.
  150. After Losing Hope for Change, Top Left-wing Activists and Scholars Leave Israel Behind
    First Published: 2020
    They founded anti-occupation movements and fought for the soul of Israeli society, but ultimately decided to emigrate. The new exiles tell Haaretz how they were harassed and silenced, until they had almost no choice but to leave.
  151. After Malheur, the end of the beginning: war for America's public lands rages on
    First Published: 2016
    Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive factor in the occupiers' defeat. But the greater war for America's public lands has only just begun.
  152. After Middle Eastern Wars End, the Medical Wars Begin
    First Published: 2017
    What are the wars doing to the health care infrastructure?
  153. After Nice, Don't Give ISIS What It's Asking For
    First Published: 2016
    Not much is yet known about Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old man French police say is responsible for a horrific act of mass murder last night in the southern city of Nice. In the wake of the killings, French President Francois Hollande has denounced the attack as "Islamist terrorism" linked to the militant group the Islamic State. Supporters of ISIS online have echoed these statements, claiming responsibility for the attack as another blow against its enemies in Western Europe. While the motive for the attack is still under investigation, it is worth examining why the Islamic State is so eager to claim such incidents as its own.
  154. After Oaxaca's Popular Rebellion
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    “Think about it,” a popular bumper sticker read, “6 more years would be 86.” On July 4, 2010, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca held statewide elections. Despite open vote-buying and other fraud perpetrated by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), it was not enough to ensure victory on this occasion, thereby ending 81 years of uninterrupted PRI rule in Oaxaca.
  155. After Obama's Health Care Law
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    How can the single-payer health care movement move ahead after Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? The right wing wants to repeal the law, which it sees as “intrusive big government.” Single-payer activists are rightly angry that the bill fails to produce the universal national health insurance that our society desperately needs, and instead provides massive subsidies to the private corporate insurance vampires.
  156. After Pakistan's Election
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    Throughout Pakistan the massive anti-Musharraf vote on 18 February, 2008 spoke volumes: We do not like the military dictatorship; we want Musharraf out.
  157. After Paris
    First Published: 2015
    Some have seen the terrorism as the consequence of French foreign policy in Syria. Yet we should be wary of seeing these attacks as a response, however perverted, to French, or Western, foreign policy. The terrorists did not target symbols of the French state, or of French militarism. They did not even target tourist spots. They targeted, rather, the areas and the places where mainly young, anti-racist, multiethnic Parisians hang out. What the terrorists despised, what they tried to eliminate, were ordinary people, drinking, eating, laughing, mixing. That is what they hated - not so much the French state as the values of diversity and pluralism.
  158. After Pinkville
    In Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
    First Published: 1971
    Chomsky begins by expressing criticism of the peace movement protestors. He claims that their demands on the US government to "stop bombing and enter negotiations" in Vietnam were insufficient; they should have instead called for immediate withdrawal and adherence to international law. Chomsky then turns his criticism towards the American moral standing, citing one professors take on foreign policy: "To crush the people's war, we must eliminate the people". He parallels this to the moral level of Nazi Germany and questions the US's lack of moral considerations in the Vietnam War.
  159. After Residential School, My Path to Healing
    First Published: 2011
    Theodore Fontaine's memoir narrating the 12 years he spent in a residential school.
  160. After Shock & Gawk
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
    November 3 began with a shock — the early morning newscast reporting the front page of The London Daily Mirror: “How Can 59,054,087 People be So Dumb?” Culminating what had seemed the longest and unceasingly miserable campaign in U.S. history — and in its wake, the most inconceivable of outcomes: The brazen robber was presented the reward!!
  161. After Stalinism: An Exchange
    First Published: 1999
    I FOUND SUSAN Weissman's piece “The Russian Revolution Revisited” (ATC 75, July/August 1998) a refreshingly readable synopsis of a complex historical problem. While I agree with most of her analysis (with one exception noted), I do not think her conclusion follows from this analysis.
  162. After Ten Years
    On Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed
    First Published: 1946
  163. After 10 years, Hassan Diab is finally free
    First Published: 2018
    Hassan Diab is freed by French authorities after what was deemed a bungled case and rush to judgment, one which zeroed in on Diab with unjust finger-pointing from B'nai Brith.
  164. After the Democrats' Debacle
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    How far have politics “moved to the right” in the United States — and for how long? Although we’re going to press before the November 2 midterm elections, you’re probably reading it after the anticipated Democratic debacle and the attendant speculation about the viability of the Obama presidency. Whether the Democrats have retained slim majority control of one or both houses of Congress obviously matters for some legislative purposes and power relations, but our view of the broad trends is pretty much the same either way.
  165. After the Destruction
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    As Barack Obama mounted the Washington, DC inaugural stage on the euphoric morning of January 20, 2009, in Gaza the sounds of Israel’s invasion — the U.S.-supplied F-16s’ bombing runs, the artillery shells that accurately hit their targets of hospitals and clinics and refugee schools with children inside, the clearly-marked made-in-USA canisters of white phosphorus that burn people alive from the inside, the newly field-tested “DIME” bombs that efficiently tear multiple limbs off the victims — had gone at least temporarily silent.
  166. After the Floods, the IMF
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    Pakistan in recent years has found itself in the headlights of the international press with increasingly regularity. As Obama’s surge into Af-Pak has taken shape over the last 12 months, the country and its people have been thrust to the forefront of political discussion for forces left, right and center.
  167. After the Grenfell Tower Fire
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the grave injustice surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire, from the way residents were treated before and after the disaster and the austerity measures that exacerbated it - such as cuts to fire departments.
  168. After the interview
    First Published: 1999
    What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
  169. After the oil spill: ode to the Yellowstone River
    First Published: 2015
    In the face of environmental atrocities like the recent spill of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, quiescence be damned! To stop more of the same, we must reclaim from the corporate-captured state the rights of commons and community to decide on how local resources are used.
  170. After the QAnon Ban, Who's Next?
    QAnon is crazy, but so is our increasingly arbitrary system of speech controls
    First Published: 2020
    This current system is the worst of all worlds. It's invisible to the public, clearly invites government recommendations on speech, allows a gameable system of anonymous complaints to influence content, and gives awesome power to an unelected, unaccountable body of private media regulators. Whatever the right method is for dealing with dangerous content in the Internet era -- and it’s clear we need a better one -- this isn't it.
  171. After the Revolution, What?
    First Published: 2006
    A revolution to politically defeat a social class can take place relatively quickly compared to the task of re-shaping an entire society and economy by very different values. A fundamentally new kind of economy must therefore be able to arise somewhat gradually from the old, or it probably can never arise at all.
  172. After the "Special Period"
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    U.S. activists interview Cuban student. In July, Solidarity supporters Tim Marshall, Rachel Quinn and Sara Abraham had the opportunity to take classes at the University of Havana as a part of the Language and Culture program sponsored by Global Exchange. We met many people willing to share their opinions on the political and economic situation of the country. Everyone talked about how difficult the "special period" (early 1990s) was but felt that Cuba was emerging from this critical time.
  173. After the War Ends
    First Published: 1917
    When the soldiers return to their homes, new misery and new want are grinning at them. Awful as have been the sufferings that war has brought, in one respect the lot of the proletarians is still worse in times of peace. In war times the workers are needed; the bourgeoisie needs their enthusiasm, their willingness to sacrifice, their good will and the spirit of the army is an important factor in warfare. Money, therefore, becomes a secondary consideration, subservient to the aims of the war; aid and assistance are granted with unaccustomed liberality. The working class suffers, it is butchered, but those at home at least maintain a certain livelihood. That ceases with the coming of peace. The workers are not longer needed as soldiers; they are no longer comrades, defenders of the fatherland, heroes. Once more they become beasts of burden, objects of exploitation. Let them look for work, if they are hungry.
  174. After the Wheeler Occupation
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    One astute observer of the Wheeler occupation noted that the events of November 20 represented a synthesis of the twin strategies of the current student movement: “popular organizing” in the form of general assemblies on the one hand, and a “militant resistance” enamored of occupations on the other.
  175. After Trotskyism, what? Some personal thoughts
    First Published: 2016
    Arash Azizi had been a member the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) for more than seven years. Recently Azizi left the organization. He outlines his decision to leave in this esssay at the request of many friends and comrades.
  176. After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
    First Published: 2013
    In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face. In the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, thousands are dead, bodies lie uncollected in the streets, tens of thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, and survivors are without food, water, shelter, medical care, or essential supplies. Meanwhile the police and the military are guarding stores "to prevent people from hauling off food, water" and other supplies.
  177. After Visiting Brazil's Lula in Prison, Noam Chomsky Warns Against "Disaster" Under Jair Bolsonaro
    First Published: 2018
    An interview with Noam Chomsky about newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Politically the election marks a dramatic shift to the right for the country which Chomsky describes as a disaster for Brazil. The article includes a link to the interview on video.
  178. Aftermath
    First Published: 1991
    Chomsky discusses various consequences of the Gulf war, both the negative and those perceived as triumphs.
  179. The Aftermath of Israel's Latest Assault on Gaza
    First Published: 2014
    On August 26, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed upon, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2,150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms of the ceasefire.
  180. Afterword to Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
    First Published: 2020
    Marx writes of producers or labor power. He writes about serfs, slaves; he includes employed and unemployed (the active army, the reserve army); he refers to peasants, to artisans, to small manufacturers. All people who have lost their organic connections to nature, that is, to land, its creatures, its grains; to the waters and pastures; as well as to the geological resources lying beneath the land. All people who have been expropriated from the means of life, the means of production, the means of subsistence, this is what he means.
  181. A.G.A.I.N./Direct Services/Employment:
    Introduction to Employment Strategies & Note on the Consultation A.G.A.I.N.
    First Published: 1976
    Critiques of government employment strategies in the urban core/skid row areas.
  182. Against Activism
    First Published: 2016
    "Activism" stands in contrast to organizing. Organizing aims to bring people together to build and exercise power, informed by a strategic vision for acquiring power and changing society. To be an "activist" now merely means to advocate for change, and the hows and whys of that advocacy are unclear. Activist is a generic category associated with oddly specific stereotypes: today, the term signals not so much a certain set of political opinions or behaviours as a certain temperament. Worse, many activists seem to relish their marginalization, interpreting their small numbers as evidence of their specialness, their membership in an exclusive and righteous clique, effectiveness be damned.
  183. Against All Odds
    First Published: 1985
    The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
  184. Against Anarchism
    First Published: 2013
    A critical theory of the public sphere should incorporate neo-anarchism’s best insights, while rejecting wholesale anarchism. Neo-anarchism fails to sustain the tension between fact and norm required by a critical theory.
  185. Against Censorship
    First Published: 1995
    Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
  186. Against Charity
    First Published: 2015
    Snow criticizes the growing social movement 'Effective Altruism', which is characterized by calculating where expendable income is best spent and by encouraging the relatively affluent to channel their capital accordingly.
  187. Against Fundamentalism and Imperialism - Review
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    A view of the inside forces in Pakistan.
  188. Against imperialist regime-change intervention in Syria and the Middle East
    First Published: 2017
    David Bush has published an appeal for reasoned and informed discussion in Canada of the war and humanitarian disaster in Syria. Roger and Courneyeur write this essay as a contribution to the discussion David suggests be opened.
  189. Against multiculturalism 
    First Published: 2002
    Multiculturalism is an authoritarian, anti-human outlook. True political progress requires not recognition but action, not respect but questioning, not the invocation of the Thought Police but the forging of common bonds and collective struggles.
  190. Against School
    How public education cripples our kids, and why
    First Published: 2003
    An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
  191. Against the Cultural Turn
    First Published: 2016
    The starting point of this debate is the failure of multiculturalism. It has become fashionable today to criticise multiculturalism. The trouble is, many of the criticisms are as problematic as multiculturalism itself. And I say that as someone who's been a critic of multiculturalism for more than 20 years, from well before it was fashionable to be so.
  192. Against the Holy Alliance
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    MIGHT IS RIGHT! On June 3rd, the 72nd day of this horrid though undeclared war, it looked like a deal had been struck or, rather, imposed. The Russians having been bullied or bribed to align themselves on the NATO positions, Belgrade stood alone and Milosevic had to surrender.
  193. Against the Politics of Tolerance: Islam, Sexuality and Belonging in the Netherlands
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    What could be wrong with tolerance? Would I perhaps prefer intolerance? Of course not -- but if we take a harder look at the concept and the way it was employed, we are able to see that “tolerance” has a paradoxical meaning in present day society. It is accompanied, in fact, by virulent forms of intolerance and exclusion. To illustrate, we may have a look at the debate about Islam in the Netherlands starting in 2001.
  194. Agbogbloshie: Ghana's 'trash world' may be an eyesore - but it's no dump
    First Published: 2015
    Most accounts of Agbogbloshie, the e-waste site in Accra, Ghana, persistently miss the point. Far from being a simple 'dump' for the world's trash, it is a huge recycling operation that pays for the wastes it receives, employs thousands of young men who would otherwise lack jobs, and plays a huge role in the national and global economy.
  195. Age of Austerity
    Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada
    First Published: 2016
    The financial and economic crisis of 2008 has left a continuing legacy on social welfare, showing up in slow economic growth, unemployment and underemployment, and increasing social conflict. In the debate over the future of the world economy, many foresee a long depression, and the intensification of neoliberal austerity. Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman's new book is concerned with Canada's unique economic and social history over the period of neoliberalism, including the financial and economic crisis of 2008.
  196. The Age of Finance Capital -- and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics
    First Published: 2015
    Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy, mainstream economics does not explain much when it comes to an understanding of real world developments. Indeed, as a neatly stylized discipline, economics has evolved into a corrupt, obfuscating and useless -- nay, harmful -- field of study.
  197. The Age of Hell
    Entrenching Murder as the American Way
    First Published: 2012
    The Washington Post has just laid out, in horrifying, soul-slaughtering detail, the Obama Administration’s ongoing effort to expand, entrench and “codify” the practice of murder and terrorism by the United States government. The avowed, deliberate intent of these sinister machinations is to embed the use of death squads and drone terror attacks into the policy apparatus of future administrations, so that the killing of human beings outside all pretense of legal process will go on, year after year after year, even when the Nobel Peace Laureate has left office.
  198. The Age of Imperialistic Wars 
    First Published: 2015
    There is no question that wars and military threats have replaced diplomacy, negotiations and democratic elections as the principal means of resolving political conflicts. Throughout the present year (2015) wars have spread across borders and escalated in intensity.
  199. An ageing population isn't the reason for stunted economic growth - austerity is
    First Published: 2015
    In the 2015 World Economic Outlook, for example, the IMF says: "Potential employment growth is expected to decline further in advanced and emerging market economies compared to pre-crisis rates. This is a result of demographic factors negatively affecting both the growth of the working population and trend labour force participation rates."

    But the reality is somewhat different. The IMF analysis is based on 16 countries that excludes more than one billion people from the African continent where half of the population is either 20 years of age or younger.
  200. Ageism
    Connexipedia Article
    Also called age discrimination, it is stereotyping of and discrimination against individuals or groups because of their age.
  201. Agencies of Fear
    First Published: 2016
    The article details an example of how little control the US administration can have over one of its agencies and the dangers and consequences of the situation.
  202. An Agenda for Change
    The Right to the Freedom of Expression in Nepal
    First Published: 2008
    Publication on the Agenda for Change: The Right to Freedom of Expression in Nepal.
  203. Agent of social change: A history of Canadian University Press
    MA Thesis, Ryerson and York University, 2004
    First Published: 2004
  204. Agent provocateur
    Connexipedia Article
    A person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act.
  205. Aggett, Neil
    Connexipedia Article
    South African physician and labour activist who was tortured and killed by the apartheid 'security forces'. (1953-1982).
  206. Aging: a process of discovery
    A review of Look Me in the Eye: Old Woman, Aging and Ageism
    First Published: 1985
    Review of a collection of essays by Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich, in which they speak with honesty and clarity about ageism, aging and the inevitability and imminence of death.
  207. The Agony of Saada
    U.S. and Saudi Bombs Target Yemen's Ancient Heritage
    First Published: 2015
    In addition to the growing number of civilian casualties in the country's seven-month-long war, U.S.-made bombs dropped by fighter jets from a Saudi Arabian-led coalition are pulverizing Yemen's architectural history. These airstrikes are tearing villages apart, forcibly displacing thousands and erasing the country's inimitable heritage, according to the world heritage body, UNESCO.
  208. Agrarian-Industrial Revolt
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    Reformers and radicals in the post-reconstruction South faced a daunting set of circumstances. Many of these are well known: In the former confederacy, Black laborers were eventually shut out of the electoral process via disfranchisement, terrorized by legislation, a lien system not dissimilar to slavery, and rampant violence. The convict-lease system put the state, via farmers' prisoners (largely Black men), in conflict with free labor that might be organized. Prospects for organizing biracial resistance were slim as the color line was diligently policed by force and ideology.
  209. The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution
    From Material Community to Productivism, and Back
    First Published: 2014
    This article was conceived as Part One of a three-part series which would be: 1) the revolutionary epoch 1917–1923, and the ultimately disastrous international influence of the Russian Revolution, illustrated in the cases of the very early French, German, Italian and US Communist Parties; 2) the failed return of the “vanguard party” (Trotskyism, Maoism) in the period from 1968 to 1977 and 3) the ongoing recomposition of the world working class, and forms of worker organization and self-organization, today and tomorrow.
  210. Agreement in Principle between: The Dene Nation and Her Majesty the Queen
    First Published: 1977
    Inlcuded is a discussion on colonization, a section on the history and rights of the Dene, the relationship between the Dene and the non-Dene, and the reasons for an agreement in principle. The Dene Nation is working towards self-reliance and self-determination as a people within Canada.
  211. An Agreement of the Free People of England
    Manifesto of the Levellers
    First Published: 1649
    The Levellers were an informal alliance of agitators and pamphleteers who came together during the English Civil War (1642-1648) to demand constitutional reform and equal rights under the law. Levellers believed all men were born free and equal and possessed natural rights that resided in the individual, not the government. They believed that each man should have freedom limited only by regard for the freedom of others. They believed the law should equally protect the poor and the wealthy.
  212. An Agreement of the People for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right
    First Published: 1647
    Having by our late labours and hazards made it appear to the world at how high a rate we value our just freedom, and God having so far owned our cause as to deliver the enemies thereof into our hands, we do now hold ourselves bound in mutual duty to each other to take the best care we can for the future to avoid both the danger of returning into a slavish condition.
  213. An Agreement of the People of England, and the places therewith incorporated, for a secure and present peace, upon grounds of common right, freedom and safety
    First Published: 1647   Published: 1649
  214. Agreement on terms
    First Published: 2007
    I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
  215. Agri-Terrorists Accuse Seed Bank of Agri-Terrorism
    The Terror of GMOs
    First Published: 2014
    Since their beginnings, the USDA and state departments of agriculture have heavily subsidized, and acted as the enforcement arm of, the corporate agribusiness crime syndicate, terrorizing people who presume to feed themselves without paying tribute to their corporate crime lords.
  216. Agrica's Tanzania Rice Scheme Has Devastated Local Farmers, Say NGOs
    First Published: 2015
    A flagship rice plantation in Tanzania run by UK investors has allegedly destroyed the livelihoods of local smallholder farmers, driven them into debt and impacted the local environment, according to a new report published by the Oakland Institute.
  217. Agriculture: Steps to sustainable livestock
    First Published: 2014
    With improved breeding and cultivation, ruminant animals can yield food that is better for people and the planet.
  218. Agriculture's Greatest Myth
    First Published: 2021
    For policymakers, the big obstacle to global promotion and restoration of small-scale farming (leaving aside the lobbying power of agribusiness) is allegedly that, "it can't feed the world". If that claim were true, local food systems would be bound to leave people hungry and so promoting them becomes selfish, short-termist, and unethical. Nevertheless, this purported flaw in sustainable and local agriculture represents a curious charge because, no matter where one looks in global agriculture, food prices are low because products are in surplus.
  219. Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in El Salvador
    First Published: 2015
    "We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers''social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers."
  220. Agroecology Case Studies
    First Published: 2016
    The thirty-three case studies shed light on the tremendous success of agroecological agriculture across the African continent. They demonstrate with facts and figures how an agricultural transformation respectful of farmers and their environment can yield immense economic, social, and food security benefits while also fighting climate change and restoring soils and the environment.
  221. Agroecology leading the fight against India's Green Revolution
    First Published: 2015
    For the women farmers of Tamil Nadu life has long been a struggle, all the more so following the advent of 'Green Revolution' industrial agriculture. So now women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition, and a rekindling of native Tamil culture.
  222. Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi
    First Published: 2018
    Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.
    Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified for the task.
  223. Ahwazi Exiles Hold Four Massive Freedom Rallies in London, The Hague, Canberra, And Berlin
    First Published: 2017
    Demonstrators hold flags of the region of Al-Ahwaz as they take part in a rally in support of the Ahwazi people in Iran, in Berlin, Germany, 21 April 2017. Dozens of demonstrators took part in the march striving for the recognition of this population and their human rights.
  224. Aid Cut
    First Published: 1992
    Not only is our government incapable of appreciating the Nordic and EC point of view, it evens refuses to be honest about aid program: lying about aid cuts, saying one thing about development and doing something else in the field.
  225. AIPAC: Israel's U.S. Spy Den
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    The socialist Left must remain clear in its avoidance of a conspiratorial view of history. The entire U.S. political spectrum in the aftermath of the 2000 election, and especially since 9/11, has been awash with conspiracy theories. With deep roots in our political culture, ahistorical conspiratorial views of the workings of the world, devoid of any class understanding or a structural and institutional analysis of what we live in, come bubbling to the surface, especially during times of "national crisis."
  226. AIPAC's Dark Money Arm Unleashes $100 Million
    First Published: 2024
    Amid Israel's assault on Gaza and intensifying repression in the West Bank, AIPAC is showing zero tolerance for even the mildest criticism of Israel during the 2024 U.S. elections.
  227. AIPAC's Doomsday Conference
    It's the End of the World Again
    First Published: 2013
    Iran, Israel, and the improbability of nuclear attack.
  228. Air Force Invades the Rocky Mountains
    Sky Grab
    First Published: 2012
    Communities throughout rural America are fighting to stop more Air Force flights overhead. In addition to New Mexico and Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine are some of the other states fighting intrusive low-level flights.
  229. Air pollution may be damaging children's brains - before they are even born
    First Published: 2015
    Aside causing respiratory and cardiovascular damage, air pollution has also an impact on the brains and nervous systems of unborn children whose mothers suffer high levels of exposure.
  230. Air pollution now 'largest health crisis'
    First Published: 2018
    The WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths are linked to air pollution every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children who are uniquely vulnerable.
  231. Air safety pinned on isolated controllers
    First Published: 2011
    The problem of acute fatigue among air traffic controllers has been known. It was studied by sleep scientists genuinely concerned about the workers and public safety. Studies have shown that the kind of shift scheduling to which controllers are subjected affects behavior in the same way several alcoholic drinks would. That is especially true of constant shift changes and stacking eight-hour shifts as close together as possible, like working five shifts in three days.
  232. Airbrushing Barbarity
    The Warped Language of Public Policy
    First Published: 2013
    Couching moral/political matters in technocratic language helps us forget the unpleasantness of the underlying incivility and brutality of political measures. Political discourse is fundamentally dishonest in that it airbrushes barbarity.
  233. Aircraft pollution
    First Published: 1992
  234. Akram's empty chair
    First Published: 2024
    More than 10,000 Palestinian children have been killed in just over 100 days of Israeli bombardment. That’s nearly 100 every day. Akram Abu Shammala was one of them.
  235. Akweks Funds
    First Published: 1992
  236. Akwesasne
    First Published: 1989
    The history of the Mohawks of Akwesasne and the events and conditions that led up to the violence of 1989.
  237. Akwesasne Notes editor charged
    First Published: 1990
  238. Al Qaeda Is Attacking Major Syrian Cities with US Weapons -- but You Wouldn't Know That from the Media
    First Published: 2017
    Norton analyzes media coverages of attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the West to highlight how this emphasis on Muslim extremism is used to justify Islamophobia.
  239. "Al Qaeda's MASH Unit": How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the US to War
    First Published: 2018
    The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is not merely a group of Syrian doctors tending to the wounded in war torn areas, nor is it an objective and relaibale source on chemical attacks and other atrocities. This article explains that SAMS is actually a politically enaged organization that has for years been actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
  240. Al-Nakba
    A series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
    First Published: 2013
    For Palestinians, 1948 marks the 'nakba' or the 'catastrophe', when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes. But for Israelis, the same year marks the creation of their own state. This series attempts to present an understanding of the events of the past that are still shaping the present.
  241. Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center
  242. Alan Gross's Improbable Tales on 60 Minutes
    First Published: 2015
    In a dramatic segment on CBS News' 60 Minutes titled "The Last Prisoner of the Cold War," former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor Alan Gross tells of horrifying experiences in captivity: "They threatened to hang me, they threatened to pull out my fingernails, they said I'd never see the light of day."
  243. Alarm sounded as TransCanada set to drill in Bay of Fundy
    First Published: 2015
    An open letter was released by 20 groups in New Brunswick opposed to TransCanada's plans to begin drilling in the Bay of Fundy. The procedure has the potential to hurt resident's foundations and drinking water, along with the natural environment.
  244. Albert Einstein Quotations Opposing a Jewish State
  245. Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler
    First Published: 2015
    Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler - two examples among many of what the racist and bureaucratic "carceral state" in America is about.
  246. Alberta has only itself to blame for bitumen problems
    First Published: 2018
    The article explains why Alberta has primarily itself to blame for the low price of its bitumen, a situation built on years of mismanagement in government and poor industry advice.
  247. Alberta rivers
    First Published: 1991
  248. Alberta - tar sands emissions linked to health damage
    First Published: 2014
    A report by Alberta's energy regulator links emissions from tar sands oil production with serious health impacts that have forced families to flee their homes in the Peace River region.
  249. Alberta's Problem Isn't Pipelines; It's Bad Policy Decisions
    Bitumen prices are low because the province has ignored at least a decade of warnings.
    First Published: 2018
    A 2007 Alberta government report indicates that the provincial government has been aware for more than a decade that its oilsands policies were setting the stage for today's price crisis.
  250. A Alegria da Revoluçao
    First Published: 1997   Published: 2007
  251. "Alexa, Drop a Bomb": Amazon Wants in on US Warfare
    First Published: 2018
    A look at US comapany Amazon and its involvement with the US military in creating an artificial 'brain' called JEDI. It demonstrates a new level of US determination for global domination, and would represent the creation of a weapon that would dramatically up the level of global military rivalry and ensure more human conflict.
  252. Alexandra Kollontai and Red Love
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    What is “Red Love”—and more specifically, what is a socialist, or more complexly, a communist theory of love and sexuality?
  253. Algerian War of Independence
    Connexipedia Article
    A conflict between France and Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria gaining its independence from France.
  254. The Algiers Accords: Decades of Violations and Silence
    First Published: 2018
    This week marks the 37th anniversary of a pledge made by the United States in 1981:
    The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.
    This week also marks 37 continuous years of the United States failing to uphold its pledge: the 1981 Algiers Accords.
  255. Algonquins vs. Frontenac Ventures
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    I recently returned from a little-publicized “political hotbed” ignited by Frontenac Ventures Corporation (FVC), a private mining company causing grave injustices against the Ardoch First Nation community in Ontario, Canada.
  256. Ali, Tariq
    Connexipedia Article
    Historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. (Born 1943).
  257. Alice Walker's Conspiracy Theories Aren't Just Anti-Semitic - They're Anti-Black
    First Published: 2018
    White supremacy relies on different stereotypes of Black and Jewish people. Alice Walker's adoption of anti-semitic conspiracy theories points to the need for solidarity between the Black and Jewish communities - which are not mutually exclusive.
  258. Alienation
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of Terms
    The process whereby people become foreign to the world they are living in.
  259. Alienation, Marx's theory of
    Connexipedia Article
    As expressed in the writings of the young Karl Marx, refers to the separation of things that naturally belong together, or to put antagonism between things that are properly in harmony. In the concept's most important use, it refers to the social alienation of people from aspects of their "human nature". He believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism.
  260. The alienation of radical theatre
    First Published: 1971
  261. Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
    First Published: 2017
    Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question. This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers. This coincides with one of the Alt-Right’s primary tactics: adopting leftist rhetoric as cover for its racialist, nativist, and often misogynistic agendas.
  262. The Alinksy Method: a Critique 
    First Published: 2015
    The Alinsky approach involved focusing on local issues and not asking basic questions about the economy or about broader social structures.
  263. Alinsky, Saul
    Connexipedia Article
    American community organizer and writer. (1909-1972).
  264. "All changed, changed utterly": The historical significance of the Irish Revolution
    First Published: 2016
    The problem with political anniversaries is that they often focus on specific dates in the past without any recognition that they are part of a longer process. Easter Monday 1916 is an iconic date in Irish history that all and sundry seek to appropriate, but it can only be understood by what preceded and followed it.
  265. All cultures are not equal
    First Published: 2002
    A common thread binds contemporary Western radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. On the surface the two seem poles apart: fundamentalists loathe Western decadence, Western radicals fear Islamic presumptions of certainty. But what unites the two is that both are rooted in contemporary nihilistic multiculturalism; both express, at best, ambivalence about, at worst outright rejection of, the ideas of modernity, universality, and progress; and both see no real alternative to Western power.
  266. All Fire and Fury in Ukraine
    First Published: 2018
    Using Oliver Stone's 'portentious' documentary film 'Ukraine on Fire' as a basis for discussion, the article looks beyond the mainstream media and public discourse on the events and developments in the country which ultimately framed the public's view of the situation.
  267. All in the Family
    First Published: 1976
    A booklet explaining some of the legal consequences which flow from marriage, common law relationships, owning property, and having children.
  268. All Journalism Is 'Advocacy Journalism'
    First Published: 2013
    The claim that journalism 'traditionally' involves 'the dispassionate reporting of facts', that journalists are typically not 'advocates', was advocated by a paid employee of a media corporation, the Washington Post.
  269. All Massacres Will Become 'Alleged Massacres' If We Don't Pay Attention
    First Published: 2019
    The greatest enemy of all journalists – and all politicians – is the failure of institutional, historical memory.
  270. All options on the table?
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky responds to the 2008 meetings of world powers which addressed the topic of nuclear proliferation. He highlights the numerous ways in which these talks failed to live up to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
  271. "All Power to the Soviets!" Biography of a Slogan
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of the origins of the slogan "All Power to the Soviets" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
  272. 'All Power to the Soviets?' - Biography of a slogan
    First Published: 2017
    The origins of one of the most famous slogans in revolutionary history: "All power to the Soviets!" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
  273. All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
    First Published: 2015
    The release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
  274. All Shook Up: The Politics of Cultural Appropriation 
    First Published: 2020
    In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity.
  275. All-terrain vehicles kill
    First Published: 1992
  276. All That Was Left
    Student Struggles for Mass Student Aid and the Abolition of Tuition Fees in Ontario, 1945-1975
    First Published: 1995
    PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1995
  277. All the World's A Rage?
    First Published: 2000
    In today's political vocabulary, "direct action" is interpreted to mean any form of action short of marking an 'X' on a ballot. Throwing a brick through a Starbucks window is certainly a direct action and the thrower of the projectile is making a direct statement against the glass window of the coffee chain; it may even provide the thrower with a flush of adrenaline, but as a strategy it will fail.
  278. All You Fascists Bound to Lose
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Shane Burley's new book "Fascism Today: What It is and How to End It", which examines the current fascist movement and the opposition to it in the United States.
  279. Allan Bérubé, 1946-2007
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    An inspiring and broad-ranging queer historian, Allan Bérubé died at the age of 61 on December 11, 2007. He left us with major contributions of exciting historical work, but also important unfinished work that needs to be continued.
  280. Allan Sekula, Against the Grain
    First Published: 2014
    A tribute to the photographer, film-maker, cultural theorist, political activist, and Marxist intellectual, Allan Sekula.
  281. Henri Alleg
    First Published: 2016
    Henri Alleg (20 July 1921 – 17 July 2013), born Henri Salem, was a French-Algerian journalist, director of the "Alger républicain" newspaper, and a member of the French Communist Party. After Editions de Minuit, a French publishing house, released his memoir La Question in 1958, Alleg gained international recognition for his stance against torture, specifically within the context of the Algerian War (1954–1962).
  282. Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
    First Published: 2017
    Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.
  283. Allen Ginsberg and the '60s Movement
    The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Eliot Katz' The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg.
  284. Allende, Salvador
    Connexipedia Article
    Democratically elected socialist president of Chile, overthrown and killed in a coup engineered by the CIA. (1908-1973).
  285. Allende, Salvador - speeches & articles - index
    Speeches and articles by Salvador Allende (1908-1973).
  286. Alliance statement: Solidarity with the popular uprising in Sudan
    First Published: 2019
    Statement of allliance by the Aliiance of Middle Eastern Socialists for the ongoing uprising in Sudan which erupted on December 19th, 2018.
  287. Alliances
    First Published: 1985
    A look at the significance of the Liberal-NDP agreement in Ontario, an alliance which has been formed under Liberal dominance, so that Liberal-NDP alliance is liberal rather than socialist in its policy and ideology.
  288. Almada, Martín
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Paraguayan human rights activist known for his outstanding courage in bringing torturers to justice, and promoting democracy, human rights and sustainable development. (Born 1937).
  289. Almanac Singers
    Connexipedia Article
    Group of American folk musicians specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with union organizing.
  290. Along NATO's Road to War/Ruin
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    The war taking place in the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia involves three sides: Serbia, Kosova, and the NATO alliance. War being an extension of politics, it is what the protagonists are trying to achieve that determines whether their war is just or not.
  291. Alpha '78: Recueil des textes, Seminaire sur l'alphetisation au Quebec.
    First Published: 1980
  292. Already in Hell: Labor After Communism
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    Factory workers in the former Soviet Union have a saying: “Things can’t get any worse, we are already in hell.” David Mandel’s book Labour After Communism documents the realities of working-class life in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: factories with no central heating, where workers to maintain body heat build fires in metal drums or large metal toolboxes, the smoke of these fires rising up through holes in the roof.
  293. Alter-globalization
    Connexipedia Article
    A social movement that supports global cooperation and interaction, but which opposes the negative effects of economic globalization.
  294. An Alternate Investment Proposal
    First Published: 1978
  295. Alternate Societies
    A brief survey on intentional community in European history
    First Published: 1993
    A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
  296. Alternative Employment Agencies For Unorganized Workers (Single Displaced People) In Urban Core Areas
    First Published: 1981
    Temporary work agencies have traditionally used unorganized and unskilled workers for profit.
  297. An Alternative for SYRIZA 
    First Published: 2015
    In order to regain sovereignty, a country has to exit not only the EZ, if a member, but the EU itself. Liberated from the noose of the EU treaties and regulations, Greek people will have the freedom to follow a sovereign monetary and fiscal policy and form trade and international alliances to the best of their interests.
  298. Alternative media
    Connexipedia Article
    Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
  299. Alternative Media is an Absolute Necessity!!
    First Published: 2012
    By now most people that have been paying close attention to the traditional media and made some attempt to look at other sources know that the traditional media is controlled by corporate interests and they’re financed by commercials that create a strong bias not to expose the corruption of those that advertise with them.
  300. An alternative media list
    Getting the news - and getting behind the news
    First Published: 2014   Published: 2017
    A selective list of English-language alternative media.
  301. Alternative Schools in Toronto in the 1960s & early 1970s
    First Published: 2020
    In the 1960s, there was increasing criticism of the education system in Ontario, as in many other parts of the world, and a corresponding search for changes or alternatives.
  302. An Alternative to 'Safe Spaces'
    First Published: 2014
    Mike Macnair argues that 'safe spaces' aren't liberating -- and proposes an alternative.
  303. Alternatives
    First Published: 1977
    A poster, brochure, and information on jail chaplaincies and the corrections system.
  304. Alternatives to Neoliberal Capitalism
    First Published: 2016
    Neoliberal capitalism today has become unpopular, but imagining alternatives is difficult nonetheless.
  305. Alternatives to Poverty and Welfare in Alberta
    First Published: 1973
    A basic accounting of the extent of poverty and of those on welfare in Canada and Alberta.
  306. Alternatives to the Death Penalty
    The Problem with Life Imprisonment
    First Published: 2007
  307. Always with the Oppressed
    A Farewell to Akiva Orr 1931 - 2013, Humanist, Radical, Heretic
    First Published: 2013
    In February 2013 I participated with a small group of Israelis and Arabs in bidding farewell to Akiva Orr.
  308. Am I a bad feminist?
    First Published: 2018
    My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
  309. Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
  310. Amazing Brexit: Identity and Class Politics 
    First Published: 2016
    This shell of a once fighting left embraces the culture of identity but excludes the entity of class. As a result poverty has become the P-word, and the poor the pariahs of neoliberal dystopic utopia. When we talk about class in a Marxist, materialist, scientific sense, we are talking about a relation of power, specifically about who does and who doesn’t have power to shape society. Identity politics makes this conflict of interests in society invisible. Neoliberal economics, however, is class war. It has advanced in part because identity politics depoliticized the public.
  311. The Amazon Chernobyl is a Warning for Us All
    First Published: 2021
    From the Athabasca to the Niger Delta to the Ecuadorian Amazon, the fossil fuel industry, along with other extractive industries, are drenched in the blood of countless innocent people and responsible for ecological annihilation on a scale that is unimaginable.
  312. Amazon HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $4.6 Billion, More Than Twice What the Company Claimed, New Study Shows
    First Published: 2018
    In addition to the billions in local government subsidies Amazon stands to gain from Federal Opportunity Zones. Researchers who have studied opportunity zones find that these tax schemes rarely ever help cities, and often financially cripple them.
  313. Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
    First Published: 2019
    Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is coaching police on how to use their technology which simultaneously provides a source of advertising for Amazon.
  314. Amazon - the future of retail?
    A smile is the logo: we're not smiling
    First Published: 2013
    Amazon's warehouses are run like colonial enterprises - the staff are treated with contempt, paid badly, disciplined brutally, and set in competition against each other, often as temporary workers or on short-term contracts.
  315. The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps
    First Published: 2015
    With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Ka'apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct action. Now the Ka'apor are seeking support through NGOs and the media.
  316. Amazon vs. the Socialists in Seattle
    First Published: 2019
    In what may turn out to be a preview of the U.S. presidential election, with the ruling class hellbent on stopping Bernie Sanders at all costs, big business in Seattle is carrying out an unprecedented assault of corporate PAC money against socialist and progressive candidates in this year’s elections.
  317. Amazon wants surveillance robots in every home
    First Published: 2022
    Amazon's new home robot is charged with privacy violations in line with the Roomba and the Ring.
  318. Amazon's Initiative: Digital Assistants, Home Surveillance and Data
    First Published: 2018
    A look at technological developments such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, which are less innovations than intrusive tools utilized by big data companies to mine personal information and condition human approaches to the way information is shared.
  319. Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built on Facial Recognition
    First Published: 2019
    Amazon's plan to create proactive "watch lists" based on supposed suspicious activity - including facial recognition software - seen by their Ring cameras should alarm anyone who cares about privacy.
  320. Amer Jubran: From Exile to Exile
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    In January 2004, Palestinian activist Amer Jubran will leave the United States, where he has lived for most of the past 15 years. He will return to Jordan, where he grew up in a family already exiled once from their homeland.
  321. America: Becoming a Land Without Farmers
    First Published: 2012
    In rural America fewer than 3 percent of farmers make more than 63 percent of the money, including government subsidies. The results of this emerging feudal economy are everywhere. Large areas of the United States are becoming impoverished farm towns with abandoned farmhouses and deserted land. More and more of the countryside has been devoted to massive factory farms and plantations.
  322. America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century
    First Published: 2022
    The recent prodding of Russia by expanding Ukrainian anti-Russian ethnic violence by Ukraine's neo-Nazi post-2014 Maiden regime was aimed at (and has succeeded in) forcing a showdown in response to America's fear that it is losing its economic and political hold on its NATO allies and other Dollar Area satellites. These countries have seen major opportunities for gain to lie in increasing trade and investment with China and Russia.
  323. America Escalates Its "Democratic" Oil War in the Near East
    First Published: 2020
    The mainstream media are carefully sidestepping the method behind America’s seeming madness in assassinating Islamic Revolutionary Guard general Qassim Suleimani to start the New Year. The logic behind the assassination was a long-standing application of U.S. global policy, not just a personality quirk of Donald Trump's impulsive action.
  324. America in Decline
    First Published: 2011
  325. America is a Smuggler Nation
    Why Legal Trade is a Greater Threat to National Security
    First Published: 2013
    Smuggler Nation is not the oft told, routinely taught story of America’s emergence as a major nation and a global power, rather we come to see U.S. history as “the story of how smuggling – and the attempts to police it – have made and remade America, from the illicit molasses trade in colonial times to drug trafficking today,” as Peter Andreas observes in the book’s introduction.
  326. America Likes Democracy, Except In Venezuela
    Chavez in the Crosshairs
    First Published: 2012
    Venezuelans can be sure that their vote counts. The government in Venezuela has done everything to increase voter registration and participation.
  327. America Soon to Become a Corporate North Korea?
    Stacking the Deck Against Working People
    First Published: 2013
    Given the power American corporations have, anyone who believes he couldn’t be turned into a North Korean is lying to himself.
  328. Americal Liberals Unleashed the Trump Monster
    First Published: 2016
    Cook argues that Trump's victory was due to liberals losing rather than Trump winning.
  329. American Anti-Slavery Society
    Connexipedia Article
    An abolitionist society (1833-1870) founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
  330. American Autumn Part 2
    Occupy Wall Street: Organizing the Movement
    First Published: 2011
  331. American Blowback
    Cop-on-Cop Crime in LA
    First Published: 2013
  332. American Cartoonists Rap on the Danish Flap
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    "It's really surreal," cartoonist Matt Wuerker observed. "It's like something out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel."
  333. American Civil War
    Connexipedia Article
    Also known as the War Between the States and several other names, this was a civil war in the United States of America in which eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States.
  334. American Decline in Perspective
    Empire and Its Discontents
    First Published: 2012
  335. American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
    First Published: 2022
    As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America's aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy.
  336. The American Economy: Crisis and Policy
    First Published: 1971
    Since capitalist economic policy must make no mention of the exploitation relations underlying the capitalist mode of production, economists and politicians must seek 'solutions' to economic problems in terms of market phenomena.
  337. American Exceptionalism: The Naked Truth
    First Published: 2018
    A large number of Americans hold a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may lie, they may even on many occasions cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable, even noble. Of that the great majority of Americans are certain.And Americans genuinely wonder why the rest of the world can’t see how benevolent and self-sacrificing America has been. Even many people who take part in the anti-war movement have a hard time shaking off some of this mindset; they march to spur America -- the America they love and worship and trust -- they march to spur this noble America back onto its path of goodness.
  338. The American Imperium
    Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war
    First Published: 2016
    With the present-day US military overextended throughout the globe, this essay takes a look at past American military policy and actions in overseas conflicts, and how these events of the past century affect public perceptions and ultimately how the military continues to be used.
  339. American Indian Movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Native American activist organization in the United States which has led protests advocating indigenous American rights, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities, and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the country.
  340. American Jacobins
    First Published: 2012
    In a recent broadside against the Occupy movement, Alexander Cockburn assailed, among other things, “the enormous arrogance which prompted the Occupiers to claim that they were indeed the most important radical surge in living memory. Where was the knowledge of, let alone the respect for, the past?”
  341. The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's 'antisemitism' scandal breaks his silence
    Norman G. Finkelstein talks Naz Shah MP, Ken Livingstone, and the Labour 'antisemitism' controversy.
    First Published: 2016
    An interview with author Norman Fikelstein on the Labour 'antisemitism' scandal.
  342. American Literature and the First World War
    First Published: 2016
    Given that the United States entered the First World War much later than any other major belligerent, declaring war on Germany in April, 1917 - over two and a half years after the war began - one might expect that the war had less impact here than on other countries. American literature, however, argues otherwise.
  343. American Military Power
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with William Blum, a long-time critic of U.S. imperialism and the author of Killing Hope and Rogue State.
  344. American Nuremberg: Putting Washington's War Criminals on Trial - Book Review
    Book Review of "American Nuremberg: Putting Washington’s War Criminals on Trial" by Gar Smith.
    First Published: 2016
    Any honest review of the aggregating crimes of America’s political leaders gives rise to a nagging question: Isn’t it time someone threw the book at them? Well, the wait is over. We now have the book.
  345. American Poetry's "Labor Problem" - Book Review
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    Book review of 'Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry' by John Marsh.
  346. The American Press Is Destroying Itself
    First Published: 2020
    The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily. They've conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it’s established now that anything can be an offense
  347. American Primitive in Red, Black and White: Race and Class in the U.S. 
    First Published: 1989
    The centrality of race in the formation of the American working class, its inseparability from the question of class, can be stated very succinctly: in 1848 and 1968, when working-class upsurges exploded in Europe under the slogans of "socialism" and "communism", American working-class containment in the Democratic Party was exploded by the race question. This is the key to the Americanization of Marxism.
  348. American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered "Standard Operating Procedure"
    First Published: 2017
    Comparing testimony from Vietnamese women and American soldiers, Gina Marie Weaver, in her book Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in The Vietnam War, finds that rape of Vietnamese women by American troops during the US invasion of Vietnam was a "widespread", "everyday occurrence" that was essentially "condoned", even encouraged, by the military, and had its foundation in military training and US culture.
  349. American Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    The American Revolution is the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen of Britain's colonies in North America at first rejected the governance of the Parliament of Great Britain, and later the British monarchy itself, to become the sovereign United States of America.
  350. American/Russian Vladimir Posner on the State of Journalism
    First Published: 2017
    A Russian journalist's views on the state of journalism.
  351. The American Sniper Was No Hero
    Assassin-for-Hire
    First Published: 2015
    Despite what some people think, hero is not a synonym for competent government-hired killer.
  352. "American Thought": from theoretical barbarism to intellectual decadence
    First Published: 2017
    Juraj Katalena argues that direct transposition of ideological frameworks developed in the specific cultural and economic context of the USA, to Eastern Europe (and other regions), is misguided.
  353. American Visitors to the Gestapo Museum Draw Their Own Conclusions
    First Published: 2019
    An exploration of the ethics of drawing comparisons from present-day injustices to Nazi atrocities.
  354. American Wasteland
    The Most Urgent Challenge for America is Its Poorly Hidden Mental Health Crisis
    First Published: 2016
    Hearing the phrase "mental health crisis," one may think of the epidemic of mass shootings plaguing the country since the Reagan era. Or, images may erupt of home grown terrorist attacks or the plunge toward right-wing extremism in contemporary politics. Yet, suicide outranks both homicides and car accidents as the number one killer of our fellow citizens.
  355. The American Way of Torture
    CounterPunch Diary
    First Published: 2011
  356. The American Way of Torture
    The Rule of Law Went and Never Returned
    First Published: 2013
    Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians.
  357. American White Separatist Finds Shared Values with Israel
    First Published: 2015
    If America and Israel have "shared values," as their elected leaders often claim, then how can so many Americans reject ethnocracy in their own country, but support what is happening inside Israel?
  358. Americans talk about love: How we chose an open marriage
    First Published: 2010
    Bowe presents an American couple's conversation revealing their history of polyamory.
  359. America's Baleful Worldwide Pressure
    The Way the Wind Blows
    First Published: 2012
    The overweening arrogance of the United States in conduct of its foreign relations is evident throughout the world.
  360. America's Capitalist Religion has Little Room for Science
    First Published: 2015
    The US mainstream press accuse the Pope of being leftist. Evidence? Well, they make the claim that he is leftist because he supports the theory of global warming. My guess is that the Pope also supports the theory of gravity, which, like global warming, has a great body of scientific evidence to support it. But is science now a part of the leftist realm of influence?
  361. America's Complicity in Evil
    Barbarism on the High Seas
    First Published: 2010
    Once again the US government has permitted the Israeli state to murder good people known for their moral conscience. The Israeli state has declared that anyone with a moral conscience is an enemy of Israel.
  362. America's corporate revolt against clean energy
    First Published: 2014
    The US's fossil fuel industry is scared at the growth of solar power, and its ever-declining market cost. So it's fighting back, doing its best to quash solar growth by imposing new costs and restrictions.
  363. America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff
    How Today’s Fiscal Austerity is Reminiscent of World War I’s Economic Misunderstandings
    First Published: 2012
    An exploration of how today’s fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I’s economic misconceptions.
  364. America's Deceptive Model for Aggression 
    First Published: 2016
    Since NATO's 1999 war on Serbia, U.S. officials have followed a script demonizing targeted foreign leaders, calling ultimatums "diplomacy," lying about "war as a last resort" and selling aggression as humanitarianism.
  365. America's Descent Into Madness
    The Politics of Cruelty
    First Published: 2013
    The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible. Anti-public intellectuals promotes a culture of consumerism.
  366. America's hidden homeless: Life in the Starlight Motel
    First Published: 2016
    A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US' hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories.
  367. America's Last Chance
    One Against the Empire
    First Published: 2012
    The United States is rapidly being turned into a police state.
  368. America's last taboo
    First Published: 2002
    The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
  369. America's Latest War Crime
    First Published: 2015
    The best that Nobel Peace Laureate President Obama can do after the US bombs and destroys a hospital in Afghanistan, killing 22 people, including 12 volunteer doctors from Doctors Without Borders, is to say, "We're sorry"? No wonder people around the globe hate the US.
  370. America's Long History of Meddling in Russia
    First Published: 2020
    Setting aside the question of whether it's smart to take the U.S. government at its word — it isn't — if Russia were to meddle in our domestic politics, we would have it coming. To say the least.
  371. America's Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism
    First Published: 2021
  372. America's "Open Door Policy" May Have Led Us to the Brink of Nuclear Annihilation
    First Published: 2017
    The article takes a critical look at the potential outcome of North Korea's stigmatized relationship with the United States. It considers the role of US-produced propaganda against North Korea in relationship to the disparity between the militaries of the two countries.
  373. America's Own Political Prisoners
    From Mandela to Oscar López Rivera
    First Published: 2013
    Nelson Mandela's death has elicited a predictable outpouring of accolades. Glowing praise is now coming from American politicians as disparate as Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama. But this praise comes with the recasting, perhaps rebranding, of the amazing man that was Nelson Mandela.
  374. Americas Radical, Underground Climate Change Countermovement
    Smoking Out the Kochs
    First Published: 2014
    The year is 2050; rising seas have inundated Miami, America’s most recent ghost city since Detroit. A deadly heat wave scorches Chicago, killing thousands of elderly, and a mega-drought has farmers in the Southwest on their knees, praying for relief, as a dreadful dustbowl blankets the fields. America goes hungry.
  375. America's Recruitment of Nazis -- Then and Now
    Any bastard, so long as he's anti-communist
    First Published: 2014
    The most prominent feature of the Nazi political philosophy was extreme anticommunism and particularly fanatic hatred of the USSR. That hatred set the world ablaze, and, yet, after the war, the Nazi administrators, chief intelligence officers, generals, police chiefs, and intellectuals of that regime of hatred and war were recruited to continue their work in the bosom of our secret National Security State, advising, influencing, and promoting our foreign policy in the Cold War. Did that policy change with the fall of the Berlin Wall? No, it intensified -- still absolutist, still aggressive, still dedicated to political warfare. Russia is still in our crosshairs.
  376. America's Repugnant Republicans
    First Published: 2014
    There is a qualitative difference between today’s Democrats and Republicans. That difference does not lie in the potential to pursue policies that negatively impact the world. The difference is in their attitude toward policy and action as such. While both parties are often dangerously wrong, the Republicans are wrong in a demented ideological fashion. As such, they really are more repugnant than the Democrats.
  377. America's Troll Farm Media
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the American mainstream media, which is in a constant search of sensation, scandal, gossip, and above all -- profit.
  378. America's Use of Terror in Vietnam
    The Evil That Was Phoenix
    First Published: 2014
    There’s a reason the CIA wanted to prevent the publication of Douglas Valentine’s 1990 book, The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. This masterwork is more than an exposé of the US pacification program in Vietnam the book is titled after. It is an indictment of a cynical and bloody plan to kill Vietnamese.
  379. America's War in Indochina
    First Published: 1971
    There is no special reason for America's intervention in Indochina, apart from her general policy of intervening anywhere in the world in order to prevent political and social changes that would be detrimental to the so-called 'free world,' and particularly to the power which dominates it.
  380. America's Intifada Must Dig Deeper
    First Published: 2020
    Palestinians’ sustained struggle for freedom and independence offers many lessons
  381. Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part
    First Published: 2010
    Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
  382. Amid corruption, poverty and violence, Paraguay's rural poor fight for land and freedom
    First Published: 2016
    The closing down of a community radio station in eastern Paraguay is the latest example of political repression in the country with the most unequal land distribution in Latin America, and in which the media are dominated by a tiny elite of the super-rich. As small farmers begin to reclaim the land that is rightfully theirs, landowners and the state they control are striking back.
  383. Amid Plague, Sanctions are Genocide
    First Published: 2020
    Sanctions have long been indefensible; now in the time of Covid-19, more so than ever. Nor are they some minor phenomena.
  384. Amid the Tumult in Durham
    First Published: 2017
    Peter Gilbert (a rights attorney) and his wife Elena Everett,a non-profit organizer, had their house searched by Sheriff's officers in Durham when nobody was at home. It had to do with a demonstration of some 200 on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.
  385. Amnesia and the Armenian Genocide
    First Published: 2015
    A century after the methodically planned, organized, and executed destruction of the Anatolian Armenians, this article revisits the causes of this genocide and recognizes its importance for understanding the present.
  386. Amnesty International Responds to U.K. Government Surveillance
    First Published: 2015
    A British tribunal admitted on Wednesday that the U.K. government had spied on Amnesty International and illegally retained some of its communications.
  387. Amnesty International: Trumpeting for War… Again
    First Published: 2018
    One would expect a human rights organisation to be intrinsically opposed to war, but AI is a cheerleader of so-called humanitarian intervention, and even "humanitarian bombing".
  388. Among the Pipeline Fighters in Central Iowa
    First Published: 2016
    Iowans protest the Bakken pipeline, fighting against Big Carbon and 21st century petro-capitalism.
  389. An Analysis of 12F
    First Published: 2014
    A discussion of the events, factors, and actors involved in the protests, deaths, injuries, and arrests in Caracas on Venezuela's annual 'Youth Day'.
  390. An Analysis of the Decreasing Viability of Small and Medium sized Farms in Canada.
    First Published: 1976
    Describes the economic, physical, and political conditions that cause a rapid decrease in small and medium sized farms in Canada.
  391. Analyzing the Crash
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    The present economic crisis, which began in the United States late in 2007 and picked up speed early in 2008, may have caused production in the American economy to fall precipitously, but had the opposite effect on the production of books seeking to analyze the world economic crisis.
  392. Analyzing the Failures of Syriza
    First Published: 2017
    Examines the failture of Syriza, The Coalition of the Radical Left, since their election in Greece.
  393. Anarchism
    Or the revolutionary movement of the 21st century
    First Published: 2004
  394. Anarchism and Kavanaugh
    First Published: 2018
    Richman argues that without the current State, but rather with an Anarchistic one, the U.S. public would have been spared the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination episode.
  395. Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
    First Published: 2001
    Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
  396. Anarchism: Ideology or Methodology?
    First Published: 1997
    A discussion of whether anarchism is an ideology or a methodology. The social vs. lifestylism debate.
  397. Anarchism in the Rear-view Mirror
    First Published: 2014
    This is not an attack on the militancy of our libertarian comrades. This text is an attempt to clarify our practices to avoid repeating the historical mistakes of the labor movement, addresses the comrades who are beginning to make a synthesis between Marxism and anarchism.
  398. Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
    First Published: 1901
    A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future.
  399. Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State
    First Published: 2004
    A critique of Marxism, with emphasis on its alleged obsession with economics.
  400. Anarchism And The Platformist Tradition
    Platformism is a current within libertarian communism putting forward specific suggestions on the nature which anarchist organzation should take.
  401. Anarchism, Representation, and Culture
    Cohn, Jesse
    First Published: 2002
    A discussion of the role of anarchism in the formation of modernist avant-garde aesthetics.
  402. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme 
    First Published: 1978
    Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
  403. Anarchism: What It Really Stands For 
    First Published: 1910
    Anarchsim: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
  404. L'anarchisme par rapport au marxisme
    Quelques notes sur un vieux thème
    First Published: 1978
    Plus de cent ans après que le mouvement socialiste soit divisé en factions marxistes et anarchistes, il y a des signes, au moins sur une petite échelle, que les gens, s’appellant des anarchistes, des marxistes ou « des socialistes libertaires », trouvent des moyens pour travailler fructueusement ensemble.
  405. Anarchism's Mid-Century Turn
    A Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century,
    First Published: 2016
    No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class.
  406. Anarchist antimilitarism and myths about the war in Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
    A polemic by Czech anarchists against war and all warmongers, who, they say, are also abundant in the anarchist movement.
  407. Anarchist Bookfair bans anarchist publisher
    First Published: 2021
    The organizers of Montreal's Anarchist Book Fair have banned Black Rose Books, who have been publishing anarchist books since the 1960s, from participating. The reason given is that Black Rose publishes
  408. Anarchist communism
    Connexipedia Article
    "Anarchist communism" is a term used by some anarchists to describe their vision of a future society. The term, like the related terms "libertarian communism" or "libertarian socialism," has been used to distinguish this vision of the future society from the so-called "Communism" that existed in the former Soviet Union, its satellite states, and in China. Because these states appropriated the terms "Socialism" and "Communism" as labels for authoritarian Stalinist state-capitalist regimes, those who adhere to the original vision of Communism have felt a need to clearly distinguish what they stand for from Stalinist "Communism."
    All of them refer to the project of creating a future society in which capitalism, private ownership of the means of production, and the capitalist state are abolished and replaced by common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption.
  409. Anarchist Periodicals: List of anarchist periodicals - Wikipedia
    Connexipedia Article
    A chronoligical list of anarchist periodicals.
  410. Anarchist St. Imier International
    Connexipedia Article
    An international anarchist organization formed in 1872.
  411. Anarchist symbolism
    Wikipedia article
    Symbols used by, and associated with, anarchists.
  412. Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War
    First Published: 2002
    For workers around the world, the Spanish Civil War was a beacon of hope against the tide of reaction then sweeping Europe. As the promise of workers' revolution was being dashed by the rise of fascism in Germany and the rise of Stalinism in the Soviet Union, the workers of Spain led a heroic fight against the 1936 uprising of General Francisco Franco. In the process, they led not only a struggle against fascism, but also a workers' rebellion that gave the world an inspiring glimpse of what workers’ power could look like. The Spanish Civil War was also the high point of anarchist influence in the international workers' movement.
  413. The "Anarcho-Liberal"
    First Published: 2011
    The diversity of the global justice movement is undeniable, but to the extent its prominent intellectual voices represented broader trends, we can see the crystallization of a new type of radical that would come to prominence on the Left. The reconfiguration of the Left at the end of the twentieth century created a void. The “anarcho-liberal” filled it.
  414. Anarcho-naturism
    Wikipedia article
    Anarcho-naturism (also anarchist naturism and naturist anarchism) appeared in the late 19th century as the union of anarchist and naturist philosophies. Mainly it had importance within individualist anarchist circles in Spain, France, Portugal, and Cuba.
  415. Anarcho-pacifism
    Connexipedia Article
    A form of anarchism which completely rejects the use of violence in any form for any purpose.
  416. Anarcho-syndicalism
    Connexipedia Article
  417. Anarchy is struggle for life, freedom and dignity
    First Published: 2010
    A communique by the Circle of Fire anarchist collective and the Anarchist Bulletin BLACK FLAG on the events of May 5th, 2010 in Athens, when three bank workers were murdered by 'anarchist' arsonists. The murders came as an ultimate result of an irrational, meaningless and needless violence which is promoted by an autistic, un-political and anti-social concept that has become a parasite to the anarchist/antiauthoritarian movement, sucking its blood and disparaging it, leading it to criminalisation and social isolation.
  418. Anarquismo vs. Marxismo
    Algunas notas sobre un tema antiguo
    First Published: 1978
    Un movimiento que desdeña la teoría y adora las acciones sin crítica, el anarquismo sigue siendo un edificio tambaleante consistente de varios pedazos de análisis marxista, reforzando unos preceptos tácticos inflexibles.
  419. Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
    First Published: 2019
    Conspiracy theories in general tend to be crude and simplistic, more often than not reflecting the nature of the people who indulge them. But when the conspiracy theory is mingled with antisemitism – as with the Rothschild rot – it represents a particular failure of the imagination, a particularly null and void exercise in dehumanisation.
  420. Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 1
    First Published: 2016
    We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Here we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
  421. Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 2: 'Hitlergate'
    First Published: 2016
    As with so many propaganda blitzes, intense media coverage was triggered by 'dramatic new evidence'; namely, the discovery of a graphic posted by Naz Shah two years ago, before she became a Labour MP. The graphic shows a map of the United States with Israel superimposed in the middle, suggesting that a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict would be to relocate Israel to the US.
  422. Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn's Political Assassination
    Zollmann, Florian; Coles, T.J.
    First Published: 2022
    Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment, which regarded him as a threat to its interests. This article fleshes out the individual components of this campaign and dissects how it was amplified by the British mainstream media. As Corbyn pointed out, he was not the threat. The real 'threat' was the general public who would have used Corbyn as a political representative to bring services back into common ownership, moderately raise taxes on the wealthy, properly fund social security, and to some degree curtail British militarism abroad.
  423. The Anatomy of A Rebellion
    Against The Current vol. 84
    First Published: 2000
    The first time I traveled to Los Angeles with a comrade of mine in the labor movement, I had one of those sharp educational experiences that cannot be replicated in the classroom.
  424. Anatomy of Egypt's Revolution
    Conditions and Consequences
    First Published: 2011
    Like perfect storms, several factors have to simultaneously and collectively come together for popular uprisings or protests, even massive ones, to turn into a revolution. That is why only a few of them have been successful in world history.
  425. Anatomy of the Micro-Sect
    First Published: 1973
    Is there an alternative to the sect mode of organization which dominates the whole history of American socialism, past and present?
  426. Ancestors of the Proletariat
    Tercentenary of the English Revolution: 1649-1949
    First Published: 1949
    After Charles I had been executed, the Levellers aimed directly at the overthrow of the military government of Cromwell in the name of the people. The great political act of the abolition of the monarchy, dramatized in the execution of the King, was in their eyes entirely subordinate to the positive reorganization of society.
  427. Ancillary Lessons from Brexit
    First Published: 2016
    Apart from the substantive issues for the European elites of the Brexit referendum victory, two ancillary lessons have been thrust upon us, if we were not already wise to them. One, the contemptible character of the mainstream media. Two, the crucial importance of historical understanding.
  428. And More Fraud Is in the Works
    Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud
    First Published: 2014
    Washington can't stop lying. Don't be convinced by a recent job report that it is your fault if you don't have a job. Those 288,000 jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are more fiction than reality.
  429. And The May Uprising Continues
    First Published: 2014
    Remembrance of the brave women and men of Gwangju, responsible for sowing the seeds of democracy in the Republic of Korea while opposing the infamous martial law and dictatorship. Ten days, starting from May 18, 1980, they made the streets theirs, challenging the might of the State. As the historic May Democratic Uprising is witnessing its 34 th anniversary, Gwangju is celebrating and reminding herself to keep the memory of resistance alive, resistance against oppression and injustice that their heroes had upheld.
  430. And the Secret Word Is
    The Deep Meaning of "Relevant"
    First Published: 2013
    Senators Mark Udall and Tom Wyden's secret about the operations of the N.S.A. was an interpretation of one word "relevant" in the Patriot Act by the FISA Court.
  431. And Then They Came For Me
    Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
    First Published: 2009
    An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
  432. ... and they were doing cartwheels.
    First Published: 1983
  433. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  434. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  435. Anecdotes Tell Dramatic Story of British Underground Press
    Review of Underground: The London Alternative Press, 1966-74, by Nigel Fountain. A frank look back at what made the British underground press tick.
  436. Angela Davis: Relevant as Ever After Thirty Years
    First Published: 2019
    A look at how Angela Davis's work in Women, Culture, and Politics (1989) applies today.
  437. Anger over China's Deadly Workplaces after Warehouse Explosion
    First Published: 2015
    A series of chemical explosions on August 12, 2015 at a warehouse in the northern city of Tianjin is shining a spotlight on dangerous workplace conditions and precarious employment relations in China.
  438. Anger rises as Brazilian mine disaster threatens river and sea with toxic mud
    First Published: 2015
    Conservationists and engineers battle to reduce the ecological fallout as mud and iron-ore residue from the BHP Billiton-Vale dam collapse flows down the Rio Doce to the Atlantic.
  439. Anger, Sadness, Patience, Determination
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    During the fall of 2002 I had heard the personal stories of two Palestinians. One told me about her grandfather's ancient olive trees that had been confiscated and then chopped down by the Israeli government.
  440. Anglicans and Aboriginal Peoples
    The EcoJustice Connection
    First Published: 1988
  441. Angry Brigade: Documents and Chronology, 1967-1984
    The eight libertarian militants on trial in the Old Bailey in 1972 who were chosen by the British State to be the 'conspirators' of the Angry Brigade, found themselves facing not only the class enemy with all its instruments of repression, but also the obtusity and incomprehension -- when not condemnation -- of the organised left.
  442. The anguish of migrants in Macedonia
    First Published: 2015
    Milevska talks about the difficulties that migrants and refugees have to endure as cross Macedonia in their way to Western Europe.
  443. Animal Crackers
    First Published: 1992
  444. Animating the Great Migration and After
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Brian Dolinar reviews Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Tim Jackson.
  445. An anniversary that Ottawa would prefer not to celebrate
    First Published: 2013
    A look back at Operation Ham with an op-ed piece and a reprinted article from 1978.
  446. Annual Legislature Presentation To The Government And People Of Manitoba
    First Published: 1982
  447. Annual Report, 1977
    First Published: 1978
  448. Annual Report, Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1975-76
    First Published: 1976
    An account of the issues and corporations which are of current concern to the TCCR.
  449. Annual Report. Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility TCCR
    First Published: 1987
  450. L'annuel Connexions: Introduction à l'environnement, l'utilisation agraire et la campagne
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  451. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction à la Santé
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  452. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction à l'Économie, la Pauvreté et le Travail
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  453. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au chapitre de la Paix
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  454. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au chapitre des femmes
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  455. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au Développement International
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  456. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux Arts, Médias et Culture
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  457. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux chapitre des Lesbiennes, Homosexuels et Bisexuels
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  458. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux Droits Humains et aux Libertés Civiles
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  459. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction la Communauté, l'Urbanisme et le Logis
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  460. L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction sur l'Éducation et les Enfants
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  461. Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA's Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
    First Published: 2016
    There are some basic facts about what is known and, more importantly, what is not known about the anonymous CIA leaks concerning the 2016 US Presidency Election.
  462. Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
    First Published: 2017
    The U.S. government and the mainstream media have rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
  463. Another Empire's Boot Stomps on Ireland
    First Published: 2019
    A civilian airport in Ireland is being used as a hub by the US military.
  464. Another Hiroshima is Coming - Unless We Stop It Now
    First Published: 2020
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target - China.
  465. Another Housing Bubble?
    First Published: 2017
    This is an edited transcript from an interview on The Real News Network. Sharmini Peries interviewed Michael Hundson (author of J is For Junk Economics).
  466. Another Immoral Adventure
    US Troops to Uganda
    First Published: 2011
    When we support brutal governments in foreign countries – be it through aid, training, or troops on the ground – there are real and lasting consequences for the people who live there. There are many reasons to oppose the US incursion into Uganda (the risk of blowback, the chance of escalation, the furtherance of the imperial presidency, the financial cost, the practical fact that we can’t intervene everywhere, and so on), but the most important argument is moral.
  467. Another peace activist, Raza Khan, goes missing in Lahore
    First Published: 2017
    Raza Mahmood Khan, a Peace activist and social worker, went "missing" in Lahore on Dec. 2, 2017, shortly after he had organised a public discussion about a recent demonstration that ended in ignominious surrender to those seeking power in the guise of religion.
  468. Another Response to May '68 Revisited
    First Published: 2016
    The significance of the May Events is not to be found in the question of state power. Like other recent movements such as Occupy, it changed the discourse in the public sphere. May 68 changed people's expectations in their social life and their utopian hopes.
  469. Another Successful American Propaganda Effort
    First Published: 2014
    American political figures like to talk about "American Democracy". The truth is, there is no "American Democracy", it is something that our rulers like to foist upon the World stage much like parents like to tell their children about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. It's fiction made in order to keep their "children" in line.
  470. Another view of the deficit
    First Published: 1989
  471. Another Vote on Washington's Anti-Cuba Policy at the United Nations
    The Politics of Isolation
    First Published: 2013
    Resolution A/68/L.6, sponsored by Cuba, passed this year, for the 22nd year in a row, with Washington once again in humiliating political loneliness. The vote this year was 188-2 in favor, with 3 abstentions. Washington’s formal political isolation over its anti-Cuba policy can hardly be more complete. Is it possible to imagine any significant political issue in world politics uniting so many disparate entities often in significant conflict with each other.
  472. Another Way for Kosovo?
    First Published: 2000
    Chomsky considers the facts of the Kosovo crisis and aims to determine if other plausible courses of action were available.
  473. Another World Is Possible
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    The period since George Bush Sr. declared a "new world order" has been marked by growing global inequality and war. The failures of neoliberalism mean that more than fifty countries have seen declining per capita income in recent years, while millions every year die from easily preventable diseases and lack of access to safe drinking water. The costs of the last fifteen years have been immense, whether for those cut off from electricity in Durban, sacked from factories in Mexico City, or bombed in Baghdad.
  474. An Answer to Charlie Post
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    Charlie Post is an old friend of mine and I respect his views. But I beg to disagree… In our book, Olivier Besancenot and myself pointed to several limitations of Che Guevara concerning issues as workers’ democracy and the critique of Stalinism. But we tried to grasp his thought not as a monolithic body of theory, but as thinking in movement, a movement going towards a more democratic conception of socialism. Did he come to a full understanding that socialism is “the democratically organized power of the working class”? No, he didn’t, but that doesn’t mean that he “rejected” it.
  475. Answering Camille Paglia
    First Published: 1996
    What is important about Paglia is that she expresses more forcefully than most academics, if not more eloquently, this year's most popular half-truths. By marshaling the prejudices of many elements of the working class she channels them into a direct line that leads to support for the bourgeoisie.
  476. Answers to a Questionnaire on the War
    Published in Left, No. 62, November 1941.
    First Published: 1941
  477. Antarctic airfield
    First Published: 1990
  478. Antarctica's Accelerating Ice Collapse
    Massive Sea Level Rise in Decades
    First Published: 2014
    Imagine Antarctica. Imagine an island, with mountains, peaks, ridges, and valleys. Imagine further that a thick layer of ice covers, not only the surface of the island that lies above the sea but also an extensive portion of the perimeter that is beneath the sea. The peaks are higher above sea level than on any continent. In winter, the sea freezes because temperatures drop to less than -80 degrees Celsius (-112 degrees Farenheight), and the island’s area grows to about 10 million square miles. In summer when some of the ice melts, the ice cover remains on average more than a mile thick, although the overall surface area of the island shrinks to about five million square miles. Even in summer, however, the island is still larger than Europe or Australia. It is Antarctica, and it is impossible to imagine.
  479. Anthem Protestors Should Stop Mucking Around and Make Their Demands
    First Published: 2017
    The "anthem protests" have gone on for two years now, but so far the players have not presented a specific set of demands.Why? Do the players simply want to use Sunday football as a platform for raising awareness of racial injustice and police brutality or is there something else going on here?
  480. Anthony, Susan B.
    Connexipedia Article
    American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. (1820-1906).
  481. Anthroplogy and the Machine
    First Published: 1997
    The first Teach-In against the Vietnam war, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in March 1965, proved the ideal solution, an event that was at the same time an exercise in learning and a political protest. Its success was to spur a widespread series of similar events, bringing the anti-war message and the realities of U.S. "counter-insurgency" in Vietnam to other campuses. It was not entirely surprising that one of the most innovative and effective strategies for opposing U.S. crimes in Vietnam was initiated by anthropologists. In a discipline sensitive to the problems facing peasant populations due to colonialism and the spread of western market interests, it was particularly difficult to accept at face value the rhetoric of U.S. geopolitical posturing.
  482. Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation
    First Published: 2015
    A number of academics, commentators, and groups argue that humans have so completely modified the Earth that concepts such as 'wilderness' or 'nature' have become meaningless, and that therefore there is no point in talking about 'preserving' wilderness or natural areas. The idea of 'nature', they say, is just a human cultural construct. Those advancing these ideas use different progressive-sounding labels, such as "pragmatic environmentalists" or "green postmodernism," but their message is that we should forget about wilderness conservation and just get on with the business of 'managing' the planet for human benefit. Not surprisingly, corporate and industry leaders have been jumping on the bandwagon.
  483. Anthropologists, Spooks, and the Boys Who Went to War
    First Published: 2012
  484. Anti-abortion violence
    Connexipedia Article
    Violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion.
  485. Anti-African Racism in Israel
    First Published: 2015
    A collection of articles by David Sheen chronicling the racist attacks against non-Jewish African asylum-seekers in Israel.
  486. Anti-capitalism
    Connexipedia Article
    Describes a wide variety of movements, ideas, and attitudes which oppose capitalism.
  487. Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Imperialism?
    Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of A Reactionary Ideology: The Case of the Bolivian MNR
    First Published: 2011
    Recounts the evolution of the core pre-MNR intelligentsia and future leadership of the movement and its post-1952 government from anti-Semitic, pro-fascist, pro-Axis ideologues in the mid-1930?s to bourgeois nationalists receiving considerable US aid after 1952.
  488. Anti-Capitalism and Queer Liberation
    Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Peter Drucker's Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism.
  489. Anti-Choice, Anti-Child
    First Published: 1999
    Around the world, there's a general correlation between the availability of abortion and social concern for the well-being of children.
  490. Anti-Chomsky Fictions
    First Published: 1996
    Exposing right-wing lies about Noam Chomsky.
  491. Anti-Church Movement Demonstration in Hyde Park
    First Published: 1855
  492. An anti-clerical policy of Socialism
    First Published: 1903
    According to Luxemburg, "the incessant guerrilla warfare waged for the last ten years against the priests is for French middle-class Republicans one of the best ways of turning away the attention of the working-class from social questions, and of weakening the class struggle."
  493. The Anti-Colonial Movement in Vietnam
    Book Review: Ngo Van, Vietnam, 1920-1945
    First Published: 1997
  494. Anti-consumerism
    Connexipedia Article
    The socio-political movement against consumerism, the equation of personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions.
  495. The Anti-Coup
    First Published: 2003
    As coups are one of the primary ways through which dictatorships are installed, this piece details measures that civilians, civil society, and governments can take to prevent and block coups d'état and executive usurpations. It also contains specific legislative steps and other measures that governments and non-governmental institutions can follow to prepare for anti-coup resistance.
  496. The Anti-Empire Report #124
    First Published: 2014
    A review of historical and current American imperialist activities.
  497. The Anti-Empire Report #126
    Ukraine
    First Published: 2014
    When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try putting it into some kind of context by stepping back and looking at the larger, long-term picture.
  498. The Anti-Empire Report #127
    Indoctrinating a new generation
    First Published: 2014
    Is there anyone out there who still believes that Barack Obama, when he’s speaking about American foreign policy, is capable of being anything like an honest man?
  499. The Anti-Empire Report #153
    Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as
    First Published: 2017
    A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.
  500. Anti-Globalisation: The Socialism of the Imbeciles
    First Published: 2001
    Who are the anti-globalists? They are all those who for the last few years, from the big social-democratic and Stalinist parties to various kinds of leftists, have taken up the new battle standard: anti-globalisation.
  501. Anti-globalization movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Critical of the globalization of capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization.
  502. Anti-Imperialist Struggle in India
    First Published: 1923
  503. An Anti-Imperialist War Resister
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    ATC Interviews Carl Webb. Military resister Carl Webb, 39, is Absent Without Leave from the Texas National Guard, after his service was involuntarily extended in July, 2004 through the military Stop-Loss program. He tells his story on his website www.carlwebb.net and blogspot carlwebb.blogspot.com and has been speaking out at antiwar meetings. His explicit anti-imperialist views have made him a somewhat controversial figure within the peace movement.
  504. Anti-intellectualism
    Connexipedia Article
    The hostility towards and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of education, philosophy, literature, art, and science.
  505. Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky
    First Published: 2016
    Washington DC based History Teacher Dan Falcone and New York City English Teacher Saul Isaacson sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky to discuss current issues in education and American domestic and foreign policy issues. They also discussed the place of the humanities in education and how it relates to activism, definitions of terrorism, and how education impacts the perceptions of the political process in the US.
  506. An anti-Jewish pogrom in London
    First Published: 1917
    Russians, Romanians, Armenians, peoples of all oppressed nationalities live here, Jews forming the majority, for Jews, the people who have no country, are always most cruelly oppressed by tyrannical Governments.
  507. The Anti Nazi League and its lessons for today
    First Published: 2019
    Interview with Paul Holborow, organising secretary of the Anti Nazi League in 1977-1980.
  508. Anti-nuclear movement
    Connexipedia Article
    A international movement against the use of nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
  509. Anti-Palestine Media Bias Remains Untouchable Even to Canada’s Media Critics
    First Published: 2016
    A recent Canadaland podcast simultaneously highlighted anti-Palestinian media bias and the fear liberal journalists’ face in discussing one of the foremost social justice issues of our time.
  510. Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
    First Published: 2001
    Anyone who criticizes the actions of the Israeli government runs the risk of being labelled anti-Semitic by those who want to silence all criticism of Israel.
  511. Anti-Science: Left and Right Together?
    A Systematic Attack on Rationality
    First Published: 2012
    The suggestion that left and right thinking may be converging on matters scientific will, no doubt, be offensive to some on the left. After all, the right chooses myth over evolution, and oil profits over climate science.
  512. Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
    First Published: 1983
    Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
  513. Anti-Socialist Laws
    Connexipedia Article
    Were a series of acts, the first of which was passed on October 19, 1878 by the German Reichstag for a limited term, and the later ones regularly extending the term of its application.
  514. Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era
    First Published: 2015
    During the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States resisted accepting large numbers of Jewish refugees escaping the Nazi terror sweeping Europe, in large part because of fearmongering by a small but vocal crowd. In recent days, similar arguments are being resurrected to reject Syrian refugees.
  515. Anti-Yiddish Riots: September 27, 1930
    First Published: 2012
    A mob of several thousand Jews protested outside the Mograbi Theater in Tel Aviv on this date in 1930 against the screening of one of the first feature-length Yiddish-language talkie movies,“My Jewish Mother”.
  516. Anti-BDS bills expected to feature prominently at AIPAC
    Annual meeting to push for measures that counter boycott Israel campaign as rights groups call bills 'unconstitutional'
    First Published: 2018
    At the annual meeting of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the lobbying group's agenda is set to propose measures to counter the growing campaign to boycott Israel and its West Bank settlements. At the centre of discussion are anti-bocott bills, described by critics as laws designed to curb the not-for-profit Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement- a human rights movement that supports Palestinian rights.
  517. Anti-Bolshevist Communism in Germany 
    First Published: 1947
    Until the final collapse of the German labor movement, the retreat of the 'ultra-left' appeared to be a return to theoretical work. The organizations existed in the form of weekly and monthly publications, pamphlets and books. The publications secured the organizations, the organizations the publications. While mass-organizations served small capitalistic minorities, the mass of the workers were represented by individuals. The contradiction between the theories of the 'ultra-left' and the prevailing conditions became unbearable. The more one thought in collective terms the more isolated one became.
  518. The Anti-Empire Report #132
    First Published: 2014
    Each of you I’m sure has met many people who support American foreign policy, with whom you’ve argued and argued. You point out one horror after another, from Vietnam to Iraq. From god-awful bombings and invasions to violations of international law and torture. And nothing helps. Nothing moves this person. Now why is that? Are these people just stupid? I think a better answer is that they have certain preconceptions. Consciously or unconsciously, they have certain basic beliefs about the United States and its foreign policy, and if you don’t deal with these basic beliefs you may as well be talking to a stone wall. The most basic of these basic beliefs, I think, is a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well.
  519. The Anti-Empire Report #140
    First Published: 2015
    Are you confused by the Middle East? Here are some things you should know. (But you'll probably still be confused.)
  520. The Anti-Empire Report #150
    First Published: 2017
    Anti-Empire Report by William Blum.
  521. The Anti-Fascist Revolution
    Remembering the Action Party, one of Italy's biggest anti-fascist partisan movements.
    First Published: 2017
    Over the last two decades, the Italian Resistance has been a subject of sharp public debate, with both political and historical efforts "radically to repudiate the role and significance" of anti-fascism in Italy's contemporary history. As Pier Giorgio Zunino wrote in 1997, "for the Italian history of the second half of the twentieth century, anti-fascism is the villain."
  522. Anti-Fascist Self-Defense: From Mussolini's Italy to Trump's America
    First Published: 2017
    A conversation with Mark Bray, a political activist, historian and a lecturer at Dartmouth College and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
  523. Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right Terror
    First Published: 2019
    Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.
  524. Anti-nuclear campaign
    First Published: 1992
  525. The Anti-Nuclear Movement in Review: Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
    First Published: 1998
    EVERY NOW AND then Time magazine comes out with front cover screaming something like: “Russian Nukes: Is Anyone in Control?” The idea of a fanatic blowing up New York City with a Russian nuclear weapon hidden in a suitcase fits neatly into the mental slot once reserved for nightmares of Soviet intercontinental missiles raining down on American citizens and the Red Army landing in Miami.
    Just as the vision of hell played such an important role in medieval cosmology, the Russian...
  526. Anti-racist education
    First Published: 1990
  527. The Anti-Semitic and Pro-Terror Myths
    The Politics of Distraction
    First Published: 2014
    Past victimization does not excuse current victimizing. Because Jews in Europe had to carry identification cards, use separate streets, live in segregated neighborhoods, etc., does not justify Israel in forcing Palestinians to suffer these same indignities.
  528. Anti-Semitism and Socialism
    A Reply to Gorelick
    First Published: 2008
  529. The anti-semitism paradox damaging Labour
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the damaging effect of anti-semitism for the political left, which is being exploited in a tactic to stifle class solidarity and subvert a genuinely progressive Labour leadership.
  530. Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Defense of Palestinian Rights
    First Published: 2008
  531. Anti-Terrorism Begins at Home
    Viva House refuses to sign United Way "loyalty oath"
    First Published: 2011
    A Baltimore is refusing to certify that it does not use United Way funds to support terrorism, saying the request smacks of McCarthyism.
  532. Anti-Vaccination Fever
    The Shot Hurt Around the World
    First Published: 2004
    Sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that has almost been forgotten.
  533. Anti-War Movement's Strange Allies: Hard Line Islamists
    Canada's progressive Muslims wonder why left would embrace theocrats
    First Published: 2006
    Canada's anti-war movement has become not only the primary vehicle for an obscure, formerly left-wing group that attacks anyone who opposes Shariah courts in Canada, it's also now the main source of public respectability for a Toronto think-tank that advocates for the establishment of theocracies that hang gay people.
  534. Anti-Zionist legacy of Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighter Marek Edelman
    First Published: 2009
    A look at the legacy Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, who despite his heroism was shunned by Israel and Zionist organizations because of his frequent criticism of Israelli policy.
  535. Anti-Apartheid Movement (British)
    Connexipedia Article
  536. Anticapitalism and Climate Justice
    First Published: 2010
    The current crisis raises the urgent need to change the world from below and do so from an anticapitalist and radical eco-socialist perspective. Anticapitalism and climate justice are two struggles which must be closely linked.
  537. Antidote For Rural Sprawl: Land Use Zoning 
    First Published: 2021
    There will always be people who will argue that zoning is an infringement upon their freedom to build a home where they choose. Speed limits and traffic lights are an infringement of our freedom to drive at any speed we want, but society recognizes that we would have chaos without such limits. The same principles apply to land use. Most of us recognize that zoning has value. Who doesn’t believe keeping structures out of a river's flood plain or keeping a pig farm out of a residential neighborhood isn’t reasonable? We need to extend that idea to the entire landscape, or we will lose much of what we consider valuable.
  538. Antifa in Theory and in Practice
    First Published: 2017
    In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist. Hooded and dressed in black, Antifa is essentially a variation of the Black Bloc, familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa sounds more political. American Antifa looks very much like a middle class wedding between Identity Politics and gang warfare.
  539. Antifa in Theory and in Practice
    First Published: 2017
    A masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist, is just a variation of the Black Bloc, which is familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa serves the purpose of stigmatizing those it attacks as "fascists", yet despite its imported name Antifa in the U.S. is basically just another example of America's steady descent into violence.
  540. Antifa is a 'major gift to the right
    World-renowned academic prompts criticism for his comments about the anti-fascist movement in the wake of Charlottesville
    First Published: 2017
    In the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville and tension between white supremacists and anti-fascists, Noam Chomsky condemns Antifa militant tactics and suggests constructive activism based in education is more effective.
  541. AntiFa's Moral Superiority and the Potential for Left-Wing Unity
    First Published: 2017
    On the tragedy at Charlottesville and its aftermath.
  542. Anti-fascism isn't working
    First Published: 2009
    What all the current anti-fascist approaches have in common is that they miss the real danger. This doesn't lie in the BNP taking power, in the possibility of concentration camps or any of the other scare stories we've been hearing recently. It lies more immediately in the far right colonising the anti-mainstream vote and developing party loyalty, thereby blocking the development of an independent working-class politics capable of defending our conditions and challenging neoliberalism.
  543. Anti-Imperialism and the Iranian Revolution
    Fetters of the past, potential for the future
    First Published: 2011
    The Iranian Revolution, and the anti-imperialist ideology that corresponded to its rise and demise, was indeed a tragedy from the perspective of proletarian revolution; to hold such an ideology today is indeed farcical. It does nothing but bring workers, students, and women’s organizations into an illusory harmony with those who maintain their oppression and exploitation.
  544. Anti-patriotism
    Speech to the jury at his trial in 1905 for 'anti-militarist' activities
    First Published: 1905
    Our war-cry against war is "Insurrection Rather Than War!"
  545. Anti-Porn is the Theory, Repression is the Practice
    First Published: 1987   Published: 1989
    The campaign against pornography has been one of the most visible faces of feminism for more than a decade now. Few have wanted to know whether the 'clean up' they were promoting strengthened women's hand or the State's. Thus they have attracted supporters and allies among politicians from the New Right, which governs (among others) the US and the UK, from the old moralizing Left, and even from the trendy Left. Although this anti-porn lobby is not homogeneous, it is rare for any part of it to dissociate itself from the most powerful pro-censorship law-and-order identity.
  546. Antisemitism Claims have One Goal: To Stop Jeremy Corbyn Winning Power
    The Jewish community’s alienation from Labour has been years in the making
    First Published: 2019
    A supposed antisemitism crisis in Britain's Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader has erupted back into the headlines.
  547. Antisemitism claims mask a reign of political and cultural terror across Europe
    First Published: 2020
    Cook explores the "cultural, political and intellectual reign of terror" in European countries, primarily Germany, after the German parliament equated non-violent boycotts of Israel with antisemitism. He documents the hypocrisies of European countries who fight for free speech but outlaw criticism towards Israel, and the ways antisemitism has been weaponised.
  548. The Anti-Semitism That Goes Unreported
    First Published: 2012
    Our grandparents knew that the order-enforcement authorities wouldn't intervene to help a Jewish family under attack; we know that the Israel Defense Forces, the Israel Police, the Civil Administration, the Border Police and the courts all stand on the sidelines, closing their eyes, softballing investigations, ignoring evidence, downplaying the severity of the acts, protecting the attackers, and giving a boost to those progromtchiks. The hands behind these attacks belong to Israeli Jews who violate international law by living in the West Bank. But the aims and goals behind the attacks are the flesh and blood of the Israeli non-occupation. This systemic violence is part of the existing order. It complements and facilitates the violence of the regime.
  549. Anti-statism
    Connexipedia Article
  550. Antithesis of Capital and Labour. Landed Property and Capital
    First Published: 1844
  551. Anti-Vax Propaganda Helps Measles -- Once Eradicated -- Spread Across the Twin Cities
    Health officials expect the number of diagnoses to rise.
    First Published: 2017
    The anti-vaxxer misinformation campaign has led to yet another outbreak of a preventable disease. Minnesota's Department of Health has announced that 44 people in the state have been diagnosed with measles, a disease once eradicated in the United States. Forty-two of the cases are in children, most of them Somali-Americans who were never vaccinated. According to numerous sources, the outbreak is the result of a sustained anti-vaccination campaign.
  552. Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    The efforts of women to end the war in Vietnam have been subsumed into a paradigm that suggests that, some time in the late 1960s, women activists left the antiwar struggle for the new feminist cause, leaving behind the movement that had initially ignited their activist energies. This story of ideological abandonment overstates the case. The variety of organizational, theoretical, and personal lessons learned in the antiwar movement profoundly influenced the organized, theoretically nuanced, and personally impassioned movement of, by, and for women, whose diverse constituent groups shared the idea of liberation from male authority.
  553. Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American Journalism
    First Published: 2017
    What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag – in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isn’t defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And that’s the problem.
  554. The anti-Zionist Bund led the Jewish Resistance in Poland whilst the Zionist Movement abandoned the Jews
    First Published: 2017
    Zionism and Israel's racist rulers have created a series of myths about how the only Jewish Resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland was from the Zionists. The role of the anti-Zionist Bund has been erased. In fact the Zionist movement in Palestine and the West abandoned the resistance including the Zionist component of that resistance.
  555. Anton Pannekoek 
    First Published: 1960
    Anton Pannekoek's life span coincided with what was almost the whole history of the modern labour movement; he experienced its rise as a movement of social protest, its transformation into a movement of social reform, and its eclipse as an independent class movement in the contemporary world. But Pannekoek also experienced its revolutionary potentialities in the spontaneous upheavals which, from time to time, interrupted the even flow of social evolution. He entered the labour movement a Marxist and he died a Marxist, still convinced that if there is a future, it will be a socialist future.
  556. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a Comunidad, Urbano, Vivienda
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  557. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a la Educación, Niños
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  558. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a la Salud
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  559. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a las Artes, Medios, Cultura
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  560. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a los Derechos Humanos y Libertades Civiles
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  561. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Ambiente, Uso de Tierra, Rural
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  562. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de la Paz
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  563. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de las Mujeres
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  564. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  565. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de Personas Nativas
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  566. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Desarrollo, Internacional
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  567. Anxious Pleasures (excerpt)
    First Published: 1986
  568. The Anxious Worker
    First Published: 2014
    The author looks at the contemporary conditions of work and examines how these give rise to anxiety and depression.
  569. Any White Cop Can Kill a Black Man at Any Time
    First Published: 2017
    Any white cop can kill a black man at any time and the cop will not go to jail, exemplified in the Jason Stockley, Anthony Lamar Smith case.
  570. Any Word Marksmen in the House?
    The Uncertain Mirror
    First Published: 1971
    On labelling and stereotyping in the media. This article first appeared in the January 1971 issue of Content magazine (Issue #3).
  571. AP Blasts "Russian Propaganda War" Over Ukraine
    Herding the Media Sheep
    First Published: 2014
    Peter Leonard’s March 15 Associated Press report is entitled: “Russian propaganda war in full swing over Ukraine.” “This is Ukraine today,” he begins, “at least as seen by most Russian news media: the government is run by anti-Semitic fascists, people killed by opposition snipers and the west is behind it all.”
  572. 'Apartheid' Designation Ignored as Israel Kills Children in Gaza Again
    First Published: 2023
    Greene looked at coverage of Israel's bombings of the Gaza Strip from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, and didn't find a single reference to Israel as an apartheid state, despite this being the consensus in the human rights community. Greene criticizes the lack of coverage and distortion of events perpetuated by the media.
  573. Apartheid in the fields: From occupied Palestine to UK Supermarkets
    First Published: 2016
    Articles and interviews with Palestinian agricultural workers and farmers in the West Bank and Gaza, together with information on many of the Israeli exporters and UK supermarkets, as a resource for campaigners seeking to follow the call to boycott Israeli goods, companies and state institutions.
  574. Apartheid "Peace" Explodes
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    The explosion in Jerusalem, occupied Palestine and the state of Israel is horrific to contemplate—but not at all difficult to understand. Underneath what appeared to begin as rioting over "holy places," the real issue is this: Tens of thousands of Palestinians are risking their lives in the face of live ammunition in defense of their basic human dignity. And in that act, they have posed the greatest challenge to the "stability" of imperialist control of the Middle East that we have witnessed since the 1973 war.
  575. Apathy and Our Totalitarian Future
    Watching Everything, Everywhere, All the Time
    First Published: 2013
    The implication of the NSA scandal is this: encroaching totalitarianism can move slowly, in stages.
  576. Apocalypse and the Left
    Endgame or Business as Usual?
    First Published: 2013
  577. Apocalypse of Our Times
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of Gerald Horne's "Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism," a look at the 17th century origins of the slave trade.
  578. Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
    First Published: 2015
    The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
  579. Appalachia Rising
    Which Side Are You On?
    First Published: 2014
    On January 9, 2014, a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. This is a story too often told in Appalachia.
  580. Appeal to the Slavs
    First Published: 1848
    When reaction conspires throughout Europe, when it works without stint, with the help of an organization slowly and carefully prepared, stretching all over the land, the revolution should create for itself a power capable of fighting it.
  581. Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
    First Published: 2001
    Just because someone is able to purchase a machine that lets them ride off-road, that is no reason that the public should be required to provide them a place to use it.
  582. Appendix to Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution
    Jose Peirats traces the story of the half million refugees who left Spain when Franco came to power in 1939. This text sterves as appendix to his carefully documented Anarchists in the Spanish Revoluiont. Clandestine activity and political organization of some of the Spanish anarchist militants is told in this pamphlet.
  583. Apple and the Guardian: Partners in a Death Spiral
    First Published: 2018
    This report on Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to a UK school to promote the company's new coding curriculum for schoolchildren could hardly be a better illustration of the way the Guardian newspaper serves as a key propagandist for aggressive global corporate capitalism, helping to create for it a façade of humanitarianism.
  584. Appreciating Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. passed away on April 11, 2007, from a head injury sustained from a recent fall. Despite his best efforts to do away with himself by smoking heavily for many years, cigarettes, he had joked, were unable to do the job they promised. “If the washing don’t get you, the rinsing will” as the blues song says. So it goes.
  585. Approaches To Foreign Rrepresentatives of Governments
    First Published: 1976
    Guidelines useful in securing and attending interviews with ambassadors.
  586. Approaches to Skid Row: Rosewater? Rehabilitation? Radical Renewal?
    Notes on the Conference of December 3, 4, 5, 1974
    First Published: 1975
    Report of the first National Conference of the Skid Row National Coalition.
  587. Approaching Development: GMO Propaganda and Neoliberalism vs Localisation and Agroecology
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the pro GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) lobby and the reasons why they are pushing GMO technology. The article looks towards agroecology as a better means of achieving genuine food sovereignty.
  588. Appropriate Technology
    First Published: 1976
    A pamphlet about inappropriate aid programs and our need to look at alternate forms of energy.
  589. The Arab Choice
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The Arabs are many peoples, cultures, religions, and realities. I cannot put an Arab tyrant, whoever he is, in the same category as a martyr for democracy like Mehdi Ben Barka.
  590. Arab Detroit, Targeted Community
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    Since September 11, 2001, the Detroit area’s Arab-American community has become a convenient source of media reports, an object of investigation by government agencies, and a target of hatred for Americans looking for someone to blame for the 9/11 attacks.
  591. Arab Jews vs. Palestinians: Israel's Refugee Pawns
    First Published: 2012
    Israel's attempt to compare Arab Jews to Palestinian refugees.
  592. Arab Media on the Brink
    The Age of TV Jokers
    First Published: 2014
    In the last year or so in Egypt, much of what has been achieved in terms of carving space for alternative voices in the Egyptian media was quickly and decisively reversed.
  593. Arab Revolt (1916 - 1918)
    Connexipedia Article
    Was initiated by the Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen.
  594. The Arab Revolts and the Cage of Political Economy
    First Published: 2011
    Though the Arab revolts of 2011 herald a new era where people have powerfully asserted their inalienable right to protest (and we hope they will continue doing so), the powerful cage of political economy has remained intact even after six intense months of protest. The intent of the imperial US power in the region, along with its allies Israel and the European Union (EU), remains unchanged.
  595. Arab Sexualities
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    The issue of same-sex sexualities in the Arab world is a political and intellectual minefield, and more so since 9/11 than before. In a bizarre twist, neoconservatives and other rightists who were hostile for decades to the lesbian/gay movement have repackaged themselves as defenders of oppressed Arab women and gays. Responses from the left have been divided.
  596. Arab Spring: Against Shallow Optimism and Pessimism
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Gilbert Achcar's Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising, and Joel Beinin's Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
  597. The Arab Spring, the West and Political Islam
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    The contemporary Arab political system, until the recent outbreak of Arab revolutions, is the byproduct of a number of domestic, regional and global arrangements and developments in the post-World War II international order.
  598. Arab Uprising & Women's Rights: Lessons from Iran
    First Published: 2013
    The aftermath of the ''Arab Spring" revolutionary activity is bringing forth changes that run counter to the ideals and visions of the original change-seeking forces. Most notably, the swift turn in favor of Islamist parties in the wake of these uprisings -- for example, in Egypt and Tunisia -- while not unexpected, is worrisome indeed. For women in particular, a revolution whose mobilizing demands were freedom, democracy and social justice turned into a huge prison under the self-appointed guardians of Shari'a.
  599. Arab Women Writers' Problems and Prospects
    First Published: 1997
    Arab critics, particularly those situated in the Arab world, are viewed with suspicion, especially when they are men writing about women. If they don't write about Arab women writers, they are chastised for ignoring them. If they do, they are accused of attempting to "contain" and "marginalize" them.
  600. Arabs and the Holocaust
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    The Palestinian tragedy, a late product of 19th-20th century colonialism and imperialism in general, must also be understood as a very specific aftershock of the greatest industrial genocide in history, the Nazi holocaust, which shook the ways in which we view human society and history.
  601. Arabs and Muslims After 9/11 - Book Review
    First Published: 2013
    Review of "Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation After 9/11" by Evelyn Alsultany and "Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism" by Nadine Naber.
  602. Arbeter Fraynd
    Connexipedia Article
    Meaning "Worker's Friend" in Yiddish, was a London-based weekly Yiddish radical paper founded in 1885 by socialist Morris Winchevsky.
  603. Arboricide in Palestine - olive orchard destroyed
    First Published: 2015
    Israeli settlers in Palestine's South Hebron Hills last week cut down an orchard of 36 olive trees, in the latest attack of a decades-long war against Palestinian culture and survival in which has seen the cutting, burning and bulldozing of over a million olive, fruit and nut trees.
  604. The Arbritary Enfranchisement of Indian Women
    First Published: 1976
    A brief arguing for the amendment of certain provisions of the Indian Act providing for the involuntary enfranchisement of Indian women.
  605. The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
    Hope, History, and Unpredictability
    First Published: 2013
    North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther King’s arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.
  606. The Arch Conspirator- Review
    First Published: 2002
    A review of Len Bracken's The Arch Conspirator.
  607. Archaeology and the Atom
    The Nuclear Fallacy
    First Published: 2013
    We have all heard of the city of Idu. Right? Thousands of families living there, carrying out their normal lives, government housed in lavish buildings, written documents, trade, religion, etc. Well, it was lost. A whole city lost. Idu flourished in the 13th century B.C. We knew it had existed from some ancient Assyrian records, but had no idea where it was. Archeologists finally found it last year, buried in northern Iraq.
  608. Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do
    First Published: 2010
    In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
  609. The Archipelago of Horror
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    Laupahoehoe in Hawaiian means “foot of lava.” Thousands of years ago, lava cascaded down a steep canyon on the side of mighty Mauna Kea and created a flat shelf between the towering cliffs of the Hamakua Coast on the eastern shore of the island of Hawaii. Laupahoehoe Point became a ceremonial center of great importance to native Hawaiians as well as the only canoe landing along fifty miles of rugged coast.
  610. Architects of Mass Slaughter
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Detailed review of two books about the Indonesian Genocide.
  611. Archives As Activism
    First Published: 2017
    Last week was archives awareness week in Ontario, a week to raise awareness about what archivists do, what archives are, and just generally celebrate all of the good stuff associated with archives. In addition to general archives promotion this week it is also about the connection between archives and activism.
  612. Archiving With May Day Rooms
    From the Marx Memorial Library to Cold Bath Fields
    First Published: 2013
    In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destroys the evidence of our past, its joys, its victories. Clear out the closets, empty the shelves, toss out the old footage, shred the underground press, pulverize the brittle, yellowing documents! Thus neo-liberalism organizes the transition from the old to the new; they must silence alternatives.
  613. Arctic Death Rattle
    First Published: 2016
    The warming of the Arctic negatively affects the entire Northern Hemisphere by altering jet streams at 30,000-40,000 feet altitude, which turns normal weather patterns upside down, wreaking havoc throughout the hemisphere. Even more significantly, loss of Arctic ice exposes the planet to risks of a crushing blow to the planetary ecosystem, without warning.
  614. The Arctic Turns Ugly
    First Published: 2016
    Runaway global warming is far and away humankind's biggest nightmare, and the Arctic is the likely perpetrator. If it happens, it'll blister agricultural foodstuff before it can reach the outstretched arms of the multitudes.
  615. Are cows destroying the climate?
    Film Review:
    First Published: 2015
    How not to change the world. ‘Cowspiracy’ ignores capitalism and rejects Indigenous peoples’ concerns, while denouncing everyone who eats meat.
  616. Are Credit Rating Agencies America's Secret Fifth Column?
    First Published: 2017
    The Rating Agencies and the Banks are part of an organized criminal enterprise that include our Justice Department and our Politicians.
  617. Are Israel's spies stealing your data?
    First Published: 2019
    Many Israeli spies go into careers in surveillance software bringing techniques that are used to violate the privacy of Palestinians into everyday commercial software.
  618. Are There Lessons for Canada's Elites in the US Election?
    First Published: 2016
    In the aftermath of the results of the US election the mix of emotions and analysis spans the spectrum from feeling sorry for the irrational and politically illiterate American voter to fear about the consequences of the election of a thuggish buffoon as president. But common to all reactions is a smugness rooted in our sense of superiority -- as if our elites are somehow more attentive to the public interest and the lives of ordinary Canadians.
  619. Are there too many people? 
    Population, hunger, and environmental degradation
    First Published: 2009
    A number of liberal writers and publications have raised the specter of growing population as an unpleasant yet necessary topic of conversation.
  620. Are These the Keystone Cops?
    First Published: 2016
    The CIA owes its vaunted reputation to one source: Hollywood’s movie studios. The way the movies portray America's clandestine services goes so far beyond mere "exaggeration" or embellishment, it verges on outright hero worship, stubbornly confusing James Woolsey with James Bond. Alas, if our intel-gathering networks were a fraction as accomplished as Hollywood portrays them to be, we wouldn’t have been mired in Vietnam or Iraq.
  621. Are They Really Out to Get Trump?
    Sometimes paranoia is justified
    First Published: 2017
    President Donald Trump and the firing of FBI Director Comey
  622. Are US Troops Targeting Journalists?
    Incidents Raise Suspicions on Motive
    First Published: 2012
    It is dangerous in the extreme to be a journalist covering America’s wars, at least beginning with Vietnam.
  623. Are We Being Driven Like Cattle?
    First Published: 2014
    As we stand in line for security checks at airports, we may have the distinct feeling that we are being herded like cattle. The purpose of the charade is not so much to prevent airliners from being sabotaged as it is to keep the idea of terrorism fresh in our minds.
  624. Are We Having Sex Now or What?
    First Published: 1992
    Questions you may never have thought to ask about sex.
  625. Are we headed for another depression?
    First Published: 1979
    Summarizing from a Marxian perspective the most important factors determining the structure of the economy, Moseley concludes that both the squeezing of workers' living standards and government economic interventions can, at best, only prevent a sudden collapse of the system.
  626. 'Are we the baddies?'
    Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
    First Published: 2023
    The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel's crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that's been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.
  627. Are you paying too much to send out your news releases?
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2009
    If you have been using a corporate newswire service to send out your news releases you are likely paying $500 or more to send out a single release -- and that release may not even be reaching the people you want to reach.
  628. Are Your Devices Hardwired For Betrayal?
    First Published: 2015
    Firmware-based attacks are real and their numbers will only increase. Cooper discusses the potential consequences if we don't address this issue now.
  629. Argentina '76
    A dossier on political repression and the violation of human rights
    First Published: 1976
    A report that outlines the torture of political prisoners, censorship, and religious persecution that occurs in Argentina.
  630. Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
    First Published: 2009
    Food sovereignty as defined by Via Campesina is the peoples' right to define their agricultural and food policy, and the right of farmers and peasants to produce food. Worldwide communities are seeking an alternative to a model controlled by Cargill, Monsanto, General Foods, Nestle and Kraft foods. Starved by industrialization and concentration, citizens are now hungry for traditional production methods and diversity in the food system.
  631. Argentina's Indigenous People Fight for Land Rights
    First Published: 2019
    Indigenous people in Argentina live with the constant threat of eviction on land to which they own no title. Much of their predicament is due to colonial laws and attitudes that persist even though constitutional changes now recognize Indigenous land rights as an urgent issue. Deforestation due to expanding agriculture exacerbates this conflict.
  632. Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' Cooperatives
    First Published: 2018
    An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.
  633. ARIPO Protocol is a tool for foreign takeover of Ghana's agriculture
    First Published: 2015
    Ghanaian citizens have so far prevented the passage of the Plant Breeders Bill, a UPOV-91-compliant law that would strip Ghanaian farmers of their rights to their own seeds. But there is worse coming from the African Regional Intellectual Property Association (ARIPO). To Ghana’s great credit, and despite determination and pressure from the G7, USAID and its contractors, despite the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of Ghana’s ministers, Attorney General, and both major political parties, Ghana has refused to pass a farmer destroying, sovereignty busting, UPOV law.
  634. Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 1983
    Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.
  635. Arizona's Racial Profiling Push
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is quick to blame the federal government for the economic and social ills of her state. Responding to a growing movement to boycott Arizona for its new “show me your papers” law as “thoughtless and harmful,” she complained that the outraged response “adds to the massive economic burden Arizonans have sustained for years due to the federal government’s failure to secure its borders.”
  636. Armed robbery in Gaza - Israel, US, UK carve up the spoils of Palestine's stolen gas
    First Published: 2014
    Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. But first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
  637. The Armies of Europe
    First Published: 1855
  638. Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse
    First Published: 2016
    The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes Colin Todhunter. It is being waged by a quartet of organised criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, money, food and violence across the globe. But a deep-rooted resistance against their 'neoliberal' doctrine of death and destruction is fighting back.
  639. Arms Maker, Union Buster: Litton Industries - A Corporate Profile
    First Published: 1987
    Litton continues to represent what is most reprehensible in corporate capitalism: blatanta disregard for the rights of their own workers and the concerns of others. The skills of Litton workers should be used for socially useful purposes, not for nuclear war preparations.
  640. ARMX on the march
    First Published: 1990
  641. Army Detonates Two Homes In Hebron, Seals One With Concrete Blocs
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli soldiers wired and detonated two Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and sealed the home of a third Palestinian with concrete. A Palestinian home was also demolished in occupied East Jerusalem.
  642. The Arrest and Detention of Amer Jubran
    This is Not News
    First Published: 2014
    Amer Jubran might sit indefinitely in detention without charges. Or he may be brought up at any time and charged with “terrorism” before the State Security Court, a rubber stamp court. If so, his lawyer might be told the charges a day or two before the sham trial, which then leads to inevitable conviction–a mere formality. Only a concerted political campaign that gets widespread international attention can make any difference. It’s up to us to create enough visibility to make that possible.
  643. Arrêtons de se faire des illusions
    Le magazine Canadien Dimensions discute du Nouveau Parti Démocratique Canadien
    First Published: 1989
    Si nous devons plus que jamais avancer, nous devons y faire face : Le NPD n'est pas un parti socialiste. Le NPD n'a jamais été un parti socialiste. Le NPD ne sera jamais un parti socialiste.
  644. The arrogance of the long distance Zionist
    First Published: 1998
    Immigration as part of a concerted plan that will take over the country, expropriating, expelling and exploiting the native masses, is less immigration and more a long drawn out and aggressive invasion.
  645. Arroyo on the Brink
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Phillipines president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has so far survived two attempts to oust her from office. The first constituted the so-called “opposition salvo” in July 2005. This was followed by the aborted “military uprising” in February.
  646. Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You
    Would You Like Sugar With That?
    First Published: 2014
    The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the earth.
  647. Art and Aesthetics on the Left
    An interview with Andrew Hemingway
    First Published: 2015
    Andrew Hemingway is an art historian and Professor Emeritus at University College London. His books include Artists on the Left. American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002) and The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).
  648. Art and Labour
    First Published: 1884
    Says Morris: "By art, I do not mean only pictures and sculpture, nor only these and architecture, that is beautiful building properly ornamented; these are only a portion of art, which comprises, as I understand the word a great deal more; beauty produced by the labour of man both mental and bodily, the expression of the interest man takes in the life of man upon the earth with all its surroundings, in other words the human pleasure of life is what I mean by art."
  649. Art and Socialism
    First Published: 1884
    Morris sees work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only socialism can restore work to its proper, central position.
  650. The Art of Activism
    First Published: 1997
    The unique style of 'protest as performance' pioneered by the queer rights group OutRage!
  651. The Art of Carnage
    Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Gordon Hughes' and Philipp Blom' Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I.
  652. The Art of Lying
    "Yes, That Was My Penis" and Other Ticklish PR Challenges
    First Published: 2013
    People in the public eye should have learned enough from past blunders to come up with a different strategy when asked potentially damaging questions.
  653. The Art of Spin
    How Hillary Clinton backers deployed faux feminism and privilege politics to divert attention from her destructive policies
    First Published: 2016
    Propaganda and misdirection have been deployed to great effect in the 2016 American election.
  654. Art, Religion and Hatred
    Religious Intolerance in Russia and its Effects on Art
    First Published: 2005
    Report on religious intolerance in Russia and its effects on artists and their freedom of expression.
  655. Art Under Plutocracy
    First Published: 1883   Published: 1884
    Morris asks "What kind of an account shall we be able to give to those who come after us of our dealings with the earth, which our forefathers handed down to us still beautiful, in spite of all the thousands of years of strife and carelessness and selfishness?"
  656. Art, Wealth, and Riches
    First Published: 1883
    A lecture by William Morris, delivered in Manchester in 1883. Morris poses the question "Is art to be limited to a narrow class who only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure of the whole people?"
  657. Arthur Topham's Political Beliefs May Just Be Illegal
    The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham: Part 3
    First Published: 2015
    On November 7, 2015, Arthur Topham was convicted of inciting hatred against a racial group, the Jewish people. Mr. Topham maintains a website, Radical Free Press, in which he publishes and comments upon various documents. These documents include The Elders of the Protocols of Zion, various anti-Zionist texts, and a tract entitled Germany Must Perish, first published in 1941 and then satirized by Mr. Topham as Israel Must Perish.
  658. Article by Marx and Engels in Deutsche-Brusseler-Zeitung April 1847 - February 1848
    First Published: 1847   Published: 1848
  659. Articles by Engels in the Labour Standard 1878-1881
    First Published: 1883
  660. Articles by Engels on the Death of Karl Marx
    First Published: 1883
  661. Articles by Friedrich Engels in La Reforme October 1847 - March 1848
    First Published: 1847   Published: 1848
  662. Articles by Friedrich Engels in New Moral World October 1843 - November 1844
    First Published: 1843   Published: 1844
  663. Articles by Friedrich Engels in The Northern Star December 1843 - December 1849
    First Published: 1843   Published: 1849
  664. Articles by Karl Marx in the New York Daily Tribune
    First Published: 1852   Published: 1861
    In the early 1850's, Karl Marx (and Frederick Engels, though to a lesser extent) wrote a quantity of journalist news summaries about events in Europe for the New-York Daily Tribune. These articles were often reprinted in other papers: see Semi-Weekly Tribune, The Free Press, Das Volk, The People's Paper, Die Reform and Others.
  665. Articles by Karl Marx on China 1853-1860
    China was, at this time, in upheaval. It was the most populous region in the world (400 million people in 1834). The "Celestial Empire" had long operated with trade surpluses, but by the 1840s, serious trade deficits plagued China. The first European-Chinese conflict (The Opium War) began in 1839 and ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanking. During this period, famines wracked the land. It is estimated maybe 14 million people died in 1849, and another 20 million between 1854 and 1860.
    At the same time, the Taiping rebellion broke out in 1850 and attacked the status quo Confucianist Manchu Dynasty -- which had ruled since 1644. The rebellion was based in social revolutionary ideas of equality and was popular among the masses. It abolished private property, established sexual equality, and banned drugs (from alcohol to opium). By 1853, it dominated much of SE China.
  666. Articles by Marx & Engels in Neue Rheinische Zeitung June 1848 - May 1849
    First Published: 1848   Published: 1849
    Neue Rheinische Zeitung
  667. Articles by Marx & Engels in the Rheinische Zeitung April 1842 - March 1843
    First Published: 1842   Published: 1843
  668. Artists/Photographers wanted
    First Published: 1989
  669. The Arts and Social Change
    Introduction to Spring 1986 issue of the Connexions Digest (Volume 10, Number 1)
    First Published: 1986
    We hope that the groups and resources listed in this issue of CONNEXIONS will be useful to others who are seeking new ways to portray their messages and to dramatize injustice and spark discussion.
  670. Arumer Zwarte Hoop
    Connexipedia Article
    An army of peasant rebels in Friesland fighting the Dutch authorities from 1515 to 1523.
  671. The Arusha Declaration
    First Published: 1967
    Tanganyika African National Union's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance.
  672. Arvida Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Began July 24, 1941 when some 700 workers in the Aluminium Co. of Canada (Alcan) in Arvida, Québec, spontaneously walked off the job.
  673. As Coronavirus Grips The US, Americans Get A Taste Of Life Under Sanctions
    First Published: 2020
    Across fifty states, Americans are collectively bracing for the incoming COVID-19 pandemic to hit. In the face of the virus, people are resorting to panic buying, stocking up on vital foods and goods, leading to pressing shortages of key products like hand sanitizer and toilet paper.
  674. As Corruption Engulfs Brazil's "Interim" President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement
    First Published: 2016
    Momentum for the impeachment of Brazil's democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was initially driven by large, flamboyant street protests of citizens demanding her removal. Although Brazil's dominant media endlessly glorified (and incited) these green-and-yellow-clad protests as an organic citizen movement, evidence recently emerged that protests groups were covertly funded by opposition parties. Still, there is no doubt that millions of Brazilians participated in marches demanding Rousseff's ouster, claiming they were motivated by anger over her and her party’s corruption. But from the start, there were all sorts of reasons to doubt this storyline and to see that these protesters were (for the most part) not opposed to corruption, but simply devoted to removing from power the center-left party that won four straight national elections.
  675. As Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons, the Party's Voters Are Becoming Far More Militaristic and Pro-War Than Republicans
    First Published: 2019
    As President Trump announces plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan Democrats have seemingly adopted a pro-war stance in greater numbers than Republicans.
  676. As If People Mattered - Resource Issues in Labrador
    First Published: 1978
  677. As Jews, We'll Never Address Racism While Clinging To Zionism
    First Published: 2020
    If you can't make the connections, it’s best to keep quiet. If you can’t see how your own views on related matters may defeat your credibility, then say nothing. If you think someone else is being racist but you’re only concerned about security, you need to do some serious study and a bit of self-reflection. Otherwise, you end up looking disingenuous, or foolish, or both.
  678. As lies on Syrian gas attack unravel, US and UK shift to claims of Russian "cyber war"
    First Published: 2018
    An examination of the alleged gas attack in Syria as pretext for yet another war against a Middle Eastern nation, the suppression of anti-war sentiment, and the legitimization and crackdown on democratic rights and censorship of the Internet under the banner of combating Russian cyber warfare.
  679. As Pandemic Rages, US Economic Sanctions Against Cuba are Deadly
    First Published: 2020
    We know that for almost 60 years the U.S. government has blockaded Cuba and, in the process, has damaged Cuba's economy and threatened the health and safety of the Cuban people.
  680. As Pipeline Construction and Repression Grows, DAPL Protest is Looking More Like a Mass Movement
    First Published: 2016
    A look at the escalating conflict between the DAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, and the native tribes and activists who are resisting it. The issue is centered around the construction of a pipeline which risks the destruction of a river that serves as a main water source to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the more than 17 million people downriver.
  681. As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly Predictable
    First Published: 2016
    The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news of a sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest march and rally against police brutality and killings of black people in that city. The murder of anybody, whether it's a police officer or someone who is simply stopped by a cop for a minor traffic violation and is then shot because a jumpy officer mistakes reaching for a wallet to be reaching for a gun, as happened just two days ago in Minnesota, is a dreadful thing.
  682. As rivers re-open to shipping, oil threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest continues
    First Published: 2015
    Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest, home of incredibly rich biodiversity, is under unprecedented threat, writes ASMG Kibria. The recent oil tanker capsize on the Shela river puts the forest at risk of widespread biodiversity loss, but just this week, the authorities re-opened the Shela river to shipping with no restrictions on hazardous cargoes.
  683. As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
    First Published: 2016
    The summer of 2016 is barely two weeks old, but this year is already on track to break high temperature records in the United States. On June 20, cities across the Southwest and into Nevada reached all-time triple-digit highs. Meanwhile, every single state experienced spring temperatures above average, with some in the Northwest reaching record highs. These temperatures have already proved deadly, killing five hikers in Arizona earlier this month. Triple-digit heat earlier that same week is also being blamed for the deaths of two construction workers, 49-year old Dale Heitman in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 15 and 55-year old Thomas F. “Tommy” Barnes on June 14 at the Monsanto campus in nearby Chesterfield, Missouri.
  684. As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
    First Published: 2018
    Democrats and Republicans both seem willing to curtail freedom of the press when an outlet publishes work against their interests, however, prosecuting Julian Assange/Wikileaks would create a precedent that would criminalize the core function of investigative journalism.
  685. As the World Turned Upside Down
    Left Intellectuals in Yugoslavia, 1988-90
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the author's experiences and reflections meeting left intellectuals, primarily during conferences in Yugoslavia between 1988 and 1990.
  686. As Trudeau cracks down, the left drives protesters into the right's arms again
    First Published: 2022
    Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution.
  687. As Turkey Bombed Anti-ISIS Fighters, It Hired Lobbying Firm Tied to 2016 Candidates
    First Published: 2015
    On July 24, 2015, Turkey launched a massive military campaign that included sweeping attacks against Kurdish forces as well as minor strikes on Islamic State positions south of Turkey’s border. Just five days later, the Turkish government inked a contract to hire a team of prominent lobbyists to add to its already formidable army of influence-peddlers in Washington.
  688. Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
    Connexipedia Article
    An organization that came together in response to the political situation in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, first meeting in June 2006.
  689. Asbestos Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    The Asbestos Strike of 1949, based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, was a four-month labour dispute by the asbestos miners.
  690. Asbestos Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    The Asbestos Strike of 1949, based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, was a four-month labour dispute by the asbestos miners.
  691. Asch, Moses
    Connexipedia Article
    Founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. (1905-1986).
  692. Ashcroft? The Road to Theocracy?
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    Many stories are told about John Ashcroft here in his home town of Springfield, Missouri. Some of them are no doubt true. My personal favorite concerns John after we went to the same high school, but before his actual political career began. He was then acting as attorney for Southwest Missouri State University, located here.
  693. Asia Inhales While the West Bans the Deadly Carcinogen
    First Published: 2010
    Asbestos, a known carcinogen banned in much of the world, is a common and dangerous building block in much of Asia's development and construction boom. This white powder causes 100,000 occupational deaths per year, according to Medical News Today.
  694. Asia: Realities of "Recovery"
    Against The Current vol. 83
    First Published: 1999
    Why are we still talking about the Asian crisis? In recent months we have heard government policy-makers, economists, business journalists, financial analysts, IMF technocrats, big business and even some unions announce that “the Asian financial crisis is over.”
  695. Asian American Activism Stirring
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    For a brief but wonderful moment in 2000, the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Presidential campaign drew widespread public attention to its central theme of restoring democracy by challenging corporate power. Speaking to thousands of supporters at “super rallies” and millions of television viewers, Nader hammered home the three general points that corporate power has:
  696. Asian American Incorporation or Insurgency?
    First Published: 1997
  697. Asian socialists condemn Russia's war on Ukraine, NATO expansionism
    Statements against the war
    First Published: 2022
  698. Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
    First Published: 1992
    Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
  699. Assad's Death Warrant
    First Published: 2016
    The war in Syria did not begin when the government of Bashar al Assad cracked down on the uprisings in the spring of 2011, but rather the war began in 2009, when Assad rejected a Qatari plan to transport gas from Qatar to the EU via Syria.
  700. Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System
    Mixed Media
    First Published: 2011
    Posada's case is a dramatic illustration of the fraudulence of the so-called "War on Terror" and highlights the U.S. refusal to abide by the rule of law. Assange's case shows well the U.S. establishment's fear of the free-flow of information that might interfere with foreign policy and reveal that there are many more Posadas whose service to the empire might be disclosed. And the media's cooperation in this protection of Posada and pursuit of Assange is clear. \
  701. Assange Is Free: Here's What He’s Given Us
    First Published: 2024
    Contrary to U.S. government claims, WikiLeaks’ revelations actually saved lives -- and drove demand for accountability from Washington.
  702. Assange revolutionized journalism, and the elite will never forgive him
    First Published: 2019
    Julian Assange's treatment by governments and mainstream media shows how he is a threat to the former and shames the latter.
  703. Assange's Battle: A Fight for Democracy
    First Published: 2015
    Whistle-blowers have become dissidents of the West. In the US, the crackdown on journalists and publishers has reached its height. Despite his campaign pledge to be "the most transparent administration", President Obama engaged in unprecedented persecution of whistle-blowers, worse than all other previous administrations combined. Those who communicate with the press and reveal the secrets of the deep state are seen as insider threats. They have become enemies of the state, often treated as traitors and criminalized.
  704. Assange's Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Anti-war Movement
    First Published: 2020
    While media have become stenographers to power and have long betrayed ordinary people, WikiLeaks has defended the public’s right to know by publishing more than 10 million documents, with a pristine record of accuracy exposing human rights abuses, government spying and war crimes on an unprecedented scale. By bringing truth to the public, the whistleblowing site transformed the Fourth Estate into becoming a powerful vehicle for peace-making.
  705. Assange's Indictment Treats Journalism as a Crime
    First Published: 2019
    The charges against Assange send a message to journalists that they are in danger for doing their jobs. The UK can and should deny extradition of Assange to the US.
  706. Assange's internet blackout & Skripal case part of propaganda war that risks real one
    First Published: 2018
    John Pilger condemns the mainstream media for its role in acting as an uncritiical conduit for government propaganda.
  707. Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
    The Kingpin Strategy
    First Published: 2015
    The "kingpin strategy" refers to the elimination of the kingpins dominating cartels. Cockburn analyzes how this method was used by the U.S. government, how it failed to work in the "drug war," and how its adoption, in the form of targeted assassinations in the "war on terror," has similarly been a failure.
  708. The Assassination Complex
    Secret military documents expose the inner workings of Obama's drone wars
    First Published: 2015
    There has been intense focus on the technology of remote killing, but that often serves as a surrogate for what should be a broader examination of the state's power over life and death.
  709. Assassination Nation
    Drones and Targeted Killing
    First Published: 2015
    Since the use of killer drones by the United States began, more than 3500 people have been killed. Many of those killed were civilians. The number of civilians killed depends on how one counts civilians.
  710. The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and the Politics of Silence
    First Published: 2016
    In 1976, agents working for the Chilean secret service attached plastic explosives to the bottom of Orlando Letelier's Chevrolet as it sat in the driveway of his family's home in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. There are still many unanswered questions about this time. Exactly how complicit was the U.S. in the overthrow of the Chilean government? Why did the CIA ignore a cable telling it that Chile's agents were heading to the U.S.? Why did Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State, cancel a warning to Chile not to kill its overseas opponents just five days before Letelier was murdered?
  711. The assassination of the Rosselli brothers
    First Published: 2017
    A summary of the ideology and actions of Carlo and Nello Rosselli, highlighting what led up to their assassinations and its aftermath.
  712. The Assault on Israeli Legitimacy
    First Published: 2010
    Israel has consciously orchestrated acute misery and poverty in the Palestinian territories over the past two decades in an effort to subdue and ethnically cleanse the captive population. Israel, despite warnings from many within the Israeli establishment, has embarked on a course that will see it, like the South African apartheid regime, become ever more isolated and reviled.
  713. Assaulting pro-Palestinian Activism: Smear Tactics at U-M
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    In March, 2005 the student assembly at the University of Michigan held a campus- wide meeting to vote on a resolution calling for the university to form an advisory committee to review university investments in companies supporting the Israeli occupation. This was not a divestment resolution, but a small-scale resolution calling for an investigative committee to investigate university investments.
  714. Assaulting Public Education in Canada: Privatization Plague Spreads
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    For the past six years right-wing provincial governments across Canada have embraced the neoliberal agenda of “educational reform.” Four provinces in particular, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have led the charge in dismantling public education in favor of market-driven alternatives.
  715. Assessing the Battle of Longview
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    How does the Occupy movement connect with more militant segments of the workers’ movement?
  716. Assessing the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign
    First Published: 1985
    A letter to Canadian Dimension about how the publication of "The Politics of the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign" in its December issue did not make the journalistic or political contribution that was expected of the journal.
  717. Assessing Togliatti
    First Published: 2017
    Broder provides a historical perspective of Italian Communism, looking at longtime leader Palmiro Togliatti's concrete actions during his leadership and not just the party's Gramscian-inflected theoretical canon.
  718. Assignment 1: LGBT Equality
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    IN OUR IMMEDIATELY post-Don’t Ask Don’t Tell society, Stuart Biegel’s The Right to Be Out invites us to create a public education system where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) equality is a reality.
  719. The Astounding Violence Of Israeli Colonialism
    First Published: 2014
    Recently the world watched the horrific violence perpetrated inside Gaza, as 2,159 Palestinians - including 577 children, 263 women and 102 elderly - were killed during Israel's Operation Protective Edge over the course of 50 days. Zionist supporters, as usual, managed to rationalize the killing by blaming the victims, best exemplified by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nauseating claim that Hamas "want(s) to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because ... they use telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause."
  720. Astroturfing
    Wikipedia article
    Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g. political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participant(s). It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations more credibility by withholding information about the source's financial connection.
  721. At COP21, the world agreed to increase emissions
    First Published: 2015
    Some countries will reduce emissions a little, but other countries will increase them a lot. You would never know this from UN and media reports.
  722. At General Motors, "What Means This Strike?"
    First Published: 1998
    IN HIS FAMOUS address to the striking New Bedford textile workers in 1898, Socialist Labor Party leader Daniel De Leon posed the question, "What Means This Strike?" De Leon told the workers their strike would be for naught if they didn't see it connected to the broader struggle of their class.
    He praised them for their courage and affirmed the socialist belief in the strike weapon, but warned that this strike, the second in recent time, would simply become one of a series of lost struggles...
  723. At the crossroads between 'Green Economy' and rights of nature
    First Published: 2012
    Under the rhetoric of "green economy", capitalists are actually attempting to use nature as capital, proposing unconvincingly that the only way to preserve natural elements such as water and forests is through private investment.
  724. At the Dark End of the Street - book review
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle McGuire.
  725. At the Escuelita Zapatista, Students Learn Community Organizing and Civil Resistance as a Way of Life
    The Class Was Stopped Twice: The First Time to Emphasize the Importance of Discipline in Their Organization
    First Published: 2013
    From August 11-17, the Zapatistas brought more than 1,500 people into their communities to attend the Escuelita Zapatista, the Little Zapatista School. According to a February comunicado by the EZLN, in a class entitled Liberty According to the Zapatistas: Autonomous Government I, "our compas from the Zapatista bases of support are going to share the little we have learned about the struggle for freedom, and the [the students] can see what is useful or not for their own struggles."
  726. At the forefront of revolution
    First Published: 2016
    The gains won by the women's liberation movement during the 1960s and 1970s, such as the right to divorce and increased reproductive rights, are real material gains. Women are told that in Britain we have never had it so good. And on the surface that can appear to be true. But, as Judith Orr points out in Marxism and Women's Liberation, "much has changed for women, but too much has not".
  727. At the Onset of the 'Sixties' Radicalization
    My Youthful Year in Germany 1961-62
    First Published: 2023   Published: 2024
    In June 1961, with the aid of a modest bequest and encouragement from a number of European student friends, I left my home in Toronto and set out for a year of study in Germany.
  728. Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
    First Published: 2011
    The Popular Assembly at Syntagma has been able to go beyond democratic discussion to democratic decisions but the construction of real workers democracy is still under way. While thousands take part in the assembly, there are five million living in Athens and millions more in the rest of Greece. To democratically include all these millions requires a system of delegation, in which delegates from neighborhoods and workplaces attend city-wide assemblies and delegates from these attend a nationwide assembly.
  729. Atlanta: Notes on the Politics of Respectability
    First Published: 2015
    In Atlanta, Black politics is contained by the churches and civil rights officialdom in a way that is very peculiar compared with anywhere else I have lived.
  730. The Atlantic Coast Of Nicaragua
    First Published: 1982
  731. Atlantic Issues
    First Published: 1977
    This tabloid is published quarterly and circulated throughout the Atlantic provinces. The current issue looks at the dying Maritime textile industry, unemployment in the Maritimes, the prison system, and fishing.
  732. Atlantic Provinces' Heritage and Environmental Groups.
    First Published: 1981
    This listing contains the titles and addresses of more than 60 heritage and environmental groups throughout the four Atlantic provinces.
  733. The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
    315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.
    First Published: 2015
    Usually, when we say "American slavery" or the "American slave trade," we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But North America was a bit player. From the trade's beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747 -- less than 4 percent of the total -- came to North America.
  734. Atomic Sludge Monster Devours Edmonton!!
    The nuclear industry was facing tough times, so they needed to diversify.
  735. The Atomized and Siloed U.S. Left
    First Published: 2018
    We're increasingly siloed as organizers and protesters. The environment literally decays as we watch, and the Trump administration is hard at work dismantling what environmental regulations there are.
  736. Atoms For War: The Saskatchewan Connection
    First Published: 1982
  737. The Atrocity
    Where's the Outrage Over a Boy Burnt to Death?
    First Published: 2014
    Bombs are raining on Gaza and rockets on Southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed...Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything will essentially be the same as it was before.
  738. Att överge allmänintresset
    First Published: 2000
  739. The Attack on Al Jazeera
    First Published: 2017
    Since its genesis, Al-Jazeera has served as much more than a mere signpost of speech or thought... popular or otherwise. Its existence, alone, stands as a safety valve against those closed societies that embrace repression as so much a check against the light of day of which they fear. Al-Jazeera's availability throughout the Middle East changed its information landscape ... introducing a level of freedom of speech, on TV, that was previously unheard of in the region.
  740. The Attack on American Muslims
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    Flailing after Muslims is a convenient way for the right — extreme and mainstream — to prove their credentials as “genuine, God-loving Americans.” Islam, they charge, is not a religion of peace, of Western values; it’s an ideology of terror. “You can’t trust Muslims.”
  741. Attack on Antiwar Activists Exemplifies Russophobia Among 'Leftist' Apologists for Western Imperialism and a Fascist-Loving Regime
    First Published: 2023
    Many liberal leftists, siding with the U.S.-NATO and Kyiv, purvey falsehoods about the Ukraine War.
  742. The Attack On Civil Liberties In The Age Of COVID-19
    First Published: 2020
    You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception.
  743. The Attack on Our Libraries
    First Published: 2023
  744. The Attack on the People of Gaza
    Go ahead and stop us...
    First Published: 2014
    According to the conventional wisdom, the purpose of Israel’s assault on Gaza is self-defense, i.e., to stop rocket fire and to destroy “terror tunnels”. However, the facts include repeated attacks on hospitals, an open air market, UN schools designated as safe refuges, playgrounds, zoos, Gaza’s only power plant, etc.) by means of high-tech “smart weapons”, and these attacks are inconsistent with the notion of self-defense. These are calculated, deliberate attacks on civilians and the numbers speak for themselves: about 80% of Israel’s victims are non-combatants, including at least (for now) 318 kids.
  745. The Attack on Wilderness From Environmentalists
    First Published: 2018
    Wildlands are being lost across the globe, and some conservation groups are assisting in that loss by proposing lesser protective status.
  746. Attacking Gun Culture at Its Source
    No Justice, No Peace
    First Published: 2012
    When you rob people of their self-respect and sense of control over their own lives, use them as means to your own ends, and treat them like garbage, don’t be surprised if you don’t like the destructive methods they choose to assert their sense of self. By all means let’s feel sympathy for the innocent victims when the worm turns — but let’s also never forget who set things in motion.
  747. Attacks on the press
    First Published: 1992
  748. The Attempts to disappear Garifuna people
    First Published: 2016
    Development projects pushed by the government in the Atlantic coast threaten the survival of afro-descendant communities.
  749. Attica from 1971 to Today
    First Published: 2017
    Interview with Heather Ann Thompson.
  750. Attica: The Revolt and Afterwards
    Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
  751. Attica: The Nightmare That Never Ends
    First Published: 2015
    Today, the incarcerated population in the U.S. has mushroomed to some 2.4 million, seven times the number in 1971, not least as a result of the racist "war on drugs." The prison population grew massively in the 1970s and 1980s in direct proportion to the sharp decline in unionized manufacturing jobs, a measure of how the bourgeoisie has deemed whole layers of the ghetto and barrio masses "surplus." Prisons and jails represent, in concentrated form, the brutality of this racist capitalist society, with severe dehumanization and oppressive conditions directed against an already marginalized and demoralized population.
  752. Attitudes at the Canadian Grassroots
    Signs and Portents in the Seventies
    First Published: 1976
    A report on people's attitudes across Canada.
  753. Atwesasne Notes editor cleared
    First Published: 1991
  754. Auditing the Greek Debt: Unity of Place, Time, and Action 
    First Published: 2015
    The recent debt currently being claimed presents features that make it irregular, illegitimate, illegal, unsustainable, and even odious. Allegedly Greek debts that were accumulated before 2010 were already to a large extent illegitimate and/or illegal.
  755. Auditor raps waste dumping
    First Published: 1991
  756. August 1914 and World War I
    First Published: 2014
    Smaldone analyzes the political circumstances during WWI to explain why socialism as an international movement failed to take hold and ultimately collapsed.
  757. Aurally, We're Illiterates
    First Published: 1969
    In school, one of the most important, most unseen things you do is write words. Our society has changed over time from oral to script. Have we lost our aural abilities in the process?
  758. Auschwitz survivor and fighter against fascism Esther Bejarano has died
    First Published: 2021
  759. Ausserparlamentarische Opposition
    Connexipedia Article
    Was a political protest movement active in West Germany during the latter half of the 1960s and early 1970s, forming a central part of the German student movement.
  760. Der außergewöhnliche Myles Horton
    Interview geführt von Ellen Gould und Murray Dobin
    First Published: 1988
    Myles Horton ist der Gründer der Highlander Folk School, einem Ausbildungszentrum in Tennessee.
  761. Austerity American Style (Part 1)
    First Published: 2013
    Obama’s signing a token “Fiscal Cliff" tax agreement on January 1, 2013 raising taxes on only the wealthiest 0.7% households while effectively removing the Bush tax cuts from the deficit debate; the Obama administration and Republican radicals in the House jointly allowing the $1.2 trillion in 'sequestered' spending cuts to take effect on March 1; and then Obama's unilateral offer to the Republicans, within days of the sequestered cuts taking effect, to cut an additional $630 billion from Social Security and Medicare lead to a convergence between the Obama administration and House Republicans.The article looks into deficit cuttings negotiations and its results.
  762. Austerity American Style, Part 2
    First Published: 2013
    An article on American ecomony and politics.
  763. Austerity and Resistance: Lessons from the 2012 Quebec Student Strike
    First Published: 2012
    The student strike in Quebec has ended, in a rather clear victory. After a seven month-long struggle — the longest of its kind in Quebec history — students have won a cancellation of the proposed tuition hike, a pledge to repeal the infamous Law 78 that had criminalized demonstrations, and the ouster of Premier Jean Charest and his Liberal government.
  764. Austerity and U.S. Decline
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    The full frontal assault on public workers and their unions in one state after another — stripping collective bargaining rights and dues checkoff, slashing wages and pensions and health benefits, abolishing seniority and tenure for teachers, mandating yearly decertification votes, threatening jail terms for strikers — is as massive and instantaneous as it was unexpected by the labor bureaucracy and many union members. To say “the class war is back” is an understatement. It’s an authentic firestorm sucking the oxygen from labor rights, from Wisconsin to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and other states.
  765. Austerity chokes Canada's down-and-out, as Harper, Flaherty look the other way
    First Published: 2013
    The exceedingly aggressive austerity cuts carried out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over the past seven years have come home to roost as millions of Canadians, depressed and without hope, are succumbing to its worst consequences.
  766. Austerity Has Weakened Our Ability To Fight The COVID-19 Pandemic
    First Published: 2020
    "I have delivered food parcels to four families this morning," says Paula Spencer, who runs the community centre in Thanington, a deprived district on the outskirts of Canterbury. Two of the families had called for help because they had symptoms of the coronavirus, and two simply needed food to eat.
  767. Austerity Is Not Colorblind
    First Published: 2013
    The myths about austerity convey that it solves deficits and debts, leads to economic growth and brings business confidence, but real statistics shows that, as an ideological tool, it is not colorblind.
  768. Austerity U
    Preparing Students for Precarious Lives
    First Published: 2014
    Policy-makers are introducing big changes to university systems under the banner of an austerity agenda. Globally common themes in this agenda include rapid increases in tuition fees, new models of university governance, new ways of teaching, a significant shift in subject matter, an attempt to depoliticize campuses, and major alterations in employment relations.
  769. Austerity vs. the Planet:The Future of Labour Environmentalism
    First Published: 2016
    Last December members of the International Trade Union Confederation joined other civil society activists in a mass sit-in at the COP21 talks in Paris. Unionists and their allies, some 400 strong, filled the social space adjacent to the negotiating rooms for several hours, in defiance of a French ban on protests that remained in effect in the wake of the November 13 terrorist attacks. The ITUC delegation demanded the negotiators go back to the table and make a serious effort to incorporate labour's demands for a just transition – which, at its heart, is concerned with making sure workers in environmentally unsustainable industries are retrained and put to work building a new, sustainable economy.
  770. Australia: 1966 Aboriginal Stockmen's Strike
    First Published: 2016
    2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the courageous Aboriginal stockmen's strike at the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory (NT). On 23 August 1966, head stockman Vincent Lingiari led 200 workers out on strike against the appalling conditions under which they were forced to live and work. They walked off with their families to a nearby welfare settlement and later set up camp at Daguragu (also known as Wattie Creek). This strike by Aboriginal workers for equal pay and conditions, and protesting the abusive treatment of Aboriginal women, provided an opportunity for class-struggle unity between Indigenous and white workers.
  771. Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship
    A Little Justice for Al Manar TV
    First Published: 2010
    Australia rejects politically motivated censorship attempts.
  772. Australia: Socialist Alliance's 'International Political Perspectives' Resolution
    First Published: 2014
    Resolutions adopted by the 10th National Conference of the Socialist Alliance, June 7-9, 2014.
  773. Australia: Worst drought ever, but don't mention climate change!
    First Published: 2018
    Despite record drought conditions in Australia and the numerous climate related disasters around the globe, the Australian goverment still refuses to acknowledge human-induced climate change.
  774. Australian government orders ASIO raids to suppress East Timor spying evidence
    First Published: 2013
    The Abbott governmen ordered Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on the homes and offices of a lawyer and former intelligence agency whistleblower involved in an international legal challenge to Australia’s spying on the East Timor government during maritime border talks in 2004.
  775. Australian Government Sanctions People For Sharing Unauthorized Thoughts
    First Published: 2022
    Stomping on speech which doesn't align with the authorized opinions of the government and the globe-spanning empire of which it is a member state.
  776. Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
    First Published: 2019
    Sources reveal new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times and refute lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
  777. Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
    First Published: 2019
    Australian journalist Mark Davis HAS revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
  778. Australian maritime dispute of 1890
    Connexipedia Article
    Was the first of four great strikes that rocked Australasia in the 1890s, which caused political and social turmoil across all Australian colonies and in New Zealand, including the collapse of colonial governments in the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales.
  779. Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
    First Published: 2015
    Schilis-Gallego discusses Australian mining companies' involvement in violence and human rights violations in Africa.
  780. Australian shearers' strike of 1891
    Connexipedia Article
    One of Australia's oldest and most important industrial disputes. Working conditions for sheep shearers in 19th century Australia were considered by those in the industry to be less than optimal. In 1891 wool was one of Australia's largest industries. But as the wool industry grew, so did the number and influence of shearers.
  781. Australian waterfront dispute of 1998
    Connexipedia Article
    Severe and protracted industrial relations dispute, primarily between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Patrick Corporation, a stevedoring and transportation company.
  782. Australia's Asylum Policy
    Teenage Detainees' Plight Shines Light on Regime
    First Published: 2014
    Human rights groups say Coalition's hardline approach to immigration flies in the face of international law.
  783. Australia's Day for Secrets, Flags and Cowards
    First Published: 2016
    In my lifetime, non-indigenous Australia has changed from an Anglo-Irish society to one of the most ethnically diverse on earth. Those we used to call "New Australians" often choose 26 January, "Australia Day", to be sworn in as citizens. The ceremonies can be touching. Watch the faces from the Middle East and understand why they clench their new flag.
  784. Australia's Labor War on the Docks
    First Published: 1998
    THE BATTLE BETWEEN the Australian "wharfies" and the Patrick Stevedore company, backed by the right-wing coalition government of Liberal Prime Minister John Howard, became a test of strength not only with the National Maritime Union (MUA) but with a wide section of the working class.
  785. Australia's rebel heritage of poetry and song
    First Published: 2016
    Ballads like the one published in Borough, London, by the famous printer HP Such, had been sold on the streets of the towns and cities from which convicts were transported to Australia from the First Fleet onwards. This street literature was hawked for less than a penny and was sung, or "chaunted" by the seller to a large audience, many of them poor. HP Such's ballad provides us with a sample of the early industrial working class' emotional and political understanding of the rising empire.
  786. Australia's 'stolen' children get apology but no cash
    First Published: 2008
    The stolen generations were Aboriginal children - mainly mixed race - who were removed from their families and sent to institutions or adopted into white families during the last century. Some children were snatched from their mother's arms, others were taken under the guise of court orders.
  787. Austro-Marxism and the National Question
    First Published: 1935
    The mistake made by those who, starting from the fact that revolutionary Marxism upholds the right of all peoples to independence, argue that the practical consequence of that should be the creation of independent national parties or a federation of organisations with extensive political and administrative autonomy, cannot be sufficiently emphasised. Solidarity between workers of the diverse nations within the same State should be paramount. Class solidarity is better than national solidarity.
  788. Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
    First Published: 2010
    The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.
  789. Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Stephen Harper revolution in new book Harperism
    First Published: 2014
    In Harperism: How Stephen Har­per and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada (James Lorimer & Company Ltd.), Gutstein makes the case that neoliberalism is far more sinister than simply having a desire for smaller government. A central tenet of his new book is that Harper is undermining democracy by marshalling the power of government to create and enforce markets where they’ve never existed before.
  790. Authoritarianism & Lockdown Time in Occupied Kashmir and India
    First Published: 2020
    Under the guise of crises, authoritarian governments can compress time, manipulating it in ways to render decisions that are long in the making seem like spur-of-the-moment measures taken to protect the public interest.
  791. Authoritarianism Means Never Having to Apologize Over Spilled Milk
    First Published: 2016
    In Virginia a middle school student named Ryan Turk was arrested and then suspended from school for allegedly stealing a $0.65 carton of milk. Officials claim that the student tried to conceal the carton of milk and are also charging him with larceny. But there’s a problem: Ryan Turk is on the free lunches program.
  792. The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the unchallenged western media narrative on Syria and notably recent commentary by Brian Whitaker, the Guardian's former Middle East editor, who is opposed to experts in the study of propaganda setting up a panel - the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media - which aims to "provide a source of reliable, informed and timely analysis for journalists, publics and policymakers" on Syria.
  793. Authority and democracy in the United States
    First Published: 1979
    Paul Mattick shows that corresponding to the absence of a socialist movement in America is the absence of fascistic movements as attempted resolutions of extreme class conflict. The complacency of the American working class, however, depends upon continuing capitalist expansion. Thus, the limits imposed by the developing crisis create the possibility of a break with the belief that politics can be safely left to the bourgeoisie.
  794. Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases
    First Published: 2008
    Nick Hornby and other leading British authors accuse Tesco of mounting a "disproportionate" legal response to criticism over its operations in Thailand.
  795. Authors of Gaza youth manifesto speak to Electronic Intifada
    First Published: 2011
    We, the youth of Gaza, who make up sixty percent of Gaza's 1.6 million residents, have increasingly felt repressed in many aspects, starting from the long-standing Israeli occupation of our lands -- particularly the four-year-old Israeli blockade of Gaza -- through the injustice inflicted everywhere by the rulers of Gaza, who we elected four years ago.
  796. Auto Free Cities
    First Published: 1992
  797. Auto Industry Strikes in China
    First Published: 2010
    Strikes in China are nothing new, but the recent strike wave was remarkable in at least three respects: the amount of concessions granted to workers; the degree of publicity it initially received in the Chinese media; and the prospects for showcase union reform that it has helped push onto the agenda.
  798. Auto-Lite strike
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to June 3, 1934.
  799. Auto worker says automation creates worker alienation
    First Published: 1974
    It is only struggle, says Martin Glaberman, that creates an awareness of collective strength.
  800. Auto-Determinación para Quién?
    First Published: 1994
  801. Les Autochones et nous: Vivre ensemble
    First Published: 1980
  802. L’autodétermination pour qui ?
    First Published: 1994
  803. The Automated Bread Factory
    First Published: 1977
    This paper studies the consequences in Tanzania of using aid from the Canadian International Development Agency to build an automated bakery in Dar es Salaam.
  804. Autonomism
    Connexipedia Article
    A set of left-wing political and social movements and theories close to the socialist movement. Autonomism (autonomia), as an identifiable theoretical system, first emerged in Italy in the 1960s from workerist (operaismo) communism.
  805. Autonomist Marxism Course Outline
    An outline of currents of thought and readings related to autonomist Marxism. The term autonomis" is used to designate a dominan characteristic of this particular tradition of radical political thought: the emphasis on the autonomy of the working class in its struggle against capital as well as on the autonomy of various groups of workers vis a vis others of their class.
  806. Autonomist Marxism and Workplace Organizing in Canada in the 1970s
    First Published: 2016
    Accordin to John Huot, Autonomist Marxism, from its headwaters in the early 1960s workers’ struggles and Marxist circles in Italy to multiple, diverse social movement/Marxist/feminist spaces in many countries, has developed into a significant current in the global anti-capitalist, anti-oppression project for social transformation. Huot examines this current in the context of the 1970s "New Tendency" in Canada.
  807. Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
    First Published: 2003
  808. Autonomy vs. the Mexican Party-State
    First Published: 1998
    The development of autonomous local governments in Mexico.
  809. Autonomy zone on Wall Street?
    First Published: 2011
    Prefigurationists argue that they can create self-contained, self-governing societies as pockets of autonomy within the capitalist system. While the goal of creating a democratic decision-making process and remaining independent of the mainstream political system is necessary to create a movement that challenges the entrenched power of Wall Street and the corporate elite, the goal of constituting an autonomous authority within capitalism is impossible and can lead to some dangerous illusions.
  810. Auto's Permanent Temporaries
    First Published: 2016
    In the auto industry, temporaries were once students who covered auto jobs over a clearly defined summer vacation period. Today temps can work a full week year after year, never becoming permanent workers.
  811. Aveling, Edward - Writings - Index
    Writings by Edward Aveling (1849-1898).
  812. Avnery, Uri
    Connexipedia Article
    Israeli writer, human rights activist, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. (Born 1923).
  813. Avnery, Uri and Rachel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Israeli human rights activists, founders of the Gush Shalom peace movement.
  814. The Awakening in America
    First Published: 2011
    The dynamic of social movements is far more important than their ostensible ideological positions. Revolutions arise out of complex processes of social debate and interaction that happen to reach a critical mass and trigger a chain reaction — processes very much like what we are seeing at this moment. The “99%” slogan may not be a very precise “class analysis,” but it’s a close enough approximation for starters, an excellent meme to cut through a lot of traditional sociological jargon and make the point that the vast majority of people are subordinate to a system run by and for a tiny ruling elite.
  815. Away with the gatekeepers!
    The bane of cultural appropriation
    First Published: 2016
    On the the controversies over 'cultural appropriation' and what they reveal about the degradation of contemporary campaigns for social justice.
  816. An Awkward Silence - Burying The Hersh Revelations of Obama's Syrian Deceit
    First Published: 2013
    All governments lie, the US journalist I.F. Stone once noted, with Iraq the most blatant example in modern times. But Syria is another recent criminal example of Stone's dictum.
  817. Ayatollah BBC and #ExMuslimBecause
    First Published: 2015
    Whilst we mourn our dead in Paris, we must not forget the countless others killed by ISIS and Islamists, including this very month in Lebanon, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan... as well as those executed perfectly legally via Sharia laws in Iran, Saudi Arabia... The refugee crisis is in large part due to this unbridled brutality. In fact, if there ever was a "right" time to challenge Islam and Islamism, it is now.
  818. Azmi Bishara and Muslims Worldwide Say No to Attacks on Non-Combatants
    First Published: 2007
    We need the public to know that the choice is between supporting equality or supporting racism, not between opposing or supporting the killing of non-combatants, as the Zionists try to make the public believe. We should tell the public that, yes, we do disagree with the actions of some Palestinians, but that doesn't at all take away from the fact that Zionist ethnic cleansing is the root of the conflict and must be abolished.
  819. Baby remains found in mass grave at ex-Irish orphanage
    First Published: 2017
    Remains of children ranging from new-born to three-years-old discovered in the sewers of a former children's home run by the Roman Catholic Church.
  820. Baby Scoop Era
    Connexipedia article
    The Baby Scoop Era was a period in history starting after the end of World War II and ending in the early 1970s, characterized by an increased rate of pre-marital pregnancies over the preceding period, along with a higher rate of newborn adoption.
  821. Back in the USA
    First Published: 2002
    Chomsky explores American unwillingness to subject Israel to the principles of the Geneva Convention, citing this as a main cause for continued strife in the region.
  822. Back in the USSR
    First Published: 1980
    Impressions from a trip to the Soviet Union.
  823. Back-Talk from the "Old Stock"
    First Published: 2015
    Stephen Harper has been talking recently about "old stock" Canadians -- and at the same time stirring up fear and loathing against more recent arrivals in this country, notably those of Muslim faith, in order to mobilize electoral support for his Conservative Party.
  824. Back to Marx 
    First Published: 1997
    Maybe it's time for the left to see the universalization of capitalism not just as a defeat for us but also as an opportunity -- and that, of course, above all means a new opportunity for that unfashionable thing called class struggle.
  825. Back to the Fragments
    First Published: 2013
    Beyond the Fragments began life in 1979, as a pamphlet, and soon became the classic statement of socialist feminism in the form it took in Britain following the political explosion of May 1968. Its three authors — Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright — had spent much of the decade as members of organizations of the “libertarian” left such as the International Socialists, which in 1977 became the Socialist Workers Party. They were also centrally involved in the women’s liberation movement, and grew utterly frustrated by the male-dominated politics of both the Labour Party and Leninist groups.
  826. Back To The Future 
    The Continuing Relevance of Marx
    First Published: 2000
    Does anyone seriously believe that the Russian workers who invented soviets in 1905 or overthrew the Tsar in 1917 were free of bigotry, of anti-semitism, of sexism, of national chauvinism? Or the Hungarian workers of 1966? Or the French workers of 1968? (In France there had been considerable display of racism toward African immigrants, a racism that was significantly reduced for a while during the events of May 1968.) Were the Polish workers who created Solidarity in 1980 free of anti-semitism, sexism, the influence of the Catholic Church? What is missing in most of these empirical studies is the theory of Marx. They are based on the depths the working class has reached under capitalism, not the peaks. As a result, they are inherently conservative.
  827. Back-to-the-land movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Refers to a North American social phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s involving an attempted migration from cities to rural areas.
  828. Background paper on the Micmac occupation and hunger strike
    First Published: 1983
  829. Background to Bush's Debacle: Iraq and the Empire
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    The stated objective of the neoconservatives in control of United States foreign policy today is to carry out a war on terror by spreading freedom and democracy throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world, if necessary by American power alone, and if necessary by guided missiles, Humvees, and fighter jets.
  830. Backing it Up
    First Published: 1999
    If you say something in a media interview, make sure you can back it up.
  831. Backlash as Google shores up great firewall of China
    Censoring the Internet.
  832. Backwards From Back-wards: The Unmet Needs of Recovering Psychiatric Patients in Edmonton
    First Published: 1984
  833. Backyard Habitats
  834. Bacon's Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    An uprising in which poor whites and poor blacks united against Natives.
  835. Bad faith UN report on Nicaragua whitewashes violent US-backed coup
    First Published: 2023
    A new, anonymously-produced UN report denouncing Nicaragua's government whitewashes the brutal US-backed 2018 coup against it while refusing to interview victims of sadistic opposition violence.
  836. The Bad Losers (And What They Fear Losing)
    First Published: 2016
    If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle. And why is that?
  837. Bad news: Unemployment is down and wages are up
    Normally, the corporate media are violently allergic to any suggestion that class conflict exists at all, let alone that it is fundamental to our capitalist economic system. However, in the business news one is more likely to encounter plain speaking. A case in point is the Globe and Mail’s report on the fears and upset that October's economic data have sparked among economic forecasters and currency traders. The reasons for their worries? A fall in the unemployment rate, and an increase in real wages.
  838. Bad Pharma, Bad Journalism
    First Published: 2012
    ‘The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal’, from Ben Goldacre's new book, Bad Pharma presents a disturbing picture emerges of corporate drug abuse.
  839. Baez, Joan
    Connexipedia Article
    Folk singer, songwriter and activist. (Born 1941).
  840. Bahrain's Government Continues to Strangle Dissent Five Years After Uprising Began
    First Published: 2016
    Five years after the eruption of what came to be known as the "Arab Spring" protests that spilled over from Tunisia, Bahrain's regime continues to lock up opposition leaders, sending a message of its refusal to reform or change.
  841. Bailando con la culpa: Los hombres hablando de la violencia
    First Published: 1992
  842. Bailing Out Banks, Smashing Unions
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    When General Motors and Chrysler received pre-Christmas bridge loans of $17.4 billion, President Bush specified that the unionized work force had to become “competitive” with non-unionized workers in wages, benefits and work rules. This blatant attempt to destroy an already weakened United Auto Workers (UAW) illustrates how, in the midst of an economic crisis, U.S. capital is bailed out as working people are fleeced.
  843. Bain Avenue controversy
    First Published: 1978
    Rent freeze organizers state their case.
  844. Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
    First Published: 1978
    There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework's insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
  845. Bain Co-op
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Built as a low-income housing project in 1913, Bain became a co-operative in 1977.
  846. Bain Co-op hit by rent strike
    Rents up 18%
    First Published: 1977
    Minority of residents launch rent strike while majority pursues co-op ownership.
  847. Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
    A political thriller
    First Published: 1977
    The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
  848. Bain Co-op OK's evictions
    Eviction notices sent
    First Published: 1977
    Bain residents refusing to pay their full rent are to be served eviction notices.
  849. The Bait and Switch of Public-Private Partnerships
    First Published: 2017
    This being the age of public relations, the genteel term "public-private partnership" is used instead of corporate plunder. A "partnership" such deals may be, but it isn't the public who gets the benefits.
  850. Baiting the Bear
    Russia and NATO
    First Published: 2016
    "Aggressive," "revanchist," "swaggering": These are just some of the adjectives the mainstream press and leading U.S. and European political figures are routinely inserting before the words "Russia," or "Vladimir Putin." It is a vocabulary most Americans have not seen or heard since the height of the Cold War. The question is, why?
  851. BAKAUI
    First Published: 1977
    Brochure that describes "bakaui", a way of life in which people work, in a community context, to develop an ecologically sound way of supporting human life.
  852. Baker, Ella
    Connexipedia Article
    African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).
  853. Bakken Business
    The price of North Dakota's fracking boom
    First Published: 2013
    Manning the widespread fracking in the Bakken formation (North Dakota), and the environmental and social repercussions it causes.
  854. Bakounine contre Marx
    First Published: 1978
    Je vous propose d’analyser quelques unes des critiques anarchistes les plus courantes contre le marxisme.
  855. Bakunin and the great schism
    Chapter IV for The Anarchists, by James Joll
    First Published: 1979
    It was Bakunin who gave later anarchists an example of anarchist fervour in action; and it was Bakunin who showed how great was the difference in theory and practice between anarchist doctrine and the communism of Marx, and thus made explicit the split in the international revolutionary movement. Bakunin, too, more than any of his contemporaries, linked the revolutionary movement in Russia with that of the rest of Europe, and derived from it a belief in the virtues of violence for its own sake and a confidence in the technique of terrorism which was to influence many other revolutionaries besides anarchists.
  856. Bakunin, Mikhail
    Connexipedia Article
    Russian anarchist and revolutionary. (1814-1876).
  857. Bakunin on Marx and Rothschild
    First Published: 1871   Published: 1979
  858. Bakunin vs Marx
    First Published: 1979
    The debates between Bakunin and Marx transcend petty personal squabbles and embody two diametrically opposed tendencies in the theory and tactics of socialism, the authoritarian and libertarian schools respectively.
  859. Bakunin vs. Marx 
    First Published: 1978
    The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
  860. Bakunin vs. Marx
    First Published: 1978
    El movimiento anarquista que apadrinó ha sido plagado por la misma polaridad, por la tensión entre el liberalismo real en un lado y algunas veces la irresistible atracción del anti-intelectualismo, terrorismo y conspiración en el otro.
  861. The Balance of Probabilities
    First Published: 2017
    Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
  862. Ballad of the Peace Pushers
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1991
    Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
  863. The Ballot and the Bullet
    Election Diary, Venezuela
    First Published: 2012
    The 2012 Venezuelan election, like Chávez himself, is the result of something far more profound that has been developing for decades, and which has accelerated considerably in recent years.
  864. Ban of Russian Olympic Team: Cold War at its "Best"!
    First Published: 2016
    The West is using both old and new tactics to demonize and discredit all of its opponents, in what is becoming a new Cold War.
  865. Ban on disposable diapers
    First Published: 1991
  866. The Ban on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung
    First Published: 1843
    The German press begins the New Year with apparently gloomy prospects. The ban that has just been imposed on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung in the states of Prussia is surely a sufficiently convincing refutation of all the complacent dreams of gullible people about big concessions in the future.
  867. Banacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and Jiguamiando
    First Published: 2012
    This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato region of Chocó, Colombia.
  868. Banamex v. Narco News Precedent Protects WikiLeaks, Too
    First Published: 2010
    The story – one that defines the times we live in - has been going on for a while now: State power (and that includes private-sector “states” such as corporations and commercial media organizations) can no longer hide behind commercial (and State-owned) media to consolidate and centralize power when citizens deploy decentralized, small scale, and even temporary media resistances outside of those institutions in these ways that make big media irrelevant.
  869. Banana massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Matanza de las bananeras or Masacre de las bananeras was a massacre of workers for the United Fruit Company that occurred on December 6, 1928 in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta, Colombia.
  870. Bangladesh: Challenge of the Students Uprising - Its historical background
    First Published: 2018
    The students’ movement that erupted on 29 July following the death of two students in a tragic road accident in Dhaka spread to almost all the major cities of the country. Thousands of outraged school and college students laid siege to the streets of the capital Dhaka for a week demanding road safety across the country.
  871. Bangladesh: Of Disasters and a Disastrous Development
    Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
  872. Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
    First Published: 2015
    Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
  873. Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion
    First Published: 2015
    A Bangladeshi company has been accused of using armed men to evict ethnic minority communities in order to expand a tea plantation in Sreemangal in northeastern Bangladesh.
  874. Bangladesh's exploitation economy
    First Published: 2013
    Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies' greed for profits.
  875. Bangladesh's exploitation economy
    First Published: 2013
    Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies’ greed for profits.
  876. Bank imposes 'voluntary' drug tests
    First Published: 1990
  877. Bank of Canada Lawsuit
    First Published: 2016
    One of the most important legal cases in Canadian history is slowly inching its way towards trial. Launched in 2011 by the Toronto-based Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER), the lawsuit would require the publicly-owned Bank of Canada to return to its pre-1974 mandate and practice of lending interest-free money to federal, provincial, and municipal governments for infrastructure and healthcare spending.
  878. Bank Report Reveals Where Ruling Class Lives
    First Published: 2019
    The 2019 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report provides a glimpse at the inequality that the neoliberal era has produced, who has benefitted and those who have been left behind.
  879. Banking Giant HSBC Sheltered Murky Cash Linked to Dictators and Arms Dealers
    First Published: 2015
    Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities. Secret documents reveal that global banking giant HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channeled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws.
  880. Banking on Apartheid
    First Published: 1976
    Package states the case against further Canadian bank loans to the government of South Africa. Suggests actions for persons wanting to resist further bank loans.
  881. The Bankruptcy of the West's Syrian Policy
    Factions on the Run
    First Published: 2013
    The final bankruptcy of American and British policy in Syria came 10 days ago as Islamic Front, a Saudi-backed Sunni jihadi group, overran the headquarters of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) at Bab al-Hawa on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey.
  882. Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
    Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
    First Published: 2012
    Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious transactions to move through the banking system absent adequate monitoring or oversight.
  883. Dennis J. Banks, Naawakamig (1937-2017) - Cofounder of the American Indian Movement
    First Published: 2017
    Under cofounder of the American Indian Movement, Dennis Banks, AIM became the most powerful Native movement of the twentieth century, galvanizing indigenous people throughout the United States, Canada, and beyond.
  884. Banks Pressure Health Care Firms To Raise Prices On Critical Drugs, Medical Supplies For Coronavirus
    Investment bankers have been candid about the opportunity to raise drug prices on critical drugs and medical supplies
    First Published: 2020
    In recent weeks, investment bankers have pressed health care companies on the front lines of fighting the novel coronavirus, including drug firms developing experimental treatments and medical supply firms, to consider ways that they can profit from the crisis.
  885. Banned in Pakistan
    First Published: 2018
    Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.
  886. Banned Love: Trump, Pocahantas and the Lovings
    First Published: 2017
    The author looks at the history of interracial relationships, from thier legalization 50 years ago, to their future during the Trump administration.
  887. Banning Cars from Manhattan
    First Published: 1961
    By banning private cars and reducing traffic, we can, in most areas, close off nearly nine out of ten cross-town streets and every second north-south avenue. These closed roads plus the space now used for off-street parking will give us a handsome fund of land for neighborhood relocation. At present over 35 percent of the area of Manhattan is occupied by roads.
  888. Banning of Books Alarms Freedom Advocates
    First Published: 2010
    The confiscation and banning of books by Malaysian authorities is sending alarm bells ringing among activists, who want the repeal of laws that the government is using to suppress freedom of expression.
  889. Banning the Proud Boys
    Be careful what you ask for
    First Published: 2021
    Clarke argues that state efforts to eradicate the threat of fascism are often a double-edged sword that can be easily turned against the political left and used to threaten workers' rights.
  890. Bill Banta, 1941-2008
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    Bill Banta, a member of the Chicago branch and founding member of Solidarity, died of pancreatic cancer in a Chicago hospice on August 20th. He was 67. Bill was a revolutionary socialist his entire adult life.
  891. Baran & Sweezy versus Marx
    First Published: 2018
    In response to the editors' question 'Where was Marx in 1968?," Daum chooses to comment briefly on one topic: the anti-Marxist influence of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s book Monopoly Capital.
  892. Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital
    First Published: 1966
  893. Barbara Ehrenreich Isn't Afraid to Die
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control", where she questions current cultural practices, our sense of 'self', and advocates for a broader acceptance of death's inevitability.
  894. Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903, by Aidan Forth - Review
    Internment in the colonies served a darker purpose beyond aid efforts
    First Published: 2018
    A book review of Aidan Forth's "Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903", which provides new insights and ulterior motives behind Britain's aid efforts in southern Africa.
  895. Barcelona's Experiment in Radical Democracy 
    First Published: 2018
    Issues that Barcelona en Comu is tackling come up against limitations set by Catalan and Spanish law. The city lacks authority to regulate housing, although the city has created new affordable housing, and has successfully limited the reach of Airbnb.
  896. Barely Legal: the Global Uber Enterprise
    First Published: 2022
    In terms of the gig economy, there are few more ruthless buccaneers than this San Franciscan ride-share company that has persistently specialised in cutting corners and remaking them.
  897. Barlow, Maude
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
  898. Barlow, Maude
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
  899. The Barnardo Boys
    Thousands of British 'Home Children' were shipped to Canada as child labourers in a plot right out of Dickens
    First Published: 2012
    Between 1868 and the 1930s, more than 100,000 destitute children in Great Britain were shipped off to Canada. An estimated two-thirds of the Home Children, as they were known, were under the age 14.
  900. Barred from Prison 
    First Published: 1979
    An account of what occured inside the B.C. Penitentiary during a prison uprising in September 1976.
  901. Barrett Brown's Partial Victory: Crowd-Sourcing and Crowd Support
    If They Drop These Charges, Why Aren't They Dropping All of Them?
    First Published: 2014
    Federal prosecutors last week dropped several of the most significant charges facing Internet activist and journalist Barrett Brown — charges that could have drawn a jail sentence of 105 years.
  902. Barrie deaths investigated
    First Published: 1989
  903. Barriers to love in Israel and Palestine
    First Published: 2016
    Love Under Apartheid and IMEU released a new video "Palestinians Daring to Love" highlighting four married couples struggling to maintain love and family relationships despite the restrictions imposed by Israel's policies that systematically discriminate and segregate Palestinians.
  904. Barry Commoner: Radical Father of ModernEnvironmentalism
    First Published: 2017
    Biography of Barry Commoner, a scientist who laid the groundwork for what later become known as the environmental justice movement.
  905. Barter
    Connexipedia Article
    Bartering is a medium in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services without a common unit of exchange (without the use of money).
  906. Barter Networks: Lessons from Argentina for Greece
    First Published: 2015
    "How did Argentina survive their economic crisis?"; "Are they doing better now?"; "What happened to the factory takeovers?"; "Did millions of people really participate in the barter network? Did they actually invent new money?" These are some of the many questions I have been asked by Greeks, especially over the past few weeks, related to their economic crisis and the potential for self-organization and survival.
  907. Barthel, Kurt
    Connexipedia Article
    The father of the modern United States nudist movement.
  908. Barton awards
    First Published: 1989
  909. Barton awards
    First Published: 1990
  910. Bashing Probe of US War Crimes, Pompeo Threatens Family of ICC Staff With Consequences
    First Published: 2020
    Amnesty International on Wednesday rebuked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over new comments bashing the International Criminal Court and threatening court staff--and their family members--investigating alleged war crimes committed by United States forces in Afghanistan. "Threats against family members of ICC staff who are seeking justice is a new low, even for this administration," said Daniel Balson, Amnesty International USA's advocacy director.
  911. A Basic Call to Consciousness
    The Hau de no sau nee Address to the Western World
    First Published: 1977
    A message given by the Hau de no sau nee (or traditional Six Nations council at Onondaga) also called the Iroquois Confederacy to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in September, 1977.
  912. Basic Education Departments.
    First Published: 1980
  913. Bata’s footprint in Africa: The dark story of Canadian shoe giant
    First Published: 2016
    The Toronto-based shoemaker took advantage of European colonialism to rapidly set up across the continent, squeezing out local footwear producers, working with apartheid South Africa and even reaching out to Uganda’s Idi Amin.
  914. Battered Women: How to Use the Law
    First Published: 1978
    As stated in the introduction, "This pamphlet gives information on what to do when you are being threatened or beat up by your husband or boyfriend."
  915. Batteries and renewables - believe the hype!
    First Published: 2015
    Discusses one of the biggest technological developments of our climate-stressed times: the large-scale storage of renewable energy.
  916. The Battle for Brooklyn
    The Abuse of Eminent Domain
    First Published: 2011
    An article about the documentary Battle for Brooklyn, which chronicles the fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood facing demolition of their property to make way for the Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets.
  917. The Battle for Democracy in Mexico
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    The Mexican people won a battle for democracy this past spring when massive demonstrations — the largest in Mexico’s tumultuous history — prevented President Vicente Fox from making Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador ineligible to run for president in 2006. The defeat of Fox on this issue was a victory for the Mayor, but above all for the Mexican people, who defended their right to vote for a candidate of their choice in the coming national elections.
  918. The Battle for Puerto Rico's Labor Movement
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    The teachers' union Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (FMPR) is the island’s largest labor union. Its evolution has considerable impact on Puerto Rico’s labor movement as a whole. In fact, recent events surrounding the FMPR reflect many of the debates and tensions that have shaped the island’s largest labor struggles over the past decade. These include:
  919. Battle in Nicaragua's Maquiladoras
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    Nicaragua has only one major "free trade zone," Las Mercedes, and unlike the rest of Central America, half of the workers there have managed to build unions. Recently the zone management and the Labor Ministry are helping employers to implement a variety of union-busting actions:
  920. Battle of Ballantyne Pier
    Connexipedia Article
    A clash between city, provincial, and federal police and Communist-led protesters on 18 June 1935 in the East End of Vancouver.
  921. Battle of Ballantyne Pier, 1935
    A short history and background of the 1935 dockers' strike and subsequent bloody confrontation with police in Vancouver that became known as the Battle of Ballantyne Pier.
  922. Battle of Blair Mountain
    Connexipedia Article
    In 1921 between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted company-paid private detectives in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mine counties.
  923. The Battle of Cable Street
    First Published: 2016
    Eighty years ago this week, anti-fascists in East London confronted Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts as they tried to march though what was then a largely Jewish area. Mosley's British Union of Fascists was notorious for using marches and rallies as cover for vicious attacks on Jews. The confrontation has gone down in folklore as 'The Battle of Cable Street'.
  924. Battle of Matewan
    Connexipedia Article
    A shootout in the coal company town of Matewan, West Virginia on May 19, 1920.
  925. The Battle of Oaxaca
    First Published: 2016
    This is not just another of the many Oaxacan wars. It is part of a much more profound and extensive war that is by no means contained within the national territory itself. But the battle being waged in Oaxaca has a special meaning in that war, in the larger war.
    It is a battle long overdue. In Oaxaca people knew that many aspects of the ongoing confrontation were being postponed due to the elections. It was evident that after the elections, the attacks, provocations, and the final assault would intensify. Everywhere, preparations began.
  926. Battle of Orgreave
    Connexipedia Article
    A confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strike.
  927. The Battle of Orgreave
    First Published: 2014
    The Battle of Orgreave on 18 June, 1984, saw the establishment carry out a mighty state-organised riot, a conspiracy to trap striking miners and unleash brutality on a scale never experienced before in an industrial dispute in Britain.
  928. Battle of the Somme: the horrific epitome of the first world war
    First Published: 2014
    Thousands of men who went over the top that morning thought they would meet little resistance. 57,000 were dead or wounded by the end of the day.
  929. The Battle of the Titans
    Who is Pulling the Strings?
    First Published: 2013
    This is not merely a fight between Israel and the US. Nor is it only a fight between the White House and Congress. It is also a battle between intellectual titans. Intellectual theories can seldom be put to a laboratory test. But this one can. It is happening now. Between Israel and the US a crisis has developed, and it has come into the open.
  930. Battle of Valle Giulia
    Connexipedia Article
    A clash between Italian left-wing militants and the Italian police at Valle Giulia, in Rome, on March 1, 1968.
  931. Battle to Preserve Palestine's History Rages in New Novel
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Radwa Ashour's novel The Woman from Tantoura: A Modern Palestinian Novel (American University in Cairo Press, 2014).
  932. The Battle to Unionize Starbucks in Chile: an Interview with Andrés Giordano Salazar
    First Published: 2016
    After six years of intense battles, two strikes, a hunger strike, and four legal sentences for anti-union activities, Starbucks reluctantly agreed to sign a collective agreement with unionized workers in Chile in May 2015. This was a huge concession for the world’s largest coffee shop chain that has long aggressively fought off unionization efforts among its 150,000 workers in 64 countries.
  933. Battleship Potemkin
    Connexipedia Article
    A Russian ship on which the crew rebelled against their oppressive officers in June 1905 (during the Russian Revolution of 1905).
  934. Baum, Gregory - obituary
    First Published: 2017
    Obituary for renowned Canadian theologian Gregory Baum, 94, who died Oct. 18, 2017.
  935. Bauxite
    First Published: 1977
    A four page paper describing the bauxtie industry in Canada and around the world.
  936. Baxandall, Lee
    Connexipedia Article
    American writer, translator, editor, and activist, first known for his New Left engagement with cultural topics and then as a leader of the naturist movement. (1935-2008).
  937. Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist dies at 76
    First Published: 2015
    Rosalyn Baxandall, a feminist historian who was among the first to bring scholarly attention to the historical role of women in the workplace and to expand the meaning of "women's work," has died.
  938. The Bay of Pigs and Chronic Hubris
    The Same Mistake for 52 Years
    First Published: 2013
    April 17-19 marks the 52nd anniversary of the US-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles, our proxies to try to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.
  939. Bay View Massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    A massacre of demonstrators by the Wisconsin National Guard.
  940. Bayard Rustin: The Panthers Couldn't Save Us Then Either
    First Published: 2023
    Bayard Rustin's commentary between 1965 and 1975 on race, class, and politics in the U.S. was sharply insightful and can be read profitably for cultivating a nuanced understanding of the crucial period between the victories won by the civil rights movement and institutional consolidation of the ethnic interest-group regime generally known as 'black politics.'
  941. BBC defends reality show involving poor, dubbed 'Hunger Games'
    First Published: 2015
    Britain's Hardest Grafter will pit 25 of Britain's lowest-paid workers against each other for cash prize in series it claims is a 'serious social experiment'.
  942. The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the reporting of 'fake news' by the BBC, which has no legal obligation to give its audience any information about its sources and seemingly has legal protection from scrutiny.
  943. BBC High Court defence against Trafigura libel suit
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2010
    This document was submitted to the UK's High Court by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in September 2009, as a Defence against a libel claim brought against them by the oil company Trafigura. A May 2009 BBC Newsnight feature suggested that 16 deaths and many other injuries were caused by the dumping in the Ivory Coast of a large quantity of toxic waste originating with Trafigura. A September 2009 UN report into the matter stated that 108,000 people were driven to seek medical attention. This Defence, which has never been previously published online, outlines in detail the evidence which the BBC believed justified its coverage. In December 2009 the BBC settled out of court amid reports that fighting the case could have cost as much as 3 million pounds. The BBC removed its original Newsnight footage and associated articles from its on-line archives. The detailed claims contained in this document were never aired publicly, and never had a chance to be tested in court.
  944. BBC Joins Smear Campaign Against Assange and Wikileaks
    Indicting the Messenger
    First Published: 2011
    The campaign by the establishment press against Julian Assange is intensifying.
  945. The BBC to NATO Pipeline
    How the British state broadcaster serves the powerful
    First Published: 2022
    The death of Queen Elizabeth II, where the BBC dropped programming to run endless, wall-to-wall coverage, has underlined the fact to many Britons that the network is far from impartial, but the voice of the state.
  946. The BBC's 'Bogeyman' Narrative on Hugo Chavez
    First Published: 2013
    The changes in Venezuela, and throughout Latin America, over the past decade: the development of peaceful, democratic alternatives to the policies of neoliberalism; standards of living improved for millions of people following a process that has had popular, democratic support, are at risk of being written off as simply the actions of another 'anti-American' 'bogeyman' due to the media's relentless negative treatment of the Venezuelan government.
  947. B.C. abortion clinic vandalized
    First Published: 1990
  948. B.C. Ecologue
    First Published: 1976
    A handbook for study and action on the ecological crisis.
  949. B.C. Gay Resources Guide
    First Published: 1980
  950. BDS Campaign Sweeps UC Campuses
    First Published: 2013
    The 2012-2013 academic year has seen seven University of California campuses launch campaigns to divest university funds from corporations enabling oppression of Palestinians. The article outlines the roots of the campaign, its progress, and the pressures facing activists working to support Palestinian rights.
  951. BDS in the Crosshairs
    First Published: 2016
    That project in dispute is BDS, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, promoted by civil society throughout the Western world. BDS is directed at Israel due to its illegal colonization of the Occupied Territories and its general apartheid-style discrimination against non-Jews in general and Palestinians in particular.
  952. The BDS movement is about justice for Palestine
    First Published: 2017
    The University of Ottawa Israeli Awareness Committee (IAC) blocked a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolution presented by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO). The BDS movement is a call to action from Palestinians seeking justice and equality, while the IAC is a pro-Israel lobby group which works with the Israeli Embassy and others to promote the Israeli government to students.
  953. A BDS Movement That Works
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    In 2005, a call was issued for global nonviolent resistance to occupation through acts of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.They had three goals: an end to occupation and return to the pre-1967 Green Line, equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and recognition of the Palestinian right of return.
  954. BDS: Non-Violent Resistance to Israeli Occupation
    Is Israel Running Scared?
    First Published: 2014
    An outline of the extent and support/opposition of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid, including a discussion of claims that the campaign is anti-Semitic.
  955. BDS: Repression and Progress
    First Published: 2019
    Short piece about recent BDS actions and attempts to censor pro-Palestinian protest.
  956. BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Review of two books about pro-Palestinian political activism known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.) Contains detailed discussion of history and current events covered in the books.
  957. Be Careful What You Fight For
    First Published: 2014
    How do the few haves stay on top of the many have-nots? After generations of domination, the haves know how to do it pretty well. They know how to divide and conquer the have-nots. This is the secret of their power.
  958. 'Be his payment high or low'
    The American Working Class in the Sixties
    First Published: 1965
    Whether workers win a particular struggle or are forced to retreat or manage to hold their own varies considerably with time and place and the particular relationship of forces in each factory. What remains constant throughout, however, is the struggle itself and the search for new social forms.
  959. Be the Change: Six Disabled Activists On Why the Resistance Must Be Accessible
    First Published: 2017
    Six activists, leaders, and advocates on how we can all move forward, whether on our feet, on wheels, or online -- plus a resource list.
  960. Bearing the Burden Sharing the Benefits
    First Published: 1978
  961. Beat Generation
    Connexipedia Article
    A group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired.
  962. Beat off the vulture's swoop
    The judge who took an economy hostage
    First Published: 2014
    Emerging economies need to issue their state bonds in financial centres where the law blocks vulture funds from profiting from financial woes. New York is off the list.
  963. Beating the bailiffs guide
    Overloaded with debt? Bailiffs threatening you? Here some useful advice
    First Published: 2006
    Getting overloaded with debt and don't know what to do? This articles contains useful advice, tips and contacts for dealing with debt and bailiffs.
  964. Beating the blacklisters
    First Published: 2013
    A police raid exposing the scale of worker surveillance within the construction industry galvanised workers to take action. Ewa Jasiewicz speaks to those organising against the blacklisters.
  965. Beating the fascists? The German Communists and political violence 1929-1933
    First Published: 2016
    Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communist Party militants in political violence against Nazis during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany (1929-33). Specifically, she aims to account for their participation in 'street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting' with National Socialist storm-troopers.
  966. Beating Uncle Sam at His Own Game
    The Skirmish in the Spratlys
    First Published: 2015
    Washington has thrown down the gauntlet in the South China Sea. If Beijing wants to preserve its independence and surpass the US as the world's biggest economy, it's going to have to meet the challenge, prepare for a long struggle, and beat Uncle Sam at his own game. It won’t be easy, but it can be done.
  967. Beautiful Ruination
    First Published: 2009
    Iin the last half-century, even as the prophets of prosperity have spurred the U.S. on to ever more growth, ruins have become increasingly common features in the American landscape. Braddock, littered with decrepit hulks, is not alone.
  968. The beauty of wind farms
    First Published: 2005
    Windmills are beautiful. They harness the power of the wind to supply us with heat and light. They provide local jobs. They help clean our air and reduce climate change.
  969. Beauvoir, Simone de
    Connexipedia Article
    French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).
  970. Bebel, August
    Connexipedia Article
    German social democrat who was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. (1840-1913).
  971. Beckoning Committed Climate Activists
    Extreme Weather and Even More Extreme Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    First Published: 2013
    It is evident the climate crisis is far more severe than most scientists had anticipated.
  972. Becoming a Revolutionary
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
  973. Beer Riots in Bavaria
    First Published: 1844
  974. "Before all else a revolutionist": Marx and the Question of Strategy 
    First Published: 2018
    If we begin listening to the voices of those he conversed with, we can stop seeing Marx as the source of infinite quotes and begin to view him instead as a comrade on a common path – a path that he walked before us, always in conversation, and often in dispute, with many of his contemporaries.
  975. Before Facebook Was The Coffee House
    First Published: 2016
    Kenan Malik writes about the issue of fake news.
  976. Before the White Race Was Invented
    Review of The Invention of the White Race
    First Published: 1998
    With white racial oppression in place, the ruling class could promote poor and propertyless European-Americans into the "middle class," the same way the British promoted "mulattos" in the Caribbean, but they would have to do so strictly in token-name only, saving them countless billions of dollars, since the fantasy of social mobility was made conditional not on acquiring their own property, their own means of employment, or their own education, but on keeping African Americans poor and oppressed.
  977. Befreiungstheologie
    Connexipedia
  978. Begegnung mit dem Schuldbewusstsein
    Eine Beobachtung von Männern, die sich mit Gewalt auseinandersetzen
    First Published: 1991
    Neulich nahm ich an einem Treffen einer zwanzigköpfigen Männergruppe teil, die über das Problem der Gewalt gegen Frauen und was Männer zur Verhinderung von Gewaltsübergriffen beitragen können, diskutierte.
  979. Beginner's guide to improving online security
    First Published: 2014
    Investigative journalists like the members of ICIJ are facing growing concerns about security. Our members often work with leaks or other materials requiring protection of sources, collaborate across borders with colleagues at risk for their physical safety, and communicate with devices and services open to surveillance or attack.
  980. The Beginning
    First Published: 1918
    Revolutions do not stand still. Their vital law is to advance rapidly, to outgrow themselves.
  981. Beginning a New Era
    First Published: 2015
    Obama may succeed where previous U.S. administrations -- such as Nixon's and especially Carter's -- failed in their attempts at reestablishing diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba.
  982. The Beginning of an Era
    On the May 1968 revolt in France
    First Published: 1969
  983. The beginning of the end for identity politics?
    First Published: 2017
    While the millennial left’s preoccupation with identity has not disappeared, the moralistic fire has grown dimmer.
  984. Behind Israel's campaign to vilify peace groups
    First Published: 2016
    Far-right activists spying on Israeli human rights community received hidden funds from Netanyahu government.
  985. Behind Murder With Impunity
    Against The Current vol. 86
    First Published: 2000
    New York City and Los Angeles have become the model for life under capitalism in general, and in late-twentieth century urban America in particular. For the affluent are the booming stock and real estate markets; for the poor, a vista of injustice piled on injustice, atrocity on atrocity, serial police murder with impunity. After Amadou Diallo, Malcolm Ferguson; then Patrick Dorismond: If you are Black in New York you can be shot dead if you stand still, run away, or refuse an offer to sell drugs to undercover cops.
  986. Behind the Confederate Flag Controversy: The Unfinished Civil War
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    Some 50,000 people, ninety percent African Americans, marched in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 17, the federal holiday honoring the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The march protest was organized by the NAACP demanding that South Carolina's government remove the Confederate flag from its statehouse. Until the state officials do so, the NAACP pledged to continue its economic boycott of the state.
  987. Behind the Death of Amadou Diallo
    Against The Current vol. 86
    First Published: 2000
    Now that public outrage slowly diminishes regarding the Amadou Diallo case, this essay shares some of the immediate feeling and reaction that occurred at the time of the verdict. Furthermore, this essay tries to imagine salient possibilities for re-education in policing methods within communities of color.
  988. Behind the Dirty Cleansing of New Orleans
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    Commentaries on the viciousness of Congressman Richard Baker’s (R-LA) oft-cited comment that “we couldn’t get rid of public housing, but God did” often miss the fact that it is, in many ways, an accurate assessment of the intentions of U.S. public housing policy.
  989. Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
    First Published: 2018
    Article examines root causes and socioeconomics dimension of police violence, with particular stress on the importance of class.
  990. Behind the Lies About Venezuela's Protests
    John Kerry: the Belligerent Diplomat
    First Published: 2014
    US Secretary of State John Kerry recently called on the Venezuelan government to end the "terror campaign against its own citizens."
  991. Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory 
    First Published: 2018
    Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
  992. Behind the popular revolt in Sudan
    First Published: 2019
    Interview with journalist and former Sudanese Communist Party activist Rashid Saeed Yagoub. Amgad Fareid Eltayeb outlines the situation and background to the revolt in Sudan. Also, a solidarity statement issued by the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists.
  993. Behind the Wall of East-Germany
    First Published: 2023
    With more than 300,000 objects, German Democratic Republic museum in Berlion probably has the world’s largest collection of GDR artifacts and historical items. The wealth of objects at the museum is due to the enormous willingness of former citizens of the GDR to donate items that they still had in their possession.
  994. 'Beijing's bitch'
    Beijing & Microsoft
    First Published: 2005
    Putting profits ahead of human rights.
  995. Beinart's Jewish double-bind: Support oppression or you're out of the family
    First Published: 2016
    Even when he's serving up a soul-crushing ultimatum, you have to give Peter Beinart some credit. By comparing Israel to "your violent, drug-addicted brother," but saying that if you call the cops -- i.e., support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) -- to "make them change their destructive and self-destructive behavior” you are putting your “personal morality" ahead of family loyalty, he's enraged Israel defenders and anti-Zionists alike. In this way, he becomes the personification of the untenable situation he writes about.
  996. Being African in India: 'We are seen as demons'
    First Published: 2016
    After a year in India, Zaharaddeen Muhammed, 27, knows enough Hindi to understand what bander means. Monkey. But it isn't even the daily derogatory comments that make him doubt his decision to swap his university in Nigeria for a two-year master's degree programme in chemistry at Noida International University. Nor is it the questions about personal hygiene, the unsolicited touching of his hair or the endless staring. It is his failure to interact with Indian people on a deeper level.
  997. Being an Organizer and Being an Activist is not the Same Thing 
    Community Organizers are the "Brain" that Injects Strategy into the Heart of a Successful Social Movement
    First Published: 2013
    There is a lot of confusion surrounding the role that organizers and activists play in social movements. Both roles have profound differences regarding their goals and the way they face problems within social movements.
  998. 'Being treated like slaves': Why migrant exploitation exists
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the labour market in modern capitalist society, and how it leads to the exploitation of migrant workers who are sometimes treated as slaves.
  999. 'Beita is undefeatable': Inside the struggle to save this Palestinian village from Israeli settlers
    First Published: 2021
    In early May, a group of Israeli settlers arrived with caravans and set up an illegal outpost on the top of Jabal Sabih on the outskirts of Beita, in the northern occupied West Bank. Every single day since then, protests in the village have been nonstop.
  1000. The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration: An historic document
    First Published: 2018
    In 2008 more than 400 activists from 37 countries endorsed this statement of ecosocialist principles and goals. Today the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration remains an important consensus statement of ecosocialist principles and goals.
  1001. The Belgian General Strike
    First Published: 1961
    The strike of 1960-61 was the culmination of a growing movement of social protest that had been building up over many years. The economic situation of Belgium had been slowly deteriorating. The last and most drastic attempt to improve it, at the expense of the working class, was the introduction of the loi unique, which cut into workers' purchasing power and threatened their conditions of work. On December 14, 1960, a one-day demonstration was called by the Socialist Party and the trade unions to protest against this law. It met with tremendous success. On December 20, the day the debate on the law began in Parliament, the municipal workers came out on official, nationwide, strike. While most of the other unions were discussing what to do next, a spontaneous movement of unparalleled extent swept the country like a tidal wave.
  1002. Bello, Walden
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. (Born 1945).
  1003. A Bend in the Labyrinth - Book Review
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    Book review of 'The Century’s Midnight: Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World War' by Clive Bush.
  1004. Benefit to Canada no longer matters
    First Published: 1991
  1005. Benign State Violence vs. Barbaric Terrorism
    First Published: 2015
    The US and UK target for assassination civilians that allegedly have a connection with ISIS. Such operations are performed without a trial. Peppe discusses how the governments of these countries justify one form of extrajudicial killing while demonizing the murders that ISIS commits.
  1006. Benjamin, Walter
    Connexipedia Article
    German-Jewish Marxist, literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. (1892-1940).
  1007. Daniel Bensaïd: The Power of Indignation
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    Daniel Bensaïd, the lively and inspired French Marxist thinker and activist, has left us. This is a great loss, not only for us, his friends, his comrades of struggle, but for revolutionary culture. With his irreverence, his humor, his generosity, his imagination, he was a rare example of a militant intellectual, in the meaning of these words.
  1008. Bequests
    Leaving a social justice legacy
    First Published: 2017
    Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.
  1009. Berger, John
    Connexipedia Article
    English art critic, novelist, painter and author. (Born 1926).
  1010. Berger Report in Brief
    A Summary of Volume I of the Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.
    First Published: 1977
    This summary includes primarily, as its name indicates, a presentation of the main lines of the report. It also includes a brief statement of the main recommendations of the report and an outline of where the Berger Report fits into the overall process which will decide on the pipeline.
  1011. Berkeley Republicans Hope More Left-Wing Riots Will Create "Pedestal" For Conservative Movement
    First Published: 2017
    The students hosting conservative pundit Ben Shapiro at University of California, Berkeley this week say their fingers are crossed in the hopes for a left-wing protest that could amplify his message.
  1012. Berkman, Alexander
    Connexipedia Article
    Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
  1013. Berlin Tax Office withdraws charitable status from Nazi victims' organisation
    First Published: 2019
    The Berlin Tax Office has withdrawn the charitable status of one of the largest and most long-established anti-fascist associations in Germany jeopardizing its abillity to continue its work.
  1014. The Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth
    A Response to Economic Sabotage
    First Published: 2014
    November 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The extravagant hoopla began months ago in Berlin. In the United States we can expect all the Cold War clichés about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny to be trotted out.
  1015. Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
    Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
    First Published: 2012
    Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
  1016. Berman, Marshall
    Connexipedia Article
    American philosopher and Marxist Humanist writer. (Born 1940).
  1017. Berneri, Marie-Louise
    Wikipedia article
    Marie Louise Berneri (1918 – 1949) was an anarchist activist and author.
  1018. The "Bernie Bros" Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquerading as Journalism and Social Activism
    First Published: 2016
    The concoction of the "Bernie Bro" narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic -- and a journalistic disgrace. It's intended to imply two equally false claims: (1) a refusal to march enthusiastically behind the Wall Street-enriched, multiple-war-advocating, despot-embracing Hillary Clinton is explainable not by ideology or political conviction, but largely if not exclusively by sexism: demonstrated by the fact that men, not women, support Sanders (his supporters are "bros"); and (2) Sanders supporters are uniquely abusive and misogynistic in their online behavior. Needless to say, a crucial tactical prong of this innuendo is that any attempt to refute it is itself proof of insensitivity to sexism if not sexism itself (as the accusatory reactions to this article will instantly illustrate).
  1019. Bernie and His Critics
    First Published: 2016
    Bernie Sanders has provided an opening that we can't squander.
  1020. Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics
    First Published: 2016
    An interview with Adolph Reed, a political scientist and Bernie Sanders supporter, who dicsusses assumptions about black voters, the legacy of the Sanders campaign, and the tasks ahead.
  1021. Bernstein, Eduard
    Connexipedia Article
    German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the SPD, and the theorist of "evolutionary socialism" and revisionism. (1850-1932).
  1022. Berra, Yogi
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    (Born 1925). American philosopher and former Major League Baseball player and manager.
  1023. Berrigan, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
    American poet, peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. (Born 1921).
  1024. Berta Cáceres: her fight for human rights in Honduras continues
    First Published: 2016
    Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
  1025. Berta Cáceres, Honduran eco-defender, murdered
    First Published: 2016
    Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, days after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project. Her death has prompted international outrage, and a flood of tributes to a courageous defender of the natural world.
  1026. Bertell, Rosalie
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Canadian-American researcher who has worked in the field of environmental health. (Born 1929).
  1027. Berton, Pierre
    Connexipedia Article
    Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
  1028. Berton, Pierre
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
  1029. Bertrand Russell's Last Message
    First Published: 1970
    No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
  1030. Besant, Annie
    Connexipedia Article
    Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. (1847-1933).
  1031. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
    Exposing an issue that was otherwise overlooked or under-reported by national news media.
  1032. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
    First Published: 1990
  1033. Best Government Money Can Buy
    First Published: 2014
    Revolving Door Syndrome in the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex
  1034. Best of Times Worst of Times
    First Published: 1997
    The moral of the creation story in Genesis is truer than ever before: In human hands increasingly rests responsibility for the whole of creation! The vocation to sisterhood and brotherhood in a single planetary community is more urgent than ever. And the Church's vocation to witness, in solidarity with those on the margins and with the earth, to a different hope in history is more relevant than ever.
  1035. Beth Macy, Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local -- and Helped Save an American Town (2014) (Review)
    First Published: 2016
  1036. Bethlehem: 'No matter how many olive trees they destroy, will will plant more!'
    The destruction of these ancient trees is the destruction of both the history and future of the Palestinian people.
    First Published: 2014
    Since 1967, Israeli soldiers and 'settlers' in occupied Palestine have destroyed 800,000 olive trees in an attempt to force Palestinian farmers from their land, writes Megan Perry. 'Our response to this injustice will never be with violence, and we will never give up and leave.'
  1037. Bethune, Norman
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
  1038. Bethune, Norman
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
  1039. Betraying the Kurds
    First Published: 2019
    Many debates about Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria ignore the overall illegitmacy of military-political intervention.
  1040. A Better World in Birth
    The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Michael A. Lebowitz' The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now.
  1041. A Better World: Programme of the Worker-communist Party of Iran 
    The actual lives and actions of people themselves reveal a deep-seated belief in the possibility and even the certainty of a better future.
  1042. Between Marx and Freud: Erich Fromm revisited
    First Published: 2016
    More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance.
  1043. Between Nation and Empire
    The Fair Play for Cuba Committees and the Making of Canada-Cuba Solidarity in the Early 1960s
    First Published: 2009
    Published in In Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era, Robert Wright and Lana Wylie eds. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2009
  1044. Between the Power and the Dream
    Leon Trotsky
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Paul Le Blanc's Leon Trotsky.
  1045. Between Rage and Terror
    First Published: 2016
    On the nature of comteporary terror.
  1046. Beware Liberals: Ridicule Will Backfire
    First Published: 2016
    What a year for political satire. It's nourishing; it lowers our stress level; it breaks taboos. Every democracy needs satire but one wonders how much it will count when it comes to votes on November 8th.
  1047. Beware of Basic Income
    First Published: 2016
    Wouldn't it be great to get a cheque every month just for being you? This is the sweet, fuzzy vision the Ontario and federal Liberals are counting on to sell their latest idea, a basic income. Just this year, the Ontario government laid the groundwork for a pilot project to test the idea. Any actual large-scale program is far off into the future, however, and that's a good thing. We need to take a hard look at the idea, especially in Liberal clothing.
  1048. Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
    Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End
    First Published: 2012
    Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far left segment).
  1049. Beware the GMO Trojan horse! Indian food and farming are under attack
    First Published: 2016
    Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's local cooking oil producers. In just 20 years they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government's unlawful attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.
  1050. Beware the Poisoned Chalice
    First Published: 2017
    In the aftermath of the recent (2017) UK election Jeremy Corbyn may be well poised to form a Labour government. But there would be huge risks in assuming office in a context of economic chaos.
  1051. Beware the Righteous
    First Published: 2023
    There is nothing more dangerous that the inability to see that it is reasonable for others to have a different view or interest.
  1052. Beyond a Boundary - 50th anniversary
    First Published: 2013
    This year marks the 50th anniversary of CLR James’ wonderful, groundbreaking work Beyond a Boundary. Beyond a Boundary blends politics and memoir, history and journalism, biography and reportage, in a manner that transcends literary, sporting and political boundaries.
  1053. Beyond Awards and Accolades: Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
    Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
    First Published: 2024
    By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has acknowledged a historic truth.
  1054. Beyond the Ballot
    First Published: 2006
    Rather than focusing upon the establishment of elections in Iraq, Chomsky points out that popular will is the essential element of democracy. The vast majority of Iraqis were, however, opposed to coalition forces.
  1055. "Beyond Banksters" by Joyce Nelson
    Book Review
    First Published: 2017
    A review of "Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism" by Joyce Nelson.
  1056. Beyond Bernie: The Hidden Potential of Progressive Third Parties
    First Published: 2016
    What Bernie no longer articulates, and what relatively few of his new fans may realize, is that left third parties can be effective. Resisting the two-party system, even against the so-called odds, is not futile or irrational. Contrary to popular myth, it is a proven and still relevant method for advancing progressive change in the United States.
  1057. Beyond capitalist green economy: In defence of Mother Earth and the commons
    First Published: 2012
    The Democratic Left Front calls for action against destructive corporate interests that are driving the commercialisation and commodification of the natural environment.
  1058. Beyond Corporate Power
    First Published: 2019
    By concentrating on corporate power we can end up looking to the state for solutions. But the only way to achieve even the moderate reforms necessary is through revolutionary mass movements.
  1059. Beyond Gay Identity
    First Published: 1997
    Gay emancipation will destroy gay identity. This is a good thing, because gay identity sustains gay conformism.
  1060. Beyond Iraq: The Spreading Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    The disaster and carnage of the Iraq occupation is the center of a crisis now spreading through the region—to Iran, to Afghanistan and the India-Pakistan subcontinent, and especially to Israel-Palestine—with implications far beyond.
  1061. Beyond Judgment
  1062. Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics
    First Published: 2017
    Neoliberal identity politics (NIP) is a great weapon on the hands of the privileged capitalist Few and their mass-murderous global empire.
  1063. Beyond Panama: Unlocking the world's secrecy jurisdictions
    First Published: 2016
    The 21 jurisdictions covered by the Panama Papers data vary from the rolling hills of Wyoming to tropical getaways like the British Virgin Islands. But all have at least one thing in common - secrecy is the rule.
  1064. Beyond Radical
    First Published: 2009
    What conservatives could bring to the climate conversation.
  1065. Beyond Solidarity
    First Published: 2012
    The American sociologist Richard Sennett has explored themes of class and social exclusion for more than 40 years. Horatio Morpurgo speaks with him about his recent book Together: The Rituals, Pleasure and Politics of Co-operation.
  1066. Beyond Survival: Healing the incest wound
    First Published: 1990
  1067. Beyond the brexit debate
    First Published: 2016
    Whatever the result of the Brexit referendum, of one thing we can be sure: Britain will neither be invaded by marauding Turks, as anti-EU campaigners suggest might happen if the country votes 'Yes', nor will Western civilization collapse, as EU president Donald Tusk fears after a 'No' vote. There will undoubtedly be economic and political turbulence, but Britain will not be staring into the abyss, however it votes.
  1068. Beyond The Broken Window
    William Bratton and the new police state
    First Published: 2015
    Assistant chief Paul McDonagh was the man with the unenviable task of explaining the Seattle Police Department's drone program to the public. In October 2012, a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed that the department had secretly purchased a pair of camera-equipped Draganflyer X6 drones two years earlier. Soon after, McDonagh stood in a local community center before a roomful of citizens, who were shouting "shame" and "murderer" and "no drones, no drones, no drones!"
  1069. Beyond the dross
    First Published: 2010
    Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
  1070. Beyond the Fields
    First Published: 2011
    There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
  1071. Beyond the Great Awokening
    Reassessing the legacies of past black organizing
    First Published: 2020
    Discourse about race and politics in the United States has been driven in recent years more by moralizing than by careful analysis or strategic considerations. It also depends on naïve and unproductive ways of interpreting the past and its relation to the present.
  1072. Beyond the Image: A guide to films about women and change
    First Published: 1983
  1073. Beyond the Sacred
    First Published: 2012
    A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
  1074. Beyond the Spectacle
    First Published: 2015
    Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what's the big deal? America has always been a land of shape shifters, and if she isn't stopped for "driving while black" or followed while shopping, and if her sons are not targeted by cops, then how is she different from the politician who is Italian on Columbus Day and Irish on Saint Patrick's Day?
  1075. Beyond the Veil
    First Published: 2013
    The question of the Muslim veil seems never to leave the headlines for long. The latest controversies have erupted in Britain after a defendant in a criminal trial demanded the right to wear a niqab in court and a college attempted to proscribe it.
  1076. Beyond Voting
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2016
    By all means vote if you feel like it. But don't stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
  1077. Bhatt, Ela
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Advocate for self-employed women. Winner of the Right Livelihood Award in 1984. (Born 1933).
  1078. Bhopal's Fight for Memory
    First Published: 2015
    In December, 1984, unknown poisonous gases burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled for possible closure, was understaffed, not maintained adequately, and had already seen prior deaths from exposure to leaks.
  1079. Bias in the Eye of the Beholder
    "Liberal Media" Misperceptions in the American Mind
    First Published: 2011
    In a time of economic instability, growing poverty, and chronic income and financial insecurity, Americans are increasingly critical of a governing system that they feel has failed in providing for their basic needs. This general distrust, however, can at times manifest itself in ignorant and destructive ways. So it is with the “liberal bias” claims, which misdirect public attention away from the very real bi-partisan, official source bias of the media, and toward some mythic media conspiracy to marginalize conservatives in favor of an “elite liberal agenda.” We should be careful to acknowledge this reality next time we hear friends, family, or acquaintances lamenting the “liberal media elite.”
  1080. Bias in the Media: the Result of Corporate Ownership
    First Published: 2016
    There may still be, perhaps in the quiet countryside somewhere, people who believe that news programs present news. It is unlikely that this is true; rather, those who rely on the corporate-owned press for information probably enjoy finding sources that support what they want to hear. And, if they are unsure of just what it is that they want to hear, their 'trusted' source will tell them.
  1081. The Bias of Human Rights Watch
    Promoting Injustice
    First Published: 2013
    The reports issued by Human Rights Watch over the past decade have increasingly exhibited a bias towards certain rights over others. More precisely, Human Rights Watch repeatedly focuses on political and civil rights while ignoring social and economic rights.
  1082. Bias Towards Power *Is* Corporate Media 'Objectivity'
    Journalism, Floods and Climate Silence
    First Published: 2014
    Journalistic bias in favour of the orthodox Western-centric socio-economic perspective is often framed as "objectivity", and departures from the orthodox Western-centric socio-economic perspective are often dismissed as "ideological'. A review of the incidence and framing of climate change reporting illustrates this.
  1083. The Biased Report that led to Banning Russians at the Olympics
    First Published: 2016
    Canadian lawyer Richard Mclaren's report infuenced the World Anti-Doping Agency to call for the banning of all Russian athletes from the Rio Games.
  1084. Bibb, Henry
    Connexipedia Article
    Author and abolitionist who was born a slave. (1815-1854).
  1085. Bibi Netanyahu's War Dream
    An interview with Moshe Machover
    First Published: 2015
    Suzi Weissman interviews Moshe Machover, a founder of the Israeli Socialist Organization (Matzen) in the 60's. They discuss the reasons behind Israel's campaign against the Iran nuclear deal.
  1086. Bicycle Use Booming in Latin America
    First Published: 2013
    “I ride 43 km a day and I love it,” said Carlos Cantor in Bogotá, Colombia. “Five years ago I switched my car for a bike,” explained Tomás Fuenzalida from Santiago, Chile. They are both part of the burgeoning growth of cycling as a transport solution in Latin America.
  1087. Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech
    First Published: 2023
    The U.S. government is charging that members of the African People's Socialist Party 'weaponized' the First Amendment to publish 'propaganda' and promote 'dissenion." What that means is that they engaged in speech and political activism that the U.S. government does not like.
  1088. Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech
    First Published: 2023
    The Biden administration's Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says 'weaponized' the First Amendment rights of Americans.
  1089. Big Bear
    Connexipedia Article
    Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisoned. (1825-1888).
  1090. Big Bear
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisoned. (1825-1888).
  1091. Big Brother's Getting Bigger
    First Published: 2012
    Government surveillance and attacks on the privacy of American citizens were bad enough under the Bush regime but they are getting even worse during the Obama years.
  1092. Big city war: NATO seeks concepts for waging urban conflict
    First Published: 2017
    NATO is asking outside contractors to pitch concepts on military operations in urban areas, admitting that the bloc’s forces are still unprepared for waging wars in big cities, including those lying close to the coast.
  1093. Big Crony CEO Pay Grab: Effects Beyond Greed!
    First Published: 2016
    Over the past fifty years, the pay gap between many highly-paid CEOs and their employees has increased dramatically. In 1965, when they also liked to be rich, CEOs made approximately twenty times as much as their average employee, meaning they would earn their workers' average pay by the third week of January, and since the 1980s, the average difference and greed have increased. Highly-paid CEOs now make 303 times as much as their employees in a year, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute.
  1094. Big Data is Accelerating Corporate Control of the Global Food Supply
    First Published: 2017
    A summary of the report "Too Big to Feed: Exploring the Impacts of Mega-Margers, Consolidation and Concentration of Power in the Agri-Food Sector," published by The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
  1095. Big game hunters
    First Published: 1992
  1096. Big increases for civil service managers
    First Published: 1992
  1097. The Big Lie About the Tax Bill: Why Bosses Will Never Raise Wages
    First Published: 2017
    The big lie underlying the $1.5-trillion Trump/Republican Congressional tax bill is that Corporations will pass much of it on to workers in the form of higher wages, and to consumers in the form of lower prices.
  1098. The Big Lie at the Heart of the Myth of the Creation of Israel
    An Interview with Lia Tarachansky
    First Published: 2015
    Lia Tarachansky's heart-wrenching documentary, On the Side of the Road, reveals the Big Lie at the heart of the myth of the creation of Israel.
  1099. Big media versus the people
    First Published: 2015
    A look how "Big Media" shapes public attitudes, the economy, culture, leisure and education, and how governments have developed close relationships with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest.
  1100. Big Oil's Chokehold on Canadian Democracy
    First Published: 2014
    The fight against Big Oil corporatism may be the most important one you ever support.
  1101. Big Oil's Ethical Violence
    BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia
    First Published: 2015
    To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence.
  1102. Big Papers Want Foreign Companies, Not War Crime Victims, to Sue US
    First Published: 2016
    The editorial boards of the US’s four most influential newspapers joined President Barack Obama in opposition to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, a bill that makes suing Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 attacks markedly easier.
  1103. The big robo-calling question: will anyone go to jail?
    First Published: 2012
    Good investigative journalism could break this affair wide open, but will the owners of the Harper-friendly corporate media allow their journalists to go beyond normal reporting and do the hard work necessary to get to the very bottom of this dark story?
  1104. The Big Secret That Makes the FBI's Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie
    First Published: 2015
    McLaughlin discusses how hacking techniques and their increasing use are justified in a prevalent way by the American government.
  1105. The Big Split
    First Published: 2016
    The article depicts how despite Trump being likened to the perfect wrong play, wrong director and wrong cast as in Mel Brooks' The Producers, he has managed to claim victory. The author argues that this was more due to the Democratic party's failure than it was Trump's success.
  1106. Big Strikes and the sabotage of the labor movement
    First Published: 2020
  1107. Big Tech Firms Are Using Automation To Censor News About Coronvirus
    First Published: 2020
    Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.
  1108. Big Tech Firms are Using Automation to Censor News About the Coronavirus
    First Published: 2020
    Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.
  1109. Big Tech Is Using Pandemic To Push Dangerous New Forms Of Surveillance
    Data from new smartphone apps being used to track COVID infections can easily be weaponized against groups of people
    First Published: 2020
    For more than two decades, the ankle shackle has remained the standard electronic monitoring (EM) device. While cellphones, tablets, smartwatches and laptop computers evolved, the black plastic band remained — bulging out under socks and scraping the skin off criminalized legs. Even at this stage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, many of these devices require a landline phone to function. They retain ancestral ties to the analog age.
  1110. Big Tech's Playing Monopoly. It's Going to Lose.
    First Published: 2021
    Knapp critiques Big Tech, including Facebook and Twitter, as limiting freedom of speech in return for substantial revenue from government contracts.
  1111. Big Tech's 'Cancel Culture' Love Affair
    First Published: 2022
    Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else. Journalism that does not conform must be taken down. This month, several of us - Scott Ritter, myself, ASB Military News, among others - were canceled from Twitter. The - unstated - reason: we were debunking the officially approved narrative of the Russia/NATO/Ukraine war.
  1112. Big Three Auto Contracts: Lowlights of 2011
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    By the end of October, autoworkers at the Big Three will have approved their 2011-2015 contracts. Since Ford was the most profitable corporation, and one that had avoided bankruptcy, it was the logical corporation for the UAW to target. During the economic crisis Ford workers voted down a round of concessions that would have suspended their right to strike until 2015, so by bargaining first at Ford the union could have maximized its potential power to put an end to the concessions.
  1113. Big Three Contracts: Who Won?
    First Published: 2016
    The 2015 UAW/Big Three contracts took 67 days and multiple attempts to ratify, resulting in what most autoworkers see as a partial victory.
  1114. Big Three Win A Modular Future: Contract Hype and Reality
    Against The Current vol. 83
    First Published: 1999
    The 1999 contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three auto makers, plus General Motors' Delphi spin-off, offer one more demonstration of what the mainstream media like to call improved relations between the union and the company. Whatever the media mainliners think of this overused phrase, in practice it means greater consensus between top union leaders and company officials.
  1115. A Big Victory for Labor in Mexico
    How Mexican Workers Won Ownership of a Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike
    First Published: 2013
    Collective ownership of a factory in Mexico.
  1116. Bigger Slicks, Sicker Society
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    Corporate crime is strikingly analogous to the BP slick. The visible stuff is the slime on the surface that gets most of the attention. You can see it, taste it, smell it. The bigger part stays underwater where it poisons and kills silently, out of view, gets caught in the currents and escapes containment — just like those oil “plumes” poised to swirl around the Florida peninsula and head up the Eastern seaboard.
  1117. Biggest criminals write laws that make their crimes legal
    First Published: 2013
    Giannina Segnini discusses her bribery investigations that helped put two former presidents of Costa Rica in jail, and offers advice to aspiring investigative journalists.
  1118. The Biggest Heist in Human History
    First Published: 2016
    The only way stimulus can work is if its put where it’s needed. And we can now say with 100 percent certainty, that the Fed’s stimulus wasn’t put where it was needed which is why it hasn’t worked.
  1119. The Biggest Lie
    From Hiroshima to Syria, the Enemy Whose Name We Dare Not Speak
    First Published: 2013
    Whether or not Bashar al-Assad or the “rebels” used gas in the suburbs of Damascus, it is the US not Syria that is the world’s most prolific user of these terrible weapons.
  1120. The Biggest 'October Surprise' Of All: A World Capitalist Crash 
    First Published: 2008
    Today we see the Western bourgeoisie, disarmed by its own neo-liberal ideology, falling back in a flash on Keynesianism, injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the banking system to stave off collapse, and dusting off forgotten laws and powers from 70 years ago to push through their emergency measures.
  1121. The Biggest Source of Plastic Trash You've Never Heard of
    First Published: 2015
    How plastic waste is used on the farm for agriculture.
  1122. Biggest Strike In China's History Enters 6th Day: Police Arrested Organizers, Workers Battle SWAT Troops
    First Published: 2014
    The largest strike in China's history has entered the sixth day, defying state attempts to repress workers struggling against economic and social injustice. Police arrested several organizers of the strikers at the Yue Yuen factory, which produces shoes for Nike and Adidas.
  1123. Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but Barbarism with human face
    First Published: 2020
    The impossible has happened and the world we knew has stopped turning around. But what world order will emerge after the coronavirus pandemic is over – socialism for the rich, disaster capitalism or something completely new?
  1124. The Biggest Threat to Mexican Journalists Aren't Drug Cartels Anymore
    First Published: 2015
    Northern Mexico and the drug cartels have dangerous reputations; especially for journalists. This should come to a surprise to no one. This year, however, the danger seems to have shifted in both location and source. Of the six journalists that were killed in Mexico this year, all of them were killed in the south; most likely at the hands of police officers and politicians.
  1125. Bigotry in the Guise of Secularism
    First Published: 2015
    The murder at Charlie Hebdo and the Paris kosher supermarket have unleashed a wave of attacks on French Muslim communities, their culture and religion.The analysis by Carmen Teeple Hopkins helps explain the background of the present dangers and tragedies.
  1126. Bigotry vs. Black Lives, Muslims, Immigrants
    First Published: 2016
    Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates use hate and fear of these "others." Could this strategy win the 2016 presidency?
  1127. Bildering Club & Trilateral Commission. What are They? What Have They Done
    Where are They Headed
    First Published: 1980
    E.G. Adam's Report to the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers Of America (UE), Bilderberg Club And Trilateral Commission, is an analysis of these two organizations and their relationship to the present world economy.
  1128. Bill C-51: A Legal Primer
    Overly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
    First Published: 2015
    Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, would expand the powers of Canada's spy agency, allowing Canadians to be arrested on mere suspicion of future criminal activity.
  1129. Bill C-70: Trudea's Latest Assault on Free Speech
    First Published: 2024
    The Trudeau government’s latest national security legislation promises to cement Justin Trudeau’s legacy as the most anti-free speech Prime Minister in the post-WWII era. Bill C-70 constitutes a serious threat to democratic discourse. It is particularly dangerous for those who are critical of Canadian foreign policy.
  1130. Bill Clinton's Most Abominable Freedom Fighters Uncloaked
    Return to Kosovo
    First Published: 2014
    Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut. Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled attendees could flourish artificial arms and legs in the air to showcase Clinton’s actual legacy.
  1131. Bill Gates and the Push to Privatize Public Education
    An Interview With Mercedes K. Schneider
    First Published: 2014
  1132. Bill Gates' Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life 
    First Published: 2021
    The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, the health emergency of biodiversity loss, and the health emergency of the climate crisis. All of these emergencies are rooted in a mechanistic, militaristic, anthropocentric worldview that considers humans separate from—and superior to—other beings. Beings we can own, manipulate, and control. All of these emergencies are rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and individual species.
  1133. Billboard Liberation Front Manual
    Tactics for improving outdoor advertising.
  1134. Billionaires, Crime, and Corruption 
    First Published: 2001
    What does it really mean when somebody claims to own hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars? What is a billionaire like David Rockefeller really telling us? He's saying that land he may never have set foot on, but which thousands of other people spend their lives farming, belongs to him alone. He's saying that buildings and machinery which he probably has never seen and certainly has never worked at, but which whole communities of people spend their lives working at to produce goods like clothing and automobiles, belong to him alone.
  1135. Billionaires in Brazil: Understanding How Extreme Wealth and Political Power Overlap Everywhere
    First Published: 2016
    Alex Cuadros spent years covering the billionaire class of Latin America for Bloomberg. A Portuguese-speaking American journalist who spent years based in Brazil, he has now written a highly entertaining and deeply insightful book about the particularly powerful, flamboyant, assertive, and often-crazed class of Brazilian billionaires. Titled Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, his new book was released yesterday. Brazillionaires contains important lessons far beyond Brazil.
  1136. Binge and Hangover
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
  1137. The Bio-Economic Pandemic and the Western Working Classes
    First Published: 2020
    As of March 2020, the world is back to the future. The global financial crisis of 2007-08, which escalated into a global financial meltdown in September 2008, was supposed to be the big bang crisis, a once in a lifetime event. And yet, here we are again.
  1138. Biodiversity
    Connexipedia Article
    The variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth.
  1139. Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pests
    First Published: 2015
    Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more frequent and serious infestations, and a decline in food security.
  1140. Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
    First Published: 2016
    In November 2014, cellulosic biofuel company KiOR filed for bankruptcy, having shut down their refinery in Columbus, Mississippi earlier that year. There have been many unsuccessful biofuel ventures of this type, but KiOR's stands out for several reasons.
  1141. Biography of Marx
    First Published: 1892
  1142. The biological basis of resilient cities
    First Published: 2014
    Biological systems offer design strategies for successfully adapting to an age of climate change and resource depletion. Insights from nature will be essential in creating a green and sustainable future for humankind.
  1143. Biological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
    First Published: 2017
    The US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes involving civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims.
  1144. Biology Fortified, Inc. misleads the public on GMO safety
    First Published: 2014
  1145. Bioregional Congress
    First Published: 1990
  1146. Bioregional Congress
    First Published: 1990
  1147. Bioregional Congress
    First Published: 1992
  1148. Bioregionalism
    Connexipedia Article
    A political, cultural, and environmental system based on naturally-defined areas called bioregions, or ecoregions. Bioregions are defined through physical and environmental features, including watershed boundaries and soil and terrain characteristics. Bioregionalism stresses that the determination of a bioregion is also a cultural phenomenon, and emphasizes local populations, knowledge, and solutions.
  1149. The biosecurity myth
    First Published: 2020
    Favouring industrialised poultry rearing and stock raising, including pigs, through internationally prescribed rules doesn't prevent epidemics. It just puts small, local organic producers out of business, and it helps big agribiz.
  1150. The Biotech Industry Is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs from the Inside
    First Published: 2017
    When a comprehensive evaluation of GMOs and the weaknesses of scientific risk assessment within the biotech industry is urgently needed, the chemical and biotech industries are forcing risk assessment in the opposite direction.
  1151. Bird, Diz and Max at Town Hall, 1945: Birth of a Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    Hip-hop had a musical parallel in the 1940s. It was the music now called be-bop, although it wasn't called be-bop then. It was "the new thing" or "the revolution in music."
  1152. Birney, Alfred Earle
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian poet, twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature. (1904-1995).
  1153. Biró, András
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Advcoate for Roma self-reliance and founder of the Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance (HFSR). (Born 1925).
  1154. Birth Control
    The Vatican condemns any form of birth control, yet they profit from a company which sells birth control pills.
  1155. The Birth of a Holiday
    The late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the origins of International Workers' Day.
    First Published: 2017
    The history of the fight, by the working class, for a holiday for the working class.
  1156. The Birth of a National Anti-Nuclear Movement
    A Chapter from the Oral History of How the No Nukes Movement (1973-1982) Saved the United States and Maybe the World
    First Published: 2014
    “The year 1973 was the worst year for nuclear power,” Bill McGee, a retired nuclear industry spokesman, told us when he agreed to be interviewed for this book. “It’s just astonishing when you look back on it. When we built the Yankee Atomic plant in Rowe, Massachusetts, in 1960, everybody thought it was a great idea. It was there because Senator Jack Kennedy said, ‘Please build it here.’ Presidents, senators, congressmen, local people—all thought it was great. And we built six other plants. New England had, prior to 1972, seven plants making one third of the electricity in New England. And everybody thought it was a great idea. What happened?”
  1157. Birth of a New Movement
    First Published: 2017
    I came back from the Women's March in D.C. exhausted but thrilled, convinced that we are seeing the birth of a new women's movement. Hearing about all the other Women's Marches around the world only confirmed that impression.
  1158. Birth of a revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia
    First Published: 1969
    1969 pamphlet by Fredy Perlman on the beginnings of the 1968 revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia.
  1159. The Birth of Agro-Resistance in Palestine
    First Published: 2016
    Canaan Fiar Trade, a co-operative farming project with a model of self-sufficiency and dignity, has grown rapidly, and now assists some 2000 small-hold farmers in the West Bank, but it still receives little more than ambivalent support from the compromised Palestinian national leadership.
  1160. The Birth of Medicare
    From Saskatchewan's breakthrough to Canada-wide coverage
    First Published: 2012
    An account of the history of medicare in Canada, from its birth in Saskatchewan to its adoption nation-wide.
  1161. Birth of the "Open Shop"
    Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Chad Pearson's Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement.
  1162. Birth of the Abolitionist Nation
    The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Manisha Sinha's The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
  1163. The birth of the Cuban polyclinic
    First Published: 2018
    During the 1960s, Cuban medicine experienced changes as tumultuous as the civil rights and antiwar protests in the United States. While activists, workers, and students in western Europe and the United States confronted existing institutions of capitalism and imperialism, Cuba faced the even greater challenge of building a new society.
  1164. Birth-Control Wars: Two Centuries of Struggle
    First Published: 2016
    The birth-control wars have reached a new level of contestation. On June 27th 2016, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law -- Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt -- that sought to restrict a woman’s right to an abortion and other birth-control medical services.
  1165. 'Birthright' in a time of genocide
    First Published: 2024
    Amid the genocidal war on Gaza, Israel’s Birthright programme accrued even more horrifyingly sinister implications.
  1166. Bisexual community
    Connexipedia Article
    People who are bisexual, pansexual or queer-identified and their allies.
  1167. The Bisexual Identity
    Changing Perspectives on Sexuality: Contributions of Kinsey and Anthropologists
    Cross-cultural comparisons highlight not only the differences in how sexuality is perceived, but the power of such constructs on sexual behavior.
  1168. Bisexuality
    Connexipedia Article
    Sexual behavior with or physical attraction to both sexes (male and female), or a bisexual orientation.
  1169. Bishop's Statement on Uranium Development
    First Published: 1977
    The Roman Catholic and Ukranian Catholic Bishops express their concern about uranium mining and nuclear energy in Saskatchewan. The bishops recognize that uranium could be generate a substantial supply of energy. They also recognize the dangers of the energy produced through the use of uranium.
  1170. Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 1974
    A 28-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America,
  1171. The Bizarre Compulsion of Black Men to "Reach for their Waistbands"
    Waistband-Reaching Syndrome Could Get You Killed
    First Published: 2014
    If police accounts are to be believed, there is a bizarre urge among young, unarmed black men to provoke their own murder by "reaching for their waistbands" when cops are aiming service revolvers at them.
  1172. B.J. Widick, 1910-2008
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    On June 28, 2008, Branko J. Widick, known to everyone as “B.J.” or “Jack,” died at age 97 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Widick was a prominent figure in the history of U.S. Trotskyism and above all in the unorthodox political tendency known as the “Shachtmanites.” In the Great Depression, he was directly involved in the rise of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and was a participant in General Motors sitdown strike of automobile workers.
  1173. B.J. Widick and the UAW
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
  1174. "Black Americans for a Better Future" Super PAC 100% Funded by Rich White Guys
    First Published: 2016
    New FEC filings show that all of the $417,250 in monetary donations to a Super PAC called "Black Americans for a Better Future" comes from conservative white businessmen-- including $400,000, or 96 percent of the total, from white billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.
  1175. The Black Belt Communists
    First Published: 2015
    During the Great Depression, black sharecroppers and the Communist Party waged war against tenant farming in the South.
  1176. Black Bloc
    Connexipedia Article
    People who engage in protests wearing black clothing and masks and engaging in property damage. The tactic was developed in the 1980s by anti-nuclear activist autonomists, and was subsequently adopted by some anarchists, as well as some right-wing groups such as the autonomous nationalists of Europe. Black blocs lend themselves to infiltration by police and agents provocateurs, and it has often been alleged that their primary function, whether intentional or not, is to provide a pretext for police repression.
  1177. The black bloc and the Battle of Seattle
    First Published: 2012
  1178. Black Bloc Provocateurs Set Strasbourg Hotel on Fire
    First Published: 2009
    Legitimate anti-NATO protesters are determined to use non-violent civil disobedience to block the summit. In order to provide an excuse to use batons and rubber bullets against them, agents provocateurs masquerading as Black Bloc anarchists have been dispatched with instructions to burn down hotels and vandalize churches.
  1179. Black Cats, White Cats, Wildcats
    First Published: 1969
    Direct, shop-floor organization have emerged that are willing and able to call strikes in its own name and fight against both the union and the management in a struggle to assert the power of the working class in production.
  1180. The Black Dwarf
    Connexipedia Article
    A political and cultural newspaper published between May 1968 and 1972 by a collective of socialists in the United Kingdom.
  1181. Black Grassroots Organizing
    First Published: 1977
    This pamphlet suggests a number of actions for examining racism in Canadian society and for moving to eliminate that racism
  1182. Black Humanity on Trial in America, Again
    The Killing and Trial of Trayvon Martin
    First Published: 2013
    The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the case of the killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, was one such incident that brought out the entire history of racism, racial profiling, white vigilantism and the realities that black people and their allies have to organize to change the system.
  1183. Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
    First Published: 2008
    'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
  1184. The Black Infinity Complex
    First Published: 2015
    We're a group of UCLA grad students, and our vision of the Black Infinity Complex is inspired by the boundlessness and sustainability of Black creativity and imagination. It's a collective of organizers coming together as a liaison to create a united front of existing structures of grassroots organizations and community institutions, and organizers like you, or scholars.
  1185. Black Liberation and the American Dream
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Race has always been the most visible source of division in the United States. Slavery, segregation, and the current ethnic profiling of the “Arab-looking” are just a few of examples of racism in American history.
  1186. Black Liberation and the Fight for a Socialist America
    First Published: 2010
    From slavery to convict labour, from the chain gang to the assembly line, American capitalism has been built upon the lash-scarred backs of black labour. Any organization that claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the special oppression of black people and their forced segregation at the bottom of capitalist society and the poisonous racism that divides the working class and cripples its struggles.
  1187. Black Liberation Struggle: The Key to American Socialist Revolution
    Part Two
    First Published: 2019
    Everybody is familiar with Marx's famous saying, in Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), that "labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded." This was more than a moral appeal against slavery. It was a statement of fact: Marx recognized that so long as half the country was dominated by slavery, workers would never be able to fight for even basic trade-union rights. The Civil War paved the way for the growth of American capitalism and the labor movement.
  1188. Black Liberation, Working-Class Unity, and the Popular Front: A Reply to Mel Rothenberg
    First Published: 1999
    MEL ROTHENBERG HAS written a generous review of my book The Color of Politics, (Against the Current 75, July/ August 1998), in which he praises and succinctly summarizes certain of my key arguments. For this I am, of course, grateful. On one issue, however, Rothenberg draws conclusions with which I wish to disassociate myself, conclusions that I believe do not flow from my writing or analysis. The issue concerns his assertion about the importance and salutary effect of popular front approaches...
  1189. The Black Lives Matter Response to Trump
    First Published: 2017
    Our mandate has not changed: organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
  1190. Black Nationalism, Black Solidarity
    First Published: 2018
    Malik explains examines Black Nationalism and its relationship to a Marxist analysis of nationalism of oppressed peoples.
  1191. Black or White, It's the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology
    First Published: 2020
    2019 closed with a number of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York City area—including the killing of three people at a Jersey City kosher market by two shooters who had expressed interest in the fringe Black Hebrew Israelite movement, and a machete attack at a rabbi's home in Monsey, NY by a suspect who appears to have referenced the same anti-Semitic hate group in his rambling manifesto.
  1192. Black Panther Party
    Connexipedia Article
    African-American organization established to promote Black Power.
  1193. The Black Panther Party Ten Point Platform & Program
    First Published: 1966
    Statement of the Black Panther Party: What We Want, What We Believe.
  1194. The Black Panthers Reconsidered
    First Published: 1996
    To understand the Black Panther Party, we must place it in the context of the exhaustion of the Civil Rights movement by the mid-to-late sixties.
  1195. The Black Panthers: Movie Review
    First Published: 2015
    With its powerful archival footage and interviews with former Black Panther Party members, Stanley Nelson’s documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution reopens a chapter of black history that has long been distorted, hated and feared by the racist rulers of America.
  1196. Black Politics After 2016
    First Published: 2018
    A article on the significance of race in American politics, particularly since the 2016 election, and the symbiotic relation between antiracist politics and Democratic neoliberalism.
  1197. Black Power in Toronto
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    History of the Black Power Movement in Toronto, in the context of the Black Power movement in North America.
  1198. Black Railway Porters: The untold story of Black train porters in Canada
    The story of Black train porters in Canada.
  1199. Black Settles on Pensions
    First Published: 1991
  1200. Black Sites across America
    Health Care in US Prisons: a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight
    First Published: 2014
    There are 2.3 million people in US prisons in conditions that are often inhumane and at worst life threatening. The most striking aspect of this scene is the lack of decent medical care for prisoners, whether in solitary confinement or in the general prison population.
  1201. The Black Student Rebellion of 1976
    First Published: 2016
    A defining feature of the 1976 uprising was the decisive entry of black students onto the stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools remained relatively low. But the urban African population was growing, especially the number of young people. And industry required a larger pool of industrial labour. So there was a rapid expansion of schooling for Africans. In 1976 there were 3.8 million Africans in schools. Nearly 10% percent of those were in secondary schools. In Soweto alone the number of secondary school students increased from approximately 12,500 to more than 34,000.
  1202. Black Teachers' Revolt of the 1960s
    Educational Apartheid in Chicago
    First Published: 2012
    Chicago's educational apartheid has a history which includes the racial segregation of its schools, the allocation of resources on an unequal basis and second class treatment for teachers of color. It was Jim Crow North. But there was also resistance, a resistance which grew into a powerful social movement during the 1960's.
  1203. Black and White on the Inside
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    In April 1993, Lucasville, Ohio, was the site of the longest prison siege in U.S. history during which lives were lost — longer even than the far more infamous 1971 Attica rebellion.
  1204. Black Women's Writing Recovered
    An Interview with Mary Helen Washington
    First Published: 2016
    Interview with Mary Helen Washington.
  1205. Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
    First Published: 2005
    Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
  1206. Black Workers, Fordism and the UAW
    Book Review of Bates's "The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford"
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of Beth Tompkins Bates's analysis of how the automotive industry provided an opportunity for African Americans to fight for equal working rights, unionize, and forge an alliance with white workers.
  1207. Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its Job
    First Published: 2018
    France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.
  1208. Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges
    First Published: 2014
    A federal jury in Washington, D.C., returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives charged with killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians and wounding scores of others in Baghdad in 2007.
  1209. Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again
    First Published: 2014
    The authors critique the British media's coverage of a new essay by Tony Blair which attempts to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
  1210. Blair, Elgin
    First Published: 1989
    Obituary of Connexions collective member Elgin Blair. (Died 1989).
  1211. Blake, William
    Connexipedia Article
    English poet, painter, and printmaker. Considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. (1757-1827).
  1212. Blame the Neoliberals: Democrats' Toxic Ideology Paved the Way for Trump
    How corporate centrism has failed to defeat even the most incompetent figurehead of the nativist right
    First Published: 2016
    The Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt. Neoliberalism, the party's driving force, is toxic, and it has failed not only much of the United States, but also much of the world, driving wealth into the hands of the few. Without a populist left offering an ambitious alternative to the status quo, the nativist right has thrived.
  1213. Blame the victim instead
    Blaming the victims of sexual assault.
  1214. Blaming Everbody
    First Published: 2016
    The Democratic Party brought the 2016 election disaster on themselves.
  1215. Blanket Silence: Corporate Media Ignore New Report Exposing Distorted And Misleading Coverage of Corbyn
    First Published: 2018
    A Media Reform Coalition report reveals that the corporate media in Britain have been producing an alarming amount of 'fake news' items, which includes a narrative that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour party are mired in an 'antisemitism crisis'. The corporate media have largely ignored the report, or any other reasoned criticism of their biased reporting.
  1216. Blanqui, Louis Auguste
    Connexipedia Article
    French political activist, founder of the revolutionary theory of Blanquism. (1805-1881).
  1217. Blasphemy: Information Sacrificed on the Altar of Religion
    First Published: 2013
    There are far too many countries where news and content providers constantly face a very special and formidable form of censorship, one exercised in the name of religion or even God. And with increasing frequency, this desire to thwart freedom of information invokes the hard-to-define and very subjective concept of the “feelings of believers.”
    This is a minefield. Reporters Without Borders has analysed it and offered its recommendations in a report entitled “Information sacrificed on altar of religion.”
  1218. Blasphermy, Religious and Secular
    First Published: 2018
    An essay on a European Court of Human Rights ruling and on changing forms of blasphemy law.
  1219. Blasted in a West Virginia Mine
    First Published: 2010
    Conditions in the mines are caused by capitalism. The 25 dead miners in the latest mine disaster in West Virginia are dead because union-busting and the disregard of safety precautions for the sake of speed-up and higher profits.
  1220. Blatant Hypocrisy: the Latest Late-Night Bailout of Greece
    First Published: 2016
    The new late night deal in the Eurogroup on the new bailout for Greece is another blatant hypocrisy by the dominant European Union powers, their partner-cum-competitor IMF (aka the US) and the Greek establishment (now represented by the SYRIZA government). The new deal is an uneasy compromise subject to a continuing tug-of-war between the US (through its proxy, the IMF) and the EU.
  1221. Blau-Kamm case exposes the dark underbelly of Israel's security state
    First Published: 2010
    In a properly democratic country, Kamm would have an honorable defence against the charges, of being a whistle-blower rather than a spy, and Blau would be winning journalism prizes not huddling away in exile. But this is Israel. Here, despite a desperate last-stand for the principles of free speech and the rule of law in the pages of the Haaretz newspaper today, which is itself in the firing line over its role, there is almost no public sympathy for Kamm or even Blau. The pair are already being described, both by officials and in chat forums and talkback columns, as traitors who should be jailed, disappeared or executed for the crime of endangering the state.
  1222. Bleeding the Patient: The Debt/Deficit Hoax Exposed
    First Published: 1993
    An edited transcript of a four-hour discussion held by nine progressive political economists. Discusses the hysteria around the government debt-deficit issue and the difficulty in developing counter-arguments.
  1223. Bleeding Wisconsin
    First Published: 2011
  1224. Blight and the Brave New World
    Rural estates to urban renewal: Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown
    First Published: 2001
    A history of, and observations and reflections on the Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown areas of Toronto.
  1225. Blinded by the Truth
    First Published: 2000
    Chomsky explores Israel's adoption of the American military doctrine in its conflict with the Palestinians.
  1226. BLM: Challenges and Possibilities
    From #BlacLlivesMatter to Black Liberation
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.
  1227. BLM: A Movement and Its Critics
    First Published: 2015
    Recent studies, once again, show that being Black makes life more difficult than for those with white skin. It is more difficult to get good paying jobs, education and housing (even for those with equal or better qualifications than whites). Blacks pay more for loans than whites, even if they have higher incomes.
  1228. BLM Movement Grows Stronger
    First Published: 2016
    The vanguard leadership of the young women who started the Black Lives Movement with the #Blacklivesmatter on Twitter, after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Missouri, continues to advance and has led to similar formations in other countries.
  1229. The Blockade Against Cuba: An Assault Upon Humanity's Conscience
    First Published: 2013
    On 29 October 2013, for the 22nd consecutive year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) called for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. 188 states supported the Resolution, 2 voted against it, namely the US and Israel.
  1230. Blockade Halts Megaload at Port of Umatilla
    The Darkest Hour
    First Published: 2013
    Fifty activists with Rising Tide and members of the Umatilla and Warm Springs tribes held together to stop a megaload from embarking on its treacherous path. The struggle against the megaloads is a struggle against the tar sands and expanding fossil fuel infrastructure.
  1231. Blockading: a guide
    Tips on some ways you can use your bodies and other materials to barricade, blockade and defend territory
    First Published: 2003
    Some campaigns will require a geographical space to be protected. This is a short guide with tips and advice on some ways you can use your bodies and other materials to barricade, blockade and defend territory. This area could be houses set for eviction, a large workplace being picketed, a forest, an endangered eco-system, an area through which and environmentally destructive road is to be built. Also included are tips on protecting trees.
  1232. Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers in Egypt
    First Published: 2009
    Egyptian bloggers use the Internet to expose police abuse and torture.
  1233. Bloggers Under Fire: The Fatal Consequences of Free Thinking in Bangladesh
    First Published: 2016
    Six secular Bangladeshi writers have been killed since November of 2014: Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam, literary publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, and bloggers Avijit Roy, Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, Ananta Bijoy Das and Niloy Neel. At least a dozen more bloggers and progressive activists have been killed and scores of others attacked or threatened with death for their progressive and secular views since 2005.
  1234. The Blood of Gaza Is on the West's Hands as Much as Israel's
    First Published: 2023
    Israel is on the rampage again and Gaza's population is facing a quiet, slow path to erasure. The ones funding it and enabling it are the US and its European allies.
  1235. Bloodshed in Kiev
    First Published: 2014
    Rob Jones looks at the different forces behind the Ukraine crisis.
  1236. Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
    Capital, Volume One: Chapter 28
    First Published: 1867
    Agricultural people: first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system.
  1237. Bloody Oil
    Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth
    First Published: 2009
    The extraction of oil from tar sands is perhaps the most ecologically insane idea on the planet. Four First Nations representatives from Canada travelled to Britain to participate in the London climate camp and the country's biggest annual gathering of climate activists. Organized by the Indigenous Environmental Network and supported by the New Internationalist, the group's aim was to internationalize the campaign for a complete tar sands moratorium.
  1238. Bloomberg and NYC's Education Wars
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    The New York City school system averted catastrophe on June 24, 2011 when mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew reached an accord to prevent more than 4000 teacher layoffs. Under the deal, the teachers’ union agreed to suspend sabbaticals for one year and to reorganize the way in which teachers without full programs are assigned.
  1239. The Blossoming of Idle No More
    First Published: 2014
    The First Nations-led movement Idle No More emerged in Canada in December 2012 to protest legislation that threatened both the rights of First Nations and environmental protections. The movement has since spread into the U.S. and beyond – and has become one of the central voices in the struggle for Indigenous and ecological justice.
  1240. A Blow for Peace and Democracy
    Why the British Said No to Europe
    First Published: 2016
    The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
  1241. Blowing up pipelines won't save the planet
    First Published: 2023
    A review of the film "How to Blow up a Pipeline" that is critical of the film's message: The review argues that sabotage may be exciting and personally satisfying … but it can’t defeat capital’s colossal power.
  1242. Blowing Your Own Horn!
    First Published: 2000
    Launching your own public relations campaign.
  1243. The BLSP dispute: the story of the strike
    A detailed account and analysis of an important strike at the British Light Steel Pressings plant against job cuts in 1961, which was undermined by the unions and eventually defeated.
  1244. Blue Betrayal
    The Harper government's assault on Canada's freshwater
    First Published: 2015
    Canadians have long taken their water heritage for granted. This is largely due to the myth that there is an abundance of water. While it is true that compared to many other parts of the world Canada is blessed with water, it is false that there is water to waste or sell.
  1245. The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry
    First Published: 2017
    The tactics and work environments at tech companies, including Amazon, show a disregard for the fundamental health, safety and humanity of low-tier workers, demonstrating what laissez-faire startup-styled late capitalism really looks like.
  1246. The Blue Engine Behind Fracked Gas Exports PR Blitz
    "Our Energy Moment"
    First Published: 2014
    Behind nearly every major corporate policy push there’s an accompanying well-coordinated public relations and propaganda campaign. As it turns out, the oil and gas industry’s push to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) plays the same game, in this case via the industry-led PR blitz "Our Energy Moment".
  1247. A Blueprint for a New Party
    With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in working class
    First Published: 2016
    A proposal for a national political organization that would have chapters at the state and local levels, a binding program, a leadership accountable to its members, and electoral candidates nominated at all levels throughout the country.
  1248. Blueprint for a Progressive US: A Dialogue With Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
    First Published: 2017
    In the Trump era, what would an authentically populist, progressive political agenda look like? What would a progressive US look like with regard to jobs, the environment, finance capital and the standard of living? What would it look like in terms of education and health care, justice and equality? In an exclusive interview with C.J. Polychroniou for Truthout, world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin tackle these issues.
  1249. William Blum
    Wikipedia article
    William Henry Blum (1933 - 2018) was an American author, historian, and critic of United States foreign policy.
  1250. The B'nai Brith Audit of Antisemitic Incidents: An Unreliable and Dangerous Document
    An Unreliable and Dangerous Document
    First Published: 2024
    Allegations of widespread antisemitism in Canada have penetrated the media and the political sphere. But a careful analysis of these claims shows that while there is a rise in antisemitic incidents, claims of imminent danger to Canadian Jews are fueling a moral panic that is both disingenuous and dangerous.
  1251. Bob Carty
    First Published: 2014
    Celebrating Bob Carty (1950 – 2014). Tribute given by John Foster on March 10, 2014.
  1252. Bob King and the "New" UAW
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    Last June the 35th UAW Constitutional Convention in Detroit elected new national officers headed by Bob King. Even before his election, King had been heralded in the media as desirous of transforming the UAW into an activist union. He supported the US Social Forum, co-sponsored the August 28th Detroit march for “Jobs, Justice and Peace” and encouraged UAW participation in the October 2nd “One Nation Working Together” demonstration in Washington DC.
  1253. Bobby Hutton's Hands Were Up
    The Search for Justice
    First Published: 2014
    The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has catalyzed intense U.S. anti-policing/ police demilitarization movement activity, with Ferguson serving as an urgent training ground and meeting point for anti-policing thinkers, writers, artists and activists.
  1254. The Body Cam Trade-Off
    First Published: 2016
    Ever since the Snowden revelations, both liberals and conservatives have become increasingly convinced that government surveillance and encroachment into Americans lives has spiraled out of control. That the government should play some role in providing safety and security for its citizens is accepted, but how the government achieves these goals is not as clear. We want security, but not at undue cost to our privacy.
  1255. Body Parts and Bio-Piracy
    Tissue, Skin, Bone and Organ Harvesting at Israel's National Forensic Institute
    First Published: 2010
    A report on the tissue, skin, bone and organ harvesting conducted for many years at Israel’s L. Greenberg National Institute of Forensic Medicine.
  1256. The Boeing Way: Blaming Dead Pilots
    First Published: 2019
    The House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing about the recent crashes of Boeing 737 MAXs. The Representatives (many of whom received campaign contributions from Boeing) actively tried to shift blame from the company and place it on the dead pilots.
  1257. Boff, Leonardo
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    A theologian, philosopher and writer, known for his active support for the rights of the poor and excluded. One of the founders of liberation theology. (Born 1938).
  1258. Boggs, Grace Lee
    Connexipedia Article
    A Chinese-American author, anti-racist activist and feminist. (Born 1915).
  1259. Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
    First Published: 2015
    Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
  1260. Grace Lee Boggs R.I.P.
    First Published: 2015
    Grace Lee Boggs, founding member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency (where her party name was Ria Stone), has died at the age of 100 in Detroit. She was born on June 27, 1915 and passed away October 5, 2015.
  1261. Bogus, Misdirected and Effective
    First Published: 2010
    The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.
  1262. Boiling Point: Why Do We Let Big Oil Send Workers to Their Deaths?
    First Published: 2015
    Refinery workers endure precarious labour conditions, yet the current system protects the companies economic interests. Recently, workers have started to mobilize.
  1263. Bold Refugee Strategy Succeeds
    Law Union News, February/March 1979
    First Published: 1979
  1264. Bolívar, Simón
    Connexipedia Article
    South American political leader who played a key role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from Spain. (1783-1830).
  1265. Bolivia After the Referendum
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    The month following Bolivia's recall referendum on August 10, 2008 tragically confirmed the class polarization of that country. The right-wing autonomists of the Santa Cruz, Pando, Beni, Tarija and Sucre departments (states or provinces) escalated their destabilization campaign against the Morales government, while the latter singularly failed to assert its rightful democratic control over all Bolivian territory. A small, racist and virulently right-wing minority has been able to shut down large parts of the country and spill indigenous peasant blood with impunity.
  1266. Bolivia: Evo Morales' First 100 Days
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    On December 18, 2005 the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Toward Socialism, MAS) party won an historic 54% of the popular vote in the Bolivian general elections. MAS leader Evo Morales, an indigenous man of mixed Aymara-Quechua descent who came of age politically as a peasant union leader in the anti-imperialist cocalero (coca grower) movement of the Chapare region, became president. MAS assumed the governance of Bolivia on January 22, 2006.
  1267. Bolivia: WikiLeaks Expose US Conspiracy
    First Published: 2011
    Recently released United States embassy cables from Bolivia have provided additional insight to the events leading up to the September 2008 coup attempt against the Andean country’s first indigenous president.
  1268. Bolivian gas conflict
    Connexipedia Article
    A social confrontation in Bolivia centering on the exploitation of the country's vast natural gas reserves.
  1269. Bolivian reality versus the 'extractivism' debate
    First Published: 2014
    Some left critics of progressive governments in South America point to differences between 'pro-extractivists' and 'anti-extractivists.' Federico Fuentes says that framework hinders real understanding of the issues.
  1270. Bolivians Demand Justice for 2003 Gas War Massacre
    Thousands March in El Alto
    First Published: 2014
    Thousands of people marched in El Alto, Bolivia on October 17th, 2014 to demand justice for the 2003 massacre of over 60 people during the country’s Gas War under the Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (Goni) administration. Sanchez de Lozada is currently living freely in the US, and marchers demanded he and others in his government be brought to Bolivia to be tried for ordering the violence.
  1271. Bolivia's Autonomist Right -- A Dangerous Threat
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    Autonomist right-wing forces in the Bolivian department (state) of Santa Cruz — acting through the offices of the prefecture (governorship) and Santa Cruz Civic Committee — held an illegal May 4 rerendum on departmental autonomy. According to the consulting agency Captura Consulting the “yes” side won 85% of the votes cast, with 15% against. However, many organizations within the left-indigenous bloc of the department had called for a boycott of the referendum, and were successful in obtaining an abstention rate of over 40%. Compare that to the remarkably low abstention rate of 15% in the December 2005 general elections that brought Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous president, to office at the national level. Nonetheless, the right declared results a triumphant victory.
  1272. Bolivia's Growing Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    A confrontation between the government of Bolivian president Evo Morales and a part of his indigenous social base is leading to a serious political crisis. A violent police assault on indigenous community protests against a road being built through their self-governed Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) have led to a growing confrontation.
  1273. Bolivia's Uncertain Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    Bolivia under the presidency of Evo Morales has become a favorite topic among progressives and social democrats, who have likened his ascendency to the nation’s highest post as nothing short of revolutionary. The buzz around Morales, a long time social movement figure and the first Indigenous president of the Andean nation has only lost a little luster since his election almost six years ago.
  1274. Bolivia's universal healthcare is model for the world, says UN
    First Published: 2019
    Bolivia has implemented universal healthcare to provide free care to its poorest citizens. Although controversial with the country's doctors the program is lauded by the UN.
  1275. Bolotnikov, Ivan
    Connexipedia Article
    The leader of a popular uprising in Russia known as the Bolotnikov rebellion. (Died 1608).
  1276. Bolshevik Party
    Entry in the Marxists Internet Archive Glossary
    The Bolshevik party led the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  1277. The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism
    First Published: 2017
    Antisemitism was found across the political divide in Russia's year of revolution.
  1278. Bolshevism and Stalinism 
    First Published: 1947
    From any view that goes beyond the capitalist system of exploitation, Stalinism and Trotskyism are both relics of the past.
  1279. Bolshevism, Gender & 21st Century Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    2017 will mark the Russian Revolution’s 100th anniversary. Socialists will again ask how the revolution was made and why it degenerated.
  1280. Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution
    First Published: 1999
    An in-depth analysis of the history of Bolshevism and the many programmatic, tactical and organisational lessons to be drawn from that history.
  1281. Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
    First Published: 2018
    Jonathan Cook explains why the mainstream Western media prefer an extreme right-wing leader over one from the Left.
  1282. Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
    First Published: 2018
    Jonathan Cook explains why the plutocrats and the mainstream media spokespeople much prefer a far-right populist like Jair Bolsonaro, or Donald Trump, to a populist leader of the genuine left.
  1283. The Bomb won't go away on its own
    First Published: 1982
    Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals.
  1284. Bombing Hospitals: 22 People Killed by US Airstrike on Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan
    First Published: 2015
    A group of activists living in Baghdad would regularly go to city sites and string large vinyl banners between the trees outside these buildings which read: "To Bomb This Site Would Be A War Crime." We encouraged people in U.S. cities to do the same.
  1285. Book of the Living
    House museums of New Orleans
    First Published: 2022
  1286. Book on activism
    First Published: 1992
  1287. Book on transformation
    First Published: 1990
  1288. Book Review: A Review of Mary Gabriel's Love and Capital and Some Thoughts Prompted by the Review 
    First Published: 2012
    In Love and Capital, published in 2011, Mary Gabriel makes a really good case that love was at the center of the life of the revolutionary named Karl Marx.
  1289. Book Review: African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions
    First Published: 2012
    Conspicuously absent from the renewed and resurgent discourse amongst anti-capitalist forces and the popular imagination was sub-Saharan Africa, “black Africa,” the Africa of the eternal cycle of dictators, corruption, famine, “bad governance” and debt. African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions ambitiously sets out to remedy this and place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
  1290. Book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939,1969)
    First Published: 2012
    What makes A History of Pan African Revolt enchanting is the thread of speculative philosophy that holds the assorted anecdotal historical commentaries on labor strikes, anti-racist rebellions, heroic personalities, and anti-colonial events together.
  1291. Book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939, 1969)
    First Published: 2012
    A small and dangerous volume, this republication of C.L.R. James’s A History of Pan-African Revolt is a concise survey of Black freedom struggles in the United States, the Caribbean, and on the African continent from 1739–1969.
  1292. Book Review: Eric Leif Davin, Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914 - 1960 (2010)
    First Published: 2012
    Book review on Eric Leif Davin's Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland 1914-1960.
  1293. Book Review: John Eric Marot, The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History (2012)
    First Published: 2012
    This is a book review concerning a very important book, one of the very few books published since 1991 on the “Russian Question” that will compel people (this reviewer included), long wedded to different characterizations of the post-1917 or post-1929 Soviet regime, to think through their commitments.
  1294. Book Review: Marixism without Marx: Recent Interpretations of the Economic Crisis
    First Published: 2012
    Paul Mattick’s, Business As Usual, and David McNally’s, Global Slump, each focuses on a single, primary aspect of Marx’s theory as a means to explain the current crisis. For Mattick, the point of entry into the economy is money; for McNally, it is competition. This propels them in very different directions, largely a function of how close to Marx they remain. Mattick’s book takes the form of an extended essay that warrants close reading. McNally’s lengthier treatment is both breezier and polemical.
  1295. Book Review: Marxism without Marx: Recent Interpretations of the Economic Crisis
    First Published: 2012
  1296. Book Review: Michael D. Yates, ed., Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back (2012)
    First Published: 2012
    Book review on Michael Yates Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back.
  1297. Book Review: Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
    First Published: 2013
  1298. Book Review: The Condition of the Working Classes in England
    First Published: 2013
    Reveiw of Nicholas Comfort, Surrender: How British Industry Gave Up the Ghost, 1952–2012 (2012) and Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (2011).
  1299. Book Review: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
    First Published: 2015
    Book Review of "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
  1300. Book review writing guide
    Tips and advice on how to write a review of a book or pamphlet
    First Published: 2006
    Book reviews. If you write or publish anything reviews can be a gain or a pain. Even the pain of negative feedback can sometimes help. To readers they can be a warning, a source of information, or the leaping-off point for research and discussion. Just like there never seems to be enough books in the world, there's never enough reviewers, and it's a good way to develop critical writing skills.
  1301. Book seizures challenged
    First Published: 1990
  1302. Bookchin, Murray
    Connexipedia Article
    American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
  1303. Bookchin on Technology
    First Published: 1978
    Murray Bookchin's arguments for a liberatory technology.
  1304. Books banned by governments, list of
    Connexipedia Article
    This article intends to list works, such as novels, nonfiction books, short stories, and essays that have banned by governments over time.
  1305. Books of Interest - Sources 58
    First Published: 2006
    Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
  1306. Books on breast cancer
    First Published: 1989
  1307. Bookwatch: Fighting to Unite Black and White
    First Published: 1996
    The common view on ‘race relations’ in the US today is that black and white people live in two separate worlds that will continue to diverge.
  1308. Boom and Bust... Literally
    First Published: 2012
    The richest country in the world is faced with literal “boom”—in the form of exploding sections of electric, gas and steam systems—and “bust”—in the form of collapsing roads and bridges—on a widespread and regular basis.
  1309. Boom for whom? The Canadian Impacts of the Tar Sands
    First Published: 2011
    A summary of the devasting impacts of the tar sands as they affect the different regions of Canada.
  1310. The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel an American Issue, and Lost
    First Published: 2018
    Trends in US opinion polls indicate that Israel is not just losing support and overall appeal among large sections of American society but also among the newer generation of American Jews, a worrying change in US public opinion for the Israeli government.
  1311. The Boomerang Is Almost Home
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    It should never be forgotten that while colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West, and on the apparatuses, institutions, and techniques of power.
  1312. Bordiga, Amadeo
    Connexipedia Article
    Italian Marxist, contributor to Communist theory, founder of the Communist Party of Italy, leader of the Communist International and, after World War II, leading figure of the International Communist Party. (1889-1970).
  1313. Bordiga, Amadeo - Writings - Index
    Writings by Amadeo Bordiga (1889-1970).
  1314. Bordiga versus Pannekoek
    First Published: 2001
    Over a decade has passed since the fall of the Berlin wall, and the announcement then of the "End of History" seems now to be not just ideological, but beneath contempt.
  1315. Boricua's Revolutionary Inspiration
    Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921 (Book Review)
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Kirwin R. Shaffer's Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921.
  1316. Born in Bradford 
    First Published: 2005
    Multiculturalism transformed the character of antiracism. By the mid-1980s the focus of antiracist protest in Bradford had shifted from political issues, such as policing and immigration, to religious and cultural issues: a demand for Muslim schools and for separate education for girls, a campaign for halal meat to be served at school, and, most explosively, the confrontation over the publication of The Satanic Verses. Political struggles unite across ethnic or cultural divisions; cultural struggles inevitably fragment.
  1317. "Born into Brothels" Controversy
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    "Born into Brothels" won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary. Directed by British photojournalist Zana Briski and U.S. film editor Ross Kauffman, the film follows Briski’s project of teaching photography to a group of children who live in Sonagachi — Calcutta, India’s red-light district — as well as Briski’s efforts to get these children of sex workers admitted into boarding schools.
  1318. Milton-Born-with-a-Tooth
    Connexipedia article
    Milton Born-With-A-Tooth is a Peigan-Blackfoot political activist.
  1319. Borneo: Island Devastated, People Oblivious
    First Published: 2017
    Borneo is now synonymous with mining and logging, as well as with terrible plantations that have already cannibalized most of the land. Nothing is being produced, but everything has been extracted.
  1320. Borneo's Killer Dams
    Mega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide
    First Published: 2014
    Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of the world's highest rates of deforestation; only 5% of its primary forests remain. Now, Sarawak's forests and their inhabitants face another threat: the damming of its rivers for hydroelectric power.
  1321. The Borrower and the Billionaire
    A Foreclosure Story
    First Published: 2010
    In this excerpt adapted from The Monster, Michael W. Hudson writes about the nation’s largest subprime lending empire through the fortunes of its owner and one of its customers.
  1322. Borsodi, Ralph
    Connexipedia Article
    Economic theorist and practical experimenter interested in ways of living useful to the modern person or family desiring greater self-direction and self-reliance. (1886-1977).
  1323. Bosnia's Magnificent Uprising
    Heralding a New Era of Class Politics?
    First Published: 2014
    Beginning in February 2014, mass protests led by workers, students, and other citizens, have rocked most major industrial cities in Bosnia. Whatever the current uprising is or is not, it is the largest mass outbreak of unalloyed class struggle revolt, untouched by nationalist poison, that we have seen in Bosnia since it was ripped to bits by Serbian and Croatian nationalists.
  1324. The boss is spying
    First Published: 2013
    The data mining by large U.S. corporations gets less attention than U.S. government surveillance. It goes beyond the tracking of every mouse-click, purchase and "like" registered by every consumer on the internet, and relies not only on sophisticated electronic devices, but on the currency of fear and sheer intimidation which would make a Big Brother tyrant proud, the kind depicted in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
  1325. Bottling peace in a jar
    Buying Palestinian olive oil is a tasty way to protest the tree uprootings of the occupation
    First Published: 2007
    Robert Massoud, born in Jerusalem of Christian Palestinian parents and now living just north of Toronto, developed the Zatoun project as "a people-sized initiative for those who want to make a difference" but who "throw up their hands and walk away" in despair from seemingly hopeless cycles of retaliation in the Middle East.
  1326. Bouncing Back Against the Corruption of Science in Capitalist Society
    Part 2 of a 2-part series: The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change
    First Published: 2017
    Part two in a look at capitalism and the role of science, and the strong evidence that science can be on the side of social justice and social change.
  1327. Bounty Hunters
    A clandestine war on wolves
    First Published: 2017
    The centuries old killing of wolves has extirpated the species throughout most of the United States, yet there remains a strong anti-wolf lobby which continues to threaten even a modest recovery.
  1328. The Boy Who Could Change the World
    First Published: 2016
    Remembering the brief life of Aaron Swartz: programmer, activist, entrepreneur, community builder.
  1329. Boycott
    Connexipedia Article
    A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons.
  1330. The Boycott
    Lafargue, Paul
    First Published: 1901
    The boycott, which the bourgeoisie regards with sentimental tenderness when directed against the trade of its commercial rival, it considers as a crime when employed by the workers in defence of their livelihood. The mere blacklisting of a workshop by a trade union is an offence, in Europe as well as in America, punished by law and the infliction of civil damages, calculated to exhaust the treasury of the union and break down the power of resistance of the workers.
  1331. Boycott America: Are You Ready to Take On a Lone-Gun Superpower?
    Hit the superpower with a boycott the whole world can see, and that American power can really feel.
  1332. Boycott Derails Jerusalem Rail Line
    Rail Firm Pays Price for Link to Settlements
    First Published: 2009
    The very survival of the rail project is now in question after the boycott movement's successful lobbying. A Dutch bank, ASN, pulled its investments from Veolia in 2006, and the company lost a large contract in Sweden this year.
  1333. Boycott is a right and a duty
    First Published: 2021
    Israel's efforts to demonize the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) threaten a venerable form of nonviolent resistance. These efforts push for the censoring of Palestinian voices and those of our allies, undermining free speech rights and academic freedom while falsely conflating criticism of the State of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry.
  1334. Boycott Israel
    First Published: 2009
    It is clear to me that the only way to counter the apartheid trend in Israel is through massive international pressure.
  1335. Boycott the state, not just the settlements
    First Published: 2011
    West Bank settlements would not be viable without government aid, so boycotts should target the Israeli state as well.
  1336. Bradley Manning and Adolf Eichmann
    Are We All Really Bradley Manning?
    First Published: 2013
    Manning succeeded in accomplishing what Eichmann was tried and executed for failing to do; Manning refused to participate in the commission of crimes against humanity.
  1337. Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Selective Outrage
    What about the Others?
    First Published: 2011
    Calls attention to the widespread use of solitary confinement with Bradley Manning as a specific example.
  1338. Bradley Manning's Torture Commonplace In U.S. Prisons
    First Published: 2011
    The corrosive, solitary confinement being inflicted upon PFC Bradley Manning in the Quantico, Va., brig is no exceptional torture devised exclusively for him. Across the length and breadth of the Great American Prison State, the world's largest, with its 2.4-million captives stuffed into 5,000 overcrowded lock-ups, some 25,000 other inmates are suffering a like fate of sadistic isolation in so-called supermax prisons.
  1339. Brainless in Washington
    First Published: 2015
    Washington's IQ follows the Fed's interest rate -- it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington's failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington's wars and in Washington's approach to China and Russia.
  1340. Branding Tradition: a Bittersweet Tale of Capitalism at Work
    First Published: 2016
    It's almost sugaring time here in Vermont. On our homestead we tap about 25 trees, boil down the sap on the kitchen cookstove, and - in a good year - end up with 4 or 5 gallons of maple syrup. That may sound like a lot, but since it represents our family's main source of sweetener it's rarely enough to get us through the year. By mid-winter we're usually buying syrup from a neighbor -- someone who makes his living from his sugar bush.
  1341. Braverman, Harry (Harry Frankel) - Writings - Index
    Writings of Harry Braverman (aka Harry Frankel) (1920-1976).
  1342. Brazil 1992
    First Published: 1990
  1343. Brazil 2013: Mass Demonstrations, the World Cup, and 500 Years of Oppression
    Bread, Circuses and Discontent
    First Published: 2013
    Deep inequality lies in Brazil where the masses lack basic public goods. Billions of dollars being spent on the upcoming 2014 World Cup have triggered nation-wide mass demonstrations.
  1344. Brazil: Amazon's Indians, rainforest under attack
    First Published: 2017
    Attacks on Amazon Indians and on their land rights threaten vital areas of rainforest. FUNAI, the agency responsible for safeguarding indigenous tribes is being forced to withdraw due to underfunding, while Indians' attempts to assert their rights are met with state violence.
  1345. Brazil: Balance Sheet and Prognosis
    First Published: 2013
    The government is taking advantage of recent events to invoke the danger of the right and to reinforce the left wing of the ruling group. Ten days after the “Rebellion of the Coxinhas” we can now draw up a balance sheet.
  1346. Brazil: Challenges of a Landless People
    First Published: 2015
    In Brazil, to define oneself as landless implies agency and a commitment to a community made up of active subjects that are working towards the construction of their own history.
  1347. Brazil: Changing Lives Through the Power of Dance
    First Published: 2009
    Founded in 1991 and directed by Dora Andrade, EDISCA is a non-governmental organisation that caters exclusively to children and adolescents from poor neighbourhoods.
  1348. Brazil: Government to abandon tribes to 'genocide' by loggers and ranchers
    First Published: 2017
    Brazil's extreme right wing government is preparing to open up the rainforest territories of uncontacted indigenous tribes to 'free for all' development by defunding the protection they currently receive.
  1349. Brazil: Increase in land killings as political crisis threatens Amazon
    First Published: 2017
    Cuts to Funai, the agency meant to protect Brazil's indigenous tribes, have encouraged land barons to expand their land holdings into indigenous territories.
  1350. Brazil: Journalist Evany José Metzker Murdered While Investigating Drugs and Child Exploitation in Minas Gerais
    First Published: 2015
  1351. Brazil, like Russia, Under Attack by Hybrid War
    First Published: 2016
    Colour revolutions would never be enough; Exceptionalistan is always on the lookout for major strategic upgrades capable of ensuring perpetual Empire of Chaos hegemony. The ideological matrix and the modus operandi of color revolutions by now are a matter of public domain. Not so much the concept of Unconventional War (UW).
  1352. Brazil: Social movements reject coup, take to streets
    First Published: 2016
    In response to a recent vote in the lower house of Brazil's parliament in favour of impeaching Workers' Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's two main coalitions of social movements issued the statement below on April 17, 2016.
  1353. Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'
    First Published: 2019
    A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
  1354. Brazil's Crisis and the New Right
    First Published: 2016
    The impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff resulted from the conjunction of three factors: the rupture of the alliance with business owners, the rise of a new militant right, and the PT's serious mistakes after abandoning the streets. What remains is a wounded society and an extractive model that went unquestioned by the left and undermined the hegemony of the Lula current.
  1355. Brazil's Largest Newspaper Quits Facebook, Accuses it of Harboring 'Fake News'
    First Published: 2018
    The Brazilian media conglomerate Folha de S. Paulo, made the decision to rebel against Facebook by ceasing to publish content, saying the decision stems primarily from Facebook's recent change on users' news feed which aims to reduce the amount of content and favour posts by friends and family. The paper says Facebook is effectively banning professional journalism from its pages in favour of personal content and 'Fake News'.
  1356. Brazil's MST Pays Tribute to Landless Workers Killed by Police in 1996
    First Published: 2015
    Landless workers occupy farms in Brazil to reclaim a sense of justice. The month of April - called "Red April" pays tribute and remembrance to the Landless Workers Movement's fallen comrades of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre.
  1357. Brazil's Quilombola Hit by Major Land Tax
    First Published: 2012
    For decades, marginalized ethnic communities in Brazil have fought for--and won--land rights. But this victory is turning into something of a poisoned chalice for some remote Quilombola communities, who are now facing a giant tax bill.
  1358. Brazil's right-wing protests: A warning to the working class
    First Published: 2015
    Right-wing protests in Brazil called for the overthrow of Workers Party. While the number of participants was likely to be inflated for political reasons, the protests underscore the intense class polarization, as well as the political dangers posed to the working class.
  1359. Breach of Ethics
    Leaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over Evidence
    First Published: 2019
    Leaked documents show that Sergio Moro, a judge at the time, collaborated heavily with investigators in Operation Car Wash, a serious breach of judicial impartiality. Even critics of Lula who consider him corrupt doubt the veracity of aspects of the investigation.
  1360. Bread and Roses
    Connexipedia Article
    The slogan "Bread and Roses" originated in a poem of that name by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to "the women in the West." It is commonly associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912, now often known as the "Bread and Roses strike".
  1361. The Bread Index
    Health, social problems linked to bread.
  1362. Breadking the Grid, Making Our Class
    First Published: 2014
    Yang provides a reading of E.P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" through the lens of contemporary and historical working-class revolutions and struggles.
  1363. Break-ins against activist groups
    First Published: 1989
    Several environmental and peace groups have suffered break-ins at their premises this past year. These include the Ontario Environment Network in Toronto, the Canadian Environmental Law Association in Toronto, the Toronto chapter of Science for Peace, the Green Party of British Columbia in Vancouver, and the Ottawa office of NDP MP Jim Fulton.
  1364. The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly
    First Published: 2017
    Alternative articles are being shared more widely online than the views of mainstream newspaper commentators. Discussed in relation to 2017 UK election.
  1365. Breaking the Impasse
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of Cracks in the Wall by Ben White, a hopeful book about weakening pro-Zionism in public consensus.
  1366. Breaking the last taboo - Gaza and the threat of world war
    First Published: 2014
    Pilger discusses the attack on Gaza and the denial of justice to Palestinians. He warns against the threat of a new world war growing by the day.
  1367. Breaking the Left's Gay Taboo
    First Published: 2019
    A review of Allen Young's "Left, Gay and Green: a Writer's Life" that includes much historical context and the reviewer's personal history.
  1368. Breaking the Media Blackout in Western Sahara
    First Published: 2015
    Zurutuza describes how the Moroccan authorities repress journalists and media coverage of occupied Western Sahara.
  1369. Breaking the silence -- only in the Letters’ page
    First Published: 2015
    Time to break silence on Gaza assault. So writes Dr.Miriam Garfinkle in Sunday’s Star. Both the Star and the Globe did not mention the story of the Israeli Defense Force's carte blanche to basically shoot anything that moves and they did.The rules of engagement seemed to be non-existent -- 500 children massacred to begin with
  1370. Breaking the Silence: Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians in Gaza
    First Published: 2015
    Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summer’s attack on Gaza, saying it led to "immense and unprecedented harm to the civilian population and infrastructures in the Gaza Strip."
  1371. Breaking the Silence: Inside the Israeli Right's Campaign to Silence an anti-Occupation Group
    First Published: 2019
    Breaking the Silence, an Israeli anti-occupation group that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers operating in Palestinian territories has been targeted by moles and other attacks.
  1372. Breaking the Spell of Stupid Opinions
    First Published: 2006
    When someone is outside the hold of a stupid opinion, its inanity is so apparent that one wonders how it could ever be held by anyone. But when people are caught believing something that isn't reality-based, most believe it far more rigidly than they believe facts.
  1373. Breaking windows is not a revolutionary act
    First Published: 2010
    Black Bloc vandalism in the middle of a big protest is not only a diversion from the issues but puts everyone into unneccessary jeopardy without their consent.
  1374. Breaking Yugoslavia: How the US Used NATO as Its Battering Ram
    First Published: 2016
    The United States used NATO to break up the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  1375. Brecht, Bertolt
    Connexipedia Article
    German poet, playwright, theatre director, and radical. (1898-1956).
  1376. Breedlove Network Sought Weapons Deliveries for Ukraine
    First Published: 2016
    Working with dubious sourcing, a group close to NATO's chief military commander Philip Breedlove sought to secure weapons deliveries for Ukraine, a trove of newly released emails revealed. The efforts served to intensify the conflict between the West and Russia.
  1377. Brendel, Cajo - Writings - Index
    Writings of Cajo Brendel (1915-2007).
  1378. Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and the End of Legal Neutrality
    First Published: 2018
    The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings destroyed any surviving myth of legal neutrality. Shultz explains why this may be a good thing, because it is time to recognize that the Supreme Court and its Justices are not politically neutral and that neither should they be.
  1379. Brexit and the Diseased Liberal Mind 
    First Published: 2016
    The enraged liberal reaction to the Brexit vote is in full flood. The anger is pathological -- and helps to shed light on why a majority of Britons voted for leaving the European Union, just as earlier a majority of Labour party members voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader.
  1380. Brexit Divides the British Left
    First Published: 2019
    Short commentary on three leftist perspectives on Brexit. The articles discussed are linked in the main piece.
  1381. Brexit: the English and Welsh Enlightenment
    First Published: 2016
    By voting for Brexit the English and Welsh have switched on the light. And, as usual, when the light suddenly conquers the dark the cracks become obvious and the cockroaches scatter. It’s a beautiful sight. The speculators and the hoarders are running for cover. And their liberal apologists are blinded.
  1382. Brexit: Establishment Freak Out
    First Published: 2016
    The "masters of the universe" are shocked and displeased. Increasing numbers of voters are registering their anger, most recently by voting for Brexit in Great Britain. But many who voted for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump during the recent US primary season were motivated by similar frustrations. And before that, there was Occupy Wall Street, los Indignados in Spain, Syriza in Greece, and other massive protests elsewhere in Europe as well. The reason is simple.
  1383. Brexit and the EU implosion
    First Published: 2016
    The article looks into the construction of the European Union, Britaint's Brexit choice and Germany's hegemony, particularly in the euro zone.The author talks about a range of ways that financialised monopolies of the imperalist triad (Inited States, Europe, Japan) implement to dominate over the nations of the peripheries and force developing counties into the plunder of their national resources.
  1384. Brexit Is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions
    First Published: 2016
    The decision by U.K. voters to leave the EU is such a glaring repudiation of the wisdom and relevance of elite political and media institutions that -- for once- their failures have become a prominent part of the storyline.
  1385. Brexit: It's Not About the EU, It's About the EZ
    First Published: 2016
    "Politics is the concentrated essence of economic forces in motion."
    Forget the politics of the June 23 Brexit referendum for a minute. Let's take a look at the money.
  1386. Brexit and the new hostility to participatory democracy
    First Published: 2016
    The reaction to Brexit illustrates the desperate need for the Left to return to first principles. For, as the result broke on social media, a remarkable number of progressives directed their anger not at anti-immigrant demagogues and opportunist politicians but against the voters themselves and the very idea of a referendum in which they might express their will. It's merely the most recent illustration of a growing estrangement from democracy, not only on the mainstream Right but also on the Left.
  1387. Brexit: the British Working Class has Just Yawned Awake
    First Published: 2016
    The referendum has engaged all kinds of people who were politically indifferent 6 months ago.
  1388. Brick Lane 1978
    The Events and Their Significance
    First Published: 1978
    Booklet about the events in Brick Lane, in London's East End, in 1978, where Bengali youths and anti-racists clashed with the National Front, amid a surge in racist violence.
  1389. Brickworks
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Beginning in the 1840s brick works operations began to locate near the Don River to take advantage of the large clay deposits and water power, as well as easy access to the growing city.
  1390. BRICS [Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa] and the tendency to sub-imperialism
    First Published: 2014
    Despite their anti-imperialist potential, BRICS states have promoted neo-liberal and imperialist practices that facilitate capital accumulation, resource extraction and expansion of their markets. But growing popular unrest against exploitation, ecological destruction and neoliberalism in the BRICS countries may lead to a different, anti-imperialist, course.
  1391. Bridges, Harry
    Connexipedia Article
    Australian-American union leader in the ILWU, a longshore (dock) and warehouse workers' union on the West Coast, Hawai'i and Alaska. (1901-1990).
  1392. A brief dictionary to help understand the US far right
    First Published: 2017
    A break down of some of the most important phrases, terms and numerology that are used by the far right online.
  1393. A Brief for Equality
    First Published: 2015
    If it is believed that equality reflects and affirms what we most value in human social life, then the only politically coherent stance is to insist on it as a goal to aim for. This article takes a look at why equality is more desirable than inequality.
  1394. Brief for Presentation to the Standing Committee on Labour, Manpower, and Immigration on Bill C27
    Proposed Amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Act.
    First Published: 1977
    This is a brief that brings to the attention of the Standing Committee certain inequities in the current system which have been ignored in the proposed amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Act (Bill C-7).
  1395. A Brief History of American Torture
    First Published: 2018
    The recent appointment of Gina Haspel as Head of the CIA reopens a dark chapter in US history -- the "enhanced interrogation", or torture of men, women and children. It also emphasizes the fact that no American officials who sanctioned, devised, supervised or implemented torture have ever been brought to justice for these crimes against humanity.
  1396. A Brief History of Connexions
  1397. A Brief History of Loyal Opposition to War
    First Published: 2009
    As Afghanistan erupts with redoubled violence, the author recounts the clutch of soldiers who have refused to serve or repented their service in every American war since the War of 1812.
  1398. A Brief History of Mass Theft 
    First Published: 2017
    The process by which communal land and resources are appropriated by private wealth (or capital), and people are robbed of their self-sufficiency and thereby forced into a position where they have to sell their labour in order to survive, is called Primitive Accumulation. Today we might call this Privatisation, or in plain-speaking, Mass-Theft.The entire process of mass-theft took centuries to carry out in Western Europe and is often difficult to grasp in its entirety.
  1399. A Brief History of Superpowers
    The Neck Irons of Empire
    First Published: 2012
    From the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 to the “Allies” invasion of Russia in 1918 to the formation of what became the European Union in the 1950s, the great powers of Europe and the world have gotten together in grand meeting halls and on the field of battle to set the ground rules for imperialist exploitation of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, to Christianize and ‘civilize’, to remake the maps, and to suppress revolutions and other threats to great-power hegemony.
  1400. A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
    First Published: 2019
    An overview of ethnic cleansing and civilian concentration camps in the US starting with the Trail of Tears.
  1401. A Brief Look at Public Alternative Schools in Ontario
    First Published: 1978
  1402. A Brief on Energy Policy
    First Published: 1977
    This brief outlines the relationship of urban development to energy, a "development" based on planned obsolescence, waste and over-consumption in Montreal.
  1403. A Brief on the Effects of Inflation on Welfare Recipients
    Presented to P.E.I. Cabinet Ministers
    First Published: 1976
    An exploration of the situation of those of Prince Edward Island most harshly affected by the effects of inflation and legislation governing wage and price controls.
  1404. Brief on the Proposed Borrowers and Depositors Protection Act
    First Published: 1977
  1405. Brief on the Proposed Resolution for a Joint Address to Her Majesty the Queen
    respecting the Constitution of Canada
    First Published: 1980
    The National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) presented a brief to the Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada on Thursday, December 18, 1980. This brief was presented jointly with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIACP).
  1406. Brief Outline of the Labrador Inuit Association
    President's Report for the 1979 Annual General Meeting
    These documents outline the historical background, objectives and current activities for the Labrador Inuit Association (L.I.A.). Membership is open to the Inuit of Labrador, and to other native Settlers whose people have been in that area for hundreds of years.
  1407. Brief Presented to the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
    First Published: 1978
  1408. A Brief Presented to the Commission of Inquiry on Redundancies and Lay-Offs
    First Published: 1978
    A brief regarding management's power to lay off employees with little warning.
  1409. A Brief presented to the People and Parliament of Canadian Trade and Tariffs Committee
    on the Occassion of Multilateral Trade Negotiations under the Auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
    First Published: 1977
  1410. The brief summer of anarchy: the life and death of Durruti
    First Published: 2016
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s non-fiction "adventure novel" about Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish anarchist movement (ca. 1917-1937), first published in Germany in 1972, consisting of a more or less chronological “collage” of "translated, abridged and rearranged" excerpts from "reports and speeches, interviews and proclamations … letters, travel narratives, anecdotes, pamphlets, polemics, newspaper articles, autobiographical texts, flyers and propaganda leaflets" (including extensive selections from the eyewitness accounts of Simone Weil, Ilya Ehrenburg, H. E. Kaminski, Mikhail Koltsov, Ricardo Sanz and Jesús Arnal Pena), punctuated by the author's "Commentaries".
  1411. Brief Theory of the Present Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    This article is a summary and development of the argument that I have been writing in the journal Critique, both in the Critique Notes and a number of articles. I have left out two issues discussed in Critique, that of the case against the falling rate of profit as the only or fundamental cause and why the ruling class has opted for austerity.
  1412. Brief to Federal Cabinet
    First Published: 1978
  1413. Brief to NDP Caucus
    First Published: 1976
    Critique of the amendments to the Landlord and Tenants Act and recommendations for modifications to present legislation.
  1414. A Brief to the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry.
    First Published: 1977
    This past summer the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry (The Lysyk Inquiry) was established by the federal government to prepare a preliminary report outlining the terms and conditions to be considered in the event of pipeline development in the Yukon.
  1415. Brief to the Board of Directors, The Wellesley Hospital.
    First Published: 1977
    This brief was prepared for the board of directors of Wellesley Hospital by a group of concerned people who are upset at many of the present practices in the emergency ward of this hospital. The group is made up of residents, health professionals, and community workers in the Don District.
  1416. Brief to the National Assembly Committee on Natural Resources at Hearings on Energy Policy.
    First Published: 1977
    A breif about the current state of energy conservation, nuclear power, and the like.
  1417. Brief to the National Unity Task Force
    First Published: 1978
  1418. Brief to the Renewable Resources Committee, the Select Committee of the New Brunswick Legislature.
    First Published: 1981
    The New Brunswick Federation of Wood Producers' Brief to the Renewable Resources Committee is aimed at protecting the future existence of New Brunswick's forests.
  1419. Brief to the Select Committee on Renewable Resources, New Brunswick Legislature
    First Published: 1978
  1420. Brief to the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self-Government
    First Published: 1983
  1421. Briefs to the People's Commission on Unemployment
    First Published: 1978
    This brief discusses the consequences and the questions which arise when a foreign based multinational company decided to close down its operation either because the resource is depleted or the company decided that it is no longer economically profitable to its shareholders to continue its operation.
  1422. Bring In The Paper, Bring On The Torches
    First Published: 2010
    The ideologists of capitalism are paid handsomely to proclaim the rationality of the free market system, where all men are recreated equal by their commodities as buyers and sellers. Finance capital, however, recreates itself in the irrationality of the markets, in the divergence between prices; in the disparity between particular prices and particular values.
  1423. Bring it Home
    First Published: 1976
    A pamphlet about the needs of grass roots, people-oriented health programs and awareness.
  1424. Bring on Solutionary Rail!
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Solutionary Rail, a people-powered campaign to electrify America's railroads and open corridors to clean and renewable energy.
  1425. Bring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump - Sanders Election
    First Published: 2016
    There is every reason to think that electoral "politics" in the United States (and most places) is bullshit. For people who yearn for a very different world to get involved in this "process" -- which is almost entirely scripted by people who absolutely do not yearn for a very different world -- is a big waste of energy and commitment. The arguments here are addressed to the yearners, who I will call "radicals" -- people who recognize that the only real solution to the many problems facing humanity today is a qualitative, even epoch-making, change. When I say "we," I mean those of us who yearn for and work for such a change.
  1426. Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in Colombia
    Bringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country
    First Published: 2014
    A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
  1427. Bringing Diversity Home
    Lakey, George
    First Published: 1995
    Diversity provides an opportunity for activist organizations to strengthen themselves. A lot depends on how it's done.
  1428. Bringing the Battlefield to the Border
    The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona
    First Published: 2012
    The U.S.-Mexican border has not only become Ground Zero for every experiment in immigration enforcement and drug interdiction, but also the incubator, testing site, showcase, and staging ground for ever newer versions of border-enforcement technology that, sooner or later, are sure to be applied globally.
  1429. Bringing the Israeli model to Kashmir
    First Published: 2020
  1430. Brinton, Maurice
    Connexipedia Article
    Libertarian socialist writer and neurologist. (1923-2005).
  1431. Brinton, Maurier - Writings - Index
    Writings of Maurice Brinton (1923-2005).
  1432. Brisbane general strike of 1912
    Connexipedia Article
    The 1912 Brisbane General Strike in Queensland, Australia, began when members of the Australian Tramway Employees Association were dismissed when they wore union badges to work.
  1433. Britain, Europe and the Real Crisis
    First Published: 2016
    The decision by British voters last week to leave the European Union has brutally exposed two features of contemporary British politics. The first is the depth of popular disaffection with mainstream political institutions. The second is the paralysis of the political class in the face of this disaffection.

    The Brexit victory was buttressed by a coalition of disparate social groups. Traditional Conservative supporters in the shires and the suburbs have long been suspicious of the European project. Few were surprised that they voted in large numbers against EU membership. What shocked many politicians and pundits about the referendum result was the extent of hostility in traditional Labour Party heartlands, in the North of England, in the Midlands and in the Welsh valleys.
  1434. Britain is a Parasite on Other Countries
    First Published: 2021
    Britain deliberately trains far fewer doctors and nurses than it needs. It makes up the difference by recruiting great numbers of trained medical staff from impoverished countries where they are already in critically short supply.
  1435. Britain - Its contribution to Socialism, Marxism and Workers' Organisation
    Links to writings from the history of the British Isles, relevant to the development of socialist ideas and Marxism.
  1436. Britain Refuses to Accept How Terrorists Really Work
    First Published: 2017
    Self-interest is motive for the British government's portrayal of terrorism as essentially home-grown cancers within the Muslim community.
  1437. Britain's Chief Rabbi is Helping to Stoke antisemitism
    First Published: 2019
    Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December 12, 2019 election campaign by suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn -- against all evidence -- is an antisemite.
  1438. Britain's Own Pravda-Style Propaganda
    Ten Years Of 'Involvement' In Afghanistan
    First Published: 2011
    Imagine Britain had been invaded and occupied by armed forces from another region of the world with China, for example, as a significant ‘partner’ in the ‘coalition’. Imagine tens of thousands of Britons had been killed, and millions had fled as refugees. This is how the Chinese state broadcaster might report the invasion ten years hence:
    'It’s ten years this week since Chinese forces first became involved in Britain, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for south-east England. So what's been achieved in that time?'
    These were the actual words that presenter Fiona Bruce used on the flagship BBC News at Ten:
    'It’s ten years this week since British forces first became involved in Afghanistan, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for Helmand province. So what's been achieved in that time?'
  1439. Britain's Real Terror Apologists
    First Published: 2017
    Despite a smear campaign to denigrate Britain's Labour leader as soft on terror, Jeremy Corbyn pulled of a remarkable achievement in the general election.
  1440. Britain's Witchfinders are Ready to Burn Jeremy Corbyn
    First Published: 2019
    The suspension of MP Chris Williamson for alleged anti-semitism is part of a smear campaign against Corbyn. It is also a by-product of all criticism of Israel being labelled anti-semitism.
  1441. The British Camps
    Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
    First Published: 2017
    Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.
  1442. The British Columbia Family Relations Act: The Complete Laywoman's Guide (1980).
    First Published: 1981
    Jillian Ridington and Ruth Busch have put together a laywoman's guide to the new Family Relations Act of British Columbia.
  1443. British Columbia Woodworkers' Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    15 May - 20 June 1946. Twenty-seven thousand workers in both the coast and interior regions, led by district president Harold Pritchett, struck when demands for a 25-cent hourly increase, a 40-hour week, union shop and mandatory dues check-off were refused by Stuart Research Service, the bargaining agent for 145 coast operators.
  1444. British Government-Funded Outlet Offered Journalist $17,000 a Month to Produce Propaganda for Syrian Rebels
    First Published: 2016
    The Revolutionary Forces of Syria media office, a major Syrian opposition media outfit and frequent source of information for Western media, is funded by the British government as a propaganda outlet.
  1445. British Labour Today
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    The glory days of the British Labour Party are long behind it. Labour won the 1945 General Election and used the next six years in office to nationalize the Bank of England, the railway network, electricity, the steel industry and road transport.
  1446. British MPs won't get to see 'WitchHunt' in the House of Commons - the very place it needs to be shown
    First Published: 2019
    A screening of a documentary - made by Jewish Labour party members - about charges of anti-semitism in the British Labour Party has been cancelled.
  1447. British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
    First Published: 2023
    British 'counter-terror' police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival at London's Luton airport and subjected him to an extended interrogation about his political views and reporting for The Grayzone.
  1448. British Policy in Palestine
    First Published: 1938
    The three principal factors in the political arena in Palestine 1in 1938 are British imperialism, the Arab nationalist movement under its present leadership and the Zionist movement.
  1449. The British Rule in India
    First Published: 1853
    England has broken down the entire framework of Indian society, without any symptoms of reconstitution yet appearing. This loss of his old world, with no gain of a new one, imparts a particular kind of melancholy to the present misery of the Hindoo, and separates Hindostan, ruled by Britain, from all its ancient traditions, and from the whole of its past history.
  1450. British study has the goods on corporate execs
    First Published: 2011
    A study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law tested 39 senior managers and chief executives from leading businesses and compared the results with the same tests on patients at Broadmoor hospital, where people who have been convicted of serious crimes are incarcerated. On certain indicators of psychopathy, the bosses' scores either matched or exceeded those of the patients; in fact, on these criteria, they beat even the subset of patients who had been diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorders.
  1451. The British Warrior Who 'Matured with Age'
    A Kuffiya for Tony Benn
    First Published: 2014
    Long before the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign inched slowly from the fringes of global solidarity with Palestinians to take center stage, Tony Benn had been advocating a boycott of Israel with unrestricted conviction, for years.
  1452. British 'Watchdog' Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State
    First Published: 2022
    The cases of Carol Cadwalladr and Paul Mason reveal how readily celebrated media figures are recruited to the intelligence services’ covert information war against other journalists.
  1453. Broadband monopolies to censor Internet content
    Behind the FCC plan to abolish net neutrality
    First Published: 2017
    The recently released plan by the American Federal Communications Commission to abolish net neutrality has evoked mass opposition across the US and around the world.
  1454. Broadcast Licenses for Religious Groups
    First Published: 1999
    Religious freedom does not imply the right of any group to use the public airwaves to promulgate their own religious views while excluding all conflicting points of view.
  1455. Broadside: A Feminist Review
    First Published: 2012
    A history of the groundbreaking Canadian feminist newspaper published between 1979 and 1989. Searchable copies of all issues are available at the web address.
  1456. Broadside goes under
    First Published: 1989
  1457. Broiler chickens: The defining species of the Anthropocene?
    First Published: 2019
    Broiler chickens may be distinct and ubiquitous enough as a human-modified species that their fossil record could justify calling our era the Anthropocene.
  1458. Broken Homes
    First Published: 2017
    In East Jerusalem, home to 300,000 Palestinians, Israel has been using home demolition as a tool to control the population. Following what some have described as a "third Intifada" in 2015, Al Jazeera started monitoring the policy of home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and how it was being enforced -- 2016 was documented to be a record year. Al Jazeera presents an extensive month by month report with graphs, video and photographs.
  1459. Broken Spirit
    First Published: 1978
  1460. Brooklyn Report
    First Published: 2014
    Tonight, December 8, Lebron James came through on his promise to wear an "I Can’t Breathe" T-shirt during the warm-ups before the Cavaliers game with the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn.
  1461. Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism
    First Published: 2010
    An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned.
  1462. Broué, Pierre - Writings - Index
    Writings of Pierre Broué (1926 – 2005).
  1463. Brown, John
    Connexipedia Article
    American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).
  1464. John Brown Archive - Index
    Writings of John Brown (1800-1859).
  1465. The Brown Revolution in Ukraine
    The Spectacle in Kiev
    First Published: 2014
    Kiev is now patrolled by armed thugs from the Western Ukraine, by fighters from the neo-Nazi -Right Sector, descendants of Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian Quisling’s troopers, and by their local comrades-in-arms of nationalist persuasion.
  1466. Brown, Rosemary
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian politician, prominent member of the New Democratic Party. (1930-2003).
  1467. Bruce, Lenny
    Connexipedia Article
    American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. (1925-1966).
  1468. Bruderhof Communities
    Connexipedia Article
    Christian religious communities with branches in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania in the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia.
  1469. The Brussels lobbyists
    Major firms seek to influence EU laws for thire own advantage long before they reach the European Parlament
    First Published: 2015
    A look at the lobbyists who target the bureaucrats who control research budgets and make decisions for the EU's technical agencies.
  1470. Brussels 'Revolving Door' Keeps Relationship Cozy Between Big Energy and EU Decision Makers
    First Published: 2015
    The Brussels 'revolving door' has allowed Big Energy to remain close to European climate and energy decision makers ahead of December's Paris COP21 climate talks, a new report shows.
  1471. "Brutal and Sadistic": Noam Chomsky on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today's Refugee Crisis
    First Published: 2018
    An interview with Noam Chomsky on the refugee crisis and the Trump administration's family separation policy. The article includes a link to the video interview.
  1472. Brutal, opaque, illegal: the dark side of the Tres Santos 'mindfulness' eco-tourism resort
    First Published: 2016
    A small fishing community in Mexico's Baja California is playing involuntary host to a gigantic tourism and real estate development. And while the branding of the Tres Santos resort is all about mindfulness, ecology and sustainability, the reality is one of big money, high level politics, and the unaccountable deployment of state violence against those who dare oppose it.
  1473. The Brutal Tragedy at Marikana
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    The following statement, “A Brutal Tragedy that Never Should Have Happened,” was issued by the editors of Amandla! immediately following the August 16 shooting of striking miners.
  1474. Dennis Brutus: Honored by the Enemies He Kept
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    So much has been said about the loving and nurturing characteristics of Dennis Brutus and his political and literary contributions. Those who knew him understood how much he wanted to encourage future generations of radicals and poets.
  1475. Bryant, Louise
    Connexipedia Article
    American journalist and writer best known for her Marxist and anarchist beliefs and her essays on radical political and feminist themes. (1885-1936).
  1476. Bryant, Louise - Writings - Index
    Writings of Louise Bryant (1885-1936).
  1477. Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
    First Published: 2020
    To date, cotton is the only officially sanctioned GM crop in India. Those pushing for GM food crops (including the government) are forwarding the narrative that GM pest resistant Bt cotton has been a tremendous success which should now be emulated with the introduction of GM mustard. Ever since its commercialisation in 2002, however, the issue of Bt cotton in India has been a hotly contested issue. Bt cotton hybrids now cover over 95% of the area under cotton and the seeds are produced by the private sector. But critics argue that Bt cotton has negatively impacted livelihoods and fuelled agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
  1478. Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist 
    First Published: 2015
    Spouting ostensible free market ideology, the pro-creditor mainstream rejects what the classical economic reformers actually wrote. One is left to choose between central planning by a public bureaucracy, or even more centralized planning by Wall Street’s financial bureaucracy. The middle ground of a mixed public/private economy has been all but forgotten, denounced as "socialism." Yet every successful economy in history has been a mixed economy.
  1479. Buber, Martin
    Connexipedia Article
    Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship. (1878-1965).
  1480. Bucharest's housing crisis: post-Communist restitution victimises Roma
    First Published: 2016
    Twenty-five Roma families were evicted from an apartment block in Vulturilor Street, Bucharest, in 2014, turned out of homes they had rented from the state for nearly 20 years. The entrance to their alleyway was sealed off with a metal sheet.
  1481. Buck, Tim
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Machinist, trade unionists, and a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada. (1891-1973).
  1482. The Buckeye Socialist Alternative
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    The Dna La Botz Socialist for Senate campaign in Ohio represents an important success in the recent context of leftist third party initiatives. Running the first Socialist Party campaign for national office in Ohio since 1936, La Botz garnered 25,368 votes statewide, one of the more successful socialist electoral bids in decades. This experience provides some important lessons for how the left can engage the electoral arena in this period.
  1483. Budai Nagy Antal Revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    Transylvanian peasant revolt, of 1437, which was the only significant popular revolt in the Kingdom of Hungary prior to the great peasant war of 1514.
  1484. Buddhist Pogropms and Religious Conflicts
    First Published: 2013
    Most observers would, rightly, reject the idea that there is something inherent in Buddhism that has led to the violence. Rather, most would recognize that the anti-Muslim violence in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka has its roots in the political struggles that have engulfed the two nations. The importance of Buddhism in the conflicts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka is not that the tenets of faith are responsible for the pogroms, but that those bent on confrontation have adopted the garb of religion as a means of gaining a constituency and justifying their actions.
  1485. The Budget/Deficit Deal
    First Published: 2013
    Some serious ruling class intervention finally presented John Boehner an instruction he couldn't refuse: Get the Harry Reid-Mitch McConnell Senate deal to the House floor for a straight vote to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
  1486. Budget hits veterans
    First Published: 1990
  1487. Budget spares banks
    First Published: 1989
  1488. Budget Woes, Class Wars
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    The full frontal assault on public workers and their unions in one state after another — stripping collective bargaining rights and dues checkoff, slashing wages and pensions and health benefits, abolishing seniority and tenure for teachers, mandating yearly decertification votes, threatening jail terms for strikers — is as massive and instantaneous as it was unexpected by the labor bureaucracy and many union members. To say “the class war is back” is an understatement. It’s an authentic firestorm sucking the oxygen from labor rights, from Wisconsin to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and other states.
  1489. Budiardjo, Carmel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    British human rights activist, founder of the organisation Tapol and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award.
  1490. Buffalo switchmen's strike
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike in August 1892 by railroad workers employed by three railroads in Buffalo, New York.
  1491. Bug spotting: Germans hold 'nature walks' to observe rare NSA spy
    First Published: 2014
    'Nature' walks leading protests against digital surveillance.
  1492. Building a progressive majority
    Left strategy after the Brexit vote
    First Published: 2016
    After the EU referendum we are seeing both horror at anti-migrant sentiment and pandering to it -- but only a radical economic offer can carve a way through.
  1493. Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
    First Published: 2006
    The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
  1494. Building Bridges to Central America
    First Published: 1989
  1495. Building Economic Alternatives
    First Published: 1992
    Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
  1496. Building people power in Toronto: Next Steps
    A discussion document on strategy for advancing the organization of people's struggles in Toronto
    First Published: 2014
    BASICS was launched in 2006 to serve the immediate purpose of building a fight against gentrification in Lawrence Heights. As our paper’s readership grew in this and other communities, our membership did as well, ultimately extending our organization’s coverage and connection to many more issues facing the most exploited, precarious, and brutalized sections of the working class in Toronto.
  1497. Building resistance to Canada's destructive mining industry
    Review of Joan Kuyek's book Unearthing Justice
    First Published: 2019
    In her book Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry, long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations.
  1498. Building the Ark - small scale farming in Poland for a green future
    First Published: 2015
    Poland is the front line for Europe's small scale family farming, under assault from the EU regulations, corporate agribusiness, and a hostile government. A popular campaign is fighting back from its base deep in the Polish countryside, a small organic farm that's developing new green technologies to enhance the sustainability of small farms everywhere.
  1499. Bukharin, Nikolai
    Connexipedia Article
    Marxist theoretician, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. (1888-1938).
  1500. Bukharin, Nikolai
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Marxist theoretician, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. (1888-1938).
  1501. Nikolai Bukharin Archive - index
    Writings of Nikolai Bukharin
  1502. Bukharin, Bunting and the 'Native Republic Slogan'
    First Published: 1989
  1503. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
    Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About
    First Published: 1995
    An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
  1504. Bulgarian fascists run nightly patrols targeting immigrants
    First Published: 2013
    In the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, groups of fascists in paramilitary uniforms are conducting what they describe as ‘civil patrols’. The purpose of the patrols is to stop people in the street and then demand to see their identification or immigration documentation.
  1505. Buller, Annie
    Connexipedia Article
    Union organizer and manager of various Communist Party of Canada (CPC) publications. (1895-1973).
  1506. Bullied BBC? Alternative media returns fire on claims it's waging 'war' on the corporation
    First Published: 2017
    Alternative media accused of waging "guerilla warfare" against the BBC by its former political editor Nick Robinson say they are just providing balance to the 'biased' government-funded corporation.
  1507. The Bund (General Jewish Labour Bund)
    Connexipedia Article
    A secular Jewish socialist party in Central and Eastern Europe operating predominantly between the 1890s and the 1930s.
  1508. Bunkhouse Men
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    The term "bunkhouse men" is typically applied to some 50 000 workers who constituted a labour pool for the booming Canadian economy in the first 3 decades of the 20th century. They lived in frontier work camps and provided unskilled labour in logging, harvesting, mining and construction. Mainly single and "foreign," they experienced brutal exploitation.
  1509. Burdened with Debt Reloaded: The Politics ofr Devaluation
    First Published: 2012
    A series of defensive and sectional struggles at workplaces in the private sector reveal that the Greek industrial capital has already taken advantage of the new institutional framework of the “state of emergency” now ruling in Greece to prop up its profitability or just transfer its own debts and losses onto the workers.
  1510. The bureaucracy remains
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The government may change, but the bureaucracy remains, continuing the same short-sighted policies.
  1511. Bureaucratic mass strikes: A response to Mark O'Brien
    First Published: 2015
    The mass strike of 30 November 2011 (N30) was the broadest and biggest ever British public sector strike and involved the largest number of women workers in any British strike. Dave Lyddon comments.
  1512. Burkina Faso: climate change, land grabs, and revolution
    First Published: 2014
    The economic tensions between local producers and international powers that have contributed to the revolutionary dissatisfaction with the establishment in Burkina Faso can be found in virtually any country subject to the harsh and cruel conditions of the global land grab and the crisis of climate change.
  1513. Burmese media combating censorship
    First Published: 2010
  1514. The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers
    Book Review
    First Published: 2017
    A review of the book, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers" by Joseph Hickman.
  1515. "Burn the Haystack!"
    First Published: 1996
    This war is part of (the Israeli government's) plans to achieve total control over the Palestinian people -- plans which will inevitably lead to both peoples, Palestinians and Israelis alike, paying a terrible price in blood.
  1516. Burnaby Mountain battle: our notes from the courts, the woods and 100 arrests
    First Published: 2014
    History unfolded on Burnaby Mountain. This is the Vancouver Observer's account of what we saw.
  1517. Burning History in San Salvador
    Destruction of Historical and Human Rights Archives
    First Published: 2013
    On Thursday, Nov. 14, three armed men broke into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda. The attack on Pro-Búsqueda was not a random crime. We should be worried about what is happening in El Salvador.
  1518. The Burning of Highlander Center: a Fascist-like Attack
    First Published: 2019
    The Highlander Research and Education Center was burned to the ground in New Market, Tennessee in an act of arson by the white power movement.
  1519. Burning Truth
    Invisible Truth
    First Published: 2011
    Make no mistake about this: Hoang Hung was killed as a warning to other journalists. Make too much noise and you will be roasted alive like this man.
  1520. Burning Victims to Death: Still a Common Practice
    First Published: 2015
    The latest ISIS atrocity - releasing a video of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive - prompted substantial discussion yesterday about this particular form of savagery. It is thus worth noting that deliberately burning people to death is achievable - and deliberately achieved - in all sorts of other ways.
  1521. Margaret Burroughs
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    Margaret Burroughs, longtime Chicago artist and activist, died on November 21, 2010 at age 93. Producing poetry, block prints, paintings, sculptures, and participating in theater, she was a modern day renaissance woman. She leaves behind two major institutions — the Du Sable Museum and the South Side Community Art Center — that are her legacy to a life dedicated to promoting African-American art and culture.
  1522. Bury the Seventies and the Eighties
  1523. Burying the White Working Class 
    First Published: 2016
    Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda. The white working class is a zombie that doesn't know it's dead. Or if it's not fully zombified yet, its members are all too busy cleaning their AR-15s and posting racist comments on YouTube to vote for a progressive. That is, if they're not already on the Trump bandwagon, which they probably are. At least that's what the Democratic Party wants you to believe.
  1524. Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War
    First Published: 2002
    The perversity of Bush's agenda.
  1525. Bush-Gore 2000: No Thanks!
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    The Republican presidential candidate strongly advocates the Effective Death Penalty Act, the World Trade Organization and "free trade" with China; talks environmental protection while being heavily funded by Occidental Petroleum; supports deportations of non-citizens suspected of "terrorist links" based on secret evidence which the accused cannot hear or refute; and openly pandered to the right-wing lobby in Miami in the Elian Gonzalez affair.
  1526. Bush, the Democrats & the Greens After 2004
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    One peculiar event around the 2004 elections received almost no analysis or discussion: The overwhelming majority of the supporters of John Kerry disagreed with their candidate on most major issues. This simple fact tells how deep the corruption of the American political system has become.
  1527. Bush to New Orleans Survivors: "You're On Your Own"
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    Like everyone who "got out" before Katrina hit, my exit was a private one. My partner and I took heed of the voluntary evacuation because we had the means to do so. We packed three changes of clothes and our passports, got in our trusty 1998 Ford Escort station wagon with some friends, and left our green-shuttered 100-year-old Victorian shotgun house in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
  1528. Bush's bankrupt vision
    First Published: 2008
    Looking at the stops during Bush's visit to the Middle East, Chomsky offers an explanation of the ambitions Bush aimed to establish as his legacy; namely, good relations with those regions rich in resources, especially Saudi Arabia and Israel.
  1529. Bush's leadership praised
    First Published: 1992
  1530. Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
    The GEO Group Cashes In
    First Published: 2012
    Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut) is hardly a household name, they are a major player in the private corrections sector, combining a self righteous amorality in profiting from human misery with a ruthless sense of just how to make a buck in this business.
  1531. Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
    First Published: 2013
    National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of the region.
  1532. The Business of Bullshit 
    First Published: 2018
    Bullshit business is about the meaningless language conjured up in schools, in banks, in consultancy firms, in politics, in the media and, of course, in thousands of business schools releasing MBA-certificated managers who are then spreading the meaningless managerial buzz-word language of bullshit business around the world. Bullshit business can indeed take over organizations crowding out their core purpose – profit-maximization.
  1533. But What About Hamas's Rockets?
    First Published: 2021
    We must be clear: What started this immediate horror was the intensification of Israel’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
  1534. The Butterfly and the Boiling Point
    Charting the Wild Winds of Change in 2011
    First Published: 2011
    Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
  1535. The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations
    First Published: 2018
    North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.
  1536. Buy Banned Books
    First Published: 2018
    The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
  1537. The Buzz Hargrove election controversy
    First Published: 2005
    We aren't obligated to vote NDP no matter what the circumstances.
  1538. By Any Means Necessary
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Dave Hann's book Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-fascism (Zero, 2013).
  1539. Bypassing Dystopia
    Hope-Filled Challenges to Corporate Rule
    First Published: 2018
    Joyce Nelson explores global examples of active and creative resistance to the iron grip of corporatism on our economies and imaginations.
  1540. C.L.R. James's "Critical Support" of Fidel Castro's Cuba
    First Published: 2016
    C.L.R. James's "critical support" of Fidel Castro’s Cuba is little understood among scholars of his life and work. This essay explores James’s 1967–1968 visit to Cuba and reconstructs private debates and discussion on Cuba within his revolutionary organizations, based in Detroit, in the 1950s and 1960s, and among anti-imperialist movements. Many of James's commentaries and disputes were consistent with his attempts to reconcile anti-colonialism with direct democracy and workers self-management.
  1541. Cabbagetown: A Working Class District
    Hugh Garner's novel revisited
    First Published: 1971
  1542. Cabet, Étienne
    Connexipedia Article
    French philosopher and utopian socialist. He was the founder of the Icarian movement and led a group of emigrants to found a new society in the United States. (1788-1856).
  1543. Cabral, Amílcar (Abel Djassi)
    Connexipedia Article
    African agronomic engineer, writer, Marxist and nationalist guerrilla and politician. (1924-1973).
  1544. Cade, Jack
    Connexipedia Article
    The leader of a popular revolt in the 1450 Kent rebellion. (Died 1450.)
  1545. Cajamarca - curing gold fever
    The people of Cajamarca stopped a gold mine in their water and food rich territory. But the real story is what happened next...
    First Published: 2020
    Farmers, youth and other environmental defenders from Cajamarca, deep in the embrace of the Colombian Andes Mountains, have stopped a vast gold mine, re-valued the ‘true treasures’ in their territory and begun to develop regenerative alternatives to mining 'development'.
  1546. Calary's Eastern Downtown Core:
    Social Perspectives
    First Published: 1977
    The research for this report was completed during the summer of 1975. Its purpose was to obtain an overview of the social problems in Calgary's Eastern downtown core.
  1547. California Burning, PG&E Bankrupt
    First Published: 2019
    A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.
  1548. California drought: agribusiness, fracking untouched by water rationing
    First Published: 2015
    California has responded to the drought by rationing water, with $500 fines for domestic 'water wasters'. But agribusiness and water-intensive industries like fracking remain untouched by the restrictions, even though they consume over 90% of the state's water.
  1549. California Drought and Global Warming
    First Published: 2016
    Global warming is not only exacerbating the drought, it has likely transformed the ecology of the state well into the future.
  1550. California Greens Advance: The Camejo and Chretien Campaigns
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    In California the Green Party is changing both in its social composition and in its political diversity. The party's support for immigrants' rights, especially around the issue of state driver's licenses, has won the party growing support among Latinos. Leading activists such as Nativo Lopez, Chair of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), and Miguel Araujo, from Centro Azteca, have come into the Green Party.
  1551. California Home Care: Terminated!
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Question: What's the best health care plan in the U.S. Answer: Don't get sick!
  1552. California Is Not Dreaming
    First Published: 2010
    Discussion of March 4, 2010 Day of Action in California.
  1553. California Leads the Way in the "Block the Boat" Movement
    Fighting the Occupation on the West Coast
    First Published: 2014
    In organizing theory, activists often emphasize the importance of formulating what they call an "escalation plan." When pushing for social change, they explain, it is important that one's methods of exerting pressure on power slowly grow in strength, not remain stagnant. Block the Boat is the next step in the escalation plan of US Palestinian solidarity activists. The idea of Block the Boat is quite simple: Hundreds of activists organize a protest in a local dock and prevent Israeli ships from unloading cargo.
  1554. Call Center Unions Build International Connections 
    First Published: 2017
    One big issue in the three-day strike by 38,000 AT&T workers was the company's offshoring of jobs. To shine a spotlight on the issue and strengthen international solidarity, a group of union members visited the Dominican Republic a couple of weeks before the strike to meet the call center workers on the other end of that offshoring.
  1555. Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence 
    First Published: 2014
    Social unrest and famine, superstorms and droughts. Places, species and human beings – none will be spared. Welcome to Occupy Earth.
  1556. A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris?
    First Published: 2015
    For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate crisis it seems even less comprehensible. But the shocking thing about climate justice is that not only can it be calculated -- it can be achieved.
  1557. A Call For a Moratorium
    First Published: 1976
    A brief submitter to the Berger Inquiry by PROJECT NORTH.
  1558. The Call for Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment Against Israeli Apartheid
    Factsheet published in 2005 by Stop The Wall, a Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.
  1559. A Call for Radical Humanism: the Left Needs to Return to Class Analyses of Power
    First Published: 2020
    In tackling police violence and other social inequities rampant throughout the world today, we must address the underlying problems and not give overdue focus to the symptoms of the problems. For instance, we already know that class and not race is what determines who is affected most by institutional injustices, from the police murders of George Floyd to Tony Timpa to the the mass incarceration rates of the poor.
  1560. Call it as it is 
    First Published: 2012
    Now is the time to see that most of our problems are the result of the insatiable greed of the very few. And to say so, clearly and repeatedly. It’s the only way to start changing towards reality.
  1561. Call the Cops at Your Own Peril
    Bullies in Blue
    First Published: 2014
    “Live free or die” is the motto of the state of New Hampshire. I hope the residents are prepared to die, because living free is not what they do. NH is merely a cog within the Amerikan Stasi State.
  1562. A Call to Action
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Positive review - with caveats - of a book about how we can transform society.
  1563. A Call to Community
    First Published: 1969
    A proposed community.
  1564. A Call to Justice Today for Our Children Tomorrow: A Declaration
    First Published: 1979
    A Call To Justice Today For Our Children Tomorrow
  1565. A Call to the Workers of the World
    First Published: 1918
    Humanity is facing the alternative: Dissolution and downfall in capitalist anarchy, or regeneration through the social revolution.
  1566. Callenbach, Ernest
    Connexipedia Article
    American writer, known as an author of green books, namely as author of the ecological utopias Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981). (Born 1929).
  1567. Calling Assange a Narcissist Misses the Point
    First Published: 2019
    Personal attacks on Assange are used to discredit his work publicizing war crimes and the truth behind pro-war propaganda.
  1568. Calling Bono
    Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
    First Published: 2010
    Palestinians have been engaging in nonviolence for decades. The reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world.
  1569. Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the "Call-out" culture where individuals who express opinions are quickly reprimanded online with derogatory labels; a mass media social comdemnation often without any sort of due process, which ultimately spreads a fear to engage in controversy or voice opinions that are even slightly outside the tide of contemporary thinking.
  1570. Calls By Western Socialists For A Russian Retreat From Ukraine Amount To De Facto Support For NATO Aggression
    First Published: 2022
    NATO socialists dismiss or ignore altogether the concerns of Russia over the expansionism, militarism and sanctions of the NATO alliance. In reality, Russian diplomatic efforts to push back against NATO's aggression - and NATO's use of Ukraine for its aggression - have gone on for several decades.
  1571. Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
    First Published: 2006
    A call for sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.
  1572. Callwood, June
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
  1573. Callwood, June
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
  1574. "Calm Reflection" or Justice?
    First Published: 2013
    Afterthoughts on Justice and racism after the movie Fruitvale Station.
  1575. Jacques Camatte archive - index
    Writings of Jacques Camatte.
  1576. Cambodia
    First Published: 1970
    Chomsky discusses the invasion of Cambodia. He describes it in terms of the internationalization of the Vietnam war as well as explores the internal developments leading up to the event. Specifically, Chomsky focuses on the right-wing coup of Prince Sihanouk on March 18th 1970 as the turning point from neutrality to destabilization.
  1577. Cambodia: indigenous protests repel dam builders - so far
    We don't need any compensation because we are staying here on the lands of our ancestors. Our children will never forgive us if we move.
    First Published: 2014
    Since the 1980s Cambodia has lost 84% of its primary forests, and the remote Cardamom mountains are the country's last great natural treasure. Just the place for grandiose dam projects? 'No way!" say indigenous people and young eco-activists.
  1578. Cambodia: Labor and the Coup
    First Published: 1998
    IN THE FACE of a repressive and dangerous environment, workers are on the move in Cambodia. Though Americans heard little about it, the emergence of an independent labor movement was one of the most promising developments in Cambodia since the UN imposed democratic institutions “from above” on a society with no prior democratic experience.
  1579. Cambodia: local people risk everything to defend national park sold off to highest bidders
    First Published: 2015
    Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots. Now indigenous people are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Local communities are defending themselves and their land.
  1580. Camejo Peter - Writings - Index
    Writings of Peter Camejo (1939-2008).
  1581. Peter Camejo: A Red-Green Life
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    The Progressive movements lost a major advocate last September 13th when Peter Camejo died after a long battle with lymphoma at the age of 67. The broad, historical impact he had was obvious in the national media response and the hundreds of emails and blog entries following his death.
  1582. Peter Camejo at Berkeley
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    I met and worked with Peter Camejo in Berkeley during the latter half of the ’60s. He was a leader of the Socialist Workers Party and the Young Socialist Alliance there, while I was active in the Independent Socialist Clubs, which later became the International Socialists. Peter was always a hard-driving speaker who always knew what he wanted to say, and he could say it elegantly.
  1583. Camejo's Early Political Years
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    I first met Peter Camejo in 1958, when we were both students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He had joined the Young Socialist Alliance in New York, politically aligned with the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, the year before, and I was a member of the Young People’s Socialist League, politically aligned with the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation.
  1584. Camisard
    Connexipedia Article
    French Protestants (Huguenots) of the Cevennes region of south-central France who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
  1585. Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib, and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
    First Published: 2019
    Suffering caused through our wars including conditions inside US military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.
  1586. Campaign for Fair Taxes
    First Published: 1990
  1587. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
    Connexipedia Article
    An organization that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain. It also campaigns for international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
  1588. Campaign to Halt Female Genital Mutilation tops 150,000 Signatures
    First Published: 2014
    Guardian-backed campaign calls on Education Secretary Michael Gove to launch initiative to protect girls from being mutilated.
  1589. Campaigning for A Millionaires Tax
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    In February 2012, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) launched a simple, clear initiative to raise taxes on Californians with incomes greater than $1,000,000 per year. The folding of this campaign for the Millionaires Tax (MT), following a compromise with the governor, has been felt as a seismic shock for many activists in California.
  1590. Campaigning with Issues
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    An interview with Ann Menasche. Ann Menasche, who ran for Secretary of State in California on the Green Party ticket, was interviewed by Dianne Feeley for ATC. Menasche is a longtime activist and an attorney concentrating on disability rights.
  1591. Jim Campbell, Remembered
    First Published: 2009
    It is two years today since Jim Campbell died of a heart attack, bicycling in rural Ontario with his partner Julie. He was 57, and had been looking forward to retiring in a few years, to finally being able to move out of the city.
  1592. Camus in the Time of Drones
    The Long-Distance Executioners
    First Published: 2014
    What would Albert Camus, the great moralist of the 20th century and essayist on the barbarity of the death penalty, think about the latest innovation in administrative murder, Obama’s drone program, a kind of remote-control gallows?
  1593. Can a Democrat change US Middle East policy?
    First Published: 2008
    In response to the Bush Administration's open disregard for public opinion polls, Chomsky considers the likeliness of a Democrat taking a new stance on the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. He asserts that the possibility is somewhat greater - even if only marginally.
  1594. Can a Minority Overthrow the Majority?
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Feeley reviews Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.
  1595. Can a minority rule a majority in perpetuity?
    First Published: 2018
    A review of "Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?" by Josh Ruebner. Subjects include the question of one or two states, and whether Israel should be considered democratic or an apartheid state are among numerous topics addressed in the book.
  1596. Can Chicago Teachers Win Again?
    First Published: 2015
    Three years ago Chicago teachers defied the corporate-led attack on public education and went on a successful strike, widely supported by the public and parents, to support public education in all neighborhoods of the city.
  1597. Can Civilization Survive "Really Existing Capitalism"? An Interview With Noam Chomsky 
    First Published: 2014
    On the occasion of the release of his latest book, Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013, Noam Chomsky gave an exclusive and wide-ranging interview to C.J. Polychroniou.
  1598. Can Coronavirus Force Policy Types to Think Clearly About Intellectual Property?
    First Published: 2020
    While there are researchers all over the world working on developing a COVID-19 vaccine, they are to a large extent working in competition. Each team wants to be the first to develop a vaccine so that they can secure a patent and get immensely rich.
  1599. Can Free Schools Work?
    First Published: 1985
    Before starting on another round of alternative education projects, it might be helpful to try to understand why few of the last round's projects achieved long term success.
  1600. Can Journalism Schools Be Relevant In A World On The Brink?
    First Published: 2009
    The best of our students are worried not just about whether they can find a job after graduation but also whether those jobs will allow them to contribute to shaping a decent future for a world on the brink.
  1601. Can Mulcair work a miracle and gain unlikely victory?
    First Published: 2015
    The big sleeper in the campaign that could mean victory for the Conservatives depends on whether hundreds-of-thousands of people who favour the NDP or the Liberals can manage to vote. According to the Council of Canadians, the so-called Fair Elections Act makes it more difficult for at least 770,000 people to vote.
  1602. Can People Get What They Want?
    An interview with Gilbert Achcar
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with Gilbert Achcar.
  1603. Can Soldiers Resist?
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    Interviews with Tod Ensign and Phil Aliff.
  1604. Can the Egyptians Come to Canada to Liberate Us?
    First Published: 2011
    As I sat glued to Al Jazeera for two weeks watching the Egyptian revolution unfold from my home in Toronto, I must confess to having experienced feelings of jealousy. How nice it must be, I thought, to live a country where people want democracy.
  1605. Can the Left Disagree Without Being Disagreeable?
    First Published: 2022
    Addresses the lack of nuance amongst the Left and calls for more meaningful dialogue.
  1606. Can the NDP be Socialist?
    First Published: 1978
    Simon Rosenblum argues that the left should work to transform the NDP, not ignore it.
  1607. Can We Build a Progressive Future If We Dismiss a Large Part of the Working Class?
    First Published: 2020
    It is hard to imagine a stable progressive future for our country with many millions of working-class Americans mobilized in angry opposition. At best this will create a political deadlock that frustrates possibilities for the lasting and radical reforms we so desperately need.
  1608. Can We Build Socialist-Anarchist Alliances?
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    Last summer I delivered a talk on primitivist anarchism at a conference devoted to Marxist literature and culture. The participants were mostly academics engaged with Marxist criticism, and most came out of university English departments. For many in this group of self-described Marxists, my attempt at bemused critical appreciation for this admittedly problematic group of anarchists was not welcome. Anarcho-primitivists, critics insisted, are not activists, and they certainly have no place among committed Marxists. Worse, they are misanthropic, individualistic terrorists — perhaps even genocidal in their overall aims to destroy civilization.
  1609. Can we combine intersectionality with Marxism?
    First Published: 2016
    Neoliberal austerity is impacting particularly hard on women. Capitalism relies on women not just directly as workers who generate surplus value but also to provide the primary carers for the next generation of workers and increasingly for the sick and elderly as social service cuts bite. Reproductive rights face serial attacks and domestic violence and other forms of endemic sexism in capitalist society mean that the fight for women's liberation and, in the shorter term, the fight to defend those rights women have won so far from being rolled back remain key issues for socialists.
  1610. Can We Criticize Foucault?
    First Published: 2014
    Since his death in 1984, Michel Foucault's work has become a touchstone for the academic left worldwide. But in a provocative new book published in Belgium last month, a team of scholars led by sociologist Daniel Zamora raises probing questions about Foucault's relationship with the neoliberal revolution that was just getting started in his last years.
  1611. Can We Live and Eat Too?
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    In 1579, the fleet of British explorer Sir Francis Drake met the coast of what we now call California. Drake, who would dub his discovery “New Albion” (Albion being the Latin name for Britain), thought he had happened upon an island. Though the source of California’s present-day name is obscure, at least one etymological theory suggests that Drake was not alone in imagining the place as a world apart; the first literary reference to “California,” in a 1510 novel by Spanish writer García Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Esplandián, depicts an island in the Pacific inhabited by Amazonian women.
  1612. Can we shop our way to a better world?
    First Published: 2016
    In this article Umair Mohammad summarizes arguments from the introduction and first chapter of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism. Mohammad argues that lifestyle change and 'ethical consumerism' are not bridges to effective social change, but barriers to it. To build effective social movements, he says, we must begin by rejecting individualist approaches.
  1613. Can We Talk?: Censorship, Pedophilia, and Panic
    First Published: 2005
    Pederasty and pedophilia have been topics of debate in works about gay and straight history, given long-standing traditions of intergenerational sex between and among men and women. The right uses that fact to condemn all queers, particularly gay men, as predators of children.
  1614. Can You Figure Out What This Chart Means?
    First Published: 2016
    The U.S. economy is in the throes of the lousiest recovery since World War 2. The so called monetary stimulus has failed to lift the economy out of the doldrums or produce the robust recovery that they promised. Instead, US gross domestic product, (GDP) has been plodding-along at an abysmal 2.2% since 2009, which is far below the 3.6% average of the prior 60 years.
  1615. Can You Pass The US Christian Right Quiz?
    First Published: 2012
    An understanding of the Christian Right, a loose coalition of politically conservative congregations and organizations, is critical to understanding the US. This quiz seeks to explore the political influence of the Christian Right, and to highlight the threat its radical fundamentalists pose to the majority of Americans who value pluralism and tolerance.
  1616. Can You Say "Conflict of Interest"? Not at the UN
    First Published: 2017
    Exposing the ways that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) allows oil giants to shape negotiations.
  1617. Canada: Activists Face the Future
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    Electoral politics present challenging problems for labor movements all over the world. In the absence of strong working class parties, labor activists are often compelled to support parties that implement anti-worker legislation simply because they represent a lesser evil. While reforms are certainly necessary, the investment of activist energy and resources into the electoral process can often distract union and social justice organizations, preventing them from undertaking the important task of generating solidarity within more impoverished segments of the working class.
  1618. Canada Adopts America First Foreign Policy US State Dept Boasted in 2017
    First Published: 2019
    A declassified cable from the US embassy in Ottawa titled "Canada Adopts 'America First' Foreign Policy" notes that the Canadian government would be "Prioritizing U.S. Relations, ASAP."
  1619. Canada As a Conserver Society: An Agenda for Action
    First Published: 1978
  1620. Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That 'A Terrorist' Attacked Its Soldiers
    First Published: 2014
    The national mood and discourse in Canada is virtually identical to what prevails in every Western country whenever an incident like this happens: shock and bewilderment that someone would want to bring violence to such a good and innocent country, followed by claims that the incident shows how primitive and savage is the “terrorist ideology” of extremist Muslims, followed by rage and demand for still more actions of militarism and freedom-deprivation.
  1621. Canada -- Beware! Look What's Happened to Peru
    GATT-Flyer No. 3
    First Published: 1976
    Parallels are drawn between the Canadian and Peruvian Oil Industries.
  1622. Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads
    First Published: 2015
    Canada's leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users' file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents. The covert operation taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos, photographs, music, and other files.
  1623. Canada challenges bylaw
    First Published: 1990
  1624. Canada: Decoding Harper's Terror Game.
    Beneath the Masks and Diversions
    First Published: 2014
    Stephen Harper is the most deeply reviled Prime Minister in Canada’s history. On the world stage, he is the servant of Big Oil boiling oil out of tar-sands to destroy major river systems and pollute the planet with dirty oil, while his attack dog John Baird leads the warmongering and bullying of nations like Iran and Syria targeted by the US-Israeli axis.
  1625. Canada facilitated NSA spying on 2010 G8 and G20 summits
    First Published: 2013
    Top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) briefing notes leaked by the former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden reveal that Canada’s Conservative government permitted the NSA to spy on the June 2010 G8 and G20 summits held in Huntsville, Ontario and Toronto.
  1626. Canada and the Global Food System
    First Published: 1987
  1627. Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
    First Published: 2009
    Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
  1628. Canada, Left-Nationalism, and Younger Voices
    First Published: 1976
    Published in Studies in Political Economy, 33 (Autumn 1990)
  1629. The Canada Metals story: A chronology
    First Published: 1980
    The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
  1630. Canada more at risk from environmentalists than religiously inspired terrorists: RCMP
    First Published: 2014
    Recent RCMP report warns that Canada's energy sector is more at risk from domestic environmental extremists than from religiously inspired terrorist organizations like Al Qaida and ISIS.
  1631. Canada, Namibia and You
    First Published: 1976
    Pamphlet to aid letter writing campaign against S. Africa's occupation of Namibia.
  1632. Canada, Politics and Direct Action
    First Published: 1983
    Editorial regarding activities of group calling itself 'Direct Action'.
  1633. Canada Post: Profits Before People
  1634. Canada Post raises prices to North
    First Published: 1990
  1635. Canada and the Rights of the Chilean People
    First Published: 1976
    Brief presented to the Canadian Government by the Coalition on Canadian Policy Toward Chile.
  1636. Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
    Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.
    First Published: 2015
    A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
  1637. Canada and Strategic Nuclear Weapons Systems
    First Published: 1978
  1638. Canada to allow new arms sales
    First Published: 1991
    Canada is expanding its exports of arms.
  1639. Canada-U.S.-Mexico relations
    First Published: 1991
  1640. Canada's complicity with crimes against humanity in Gaza
    First Published: 2023
    Melanie Joly traveled to Israel to support its genocidal policies in Gaza. The trip will go down as one of the more shameful moments in Canada's odious anti-Palestinian history.
  1641. Canada's Creeping Police State
    Capitalist Repression and War
    First Published: 2015
    The Conservative Harper government’s Bill C-51, the "Anti-Terrorism Act 2015," is a sweeping attack on free speech and other civil liberties. The bill targets publications, web postings and even private conversations sympathetic to causes that the capitalist rulers deem to be "terrorism." It authorizes the CSIS secret police to go after any activity that "undermines the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada" or interferes with the country's "economic or financial stability." And you don't have to actually do anything; the bill provides for "preventive detention" of individuals who the police claim "may commit" an offense.
  1642. Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.
  1643. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
    First Published: 2000
    Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
  1644. Canada's Election Needs Outside Observers To Ensure Fairness: Report
    First Published: 2015
    Canada needs outside observers to monitor the federal election for fairness due to the rise of big money, nasty attack ads and new voting laws, says a report based on a survey of civil society groups.
  1645. Canada's Imperialism Without Illusions
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    Against The Current interviewed Canadian author and activist Todd Gordon on April 29, 2011, shortly before the May 2 national election in Canada. Gordon is the author of Imperialist Canada (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2010). We followed up with additional questions after the election.
  1646. Canada's Impossible Acknowledgment
    First Published: 2017
    The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report in 2015 with ninety-four calls to action, and renewed hope that the nation would finally confront its darkest history with tangible action. This article looks at why this process has yet again stalled, one which repeats the cycle of promises and yet again does not deliver.
  1647. Canada's Indians: A Powerless Minority
    First Published: 1965
    Discusses several complicated issues bringing to light the troubling relationship between the Canadian government and Native communities.
  1648. Canada's journalists cowed into silence while colleagues die in Gaza
    First Published: 2014
    Rami Rayan, a young Palestinian photojournalist, was the latest reporter to be killed. He was among at least 16 people reportedly killed after an Israeli air strike on a crowded market during a supposed four-hour "truce." The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), which claims to be "the national voice of Canadian journalists", has been noticeably silent. If you check the CAJ's website you won't find so much as a perfunctory statement denouncing the killing of their colleagues in Gaza. Instead, the top item on its website is a story written by members of the association's 'ethics' committee about that old saw: reporters getting too close to their sources.
  1649. Canada's Liberal Government Joins NATO's War Escalation
    First Published: 2016
    Canadians who hoped the October 2015 federal election would usher in changes to the aggressive, foreign policy of the defeated Conservative government are wondering what happened to their wishes. The transition in imperialist foreign policy from the Harper Conservatives to the Justin Trudeau-led Liberals has been utterly seamless, if not predictable.
  1650. Canada's Military shapes Coverage of Deployments
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the Canadian military's influence over news coverage. The article outlines the great lengths the military goes to shape information covering its missions, including the recent deployment to Mali.
  1651. Canada's New Immigraion Act
    First Published: 1978
    See also: CX905.
  1652. Canada's New Immigration Act: A Guide and Critical Commentary
    First Published: 1978
  1653. Canada's Other Red Scare
    Rights, Decolonization, and Indigenious Political Protest in the Global Sixties
    First Published: 2011
    PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2011
  1654. Canada's prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him
    First Published: 2015
    Stephen Harper, who won by an uncomfortably small margin in the last election, has passed laws designed to keep voters who oppose him from the polls.
  1655. Canada's Pro-Israel Zealots
    Racist at Its Core
    First Published: 2014
    From a left-wing community once at the forefront of struggles against racism, unconditional support for Israel has turned a significant proportion of Toronto Jews into promoters of hatred against "Arabs" and into allies of right wing, bigoted, homophobic Christian Bible literalists.

    During 15 years of activism in Montréal, Ottawa and Vancouver I haven’t seen anything equivalent to the racist, militarist pro-Israel movement experienced recently in Toronto. And sadly the quasi-fascistic organization driving the charge seems increasingly enmeshed within a community that once led the fight against racism and fascism in the city.
  1656. Canada's right-wing media monopolies move further right
    First Published: 2011
    The Canadian news media landscape has changed dramatically since the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications released its underwhelming report on the state of Canadian media in 2006.
  1657. Canada's Science Library Closures Mirror Bush's Playbook
    Similar moves by US Republican president met sharp backlash from 10,000 scientists.
    First Published: 2014
    The Harper government is now eliminating seven Department of Fishery libraries containing one of the world's most comprehensive collections of information on fisheries, aquatic sciences and nautical sciences.
  1658. Canada's Secret Constitution
    NAFTA. WTO and the End of Sovereignty?
    First Published: 2002
    Adapted from Chapter 4 of Clarkson's book Uncle and Us: Globalization, Neoconservativism, and the Canadian State.
  1659. Canada's Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies
    First Published: 2012
    Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings.
  1660. Canada's State of Reconciliation
    First Published: 2017
    The brutal suppression of water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota and their ongoing resistance has also galvanized Canadian conversations about Indigenous land rights and environmental welfare.
  1661. Canada's top medical journal says Harper is undermining public health care
    First Published: 2015
    The current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal features an editorial written by Deputy Editor Dr. Matthew Stanbrook slamming the Harper Conservatives for weakening public health care in Canada. "For much of the last decade, Canadian federal health policy has been conspicuous by its absence," Stanbrook says, adding "in recent years, the federal government has neglected [its health care] responsibilities, even when courts have ordered them to do otherwise." The Conservatives are undermining and under-funding Canada's public healthcare system, spurning collaboration with the provinces and essentially removing the federal government from the health care business, Stanbrook suggests.
  1662. Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley
    First Published: 2015
    About the effects of "Chemical Valley" in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area.
  1663. Canada's Water: Resource War #2
    First Published: 1991
    Wars are usually fought over ideologies or natural resources. Canada should be concerned given its rich deposits of natural resources.
  1664. Canadian Aid
    Blessing or Burden?
    First Published: 1977
    This article takes the position that political and economic reasons rather than humanitarian, charitable concerns for the poor were and still are the basis and motivation for Canadian government aid to undeveloped countries.
  1665. Canadian airbase protested
    First Published: 1990
  1666. Canadian Alternatives in 1975: a movement maturing
    First Published: 1976
    Overview and analysis of the growing Canadian "Alternatives Movement".
  1667. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
    First Published: 1982
  1668. Canadian Civil Liberties Bibliography (Indexed)
    First Published: 1984
    An extensive bibliographly, with over 1,000 entries.
  1669. The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis
    First Published: 2015
    The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial.
  1670. The Canadian Elections: Cover-Up and Steal (Again)
    First Published: 2015
    The opposition parties in Canada's 2015 federal election are sticking to a careful PR-driven script, refusing to even mention the fact that Stephen Harper's Conservatives broke the law and committed fraud in winning the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections. The mainstream media and the political parties scrupulously ignore this reality.
  1671. Canadian Embassy: Militarily Supporting Israeli Apartheid
    First Published: 2020
    A top diplomat organizing an event to celebrate Canadians fighting for another country's military ought to generate criticism. Doing so while that force humiliates Palestinians at checkpoints in the West Bank, fires on protesters in Gaza and bombs Syria in violation of international law is an outrage that must be condemned.
  1672. Canadian Environment Network
    First Published: 1989
  1673. Canadian Environment Network
    First Published: 1990
  1674. The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
    A Guide to Selected Resources
  1675. Canadian Environmental Network
    First Published: 1990
  1676. Canadian firms losing out
    First Published: 1992
  1677. Canadian Forum
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canada's oldest continually published political periodical.
  1678. The Canadian Grain Trade - An Introductory Outline.
    First Published: 1976
    Outline of the grain trade in Canada and parallels to the situation underlying the New International Economic Order.
  1679. Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issue
    Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
    First Published: 2014
    We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion articles. This lack of balanced information affects everything from people having the information they need to decide how to vote to all of us better understanding how power is exercised in our communities. The censorship consists of banning some topics and discussions and filtering out stories and ideas that do not fit the current mainstream media agenda.
  1680. Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombings
    Details on Canadian complicity in Israeli apartheid
    First Published: 2014
    Aside from sustained Conservative diplomatic cheerleading for Israel, one key element of Canada's implication less in the public eye but very important, is the key role that many Canadian companies are playing in creating the military devices and technologies now involved in carrying out the deadly bombing raids in Gaza.
  1681. Canadian Human Rights Commissions Annual Report 1988
    First Published: 1989
  1682. The Canadian Information Sharing Service
    First Published: 1979
    Editorial explaining that the Canadian Information Sharing Service has changed the name of its publication to 'Connexions'.
  1683. Canadian journalist and activist killed in Syria
    Ali Mustafa, In Memoriam
    First Published: 2014
    I will never forget when I first met Ali Mustafa. It was September 2012, during my first year at York and just before I joined Students Against Israeli Apartheid (Ali was a former member), where he did a talk on his visit to Egypt.
  1684. Canadian journalist called FBI informant
    First Published: 1989
  1685. Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador
    Iler, Kirsten
    First Published: 2014
    A storm of controversy erupted amongst Canadian lawyers when the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) decided to intervene in Chevron's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal is part of Chevron's battle against Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples who seek to enforce a massive court judgment against the company for environmental damage in Ecuador.
  1686. The Canadian Left Debates Its Future
    First Published: 1979
    A debate on left strategies which collects wide-ranging responses from a variety of sources to Canadian Dimension's special issue on Eurocommunism, compiled in the hope that this exchange will advance the level of discussion and provoke still further debate in the ranks of the Canadian left.
  1687. The Canadian Left and Israel
    First Published: 2017
    Accusations of Left anti-Semitism may mask a more significant racism problem on the Left.
  1688. Canadian Liberation Movement
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The Canadian Liberation Movement (CLM) was an organization founded in 1969 dedicated to liberating Canada from U.S. control and domination. It fought for the independence of Canadian unions from U.S.-controlled “international” unions and stood for Canadian unions for Canadian workers. CLM adopted a nationalist perspective rooted in a variety of ‘Marxist-Leninist’ thinking, and drew inspiration especially from Maoist China.
  1689. Canadian links with apartheid
    First Published: 1990
  1690. Canadian magazines worried
    First Published: 1989
  1691. Canadian Media in Crisis
    First Published: 2010
    How so-called "business journalism" is often biased and tends to give readers a distorted picture of the news.
  1692. Canadian Mining Corporation Receives Permits in Mexican Indigenous Territory
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian mining companies have found a way to expand their operations in Mexico. Recently the Mexican government awarded 22 permits to British Columbia-based First Majestic Silver to mine for silver in the western region of the country.
  1693. Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
    First Published: 2014
    The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
  1694. Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold fired whistleblower. Then it spilled cyanide into five rivers
    First Published: 2016
    Toronto-based mining giant, Barrick Gold, spilled cyanide solution into five Argentina rivers shortly after firing an engineer who raised serious safety concerns about the mining operation responsible for the contamination.
  1695. The Canadian Ministry of "Truth": "Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is"
    First Published: 2015
    The government and corporations operate as if truth and reality are what they say it is. Guerin analyzes and provides examples of this propaganda, including Canada's Bill C-51.
  1696. Canadian Neocolonialism in Latin America
    First Published: 1962
    Discusses the role of Canadian capital in foreign markets and the drive behind Canadian businesses to control valuable assets in Latin American countries.
  1697. Canadian Peace Alliance
    Update
    First Published: 1990
  1698. Canadian Peace Ballot
    First Published: 1977
    A questionaire desinged to organize a referendum of a variety of issues including, but not restricted to pacifism.
  1699. Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa
    First Published: 1978
  1700. Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa:
    An Ecunemical Concensus Paper
    First Published: 1976
    Paper presented to government officials detailing position on racial oppression in S. Africa.
  1701. The Canadian Social Gospel: 1880-1960
    What is the social gospel?
    First Published: 2015
    What is the social gospel? It is an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1880s to the 1960s.
  1702. The Canadian Student
    First Published: 1977
    The focus of this tabloid is unemployment.
  1703. The Canadian Student Movement in the Sixties: Three case studies
    PhD Thesis, University of Alberta, 2009
    First Published: 2009
  1704. Canadian students strip in protest, clash with police
    First Published: 2012
    Thousands of men and women stripped to protest planned tuition hikes and embarrass the hosts of the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.
  1705. Canadian Textbooks and the American Knowledge Industry
    First Published: 1971
    A look into the industry of textbooks in America and the effect on Canadians.
    Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1971.
  1706. Canadian Textile Trade and Hong Kong
    First Published: 1978
    This article was put together through collecting information from back issues of Asia Monitor. It analyzes the effect abroad of Canada's unanticipated, unilateral decision to fix import quotas in the textile and clothing industry, drastically cutting back the '76-'78 levels to those of 1975.
  1707. Canadian Transport
    First Published: 1977
  1708. Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Ontario Region, Bulletin
    First Published: 1978
    Two statements by CUPW President, Jean-Claude Parrot, after raids, injunctions and criminal charges following the Postal Strike in October.
  1709. The Canadian Whole Earth Almanac
    Profile of a project
    First Published: 1971
  1710. Canadian William Grant Stairs: Killing Natives and Seizing their Land for Leopold II in Congo
    A Brutal Part of Canada's Dark History in Africa
    First Published: 2017
    William Grant Stairs of Halifax played an important role in two expeditions that expanded Leopold II's profitable Congolese venture, one that included forced labour and ultimately resulted in millions of deaths.
  1711. Canadian Woman: Her Work, Her Church
    First Published: 1980
  1712. Canadian Women at Work
    Their Situation, Their Union Status, and the Influence of the Public Sector
    First Published: 1989
  1713. Cananea strike
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike took place in the Mexican mining town of Cananea, Sonora, in June 1906.
  1714. Canary Islands vs. Big Oil
    First Published: 2013
    Thousands of Canary Islands residents and activists have begun campaigning against Spanish oil company Repsol, and the potential oil spill that could devastate the wildlife and tourist and fishing industries.
  1715. Cancel Culture
    First Published: 2022
    I think it goes without saying that the United States is undergoing a crisis of democracy. As a nation, we are deeply divided along partisan political lines, so much so that what once passed for legitimate political debate and discourse has been diminished to the point that any dissent is characterized as a threat against democracy. Once, fact-based debates took place to ascertain the truth of a matter. Now, opposing parties embrace their own unique 'fact sets' which are derived more from political belief than reality, and anyone holding a different opinion is derided and condemned as a practitioner of 'disinformation.'
  1716. The cancellation of professor Adolph Reed, Jr.'s speech and the DSA's promotion of race politics
    First Published: 2020
    The New York Times published a lengthy news article last week highlighting an instructive incident that took place earlier this year within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). A speech by professor emeritus of political science Adolph Reed, Jr. was cancelled due to objections by the AFROSOCialist and Socialists of Color Caucus over his "reactionary and class reductionist form of politics."
  1717. The Cancer in Blue: Cop Documentaries
    First Published: 2017
    John Ridely's film "Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992" is a 144-minute kaleidoscope of interviews and television news footage that climaxes in the riots that followed the acquittal of four cops who were captured on home video by a man named George Holliday as they were beating Rodney King with steel batons.
  1718. The Cancer in Occupy
    First Published: 2012
    The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property — is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
  1719. Cancer is Capitalist Violence
    Anthropology Against Oncology
    First Published: 2013
    It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how a Philadelphia “lay community” rejected medical advice to stop smoking, eat fruits and vegetables and schedule regular screening tests. The working class community of Tannerstown (a pseudonym) instead blamed air pollution from highway traffic and nearby chemical plants, as well as fate, for their cancers.
  1720. Cancer of economic growth
    First Published: 1989
  1721. Cancer, weed-killers linked
    First Published: 1989
  1722. CANDU: An Analysis of the Canadian Nuclear Program
    Part I - Technical Handbook
    First Published: 1976
    Handbook on the issues surrounding the nuclear program
  1723. Canton, December 1927
    First Published: 1928
    In 1927, as a result of a rapid succession of fatal mistakes, the Chinese proletariat lost the strong positions in Shanghai and Hankou that it had gloriously conquered at the head of the national movement. In April Chiang Kai-shek’s coup, which was prepared in broad daylight and should have been foreseen, robbed the workers of Shanghai. In August the sharp turn to the right by the ‘left’ Guomindang, on which had been based inadmissible hopes, robbed the workers of Hankou. In the meantime, the seizure of Changsha, carried out with the complicity of the Hankow government (in which the Communists participated), decapitated the Hunan peasant movement.
  1724. Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
    First Published: 2009
    Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
  1725. Cap and Clear-Cut
    First Published: 2016
    Jerry Brown basked in adulation during his whirlwind trip to Paris, and the evening of December 8 figured to offer more of the same. Standing alongside governors of states and provinces from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru, California's governor planned to tout his state's leadership role on global climate policy. The event was one of 21 presentations that Brown delivered during a five-day swing through France during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21). His busy schedule included a stately private meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and presentations at events organized by the French, German, Chinese, and US governments.
  1726. Cape Breton Steel
    First Published: 1977
    This profile tells the story of the Sydney Steel Corporation (SYSCO) in Cape Breton and reveals one of the most important causes of unemployment and industrial shutdowns in Canada today. It traces the foreign ownership and control over Cape Breton Steel beginning with its original Boston investor H.M. Whitney in 1900 until the final takeover by the province of Nova Scotia.
  1727. Cape Breton Strikes, 1920s
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    The Cape Breton labour wars of the early 1920s represented an intense local episode of class conflict. In such conflicts militant unions, often led by radical leaders, were attempting to change the balance of power in Canadian industry by insisting on union recognition and improved living standards for the workers.
  1728. Capital Crimes of Fashion
    Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion (Book Review)
    First Published: 2015
    Book Review of Tansy E. Hoskins' Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion.
  1729. Capital in context
    First Published: 2016
    Deciphering Capital by Alex Callinicos is the impressive balance sheet of some 30 years of research. Its starting point is a thesis completed at Oxford in 1978 entitled "The Logic of Capital", which distanced him at one and the same time from both the surrounding Hegelian Marxism and the empiricism of Ernest Mandel.
  1730. The Capital Punishment Debate 
    First Published: 1984
    The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
  1731. The Capital Punishment Debate - Chinese text
    First Published: 1984
  1732. The Capital Punishment Debate - Korean text
    First Published: 1984
  1733. Capital Punishment: The most Deplorable form of Deliberate Murder
    A society that legally permits the killing of human beings can never prevent its repetition by the general public. The abolition of capital punishment and declaring the value of human life is the first step in the struggle against a culture of murder in society.
  1734. Capitalism and Social Rights
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    We're talking here about rights and how to guarantee them in an unequal globalized society. I’m just going to take it for granted that all of us here believe in human rights in some sense of the term. Let’s start from the premise that all human beings, just by virtue of being human, are entitled to certain basic conditions of freedom and dignity which have to be respected by others, not just by other individuals but also, and especially, by people in power and by states.
  1735. Capitalism and Socialism
    First Published: 1968
    The revolution must of course start with the overthrow of the exploiting class and with the institution of workers' management of production. But it will immediately have to tackle the reconstruction of social life in all its aspects. If it does not, it will surely die.
  1736. Capitalism and Socialism: A Rejoinder
    First Published: 1969
    Those who seem frightened of new ideas might at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while. But even this seems to be asking too much. In argument, they defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
  1737. Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint
    Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
    First Published: 2009
    The capture of ecological discourse by the political culture of the consensus (a necessary expression of the conception of capitalism as the end of history) is well advanced. In contrast, the expression of the demands of the socialist counterculture is fraught with difficulty—because socialist culture is not there in front of our eyes. It is part of a future to be invented, a project of civilization, open to the creativity of the imagination.
  1738. Capitalism as Robbery 
    Book review
    First Published: 2015
    Review of Peter Linebaugh's 'The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance."
  1739. Capitalism and communism
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    Gilles Dauvé outlines the development of capitalism, and communism as the real movement in everyday life which tends towards the abolition of wage labour.
  1740. Capitalism and Freedom
    First Published: 2016
    In the United States, many take for granted that freedom and democracy are inextricably connected with capitalism. Milton Friedman, in his book Capitalism and Freedom, went so far as to argue that capitalism was a necessary condition for both.
  1741. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason Moore. The author examines how capitalism is innately destructive of its environment, but the solution is revolutionary socialist organisation says Graham-Leigh.
  1742. Capitalism is a Waste of Time
    Godwin, Malthus & the Ideology of "No Alternative"
    First Published: 2010
    The "no alternative" of permanent scarcity is both the all too familiar essence of our daily politics as well as the ideology at the heart of the discipline of economics, defined in the most widely used economics textbook of the 20th century as "the study of how men and society choose to employ scarce resources."
  1743. Capitalism is an Incubator for Pandemics: Socialism is the Solution
    First Published: 2020
    Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world. Capitalism cannot adequately respond to a global health crisis. That's why we need socialism.
  1744. Capitalism is failing the planet
    First Published: 2014
    If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
  1745. Capitalism is the West's Dominant Religion
    Reflections on the Religion of the Market
    First Published: 2015
    Welton describes capitalism as the dominant religion in the West, where Economics is the new theology of this global religion of the market and consumerism its highest good.
  1746. Capitalism vs. Democracy in Europe
    First Published: 2015
    The governments of Europe are indifferent to public protest, strikes and mass demonstrations, and don't care about the opinion or the feelings of the population; they are attentive - extremely attentive - only to the opinion and the feelings of the financial markets, and their employees, the ratings agencies.
  1747. Capitalism's violence, masses' revolt show need for total view
    First Published: 2013
    News and Letters' Draft Perspectives Thesis. Our age is in such total crisis, facing a choice between absolute terror or absolute freedom, that a revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, “inside” and “outside.”
  1748. Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination 
    First Published: 2020
    The real danger of each new outbreak is the failure -- or better put -- the expedient refusal to grasp that each new Covid-19 is no isolated incident. The increased occurrence of viruses is closely linked to food production and the profitability of multinational corporations. Anyone who aims to understand why viruses are becoming more dangerous must investigate the industrial model of agriculture and, more specifically, livestock production. At present, few governments, and few scientists, are prepared to do so. Quite the contrary.
  1749. The Capitalist City or the Self-Managed City?
    First Published: 2004
    The opposite of gentrification should not be decay and abandonment but the democratization of housing. Community land trusts may be a way of working towards this goal.
  1750. Capitalist roots of the environment crisis
    First Published: 2020
    Here we are, heading into the middle decades of the 21st century, with all the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of millennia of human endeavour literally at our fingertips, staring down the barrel of a catastrophic, and possibly terminal, breakdown of the relationship between human society and the natural world on which we depend.
  1751. The Capitalist Solution to 'Save' the Planet: Make It an Asset Class & Sell it
    First Published: 2022
    Lynn Fries speaks to John Bellamy Foster on a critically important and underreported topic: how investors are trying to use rapidly moving climate crisis as an opportunity to loot even more of the commons.
  1752. Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
    Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public
    First Published: 2013
    There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
  1753. Capital's Global Turbulence - Study Review
    First Published: 1999
    ROBERT BRENNER'S THE Economics of Global Turbulence, a book-length study published as issue 229 of the Journal New Left Review, has attracted unusual attention for at least two reasons. Not only is Brenner's factual and theoretical argument formidable in its own terms, but its publication coincided fortuitously with the stock and financial market upheavals triggered by the Asian collapse.
  1754. Capital's War on the People
    First Published: 2010
    It is time to change the parameters of the debate, from “when or by how much social spending should be cut?” to “why should the people pay for something they are not responsible for?”
  1755. Capital's War on the People
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    Instead of calling the recent G-20’s brutal austerity declaration (issued at the conclusion of its annual summit in Toronto) an orchestrated declaration of class war on the people, many progressive/Keynesian economists and other liberal commentators simply call it “bad policy.” While it is true that, as these commentators point out, the Hooverian message of the declaration is bound to worsen the recession, it is nonetheless not a matter of “bad” policy; it is a matter of class policy.
  1756. Capitol Riots Were a Dark Day for American Journalism
    First Published: 2021
    An article critical of the news coverage surrounding the January 6, 2021 invasion of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. Cockburn argues that exaggerating the violence of the event threatens the credibility of the media and could justify repression by the government.
  1757. 'Captain Elder Brother' and the Whirlwind Army
    First Published: 2016
    At 94, a forgotten hero of India’s struggle for freedom returns to the scene of his most daring exploit in the anti-British Raj uprising that saw a parallel government established in Satara, Maharashtra, in 1943.
  1758. The Captive Labour Force on Non-English Speaking Immigrant Women
    First Published: 1980
    An article focusing on the 'invisible work' that non-English speaking immigrant women, in particular, have done and continue to do.
  1759. Captive Nation - Egypt And The West
    First Published: 2011
    What mainstream media consumers will find almost nowhere (perhaps literally nowhere) is a detailed analysis of how US-UK support for Mubarak fits with a pattern of US-UK support for dictators across the world over many decades, indeed centuries.
  1760. Carbon trading: privatising the world's forests 
    First Published: 2009
    The World Bank sponsored carbon offset program has faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions themselves.
  1761. The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming 
    First Published: 2014
    As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
  1762. A Carbon-Free Future
    An Interview with Arjun Makhijani
    First Published: 2009
    A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
  1763. C.A.R.D.
    A Lake Erie group fights for sensible development in a sensitive area
    Maloney details the protests of C.A.R.D., an environmental organization advocating for the sensible and responsible integration of development and environmental issues.
  1764. Career advice
    First Published: 2013
    Career advice given by George Monbiot for those who have a genuine choice of careers, which means, regrettably, that it does not apply to the majority of the world’s workforce.
  1765. The Careerists
    First Published: 2012
    The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colourless human beings.
  1766. Ron Carey, Militant Union Reformer
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    “Ron Carey was the nation’s most charismatic and successful labor leader as the twentieth century was coming to an end. He will be remembered as a major figure in American labor history on the basis of just two of his accomplishments: In 1991, running as a reformer with the backing of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), he was elected general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In 1997, he led the successful 15-day strike against the giant United Parcel Service, the biggest victory organized labor had experienced in at least three decades.”
  1767. Cargill and Friends
    The Grain Companies' Rollercoaster and Why We Should Get Off
    First Published: 1976
    A brochure that charts the growth of major multinational grain trading companies.
  1768. Cargill Inc.: Making Profit From Hunger
    First Published: 1978
  1769. The Caribbean Left's Legacy
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    Sara Abraham interviews Eusi Kwayana of The Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana. The WPA continued to organize and build its ranks through a democratic socialist multi racial agenda, but has continuously been marginalized by the two party system, wining only one or two seats in each election.
  1770. Caribbean Politics and the 1930s Revolt
    First Published: 1997
    During the 1930s all Britain's major island and continental colonies in the Caribbean exploded in rebellion.
  1771. Caring For Earth Mother
    A poem.
  1772. Carl Oglesby: A Mentor & Leader
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    In my lifetime I’ve heard two speakers whose unadorned eloquence and moral clarity pulled my heart right out of my chest. One was Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, speaking from the roof of the Busy Bee Market in Andersonstown in Belfast the apocalyptic day that hunger striker Bobby Sands died.
  1773. Carmichael, Stokely
    Connexipedia Article
    Trinidadian-American black leader active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. (1941-1998).
  1774. Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
    First Published: 2003
    Reinventing tactics of resistance has become a central preoccupation for the movement of movements. How do we make rebellion enjoyable, effective, and irresistible? Who wants the tedium of traditional demonstrations and protests - the ritual marches from point A to B, the permits and police escorts, the staged acts of civil disobedience, the verbose rallies and dull speeches by leaders?
  1775. Carol L. McAllister (1947-2007)
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    I remember meeting Carol on a public transit bus, I believe in 1980 –- when, almost out of the blue, she approached me and started talking to me about Central America. She recognized me from some earlier meeting on repression and revolution in Central America and wanted to know if, by any chance, I had been in the audience viewing a documentary on women in El Salvador that she had just seen (I hadn’t) and if I would mind if she shared some thoughts about it.
  1776. Caroline Lund-Sheppard, Sept. 24, 1944-Oct. 14, 2006: A Life Fully Lived
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    It's my favorite photograph of Caroline: She’s just a girl, standing straight up, hands neatly folded in front of her, wearing a long, white tunic, and an exuberantly silly grin.
  1777. Carpenter, Edward
    Connexipedia Article
    English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher. (1844-1929).
  1778. Carr, Shirley
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
  1779. Carrefour International Catalogue
    First Published: 1979
  1780. Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusion
    First Published: 2018
    Biologist Michael Frieman responds to an article titled "The Earth's Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is Not Fixed" by Ted Nordhaus, an executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and strong proponent of ecomodernism. Friedman counters the idea that capitalist technology is capable of solving virtually any of the environmental problems generated by humankind while still making eternal capitalist growth possible- a viewpoint based on assumptions that are fraught with problems.
  1781. Cars and Class
    "A Reckless, Blood-Thirsty, Villainous Lot ... "
    First Published: 2010
    Making life difficult for cars could be, in fact, described as a form of class war, but one that works in the long-term interests of the poor and working class.
  1782. Carson, Rachel
    Connexipedia Article
    American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings, especially 'Silent Spring', are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (1907-1964).
  1783. Carter's Inconvenient Truths
    An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
    First Published: 2007
    The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
  1784. Carving up Africa - aid donors and agribusiness plot the great seed privatization
    First Published: 2015
    An elite group of aid donors and agribusiness corporations plan the takeover of Africa's seeds, replacing traditional seed breeding and saving by small farmers with a corporate model of privatized, patented, genetically uniform and hybrid seeds.
  1785. Casas Compartidas en Toronto - 1960s & 1970s
    First Published: 2020   Published: 2024
    Las casas compartidas en Toronto se convirtieron en un gran problema a finales de los años 60 y principios de los años 70, ya que las prioridades de vivienda estaban cambiando rápidamente.
  1786. Cascadia Rising to Save the Forest
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    Protests in nine cities across California, Oregon and Washington took place February 23rd, coordinated by the Cascadia Rising Project, in response to the Bush Administration's removal of protections on federal lands for over 100 rare and uncommon species associated with the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
  1787. The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
    Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
    First Published: 2008
    Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
  1788. The Case Against Bombing ISIS
    First Published: 2016
    The military campaign against ISIS is just the latest phase of US imperialism in the Middle East.
  1789. The Case Against Glyphosate
    First Published: 2016
    On 13 April, 2016, the EU Parliament called on the European Commission to restrict certain permitted uses of the toxic herbicide glyphosate, best known in Monsanto's Roundup formulation.
  1790. The Case Against Ratifying the TPP
    The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership
    First Published: 2016
  1791. The Case Against the Auto
    First Published: 1990
    The issue of transportation cannot be separated from how communities are organized. The way in which worksites and residences are laid out on the earth’s surface presupposes a means of getting around.
  1792. The Case Against U.S. Adventurism in Iraq
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky depicts the Bush Administration's ambition to rule the world by force and the dangers of this intention.
  1793. The Case for a Nuclear-Free Canada
    First Published: 1990
  1794. The Case for Academic Boycott
    First Published: 2009
    Academic boycott targets Israel's intellectual leadership, the educated elite whose record consists largely of misinforming Israelis about their history, distorting their understanding of current conflicts, normalizing the racism of their society, and providing to the Israeli military and government the legal, technological, and political tools it needs to facilitate the continued theft of Palestinian land and the containment of its restive population.
  1795. The Case for an Alternative
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    A statement by Solidarity: The strategy of “the lesser evil” hasn't worked, and less than ever will it work today. The loyalty of labor, racial minorities, women, LGBT people and other progressives — expressed in massive campaign contributions and large numbers of votes — comes at a very low cost for the “New Democrats,” who know perfectly well that no matter how far to the right they move, the advocates of “the lesser evil” remain their captives.
  1796. The Case for Critical Support
    First Published: 2013
    Not all support need be unqualified, and Milton Fisk is supporting some cases critically.
  1797. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
    First Published: 2012
    Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
  1798. The Case for Grassroots Archives - Arabic text
  1799. The Case for Grassroots Archives - Farsi text
    First Published: 2012
  1800. The Case for Grassroots Archives - Spanish text
  1801. The Case for Haitian Reparations
    First Published: 2017
    A history of France's exploitation of colonial Haiti, the aftermath of Haiti's independence, and the lasting social and environmental impacts, arguing for Haiti's recent demands of reparations from the French government.
  1802. The Case For Long-Term Supportive Housing
    First Published: 1984
  1803. The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective - Book Review
    First Published: 2005
    Book review.
  1804. The Case for Socialism
    A series of articles making the case for socialism.
  1805. The Case for Staying in Iraq
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    I don't support an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, because I think it would probably make an already bad situation much worse. Of course, there's no guarantee that continuing the occupation will succeed in allowing some form of stability to take hold—particularly if our military forces simply "stay the course" of brutality evidenced in Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, and the training of Iraqi death squads. However, I believe it offers the best chance for the chaotic forces now at work in Iraq to settle, over time, into some type of a coherent nation.
  1806. A Case of Decency Deficit
    Eden's Photoshoot
    First Published: 2010
    According to the Israeli human rights group Breaking the Silence, taking humiliating trophy pictures of Palestinian prisoners are such a "widespread phenomenon" that taking them constitutes "a norm." Why so? Because it is the "necessary result of a long term military control of a civilian population."
  1807. The Case of Northwest Airlines: Workers' Rights & Wrongs
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    Four years ago, when asked by an academic journal to write about whether the strike was still a viable weapon in labor’s “arsenal,” my title was blunt: “Is the Strike Dead?”(1) As is my style, I introduced some historical material and offered an analysis of the anti-labor bias of the past 25 years, during which the number of “large” strikes (involving 1,000 or more workers) had declined from more than 400 per year to less than 30.
  1808. The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen's Union
    Who's Speaking for Whom?
    First Published: 2011
    Occupy Oakland should not be pretending to speak on behalf of Oakland's dockworkers, and should not be telling the dockworkers when and how they should strike. Occupy Oakland's actions are the opposite of democratic, and an affront to the basic notiions of worker's self-activity, workers' empowerment, and workers' control.
  1809. The Case of Oscar Lopez Rivera
    First Published: 2012
    Examing the criminal case against and incarceration of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican activist and organiser charged and convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1980.
  1810. A Case of Police Violence Against Women
    First Published: 2015
    The police torture of a woman at Kalamadanga village, in the Bardhaman district of West Bengal, is a grim reminder that "normalization" of state violence, particularly violence on women, has continued unabated regardless of which party is in power.
  1811. The Case of Steven Donziger: Supreme Court Liberals Help Turn Judges into Prosecutors
    First Published: 2023
    Criticizes the decision from seven of the nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to decline to hear Steven Donziger’s appeal of a criminal contempt decision involving his representation of Indigenous Ecuadorians against Chevron.
  1812. A Case Study in the Creation of False News
    First Published: 2017
    Paul Craig Roberts discusses a classic case in the creation of false news.
  1813. A Case Study on the Interaction of Immigrant-Canadians in Their Work
    and the Influence of this Interaction on the Resocialization of the Immigrant
    First Published: 1976
    A sociological analysis done from the perspective of participant observation including theological reflections.
  1814. The Case that Dare Not Speak Its Name: the Conviction of Cardinal Pell
    First Published: 2018
    Cardinal Pell, a high-ranking official of the Catholic Church and financial grand wizard of the Vatican, was found guilty on December 11, 2018 of historical child sexual abuses pertaining to two choir boys from the 1990s. But details remain sketchy.
  1815. Casgrain, Marie Thérèse (Forget)
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. (1896-1981).
  1816. The Cashless Economy of Chikalthana
    First Published: 2016
    An article about the cash crisis in the Indian village Chikalthana.
  1817. Cast out of Eden
    First Published: 1989
  1818. Castlegreen Co-operative -- An Alternative
    First Published: 1977
    A booklet that describes what is meant by the term "co-operative" and gives reasons why they are an appropriate alternative to individual home ownership.
  1819. Castoriadis, Cornelius
    Connexipedia Article
    Greek-French philosopher, libertarian socialist, and psychoanalyst. Author of the The Imaginary Institution of Society, co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group and 'philosopher of autonomy'. (1922-1997).
  1820. Castoriadis, Cornelius - Writings - Index
    Writings of Cornelius Castoriadis, also known as Paul Cardan and Pierre Chalieu (1922-1997).
  1821. The Casualties of Empire
    First Published: 2022
    Diabolic methods of propaganda and perception management are at work now that have no precedent. This is war waged in a new way — against domestic populations as well as those declared as enemies.
  1822. Cataloging as Radical Practice
    First Published: 2014
    Explores the extent to which new technologies and institutional practices are offering opportunities for community input in building/correcting/amplifying catalogue records.
  1823. Catalogue of Resources - Social and Political Action Section - 1978-80
    First Published: 1978
  1824. Catalonia: The Revolt of the Rich?
    First Published: 2017
    The Catalonian rebellion, similar to Scottish separatism, is an uprising of the rich against the poor, the protests of a liberal society against the remnants of a redistributive social state.
  1825. Catalonia 'separatists' bad, HK 'pro-democracy protesters' good: Orwell's 1984 becomes user's manual for Western 'free media'
    First Published: 2019
    When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over 'separatists' causing chaos. When the same tactic is used in Hong Kong, it's a 'pro-democracy' protest. In George Orwell’s 1984, The War Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Peace. Truth was Lies, Hate was Love. But author Lewis Carroll got there first.
  1826. Catalunya: 'Only the People Save the People'
    Against the Current vol. 192
    First Published: 2018
  1827. Catastrophe: The NDP lost because it deserved to
    First Published: 2015
    It is, ultimately, astounding how facile and false political narratives come back to haunt those who insist on their veracity.
  1828. The Catastrophic International Consequences of the Capitulation of Syriza and the Criminal Responsibility of Mr. Tsipras
    First Published: 2015
    Syriza's betrayal comes at a very critical historical moment, when the racist extreme right is advancing almost everywhere in our continent, which already makes immediate and direct the threat that many of the citizens Europeans disappointed by Syriza will fall prey to this racist and neo-fascist self-proclaimed "anti-systemic" extreme right.
  1829. Catch your dreams - utopia is possible!
    While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.
    First Published: 2014
    Amid Spain's general depression, Marinaleda - an Andalucian town sometimes dubbed the 'communist utopia' - is bucking the moribund trend with a heady mixture of direct action, community-level democracy, cooperation and mutual aid.
  1830. Catechism of a Revolutionist
    First Published: 1869
    a program for the "merciless destruction" of society and the state, written by the anarchist Sergey Nechayev.
  1831. The Catherine Ferguson Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    Catherine Ferguson Academy, a school for teen mothers, has been central in controversies surrounding the closures and charters of Detroit’s public schools. Although the cost of $19,000 per student each year is comparable to the cost of educating students at other similar schools, the operational costs, from an Emergency Manager’s perspective, were excessive.
  1832. Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
  1833. Catholic Worker Movement
    Connexipedia Article
    A collection of autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933.
  1834. The Catonsville Nine
    Connexipedia Article
    Nine Catholic activists who burned draft files in 1968 to protest the Vietnam War.
  1835. Caught In The Cross Hairs - Media Lens And The Mystery Of The Wikipedia Editor
    First Published: 2018
    Media Lens investigates the case of "Philip Cross", a person who has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages in a campain against anti-war activists, critics of British and Western foreign policy as well as Media Lens itself.
  1836. Causes and Consequences: Inside The Asian Crisis
    First Published: 1998
    What is happening now is more than the collapse of several Asian economies, it is the unraveling of a development model that these two major capitalist institutions, the World Bank and the IMF, had widely touted as demonstrating the virtues of export-led, free-market capitalism.
  1837. The Cautionary Tale Of "Doctor America"
    How Dr. Tom Dooley -- Once A Universally Revered Secular Saint to Millions -- Found the CIA and Lost His Halo
    First Published: 2021
    How the Dulles brothers, the CIA and the U.S. Navy conspired to turn a decent man into a deceitful spreader of disinformation in support of the Vietnam War.
  1838. Caveat Surfer: Beware When Using Electronic Communication
    First Published: 2000
    Points about electronic communication and online security.
  1839. CAW get GST protection
    First Published: 1990
  1840. Cayenne folds
    First Published: 1989
  1841. CBC ad policy criticized
    First Published: 1990
  1842. CBC advertising may go
    First Published: 1990
  1843. CBC archives decaying
    First Published: 1992
  1844. CBC budget cut again
    First Published: 1990
  1845. CBC left-wing?
  1846. CBC losing national unity mandate
    First Published: 1990
  1847. CBC Radio badly off track with too much personal storytelling
    First Published: 2017
    CBC Radio's wandering off into a journalistic sub-culture must be curtailed. At most, radio's schedule should include a couple of the storytelling programs.
  1848. The CCF, George Hara Williams, and Saskatchewan's socialist movement
    First Published: 2023
  1849. Ce Matin, A L'Ecole, On Parle Des Mineurs
    First Published: 1979
  1850. Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease
    What's Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?
    First Published: 2014
    On August 26th, 2014, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) both accepted a ceasefire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind. The agreement calls for an end to military action by both Israel and Hamas, as well as an easing of the Israeli siege that has strangled Gaza for many years.
  1851. Cecily McMillan and the Police State
    Justice is Dead in Amerika
    First Published: 2014
    Cecily McMillan is an Occupy protester who was seized from behind by a goon thug cop–a goon thug with a long record of abuse of authority – by her boobs. One was badly bruised. Cecily McMillan’s elbow reflexively and instinctively came up, and Cecily was arrested for assaulting a goon thug. The goon thug was not arrested for sexually assaulting a young woman.
  1852. Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
    First Published: 2007
    Although you wouldn't know it if you followed Jewish life simply through the activities of such major Jewish communal bodies as the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations and the Anti-Defamation League, the extent to which the eight million Jews of the Diaspora identify with Israel is increasingly open to question (much to the horror of the Zionist-oriented Jewish establishment).
  1853. Celebrating Bob Carty (1950 - 2014)
    First Published: 2014
    Tribute given by John Foster at the pass of Bob Carty
  1854. Celebrating Mother Jones
    First Published: 2016
    This week commemorates the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, International Workers' Day, and the claimed birthday of Mother Mary Harris Jones. While the United States' official Labour Day falls in September, the international community celebrates workers and workers rights on May 1st, in recognition of actions taken by Americans in 1886, and the events that led up to the Haymarket Massacre.
  1855. Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Salt of the Earth
    First Published: 2024
    In many ways, 1954's Salt of the Earth is a singular, cinematic phenomenon, one of the most unique American movies ever made. At a time when star-driven Hollywood was cranking out widescreen biblical epics, technicolor musicals, sci-fi and horror B pictures for drive-ins, Westerns, comedies, as well as films starring highly trained "Method" actors, Salt featured a largely nonprofessional cast in a story about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. These non-actors played versions of themselves—miners who had struggled in a recent, real-life strike.
  1856. Celebrating the Past -- the Legacy of the Free Speech Movement
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    A commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement took place at the University of California at Berkeley last December 2nd. As the years fly by anniversaries become more significant as the students who participated exit the stage of life. The usual 10-year anniversary is now shortened to five years. Just recently the FSM gang that met for a potluck dinner decided to celebrate each year!
  1857. Celebration and Fresh Inquiry
    Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Howard Brick's, Robbie Lieberman's, and Paula Rabinowitz's Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald.
  1858. CEMB march at Pride 2018 in London: A Victory against Islamism
    First Published: 2018
    Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain marched in Pride in London on 7 July for LGBT rights in countries under Islamic rule; in 15 states or territories, homosexuality is punishable by death. The march was a victory against Islamist forces in Britain like Mend and East London Mosque that tried and failed to stop CEMB from marching with accusations of 'Islamophobia' aimed at imposing de facto blasphemy and apostasy laws.
  1859. Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Account
    First Published: 2022
    The Israeli government's targeting of Palestinian digital content is well-documented. According to 7amleh, The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, the Israeli Ministry of Justice Cyber Unit sends content-removal requests aimed at Palestinian content to social media companies such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. The Justice Ministry has boasted these corporations comply with 95% of their requests. And Israeli governmental organizations and NGOs also encourage their citizens to flag Palestinian content for removal.
  1860. The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
    First Published: 2017
    For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way into print or on the air came down to the media's ignorance, laziness or from advertising restraints. For too long, the explosive material for good journalism in these and other areas had remained hidden in plain sight.
  1861. Censorship? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
    First Published: 2012
    Israel’s Haaretz has mysteriously deleted a powerful article by Amira Hass headlined “The anti-Semitism that goes unreported,” about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers.
  1862. Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
    First Published: 1996
    Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
  1863. Censorship is a crucial complement of genocide
    First Published: 2024
    This is why, as a genocide continues unabated in Gaza, we all have a responsibility to insert 'Palestine' and 'Palestinians' into every conversation.
  1864. Censorship? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
    First Published: 2012
    Israeli newspaper Haaretz deleted a significant article by Amira Hass headlined "The anti-Semitism that goes unreported," about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers. The original article by Hass is available on ZComm.
  1865. Central America
    The Next Phase
    First Published: 1988
    Chomsky explores the nature of the Reagan Administration's initiatives and intents for Nicaragua and Central America. He reveals underlying problems such as the tendency of the US Government to adopt violent tactics due to its political weakness and military strength.
  1866. Central America Raises Its Voice in Defence of Its Migrants
    First Published: 2011
    Spiralling violence against Central American migrants in Mexico has prompted legal reforms, diplomatic actions, and the creation of new mechanisms to protect citizens in this region.
  1867. Central American Women Put their Lives on the Line for Human Rights
    First Published: 2014
    Solidarity is at the heart of an initiative that seeks to protect women activists facing harassment, death threats and violence.
  1868. Central Europe and Central America: Will there be a historical convergence?
    First Published: 2018
  1869. Centralia Massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    A violent and bloody incident that occurred in the town of Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919 during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
  1870. The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding 
    First Published: 2016
    Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is central to all five issues. The way in which seed is produced has been arguably their major cause. But it can also be the solution to all these issues.
  1871. A Century Later
    First Published: 1998
    The year 1898 was a turning point for the American Republic in terms of boundary and economic establishment. Chomsky moves through the next 100 years during which America increasingly became involved in affairs outside of its borders.
  1872. A Century Later, Namibia Demands Justice From Germany for Its First Holocaust
    First Published: 2017
    Between 1904 and 1908, German colonialists committed a holocaust against the Herero and the Nama, exterminating as many as 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama. Now Namibia is demanding reparations.
  1873. A Century of Meatpacking Unionism - Book Reviews
    First Published: 1998
  1874. The Century of Rosa Parks
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    Rosa Parks was a veteran militant of many civil rights battles long before she became an icon.
  1875. A century of sugar and tears
    Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
    First Published: 2015
    Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on a waterfront site associated with slavery, segregation and conflict.
  1876. A Century of Theft From Indians by the National Park Service
    First Published: 2016
    The Mojave National Preserve is run by the National Park Service, which, in contrast to previous times, has been including more Indian history in its displays and programs.
  1877. A Century's Feminist Journey
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    International feminism -- and feminist internationalism -- have existed since at least the early 20th century, but forms of women's organizing and mobilizing have varied over the past 100 years. Since the 1980s, a new transnational feminism -- encompassing Third World countries as well as the core countries -- has emerged which requires explanation.
  1878. Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
    Review of Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
    First Published: 2013
    Bardacke tells the story of one movement’s evolution from grassroots obscurity to such (relatively little-known) successes as the Salinas Valley (California) general strike of lettuce pickers in 1979—a veritable mass strike in Rosa Luxemburg’s sense—and from there to the collapsed shell of a union nonetheless administering fourteen non-profits with millions in assets.
  1879. Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder
    Environmental Crisis and Metabolic Rift in Nineteenth-Century London
    First Published: 2018
    Karl Marx's analysis of changes in British agriculture in the nineteenth-century provides the theoretical starting point for what is now known as 'metabolic rift theory'. This article considers an aspect of the theory that has not been much discussed in modern ecosocialist analysis- the environmental crisis that the accumulation of human excrement caused in urban areas, notably in London.
  1880. C'est a Nous de Decider
    First Published: 1978
    See also CX1099.
  1881. C'est a Nous De Decider
    First Published: 1978
    See also CX864.
  1882. Neil Chacker, 1942-2004
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    During the Vietnam war, one Colonel Reberry at Fort Lewis, Washington, posted a threatening notice forbidding the distribution of material that would promote "disloyalty and discontent." A response shortly appeared on the same bulletin board, written by GI Neil Chacker, an American Servicemen's Union organizer.
  1883. The Chainsaw Collaboratives
    The Newest Threat to Our National Forests
    First Published: 2014
    Given the membership of the typical collaborative it is hardly surprising that most support greater logging/grazing of our public lands.
  1884. The Challenge of Defining Fossil Fuel Subsidies
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of the ways fossil fuel subsidies are measured and why semantic arguments over definitions may be missing the point.
  1885. The challenge of Podemos
    First Published: 2015
    The emergence of so-called populist parties as a response to increasingly discredited political elites is a European-wide phenomenon. In most cases these parties have emerged on the right, if not the far-right. Not so in the Spanish state where Podemos, after barely ten months in existence, appears to be undermining the whole political set up in place since the end of the Franco dictatorship in the late 1970s.
  1886. A Challenge to Canada’s Wealthiest 0.1%
    First Published: 2011
  1887. Challenge, Choice, Change
    First Published: 1990
  1888. Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
    First Published: 1989   Published: 2009
    This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
  1889. Challenged Books List
    First Published: 2004
    A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
  1890. Challenging a Militarized Police State in the US
    From Policing to SWAT Teams
    First Published: 2014
    When the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) and other law enforcement agencies cracked down on protestors March 30, 2014, the city’s finest rolled out a military-style force. Equipped with gas masks, body armor, batons and automatic rifles, they deployed officers on horseback, a SWAT Team and a pair of armored vehicles. After confronting shouting protestors, the APD released tear gas, which seeped into campus dormitories.
  1891. Challenging Capitalism through Workers’ Control
    First Published: 2018
    From the upheavals of the early 20th century to the neo-liberal re-structurings of the late 20th century emerges the common feature of 'worker's control' -- a movement to protect jobs and communities.
  1892. Challenging Kim Moody
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    Two reports challenge Kim Moody’s assertion (“Immigrant Workers in the United States,”Part 1, ATC 127) that “[t]he claim is raised by some that the rapid growth of immigrant Latinos in the workforce has had a negative impact on wages. In any overall sense, the answer has to be no...”
  1893. Challenging Racism isn't Anti-Semetic
    First Published: 2017
    Engler criticizes Canadians' willingness to defend the Jewish Defense League, even with their growing connection to white supremist groups.
  1894. Challenging Tar Sands at its Source
    Grassroots Greens Versus Big Greens
    First Published: 2014
    With fracking changing the US oil-production and consumption numbers so dramatically, it seems time to challenge the notion that tar sands – and the carbon released if tar sands production continues to climb – is the “make or break point,” an “endgame” whose development signifies “game over for the climate,” as stated several years ago by Dr. James Hansen. Tar sands development is no less extreme, of course, no less destructive, no less genocidal to those living in the affected areas. Shutting down the tar sands– completely, and not negotiated as a phase out nor leaving the corporations in power afterward – is more important than ever, and on as many fronts as possible.
  1895. Challenging the 'refugee-victim' narrative
    First Published: 2015
    With looming refugee and forced migration crises in the Mediterranean, Kenya, Burma, Syria, Burundi and elsewhere hitting international headlines, public attention is rightfully drawn to those people immediately affected by war, poverty, and persecution. For many, internally-displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, and asylum-seekers are above all unfortunate souls, devastated, and stripped of their humanity by seemingly never-ending civil wars, dictatorships and economic stagnation at home.
  1896. Champions Of Democracy - From Fake News To Imposed Insanity
    First Published: 2018
    While social media is largely blamed for the proliferation of 'fake news', it is through social media where the corporate media commentariat are exposed. Readers are now at last able to see some rational dissent, this is the up-side to social media that the 'mainstream' cannot even discuss.
  1897. Chances Are the FBI Has Files on Your Favorite Human Rights Activist
    A Safe Bet
    First Published: 2014
    If you have ever openly challenged and mobilized against the structural inequality of capitalism and concomitant imperialism, you definitely have an FBI record.
  1898. H. Chandler Davis Was a Lifelong Radical and a Moral Touchstone for the Left
    First Published: 2022
    Chan Davis, who died last month at the age of 96, faced down McCarthyite blacklists and imprisonment to pursue a brilliant academic career. Davis knew how to change and learn from political experience, but he always remained loyal to his socialist principles.
  1899. Chang, Helen Mack
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Guatemalan businesswoman and human rights activist. Active in the struggle against impunity of political murderers. (Born 1952).
  1900. Change of the Century
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    The heroes of Tahrir Square in Cairo and other Egyptian cities, and in Tunisia, have already changed the course of 21st century history. They have torn a huge hole in the fabric of imperialist dominion over the Middle East. They have begun to reverse what has been 35 years of almost continuous “permanent counterrevolution” in the region.
  1901. Changes to marketing boards coming
    First Published: 1990
  1902. Changes to voting system leave Canada worse off
    First Published: 2015
    How did we end up with this convoluted and discriminatory method of voting when we once had perhaps the best method in the world - door-to-door enumeration and no hard-to-get voter ID requirement?
  1903. Changing Ecology and Coffee Rust
    First Published: 2013
    From Guatemala to Panama, governments are boosting aid to fight the fungus and keep workers from migrating to cities or north toward the United States. The article looks into the causes of the coffee ecosystem crisis and its consequences.
  1904. Changing for Real
    Against The Current vol. 138
    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.
  1905. The Changing History of the First World War
    First Published: 2014
    The war the Tories and their favourite historians would like to spin is one where nationalism was triumphant and where workers and soldiers did their duty for their country. For other historians, the war is a patchwork of fragmented experiences and stories with no “grand” explanation. A truly historical materialist understanding of the war must be able to encompass and learn from the detail—whether of battles or strikes, psychological trauma or the assassination of royalty—and weave it into a world in which the development of capitalism brought about the bleakest and most horrifying catastrophe. And it must be able to explain how the material experience of that catastrophe drove millions to question and to revolt and to present the system as a whole with the most profound threat of its existence.
  1906. Changing minds on a changing climate
    What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds?
    First Published: 2017
    Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
  1907. Changing Modes of Canadian Complicity
    First Published: 2005
    It is important for those of us who see and criticize Canadian hypocrisy to point out that Hillier's comments and other similar things are perfectly consistent with Canada's actual history. But we also do ourselves a disservice if we fail to recognize the ways in which strategic deployment of such rhetoric is part of a project that aims to undo the paltry progressive victories that are still standing.
  1908. Chant, Donald Alfred
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Scientist, educator, environmental advocate. (1928-2007).
  1909. Chaplin, Ralph
    Connexipedia Article
    Labour activist at the age of 7, after witnessing a worker shot dead diurng the Pullman strike in Chicago, Illinois. (1887-1961).
  1910. Character and Social Process
    First Published: 1942
    The social character results from the dynamic adaptation of human nature to the structure of society. Changing social conditions result in changes of the social character, that is, in new needs and anxieties. These new needs give rise to new ideas and, as it were, make men susceptible to them; these new ideas in their turn tend to stabilise and intensify the new social character and to determine man's actions. In other words, social conditions influence ideological phenomena through the medium of character; character, on the other hand, is not the result of passive adaptation to social conditions but of a dynamic adaptation on the basis of elements that either are biologically inherent in human nature or have become inherent as the result of historic evolution.
  1911. The Character of the Russian Revolution: Trotsky 1917 vs. Trotsky 1924
    First Published: 2017
    An analysis of the evolution of Leon Trotsky's views from 1917 to 1924.
  1912. Characterising the period
    First Published: 2012
    An analysis of the fundamental contradiction today is that between global capitalism and the system of nation-states. In this brief but sharp overview Nigel updates his analysis by bringing it to bear on the global economic crisis and the political reactions it is provoking.
  1913. Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone -- police did
    First Published: 2016
    A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.
  1914. Charges 'Without Merit' - Jeremy Corbyn, Antisemitism, Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky
    First Published: 2018
    A commentary on the anit-semitism claims by the British media regarding Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party.
  1915. Charging Peter to Pay Paul
    Accounting for the Financial Effects of User Charges
    First Published: 1994
  1916. The Charlatanism Of Palestine-Denial
    First Published: 2013
    Here we go again. On Israel and the US losing their UNESCO voting rights, ‘Israel's ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan, ‘said in an interview that his country supports the U.S. decision [to suspend contributions], "objecting to the politicization of UNESCO, or any international organization, with the accession of a non-existing country like Palestine.
  1917. Charlie Hebdo And The War For Civilisation
    First Published: 2015
    There is so much more that could be said about just how little passion the corporate media have for defending the right to offend. Anyone in doubt should try, as we have, to discuss their own record of failing to offend the powerful.
  1918. The Charter of Demands of the Indian National Fishworkers' Forum
    First Published: 2001
  1919. The Charter of the Forest
    First Published: 1217   Published: 1225
    A complementary document to the Magna Carta of 1215, defining the rights of vassals, freemen, and serfs, reducing penalties, and restoring common land taken by the Crown.
  1920. Charter Schools Increase Fraud, Corruption, Chaos, and Anarchy
    First Published: 2016
    Charter schools, which barely make up seven percent of U.S. schools, are often accused of taking all the antisocial, antipublic, and antipeople practices of medieval autocrats and opportunuties to new extremes. Shawgi Tell looks into the issue of privatization of education that will intensify in the months ahead.
  1921. Charting a New Path for Canadian Engagement with the Middle East
    First Published: 2023
    Canada is criticized today for not having a coherent Middle East policy that adequately reflects the realities of the region or defines a long-term strategy to protect and advance its interests in this part of the world. This article offers recommendations on how to address such a deficit by first reviewing Canada's historical engagement with the Middle East, particularly its effective role in influencing regional events during the Cold War and in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union.
  1922. Charting Environmental Conflict - The Atlas of Environmental Justice
    First Published: 2016
    Another tool supporting the growing movement and better global awareness is the Atlas of Environmental Justice. The EJAtlas is packed with qualitative information about almost 1800 environmental conflicts.
  1923. Chartism
    Connexipedia Article
    A movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century between 1838 and 1850 which takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838.
  1924. Chartrand, Michel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  1925. Chartrand, Michel
    Connexipedia Article
    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  1926. Chasing Shadows: Socialism Won't Go Away Because It is Capitalism's Antithesis
    First Published: 2018
    The abstract forces of capitalism's dynamism create the conditions for ever more creative and novel ways to profit, which is why the Golden Age of postwar capitalism-which had a mix of capitalist and socialist economic features-evolved into the neoliberal period after the external oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. Those conditions created a transitional context to shift out of a regulated state-interventionist capitalism into the aggressive, free-market neoliberal variety lasting more than 30 years, leading us to the precipice of the present.
  1927. CHAT (Community Homophile Association of Toronto) Bits And Pieces
    Memories of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT)
  1928. Chatting with Chomsky
    First Published: 2012
    The linguistics professor, political theorist and activist discusses the Occupy movement, Obama’s first term and the economic crisis in Europe.
  1929. Chavez calls for new international organisation of left parties
    First Published: 2009
    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez calls for the formation of a "Fifth International" of left parties and social movements to confront the challenge posed by the global crisis of capitalism.
  1930. Chávez, César
    Connexipedia Article
    Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
  1931. The Chavez Legacy
    The Revolution Within the Revolution Will Continue
    First Published: 2013
    Chavez was a leader who, in unity with the people, was able to free Venezuela from the grips of US Empire, brought dignity to the poor and working class, and was central to a Latin American revolt against US domination.
  1932. Chávismo and Its Discontents
    International Left Intellectuals Respond to Venezuelan Government's Legislative Election Setback
    First Published: 2016
    Five hours after the polls had closed, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced a landslide victory for the opposition in Venezuela's the National Assembly elections. The response of international left intellectuals has ranged from critical support to outright rejection of the socialist project in Venezuela. We argue for the importance of recognizing the overarching influence of US imperialism and for the acceptance of using the state as an instrument of popular power by the international solidarity movement.
  1933. "Chavs", class and representation
    A review of Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class
    First Published: 2012
    Chavs traces the rise of an offensive caricature of the working class: a racist hooligan, an alcoholic thug; women unable to control their vaginas, men unable to control their fists; brainless, feckless scroungers-working class people, as represented by the term chav, are nothing more than parasitic growths on society. Jones demonstrates how the figure of the chav is used to deflect blame away from the structures that create inequality onto individuals.
  1934. Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    In an article published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy. It must be a heroic creation. We must inspire Indo-American socialism with our own reality, our own language. That is a mission worthy of a new generation.” His warning went unheard. In that same year the Latin American communist movement fell under the influence of the Stalinist paradigm, which for close to a half century imposed on it an imitation of the ideology of the Soviet bureaucracy and its so-called “actually existing socialism.”
  1935. Cheap Clothing - At Whose Expense?
    First Published: 1978
  1936. The Check-the-Box Loophole
    The Great Corporate Tax Shift
    First Published: 2013
    Corporate taxes in America have been in decline now for more than three decades. Contrary to the drumbeat of corporate media throughout this year, and their false claims that US corporations are paying far more than their foreign capitalist cousins.
  1937. Checking Out
    First Published: 2016
    In mid-June of 2016, tension between workers and their boss in a small New York City retail shop reached the boiling point. The result was chaos for a hated overseer, and the sweet aftertaste of an assertion of people power all too rare in their line of work.
  1938. Checkpoint Nation
    Border agents are expanding their reach into the country's interior
    First Published: 2018
    Even if you never leave the United States, you can encounter Border Patrol at the thirty-five fixed checkpoints and dozens of temporary checkpoints they operate deep in the interior. The locations of these checkpoints are not made public, but the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, has developed a project to track them.
  1939. Cheddi Jagan's Politics and Legacy
    An interview with Clive Y. Thomas
    First Published: 1997
    An inteview with Clive Y. Thomas, an author, economist, and co-founder of the Working Peoples Alliance.
  1940. The chemical dangers in food packaging
    First Published: 2014
    The long-term effects of synthetic chemicals used in packaging, food storage and processing food could be damaging our health, scientists have warned.
  1941. Chemical weapons and cover-ups: the Western media's Syrian shame
    First Published: 2020
    How Western media shapes public perception with regards to chemical weapons in Syria.
  1942. The Chemical Weapons Pretext for War on Syria
    The Latest Pack of Lies?
    First Published: 2013
    Washington is digging deep to conjure up a pretext for yet another war of aggression in the Middle East. The White House claims that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against rebel fighters.
  1943. Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
    First Published: 1984
    There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
  1944. Cherry Beach
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Cherry Beach, originally called Clarke Beach Park, was established as a recreational beach in the 1930s. Established close to the mouth of the Don River, Cherry Beach was very close to what was then a heavily industrial area.
  1945. ChestDoc in Palestine
    First Published: 2007
  1946. Chester, Eric
    Connexipedia Article
    Author, socialist political activist, and economics professor. (Born 1943).
  1947. Chevron Whistleblower Videos Show Deliberate Falsification Of Evidence In Ecuador Oil Pollution Trial
    First Published: 2015
    Chevron lost the lawsuit filed against the company by Indigenous villagers who say Texaco, which merged with Chevron, left hundreds of open, unlined pits full of toxic oil waste in the Amazon rainforest. Nevertheless, the company attempts to retry the case.
  1948. Chevron Wins Ecuador Arbitration But Money May Go To Amazon Communities
    First Published: 2014
    The Dutch Supreme Court recently upheld an arbitration tribunal judgment requiring the Ecuadorean government to pay Chevron $106 million for breach of contract. Ironically, activists say Ecuador is now free to hand this money to indigenous communities who have sued the oil giant for pollution in an unrelated case.
  1949. Chevron's Crude Attacks
    Court Sides With Big Oil
    First Published: 2011
    Yet another instance of the increasingly pro-business stance of the US legal system.
  1950. Chevron's $80 million ad campaign gets flushed
    First Published: 2010
    A day-long comedy of errors, and Chevron's waking nightmare, began when Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, together with the Yes Lab, pre-empted Chevron's multi-million dollar "We Agree" ad campaign with a satirical version of their own. The activists' version highlights Chevron's environmental and social abuses -- especially the toxic mess the oil giant has left in Ecuador, which Chevron has been attempting to "greenwash" for years.
  1951. Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
    Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
    First Published: 2009
    Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
  1952. Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
    First Published: 2009
    The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
  1953. The Chicago Anarchists
    First Published: 1887
    The working-class are up in arms about this matter. Anarchist, Socialist, anti-Anarchist, anti-Socialist alike are astonished, indignant, thoroughly aroused. Everywhere, except in Chicago, meetings are being held, resolution condemnatory of this judicial murder are being passed.
  1954. Chicago Charter Teachers Strike, Win
    First Published: 2019
    Reporting on the unprecedented and successful strike of charter school teachers in Chicago.
  1955. Chicago Seven
    Connexipedia Article
    Seven defendants charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
  1956. Chicago Teachers Settle Contract
    First Published: 2017
    While an almost 3-1 vote in favor is decisive, the vote against is significant in showing both dissatisfaction and anger among teachers. Who voted against the contract?
  1957. Chicago Teachers Strike Back
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    Chicago Teachers Union stage a walkout that leads to an improved contract.
  1958. Chicago's Public Housing: Willful Neglect
    Against The Current vol. 86
    First Published: 2000
    Just a few days before Christmas, the Chicago Tribune ran an article under the whimsical title, "Another Can of Worms for CHA." (CT 12/23/99) This report described how, in its rush to force a group of recalcitrant residents to move from one poorly maintained building in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing complex to another before the holidays, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) had cut off power to the building.
  1959. Chicken Game: Eurocrisis, Again.
    Washington vs. Berlin
    First Published: 2012
    How does one take an autonomous position against the European policies of social butchery without falling into nationalist, anti-German nostalgia or into rhetoric against “Anglo-Saxon speculation”? How do we put together struggles about rights, work and life with a constitutive struggle on the issue of debt, while avoiding any recourse to solutions “from above” to the risk of default?
  1960. The Chickens Come Home to Roost ... in Syria
    First Published: 2019
    American meddling in the Middle East since 9/11 may finally be reaching a crisis as the process produces irreconcilable conflicts with allies.
  1961. Chilcot Inquiry - The Establishment Goes to Work
    First Published: 2009
    When public scepticism erupts in response to resultant extremes of state violence and criminality that even the media are powerless to deny, the illusion of democracy must be bolstered. Then Tweedledum-Tweedledee will choose from their own to rig an "inquiry", while their media allies present the process as something other than a farce.
  1962. Child Soldiers Reloaded: The Privatisation of War
    First Published: 2017
    A look at private military companies, a multibillion-dollar industry, and how they recruit former child soldiers for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Includes a link to the film by Mads Ellesoe.
  1963. Child Victims
    First Published: 1992
  1964. Children
    First Published: 1979
  1965. "The Children," James Baldwin Wrote, "Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"
    First Published: 2024
    Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide -- from the United States to Gaza.
  1966. The Children of Gaza
    First Published: 2014
    A poem
  1967. Children of SA liberation icons condemn Israeli apartheid
    First Published: 2015
    The children of South Africa's anti-apartheid heroes speak out against Israeli apartheid, supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel and denouncing the Jewish state's brutal colonial occupation of Palestine.
  1968. Children Suffer as World Bank's Borrowers Upend Their Lives
    First Published: 2015
    Evictions, loss of family income and other hardships associated with dams, roads and other projects can be especially harmful to young people. The bank's social and environmental safeguards forbid sudden, strong-arm evictions. But as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Huffington Post and other media partners revealed in April, the bank is failing to enforce those rules, with devastating consequences for adults and children who live on or near land targeted for development.
  1969. Children's Play and Official Playgrounds
    First Published: 1971
  1970. A Children's Book Introduces German Kids to the True Story of Syrian Refugees
    First Published: 2016
    Germany has received more than 1 million refugees, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Despite supporters initially celebrating Chancellor Angela Merkel's actions, many Germans have begun voicing concerns about when this acceptance of migrants will come to an end. But while the adults in Germany have expressed mixed reactions to the refugees, German author Kirsten Boie wants children at least to realize that a refugee child is just like any other kid in the world.
  1971. Childrens Liberation
    First Published: 1971
  1972. Chile Report
    First Published: 1975
    Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
  1973. Chile Report
    Enterprise and Repression Multinational Goes to Chile
    First Published: 1976
    Looks at Noranda Mines' copper mine investment in Chile.
  1974. Chile: Return of the Penguins!
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    The struggle to democratize Chile’s educational system has, for the first time since the country’s return to bourgeois democracy in 1990, challenged the very foundations of its neoliberal model.
  1975. Chile's Student Movement Leads the Way
    Progressive Prospects for Michelle Bachelet's Second Term
    First Published: 2014
    “I want to pay special homage to my father and to all those who gave their lives in the fight to recover democracy,” an emotional Isabel Allende said upon taking office as the Senate President.
  1976. A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street
    The Tangled Purse Strings
    First Published: 2011
    Undemocratic movements are vulnerable to being taken over by a vocal minority or a chraismatic individual.
  1977. China admits torture
    First Published: 1990
  1978. China in Revolt
    First Published: 2012
    Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.
  1979. China in the Contemporary World Dynamic of Accumulation and Class Struggle
    First Published: 2005
    The Chinese ruling elite is riding the whirlwind precisely because its own necessary reforms are quite visibly setting in motion social processes that could completely overwhelm it, namely a working-class and peasant insurrection which would necessarily assume a truly socialist content.
  1980. China: Mass protests challenge polluters
    Resistance to rapid industrialization by poisonous industries led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities
    First Published: 2014
    In spite of a media blackout, protests in the Chinese city of Maoming against a PX (paraxylene) plant have proceeded for the past week. In March 2014 a thousand citizens took to the streets in protest, followed a few days later by 20,000 occupying the area around the government building.
  1981. China: Rise and Emergent Crisis
    Book Review
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Au Loong Yu's 'China's Rise: Atrength and Fragility.'
  1982. The China Syndrome . . . Fantasy or Reality?
    This pamphlet is a response to the movie "The China Syndrome." The movie, the pamphlet points out, deals with what could be an actual occurence. The subject of the movie is a complete core melt down in a nuclear reactor in which the fuel melts through the containment vessel dropping "towards China."
  1983. China: Whose Revolution?
    First Published: 1987
    The Chinese Revolution was one of the most momentous events of the 20th century. For a quarter of the human race it seemed to open the way to eradicate the roots of poverty and famine, to build a better society. But whose revolution was it? Few socialists today look to China for inspiration. The illusions of “Maoism” have been systematically shattered. Today China is becoming more and more part of the world system it once seemed to want to overthrow.
  1984. China Widens its Silk Road to the World
    First Published: 2017
    China's new 'Silk Road' initiative is a large-scale, multilateral development Asian project which has the potential to change the shape of the world economy.
  1985. China: Workers Rising?
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Lu Zhang's Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance and Eli Friedman's Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China
  1986. China's Ancient Labor Party
    First Published: 2017
    Mozi was an outstanding thinker and what is more a militant, grounded on a well-defined program, who fought on behalf of the toilers in ancient China.
  1987. China's capitalism and the crisis
    First Published: 2012
    Coupled with spectacular growth rates since the late 1970s, China’s “soft landing” and apparent rapid recovery from the crisis appear to support claims made by some on the right and the left that the 2008 recession has been a catalyst for the core of capitalism shifting to the East and setting in motion a change in global geopolitics.
  1988. China's Climate of Repression
    First Published: 2016
    With secret trials and lengthy prison sentences imposed on human rights lawyers after forced and humiliating "confessions," the abduction of Hong Kong booksellers under circumstances that remain obscure, and new legislation that sharply restricts the work of independent organizations, the climate of repression in China is clearly sharpening.
  1989. China's Cyber-War: Don't Believe the Hype
    Net Threat Inflation
    First Published: 2013
    Addressing cyber-theft, U.S hypocrisy, and China.
  1990. China's Cyberspying Is 'on a Scale No One Imagined' -- if You Pretend NSA Doesn't Exist
    First Published: 2015
    Stories about cyberespionage -- like the data theft at the US Office of Personal Management believed but not officially stated to have been carried out by China -- are weird. For one thing, they include quotes about how "we need to be a bit more public" about our responses to cyberattacks -- delivered from White House officials who speak only on condition of anonymity.
  1991. China's Disposable Labor
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    The global financial crisis has begun to take its toll in China, with a rapid decline in China’s exports. In Guangdong province where the export processing zones house 20 million workers, tens of thousands of migrant workers have been sacked. By comparing various estimates one can conclude that nationally by the beginning of 2009 between four and nine million migrant workers have returned home. Millions more will stay home after the Chinese New Year holiday.
  1992. China's outlaw fishermen
    First Published: 2020
    China subsidises a huge fishing fleet, umatched in size and reach. its vessels help feed the nation, but also serve as pawns on the geopolitical chessboard, intimidating other nation's fishermen and coastguards.
  1993. China's stolen children: parents battle police indifference in search for young
    First Published: 2013
    Tens of thousands of children are snatched and sold into slavery every year, but parents say they get little help with their search.
  1994. China's villages revive
    A few migrants have begun to return from China's cities to its neglected countryside, and have been joined by artists and advocates of
    First Published: 2015
    A look at a movement towards rural reconstruction in China, which has gained fresh impetus from an economic slowdown as well as poorer urban living conditions and pollution.
  1995. China's Worker Protests: A Second Wave of Labor Unrest?
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    There has been a 30% rise in collective riots in China in recent years. Whereas in 1993, there were 10,000 reported cases with 700,000 participants, in 2003 it jumped to 60,000 with 3 million participants. Among these examples, labor unrest has been quite outstanding, though it is difficult to get official statistics.
  1996. A Chinese alternative
    Social democracy by the union route
    First Published: 2014
    Dongfang discusses how changing undemocratic Chinese business enterprises, through active labour unions, would also change the social structure of the country.
  1997. A Chinese Alternative? Interpreting the Chinese New Left Politically
    First Published: 2010
    In China, the terms 'left' and 'right' or 'radical' and 'conservative' produce somewhat different associations in the popular mind than what we are used to in the West. While in most capitalist countries 'left' and 'right' are understood largely in economic terms, in China these concepts tend to be deeply entangled within a framework defined by the state, the Communist Party, and nationalism. As a result, Chinese political debates have tended to presume a rigid dichotomy between 'left-wing' state socialism and 'right-wing' capitalist liberal democracy.
  1998. Chinese neocolonialism in Africa
    The Dragon eating the African Lion and Cheetah? (Part I)
    First Published: 2017
    China has literally invaded Africa with its investors, traders, lenders, builders, developers, labourers and who knows what else. The fancy phrase for that is win-win cooperation. The "cooperation" has opened up Africa as a source of raw materials for China and a dumping ground for cheap Chinese manufactured goods. It is Chinese neocolonialism.
  1999. Chinese Workers' Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle, who lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
  2000. The Chinese Working Class in the Global Capitalist Crisis
    Revolutionary Mass Strike or a New Bureaucratic Containment?
    First Published: 2015
    By 2012, there were upwards of 100,000 “incidents” of popular unrest per year, ranging from strikes to riots to confrontations with local authorities over rural land seizures and real estate development. 2014 saw the highest number of strikes (12,000) ever, quite outside the control of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the discredited state-sponsored union. The regime has thus far been successful in keeping these struggles dispersed and localized, aimed at local authorities rather than the central government. Environmental destruction, pollution and health hazards are also increasingly at issue.
  2001. The Chinese Working Women's Network
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    There is no doubt that China is growing rapidly in importance in the global economy. China has now surpassed the United States as the largest destination in the world for foreign investment. While many U.S. businesses (and other multinationals) look eagerly to both the large Chinese market and the very low wages of Chinese workers, the U.S. labor movement has been focused on stopping the flow of U.S. production and jobs to China.
  2002. Chipko movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
  2003. Chipko Movement
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
  2004. Choices Facing African Americans
    First Published: 2017
    For African Americans, this campaign against Russia (and North Korea, Iran) is a diversion from more central issues including the right to vote.
  2005. CHO!CES Transformed
    A look back on a long and extraordinary mo(ve)ment
    First Published: 2000
    Kevin Matthews reflects back on CHO!CES, a coalition for social justice that to many has represented an exceptional moment in the history of the Canadian Left, and in the Winnipeg activist community's contribution to that history.
  2006. Chomsky clarifies position on the cultural boycott of Israel
    First Published: 2017
    Prof. Noam Chomsky makes the essential point: the presence of international artists in Israel is used by the government to cover up its occupation and human rights abuses.
  2007. Chomsky and His Critics
    First Published: 2015
    Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are "never far below the surface."
  2008. Chomsky in Mexico
    La Jornada at 25
    First Published: 2009
    September has been a big month for La Jornada. To celebrate its 25th birthday, the National Lottery offered a commemorative ticket as did the Mexico City Metro subway system, rare mainstream honors for a lefty rag, and notorious U.S. rabble rouser Noam Chomsky came to town to help cut the cake - along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez (a founding investor) and the much-lauded Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. The Jornada was founded in 1984 by itinerant journalists who had bounced from one short-lived left periodical to the next.
  2009. Chomsky, Noam
    Connexipedia Article
    American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. (Born 1928).
  2010. Chomsky on Civil Liberties, Obama and the Future of Progressive Politics
    Left of Left
    First Published: 2012
    Interview with America's premier political dissident Noam Chomsky.
  2011. Chomsky on Cuba: After Decades of U.S. Meddling & "Terrorism," Restoring Ties is Least We Could Do
    First Published: 2015
    Aaron Maté did an interview with Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now!. They talked about the thawing of U.S.-Cuba relations and U.S. meddling in Cuba.
  2012. Chomsky on Trump's Climate Denialism
    He wants us to march toward the destruction of the species
    First Published: 2016
    Transcript of an interview with Noam Chomsky discussing Donald Trump's denial of climate change and the dangers it poses.
  2013. Chomsky, Pilger and Loach call on BBC to reflect reality of Gaza's occupation
    First Published: 2014
    Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Ken Loach are among 45,000 signatories who have signed an open letter to the BBC calling on its journalists to reflect the reality of Gaza’s occupation while reporting on Israel’s current assault.
  2014. Noam Chomsky turns 70
    First Published: 1998
    Chomsky's immense contributions have helped me feel more optimistic and helped me keep my energies focused on activism.
  2015. Choosing Our Future
    Dr. Zofia Pakula Spring 2015 Lecture Series
    First Published: 2015
  2016. Chris Hedges and the black bloc
    First Published: 2012
    From its inception back in the European autonomist movements of the 1980s, the black-clad activists refuse to answer anybody outside of their ranks. Within the “affinity group”, everything is cool. Outside of it, who gives a shit? Ironically, this kind of elitism is not that different from the “vanguard party” posture which puts the needs of the sect above that of the mass movement.
  2017. Chris Hedges' Vision & Nightmare: Is There a Human Future?
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    There are few writers today who can bring to vision the articulate passion that Chris Hedges directs against the present corporate system; its vile and self-satisfied destructiveness, and the symboitic collusion between this structure of perversion and the betrayal engaged in by “the liberal class.” I believe this aspect of Hedges’ perspective is vitally important and obvious to any reader who begins with the sense that our political culture is in a descending spiral of decay.
  2018. Christian anarchism
    Connexipedia Article
    Any of several traditions which combine anarchism with Christianity.
  2019. Christian communism
    Wikipedia article
    Christian communism is a form of religious communism based on Christianity. It is a theological and political theory based upon the view that the teachings of Jesus Christ compel Christians to support communism as the ideal social system. Although there is no universal agreement on the exact date when Christian communism was founded, many Christian communists assert that evidence from the Bible suggests that the first Christians, including the Apostles, established their own small communist society in the years following Jesus' death and resurrection.
  2020. Christian Evangelicals Increasingly Support Palestinian Human Rights
    David Brog, the Attorney Behind CUFI
    First Published: 2014
    Support for Israel is eroding among American evangelical Christians, with only 30 percent in a recent survey stating support for Israel above Palestinians.
  2021. Christian Farmers Federation Publications
    First Published: 1977
  2022. The Christian Genocide During the Ottoman Empire Sounds a Dark Warning for the Future
    First Published: 2019
    Review and discussion of The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Zeevi.
  2023. Christian Høgsbjerg, C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (2014)
    First Published: 2014
    Scholarship on CLR James, the Pan African and independent socialist, often takes the tone of a thin cultural studies where political insight is minimal and factual detail rooted in archival sources is negligible. Grasping James’s role in intellectual and social movement history requires resisting the tendency to group him narrowly in the fields of “Marxism” or the “Black radical tradition.” These are invented frameworks, shorthand which obscures a limited knowledge of James’s actual innovation and creativity, in contrast to other representative figures, but also mystification of the reality of elite party politics and the self-directed liberating activity by ordinary people in insurgent movements regardless of color.
  2024. Christian left
    Wikipedia article
    The term Christian left refers to a spectrum of left-wing Christian political and social movements that largely embrace viewpoints described as social justice that upholds a social gospel.
  2025. Christian pacifism
    Connexipedia Article
    The theological and ethical position that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith.
  2026. Christian socialism
    Wikipedia article
    Christian socialism is a form of religious socialism based on the teachings of Jesus.
  2027. Christians at risk across the globe
    Pope has warned of a 'form of genocide' as threat of persecution grows, reports
    First Published: 2015
    Christians are facing growing persecution around the world, fuelled mainly by Islamic extremism and repressive governments, leading the pope to warn of "a form of genocide" and for campaigners to speak of "religioethnic cleansing".
  2028. Christians on the Left: The Importance of the Social Gospel in the Canadian Social Democratic Tradition
    First Published: 2011
    This article looks at the history of the Canadian social democratic movement and highlights the preponderant role played by leftist Christians. Finding their inspiration in a social interpretation of Christ's message, these Christians became heavily involved in the process of creating a new political party, clearly to the left of the political spectrum, and helped shape its discourse.
  2029. Christians, Church and People Called the Poor...
    First Published: 1978
  2030. Christiansbrunn
    Connexipedia Article
    The name of two religious communes in Pennsylvania, active between 1747 and 1796.
  2031. The Christmas Eve Calumet massacre, 1913
    A short history of the biggest mass murder in Michigan history: the massacre of 73 people, mostly the children of striking miners at a Christmas party on Christmas Eve in 1913.
  2032. Christmas in the Trenches
    First Published: 1984
    Lyrics to a song commemorating the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War I.
  2033. Christophe Guilluy, Le crepuscule de la France d'en haut: Book Review
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Le crepuscule de la France d'en haut, by Christophe Guilluy (2016).
  2034. Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
    First Published: 1990
    Columbus seen as a conqueror.
  2035. Christopher's Movie Matinee
    A Review by Christina Whyte
    First Published: 1969
    Seventeen year old Point Blank School student Christina Whyte reviews the National Film Board production "Christopher's Movie Matinee". Whyte screened the film at Point Blank and Everdale Schools and provides excerpts of the students' reactions.
  2036. Chronicle of a death online: Hate campaign from Muslim fundamentalist groups from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and West Asia against a Muslim woman writer
    First Published: 2015
    The case of Tamil Nadu journalist who was victim of online 'rape' and 'murder', perpetuated by Muslim fundamentalists.
  2037. Chronicle of a Labor Victory
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    Most union members see nothing but hugging and kissing between their leaders and their bosses on a daily basis. It takes a different kind of union to break with this culture, which has become second-nature to U.S. unions and is arguably the main reason for their current weakness. Leonard Riley’s longshore workers union in Charleston, South Carolina is a different kind of union, however, and On the Global Waterfront by Suzan Erem and Paul Durrenberger tells their gripping story.
  2038. Chronicle of a War Foretold
    First Published: 2022
  2039. Chronicle of Black Detroit
    Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination (Review)
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Herb Boyd's Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination.
  2040. Chronicles from the Front
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    This volume consists of carefully edited contemporary texts from the two U.S. socialists Lois and Charles Orr, who joined the revolutionary events in Spain after the outbreak of the Civil War, from fall 1936 to spring 1937. Two newlywed activists from the left wing of the U.S. Socialist Party, they had been traveling through Europe on their honeymoon when the news of the military revolt under General Franco reached them. They rushed to Barcelona not only to take a look but to become an active part of the workers’ revolution, which had erupted as the answer to the pro-Fascist coup.
  2041. Chronicling Labor's Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    The State of Working America is the Bible of liberals, labor, and often of the left. Like the Bible, few people read it from cover to cover; like the Bible, it is often consulted to back up an argument. The latest, 2008/2009, edition contains a host of useful facts, statistics, analyses, and arguments, essentially all of it based on pre-crash information but with an awareness that some kind of crash was coming upon us.
  2042. Chronology of the Nicaraguan Revolution
    First Published: 1997
  2043. Chronology of the Ukrainian Coup
    First Published: 2014
    The current record of events indicates that the protests were organized by reactionary neo-Nazi forces intent on fomenting a major domestic crisis ousting Ukraine's government. As events continue to spiral out of control, here is the chronology of how the coup was engineered to install a government more favourable to EU and US goals.
  2044. Church Presentation to the Annual Meetings of Three Canadian Banks
    Re: Loans to South Africa
    First Published: 1976
    A statement questioning the morality of loaning money to a racist South African government.
  2045. The Churches, The West and the Fight Against Racism
    Could Our Assumptions be Racist? Transforming our Fight into a Quest for Values
    First Published: 1980
  2046. Chávez and the Communal State
    On the Transition to Socialism in Venezuela
    First Published: 2015
    Bellamy Foster examines Chávez's El Golpe de Timón (“Strike at the Helm”) speech where he insists on the need for changes at the top in order to promote an immediate leap forward in the creation of what is referred to as “the communal state.”
  2047. The CIA and Questions of Torture
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    Alfred W. McCoy's A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror is a chilling, eerily fascinating account of how the CIA used physical and psychological torture as a method of interrogation.
  2048. The CIA and the "Peace Process" - Interview
    First Published: 1999
    A controversial feature of the torturously negotiated and implemented "Wye Plantation Agreement" is the direct, overt role assigned to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in monitoring Palestinian Authority (PA) implementation of the "security provisions."
  2049. The CIA and the Art of the "Un-Cover-Up"
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2014
    Down the decades the CIA has approached perfection in the art of the "un-cover-up". The "uncover-up" is a process whereby, with all due delay, the agency first denies with passion then concedes in profoundly muffled tones charges leveled against it. One familiar feature in the "uncover-up" paradigm is the frequently made statement by CIA-friendly journalists that "no smoking gun" has been detected in whatever probe is under review.
  2050. The CIA and the Drones
    How the Agency Became "One Hell of a Killing Machine"
    First Published: 2011
  2051. CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
    First Published: 2017
    Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.
  2052. CIA Experiments in Torture
    First Published: 2010
    Over the last year there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" torture program, there was a related program experimenting with and researching the application of the torture.
  2053. The CIA in Ukraine
    First Published: 2017
    Edited excerpt from "The CIA as Organized Crime", by Douglas Valentine, detailing the CIA's activities in Ukraine and influence on political movements there.
  2054. CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured
    First Published: 2016
    The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal. A former US official who had seen some of the photographs described them as “very gruesome”.
  2055. CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
    First Published: 2016
    The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prepared to kidnap Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed illegal and unconstitutional mass spying by the National Security Agency (NSA), documents obtained by the Danish media outlet Denfri show.
  2056. The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network
    First Published: 2016
    Last week, the Washington Post published a scurrilous piece by a heretofore obscure technology reporter named Craig Timberg, alleging without the faintest evidence that Russian intelligence was using more than 200 independent news sites to pump out pro-Putin and anti-Clinton propaganda during the election campaign.
  2057. The CIA Reads French Theory
    On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left
    First Published: 2017
    A recently unclassifed CIA documents reveals that in the 1980s, the agency had its analysts devote substantial time and resources to studying trends in French theory, and specifically, the work that writers like Michel Foucault, Jacques, and Roland Barthes were doing in undermining the Marxist left. The CIA saw this trend as beneficial to the maintenance of American power, and capitalism generally, because it undermind the idea that there could or should be fundamental revolutionary change.
  2058. CIA set up Mandela
    First Published: 1990
  2059. CIA sneak undetectable 'malicious' implants onto Windows OS - WikiLeaks
    First Published: 2017
    Windows machines are targeted by the CIA under 'Angelfire,' according to the latest release from WikiLeaks' 'Vault7' series. The documents detail an implant that can allow Windows machines to create undetectable libraries.
  2060. CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
    First Published: 2015
    Over 60 inmates at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
  2061. CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
    First Published: 2015
    Over 60 inmates at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
  2062. The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media.
    First Published: 2021
    In totalitarian dictatorships, the government spy agency tells the news media what stories to run, and the news media unquestioningly publish it. In free democracies, the government spy agency says “Hoo buddy, have I got a scoop for you!” and the news media unquestioningly publish it.
  2063. CIA wrote code 'to impersonate' Russia's Kaspersky Lab anti-virus company, WikiLeaks says
    First Published: 2017
    WikiLeaks published documents exposing the elaborated malware suite used by the CIA to hack, record and control modern hi-tech appliances worldwide.
  2064. The CIA's Death Machine at Work (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    In compelling detail, two leading civil rights attorneys — both leaders of the Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) — recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most popular revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara. Using internal U.S. governmental documentation, only recently released, the authors use their forensic skills to analyze the evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the execution of a war prisoner captured alive.
  2065. The CIA's Memory Prison
    A Perverse Logic
    First Published: 2013
    The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has classified them as secret national security information. This means the prisoners’ personal stories, recollections and experiences cannot be told in any open court, recounted to journalists or human rights groups, nor can they be heard by international bodies like the United Nations.
  2066. The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
    First Published: 2014
    A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
  2067. The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
    First Published: 2017
    In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
  2068. CIDA programme for ENGOs
    First Published: 1991
  2069. Ciência e seus inimigos
    First Published: 2016
  2070. The CIO: From reform to reaction
    First Published: 1973
    In popular mythology, the CIO was a revolutionary union in the tradition of the IWW. In actuality, the CIO was created by those opposed to the kind of working class self-activity best embodied in the U.S. by the IWW. This article by E. Jones, from Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal (number 6; n.d.; c. 1970s), critiques the CIO's reactionary role in containing class struggle militancy.
  2071. Ciompi Revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    Was a popular revolt in late medieval Florence by wool carders known as ciompi, who rose up in 1378 to demand a voice in the commune's ordering.
  2072. Circle in the Darkness Book Review
    Review of Diana Johnstone's memoir Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher
    First Published: 2021
    Johnstone says: "If I must claim a label, it owuld be that of an independent truth-seeker."
  2073. CISPES: Radical, Pragmatic, and Successful
    First Published: 1994
    Van Gosse analyzes the reasons for CISPES' success in developing a fresh and tenacious approach to solidarity work. Originally published in Crossroads Special Issue on El Salvador Solidarity, Spring 1994.
  2074. Cité libre
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Was an influential political journal published in Quebec, Canada, through the 1950s and 1960s.
  2075. Cities for People
    First Published: 1999
    How two experiments in participatory democracy have transformed the political culture in Brazil and Uruguay.
  2076. Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
    First Published: 2016
    In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
  2077. Citizen Involvement in Housing and Community: An Action Research Design
    First Published: 1976
    A proposal for funding a housing inventory network to deal with the housing crisis in Edmonton.
  2078. Citizen journalism
    Connexipedia Article
  2079. Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
    First Published: 2015
    The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
  2080. "Citizens Coalition" loses
    First Published: 1992
  2081. Citizens Counter-Conference on Energy and Northern Development
    First Published: 1976
    Report on the proceedings of the '76 "Citizens Counter-Conference".
  2082. Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
  2083. Citizen's Guide
    First Published: 1988
  2084. A Citizen's Guide to Combating Election Propaganda: Debunking Anti-Welfare Myths
    First Published: 2016
    The goal moving forward must be to create a critical citizen consciousness, so the masses don't simply "accept what they're told" once every four years by the pretty faces running for office. What follows is a primer for readers to help in their conversations with friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and family, to fight back against the racist, classist propaganda so often employed against disadvantaged groups in the U.S.
  2085. Citizens Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs
    A Human Right, Not a Commodity
    First Published: 2015
    New Jersey became the latest state to subvert democracy by authorizing the fast-track sale or lease of water utilities without public notice, comment, or approval. The controversial decision highlights the intensifying struggle over who owns, controls, and profits from the most precious - and threatened - resource on Earth.
  2086. Citizens Plus
    This booklet outlines the century-long struggle by the Nishga people to retain their own 5,750 square miles of the Naas River Valley and its watershed in northwestern British Columbia.
  2087. Citizens Protest Lack of Consultation about Canadian Mine in San Jose del Progresso
    Popular Forces Occupy City Hall and Threaten to Incinerate Hostages
    First Published: 2009
    Inhabitants of San José del Progresso, in the district of Ocotlán, affiliated with the Assembly of People United for the Valley of Ocotlán in Defense of Nature and Popular Autonomy, and opposed to the operation of the Canadian owned mine La Trinidad, escalated their battle with the assistance of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca, the APPO.
  2088. Citizens worldwide mobilize against corporate water grabs
    First Published: 2015
    The US and other governments are pushing a failed model of water privatization, but water is a human right, not just a commodity to be traded for profit or monopolized by corporations. Citizens and communities are fighting back to reclaim their water commons.
  2089. Citizenship Training and Development
    First Published: 1990
  2090. Le Citoyen -Journal du Rassemblement du Citoyens de Montreal-St Louis
    First Published: 1978
  2091. 'City of Surveillance': Google-backed smart city sounds like a dystopian nightmare
    First Published: 2018
    A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – wants to turn that wasteland into a prototype ‘city of the future,’ where data helps planners micromanage every aspect of urban life.
  2092. The City That Bleeds
    Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising
    First Published: 2016
    The killing of black teenager Freddie Gray by six police officers resulted in a civic uprising, and spotlights a history of brutality and bloodshed by police in the city of Baltimore.
  2093. The 'Civic Death' of Dominicans of Haitian Descent
    First Published: 2015
    Imagine being born in a country and then being told you have no rights as a citizen; that you're not wanted there. That is exactly what has been happening to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
  2094. Civic Journalism
    Connexipedia Article
  2095. The Civic Movement in South Africa: Popular Politics, Then and Now
    First Published: 1997
    The tradition of democracy within the progressive movement in South Africa remains alive and well, judging not only by the recent, high-profile contestation of ANC provincial elections, but also by grassroots democratic impulses within the civic movement.
  2096. Civil disobedience
    Connexipedia Article
    The active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence.
  2097. Civil Disobedience
    Originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"
    First Published: 1849
    An essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849 which argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.
  2098. Civil Disobedience: A Radical Critique
    First Published: 1983
    Gary Moffatt argues that while appearing to be radical in that they represent a more complete commitment of the participants to changing government policy than the work of the mainstream peace movement, sitdowns fail to challenge and in some respects reinforce the legitmacy of the military state.
  2099. Civil liberties body condemns sign law
    First Published: 1992
  2100. Civil Liberties on Trial
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    Lynne F. Stewart, 65, a lawyer noted for representing political defendants, was convicted on February 10th of five charges: two counts of conspiracy, a count of providing and concealing material support to terrorist activity and two counts of making false statements. Convicted of felony charges, Stewart was immediately disbarred. She is out on bail until her July sentencing date; her lawyers will file an appeal in early March.
  2101. Civil Rights Movement Is a Reminder That Free Speech Is There to Protect the Weak
    First Published: 2017
    The importance of First Amendment rights is examined, and even while those rights do protect actions of the powerful, the author argues that it is ultimately the poor and powerless who beneffit from it's protection.
  2102. Civil Rights, Poverty and Capitalism
    First Published: 2014
    Oppenheimer examines poverty in the United Stated during the 20th century and analyses the power structures that have prevented improvements to the basic living standards in American society.
  2103. The Civil War in Switzerland
    First Published: 1847
  2104. 'Civilising' the 'Blacks'; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
    First Published: 1936
    Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. Each movement will neglect the other at its peril.
  2105. Civilization Will Triumph Over Barbarism
    First Published: 2024
    The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone's eyes were glued to the TV broadcast of the McCarthy hearings.
  2106. Claiming the Power to Resist
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    Stories and storytelling have power. Stories can help us understand each other as subjects, narrators and protagonists of our own experiences, rather than as objects that are simply being acted upon by forces outside of our control.
  2107. Claims that the 'NAFTA 2' Agreement is Better are a Macabre Joke
    First Published: 2020
    Although Democrats and public pressure forced through some improvements, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), or NAFTA 2, isn't substantially different and remains a document of corporate domination. It would appear that appearances, not substance, drove Democrats in the House of Representatives to approve the deal.
  2108. Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
    First Published: 2003
  2109. Clapper Calls for Arming Ukrainian Forces: Who Would That Actually Empower?
    First Published: 2015
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has long said that the Ukrainian coup of last year, and the subsequent regime in Kiev, is driven by ultra-nationalists, fascists, and even neo-Nazi factions. The Russian TV outlet RT also frequently refers to "the active role far-right groups have played on the pro-government side in Ukraine since the violent coup of the last year."
  2110. Clara Zetkin
    Oppression, Class, and Socialism
    First Published: 2014
    Lindsey German responds to John Riddell's article, 'Clara Zetkin in the Lion’s Den'.
  2111. Clara Zetkin in the Lion's Den
    First Published: 2014
    John Riddell looks at Clara Zetkin a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights and her fight for workers’ unity and feminism at a Comintern congress.
  2112. Clarion Alley Confronts a Lack of Concern
    First Published: 2018
    Clarion Alley's thought-provoking, provocative, clever and often political art was created by those determined to leave a record of their existence and experience and to give voice to marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
  2113. Clarke, Tony
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Canadian social justice advocate. (Born 1944).
  2114. La clase trabajadora y el cambio social
    First Published: 1976
  2115. Class and Race: Life and Death Situations
    First Published: 1991
    Looking at the impact of race and class as health determinants.
  2116. Class and the African-American Leadership Crisis
    First Published: 1996
    This market economy can't solve the real problems of African Americans. Worse, the scapegoating of society's most vulnerable members (immigrants, people of color, women and gays) is on the rise.
  2117. Class Bias in Toronto Schools
    Downtown Kids Aren't Dumb: They Need A Better Program
    First Published: 1971
    A brief by the Park School community council addressing the streaming of poor and working class children into the bottom levels of the school system. These children, the brief says, have badly developed basic skills, particularly in reading and writing. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
  2118. Class and class struggle in China today
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of the transformed economy in China and the consequent changes in class relations, and how the Communist Party has managed to maintain its rule.
  2119. Class conflict
    Wikipedia article
    Class conflict, frequently referred to as class warfare or class struggle, is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests and desires between people of different classes. The view that the class struggle provides the lever for radical social change for the majority is central to the work of Karl Marx and the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.
  2120. The Class Conflict in Venezuela
    A Classic Struggle of Left v. Right
    First Published: 2014
    The current protests in Venezuela are reminiscent of another historical moment when street protests were used by right-wing politicians as a tactic to overthrow the elected government. It was December of 2002, and I was struck by the images on U.S. television of what was reported as a “general strike,” with shops closed and streets empty.
  2121. Class consciousness
    Connexipedia Article
    Consciousness of one's social class or economic rank in society.
  2122. Class Consciousness
    First Published: 1920
  2123. Class Dismissed: Identity Politics Without The Identity
    First Published: 2017
    In a capitalist society, work is at the core of identity, In the United States there are sharply divergent attitudes between professionals and the working class.
  2124. Class exists
    First Published: 1989
  2125. Class Is in Session
    First Published: 2016
    Millennials are better educated than ever. They also overwhelmingly identify as working class.
  2126. Class is More Intersectional than Intersectionality 
    First Published: 2016
    The Left as it exists currently is often ashamed of and apologetic for its class struggle orientation, chasing after demographic-specific oppression issues. An approach that leans toward greater emphasis on a class struggle focus is actually more intersectional than a focus which gives more attention to demographic-specific issues than to class.
  2127. Class, Party and the Challenge of State Transformation
    First Published: 2017
    An essay examining the challenges of changing the state and status quo following major crises of capitalism, and how the current neoliberal status quo has persisted through the various crises it has presented.
  2128. Class Politics in Palestine
    First Published: 1939
    Zionism is a factor that weakens the class struggle of the Jewish masses, and strengthens the reaction outside of Palestine as well as the reactionary forces in Palestine. Jewish immigration into Palestine, which is mainly an immigration of workers, strengthens, on the one side, the power and weight of the working class in the country, the power which, regarded historically, is the most extreme anti-imperialist factor and, cm the other hand, in so far as it is Zionist, it strengthens the exclusivist positions and the forces of imperialism in Palestine.
  2129. Class & Race in A Modern Catastrophe: Lessons of Katrina
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophic disaster that resulted in over eighteen hundred fatalities, the displacement of at least 1.2 million people, and economic losses that are not yet finally accounted, but may approach $100 billion. Approximately 2.5 million residences were damaged by the category three storm that made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005.
  2130. Class Struggle and Nation
    First Published: 1912
    Does the bourgeoisie really have an interest in putting an end to national struggles? Not at all, it has the greatest interest in not putting an end to them, especially since the class struggle has reached a high point. Just like religious antagonisms, national antagonisms constitute excellent means to divide the proletariat, to divert its attention from the class struggle with the aid of ideological slogans and to prevent its class unity.
  2131. Class Struggle at Air France
    First Published: 2015
    On Monday, about 100 employees stormed an Air France management and union official meeting that was discussing dramatic job cuts. As the negotiations had been making no progress, the staff became angry, and tussled with some company officials.
  2132. Class Struggle at the Waistline
    First Published: 2013
    The obesity rate has soared not because lower income earners lack the knowledge to eat wisely, but because they have lost power over the economic conditions of their lives.
  2133. Class Struggle Beyond Unionism: Boston-Area Public Workers' Ferment, 1981-82
    First Published: 1993
  2134. Class Struggle in the Unemployment Capital of Europe: Lower Andalucia, 1995-96
    First Published: 1996
  2135. Class Struggle in Vietnam: From the Colonial Yoke to Wage Slavery for Global Capital
    Wildcat Strikes in Vietnam
    First Published: 2012
    An alternation of repression and concessions is only one element among many of the whole apparatus of control and domination by the CPV. In the last analysis, it is repression which wins out, ranging from direct military and police force to administrative detention, from constant surveillance of the conversations and writings of the population to an ever stricter control of the use of such modern means as cell phones and the Internet.
  2136. Class Struggle in Vietnam: From the Colonial Yoke to Wage Slavery for Global Capital
    First Published: 2012
    Struggles which have unfolded since the first big strike wave in Vietnam in 2006.
  2137. Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part Two
    Marxism vs. the Myth of "White Skin Privilege"
    First Published: 2015
    The victory of the socialist revolution in this country will be achieved through the united struggle of black and white workers.
  2138. Class Unionism
    First Published: 1905   Published: 1909
  2139. The Class War at Home
    The Rich Getting Richer
    First Published: 2010
    There is a class war – the war of the rich on the poor and the middle class – and the rich are winning.
  2140. Class War in the British Labour Party
    Tories, Blairites Turn the Screws on Jeremy Corbyn
    First Published: 2016
    Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the British Labour Party last September, the party has been in a state of internal class warfare. Corbyn is a decades-long member of old Labour’s left wing and is hugely popular among working people. Pitted against Corbyn and his followers are the vast majority of Labour Members of Parliament (MPs) who uphold the legacy of Tony Blair and are unashamedly committed to "free-market" capitalist exploitation and imperialist military slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.

    ...

    James Bronterre O’Brien, an Irish-born leader of the Chartists, gave voice to the need for the working class to fight in its own interests instead of begging its oppressors:

    "My motto is... 'What you take you may have.' I will not attempt to deal with the abstract question of right, but will proceed to show that it is POWER, solid, substantial POWER, that the millions must obtain and retain, if they would enjoy the produce of their own labour and the privileges of freemen."
  2141. Class War in the Confederacy
    Why Free State of Jones Matters
    First Published: 2016
    Free State of Jones may well be the most politically important film about the civil war and its aftermath to appear in a quarter century. Free State of Jones is a proper antidote to identitarian thinking, which has mystified popular understandings of the past, and how we approach political action in the present. In contrast to the prevailing view among so many nowadays that racism has always been and continues to be the main barrier to any progressive left politics, this film reminds us of a more complex history, where anti-slavery politics, Radical Republicanism and mass action created the short-lived progress of Reconstruction.
  2142. Class war in the making? Coronavirus quarantines pit well-off hermits against serfs who supply them
    First Published: 2020
    Coronavirus has exposed stark divides in US society as the wealthy hole up in their homes and the poor are reduced to delivering their supplies in often-unsafe conditions. With mass layoffs underway, is class war imminent?
  2143. Class War on New Ground
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of Kim Moody's New Terrain, a book looking at how capitalism has changed and how left wing organizing must adapt.
  2144. Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part One
    The Roots of Black Oppression
    First Published: 2015
    The purpose of this talk is to motivate a Marxist materialist program for the fight for black freedom as opposed to the idealism embodied in both black nationalism and guilty white liberalism, including the concept of “white skin privilege,” which falsely substitutes individual psychology for struggle against the racial oppression rooted in the capitalist profit system. We fight for black freedom on the program of revolutionary integration including mobilizing the working class against every manifestation of racial oppression. This approach is counterposed to liberal integration, which is premised on the utopian notion that equality for black people can be attained within the confines of this class society founded on black oppression.
  2145. Classic Book: Frankenstein
    First Published: 2012
    A look at the continuing relevance of Mary Shelley's classic to debates about science, technology and nature today.
  2146. A Classic Study Revisited
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    Pierre Broué (1926-2005) was one of the few Trotskyist historians who carved out a niche in academia, though this career choice had to overcome many obstacles. Coming of age at a time in France when the historical profession mostly consisted of either conservative anti-communists or historians closely linked to the milieu of the hard-line French Communist Party, Broué, a long-time member of the Lambertiste current within French Trotskyism (until his expulsion in 1989), from early on had to learn to fight on his own.
  2147. Classical Marxism and the Question of Reformism
    Gluckstein, Donny
    First Published: 2014
    A central issue for our movement is whether to work towards a complete revolutionary overturning of capitalism and the state that protects it, or rely on partial methods of struggle. This choice is obvious in places such as Egypt or Greece, but applies with equal force to Britain where defence of the welfare state and living standards can mean waiting for the next election or relying on self-activity from below. This article will focus on the response of Marxists during the first quarter of the 20th century to this question.
  2148. Claude McKay's Lost Novel
    Review of Amiable with Big Teeth; Against the Current vol. 192
    First Published: 2018
    Review of Amiable with Big Teeth, a novel by the African-American revolutionary activist and writer Claude McKay.
  2149. Clausewitz on the Pampas: An Argentine Snapshot as Latin America Moves Leftward
    First Published: 2006
  2150. Clayton Ruby was a shining example of ‘how much one person can do
    First Published: 2022
    Clayton Ruby was one of Canada’s leading lawyers and an outspoken proponent of social justice, the environment, and press freedom.
  2151. Cleaning Toilets for Jesus
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of the job-readiness program called Jobs for Life. Founded in 1996 in North Carolina, JFL is a global nonprofit organization premised on the belief that the local church is the ideal solution to unemployment and poverty.
  2152. Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News Source
    First Published: 2016
    In first world countries, Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming the main places where people come across their news -- ahead of television and news sites. "Success" is becoming about the number of reads, shares, likes, upvotes, and re-tweets -- making it easy to lose sight of what really defines the usefulness of an article: political impact.
  2153. Client Rights in Psychotherapy and Counselling
    A 48 page handbook of client rights and therapist responsibility. It has been developed by the Client Rights Project, a Toronto based non-profit community coalition between Feminist Advocates for Counselling Ethics (FACE), Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape (TRCC/MWAR), and Women's Counselling Referral and Education Centre (WCREC) for the prevention of client violation. An educational tool that assists both clients and therapists in understanding the ethical framework of the counselling relationship.
  2154. Cliff, Tony - Archive - Index
    Writings of Tony Cliff (1917-2000).
  2155. Cliffites Deal in Religious Opiate
    First Published: 2007
    All religions and all religious organizations serve to mystify and obscure the class basis of oppression in capitalist society.
  2156. Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding
    First Published: 2015
    Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding.
  2157. Climate Activists Slapped With Terrorism Charges for Devon Energy Protest
    First Published: 2014
    Two climate activists who staged a protest at the headquarters of Devon Energy, a Fortune 500 company based in Oklahoma city, have been charged with a “terrorism hoax” after black powder drifted down from a banner that they unfurled.
  2158. Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers
    First Published: 2019
    The "climate countermovement" direct massive resources towards denying the reality of climate change. Climate advocates need to address their opposition's tactics to be able to combat this misinformation.
  2159. Climate Change as a Class Issue
    First Published: 2013
    Protesting PNC Bank in Pittsburgh financing of mountain-top removal (MTR) coal mining across Appalachia. MTR causes increased cancer rates and birth defects, as well as massive environmental degradation.
  2160. Climate Change As A Weapon Of Mass Destruction
    The 95% Doctrine
    First Published: 2014
  2161. Climate Change As Genocide
    First Published: 2017
    Is this what a world battered by climate change will be like—one in which tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people perish from disease, starvation, and heat prostration while the rest of us, living in less exposed areas, essentially do nothing to prevent their annihilation?
  2162. Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin America
    First Published: 2018
    In Latin America and the Caribbean region's first meeting of Week of Agriculture and Food, held in November 2018, more than 1,000 officials and experts agreed that the fall in agricultural yields and increasing migration from the countryside are consequences of global warming.
  2163. Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
    First Published: 2013
    Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the world.
  2164. Climate Change: A Radical Primer
    Capitalism and Climate Change: The Science and Politics of Global Warming
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of David Klein's Capitalism and Climate Change: The Science and Politics of Global Warming.
  2165. Climate Change and Rivers
    Though large hydropower projects are often presented as a "clean and green" source of energy, nothing could be further from the truth: River-wrecking dams are the wrong choice for a warming world.
  2166. Climate Change: A Socialist Solution
    First Published: 2019
    A lot has been written, including by myself, on why capitalism, by its very nature, cannot tackle or stop climate change. The purpose of this article is not to repeat those arguments but to make the positive case for socialism as necessary to deal with this existential crisis for humanity.
  2167. Climate change: the eco-socialist solution
    First Published: 2009
    Climate change reminds us, in a phrase attributed to Lao Tzu, that "if you don't change direction you may end up where you are heading." The road of capitalism is now lined with horrors and we must find a new direction home. After a long absence, sustainability must be restored to the relationship between society and nature.
  2168. Climate Change: Why we can't trust mainstream media
    First Published: 2021
    A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate. Explains How and why mainstream media minimizes climate change.
  2169. Climate and competitiveness in the tar sands
    First Published: 2015
    Anytime the oil barons and baronesses are smiling for the cameras with NGOs and politicians, we should at least be interested, if not outright worried. Was the release of Alberta’s new climate change strategy just an occasion for the oil execs to ham it up for the cameras pretending all is well or do they have truly something to be smiling about?
  2170. Climate Crisis Hits Pakistani Women
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    Pakistan is among the countries that will be hit hardest in the near future by effects of climate change, even though it contributes only a fraction to global warming. The country is witnessing severe pressures on natural resources and environment. This warning has recently come from the mouth of Pakistan’s prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, who alarmed the countrymen by disclosing that Pakistan is the 12th most vulnerable country in the world to environmental degradation.
  2171. Climate Crisis - The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
    First Published: 2011
    We find that Britain and the US - the two countries responding most aggressively to alleged 'threats' to human security in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya - are also the two countries least interested in responding to the very real threat of climate change.
  2172. Climate Crisis, the Deindustrialization Imperative and the Jobs vs. Environment Dilemma 
    First Published: 2014
    So long as we live under capitalism, today, tomorrow, next year and every year thereafter, economic growth will always be the overriding priority till we barrel right off the cliff to collapse.
  2173. Climate Crisis Threatens Food Security of Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Maldives, Togo, Comoros, and Many Other Countries
    First Published: 2012
    Climate crisis is threatening seafood and fish in gulfs, seas, and oceans. As a result, countries dependent mainly on fish and seafood are threatened.
  2174. Climate deal lacks strategies critical to achieving promised results
    First Published: 2015
    It's easy to be swept-up in the feeling of accomplishment the COP21 agreement promises, especially with the enthusiastic response of the media, politicians, and celebrities involved. Unfortunately, while it is a victory for so many countries to come together and unanimously agree that something should be done, this is not the first time such promises have been made.
  2175. The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
    First Published: 2009
    The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
  2176. Climate Deniers are More Dangerous Than Trump and More Deadly Than ISIS
    First Published: 2015
    So Rep. Lamar Smith (D-Tx.) finally got his NOAA emails. What he really should get is a jail sentence for crimes against humanity. He, and the other climate deniers like him who hold positions of power, are arguably more dangerous than Donald Trump and more deadly than ISIS.
  2177. Climate Jobs for All 
    Building Block for the Green New Deal
    First Published: 2018
    This article discusses the federal jobs guarantee (JG) concept which is also known as "jobs for all." The advocates of JG generally include climate protection as one of many types of work beneficial to the public that might be included in a jobs guarantee program.
  2178. Climate Jobs for All
    Building Block for the Green New Deal
    First Published: 2018
    A federal climate jobs guarantee (CJG) is a proposed program similar to the New Deal's WPA that would prioritize jobs that protect and improve the environment. Polls show that the program has popular support and could be a major political force in 2020.
  2179. Climate Justice and Palestine: the New Intersectionality
    First Published: 2016
    The repeated failures of international and governmental agencies to effectively deal with the disastrous changes that threaten the entire planet have sparked local indigenous and small farmer activism from Bolivia to Palestine.
  2180. "Climate Justice" and the Left: The Necessity of a Mass Movement
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    The climate crisis -- a crisis not of civilization, as some commentators would have it, but of capitalist production -- requires a political response that is long overdue, and is finally stirring. Now that the movement against global warming is brewing, socialists must get involved.
  2181. Climate justice and the prospect of power
    First Published: 2016
    A balance sheet of the movement to block the cross-Toronto 'Line 9' pipeline project. With notes on the meaning of "climate justice" and the relationship of socialism to social movements.
  2182. Climate justice and migration in the media
    First Published: 2018
    A climate justice narrative is needed to communicate and enhance public understanding of migration induced by climate change. Key components must include human rights protection, greater equity in burdens sharing, and participation in decision-making processes.
  2183. Climate justice movement shakes Canada's New Democratic Party
    First Published: 2016
    The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention, argues Richard Fidler, opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.
  2184. Climate Justice Transitions
    First Published: 2016
    The devastating fires in Fort McMurray show the urgent need to transition to an economy that supports people and the planet, and this is part of a transition in climate justice politics.
  2185. Climate litigation looms
    Interview
    First Published: 2018
    Nick Breeze interviews Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), who explains why we must stay below 1.5C, and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24.
  2186. Climate Migrants Lead Mass Migration to India's Cities
    First Published: 2016
    South Asia will be severely impacted by climate change and cause challenges that the government must resolve.
  2187. The Climate Movement Doesn’t Know How to Talk With Union Members About Green Jobs
    First Published: 2020
    Throughout the Democratic primary, the potential loss of good construction and fossil fuel industry jobs has helped prevent moderate Democratic candidates, including frontrunner Joe Biden, from taking policy positions that would aggressively confront the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis. Whoever opposes Donald Trump in the general election will face a politics of climate denial built on an empty but alluring promise of job security in the oil, gas, and coal industries.
  2188. A climate of fear endangers press freedom
    First Published: 2009
    Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
  2189. Climate politics must be as radical as the climate crisis 
    First Published: 2013
    If the climate action movement allows its goals to be shaped by what is permissible in a capitalist economy then it has already failed. To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality. Revolutionary changes needed for humankind to survive and thrive.
  2190. Climate Scientists: 'Net Zero' is a dangerous trap 
    First Published: 2021
    The only way to keep humanity safe is by immediately and radically cutting emissions in a socially just way.
  2191. Climate Struggles and Ecosocialism
    First Published: 2017
    The hard right U.S. administration of Donald Trump has widened the terrain of struggle over climate change and, indeed, the entire array of environmental issues facing the ecology of North America and the working class movement.
  2192. Climate Technofix: Weaving Carbon into Gold and Other Myths of "negative emissions"
    First Published: 2015
    When the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) published their most recent fifth assessment report, something surprising and deeply disturbing was lurking in the small print in chapter three on “mitigation”.
  2193. Climate-Driven 'Bugpocalypse'
    First Published: 2018
    An alarming report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that in addition to annihilating hundreds of mammal species, the climate crisis has also sparked a global "bugpocalypse" that will only continue to accelerate in the absence of action to stop planetary warming.
  2194. La cliniques des citoyens de St-Jacques
    First Published: 1980
  2195. Clinton, Assange and the War on Truth
    First Published: 2017
    An overview of an interview with Hilary Clinton by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to promote her score-settling book about why she was not elected President of the United States.
  2196. Clinton lost because PA, WI, and MI have high casualty rates and saw her as pro-war, study says
    First Published: 2017
    A new study appears to show that Hilary Clinton lost the battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan in the 2016 presidential election because they had some of the highest casualty rates during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and voters there saw Clinton as the pro-war candidate.
  2197. Clinton Manipulates Language of Intersectionality to Preserve Support from Minority Voters 
    First Published: 2016
    The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of "intersectionality," which enables the political class to head off threats to their power and protect the status quo.
  2198. Clinton's Defeat and the Fake News Conspiracy
    First Published: 2016
    Debunking the scapegoating of 'fake news' by the corporate media following the 2016 US elections as a tactic by the media and Democratic party establishment to avoid blame for Hillary Clinton's election loss.
  2199. Les Clochards et le systeme penal
    First Published: 1980
  2200. The Clock is Ticking
    First Published: 2023
    With landmark anniversaries of the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine, and the failure to address global heating, Chomsky argues that ninety seconds to midnight (the new set time for the doomsday clock, a universally recognized indicator of world's vulnerability to global catastrophe) may be too generous an appraisal.
  2201. Close Calls: We Were Much Closer to Nuclear Annihilation Than We Ever Knew
    First Published: 2016
    The proposition that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never used -- accidentally or by decision -- defies credibility. This unanimous statement was published by the Canberra Commission in 1996. Among the commission members were internationally known former ministers of defense and of foreign affairs and generals.
  2202. Close the IMF, Abolish Debt and End Development
    A Class Analysis of the International Debt Crisis
    First Published: 1996
    The struggle for repudiation of the debt must be organized internationally and demand not only the collective refusal of debt but cooperation in developing policies to cope with possible reprisals and to create space for the elaboration of creative alternatives to development. I am not talking about an international organization of governments, but rather of the international organization of popular struggle around the debt issue in order to limit state options and force actions in the interests of the working class.
  2203. Clothing-optional bike ride
    Wikipedia article
    A clothing-optional bike ride is a cycling event in which nudity is permitted or expected. There are many clothing-optional cycling events around the world. Some rides are political, recreational, artistic or a unique combination.
  2204. The Clouds Clear: Labor, Seattle and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    As the clouds of teargas lifted from the streets of Seattle two images emerged in public consciousness: The edifice of the WTO brought crashing to its knees, simultaneously revealing an odd Lilliputian army of labor, environmental, church and assorted activists that had appeared out of nowhere to assault what had been presumed to be an unassailable new world order.
  2205. C.L.R. James
    First Published: 1990
  2206. C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
    Against The Current vol. 90
    First Published: 2001
    C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heaviest responsibility for me,” is a sententious political statement. It abounds with meanings, standing at once as an alluring paradox and a striking truism.
  2207. C. L. R. James and His Times
    Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James
    First Published: 2017
    Review of the Worldwrite documentary film Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James.
  2208. CLR James, Frantz Fanon And The Meaning of Liberation
    First Published: 2012
    A look at the Haitan Revolution and its place in history.
  2209. CLR James rejected the posturing of identity politics
    First Published: 2018
    C.L.R. James railed against the superficial nonsense that masquerades as 'anti-racism.'
  2210. C.L.R. James' Visionary Legacy
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    In order to understand the connection between Black History Month and revolution, we must explode the stifling separation between art and everyday life that bourgeois society everywhere seeks to impose on us.
  2211. C.L.R. James's Conflicted Intellectual Legacies on Mao Tse Tung's China
    First Published: 2013
    On the evolution of C.L.R. James’s thoughts about Maoism.
  2212. Club War (Cudgel War)
    Connexipedia Article
    A 1596 peasant uprising in the kingdom of Sweden against exploitation by nobility and military in what is today Finland.
  2213. CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack
    First Published: 2015
    Much of the world spent the last 48 hours expressing revulsion at the U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. It was quite clear early on that the perpetrator of the attack was the U.S., and many media outlets and other organizations around the world have been stating this without any difficulties.
  2214. CNN: "Russia is an Adversary, Ukraine is Not."
    First Published: 2017
    Monday morning. David Chalian, CNN Political Director, on CNN's "New Day" program. News ticker: "How do Trump-Russia and DNC-Ukraine compare?" New Day co-anchor Alysin Camerota (former Fox anchor) puts the question to her Political Director. Chalian's mechanical reply: "Russia is an adversary, Ukraine is not."
  2215. CNSP Review 1974-75; Canada in an International Context
    First Published: 1976
    An analysis of developments in Canadian society based on newspaper coverage.
  2216. Co-op Du Possible Sherbrooke
    An experience in Co-operative Self Reliance
    First Published: 1977
    This report, written by Jacques Segin, Clay (May 1977) relates the experiences of the co-operative du Possible, a seven building housing co-operative of 44 adult and child members in Sherbrooke, Quebec, founded in 1970. It contains information on its history, management, and neighbourhood oriented goals.
  2217. Co-ops. are People
    First Published: 1977
    This brochure outlines six principles of co-operative organizing. These look at membership, distribution of savings among members, limited interest in investments, and education.
  2218. Co-operative Co-ownership Corporations: Legislative Proposals
    First Published: 1978
    This bound set of notes embodies the discussion paper used in a Symposium held on November 16 - 17, 1978 in Edmonton.
  2219. CO2 Emissions are Being 'Outsourced' by Rich Countries to Rising Economies
    First Published: 2014
    Greenhouse gas output of China and elsewhere is increased by making goods that are then used in the US and Europe.
  2220. The Coady - Tomkins Experience: The Relevance of the Antigonish Movement Today
    First Published: 1978
  2221. Coaker, William Ford
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union and the Fishermen's Union Trading Co. (1871-1938).
  2222. Coal companies trying to revive 'zombie' open cast mines in Wales
    First Published: 2016
    A tangle of undercapitalised companies are coming forward to cash in on old deep coal mines in Wales - by digging them all out from above from huge open cast pits. But local communities, alarmed at the noise, pollution and destruction of landscape, increasingly see coal as an industry that's best consigned to the scrapheap.
  2223. A Coal Miner's Call for Revolution
    First Published: 2001
    I invite you to join with me in dedicating a portion of our lives to the task of bringing about political revolution. In the words of a great lady, Mother Jones: Let us pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living.
  2224. Coal Miners' Futures in Renewable Energy
    First Published: 2017
    If President Trump wants to earn a rare legislative victory and take political credit for reviving hard-hit regions of rural America, he should take a close look at how one Kentucky coal company is creating jobs.
  2225. Coal plant threatens world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future
    First Published: 2015
    As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the worl. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal power plant on the fringes of its World Heritage coastal wetlands.
  2226. Coal Strike of 1902
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
  2227. Coalition Fights the Fighter Planes and Ploughshares Asks for 4 Million Peace Fund
    Grindstone Notes
    First Published: 1978
    These two articles appeared in a special issue of Grindstone Notes on the 1978 Summer Conferences held on Grindstone Island. This island is owned and operated as a conference centre for groups in peace, justice and development by the Grindstone Coop. Ltd., a non-profit educational coop.
  2228. A Coalition of Scientists Keeps Watch on the U.S. Government's Climate Data
    First Published: 2017
    Via memos leaked to the press, rogue tweets, and unnamed agency sources, the public learned of growing pressure on federal employees to avoid sharing their scientific work. Meanwhile, small but significant changes to federal web pages hinted at the demise of former president Barack Obama’s efforts to manage climate change.
  2229. A Coalition of the Killing
    War, media, propaganda and language
    First Published: 2003
    War, media, propaganda and language.
  2230. Coal's Ruptured Landscape
    Navigating the Ruins of Appalachia
    First Published: 2010
    It is more apparent now than ever before that coal mining, especially mountain top removal, is unethical and inhumane. It displays stark irresponsibility in land stewardship as well as depraved practices within a diverse region. It's time to shake off the flawed belief that we are reliant upon coal and other fossil fuels.
  2231. Coastal Labrador: Incorporation, Exploitation and Underdevelopment
    First Published: 1980
    This paper was first presented for the 5th International Seminar on Marginal Regions in Dublin, Eire, July, 1979.
  2232. Cobequid Shore Opportunities Project
    First Published: 1978
  2233. The Cochabamba Water War of 2000 in 2014
    Today's Betrayers Will Not Erase Our Memory
    First Published: 2014
    Today's betrayers will not erase our memory: Fourteen years ago we won, today it seems like we lost, but we have to rise again to win, and we already know how to do it. From April 4 to 14 in the year 2000 the so-called "Final Battle" was waged in Cochabamba, Bolivia to prevent the privatization of our water. It was part of a strategy designed by the people of Cochabamba in the "Water War" that started on November 12, 1999. Today, after fourteen years of this historic struggle, the people's demands are still the same: democracy, transparency, participation and an economic model that allows us all to enjoy the riches that our Mother Earth generously provides for the benefit of all.
  2234. COCOA
    Commodity notes available from GATT-fly
    First Published: 1976
    Background analysis and current report on this key international commodity.
  2235. Code Pink's Gaza Delegation
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    I was part of a delegation of 62 people that entered Gaza on March 7, 2009. The purpose of our trip, organized by the women’s antiwar organization Code Pink, was to challenge the Israeli/Egyptian and U.S.-sanctioned blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, which has been in force since the Palestinian elections of 2006.
  2236. The Coding Of 'White Trash' In Academia
    First Published: 2016
    As an academic from the U.S. Deep South, Holly Genovese has found herself between two worlds, not accepted in academia because of her background, and yet unable to 'go home again.'
  2237. Coffee
    Gatt-Fly Commodity Profile
    First Published: 1976
    A look at coffee as a commodity and the reasons for its fluctuating cost.
  2238. Coffeehouses
    Connexipedia Article
    An establishment which primarily serves prepared coffee or other hot beverages.
  2239. Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics
    First Published: 2022
    The evidence shows Israeli military/intel forces see journalists as 'lawful targets,' as part of the 'Cognitive War' they wage against the Palestinians, but more particularly against the global population in an attempt to legitimize their military oppression of the Palestinians in their ongoing effort of 'population expulsion' of the Palestinians from Palestinian territory.
  2240. Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
    Political activist and politician, active in France and Germany. A student leader during the May 1968 revolt in France. (Born 1945).
  2241. Cohousing
    Connexipedia Article
    A type of intentional community composed of private homes with full kitchens, supplemented by extensive common facilities. A cohousing community is planned, owned and managed by the residents, groups of people who want more interaction with their neighbours.
  2242. Cohousing and Sustainabliity
    How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
  2243. Cohousing Characteristics
    The main characteristics of cohousing.
  2244. Cohousing FAQs
    Frequently asked questions about cohousing.
  2245. COINTELPRO
    Connexipedia Article
    A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
  2246. Cointelpro
    How the FBI Tried to Destroy the Black Panthers
    First Published: 1975
    A brief history of the FBI's COINTELPRO, a counter intelligence program against the New Left and militant black organizations, specifically its covert operation to bring down the Black Panther Party, largely through illegal means.
  2247. Cold as Ice
    First Published: 2018
    An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.
  2248. Cold War II
    First Published: 2007
    Chomsky depicts the growing US-Israeli conflict with the Middle East as a potential precursor to the escalation of tensions to Cold War standards - except with nuclear technologies now threatening a very "hot" outcome.
  2249. The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
    For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
    First Published: 2010
    The mass mobilization of black people in the Southern civil rights movement, and the subsequent Northern ghetto rebellions, disrupted and challenged the racist American bourgeois order. It shattered the anti-Communist consensus and it paved the road for the mass protest movements that followed—against the U.S. dirty war in Vietnam, for the rights of women, gays, students and others.
  2250. Coldwell, Major James William
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian social democratic politician, and leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party from 1942 to 1960. (1888-1974).
  2251. Colin Kaepernick: Patriotism and the Owning Class
    First Published: 2017
    National Football League player Colin Kaepernick takes a stand for human rights by kneeling during the U.S. national anthem prior to football games.
  2252. The Collaboration Trap
    First Published: 2018
    Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives.Most participating collaborative members are made up of people who generally believe in exploiting natural landscapes for human benefit. As a generalization, there is overwhelming representation in such collaboratives by people who speak for the resource extraction industry or their sympathizers like rural county commissioners, ORV enthusiasts, and so forth.
  2253. The Collaborative Model Takes Root in Alberta's Tar Sands
    First Published: 2015
    Relationship between Big Oil, Enviromental Groups and Government in Alberta Tar Sands.
  2254. Collapse of the Far Left
    First Published: 1983
    Why have so many Canadian Far Left political organizations collapsed in the midst of the worst capitalist depression since the 1930s, and what lessons are to be learned from the experience? This collection of articles, of which the centrality of the critique made by women activists is highlighted, tackles these questions by examining two largely Quebec-based Marxist-Leninist organizations, and by looking at a recent organizing conference in Ontario.
  2255. The Collapse of Western Morality
    The Indispensable People?
    First Published: 2010
    Moral degradation is reaching new lows.
  2256. Collateral Damage: U.S. Sanctions Aimed at Russia Strike Western European Allies
    First Published: 2017
    Sanctions by the U.S. Congress which aims to distance relations with Russia may also have a crippling effect on European banks, particularly those in Germany and France.
  2257. Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs
    First Published: 2011
    The mainstream media have distorted and deceived in their coverage of the Wikileaks story to manufacture, isolate and target a 'threat' for destruction.
  2258. Collecting the evidence
    First Published: 2021
    Publisher and activist Lokman Slim, assassinated last month in Lebanon, spent 30 years trying to make sure that the memories of civil conflict were not forgotten.
  2259. Collecting the evidence
    First Published: 2020
    Publisher and activist Lokman Slim, assassinated last month in Lebanon, spent 30 years trying to make sure that the memories of civil conflict were not forgotten.
  2260. Collective Action - and Victory! France: CPE Goes Down
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Millions of young people in France have lived through the experience of collective action and of an important victory, young people who just a few weeks earlier had paid no attention to political organization. In the end the movement won: the "First Employment Contract" (CPE) has been annulled.
  2261. The collective decides...
    First Published: 1991
    The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
  2262. A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems
    First Published: 2019
    Loss of genetic diversity is one consequence of the Industrial Forestry Paradigm that dominates the U.S. timber industry and all public agencies from the state forestry agencies to the federal agencies like the Forest Service.
  2263. Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
    Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices
    First Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
  2264. Collectivist Anarchism
    Connexipedia Article
  2265. Collusion in Plain Sight
    First Published: 2019
    The media should use the same language for Trump's pandering to corporations and failure to publicly condemn white supremacist violence as they do for his supposed collaboration with Russia.
  2266. Colombia Against All Odds
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Despite historic ties to the inmost nexus of cocaine trafficking and aramilitarism, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez is Washington's leading exponent of the “war on drugs and terror” in the Western hemisphere.
  2267. Colombia - indigenous defender murdered in gold mining frenz
    First Published: 2015
    An indigenous leader in Colombia's 'gold belt' has been killed by unknown gunmen as tensions grow between indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to illegal armed groups and the drug trade.
  2268. The Colombia Plan
    April 2000
    First Published: 2000
    In response to military assistance and "emergency" financial aid for Columbia,
    Chomsky explores the negative consequences of US intervention.
  2269. Colombian Workers Injured and Fired
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    The General Motors subsidiary in Colombia, Colmotores, fired over 200 workers who were injured on the job, ranging from spinal fractures to cancer.
  2270. Colombia's Agent Orange?
    Roundup Not Ready
    First Published: 2012
    A core element of U.S. anti-drugs policy in Colombia has been the destruction of coca fields by aerial chemical fumigation thus impacting the cocaine trade at its source. The continuation of this policy is based on three core myths: (1) That fumigation can target coca fields with pinpoint accuracy; (2) That the chemical used is harmless to humans and the environment; and (3) that aerial chemical fumigation is an effective method of eradicating coca cultivation.
  2271. Colonial conservation - a 'cycle of impunity'
    First Published: 2020
    A UN investigation has suggested that rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have beaten up, abused and murdered people in the forests of Congo. These atrocities were committed in the name of conservation.
  2272. Colonialism and Nationalism in the Building of Liberation Movements
    First Published: 2016
    This is an excerpt from It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment.
  2273. Colonialism Never Gives Anything Away for Nothing
    First Published: 2017
    Decolonization is a violent phenomenon exemplified in Zohra Drif’s memoir, "Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter."
  2274. Colorado Labor Wars
    Connexipedia Article
    Colorado's most significant battles between labor and capital which occurred primarily between miners and mine operators.
  2275. Colorblind Law -- NOT
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Positive review of Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It looks at the history of how states circumvented federal desegregation laws.
  2276. The colour-coded Israeli ID system for Palestinians
    Israel's control over the Palestinian population is based on a system of colour-coded IDs in the occupied territories
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the colour-coded system of Palestinian population control that has remained in place in Israel for five decades; it still affects everything from freedom of movement to family unity.
  2277. Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    In a surprise move in the early morning of May 13th, Colombian President Álvaro Uríbe announced the extradition of fourteen top paramilitary leaders to the United States, where they are charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering. His move has provoked an outcry from victims’ and human rights groups, who fear that the extraditions will undercut efforts to hold the paramilitaries accountable for massacres, disappearances, torture, extra-judicial executions, and the displacement of thousands of people in Colombia.
  2278. Columbine Mine massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    A conflict in which police and mine guards attacked striking coal miners with machine guns.
  2279. Combat Proven: The Booming Business of War in Israel
    First Published: 2015
    Arms fairs in Israel showcase the latest products the profitable Israeli weapons industry manufactures - and the demos are the perfect place to show those products off.
  2280. Comey's Lies of Omission
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of testimony by FBI Director James Comey, which pitted President Donald Trump against the powerful US foreign policy establishment that aims to punish the President for not being 'sufficienty hostile' to the Kremlin.
  2281. Comfort, Alex
    Connexipedia Article
    Medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer. (1920-2000).
  2282. Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God
    First Published: 2005
  2283. The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
    First Published: 2014
    The referendum campaign on Scottish independence heightened many people's awareness of the pro-elite bias of the 'mainstream' news media. The grassroots power of social media in exposing and countering this bias was heartening to see. But the issue of independence for Scotland is just one of many where the traditional media consistently favour establishment power.
  2284. Coming Cutthroats and Parting Pirates
    First Published: 2016
    "Shoot them down!" That’s one answer to the problem of refugees and immigrants flooding into Germany, clearer even than any Trump-wall. It was offered by Frauke Petry, head of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the fast-growing party which, now at 12 percent nationally, has moved up into third place, outstripping the Greens and the Left party (LINKE).
  2285. Coming Home to the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    I became a political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my grade school. At the local YWCA girls club my sister and I were the only whites. The young Black women I became close to helped me overcome painful shyness. Later my father, a Methodist minister, was arrested trying to integrate churches in Jackson, Mississippi.
  2286. The Coming Humiliation of Stephen Harper?
    A Political Psychopath
    First Published: 2014
    The federal government, that is Stephen Harper, is expected to announce its long anticipated decision on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline sometime in June. The decision could well determine whether or not the Conservatives can win the 2015 election.
    The momentum of opposition to the pipeline – and perhaps more importantly to the hundreds of supertankers that would move tar sands bitumen to Asia – is clearly growing in both B.C. and the rest of Canada.
  2287. Coming out in Kenya
    First Published: 2009
    Rape has always been used to intimidate assertive women in Kenya, like feminists and female politicians.
  2288. The Coming Plague of Slums
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Mass death may be coming to a neighborhood near you, and the Department of Homeland Security will be helpless to prevent it. The terrorist in this case will be a mutant offspring of influenza A subtype H5N1: the explosively spreading avian virus that the World Health Organization (WHO) worries will be the progenitor of a deadly global plague.
  2289. Comintern Congress Revisited
    To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921
    First Published: 2016
    Review of John Riddell's To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921.
  2290. The Comintern, CPUSA & Activities of Rank-and-File CPers
    First Published: 1996
    CP members, including worker and African-American militants capable of leading heroic mass struggles, were unable to develop their own revolutionary socialist viewpoint independent of the leadership. While a certain policy or tactic might run counter to their experience and traditions, the local activists were assured that their leaders alone had the "the big picture."
  2291. Commemorating France's Worst Mining Tragedy: 1099 Workers Perished to Profit the Bosses
    First Published: 2006
    A mining catastrophe in northern France on March 10, 1906, is remembered with a number of commemorative ceremonies.
  2292. A Comment on Antiwar Strategy
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    The debate among antiwar activists on the necessity and movement-building effectiveness of mass demonstrations has been ongoing since the mid-1960s during the Vietnam War, and is not likely to be settled soon. I want to comment here on a related but different argument raised by David Grosser in his stimulating article on antiwar organizing strategy.
  2293. A comment on Greece and Syriza
    First Published: 2012
    This analysis is a rebuke to the notion that there is nothing between the far left and social democracy. That diagnosis may have been appropriate in the period of revolutionary growth beginning in 1968. This period, marked by the long-term decomposition of once dominant social democratic parties, is quite different.
  2294. Comment: The Rise and the Fall of the Isolated Communities Advisory Board
    First Published: 1978
    Seven Northern Alberta communities formed an organization in the early 1970's to take action to protect their rights to their land, which had not been included in any treaties, and their traditional lifestyle.
  2295. Commentaires concernant la protection de la matermite a l'occasion de la
    publication du projet d'ordonnance sur les conges de maternite
    First Published: 1978
  2296. A Commentary from Israel: Peace Camp - Dead or Alive?
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    A few weeks ago my friend Ilan Pappé published an article under the title "There is no peace camp in Israel." These words were originally spoken in a lecture delivered by the intellectual activist—or the activist intellectual—at a conference that took place in Fribourg, in the framework of the Swiss Social Forum.
  2297. Comments from our readers (Issue #1)
    First Published: 1976
  2298. Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction
    First Published: 1842
    The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.
  2299. Comments on Unemployment Insurance in the 1980's A Report of the Task Force on Unemployment Prepared For
    The Minister Of Employment And Immigration
    First Published: 1982
    In July, 1981, the Report of the Federal Task Force was made public.
  2300. Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren't
    Shipbuilding economics and lack of regulations are getting in the way of a quieter ocean
    First Published: 2016
    As the ocean drowns in sound, the number of studies showing the harmful effects of noise on marine life has surged. And so, too, have the projections for how loud things might soon become.
  2301. Commercialisation: The Antithesis Of Sharing
    First Published: 2014
    Sharing is the key to solving the world’s problems’. Such a statement is so simple that it may fail to make an appeal, so we must go much deeper into this subject if we want to comprehend what this means.
  2302. Commericial shoot
    First Published: 1989
  2303. La Commission de l'Emploi et de l'Immigration reclame jusqu'a 6 semaines
    de prestations a 6000 chomeurs quebecois et COMUNIQUE
    First Published: 1978
  2304. Committee for an Independent Canada
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A citizens' committee to promote Canadian economic and cultural independence.
  2305. The Committee for the Defense of Democratic Rights
    First Published: 1978
    A Law Union pamphlet regarding the legality of national security measures.
  2306. Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)
    Connexipedia Article
    A British anti-war group set up in 1960.
  2307. Committees Of Correspondence: To Defend Freedom And Secure Good Government
    First Published: 2013
    Two hundred and fifty years ago the people of America were subject to an unrepresentative government controlled by powerful commercial interests. They rebelled and formed their own government, which has now come to be controlled by powerful commercial interests. Once again, "these are the times that try men's souls." What lessons can we learn from history to help us through this crisis?
  2308. Commodity fetishism
    Connexipedia Article
    In Marxist theory, commodity fetishism is a state of social relations in capitalist societies, in which social relationships are transformed into apparently objective relationships between commodities or money.
  2309. Common Front Strikes
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Cartel of Québec public- and para-public-sector trade unions formed in 1972 to negotiate with the provincial government.
  2310. Common Ground
    First Published: 1992
  2311. Common land
    Connexipedia Article
    Land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights.
  2312. Common Organizing Mistakes
    First Published: 2020
    Organizing is difficult and every organizer makes mistakes. Here are some of the most common ones, and how to avoid them.
  2313. A common treasury for all: Gerrard Winstanley's vision of utopia
    First Published: 2017
    Gerrard Winstanley was the ideological force behind the Diggers, a left-wing movement during the English Revolution. The Digger movement of 1648-1650 arose out of the juncture of three processes, notably the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
  2314. Barry Commoner 1917-2012
    First Published: 2012
    Barry Commoner, biologist, environmental, socialist, humanist, and one of the central leaders of the anti-nuclear-testing movement, dies at 95. He is particularly remembered for the “Four Laws of Ecology” he laid out in his book The Closing Circle: (1) Everything is connected to everything else. (2) Everything must go somewhere. (3) Nature knows best. (4) There is no such thing as a free lunch.
  2315. The Commons and the Centennial of the Easter Rising
    First Published: 2016
    A hundred years ago today in Dublin the Easter Rebellion commenced. This was an urban insurrection, in the revolutionary tradition. Not more than a thousand participated. It lasted five days, before the British military killed hundreds, and executed sixteen including those who had signed the Proclamation of the Republic.
  2316. Communalism and Socialism in Africa
    The Misdirection of C.L.R . James
    First Published: 1989
    The theoretical confusion of the left when confronted with class struggles in backward societies goes back to the polemics in Russia before the revolution of 1917: an issue resolved in practice but leaving a legacy of theoretical confusion. The struggles for colonial independence were denied the insights that Marxism should have offered, Instead, mysticism prevailed and populist theories replaced scientific analysis.
  2317. Commune (intentional community)
    Connexipedia Article
    An intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, work and income.
  2318. The Commune, Paris 1871
    First Published: 1961
    The most significant aspect of the Paris Commune is that it created social forms which in a sense define socialism itself, social forms which serve as yardsticks for proletarian revolutions past, present and to come. These forms provide criteria for analyzing the social nature of any particular regime.
  2319. Commune (socialism)
    Connexipedia Article
    Almost universally, communists, left-wing socialists, anarchists and others have seen the Commune as a model for the liberated society that will come after the masses are liberated from capitalism, a society based on participatory democracy from the grass roots up.
  2320. Communicating Effectively Through Your Newsletter
    First Published: 1990
    Some pointers about how to produce a newsletter that communicates effectively with its readers
  2321. Communique
    First Published: 1980
  2322. Communism and the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
    First Published: 1842
    We are firmly convinced that it is not the practical Attempt, but rather the theoretical application of communist ideas, that constitutes the real danger; for practical attempts, even those on a large scale, can be answered with cannon as soon as they become dangerous, but ideas, which conquer our intelligence, which overcome the outlook that reason has riveted to our conscience, are chains from which we cannot tear ourselves away without tearing our hearts.
  2323. Communism and the Family (Part One)
    The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
    First Published: 2015
    Replacing the family with collective institutions is the most radical aspect of the communist program and will bring about the deepest, most sweeping changes in daily life, not least for children.
  2324. Communism and the Family (Part Two)
    The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
    First Published: 2015
    The family is the primary institution through which bourgeois ideology in its various forms is transmitted from one generation to the next.
  2325. Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
    First Published: 1991
  2326. Communism and Self-Management
    First Published: 2018
    A look at workers' self-management in past regimes and their relevance to current debates.
  2327. The Communist Club
    First Published: 2006
    History of the Communist Club in 19th century London, in particular detailing the involvement of Karl Marx.
  2328. Communist Dictatorship in Our Midst
    First Published: 2019
    A kind of undercurrent of thought about workplace democracy has bubbled beneath the surface of public discourse of our current "crisis of democracy." Beneath the surface: one can hardly identify any serious public discourse these days on the anti-democratic nature of most work under Neo-liberal conditions.
  2329. The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929: A Review
    Upholding the Revolutionary Legacy
    First Published: 2015
    The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929 examines the founding, development and degeneration of the Communist Party (CP) in the United States in the broader framework of the struggle for international proletarian revolution. Available in both paperback and hardcover, this fully indexed book, with extensive footnotes and references, will be of enduring value as a reference work for avowed socialists as well as scholars of communism. It is also a fun and interesting read and belongs in the toolkits of everyone seeking a coherent revolutionary program and lessons on building an organization.
  2330. Communist League
    Connexipedia Article
    The first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1836.
  2331. The Communist League
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of Terms
    On the meeting of the Communist League in June 1847.
  2332. Communist League (Canada)
    Connexipedia: Entry in NationMaster Encyclopedia
    Founded as the Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire in 1977 as the result of a merger of the League for Socialist Action, the Revolutionary Marxist Group and the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionaire.
  2333. The Communist Manifesto in Perspective
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2012
    Eric Hobsbawm’s opening address to the international conference organised by Espaces Marx on the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto.
  2334. The Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet that refuses to die. As incendiary as the day it was published, Paul Vernell unpacks this founding document 
    First Published: 2016
    The striking thing about re-reading Marx's Communist Manifesto is how each time you return to it, it seems more not less relevant than the last time. Chillingly, it seems to be describing the globalised, war-torn, crisis-ridden world of the 21st century. In many ways this is because it is a document ahead of its time, whist being firmly rooted in it. Its predictive power and vision are central to its resonance.
  2335. Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South
    What's Not in The Great Debaters
    First Published: 2008
    The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the South.
  2336. The Communist Party and socialists during the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike
    First Published: 1934   Published: 2014
    About radicals involvement in the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike.
  2337. Communist Party of Canada
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A political party in Canada.
  2338. Communist Workers International
    Connexipedia Article
    Founded around the Manifesto of the Fourth Communist International, published by the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) in 1921.
  2339. Communist Writing in Anti-Communist Times
    Book review
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of 'American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War.'
  2340. Communists on Wall Street
    First Published: 1978
    Eurocommunism in practice.
  2341. Communities and Environment
    First Published: 1990
  2342. Community
    First Published: 1972
    The time has come to start a community. The purpose of this article is to explain why and how.
  2343. Community Congress for Economic Change: Credit Union
    First Published: 1976
    A booklet describing the motives and aspirations of the CCEC Credit Union.
  2344. Community development curriculum
    First Published: 1990
  2345. Community forest management against illegal timber logging
    Indigenous communities comply with strict rules to ensure the regeneration of the forest and protect water sources.
    First Published: 2018
    Guatemala is hit hard by mudslides caused by deforestation. Government-led initiatives created in consultation with Indigenous communities have been successful in preserving forests and promotiing sustainability.
  2346. Community forestry conference
    First Published: 1991
  2347. Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    History of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT).
  2348. Community Journalism
    Connexipedia Article
  2349. Community Land Trust
    First Published: 1978
  2350. A Community Ministry Theological Statement
    First Published: 1978
  2351. Community Noise
    First Published: 1995
    Critically reviews the adverse effects of community noise, including interference with communication, noise-induced hearing loss, annoyance responses, and effects on sleep, the cardiovascular and psychophysiological systems, performance, productivity, and social behaviour.
  2352. Community organising
    First Published: 2006
    Information, guides and tips on organising around issues which affect you and other people living in your local area.
  2353. Community Organising - A New Part of the Union
    First Published: 2012
    A look at Unite’s community union organizing.
  2354. Community organizing
    Connexipedia Article
    A process by which people living in proximity to each other are brought together in an organization to act in their shared self-interest.
  2355. Community Organizing in Philly and New York
    First Published: 2017
    A look back at the NY and Philadelphia community activist groups White Lighting, O4O, Standing Up Angry, Young Patriots, and what can be learned towards building compelling and viable alternatives to the Right.
  2356. Community Police in Guerrero's Costa Chica Region to Celebrate 19 Years of a Better Way to Combat Crime and Corruption
    First Published: 2014
    The same southern Mexican state where 43 students were disappeared is also home to a grassroots movement that shows how people can police themselves when the state becomes criminal.
  2357. A Community Release Centre for Whitehorse
    First Published: 1978
  2358. Community Shared Agriculture / Community-supported agriculture
    Connexipedia Article
    A community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation where the growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production. CSAs usually consist of a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables and fruit in a vegetable box scheme, sometimes including dairy products and meat. Community-supported agriculture began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland, and Japan as a response to concerns about food safety and the urbanization of agricultural land.
  2359. Como Comunicarse De Manera Efectiva A Través De Un Boletín Informativo
    First Published: 1991
  2360. Companies that Profit from the Occupation
    Makes the case for action against companies that profit from the Israeli occupation, and identifies who those companies are.
  2361. Company of Young Canadians
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The Company of Young Canadians (CYC) was a federal program established in 1966 to encourage social, economic and community development in Canada.
  2362. Company Secretary To Replace Inspector
    First Published: 2009
    If all goes to plan, India Inc would no longer have to deal with labour inspectors turning up at their premises to check compliance with 43 central and myriad state labour legislations. Instead, firms can submit a certificate from a company secretary that validates their compliance with the numerous employment laws.
  2363. A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak 
    First Published: 2009
    A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
  2364. Comparison of military strength of Israel and the Palestinians
    First Published: 2009
    As the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has once again flared up following Israel's ongoing air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip, the IMEU presents a comparison of Israeli and Palestinian military capabilities. (Jaunary 2009).
  2365. The Compelling Memoirs of Ali Abumghasib
    First Published: 2016
    Ali Abumghasib knows little about the current intrigues of the Fatah Movement, or, perhaps, he is just not interested. Now living in an old, rusty and tiny caravan somewhere in Gaza, Ali has no money, no family, but also no regrets. We spoke at length about his life. He wanted to share his story, and I wanted to understand what went wrong in what was once Palestine's leading movement.
  2366. Competition? or Co-operation?
    First Published: 1990
    Against capital's slogan of competition, we can respond with that of cooperation -- in production, in overcoming capital's destruction of the environment, in international relations, in learning, in building better human relations.
  2367. The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 1450
    A manifesto issued by Jack Cade, a Kentish rebel in 1450, before his march on London.
  2368. Complaints filed against telecom companies for their role in UK mass surveillance programme
    First Published: 2013
    On 5 November 2013, Privacy International filed formal complaints with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the UK against some of the world's leading telecommunication companies, for providing assistance to British spy agency GCHQ in the mass interception of internet and telephone traffic passing through undersea fibre optic cables.
  2369. Complete testimony of George Galloway
    Testimony of British M.P George Galloway before the U.S. Senate.
  2370. Complicating "White Privilege"
    Class, Race and Images of Wilma
    First Published: 2011
    The most heavy-handedly enforced rule, and the one we, in the white privilege brigade, still seem determined to protect with the greatest earnestness, dictates that Nobody shall, during a conversation about white privilege, mention any identity that is not a racial identity or any oppression that is not racism. To my knowledge, there is no official rulebook governing conversations about white privilege. If such a rulebook did exist, though, I am sure that this rule would be printed in bold italics.
  2371. The Complicity of Psychologists in CIA Torture
    What the APA Knew
    First Published: 2014
    James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen are two psychologists who played central roles in designing and implementing the CIA’s torture program. Now we also know how lucrative that work was for Mitchell and Jessen: their company was paid over $80 million by the CIA.
  2372. Comply or Die: the Police State's Answer to Free Speech Is Brute Force
    First Published: 2017
    Forget everything you’ve ever been taught about free speech in America. It's all a lie.There can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force.
  2373. A Comprehensive Map of American Lynchings
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the practice of lynching in the United States through to the 1960's, where thousands of non-white Americans, mostly black, were killed in public acts of terror. A new map project called 'Monroe Work Today', named after the pioneering sociologist, shows that lynching was not limited to the southern states.
  2374. Comprendre l'Assurance chomage
    First Published: 1978
  2375. The Computers are Listening
    How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
    First Published: 2015
    Top-secret documents from the archive of Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.
  2376. Computers for Nicaragua
    First Published: 1990
  2377. A Comrade and Friend
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    Steffie Brooks, a member of Solidarity in New York, died Monday evening, February 9, 2009 after a struggle with a cancer that had spread from her lungs into her spine. Steffie’s final few months were difficult and painful, but she remained committed to her political activism, which included giving a presentation at a summer school our organization co-sponsored with others last August.
  2378. Comrade Bernard
    First Published: 2018
    A review of Bernard Goldstein's "Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland", a firsthand account of the struggles of the Jewish working class in Poland between the two World Wars.
  2379. Concerning Morocco
    First Published: 1911
    The duty of Social Democracy is not to reassure public opinion, but to do the very reverse, to rouse it and warn it against the dangers lying dormant in it such adventures in international politics today. It is not enough for us to rely on the pacific intentions of some capitalist clique as a factor in achieving peace; we can only count on the resistance of the enlightened masses. By obeying the order to keep our peace, incidentally, we would be seen to be falling in with the wishes of the rulers of the Moroccan policy.
  2380. Concerning the benefits of recycling municipal solid waste
    First Published: 1984
  2381. A Concerted Effort From Europe Against Israeli Produce Exporter Agrexco
    First Published: 2011
    In Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant.
  2382. Concrete, or beaches? World's sand running out as global construction booms
    First Published: 2017
    A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.
  2383. Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS Supporters
    Lawmakers urged to reject bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of Israel
    First Published: 2017
    A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech.
  2384. The Condition of England
    First Published: 1844
  2385. Conditioned for War with Russia
    First Published: 2022
    Discusses the American role in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the Establishment media's part in keeping the truth from Americans.
  2386. Condorcet, Marquis de
    Connexipedia Article
    (1743-1794).French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist.
  2387. Confederacy Redux?
    Why We Should Celebrate Reconstruction
    First Published: 2011
    Reconstruction is the era that some have referred to as the United States' greatest moment of democracy.
  2388. Confederate Monuments Down
    First Published: 2017
    For the rewriters, the Civil War became a "misunderstanding" (as Donald Trump echoes today) and Confederate generals and politicians were transformed into great Southern heroes and cultural icons. African-Americans were routinely humiliated, brutalized, and mutilated.
  2389. Confederation of Canadian Unions' (CCU) Brief to the Hall Commission
    First Published: 1980
  2390. Confession to Tsar Nicholas I
    An excerpt from the 'confession' Mikhail Bakunin wrote in prison to explain his revolutionary goals and his ideas about how to organize a revolution. He writes: "I wanted to transform all Bohemia into a revolutionary camp, to create a force there capable not only of defending the revolution within the country, but also of taking the offensive outside Bohemia....

    All clubs, newspapers, and all manifestations of an anarchy of mere talk were to be abolished, all submitted to one dictatorial power; the young people and all able-bodied men divided into categories according to their character, ability, and inclination were to be sent throughout the country to provide a provisional revolutionary and military organization. The secret society directing the revolution was to consist of three groups, independent of and unknown to each other: one for the townspeople, another for the youth, and a third for the peasants.

    Each of these societies was to adapt its action to the social character of the locality to which it was assigned. Each was to be organized on strict hierarchical lines, and under absolute discipline, These three societies were to be directed by a secret central committee composed of three or, at the most, five persons. In case the revolution was successful, the secret societies were not to be liquidated; on the contrary, they were to be strengthened and expanded, to take their place in the ranks of the revolutionary hierarchy."
  2391. Confessions of a Media Critic
    First Published: 1984
    Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
  2392. Confessions of a (verified) Russia-linked Twitter Bot
    First Published: 2017
    Twitter's defines any user who has "ever logged in, at any time, from Russia" as being "Russia-linked." This is taking the new McCarthyism to ridiculous levels.
  2393. Confessions of an Alleged Russian Propagandist: A Pentagon Hit?
    First Published: 2016
    While our corporate media don't talk about it, the US does run a vast propaganda operation, which includes the spawning and spreading of, guess what?, fake news stories! This kind of thing has gone on for years abroad, but since 2001, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, both the Pentagon and the US Information Agency have done away with an earlier ban on spreading such lies posing as news inside the US. Now we’re all fair game for US propaganda, which by the way the mainstream media routinely parrot.
  2394. Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
    First Published: 2014
    It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for 'enhanced oil recovery" into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
  2395. 'Confirmed' Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
    First Published: 2020
    The word "confirmed" has been misused and abused to such a spectacular extent in mainstream news reporting of late that it doesn’t actually mean anything anymore when they say it.
  2396. 'Confirmed' Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
    First Published: 2020
    Last week Politico published a major exclusive report that the “Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the American ambassador to South Africa” in retaliation for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani earlier this year, citing (you guessed it) anonymous government officials.
  2397. The Conflict between Marx & Bakunin
  2398. Conflict In Ukraine Used To Silence Voices Of Dissent In The United States
    First Published: 2022
    Clearing the FOG speaks with political comedian Lee Camp about the sudden de-platforming that happened to him when RT America abruptly shut down after the Russian military intervention in Ukraine last month. Camp lost his program Redacted Tonight that aired weekly for the past eight years, and he was kicked off of other platforms such as Spotify. Camp talks about the big picture of growing censorship, the state of the media and freedom of the press, and the assault on the public's access to information that counters the narrative in the corporate media.
  2399. Conflict Resolution in the Classroom
    A Curriculum Project
    First Published: 1987
    Peer Conflict Resolution Through Creative Negotiation is a curriculum for grades four through six.
  2400. Conforming, Not Transforming
    First Published: 2014
    Brendan Eich, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the technology company that, among other things, is responsible for the Firefox browser, resigned after it was revealed that in 2008 he had given a $1000 donation to Proposition 8, the Californian campaign against gay marriage.
  2401. Confronting Germany's New Fascists in Berlin
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the rise of facism in Germany with the recent winning of seats, now with 92 representatives in the national Bundestag, by the five-year-old Alternative for Germany (AfD). This new found platform provides the party with a voice in every debate and the first speakers after those of the government.
  2402. Confronting intimidation, working for justice in Palestine
    First Published: 2011
    If once you do not cave in, you discover that as time goes by, the ability of Zionist lobbies of intimidation around the world to affect you gradually diminishes.
  2403. Confronting the Right: An Introduction
    First Published: 2018
    An overview of issues related to confronting the right, including questions surrounding the labelling of free speech as hate speech.
  2404. Confronting the Cult of Objectivity
    Education in Crisis
    First Published: 2014
    As the end of the semester draws near on campuses across the country, I thought I’d reflect on one of the largest threats to academic freedom in this country. I’ve long labeled this threat the “cult of objectivity,” represented in a variety of different pathologies that afflict students, faculty, and administrators.
  2405. Confronting the Ecological Emergency
    First Published: 2015
    In April 2014, two different teams of American glaciologists, specialists in the Antarctic, reached -- by different methods, based on observation -- the same conclusion: because of global warming, a portion of the ice sheet has begun to dislocate, and this dislocation is irreversible.
  2406. Confronting the -isms
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    I love the name Against the Current and would add that to be active in the Women’s Liberation Movement at the beginning of 1968 was to be “against the current.” And “the current” then was as much the Left and the Black Nationalist Movement as it was the society as a whole. We were mostly white women, mostly middle class in background. Who we were was used against us opportunistically by the Left and the Black Movement to keep from having to address the issues of sexism — a word we didn’t even have back then.
  2407. Confronting the School of Assassins
    Against The Current vol. 90
    First Published: 2001
    More than 10,000 people assembled at the gates of the Fort Benning military base in Georgia on November 19th as part of an ongoing campaign to shut down the notorious U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA). Protestors have gathered at the base annually since a small group of founding activists of School of the Americas Watch staged an action there in 1989—shortly after the brutal killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter by members of the Salvadoran military trained at the SOA. This year, the protest was linked to a joint action in led by 300 members of Las Abejas from Chiapas, Mexico.
  2408. Congo's Patrice Lumumba: The Winds of Reaction in Africa
    First Published: 2019
    A brief history of Patrice Lumumba who was briefly Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
  2409. Congo's War, Women's Holocaust
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    Which current war has taken more lives than the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur put together?
  2410. Congress' Phony Health Care War
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    One hundred thousand people in the United States of America lose their health insurance every month. It seems unlikely, however, that this number included the president of Columbia/HCA, the industry leader in for-profit health care, who, as reported in the August 5 New England Journal of Medicine, "resigned in the face of federal fraud investigations ... with a $10 million severance package and $269 million in company stock."
  2411. Connecting with nature through wildlife, place and memory
    First Published: 2016
    Some of us are fortunate enough to have close relationships with the nature around us. But what about everyone else? We must find ways to make people feel like old friends with wildife near and far, and feel that their wild homes and habitats are extensions of our own. And hence, that they are as deserving of our care as human neighbours - if not more so.
  2412. The Connexions Annual: An Introduction
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society’s grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems. We hope that by providing this information we will be making it easier for those already active to find out about and contact each other and to do their work more effectively and co-operatively. We hope that those individuals who are thinking about or looking for ways to become active will be able to use the information to find like-minded people to work with. We hope, too, that this book will help to get out the message that there are viable alternatives to destructive and exploitative institutions and structures, and that there are people organizing to build those alternatives.
  2413. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
  2414. Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    The established wisdom has it that the media are neutral purveyors of news and entertainment, while the arts are about individual creativity and cultural values untainted by the vulgar concerns of politics and economics.
  2415. Connexions Annual Overview: Community, Urban, Housing
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  2416. Connexions Annual Overview: Development, International
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    the principle of `Thinking Globally, Acting Locally' can and must also be extended to acting locally on behalf of and in solidarity with those in other parts of this globe.
  2417. Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
  2418. Connexions Annual Overview: Education, Children
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    Education is being seen as an essential element of grassroots development both in Canada and abroad. The guiding idea is that education is not merely concerned with imparting knowledge, but with helping people develop the skills and the confidence to analyse and solve problems and thus to act, both individually and collectively.
  2419. Connexions Annual Overview: Environmental, Land Use, Rural
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    As we witness an apparently unending succession of environmental hazards and catastrophes, awareness is spreading that we are in the midst of a profound ecological crisis. There is still hope for reversing the trend toward environmental collapse, but only if we are able to work together worldwide to achieve profound changes.
  2420. Connexions Annual Overview: Health
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  2421. Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    If we accept that anyone may be denied their rights, their freedom, then we undermine our own rights and freedoms even as we undermine social solidarity.
  2422. Connexions Annual Overview: Lesbians & Gays
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    Gays and lesbians have shown that while on one level -- rights, employment, etc. -- sexual orientation doesn't matter, on another level, sexual politics are profoundly important. They do matter, and no movement for change can ignore them.
  2423. Connexions Annual Overview: Native Peoples
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    Natives have been intensifying their resistance, and more militant forms of protest are becoming increasingly common. Canadians concerned with social justice can also be working in solidarity with the Native peoples in their struggle for justice.
  2424. Connexions Annual Overview: Peace
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    It must be remembered that soldiers themselves are often recruited from the ranks of the poor and the jobless, and that a movement for peace and social justice should be attempting to reach them too with its message. A movement for peace must in the end also include the soldiers if it is to prevail.
  2425. Connexions Annual Overview: Women
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  2426. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  2427. Connexions Archive Case Statement
    In search of a new home for the Connexions Archive
    First Published: 2010
    Working together to secure a future for the past
  2428. Connexions Archive Information Sheet
    Working together to secure a future for the past
    First Published: 2010
    Looking for new space for the Connexions Archive and those who work on it.
  2429. Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2012
    First Published: 2012
  2430. Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2014
    First Published: 2014
  2431. Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2015
    First Published: 2015
  2432. Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2016
    First Published: 2016
  2433. Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2017
    First Published: 2017
  2434. Connexions Digest Collected News Briefs
    Published in issues 50 - 54 December 1989 - February 1992
    First Published: 1992
  2435. Connexions Digest Master Keyword Index
    for #45 (Volume 11, No. 1) to #54 inclusive
    First Published: 1992
  2436. Connexions Digest Master Name Index (Author/Title/Contributor)
    for #45 (Volume 11, No. 1) to #54 inclusive
    First Published: 1992
  2437. Connexions Digest Network News items
    Issues 45 - 54
    First Published: 1992
  2438. Connexions Directory of Canadian Organizations for Social Justice 1987
    Volume 10, Number 2-3 - Winter 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    First Published: 1987
  2439. Connexions in many languages
    Connexions website languages index
    Connexions is primarily an English-language project, but the Connexions website also has publications and resources in a number of other languages: French, Spanish, German, and more than 20 others. This page lists and links to articles available in languages other than English.
  2440. Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi
    First Published: 2010
    Connexions (pilns nosaukums: Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi - Connexions Information Sharing Services) ir centrala tiešsaistes biblioteka un arhivs, kas apkalpo Kanadas iniciativas par izmainam sabiedriba. Šis bezpelnas projekts uztur ari izsmelošu Kanadas asociaciju un NVS raditaju.
  2441. Connexions Információ Megosztási Szolgáltató
    First Published: 2011
  2442. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Ukranian text
    Connexipedia article
  2443. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Urdu text
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2017
  2444. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Bulgarian text
    Connexipedia
  2445. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Croatian text
  2446. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Dutch text
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
    Connexions (volledige naam Connexions Information Sharing Services) is de voornaamste online bibliotheek en het archief voor Canadese organisaties voor sociale verandering. Dit project dat geen winstoogmerk heeft, beheert ook een uitgebreide gids van Canadese en niet-Canadese verenigingen en niet-gouvernementele organisaties.
  2447. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Russian text
    Connexipedia
  2448. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Arabic text
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
  2449. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Chinese text
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2009
  2450. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Czech text
    Connexions Information Sharing Services
    First Published: 2011
  2451. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Dansk
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2010
    Connexions Information Sharing Services er det centrale online bibliotek og arkiv for Canada's bevægelser for social forandring.
  2452. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - English text
    First Published: 2008
    Connexions (full name Connexions Information Sharing Services) is the central online library and archive for Canada's movements for social change. The non-profit project also maintains a comprehensive directory of Canadian associations and NGOs.
  2453. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Farsi text
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
  2454. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Filipino text
    First Published: 2017
  2455. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia article - Japanese text
    Connexipedia
  2456. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Korean text
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2011
  2457. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Artikel - Deutscher text
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
    Connexions ist die Zentrale Online Bücherei und Archiv für Kanada's Bewegung für gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
  2458. Connexions Informationsförmedling - Wikipedia Article - Swedish text
    Connexipedia
    Connexions är det centrala onlinebiblioteket och arkivet för Kanadas rörelse för social förändring.
  2459. Connexions List of Perfect People
    A list of perfect people - with photos and accounts of their lives
    First Published: 2024
    As a service to those offended by imperfections in other human beings, Connexions has compiled a list of perfect people, people who never said or did anything for which they could be criticized.
  2460. Connexions Mandate and Statement of Values
    A succinct summary of the Connexions project and the values that guide it.
  2461. Connexions Quotations
    First Published: 2013   Published: 2017
    A selection of quotations about social change, resistance, solidarity, and many other topics. Compiled by Ulli Diemer. Each quote has been turned into an image file.
  2462. Connexions Quotations - Author Index
    An author index of quotations about social change, resistance, solidarity, and many other topics.
  2463. Connexions Quotations - Topic Index
    A topic index of quotations about social change, resistance, solidarity, and many other subjects.
  2464. Connexions - Services de partage d'information Connexions - Wikipedia Article - French text
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
    Connexions -- dont le nom complet est Services de partage d'information Connexions [Connexions Information Sharing Services] -- est la bibliothèque et l'archive en ligne centrale pour les mouvements canadiens partisans du changement social. Le projet à but non lucratif entretient également un vaste répertoire d'associations canadiennes et d'organisations non gouvernementales.
  2465. Connexions Servicios de Información Compartido
    Connexipedia
  2466. Connexions Servicos de Compartilhamento de Informacoes - Wikipedia Article - Portuguese text
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
    Connexions (Connexions Serviços de Compartilhamento de Informaçoes) é a biblioteca central e arquivos eletrônicos do movimentos do Canadá para mudanças sociais. O projeto sem fins lucrativos também mantém uma lista completa de associaçoes e ONG's canadenses.
  2467. Connexions Servis Udostepniania Informacji - Wikipedia Article - Polish text
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
    Connexions Information Sharing Services (pe?na nazwa Connexions Serwis Udostepniania Informacji) jest to internetowa bibliteka i archiwum dla kanadyjskich organizacji zajmuja;cych sie; przemianami spo?ecznymi. Ten bezprofitowy projekt zajmuje sie; prowadzeniem i uaktualnianiem obszernej ksija;z'ki adresowej kanadyjskich zwija;zków i organizacji pozarzadowych.
  2468. Connexions - Služby pre zdielanie informácií - Wikipedia Article - Slovak text
  2469. Connexions welcomes your support
    First Published: 2017
    Your contribution to Connexions will help us preserve the memories, experiences, strategies, success, failures and visions of those who have worked for social justice over the years so that future generations can learn and be inspired by them.
  2470. Connexions Wikipedia article - Esperanto
    Connexipedia article
    Connexions estas librejo kaj arkivo en linio, au( interreto, de la kanada movado por la socia s^ang^o.
  2471. Connolly, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Irish and Scottish socialist leader, executed by the British. (1868-1916).
  2472. Connolly, James - Writings - Index
    Writings of James Connolly.
  2473. The Conquest of Bread
    First Published: 1906
    A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
  2474. The Conquest of Bread
    Review article
    First Published: 2016
    Kropotkin’s classic, The Conquest of Bread, reveals problems of radical politics and organisation that remain vital today, argues Dominic Alexander.
  2475. Conscientious objector
    Connexipedia Article
    An individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war.
  2476. Consciousness raising
    Connexipedia Article
    Form of political activism, pioneered by United States feminists in the late 1960s.
  2477. Consensus decision-making 
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2010
    Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
  2478. Consensus decision-making - Arabic text
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2011
  2479. Consensus decision-making - Japanese text
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2011
  2480. Conservation movement
    Connexipedia Article
    A political and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future.
  2481. Conservation Unravelling: Three Threats to Wildlife
    First Published: 1986
    The framework that supports our conservation efforts has grown very sick from neglect through ignorance. Should we fail to rally, we may have to fight all over again the bitter battles of 80 years ago, with wildlife taking a terrible beating.
  2482. Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation
    First Published: 2015
    The murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country. Many worry activists will stay away if poachers continue to go unpunished.
  2483. Conservative Frank Luntz Has Set a Trap for Progressives -- Here's How to Outsmart Him and Boost the Occupy Movement
    Progressives' basic morality needs to be talked about over and over again, in every corner of the country.
    First Published: 2011
    Luntz doesn't want progressives pointing out that corporations govern our lives far more than any government does - and for their profit, not ours. He doesn't want any discussion of corporate waste, or military waste, which is huge.
  2484. Conservatives have perfected the trick of defending power by attacking it
    First Published: 2011
    The UK Cameron government is atempting to use a tried-and-proven trick: defending the elite by pretending to attack it.
  2485. Conserving soil: precious, finite and under threat 
    First Published: 2015
    Human existence relies on healthy soils. But all over the world soils are being lost and degraded by inappropriate land use, reducing their capacity to produce food and store water, nutrients and carbon. Sustainable land management must be incentivised to conserve this essential resource.
  2486. Consider the Nation and other sacred cows of the Left
    First Published: 1993
    Groups of people who share whatever it is that makes a nation don't always live in neat spatial clusters, with a given territory containing all those people who are alike and none who are different. Cultures are rarely if ever stable enough to become pure and coterminous with geographical territories.
  2487. Consigned to the Memory Hole: The content of the DNC Leaks
    First Published: 2017
    Examining the content of the DNC data leaks during the 2016 US elections, and the efforts by the Democratic party to distract from their content.
  2488. A Consistently Erroneous Technology
    A Magician in the Lab
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the polygraph, or lie detector technology, and why it is unreliable.
  2489. Consolidating Power
    David Harvey, one of the leading Marxist thinkers of our times, sits down with the activist collective AK Malabocas to discuss the transformations in the mode of capital accumulation, the centrality of the urban terrain in contemporary class struggles, and the implications of all this for anti-capitalist organizing.
  2490. Conspectus of Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy
    First Published: 1874   Published: 1875
    Marx's notes on Bakunin's recent book Statism and Anarchy.
  2491. Conspiracy, Inc.
    Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
    First Published: 2009
    Increasingly, reactionary media pundits and much of the rank-and-file of the Republican Party are taking the American right down a dangerous path, marked most ominously by the abundance of conspiracy theories directed against the Democratic Party and mainstream liberals.
  2492. 'A Conspiracy Of Silence' - HSBC, The Guardian And The Defrauded British Public
    First Published: 2015
    Journalist Nafeez Ahmed has delved deeper into the HSBC scandal, reporting the testimony of a whistleblower that reveals a 'conspiracy of silence' encompassing the media, regulators and law-enforcement agencies.
  2493. 'A Conspiracy Of Silence' -- HSBC, The Guardian and the Defrauded British Public
    First Published: 2015
    An investigator and anonymous whistleblower talk about the suspicious lack of coverage and attention to the HSBC tax evasion scandal. This article talks about the scandal itself and criticizes the British liberal media.
  2494. The conspiracy to censor the Internet
    First Published: 2017
    The political representatives of the American ruling class are engaged in a conspiracy to suppress free speech. Under the guise of combating "trolls" and "fake news" supposedly controlled by Russia, the most basic constitutional rights enumerated in the First Amendment are under direct attack.
  2495. Constitution and By-Laws of Industrial Workers of the World
    First Published: 1905
    The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life....
  2496. The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law
    GAYANASHAGOWA
  2497. Constitutional Proposals: Not Enough Guarantees For Acadians of P.E.I.
    First Published: 1981
    The St. Thomas Aquinas Society (S.T.A.S.) is an organization struggling to obtain equal rights for French speaking Prince Edward Islanders (Acadians).
  2498. The Constitutional Root of Racism
    First Published: 2018
    A look at how the US Constitution enables racism by affording power to the states.
  2499. The Construction of Communalism in India
    Against The Current vol. 106
    First Published: 2003
    Sara Abraham interviews Dipak Malik, Director of the Gandhian Institute of Varanasi, about the anti-communal-violence work in which he has been involved from his base in Varanasi, in the Hindu heartland of the country.
  2500. Constructive Action?
    First Published: 2002
    Chomsky questions to what extent American involvement and authority in the affairs of Israel's conflict with the Arabs can be considered constructive. He examines the effects of what he deems to be "colonial policing".
  2501. Constructive Citizen Participation
    A Resource Book
    First Published: 1982
  2502. Constructive criticism can be a good thing
    First Published: 1982
    It's counterproductive to say that for the sake of 'unity' we shouldn't criticize others in the environmental movement. Principled debate and critcism when it is called for helps us clarify issues and move forward.
  2503. Consumer Hell
    First Published: 2010
    The problem with gross domestic product is that there are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.
  2504. Consumer and Nuclear Energy: A Luxury We Can No Longer Afford
    First Published: 1977
    An energy analysis with 28 recommendations presented to Pierre Trudeau and his cabinet.
  2505. Consumers Union Congrress
    First Published: 1991
  2506. Consumers' Rights
    First Published: 1976
    Booklet designed to inform consumers about how the law affects people as buyers, borrowers, and householders.
  2507. Containing the United States
    First Published: 2016
    With Hillary Clinton about to be elected and some advanced cadres of the war party preparing to take charge, who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine. The UN and EU are still too much under the U.S. thumb. Russia and China are too weak and with too flimsy an alliance system to threaten U.S. hegemony and do more than make direct U.S. aggression against themselves very costly.
  2508. Contaminación: El envenenante legado de los recortes ambientales de Ontario
    First Published: 2000
  2509. Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
    First Published: 2008
    The current listeria outbreak has the feel of deja vu all over again. Once again, we are hearing about companies and industry associations lobbying for fewer inspections and less 'interference', and about a compliant right-wing government only too eager to give them what they want.
  2510. Contamination: L'Héritage Vénéneux des coupures écologiques de l'Ontario
    First Published: 2000
  2511. Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks 
    First Published: 2000
    The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
  2512. Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks - Japanese text
    First Published: 2000
  2513. A contemporary account of the German pogroms of November 1938
    First Published: 2014
    Shortly after the November 1938 pogroms, journalist and historian Konrad Heiden wrote a work entitled Night Oath, in which he gave a detailed account of the horrific events marking the transition from social discrimination to the systematic brutalization and persecution of Jews in Germany.
  2514. Contemporary Race Theory and the Problem of History: A Critique
    First Published: 2022
    The inability of contemporary race theory to fully account for and explain (rather than just label) the social dynamics that produce and reproduce inequality stems from two core assumptions that form the bedrock for this taxonomic project. The first is that anti-Black racism is an unalterable feature of American life - hence the impetus towards labeling and naming the different and ostensibly novel forms that racism takes. The second is that class analysis in inadequate theoretically, and class struggle is politically outmoded.
  2515. The Contemporary Women's Movement
    From Gender & History, Chapter 1
    First Published: 1986
    The first chapter of "Gender & History" titled Contemporary Women's Movement, as weall as a chapter on Karl Marx are reproduced here.
  2516. Contest: Guess the date of Harper's next 'terrorist plot'
    First Published: 2015
    What are the odds that a 'terrorist plot' will be 'uncovered' in the late stages of the election campaign, so that Harper can spend the final days of the campaign talking about terrorism, terrorism, and more terrorism?
  2517. The Contested Haymarket Affair: 130 Years Later
    First Published: 2016
    On May 4th, 1886 someone threw a bomb into a file of Chicago police dispatched to break up a workers' protest rally at the city's Haymarket Square. The blast and ensuing gunfire killed seven cops and at least four civilians, and wounded many more.
  2518. Continental Cultural Communication
    First Published: 2015
    A review of "Africa Speaks, America Answers" written by Robin D.G. Kelley.
  2519. The Continuing Debate
    First Published: 1979
    We should subject both Marxism and anarchism to a critical analysis, and thereby start to provide the basis for a libertarian revolutionary movement that relates adequately to the needs and problems of today.
  2520. Contra Hardt and Negri
    First Published: 2014
  2521. Contra Todos los Pronósticos
    First Published: 1985
    La creencia que la sociedad oficial es tan abrumadora que no se puede hacer nada al respecto está muy cerca de la idea que no puede hacer nada. La idea que las cosas se volverán a hacer si la gente se une para hacerlo ellos mismos contiene la semilla de la idea que la gente tiene el poder para hacer todo.
  2522. The Contract Struggle at an Auto Parts Plant
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    A new t-shirt has appeared at the American Axle and Manufacturing (AAM) plant where I work, and it is selling like hotcakes. The hi-lo driver shuttling parts to my job was wearing it.
  2523. The Contradiction of Trotsky
    First Published: 1948
    It was worth examining carefully Trotsky's attitude at the dawn of Stalinism, for it enables us to elucidate the (theoretical) policy to which he adhered until his death. I have said that Trotsky represented, between 1923 and 1927, the contradictions of Bolshevism. I should now add that he never emerged from this divided situation. Subsequently he transported into the domain of revolutionary theory the contradiction in which he had become objectively enclosed. Of course, he was forced by events to perceive the counter-revolutionary character of Stalinism, but he was not capable of taking an overall view of the new Stalinist society and of defining it.
  2524. The contradictions and limits of localism
    First Published: 2014
    Can co-ops and transition towns transform the world? The author of No Local explains why local counter-institutions won’t lead to revolutionary change.
  2525. Contradictions of the Iraqi Resistance: Guerilla War vs. Terrorism
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    One of the most complicated aspects of the war in Iraq is that the Iraqi resistance is divided into a multitude of different groups with a multitude of different goals.
  2526. Contre vents et marées
    First Published: 1984
  2527. La contribution de Rosa Luxembourg envers le Marxisme
    First Published: 2000
    Luxembourg était l'interprète principale du Marxisme dans l'esprit de Marx. Une indication de ceci, paradoxal à première vue, fut qu'elle était une des rares Marxiste principale qui ne traita pas les écritures de Marx comme assignation sainte.
  2528. Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
    First Published: 1844
    The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
    Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
    The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
    Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses
  2529. Il contributo al marxismo di Rosa Luxemburg
    First Published: 2000
    Vedo Rosa Luxemburg come la marxista che fece il massimo per progredire le teorie rivoluzionarie di Karl Marx nel periodo successivo alla morte di Marx ed Engels.
  2530. O Contributo de Rosa Luxemburg ao Marxismo
    First Published: 2000
    Num momento em que o movimento socialista estava evoluindo em direçoes cada vez mais distantes das posiçoes de Marx o reformismo social democrata, por um lado, e o centralismo burocrático Leninista, por outro Luxemburg foi a principal representante do marxismo no espírito de Marx.
  2531. The Control of the Canadian Economy and the Human Problem of Unemployment:
    A Christian Perspective
    First Published: 1979
    This statement is printed as a fold-out on one sheet with an insert.
  2532. Conundrum - Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
    First Published: 2015
    It's always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not.
  2533. Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
  2534. A Convergence of Realities
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    What's striking the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement and its popular slogan “We are the 99 percent” is how much the central demand of the movement resonates with the Black community. African Americans with few exceptions are in the bottom 20% of income and wealth. Double digit unemployment is the norm in “good” economic times.
  2535. Converging on Philadelphia
    First Published: 2016
    At the "Socialist Convergence" and other spaces in Philly the weekend before and week of the DNC, socialists should argue for an orientation toward movements rather than narrow electoralism.
  2536. Conversation with a Hairdresser's Assistant
    First Published: 1935
    An english translation of Reich's article of the same name from 1935, which demonstrates how Marxist principles might be explained without the use of political terms.
  2537. Conversation with an Anarchist
    Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution
    First Published: 2011   Published: 2012
  2538. A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez
    How the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s
    First Published: 2018
    Clearly, this is not as organized a political campaign as the one that took place in the 1940s and 1950s, but the climate is chillingly similar in terms of the massive capitulation and conformity in the entertainment industry.
  2539. Conversations about Resistance
    First Published: 2016
    At first, the scene appears tense. Twenty-one Israeli soldiers in full combat gear are arrayed in a neat line across the main road of the small village of Al Ma’sara, just south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Several of the soldiers wear partial balaclavas which obscure their features, leaving their faces visible only from the eyes up. They stand expectantly, some with their hands resting casually on the butts of their rifles.
  2540. Converse
    First Published: 1976
    The role of church people in the correctional system.
  2541. Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
    First Published: 2016
    There was a time in the United States when it was not only common knowledge, but commonly reported, legislated, and adjudicated that crime is a function of poverty. This went out sometime during the Carter Administration, its demise heralded by the appearance in 1975 of James Q. Wilson's Thinking About Crime, where he first aired the broken-windows theory,which holds that punishment has to be harsh for minor violations of public order to incentivize criminals against larger violations.
  2542. Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
    First Published: 2016
    The ongoing struggle of us convicts to preserve and enhance their humanity has been taking on an explicit labor aspect, connected to and conscious of such struggles outside the prison walls, and it appears to be intensifying hand in hand with the convicts' traditional struggles for human dignity.
  2543. Convict Labor in America
    Book review
    First Published: 1998
    Convict labour, like antebellum slavery, was an American way of life, a cultural practice that tied northern capitalists, plantation owners, university-trained social reformers, federal officials and advocates of "good roads" together in a powerful alliance.
  2544. Convicted but not Convinced
    First Published: 1978
  2545. Convicts, Collateral Damage, and the "War on Drugs"
    The Real Crime is the War Itself
    First Published: 2012
    Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those smuggle drugs across the international boundary between the two countries. But more importantly what they do is highlight how the ludicrous “war on drugs” produces casualties of many sorts.
  2546. Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking
    First Published: 2020
    Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies.
  2547. Co-op Housing
    First Published: 1976
    Booklet designed to answer initial questions on co-op housing laws and procedures in Canada.
  2548. Co-op Housing - An Alternative
    First Published: 1976
    A brochure describing non-profit co-op housing in Toronto.
  2549. Co-op housing under attack
    First Published: 1992
  2550. Co-op programs
    Student co-op programs can be useful and rewarding for both the non-profit group and the students.
  2551. La Cooperativa Bain se enfrenta al Grupo de Remuneración por el Trabajo Doméstico
    Una espeluznante historia sobre política.
    First Published: 1977
  2552. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A political coalition of progressive, socialist and labour forces anxious to establish a political vehicle capable of bringing about economic reforms to improve the circumstances of those suffering the effects of the Great Depression.
  2553. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
    Connexipedia Article
    A Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction. In 1944, it became the government of Saskatchewan under T.C. Douglas, and in 1961, it became the New Democratic Party.
  2554. La coopérative de Bain rencontre 'Salaires pour les travaux domestiques'
    First Published: 1977
  2555. Cooperative farming is the only solution to the present agriculture crisis
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the agricultural crisis in India and the economic realities the country faces in a market tilted in favour of America and Europe. Solutions include government policy based on science in the use of land and water, less reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, and a move towards cooperative farming.
  2556. Co-operative Planning Towarrd a Settlement of the Yukon Indian Claim: Document #1, Janury 21, 1977
    First Published: 1977
    The Planning Council For Yukon Indian Claims is comprised of representatives of the Council for Yukon Indians, the Government of the Yukon Territory, and the Government of Canada.
  2557. Les Cooperatives d'habitation
    Organization profile published 1980
    First Published: 1980
    "Ce dossier d'inscrit dans une série de documents qui se prospsent de soulever des débats sur les "points chauds" concernant le logement et l'environment."
  2558. Coopting the language of the left at the pro-life march on Washington
    First Published: 2017
    Examining the use of left wing rhetoric by a participant of the pro-life match on Washington to justify right wing ideologies and policies, and the broader impliciations of such tactics.
  2559. COP21 An Opportunity For Climate Justice, If We Mobilize
    First Published: 2015
    The COP21 resulted in an agreement that was 25 years in the making, beginning with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. Until now the world had been unable to reach an agreement on combating climate change. Now it is up to the people to push for policies at all levels of government to make the Paris Accord effective. We have the potential to use this deal to create a turning point in humanity's struggle for climate justice and end the fossil fuel era, but only if the people mobilize to make it so.
  2560. COP21: in spite of the show, the glass is 80% empty
    First Published: 2015
    The COP21 Paris Climate Conference has, as expected, led to an agreement. It will come into effect from 2020 if it is ratified by 55 of the countries which are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and these 55 countries account for at least 55% of global emissions of greenhouse gases. In the light of the positions taken in Paris, this dual condition should not raise any difficulty (although the non-ratification of Kyoto by the United States shows that surprises are always possible).
  2561. COP21, Paris: 'Another world is possible, necessary and urgent' 
    First Published: 2015
    The greatest danger of the Paris conference is that the global South will be bullied into to accepting a terrible deal rather than leave with none at all. That gives civil society an essential role - to support the resistance of developing country representatives inside the summit to an unjust and ineffective agreement imposed on them by the rich, powerful, high-emitting nations.
  2562. COP27
    Corporate Courts Versus Developing World
    First Published: 2022
    As rich countries move away from dispute-settlement mechanisms that give corporations power to block environmental protections, Manuel Pérez-Rocha says they keep imposing them on developing countries through trade pacts.
  2563. Copperbelt strike of 1935
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike action which performed by African mineworkers in the Copperbelt (then in Northern Rhodesia, today called Zambia) to protest against unfair taxes imposed by the British colonial authorities.
  2564. Cops Are Now Less Cautious Than Soldiers In Iraq
    Shooting Mirian Carey
    First Published: 2013
    Police militarization is a hot topic lately, but American police are beyond anything contemplated by the American military. American police today appear unwilling to accept any risk whatsoever and seem willing to kill anyone and anything that could possibly be seen as a threat.
  2565. Cops Charge Black Activist with "Lynching"
    Defend Maile Hampton!
    First Published: 2015
    On January 18, 2015, Maile Hampton, a young black woman and member of the ANSWER Coalition, was leading chants at a Sacramento, California, protest against a pro-cop rally. An online video shows the cops violently attacking several protesters, slamming a woman against a cop car and repeatedly throwing a man to the ground. While both were being handcuffed, the crowd chanted to let them go. Five weeks later, Hampton was arrested at her home. She now faces up to four years in jail on charges of felony "lynching"! A law supposedly intended to criminalize the extra-legal murder of black people, Mexicans and others by the racist terrorists of the KKK and their ilk, is now wielded by the police against those who actively protest the modern-day legal lynchings carried out by the cops.
  2566. Copyleft
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    A play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.
  2567. The Copyright Police
    First They Came for the Hip Hop Sites ...
    First Published: 2010
    Understand this: the seizure of websites without due process, corporate interests lobbying and then writing laws that allow them to be the police and t personally enforce, the battle over net neutrality is all about concentrating power in the hands of a few. This is about controlling the flow of information and being a gate keeper in the communications arena. Its the first step in moving a democracy toward a dictatorship.
  2568. Copyright policies threaten internet use in Panama and Colombia
    First Published: 2012
    After years of being one of the most progressive regions in the world in terms of balanced copyright policy, Latin America is unfortunately sliding into copyright maximalism, enacting increasingly restrictive copyright enforcement measures into their federal laws.
  2569. Coral Reefs
    First Published: 2009
    All around the world, much of the world's marine biodiversity face threats from human and activities as well as natural. It is feared that very soon, many reefs could die off.
  2570. Corbyn and confronting media power
    First Published: 2015
    Corbyn may be right not to respect a media establishment that has shown little signs of respecting him but he urgently needs a strategy with which to confront it.
  2571. Corbyn's Labour Party is Being Made to Fail - By Design
    First Published: 2018
    The embattled Labour party is reportedly soon to adopt the four additional working "examples" of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The full adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism will be a victory for Israel and its apologists in Britain, who who have been seeking to curb all meaningful criticism of Israel.
  2572. Corbyn's Millions - Blair's Millions
    First Published: 2016
    While 'social media' like Facebook and Twitter are forms of corporate media, it is unarguable that they and other web-based outlets have helped empower a serious challenge to traditional print and broadcast journalism. For the first time in history, uncompromised non-corporate voices are able to instantly challenge the filtered 'mainstream' version of events. This certainly helps explain the rise of Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, Podemos in Spain, and now Bernie Sanders in the US.
  2573. Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
    First Published: 2014
    The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
  2574. Cornish Rebellion of 1497
    Connexipedia Article
    A popular uprising by the people of Cornwall in the far south west of Britain.
  2575. Corona and the Rise of the German Police State
    First Published: 2020
    A few weeks ago, a German women did something illegal. She bought a book called 1984 in a local bookstore. The bookseller was crying because he had not seen a customer for ages.
  2576. The Coronavirus Conundrum and Human Rights
    First Published: 2020
    These are strange times. From left to right, no one quite knows what to do or who to believe. While the rapid spread of the coronavirus has rendered many of us bewildered and confused, the edict to physically distance ourselves from others has managed to highlight both just how vulnerable and interdependent we all are.
  2577. Coronavirus gives Israelis a tiny taste of what life is like for Palestinians
    First Published: 2020
    Will Israelis emerge from the virus with a newfound sympathy for Palestinian suffering? Not likely.
  2578. Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
    First Published: 2020
    Emboldened by the citizenry's inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state's hands.
  2579. Coronavirus: What Newsweek Failed to Mention About "Continuity of Government"
    First Published: 2020
    Last week, Newsweek published a report entitled “Inside The Military’s Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government,” which offers vague descriptions of different military plans that could be put into effect if the civilian government were to be largely incapacitated, with a focus on the potential of the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to result in such a scenario.
  2580. Corporate America Unmasked
    First Published: 2017
    While US public views seem generally favourable about American corporations, an extensive study by psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback concludes that leadership, particularly in large corporations, is found to be morally depraved and their organizations often dysfunctional.
  2581. Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem
    First Published: 2016
    Corporate 'risk management' is concerned with protecting profits, not with protecting the planet or human beings.
  2582. Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
    First Published: 2018
    Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
  2583. Corporate Concentration and the Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility
    First Published: 1976
    Condensed version of the brief presented to the Bryce Commission on Corporate Concentration.
  2584. The Corporate Consensus
    A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power
    First Published: 2000
    A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
  2585. Corporate Corruption And The Special Interest State
    Regulatory Capture at the FCC
    First Published: 2013
    With Tom Wheeler's nomination, expect pro big-telecom policies such as ending net neutrality, further industry consolidation, limiting meaningful competition and increasing user fees, among other policies.
  2586. Corporate India Versus Indigenous People
    Violent in the Name of Development
    First Published: 2013
    The state has more or less abandoned rural people (70% of the population) and turned the countryside over to corporate India. Mineral extraction, dam building, infrastructure projects, water appropriation and industrial farming make up their burgeoning business portfolios.
  2587. Corporate Influence in the Media
    First Published: 1999
    Some nations can influence and control their media greatly. In addition, powerful corporations are becoming major influences on mainstream media. In some places major multinational corporations own media stations and outlets. Moreover, even as numbers of media outlets increase, the ownership is becoming ever more concentrated as mega mergers take hold. At the same time, vertical integration gives the big players even more avenues to cross-sell and cross-market their products for even more amazing profits. An effect of this though is a reduction in diversity and depth of content that the public can get, while increasing the political and economic power of corporations and advertisers. An informed population is crucial element to a functioning democracy.
  2588. The Corporate Invasion
    Government by Big Business Goes Supranational
    First Published: 2013
    A new treaty being negotiated in secret between the US and the EU has been specifically engineered to give companies what they want -- the dismantling of all social, consumer and environmental protection, and compensation for any infringement of their assumed rights. Under the treaty, foreign companies could sue governments directly for cash compensation over earnings lost because of strict labour or environmental legislation.
  2589. Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
    First Published: 2018
    We on the Left don't need to reflexively and absurdly jump to the defense of imperial criminals at the instigation of that (well, yes) "enemy of the people" the U.S. corporate and so-called mainstream war, news, and entertainment media.
  2590. Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak
    First Published: 2016
    Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their documents ought to be a wonderful thing.
    Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no doubt Putin is bent.
    But why focus on Russia? Russian wealth is only a tiny minority of the money hidden away with the aid of Mossack Fonseca. In fact, it soon becomes obvious that the selective reporting is going to stink.
  2591. The corporate media's world of illusions
    First Published: 2018
    In fact, the Great Western Narrative has been developed and refined over centuries to preserve a tiny elite’s privileges and expand its power. The role of journalists like me was to keep feeding these illusions to readers so they would remain fearful, passive and deferential to this elite. It is not that journalists lie – or at least, not most of them – it is that they are as deeply wedded to the Great Western Narrative as everyone else.
  2592. Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming
    First Published: 2013
    Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about whether the WWF is effective in its work and, moreover, why the WWF and other members of the global environmental movement have made such little progress combatting the most serious threat to earth - climate change.
  2593. Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
    First Published: 2011
    How freedom of expression is threatened because corporate-owned media in Canada censor and manipulate the news.
  2594. Corporate power and the moulding of truth
    First Published: 2016
    The corporate dominance of 'free' media in western democracies imposes deep structural constraints on what may be reported, and how. Syria is now the latest example of skewed reportage - and even journalists seeking to analyse the problem must carefully avoid the real reasons for it.
  2595. Corporate Spying on Environmental Groups
    We Are Being Watched
    First Published: 2013
    The surveillance of moderate environmental groups like GDAC comes at a pivotal time for the environmental movement.
  2596. The Corporate State and Manufactured Dependence
    Sure, It Can Get Worse...It's Happening Right Before Our Eyes
    First Published: 2013
    The 'resistance is futile' mindset that supports plutocrats and the global corporations they own assumes the existing order is the only possible order and the costs of resistance are too great because 'they' have state power and unlimited economic resources on their side.
  2597. The Corporate State of Surveillance
    Opting Out
    First Published: 2013
    America was founded on the ideals of personal liberty, freedom and democracy. Now mass spying, surveillance and the unending collection of personal data undermine civil liberties and our privacy rights. We find ourselves in the midst of an all-out invasion on what’s-none-of-their-business and its coming from both government and corporate sources. Snooping and data collection have become big business. Nothing is out of their bounds anymore.
  2598. The Corporate Stranglehold on Education 
    Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
    First Published: 2009
    Rather than challenge the economic irresponsibility, ecological damage, and human suffering, and culture of cruelty unleashed by free market fundamentalism, higher education appears to be one of its staunchest defenders, uncritically embracing a view of itself based on a market model of the academy.
  2599. Corporate Sycophants and the TPP
    First Published: 2015
    The hypocrisy of "free market" advocates is astounding. While they trumpet increased competition and the elimination of state imposed barriers as a means of spurring economic advancement, they ignore how the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other "free trade" accords increase monopolistic intellectual property provisions.
  2600. Corporate Terrorism in West Texas
    The Full Weight of Justice
    First Published: 2013
    Make no mistake, if it becomes clear that the Texas explosion was triggered by a terrorist attack, a la the Oklahoma City bombing, then Obama will begin talking about “the full weight of justice.”
  2601. Corporate volunteering
    First Published: 1997
    Corporate volunteer programs.
  2602. The Corporate Welfare Bank of the United States
    The Elites and the Ex-Im Bank
    First Published: 2014
    Over the past few weeks, the American business lobby and in particular the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have come out in force to support the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. These groups and their puppets in Washington insist that the Ex-Im Bank is good for American small businesses and supports job growth, that failing to reauthorize will harm the overall economy. Conscious of the political atmosphere, the Bank’s supporters have carefully avoided some ugly facts about this vehicle for corporatist cooperation.
  2603. Corporate Welfare in the Forest
    Post-Fire Logging Loses Money and Damages the Health of the Ecosystem
    First Published: 2013
    The Forest Service is under extreme political pressure to log our national patrimony, whether it makes any economic or ecological sense. A good example of a needless, ecologically damaging, and economically wasteful logging proposal is the proposed $1.4 million Pole Creek post-fire logging sale.
  2604. Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's Schools
    First Published: 1998
    The corporate elite are a small minority and their values are the opposite of most peoples' values. Things that most people consider immoral, like deliberately increasing the number of students who fail to graduate, are ruthlessly pursued by the corporate elite in order to control people and to justify increasing inequality in society.
  2605. Corporations and Military Powers Are Selling Phony "Wokeness" on International Women's Day
    First Published: 2020
    It was a familiar sight March 8, 2020 on International Women’s Day, as military contractors and other giant corporations used the holiday to attempt to associate themselves with progressive causes and agendas.
  2606. Corporations profiting out of food crisis
    First Published: 2012
    The small group of food multinationals that monopolise the world food market are positioning themselves to take full advantage of the crisis: the latest food price hikes threaten to drive more people back into hunger.
  2607. Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity
    Dow Chemical vs. Greenpeace
    First Published: 2014
    Here's a dirty little secret you won't see in the daily papers: corporations conduct espionage against US nonprofit organizations without fear of being brought to justice.
  2608. Corporations Undermined Public Transportation
    First Published: 2015
    Over the past eighteen months two of the world's largest automakers have been found responsible for deadly conspiracies. But, recent revelations can’t compete with the industry's previous scandals.
  2609. Corporations Undermined Public Transportation
    First Published: 2015
    Engler analyzes the largest conspiracies committed by automotive manufacturing companies, specifically General Motors' role in eliminating the trolley as America's most used form of public transportation.
  2610. Correcting Common Misconceptions About Nonviolent Struggle
    First Published: 1973
    A handout sheet addressing common misconceptions about nonviolent action and answering some frequently asked questions. Excerpted from The Politics of Nonviolent Action.
  2611. Correspondence
    First Published: 1979
  2612. Correspondence Publishing Committee
    Connexipedia Article
    A radical left organization in the US led by C.L.R. James and Martin Glaberman from approximately 1951 until 1962.
  2613. Corrupted Science: the DEA and Marijuana
    First Published: 2016
    While I was on my book tour for Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto, I was shocked to discover how many Americans didn’t know our Founding Fathers grew cannabis.
  2614. A Cosmetic Cover for Occupation
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October of 2001, the Bush administration belatedly latched on to the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban as a rationale for military action. As part of their ideological arsenal, they deployed the heretofore retiring First Lady to present a humanitarian face to military intervention. Addressing the nation by radio on November 17, 2001, Laura Bush connected misogyny to terrorism, noting, “The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.”
  2615. The Cost of Bearing Witness
    First Published: 2023
    There are scores of Palestinian writers and photographers, many of whom have been killed, who are determined to make us see the horror of this genocide. They will vanquish the lies of the killers.
  2616. The cost of software piracy
    First Published: 2005
    The enormous dollar amounts the software industry throws around in its PR campaigns about software 'piracy' are purely imaginary.
  2617. Costa Rican Farmers Become Climate Change Acrobats
    First Published: 2014
    José Alberto Chacón traverses the winding path across his small farm on the slopes of the Irazú volcano, in Costa Rica, which meanders because he has designed it to prevent rain from washing away nutrients from the soil.
  2618. Costly Energy
    Why oil and gas prices are rising and what we can do about it
    First Published: 2001
    A collection of progressive analysis and alternatives
  2619. Costly postal strikes
    First Published: 1992
  2620. Costos y riesgos socializados vs. Ganancias privatizadas
    La crisis en los Estados Unidos
    First Published: 2008
  2621. The Costs of McCarthyism
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    Many Are the Crimes is far more than just an incisive diagnosis of the interlocking components of the historical era known as “McCarthyism.” Yeshiva University historian Ellen Schrecker has also produced a unique anti-witch-hunt study acknowledging that the vast majority of the legal targets of repression were, as the McCarthyites claimed, variously associated with the Communist movement.
  2622. 'Cotton has now become a headache'
    A chemical-intensive Bt cotton monoculture is spreading through Odisha’s Rayagada district – harming health, deepening debt, irreversibly er
    First Published: 2019
    Kunari's account reflects a dependence brought about by cotton cultivation that is taking root across the ecologically sensitive highland tracts of Odisha's Rayagada district, with deep implications for its rich store of biodiversity, farmers' distress and food security (See Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha).
  2623. Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
    First Published: 2010
    A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
  2624. Could Punching Nazis Have Prevented Hitler From Taking Power
    First Published: 2017
    There have been repeated references to how Nazism could have been stopped by street-fighting, with almost no attention paid to the concrete socio-political conditions of Germany between 1920 and 1933. For many of those who think that physical force was the key to stopping Nazism, the viral video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face was far more important as a guide to action than understanding the tragic history of the German left.
  2625. Council Communism
    First Published: 1939
    There is no dearth of proposals as to how to revive the labour movement; however, the serious investigator cannot help noticing that all such proposals for a 'new beginning' are in reality but the restatement and rediscovery of ideas and forms of activity developed with much greater clarity and consistency during the beginnings of the modern labour movement.
  2626. Council communism
    Connexipedia Article
    The central argument of council communism, in contrast to those of social democracy and Leninist Communism, is that democratic workers' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural form of working class organisation and governmental power.
  2627. Council Communism & The Critique of Bolshevism
    First Published: 1999
    Council Communists don't see Stalinism as a sort of 'counter-revolution' that deprived October of its fruits. Rather they see Stalinism just as a fruit of this revolution, one that opened the door for capitalism in Russia. Stalin was the heir of Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Revolution.
  2628. Council of all beings
    First Published: 1990
  2629. Counter Mobilization: an Effective Response to Right Wing Speech
    First Published: 2017
    As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the ruling rich are making every effort to ensure that the working class bears the brunt of the economic crunch. In this atmosphere, elements of the extreme right feel emboldened to promote their reactionary wares. From the increasing visibility of right wing websites like breitbart.com, to well-publicized speaking tours by conservative ideologues like Milo Yiannopoulos and others, to former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon attaining the status of presidential advisor – the message from the top is clear: racism, sexism and xenophobia will all be used to divide and oppress the 99%. Meanwhile, these same poisonous sentiments are used to divert attention from those actually responsible for and benefiting from the current crisis.
  2630. Counter-Culture
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    An article on the history of the 1960s Counter-Culture in Toronto.
  2631. Counter-Terrorism and Imperial Hypocrisy
    Lessons from the Kidnapping of Abu Anas al-Libi in Tripoli
    First Published: 2013
    Western governments word closely with 'terrorists' when it suits them, and then turn on them when the wind shifts.
  2632. Counterculture
    Connexipedia Article
    Sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
  2633. Counterculture of the 1960s
    Connexipedia Article
    A cultural movement that mainly developed in the North America and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and the mid-1970s as a reaction against the political conservatism and social repression of the 1950s.
  2634. Countering Pro-GMO Deceptions in the British Press
    First Published: 2016
    In his recent piece for The Times newspaper in the UK, Viscount Matt Ridley argues that a new report from the American National Academies of Sciences (NAS) leaves no room for doubt that genetically engineered crops are as safe or safer, and are certainly better for the environment, than conventionally bred crops.
  2635. Countering the Israel Lobby's Dominance
    Can Jewish Liberals Transcend the Wiesel Doctrine?
    First Published: 2012
    The distance between largely secular American Jews and the Zionist establishment is likely to widen. This will weaken the political power of the Israel lobby only if American Jews as a whole are prepared to announce unambiguously their antipathy to their self-proclaimed representatives.
  2636. Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon 
    First Published: 2006
    Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
  2637. The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized
    First Published: 2018
    Bernard Harcourt argues in his recent book "The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens" that the same counterinsurgency paradigm of warfare used against post-9/11 enemies has now come to the US as the effective governing strategy.
  2638. Counterpoint: An Underground Newspaper with a Rural Route
    First Published: 1984
  2639. A Country Of Sacred Cows And Ten Commandments
    First Published: 2009
    It's high time that Israel must understand that criticizing Israeli government's foreign policy for assassinating people or for shooting children, is by no way Anti-Semitic, it's just being humane.
  2640. The Coup of Coups
    Putting the Shah of Shahs on the Peacock Throne
    First Published: 2013
  2641. The Courage of Cooperation
    Book Review
    First Published: 2015
    Book Review of Jessica Gordon Nembhard's ' A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.'
  2642. Courrieres Mine Disaster 1906
    First Published: 2018
    The devastating mine disaster in 1906 that killed over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, is remembered.
  2643. The court does not sympathize
    The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system
    First Published: 2009
    The blood of Palestinians is cheap in this country. No one has ever been punished for killing Palestinians' children, adults, newborns, old people. The murderers are all walking among us, free and happy.
  2644. Court rules Ottawa negligent, ignorant
    First Published: 1991
  2645. Court Throws out Energy Transfer's 'Racketeering' Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents
    First Published: 2019
    An energy company that tried to bring RICO charges against Greenpeace and other people opposing their pipeline have had their case thrown out.
  2646. Courts Back Detroit Scab Papers
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    In July a federal court of appeals dealt a crushing blow to the Detroit newspaper strikers, holding management was bargaining in good faith at the time they walked out in 1995. This means replaced workers—of whom there are still several hundred—have no rights to displace scabs and over a thousand more will get no backpay.
  2647. The Cover-Ups That Exploded
    First Published: 2010
  2648. Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double Standards
    An Exchange With The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
    First Published: 2008
    The priorities of the news media mean that the more Palestinians are killed, the less importance their deaths have to news organisations. Conversely, the fewer Israelis killed the more seriousness their deaths are accorded.
  2649. Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire
    First Published: 2010
    It appears irrelevant to many policymakers, journalists, and people in the US generally that Pakistan has, for example, peasants, unions, working-class politics, LGBTQ organizations, feminist groups—that, in short, the overriding ethic of Pakistani democracy and resistance movements is secular.
  2650. COVID-19: Coronavirus and Civilization
    First Published: 2020
    Lockdowns reveal helplessness rather than power. While in a crisis some will take advantage of disaster, it makes no sense that dominant economic powers sought this crisis for some mysterious benefit to themselves, says Diana Johnstone.
  2651. COVID-19 Exposes the Weakness of a Major Theory Used to Justify Capitalism
    First Published: 2020
    Wolff argues that COVID-19 exposed orthodox economics -- the idea that capitalists' decisions about investing and producing are inherenty "efficent" -- as a sham.
  2652. COVID-19: Vietnam Winning New War Against Invisible Enemy
    First Published: 2020
    The World Economic Forum, the Financial Times and others laud Vietnam as a low cost Covid-19 success story to be emulated by poor countries with limited resources, say Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
  2653. Cowardly Firing of Australian State-Funded TV Journalist Highlights the West's Real Religion
    First Published: 2015
    A TV sports commentator in Australia, Scott McIntyre, was summarily fired by his public broadcasting employer, Special Broadcasting Services (SBS), because of a series of tweets he posted about the violence committed historically by the Australian military.
  2654. Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by Algorithms 
    First Published: 2017
    An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cut. Many others have been publicly defamed.
    The only voices speaking the truth, says Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, are those on the fringes and we must amplify them however we can. Some suggestions:
    * Read/view alternative media stories and share them in whatever venues you can.
    * Stop consuming mainstream media and stop posting links to it.
    * Actively support alternative media by donating money, time or other resources.
    * Stop using Google as your search engine; I recommend DuckDuckGo. You will be surprised at how much you've been missing.
    * Become the media: take your own photos or video and write up stories yourself for whatever outlet will take your work, even if that's only your own blog.
  2655. The Cowards' Wars
    First Published: 2016
    The condemnation of Radovan Karadzic to forty years of imprisonment by the International Crime Tribunal-Yugoslavia occasions these reflections.
  2656. Cowburnt
    Most of the public lands in the West, and especially in the Southwest, are what you might call "cowburnt." Almost anywhere and everywhere you go in the American West you find hordes of these ugly, clumsy, stupid, bawling, stinking, flycovered, shit-smeared, disease-spreading brutes. They are a pest and a plague. they pollute our springs and streams and rivers. they infest our canyons, valleys, meadows, and forests. They graze off the native bluestem and grama and bunchgrasses, leaving behind jungles of prickly pear. They trample down the native forbs and shrubs and cactus. They spread the exotic cheatgrass, the Russian thistle, and the crested wheatgrass. Weeds.
  2657. The Cowliphate and Poisoned Kids: Twin Assaults on The Commons
    First Published: 2016
    When I opened up my Facebook feed today, 90 percent on the items on my feed were equally divided between the Bundy Cowliphate here in Oregon and the poisoning of the water supply in Flint, my hometown. Given my decades of Public Lands’ Conservation activism, both topics are dear to me.
  2658. Co-workers in a World Struggle
    First Published: 1975
    Problems facing agriculture in Manitoba, similar to problems facing Japanese farmers.
  2659. Coxey's Army
    Connexipedia Article
    A protest march by unemployed workers from the United States.
  2660. The CPCCA should be reconfigured to combat racism against all peoples
    First Published: 2010
    Confronted with evidence of a decline in anti-Semitism, Irwin Cotler creatively claims that it is anti-Semitic to accuse Israel of apartheid. Since this accusation seems to be growing and is being promoted by campaigns on Canadian campuses, Cotler then has "evidence" of anti-Semitism.
  2661. CPE: Demystifying Economics--Interview with Elissa Braunstein
    First Published: 1999
  2662. Craft Unionism
    First Published: 1905
    The old form of trade unionism no longer meets the demands of the working class. The old trade union has not only fulfilled its mission and outlived its usefulness, but that it is now positively reactionary.
  2663. Craig Murray: Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 2
    First Published: 2022
    Think of every sensible thing you think you know about prison. Think of education, training, rehabilitation. It is all completely ignored by the Scottish Prison Service.
  2664. Craig Murray's jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
    First Published: 2021
    Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of "jigsaw identification".
  2665. Creating A Giant Ghetto in Gaza
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    I is possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the United States, in close cooperation with Europe, are now engaged in a rigorous scientific experiment in order to obtain a definitive answer.
  2666. Creating a Socialism that Meets Needs
    First Published: 2017
    There is widespread and growing understanding that the current social order cannot continue without catastrophe occurring - yet we lack a vision of what might replace it.
  2667. Creating Knowledge: Breaking the Monoply
    First Published: 1978
  2668. Creating Your Own Alternatives
    Alternatives and suggestons for creating independent media.
  2669. Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
    Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
    First Published: 2010
    Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
  2670. Creative + Strategic = Effective Movements for Change
    First Published: 2019
    Some positive, creative ideas on non-violent actions to make social change.
  2671. Creative Destruction: The Madness of the Global Economy
    First Published: 2008
    The current system of economics, particularly the latest stage of 'turbo-capitalism', known inoffensively as 'neoliberalism', is built upon painful boom-and-bust cycles fuelled by corporate greed and maintained by cynical deception of the public. The costs to the planet - in terms of human suffering and environmental collapse - are staggering.
  2672. 'Creative Destruction' - The Madness of the Global Economy - Part 2
    First Published: 2008
    The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism has been the refusal to analyse this; or even to report that real growth rates in the developed world have been declining since the 1970s.
  2673. 'The creatures, too, must become free': Marx and the Animal/Human Distinction
    First Published: 2000
    It has been claimed that Marx lacked respect for animals, thinking of them as inferior beings. Lawrence Wilde argues that, on the contrary, Marx had a respectful attitude towards animals and non-human nature in general. Marx’s attitude to the non-human is intrinsic to his humanistic outlook, grounded in an understanding of the human essence, for which maltreatment of animals is contrary to a communistic vision. Wilde approaches the question of Marx’s attitude to animals and nature within the wider context of Marx’s ethics.
  2674. Cree Agenda Becomes Part of Federal Election
    First Published: 1999
    The politicians of all parties are acting as if Aboriginal rights are irrelevant to this question of Quebec secession. Not only is it relevant: it is, in fact, central to the whole question. And if the politicians would only admit this frankly, the terms of the whole debate would be changed overnight.
  2675. Cree Challenge Settement
    First Published: 1990
    The Grand Council of the Cree of Quebec goes to court in 1990 asking that the James Bay and Northern Agreement, the largest land claim settlement in Canadian history, should be declared null and void.
  2676. Creeping contradictions
    First Published: 1978
    News tidbits.
  2677. A creeping quiet in Indian journalism?
    First Published: 2017
    How a combination of government pressure, harassment by political activists, commercial actors including both advertisers and some media owners, is exercising a chilling effect on Indian journalism.
  2678. Crees fine government
    First Published: 1989
  2679. CRIAW conference
    First Published: 1990
  2680. Crime
    First Published: 1978
  2681. Crime and Criminals 
    Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
    First Published: 1902
    So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
  2682. Crime and Punishment
    First Published: 1903
    Let us have done with this savage idea of punishment, which is without wisdom. Let us work for the freedom of man from the oppressions which make criminals, and for the enlightened treatment of all the sick.
  2683. Crime & Impunity
    A pioneering report on sexual torture in Iranian Prisons
    First Published: 2012
    The first-ever comprehensive report on sexual violence and torture of women in Iranian prisons.
  2684. Crime of Apartheid
    Connexipedia Article
  2685. Crime or Punishment Why Wall Street Elites Don't Do Time
    First Published: 2016
    Illicit financial behavior has been decriminalized in the United States -- for all practical purposes. Despite the revelations of massive misconduct by banks and other financial services businesses, criminal investigations are rare, indictments exceptional and guilty judgments extraordinary. Most potentially culpable actions are overlooked by authorities, slighted, reduced from criminal to civil status when pursued, individuals evade penalties much less punishment, and the appeals courts take extreme liberties in exonerating culprits when and if the odd conviction reaches them. The last mentioned are establishing new frontiers in the formulation of ingeniously sophistic arguments to justify letting financial malefactors off the hook.
  2686. Crime & Public Shaming
    First Published: 2016
    Shaming is one of the oldest forms of social regulation and, in the U.S., has long been employed to enforce social order -- specifically to fight crime and suppress unacceptable beliefs and practices. Today, there is an apparent rise of public shaming either as an alternative or supplement to incarceration. On February 8th, 2016, Pres. Obama signed the “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking” (H.R. 515), the first law in U.S. history in which a special symbol will be placed on a citizen's U.S. passport to identify that the individual was convicted of a sex crime.
  2687. Crimea, El Salvador & the Fight Against Public Participation
    Policing "Irresponsibility"
    First Published: 2014
    On the Obama administration's disregard for democracy and public participation. Examples include the administration's silence on the coup against democratically-elected Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych and its threats to withhold development aid from El Salvador unless the winner of its presidential elections, the FMLN’s Sánchez Cerén, adopts right-wing economic and social policies.
  2688. Crimea, Georgia and the New Olympic Sport: Russia Bashing
    First Published: 2016
  2689. Crimes and Punishment (or Not)
    Manning Get's Slammed; A Mass-Murderer Got Sprung
    First Published: 2013
    William Laws Calley, a second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, was convicted of slaughtering 22 innocent men, women and children, including babies, during a day-long slaughterfest in which he and his men massacred over 500 unarmed Vietnamese.
  2690. The Crimes of 'Intcom'
    First Published: 2002
    Chomsky differentiates between the term "international community" and its other more technical usage referring to the partnering of the USA and several allies. Chomsky labels the latter as "Intcom" and identifies several of its criminal actions.
  2691. The Crimes of Seal Team 6
    First Published: 2017
    Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military's special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of "revenge ops," unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities -- a pattern of criminal violence that emerged soon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the command's leadership.
  2692. The Crimewave That Shames The World
    First Published: 2010
    It's one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of 'honour'.
  2693. Criminal blockade: Cuba outraged as delivery of Covid-19 aid from Alibaba chief aborted ‘at the last minute’ due to US sanctions
    First Published: 2020
    Cuba has slammed the US' "criminal blockade" of the country after the embargo stood in the way of the delivery of Covid-19 test kits and ventilators donated by Chinese e-commerce tycoon Jack Ma.
  2694. Criminal Law: 25 Common Mistakes
    First Published: 1977
    An examination of common mistakes and impressions people have about criminal law, lawyers, police powers and procedures.
  2695. Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
    The End of Free Speech?
    First Published: 2009
    A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. The Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.
  2696. Criminalizing First-Graders
    Arrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums
    First Published: 2010
    All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
  2697. Criminalizing Truancy
    Should Kids be Jailed for Skipping School?
    First Published: 2012
    American jurisdictions are increasingly turning to the criminal justice system to deal with truancy. Students and parents are being fined, and in some cases jailed, for missing school.
  2698. Cringeworthy Words in the Battle of Ideas
    First Published: 2024
    Zoltan Zigedy says it’s time to call out words or expressions that mislead, distort, or poison our discourse. He nominates several candidates for retirement, restraint, or caution.
  2699. Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894
    Connexipedia Article
    A five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA.
  2700. Crippling New Sanctions Punish Syrian Civilians For U.S. Defeat In Proxy War
    First Published: 2020
    As Syria tries to recover from a nearly decade-long war, the US has imposed crippling new sanctions under the Caesar Act that target reconstruction.
  2701. La crise Iraquienne en context
    First Published: 2003
    Un état solitaire, lourdement armé avec des armes de destruction massives, ouvertement méprisant des lois internationales et des Nations Unies et avec une réputation menaçante d'invader d'autres pays et à plonger le monde dans une crise.
    Comment le monde doit il réagir à cette menace? Que peut ont faire à propos des États Unies et leurs ambitions ouvertement impérialistiques?
  2702. Crises, Craziness, and "Security"
    First Published: 2016
    Trump himself is not so important - a vicious demagogue, but not a mass organizer or leader. What matters, following the carnage of the "Islamic State" attack in Paris and the San Bernardino mass shooting, is the climate in which the priority target of opportunity for racist reactionaries has become Muslim refugees, immigrants, communities and mosques.
  2703. Crisis and Coup in Ecuador
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    On January 21, 2000, for the first time since the Spanish conquest of Ecuador in A.D. 1533-34, indigenous people briefly -- very briefly -- ruled the country as part of a triumvirate. Frustrated by over a decade of economic problems, corruption and political stalemates over indigenous rights and land disputes, thousands of indigenous protesters and members of popular movements converged on Quito, the country's capital. On the 21st, hundreds of protesters occupied Congress and proclaimed a People's Parliament.
  2704. The Crisis and the Potential
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    A veritable civil [war] erupted in the past year among several of America’s leading unions. At a time when over eight million jobs were disappearing, unemployment reaching highs unseen for nearly three decades, home defaults and foreclosures hitting all-time records with no end in sight, and labor’s major legislative goals being cut to pieces, some of the country’s biggest, most aggressive unions went to war — not against capital or Congress, but against one another.
  2705. The Crisis Beneath the Bailout
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    In early September, 2008 the Department of Labor reported that the U.S. economy in August had lost another 84,000 jobs. This was followed on October 2 with an announcement that officially recorded September job losses accelerated to 159,000. That made nine consecutive months of increasing unemployment, adding up to well over one million jobs lost over the past year.
  2706. A Crisis by Any Other Name
    First Published: 2002
    The role of communications in a crisis.
  2707. Crisis Communications
    First Published: 1997
    Being prepared for a crisis is second best only to avoiding one altogether.
  2708. Crisis Communications Checklist
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2000
    Nothing impresses like real confidence, and only advance planning can bestow it.
  2709. La crisis de Irak en contexto
    First Published: 2003
    Un estado sin control, pesadamente provisto con armas de destrucción masiva, abiertamente despectivo de la ley internacional y de las Naciones Unidas, y con un record de extensión en aterrorizar e invadir otros países, ha hundido el mundo en crisis.
    Como debería el mundo responder a esta amenaza? Que podemos nosotros hacer respecto a los Estados Unidos y sus obvias ambiciones imperialistas?
  2710. Crisis en Gaza: el sistema de salud y los niños en peligro
    First Published: 2007
  2711. Crisis from Pakistan to Motown
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    Interview with Tariq Ali. Tariq Ali is the author of numerous political books and essays, as well as a filmmaker and novelist.
  2712. Crisis And Hope: Theirs And Ours 
    First Published: 2009
    Overcoming the multiple crises means tearing down an enormous edifice of delusions about markets, free trade, and democracy that has been assiduously constructed over many years and overcoming the marginalization and atomization of the public so that they can become participants, not mere spectators of action.
  2713. The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism
    First Published: 2018
    If there is indeed an anti-semitism problem in the UK's Labour party, it is not in the places where the British corporate media have been directing our attention. What can be said with even more certainty is that there is rampant hatred expressed towards Jews in the same British media that is currently decrying the supposed anti-semitism of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  2714. The Crisis in Investigative Journalism
    The Case of James Risen
    First Published: 2014
    Investigative journalists are the vanguard of the so-called Fourth Estate, bearing the formidable task of watchdogging the other three estates
  2715. Crisis in the Balkans
    First Published: 1999
    Chomsky illustrates the situation in Kosovo and considers NATO involvement in the context of the international order and its rules.
  2716. Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
    First Published: 2011
    The question now is whether the Occupy movement can survive as an effective force for political and social action. The decision made some time ago to set up permanent encampments is turning out to be a disaster and is taking attention away from other more productive activist events.
  2717. Crisis in the EU: From the Periphery to the Center
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    The crisis of 2007-2009, coming from the U.S. core of the globalized system, the crisis that threatens the weak links of the euro, and the third crisis that started to affect Eastern Europe in 2009 have a major common point. Whether we are talking about the United States, Greece or the Baltic States, these crises are the repercussions of profoundly unbalanced growth.
  2718. The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
    First Published: 2022
  2719. The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
    Boyd-Barrett, Oliver
    First Published: 2022
    In the United States and its allies, Russia confronts an adversary which is the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons on another. This is also an adversary which has many times since considered using nuclear weapons again.
  2720. The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It's About Germany
    First Published: 2022
  2721. A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
    First Published: 2002
    Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
  2722. The Crisis of Dialectical Materialism and Libertarian Socialism
    First Published: 1977
    Libertarian socialism is defined first and foremost by the negation of political authoritarianism and theoretical determinism.
  2723. The Crisis of Modern Society
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1967
    Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
  2724. The Crisis of Revolutionary Power
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    Alexander Rabinowitch has long stood as a major figure in the field of revolutionary history, his reputation forged by his series of books tackling the revolution in Petrograd. The book under review, his latest addition to this canon, is a meticulous and painstaking history, showing us the gaps and exploring the confusions of a tightly defined period.
  2725. The Crisis of Social Democracy: From Norway to Europe
    First Published: 2018
    With social democratic parties in Europe suffering poor election results and significant setbacks, this article puts the current crisis in historical context, and how resolution and success will depend on more radical solutions.
  2726. Crisis of the Regime
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    "A government headed by right-wing extremists has been returned to power, to preside over a divided country and a potential for real catastrophe in Iraq!" That's what we wrote a year ago, in the immediate wake of the 2004 election (editorial statement, ATC 113). In other words, the Republicans were firmly installed as the country's ruling party, albeit with a razor-thin majority, unless and until they were to screw something up really, really badly—and have they ever, from Baghdad to New Orleans and back!
  2727. Crisis of the State, Crisis of the Left
    Articulating Socialism After the Anarchist Moment
    First Published: 2018
    'Augmenting the left' -- that is, finding ways to build new organizational alliances, expand practices of resistance, and culturally envision and collectively build toward a better world -- is not just a worthwhile project, but also an essential one. Human survival may depend upon it. In this regard, it must be recognized that there is also a crisis of the various post-Marxisms, especially to the extent that they tried to replace class as the central structural pivot around which different forms of oppression and counter-hegemonic emancipatory struggles condense.
  2728. The Crisis of World Labor
    First Published: 2015
    Both the size and composition of the world working class have changed dramatically over the past four decades. But these massive shifts are not reflected in the strength of workers' organizations.
  2729. A Critical Defense of Charter '08
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    Last November, dozens of well-known Chinese intellectuals launched the Charter '08 to call on Chinese government to respect basic civil and democratic rights. Soon afterwards the core leader of the appeal, Liu Xiaobo, was arrested and remains in custody until now.
  2730. Critical distance (Bean)
    First Published: 1979
    Letter: anarchists must make a choice.
  2731. Critical Mass
    Connexipedia Article
    A bicycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month.
  2732. Critical Mass, Conflicts involving
    Connexipedia Article
    Bicycling events resulting in arrests or requiring police presence. Critics claim that Critical Mass, a bicycling advocacy event held primarily in large metropolitan cities, is a deliberate attempt to obstruct automotive traffic and disrupt normal city functions, asserting that individuals taking part refuse to obey traffic laws.
  2733. Critical pedagogy
    Connexipedia Article
    a teaching approach that attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate: in other words, a theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness
  2734. Critical Resistance at 10
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    On the weekend of September 26-28, 3,500 people gathered in Oakland, California to hasten the death of the prison system.
  2735. Critical thinking
    Connexipedia Article
    The purposeful and reflective judgement about what to believe or what to do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments.
  2736. Criticising Monbiot isn't 'demonisation'. It’s a first step on the path to reclaiming our minds
    First Published: 2020
  2737. Criticism: An Abandoned Process
    Blame the Greeks!
    First Published: 2013
    The art of criticism is yet another casualty of television, the Internet and individualism. The objective of criticism should be to improve something. That is the only way that changes and transformations take place. Formal and informal criticisms have been the centerpiece of every advanced society.
  2738. Criticism not disloyal
    First Published: 2008
    Support for Palestinian rights thus need not come at the expense of concern for Israelis - in fact, advocating changes to Israeli policies that perpetuate war, anger, and resistance is the truest promotion of Israelis' well-being.
  2739. Criticizing Israel is Not an Act of Bigotry
    Jewish Opposition to Israeli Human Rights Crimes is Growing
    First Published: 2007
    A grassroots revolt is underway in Jewish communities throughout the world, a revolt that has panicked the elite organizations that have long functioned as official mouthpieces for the community.
  2740. A Critique of Anarchism
    Like liberalism, of which it is merely a stronger version, anarchism in reality can only serve as a cloak behind which real goals and real desires can be hidden. Thus when a movement is unsure of itself, it hides behind bland calls for freedom of expression (democracy) and freedom of action (anarchy). This can be as much true for subversive movements as for reactionary movements.
  2741. A critique of anti-assimilation
    First Published: 2011
    In this piece, Gayge Operaista critiques how anti-assimilation politics of many radical queer tendencies ignores class struggle, and recasts queer liberation in terms of the class struggle, countering the worst excess of identity politics with an introduction to models of class struggle.
  2742. Critique of Canada's Family Allowances
    First Published: 1977
    When in January, 1974, major amendments to the Family Allowances came into effect, the National Anti-Poverty Organization examined the effect these changes had on Canadians.
  2743. The Critique of Everyday Life, the New Left, and the Unrecognizable Marxism
    First Published: 1972
    In this introduction to his book, The Unknown Dimension, Karl Klare asserts that Marxism must be continuously rediscovered, recreated and reinvigorated by every generation. Any comprehensive and historical theory of our situation today must find its place within Marxism, because the problems that brought Marxism into being have not been resolved.
  2744. Critique of Hegel's Philosophy in General
    First Published: 1844
  2745. A Critique of Kim Moody's An Injury to All
    First Published: 1989
    Moody's book is no academic study, but looks at the labor movement "from the bottom up"; the author has witnessed and to some extent participated in the many defeats and handful of victories of the past 15 years.
  2746. A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891
    First Published: 1891
  2747. Critique of Violent Rationales
    A Review Article of Critique of Nonviolent Politics: From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
    First Published: 1997
    Nonviolent activists and scholars will disagree with many of the arguments in the book but there is much that they can gain by examining them closely.
  2748. Croatian-Slovenian peasant revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    A large peasant revolt in today's Croatia and Slovenia in 1573.
  2749. Cromwell and the Levellers
    Tercentenary of English Revolution: 1649-1949
    First Published: 1949
    Levelers were a loose organisation of kindred political thinkers who from stage to stage expressed the rapidly developing political consciousness of a great social and political mass movement.
  2750. The Cross and the Sword: The Making of a Christian Taliban in Ukraine
    First Published: 2015
    The recruitment point for volunteers in Dmytro Korchynsky's holy war is located in the basement of a building in central Kiev, on Chapaev Street, in what used to be a billiard club. Anyone can sign up, and the location isn't secret -- its address and phone number is on the Internet.
  2751. Cross Cultural Social Work In Canada: An Annotated Bibliography
    First Published: 1980
    "The Multicultural Workers Network was established in June, 1978 with the overall objective of improving the delivery of social services to our multicultural community".
  2752. Crossing a chasm slowly, in ten small steps? Sustainable living demands big changes
    First Published: 2015
    A call to re-engineer our infrastructure, re-imagine society and re-think the ways we live for disruptive, transformative change - rather than tinkering at the margins of 'normality'. Transitioning to sustainability will require profound changes in our everyday ways of living, particularly in westernised countries. It requires changes that are much more significant than simply doing the things that we currently do, but more efficiently.
  2753. Crossing Rafah
    Heading to Gaza
    First Published: 2015
  2754. Crossing the River of Fire
    The Liberal Attack on Naomi Klein and This Changes Everything
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Naomi Klein's book "This Changes Everything" on climate change and its political enviroment.
  2755. Crow flying high
    First Published: 1990
  2756. Crowsnest Pass Strike, 1932
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A strike that began in January 1932 with demands that companies divide available work in the depressed coal-mining industry equally among miners rather than playing favourites. Coal companies refused to deal with the workers' union, the Mine Workers' Union of Canada.
  2757. Crucifying Julian Assange
    First Published: 2018
    Juilien Assange, who exposed the dark machinations and crimes of the US government, is now under threat of being expelled from the Equadorian Embassy. The article looks at what is happening to Assange and why the the silence over his plight is a betrayal by the press.
  2758. Cruelty against Gaza patients enabled by US and EU
    First Published: 2022
    The cruelty of the siege of Gaza and the depravity of those who prolong it cannot be overstated.
  2759. Cruise industry chafes at regulation that would help clean up Alaska's air
    First Published: 2012
    The cruise ship Sapphire Princess will emit the same amount of sulphur dioxide as 13.1m cars as it takes its guests from Whittier, Alaska to Glacier Bay and eventually Vancouver.
  2760. The Cruise Missile Conversion Project
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The Cruise Missile Conversion Project was a dedicated group of women and men committed in 1980-1981 to resisting Canadian militarism. They chose as their focus the Rexdale, Ontario manufacturing plant operated by Litton Systems Canada.
  2761. The Crusade in Favor of GMO: Falsehoods and Vilification Will Not Fool the Public
    First Published: 2016
    Pro-GMO campaigners often attack critics of the technology by claiming their negative views of it emanate from well-funded environmentalist groups or commercial interests in the organic food sector. The assertion is that such bodies promote falsehoods and scaremongering about GM to protect their own interests and that the GMO agritech sector has fallen victim to this.
  2762. Cry for "Bread & Roses" Still Resonates
    100 Years After the Lawrence Strike
    First Published: 2012
    When worker solidarity prevailed over corporate power in the icy streets of Lawrence a century ago, it made the promise of a better life real for many. The Bread and Roses strike became a consciousness-raising experience, not only for textile workers and their families, but the nation as a whole.
  2763. Cuadrilla versus The Nanas - #IamTinaRothery
    First Published: 2016
    Thanks to fracking company Cuadrilla, grandmother Tina Rothery will be in court tomorrow over a £55,000 'debt' imposed on her for joining a peaceful occupation of a fracking site in Lancashire. But as she explains, she can't pay, she won't pay, and even if she could pay, she wouldn't. Someone has to stand up to corporate vandalism and abuse of justice - and in this case, it's her, no matter what the consequences.
  2764. Cuba 1959 to 1980s
    The Unforgivable Revolution
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
  2765. Cuba in Search of Renovation
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    On January 1, 1959, the rebel Army entered Havana and brought down the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Fifty years later, Fidel Castro has given up power, but his brother Raúl has relieved him. Far from being characterized by paralysis, this transition period has witnessed the emergence of an intense debate about the future of socialism, both among opponents as well as those who defend it with the desire to see it evolve.
  2766. Cuba Makes Me Hurt
    Against The Current vol. 105
    First Published: 2003
    The jail sentences and executions in Cuba are very good news for the global superpower, which has been going crazy trying to cough up that bone stuck in its throat. But they are very bad news, sad and painful news, for those of us who think that the courage shown by this tiny country, so capable of greatness, is admirable, but who also think that justice and freedom march hand in hand or not at all.
  2767. Cuba: A New Era
    First Published: 2015
    The normalization of U.S.-Cuba political relations was possible due to the changed geopolitical situation, Obama, and the Cuban diaspora being open to dialogue.
  2768. Cuba - A Personal Reflection
    First Published: 2014
    A brief history of the revolutionary period in Cuba's history told through the author's experiences.
  2769. Cuba, the United States and the Left
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    The nationalist anti-imperialist revolution of the long beards has lasted forty-one years. It was never a socialist revolution. The Moncada combatants were not socialists, neither were those in the Sierra Maestra (with few exceptions), nor the Cuban people who one morning woke up to hear the news through the radio and from the mouth of Fidel Castro, that in response to the imperialist attacks, the island had become "socialist."
  2770. Cuba Today
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    The Cuban revolution's 50th anniversary has sparked academic conferences, debates and articles assessing its past and future. How and why has the revolution survived? What does the future hold for Cuba? Or, as it is often put, more crudely, what will happen when Fidel/Raul dies?
  2771. The Cuban Five--Injustice Prolonged
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the final appeal of the “Cuban Five,” who were convicted in 2001 and are serving prison terms ranging from 15 years to life for “espionage conspiracy” and acting as illegal agents for the Cuban government.
  2772. Cuban Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    An armed revolt that led to the overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro.
  2773. Cuban Revolution - History
    Documents on the Cuban revolution 1959 -
  2774. Cuba's Invasion Fears
    First Published: 1991
    There is nothing irrational about Cuba's fears of being invaded by the United States.
  2775. Cuba's Prisoner Release
    Surprise! Mainstream Media Omits Context and Key Facts
    First Published: 2010
    Double standards and hypocrisy abound in American media coverage of Cuba's recent prisoner release. For example, the U.S. government holds more political prisoners on Cuban soil than the Cuban government does.
  2776. Cuba's urban farming shows way to avoid hunger
    Urban farming, Cuban-style, is being hailed as an example of how to feed ourselves when climate change threatens serious food shortages.
    First Published: 2019
    When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports.
  2777. Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign Management
    First Published: 2018
    Talk about a bunch of sad sacks that really stink in the sack. The Trumpocalypse is ruining sex for the rest of us.
  2778. Culhane, Claire
    Connexipedia: Article from PrisonJustice.ca
    Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
  2779. Culhane, Claire - Spanish text
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2011
    Abolicionista de las prisiones.
  2780. The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America
    First Published: 2014
    There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
  2781. The Cultivation of Hate
    The Lies Grow More Audacious
    First Published: 2014
    If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts.
  2782. Cultural Appropriation and Secular Blasphemy
    First Published: 2017
    On the controversies over 'cultural appropriation'.
  2783. Cultural Imperialism and the Seeds of Catastrophe: Ripping Up The Social Fabric of India
    First Published: 2017
    Foreign capital is dictating the prevailing development agenda in India. The aim is to replace current structures with a system of industrial agriculture suited to the needs of Western agribusiness, food processing and retail concerns.The plan is for a fraction of the population left in farming working on contracts for large suppliers and large chain supermarkets offering a diet of highly processed, denutrified, genetically altered food based on crops soaked with chemicals and grown in increasingly degraded soils according to an unsustainable model of agriculture that is less climate/drought resistant, less diverse and unable to achieve food security.
  2784. The Cultural Looting of Gaza
    First Published: 2023
    People in Gaza are confined to living with few resources in what amounts to a prison. They are permitted levels of nutrition and medicine that are just enough to prevent total starvation and disease. This is only because Israel, which controls the piece of land known as the Gaza Strip, does not want disease to spread into its own borders.
  2785. Cultural and Political Diversity in the White Working-Class
    First Published: 2020
    Explores American politics and voter trends and challenges the idea that highly educated people are the norm and the ideal, whereas poorly educated whites are ignorant and deplorable, standing in the way of positive change the educated are trying to bring.
  2786. Culture and monoculture: Old Order Amish face Ontario's dairy bureaucrats
    First Published: 1997
    Tucked away in various pockets of Central Ontario is a quiet scattering of Old Order Amish and Mennonite communities. Apart from their sober black dress, the most obvious sign of their presence is the horse-drawn buggies they drive on road shoulders made deliberately wide to accommodate them.
  2787. The Culture of Fear
    In Javier Giraldo, Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy
    First Published: 1996
    Chomsky looks the horrors of Columbia's "democra-tatorship" and its accessories, hailing Giraldo's work as an inspiration for bringing these terrors to an end.
  2788. The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative
    First Published: 2016
    Now that Donald Trump, the candidate, has become both widely popular and deeply loathsome, we're seeing a cataract of editorials and commentary aimed at explaining how it happened and who's to blame. The predictable suspects are trotted out: the Republican Party, which had been too opportunistic and fearful to stand up to its own candidate, Fox News, which inflamed the jingoes, and white working-class voters, unhinged by class envy and racial resentment.
  2789. Deborah Cunningham, 1945-2015
    First Published: 2015
    Deborah Cunningham was an ADAPT activist and Executive Director of the Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL). When she died on May 7, the movement lost a tireless, creative, committed activist, feminist and thinker.
  2790. CUPE sues to stop CBC cuts
    First Published: 1992
  2791. CUPW 1981: Mother's Rights, Union Rights
    First Published: 1983
  2792. Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth
    First Published: 2014
    Eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brazil's seventh largest city for decades.
  2793. The Current Bombings
    Behind the rhetoric
    First Published: 1999
    Noam Chomsky discusses his observations on the NATO bombing in Kosovo in relation to the "rules of world order".
  2794. Current Developments in Iran
    First Published: 2018
    An update on the new wave of demonstrations that started December 28, 2017 in Mashhad, the second-largest city in Iran, and why dissent is different from that of 2009.
  2795. The Curse of Energy Efficiency
    First Published: 2018
    The more 'efficient' our technology, the more resources we consume in a downward spiral of catastrophe.
  2796. Cursed Fields
    What the tundra has in store for Russia's reindeer herders
    First Published: 2018
    Noah Sneider visits the Yamal Peninsula in Russia where an outbreak of anthrax is killing herds of reindeer and engdangering the lives of the local people. Rising temperatures and a particularly hot summer have led scientists to conclude that climate change is the most credible explanation for its deadly return.
  2797. Cut It Out: An Open Letter to Black Bloc Anarchists
    First Published: 2012
    Black Bloc tactics actually serve the cause of the 0.1%.
  2798. Cutbacks
    Wiping out our Gains
    First Published: 1977
  2799. Cutbacks to Training Allowances & Outreach Programs: Their Impact on Women
    First Published: 1979
  2800. The Cuts and the Fightback
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    The accelerated privatzation taking place at the University of California is transforming the institution. For faculty, students and workers the changes are devastating. Programs and services are cut, student fees are raised over and over again, workers face both furloughs and layoffs while the faculty’s shared governance shrinks.
  2801. Cuts, Canadian Culture and the CBC
    First Published: 1986
    Canadian drams gives us a sense of community.
  2802. Cutting Cords to Kurds: Facebook's Foreign Policy
    First Published: 2017
    The recent deletion and suspension of Facebook accounts of Kurdish supporters provides further troubling evidence that the popular social media company has been censoring the Kurdish resistance for the past five years.
  2803. Cutural Warriors of the Freedom Struggle: Miriam Makeba and Odetta
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    It felt like the end of an era to realize that South Africa’s Miriam Makeba and our own Odetta died within weeks of one another, having been born only months apart, these twin pillars of the struggle for justice on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
  2804. The cyber arms race
    First Published: 2016
    A look at cyber warfare between nations, a militarisation of cyberspace that is advancing far faster than the creation of positive peace keeping mechanisms.
  2805. Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    An encyclopedia published by Ephraim Chambers in London in 1728.
  2806. The Cynicism and the Slaughter
    First Published: 1999
    IMPEACHMENT. BOMBING. ELECTION. Impeachment. Bombing. Perhaps by now, the scandal-witchhunt-Cruise missile cycle has become so predictable that it's hard to respond with appropriate outrage to the latest round. We all knew, after all, that it was going to happen. Yet outrage is absolutely necessary, even at a moment when atrocity follows atrocity and world-class crimes against humanity virtually crowd each other out of attention.
  2807. Cynicism From Above: Cynicism From Below
    First Published: 1980
    The state bureaucracies of Eastern Europe are unable to accept any challenge to their right to decide and control.
  2808. Cynicism, Israeli National Policy
    From Victim to Super-Mensch
    First Published: 2014
    Israel has become the worst-case scenario of the degradation of Torah, and worst-case scenario of what was once the deep unadulterated humaneness of worldwide Jews.
  2809. Czym jest wolnosciowy socjalizm?
    First Published: 1977
  2810. D is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
    First Published: 2019
    American government is much like show business: empty entertainment with smoke and mirrors hiding the string-pullers behind the scenes.
  2811. D-Day 2024
    First Published: 2024
    In retrospect, it becomes clear that the Cold War "communist threat" was only a pretext for great powers seeking more power.
  2812. Dacke War
    Connexipedia Article
    A peasant uprising led by Nils Dacke in Småland, Sweden, in 1542 against the rule of Gustav Vasa.
  2813. Dagong Diary, Part 1: Job Hunting
    First Published: 2015
    Part 1 of a seven-part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
  2814. Dagong Diary, Part 2: Proper Hiring Begins
    First Published: 2015
    The following is part 2 of a seven part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
  2815. Dairy - the case for greener, healthier, lower performing cows
    First Published: 2014
    With supermarket milk cheaper than spring water, it's time to rethink the modern dairy industry. It's not just the milk that's become a throwaway product - the high-octane Holstein cows that produce it are also in the knackers yard after just two or three lactations, the living waste of a loss-making, environment-trashing industry.
  2816. Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
    First Published: 2016
    As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline.
  2817. Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania's Mariner East 2 Pipeline
    First Published: 2017
    Examination of the troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  2818. Dakota War of 1862
    Connexipedia Article
    An armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux or Dakota.
  2819. Daly, Herman
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    American ecological economist and professor. (Born 1938).
  2820. Dam it all: More than half of the world's long rivers are blocked by infrastucture
    First Published: 2019
    But with the increasing demand for more water, energy generation, and flood management, the construction of dams, levees, reservoirs, and other river-obstructive infrastructures is becoming ubiquitous.
  2821. Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities
    First Published: 2009
    Local people protest a project that attacks the region's biodiversity and communities.
  2822. Dams and the Green New Deal: Why the Silence?
    First Published: 2019
    Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough.
  2823. Damu Smith: A Life of Giving
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    I was attending an event to honor the scholar and Detroit activist Charles Simmons, who is recovering from cancer, when Maureen Taylor, another activist, told Simmons he should begin to pay as much attention to his own well being as he did that of others. She said when the plane in flight loses cabin pressure, you're instructed to first put the oxygen mask over your own face before you help anyone else.
  2824. Danbury: Anatomy of a Prison Strike
    First Published: 1972
  2825. Danças com Culpa
    Um olhar sobre os homens que olham para a violência
    First Published: 1991
  2826. Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
    First Published: 2019
    The Integrity Initiative - a supposedly non-partisan agency aiming at dismantling state sponsored misinformation - was exposed as funded by a UK government agency to undermine the opposition. This brings into question the plausibility of an impartial or apolitical playing field.
  2827. Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence 
    First Published: 1991
    Why are some men violent?
  2828. Dancing with Death: "Waltz with Bashir"
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    It took Ari Folman 25 years to make “Waltz With Bashir,” his animated film about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. First, he had to remember the war.
  2829. The Danger in Lebanon
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    The assasination [of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri] resulted in the intensification of the campaign by the USA and France against the Syrian presence and influence in Lebanon. This pressure was able to base itself on the mass mobilization inside Lebanon, which forced the withdrawal of Syrian troops.
  2830. The Danger of SB1070
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    The recent passage of SB 1070 in Arizona must be a wakeup call not only for those of us of Latino heritage, but for all progressives who cherish freedom and justice. A draconian law [partially blocked by a court injunction] that basically legalizes racial profiling, it compels the law enforcement officers in the state of Arizona to stop and question any person that they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally.
  2831. The danger of the white American liberal
    What a team of 10-year-olds building a robot can teach us about sexism and racism in the US.
    First Published: 2017
    The Liberal white American reaction to the sexism and racism exeplified in the Google manifesto and the killing of nine innocent people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston shows how remarkably how easy it is to condemn the evil other when we can use that to avoid facing our responsibility for the society we ourselves have created and work to maintain.
  2832. Danger: Radiation
    First Published: 1976
    Leaflet that asks and answers some basic questions about nuclear energy.
  2833. Danger: sticky yellow notes
    First Published: 1991
  2834. The Dangerous Academic is an Extinct Species
    First Published: 2017
    Nair analyzes current academia and the structures in place that prevent academics and students from putting forth ideas that challenge the status quo.
  2835. A Dangerous Conflation
    An open letter from Jewish writers
    First Published: 2023
    A group of Jewish writers drafted this letter after seeing an old argument gain new power: the claim that critiquing Israel is antisemitic. The writers share this letter in solidarity with those who continue to speak out in support of Palestinian freedom.
  2836. The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
    A Thought Police for the Internet Age
    First Published: 2011
    The Guardian includes some fine reporting and occasionally insightful commentary. Possibly because it is farther from the heart of empire, it is able to provide a partial antidote to the craven coverage of the corporate-owned media in the US. Nonetheless, it would be unwise to believe that the Guardian is therefore a free market in progressive or dissident ideas on the left. In fact, quite the contrary: the paper strictly polices what can be said and who can say it in its pages, for cynical reasons we shall come to.
  2837. Dangerous drugs
    First Published: 1992
  2838. The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
    First Published: 2018
    Various companies and government agencies aim to use technology that measures biological features such as facial expressions or tone of voice to assess individuals, such as refugee claimants or potential employees, for 'risk'. Many critics say the science behind this is dubious and can hide cultural bias under a blanket of objectivity.
  2839. A Dangerous Lack of Rigor
    Cross Examine Authority
    First Published: 2012
    Explores two recent events reveal the lack of rigor that has come to pervade our public sphere: the failure of the UN (or anybody else) to question seriously the case for war against Iran, and the first presidential “debate.”
  2840. A Dangerous Neighbourhood
    First Published: 2005
    Noam Chomsky explores the relationship between the USA and South America. He reveals that due to numerous anti-social policies, America is becoming increasingly isolated - even from Canada.
  2841. The Dangers of Anti-Trumpism
    Silvio Berlusconi's tenure as Italian prime minister shows how not to resist an authoritarian demagogue.
    First Published: 2016
    Comparisons between Donald Trump and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi abounded throughout the presidential election campaign. We can draw some important lessons if we move our attention away from the apparent similarities between Berlusconi and Trump, and focus instead on the analogies between anti-Berlusconism and the shape anti-Trumpism threatens to take.
  2842. The Dangers of Journalism 101
    Journalists who don't run with the pack routinely face difficulty and danger
    First Published: 2013
    Journalists who cover cutting edge material, the politics of repression or wars or covert operations have always been at risk. It’s part of the job and part of the joy of the job. The risk, the danger is all part of the rush that makes some journalists work.
  2843. The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence
    First Published: 2020
    Ray McGovern once again effectively demolishes (as he has several times over the past three years) the flimsy props holding up Russiagate, especially the "Intelligence Community Assessment" (ICA) prepared in January 2017 by "handpicked analysts" from the FBI, CIA and NSA (not 17 intelligence agencies, as first claimed by National Intelligence Director James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan).
  2844. The dangers of reactionary ecology
    First Published: 2014
    Influential metaphors for understanding the environment serve as a bridge between traditional conservatism and outright ecofascism. Here we want to look at how ecological ideas can be deployed to support deeply reactionary politics.
  2845. The Dangers of Salting Under Trump
    First Published: 2017
    Johnson analyzes the legal rights that a labour union 'salt' has -- or doesn't have -- in the wake of the anti-union of the U.S. government.
  2846. Daniel De Leon Internet Archive
    Writings of Daniel De Leon.
  2847. The Danish General Strike
    First Published: 1998
    THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES have constituted the foremost outposts on the reformist road to socialism. One of them, Denmark, a small country of five million people, has become a flashpoint in the continuing clash between the welfare state and the globalization of capital.
  2848. Dann, Mary and Carrie
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Leaders in the struggle of the Western Shoshone to retain their ancestral lands.
  2849. Darcy, Judy
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian trade unionist and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees from 1991 until 2003. (Born 1950).
  2850. DARE's Struggles in Rhode Island
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    Let's start in a scene from last summer that will be familiar, not exactly but approximately, to many older readers: the labor awards banquet. The setting is a "casino"— in the 1880s sense of a banquet hall, used for wedding receptions and assorted fraternal functions for six generations — set in a venerable public park in a working-class neighborhood, long ago designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.
  2851. Dark Humor: Western Media Makes Light of Political Repression in Ukraine
    First Published: 2015
    Political repression and violence are allegedly incompatible with Western liberal democratic values. Respect for human rights, freedom of expression, and protection of the rights of minorities are all purportedly the hallmarks of "free societies," the goals toward which all nations should be striving. And yet, such standards of freedom and democracy are only selectively applied, and only when beneficial to the Western (US-UK-EU-NATO) agenda.
  2852. The Dark Side of Clean Energy: Industrial Wind Plantations in Mexico
    First Published: 2016
  2853. The Dark Side Of The "Green Economy"
    Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the "green economy"
    First Published: 2012
    Just a few years ago, the term "green economy" referred to economies that are locally based, climate friendly, and low-impact. But since the global economic meltdown began in 2007, the green economy has come to mean something more akin to the wholesale privatization of nature.
  2854. The Dark Side of "The Light": Brascan in Brazil
    First Published: 1976
    Report evaluates the impact of BRASCAN Ltd. in Brazil as well as that of the economic system the company promotes.
  2855. The Dark Side of the Territory
    Hong Kong's Caged Lives
    First Published: 2014
    In a place that values freedom and respect, the legacy of “caged homes” creates a stark and chilling contrast.
  2856. The Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt
    The Rise of the Quasi-Fascists
    First Published: 2014
    While most of the Western media describes the current crisis in the Ukraine as a confrontation between authoritarianism and democracy, many of the shock troops who have manned barricades in Kiev and the western city of Lviv these past months represent a dark page in the country’s history and have little interest in either democracy or the liberalism of Western Europe and the United States.
  2857. Darknet Sweep Casts Doubt on Tor
    First Published: 2014
    When news broke of Silk Road 2.0’s seizure by law enforcement a lot of people probably wrote it off as an isolated incident. Silk Road 2.0 was the successor to the original Silk Road web site and like its predecessor it was an underground bazaar for narcotics, fueled by more than $8 million in Bitcoin transactions and operated as a hidden service on the Tor anonymity network.
  2858. Darrow, Clarence
    Connexipedia Article
    American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).
  2859. Data Mining You
    How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
    First Published: 2012
    Joseph K., that icon of single-lettered anonymity from Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, would undoubtedly have felt right at home in Washington.
  2860. Data Secrecy Company Accused of Sharing Information with Media and Military
    First Published: 2014
    Whisper -- a new social network that claims to provide anonymity -- has been accused of secretly tracking users. The allegations were made by the Guardian newspaper, provoking renewed scrutiny of a multitude of data privacy claims made by software companies.
  2861. Database exposes 500 instances of Israeli incitement to genocide in Gaza
    First Published: 2024
    Europe-based NGO, Law for Palestine, unveils more than 500 cases of incitement to genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians by Israeli decision-makers, lawmakers, army personnel, and intellectuals.
  2862. A database for the displaced
    First Published: 2021
    The Kushan Baladi initiative (literally: land title initiative) was founded to create an official register of Palestinian land ownership inside the 1948 boundaries of historic Palestine, now Israel.
  2863. Databases
    First Published: 1989
  2864. The "Date Rape" Issue: Feminist Hysteria, Anti-Sex Witchhunt
    First Published: 1993   Published: 2014
    The anti-sex frenzy springs from the agenda of the religious right. Espousing an ideology supposed to have something to do with women's rights, the feminists might be expected to oppose this witchhunt. Instead, there is a convergence between feminism and religious reaction in support of moralist repression. This is particularly evident in the "date rape" frenzy on the campuses which has recently grabbed headlines across the nation and the world. Egged on by feminist witchhunters, "politically correct" sex on campus serves the war on privacy by whitewashing the intrusion of the campus administration and the cops into students' personal business as "protecting women" and "stopping rape."
  2865. Daughters of India Violated and Abused
    A Woman's Lot
    First Published: 2013
    Widespread sexual abuse rapes the land and inflicts harm upon the women of India who are isolated from the emerging "New India".
  2866. David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy
    First Published: 2015
    Book review: David Graebe, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.
  2867. David Roediger's Working Toward Whiteness
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    A disturbing aftermath of the pro-immigrant demonstrations recently held in dozens of cities across the United States, besides the obvious anti-immigrant backlash, has been the increase in Black/Brown tensions. Particularly alarming has been the way in which Latinos are being accused, not only by conservatives but by Progressives as well, of being the latest permutation of a long history of immigrant groups arriving to this country and making it, to quote Toni Morrison, “on the backs of Blacks.”
  2868. Davidson, Joe
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Trade unionist and self describe evolutionary socialist "with the proviso that evolution needed a shove at every opportunity." (1915-1985).
  2869. Davis Day: Coal Miners & Community Connection
    First Published: 2017
    An historical look at tragic events in the Cape Breton coal mining community, highlighting mining companyies' greed that led to unrest and disaster.
  2870. The dawn of our liberation: The early days of the International Communist Women's Movement
    First Published: 2018
    An examination of the early days of the international Communist Women's Movement (CWM). The article focuses on three points in particular: the CWM's ideas on women's emancipation, the relationship with non-communist women's movements and the problematic relationship with male comrades.
  2871. The Dawn of the Apocalypse 
    First Published: 2022
    We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
  2872. Dawn of "Total War" and the Surveillance State
    First Published: 2017
    In its efforts to mobilize society for "total war," a still nascent corporate liberal state expanded its scope and authority and in doing so laid foundations and set precedents for the expansion of executive power and the rise of the national surveillance state.
  2873. The Day America Died
    Assassinating Awlaki
    First Published: 2011
    As long as the President sanctions an illegal act, executive branch employees are no longer accountable to the law that prohibits the illegal act. On the president’s authority, the executive branch can violate US laws against spying on Americans without warrants, indefinite detention, and torture and suffer no consequences.
  2874. Day, Dorothy
    Connexipedia Article
    American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).
  2875. A Day in the Life of a Day Laborer
    First Published: 2017
    A look at day labourers in Chicago, many who work precariously, under dangerous conditions and sometimes without getting paid.
  2876. Day of Mourning
    First Published: 1990
  2877. Day of Mourning Statement From Leonard Peltier
    First Published: 2013
    It is yet another year. It seems like a thousand years ago but only a year in time in reality from the last time I dictated one of these statement for the day of mourning so, again, I want to say as last time, that I am honoured that you would want to hear my words.
  2878. The Day the Internet Died
    An Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution
    First Published: 2012
    When Hosni Mubarak Shut Off Cell Phones and the Internet in January 2011 Was the Moment When More Egyptians than Ever Went Out into the Streets.
  2879. The day the Klan messed with the wrong people
    First Published: 2010
    By the mid-1950's the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and the KKK decided they had to fight back. James W. "Catfish" Cole, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, made a critical mistake that couldn't be avoided by a racist mind - he was completely ignorant of the people he was about to mess with.
  2880. The Day The World Ended 
    First Published: 2021
    The day the world ended began like any other day. People woke up, had their coffee, checked their social media, kissed their loved ones, went to work. Nobody knew it was coming.
  2881. De Leon, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  2882. De Leon, Daniel
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  2883. De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
    First Published: 2019
    A long interview with economist Michael Hudson about Trump's plan to lower interest rates.
  2884. DEA Lied to Congress About Deadly Raid That Killed Four Hondurans, Government Report Says
    First Published: 2017
    The Drug Enforcement Administration repeatedly lied to Congress about fatal shooting incidents in Honduras, including the killing of four civilians during a DEA-led operation, according to a devastating 424-page report released today by the inspectors general for the State and Justice departments.
  2885. The Dead Don't Rest
    First Published: 2017
    Rodgers reviews two novels by Han Kang, "The Vegetarian" and "Human Acts", and analyzes their shared themes dealing with humanity's struggle against its own most destructive qualities.
  2886. The Dead End of Climate Justice
    How NGO Bureaucrats and Greenwashed Corporations are Turning Nature Into Investment Capital
    First Published: 2010
    The notion of climate debt, highlighted as the principle avenue of struggle for the climate justice movement, poses some large problems. Contemporary demands for reparations justified by the notion of climate debt open a dangerous door to increased green capitalist investment in the Global South. Everything from energy to agriculture, from cleaning products to electronics, and especially everything within the biosphere, is being incorporated into this regime of climate markets. One can only imagine the immense possibilities for speculation and financialization in these markets as the green bubble continues to grow.
  2887. Dead Palestinian Babies And Bombed Mosques - IDF Fashion 2009
    First Published: 2009
    Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills."
  2888. The Dead And Those About To Die - Climate Protests And The Corporate Media
    First Published: 2020
    On the climate protest demonstration on Remembrance Day, 2020.
  2889. Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
    First Published: 2017
    Martin Empson reviews an important book (DEAD ZONE: Where the Wild Things Were
    by Philip Lymber,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) for activists, a frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment, and particularly biodiversity.
  2890. Deadliest Terror in the World: The West's Latest Gift to Africa
    First Published: 2015
    Nigeria's Boko Haram are now officially the deadliest terror group in the world. That they have reached this position is a direct consequence of Cameron and Co's war on Libya - and one that was perhaps not entirely unintended.
  2891. The Deadly Connection
    First Published: 1980
  2892. The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
    Sunni v. Shia
    First Published: 2011
    A war of extraordinary brutality is being waged across the Muslim world which is largely ignored by the media. It is a war in which victims are assassinated or massacred with no chance to defend themselves. Most of those who die are poor people murdered in obscure places without the world paying any attention.
  2893. The deadly flood in Kerala may be only a gentle warning
    First Published: 2018
    Arundhati Roy comments on the disasterous flooding in the Indian state of Kerala. While acknowleding various forces lead to the disaster, Roy also places blame on government mismanagement and ignoring the needs of the state's most disadvanted people.
  2894. The deadly racism of the 'anti-racist' liberal imperialist
    First Published: 2016
    When it comes to hypocrisy, the pro-war Western ‘liberal’ is in a class of his own. While professing opposition to racism, the pro-war liberal is cheerleader for the most dangerous and deadly form of racism in the world today - contemporary US/Western imperialism.
  2895. Deaf Canadians march
    First Published: 1989
  2896. The deafening silence around the Hamas proposal for a 10-year truce
    First Published: 2014
    The Western media have ignored the proposal from Hamas and Islamic Jihad for a 10-year-truce on the basis of 10 - very reasonable - conditions.
  2897. Dealing with accusations of benefit fraud guide
    Some tips and advice for any claimants who are facing accusations of benefit fraud
    First Published: 2006
    The Government spends hundreds of thousands of pounds talking about this but actually has little success prosecuting alleged fraudsters. It is important to remember that receiving benefits you are not entitled to does not automatically make you guilty.
  2898. Dealing with bullying at work guide
    Advice and tips on how to survive bullying and intimidation in the workplace, and ways of dealing with individually, legally, or collectivel
    First Published: 2006
    Cuts in staffing and resources, increasing workloads, performance related pay: all have made work more pressurised. The University of Manchester says bullying accounts for up to half of all employment stress. The few studies done show the majority of incidents are by bosses, but it's still important to support people being bullied by work 'mates'. Call it what you will: harassment, aggression, coercive management, intimidation, or things seen as 'just a joke' - all are common labels for what is really bullying. Racial or sexual harassment, or that based on sexuality or disability, may also take the form of bullying.
  2899. Dealing with credit card debt guide
    A short guide to help you deal with credit card debt, as consumer debt in the UK continues to spiral
    First Published: 2006
    You don’t need to work for the Financial Times to realise that credit card debt is getting well out of hand. Ten years ago hardly anyone had one. Now there are 91 million credit and debit cards in the UK. Two fifths of our shopping is now put on the plastic. The net result is a large portion of the population with massive credit card debt. Given the extortionate interest rates charged this is seriously bad news for us and the source of gleeful hand rubbing for the high street bankers (what’s that rhyming slang for I wonder?) who are pocketing it.
  2900. Dealing with street harassment guide
    A guide for women with advice on how to effectively deal with sexual harrassment in public.
    First Published: 2006
    Harassment is: Any number of acts or comments which make you feel physically or sexually unsafe or uncomfortable. They can be made by people you have known for years or by perfect strangers.
  2901. Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
    The Invisible Web
    First Published: 2006
    Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
  2902. Dear Comrades
    Letter, October 18, 1965
    First Published: 1965
    Published in Ross Dowson Resources Website
  2903. Dear Sisters, They Are Killing Our Trees
    First Published: 2016
    People in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, are fighting to keep their forests in the face of a threatened dam project which would submerge their ancestral lands.
  2904. Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
    A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
    First Published: 2016
    So I'm a skeptic, but with a small S, not capital S. I don’t belong to skeptical societies. I don’t hang out with people who self-identify as capital-S Skeptics. Or Atheists. Or Rationalists. When people like this get together, they become tribal. They pat each other on the back and tell each other how smart they are compared to those outside the tribe. But belonging to a tribe often makes you dumber.
  2905. Dearest Arundhati Roy: Shahidul Alam reflects on his time in prison
    First Published: 2019
    The Bangladeshi photographer was charged with criticising his country on Facebook and spent more than 100 days behind bars. Now freed, he replies to the Indian novelist who wrote to him in jail.
  2906. Death and Bereavement
    First Published: 1989
  2907. Death and Bereavement Conference
    First Published: 1991
  2908. The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
    First Published: 2009
    Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.
  2909. Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The 'Danger Zone'
    First Published: 2015
    2014 was the warmest year on record for the world; possibly the warmest in 5000 years. Even worse, this warming will soon double the pollution levels of our planet. Meanwhile, corporate media couldn't care less.
  2910. Death and Destruction in Gaza
    First Published: 2023
    What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose.
  2911. Death in a New York Food Sweatshop
    The Killing of Juan Baten
    First Published: 2011
    For thousands of recent immigrants, the eastern section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is where you go to find work in food processing and distribution factories that service many of New York City's markets and restaurants. If you've ever eaten a meal in New York, you can be assured that you've consumed food that has been produced and distributed through one of these food companies and those in a few adjacent neighborhoods.
  2912. Death In Honduras - The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres
    First Published: 2016
  2913. Death in the Desert
    Migrants Risk Everything to Cross the Border
    First Published: 2010
    This is a NAFTA border. Money moves freely, people with money do too, but the poor are pushed into a dangerous cycle of crossing the desert.
  2914. Death in the Eagle's Shadow
    First Published: 2014
    Loewenstein details the circumstances surrounding her friend Anwar Za'aneen's death by an Israeli drone in Gaza, to highlight the severity of the dangers that Palestinians must live with in everyday life.
  2915. Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen
    "Strike with Creativity" proclaims Raytheon.
    First Published: 2019
    Writing about his visit to the world's largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: "Strike with Creativity." Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments of which have been found in the wreckage of schools, hospitals, and markets across Yemen.
  2916. Death of a Hero
    The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims
    First Published: 2013
    If all this glorification of a military commander had happened in the North Korean or the Soviet-era press, lavishly praising an 'original' who'd given years of 'patriotic service' in wars abroad, it would have rightly elicited scorn and ridicule amongst commentators here.
  2917. The Death of a Once Great City
    The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence
    First Published: 2018
    Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.
  2918. The Death of a Reporter
    First Published: 2014
    Serena Shim, who leaves behind a family that includes her two young children, found herself chasing the truth in a highly charged situation.
  2919. Death of a Sacred Place
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    Special places are disappearing faster than endangered species. Places that move the heart foster messy attachments. They're unwieldy. The global economy prefers its consumers to have portable affections for interchangeable environments.
  2920. Death of an Activist in Venezuela: In Memory of Orlando Figueroa
    First Published: 2017
    Highlighting the death of a political activist in Venezuala by the utra-right, which uses brutality, murder and ecological destruction to pursue their goal of recuperating control over the oil producing nation.
  2921. The Death of Canadian Journalism
    In a crowded bar in downtown Vancouver, a group of reporters from the city's main daily newspaper, The Vancouver Sun, gather after work to do what most people revel in after a long week at the office: bitch about the boss. Editors are mocked, columnists are ridiculed and the paper their bylines appear in is panned up and down.
  2922. The Death of Democracy
    Israel's Flood of Anti-Democratic Laws
    First Published: 2011
    Democracy is dying in both Israel and the United States, and much of the world is turning away in revulsion.
  2923. 'The Death of Evidence' in Canada: Scientists' Own Words
    Data distorted for 'propaganda' and other complaints against the Harper government made at last week's Ottawa rally
    First Published: 2012
  2924. The Death of Israel
    First Published: 2023
    Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception.
  2925. The Death of Liam Tumilson, an Irish Anti-Fascist in Spain
    First Published: 2017
    Murphy commemorates the life of Liam Tumilson, who fought against facism in the Spanish Civil War.
  2926. The Death of NUMMI
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    During the 1980-82 recession, U.S. automobile corporations were closing factories, reflecting growing international competition and overproduction. One of the plants closed was a large General Motors facility in the city of Fremont, California, part of the San Francisco Bay Area.
  2927. The Death of Retirement?
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us, Robin Blackburn’s followup masterpiece to Banking on Death (2002), is another sobering and insightful examination of retirement security. In Age Shock, Blackburn delves into the realities of an ageing demographic in the midst of the disintegration, from both a monetary and social obligation perspective, of sound financial conditions for the elderly.
  2928. The Death of the Fourth Estate
    8000 Channels With One Corporate Message
    First Published: 2014
    According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning today’s tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high.
  2929. The Death of the State in Marx and Engels 
    First Published: 1970
    Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society.
  2930. Death of the university?
    First Published: 2010
    As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers. There is, however, a fundamental difference between being a student and being a consumer. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process. Once students become consumers, their whole relationship to education changes. They come to look upon ideas, not as ways of understanding the world, but as possessions that they can trade for a better job or greater social prestige.
  2931. A Death Sentence For Africa
    The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables
    First Published: 2011
    Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a global system of corporate-led capitalism that is bulldozing us to this disaster, the corporate media mouthed deceptive platitudes.
  2932. 'A Death Sentence For People And Ecosystems': The Climate Emergency, Governments And The Public Enemy
    First Published: 2023
    Media Lens' reporting on the climate crisis, the refusal of governments and corporations to take accountability, and the failure of the established media to address these rising climate issues.
  2933. 'Death to Christians': Violence steps up under new Israeli government
    First Published: 2023
    Christian leaders in Jerusalem say never have Israeli attackers felt more emboldened than under the far-right ruling coalition.
  2934. Death Train: the earliest art to expose horror of concentration camps
    The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message
    First Published: 2014
    The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message. A member of the collective, Leopoldo Mendez, working in 1943, was probably the first to depict the Holocaust.
  2935. Deaths at sea: Mass media mourns the rich, ignores the poor
    First Published: 2024
    The sinking of a super-yacht gets mass coverage, while thousands of refugees drown in darkness.
  2936. The Debate Around Liu Xiaobo
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    We do not entirely share the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s statement on its decision to award the Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, praising China for having “achieved economic advances to which history can hardly show any equal” but regretting that it is in breach of several international agreements on human rights and China’s own constitution concerning these rights.
  2937. The Debate at Halle
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    There were two defining moments in the history of the international working-class movement in the first half of the 20th century. The first, by far the most discussed and written about for obvious reasons, was the revolution in Russia in October 1917 and its subsequent isolation and defeat. The second was the disaster in the German movement, which had been for half a century the model of a militant, socialist working-class movement, and the subsequent collapse of that movement in the face of Nazism.
  2938. El Debate de la Pena Capital
    First Published: 1984
  2939. Debate: Two tactics in the fight against climate change
    Should climate activists limit their demands to what's possible under capitalism?
    First Published: 2014
    The question of what demands ecosocialists should put forward in response to the climate crisis is a pressing one. The climate justice movement should demand a cap-and-trade policy, abandoning its traditional stance against carbon trading.
  2940. Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood
    First Published: 1842
    A deputy from the knightly estate mentioned that in the neighbourhood of Cleve many wood thefts took place merely in order to secure arrest and prison fare. Does not this deputy from the knightly estate prove precisely what he wants to refute, namely, that people are driven to steal wood by the sheer necessity of saving themselves from starvation and homelessness? Is this terrible need an aggravating circumstance?
  2941. Debating how to change the world
    First Published: 2009
    A review of Wobblies and Zapatistas, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
  2942. Debating Syria Productively
    First Published: 2016
    A collection of remarks on how the debate, within the left, over the Syrian conflict has been lacking and could be made more productive.
  2943. Debating the NDP
    First Published: 1991
    Activists seeking radical change need to understand that it is fruitless to base their strategies on the assumption that the NDP can be the vehicle for achieving their goals.
  2944. Debating the world revolution
    Book Review
    First Published: 2017
    A review of "To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International", edited and translated by John Riddell.
  2945. Debord, Guy
    Connexipedia Article
    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. (1931-1994).
  2946. De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants
    First Published: 2018
    Many academics frequently engage in what government officials dub 'de-briefing'! Academics meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.
  2947. Debs, Eugene V.
    Connexipedia Article
    American socialist politician and union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1855-1926).
  2948. Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
    Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926).
  2949. Debs for His Time and Ours
    Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the CLass Struggle
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of William A. Pelz's Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the CLass Struggle.
  2950. Debt: The First 500 Pages
    First Published: 2012
    We need more grand histories, but 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
  2951. Debunking A Century of War Lies
    First Published: 2018
    In the modern age of democracy and volunteer armies, a pretense for war is required to rally the nation around the flag and motivate the public to fight. That is why every major conflict is now accompanied by its own particular bodyguard of lies. From false flag attacks to dehumanization of the "enemy," here are all the examples you’ll need to help debunk a century of war lies.
  2952. Debunking Columbus
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    “I knew it couldn’t be true!” exclaimed my then eleven-year-old daughter when I explained the premise of Restall’s book. “The Ancients knew that the earth was round,” she continued, “so Columbus could not have been the only one.”
  2953. Debunking Obama's Chemical Weapons Case Against the Syrian Government
    Fact and Fiction
    First Published: 2013
    The "U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013" is a poorly constructed attempt to justify the politically, militarily, and morally unjustifiable war against Syria.
  2954. Debunking the Fraser Institute's Latest Crusade: Teacher Merit Pay
    First Published: 2011
    Fresh from the triumph of successfully promoting its fallacious school report card, this time in Alberta, the Fraser Institute is already scheming to peg teacher pay to student test scores and create a market for teachers. We should remember that the institute's success with school rankings would not be possible without over-the-top support from the corporate media.
  2955. Debunking the 2 claims: anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, and BDS unfairly singles out Israel 
    First Published: 2017
    The author points out the falsehoods surrounding the two most common claims by those who oppose actions in support of Palestinian rights.
  2956. A Decade of Gulf War Illness
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    The demon is back: Ten years after the U.S. air war began over Kuwait and Iraq on January 17, 1991, tens of thousands of sick Gulf War vets await treatment and/or compensation for chronic health problems brought on by their military service.
  2957. Decaying social order shows need for philosophy, revolution
    First Published: 2015
    Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2015-2016.
  2958. December 17: Sources, Results & Prospects
    First Published: 2015
    After 50 years, Washington has had to recognize that if it wants any influence in Latin America, the road to Latin America leads through Havana, not around it.
  2959. Decennial Revision of the Bank Act
    First Published: 1978
    A request to revise the Bank Act in regards to loans made to repressive government by private banks.
  2960. The "Decent Left" and the Libya Intervention
    A Reply to Michael Bérubé
    First Published: 2011
    Western elites were perfectly comfortable with Gaddafi’s oppressive rule, including his use of torture. These states only broke with Gaddafi when his hold on power tottered, in response to the Arab Spring, and he ceased to be useful. He was no longer viewed as a reliable protector of Western access to Libya’s oil resources.
  2961. A Decentralist Manifesto
    First Published: 1958
    No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
  2962. Decentralization
    Connexipedia Article
    The process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people or citizen.
  2963. The Deceptive Use of the Phrase "Peaceful Protests" in Venezuela
    First Published: 2014
    The Venezuelan opposition and much of the media use the term "peaceful protests" to distinguish gatherings of protesting students and other young people from the more violent actions.
  2964. The Decertification of Iran Speech: Refuting Trump
    First Published: 2017
    Despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring each time it has reported - most recently in August 2017 - that Iran is in total compliance with its agreements in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Donald Trump has now carried through on his threat to decertify Iran.
  2965. The Deciders
    The disastrous Iraq policies that led to ISIS were not President Bush's
    First Published: 2015
    In May 2003, in the wake of the Iraq War and the ousting of Saddam Hussein, events took place that set the stage for the current chaos in the Middle East. Yet even most well-informed Americans are unaware of how policies implemented by mid-level bureaucrats during the Bush administration unwittingly unleashed forces that would ultimately lead to the juggernaut of the Islamic State.
  2966. Decisión por Consenso
    Connexipedia
    La decisión por consenso es un proceso de toma de decisiones en grupo que no sólo busca obtener el acuerdo de la mayoría de los participantes sino también la resolución o mitigación de objeciones de la minoría.
  2967. Declaration of Independence
    First Published: 1776
    The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
  2968. A Declaration of Nishnawbe - Aski (The People and the Land)
    First Published: 1977
    In order for them to regain freedom, it is mandatory that the Nishnawbe-Aski have the right to govern their spiritual, cultural, social, and economic affairs.
  2969. Declaration of Support for Quebec's Right to Self-Determination
    Signatories: Professors at University of Toronto and York University
    First Published: 1979
    This declaration is signed by more than a dozen English-speaking professors in Canadian universities.
  2970. Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
    First Published: 2011
    Document accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011.
  2971. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    First Published: 1789
    Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
  2972. Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizen
    First Published: 1791
    Aware that women were being denied the new rights of liberty and property extended to all men by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Gouges composed her own Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, modeled on the 1789 document.
  2973. Une déclaration politique du collectif des socialistes libertaires
    First Published: 1979
  2974. Declarations of a New Canadian Foreign Policy
    First Published: 1980
  2975. Declassified Documents Now Reveal There Were Two CIA Torture Programs
    First Published: 2019
    Declassified documents expose new info about the CIA's detention and interrogation operations. This article looks at their history going back to MKUltra in the 1950s.
  2976. The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
    First Published: 2010
    The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
  2977. The Decline of the Democratic Ideal
    First Published: 1990
    Noam Chomsky contemplates the disappearance of democratic ideals by examining the American reactions to the outcome of the 1990 elections in Nicaragua.
  2978. Decoding Harper's Terror Game beneath the Masks and Diversions
    First Published: 2014
    Stephen Harper is the most deeply reviled Prime Minister in Canada's history. On the world stage, he is the servant of Big Oil boiling oil out of tar-sands to destroy major river systems and pollute the planet with dirty oil, while his attack dog John Baird leads the warmongering and bullying of nations like Iran and Syria.
  2979. De-colonizing North America
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of King's "The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America," and Dunbar-Ortiz's "An Indigenous People's History of the United States."
  2980. Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview
    First Published: 2019
    On this week’s Deconstructed, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, the 2020 Democratic field, and why he opposed Trump's Syria troop withdrawal.
  2981. Deconstructing Derrida
    First Published: 2004
    There is little doubt that Derrida was an erudite and learned philosopher, but his erudition was bent towards a destructive aim. In him the unreason of the age found its cunning articulator.
  2982. Deconstructing The Israeli Narrative
    First Published: 2009
    Israel has revealed its nature; a nation built on actions normally termed war crimes by world institutions; a nation that does not follow international law; and a nation that does not heed United Nations Resolutions. Distracting and deceiving the world community with contrived and fallacious narratives permits Israel to continue its illegal maneuvers. Setting the record straight will straighten the road to Middle East peace.
  2983. Deconstructing The Locavore's Dilemma
    A response to Pierre Desrochers
    First Published: 2012
    The book 'The Locavore's Dilemma' constructs a straw man argument while ignoring what the locavore movement really has to say.
  2984. Deep Concerns
    First Published: 2003
    Despite apparent defeat by the ongoing war in Iraq, Chomsky outlines the tasks that remain for those concerned about justice and human rights.
  2985. The Deep Crisis of Sandinismo
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    The struggle we waged from the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship and bring about a revolution (in 1979) was also a struggle for human rights. It has always been very difficult for me to draw the line between being a Sandinista activist and a human rights activist, because I've always considered the struggle for human rights to be a revolution in itself.
  2986. Deep Fakes: Will AI Swing the 2020 Election?
    First Published: 2019
    The ability of AI to create credible-looking fake videos could pose a threat to candidates at election time but gullibility was a problem before computer technology.
  2987. The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
    First Published: 2017
    There is a real danger here that this maneuver could harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this “dossier” turn out to be provably false -- such as Cohen’s trip to Prague -- many people will conclude, with Trump’s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying "Fake News" to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that will forever discredit -- render impotent -- future journalistic exposés that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.
  2988. The Deep State is the State
    First Published: 2017
    Like all elements of the state, the so-called deep state exists to enforce the economic supremacy of US capitalism.
  2989. Deeply Re-examining Marxism
    First Published: 1998
    Having just read Michael Lowy's “The Centrality of Self-emancipation for a Critical Marxism”, I agree strongly with many of Lowy's remarks about the next steps for those who consider themselves to be followers of Karl Marx, now that the downfall of the Stalinist bureaucracy and its devotees has provided us with a wonderful opportunity for the re-birth of communist ideas.
  2990. The Defeat of Post-USSR Labor
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    The nascent Soviet labor movement played an important, perhaps crucial, role in shaking the foundations of the Soviet system, which proved remarkably fragile beneath its impressive totalitarian superstructure. But this movement failed to develop the organizational and ideological independence that would have allowed it to influence the subsequent course of events.
  2991. Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part One
    First Published: 2014
    Reconstruction was a tumultuous, brief and extraordinary period of American history defined by an unprecedented experiment in interracial democracy. It was an era of exceptional developments, all taking place simultaneously and impacting one another.
  2992. Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part Two
    First Published: 2014
    During Reconstruction, black people fought to assert their American-ness. Throughout the South, it was blacks and their allies who would march, parade and celebrate the Fourth of July, but not out of gross and vulgar American patriotism. Rather, it was part of a struggle to uphold the ideals of freedom and liberty that came with the Civil War and the promise of equality that came with Reconstruction.
  2993. Defence without armies
    The word 'defence' is often associated with the word 'violence.' However, Social Defence represents a different perspective.
  2994. Defend Brazil!
    First Published: 2016
    Enough weeping! Latin America has wept incessantly, continuously, for years, decades and centuries. Its people robbed of everything since the days of Columbus, since Potosi. Tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions have been slaughtered here, in the last five centuries; first by the conquerors, then by their descendants and serfs, and finally by the Empire of Lies as well as the treasonous local 'elites'.
  2995. Defend Reverend Pinkney
    First Published: 2015
    An appeal hearing is scheduled for February 24, 2015 regarding the imprisonment of Reverend Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI. The American Civil Leaders Union has filed an "Amicus Curiae Brief" in support of Pinkney.
  2996. Defend the Ties That Bind
    First Published: 1998
    Revolution is a conservative act as well as a radical one. It is the only way to defend those precious relationships which are the bases of human life and society, and which form the core of human values.
  2997. Defender of the Forests 
    Bonnie Phillips vs. the Timber Beasts, Gang Green and the Big Foundations
    First Published: 2015
    Veteran forest advocate Bonnie Phillips passed away on May 4, 2015 in Olympia, Washington. This article is based on her final interview.
  2998. Defender of the Movement
    Albert Goldman for the Defense
    First Published: 2011
    A profile of the radical lawyer.
  2999. Defender of the Rockies
    First Published: 2014
    For sheer guts, vision and results, a single organisation stands out among the US's environmental defenders - the Alliance for the Wild Rockies. Jeffrey St. Clair met its leader, Mike Garrity, winner of 2014's Grassroots Activist Award.
  3000. Defending Afrin means defending the women's revolution
    First Published: 2018
    Since January 20, 2018 the Turkish army has been attacking the Kurdish region of Afrin in the Democratic Federation of North Syria; among the casualties are women, children and many refugees. In this message to the world a confederation of women's organisatons in Afrin call upon all women worldwide to join their struggle.
  3001. Defending Exxon's Denial: It's Their Right to Free Speech!
    First Published: 2016
    In the world of science denial, Money is Speech, corporations are people, Donald Trump is Galileo, and apparently, lying to your customers and shareholders is exercising your constitutional rights.
  3002. Defending the Faith
    The Catholic Church waged a century-long war against the Irish left.
    First Published: 2016
    Ireland's foremost socialist knew that the British Empire and Irish capitalists weren't the only challenge he and his comrades faced. "In dealing with Ireland," James Connolly wrote in 1910, "no one can afford to ignore the question of the attitude to the clergy." Connolly's subject of discussion was a 1830s Owenite cooperative that enjoyed brief success, in large part because nearby clergymen didn't oppose it.
  3003. Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship
    First Published: 2022
    Perhaps we have foolishly consented to a reality where the most powerful people in the world get to control the information people consume in order to shut down dissent against a murderous and oppressive globe-spanning oligarchic empire.
  3004. Defending 'Our Democracy'
    First Published: 2018
    Despite the onsought of attacks on American democracy, groups like the teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky and the Parkland surviors through their activism are defending America's democracy.
  3005. Defending Palestinian solidarity
    First Published: 2010
    The Electronic Intifada, the online publication about Palestine, finds itself at the centre of a storm as a pro-Israel group applies pressure to have a grant from a Dutch foundation withdrawn. This assault is part of a well-coordinated, escalating Israeli government-endorsed effort to vilify individuals and cripple organisations that criticise Israel's human rights record and call for it to respect Palestinian rights and international law.
  3006. Defending Public Education in Philadelphia
    First Published: 2013
    Philadelphia has a proud tradition of struggle around its schools dating back to the civil rights and Black Power movements. The African American churches also played a critical role. But this alliance proved short lived. While education organizing groups, advocacy organizations and, less frequently, unions have sought to work together on some campaigns, there has been no effort to develop a shared strategy and organizational vehicle for realizing it.
  3007. Defending The Defensible: Jewish And Palestinian Boycotts
    First Published: 2014
    Oh dear, poor Israel. Poor Israel - the world's 4th largest nuclear military power. Poor Israel - the serial war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression violator. Poor barbaric Israel is being picked on by the non-violent Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which champions, out of simple human decency, Palestinian inalienable rights under international law.
  3008. Defending the right to offend, shock or disturb
    First Published: 2009
    Insult laws are designed to protect politicians, government leaders and officials and state institutions, arming the state with access to resources and legal doctrines that no other citizen has.
  3009. Defense Contractors Cite "Benefits" of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East
    First Published: 2015
    Major defense contractors Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin assured investors at a Credit Suisse conference in West Palm Beach this week that they stand to gain from the escalating conflicts in the Middle East.
  3010. Defense for Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
    First Published: 2019
    Transcript of a speech in defense of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.
  3011. The Defiance that Launched Gaza's Flaming Kites Cannot be Extinguished
    First Published: 2018
    Now Israel is facing a new and apparently even tougher challenge: how to stop Palestinian resistance from Gaza using flaming kites, which have set fire to lands close by in Israel. F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite.
  3012. Defiance with Freedom in Mind
    First Published: 1994
    The case for civil disobedience.
  3013. The Deficit is No Accident
    First Published: 1997
    The deficit and national debt were created intentionally by politicians of both parties, to destroy social programs which give working people some protection against unrestrained corporate power
  3014. Defining an American State of War
    Nine War Words That Define Our World
    First Published: 2011
    Nine common terms associated with our present wars that probably don't mean what you think they mean.
  3015. Defining Israel as a "Jewish State"
    First Published: 2018
    The definition of what is a "Jewish State" and "what is a Jew" is a fundamental part of this debate. The "Jewish State" is like no other. It uses a concept of Jewish nationality which is like no other definition of nationality. It is the Jewish character of the State that is given preference to all other considerations and gives superior rights to Jews over the non-Jewish population in Israel.
  3016. Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
    First Published: 2015
    With the deadline for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. In Nigeria however, forest and farmland continue to be destroyed.
  3017. Deformities, sickness and livestock deaths: the real cost of GM animal feed?
    Deformities, Sickness and Livestock Death
    First Published: 2013
    Feeding animals a diet containing genetically modified (GM) ingredients or more specifically feed made from GM soya and sprayed with the controversial herbicide glyphosate is responsible for deformities and other defects in pigs.
  3018. Defusing George Orwell
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Robert Colls' book George Orwell: English Rebel (Oxford University Press, 2013).
  3019. Defying Fundamentalism
    A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
    First Published: 2014
    To some people Islam has come to represent the ideology of liberation from the yoke of Western imperialism; to others it is a backward and inherently violent faith targeting innocent individuals indiscriminately.
  3020. Defying Fundamentalism
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A review of "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism" By Karima Bennoune.
  3021. Defying Washington's Embargo
    First Published: 1997
    In the face of strong government opposition and little U.S. media attention, a grassroots effort scored a victory on September 13, 1996. On that day U.S. and Canadian members of Pastors for Peace delivered 400 medical computers to Cuba, without applying for the license required by the U.S. trade embargo.
  3022. Deganawida (The Great Peacemaker)
    Connexipedia Article
    The founder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
  3023. Dehistoricizing October 7
    First Published: 2023
    The Israeli historian explains the history essential to understanding the current attacks on Gaza and the danger of suppressing that history.
  3024. Dejemos de engañarnos a nosotros mismos sobre el NDP
    First Published: 1989
    Si alguna vez vamos a seguir adelante, tenemos que enfrentarlo: El NDP no es un partido socialista. El NDP nunca ha sido un partido socialista. Y el NDP nunca será un partido socialista.
  3025. Delano grape strike
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike, boycott, and secondary boycott led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) against growers of table grapes in California.
  3026. "Delegitimize Zionism," says Israeli filmmaker
    First Published: 2014
    An interview with Israeli filmaker Lia Tarachansky, whose film "On the Side of the Road" confronts the reality of the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and examines how Israelis deal with that past today, how it is taught to youth, as well as which facts are included or deliberately ignored.
  3027. Delivering Community Power
    How Canada Post can be the hub of our next economy
    A booklet advocating for Canada Post, and how the post office could play a central role in building our next economy - one that is more stable, more equal, and less polluting.
  3028. Dellinger, David
    Connexipedia Article
    American radical pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change. (1915-2004).
  3029. Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
    First Published: 2013
    With employees of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system on strike, the Silicon Valley tech elite has reminded us all that despite their enlightened Bay Area lifestyles, they are still, at root, a bunch of rich dudes. Corey Robin ably documents the reactionary politics and moral degeneracy of people who see themselves as heroic entrepreneurs and the people who get them to work as greedy parasites.
  3030. Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
    First Published: 2018
    The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
  3031. Demasduit
    Connexipedia article
    Demasduit (c. 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people on the island of Newfoundland, Canada.
  3032. The Demise of Andy Stern and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
    First Published: 2010
    A meaningful advance of workers’ struggles means bringing into existence class-wide organizations. Where those with such a perspective find themselves, by hook or by crook, in trade unions, the issue is to broaden struggles to include the unemployed wherever possible.
  3033. Democracy Against Politics
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    “¡Que se vayan todos!” shouted rebellious crowds during the Argentine economic crisis of 2001, “Out with them all!” The call soon spread throughout Latin America: for a new politics without politicians and a new society without social elites. Many radicals have been inspired by the movements that seemed to rise with so much energy and idealism from this foundational fire. Others have been quick to criticize the inadequacy of movements which seem to have forgotten that economic exploitation is more fundamental than political oppression, and that exploitation is held up by political power which must be seized rather than ignored.
  3034. Democracy and Social Change
    First Published: 1966
    Gray maintains that liberal democracy places power in only a few hands and calls for a radical democratization of power within the framework of an economy owned, controlled, and responsible to the public.
  3035. Democracy and Ecological Crisis
    First Published: 2018
    In view of the global ecological problems which have arisen from aggressive market driven economies, the author examines what democracy and socialism really mean, and what a more environmentally responsible Post-Capitalism society might look like.
  3036. Democracy Enhancement
    First Published: 1994
    Chomsky explores the American goal of spreading democracy to other nations through intervention. His assertions are supported in the second part of the essay with a case study of Haiti.
  3037. Democracy in the British Army
    First Published: 1939
  3038. Democracy in the Unites States? Fugetaboutit!
    First Published: 2007
    We who want a more equal and democratic society are the vast majority. There is no reason for us to feel hesitant about speaking our minds and talking revolution to our friends and neighbors, our co-workers, and even people we meet in the course of shopping and so forth. When millions of Americans feel that they are not alone in wanting a revolution, that's when things will start to change. That's when people will start to think creatively and concretely about how to make it happen. Until then, we'll remain on a treadmill to nowhere, with everybody feeling that they are just one lonely person who "can't fight city hall."
  3039. Democracy Is the Key
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    Ann Menasche interviews Peter Camejo: Against the Current: What is the importance of Nader-Camejo campaign in 2004?
  3040. Democracy loses out
    First Published: 1978
    The people can say what they want, they can vote how they want, but the bureaucrats make the decisions.
  3041. Democracy or Corporatocracy? The choice is ours.
    First Published: 2014
    Newly assertive citizens and consumers are putting the world's most feared and powerful corporations on the defensive. Now is the time to press home our advantage.
  3042. Democracy and Popular Sovereignty instead of Neoliberal Integration and a failed Euro-System
    First Published: 2016
    This document was commonly developed by people from the Lexit Network. It was written and agreed before the Brexit referendum and was not intended to influence the popular vote one way or another. With the implementation of the European single market and the Maastricht Treaty, European integration was established as a neoliberal project for the long run. The Stability- and Growth Pact, the fundamental freedoms of the single market and the European monetary union, among other elements, constituted a framework that has fueled austerity policies, the dismantling of workers’ rights and the welfare state and imposed privatization throughout the EU member states.
  3043. Democracy Restored
    First Published: 1994
    In light of the third anniversary of the military coup that overthrew the elected government of Haiti in 1991, Chomsky exposes the grittier side of America's involvement in the restoration of democracy in Haiti.
  3044. Democracy Seized -- and Lost
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    Reconstruction was among the messiest, most complex periods in U.S. history, and certainly one of the most emotionally exhausting to revisit. Accounts of the period resonate with hope of almost millenarian proportions and are tainted by tragedy — not the kind of tragedy that brings release, but the kind that leaves one sick with incredulity.
  3045. Democracy was never intended for degenerates
    First Published: 2016
    This is not a left vs right debate -- today, as a century ago, the anti-democratic impulse comes from both left and right, from both reactionaries and self-defined progressives.
  3046. Democracy Works in Haiti
    From the Bottom Up
    First Published: 2014
    Haiti’s successful rebellion flew in the face of the order of empires built on slavery, colonisation, subjugation and dispossession.
  3047. The Democratic Party's Revenge on Matt Taibbi
    First Published: 2023
    Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
  3048. Democratic Revolution and Socialist Revolution: A Reply to Malik Miah
    First Published: 1998
    IN ATC 75 Malik Miah presents an analysis of events surrounding the fall of Indonesian President Suharto (“Indonesia's Democratic Revolution”). As a descriptive report of what has been happening in that country, Steve Bloom says, his effort is valuable to activists. However, as an analytical assessment of what is at stake the article falls short.
  3049. Democrats impeach Trump for Withholding Arms to Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
    First Published: 2020
    That the Democrats are not impeaching Trump for an actual unconstitutional offense like the diverting of military funds to his border wall without congressional approval is revealing of its true motivations. Trump only crossed a line when he went after another member of the political establishment and fleetingly halted the U.S. war machine in its aggression toward Moscow.
  3050. The Democrats' New Scapegoat
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
    In 2000, the Democratic Party establishment and much of the left blamed Ralph Nader for the election of George Bush. The “spoiler” label conveniently ignored the fact that Al Gore ran a weak campaign with no compelling message; that more registered Democrats voted for Bush than for Nader; and that the Democratic Party refused to challenge the removal of African Americans from the voter rolls in Florida.
  3051. Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
    First Published: 2016
    Detailing how the Democratic party's response to their defeat in the 2016 election reflects a failure to recognize factors leading to the UK Brexit referendum result.
  3052. Demonetisation: Stories Of Flesh And Blood
    First Published: 2016
    An article about the demonetization announced by the Indian government on November 8th, 2016.
  3053. Demonizing Edward Snowden
    Obama Goes Beyond Orwell
    First Published: 2014
    Edward Snowden’s revelations have gone a long way to lifting the veil of secrecy and foul play that is the norm in capitalist America. He has hastened the time when BIG BROTHER’S rules of engagement — and all forms of ruling-class oppression — are brought to an end forever.
  3054. Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
    Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
    First Published: 2005
    Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
  3055. The Demonology School of Journalism
    Putin and the press
    First Published: 2015
    The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, 'former KGB operative' and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
  3056. Demonstration (people)
    Connexipedia Article
    A form of nonviolent action by groups of people in favor of a political or other cause, normally consisting of walking in a march and a meeting (rally) to hear speakers.
  3057. The Demos Versus 'We, the People': from Ancient to Modern Conceptions of Citizenship
    From Democracy Against Capitalism, Chapter 7
    First Published: 1995
  3058. Demythifying Native Americans
    "All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's and Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans.
  3059. The Dene -- Land and Unity for the Native People of the Mackenzie Valley
    A Statement of Rights
    First Published: 1977
    This booklet documents the tragic history of the Dene since the arrival of white settlers with their culture and their determined effort to assert themselves as a proud people.
  3060. Dene Learning For Self-Determination and The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry: (1974-1977), Working Paper #2
    First Published: 1978
  3061. Dene Nation: Apartheid?
    First Published: 1978
  3062. Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
    First Published: 2013
    Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
  3063. The Department of Defense Is the Third Largest Polluter of US Waterways
    First Published: 2016
    Advocacy group Environment America has "crunched the numbers" in an effort to reveal who the largest polluters of American waterways are. The culprits that crack the top-15 list may very well surprise you.
  3064. Dependency theory
    Wikipedia article
    Dependency theory is the notion that resources flow from a periphery of poor and underdeveloped states to a core of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. It is a central contention of dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the world system.
  3065. Depleted Uranium: Scandal Update
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    In the first weeks of the new year, a new controversy has erupted among NATO allies over possible health effects of the Pentagon's use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons on their troops who served in Bosnia, Kosova and Serbia. The European Union and several individual states, Italy, Spain and Holland among them, have demanded an investigation into the use of DU weapons by American and NATO warplanes during air assaults on Serbia and Kosova in 1999 and Bosnia in 1995. The weapons are favored because their hardness and density make them highly effective against armored vehicles and tanks.
  3066. Depraved Treatment of Drug War Captives on US Coast Guard Ships
    First Published: 2017
    Wessler provides details in an interview transcript on how the United States Coast Guard routinely subjects individuals alleged to be involved in the transport of cocaine between South America and Central America to such conditions.
  3067. Deputation Opposing Island Airport Expansion
    First Published: 2013
    It is absurd to have a major airport on a city's waterfront. The negative impacts -- air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, massively increased traffic, the risk of planes taking off and landing with a few hundred meters of homes and schools -- are clear and unacceptable.
  3068. Der Zor Diary: A Pilgrimage To The Killing Fields of the Armenian Genocide
    First Published: 2010
    The Der Zor desert -- the most infamous of the killings fields in the premeditated extermination of the Armenian people carried out by the Turkish government beginning in 1915.
  3069. Derailing Neoliberalism
    First Published: 2016
    Haines-Doran examines the British transit workers' stike against rail privitization with its lack of concern for safety, unions, and workers' rights.
  3070. Deranged and Deluded: The Media's Complicity In The Climate Crisis
    First Published: 2017
    In an important recent book, the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh refers to the present era of corporate-driven climate crisis as 'The Great Derangement'. For almost 12,000 years, since the last Ice Age, humanity has lived through a period of relative climate stability known as the Holocene. When Homo sapiens shifted, for the most part, from a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence to an agriculture-based life, towns and cities grew, humans went into space and the global population shot up to over seven billion people.
  3071. Deranging America
    Drugged, Indebted, Armed-to-the-Teeth
    First Published: 2013
    A question worth asking: Who benefit from a more compulsive, hence more violent, population? Well, if you’re pushing eternal warfare, which we are, you’ll need a pool of nutcases who are willing to shoot anyone for any reason, or none at all, and more deranged oafs at home to go “Rah! Rah!” over any bombing run or drone hit. Are we going into Mali next? Why not? Where is it, by the way? There has never been a country fighting so many wars without a serious debate about any of them. And if you want people to buy first, think later, to rack up life-wrecking debts to satiate all ephemeral cravings, then you ply them with poison, flickering television and thumping music. You don’t want a population capable of deliberating, reflecting, thinking clearly or even listening attentively, much less reading, but one that can be jerked around by any sexy come-on or dumbed down slogan.
  3072. Derechos y Libertades
    Introduccion al Volumen 9, Número 2 del Sumario de Connexions
    First Published: 1984
  3073. Dershowitz to the Rescue?
    The Israeli Spin-Machine in Overdrive
    First Published: 2010
    According to Israel's apologists, only Israelis have a right to defend themselves. Palestinians do not have this right, nor does anyone else who is attempting to assist the Palestinians.
  3074. The Dershowitz Treatment
    Slime Throwing as Debate
    First Published: 2006
    An expose of Alan Dershowitz's record, showing that he has repeatedly resorted to lies, slander, fabrications, falsifications and plagiarism in public debate and in his published works.
  3075. The Descent of the Left Press: From IF Stone to The Nation
    First Published: 2016
    Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could explain why this senseless war was taking place. After taking out a subscription to I.F. Stone’s Weekly that an old friend had recommended, the scales began to fall from my eyes.
  3076. Description of Recently Founded Communist Colonies Still in Existence
    First Published: 1844   Published: 1845
    If the workers are united among themselves, hold together and pursue one purpose, they are infinitely stronger than the rich. And if, moreover, they have set their sights upon such a rational purpose, and one which desires the best for all mankind, as community of goods, it is self-evident that the better and more intelligent among the rich will declare themselves in agreement with the workers and support them.
  3077. Desert Winds Stir New Hope
    First Published: 2009
    With oil and gas reserves running dry, Egypt is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
  3078. Deserted wilds in city's centre
    First Published: 1979
    If we are ever going to get a bicycle and pedestrian path, together with other improvements in the area south of Pottery Road we will have to speak up so that our elected representatives can hear us.
  3079. Designing Pacifist Films
    First Published: 1961
  3080. Designs on equality
    City planning is a mechanism of discrimination - it mainly serves the able-bodied
    First Published: 2012
    The idea of “universal design” is to stop creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether it’s car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with sports injuries or with physical and mental limitations, and those who care for any of the above.
  3081. Desintresse am Öffentlichen Intresse
    First Published: 2001
    In den Industrienationen haben die Menschen über Jahrzehnte hinweg gelernt, dass man privaten Unternehmen nicht trauen kann, wenn es um Sachen der öffentlichen Sicherheit geht.
  3082. ¿Desinvertir?
    First Published: 2002
  3083. Desire to Kill the Streetcar
    First Published: 2016
    The author analyzes the conspiracy by large corporations to monopolize the American transit system and its fuel system.
  3084. Deskilling and the Terrain of Social Justice
    First Published: 2015
    A look at why it is important to form an understanding of what it means to be 'skilled', and why capitalist economies waste a vast amount of human potential.
  3085. Viola Desmond
    First Published: 2013
    The story of Viola Desmond's refusal to accept an act of racial discrimination, a stand that provided inspiration to a later generation of Blacks in Nova Scotia and in the rest of Canada.
  3086. Despair is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
    First Published: 2017
    Brockman lists various methods to prevent feelings of cynicism, frustration, and grief for social activists and to inspire renewed hope in their efforts.
  3087. Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism
    First Published: 2018
    Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.
  3088. Leon Despres, Chicago Rebel
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    Iconic Chicago alderman Leon Despres died at the age of 101 on May 6, 2009 in the city he lived and loved. A little frail in stature, Len had a broad intellect that was fully intact to the very end. He fought much of his adult life for a progressive vision of Chicago that “Machine” politics was never ready to accept. After his 1955 election as alderman, and in the first decade of his two-decade term, many city council votes were recorded 49-1. Despres was the lone dissenter.
  3089. The Destabilization of Haiti
    First Published: 2004
    A short summary of the illegal and suppressed details of American intervention in Haiti during the 1990's and early 2000's.
  3090. The Destiny of A Revolution
    Review of Victor Serge, Russia Twenty Years After
    First Published: 1998
    Victor Serge's more impassioned account based on his eyewitness observations of everyday life and the detailed realities of Stalinist political repression.
  3091. Destroyed by the Espionage Act
    First Published: 2015
    Story of why Stephen Kim, former U.S. State Department expert, was imprisoned for an Espionage Act charge.
  3092. Destroyed by Violence
    War, Not Deserting, Is Demoralizing
    First Published: 2014
    Morale is destroyed by war. War’s objective reality always blows to smithereens not just the civilians it is supposed to protect, but the political, economic and chauvinistic rationalizations that get soldiers to kill in the first place.
  3093. Destroying the Commons 
    How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
    First Published: 2012
    Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
  3094. Destroying Detroit Schools
    First Published: 2016
    The Detroit Public School system has been under state control for 15 years, the last decade under the direction of a series of Emergency Managers. The result has been a staggering debt, now more than half a billion dollars, with a 50% decline in the number of students served. More students attend charter schools than the public system, but as there is no oversight over charters, poorly run schools continue year after year.
  3095. Destroying Detroit Schools
    First Published: 2016
    The Detroit Public School system (DPS) has been under state control for 15 years, the last decade under the direction of a series of Emergency Managers.
  3096. Destroying Estonia
    The One Per Cent’s New/Old Solution to Economic Crisis
    First Published: 2011
    Many economists and financial press writers mimic children on amusement park rides. They think their austerity policies are “steering” their vehicle rather than being guided by underlying structural forces.
  3097. Destroying Syria: a Joint Criminal Enterprise
    First Published: 2016
    Everyone claims to want to end the war in Syria and restore peace to the Middle East. Well, almost everyone.
  3098. Destruction and Resistance at SUNY
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    The state university of New York turned fifty in 1998, but its mission-to provide New Yorkers with quality education at low cost-is endangered. Earlier this spring, SUNY faculty finally responded by revolting and issuing an unprecedented demand for the removal of the state-appointed university trustees.
  3099. The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
    First Published: 2019
    The corporate media's hostility towards Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks - obvious by lack of coverage or overt antagonism - shows it is tool of the state and big business.
  3100. The Destruction of Inlet Beach
    First Published: 2017
    As Inlet Beach undergoes development to turn the site into a tourist vacation spot and with no support from the county government or develepment laws, the local community is slowly driven away.
  3101. Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crime
    First Published: 2015
    The uprooting and cutting down of over a million olive and fruit trees in occupied Palestine since 1967 is an attack on a symbol of life, and on Palestinian culture and survival. A grave crime under international humantarian law, the arboricide is also contrary to Jewish religious teachings.
  3102. The Destruction of the European Jews
    Wikipedia article
    A Wikipedia article about Raul Hilberg's book The Destruction of the European Jews
  3103. The Destruction of the European Jews
    First Published: 1961   Published: 1985
    The Destruction of the European Jews is a 1961 book by historian Raul Hilberg. Hilberg revised his work in 1985, and it appeared in a new three-volume edition. It is largely held to be the first comprehensive historical study of the Holocaust.
  3104. The Destructive Power Trips of Amazon's Boss
    First Published: 2017
    Pointed criticism of online retailer Amazon and its Boss Jeff Bezos, whose practices include avoiding state taxes, erosion of traditional retail and small business, and undermining the tax base in communities.
  3105. The Destructive Urge
    First Published: 1979
    Marxism's greatest discovery is that it cannot prescribe any science of revolution, any fail-safe program. On the contrary what it provides is a new question, a new responsibility to make a choice..
  3106. Details Of Tax Avoidance Schemes For Wealthy HSBC Clients Revealed
    First Published: 2015
    A cache of secret documents has thrust HSBC into the limelight for helping international clients dodge taxes.
  3107. Detecting Prejudice
    First Published: 1978
    This handbook was designed by teachers and students for use at the senior elementary and junior secondary level.
  3108. Detroit celebrates Grace Lee Boggs' 100th birthday
    First Published: 2015
    About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.
  3109. Detroit: Disappearing City?
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    Forty percent of Detroit today is considered virtually “unoccupied.” The administration of Mayor Dave Bing is trying to figure out how to move the remaining residents of these areas out, in the name of “rightsizing” the city. Of course he hasn’t revealed any specifics — and the devil is in the details! Residents are wary: without the money to relocate people and the services needed, it’s just another round of displacing the urban poor.
  3110. Detroit Politics Embroiled
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    Detroit is a city entangled in a chain of interlocking crises, all the way from the world economic crisis, to deindustrialization in America, down to the regional and local levels of the housing market hemorrhage and a tidal wave of utility cutoffs in poor people’s homes. Some 40,000 Detroiters now are without water — the most shocking example, perhaps, of daily life in a city on the brink.
  3111. Detroit Public Schools: Who's Failing?
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    It's no scret that the Detroit Public Schools have been in a state of chaos for some time. When former Democratic governor Jennifer Granholm appointed Robert Bobb as Emergency Financial Manager in 2009, many hoped that he would make positive changes. The district was carrying a $219 million deficit, not to mention some of the country’s lowest graduation rates and standardized test scores.
  3112. Detroit Radicals' Odessey
    In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Stephen M. Ward's In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs.
  3113. Detroit: Restructured or Ravaged?
    First Published: 2013
    Apponted by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R), Kevyn Orr became Emergency Manager (EM) over the city of Detroit this March 28, 2013. The media repeat that he has 18 months to "turn the city around," but it's unclear whether anyone believes that's possible.
  3114. Detroit Symphony Musicians on Strike
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    The musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra have been on strike since October 4, 2010. Thirty-five concerts have been cancelled, while the musicians have organized nine magnificent performances with guest conductors in various churches and synagogues in the area. They charged $20 admission and got their friends to volunteer to be ushers and ticket sellers. At a concert of 1100 I attended in a Grosse Pointe Woods church, parishioners seated on either side of me were attending their first symphonic concert.
  3115. Detroit: Your Pension and Your Life!
    First Published: 2014
    Amidst the ongoing bankruptcy of Detroit, workers are faced with having their pensions involuntarily reduced.
  3116. Detroit's Rebellion and Rise of the Neoliberal State
    First Published: 2017
    In 1967 hundreds of uprisings circulated across U.S. cities with unprecedented power and intensity. Almost always the provocation was racist police violence - ranging from arrests to beatings to shootings.
  3117. Detroiters Remember the 1967 Rebellion
    Kim D. Hunter interviews Ed Vaughn
    First Published: 1997
    An interview with Ed Vaughn, an eyewitness observer of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, on the event, its causes and its impact on history.
  3118. Detroit's Crisis -- Coming to You?
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    There are two realities to grasp about the current plight of Detroit. Reality one: Detroit is caught in a set of interlocking crises, from the level of the world economy and national political gridlock down to the viciously reactionary Michigan state government and the yawning divide between the city and suburban Detroit, that would severely challenge the most competent, the most visionary, the most energetic and most progressive city leadership.
  3119. Detroit's Foreclosure Disaster
    First Published: 2015
    In early 2015 the Wayne County Treasurer's office announced that 62,000 Detroit properties were slated for foreclosure, with probably 38,000 occupied. This could result in the displacement of as many as 100,000 Detroiters, or about one seventh of the city's population.
  3120. Detroit's Rebellion at Fifty
    First Published: 2017
    From the days of the Marcus Garvey nationalist movement in the early decades of the century, to Malcolm X, revolutionary autoworkers and the Black Power movement in the 1960s, Detroit was front and center in debates on strategy and tactics to win Black freedom.
  3121. Detroit's Tax Foreclosure Crisis
    First Published: 2016
    Given the history of housing discrimination in Metro Detroit over the last 100 years, it is hardly surprising that the illegal over-assessments of property values has a greater impact on African-American homeowners.
  3122. Detroit's Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root
    First Published: 2017
    Detroit's economic comeback is greatly overstated, while many residents survive through informal business arrangements and bartering.
  3123. Deutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine For Interest Rate Rigging
    First Published: 2015
    Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, months after 6 other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.
  3124. Deutscher, Isaac
    Connexipedia Article
    Marxist historian, journalist and political activist. (1907-1967).
  3125. Deutscher, Isaac - Writings - Index
  3126. Deux Poids, Deux Mesures, Les Francophones Hors Quebec Et Les Anglophones Au Quebec
    Un Dossier Comparatif
    First Published: 1981
    Dans l'élaboration de ce dossir comparatif, il a toutefois fallu pousser encore plus loin les recherches ayant abouti aux Héritiers de Lord Durham et réexaminer les services offerts en francais aux communautés francophones.
  3127. Devastating Crisis Unfolds
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system is what’s made the downward slide so intractable for policymakers and its potential for disaster so serious. The plague of foreclosures and abandoned homes — often broken into and stripped clean of everything, including copper wiring — stalks Detroit in particular, and other Midwest cities.
  3128. Development and Canada's Last Frontiers
    First Published: 1978
    This publication is in the form of a brief review of the exploitation by whites of the lands occupied by the Indians and Inuit.
  3129. Development Education Project
    Canadian Complicity in South Africa and Chile
    First Published: 1977
    A description of the cooperation of several small groups to educate the Canadian public about corporate involvement in South Africa.
  3130. Development Education Viewpoints
    First Published: 1976
    Educational tools focused on worldwide underdevelopment in a Canadian context.
  3131. The Development of a Guaranteed Annual Income in Canada and the Involvement of Canadian Churches
    First Published: 1976
    A paper designed to educate church people about the concept of a guaranteed annual income as an effective "weapon against poverty".
  3132. The Development of Utopian Socialism
    First Published: 1880
    The Utopians' mode of thought has for a long time governed the Socialist ideas of the 19th century, and still governs some of them. Until very recently, all French and English Socialists did homage to it. The earlier German Communism, including that of Weitling, was of the same school. To all these, Socialism is the expression of absolute truth, reason and justice, and has only to be discovered to conquer all the world by virtue of its own power. And as an absolute truth is independent of time, space, and of the historical development of man, it is a mere accident when and where it is discovered. With all this, absolute truth, reason, and justice are different with the founder of each different school.
  3133. Development On Trial
    Ten Days for World Development Education and Action Guide
    First Published: 1992
  3134. The Devil Capitalism Makes Us Destroy Our Planet
    First Published: 2016
    Capitalism is asking us to choose between jobs and the future livability of our planet. Capitalism tells us it makes sense to flood some of the best food growing land in B.C. and build a dam to provide electricity for Alberta's tar sands; capitalism says build more pipelines across B.C. and allow hundreds more oil tankers every year to sail through pristine waters; capitalism doesn’t care that more carbon extraction will guarantee our planet is cooked.
  3135. Devil and the deep blue sea: how Mediterranean migrant disaster unfolded
    First Published: 2014
    Desperate migrants from Gaza and Syria tell how they put themselves at the mercy of people smugglers in their voyage to cross the Mediterranean.
  3136. The Devil Goes to Preschool
    First Published: 2021
    In 1983, journalists helped conjure a nationwide sex panic.
  3137. Dewey, John
    Connexipedia Article
    American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
  3138. DFO Library Closures Anger Scientific Community
    First Published: 2014
    When word first broke that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was closing seven of their libraries, government officials promised that there would be no loss of vital historical material. Today many are skeptical of those claims.
  3139. Diagnosis, Goals and Methods of Social Change
    First Published: 1976
    Outline of several diagnoses of the state of social systems and institutions.
  3140. The Dialectic of Monstrosity - review
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism' by David McNally.
  3141. "Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis" -- A Review
    First Published: 1972
  3142. Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
    First Published: 1947
    There is no philosophy of history without Marxism, and there can be no Marxism without the dialectic.
  3143. Dialectics and Difference: Against the 'Decolonial Turn'
    First Published: 2017
    "Decolonial" criticism is an example of vogue academic approach, which can be grafted onto preexisting disciplines and practices with relative ease. Still further, in so doing, it offers the semblance of radicalism, because it appears to challenge the tacit erasures and hidden presuppositions of prior revolutionary perspectives.
  3144. Dialectics, nature and the dialectics of nature
    First Published: 2014
    Based on Frederick Engel's Dialectics of Nature, Camilla Royle's article asks if nature can be understood dialectically.
  3145. The Dialectics of Community Control
    First Published: 1970
    The movement for community control will fall short often, unless it becomes a broader struggle for popular, democratic control of all public institutions and the economy.
  3146. Dialectics of Revolutionary Learning
    Book review
    First Published: 2018
    Review of the book Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge by Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab.
  3147. Dialogue on Development
    First Published: 1991
    A discourse between a Third World citizen and a Canadian.
  3148. Diarrhea, Dehydration, Hunger, Exhaustion: India's Rural Poor Suffer Most Under Lockdown
    First Published: 2020
    India just saw its biggest spike in coronavirus cases in 24 hours with 6,000 new reported infections, as an estimated 3 million seek shelter from a powerful cyclone and tens of thousands have no work or food.
  3149. Diary of Prison and Torture
    Book review
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's 'Guantánamo Diary.'
  3150. Diaspora Jews Must Speak Out
    Law in the Service of Discrimination
    First Published: 2013
    No democracy, in today’s world, should have the “right” to speak for persons who are not its citizens, live thousands of miles away, and have not given their direct consent to be spoken for or “represented.”
  3151. The 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' in Marx and Engels
    First Published: 1987
    What did the phrase 'dictatorship of the proletariat' mean to Marx and to his contemporaneous readers?
  3152. Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
    Evidence suggests he pressured the Brits to seize an Iranian ship. Why? More war.
    First Published: 2019
    The details of the UK's seizure of the Grace 1 point to involvement by John Bolton and the Trump administration to put pressure on Iran.
  3153. Did Leviev's Empire Succumb to Boycott?
    First Published: 2009
    The brave people who took to the streets to demand boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and Israeli companies have received a clear message that their efforts are not in vain. Private companies that seek to make easy profits in Palestine while ignoring the injustices and illegality of Israel's crimes there, will have to think twice about their investments. They may be required to pay a price in actual money for the moral deficit in their accounts.
  3154. Did Roosevelt know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor yet say nothing?
    First Published: 2001
    Examining another popular conspiracy theory.
  3155. Did Scandal Tip the Balance?
    First Published: 2017
    In 2014 a rumor circulated in UAW plants even beyond the Detroit area that UAW Vice President General Holiefield had been "on the take." He suddenly resigned, his administrative assistant was let go and within months Holiefield died from cancer. Then silence.
  3156. Did Somebody Say Fascism?
    Waiting in the Wings of Ukraine
    First Published: 2014
    As Marxist historians of fascism have long argued, fascism at its essence is an outcome of capitalism in crisis. The quintessential counterrevolutionary movement, fascism responds to capitalism’s invariable crises by redirecting potentially revolutionary threats to capitalism to nationalist, (relatedly) racist (or within Europe’s right today, “culturalist”), and militarist violence that preserves the basic material conditions of class society.
  3157. Did the US Accidentally Give the World's Most Powerful Cyberweapon to Terrorists?
    Sony Hack: Made in America?
    First Published: 2015
  3158. Did The West Provoke The Ukraine War? Sorry, That Question Has Been Cancelled
    First Published: 2024
    Is it possible for an entire 'mainstream' media system -- every newspaper, website, TV channel -- to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing?
  3159. DID YOU HEAR IT? It's the sound of their world ending. It's that of ours resurging.
    Communique from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
    First Published: 2012
    Communiqué of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee – General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Mexico.
  3160. Didn't See The Same Movie
    Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.
    First Published: 2003
  3161. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
  3162. Dietzgen, Joseph
    Connexipedia Article
    Socialist philosopher and Marxist. (1828-1888).
  3163. Diez Mitos del Cuidado de la Salud
    Entendiendo el Debate del Servicio Medico en Canadá
    First Published: 1995
  3164. Una diferente forma de democracia
    First Published: 1997
  3165. The Difference Between Judaism and Zionism
    First Published: 2009
    Argues that "Judaism and Zionism are by no means the same. Indeed they are incompatible and irreconcilable: If one is a good Jew, one cannot be a Zionist; if one is a Zionist, one cannot be a good Jew."
  3166. The Different Faces of 'Popular Resistance' in Palestine
    Manipulating History
    First Published: 2012
    Apparently, 'popular resistance' has suddenly elevated to become a clash of visions or strategies between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and its rivals in Gaza, underscoring an existing and deepening rift between various factions and leaderships.
  3167. A Different Kind of Safe Space
    First Published: 2016
    Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship.
  3168. A Different Location in the World: A Reconnaissance of Socialist Feminism in Canada, 1965-1990
    Unpublished paper, 2002
    First Published: 2002
  3169. A Different Sort of Democracy 
    First Published: 1997
    We do not want to suggest that the democracy of ancient Greece was perfect or that it can be easily be copied in the modern world. Greece was burdened by the dual crimes of slavery and the inferior status of women, as were all ancient societies in the Mediterranean basin and in Asia. What distinguished ancient Athens was that, in that society, human beings began to break out to produce new forms of self-government. That they could not solve all the evils of that time should not be surprising.
  3170. A Different Sort of Democracy - Arabic translation
    First Published: 1997
  3171. A Different Sort of Democracy - Japanese translation
    First Published: 1997
  3172. Diggers
    Connexipedia Article
    An English group of agrarian communists in the 17th century.
  3173. The Digital Dark Ages: Movies and Books Get Deleted as Selfies Pile Up
    First Published: 2015
    Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded history of the West for 1000 years. But don't blame the Visigoths or the Vandals. The culprit is the ephemeral nature of digital recording devices. Remember all the stuff you stored on floppy discs, now lost forever? Over the last 25 years, we've seen big 8" floppies replaced by 5.25" medium replaced by little 3.5" floppies, Zip discs and CD-ROMs, external hard drives and now the Cloud -- and let's not forget memory sticks and also-rans like the DAT and Minidisc.
  3174. Digital Disconnect and its adverse impact on how (or whether) we engage with nature
    First Published: 2016
    As the Digital Schoolhouse programme starts a national roll out to schools across the UK, scientists warn that digital disconnect can mean caring less - for each other and the environment.
  3175. Digital Labor and Imperialism
    First Published: 2016
    This article reviews the role of the international division of labour in classical Marxist concepts of imperialism, and extends these ideas to the international division of labour in the production of information and information technology today. Sigital labour, as the newest frontier of capitalist innovation and exploitation, is central to the structures of contemporary imperialism.
  3176. Digital Labour and Imperialism
    First Published: 2016
    A century has now passed since Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) and Bukharin's Imperialism and World Economy (1915), as well as Rosa Luxemburg's 1913 Accumulation of Capital. All spoke of imperialism as a force and tool of capitalism. It was a time of world war, monopolies, antitrust laws, strikes for pay raises, Ford's development of the assembly line, the October Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, the failed German revolution, and much more. It was a time that saw the spread and deepening of global challenges to capitalism.
  3177. Dignity
    First Published: 1978
  3178. Dignity Denied
    Unemployment in Canada
    First Published: 1977
    This pamphlet examines current opinions about the causes and solutions proposed for unemployment which is at its highest recorded level in Canada.
  3179. The Dignity of Chartism
    First Published: 2015
    Dorothy Thompson's writing on Chartism showed early working-class politics as it really was, a real challenge to the ruling class of the time, says John Westmoreland.
  3180. Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits
    Six-part article
    First Published: 2006
    Inside the Financial World, Government Agencies and their Private Contractors Lies a Hidden System of Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking and Rigged Stock Market Riches.
  3181. Dinner with Marx in the House of the Swan
    First Published: 2018
    When Jacques Pauwels enters a bistro in Brussels' Grand-Place, he finds himself under the watchful eye of an illustrious former patron - Karl Marx. As he dines, a great number of stories cross his mind. The historian, author of 'The Great Class War 1914-1918', tells us how this tourist hotspot was once a hotbed of revolutionaries, and how Marx's stay in Brussels played a role in his writings.
  3182. Direct action
    Connexipedia Article
    Politically motivated activity undertaken by individuals, groups, or governments to achieve political goals outside of normal social/political channels.
  3183. Direct Action for Democracy
    First Published: 1999
    Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
  3184. Direct Action Gets Results 
    Taking on the Enemy Directly
    First Published: 2014
    We are conditioned to think of "activism" as getting someone else to do something. We plead with elected officials and bureaucrats, prodding them to take action. But the best and most effective activism is when we take matters into our own hands and solve our problems -- or strike at our enemies -- ourselves.
  3185. Direct Action in Hard Times
    Activist Strategies from Brazil to Wisconsin
    First Published: 2011
    Factory occupations, land occupations, and other tactics.
  3186. Direct democracy
    Connexipedia Article
    A form of democracy wherein sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate.
  3187. A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
    First Published: 2009
    A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
  3188. Directory of Alcoholism Services
    First Published: 1976
    Comprehensive list of all agencies serving Metropolitan Toronto.
  3189. Directory of Libertarian Periodicals
    5th Edition
    First Published: 1989
  3190. Directory of Women and Global Issues
    First Published: 1989
  3191. The dirty d-word
    Diversity has become more than simply a way of describing the expansion of our experiences. It has also become a dogma about how we should live that has become as stultifying as old-fashioned racism - and often as divisive.
  3192. Dirty Fossil Fuel 'Business-As-Usual' Tactics Spew Out Of The International Maritime Organization At COP22
    First Published: 2016
    The shipping industry needs to clean up its CO2 emissions now. The IMO's own Third IMO Greenhouse Gas Study 2014 report stated that by 2050, CO2 emissions from international shipping could grow by between 50 percent and 250 percent, depending on future economic growth and energy developments.
  3193. The Dirty Hand of the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela
    Agents of Destabilization
    First Published: 2014
    Anti-government protests in Venezuela that seek regime change have been led by several individuals and organizations with close ties to the US government. The National Endowment for Democracy “NED” and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have channeled multi-million dollar funding to Lopez’s political parties Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular, and Machado’s NGO Sumate and her electoral campaigns.
  3194. The Dirty Secret of the Korean War
    First Published: 2017
    There is a much darker denial at work in forgetting the specifics of history, and this unwillingness to honestly examine the Korean War is at the root of our ongoing conflict with North Korea.
  3195. Dirty South
    The Foul Legacy of Louisiana Oil
    First Published: 2013
    On the workings and effects of the oil industry in Louisiana, including a particular focus on legacy lawsuits, through which landowners have sued companies for contamination of properties leased to produce oil and gas.
  3196. Disability and History
    First Published: 2010
    Joan Hume became active in disability organisations in the late 1970s and in the burgeoning disability rights movement, edited and wrote for the magazine Quad Wrangle for several years.
  3197. Disability, resistance and revolution
    First Published: 2016
    The number of disabled people has grown from around 10 percent of the world population in the 1970s to 15 percent, 1 billion people, today. The World Health Organisation predicts that this figure will continue to grow as the world's population ages and chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease and stress related illness increase. Severe physical injury in warfare and road traffic accidents as well as industrial injury, malnutrition and insanitary living conditions also remain major causes of serious impairment. Around the world disabled people are among the most marginalised -- suffering poorer health outcomes, lower levels of educational achievement and higher levels of unemployment and poverty than non-disabled people.
  3198. Disability rights movement
    Connexipedia Article
    A movement aims to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.
  3199. Disabled People in UK Lead Fight Against Austerity
    First Published: 2018
    In July 20,2018, John Clarke represented the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) at the International Deaf and Disabled People’s Solidarity Summit, in Stratford, east London that had been convened by one of our key allies in the UK, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). This powerful gathering was an important moment in the building of a resistance by disabled people as part of a broader international struggle against the forces of neoliberal austerity.
  3200. Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy
    First Published: 2019
    It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the "unemployables" have been deliberately shut out of the labour force due to a capitalist economy that so far has dictated their exclusion by measure of economic calculations that favor the business class. It further posits that disabled persons are further oppressed in capitalist societies by having been purposely shifted onto social welfare or segregated into institutions for similar reasons – to keep workers who could not be profitably employed out of the mainstream workforce but also to exert social control over the entire labour supply.
  3201. Disabling Barriers
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Review of a collection on disability rights.
  3202. Disagreeing Reasonably in a Complex World
    A review of The Case Against Free Speech
    First Published: 2019
    Free speech is not a naturally occurring object. It's an idea, a notion, an aspiration, an approach to politics, always involving a theory about what it means to be human in a particular society at a particular time.
  3203. Disagreement is not hatred
    First Published: 2018
    An essay on the transgender debate which argues that debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as 'hatred''.
  3204. The Disappearance of Palestine
    First Published: 2013
    The idea that a financial lifeline – whether Kerry’s plan or Netanyahu’s economic peace – is going to smooth the path to the conflict’s end is an illusion. Peace, and prosperity, will come only when Palestinians are liberated from Israeli control.
  3205. The Disappeared
    First Published: 2020
    On the fifth floor of the tall glass federal building in Portland, Oregon, the immigration court hums in hushed tones, an air of reverence coming from a dozen or so fidgety children and teenagers. They sit in two long pews that line the back of the room, facing the elevated bench of the immigration judge.
  3206. Disappeared on the Border: "Chase and Scatter" -- to Death
    First Published: 2017
    The inhuman tactics used by US Border Patrol Agents against people corssing the border are causing untold numbers of migrants to die in the desert.
  3207. Disarm and Live
    First Published: 1977
    The People's Assembly on Canadian Foreign Policy is "an umbrella group" comprising a number of organizations who support military disarmament in the interests of peace.
  3208. Disaster and Mental Health
    The Palestinian Experience
    First Published: 2005
    The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
  3209. Disaster at Arm's Length
    First Published: 2017
    The Grenfell Tower disaster in London exposes the class violence embedded in London's gentrifying neighbourhoods.
  3210. Disasters in Seria and Yemen
    An Interview with Gilbert Achcar
    First Published: 2016
    Interview with author Gilbert Achcar.
  3211. Disasters You Can Believe In
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    The year 2009 coincidentally marks the 100th anniversary of the United States Marines’ invasion of Nicaragua. They stayed for a quarter century, and after assassinating the country’s resistance leader, Augusto Cesar Sandino, left the place in incomparably worse shape than they found it.
  3212. Disciplined for Acting with Integrity
    First Published: 2019
    The smear campaign against two profs at University of Michigan participating in BDS harks back to McCarthyist attempts to silence the left at that same institution.
  3213. The Disconnect in US Democracy
    First Published: 2004
    Noam Chomsky describes how the American people are excluded from political participation, claiming that action must also come before and after elections and not only once every four years.
  3214. Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congo’s resources
    First Published: 2017
    Last week, a team with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights together with personnel from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) discovered scores of mass graves in Kasai Province, a south central region of the Congo currently wracked by bloody conflict between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Kamuina Nsapu, a local tribal militia.
  3215. The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift
    First Published: 2019
    Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory, and a new generation to rediscover it in our time.
  3216. Discrimination: How Human Rights Laws Protect You
    First Published: 1979
  3217. A Discussion Concerning Nonviolence
    First Published: 1999
    The principle of nonviolence has terrible effects on people: it disarms them morally and politically by encouraging them to become "passive resisters," beseeching some more humane elite forces to come to their aid. It undermines the view of people which I consider to be the most needful both morally and politically to create a democratic movement - that is, for people to see and rely on themselves collectively as the conscious agents of change and the creators of a new society. However much we and other people desire a peaceful transformation of society, at some point there will come a contest of power. To win this contest, we will have to win a substantial part of the military forces to our side, or at least get them to be neutral. To succeed in this we need to build a movement that is so broad and deep that the great majority of people become mobilized as an unstoppable force.
  3218. Discussion of Marx's Theory of Crisis (Part 1)
    First Published: 1972
  3219. Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
    First Published: 1993
    An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
  3220. Disenfranchisement as Political Repression
    First Published: 2010
    In the U.S., if you're caught boosting cars, robbing liquor stores, or attempting to escape reality by injecting heroin into your veins, you not only go to jail, but you lose your right to vote. And you don't just lose it for the time you're incarcerated; it's still gone when you get out.
  3221. 'Disgustingly Biased' - The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
    First Published: 2014
    The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering.
  3222. Disinformation: In the Philippines, political trolling is an industry - this is how it works
    First Published: 2018
    In the Philippines, influential personalities and online 'trolls' are credited with winning Rodrigo Duterte the presidency in 2016. This article examines the chief architects of disinformation who continue to vociferously share 'fake news' and silence dissenters.
  3223. Disinvestment from South Africa
    Connexipedia Article
  3224. Dismantling Democracy
    Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
    First Published: 2015
    An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
  3225. Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists
    Harper government shuts down 'world class' collection on freshwater science and protection
    First Published: 2013
    The Harper government has dismantled one of the world's top aquatic and fishery libraries as part of its agenda to reduce government as well as limit the role of environmental science in policy decision-making.
  3226. The Disneyfied Narrative of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
    First Published: 2016
    Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood still believe in the impartiality of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I have yet to meet either a partial or an impartial Serb that shares their sentiments. Toward the political bazaar in Hague the Serbs feel what has been hurled at them by the institution’s creators since the early 1990s -- disdain, occasional profanity, and boiling resentment. Those are the only self-defense tools available to the tired citizens of a small, impoverished country.
  3227. Disobeying Spain: the Catalan Referendum for Independence
    First Published: 2017
    On October 1, 2017, all across Catalunya ballot boxes were ripped from people's hands by masked police and a dangerous violence was unleashed, at random, upon some of the 2,262,424 people who stood in long lines to cast their vote. The repression dealt by the Spanish State to prohibit the Catalan Referendum, in every bloodied baton and ever rubber bullet, transformed the day from a question of independence to a question of democracy.
  3228. Displaced In The D. R.
    A country strips 210,000 of citizenship
    First Published: 2015
    Even before Juliana Deguis Pierre became famous, or infamous, any Dominican who saw her would have guessed that she was of Haitian descent. Her dark skin, wide nose, and what is, in the Dominican Republic, called pelo malo -- "bad hair" -- immediately identify her as the child of Haitians, even though she was born in the Dominican Republic and has never been to Haiti.
  3229. Dissecting Congo's Modern Holocaust
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    A primary aim of Gerard Prunier’s work is to detangle and lay bare the complexities of interests, alliances and deep-seeded antagonisms that have made the Congo crisis so brutal. He does this well, without simplifying the narrative for easy comprehension.
  3230. Dissidents Looking Beyond Zionism
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    In 1968 — 1968! — a book appeared with the astonishing title Israel Without Zionists. A Plea for Peace in the Middle East. The timing was even more surprising, in Israel’s flush of euphoria in the wake of the 1967 war. This was also the moment when the mainstream American Jewish community and the U.S. intelligentsia in general had just discovered the State of Israel as the great inspiration and center of Jewish redemption — after two decades during which Israel had not been viewed with any such great enthusiasm, as chronicled by historian Peter Novick in The Holocaust In American Life.
  3231. Distorting 'Democracy' in Venezuela Coverage
    First Published: 2019
    Round up of some of the many media outlets that call Guaidó's coup attempt in Venezuela a democratic movement and refer to democratically elected president Maduro as a dictator.
  3232. Distortions at Fourth Hand
    First Published: 1977
    Chomsky addresses the issue of "freedom of the press". He points out that while publications that shun eyewitness accounts of the situation in post-war Vietnam have a daily circulation of approx. 250 000, smaller publications which rely on these firsthand testimonies reach a limited audience. In this fashion, Chomsky warns of the dangers of accepting only what filters through to the American public, as it is "a seriously distorted version of the evidence available".
  3233. Disused oil and gas wells wells a major source of methane
    First Published: 2014
    Long-disused oil and gas wells in the US have been found to be a 'significant' source of the super greenhouse gas methane. The climate impact of oil and gas is underestimated, as this long term impact is not included in existing calculations.
  3234. A Diversion We Don't Need
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    We know from our own experience that none of us wants to have the Diversity Of Tactics argument again. So why does it continue to happen? Because we radicals and anarchists have unintentionally become a Silent Majority, unwilling for whatever reason to prevent these ideologues, who are only a tiny handful of people with loud voices, from controlling the direction of our meetings.
  3235. Diversity of Tactics and Democracy
    First Published: 2002
    To me, a strategy isn't democratic if it intrinsically alienates the majority of oppressed people and shuts the door to their participation. A strategy isn't democratic if it drives away the working class when they have every reason to participate and want to.
  3236. 'Diversity of tactics' as a justification for violent tactics - a debate, part 1
    First Published: 2010
  3237. Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
    First Published: 2018
    Dean Baker provieds a counter argument to a New York Times article titled "65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids" by Glenn Kramon, which directs blame at Social Security and Medicare for the current struggles of the younger generation.
  3238. Dividing the Races to Benefit the Rich
    Prison Populism?
    First Published: 2010
    Race baiting broadcast agitators like Beck and Rush Limbaugh have their audiences believing the factually flawed foolishness that the reason they are falling behind economically is because the federal government is fawning over blacks lavishing them with unearned benefits. The reason for the loss of jobs, homes and dreams of comfortable futures driving white working class (and middle class) ire is not benefits to blacks but naked greed on Wall Street and in the suites of mega-corporations that triggered America's economic collapse.
  3239. Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir
    First Published: 2017
    A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our survival in the centuries to come. His words survive him. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
  3240. Divine wilderness: John Muir's spiritual and political journey
    First Published: 2016
    For John Muir, founder of America's national parks, immersion in nature was a blessing providing direct communion with divinity,and the cause of a spiritual awakening that inspired his life's work: to preserve wilderness and communicate the beauty, wonder and fragility of nature, sharing widely the source of his own enlightenment.
  3241. The Divorce Bill
    First Published: 1842
    In regard to marriage, the legislator can only establish when it is permissible to dissolve it, that is to say, when in its essence it is already dissolved. Juridical dissolution of marriage can only be the registering of its internal dissolution.
  3242. 10 mythes des soins de sante
    Comprendre le debat de l'Assistance Medicale Canadienne
    First Published: 1995
    Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant.
  3243. Django Unchained, or, The Help: How "Cultural Politics" Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why 
    First Published: 2013
    On reflection, it's possible to see that Django Unchained and The Help are basically different versions of the same movie. Both dissolve political economy and social relations into individual quests and interpersonal transactions and thus effectively sanitize, respectively, slavery and Jim Crow by dehistoricizing them. The problem is not so much that each film invents cartoonish fictions; it's that the point of the cartoons is to take the place of the actual relations of exploitation that anchored the regime it depicts.
  3244. Do I Divest? 
    First Published: 2002
    If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
  3245. Do Indian Lives Matter? Police Violence Against Native Americans
    First Published: 2015
    With all our talk about police violence aimed at poor and minority communities, we have yet to talk about the group most likely to be killed by law enforcement: Native Americans.
    Native American men are incarcerated at four times the rate of white men and Native American women are sent to prison at six times the rate of white women.
  3246. "Do Not Resist": The Police Militarization Documentary Everyone Should See
    First Published: 2016
    On a sunny afternoon last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina surrounded by several heavily armed police officers. Inside, they found a terrified family of four, including an infant. As the family members were pulled outside, Atkinson's camera captured a scene that plays out with startling regularity in cities and towns across the country, one of many included in his new documentary, "Do Not Resist," an examination of police militarization in the United States.
  3247. Do the Greeks get it?
    First Published: 2012
    A word has to be said about the somewhat depressing character of the clash between reformism and ultraleftism in Greece. Radical youth might have a natural prejudice against the KKE and PAME because it is so compromised with class-collaborationist coalition building. But instead of trying to figure out a way to win the ranks of the CP to the revolutionary cause, it sees its membership as part of the problem and not part of the solution.
  3248. Do we fetishize indigenous people?
    First Published: 2019
    Although well-intentioned, Western representations of and interactions with Indigenous people can undermine their humanity.
  3249. Do Workers Lose Their Rights?
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    Gertrude Ezorsky's Freedom in the Workplace? is a unique and highly useful book. Unique, because it combines sophisticated philosophical analysis with compelling examples from the lives of low-wage workers and an Appendix on 20th century U.S. labor law — all in a text of 77 easy-to-read pages! — and highly useful, because it refutes a central myth about capitalism.
  3250. Do you know a community that might like a new newspaper?
    First Published: 2017
    At least 171 media organizations in 138 communities closed between 2008 and this January [2017]. However, Canadian communities still should be able to have reliable newspapers. They need to explore creating community-controlled not-for-profit papers.
  3251. Do You Play Video Games or Do They Play You?
    Mass Culture for Profit
    First Published: 2014
    Since the spread of smart mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - the video games industry has learned a lesson in economic Darwinism: develop your mobile business or face extinction. The growth of gaming on the move means a new global division of labour, and the industry is revising its profit margins.
  3252. Do You Socialists Have Any Plans?
    Why we need socialist architects
    First Published: 2017
    Bruce Lerro claims that the only way 21st century socialism is going to get any traction or respect from the working class is if socialists collectively develop blueprints for socialism: five years, ten years, fifty years down the road.
  3253. Dobbin replies to Green Party
    First Published: 2004
    Murray Dobbin replies to the Green party.
  3254. Doctors Under Attack
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    On May 31, 2009, while handing out church bulletins, Dr. George Tiller was shot to death by an anti-abortion activist. The Women’s Health Care Services clinic Dr. Tiller operated in Wichita, Kansas was one of three in the United States that performed late-term abortions. His clinic, his home and the homes of his staff have been picketed for years.
  3255. The doctors who care
    First Published: 1985
    An article about the Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG), a group of progressive doctors who are challenging the medical establishment and who take the position that their profession has a responsibility to be active in all matters which contribute to ill-health, whether or not it is politically popular. MRG members Michael Rachlis, Fran Scott, Debby Copes and Miriam Garfinkle are quoted.
  3256. Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation's Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide
    First Published: 2017
    Documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national effort funded by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to assess and expand right-wing "infrastructure" to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide.
  3257. Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
    First Published: 2006
  3258. Documents of the French Revolution
  3259. Documents Reveal Canada's Secret Hacking Tactics
    First Published: 2015
    Canada's electronic surveillance agency has secretly developed an arsenal of cyberweapons capable of stealing data and destroying adversaries' infrastructure, according to newly revealed classified documents. Communications Security Establishment, or CSE, has also covertly hacked into computers across the world to gather intelligence, breaking into networks in Europe, Mexico, the Middle East and North Africa, the documents show.
  3260. Documents Shine Light on Shadowy New Zealand Surveillance Base
    First Published: 2015
    The documents, revealed Saturday by the Sunday Star-Times in collaboration with The Intercept, show how closely New Zealand has worked with the NSA to maintain surveillance coverage of the region. The files also offer an unprecedented insight into the Waihopai base, exposing how it's been integrated into a global eavesdropping network.
  3261. Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
    Connexipedia Article
    An organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.
  3262. The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
    First Published: 1969
    DRUM was formed in May 1968 during the course of a wildcat strike that protested against an increase in production without an increase in man-power. Most of the plant porkchoppers were off in Atlantic City at a union convention and the plant was shut down by a joint effort of older Polish women from the Trim Shop and young black workers.
  3263. Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
    First Published: 1945   Published:
    There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
  3264. Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
    First Published: 2017
    There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
  3265. Does National Security Trump the Blue Whale?
    Navy Mischief in the Pacific
    First Published: 2014
  3266. Does Revolution Make Sense?
    First Published: 1998
    Fighting for revolution allows and demands that we abandon petty concerns and narrow issues and think big. Revolution forces us to try to understand the whole world and to imagine a new one. As we explore the inter-relatedness of the problems which we face, we can begin to understand all the many human interconnections which will provide the solution. A truly revolutionary movement will touch people's deepest desires and encompass their highest dreams.
  3267. Does the Bitcoin frenzy make any sense at all?
    First Published: 2018
    The author explains how the strange story of a "crypto-currency" reveals the underlying irrationality of a system that is designed to work for the rich only.
  3268. Does the United States Still Exist?
    First Published: 2016
    To answer the question that is the title, we have to know of what the US consists. Is it an ethnic group, a collection of buildings and resources, a land mass with boundaries, or is it the Constitution? Clearly what differentiates the US from other countries is the US Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.
  3269. Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists
    First Published: 2003
    Are the killings of journalists by the U.S. merely accidents, or are they deliberate?
  3270. Doing Time for Peace
    Moral Lights
    First Published: 2012
    Hundreds of Americans, young and old, are regularly going to prison, sometimes for months or years or decades, for nonviolently resisting U.S. militarism.
  3271. Dolgoff, Sam
    Connexipedia Article
    American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. (1902-1990).
  3272. Dolgoff, Sam
    Connexipedia article - Japanese text
  3273. The 'Dollar' Crisis, and Us 
    First Published: 2004
    A capitalist crisis like the current one resembles a poker game where the table is swept clean and all cards and chips must be redistributed for the game to continue at all. This could happen as an 'orderly bankruptcy proceeding' but it will most likely happen (as it has always happened in the past) chaotically, through economic blowout, class confrontation, and war.
  3274. Dollarization, Democracy & Daily Life in Zimbabwe
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    Satellite TV is big in Zimbabwe; owing to the limited and propagandistic programming on state-sponsored Z-TV, and the travails of night travel on a decaying road network, just about every house in Harare, from the poor/working class Mbare township to the luxury suburb of Burrowdale, sports a dish that brings South African soapies, Al Jazeera and, most importantly, the latest in reality TV to living rooms across the land.
  3275. Domestic Constituencies
    First Published: 1998
    Chomsky, assuming the principle that governments are bound to act according to the will of their "domestic constituencies", considers the degree to which this is done as a measure of the health of democracy. In turn, he calls for the public to discover what is being planned for them.
  3276. #DomesticExtremist trend mocks UK police surveillance of protesters
    First Published: 2015
    Non-conformists across the UK are taking to social media to declare themselves #DomesticExtremists in a bid to raise awareness about secretive police powers.
  3277. Domestic Terrorism
    Notes on the State System of Oppression
    First Published: 1999
    Starting with the curious events in Detroit 1971 associated with the Socialist Worker's party, Chomsky investigates FBI disruption programs, their consequences and meaning. He defines this systematic contamination as a sort of domestic terrorism.
  3278. Domestic violence was an issue with no name
    First Published: 2019
    In the 1960s and ’70s, domestic violence was an issue with no name.

    Countless women endured violence in their own homes, but it was not acknowledged as an issue in the public realm. It was a shameful secret, quietly accepted as a part of life for women. When a woman was abused, there was nowhere to go. A woman’s place was in the home, even if home could kill her. Against this grim backdrop, different groups of women across the country worked to open Canada’s first women’s shelters.
  3279. The Domestic War on Protesters
    It's Not Just Egypt
    First Published: 2011
    While the US claims to uphold right to demonstrate around the world, there have been countless examples throughout the history of this country of protests being shut down by an overwhelming police presence. In recent years, it has become routine for police departments to use a host of tactics to limit and prevent mass demonstrations. These tactics have included mass arrests of demonstrators, preemptive arrests and trumped up charges against protest organizers.
  3280. Domestic Work and Rights in China
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    When China adopted the “open door” policy in 1978, south China, especially the Pearl River Delta area, was the first industrial area created to attract foreign investment, particularly from Hong Kong. In the late 1990s, China accelerated this policy, opening consumer markets to foreign investment. Since 1999, the average annual gross domestic product grew 10%, far ahead of other developing countries.
  3281. The Domestic Workers' Movement
    Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built A Movement
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Premilla Nadasen's Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built A Movement.
  3282. Dominance and its Dilemmas
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky responds to the Bush Administration's announcement of the new National Security Strategy that asserts power through force. He discusses the accompanying implications of the strategy and warns against using violence as a means of control.
  3283. Dominican Republic to be 'Socially Cleaned' in two days
    First Published: 2015
    In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism. At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans. According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with Haiti for several generations.
  3284. The Dominion and The Intellectuals
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by an anonymous interviewer
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky says "one of the reasons why I am considered "public enemy number one" among a large sector of intellectuals in the U.S. is that I mention that the U.S. is one of the major terrorist states in the world and this assertion, though plainly true, is unacceptable for many intellectuals."
  3285. Don Draper Rules: Russian Ads and American Madness
    First Published: 2017
    So we've finally seen some of the social media ads which we are told skewed the entire election in 2016 and constituted a key part of the internet assault on America launched by Vladimir Putin's "troll army." Scary stuff blazoned across front pages and screen scrolls everywhere. But before going on, perhaps we should find out what makes a social media account part of Putin's invasion force?
    Well, according to Twitter, it is ANY account created in Russia.
  3286. Don Mount (Napier Place)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Located just east of the Don River in Riverdale, the area bordered by Queen, Broadview and Dundas Street as well as the Don Valley Parkway.
  3287. Don River Day points out pollution, abuse of river
    First Published: 1981
    Dumping contaminants into the Don River is supposedly no longer allowed, but it continues and the effects are serious.
  3288. Don Vale ("Old Cabbagetown")
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Don Vale, or "Old Cabbagetown" as it now usually called, is a small neighbourhood on the west bank of the Don Valley. Roughly bordered by Parliament and Gerrard Streets as well as St. James Cemetery, the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, and Riverdale Park.
  3289. Don Valley Parkway & Gardiner Expressway
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The first chair of the Metropolitan Toronto council, established in 1953, was Frederick Gardiner, who quickly drew up plans for a system of expressway and parkway arterials that expanded outward from the city centre. Gardiner's plan, which was considered progressive and reasonable at the time, included five total arterials including the Gardiner Expressway, the Don Valley Parkway and the Spadina Expressway.
  3290. Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
    First Published: 2016
    Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
  3291. Don't weep for censoring, right-wing Postmedia newspapers
    First Published: 2016
    Another 90 dedicated journalists in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa lost their jobs Tuesday as cutthroat Publisher Paul Godfrey slashed away again in an effort to turn Postmedia into a profit-making business. In a bizarre move, two competing papers will continue to be separate entities, but there will be one set of editors and most journalists will be shared.
  3292. Donald Trump and the Vicious Culture of Neoliberal Mass Idiocy
    First Published: 2016
    The U.S. media and educational elites share responsibility for creating a world where a despicable idiot like Trump coud be president.
  3293. Donald Trump and the death of the two-state solution
    The demise of the two-state has been evident for some time.
    First Published: 2017
    At his meeting with the US President Donald Trump at the White House on February 15, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored what in his eyes must be a spectacular diplomatic success: he got the new president to reverse the US' long-standing support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to give him a free hand to do more or less whatever he likes with the West Bank.
  3294. Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life -- And He Isn't Going to Change After Charlottesville
    First Published: 2017
    Consider the first time the president's name appeared on the front page of the New York Times was an article which pointed out that the Department of Justice had sued the Trump family's real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act because of anti-black bias. Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot.
  3295. Donghak Peasant Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    Was an anti-government, anti-yangban and anti-foreign uprising in 1894.
  3296. Donia, Pier Gerlofs
    Connexipedia Article
    Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel. (1480-1520).
  3297. Don't be a Time Bandit
    First Published: 2005
    Don't waste journalists' time.
  3298. Don't be fooled: 'media watchdogs' are Israeli propaganda tools
    First Published: 2015
    Consider yourself very lucky if you have never heard of "UK Media Watch" (formerly called "Comment is Free Watch" – CiF Watch), "BBC Watch", "HonestReporting" and "Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America" (CAMERA).
  3299. Don't Believe the Hype: Paying for Medicare for All Is Simple
    First Published: 2019
    Debunking recent arguments that Medicare for All will require reducing spending in other areas.
  3300. Don't Blame Mandela for Our Failure
    Believing the Champions of Neoliberalism
    First Published: 2013
    South Africa believed the promises made by the champions of neoliberalism, and found itself ensnared in its web with no way out by the beginning of the next millennium.
  3301. Don't Blame the Media for the Charleston Murders
    First Published: 2015
    Featherstone argues that blaming the media for the Charleston Murders is an easy way to avoid doing any real thinking.
  3302. Don't build Jew-only towns on the rubble of Bedouin villages
    First Published: 2016
    Israel's government is now free to expel 1,200 of its Bedouin citizens from their 'unrecognised' villages in the Negev desert, following a Supreme Court decision not to hear their appeal. Now only one thing can save the Bedouin, their communities and their way of life: an international outcry.
  3303. Don't buy these grapes
    First Published: 1990
  3304. Don't Call the Cops If You're Autistic, Deaf, Mentally Ill, Disabled or Old
    First Published: 2017
    When people entering the police service are trained to be military warriors instead of peace officers, tense situations involving some of our society's more vulnerable people will more likely end violently.
  3305. Don't Fall for the Chemical Weapons Convention Justification
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the interventionalist arguments in support of Western air and missile attacks in Syria, and the false claim that the attack was justified under international law because it was a response to the use of banned chemical weapons.
  3306. Don't Forget to Write
    First Published: 1997
    Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
  3307. Don't Incite Censorship
    First Published: 2007
    Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
  3308. Don't neglect your presentation skills
    First Published: 1999
    Do not wait until you are about to present. It's not worth the stress, or to risk looking like a fool. Take time to prepare.
  3309. Don't play that game: Ending telephone tag
    First Published: 1998
    The multitude of communications technologies have actually made it more difficult to get in touch.
  3310. Don't tell me that working-class people can’t be articulate
    First Published: 2017
    When writing dialogue, the idea that a drug dealer must be portrayed as verbally hesitant is daft -- language is not a tool issued by the nobility.
  3311. Don't Waste Any Time In Mourning
    First Published: 2015
    In the many accolades Pete Seeger received in the days, weeks, and months after his death, there was often something missing -- as absent in tributes from admirers who share his revolutionary politics as in those aiming to reclaim him for respectability.
  3312. Donziger: a Tale for Our Times
    First Published: 2022
    This case shows how we are all, in a sense, the prisoners of corporations which dictate the terms on which we live, work and share knowledge.
  3313. Doom and Gloom 
    First Published: 2009
    Jermey Brecher says that the social roots of doom are part of a common pattern that we can observe repeatedly in history. People live their lives and pursue their goals by means of strategies that have been developed over time. But sometimes they discover their established strategies aren't working. No matter how hard they try, their problems remain intractable. The natural result is despair. But the awareness that other people are experiencing the same despair changes the context in which it is experienced. It opens up new possibilities. Perhaps the problems that we despair of solving as individuals can be addressed through some kind of collective action. When people begin to explore that possibility, the result may be a social movement.
  3314. The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter 
    First Published: 2018
    The portion of an interview with Daniel Ellsberg, an American activist and former United States military analyst, who comments on thermonuclear war and its outcome.
  3315. Door knocking guide
    Tips for effectively carrying out door-knocking visits and talking to people in your local area.
    First Published: 2006
    In community politics, door knocking plays an essential role. From just getting to know your neighbours better, to carrying out a local survey or trying to sign people up to a local campaign or petition talking to people at home is a valuable exercise, due to its face-to-face nature. However, it can be a daunting task, so we put together a set of tips to help you on your way, with pre-planning and then how to act on people’s doorsteps.
  3316. Door opened to U.S. wheat
    First Published: 1992
  3317. Dorothy Day Refuses To Duck-And-Cover
    First Published: 2016
    On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. These drills were to prepare the citizenry in the event of a nuclear attack, and involved evacuations of city centers, taking shelter in subway tunnels, and, for schoolchildren, "duck-and-cover" to hide under their school desks. Such actions would be futile if a nuclear attack were underway, but the drills were part of a government propaganda program to convince Americans that nuclear weapons were a necessary part of the US arsenal, and that it would be possible to survive a nuclear war.
  3318. Thomas Wilson Dorr
    Wikipedia article
    Thomas Wilson Dorr (1805 – 1854), was an American politician and reformer in Rhode Island, best known for leading the Dorr Rebellion.
  3319. Dossier Homme Seul Itinerant
    First Published: 1974
    Theoretical base for organising and educative effort with single itinerant men in Montreal.
  3320. Dossier No. 2 on the Homeless Single Men of the Lower Downtown
    First Published: 1976
    Report on an organizing effort by two social workers with single homeless men in Montreal.
  3321. Dossier No.2 Sur les Sans-Foyer ou Hommes Seule du pas de la Ville
    First Published: 1976
    Suite a l'interet formule pour le dossier Homme Seul Itinerant.
  3322. Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses 
    First Published: 2009
    Whether you're a climate change denier or doomsayer, an avid recycler or rabid consumer of plastic bottles, there is one very good but little-known reason to oppose carbon offsets: their immediate and dire human costs.
  3323. Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?
    First Published: 2017
    Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
  3324. The Double Tragedy of Che Cuevara
    First Published: 1967
    To prepare themselves for the uphill struggle on two fronts it becomes necessary to also have a clear head, that is to say, a revolutionary theory, fully integrated with the self-activity of the masses. It is for this reason that we must not blind ourselves to the double tragedy of Guevara's death. Bravely he lived and bravely he died, but he did not do in Bolivia what he had done in Cuba: relate himself to the masses. Guevara's isolation from the mass movement arose from a certain concept of guerrilla warfare as a substitute for social revolution.
  3325. Doublespeak award for Wilson, Tory cabinet
    First Published: 1989
  3326. Doublethink Squared
    First Published: 2015
    The U.S. continues to ally with several conflicting parties in the Middle East.
  3327. Doubling Down in Atlantic City
    First Published: 2016
    The casino workers' strike at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino is a defining battle for American labor.
  3328. Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way 
    First Published: 2019
    The two most important narratives imposed on us are climate change as a "threat to national security" and as a "business opportunity" - the twin rationales for military and corporate power. They want to focus us on how to manage the crisis, profit from it, or adapt to it, instead of opposing it.
  3329. Doubts about 'Novichoks'
    First Published: 2018
    Briefing notes developed from ongoing research and investigation into the use of chemical and biological weapons during the 2011-present war in Syria conducted by members of the "Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda".
  3330. Douglas, Tommy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian social democratic politician, CCF premier of Saskatchean and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1904-1986).
  3331. Douglass, Frederick
    Connexipedia Article
    American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. (1818-1895).
  3332. Doukhobors
    Connexipedia Article
    A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada.
  3333. Doukhobors
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada.
  3334. Down on the Seed: The World Bank Enables Corporate Takeover of Seeds
    First Published: 2017
    Exposing how the World Bank's policies ignores and undermines farmer-managed seed systems and enables profiteering by agrochemical companies.
  3335. Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA's Efforts to Overthrow Syria's Government
    First Published: 2015
    FAIR has noted before how America's well-documented clandestine activities in Syria have been routinely ignored when the corporate media discuss the Obama administration's "hands-off" approach to the four-and-a-half-year-long conflict.
  3336. Down Where Apartheid Lives
    Where are the Condemnations of Australia?
    First Published: 2013
    John Pilger documentary Australia - “discover what lies behind the sunny face” . Aboriginal people comprise barely three per cent of the Australian population. Unlike the US, Canada and New Zealand, which have made treaties with their first people, Australia has offered gestures often wrapped in the law.
  3337. Down With Tory Crackdown on Prostitution!
    First Published: 2014
    The Tories, who have slashed billions from social programs and caused immeasurable harm to poor and working-class women, have fraudulently promoted Bill C-36 as a way of protecting victims of "exploitation." In this they are backed by an unholy alliance of right-wing outfits like REAL Women of Canada and the feminist groups that make up the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution.
  3338. Down With U.S. Imperialism's Anti-China Trade Pact!
    First Published: 2015
    If it is ratified, the TPP will be the largest trade agreement in history, encompassing at least 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and one-third of all global trade. Japan and the more minor imperialist countries Canada and Australia have been cut in on the deal -- and competing European powers cut out -- but it is the U.S. rulers who hold the whip hand. Under the banner of "free trade," the TPP aims to drive up the exploitation of labour across the board while increasing imperialist domination of dependent countries. Above all, this agreement targets China, escalating the U.S. bourgeoisie's drive to promote capitalist counterrevolution there through economic pressure and military encirclement.
  3339. Downtown
    The People Speak Out!
    First Published: 1977
    This report contains summaries of briefs presented in May of 1976 concerning the future of Montreal.
  3340. Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
    Brief to the NDP Task Force on Older Women in British Columbia
    First Published: 1980
    This brief describing the Downtown Eastside Women's Center points to the fact that women who live in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver face a harsh life in this predominantly male environment.
  3341. Downtown Health and Social Development Centre, Inc. And Emergency Shleter
    First Published: 1977
    This is a collection of newspaper clippings and reports decribing the efforts of two Thunder Bay Emergency Services.
  3342. Downward spiral continues for Honduran media
    First Published: 2015
    The first two months of 2015 have very disturbing for journalists in Honduras. Five years after a 2009 coup détat, it is still one of the western hemisphere’s most dangerous countries for media personnel and respect for freedom of information continues to decline.
  3343. Dowson, Ross
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian Trotskyist. (1917-2002).
  3344. Dózsa, György
    Connexipedia Article
    Leader of a peasants' revolt against the Hungarian landed nobility. (1470-1514).
  3345. Dr. Mike Carr passes at 73
    First Published: 2015
    Dr. Mike Carr, community activist, academic and teacher, passed away amongst his Cuban family in Havana Cuba.
  3346. Dr. Snider's Report
    First Published: 1973
    Issues facing senior citizens in Alberta.
  3347. Draft dodger
    Connexipedia Article
    Term that refers to a person who avoids the conscription policies of the nation in which he or she is a citizen or resident by leaving the country, going into hiding, or other attempts at fraudulent means.
  3348. Drain the Swamp and There Will Be No More Mosquitoes
    First Published: 2002
    Chomsky parallels the pursuit of American interests through intervention in foreign regions to the creation of swamps, and respectively, terrorists to mosquitoes.
  3349. Draper, Hal
    Connexipedia Article
    American socialist activist, Marxist and author of a number of key works about Marxism. (1914-1990).
  3350. Hal Draper, Introduction to
    Connexipedia Article
    Link to brief biography of Hal Draper, an American socialist activist, Marxist and author, and participant in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement. (1914-1990).
  3351. Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor
    First Published: 2016
    From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speech.
  3352. Drawing a line in the tar sands 
    A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
    First Published: 2014
    The fight over the tar sands is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time. The very active tar sands struggle is no less than a life-and-death battle for the future of the planet. It is a battle that pits these peoples' movement against the largest and most destructive industrial project -- a project driven by the big the most profitable and powerful transnational energy corporations.
  3353. Drawing from Action
    First Published: 1981
  3354. The Dreadful Chronology of Gaddafi's Murder
    First Published: 2016
    Since 2003, Gaddafi had worked hard to repair his reputation for financing terrorism; his proposal for a trans-African banking system never reached fruition. Freedom and justice were never part of the West's agenda.
  3355. The Dreadful Legacy of UN Resolution 181
    Sixty Years Later Global Support for a Palestine Grows
    First Published: 2013
    Approximately three quarters of a million Palestinians are refugees, offspring of the families who were forced into Syria and Lebanon when Zionist terrorists depopulated and destroyed Palestinian villages.
  3356. DREAM Deferred, Fight Continues
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
  3357. A Dream That is Not for the Drowsy: A Working Theology for Presence and Future-Building
    In the Metro Core Across our Country
    First Published: 1980
    This book develops some elements of a "working theology" that reflects on the nature of both the social and economic realities as well as local efforts at survival and mission in the metropolitan core context.
  3358. Dressing for TV
    First Published: 1997
    What to wear when you're going to be interviewed on TV.
  3359. Dressing for TV
    Advice for what to wear when you are going to be interviewed on television.
  3360. The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case
    First Published: 1899
    For in the Dreyfus case four social factors make themselves felt which give it the stamp of a question directly related to the class struggle. They are: militarism, chauvinism-nationalism, anti-Semitism, and clericalism. In our written and spoken agitation we always combat these direct enemies of the socialist proletariat by virtue of our general tendencies. It would thus be totally incomprehensible to not enter into a struggle with these enemies exactly when it is a question of unmasking them, not as abstract clichés, but through the use of living current events.
  3361. Drinking Poblems
    A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the health crisis in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, where Nitrate from farms has polluted the water supply for three decades. Elizabeth Royte takes a look at the town's history and social climate in order to understand why the problem was left for so long.
  3362. Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions
    First Published: 2017
    The driverless personal car is quickly emerging without a legal, ethical and priorities framework, when priorities should be placed on safer, more efficient and less polluting means of transport.
  3363. Droits et Libertés
    First Published: 1984
    Les libertés civiles et les droits de l'homme font partis clés dans presque chaque autre aspect de la justice et des changements sociaux.
  3364. The Drone Papers
    First Published: 2015
    The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military's assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama's drone wars.
  3365. A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
    First Published: 2016
    Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
  3366. The Drone Revolution Comes to England
    First Published: 2001
    As cities and towns are faced with rising poverty, homelessness and drug addiction, the authorities respond with more social control, using a technology that makes George Orwell’s 1984 seem tame.
  3367. Drone Strikes and the Sanitization of Violence
    First Published: 2015
    Van Dongen discusses the terminology that the drone campaign employs, in which the CIA and the Obama administration gloss over death and destruction of drones in Pakistan, Afganistan and Yemen.
  3368. Drone Strikes? What's To Feel Bad About?
    Really Sorry We Burned the Korans
    First Published: 2012
  3369. Drowning in a Sea of Lies
    Introduction to the March 3, 2024 edition of Other Voices
    First Published: 2024
    Lies are the lifeblood of the world we live in. The American-dominated international order is rooted in violence and exploitation, but lies are its language, its public face, and its spiritual essence.
  3370. Drowning in Noise: Noise Costs of jet skis in America
    A Report for the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
    First Published: 2000
    An analysis of the value of the lost enjoyment that jet ski noise introduces into beach environments.
  3371. Drowning in the waste of Israeli settlers
    First Published: 2017
    Several decades ago, the al-Matwa spring in Salfit city would often be crowded with Palestinians hiking in the valley and families picnicking alongside the clear, flowing stream. Now, however, the sewage flowing through the spring, the rancid smell that engulfs the valley, and the mosquitoes swarming the area have left the valley largely deserted.
  3372. The Drug Companies' Expansion Into Emerging Markets
    Profit, Drugs, and International Markets
    First Published: 2013
    Faced with declining prescription drug sales in the U.S., and having lost patent protection for many profitable drugs, the drug industry is relying increasingly in new markets such as China and other fast developing countries, such as those in Africa. That expansion, however, is oftentimes tainted by unsavory commercial practices.
  3373. The Drug Store in American Meat
    We're Eating What?
    First Published: 2012
    Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989.
  3374. Drug testing case
    First Published: 1992
  3375. Drug use, the labour market and class conflict
    A social history and analysis of drug use and its relationship with class struggle.
  3376. Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year
    Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn't Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs
    First Published: 2012
    The stubborn resistance against entertaining any other options beyond a fundamentalist adherence to prohibition for dealing with drug use in the United States is cloaked in an arrogant denial of the human costs of the drug war and the possibility that ending it would lead to less, not more, death. The US, by some estimates now spends about $40 billion a year at home and abroad waging its war on drugs and has imprisoned currently up to 400,000 people on drug-related charges — the vast majority of them nonviolent offenders.
  3377. Drug War Winners and Losers
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
  3378. Drug War Winners and Losers
    Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)
    First Published: 2015
    State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
  3379. Drugs, Race & the Gulag Industry
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    Across the country corrections department officials and captains of the incarceration industry are in crisis. Though the nation’s over bloated prison system is far from breaking, the halcyon days of proliferating maximum security units and juvenile detention centers appear nearly at an end. Prisons are bursting at the seams and states, reaping the backlash of years of neoliberal tax cuts, have no money to “fix” the problem with another round of construction.
  3380. Drugs Won't Cure Common Colds and Flu
    First Published: 1976
    A booklet (French or English) that simply and graphically describes what are, and how one contracts, common colds and influenza.
  3381. Du Bois, W. E. B.
    Connexipedia Article
    American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).
  3382. Dual power
    Connexipedia Article
    A concept first articulated in an article by Lenin, "The Dual Power," (dvoevlastie) which described a situation in the wake of the February Revolution in which two powers, the workers councils (or Soviets, particularly the Petrograd Soviet) and the official state apparatus of the Provisional Government coexisted with each other and competed for legitimacy.
  3383. Dual power at work
    When the workers make changes to their work environment without seeking management approval
    First Published: 2006
    Rather than wait for the boss to give in to our demands and institute long-sought change, workers often have the power to institute those changes on our own, without the boss's say-so.
  3384. Dual Power or Populist Theater? Mexico's Two Governments
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    The Mexican Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés Manuel López Obrador to be the “legitimate president of Mexico.”He is now creating an alternative government, and says he will call a constituent assembly that will write a new constitution. What is happening here? Is this a radical fight for reforms? A potentially revolutionary movement? Or a spectacular piece of populist theater?
  3385. Dubai Labor Fighting Back Vs. Indentured Globalization
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    October, 2007 saw the government of the United Arab Emirates halfway through a "humane" immigration amnesty which, in turn, paved the way for a clampdown on labour. In November a huge strike wave erupted, culminating in pitched battles between militant laborers and Dubai police.
  3386. Dublin Lockout
    Connexipedia Article
    a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers which took place in Ireland's capital city of Dublin from 26 August 1913 to 18 January 1914.
  3387. Duckworth, Muriel
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
  3388. Duckworth, Muriel
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
  3389. Duckworth, Muriel
    Connexipedia
  3390. Dumbass Democrats
    First Published: 2016
    The Democrats were oblivious to the deep discontent among the American people because that simply does not figure into their clever and cunning calculations. Why should it? Fear, lesser of two evils, scapegoating, palace politics -- all these things worked in the past, didn't they?
  3391. Dumont, Gabriel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
  3392. Dumont, Gabriel
    Connexipedia Article
    Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
  3393. Dump the Guardian!
    First Published: 2017
    The Guardian has spent the last two years relentlessly attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Only recently has it changed its tune, perhaps worried that it has alienated too many readers. Corbyn's success has been despite the Guardian and the rest of the corporate media. The Guardian will now want readers to forget its propaganda war on Corbyn. We've compiled this list so they don't. Dump the Guardian!
  3394. Dunayevskaya, Raya
    Connexipedia Article
    Founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism. (1910-1987).
  3395. Dunayevskaya, Raya - Writings - Index
    Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987).
  3396. Dung beetles 'reduce human pathogens risk'
    First Published: 2019
    Farmers remove habitats that encourage natural wildlife for food-safety reasons, however, these habitats encourage biodiversity which could reduce the risk of pathogens in food.
  3397. Dunlop Factory (South Africa): The workers who won't snitch 
    First Published: 2018
    Metalworker union Numsa files legal arguments in the Constitutional Court on on behalf of Dunlop factory workers from Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, after workers were dismissed because they did not snitch on fellow workers during a protected strike.
  3398. Duplessis Orphans
    Connexipedia article
    The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were the victims of a scheme in which approximately 20,000 orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the province of Quebec, Canada, and confined to psychiatric institutions.
  3399. DuPont May Dodge Toxic Lawsuits By Pulling a Disappearing Act
    First Published: 2016
    First DuPont spun off much of its environmental liability into a new company known as Chemours. Now the company plans to merge with Dow.
  3400. Dürr, Hans-Peter
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Physicist and peace activist. (Born 1929).
  3401. Düstere Aussichten
    First Published: 2009
    Ist es schon zu spät? Wir wissen, dass bereits vieles verloren ist. Aber wir können nicht wissen, ob bereits alles verloren ist. Man kann im voraus nicht wissen, was eine gemeinsame Aktion alles bewirken kann. Wir befinden uns in der Lage von Eltern, die bereits ein Kind verloren haben, und die sich jetzt überlegen müssen, ob sie für ihre anderen Kinder kämpfen wollen, die in Gefahr aber noch am Leben sind.
  3402. Dutch resistance
    Connexipedia Article
    Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II.
  3403. Dutschke, Rudi
    Connexipedia Article
    Prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s. (1940-1979).
  3404. A Duty of Honour
    Against Capital Punishment
    First Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.
  3405. A Dweller in Peace
    The Life and Times of Daniel Berrigan
    First Published: 2016
    Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. nuclear weapons industry, died at age 94.
  3406. Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
    First Published: 2009
    Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
  3407. The Dying Days of Liberalism
    How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project
    First Published: 2017
    It's not a small thing that has fallen here, not merely the defeat of Hillary Clinton and Americans rejecting Obama’s "legacy". We are dealing with a series of institutions, an expert class, and a network of political and corporate alliances, that is being shaken beyond repair. We are in the earliest days of a historical transition, so it's not clear what is coming next, and the labels that have been proliferating demonstrate confusion and uncertainty -- populism, nativism, nationalism, etc.
  3408. Dying for environmental democracy
    First Published: 2021
    This article is about Peruvian indigenous environmental defenders in Latin America, a region described as one of the world's deadliest areas for enviromental human rights defenders. Tran focuses on the indigenous Ashanika defenders and their plight in fighting for environmental justice.
  3409. Dying of Thirst in Gaza
    In Gaza, Even the Water is Occupied Territory
    First Published: 2020
    In 2012, the United Nations issued a report entitled Gaza 2020: A livable place?, with a question mark. If the report took off the question mark, it would’ve answered its own question in the title. No, it's not.
  3410. Dylan and Woody: Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Daniel Wolff's 'Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913.'
  3411. E=MC2 Disaster?/Citizens Bill of Rights and Consumer's Guide to Nuclear Power
    First Published: 1978
  3412. Ear Hustle: Prison podcast tells of life in San Quentin
    First Published: 2017
    Recorded in the historic San Quentin State Prison, the new Ear Hustle podcast paints a human image of life in lockup.
  3413. Early U.S. Communism Revisited
    The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Jacob A. Zumoff's The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929.
  3414. Earning a Profit from Global Warming
    First Published: 2015
    As evidence mounts that a warming world is hurtling toward the point of no return, the plan of the world's governments is to make adjustments to the ability of corporations to profit from polluting. Short-term profits continue to be elevated above the long-term health of the environment.
  3415. Earth Day 1990
    First Published: 1989
  3416. The Earth Grabbers
    Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex
    First Published: 2011
    Climate justice means that the Minerals-Energy Complex will have to take the same course as apartheid.
  3417. The Earth vs. Monsanto
    A Peoples' Tribunal
    First Published: 2014
    Here are a few brief notes about A People’s Hearing, held on 10 May 2014, in Greene County, Ohio, The Indivisible Living Entity of the Planet Earth v. Monsanto Corporation, Defendant.
  3418. Earthcare Newsletter One
    First Published: 1978
  3419. Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
    First Published: 2009
    The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
  3420. The East End Community Centre
    Working class socialism on a small scale
    First Published: 1983
    The politics of the East End was manifested in two ways. This particular story focuses on the building of a community club. This story merits telling both because it is indicative of the capacity working class people have to build institutions which enhance life in their neighbourhoods, and because the community club, at least in the form it finally took in the East End and other working class areas in Brandon, has many of the characteristics of a socialist institution.
  3421. The East India Company - Its History and Results
    First Published: 1853
    Thus the British Government has been fighting, under the Company's name, for two centuries, till at last the natural limits of India were reached. We understand now, why during ail this time all parties in England have connived in silence, even those which had resolved to become the loudest with their hypocritical peace-cant, after the arrondissement of the one Indian Empire should have been completed. Firstly, of course, they had to get it, in order to subject it afterward to their sharp philanthropy.
  3422. East St. Louis As Detroit's Mirror
    First Published: 2013
    East St. Louis, Illinois, in many ways a smaller Detroit.
  3423. East Timor
    Comments On the Occasion of the Forthcoming APEC Summit
    First Published: 1999
    In light of the atrocities of the situation in East Timor and the pending APEC conference, Chomsky calls attention to the need to address the issue and to use the conference as an immediate opportunity to do so.
  3424. East Timor and Indonesia's Political Explosion
    Against The Current vol. 83
    First Published: 1999
    As we go to press at the end of October, the 700-member Peoples Consultative Assembly (MPR, the national parliament) meeting in Jakarta reached some historic decisions.
    In a seventy-two-hour period (October 19-21), the assembly rejected an "accountability" speech by President Habibie (who immediately withdrew his name for president); formally endorsed the August 30 referendum in East Timor, thus relinquishing its national claim to the territory; elected Muslim leader and supporter of reform Abdurrahman Wahid (popularly known as "Gus Dur") as the country's new president; and elected popular leader of the poor and students Megawati Sukarnoputri as the new vice-president.
  3425. East Timor Questions & Answers
    First Published: 1999
    In Q&A format, Noam Chomsky discusses some of the major issues surrounding the critical situation in East Timor.
  3426. East Timor Restrospective
    First Published: 1999
    Noam Chomsky describes the developments of the East Timor crisis and how the international community could have put an end to it much earlier.
  3427. East York Workers' Association
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2017
    The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.
  3428. Easter Rising
    Connexipedia Article
    An insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916.
  3429. The Easter Rising, My Grandfather and the Untold Story of Sir Roger Casement
    First Published: 2016
    The 100th anniversary of the Easter uprising of 1916 saw the beginnings of a deeper appreciation of the achievements of Sir Roger Casement who was hanged as a traitor in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916. Over the following century he has never lacked for notoriety, famous as an Irish patriotic martyr, but discussion of his life has frequently focused on his sexuality and revolved around the "Black Diaries" that were covertly used by the British government to blacken Casement's name and sabotage the campaign against his execution.
  3430. Eastern Exposure
    Misrepresenting the Peace Process
    First Published: 1996
    Noam Chomsky examines and praises Norman Finkelstein's study of the difference between the image and reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
  3431. Eat Pray Love Strike
    The Law of the Bargaining Table
    First Published: 2010
    We admire underdogs, yet we do not rejoice when underdogs go on strike against corporate fat cats. We admire hard-workers, yet we do not embrace those who are, arguably, the hardest-workers among us - the stoop laborers who pick our lettuce and strawberries.
  3432. Eating your ethics: Halal meat
    First Published: 2014
    Halal ritual slaughter has raised huge controversy in the UK press. But the far greater issue is farm animals' entire quality of life - as reflected in the Qu'ranic principle that meat must be 'tayyib' - good, wholesome and from well-treated, healthy animals. Is this something we can all agree on?
  3433. Eavesdropping on the Planet
    The Inalienable Right to Snoop?
    First Published: 2013
    Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex … satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links … voice, text, images … captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth, then processed by high-powered computers … if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there, with high high tech. Twenty-four hours a day. Perhaps billions of messages sucked up each day. No one escapes. Not presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, embassies, transnational corporation CEOs, friend, foe, your Aunt Lena …
  3434. Echo Platoon 
    First Published: 2009
    Echo and other platoons like it are grim yardsticks for measuring the desperation in which a military under immense strain is now operating. Looking up at that military from Echo's airless limbo, from a world of soldiers who have fallen through the cracks of a system under great stress, you can see just how devastating America's two ongoing wars have been for the military itself. The walking wounded, the troubled, and the broken are now being pressured to reenter the fray.
  3435. Echoes From the Past: Creating the Underclass
    First Published: 2016
    Kenan Malik explores the late twentieth century 'underclass' debate, and what it tells us about the changing character of the perceptions of race and class.
  3436. Echoes From the Past: the Racial View of Class
    First Published: 2016
    How the Victorian elite saw class in racial terms. Malik challenges conventional ways of thinking about the historical roots of racial ideas, and demonstrates how much of racial thinking originated not in the context of perceptions of non-Europeans but to a large extent at home out of the relationship between the elite and the masses. And that is what makes this material important in thinking about contemporary discussions of the working class. Today, elite views of the working class are rarely racialized, at least in an overt fashion. Yet, many of the themes, especially about the character of the 'unrespectable' working class, remain, though they necessarily have to be expressed in a different language. What is of interest here is to understand what has changed as well as what remains the same in thinking about democracy and the working class.
  3437. Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
    First Published: 1985
    What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
  3438. Ecofeminism
    Connexipedia Article
    A social and political movement which points to the existence of considerable common ground between environmentalism and feminism.
  3439. Ecological Agriculture in Manitoba: A Turning Point?
    First Published: 1983
  3440. The ecological benefits of Marijuana
    The decriminalization of cannabis would not only have important medicinal implications, but also positive economic consequences and largescale environmental benefits
  3441. Ecological Sustainability, Inequality and Social Class
    First Published: 2018
    Raju Das connect sustainability to metabolism, reproduction, and value of labour power.
  3442. Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
    First Published: 2017
    Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
  3443. Ecologist Special Report: Why mining and violence are inextricably linked
    First Published: 2017
    The South African government is currently embarking on streamlining decision-making processes in mining. To many this sounds like more top-down decision-making at the expense of those communities that will have to host mines and paves the way for more violent conflict, warns Jasper Finkeldey.
  3444. Ecology and value theory
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Jason W Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.
  3445. Ecology and Culture
    First Published: 1990
  3446. Ecology and Social Action 
    First Published: 1973
    That there is an important connection between ecology and social action is now self-evident. There seems little reason to doubt that there is some connection between what ecology tells us about the degraded quality of life and the social action needed to improve it.
  3447. Ecology Watch
    First Published: 1991
    Poverty has been identified as a major cause of environmental degradation
  3448. Econet on Web: Computer networking for educators
  3449. Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory
    First Published: 1974
  3450. Economic Crisis & Fundamentalism
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    Susan Weissman interviews John Daly.
  3451. Economic crisis and the responsibility of socialists
    First Published: 2009
    Henryk Grossman is particularly relevant today and not only because of his explanation of economic and financial crises
  3452. The Economic Crisis in Fact and Fiction 
    Paul Mattick Jr. with John Clegg and Aaron Benanav
    First Published: 2011
    An interview with Paul Mattick Jr., the author of Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Future of Capitalism.
  3453. Economic Power Struggle In The USSR
    Soviet Workers Press For Self-Management
  3454. Economic reality and dialectics of liberation
    First Published: 1968
    To work out a NEW relationship between theory and practice, a methodology is needed which is independent of existing state powers but rather flows from THE greatest "energizing principle" - the mass quest for universality, the Third World fight for freedom, TOTAL freedom, [which] refuses to subordinate the fight against class structure WITHIN a country to any "two camp theory" as if the struggle between the "East" and the "West" is the one that will liberate "The Wretched of the Earth."
  3455. Economic Report: 36th U.E. Convention
    First Published: 1978
  3456. Economics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 2
    First Published: 1998
    The relations of production have not been revolutionized by computers and lean production any more than they were overturned by the assembly line, the automobile, or the telephone: the owners still own, we still work for a wage.
  3457. Economics As If Future Generations Mattered
    First Published: 2014
    We have turned a corner on climate change-- a wrong turn-- and it is happening more rapidly than we have predicted. Climate change is already disrupting society, ecosystems, and national economies. We have altered so much of our Earth that we now threaten our own survival.
  3458. The Economics Behind the Skripal Poisoning
    First Published: 2018
    The question is why are they doing this with Russia? Why are they imposing sanctions and mounting a great publicity campaign?
  3459. The Economics of Alcohol in Canada
    First Published: 1976
    A paper written in response to the growing concern about the increasing abuse of alcohol in Canada shows the direct relation between consumption and advertising.
  3460. The Economics of Injustice
    Poverty
    First Published: 1975
    Various aspects of poverty in Canada, the guaranteed income plan & social justice.
  3461. Economics of the War Economy
    First Published: 1959
    Ever since Lord Keynes' dictum that wars - like pyramid-building and earthquakes - may serve to increase wealth, it has been increasingly recognized that war and preparation for war are necessary aspects of the prevailing economy and a condition of its proper functioning.
  3462. The Economics of War and Peace
    First Published: 1956
    Wars, like crises, are inherent in uncontrolled capital accumulation even though their actual occurrence in time is not predictable.
  3463. The Economy After A Half Century
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    The object here is to evaluate the current state of the Cuban economy, but for this no insightful perspective is possible without considering its performance historically, especially over the last sixty years and most especially over the half century since the triumph of the Revolution.
  3464. The Economy in a World of Trouble
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    interview with Robert Brenner.
  3465. The Economy of an Ecological Society Will Be at the Service of Humanity
    First Published: 2017
    What would a truly just, equal and ecologically sustainable future look like? Why would it require a change in our economic system, namely the end of capitalism? Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams answer these questions in Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation.
  3466. Ecosocialism as a Human Phenomenon
    First Published: 2013
    Two focal points configure this talk. The first denotes the structure of the world as it is, hurtling toward the abyss; the second concerns the world as I would have us struggle to bring about.
  3467. Ecosocialism and the fight for free public transit 
    First Published: 2012
    Mass transportation is intimately tied not only to the physical form of cities, but to the deeper social structures of imperial capitalism. A campaign for free public transit can be an important part of a broader fight to restructure society along ecosocialist lines.
  3468. Ecosocialism Not Extinction! 
    First Published: 2021
    Ecosocialist Alliance statement on the opening of 2021 UN climate talks in Glasgow.
  3469. The Ecosocialism of Joel Kovel
    First Published: 2017
    Joel Kovel has been a prestigious and best-selling writer on psychotherapy, a militant left activist from the middle 1960s onward, an eco-theorist and an explorer of the world just beyond our sense perceptions.
  3470. Ecosystem research threatened
    First Published: 1991
  3471. The Ecoterrorist and me
    First Published: 2013
    Marie Mason is five years into a 22-year sentence for participating in non-violent - but highly destructive - actions with the Earth Liberation Front. David Rovics met with her at the Carswell Federal Women's Prison in Fort Worth, Texas.
  3472. Ecovillage
    Connexipedia Article
    Socially, economically and ecologically sustainable intentional communities.
  3473. Ecuador 1960-1963
    A Textbook of Dirty Tricks
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
  3474. Ecuador Fights against Elitism
    First Published: 2015
    It is great news for majority of Ecuadorian citizens -- but a terrible nightmare for the 'elites'.
    Lately, in Ecuador, right-wing 'elites' are continuously protesting against the administration, accusing it of corruption and other ills.
  3475. Ecuador: Left Turn?
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    On April 26, 2009, Rafael Correa won re-election to the Ecuadorian presidency with an absolute majority of the vote. He gained broad popular appeal through a combination of nationalist rhetoric and increased social spending on education and health care. The victory cemented Correa’s control over the country as the old political establishment appeared to be in complete collapse.
  3476. Ecuador: Mass marches defend democracy amid coup plot
    First Published: 2015
    President Rafael Correa called a rally on July 2, 2015 in defence of democracy and the pro-poor Citizens' Revolution his government leads after plans by the right-wing opposition for a violent coup were exposed.
  3477. Ecuadorean Villagers May Still Triumph Over Chevron
    First Published: 2018
    Michael Krauss, a lawyer who teaches "ethics" at a law school named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, recently posted a blog on the Forbes website entitled "The Ecuador Saga Continues: Steven Donziger now owes Chevron more than $800,000" (Forbes 3/14/2018). Kraus says that Chevron has basically triumphed over evil...
  3478. Ecuadoreans Won't Back Down in Fighting Chevron-Texaco Over Amazon Oil Disaster
    First Published: 2017
    A class-action lawsuit first filed in 1993 against Chevron-Texaco has taken its toll on the lawyers and Ecuadorean people seeking justice for environmental damage. Hope for justice and healing drives people to not give up.
  3479. Ecuador's Bitter Choice
    First Published: 2014
    Becker analyzes the politics behind the decision to extract petroleum from Ecuador's ecologically fragile Yasuní National Park.
  3480. Ecuador's Indigenous Socialism
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    For several decades now, national elites in Latin America have accused the left of acting as a ventriloquist for indigenous movements: allowing Native leaders to speak, but pulling the strings behind them.
  3481. Ecuador's New Indigenous Uprising
    First Published: 2015
    Ecuador's Indigenous movements have launched an uprising to challenge the government's opposition to bilingual education and its support for an extractive-based economy.
  3482. Ecumenical Consultation on the Problems of Quebec
    Abstracted from Oecumenisme/Ecumenism No. 46
    First Published: 1976
    Summary of a bilingual, multi-denominational, and multi-cultural event sponsored by the Montreal Ecumenical Centre.
  3483. Edelman, Marek
    Connexipedia Article
    Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. (1919-2009).
  3484. J. David Edelstein
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    J. David Edelstein, an ardent socialist all his life, died July 20, 2009 in Syracuse, NY at age 90. Dave was an at-large member of Solidarity and supporter of the Socialist Party USA; his life in the socialist movement dated back to the Workers Party and Independent Socialist League of the 1940s and 1950s.
  3485. Editorial Statement: Introducing Insurgent Notes on Marx in 1968
    Insurgent Notes vol. 17
    First Published: 2018
    The editors introduce the focus of this issue: How present or absent was the thought of Karl Marx in 1968?
  3486. Edmonton COmmunity - First Draft
    First Published: 1978
    This is a brief statement of the "position" of a community of 9-13 people, including two married couples and a priest, which emerged out of the animation of a Scarboro priest about two or three years ago.
  3487. Edmonton Cross-Cultural Learner Centre
    First Published: 1978
  3488. Eduardo Galeano, ¡Presente!
    First Published: 2015
    La Botz reflects on Eduardo Galeano's works and ideas.
  3489. Educate, agitate, occupy!
    First Published: 2009
    An account of the occupation Visteon factory in Enfield, London.
  3490. Educating Kids for Jobs for the 21st Century
    We distribute jobs by social class. If we 'qualify' all students with a college degree, then 100% of students will be competing for the 22% of jobs requiring college degrees. The answer here is not to push more kids in to college but pay better salaries to those jobs not requiring college.
  3491. The Education Deform Fraud
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    Book Review of "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" By Diane Ravitch.
  3492. Education for Change: Henry Giroux and Transformative Critical Pedagogy
    Against The Current vol. 83
    First Published: 1999
    These are difficult times for teachers in U.S. public schools. The increasing size of schools, chronic underfunding of schools serving working-class students (especially students of color), work overload, school violence, professional isolation and the deskilling and devaluing of teachers' work have led to rising rates of teacher burnout in recent decades. The average career trajectory of a teacher in the United States is about five years.
  3493. Education for the TurnAround Decade: The Environmentally Friendly School
    First Published: 1990
  3494. Education gap divides Jerusalem
    First Published: 2009
    A recent report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 5,000 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem will not be able to attend classes this year because there are not enough classrooms.
  3495. An Education in Occupy
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    Two months earlier, I had been sitting in class listening to an ILWU member talk about Export Grain Terminal’s (EGT) union-busting tactics in Longview, WA. “Great,” I thought, “but how can I help from the campus of a little college in Moraga, California?”
  3496. Education in the Service of Assimilation: The Founding Vision of Residential Schools in Canada
    First Published: 2019
    A look at some scholarly histories of residiential schools that put paid to Canada's kinder, gentler reputation.
  3497. The Education of Immigrant Children
    First Published: 1982
    The question of the education of immigrant children is extremely complex and is related to the larger issue of the role and adaptation of immigrants in general.
  3498. Education Over Incarceration
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    In cities across America, young men from low-income communities are ending up in prison more than they are making it to college — at the rate of seven to one. And during the nation’s protracted economic slump and high rate of unemployment, especially among African Americans and Latino Americans, we can expect that ratio to grow.
  3499. Edward J. Snowden and the Exposure of Voyeuristic Fascism
    Self-Pacification of the American Citizenry
    First Published: 2013
    Snowden make a difference in the affairs of state in an environment where individuals do not appear to matter.
  3500. Edward Said, Orientalism
    Reviewed by Malcolm Kerr
    First Published: 1980
    The book contains many excellent sections and scores many telling points, but it is spoiled by overzealous prosecutorial argument in which Professor Said, in his eagerness to spin too large a web, leaps at conclusions and tries to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a preconceived frame of analysis. In charging the entire tradition of European and American Oriental studies with the sins of reductionism and caricature, he commits precisely the same error.
  3501. Edward Snowden Has Some Advice for Donald Trump About Surveillance
    First Published: 2017
    Emmons interviews NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about Trump's skewed priorities.
  3502. Edward Snowden: Profile in Courage
    Whistleblowing in the Name of the Constitution
    First Published: 2013
    29-year-old former technical assistant to the CIA and employee of a defense intelligence contractor admitting to disclosing top secret documents about the National Security Agency’s massive violation of the privacy of law-abiding citizens.
  3503. Edward Snowden's Warning to Canada
    First Published: 2015
    Whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about Bill C-51 and the weak oversight of Canada's intelligence agencies.
  3504. Edward Thompson's Warrens
    On the transition to socialism and its relation to current left mobilizations
    First Published: 2002
  3505. Edwards, Henrietta Muir
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Canadian women's rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
  3506. EFF Launches IFightSurveillance.org and Counter-Surveillance Success Stories
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2014
    Sites Highlight How Opponents of Mass Surveillance Around the World Lead by Example
  3507. Effective Media Relations
    Nurturing your relationships with reporters
    First Published: 2000
    Our relationships with journalists need to be maintained over time in order to be fruitful.
  3508. Effective Media Relations
    First Published: 2006
    Media relations is human relations. Journalism is about telling compelling stories about people and their lives.
  3509. Effects of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Booms on Domestic Animals and Wildlife: A Literature Synthesis
    First Published: 1988
    This report was produced as the result of a cooperative research project between the National Ecology Research Center, Ft. Collins, Colorado and the Air Force Engineering and Services Center, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, on the effects of aircraft noise and sonic booms on animals.
  3510. Effects of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Booms on Domestic Animals and Wildlife: Bibliographic Abstracts
    First Published: 1988
    Abstracts of bibliographic resources.
  3511. Egalitarian community
    Connexipedia Article
    Group of people who have chosen to live together, with egalitarianism as one of their core values.
  3512. L'Eglise dans un Quebec en mutation
    First Published: 1978
  3513. Egypt and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    An interview with Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar, who grew up in Lebanon, is professor of development studies and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and author most recently of The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives.
  3514. Egypt at the tipping point?
    First Published: 2011
  3515. Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
    First Published: 2011
    Fisk joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regime.
  3516. Egypt Shakes the World
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    Suzi Weissman interviewed Yoav Peled and Mark LeVine on her program “Beneath the Surface,” KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, on February 11, 2010. The following are edited excerpts from those discussions. Thanks to Meleiza Figueroa for transcribing.
  3517. Egyptian Labor Erupting
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    In April 2009, a familiar scenario was repeated, as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s police apparatus assaulted planned demonstrations and a Mahalla textile workers’ strike. A year earlier, many activists and ordinary people from Mahalla received sentences in politically charged criminal trials for “planning the April 6th strike in 2008.”
  3518. The Egyptian Uprising in the American Media
    Obscuring the Obvious
    First Published: 2011
    It is no wonder that most Americans are hopelessly in the dark. Middle East “news” in the mainstream is constructed so that people remain in a perpetual state of confusion and fear.
  3519. Egyptian Women and the Revolution
    First Published: 2014
    Radwan focuses on the role women are playing in the Egyptian Revolution, their reasons for being active in the movement, and the repercussions they experience as a result of their involvement.
  3520. The Egyptian workers' movement and the 25 January Revolution 
    First Published: 2012
    This article is an exploration of one of the fundamental processes that brought the revolution back to Tahrir: the rise of an organised working class movement.
  3521. Egypt's Aunt Peaceful
    First Published: 2012
    Ghada Shahbender knows the Egyptian Revolution Didn´t Start in January 2011, because she was there seven years ago reminding the government ¨We Are Watching¨
  3522. Egypt's Long Labor History
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    The Egyptian working class is one of the oldest in the region, with a long history of internationalist solidarity. Egyptian loading and longshoremen workers in 1947, for example, boycotted the Dutch ship in Canal Suez in solidarity with the Indonesian people’s independence struggle. The union of the workers issued a statement against colonialism in general. They did not allow the ship to service or go through the Canal despite the resistance and efforts made by English and French administrators.
  3523. Egypt's Revolution at Three
    First Published: 2014
    Radwan examines the Egyptian Revolution and the rise of General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi after the ousting of President Morsi.
  3524. Egypt's Year of Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    An interview with Carl Finamore, who went on a reporting trip to Egypt for ten days in 2011.
  3525. Egziabher, Tewolde Berhan Gebre
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Ethiopian advocate for genetic diversity and the rights of farmers and tradiational communities.
  3526. The Eight Best Books for Publicity Seekers
    First Published: 2003
    For those of you pursuing and perfecting the fine art of getting publicity, here's a list of books you can't live without.
  3527. 8 Disturbing Photos of Instruments of Torture Used on Black People
    First Published: 2014
    8 disturbing photos of instruments of torture used on black people.
  3528. Eight-Hour Day at the Party Congress
    First Published: 1899
    The legal eight-hour day is one of the demands on our minimal program. i.e., it is the very least minimum of social reform which we, as representatives of the workers’ interests, must demand and expect from the present state. The fragmentation of even these minimal demands into still smaller morsels goes against all our tactics.
  3529. Eight miners die from toxic gases in Peru’s northern highlands
    First Published: 2019
    Eight miners died after poisonous gases escaped in an informal gold mine in northern Peru. Informal mines are operated without licenses or safety standards by companies that can easily bypass regulations.
  3530. Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
    First Published: 2018
    A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
  3531. 863-AIDS
    Working at the AIDS Hotline
    First Published: 1986
    An account of working on an HIV-aids helpline in San Francisco.
  3532. Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
    First Published: 2018
    The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people. But, interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world.
  3533. Eight Years Later
    A Comparison of the National Strategy on Child Care with the Report of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child
    First Published: 1988
  3534. 1810, 1910, 2010 and Mexican Labor
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    In the midst of a deep depression, an ongoing crisis of legitimacy and a brutal internal war amongst the different fractions of the drug cartel/state complex, Mexico is celebrating its two great revolutions, the Revolution of Independence (1810) and the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).
  3535. $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster
    Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change
    First Published: 2014
    Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fund the discovery of new gas, coal, and oil deposits around the world.
  3536. 84-year-old ex-librarian arrested protesting Kinder Morgan, calls NEB a "sham"
    First Published: 2014
    Barbara Grant criticized the NEB hearings of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion as a "sham" and spoke out about the danger before crossing the police line to be arrested. At 84, she's the oldest person arrested on Burnaby Mountain so far.
  3537. Eine andere Art von Demokratie
    First Published: 1997
    Wie können wir uns eine neue freie und kooperative Gesellschaft ausmalen, wenn wir doch in einer Welt gefangen sind, die von Gier und Engstirnigkeit geprägt ist?
  3538. Eine Stimme für die Demokratie
    First Published: 1986
    In vielen “Konsensgruppen“ findet man ein immer wiederkehrendes Muster: Einige wenige haben das Sagen, während der Rest schweigt. Diejenigen, die einen Job oder Kinder haben oder einfach keine “Meeting-Junkies“ sind, gehen frühzeitig. Die Gruppe fällt auseinander und die Übriggebliebenen zwingen ihr wunderbares Modell der nächsten Gruppe auf.
  3539. Einstein's 1905 Revolution: New Physics, New Century
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    Albert Einstein hardly needs an introduction. A popular culture icon, his name, his disheveled appearance in late life, his theory of relativity are synonymous with genius. It may be hard to imagine a physicist as a popular culture icon, Time's Person of the Century (for heaven's sake); yet no other figure of the 20th Century comes to my mind, with the possible exception of Picasso, whose legacy is so indisputable as to qualify for the position of something so improbable as Person of the Century.
  3540. Either Or
    First Published: 1916
    It is a question of either-or! Either we nakedly and shamelessly betray the International or we take the International in deadly seriousness and attempt to extend it into a firm stronghold, a bulwark, of the international socialist proletariat and of world peace.
  3541. El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a Economía, Pobreza, Trabajo
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  3542. El Salvador
    First Published: 1989
  3543. El Salvador
    People in Struggle
    First Published: 1989
  3544. El Salvador Feminists Fight for Justice
    First Published: 2015
    The 1997 Salvadoran law banning abortion under all circumstances is one of the most punitive in the world.
  3545. El Salvador: Labor vs. P3
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with Jaime Rivera about the Public-Private Partnership (P3) law that was proposed in early 2012l.
  3546. El Salvador's New War: Lesbian/Gay Activism Confronts "Social Cleansing"
    First Published: 1999
    Queer activism and visibility are on the rise in El Salvador and throughout Latin America, coupled with an alarming increase in repression against queers and queer activists. In May of this year, Karla, a seventeen-year-old transvestite active in El Salvadors gay rights movement, was abducted off the street and assassinated death-squad style.
  3547. El Trotskismo y el Partido de Vanguardia
    First Published: 1974   Published: 2010
  3548. The Elaine Massacre, 1919
    One of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history when hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces after black farm workers tried to organise for better pay.
  3549. Elected Representatives on the Wrong Side of History: Israel is a Criminal State
    First Published: 2014
    The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has grown exponentially and gained legitimacy in many parts of the world, while the concept of Israel as an Apartheid state has gained much credibility. In Israel itself, debates that were unheard of a short while ago have entered the public discourse.
  3550. Election Con 2016: New Evidence Demolishes the Myth of Trump's "Blue-Collar" Populism
    First Published: 2017
    Evidence indicates that Donald Trump's popularity among working class voters had less to do with economic insecurity and more to do with embracing support for elitist, pro-corporate, and reactionary social agendas.
  3551. The Election, Economy, War, and Peace
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky points out that the Democratic triumph in the 2008 election was indeed historic, but also relatively slight. He explores the factors that played a role in preventing a landslide victory for President Obama.
  3552. Election Interference Hypocrisy
    First Published: 2017
    While Canadian and Western media pursue Russian election meddling they ignore clear-cut Canadian meddling elsewhere, and the Unites States' long history of interference in elections around the world, including in Canada.
  3553. Election Meddling
    Bad if Done to USA, Bad to Complain About if Done by USA
    First Published: 2016
    Describing the contradictions in media coverage of, and attitudes toward, outside meddling in US elections versus US interference in foreign elections.
  3554. Election and Revolution
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A review of two volumes by August H. Nimtz: "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905" and "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917".
  3555. Elections 2000
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky reviews the details of the 2000 elections and reveals the tendency of dysfunction in democratic electoral models.
  3556. Elections and Regime Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    Will the Democrats "regain control of Congress"? Will Joseph Lieberman change parties? Will Hillary Clinton be the Democratic frontrunner for 2008? How much does any of this matter?
  3557. Elections Canada bungled its investigation of Michael Sona and the 2011 robocall scandal
    First Published: 2015
    Because the 'robocalls' fraud of Canada's 2011 federal election was insufficiently investigated by state authorities and underreported by the corporate media, Canadians have yet to understand its scale, focus, and impact.
  3558. Elections & the Democrats
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    Revolutionary socialist political strategy is based on the fundamental idea of working class self-emancipation. This means that working people and the oppressed can generate the power they need to change the world only through collective self-mobilization and class self-organization.
  3559. Elections in the Southern Cone
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    During the last three months of 1999, presidential elections took place in the three southernmost countries of the Latin American continent.
  3560. The Elections to the National Assembly
    First Published: 1918
    The great confrontation between capital and labour will determine the course of future history and, in its final result, admits of no other decision than the destruction of capitalist rule and the triumph of socialism.
  3561. Electoral Politics and the Illusion of Control
    First Published: 2016
    We have all been told a lie. The lie that says democracy can be maintained only through voting, through purely representative, parliamentarian means. When the founding fathers set up the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were wary of any truly popular, working and middle class control of the United States. Our government was to be run as a republic, designed by elites, for the elites. Our three branches of government were not simply invented for checks and balances: another reason was to stymie any massively popular mandates that would go against the interests of the oligarchy.
  3562. Electoral Reform: Do the right thing
    First Published: 2009
    The Chartist goal of a representative parliament and majority govermment is still sadly unrealised.
  3563. Electoral reform will give us a voice
    First Published: 1998
    The democratic case for electoral reform is fundamental, and to attack it
    as somehow a 'right wing' issue is a betrayal of the radical democratic tradition.
  3564. Electoral Strategy After Bernie's Campaign
    First Published: 2016
    Supporters of Bernie Sanders wagered that his campaign would be the most important event in the development of socialist politics in decades. There is at least some evidence to suggest that this prediction was correct.
  3565. Electronic Ethics
    First Published: 1978
  3566. Elements of a Concept of Socialist Transformation
    First Published: 2013
    The concept of transformation, with the elements developed up to now, could be capable of advancing the process of creating a left that is up to the challenge of the great crisis of financial-market capitalism and today’s civilisation. Just like the Zapatistas, we will progress while learning - with the objective of overthrowing the total mode of production and life, of power and property relations, in order to go toward a solidary, socialist society, which puts an end to the exploitation of human beings and nature. The transformation of our very way of thinking is part of this progress.
  3567. The Elephant in the Room
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    Much of the world is fascinated by the U.S. presidential election. The main reason is that the country may be ready to do something that most developed countries wouldn’t consider: electing a representative from an oppressed minority as head of government or state. (Try to imagine an Arab citizen of Israel or France as either country’s prime minister or president; or a British prime minister of South Asian descent.)
  3568. Eleven years of protesting Israel's occupation
    First Published: 2016
    Al Jazeera spoke with 11 villagers on the anniversary of Bilin's weekly protests against Israel's separation wall.
  3569. Elie Wiesel: Poseur for Peace
    First Published: 2016
    In the midst of another Israeli operation in Lebanon, this one in 2006, Wiesel stood in front of a crowd in Manhattan (along with then Senator Hillary Clinton) and declared "Israel defends herself, and we must say to Israel 'Go on defending yourself.'" His final years didn't slow him down. Wiesel took out a full page ad in newspapers across the country during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict fully supporting Israel's effort (Human Rights Watch went on to document several instances of war crimes by the Israeli military) without a syllable about diplomacy except that 'before diplomats can begin in earnest the crucial business of rebuilding dialogue…the Hamas death cult must be confronted for what it is'.
  3570. Eligibility, Document#3, March 8, 1977
    First Published: 1977
    This document defines those who are eligible for participation in a land claims settlement and those who are not.
  3571. Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
  3572. Elissa Karg Chacker, 1951-2008
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    Elissa Karg Chacker, a longtime member of Solidarity and previously the International Socialists (IS) in Detroit, died Sunday, May 11 from injuries suffered in an accident a week earlier. Riding her bicycle home after a Solidarity meeting, she was struck by a car and never regained consciousness. Her daughters Sasha and Nina stayed with her in the hospital, where many comrades and friends maintained a vigil throughout the week.
  3573. Elite Fear Of The Public: Ukraine, Gaza and Assange
    First Published: 2024
    It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public. Minimal, unthreatening expressions of dissent may be tolerated in ostensible 'democracies'. But public opinion needs to be managed, manipulated or, if necessary, simply ignored.
  3574. The elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites - and I'll tell you why
    The movement that backed the Labour leader challenges MPs and journalists alike - because it's about grassroots democracy
    First Published: 2016
    As the rolling catastrophe of what's already being called the "chicken coup" against the Labour leadership winds down, pretty much all the commentary has focused on the personal qualities, real or imagined, of the principal players. Yet such an approach misses out on almost everything that's really at stake here. The real battle is not over the personality of one man, or even a couple of hundred politicians. If the opposition to Jeremy Corbyn for the past nine months has been so fierce, and so bitter, it is because his existence as head of a major political party is an assault on the very notion that politics should be primarily about the personal qualities of politicians.
  3575. Ellsberg, Daniel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Peace campaigner. (Born 1931).
  3576. Emails Reveal Dairy Lobbyist Crafted 'Ag-Gag' Legislation Outlawing Pictures of Farms
    First Published: 2015
    Across the country, legislatures are responding to whistleblowers and activists who have exposed inhumane and at times unsanitary practices at farms by passing laws that criminalize the taking of photos or videos at agricultural facilities. Farming interests have publicly backed the campaign to outlaw recording: in fact, dairy industry lobbyists actually crafted the legislation that was later introduced by lawmakers.
  3577. "Embodied Materialism" and Ecosocialism
    Book review
    First Published: 2018
    Detailed chapter-by-chapter review of Ariel Salleh's Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern.
  3578. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    First Published: 2003
    An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
  3579. The Emergence of Marx's Critique of Modern Agriculture
    Ecological Insights from His Excerpt Notebooks
    First Published: 2014
    Examining Marx’s notebooks, one realizes that he first attained a truly critical and ecological comprehension of modern agriculture in the middle of the 1860s. Although Marx was at first optimistic about the positive effects of modern agriculture based on the application of natural sciences and technology, he later came to emphasize the negative consequences of agriculture under capitalism precisely because of such an application, illustrating how it inevitably brings about disharmonies in the transhistorical “metabolism” (Stoffwechsel) between human beings and nature.
  3580. Emergency Shelter in Ottawa-Carleton
    An Experimental View
    First Published: 1984
  3581. Emerging Co-operatives in Ontario
    First Published: 1977
    Summary of information collected after visiting over 600 co-operative groups in Ontario.
  3582. The Emerging Progressive Majority
    Introduction to 'Framing the Future'
    A large group of Americans favor both progressive policy and conservative philosophy. As a result, they may side with either progressives or conservatives, depending on how a political question is framed.
  3583. Emerging workers' movements
    First Published: 2016
    Since the 1980s the institutionalisation of global neoliberalism has been pursued based on a range of ideological claims which have been advanced (or at least accepted) across the political spectrum. These claims include the arguments that the working class is increasingly a thing of the past, both structurally (as industry gives way to services and information) and politically (as traditional left parties embrace varieties of neoliberalism); that globalisation is reducing world poverty and that as a result the global middle class is expanding rapidly; and, seemingly logically, that radical politics are a thing of the past.
  3584. Emma Goldman: A life of controversy
    First Published: 2004
    More than six decades after her death, the anarchist Emma Goldman still stirs passionate political debate. Goldman made headlines in January 2003 when University of California, Berkeley, officials refused to allow the university's Emma Goldman Papers Project to send a fundraising appeal that quoted Goldman speaking out against war and for free speech. University officials said the appeal was too "political" to appear during the Bush administration's ramp-up to war in Iraq. Researchers at the Papers Project, which houses Goldman's personal and public papers, refused to concede in the face of university threats and organized protests against the university's suppression of free speech that forced the university to back down.
  3585. Emma Goldman: Voice of a Rebel
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    Emma Goldman's name for many is synonymous with Anarchism. Indeed, as we can see in the first two volumes of the Documentary History of the American Years from the Emma Goldman Papers Project, now out in a welcome paperback edition, she did much to define anarchism to Americans.
  3586. The Emperor's New Penis
    The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women
    First Published: 2013
    Right now the gender fundamentalists are doing their best to shut down dialogue. They've damaged books — books that don’t even mention their concern — pressured bookstores, and silenced speakers scheduled at universities. It should come as no surprise that they are using the final tactics of all fundamentalists: bullying, threats, assault. And they've done this with increasing frequency and intensity. How long does it take to see the pattern?
  3587. Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
    First Published: 2017
    The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
  3588. Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling, the Budget Deficit, and the Samson Solution
    First Published: 2013
    Raising the debt ceiling allows the State to keep borrowing and pay its billionaire creditors.Financing the budget deficit requires borrowing, which involves the sale hundreds of billions of dollars worth of US government bonds through Wall Street — but at a cost to the taxpayer. The common denominator is that the entire edifice of finance capital and all of its support structures depend on debt financing by the State. By borrowing and then taxing its citizens the Treasury extracts wealth from the vast majority of Americans.
  3589. Empire and Its Discontents
    "Losing" the World
    First Published: 2012
  3590. Empire of Destruction 
    Precision Warfare? Don't Make Me Laugh
    First Published: 2017
    A single word to summarize American war-making in this last decade and a half: rubble. It's been a painfully apt term since September 11, 2001. In addition, to catch the essence of such war in this century, two new words might be useful: rubblize and rubblization.
  3591. An Empire of Lies
    Why Our Media Betray Us
    First Published: 2011
    Contrary to its avowed aim, mainstream journalism invariably diminishes the impact of new events when they threaten powerful elites.
  3592. Empire of Lies and Torture
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    The prohibition of torture in international conventions is absolute. There are no exceptions for so-called "ticking bombs," for "high-value terrorists" or "illegal enemy combatants" or similar improvised fictions—or for extraterritorial prison camps (Guantanamo) where the jailers exercise absolute power but somehow disclaim the legal responsibilities of "sovereignty."
  3593. Empire of the Comanche
    The Passing of Comancheria
    First Published: 2013
    The period of Comanche domination of Texas, New Mexico, Northern Mexico, and much of the American West between 1750 and 1850 is just a passing footnote in American and Mexican history, but it provides an interesting perspective on many important historical questions, notably the history of the Eurasian steppe and the role of violence in long-distance trade.
  3594. The Empire and Ourselves
    First Published: 1986
    Chomsky begins by asking why America's interest in a nation occurs when it does: why discuss Central America now and not 10 years ago? And why the concern with Central America over Haiti? He continues by exploring several instances in which the reasons of US involvement seem to be rooted in self-interest as opposed to strictly regional needs.
  3595. Empire, Religion and Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    “At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Sunday by Israeli fire,” today’s New York Times reports as I write this review, “bringing the number of Palestinians killed since Wednesday… to more than 100.” One Palestinian in Gaza laments, “There is an attack every five or ten minutes. It keeps our nerves on edge and our senses strained. There is so much rage at what is happening; especially the scenes of murdered children and babies.” According to the Israeli human-rights group, B’Tselem, approximately half of the dead were unarmed civilians, and a quarter were children.
  3596. The Empire Strikes Back
    First Published: 2016
    If you argue a case strongly on the internet you must expect to receive robust argument back. Plus the odd insult. There has been plenty of both in reaction to my posts about corporate media control of access to the data in the Panama Papers. But I believe it is fair to say that the overwhelming public feeling I have picked up through monitoring online discussion worldwide, is that the full data should be made available online in searchable form so that the public can look through it and form their own conclusions.
  3597. Empire strikes out
    First Published: 2002
    Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire has attracted commentaries ranging from "a significant contribution to Marxism" to "Now, ai'’t that something?" It enjoyed a run at Wall Street bookstores and created a similar buzz on campuses and left-wing Internet lists. Hardt and Negri stress that Empire is a work of philosophy. As such, the book aims to abstract from the swirl of daily life and singular events a general picture of the social processes that have spawned the contemporary world order: the global market, global circuits of production, and a new structure of political sovereignty. Unfortunately, Empire's map of global space profoundly distorts the world as it is today.
  3598. Empires Are a Secret until They Start Falling
    First Published: 2019
    Alfred McCoy says that it is only when empires are in decline that people begin to recognize they live in an empire and start to talk about it. While discussion of empire hasn't broken into the corporate media, it is certainly happening in the independent media. A concerted effort by a popular movement could bring it to the fore, just as Occupy changed the political dialogue about wealth inequality and the power of money. People in the US need to face some stark realities when it comes to declining US global power.
  3599. The Empire's Shill
    The Real Mission of the New York Times
    First Published: 2013
  3600. Employment and the Single Displaced Person
    First Published: 1979
    A project aimed at providing single dispalced persons with work.
  3601. Empty Lectures About the Sanctity of the 'Rule of Law'
    Washington Has No Sense of Shame
    First Published: 2013
    US is threatening Hong Kong, China, Russia and now little Ecuador with all manner of reprisals if they don't respect the "rule of law" and hand over whistleblower Edward Snowden to the US national security apparatus.
  3602. Empty nests of the North: "Massive chick deaths" in seabird colonies; climate, oceanic changes blamed
    First Published: 2014
    Iceland, circled by the food-rich currents of Atlantic, Arctic and polar waters, is the Serengeti for seabirds. But the nests have gone empty in the past few years, and colonies throughout the North Atlantic are shrinking.
  3603. The Empty Press Room - How Corporate Journalism Happily Lost Interest in Climate Change
    First Published: 2011
    In the media’s coverage of climate change, are we really still stuck on square one of some ghastly board game?
  3604. Empty Suits
    Defamation law and the price of dissent
    First Published: 2018
    A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
  3605. Emptying the World's Aquarium
    The dismal future of the global fishery
    First Published: 2013
    Essay on the fishery at the Sea of Cortez, Mexico and the implications of environmental conservation policies on the local fishermen's economy.
  3606. Emulating the circle of life
    We need to rethink efficiency in our food system.
    First Published: 2019
    Developing food systems that simulate the processes found in nature can make food production more sustainable.
  3607. Encyclopédie
    Connexipedia Article
    A general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772
  3608. The End of Academic Freedom in America: the Case of Steven Salaita
    First Published: 2015
    In the years I spent at Columbia University, there was always some professor or another coming under attack from the Israel lobby. But no matter the intensity of the witch-hunt, I was always proud to see my employer stand up for the free speech rights of the faculty.
  3609. The End of Capitalism?
    First Published: 2010
    For all those who wish to see a different world, this moment is dripping with opportunity because the old order is crumbling before our eyes.
  3610. The End of Gay?
    First Published: 1997
    Gay identity is destined for oblivion once homophobia is overturned.
  3611. The End of "The Great War"
    First Published: 2018
    A thorough look at the ending of World War I, focusing especially on class conflict.
  3612. The End of Guzzlemainia
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    "The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil. If we manage somehow to overcome the shock by shifting the burden to coal and natural gas, the two other primary fossil fuels, life may go on more or less as it has been until we start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century. And by the time we have burned up all that fuel, we may well have rendered the planet unfit for human life. Even if human life does go on, civilization as we know it will not survive, unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels."
  3613. The end of hasbara? NYT readers question US support for apartheid
    First Published: 2015
    The New York Times published a remarkable discussion yesterday. Alongside an article about Israel cancelling a plan to segregate buses going to the West Bank so as to keep Palestinians off settlers' buses, it published readers' comments, and in both the editors' selection and the readers' selection, the comments were running against Israel.
  3614. The End of (Military) History?
    First Published: 2010
    If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera. Counting on today's enemy to yield in the face of superior force makes about as much sense as buying lottery tickets to pay the mortgage: you better be really lucky.
  3615. The End of the "Leaderless" Revolution 
    A Global Fallacy and the Military Intervention in Egypt
    First Published: 2013
    When movements don't have (or claim not to have) ideologies, agendas, demands and leaders, they can go in two directions: they can dissipate (as did Occupy), or serve the agendas of others. The end of the leaderless revolution does not mean the end of the Egyptian revolutionary process. But it spells the end of the fallacy that the people can take power without an agenda, an alternative platform, an ideology, and leaders.
  3616. The End of the Regime?
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    The Permanent Detention and Torture Enabling Act of 2006 was the final obscene gesture of a dying Congressional session. (Actually, make that next-to-last: They topped it off with the billion-dollar appropriation to double-fence the Mexican border, even though this means humiliating Bush’s own pals in Mexico, the right-wing politicians whom he helped steal the Mexican election. That’s another crisis we cover elsewhere in this issue.)
  3617. The End of Western Civilization
    Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place
    First Published: 2022
    Today's New Cold War diplomacy involves extracting economic tribute by pushing foreign economies further into dollarized debt, to be paid by imposing depression and austerity on themselves. This subjugation is depicted by mainstream economists as a law of nature and hence as an inevitable form of equilibrium, in which each nation’s economy receives "what it is worth." Today's mainstream economic models are based on the unrealistic assumption that all debts can be paid, without polarizing income and wealth. All economic problems are assumed to be self-curing by "the magic of the marketplace," without any need for civic authority to intervene. Government regulation is deemed inefficient and ineffective, and hence unnecessary. That leaves creditors, land-grabbers and privatizers with a free hand to deprive others of their freedom. This is depicted as the ultimate destiny of today's globalization, and of history itself.
  3618. End the Prison-Industrial Complex, Now!
    A Moral and Political Crime
    First Published: 2012
    In both political and moral terms, ending this prison industrial complex system is an imperative. As in the 1950s and 1960s, we must organize, mobilize and go into the streets. The existing system is the problem, not the solution.
  3619. Endarkenment: Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and the Attack on Free Speech
    First Published: 2017
    Both postmodern thinking and identity politics, towards overthrowing their respective enemies, use ideological forms that mirror or caricature those of their enemies. identity politics adopted a basic characteristic of racism and bigotry (essentialism) in order to attack racism and bigotry.
  3620. L'endettemen: un probleme grave pour de nombreuses familles de notres region
    First Published: 1980
  3621. L'endettement, nouvelle forme d'exploitation
    First Published: 1979
  3622. Ending Poverty As We Know It
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    The phenomenon of local living wage campaigns sweeping the country is one of the few causes for celebration in American politics. Led by unions, community organizations and religious groups, Americans are demanding that their local tax dollars fund jobs that pay a living wage.
  3623. Ending the Cesspool in Pharmaceuticals by Taking Away Patent Monopolies
    First Published: 2023
    Explores the prevalent corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, inlcuding monopolies, patents of "dubious legal status," and concealing evidence of drugs' protential harm.
  3624. Endless Atrocities: The US Role In Creating The North Korean Fortress-State
    First Published: 2017
    An overview of the history that informs North Korea's relations with the United States and "drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat".
  3625. Endless War, Swirling Chaos
    First Published: 2018
    The editors of Against the Current comment on current American global affairs, including the Singapore Summit, Iran and Palestine as well as the need for a new Anti-War movement.
  3626. Endless War: The Suicide Of The United States
    First Published: 2009
    Soldiers are returning from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan destroyed mentally, spiritually, and psychologically, to a general population that is, mostly, willfully ignorant of the occupations and the soldiers participating in them. Troops face a Department of Veterans Affairs that is either unwilling or unable to help them with their physical and psychological wounds, and they are left to fend for themselves.
  3627. Enduring Security
    Volunteer Fire Departments
    First Published: 2014
    Ralph Nader on the history, structure, and challenges faced by the United States' volunteer firefighters, who make up two-thirds of the nation's fire-fighting force.
  3628. The Enemies of Anarchy: A Critical Summary
    First Published: 1971
  3629. Enemies of the People
    How hatred of the masses bridges our partisan divide
    First Published: 2017
    As we veer into a brave new age of right-wing populism, a restive mood of contempt for the masses has seized the opposition. Demoralized liberals, still reeling from the debacle of the 2016 presidential ballot, are salving their wounds with reveries of metaphysical superiority.
  3630. The Enemy Is Not a Human Being
    First Published: 2023
    There's a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg's legacy that's very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent of it, ready to risk prison time to bring classified truth about its pointlessness into public awareness.
  3631. The Enemy of Nature
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    Images of the rapidly melting polar icecaps, the receding snows of Mount Kilimanjaro and human suffering at the hands of ever more violent storms all over the world occupy central places in our present-day collective culture.
  3632. The Enemy That Barely Exists
    First Published: 2011
    Al-Qa’ida has proved so elusive and difficult to eliminate mainly because it has never existed in the form that governments and intelligence agencies pretend.
  3633. An enemy within
    There are terrible precedents for attacking immigrant culture - like the well organised and sponsored US campaign during the first world war
    First Published: 2016
    A look at the persecution and campaign against Americans of German origin within the United States during WWI.
  3634. Energy and Employment Alternatives
    First Published: 1978
  3635. Energy Board OKs pipline subsidy
    First Published: 1991
  3636. Energy Development on Farmland: Statement on target areas for well sites
    First Published: 1981
    This statement on well site locations was presented to Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation board (ERCB) supporting the position to have the target area requirements for future oil and natural gas wells moved to the north-east corner of quarter sections or sections for the entire province.
  3637. Energy and Environment
    Introduction to Spring 1984 issue of the Connexions Digest,
    First Published: 1984
    Canada is at a critical point in its energy policy development. We do have the power to choose between the corporate and the soft energy paths. A wise choice will include consideration of the ecological, military, economic, human and ethical issues raised in this edition of CONNEXIONS.
  3638. Energy Options for New Brunswick
    First Published: 1977
    This brief has two parts. The first of these looks at the "need" for nuclear power in New Brunswick, while the second considers other ueseful sources of energy which could be tapped. At the end of each section, specific recommendations are made to government.
  3639. Energy Planning in a Conserver Society:
    Parts I&II to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning.
    First Published: 1979
    This brief presents for the first time a consistent alternative energy scenario for Ontario to the year 2025.
  3640. Energy Probe Material
    First Published: 1980
  3641. Energy Revolution Is Possible... And It Would Only Take 782 Rich People To Pay For It
    First Published: 2015
    Fewer than 800 of the world's wealthiest people could power half the world with 100 percent renewable energy within 15 years, report says.
  3642. Energy: The Fleecing of California
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    The root of the electrical power “crisis” in California lies in the 1996 deregulation of the industry by the state government, approved unanimously by both Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature and signed by Republican then-governor Pete Wilson.
  3643. Engels, Friedrich
    Connexipedia Article
    German author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. (1820-1895).
  3644. Engels, Neanderthals and the origins of the family
    First Published: 2017
    Based on concrete evidence from genetics and archaeology, Friedrich Engel's theories well over a hundred years ago are still relevant to current disputes about the origins of the human family.
  3645. Engels on the importance of Hegel to Marxism
    Letter to Conrad Schmidt
    First Published: 2019
    Neo-Kantian by persuasion, Schmidt nevertheless asked Engels what the philosophical underpinnings of Marxs thought were. Engels already had put out a book on the topic, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy (1885), but apparently the implications of this work were not clear enough.
  3646. Engendered Surgery: Women Surgeons Reveal their Experiences
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    In her talk at Harvard in April 2005, the feminist scientist Evelyn Fox Keller pointed to a distinction she was and is careful to make between garden variety discrimination and what she sees as the larger underlying issue: the way society constructs ideas of masculinity, femininity and science, and how these ideas overlap—or don't.
  3647. Engineering consent for fracking: Chris Smith and the 'astroturf' consultancy
    First Published: 2015
    Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America.
  3648. Engineering the climate could cost us the earth
    First Published: 2018
    Political scientist Gareth Dale takes a look at Geoengineering as a "political technology" and institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action, and actually serves to reduce the sense of urgency needed for genuine and more effective structural change.
  3649. England's 17th Century Revolution
    A Review of Francois Guizot's 1850 pamphlet Pourquoi la revolution d'Angleterre a-t-elle reussi?
    First Published: 1850
    For Guizot, English history ends with the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy. For him, everything that follows is limited to a pleasant alternating game between Tories and Whigs. In reality, however, the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy is only the beginning of the magnificent development and transformation of bourgeois society in England. Where M. Guizot sees only gentle calm and idyllic peace, in reality the most violent conflicts and the most penetrating revolutions are taking place.
  3650. English coffeehouses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
    Connexipedia Article
    Describes the origins, the popularity, and the decline of the English Coffeehouse.
  3651. The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners
    First Published: 1870
    On the treatment of Fenian prisoners.
  3652. The English Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    The period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period 1640-1660, in which Parliament challenged King Charles I's authority, engaged in civil conflict against his forces, and executed him in 1649.
  3653. The English Revolution 1640
    First Published: 1940
  3654. Enhance your image in novel ways
    First Published: 1998
    Soft marketing supports and image enhancement strategies require as much consideration as any other portion of your marketing plan.
  3655. The Enlightenment
    Connexipedia Article
    A term used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century.
  3656. The Enormous Limitations of U.S. Liberal Democracy and Its Consequences
    The Growth Of Fascism
    First Published: 2023
    Explores the "baked-in bias" towards the far right in the United States and the threat it poses to the democratic system of governance.
  3657. 'Enough is enough!' Corruptopolis board game satirizes sleazy Spanish politicians
    First Published: 2014
    A Spanish student has created a new board game, Corruptopolis, satirizing the corrupt practices of Spain's economic and political elite. In Corruptopolis, players work in teams to answer questions about major corruption scandals to have rocked Spain over the years.
  3658. Enough With the Just In Time Schedules, Say Retail Workers
    First Published: 2012
    Employers increasingly use part-time scheduling to decrease costs and crush attempts at worker organizing. Scheduling software now cuts shifts into chunks as small as 15-minutes. Last-minute schedule changes result when the software predicts customer traffic based on the weather forecast or recent sales patterns. Most retail workers now don't know their schedules a week ahead of time, and often have shifts added or cancelled at the last minute. Erratic scheduling can also make it impossible for parttime workers to hold two jobs, because they never know when they will be available.
  3659. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    First Published: 1772
  3660. Enseñando a adultos a leer
    First Published: 1984
  3661. Entertaining facts: what the news media do with expert information about environmental risks
    First Published: 2015
    This research aims to clarify why there is such a difference between expert understandings of the environmental risk of global warming and climate change, and social world understandings.
  3662. The Enthronment of Illogic
    Daring to Know
    First Published: 2013
    It is not that the average U.S. citizen is incapable of critical thinking, but that there is little incentive to exercise it. He is suppressed, blocked from the free exercise of his principles and values.
  3663. Entrenching Capitalist Agriculture in India Under the Guise of Development
    First Published: 2016
    A criticism of the efforts by the IMF and World Bank to change India's agricultural system and its impact on the Indian economy and populace.
  3664. Entrepreneurs Convert Landfill Gas into an Alternative Source of Energy
    First Published: 1990
    New technology is presenting alternatives for the generation of energy from landfill gases.
  3665. Entrevista con Ulli Diemer
    First Published: 1990
  3666. Entrevue avec Ulli Diemer
    First Published: 1990
  3667. The Entry of a New German Left Party Shakes up the Country
    First Published: 2024
    Launched by Sahra Wagenknecht and her allies, a new left party is proposing a different direction for Germany.
  3668. EnviroFair
    First Published: 1990
  3669. Enviromental Education Resources
    First Published: 1991
  3670. L'ENVIRONMENT
    First Published: 1980
  3671. Environment 2000
    First Published: 1990
  3672. Environment network faces problems
    First Published: 1989
  3673. Environment video resource centre
    First Published: 1989
  3674. Environmental and Occupational Health: A View from STOP
    First Published: 1980
  3675. Environmental data lacking
    First Published: 1991
  3676. Environmental Directory
    First Published: 1989
  3677. Environmental Forum
    First Published: 1989
  3678. Environmental history - Timeline of environmental history - Wikipedia
    Connexipedia Article
    The timeline lists geological, astronomical, and climatological events in relation to events in human history which they influenced.
  3679. Environmental Impacts of Dams
    The environmental consequences of large dams are numerous and varied, and includes direct impacts to the biological, chemical and physical properties of rivers and riparian (or "stream-side") environments.
  3680. Environmental Infoline
    First Published: 1989
  3681. Environmental journalism
    Connexipedia Article
    The collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans necessarily interact.
  3682. Environmental labels
    First Published: 1989
  3683. Environmental movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Term that includes the conservation and green movements, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.
  3684. The Environmental Movement at the Crossroads
    Gang Green or New Green?
    First Published: 2013
    There is a growing culture of resistance in the environment movement
  3685. Environmental Noise
    The Invisible Pollutant
    First Published: 1998
    The invisible pollutant of environmental noise can be tamed.
  3686. Environmental Noise
    First Published: 2000
    This booklet deals with environmental noise -- for example, noise from industrial sites, road and rail traffic, airports and fairgrounds.
  3687. Environmental racism in the US - black communities fight for justice
    First Published: 2015
    Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators and other 'bad neighbor' industries in the US tend to be situated in African American communities. The Environmental Protection Agency is legally obliged to prevent 'environmental racism', but from California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for it to take a stand. Now, backed by Earthjustice, they are forcing the issue - in the courts.
  3688. Environmental rights legislation
    First Published: 1992
  3689. Environmental Values Education
    First Published: 1990
  3690. Environmental Youth Alliance
    First Published: 1991
  3691. Environmentalists Do Not Support Nuclear Power
    First Published: 2008
  3692. Envisioning Economic Justice
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    The organizers of the U.S. Social Forum must be commended for making possible this political happening with its 900 workshops. The USSF has succeeded in bringing together activists from many diverse sectors working for global justice — thereby contributing to the strengthening of the entire movement.
  3693. E.P. Thompson: Feminism, Gender, Women and History
    First Published: 2013
    Winslow reflects upon her experiences working with E.P. Thompson at the University of Warwick in 1969, especially in relation to his support for the women's liberation movement.
  3694. E.P. Thompson, Marxist rebel
    First Published: 2024
    The Little Englander still shows that socialism can have a human face.
  3695. E. P. Thompson's Socialist Humanism
    E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Cal Winslow's E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics.
  3696. Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History
    First Published: 2019
    Biographical info on Epifanio Camacho, a labor activist who fought alongside the less militant Cesar Chavez. He has been largely forgotten by history.
  3697. Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1978
    The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
  3698. Equal Access to Our Parks for Bulldozer Racing
    First Published: 1999
    Tthere have been some problems, such as some people riding recklessly, going off the designated trails, and even secretly constructing illegal trails. But those are a small minority of bulldozer riders. You shouldn't allow a small minority to give the majority of us bulldozer racers, who ride responsibly, a bad name. Why should we be punished, just because of them, and be forced to walk, just like everybody else?
  3699. Equal Partners for Change - Women and Unions
    First Published: 1979
  3700. Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value
    First Published: 1978
  3701. Equal Shares in Caring
    First Published: 1991
  3702. Equality for Women?
    David Irving's toxic views.
  3703. Equality Program
    First Published: 1989
  3704. Equiano, Olaudah
    Connexipedia Article
    African former slave involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. (1745-1797).
  3705. ER certainties: death and co-pays
    First Published: 2011
    Our society has made choices that dehumanize all of us. Dehumanization is felt inside and outside the shop floor. The HMO's bottom line is not about how well the patient's illness is treated, but how to minimize costs. They remind us employees daily that we're a business. The corporate ethos is the survival of the business above all, over anyone else's survival.
  3706. Erasmus, Georges
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian Aboriginal politician, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 1985 to 1991. (Born 1948).
  3707. The erasure of Syrian voices in Western media
    First Published: 2017
    Trapped between a police state and Al Qaeda, average Syrians explain why they fear regime change.
  3708. Erdogan is Strengthened by the Failed Coup, But Turkey is the Loser
    First Published: 2016
    Looks into the impact of the recent (2016) coup attempt in Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's counter-coup.
  3709. Erfurt Program
    Connexipedia Article
    Program was adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the SPD congress at Erfurt in 1891.
  3710. The Erfurt Program
    Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands
    First Published: 1891
    Program of Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands.
  3711. Eric Hobsbawm: Historical cosmonaut
    David Kynaston on a 'national treasure' whose politics provoked endless bitterness
    First Published: 2019
    Review of 'A Life In History' a biography of Eric Hobsbawm by Richard J. Evans.
  3712. Eric Hobsbawm’s histories
    First Published: 2018
    Eric Hobsbawm was the author of, among many other works, a classic quartet on modern world history, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire and Age of Extremes. Hobsbawm was widely respected as one of the greatest historians of the left and one of the greatest historians of the 20th century more generally.
  3713. Eritrea commits crimes against humanity, UN says
    First Published: 2016
    Eritrea's government is guilty of committing crimes against humanity since independence a quarter-century ago with up to 400,000 people "enslaved", the UN has said. The crimes committed since 1991 include imprisonment, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings, and rape and murder, said the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights.
  3714. Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism
    First Published: 1972
  3715. Ernest Mandel's Legacy
    Against The Current vol. 93
    First Published: 2001
    Ernest Mandel was perhaps the best known revolutionary Marxist of the second half of the twentieth century. As an activist and leader of the Fourth International for most of his adult life, Mandel became the living vessel of post-war Trotskyism. Noted for his intellectual versatility, Mandel ventured into the fields of economics, political theory, history, even literary criticism.
  3716. Ernst & Young Pays $10 Million To Settle Lehman Brothers Audit Failure Lawsuit
    First Published: 2015
    Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four auditing firms, has agreed to pay a $10 million to New York state to settle a lawsuit for overlooking accounting gimmicks by Lehman Brothers, the defunct Wall Street bank. The scheme allowed Lehman to hide billions of dollars in bad deals.
  3717. Es kommt nicht auf das Meeting an, sondern auf die Bewegung
  3718. Escalation is when Palestinians lose self-restraint
    First Published: 2015
    Who is to blame for the escalation?
  3719. Eslanda Robeson's Journey
    Book Review
    First Published: 2015
    A book review of Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby.
  3720. Essay on the art of crawling, for the use of courtiers
    First Published: 1776
    The courtier is, without contradiction, the most curious product of the human race. He's an amphibian animal in which all contrasts are commonly assembled.
  3721. Essential Debates at the Intersections of Science and Socialism
    First Published: 2017
    In the introduction to his new book "A Redder Shade of Green", Ian Angus says ecosocialism must be based on a careful synthesis of Marxist social science and Earth System science -- a twenty-first century rebirth of scientific socialism.
  3722. Essential Publications on Women's Questions
    First Published: 1989
  3723. Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement
    First Published: 2016
    An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change published in the immediate aftermath of the agreement.
  3724. Establishment journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back
    First Published: 2020
    Leading journalist in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous smears imaginable.
  3725. Estar Baur (1920-2017)
    Against the Current vol. 192
    First Published: 2018
    With the passing of Estar Baur, Dianne Feeley discusses Baur's life as a lifelong socialist activist.
  3726. Estevan Coal Miners' Strike, 1931
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A strike which led to the murder of three miners by the RCMP.
  3727. Estimating Lung Cancers: Or Its Perfectly Safe, But Don't Breathe Too Deeply
    First Published: 1978
  3728. Estranged Labour
    Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
    First Published: 1844
  3729. Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
    First Published: 2018
    The wealthier they are, the more they fear that others will try to take their wealth. No wonder the super-rich are building bunkers to escape the apocalypse.
  3730. Ethical Considerations - Uranium Mining
    First Published: 1979
  3731. Ethical Mutual Funds, Screening the Screens
    First Published: 1991
    Ethical Mutual Funds are important to the growth of social programs and services in Canada.
  3732. Ethical Reflections on the economic crisis
    First Published: 1983
    January 1983 statement by the Canadian Roman Catholic Bishops.
  3733. The ethical work of Karl Marx
    First Published: 1982
    If ethics is taken to be, on the one hand, the negation of bourgeois ideology and morality and, on the other, as the intellectual and practical anticipation of the humanist values which are to govern relations among individuals in a world community freed from today's dominant alienating institutions (economic, political, ideological, etc.), then the work of Karl Marx may consequently be understood as an ethical act.
  3734. Ethics and Whistleblowing for Engineers Affects Us All
    First Published: 2018
    Some engineering professors worry that their students' busy course schedules prevents them from adequately exploring the liberal arts. Without exposure to the liberal arts, engineering students will lack the broad context that will help them approach their work as a profession, not just a trade.
  3735. Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples
    First Published: 2015
    A land grab is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations.
  3736. Ethiopia's 'slow genocide' in the Omo Valley
    First Published: 2014
    A 'slow genocide' is unfolding in Ethiopia - one driven by greed rather than hatred.
  3737. Ethiopian Migrants Victimized in Saudi Arabia
    Racism and Hate Running Through the Streets
    First Published: 2013
    The recent appalling events in Saudi Arabia have brought thousands of impassioned Ethiopians living inside the country and overseas onto the streets. This powerful worldwide action presents a tremendous opportunity for the people to unite, to demand their rights through peaceful demonstrations and to call with one voice for change.
  3738. Ethiopian Protesters Endure Brutality and Censorship Amid Land Struggle
    First Published: 2016
    Students in Ethiopia's largest administrative region, Oromia, have been braving state-sponsored violence and censorship since November 2015 to protest a government development plan.
  3739. Ethiopia's seed banks - under threat from G8 plan to 'develop' Africa
    First Published: 2014
    Ethiopia leads the way in preserving crop seeds by engaging farming communities in the effort, and making the exchange of seeds part of village life and culture, reports Claire Provost. But now it's all at risk from a G8 plan to open Africa to corporate agriculture.
  3740. Ethiopia's stolen land.
    'A common property of the nations and peoples'
    First Published: 2013
    Government plans to reform Ethiopia’s agriculture failed to consider the country’s peasant culture, subsistence farming and basic needs such as water to drink. Instead, it let the agrifood and financial giants take much of the most fertile land from peasant farmers.
  3741. Ethnic Cleansing by All Means: The real Israeli 'peace' policy
    First Published: 2014
    This policy of ethnic cleansing, by different means since 1948, is a consensual issue in Israel and thus leaves very little hope for peace and reconciliation. The current Israeli left, the self-acclaimed 'peace bloc', is willing to oppose new settlements but refuses to acknowledge the historical injustice inflicted on Palestinians in 1948 and denies displaced Palestinians their right to return to their homes and their homeland.
  3742. Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise
    First Published: 2016
    According to the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, an Israeli NGO, the Israeli government has demolished 28,000 Palestinian structures since the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began in 1967, resulting in the homelessness and suffering of untold numbers of people. There is little ambiguity about the morality of this form of ethnic cleansing, and even most Israeli legal scholars agree that it is in contravention of international law.
  3743. Ethnic Cleansing of Invented People 
    First Published: 2011
    Once we connect the dots it is not hard to see that the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is only a small part of the Israeli Palestinian issue. The greater issue is the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist state. The way forward for Israelis and Palestinians alike is to oppose the ethnic cleansing by opposing all its manifestations.
  3744. Ethnic Cleansing: Palestine Reality
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    While the term “ethnic cleansing” has come into use only very recently, the act that it describes, namely the forcible expulsion of one or more ethnic groups from a region, has been practiced for millennia.
  3745. Ethnic Conflicts in Nicaragua
    First Published: 1998
    WITH LITTLE INTERNATIONAL notice, the winds of war are picking up on the eastern seaboard of Nicaragua. This time, however, it will not be a clear class-warfare case with a popular revolution struggling against an imperial behemoth. Rather, the Croat-Serb-Muslim model may be a better metaphor. Over the past decade we have watched the situation change from the hopeful vision of a multiethnic autonomous society to today's mixture of ethnic typecasting and cynical manipulations by the neoliberal...
  3746. Ethnic Nationalism Versus Common Sense
    Response to a Zionist Book Review
    First Published: 2006
    Picture this. On the one hand, you have a bunch of people living in Palestine. Their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers most likely lived there too. They make their living there; they make their lives there. From far away appear some Europeans -- European Jews. They declare their intention to establish a state controlled by those who are, on some definition or other, ethnically Jewish. This will be a sovereign state, holding the power of life and death over all non-Jews within its borders, and those borders are intended eventually to comprise all of Palestine.
  3747. EU-Canada CETA trade deal is a back door for US to sue EU - even if TTIP fails
    First Published: 2015
    There's been a big fuss about the 'ISDS' clauses in the TTIP trade deal that would allow US corporations to sue the EU and its member states for 'lost profits', writes Maude Barlow. But ISDS is already in CETA, the already negotiated EU-Canada trade deal - and nothing would be easier than for US companies to use it as their 'back door'. We must make sure CETA is rejected at its final hurdle.
  3748. EU diplomats reveal devastating impact of Ethiopia dam project on remote tribes
    First Published: 2015
    A controversial World Bank-funded scheme to dam a major Ethiopian river and import up to 500,000 people to work in what is planned to be one of the world's largest sugar plantations has led to tens of thousands of Africa's most remote and vulnerable people being insensitively resettled. According to reports by two teams of British, American and EU diplomats who visited the resettlement areas in the Lower Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia last year, the lives of 20,000 Mursi, Bodi and other semi-nomadic tribespeople are being "fundamentally and irreversibly" changed by the mega-project.
  3749. Eugene Genovese (1930-2012) - obituary
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    After his death last year at the age of 82, most obituaries of Eugene Genovese — the historian of American slavery whose masterpiece, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, was published in 1974 — stated that he traveled from left to right, from Marxism to conservatism.
  3750. Euro Banks vs. Greek Labor
    Varoufakis is Proposing Austerity on the Banking Class
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Michael Hudson, professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City about the current economic situation of Greece.
  3751. Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism 
    First Published: 2001
    What is so puzzling about anti-Eurocentric histories, especially the histories of capitalism, is that, without exception, they are based on the most Eurocentric -- not to mention bourgeois -- assumptions.
  3752. Europe: Reactionary Working Class? "Could it be that the Left have failed their constituencies"
    First Published: 2017
    There is no lack of condemnation and moralizing to those who go to the far right. An increasing number of commentators, however, are now beginning to suspect that the march of large groups of workers toward the far right can be an expression of protest against the prevailing social development. Not all have received the benefits from the globalization success story.
  3753. Europe's Political Turmoil (Part I)
    First Published: 2018
    Far-right parties are gaining ground all over Europe scapegoating immigrants and people of colour. The radical left has not come up with a competitive strategy for winning people over.
  3754. Europe's Political Turmoil -- Part II
    First Published: 2019
    Could the rise of the far right across Europe actually lead to establishing fascist regimes? Overemphasis on this fear may divert attention from where it is needed.
  3755. European Communist Parties and '68
    First Published: 2018
    One effect of the May 1968 uprisings was to highlight and/or hasten the split between communist parties and social movements in Europe.
  3756. The European Elections from a Left Perspective
    First Published: 2014
    Preliminary analysis, country-specific results and reports on the electoral eve, video statements of the left-wing candidates and our correspondents as well as evaluations in the aftermath – and all of this with a particular focus on the Left.
  3757. European Labour History Network - working group on Factory History
    First Published: 2013
    The founding meeting of the ELHN took place at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) on 12 October 2013. The forty scholars who gathered in Amsterdam, belonging to research institutions, archives and journals based in various European countries, felt the need to increase the cooperation among labour history scholars, share knowledge and (digital) material, create a platform for future collective research, and organize conferences and seminars.
  3758. European Social failure?
    First Published: 2010
    The sixth European Social Forum in Istanbul left something to be desired
  3759. European Social Forum
    Connexipedia Article
    An annual conference held by members of the alter-globalization movement (also known as the Global Justice Movement) which aims to allow social movements, trade unions, NGOs, refugees, peace and anti-imperial groups, anti-racist movements, environmental movements, networks of the excluded and community campaigns from Europe and the world to come together and discuss themes linked to major European and global issues.
  3760. European Unification Divides Europeans: How Forcing People Together Tears Them Apart
    First Published: 2016
    Unification of Europe has brought about radical new divisions within Europe. The most significant split is between the people and their political leaders.
  3761. Europe's Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
    First Published: 2014
    The start of Greece's six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned and there was no in-depth talk about the raging controversy over the bloc's handling of the Greek debt crisis and the renewed concerns about the vitality of the Eurozone.
  3762. Europe's Moment of Truth
    First Published: 2015
    Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras' acceptance of an "austerity package" on July 13, which contained measures rejected by the Greek people in a referendum barely a week before, represents not just an abject surrender by the Syriza government, or a sign of contempt on the part of German finance capital for the Greek electorate; it marks a decisive turning point for Europe (and indeed for the rest of the world), and the end of the road for a whole way of thinking on the Left, especially the European Left.
  3763. Europe's new faultine
    First Published: 2014
    The Front National is expected to win next week’s European election in France; UKIP may well do so in Britain. Both parties combine a visceral hostility to immigration with an acerbic loathing of the EU, a virulent nationalism and deeply conservative views on social issues such as gay marriage and women’s rights. The problems that such parties pose for mainstream politics goes, however, far beyond the odiousness of their policies. What their success expresses is the redrawing of the political map in Europe, and in ways in which mainstream parties often do not understand. The new populists seem to thrive on different political rules to mainstream parties.
  3764. Europe's New Road to Serfdom
    Trichet Threatens Greece with Iron Heel
    First Published: 2011
    The conditios for Greece's new loan package is that Greece must initiate a class war by raising its taxes, lowering its social spending – and even private-sector pensions – and sell off public land, tourist sites, islands, ports, water and sewer facilities. This will raise the cost of living and doing business, eroding the nation’s already limited export competitiveness. The bankers sanctimoniously depict this as a “rescue” of Greek finances.
  3765. Europe's Political Turmoil and the Rise of the Far Right
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the recent rise of far-right governments all over Europe and the failure of the left to effectively counter this.
  3766. EuroZone Profiteers: How German and French Banks Helped Bankrupt Greece
    First Published: 2015
    We should be clear: almost none of the huge amount of money loaned to Greece has actually gone there, says Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and a Nobel Prize winner in economics. It has gone to pay out private-sector creditors – including German and French banks.
  3767. The Evacuated Ones
    First Published: 1983
  3768. Evaluating the virtual picket line
    Italian union's Second Life information picket tests worth of a potentially valuable tool
    First Published: 2007
    The organizers of the Second Life online action see it as a tool, a tactic as part of a larger campaign -- not necessarily a campaign-wining strategy.
  3769. Evaluation, Participation and Community Health Care: Critique and Lessons
    First Published: 1979
  3770. Evans, Arthur
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Socialist, trade unionist. (1890-1944).
  3771. Even the FBI Agrees: When Undercover Agents Pose as Journalists, It Hurts Real Journalists' Work
    First Published: 2018
    The FBI doesn't want the public to know more about how its agents pose as journalists during undercover investigations.The government acknowledged in a court filing that FBI agents who pretend to be journalists create a chilling effect, making it harder for real journalists to gain trust and cooperation from sources.
  3772. Even the Machines Are Racist. Facial Recognition Systems Threaten Black Lives.
    The use of surveillance technology for "security" comes at the expense of civil liberties for Black and Brown people.
    First Published: 2020
    Politicians and companies pushing facial recognition technology say that, like the near-certainty of DNA and the exactness of fingerprint matches, the software is a precise, unbiased alternative to human bigotry in policing. Yet in reality, facial recognition technology is prone to false positives that target Black and Brown people, and then tracks them when they're on parole.
  3773. Even Wars Have Rules: a Fact Sheet on the Bombing of Kunduz Hospital
    First Published: 2015
    Doctors Without Borders is calling for an independent fact-finding investigation to ascertain the truth about the events that led to the killing of our colleagues and patients by US.airstrikes on one of our hospitals in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
  3774. Evers, Medgar
    Connexipedia Article
    African American civil rights activist from Mississippi, murdered in 1963. (1925-1963).
  3775. Every 25 Seconds, Cops Arrest Someone for Drug Possession
    First Published: 2016
    The war on drugs may have failed, but it certainly hasn't ended: Every 25 seconds in the U.S., someone is arrested for drug possession. Arrests for the possession and personal use of drugs are boosting the ranks of the incarcerated at astonishing rates - with 137,000 people behind bars for drugs on any given day, and 1.25 million every year.
  3776. Every Crook Can Govern
    Prison Rebellions as a Window to the New World
    First Published: 2011
    In their self-organization, the hunger strikers have begun to rupture structures of segregation.
  3777. Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War Crime 
    The Experts' Verdict
    First Published: 2014
    When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nation’s Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israel’s potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definition – right now, as you read this?
  3778. 'Every journalist should feel a cold, icy hand running down their spine
    Assange's extradition case examined
    First Published: 2020
    "Every journalist in the United States should feel a cold, icy hand running down their spine" at the charges that had been leveled against this publisher. Because they could be next,' writer Suelette Dreyfus says about Assange whose project published leaked documents exposing possible US War crimes in Iraq and letters exposing shenanigans against Bernie Sanders in 2016 by bosses within the Democratic Party.
  3779. Every state is a battleground
    Howie Hawkins' Response to "An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy"
    First Published: 2020
    It is condescending and disrespectful to say that Greens are political dilettantes who cast votes just to feel good. We vote to advance a program of system change. We don't waste our votes affirming Democrats like Clinton who personified the elite consensus for the neoliberal economics and neoconservative imperialism that has given us unabated global warming, growing economic insecurity, and endless wars.
  3780. Every Woman for Herself
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    Factory Girls shows the reader what it’s like to live inside the largest human migration in history. It feels, apparently, pretty lonely. Leslie Chang’s subjects are the young women who’ve left tiny farms throughout China for a chance at making money in the big city. Their lesson and mantra is that each person can depend only on herself. “The easiest thing in the world was to lose touch with someone,” Chang notes.
  3781. Everyone can be an investigative journalist. Everyone!
    First Published: 2013
    Inge Springe is the founder and director of the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism. Her stories have resulted in action against public officials and helped bring about changes in Latvian economic and tax policy.
  3782. Everyone can be an investigative journalist. Everyone!
    First Published: 2013
    Inge Springe is the founder and director of the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism. Her stories for the center, which is also known as Re:Baltica, have resulted in action against public officials and helped bring about changes in Latvian economic and tax policy.
  3783. Everyone is the Mother of Victory
    First Published: 2015
    Everyone is the mother of victory; No one is the father of defeat. Do we claim COP21 as a success, and risk watching it being used by fossil fuel failures to carry on burning humanity, and so become complicit in defeat?
  3784. Everyone on the Bus: Rider-Driver Alliances
    First Published: 2014
    Kann sheds light on the increasingly desperate state of transit in Detroit as number and frequency of buses and entire routes are experiencing increasing cuts and riders join in a union with drivers to protest these affairs.
  3785. Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
    First Published: 2019
    Many right-wing movements and leaders are described as moderate or even left-leaning by politicians and corporate media. In these cases the terms no longer have a political definition but is a way to convey approval.
  3786. Everything is under control. Until it isn't.
    First Published: 2024
    In the nuclear age, a miscalculation can result in unspeakable catastrophe, but nonetheless, decision-makers continue to take risky actions which they calculate will bring them an advantage. They assume that they can to push forward and ‘show strength’ and then push some more, while reserving the option of showing restraint if the other side pushes back too vigorously. The world now finds itself in probably the most dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. All it will take is one misstep, one miscalculation, one reckless action by a mid-level military officer acting without orders – and the missiles will start flying. And it will be game over for the human race.
  3787. Everything You Wanted to Know About Nuclear Power
    (but were afraid to find out)
    First Published: 1978
  3788. Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
    First Published: 1978
    We would rather fight for what we want (even if we don#t get it in our lifetime) than fight for what we don't want ... and get it.
  3789. Everything's on the Line at AAM
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    The strike of 3,600 UAW-represented workers at American Axle and Manufacturing plants in Michigan and New York has forced the idling of more than 40,000 workers in 30 GM plants and shut down a number of parts plants throughout North America. Eighty percent of AAM’s axles, chassis components and forged products are shipped to General Motors, but AAM also produces parts for other automakers, including Chrysler and Toyota.
  3790. Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank's Broken Promise to the Poor
    First Published: 2015
    The World Bank pledges to "do no harm." But over the past decade it has regularly failed to protect the world's most vulnerable people.
  3791. Evicting the Underclass
    First Published: 2017
    A Chinese government campaign to expel migrant workers from Beijing is designed to reap greater profits from urban land and reserve the city for elites.
  3792. The eviction moratorium is a useful lesson in how reforms actually happen
    First Published: 2021
    Ray Valentine describes how collective disruption "outside the political process" won tenants significant concessions.
  3793. Evictions, trials as Russian Church claims property
    With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
    First Published: 2017
    With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
  3794. Evidence and Evolution: A Controversial Theory
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    The importance of evolutionary theory for biology can hardly be overstated. An oft-quoted remark by the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky captures this: "Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." The applications of genetics—the foundation of evolutionary theory—are widespread and profound in technology as well as basic biology.
  3795. Evidence from the Archives
    First Published: 1996
    The Trotskyists' reformist course, their legalism, their "conscious refusal to seek support in the growing workers' movement" significantly "weakened the effectiveness of the 'bolshevik-leninists' and disoriented potential adherents."
  3796. Evidence Meltdown
    First Published: 2011
    The green movement has misled the world about the dangers of radiation.
  3797. Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev
    First Published: 2022
    NewsGuard gave Consortium News a red mark for "publishing false content" on Ukraine, including that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. Here is CN's detailed proof.
  3798. The evidence that Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances
    First Published: 2014
    Amnesty International has published evidence that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) specifically targeted hospitals, health workers and ambulance personnel during the attack on Gaza.
  3799. The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas Attack
    First Published: 2019
    A report that conflicts with claims that two cylinders containing chemicals were dropped from an aircraft was suppressed by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. This erodes public trust in the institution and is distressing given the recent history of using dubious existence of deadly weapons to justify wars.
  3800. The Evil of Humanitarian Wars 
    Iraq, Libya, Syria: We have no right to play God
    First Published: 2012
    The West’s duty is not to intervene more but to intervene far less. We already massively arm tyrannies such as those in the Gulf so that they can protect the oil that we consider our birthright; we offer military, financial and diplomatic cover for Israel’s continuing oppression of millions of Palestinians, a major cause of political instability in the Middle East; and we quietly support the Egyptian military, which is currently trying to reverse last year’s revolutionary gains.
  3801. The Evil of the Lesser Evil
    First Published: 2008
    Lesser-evilism as a progressive strategy has succeeded -- succeeded in making American politics progressively more and more right-wing.
  3802. Evil Takes the High Road
    Wrapping a Policy of Global Domination in the American Flag
    First Published: 2013
    No heavens for those who live in one of the Muslim countries in which the United States is waging its preemptive global “war on terrorism.”
  3803. Evil Traffickers and Innocent Children?
    It's Not So Simple
    First Published: 2013
    One of the most pressing reasons why teenagers like Adri need to migrate for work is because there’s no other way for them or their families to access the money that is essential to life in any capitalist economy.
  3804. Evolution not "Reinvention: Manning Marable's Malcolm X
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    Manning Marable's final book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is a serious political biography of one of the most historic figures of the African-American community. Marable’s interpretation of papers provided by Malcolm’s family estate, along with files from the FBI, New York City Police Department and new interviews from those who knew Malcolm and the Nation of Islam (NOI), add to our understandings and debates about Malcolm’s views and evolution.
  3805. The Evolution of Evolution - review
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Darwin’s Ghosts' by Rebecca Stott.
  3806. The Evolution of Union Co-ops and the Historical Development of Workplace Democracy
    First Published: 2016
  3807. Evolving Geopolitical Economic Framework: US vs. China
    First Published: 2015
    The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a game changer in what had been since World War II and Bretton Woods American global financial dominance in facilitating US unilateral market penetration via the preponderant voice in IMF and World Bank operations and policy making, and, equally significant, integrating expanding economic power with an interventionist military underpinning.
  3808. Ex-Israeli pilot: 'Our army is a terrorist organisation run by war criminals' 
    First Published: 2021
    A former Israeli Air Force pilot, Yonatan Shapira, has described the Israeli government and army as "terrorist organisations" run by "war criminals."
  3809. Ex-POW's sue Japan over atrocities
    First Published: 1992
  3810. An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
    First Published: 2001
    An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
  3811. Excerpts from Endgame: Pacifism 
    Part 1 of 3
    First Published: 2016
    Derrick Jensen looks at the main arguments normally presented by pacifists and examines them to see if they make any sense.
  3812. Excerpts from the 'Notebooks'
    First Published: 1938   Published: 1944
  3813. Excess Packaging
    Strategies for Waste Reduction
    First Published: 1989
  3814. Excess Packaging Campaign
    First Published: 1989
  3815. Exclusive excerpts from Ernest Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
    First Published: 2014
  3816. Execution Day in Zhengzhou
    First Published: 1991
    A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
  3817. Execution of Paris Communards Foreshadowed Mass Murders of 20th Century
    First Published: 2015
    The short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 lasted only a little more than two months before being ruthlessly crushed. A new book by Yale Professor John Merriman, "Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune," provides a remarkably detailed account of an armed uprising that rejected oligarchical government.
  3818. Executives salaries rising
    First Published: 1989
  3819. Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once
    First Published: 2010
    Noam Chomsky takes a day off.
  3820. Exhibitors can get more bang for their buck
    First Published: 1998
    Trade shows are effective marketing vehicles when used well.
  3821. Exile Islands, Then and Now
    Histories of Exploitation
    First Published: 2013
    The increasing number of asylum seeker arrivals to Australia – more than 15,000 in 2013 alone – has become such an issue that in July former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd took a new “hardline” stance, saying that no one arriving by boat would ever be allowed to settle there.
  3822. Exiting the Vampire Castle
    First Published: 2013
    This summer, I seriously considered withdrawing from any involvement in politics. Exhausted through overwork, incapable of productive activity, I found myself drifting through social networks, feeling my depression and exhaustion increasing.
  3823. Ex-Muslims: A community in protest 
    First Published: 2018
    I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, it’s a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality – not upon difference or superiority. It’s a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.
  3824. Expand your knowledge by getting advice from the experts!
    First Published: 2001
    Public opinion plays a key role in government spending decisions, and one of the most effective ways to influence public opinion is through the media. A single appearance on television, for example, gets your message across to tens of thousand of people.
  3825. Expansion of monocultures expels peasants from their lands 
    Repression intensifies against peasant leaders opposed to land grabs, evictions and the pollution of water sources.
    First Published: 2018
    In Guatemala a wave of violence at the hands of large agriculture corporations has been driving Indigenous people and peasants off their land.
  3826. Expansion of Renewable Energies in Mexico Has Victims, Too
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the impact of wind and solar projects in the Yucatan state of Mexico on the nearby communities, in particular farmers, and the failures of the government to consult or inform the community on the environmental impacts and contract terms.
  3827. Expelled from a Progressive Think Tank - for the Crime of Denouncing Antifa Violence
    First Published: 2022
  3828. Expert panel identifies unacceptable toll of food and farming systems on human health
    First Published: 2017
    The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health.
  3829. Experts say: proliferation of meaningless prose may bring end of civilization as we know it
  3830. Experts Warned For Years That NATO Expansion Would Lead To This
    First Published: 2022
    Analysts and diplomats have been saying since the 1990s that NATO expansion would eventually spark a conflict in Eastern Europe.
  3831. Explaining Burma's missing 9 million people - evaporation, or genocide?
    First Published: 2014
    In Burma nearly one in five people is not alive who was expected to be alive based upon a modest estimate of the 2% population growth rate. Despite its significance, the figure is met with silence.
  3832. Exploitation, Alienation and Oppression
    First Published: 2018
    Bakan discusses the varations of Marxism and proports that the best of the Marxist tradition resists orthodoxy. She considers the complexity and variation in the core concepts in Marx's work regarding inequality.
  3833. The Exploitation Explosion
    First Published: 1991
    Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
  3834. Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS
    First Published: 2015
    Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America's enemies (top Nixon aides accused Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans with his leak); it's just the tactical playbook that's automatically used. So it's of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden's whistleblowing enabled newspapers around the world to report on secretly implemented programs of mass surveillance, he has been accused by "officials" and their various media allies of Helping The Terrorists.
  3835. Explore Co-opertives and Credit Unions
    First Published: 1978
  3836. Explore the Documents: Luxembourg Leaks Database
    First Published: 2014
    ICIJ's Luxembourg Leaks investigation is based on a confidential cache of secret tax agreements approved by Luxembourg authorities, that provide tax-relief for more than 340 companies around the world. These private deals are legal in Luxembourg.
  3837. Exploring Alternatives: Free Schools
    First Published: 1969
    Since our schools and universities are unwilling to adopt basic, or even moderate, reform, the only way to achieve a worthwhile education is through free schools.
  3838. Exploring Imperial Pathologies
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    The historical analysis of imperialism as a system of domination and subordination, of colonizer and colonized, of the “developed world” or global North over the “underdeveloped” global South, maintained for the benefit of the “imperial center” or “metropol” continues to evolve. Several recent studies focusing on the distortions, indeed the social and political pathologies inherent in the system, help to deepen our grasp of U.S. imperialism as something far greater and more complex than a system of economic and political relations.
  3839. Exploring the Roots of the Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    On several points there is general agreement among most, if not all, radical and revolutionary anti-capitalists and socialists regarding the current economic crisis.
  3840. The Export of Philippine Women
    First Published: 1997
    Principles of social justice are clearly not served by applauding a system that prides itself in an increased GNP at the same time that it farms out its women to be servants of the world.
  3841. Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power
    First Published: 2008
    Salon has uncovered new evidence of post-9/11 spying on Americans. Obtained documents point to a potential investigation of the White House that could rival Watergate.
  3842. Exposing Canary Mission
    A Resource for College and University Leaders
    First Published: 2018
    A report on Canary Mission, a secretive and non-academic political organization that uses their website to engage in defamatory attacks against college students, academics and others who report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and advocate for Palestinian rights.
  3843. Exposing How Pro-Israel Groups Manufacture Antisemitism Narratives
    First Published: 2021
    These narratives attempt to have the public, media and politicians focus on bogus allegations of antisemitism instead of Israel’s actions.
  3844. Exposing Israel's Most Dangerous Secret
    What's Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research?
    First Published: 2011
    Israel's preparations for biological and chemical warfare.
  3845. Exposure of Another Pro-War Lie Doesn't Make Media More Skeptical of Pro-War Claims 
    First Published: 2019
    The story of pro-Maduro forces burning trucks bringing aid to Venezuela has now been reported as false, even by corporate media. The bigger story of how and why this lie was propogated gets left behind.
  3846. An Expression of the Facts
    First Published: 1998
    What the story of Darwin's long-forgotten masterpiece, and the continuing debate about its subject matter, tells us is that the scientific idea of the human is not simply an objective truth, but is shaped by wider issues such as the prevailing ideas of progress, notions of racial difference, and the understanding of the relationship between Man and Nature.
  3847. Expulsion of Germans after World War II
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    By the end of World War II, most of the German population fled or was expelled from areas outside the territory of post-war Germany and post-war Austria,
  3848. Expulsion of Poles by Germany
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
  3849. Expulsion of the Acadians
    Wikipedia article
    The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, was the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from the present day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island -- an area also known as Acadia. The Expulsion (1755–1764) occurred during the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War) and was part of the British military campaign against New France.
  3850. The Expulsion of the Germans
    First Published: 1999
    If the conscience of men ever again becomes sensitive, these expulsions will be remembered to the undying shame of all who committed or connived them... The Germans were expelled, not just with an absence of over-nice consideration, but with the very maximum of brutality.
  3851. Extensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory
    First Published: 2020
    The case of an animal rights activist who infiltrated an independent German chemical testing laboratory has triggered the discovery of an apparently extensive chemical testing fraud.
  3852. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    First Published: 2009
    Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
  3853. Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the Extinction Rebellion, an international movement that calls for peaceful mass economic disruption around the world in order to bring awareness to the growing environmental crisis.
  3854. L'Extraordinaire Myles Horton
    First Published: 1988
    Myles Horton est le fondateur de l'école Highlander Folk School, un centre pour la formation
    en leadership au Tennessee. Highlander forme des organisateurs pour des
    syndicats, des organismes de droits civiques et des groupes de citoyens locaux. Dans cet entretien, Ellen Gould et Murray Dobbin parlent avec Horton pour découvrir ce que son expérience lui a enseigné au sujet de l'organisation pour le changement social.
  3855. The Extraordinary Lynne Stewart
    First Published: 2017
    Remembering Lynne Stewart, who died on March 12, 2017.
  3856. An Extraordinary Moment
    First Published: 2016
    In the end, the one sure prediction about the 2016 election is that the power of corporate capital will not be touched. That's the nature of what's called "bourgeois democracy." But almost everything else is up for grabs.
  3857. The Extraordinary Myles Horton
    First Published: 1988
    Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
  3858. The extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways
    First Published: 2013
    Secret records obtained by ICIJ represent the biggest stockpile of inside information about the offshore system ever obtained by a media organisation, and lay bare an extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways. The leaks illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has aggressively spread around the globe.
  3859. The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
    Part I
    First Published: 2015
    Five security guards, members of the RCMP, two in bulletproof vests, all entrants pass through metal detectors, undergo a wand search, check all electronics including cell phones and have their bags meticulously scrutinized. Why all the security? The crown was presenting its criminal case against Arthur Topham, for the crime of "hate."
  3860. The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
    Part II
    First Published: 2015
    On November 12th, 2015 the jury found Arthur Topham guilty of "inciting hate." This leads to a few questions.
  3861. Extraordinary Violence at 500 Pearl Street
    The Sentencing of Jeremy Hammond
    First Published: 2013
    On Friday, November 15, 2013, extreme violence with malicious intent was meted out by Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska in the sentencing phase of 28 year old hacktivist Jeremy Hammond before a chamber packed with friends, family, supporters and others.
  3862. 'Extremists stoking rage': The German government seeks to downplay protesting workers' plight
    First Published: 2024
    Farmers, truckers, train drivers – numerous workers are making it known that they are fed up, as the chancellor’s approval drops to 20%.
  3863. Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
    First Published: 2016
    Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company.
  3864. Eye in the Sky
    Surveillance and the Art of Arnold Mesches
    First Published: 2014
    Round about the turn of this century Arnold Mesches, who is neither monk nor medievalist nor Christian, began illuminating manuscripts from the world that long since had killed God but appropriated or accommodated to a version of His all-seeing eye. The manuscripts in question: Mesches’ FBI file, 1945 to 1972.
  3865. Eye of the Storm
    Wind farms are provoking fierce opposition from an increasingly organised countryside lobby.
  3866. Eyeless in Gaza
    Locked in an Embrace
    First Published: 2014
    The trouble with war is that it has two sides. Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course.
  3867. Eyeless in Gaza 
    Israel's Deceptions
    First Published: 2014
    A single incident at the weekend – the reported capture by Hamas on Friday of an Israeli soldier through a tunnel – illustrated in stark fashion the layers of deception Israel has successfully cast over its attack on Gaza.
  3868. Eyes Like Blank Discs
    The Guardian's Steven Poole On George Orwell's Politics And The English Language
    First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
    Poole's review of Orwell is itself a textbook example of the kind of alienated response described by Orwell, Fromm and Schmidt. Whereas Orwell's essay is the work of an impassioned, outspoken individual opposing 'the machine society’, Poole's article is the work of a corporate professional operating ‘within the confines of an assigned ideology’.
  3869. Eyes Wide Open
    First Published: 2013
    The recent revelations, made possible by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden, of the reach and scope of global surveillance practices have prompted a fundamental reexamination of the role of intelligence services in conducting coordinated cross-border surveillance.
  3870. Eyes With Legs
    First Published: 2010
    In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it's Israel's biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
  3871. Eyewitness at Standing Rock
    First Published: 2017
    Interview with Rebecca Kemble.
  3872. Eyewitness Chile: After 30 Years
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a week-long seminar called “Thirty Years -- Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America,” I found myself entering the chilling atmosphere of the world's first laboratory for militarily imposed economic neoliberalsm.
  3873. Eyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange
    First Published: 2020
    John Pilger has watched Julian Assange's extradition trial from the public gallery at London's Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.
  3874. "If you want peace, prepare for war" (Russia, Ukraine, NATO, EU)
    First Published: 2022
    An explanatory article on the background and geo-political rivalries leading to the 2022 escalation of conflict in Ukraine. The text is a translation of "Si vis pacem para bellum – Wer Frieden will rüste sich zum Krieg (Platon, Cicero, Russland, Ukraine, NATO, EU)" by Gruppen Gegen Kapital Und Nation (Groups against Capital and Nation) which was published on February 21st, two days before the Russian invasion began.
  3875. Fabricating Terror
    The Portland "Bomb" Plot
    First Published: 2010
    Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots? Could it be that the US government needs terrorist events in order to completely destroy the US Constitution?
  3876. The Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology
    First Published: 2018
    Face recognition is poised to become one of the most pervasive surveillance technologies, and law enforcement's use of it is increasing rapidly. However, the adoption of face recognition technologies like these is occurring without meaningful oversight, without proper accuracy testing of the systems as they are actually used in the field, and without the enactment of legal protections to prevent internal and external misuse.
  3877. Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology
    CounterSpin interview with Shankar Narayan on facial recognition
    First Published: 2019
    Lightly edited transcript of an interview regarding face recognition technology and how it will impact people who are already over-policed.
  3878. Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing "local news"
    First Published: 2018
    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant will prioritize news from 'local sources' in the News Feed displayed to users. This is the third move this year in a roll-out of updates by Facebook aimed at censoring online information.
  3879. Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation
    First Published: 2018
    Facebook represents a standard for a global model of concentration of wealth and power in the 21st century, joined by companies like Google, Amazon, and Uber. Entrepreneurs with computer skills and good or lucky timing have privatized and enclosed the global information commons and have enriched themselves by providing services for free or for reduced prices to the billions.
  3880. Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a 'dangerous individual'
    First Published: 2024
    The notoriously intelligence-friendly social media network appears to have imposed a ban on posting a recent report by Kit Klarenberg, and is automatically restricting users who re-publish his work.
  3881. Facebook Facts
    Finding Friends and Foes
    First Published: 2008
    Unions and workers are making much use of the latest web fad: social networking sites. But are sites like Facebook really adding anything to our ability to organize? If yes, how, exactly? And where are the pitfalls in using online commercial sites for organizing?
  3882. Facebook had human contractors 'reviewing' users' Messenger voice chats
    First Published: 2019
    Facebook has given contractors access to people's private voice chats for transcription purposes.
  3883. Facebook and the Rise of Anti-Social Media
    First Published: 2018
    For those who haven't thought about it, the internet is insidious because of the very capacity that Cambridge Analytica claims to be able to exploit: customization. Users have limited ability to confirm the authenticity of anything they see, read or hear on it. Print editions can be compared and contrasted-- technology limits print media to large-scale deceptions. With the capacity to create entire realms of deception -- identities, content, web pages and entire online publications, trust is made a function of gullibility.
  3884. Facebook Shut Me Down
    First Published: 2015
    Peled describes how Facebook shut him down after he exposed an Israeli plant.
  3885. Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
    First Published: 2019
    Media outlets owned by a company with ties to the Russian government are forced to disclose their affiliation on Facebook. Media outlets owned or funded by the US government are not held to the same standard.
  3886. The Faces of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Worker Movement
    It's important to remember that every movement is larger than any one man.
    First Published: 2014
    Prior to the release of the film "Cesar Chavez: An American Hero" by director Diego Luna, this article takes a brief look at the American labour leader and civil rights activist who, along with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW). The story includes photographs from the Walter P. Reuther Library Photo Archive at Wayne State University.
  3887. Facing Down the Machine
    Mike Roselle Draws a Line
    First Published: 2009
    Federal and state governments have long targeted the civil rights of environmentalists. In the mid-1980s swaths of new laws were passed that targeted the acts of direct action oriented environmental protests.
  3888. Facing Facts in Wisconsin
    Progressives and Workers Were Sold Out by Obama and the Democratic Party
    First Published: 2012
    The time has long since come for labor and progressives to bolt the Democratic Party and coalesce around a new genuinely progressive, working people’s party.
  3889. Facing Fascism in Europe
    Against The Current vol. 84
    First Published: 2000
    Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, and the Nazis' rapid destruction of Germany's Social Democratic and Communist parties, shook the European left to its core. For many socialists and communists, the total defeat of two of the world's largest and best-organized workers' parties was grim evidence of the immediate need to set aside obstacles dividing them and to join together in the fight against fascism.
  3890. Facing Reality
    Connexipedia Article
    A radical left group in the United States which existed from about 1962 until 1970.
  3891. Facing Reality 45 Years Later 
    Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu
    First Published: 2003
    According to Goldner, "In 1958, Facing Reality was an important book, uncannily anticipatory of the historical period which would unfold over the following 15 years. Its main assertions are still being debated.... What I find most interesting in Facing Reality is not so much the answers it offers as the questions it asks. Those questions revolve around the role of the revolutionary Marxist party today.
  3892. Facing the left-wing challenge in the European Union - Ten proposals
    First Published: 2018
    The left could bring radical change if they could prove themselves capable to people in the Eurozone dissatisfied with austerity measures. Here are ten proposals for social mobilization and actions to be taken by any government that is truly operating in the interests of the people.
  3893. Facing the Toyota "Pattern"
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    Highly praised as a “breakthrough” in the mainstream and business press, the new United Auto Workers contract at General Motors is a stunning retreat for the union, threatening the existence of most high-paying production jobs throughout the U.S. auto industry. (Skilled trades face drastic downsizing through outsourcing and combining of the trades.)
  3894. Fact-Checking the Establishment's 'Fact-Checkers': How the 'Fake News' Story is Fake News
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the introduction of "Fake News" in the US and how is was used by both political parties in the lead-up to the 2016 US election, and moreover how it was propogated by the mainstream media and fact-checked by dubious verification sources.
  3895. 'Factivism' and Other Fairytales from Bono
    The 'Inner Nerd' Gets It Wrong, Again
    First Published: 2013
    A rebuttal to U2 singer Bono's claims regarding the 'imminent eradication of extreme poverty'.
  3896. Factory Committees and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    First Published: 1975
    It is a tragic fact, for which Leninists of all kinds (Stalinists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and the advocates of various theories of "state capitalism", i.e. International Socialists, Bordigists, "Marxist Humanists", etc.) must carry their full share of responsibility, that we know less today about the early weeks of Russian Revolution than we do, for instance, about the history of the Paris Commune.
  3897. Factory and Lab: Israel's War Business
    First Published: 2014
    Israel invests more money in research than most other countries -- and in no other place are research institutes, the defense industry, the army and politics as interwoven. The result is a high-tech weapons factory that successfully exports its goods globally.
  3898. Facts
    First Published: 1978
    This newsletter is designed to inform persons of the involvements and activities of the Canadian Union of public Employees (CUPE)
  3899. The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
    Seeing Through the Lies
    First Published: 2009
    The record shows that Hamas wanted to continue the ceasefire, but only on condition that Israel eases the blockade. Long before Hamas began the retaliatory rocket attacks on Israel, Palestinians were facing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza because of the blockade.
  3900. Facts Back Russia on Turkish Attack
    First Published: 2015
    Turkey claims its November 24, 2015 shoot-down of a Russian warplane along the Syrian border was justified -- and the Obama administration is publicly siding with its NATO ally -- but a review of the evidence supports Russian accusations of an "ambush." The evidence from the Turkish authorities themselves thus leaves little room for doubt that the decision to shoot down the Russian jet was made before the Russian jets even began their flight.
  3901. The Facts Proving Corbyn's Election Triumph
    First Published: 2017
    Corbyn has proved himself the most popular Labour leader with the electorate in more than 40 years, apart from Blair’s landslide victory in 1997.
  3902. The Facts: Special Peace Issue
    First Published: 1986
  3903. The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
    First Published: 2019
    The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale.
  3904. Failed Cuban "Twitter" Project Designed By U.S. Government Contractors
    First Published: 2014
    ZunZuneo - a now defunct social media platform similar to Twitter – was designed to undermine the Cuban government by two private contractors: Creative Associates International (CAI) from Washington DC and Mobile Accord, a Denver based company.
  3905. The Failed Strategy 
    First Published: 2015
    The failure of Syriza in Greece, and the timidness of other left-social-democratic parties and formations tells us that we must learn the dangers of political shortcut and focus on building radical movements outside of government.
  3906. Failing the Trump Test: Cops for Fascism
    First Published: 2015
    Donald Trump just picked up his latest big endorsement: from the New England Policeman’s Benevolent Association, “the fastest-growing law enforcement organization in the northeastern United States” (according to the NEPBA’s website). Addressing the group in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last Thursday, Trump told his audience that their support represented the most important honor he could possibly receive.
  3907. Failing to Count the Arabs
    The Myth of the "Democratic" Jewish State
    First Published: 2022
    Israel wants the world to believe that it is a majority Jewish state with a 20% Arab minority and that the Arab population enjoys a good standard of living and full equal rights. And while this is easy to disprove, it is still part of the mainstream discourse on Israel.
  3908. failing to see the deeper causes of social tragedies
    First Published: 2019
    In both cases, the roots of the tragedies are manifold. But in both cases we seem more interested in laying instant blame than in excavating the wider causes that might help us prevent such catastrophes happening again.
  3909. The Failure Of The Left
    First Published: 2014
    Leftists have been late to the party when it comes to raising the alarm on climate change. The reliance on corporate media makes it difficult for anyone questioning the narrative of consumerism and progress to get their message out.
  3910. The Failure of the Working Class
    First Published: 1946
    Capitalism cannot be annihilated by a change in the commanding persons; but only by the abolition of commanding. The real freedom of the workers consists in their direct mastery over the means of production. The essence of the future free world community is not that the working masses get enough food, but they direct their work themselves, collectively.
  3911. Failure To Quit
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2016
    Zinn argues that pessimism over the so-called 'me generation' apparent apathy was unfounded, and that activist ideals do consistently carry over across generations.
  3912. Fair Deal For Public Employees
    First Published: 1978
    The Canadian Labour Congress has published this booklet in conjunction with nine major unions including the Transit Workers, Railway Workers, Postal Workers and Letter Carriers, C.U.P.E. and the Public Service Alliance.
  3913. Fair Play for Cuba Committee
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2017
  3914. Fair Shares of Food
    Agriculture in an Age of Gadgets
    First Published: 2013
    Concern over lagging production has prompted a search for technological tricks that might revolutionize food production.
  3915. Fair trade
    Connexipedia Article
    An organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries and promote sustainability.
  3916. The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
    First Published: 2014
    This new book by Ndongo Sylla is an insider's critique of the fair trade model as practiced by Fairtrade International (FLO, or Fairtrade Labelling Organizations). (The book has been translated from French, and I found the translation to be quite readable and engaging.) Based on his own experiences working for FLO, Sylla seeks to point out the flaws in the fair trade system. As with most research about fair trade, Sylla's focuses primarily on the fair trade coffee initiative. In the fair trade coffee system, cooperatives of small coffee growers pay thousands of dollars to FLO to join the network and for compliance fees. In exchange for ethical production, the growers receive a guaranteed minimum price for each pound of their coffee sold as "fair trade."
  3917. Faith, Hope and Persistence
    First Published: 2019
    When we look at what is happening in our world, it can be difficult to believe that there are grounds for hope, let alone faith. And yet we – we humans – continue to live and act in ways that testify to our hopes, and to our faith in the possibility of a better future.
  3918. Faith, Hope and Persistence - Vietnamese text
    First Published: 2019
  3919. Faith in Action: The Canadian Churches' Ecumenical Coalitions for Social Justice
    First Published: 1995
    Sponsored by the major Canadian churches and working in areas ranging from international development, refugees and human rights issues abroad, to native concerns and poverty in Canada, the ecumenical coalitions working on social justice issues are a remarkable example of faith in action, faith which has made mission real for thousands of Canadians.
  3920. Fake cell phone 'towers' may be spying on Americans' calls, texts
    First Published: 2014
    More than a dozen 'fake cell phone towers' could be secretly hijacking Americans' mobile devices in order to listen in on phone calls or snoop on text messages, a security-focused cell phone company claims. It is not clear who controls the devices.
  3921. Fake grassroots advocacy part of TransCanada's plan to silence Energy East critics
    First Published: 2014
    Documents show plans to "pressure" pipeline critics by working with third parties and industry-funded grassroots advocacy groups in favour of Energy East.
  3922. Fake News About 'Fake News' - The Media Performance Pyramid
    First Published: 2016
    Following Brexit and Trump, mainstream media have focused on media bias and the implications of so-called fake news. The definition of fake news can be easily generalized to all corporate media, and applied to the recent focus on fake news itself.
  3923. Fake news about the Rojava revolution
    First Published: 2017
    Sharply different opinions have developed among the radical left in recent years towards the Syrian radical democratic movement led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- an initially Kurdish-based force which through a series of political and military struggles and alliances has recently formed the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, as a model for a multi-ethnic, non-sectarian, federal and socially just alternative for the nation and the region.
  3924. Fake News about Venezuela: A Simple Recipe
    First Published: 2017
    "Journalists" who want to write fake news about Venezuela, or about any other country or group that dares to stand up to US imperialism, only need to follow this simple recipe:
    - Choose one or more countries/groups opposed to US imperialism
    - If available, have a former official, now being paid by the US government, make the accusations
    - Season well with doses of "war on terror" and/or "war on drugs"
    - Sprinkle with opinions of "experts" who work in DC think tanks or US-funded NGOs
  3925. Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
    First Published: 2017
    In the early years of the internet, it was revolutionary to have a world of information just a click away from anyone, anywhere, anytime. Many hoped this inherently democratic technology could lead to better-informed citizens more easily participating in debate, elections and public discourse.
  3926. Fake News and the Gatekeepers of Truth
    First Published: 2018
    A look at misinformation or 'fake news' and how it has changed from the past; while only governments and prominent figures could once manipulate public opinion, today it is anyone with online access.
  3927. 'Fake News' in America
    Homegrown, and Far From New
    First Published: 2016
    Details the hypocrisy of the media and Democratic party's recent outcry over 'fake news', as the loose definition encompasses well-established media practices, and may be used to attack any alternative media source.
  3928. Fake News Inquiry: Old Wine in New Bottles
    First Published: 2017
    A criticism of a recent investigation by the UK's Culture, Media and Sports committee into 'fake news' and public persuasion by false propaganda, describing the challenges of identifying or preventing the dissemination of fake news.
  3929. The Fake News Nazi - Corbyn, Williamson And The Anti-Semitism Scandal
    First Published: 2019
    Analysis of Corbyn's press shows accusations of anti-semitism against him only started when he became a political threat.
  3930. Fake News on Russia in the New York Times, 1917-2017
    First Published: 2017
    Fake news on Russia is a Times tradition that can be traced back at least as far as the 1917 revolution.
  3931. 'Fake news' or free speech: Is Google cracking down on left media?
    First Published: 2017
    Left leaning progressive websites say they are being unfairly penalized by Google's efforts to stamp out fake news.
  3932. Fake News Tsunami - Trump's 'Collusion' And Corbyn As 'Dangerous Hero'
    First Published: 2019
    Analysis of recent news coverage that paints Corbyn as an anti-semite compared to that of the Trump campaign's supposed ties with the Russian government.
  3933. Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From Within
    First Published: 2017
    A war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.
  3934. Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism
    Total Information Control
    First Published: 2014
    Good journalism examines its sources critically, it takes nothing at face value, places its topics in a historical context, and it values above all the public interest. Such journalism is, most people agree, essential to any equitable and open system of government. The science media has somehow escaped serious attention. This is unfortunate because no country in the world has a healthy science media.
  3935. The fallacy of Israel's human shields claims in Gaza
    First Published: 2018
    Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its 'human shields' mantra.
  3936. The fallacy of the colonial 'right to self-defence
    Colonial powers have long demanded the 'right to self-defence' against the people they have colonised.
    First Published: 2021
  3937. Falling out of the skies
    First Published: 1989
  3938. The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine
    The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow
    First Published: 2015
    Washington needs a war in Ukraine to achieve its strategic objectives.
  3939. False consciousness
    Connexipedia Article
    The Marxist thesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society are misleading to the proletariat, and to other classes.
  3940. False Freedom
    Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
    First Published: 2005
    This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
  3941. False Promises of Higher Education: More Graduates, Fewer Jobs
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    Through a continual dose of propaganda from the establishment and its allies, the American people have been persuaded that obtaining at least a college education is not only necessary, but also provides working people with excellent opportunities to avoid low-wage work and chronic unemployment.
  3942. The false solutions of Rio+20
    First Published: 2012
    Food production and people's sovereignty in Africa could be seriously compromised by carbon capture projects and the so-called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+) mechanism.
  3943. Falsifying History and Ourselves: Anti-Democratic Propaganda in the Classroom
    First Published: 2001
    Contrary to the views promoted by FHAO, the true facts about Germany during the Holocaust show that 1) working class Germans fought the Nazis; 2) anti-Semitism did not come from ordinary people; and 3) anti-Semitism was a weapon used by Germany's industrial and aristocratic elite to attack not only the Jewish minority but the entire working class.
  3944. A Familial Perspective on micro-computer communications
    First Published: 1983
  3945. Families "Are Scared To Death" After A Massive ICE Operation Swept Up Hundreds Of People
    About 680 suspected undocumented workers were arrested in Mississippi in one of the largest worksite operations ever conducted by ICE agents
    First Published: 2019
    A massive arrest of undocumented workers in Mississippi had people scrambling to care for kids whose parents were detained and traumatized the community.
  3946. A Family, A Tragedy, A Movement (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    This book is a gripping account of a fire and a shooting. Yet it is so much more. The lives of James and Annie Hickman, the tragic death of their four children, and James’ trial after shooting their landlord, form the center of Joe Allen’s book. But Allen constructs his narrative with the vivid stories of those who came together around the Hickman tragedy as his building blocks.
  3947. The Family As It Really Is
    First Published: 1998
    The result of the clash between denial and exaggeration is to divert attention from the constructive things we can do to build on the gains we've made in the expansion of personal options and minimize the losses associated with the decline in family stability, especially in the access of children to both parents.
  3948. Family Service
    First Published: 1990
  3949. Family ties: a brief, brief history of the Left in Canada
    First Published: 2000
    A brief overview of the history of the Canadian political Left.
  3950. Family Violence Videos
    First Published: 1989
  3951. Family Violence: Report on the Task on Family Violence
    First Published: 1979
  3952. Fanon, Frantz
    Connexipedia Article
    Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. (1925-1961).
  3953. Fantasy and the Counter-Culture
    First Published: 1972
    The purpose of this article is to evaluate the usefulness of speculative fiction in our search for an alternative way of life.
  3954. Fantasy technology won't stop climate change
    First Published: 2015
    Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go.
  3955. Fantasy's Legal, Reality's Not
    First Published: 1986
    A sex worker's take on prostitution and the sex industry.
  3956. FAO: Plantations are not forests!
    Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations
    First Published: 2017
    The FAO definition considers forests to be basically just 'a bunch of trees', while ignoring other fundamental aspects of forests, including their many other life-forms such as other types of plants, as well as animals, and forest-dependent human communities. Equally, it ignores the vital contribution of forests to natural processes that provide soil, water and oxygen.
  3957. The Far Left and the Far Right Actually Have a Lot in Common
    First Published: 2021
    It is the strangest thing to know that most of the regular people attracted to both the far left and the far right very clearly appear to be motivated by a desire to stand up to an elite that is actively destroying the lives of so many people around the world, but they have such radically differing ideas of each other’s motivations, and of the nature of the elite they oppose.
  3958. Far-Right Identity Politics and the Task for the Left
    First Published: 2019
    To oppose far-right ideology, the left must fight the violence and austerity they promote but also acknowledge the appeal of universal values of populist movements.
  3959. Fare-Free Public Transit Could Be Headed to a City Near You
    First Published: 2007
    It's time to give people a free ride on public transit. And here's proof it works.
  3960. Farewell to Andres Nin
    First Published: 1937
    Farewell, my friend. Your great courageous life is left to us, full of work and action. Your terrible death is left to us as well. Like you, we must hold out to the bitter end so that socialism be free.
  3961. Farmer Cooperatives, Not Monsanto, Supply El Salvador With Seeds
    First Published: 2015
    In the face of overwhelming competition skewed by the rules of free trade, farmers in El Salvador have managed to beat the agricultural giants like Monsanto and Dupont to supply local corn seed to thousands of family farmers. Local seed has consistently outperformed the transnational product, and farmers helped develop El Salvador’s own domestic seed supply–all while outsmarting the heavy hand of free trade.
  3962. Farmers, Feds and Fries - Potato Farming in the St. John Valley
    First Published: 1977
  3963. Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions - and are fighting to export them
    First Published: 2009
    Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes - even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce - and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
  3964. Farmers join to save the seeds that feed us
    First Published: 2015
    Farmers and growers in south-west England have united to reclaim the lost skill of seed saving. They are determined to grow, develop, share and disseminate open-pollinated seeds, and oppose EU laws granting commercial plant breeders a legal monopoly on the seeds that sustain our lives.
  3965. Farmers resist foreclosures
    First Published: 1989
  3966. Farmers vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
    First Published: 2009
    As India faces its worst drought in four decades, a dispute over water resources between farmers in the Kala Dera area of western Rajasthan state and a Coca-Cola bottling plant located there has sharpened.
  3967. Farming Freedom
    First Published: 2014
    A simple agricultural technique could release farmers from the grip of agrochemical corporations. With no patents, no royalties and no licensing fees, this system just benefits the farmers.
  3968. Farming Under the Wall
    Stories of Palestinian Farmers in the West Bank
    First Published: 2013
    The difficulties of Palestinian farmers as their lands are placed behind the Wall.
  3969. Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agricultural Technology
    First Published: 1974   Published: 2012
    Originally published in 1974, How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition: (And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You Can Imagine1 remains a vital resource for farmers, agricultural researchers and planners, sustainability activists and home gardeners.
  3970. Fascinating Antifascism
    Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Enzo Traverso's Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945.
  3971. Fascism, American-Style
    One-Step from the Third Reich?
    First Published: 2014
    Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financially incapacitate any person or organization in the United States, seize control of the nation’s communications infrastructure, mobilize military forces, expand the permissible size of the military without congressional authorization, and extend tours of duty without consent from service personnel.
  3972. Fascism and Big Business (excerpt)
    First Published: 1938
    Events have demonstrated with tragic clearness that the moment the working class allows the fascist wave to sweep over it, a long period of slavery and impotence begins - a long period during which socialist, even democratic, ideas are not merely erased from the pediments of public monuments and libraries but, what is much more serious, are rooted out of human minds. Events have proved that fascism physically destroys everything opposing its dictatorship, no matter how mildly, and that it creates a vacuum around itself and leaves a vacuum behind it.
  3973. Fascism and Socialism
    First Published: 1945
    Fascism is not a product that is specifically Italian or specifically German. It is the specific product only of decaying capitalism, of the crisis of the capitalist system which has become a permanent one. It has a double origin in the determination of big business to revive the profit mechanism by exceptional measures and in the revolt of the pauperized and despairing middle classes.
  3974. Fascism and the far right; twenty years on
    First Published: 2017
    Author Dave Renton revisits his book Fascism: Theory and Practice, and examines how his perspectives would change if he was to think today about the same questions raised 20 years ago.
  3975. Fascism and anti-fascism in 1930s Manchester
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the growth of fascism in Manchester in the early 1930s, and working class resistance to it.
  3976. Fascism in the West to Enable Genocide in Palestine
    First Published: 2023
    The UK and the US are both sending military assistance to Israel to commit a calculated and deliberate act of genocide, which is already underway.
  3977. Fascism Shall Not Pass
    First Published: 1936
    On all fronts communists, anarchists, socialists and republicans are fighting shoulder to shoulder. We have also been joined by non-party people from town and country, because they too have realized what a victory for fascism would mean to Spain.
  3978. Fascist Attack in Chile
    First Published: 2018
    An open letter calling for international solidarity in the aftermath of an attack on the March for the Right to Free, Legal Abortion on Demand in Santiago, Chile where three women were stabbed.
  3979. The Fascist Threat
    First Published: 2014
    Deep economic crisis, savage austerity, and social upheaval have polarised Greek society. One result has been the rise of Golden Dawn, responsible for brutal attacks on immigrants and left-wing activists. Christina Ziakka reports on the response of the political establishment – and why the left and workers’ movement must provide a genuine alternative.
  3980. Fascistic Judges
    First Published: 2023
    The jailing of three U.K. climate activists should provide another warning to anyone expecting judges to defend liberties. The current legal establishment will adapt itself to whatever legal framework is ordained by the rulers.
  3981. Fashion
    First Published: 1980
    Even though the fashion industry has made dress oppressive one should not discard it completely, or at least only an appropriate occasions. Do we really all want to walk around looking exactly alike in dull green pajamas and peak caps?
  3982. FaSinPat (Zanon)
    Connexipedia Article
    A worker-controlled ceramic tile factory in the southern Argentine province of Neuquén. The name is short for Fábrica Sin Patrones, which means "Factory Without Bosses" in Spanish.
  3983. Fast food rights: organising the unorganised
    First Published: 2017
    The experience from the examples of organising the unorganised both in the US and UK demonstrate that it is possible to develop union organisation; significant examples are discussed in this article, particularly in a British context.
  3984. Fast and Furious: Now They're Really Gunning for Trump
    First Published: 2017
    Allegations about President Donald Trump revealing highly classified intelligence are intended to bring him down.
  3985. Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
    Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
    First Published: 2015
    A pattern of links between mining activities and deaths, disfigurement, environmental destruction and displacement suggests a troubling track record for Australian companies seeking wealth from Africa's minerals.
  3986. Fatal Extraction
    Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
    First Published: 2015
    Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldn’t be tolerated in better-regulated nations. The stories are from people across Africa, and are rarely heard outside their communities.
  3987. Fate of the forests
    First Published: 1990
  3988. Fate of the Forests
    First Published: 1991
  3989. The Fate of Vietnam's First Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    This book opens with a vivid, gut-wrenching account of the arrest, detention and torture of two young Vietnamese revolutionaries in Saigon in June 1936 by the Sûreté, the political police who defended France’s colonial might. We are spared no details: the electric shock treatment; the kicking; the insertion of a wood plank in the prisoner’s mouth while his wrists are tied back to his ankles and he is beaten.
  3990. The Fateful Collision - Floods, Catastrophe And Climate Denial
    First Published: 2014
    An epic struggle is currently taking place that will determine the fate, and perhaps the survival, of our species.
  3991. Fatema Mernissi: A Pioneering Arab Muslim Feminist
    First Published: 2016
    Remembering sociologist Fatema Mernissi.
  3992. Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza: Will the world notice?
    First Published: 2018
    Self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years. But public self-immolation is associated with protest.
  3993. Fathy, Hassan
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish the use of mud brick and traditional as opposed to western building designs and lay-outs. (1900-1989).
  3994. A Faustian Bargain with the Climate Crisis
    First Published: 2018
    Take as our inspiration the temptations of capitalist individualism set before us, we make the exact same bargain. The difference in this case however is that we know the disaster is coming; we don't even need to worry about what our spidey senses say, 97% of all climate scientists agree that the capitalist mentality that sees the world as an infinite resource and infinite garbage dump is warming the atmosphere. We have even less excuse.
  3995. The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates is a Menace to Society
    First Published: 2019
    While the media may be full of stories singing Gates' praises, presenting him as a good billionaire (as opposed to the current president), the reality is that one man with that amount of power, be it political (like Trump) or economic (like Gates and Bezos) has a highly corrosive effect on democracy and society more generally.
  3996. The FBI and the Myth of the Fingerprint
    The Real Crime is in the Crime Lab
    First Published: 2013
    Decade after decade people have been sent to prison for years or dispatched to the death cells, solely on the basis of a single, even a partial print. However the lab scandals threw a shadow over the FBI’s forensic procedures
  3997. The FBI Can Bypass Encryption
    Why Cyber Security is a Magic Act
    First Published: 2014
  3998. FBI claims world-wide powers
    First Published: 1989
  3999. FBI Cointelpro is Back and Worse Than Ever
    First Published: 2022
    Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the FBI's latest war on Americans' freedom of speech. The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the FBI disapproved, including parody accounts. The FBI and other federal agencies also browbeat Facebook, Instagram, and many other tech companies.
  4000. FBI director wants access to encrypt Apple, Google users' data, demands law 'fix'
    First Published: 2014
    The FBI director has slammed Apple and Google for offering their customers encryption technology that protects users’ privacy. "Deeply concerned" James Comey wants to push on Congress to "fix" laws to ensure police can still access private data.
  4001. The FBI Director's Evidence Against Encryption Is Pathetic
    First Published: 2014
    FBI Director James Comey gave a speech Thursday about how cell-phone encryption could lead law enforcement to a “very dark place” where it “misses out” on crucial evidence to nail criminals. To make his case, he cited four real-life examples — examples that would be laughable if they weren’t so tragic.
  4002. FBI harassing fossil fuel activists in the Pacific northwest
    First Published: 2015
    A grassroots movement of eco-activists is achieving unprecedented success in challenging fossil fuel developments in the Cascadia region of the US's Pacific northwest, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And that has attracted the wrong kind of attention - from local police, FBI and right-wing legislators determined to protect the corporate right to exploit and pollute.
  4003. FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
    US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement
    First Published: 2012
    Dcuments show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
  4004. The FBI in Ecuador
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of a book detailing the FBI's actions in Latin America throughout the 20th century.
  4005. The FBI: Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
    First Published: 2017
    Lately, there's been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in America. That process, however, began a long time ago.
  4006. The FBI Wants Teachers To Go Stasi On American Kids
    First Published: 2016
    While Apple and the federal government duke it out over the encrypted phone of a dead terrorist, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is keeping things old school by advocating that educators start paying close attention to any radical leanings among their students.
  4007. The FBI's Forgotten Criminal History
    First Published: 2017
    The FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that "the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others." This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908.
  4008. The FBI's Maoist Faction
    First Published: 2018
    The following is based on research by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher for their book, A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974, (London: Repeater Books, 2018).
  4009. The FBI's Perjury Trap of the Century
    First Published: 2017
    John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok and a passel of deep state operatives -- all of whom baldly abused their offices, set a perjury trap designed to snare Mike Flynn as a first step in relitigating and reversing the voters' verdict.
  4010. The FBI's police state operation against Trump
    First Published: 2019
    The allegations that Trump is a Russian agent lack credibility. The FBI's invesitigation seems more like the agency is attempting to overthrow an elected government - a threat the FBI has posed in the past.
  4011. The FBI's secret biometrics database they don't want you to see
    First Published: 2016
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to prevent information about its creepy biometric database, which contains fingerprint, face, iris, and voice scans of millions of Americans, from getting out to the public. The Department of Justice has come up with a proposal to exempt the biometric database from public disclosure. It states that the Next Generation Identification System (NGI) should not be subject to the Privacy Act, which requires federal agencies to give people access to records that have been collected concerning them, "allowing them to verify and correct them if needed."
  4012. The FBI's Secret Meetings With TransCanada, Inc.
    Guardians of the KXL Pipeline
    First Published: 2014
    On April 4, 2012 the FBI held a daylong “strategy meeting” with TransCanada Corporation, the company building the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request.
  4013. The FBI's Secret Rules
    President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers.
    First Published: 2017
    A collection of articles exploring the contents and implications of a cache of internal FBI manuals, offering a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11.
  4014. FC St. Pauli: Antifascist, Antiracist
    First Published: 2018
    Haasen describes the political activism of FC St. Pauli footbal team and its supporters in Hamburg, Germany. Having once supported the Nazi Regime, this club has radiically changed it stance to become a vocal supporter of antiracism, antifascism and humanitarian efforts.
  4015. FCC Wants to Give Corporations Their Own Internet
    The New Proposal Mocks Net Neutrality
    First Published: 2014
    When a federal court trashed its “net neutrality” compromise policy in January, the Federal Communications Commission assured us that the Internet we knew and depended on was safe. Most activists didn’t believe federal officials and this past week the FCC demonstrated how realistic our cynicism was.
  4016. The FDA and Frankenfoods
    Will the Agency Protect Consumers or the Profits of a Few Corporations
    First Published: 2010
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent enforcement letters warning food makers that they cannot label their products as free of genetically modified or genetically engineered ingredients.
  4017. FDA Nominee Helped Medical Industry Find and Pay Faculty for "Regulatory Consulting"
    First Published: 2015
    Dr. Robert Califf, whose nomination by President Obama to lead the Food and Drug Administration has come under scrutiny over his extensive ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, previously directed a business that specializes in helping health care companies hire faculty members and other academic researchers to influence regulatory decisions.
  4018. Fé, Esperança e Persistência
    First Published: 2019
  4019. The Fear Factor
    Stephen Harper's "Tough on Crime" Agenda
    First Published: 2010
    This study analyses the financial and human costs of the Harper government's tough on crime agenda and concludes it is wrong-headed, expensive, and counter-productive. In fact, it will likely lead to more crime and a bigger deficit.
  4020. Fear of the light: why we need darkness
    First Published: 2016
    Light pollution conceals true darkness from 80% of Europe and North America. What do we lose when we can no longer see the stars?
  4021. Fear of the People's History
    England's Two Countries
    First Published: 2013
    England is two countries. One is dominated by London, the other remains in its shadow. They were another nation with a different history, different loyalties, different humour, even different values. At the heart of this was the politics of class.
  4022. Fear and Trembling in the Workplace
    First Published: 2017
    Organized labour is desperately in need of a major facelift. The AFL-CIO needs to hire the best public relations firm in the land, pay them what they ask, do exactly as they say, and get busy educating the American public.
  4023. Fearsome Words?
    Nationalism and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
    First Published: 2009
    We are so bemused by the lovely vision of peoples determining themselves, we cannot see that ethnic self-determination is, in the real world, a quest for racial sovereignty, not a bid to enter some international folk dancing festival.
  4024. February Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    Was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
  4025. February strike (The Netherlands)
    Connexipedia Article
    A general strike organized during World War II in The Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities by the Nazis.
  4026. Federal budget
    First Published: 1989
  4027. Federal budget cuts
    First Published: 1990
  4028. The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
    First Published: 2022
    Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.
  4029. Federal police and New Brunswick government assault First Nations anti-fracking protest
    First Published: 2013
    The RCMP launched a violent assault on a blockade protest against shale gas fracking in New Brunswick.
  4030. Federalists, Dismantle merge
    First Published: 1989
  4031. Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of British Columbia
    First Published: 1979
    The above Federation is made up of citizens' groups and individuals working together for change in the low-income people in British Columbia.
  4032. Feeding body and soul - an exploration of Britain's new age landworkers
    First Published: 2016
    There is a change being made in food production that have individual reaping healthier and energy preserving benefits.
  4033. Feedlots and E. Coli
    First Published: 2009
    Improving processing plant inspections is a good idea, but it is only part of the solution. The real solution is minimizing the potential contaminant. Secondly, slow down the processing line so the workers can do their jobs. CDC tells people to wash their hands, their cutting boards and to cook meat thoroughly. Good sound suggestions, but why is the burden of safety inordinately placed on the consumer? Why are the processors allowed to hide behind the 'safe handling instructions' and maximize their profits with impunity?
  4034. Feeling Racism
    First Published: 2009
    I have found that when a person has faced racism and discrimination, he can never forget it, it stays with him always. Seeing my mother treated with such disrespect and rudeness, only because of her race, was worse than being discriminated against myself. It burned into my soul, and it will never go away.
  4035. Feminism
    Connexipedia Article
    Used to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing more rights and legal protection for women.
  4036. Feminism and Sadomasochism
    First Published: 1981
    Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
  4037. Feminism and "The Female Eunuch"
    First Published: 1971
    A review of the book Germaine Greer's book "The Female Eunuch." Originally published in International Socialist Review.
  4038. A Feminism for the Working Class
    First Published: 2020
    In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich charged the feminist movement with advancing only "educated, middle-class women." Her critique is more pertinent than ever.
  4039. Feminism in Canada
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Last year, on International Women’s Day in Toronto, several hundred people — many veteran feminist activists — packed an auditorium in the city’s Ryerson University for the launch of Judy Rebick’s oral history of the women’s movement in Canada, Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution. The fact that the book had just been reviewed in the conservative Globe and Mail, Canada’s most influential newspaper, also widened the audience.
  4040. Feminism in the Radical and Early Socialist Movement
    Chapter 8 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1975
    There existed a strong minority tradition in radicalism which questioned the whole social and sexual position of women.
  4041. Feminism, Marxism: Marriage or Divorce?
    Book Review
    First Published: 2015
    A book review of Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
    By Cinzia Arruzza.
  4042. Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance
    First Published: 1995
    A discussion of feminist theory, particularly the usefulness of postmodernism as a theoretical concept. From the book "Feminist Contentions. A Philosophical Exchange."
  4043. Feminism and Rescue Work
    Chapter 10 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
  4044. Feminism, The Global Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    Coming to feminist consciousness in the early 1980s, I belong to a generation of U.S. feminists caught between the second and third “waves” of the movement. The activist energy of second-wave feminism was inspiring indeed. It challenged the ideological presuppositions of heteronormative patriarchy, established some legal protection against discrimination in the workplace and educational institutions, and enabled a significant percentage of women to enter the ranks of the professional-managerial class.
  4045. Feminism vs. Marxism: Origins of the Conflict
    First Published: 1974
    Contrary to an opinion still subscribed to in certain circles, modern feminism did not emerge full-grown from the fertile womb of the New Left, but is in fact an ideological offspring of the utopian egalitarianism of the early nineteenth century.
  4046. Feminism's Global Contradictions
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    It is clear that the most significant factor now shaping women’s lives and status worldwide is globalization. What isn’t clear, however, is whether globalization is affecting women positively or negatively.
  4047. Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
  4048. Feminist Issues In Prostitution
    First Published: 1997
    The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
  4049. A Feminist Reader for Today
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Each time I teach History of Feminist Thought at my university, in order to highlight the limitations of a gender-only feminism and to exemplify the strengths of socialist feminism, I show my students "Salt of the Earth" (1954), a deeply moving and inspiring film based on a successful "predominantly Mexican-American" miners' strike in which the miners' picketing was blocked by the Taft-Hartley injunction.
  4050. Feminist Resistance in Serbia
    First Published: 1995
    Describes the conditions and factors influencing women’s lives in Serbia in 1995, and the ways women have organised to resist violence and assist one another.
  4051. Feral 'Roundup Ready' GM alfalfa goes wild in US West
    First Published: 2016
    A USDA study shows that a GM alfalfa has gone wild in alfalfa-growing parts of the West. This may explain GMO contamination incidents that have cost US growers and exporters millions of dollars - and it exposes the failure of USDA's 'coexistence' policy for GMOs and traditional crops.
  4052. Ferguson and After: Where Is This Movement Going?
    First Published: 2015
    The movement that has erupted after non-indictments of the cop killers of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of Eric Garner in New York City, one further fed by relentless continued police killings of black and brown youth on a weekly basis around the country, is without doubt the deepest social movement to emerge in the United States in more than forty years.
  4053. Ferguson on Center Stage
    First Published: 2014
    Miah examines race relations in Ferguson, Missouri after the recent police murder of Michael Brown as a result of racial profiling and police brutality.
  4054. Fernandez, Irene
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Malaysian advocate for the right of women, migrants, and poor workers. (Born 1946).
  4055. Ferreira, Chico Whitaker
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Brazilian social-justice advocate. A Catholic activist, Whitaker is inspired by liberation theology and closely allied with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. (Born 1931).
  4056. Fertilizing The Economy - The Potash Issue.
    First Published: 1977
    This newspaper-style tabloid represents a summary and report of a daylong seminar with workshops co-sponsored by: The Saskatchewan People for Control of Resources and the Institute of Saskatchewan Studies
  4057. Festival of environmental films
    First Published: 1991
  4058. A Festival of Radical Energy
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    The culmination of years of discussion and thousands of hours of planning, the 1st United States Social Forum brought together over 12,000 activists to sweltering Atlanta June 27-31 for a week of conferencing, networking and marching. With lead organizing initiated by nonprofits, especially Project South, with ties to the Grassroots Global Justice network, the USSF resulted from two years’ work by a National Planning Committee (NPC) composed of several dozen nonprofits, left “thinktanks” and social movement organizations.
  4059. A Fetid Wind of Racism Hovers Over Europe
    Je Suis Charlie Chaplin
    First Published: 2015
    After Charlie Hebdo's assassinations, is it obligatory to identify oneself with the victims' actions? Must people be Charlie because the victims were the incarnation of the 'liberty of expression'?
  4060. A few decide where we live
    First Published: 1978
    We have to abolish a system whereby a tiny handful with a lot of money can decide how thousands of other people are going to live, how thin their walls are going to be, how much sunshine they'll be able to get, where their children will play.
  4061. A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav Litvin
    First Published: 2017
    The goal of a true movement opposing American fascism should not be adrenaline-boosting brawls, it can only be the long and dedicated work of dismantling various engines of white supremacy within our socio-political landscape.
  4062. Fictitious Capital and Contracted Social Reproduction Today: China and Permanent Revolution
    First Published: 2012
    Once gain, as in 1914, capital requires, in order to survive as capital, a vast devalorization of all existing values, however great the destruction of human beings and means of production which that entails.
  4063. Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression
    First Published: 2002
    Rarely in its history has capital been so explicit in affirming that people exist for the well-being of the economy rather than the opposite. What is prescribed today in a language synthesizing Orwell and Goebbels is 'reform', 'flexibility', 'risk', 'perfect markets = perfect democracy' and above all the pulverization of anything smacking of the 'social', from job security to decent retirement to public housing to welfare to progressive taxation to health care to unemployment insurance to the Social Security system to state-owned enterprises.
  4064. Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism 
    First Published: 2005
    To understand the weight of fictitious capital in the current context, it is necessary to look beyond the merely economic to the class struggle. Despite the colossal efforts of ideology to deny or trivialize social antagonism, everything today is shaped by class struggle, both the one-sided class struggle waged for 30 years by the capitalist class, and even more so the potential threat of a two-sided struggle to re-emerge into the open.
  4065. Fictitious Splits in the International
    First Published: 1872
  4066. A field guide to critical thinking
  4067. The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality's Never Far Away
    First Published: 2015
    They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death. After listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I couldn’t sleep.
  4068. 15 Actions That Can Shut Down Trump's Assault on Immigrant Families
    First Published: 2018
    A list of recommended actions that can be taken against the Trump Administration's policy toward immigrant families, some of which include: Expose for-profit detention corporations; Target mayor's offices, state capitals, and governor's mansions; Practice non-violence, as well as using the media to your advantage.
  4069. 15 Benefits of the War on Drugs
    Training Your Kid to be a Snitch (Against You)
    First Published: 2013
    Mocking the government's 'War on Drugs'.
  4070. 15 February 2003 anti-war protests
    Wikipedia article
    On 15 February 2003, a coordinated day of protests started across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War. It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 and continued as the war took place. Social movement researchers have described the 15 February protest as "the largest protest event in human history"
  4071. Fifteen minutes of online anonymity
    First Published: 2013
    Making sure that your communications and data are confidential is not easy. Jean-Marc Manach, a journalist specialized in digital privacy and security, has an interesting alternative – how to have 15 minutes of online anonymity.
  4072. Fifteen Thoughts On Palestine
    First Published: 2021
    You don't get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That's not a thing.
  4073. The Fifth Modernization
    China's Spirit of Democracy
    First Published: 1978
    Wei Jingsheng, a 28-year-old electrician, posted this on the “Democracy Wall” in Beijing in 1978.
  4074. Fifth Socialist International -- Time for definitions
    First Published: 2010
    Although in the past every international socialist organisation was founded amidst great debates and ideological confrontations, the motley crew of factions which all over the world today call themselves 'left' shows an unprecedented degree of ideological confusion and political diversity. It will be a difficult job to bring them together, to give them structure and a route map.
  4075. Fifth World Social Forum
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    The fifth World Social Forum convened this year from January 26th through 31st in Porto Alegre, Brazil in the wake of the Bush inauguration and intensifying violence in Iraq, but also some victories for progressive movements in the global south and particularly Latin America.
  4076. A Fifty-year Old Process
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    To go beyond the debate concerning whether to characterise Cuba as socialist, state capitalist or simply an anti-imperialist state framed by Cold War logic, I propose that instead of defining socialism as a state or a place, we regard it as a process. In today’s Cuba, internal contradictions can no longer be hidden, nor can those who believe in radically transforming our world ignore the resilience of the Cuban people; there is something still going on there.
  4077. 50 Years Later, Protesters in Texas Reenact a Farmworker Strike That Is Scarcely Mentioned in History Books
    First Published: 2016
    In the summer of 1966, hundreds of farm workers in Texas marched from Rio Grande City to Austin -- almost 500 miles over 90 days -- to demand change. They weren’t asking for anything fancy. They wanted better wages, restrooms and uncontaminated water for the people cultivating and picking melons and other crops. Now 50 years later, more than 100 people -- some who were at the original strike in Starr County -- are are marching again.
  4078. The fight again tar sands is about more than the environment
    First Published: 2015
    Indigenous rights defender Eriel Deranger explains how the struggle against tar sands mining is about protecting her people's rights and culture.
  4079. The fight for a different world
    First Published: 2001
    For some, Genoa will become synonymous with violence - and this is certainly the line that many mainstream newspapers adopted. Unfortunately, so have some nongovernmental organizations. But there are two separate questions here. The first has to do with the violence of the state directed against the movement; the other is a question of how the movement deals with a small minority of self-selected individuals who choose to engage in a set of tactics that are detrimental to the movement as a whole. The presence of the black bloc (or of agent provocateurs posing as black bloc members) should not be allowed to hide the real purveyors of violence in Genoa.
  4080. The Fight for Housing, 1967-68 & Milwaukee NAACP Commandos
    First Published: 2018
    A history of The Commandos, an offshoot of the NAACP Youth Council formed in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Their main fight was against segregated housing.
  4081. The Fight for Leonard Peltier
    First Published: 1999
    LEONARD PELTIER, A Native American class-war prisoner, has served twenty-three years in federal prisons for a crime he did not commit—and authorities admit they do not know who did it.
  4082. Fight to Defend Trans Fats Funded With Dark Money
    First Published: 2015
    A conservative Washington think tank that opposed a federal ban of trans fats has also actively campaigned against climate science and environmental regulation, and is funded by secret donors.
  4083. Fightback in Korea
    First Published: 2015
    In a climate of increasing repression, the Park Geun-hye government in South Korea is launching the latest in its series of attacks on working people. A retrograde labour reform plan is being set in motion that promises to drive down wages and undermine job security. There is broad and determined resistance to the plan, and workers and farmers are taking the battle to the streets.
  4084. Fighters against apartheid
    First Published: 2014
    Alan Wieder's book "Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid" is a triumph, describing his subjects with compassion and criticism.
  4085. Fighters with Disabilities
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    At least since the mid-20th century, writers in the United States have publicly debated the place of politics in fiction. Plenty of great authors, Flannery O’Connor among them, warned against saddling fiction with political intent. That some renowned writers have produced work that reveals human truths that belie their detestable politics — Jorge Luis Borges and Ezra Pound are two examples — might support O’Connor’s point.
  4086. Fighting Against Racism - And For a Better Paycheck - On the Docks
    First Published: 2019
    Dockworker labour solidarity. Heavily references two books: 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area' by Peter Cole and 'Choke Points' essays edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness.
  4087. Fighting Back for Survival
    First Published: 2017
    The editors reflect on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
  4088. Fighting Back: Sotheby's and OWS
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    Forty-two teamster art-handlers at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City have been locked-out of their jobs for more than four months. Against the Current interviewed Sotheby’s shop steward David Martinez about what’s at stake, and how they’ve built links with the Occupy movement to fight back.
  4089. Fighting Big Oil's Cynical Arts Sponsorship
    First Published: 2014
    A growing movement is opposing fossil fuel industry sponsorship of the arts. Pop-up protests and performances denouncing Shell, BP and others are winning the popular vote.
  4090. Fighting China or the WTO?
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    The tension among groups which protested in Seattle would emerge in April when two marches would proceed within the same week, one [led by the AFL-CIO -ed.] targeting China's entry to the World Trade Organization, another [April 16-17] fighting against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, just as activists have fought against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the WTO.
  4091. Fighting Fascism: the Irish at the Battle of Cordoba
    First Published: 2017
    A history of the role played by Irish citizens who enlisted to fight against General Franco's fascist forces in Spain in 1936.
  4092. Fighting Fires & Breaking Barriers
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    Having a young daughter and working in the building trades, I am always scanning cultural representations of construction and skilled trades work to see if there are women. Whether Sesame Street or Wendy on “Bob The Builder,” women — in cartoon form at least — are partially visible in the presence of tools and heavy machinery.
  4093. Fighting for climate justice
    First Published: 2017
    Climate change is a key factor in oppression of the poor worldwide.
  4094. Fighting for Their Water and Their Lives, Communities Take Direct Action Against Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic
    First Published: 2017
    People who live near the Pueblo Viejo gold mine iin Dominican Republic struggle to gain accountabilty from the Canadian-owned companies running it. Their environment has been poisoned and they want funds for 600 families to be relocated.
  4095. Fighting for Union Autonomy: Mexican Miners On Strike
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    On April 20 eight hundred state and federal police launched an assault on 500 striking workers who had been occupying a steel mill in Lázaro Cárdenas. Two were killed, five seriously injured and 40 wounded. A video released to the press shows Michoacán police taking aim at the strikers.
  4096. Fighting fracking in Poland: the farmers resistance movement
    An improverished farming community in Zurawlow is using creative tactics to stop Chevron's shale gas plans
    First Published: 2014
    When Chevron arrived in Zurawlów, a small village in Poland's rural Grabowiec county, it was like a UFO landing in the open wheat fields. In June last year a high-tech surveillance caravan appeared in the village to stake the firm's claim to the shale gas below.
  4097. Fighting Franco: the First Irish Casualties of the Spanish Civil War
    First Published: 2017
    A brief biography of Tommy Patten and Jack Barry focusing on their involvement in the Spanish Civil War.
  4098. Fighting impunity, but only in some cases
    Is the International Criminal Court too Politicized?
    First Published: 2013
    So far all the 20 prosecutions in the 11 years of the ICC’s existence have been brought over African conflicts. The US, China, Russia and Israel haven’t even signed up to the court, and actively seek exemption from it.
  4099. Fighting King Coal in Indian Ocean paradise
    First Published: 2014
    A $395 million coal fired power station is planned for Mauritius - bulldozed aver the wishes of the population, official advice and the environment ministry.
  4100. Fighting Lynch Laws in America
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    Rebecca Hill’s ambitious book highlights a major theme of American radical history. It brings together the history of labor defense campaigns with the concurrent movement to prevent the lynching of African Americans. In six individual studies from John Brown to the Black Panther Party, Hill achieves two notable goals: a substantive reinterpretation of these cases and a heightened recognition of their commonalities.
  4101. Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State
    An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
  4102. Fighting Subpoenas and Gag Orders in Iowa
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    More than two months have passed since federal officials withdrew the grand jury subpoenas against four peace activists and Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The withdrawal of the subpoenas and the gag order against Drake came amidst a firestorm of protest, not only from progressive and civil liberties lawyers and peace and justice activists from around the state and the country, but also from mainstream news media and elected politicians from both parties.
  4103. Fighting the Flexible Firm
    First Published: 2000
    The shift towards the short term is a result of changes within the operation of capitalism. Let us be clear about this: it is not about technology, it is not about innovation, it is about capitalism and how capitalism operates to achieve profit. Capital is now driven by short-term return. This results in organisations having to quickly change what they are doing and where they are going, and adjust their personnel accordingly.
  4104. Fighting the poachers on Africa's thin green line
    First Published: 2013
    Underpaid, ill-equipped and outnumbered, park rangers fight a one-sided war against vicious gangs of poachers. Hundreds have been murdered in the defence of endangered wildlife, and their deaths leave their own families in jeopardy. David Smith reports from Zambia.
  4105. Fighting the Wal-Mart Plague
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    Liza Featherstone offers a devastating portrait of rampant sex discrimination at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Women working for the company at all levels — from cashier positions to the highest levels of corporate marketing — have been paid less than their male coworkers and offered far fewer raises and promotions.
  4106. Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Why Americans Hate Muslims
    First Published: 2017
    Certainly, anti-Arab and Muslim sentiments in the US have been around for generations, but it has risen sharply in the last two decades. Arabs and Muslims have become an easy scapegoat for all of America's failed wars and counter-violence.
  4107. Files expose Syrian 'Revolution' as Western regime change operation
    First Published: 2023
    Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating. Demonstrators are motivated by increasingly unlivable economic conditions spurred by crippling U.S.-led international sanctions against Damascus. These have produced hyperinflation, mass food insecurity, and many daily hardships for the population. They also prevent vital humanitarian aid from entering the country.
  4108. Files linking Britain to Israel's nuclear weapons go missing from National Archives
    First Published: 2016
    Official documents on Britain's relationship with Israel, including papers on "military and nuclear collaboration" in the 1970s, have disappeared from the National Archives in the last four years.
  4109. Filipino Maids for Export
    'Always be Punctual and Don't Count the Work You are Doing'
    First Published: 2011
    Twelve percent of the Philippines’ GDP comes as remittances from nationals abroad. Many of those are maids, sent all over the world into domestic service to support their children back home. The Philippines government is even training them in servitude.
  4110. Filipino women take lead in resolving Mindanao conflict
    First Published: 2013
    Teresita Quintos Deles and Miriam Coronel Ferrer won over Islamic leaders who initially balked at dealing with women.
  4111. Fill the gap: Ontario should insure injured migrant workers
    First Published: 2014
    We want to sound the alarm over the unjust federal and provincial immigration and health policies that are based on the exploitation of human labour and xenophobia. Migrants increasingly enter Canada to work under temporary foreign worker programs through which they are denied equitable access to services while still being required to pay taxes.
  4112. 'Fill the Jails': Identity, Structure and Method in the Committee of 100, 1960-1968
    PhD Thesis,University of Sussex, 2010
    First Published: 2010
  4113. Film Charts Failed Experiment Inviting Palestinian Teens to Become Kibbutzniks
    First Published: 2019
    A new documentary brings to light an episode almost completely erased from Israel’s official history - and one that reveals how Israel's apartheid character was established from its birth.
  4114. Film Review: Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
    First Published: 2014
    A review of the provocative documentary Revolutionary Medicine, which tells the story of the first Garifuna hospital, in Honduras.
  4115. Filmmaker "Gringoyo" Putting the Fun Back Into Revolution
    Harnessing Humour to Build Video Viewership and Social Movements
    First Published: 2012
    These satirical videos not only talk about movements, they are filmed in conflict zones in moments of political tension. Gringoyo moves in a very real world with the freedom of a cartoon.
  4116. Films About Women
    First Published: 1990
  4117. Films, videos, AV materials sought
    First Published: 1989
  4118. Filtering The Election
    First Published: 2016
    Examining the mainstream media's role in the 2016 US election of suppressing criticisms of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party establishment.
  4119. Filthy, deadly mayhem in India
    First Published: 2014
    Along with the choking fumes and piles of putrid waste, sound systems and a constant bombardment of honking horns from cars, lorries and screaming buses assault residents and the unprepared in towns and cities throughout India.
  4120. Final Blow to Affirmative Action?
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    The current state of affirmative action in the United States.
  4121. Final Project Report: Greater Vancouver General Worker's Co-op
    First Published: 1980
    Finding employment in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is extremely difficult, but there are casual jobs available in the city and workers willing to work.
  4122. Final Report of the Canadian Non-Governmental Participation Group (CNGPG) for Habitat
    First Published: 1976
    Review of the history and formation of the CNGPG for Habitat and its performance during the conference. Printed in both English and French.
  4123. The Final Report of the ecumenical energy working group
    First Published: 1982
  4124. Final Report on Sub-committee on Race Relations
    First Published: 1979
  4125. Final Victory for Geronimo
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    SINCE JUNE OF 1997 Geronimo Pratt has been free from prison, but not free from its threat. No longer!
  4126. Finally, a Wall to Unite People, Not Divide Them
    First Published: 2016
    Throughout history, walls have been a symbol of separation, segregation, and division. However, a new phenomenon called "walls of kindness" (Deewar-e-Meherbani) is doing just the opposite. Faced by cold weather, Iranians began outdoor charity drives for the homeless and needy by building "walls of kindness." The walls feature clothing hooks beside the phrase, "Take one if you need it. Give one if you don't." Iran's campaign to clothe the poor has developed into an international onslaught of donations, coats, hats, trousers, and warm apparel.
  4127. Finance as Warfare: the IMF Lent to Greece Knowing It Could Never Pay Back Debt
    First Published: 2017
    An interview with economist Michael Hudson, who argues that the International Monetary Fund provided loans to Greece with the deliberate intention that the country be forced to go into default and be forced to sell public assets and land.
  4128. Finance Capitalism's Self-Destructive Nature
    First Published: 2022
    Transcript of Interview on The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong May 25th, 2022
  4129. Financial Constraint and Assisted Housing Budgets
    First Published: 1977
    A critical review of both federal and provincial capital investment in assisted housing programs.
  4130. The Financial Invasion of Greece
    First Published: 2016
    Greece's economic crisis has perhaps been eclipsed by Europe's refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, and by the forthcoming Brexit referendum. But it has not gone away. Greece's Syriza coalition faced violence on the streets and a 3-day general strike last week that brought much of the country to a halt. In spite of the protests the government of Alexis Tsipras pushed through legislation to amend the country's tax and pension system with the backing of 153 MPs, a measure required by the lenders in order to continue the debt negotiations.
  4131. The Financial System is a Larger Threat Than Terrorism
    First Published: 2016
    Trillions of dollars have been added to the taxpayers' burden and many billions of dollars in profits to the military/security complex in order to combat insignificant foreign "threats," such as the Taliban, that remain undefeated after 15 years. All this time the financial system, working hand-in-hand with policymakers, has done more damage to Americans than terrorists could possibly inflict.
  4132. Financial Terrorism
    The Wonga Payday Lending Experiment
    First Published: 2014
    Keeping people poor in a world of seedy abandonment. Borrowing at phenomenal rates. Loan sharks running wild, dressed by the language of assistance and salvation. All of this should be the stuff to be binned and repelled by governments, but in an age when governments forfeit, rather than affirm responsibility in the face of the economy, the phenomenon of Wonga, a deferred deposit loan operator, has come to thrive. Private indebtedness has become both a condition and a lifestyle.
  4133. Find, Fix, Finish
    For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA
    First Published: 2015
    Obama was urged by Michael Hayden, the CIA director, and his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to adopt small footprint counterterrorism operations and drone strikes. In one briefing, Hayden told Obama that covert action was the only way to confront al Qaeda and other terrorist groups plotting attacks against the U.S.
  4134. Finding Hope After Seattle
    Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement
    First Published: 2000
    Direct action, as many anarchists tend to define it, can be deeply exclusionary. While it undeniably empowers some — mainly white and middle-class — it disempowers others. Used as a central tactic of mass mobilizations, direct action can in fact implicitly assume a certain degree of privilege, with dire consequences.
  4135. Finding the truth amid Israel's lies
    First Published: 2018
    The famous – and by now overused – expression that history is written by the victors can be countered in many ways. One way is by unpacking the victors’ publications in order to expose the lies, fabrications and misrepresentations, as well as their less conscious actions. A rereading of these open sources about the Nakba, mostly written by Israelis themselves, unlocks fresh historiographical perspectives on the big picture of that period – while declassified documents allow us to see that picture in a higher resolution. This reprise could have been done at any moment between 1948 and today – as long as historians were willing to employ the critical lens needed for such an examination. Rereading these open sources, especially in tandem with the numerous oral histories of the Nakba, reveals the barbarism and dehumanization that accompanied the catastrophe. The barbarism is common to settler communities in the formative years of their colonization projects and can sometimes be obscured by the dry and evasive language of military and political documents.
  4136. Finding Workers Power
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    Socialists identify the working class as a potentially powerful agent of change. Working people have that potential because we keep the economy running. We therefore have the power to stop production through a general strike, create bottlenecks through which a relatively small number of strikers can significantly disrupt the economy, or we can stay on the job and work to rule, slowing down production.
  4137. Findings on Uranium Tailings and Nuclear Waste Disposal
    First Published: 1980
  4138. Finkelstein, Norman
    Connexipedia Article
    An American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. (Born 1953).
  4139. Finland: 100th anniversary of workers' revolution drowned in blood
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the Workers' Revolution in Finland, a source of inspiration and a powerful example of the strength of collective struggle.
  4140. Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality
    First Published: 2015
    Fire ants are being laced with homosexual chemtrails and then dumped in neighborhoods with higher per capita rates of Christianity. The homosexual chemtrail concoction contains a high concentration of gay endorphins. Sources confirm that several exclusive gay clubs collected the spent sweats of late-night homosexuality, then sent them to a laboratory where in-vitro techniques were used to create this potent new form of biological homosexual chemtrail.
  4141. Fire as U.S. Policy
    Burning Truth
    First Published: 2015
  4142. Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost cutting that led to Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1
    First Published: 2019
    The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has published a damning report demonstrating that years of austerity measures, privatisation and deregulation led to the entirely avoidable fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, which claimed 72 lives.
  4143. The Fire Each Time
    First Published: 2016
    Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and suddenly there was light, and warmth, and the gathering at the hearth. The gods never forgave, and ever since periodically they thrust a torch into villains' hands and watch the hearths burn and bring the roofs down. Civilization weeps, in Troy, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria.
  4144. Fire in the dark: the astonishing story of the Courrieres mine disaster
    First Published: 2014
    One hundred and eight years ago today, on March 10, 1906, an explosion and fire occurred deep underground in a coal mine owned by the Courrières mining company underneath the village of Billy-Montigny in northern France. A total of 1,099 miners died, including many children.
  4145. The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges
    First Published: 2010
    Some activists hold back from condemning tactics that are politically stupid and destructive, like the recent Ottawa arson attack by an anarchist group, because of a commitment to the doctrine of a 'diversity of tactics'. However, the original idea behind a diversity of tactics, that is, a variety of approaches to organizing for change, has been appropriated by activists devoted to property destruction as a media spectacle, who feel that they should be exempted from criticism by other activists, no matter how much their tactics serve to undermine the building of a broad-based movement against capitalism.
  4146. A Fire to Suffocate: Canadian Industrial Produciton for the Nuclear Arms Race
    First Published: 1980
  4147. Firing Blind
    Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology
    First Published: 2015
    Classified Pentagon documents reveal that the U.S. military has faced "critical shortfalls" in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia.
  4148. First a Hand on Your Crotch, Next a Boot in Your Face
    False Choices and Airport Security
    First Published: 2010
    Since 9/11, we have given up many of our rights and our government has condoned practices like torture, legalized assassination, kidnapping, indefinite detention without access to council or trial – all in the name of keeping us 'safe' and 'free'. We have adopted practices and behaviors that we used to abhor in other nations and regimes. These practices, as demonstrated by the TSA, have nothing to do with keeping us safe or free – quite the opposite.
  4149. First All Chiefs Conference
    First Published: 1980
  4150. First All Tribal Council/Groups & Indian Organizations Meeting
    First Published: 1978
    A collection of documents relevant to the First All Tribal Councils/Groups & Indian Organizations Meeting in British Columbia (October 27-29, 1978) has been complied in one booklet.
  4151. First Choice: Essential Reading On Peace and Disarmamment
    First Published: 1986
    A two-page pamphlet from Library and Information Workers for Peace listing "essential materials on the peace movement."
  4152. First Draft of Letter To Vera Zasulich
    First Published: 1881
  4153. The First Duty of a Revolutionary is to Survive
    An interview with Pat Califia
    First Published: 1995
    Pat Califia observes that the first stage in trying to politicize SM people is to make it possible for people to find each other. Within our own community, we need to educate ourselves about each other: "gay men need to educate themselves about feminism; lesbians need to educate themselves about AIDS and sodomy laws; straight people need to address their homophobia, and everybody needs to address biphobia and transphobia." This kind of interaction doesn't have to mean the loss of separate social spaces, which are appropriate. But it is the truth that we hang together or we hang separately.
  4154. The First Freedom: Freedom of Conscience and Religion In Canada
    First Published: 1986
  4155. The First International Conference of Socialist Women - Stuttgart. 1907
    First Published: 1918
    First Published in International Socialist Conferences of Women Workers in 1918.
  4156. First Intifada
    Connexipedia Article
    A Palestinian Uprising against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories.
  4157. The First Legal Russian Strike in a Decade
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    The almsot month-long strike at the Ford-Vsevolozhsk assembly plant, a small plant near St. Petersburg, ended December 16 with an agreement that negotiations would resume. The strike began on November 17, 2007, after four months of talks failed to produce any result. In fact, Ford management had initially refused to hold negotiations “during or under the threat of strike.”
  4158. First Look Media Publishes Warrant 'Canary,' Releases Software for Managing Canaries
    First Published: 2015
    Today The Intercept’s parent company, First Look Media, published a warrant "canary" -- a statement that attempts to assure readers that the company has not been compelled to comply with a secret government order like a National Security Letter. In addition to this, First Look is publishing AutoCanary: simple, free, open-source software to easily create and manage warrant canaries.
  4159. First Nations' anti-Keystone XL alliance years in making
    First Published: 2014
    Indigenous organizers say Reject and Protect gathering in DC marked the culmination of years spent building solidarity across nations and across borders, and that more will be on the way.
  4160. First Nations Under Surveillance
    Harper Government Prepares for First Nations "Unrest"
    First Published: 2011
    There needs to be unity on the ground with coordinated political actions between First Nations Peoples in order to protect, defend and advance First Nation pre-existing sovereignty, and First Nation Aboriginal and Treaty rights to lands and resources. Divide and conquer tactics can only be met with new strategies of alliance-building, and by bringing the leadership back down to the land.
  4161. First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
    First Published: 2017
    The authors of a study which examined police interactions with the public conclude that alarmingly high numbers reflect an "excess exposure" of people to police violence.
  4162. First Steps of Participatory Research Project: Indigenous Languages and Digital Media
    First Published: 2016
    The rapid development of digital media, which began during the last decade of the 20th century, has had unanticipated effects at the beginning of the 21st century. Peoples, whose cultures and languages were marginalized and displaced by the Nation-State, have appropriated -- slowly, but surely -- these media to reassert their cultural and linguistic presence in cyberspace.
  4163. First they came for Alex Jones. Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site
    First Published: 2018
    Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela.
  4164. The First Trial of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
    First Published: 1849
  4165. Fish and Loaves Gathering
    First Published: 1990
  4166. Fish Missing
    First Published: 1990
  4167. Fish or Cut Bait
    First Published: 1990
  4168. Fisherman sues pulp mills
    First Published: 1992
  4169. Fishermen's Protective Union
    Connexipedia article
    The Fishermen's Protective Union (sometimes called the Fisherman's Protective Union, the FPU, The Union or the Union Party) was a workers' organisation and political party in the Dominion of Newfoundland.
  4170. Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodity
    First Published: 2016
    Overfishing, pollution and warming water have pushed the world’s oceans into crisis. If nothing is done the results will be catastrophic for marine systems and the billions of humans who rely on them. To stop this destruction our society has to be organized in a completely different way.
  4171. Fishers under siege
    First Published: 2018
    A review of Penny McCall Howard, Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: "Working the Ground" in Scotland.
  4172. Fishing jobs threatened
    First Published: 1990
  4173. Fisk Puts to Test the Free-Press Myth in Douma
    First Published: 2018
    Veteran Middle East corrrespondent Robert Fisk was the first western correspondent to arrive in Douma following the US, UK and French attacks on Syria. Based on first hand interviews Fisk's account is clearly honest about what he reported and certainly plausible, yet respected British newspapers like the Guardian gave his reports a cursory if not hostile treatment.
  4174. Five Challenges for Ecosocialists in 2008
    First Published: 2007
    Ecosocialism is not separate from the existing left and green movements, and it is not a structured movement on its own. Rather, it is a current of thought within existing socialist and green-left movements, seeking to win ecology activists to socialism and to convince socialists of the vital importance of ecological issues and struggles.
  4175. Five Days in Seattle: A View from the Ground
    First Published: 1999
    About the 1999 protests in Seattle.
  4176. Five Decades of Connexions
    First Published: 2023
  4177. 500 rabbis urge Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian homes
    First Published: 2015
    Over 500 rabbis from Israel, Britain, the US and Canada have called on the Israeli prime minister to stop demolishing Palestinian homes.
  4178. Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza - Debunked
    Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Here's what you need to know about
    First Published: 2014
    Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past 21 days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. Israel does not deny that it killed those Palestinians using modern aerial technology and precise weaponry courtesy of the world’s only superpower. In fact, it does not even deny that they are civilians.
  4179. Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
    The Real Welfare Kings and Queens
    First Published: 2012
    Taxes represent payment for society’s many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer.
  4180. Five Reasons To Plant Trees Now
    First Published: 2010
    To some people, planting a tree is the epitome of the environmental cliche. Planting a tree seems so simple, so easy, so... low-technology. In the midst of the economic upheaval we are experiencing now, in the face of massive challenges such as peak oil and climate change, why should we plant trees?
  4181. Five reasons why we don't have a free and independent press in the UK and what we can do about it
    First Published: 2016
    Exposes the power structures and entities that exert influence over the UK press, and proposes ways that influence might be subverted.
  4182. Five Revealing Facts About Homeless Youth
    First Published: 2016
    The federal government has set a goal of ending youth homelessness by 2020 with Opening Doors, a strategic plan released in 2010. But as the plan acknowledges, figuring out how many youth are homeless is no easy task.
  4183. Five Steps from D.C. to Jo'burg
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    1. Take Washington D.C. to Johannesburg. What the youth and other activists in the U.S.A. have done, must be repeated here in South Africa. Of course, it will not be parrot-like, it will have to take into account our specific situation and circumstances. We must target the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as agents of neoliberal economic policy in our country and our region. We must then find issues around which we can organize the people, for example, water, electricity, jobs, etc.
  4184. Five tests for action in Syria that fail the challenge of beating Isis
    First Published: 2015
    'We are alarmed that the government appears to be ready to embark on a campaign of airstrikes in Syria ... that does not seem to be part of a thought-through military, political and social strategy for the region,' write professors from the University of Oxford and Soas, University of London.
  4185. 5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis
    First Published: 2009
    Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
  4186. Five wins for feminism
    First Published: 2015
    Every activist has at some point been told that activism is pointless today, that it achieves nothing and hasn’t since the 1970s. Others say that there's no point to feminist activism in particular because we already have gender equality. A quick look at the issues feminists are struggling for, and the wins we've had recently, show that neither claim is true, nor are they likely to be for some time.
  4187. Five years of illegality
    Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians
    First Published: 2009
    Oxfam International presents testimonies of Palestinian men and women who recount their daily problems, arising from the construction of Israel's illegal Wall and its associated regime of land confiscation and permits, and settlement construction.
  4188. Five years since Canada's constitutional coup
    First Published: 2013
    Five years ago today, Canada’s Conservative government used the arbitrary powers of the un-elected governor-general to shut down Canada’s parliament so as to prevent the opposition parties from defeating the government in a non-confidence vote.
  4189. Five Years’ Struggle
    First Published: 1923
  4190. The Five-Legged Sheep; Michelin Tire in Nova Scotia (Round One, No.7)
    First Published: 1977
    This study outlines the history of a single-family based multinational whose entry into Nova Scotia as the largest private employer has led to the establishment of the "Pictou County Mafia."
  4191. The Fix Is In: Washington's Planned Social Contract Destruction
    First Published: 2011
    New audit figures show that Bernanke's Fed gave Wall Street and European banksters at least $16.1 trillion (called emergency loans) from December 1, 2007 - July 21, 2010, besides unknown amounts earlier and in the past year. Moreover, it's well known that trillions of dollars are stolen, handed to corporate interests and never returned, as well as gotten in other illegal ways. As a result, taxpayers get stuck with the bill, the nation with unsustainable mounting debt, heading it eventually for ruin.
  4192. Flag, Fetish and Illusory Community
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    Patriotism is usually understood as “love of country.” With the help of Marx’s theories of the state and of alienation, we explore what is meant by “love” and “country” in this definition. By viewing society as a contradictory relation between a social community, based on the cooperation required by the existing division of labor, and an illusory community dominated by the interests of the ruling economic class, it becomes apparent that the “country” which patriots love is not the country they actually live in.
  4193. A Flag for Trump's America
    The power of strength
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag, which became a symbol for the U.S. police counter-movement advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statutes. It was started in response to Black Lives Matter.
  4194. Flags of Convenience
    Corporate Anarchy on the High Seas
    First Published: 2012
    Maritime lawlessness isn’t confined to pirates. Thanks to a system of ship registration called ‘flags of convenience,’ it is all too easy for unscrupulous ship owners to get away with criminal behaviour
  4195. A Flame Gone Out - obituary
    The Legacy of Stephane Hessel
    First Published: 2013
    Obituary for Stephane Hessel.
  4196. Flame on the Snow
    (1920/1921)
    First Published: 1924
  4197. Flatly Outrageous
    First Published: 2005
    The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
  4198. A Flawed Conception of Class
    First Published: 2013
    A critique of E.P. Thompson's 'The Making of the English Working Class.'
  4199. Flight from the land and food riots
    Excellent article by Wildcat Germany analysing the food crisis and the global agricultural industry under capitalism.
    First Published: 2007
    Article discuss about reasons behind the exploding food prices.
  4200. Flint and the Rewriting of History
    First Published: 1996
    The 1937 sitdown strikes were a thunderbolt shattering minimal labor-management relations. The victory of the Flint auto workers heralded the most profound social changes in the United States since the Civil War.
  4201. Flint drinks lead-laden water; Republicans attack Clean Water Act
    First Published: 2016
    To save a small amount of money residents of Flint, Michigan, have been forced to consume hazardous levels of lead in their drinking water. Just the moment for the Republican House Speaker to attack the Clean Water Act.
  4202. The Flint Militants
    Eighty years ago, the Flint Sit-Down Strike showed the power of a determined rank and file and a class-conscious leadership
    First Published: 2017
    In 1937 hundreds of autoworkers seized two General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, paralyzing the massive corporation's production line. The workers' new tactic - the sit-down strike - threatened to fundamentally change the balance of power between workers and management.
  4203. The Flint River Lead Poisoning Catastrophe in Historical Perspective
    First Published: 2016
    By now the main facts of the Flint River lead poisoning are pretty well known and essentially undisputed. A spectacular regulatory failure by all levels of government -- enabled by Michigan Governor Snyder's unprecedented "emergency management" policies for African-American majority cities. The big remaining question is why this disaster happened?
  4204. Flint Sit-Down Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major union and led to the unionization of the United States automobile industry.
  4205. The Flint Sitdown Comic
    First Published: 2013
    Is organized labour going extinct? Is the power of working class people a relic from a bygone era? The article looks into workers' "legal right" to organize and strike.
  4206. The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937
    Jeremy Brecher
    First Published: 2013
    210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again. The workers won control over the rate of production, despite a union contract that conceded this authority to management.
  4207. The Flint Water Crisis is Not Without Parallel in Michigan History
    First Published: 2016
    In the days, weeks, and months following a disaster people feel uncertain about real and perceived risks. The parties directly involved a disaster as well as other organizations such as public agencies, governmental bodies, corporations, the media, and environmental groups release a cacophony of information and disputations that the affected population and the general public see as conflicting and confusing. In the process victims and the general public struggle to gain credible sources of information in an attempt to make sense of an event and unpack the truth in order to assign, meaning, blame, and responsibility as well as develop coping strategies and effective remedies. This informational uncertainty can also result in the lack of an effective response between responding governmental agencies on all levels as witnessed in the ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan.
  4208. Flint's poisoned water and capital's second contradiction
    First Published: 2016
    The politicians who poisoned the water supply in Flint are as bad as they come, but it's the system they serve that makes such disasters inevitable.
  4209. The Flood From the North
    Washington's Role in Triggering the Child Migrant Crisis
    First Published: 2014
    International law and basic morality demand that the children of Central America are treated with the care and dignity that they and previous generations have been robbed under several decades of US foreign and immigration policy. Achieving this end would require overcoming the convenient myths of power and the culture of indifference in which they take root.
  4210. 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria
    First Published: 2013
    In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has been embarked on a massive propaganda campaign they call “flooding the zone.” We hope to provide the most direct and systematic refutation of the Administration’s case for war in Syria.
  4211. The Floods of Forgetfulness
    A Brief History of Logging, Floods and Landslides
    First Published: 2014
    In thousands of stories about the recent floods in the U.S. Northwest, only one mentioned any possible connection between logging and floods.
  4212. Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free
    First Published: 2015
    Robertson had been incarcerated since 2011 on charges of tax fraud and illegal gun possession. After his arrest and subsequent conviction, prosecutors sought to add a 'terrorism enhancement' to his sentence.
  4213. Florida Sheriff Tells Drivers to Run over Street Protesters
    First Published: 2015
    Sheriff of Florida's Palm Beach County tells residents to use their vehicles as weapons against protesters who may be blocking their path.
  4214. Florida Students Confront Spencer
    First Published: 2018
    Aliya recounts her experience protesting the Richard Spencer event at the University of Florida.
  4215. Florida Today: "Worse Than Mississippi"
    First Published: 2016
    If Emancipation means the right to breathe clean air and drink clean water, then Florida falls short. In the 20th century we were a leader in environmental racism.
  4216. Florida's sugar barons grow fat on subsidies, diabetes and Everglades destruction
    First Published: 2014
    Big Sugar is the new Big Tobacco, writes Alan Farago - lethal to human health, wreaking environmental devastation, gouging huge public subsidies, and with the political clout to stop First Lady Michelle Obama from breathing a word against it. Only an alliance of green, health and taxpayer campaigners can kill the beast.
  4217. Florynce Kennedy & Black Feminism
    Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Sherie M. Randolph's Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical.
  4218. The Flotilla In The Israeli Press
    First Published: 2010
    An analysis of Israeli media propaganda in the wake of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
  4219. The Flowers of Rojava: A Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria 
    First Published: 2016
    Janet Biehl speaks about her recent visit to Rojava, Kurdistan where Kurdish men and women have organized themselves into a democratic autonomous region.
  4220. Flying High: 5 Sure Ways to Get Your Business Soaring
    First Published: 2001
    Know your audience, know your message, be clear and consistent in that message, then develop a strategy and execute it.
  4221. Flying Together
    First Published: 1979
  4222. Flying University
    Connexipedia Article
    An underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland.
  4223. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
    Connexipedia Article
    Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
  4224. Flyposting guide
    First Published: 2006
    Guide with tips and advice on flyposting, or "wheatpasting", for advertising and getting your message out to a wide audience on a low budget.
  4225. The FMLN's Historic Victory
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    For the first time, the left will govern El Salvador. In the March 15, 2009 presidential elections, Mauricio Funes of the former guerrilla movement the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) defeated former police director Rodrigo Ávila of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) by a thin margin of less than three percentage points.
  4226. Focus and determination required: A call to all progressive organizations to unite under one big umbrella
    First Published: 2011
    We need a movement powerful enough to pressure corporate media owners into providing equal coverage, and with access to enough financing to support the development of alternative, independent media. If the progressive movement is to be successful in improving society, it is hugely important for it to be able to reach the general public with its information creating a balanced view of important issues in Canada.
  4227. A Focus of Anti-capitalist Struggle? 
    Book review
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won't Change the World
  4228. Focus on the Waterfront
    A Report of the Meeting "Focus on the Waterfront," held in Dartmouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
    First Published: 1981
    This is a report of the event "Focus on the Waterfront" prepared by the Nova Scotia Division of the Community Planning Association of Canada (CPAC-NS).
  4229. Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
    First Published: 2009
    The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
  4230. Focusing Purely on Injustices in China and Russia with a Cold War Mindset Damages Human Rights Everywhere
    First Published: 2021
    The essence of human rights propaganda is not lies or even exaggeration, but selectivity.
  4231. The Fog of Intelligence 
    Or How to Be Eternally "Caught Off Guard" in the Greater Middle East
    First Published: 2015
    The phrase "the fog of war" stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what's happening in the chaos that is any battlefield. Perhaps it's time to introduce a companion phrase: the fog of intelligence.
  4232. Folk high schools
    Connexipedia Article
    Institutions for adult education for working-class and poor people, typically based on a popular education model.
  4233. A Folklorist of Black America
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Beuxw Conforth's book, "African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics:The Larry Gellert Story".
  4234. Folkways Records
    Connexipedia Article
    A record label that documents folk and world music.
  4235. Follies of the War
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Three years later, it is hard to believe that a gloating and triumphant Christopher Hitchens could write this (April 18, 2003):
  4236. Follow the Money, Find the Leader
    Billion Dollar Candidates
    First Published: 2012
    The point is not whether Barack Obama wins re-election as President. The point is not whether Mitt Romney can win. The point is that you can’t dream of contesting without a billion dollars. That figure merely ensures you can run, not win.
  4237. Follow the Money, Part 1 - The Weston Family
    First Published: 2014
    You've seen him in television ads hyping President's Choice dessert ideas, naming fake supermarkets after enthusiastic customers, sitting down with moms around the kitchen table and talking to President's Choice farmers on their hormone-free farms.
  4238. Follow the Money, Part 2 - Barrick Gold's Peter Munk
    First Published: 2014
    The Fraser Institute awarded Barrick Gold chairman Peter Munk its T.P. Boyle Founder's Award at a gala dinner in Toronto in 2010. This is the think tank's most prestigious award, which it gave to Munk "in recognition of his unwavering commitment to free and open markets around the globe and his support for enhancing and encouraging democratic values and the importance of responsible citizenship." Equating "free and open markets" with "democratic values" is a long-standing neoliberal marketing mantra.
  4239. Follow the Money, Part 3 - Big Oil and Calgary's School of Public Policy
    First Published: 2014
    If it disseminates pro-free market studies like a right-wing think tank, and if it courts Big Oil money like a right-wing think tank, and if it recruits conservative scholars like a right-wing think tank, then it probably is a right-wing think tank.
  4240. Follow the Money, Part 4 - Who Owns the National Post?
    First Published: 2014
    It"s no secret that Postmedia Network, publisher of the National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and other major Canadian dailies, is hemorrhaging money.
  4241. Follow the Money, Part 5 - The Tobacco Papers Revisited
    First Published: 2014
    Michael Walker, former executive director of the Fraser Institute, long denied that institute directors — the people who fund the institute’s work — can tell researchers what to do.
    According to this rosy view of the think tank’s mission, Big Oil directors from Calgary, for instance, don’t tell Fraser Institute researcher Kenneth Green to produce studies denying global warming or proving that the Keystone and Northern Gateway pipelines are crucial for Canada’s economic survival. Green does these on his own because that’s what his research indicates.
  4242. Follow the Money, Part 6 - Obesity: A new role for second-hand-smoke-causes-cancer deniers
    First Published: 2014
    The tobacco industry has shifted its doubt-manufacturing operations to countries like Russia, Indonesia and China, where the incidence of smoking — and cancer — continues to rise. But other industries with deep pockets need to manufacture doubt about the health risks of their products.
  4243. 'Follow Your Bliss' - The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough
    First Published: 2018
    Don't write for the "mainstream". Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just "follow your bliss" by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.'
  4244. Following the Science?
    First Published: 2021
    "Following the science" has been the mantra of public officials from the very beginning of the pandemic. But what does "following the science" actually mean? When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make?
  4245. The Follow-Up Telephone Call
    First Published: 2004
    Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
  4246. Food Among the Ruins 
    First Published: 2009
    Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.
  4247. Food Co-ops
    First Published: 1977
    A brochure that educates people interested in cutting the supermarket connection.
  4248. Food Fanatics
    First Published: 2006
    Ill-informed dogmatism has no place in a healthy lifestyle.
  4249. Food First
    Ten Days for World Development
    First Published: 1977
    Tabloid that exposes the "food myths" that are obstacles to people feeding themselves, particularly in the Third World.
  4250. Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity
    First Published: 1979
    Review of a book titled Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity by the authors Francis Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins.
  4251. Food Industry -- Profits
    First Published: 1977
    A talk given by David Robertson on the relationship between corporate interest and the food industry.
  4252. Food industry must get behind 'right to know' on GMO
    First Published: 2015
    The citizens 'right to know' campaign about GMOs has put the food industry on the defensive, big time. But that only creates the impression they have something to hide. if GMOs are as great as they claim, they should be only too glad. It's time they switched sides and got with the people they feed.
  4253. Food Justice: Monsanto, Factory Farming, And Beyond
    First Published: 2013
    It starts with alternative vision: While the dominant hierarchy drowns in its own hypocrisy, fear, and greed let’s use our energy and passion to create -- occupy -- a whole new cultural model.
  4254. Food Not Bombs
    Connexipedia Article
    A loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others.
  4255. A Food Renaissance
    First Published: 2016
    Colin Tudge reports on The College of Real Farming and Food Culture; a project designed to tackle the current issues in global food production. The current system is not fit for purpose but through a holistic approach and an overhaul of current mainstream agriculture, achieving a balance between feeding the world and conserving the environment is within grasp.
  4256. The food rush
    First Published: 2011
    Commodity speculators have moved into food - with dire consequences for the world’s poorest.
  4257. Food sovereignty and climate change
    First Published: 2016
    Climate change has become, in a short time, one of the "global affairs" of critical importance in our times. It has now penetrated every sphere of our social and political life to the point of acquiring a centrality that dangerously makes it seem natural.
  4258. Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies? 
    First Published: 2015
    Fred Magdoff reviews Labor and the Locavore. Can the 'buy local food' movement support both sustainable farming and justice for farmworkers?
  4259. Football, Class and Sexuality in America
    A Review of "Big Fan"
    First Published: 2009
    Big Fan is an incredibly tender, painful, and tragic look at the state of masculine identity, social pressures of masculinity, and how masculinity relates to homophobia and class in America via the seemingly heteronormative industry of pro football.
  4260. For a bi-national workers' state in Palestine-Israel!
    From the river to the sea: Smash Zionist tyranny!
    First Published: 2024
    The result of the 1948 Nakba is that two peoples are now interspersed within a single territory, and each can only exercise their right to 'self-determination' at the expense of the other. No 'two state' solution can equitably resolve their competing national claims and Marxists reject out of hand 'solutions' to national oppression that simply reverse the terms of oppression.
  4261. For a movement that unites us
    First Published: 2010
    Activists organizing against cuts and tuition hikes at New York City's Hunter College issue an open letter calling for respect and freedom of expression.
  4262. For a Workers Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression 
    First Published: 2009
    Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
  4263. For a Workers' United Front Against Fascism
    What's Wrong With the Current Policy of the German Communist Party?
    First Published: 1931   Published: 1932
    Germany is now passing through one of those great historic hours upon which the fate of the German people, the fate of Europe, and in significant measure the fate of all humanity, will depend for decades. If you place a ball on top of a pyramid, the slightest impact can cause it to roll down either to the left or to the right. That is the situation approaching with every hour in Germany today. There are forces which would like the bail to roll down towards the right and break the back of the working class. There are forces which would like the ball to remain at the top. That is a utopia. The ball cannot remain at the top of the pyramid. The Communists want the ball to roll down toward the left and break the back of capitalism. But it is not enough to want; one must know how.
  4264. For an easy win on carbon emissions - cut global trade!
    First Published: 2014
    If the world's leaders really cared about climate change, there's one easy way to reduce emissions -- drop the obsession with increasing trade, and all the pollution that goes with it. A world based on local production, consumption and finance will be a better one for people and the environment.
  4265. For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
    First Published: 2018
    In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
  4266. For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part Two
    How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration
    First Published: 2004
    There is a lot of talk today about multiculturalism, diversity, whiteness and "racialized subjects" and other liberal jargon that essentially attempts to erase the centrality of anti-black racism and black oppression in racist capitalist America.
  4267. For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part One
    Contradictions of the Civil Rights Movement: A Marxist Analysis
    First Published: 2012
    We describe the black population in the U.S. as an oppressed race-color caste. From their arrival in this country, the Negro people have been an integral part of American class society while at the same time forcibly segregated at the bottom of this society. Thus blacks face discrimination, in different degrees, regardless of social status, wealth or class position. Blacks are today still an integral and strategic part of the working class, despite unemployment and mass incarceration.
  4268. For Campus Free Speech
    First Published: 2018
    Bose describes the right-wing incursion on universities and his troubled feelings about the climate of intellectual fear among some on the campus left. He elaborates on this by discussing the demands for speaking engagements for right-wing pundits to be cancelled.
  4269. For Children of Gaza, War Means No School, No Indication When Formal Learning Might Return
    First Published: 2024
    Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. Now, all he craves is to return to school.
  4270. For Dissent Against Hindu Extremism
    First Published: 2002
    The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Bajrang Dal, and other Hindu extremist organisations, collectively known as the Sangh Parivar (Hindu fundamentalist family of organisations), are utilising religion to foment communal violence toward organising ultra right, non-secular and undemocratic nationalism in India.
  4271. For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime
    First Published: 2015
    Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
  4272. For Free Expression on Palestine
    First Published: 2009
  4273. For Gaza's children, sleep brings only nightmares
    First Published: 2023
    Repeated Israeli aggressions take a terrible toll on the mental health of Gazan children.
  4274. For Generations Yet Unborn
    Ontario Resources North of 50
    First Published: 1978
  4275. For International Women's Day: Honoring the Fighters
    First Published: 2018
    Brief descriptions of Ahed Tamimi, Asma Jahangir, Heather Heyer, Berta Cáceres, Erica Garner, and Tarana Burke in honour of International Women's Day.
  4276. For Israel, A Reckoning
    First Published: 2010
    The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with universal human rights, and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess with impunity.
  4277. For Our Common Future
    First Published: 1989
    Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
  4278. For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too
    First Published: 2019
    Amazon's Ring security cameras have a history of lax, sloppy oversight when it comes to deciding who has access to some of the most precious, intimate data belonging to any person: a live, high-definition feed from around -and perhaps inside- their house.
  4279. For the Elimination of Poverty and Social Injustice: Report to the Anglican Church of Canada
    First Published: 1977
  4280. For the Love of Country?
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    Visited once again by the vultures of patriotism and gnawing anxieties about the nature of our republic, we are falling into a renewed debate about our peculiar brand of patriotism. Investing symbols and rituals with meaning others find puzzling, we adorn our automobiles with yellow decals, sport flag lapel pins, and require school children to daily swear allegiance to the state.
  4281. For the Reconstitution of the Movements from Below: Autonomy and Independence
    A Reflection almost Ten Years After the Water War
    First Published: 2009
    Within the grassroots there are mixed feelings of dissatisfaction, sadness and anger. The demand of re-appropriating the commons and natural resources like gas, petrol, minerals and water has fundamentally not been met. Transnational corporations continue to exploit and extract these resources, and the government manages them in a private, sectarian, inefficient and in many cases corrupt manner.
  4282. For true liberation, Black Lives Matter is not enough
    First Published: 2015
    A movement that held true to a goal of liberation would challenge the fundamental assumptions of social, economic, and political organization under capitalism.
  4283. For Washington, War Never Ends
    First Published: 2022
    The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rearmament of Germany confirmed that for the United States, the war in Europe was not entirely over. It still isn't. It goes on and on.
  4284. For Workers' Climate Action
    Climate Change and Working-Class Struggle
    First Published: 2015
    A new collection of articles and reviews on the fight against dangerous climate change, capitalism and workers' organisation and struggle. Urges the left to reach out to climate activists to make the case that being "anti-capitalist" is important but not enough.
  4285. For Workers' Power
    First Published: 1965
    The road to socialism - and socialism itself - means the conscious and independent action of workers. It means the end of the division between leaders and led. By their rigid, hierarchical structure most "revolutionary" organizations encourage precisely those divisions. A socialist society will be one in which decisions will be taken by workers' councils, composed of elected and revocable delegates, and where the workers themselves will manage production.
  4286. Forbes 400 list of world's richest people highlights growth of social inequality
    First Published: 2014
    Forbes magazine published its 28th annual list of the world's wealthiest individuals and families on Monday. In all, the research team behind the Forbes Billionaires list found a total of 1,645 billionaires worldwide, with a combined net worth of $6.4 trillion, an increase of $1 trillion from 2013. The number of new billionaires, at 268, was the highest figure in the report's history.
  4287. Force-Feeding a Suffragette
    First Published: 1915
    A description of the brutal force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in England.
  4288. Force of Evil: Abraham Polonsky and Anti-Capitalist Noir
    First Published: 2018
    Policy lies at the heart of Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil, arguably the most anti-capitalist film ever to emerge from Hollywood. Released 70 years ago to puzzled critics and an indifferent public, over time it would achieve cult status among devotees of film noir while offering a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been accomplished by Polonsky and other members of the Hollywood Left had the blacklist not intervened.
  4289. Forced adoption in Australia
    Connexipedia article
    Forced adoption was the practice of taking the babies of unmarried mothers against their will and putting them up for adoption.
  4290. 'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
    First Published: 2018
    As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
  4291. Forced to Love the Grind 
    Passion is the new workplace requirement - and one that should be resisted
    First Published: 2015
    In this world, legendary figures are the ones who remain in the office for one hundred hours straight, working through their children's musical recitals and 104-degree fevers. The idea is that workers become superhuman through the refusal of self-care. This phenomenon isn't merely depressing; it's outright dangerous.
  4292. Ford & the Nazi War Efforts
    Henry Ford was no Oskar Schindler
    First Published: 1998
    The Ford Motor Company's commercial-free sponsorship of NBC's airing of Schindler's List, the epic movie about the Holocaust, was a class act. Nevertheless, it would be remiss of us here at CorpWatch, not to point out Ford's contribution to Nazi war efforts.
  4293. Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 1
    First Published: 2016
    Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn't exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians. Or maybe they want to manufacture false evidence to introduce into courts as a means to take away people's homes.
  4294. Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 2
    First Published: 2016
    Every day in America, people continue to be kicked out of their homes based on false documents. The settlements over allegations of robosigning, faulty paperwork, and illegal mortgage servicing didn’t end the misconduct. And law enforcement, along with most judges and politicians, have looked away in the mistaken belief that they wrapped up a scandal that just goes on and on.
  4295. Foreclosure Is Blight!
    First Published: 2014
    Using her experience working with the Detroit Eviction Defense group, Feeley examines the current housing crisis in Detroit and offers insight into how to combat evictions, foreclosures and underwater mortgages by combining legal defense with direct action.
  4296. The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob
    Bernanke's Double-Whammy
    First Published: 2011
    The US government is preparing to bail out the banks once again.
  4297. Foreclosures and the Police State
    Hernandez Family Foreclosure Sparks Anti-Eviction Outrage
    First Published: 2012
    The story of the Hernandez family, who became local heroes in their determination to keep their Van Nuys home from foreclosure.
  4298. Foreign Agents Designation Causes Media Cold War
    First Published: 2022
    Media based in countries the United States regards as enemies, such as Russia and China, even if they are privately owned, are required to register as "foreign agents." So are media which run reports critical of U.S. foreign policy, like Al Jazeera. Other state owned-media, like the BBC, CBC, Deutsche Welle, let alone Voice of America, are not required to register.
  4299. Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
    First Published: 1992
    Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
  4300. The foreign interference behind foreign interference act
    First Published: 2024
    The foreign interference panic sweeping Canadian media and politics reflects US power. It targets states which the U.S. sees as competitors. It ignores those states most active in interfering in Canadian politics: Israel and the United States.
  4301. Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia
    First Published: 2018
    All over Europe, the First World War had brought about a potentially revolutionary situation as early as 1917. In countries where the authorities continued to represent the traditional elite, exactly as had been the case in 1914, they aimed to prevent the realization of this potential by means of repression, concessions, or both.
  4302. Foreign Policy for Sale: Greece's Dangerous Alliance with Israel
    First Published: 2018
    For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being born out of the pangs of pain of economic austerity, imposed by the European Union and its overpowering economic institutions – a troika so ruthless, it cared little while the Greek economy collapsed and millions of people experienced the bitterness of poverty, unemployment and despair.
  4303. Foreign Reminders
    First Published: 1977
  4304. The foreign victims of criminal injustice
    How non-UK offenders are often denied truth, fairness and justice.
  4305. Foremothers and Fathers
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    Socialist feminism is usually said to have begun in the 1960s and ‘70s, but in fact it was a significant radical current 100-150 years ago.
  4306. Forest carbon offsets, supposedly worth billions, have no climate benefit
    First Published: 2023
    REDD projects combine false emission claims, worthless credits and human rights abuses.
  4307. Forest Ecosystem conference
    First Published: 1991
  4308. The Forest Mafia: How Scammers Steal Millions Through Carbon Markets
    When the product is invisible, the cons are endless.
    First Published: 2013
    International law enforcement authorities and environmental advocates say that the carbon markets are extremely vulnerable to financial fraudsters, especially when it comes to forest projects. Their shell games can also be hard to spot. Authorities have concluded that up to 90% of all carbon trading in some countries was a result of fraudulent activities.
  4309. Forest Service's 'Independent' Report on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Written by Pipeline Company Contractor
    First Published: 2017
    The U.S. Forest Service recently published an assessment of the proposed Atlantic Coast pipeline, calling the report "independent." In reality the assessment was performed and written by none other than a contractor working for the pipeline company.
  4310. Forests and Crops Make Friendly Neighbors in Costa Rica
    First Published: 2016
    The ways to better agricultural development is to promote co-existence of farming and forestry, and encourage farmers to be productive and competitive.
  4311. Foreword to A.S. Neill: Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
    First Published: 1960
    A. S. Neill's system is a radical approach to child rearing. His book Summerhill is of great importance because it represents the true principle of education without fear.
  4312. Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
    First Published: 1905
    Luxemburg argues that "the proletariat the Poland can and must fight for the defense of national identity as a cultural legacy, that has its own right to exist and flourish." But she maintains that "our national identity cannot be defended by national separatism; it can only be secured through the struggle to overthrow despotism" throughout the entire country [i.e. Russia, of which Poland was a part].
  4313. Foreword to the War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
    In Bertrand Russell's War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
    First Published: 1971
    Chomsky introduces the themes to be explored in Russell's book on the Vietnam Tribunal. He points out the complacency in Europe and the USA and calls the Tribunal as a renouncement of the crime of silence. Although the Tribunal was not accurately reported, criticisms arose, two of which Chomsky highlights: 1) The bias of jurors, witnesses and participants; and 2) The superfluous nature of the Tribunal in light of the atrocity of the crime of barbarism.
  4314. Forget liberating Ukraine - We first need to liberate our minds
    First Published: 2022
    Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous.
  4315. Forget One Direction - We Need a New Direction
    First Published: 2013
    If people think equality and social justice are unrealistic, then we really are lacking in imagination. When they try to tell you that our better-world ideals are unrealistic, tell them it's unrealistic to allow elite bankers to send tens of millions of people into starvation.
  4316. Forget Shorter Showers 
    First Published: 2009
    Why personal change does not equal political change.
  4317. Forget The Propaganda From Big Agritech, The Key To Reducing Poverty And Ensuring Food Security Lies With Small Farmers
    Small farms produce most of the world's food
    First Published: 2014
    A new review carried out by the organization GRAIN reveals that small farms produce most of the world’s food. However, they are currently squeezed onto less than a quarter of the world’s farmland. The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of the rich and powerful. If we do nothing to reverse this trend, the world will lose its capacity to feed itself.
  4318. Forging Change, Breaking Chains
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    Remembering and forgetting are not only things that people do; they are things that are done to them. In our time, the Black freedom movement of the mid-20th century is now both well remembered and selectively forgotten.
  4319. Forging the Capital Security State
    Book Review of Panitch and Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism"
    First Published: 2013
    "The Making of Global Capitalism" recounts how the United States came to rule and continues as the primary architect, coordinator and essential guarantor of the present empire of capital.
  4320. The Forgotten Coup
    How the Same Godfather Rules from Canberra to Kiev
    First Published: 2014
    Washington’s role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually with bloodshed.
  4321. The Forgotten Coup
    How America and Britain Crushed the Government of Their "Ally" Australia
    First Published: 2014
    Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.
  4322. Forgotten February In The United States Of Aggression
    First Published: 2015
    Since it appears so many folks need reminding that "USA" has always stood for "United States of Aggression," here are a forgotten few from February’s Files.
  4323. Forgotten Graffiti Sheds New Light on Long, Hot Journeys to Vietnam
    First Published: 2014
    Inside a rusting former US army ship, historians found vivid details of the hopes and fears of soldiers bound for war.
  4324. The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
    First Published: 2015
    Stromberg provides a historical overview of how jaywalking was pushed to become a crime by automotive companies in order to normalize the reign of automobiles over pedestrians in the streets.
  4325. The Forgotten Massacres
    First Published: 2015
    Fifty years ago, in 1965, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists were slaughtered -- all with the support of the US. For decades, this version of the mass killings of 1965–66 has been reinforced by state propaganda and parroted by Western experts who saw the "spontaneous" eruption in murderous violence as confirmation of pre-existing racist ideas about fanatical and irrational "orientals."
  4326. The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.
    First Published: 2018
    King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.
  4327. Forgotten Victims of America's Class War
    First Published: 2023
    Once the jobs left and Democrats abandoned working men and women, people became desperate in the author's hometown in Maine - as in tens of thousands of white, rural enclaves across the country.
  4328. Format and Communications
    Chapter 9 of 'Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry'
    First Published: 1971
  4329. The Formation of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
    First Published: 1977
    This account explores the formation of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) which has established a formal relationship to the United Nations and is seeking to have concepts of aboriginal rights accepted internationally as basic economic and political rights of indigenous peoples.
  4330. Former Cleanup Workers Blame Illnesses on Toxic Coal Ash Exposures
    First Published: 2016
    There have been numerous cases of workers getting sick after exposure to ash.
  4331. Former Drone Operators Say They Were "Horrified" By Cruelty of Assassination Program
    First Published: 2015
    U.S. drone operators are inflicting heavy civilian casualties and have developed an institutional culture callous to the death of children and other innocents, four former operators said at a press briefing in New York.
  4332. Former UAW vice president pleads guilty to conspiracy in bribery scheme
    First Published: 2019
    Norwood Jewell, former vice president of the United Auto Workers pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate labor laws. There could be even higher ranking officials charged, highlighting the conflicting interests of union bosses vs workers.
  4333. The Fort Hood 43
    First Published: 2017
    A history of the 43 infantrymen who refused to be deployed against protestors at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
  4334. Fort William Freight Handlers Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A strike by 700 non-unionized immigrants in August 1909 that was defeated by the use of militia and the RCMP and resulted in the firing of hundreds of workers.
  4335. The fortunate Marxist
    Ernie Tate (1934-2021)
    First Published: 2021
    Ernie Tate (1934-2021) was a long-standing supporter and leading member of Trotskyist groups in Canada and the United Kingdom and a founder of the International Marxist Group and Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in Britain.
  4336. 45 Days of Solidarity
    How Verizon workers outmatched the country's largest telecommunications company.
    First Published: 2016
    The strike by 39,000 Verizon workers -- members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) -- ended after forty-five days with a tentative agreement announced late last week.
  4337. 41 Years Since Jumping Bull (But 500 Years of Trauma)
    First Published: 2016
    Leonard Peltier writes about his own case and about the 500 years of violence and injustice directed at indigenous peoples.
  4338. Forty Questions
    First Published: 2017
    An excerpt from Valeria Luiselli's book "Tell me How it Ends", a damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children in the United States.
  4339. 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
    It's Not Just About Crime!
    First Published: 2015
    Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people.
  4340. Forty years after the portuguese Carnation Revolution
    First Published: 2014
    On the eve of April 25, 1974, Portuguese society was smouldering from contradictions accumulated in half a century of dictatorship. At the heart of these contradictions was a war that lasted thirteen years, to hold on to the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. This conflict conditioned the whole of national life, because of the social suffering caused by the mobilization of two hundred thousand men, a tenth of the working population (a human cost equivalent to twice that of Vietnam), because of the wave of migration driven by hunger and the war, and because of the impossibility of a military solution, the only one contemplated by the regime.
  4341. 40 years ago: the grandeur and the limits of the Portuguese Revolution
    First Published: 2014
    The Portuguese Revolution plunged its roots in the crisis of the Salazar regime. A fascist dictatorship based on a reactionary ideology which would serve as inspiration for the Vichy regime, the Estado novo (“New State”) presents original features in comparison with the fascist regimes of Mussolini and Hitler, features that help to explain both its longevity and its weakness at the moment of its crisis in the early 1970s.
  4342. Forty Years of Defying the Odds
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    My work area is a shambles. Projects I’ve been meaning to get to for forty years tumble from wherever I’ve shoved them.
  4343. Forward, The
    Connexipedia Article
    A Jewish-American weekly newspaper published in New York City.
  4344. Forward to a mass workers' party in Southern Africa
    First Published: 2014
    The conference of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), held in December 2013, was indisputably a momentous occasion in the struggle in South Africa. It epitomizes an extraordinary separation not only from the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest organisation of conservative ‘black’ nationalism, but also from the South African Communist Party (SACP), one of the last so-called communist parties from the Soviet era.
  4345. Fossil Capital: the rise of steam power and the roots of global warming
    Book Review
    First Published: 2016
    We all know that coal and steam vanquished over water power in Britain's - and the world's - industrial revolution, writes Irma Allen. But as Andreas Malm sets out in his fascinating new book, the deciding factors in that victory were the unconstrained mastery over people and nature that coal provided mill owners. And so the model was set for the fossil age that may only now be coming to an end.
  4346. A fossil free world must be founded on a Just Transition for workers and their communities
    First Published: 2016
    Climate impacts hit working people first and with extreme weather events, changing seasons and rising sea levels, whole communities stand on the frontlines. The challenge of industrial transformation is both an imperative and an opportunity. We know there are jobs in action on climate, millions of jobs. With infrastructure investment projected to be up to US$90 trillion by 2030. This means jobs.
  4347. Fossil Fuel Divestment Doesn't Work
    First Published: 2023
    NGOs, activists and especially policymakers need to stop pretending that the climate movement can succeed by pressuring capitalists to be more responsible.
  4348. A Fossil Fuel Exit Program 
    First Published: 2014
    A complete transition away from fossil fuels is necessary within a few decades. The question is how to construct an exit strategy that will accomplish this. James Hansen has provided a starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy.
  4349. A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
    First Published: 2014
    Ekeland analyzes climate activist Hansen's climate change exit strategy and why it has not been supported or pursued by political and environmental groups.
  4350. Fossil Fuel Industry Benefits from $20 Billion in Subsidies in the U.S.
    First Published: 2015
    A new joint investigative report by Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute reveals that, in the United States alone, the fossil fuel industry has benefited from over $20 billion per year in government subsidies between 2008-2015.
  4351. Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom
    First Published: 2015
    The Fossil Fuel Industry promotes a plan in U.S. schools to address global climate change. Their plan includes denial, doubt and promoting the merits of fossil fuel.
  4352. Foundations
    First Published: 1972
    Communes, communism, comradeship -- whatever you wish to call the mood of the young both in and out of communal homes -- will die without an understanding of our foundations, in history, where we have been, where we are going, what we are doing here.
  4353. Foundations and Social Change
    First Published: 2011
    Corporate philanthropy is money laundering, pure and simple. It is an institution that serves to legitimate ill-gotten gains, and to hide the fact that were it not for our system of regressive taxation, people could hypothetically exercise some sort of democratic control over money stolen from workers and cheated out of debtors and consumers.
  4354. The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
    First Published: 2013
    Governments these days are not content with agriculture that merely provides good food. In line with the dogma of neoliberalism they want it to contribute as much wealth as any other industry towards the grand goal of economic growth. High tech offers to reconcile the two ambitions – producing allegedly fabulous yields, which seems to be what’s needed, and becoming highly profitable.
  4355. Four Books on Hegemony and Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    There are times when a key analysis has a wakeup effect. The last year saw the publication of four books that together have a potential of such an event, at least for those U.S. citizens who are motivated to try and understand and change the world. The four were not written with the idea that they would be read together, yet taken together they are, I believe, more thought-provoking than if considered separately.
  4356. Four Conferences on Matriarchy
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    The growth of a diverse and broad international wave of feminism has led to the development of what has been called Modern Matriarchal Studies, which includes research both on ancient societies and on existing communal cultures.
  4357. 451 at Zuccotti Park
    "Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people."
    First Published: 2011
    The books at Zuccotti Park were hauled away in dumpsters belonging to the sanitation department. The pretext of the destruction was "cleaning" the park which, the Mayor said, was filled with "filth". This is the rhetoric of Mein Kampf.
  4358. Four Futures
    First Published: 2012
    Capitalism will end. Maybe not soon, but probably before too long; humanity has never before managed to craft an eternal social system, after all, and capitalism is a notably more precarious and volatile order than most of those that preceded it. The question, then, is what will come next.
  4359. Four Harsh Truths for Canada's Lovestruck Pipeline Politicians
    A reality check for our bitumen-besotted leaders.
    First Published: 2016
    There are four obvious (and very conservative) reasons why more pipelines don’t make any kind of economic, energy or climate sense. These truths also explain the growing opposition to the corrupt National Energy Board that still approves pipelines without due process and ignores their impact on global pricing, let alone the science on climate change.
  4360. The Four Laws of Ecology and The Four Anti-Ecological Laws of Capitalism 
    First Published: 2012
    An exponential growth dynamic is inherent in capitalism, a system whereby money is exchanged for commodities, which are then exchanged for more money on an ever increasing scale.
  4361. Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
    First Published: 1989
    To paraphrase H.G. Wells, modern history has become a race between education and miseducation. There are very few people around who really don't know anything, but there are multitudes who know many things that don't happen to be true.
  4362. Four Wars Old: Fourteen Years of Childhood in Gaza
    Fourteen Years of Childhood in Gaza
    First Published: 2021
    Sixty-seven Palestinian children were killed during Israel’s 11-day assault on Gaza in May 2021. Our latest visual looks at what life is like for the hundreds of thousands of children who survived, for whom a ceasefire offers little relief. This is childhood in Gaza.
  4363. Four years later, still a graveyard of Chinese youth
    First Published: 2015
    In 2014, on the eve of China's national day celebrations, scenes recalling those of four years ago appeared in Chinese headlines. Foxconn became known to the world four years ago when thirteen of its young workers jumped to their deaths in quick succession.
  4364. Four Years of Disaster
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    The second Intifada, now entering its fifth year, has seen the world distracted by events in Iraq, enabling Israel to continue violating Palestinians’ human rights with complete impunity.
  4365. Fourier, Charles
    Connexipedia Article
    French utopian socialist and philosopher. Credited with having originated the word féminisme in 1837. (1772-1837).
  4366. Fourteen organizations of the Greek Left call for mobilizations around the country against the new memorandum
    First Published: 2015
    The full text of the call signed by the leading figures of the 14 organizations of the Greek radical Left.
  4367. A 14-Year-Old Girl Forced Alone and at Night Into the Gaza Cage. Another Routine Mishap for Israel's Occupation
    First Published: 2018
    How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials – alone, at night and without her parents being informed?The terrifying ordeal – a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one – is hard to contemplate for any parent.And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.
  4368. 14 Years of Injustice
    Time to Free the Cuban Five
    First Published: 2012
    Five Cubans fighting terrorism in south Florida have served 14 years of prison, more than enough time for the US public to learn from its media about the horrific injustice done by the US government to these Cuban men. But the media has barely touched the grotesque frame up of the Cuban Five.
  4369. The Fourth Branch
    How the CIA infiltrated student politics
    First Published: 2015
    Article about the CIA's influence and control over the National Student Association, a relationship that was kept secret for years.
  4370. Fourth International
    Connexipedia Article
    An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
  4371. Fowler, Cary
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Awad Winner
    Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1949).
  4372. Foxconn: The Myth and Reality of the Welfare Queen
    First Published: 2018
    Social scientists who have studied the welfare system before and after the Clinton era welfare "reforms" have exposed the notion that women on public assistance were "welfare queens" as a myth.
  4373. Fracking Firm Encourages Industry to Imitate Taco Bell's Twitter Strategy
    First Published: 2015
    Oil and gas companies are steadily increasing their footprint on social media, hiring specialized public relations firms and developing "visual shorthand" infographics that can be shared easily on Facebook and Twitter.
  4374. Fracking hell: what it's really like to live next to a shale gas well
    First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
    Nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, invasive chemical smells, constant drilling, slumping property prices – welcome to Ponder, Texas, where fracking has overtaken the town.
  4375. Fracking Indigenous Country
    Big Green, Sun Media and Elsipogtog
    First Published: 2013
    Police attack the Mi’kmaq community of Elsipogtog in New Brunswick.
  4376. Fracking is the death spasm of a defunct economic order
    First Published: 2014
    Political support for fracking is not just about energy, writes Paul Mobbs. It reflects the greater ecological and resource crisis at the root of our current economic woes - and only postpones the essential shift to a new kind of economy.
  4377. Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause
    First Published: 2017
    A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
  4378. Fragging
    Connexipedia Article
    The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
  4379. "Fragging" and "Combat Refusals" in Vietnam
    The US Army itself does not know exactly how many...officers were murdered. But they know at least 600 were murdered, and then they have another 1400 that died mysteriously. Consequently by early 1970, the army was at war not with the enemy but with itself.
  4380. Fragile Prosperity? Fragile Social Peace
    Notes on the US
    First Published: 2000
    What needs to be open to critical analysis is not only how dismal present prospects are today, but also a healthy skepticism towards the determining weight of allegedly "objective" factors such as "globalization", "deindustrialization", the declining rate of unionization and others.
  4381. Fragmented Power: Portugal in Revolution, 1974-1975
    First Published: 2018
    In Portugal the underground Armed Forces Movement's long-planned coup d'etat to bring down the Estado Novo regime was a success; however it was relatively short-lived despite the modest intentions of its organizers. This article takes a look at the popular initiatives that brought Portugal to the brink of a socialist revolution and why it failed.
  4382. Fragments of a Reformist Anarchism
    A review of David Graeber (2004), Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
    First Published: 2007
    A collection of scattered thoughts about anarchism, anthropology, and academic studies. David Graeber argues against the need for a revolutionary confrontation with the state or its eventual overthrow. Instead, he favors a gradualist approach which leaves the state alone.
  4383. Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity
    First Published: 2014
    A criticism of the article, "Journalism and the Illusion of Objectivity" by Michael Holtzman, challenging Holtzman's claims on the nature of objectivity and bias in reporting.
  4384. The Frameup of Purvi Patel
    First Published: 2015
    Purvi Patel is accused of "feticide and neglect of a dependent" after suffering a miscarrage in Mishawaka, Indiana.
  4385. Framing: Primer for a Progressive Revolution -- Part I Philosophy and Rational for Framing
    First Published: 2005
    The introduction of framing into the progressive community could well prove to be the beginning of a revolution. But such a revolution can evolve and sustain only with a concerted, impassioned effort by progressive opinion leaders -- executed in such a way that will compel the average voter to IDENTIFY with progressive values.
  4386. Framing the Sixties
    Corporate Media Shadows and the 1960s
    First Published: 2010
    What Really Happened to the 1960s is a look at the role the media played in the presentation and interpretation of the struggles of the 1960s. Simultaneously, it is a consideration of the meaning of democracy in a society where the media is owned by corporations and elites who consider democracy antithetic to their hegemony.
  4387. France: A Sea Change on the Left
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    In contrast with the United States, where the political arena has been dominated by two entrenched parties for a century, France has gone through major changes since the end of World War II. Back then, workers' demands were mostly put forward by the French Communist Party (PCF) which had over 30% of the vote, and the fear of a revolution forced the ruling class to concede to demands such as universal healthcare (called Sécurité sociale).
  4388. FRANCE: Battling Over Pensions
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    France was rocked in September-October 2010 by some of the country’s largest protests in recent memory, as workers fought to prevent cuts to their public pensions. President Nicolas Sarkozy’s agenda promised to raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 and the age for a full pension from 65 to 67.
  4389. France: the new authoritarian journalism
    First Published: 2024
    Western media's reporting of the war in Gaza makes little pretence of impartiality. In French newsreooms and radio studios, unconditional support for Israel is the norm and part of a wider lurch to the right.
  4390. France Stuck in the Extreme Center
    First Published: 2022
    After years of neoliberalism, French politics that venture outside the conformist centre's unshakable loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance are now dangerously 'extreme.'
  4391. France: The NPA in Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    France's new Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) is in crisis. While only two years ago many on the international left talked about the NPA as one of the brightest lights on an otherwise dim revolutionary horizon, today the Party is hemorrhaging members and struggling to stay afloat.
  4392. France: Yellow Jackets and labour movement at a crossroads - Social and political questions
    First Published: 2019
    A brief look at the Yellow Vests in 2018. Though they may have their problems they provide a possiblity of change outside the electoral system.
  4393. France's National Front Draws Strength From Brexit
    First Published: 2016
    The party has long shrouded racism in the language of "self-determination" -- now, they feel vindicated.
  4394. Frank Fried (1927-2015)
    First Published: 2015
    Frank Fried, a revolutionary U.S. socialist, passed away on January 13, 2015.
  4395. Frankfurt School
    Connexipedia Article
    A school of neo-Marxist critical theory, social research, and philosophy associated with the original Institute for Social Research of the University of Frankfurt am Main.
  4396. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  4397. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  4398. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  4399. John Hope Franklin's Message
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    Three years ago the acclaimed historian, John Hope Franklin, who died in March at the age of 94, discussed his lifelong battle for equality and against racism. Franklin personally knew most of the major African American figures of the 20th Century — W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X -- and lived long enough to see Barack Obama be elected president.
  4400. Frantz Fanon: Decolonisation through revolution
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015); Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015); and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016). The three books illustrate a renewed interest among activists and within academia in the life and work of Frantz Fanon. The three highlighted works demonstrate that Fanon has many lessons for current movements against racism, imperialism and capitalism.
  4401. Joe Frantz, 1950-2009
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    Joe Gelders Frantz died unexpectedly on February 4, 2009.
  4402. Franz Kafka: In His Times and Ours
    Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Michael Lowy's Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer.
  4403. Fraser River Fishermen's Strikes
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A strikes by whites, natives and Japanese fishermen against salmon canneries that lined the lower Fraser River.
  4404. Fraser River Railway Strikes
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Strikes which started in March 1912 when railway workers organized by the Industrial Workers of the World walked out of construction camps on the Canadian Northern line to protest conditions.
  4405. Fred Ho, Presente!
    First Published: 2014
    A tribute to saxophonist, composer, and revolutionary Marxist activist Fred Ho, who was an active member of the Jazz and radical left-movements.
  4406. The Fred Victor Mission Experience
    First Published: 1979
    This paper begins by outlining how in the last ten years Fred Victor Mission's concept of service to poor people in the inner core has evolved toward the development of a social change process with the men on skid row.
  4407. Frederico and Ingrid Luchsinger
    First Published: 1979
  4408. Fredy Perlman: An Appreciation
    The same energy which helped Fredy to describe the horrors of civilization made it possible for him to summon up the forces of life and expectations of hope.
  4409. Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
    First Published: 2009
    In a sense, Bilin is the Soweto, the Derry and the Chiapas of the beginning of the 21st century, with two specificities: it is a civic non-violent mobilization and it is based on a strong alliance between the local Palestinian population, the Israeli anti-colonialist movement and active international solidarity.
  4410. Free and Accessible Transit Now
    Toward a Red-Green Vision for Toronto
    First Published: 2014
    The free transit model makes public transit a right of all people, which would dramatically increase its use. While serving he vast majority of Torontonians and strengthening the public sector's role in meeting their needs, it would also address the special mobility requirements of the last mobile and most public-transit-dependent.
  4411. Free and Accessible Transit Now
    First Published: 2018
    Transit is a critical issue for many people in Toronto, as in all major urban areas. More is at stake than reducing traffic congestion and gridlock. Free transit opens the door to a broader transformation of urban life and the current social system. Our 'Red-Green' vision is socialist, based on the working class, environmentally just, internationalist, and transformative.
  4412. Free association Communism and Anarchism
    Connexipedia Article
  4413. Free Higher Education
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    Interview with Adolph Reed, Jr. Dr. Adolph Reed, political scientist, author and activist, is the national spokesperson for the Free Higher Education Campaign, which calls for free tuition and fees for all students who meet admissions requirements at all two and four-year public colleges.
  4414. Free love
    Connexipedia Article
    Used to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women.
  4415. Free public transport: from social experiement to political alternative? - Book Review
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of M. Giovannangeli and J. L. Sagot-Duvauroux's "Voyageurs sans ticket. Liberté, égalité, gratuité : une expérience sociale à Aubagne".
  4416. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    First Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
  4417. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
    First Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression: they are for it - in principle - but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e. who gets to censor who.
  4418. Free Speech and Double Standards
    First Published: 2016
  4419. Free Speech - Earth Liberation Front Press Office April 5, 2001: Communications Equipment Seized by FBI Released 14 Years Later
    Returned Objects: A Multimedia Art Installation
    First Published: 2015
    Gallery Note: This installation was displayed in Buffalo's ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery from the 15th to the 26th of July 2015. It received, due to the subject matter and the absurdity of the FBI holding these objects for 14 years, good print media coverage in Buffalo, NY. The opening of the show was packed, and former Earth Liberation Front Press Officer, Leslie James Pickering – now co-owner of Burning Books in Buffalo – and Civil Rights attorney Michael Kuzma, both spoke.
  4420. Free speech fights
    Wikipedia article
    Free speech fights are conflicts over the right to speak freely, particularly involving the Industrial Workers of the World efforts in the early twentieth century to organize workers and publicly speak about labuor issues.
  4421. Free speech for me - you shut up
    First Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
  4422. Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and Principles
    First Published: 2017
    The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever? What are the implications of attempting to limit controversial speech? And what precedents has the Supreme Court set regarding free speech?
  4423. Free Speech in a Plural Society
    First Published: 2006
    The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
  4424. Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
    First Published: 2015
    Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
  4425. The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution
    First Published: 1965
    It is, of course, true that it was contact with the Negro people that inspired the Berkeley revolt. It is, however, also true that the Berkeley revolt, followed by the teach-ins, in turn, changed the climate for free speech on the pivotal question of war and peace for the whole country.
  4426. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
    Connexipedia Article
    A student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley after student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and solicited donations for civil rights causes, in violation of university policy.
  4427. Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces 
    First Published: 2017
    Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."
  4428. Free State of Jones: Three cheers!
    First Published: 2016
    From 1863 to 1865, Newton Knight (1837-1922), a white, antislavery farmer in Jones County in southern Mississippi, led an insurrection against the Confederacy. Inspired by Knight's life and struggle, Free State of Jones, written and directed by Gary Ross, is a fictional account of an enormously compelling, but little known chapter in American history.
  4429. Free the Cuban Five!
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    Political times have emblematic cases. The ongoing Mumia case, Lynne Stewart’s current prosecution, and the two cases involving the U.S. and Cuban governments illuminate the reality of today’s politics in America, just as the Sacco/ Vanzetti case in the 1920s with respect to immigrants and anarchists or the McCarthite anti-communist Rosenberg case in the 1950s defined their eras.
  4430. Free Trade
    Issue 33, March 1987
    First Published: 1987
  4431. Free Trade
    First Published: 1990
  4432. Free Trade and Economic Imperialism
    Economic Progress Toward Ecological Suicide
    First Published: 2012
    Looming global environmental catastrophe renders the last several hundred years of Western economic theory dubious, if not outright suicidal. Economic ‘progress’ that increases dependence on unsustainable economic practices produces catastrophe in increasing proportion to the benefits that even proponents claim will result.
  4433. The free trade disaster: round two
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Standards are being pulled down to the lowest common denominator, allowing the transnational corporations to play countries and their workforces off against each other. Already, workers in Canada are being warned that if they don't pull their wages and other demands down, workers in Mexico will be only too glad to take their jobs.
  4434. Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic
    First Published: 2014
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are the latest in a long line of international free trade agreements. But why are they bad for the majority of people and the planet and what are the justifications given by politicians, economists and big corporations for pushing them? This fanstastic comic explains.
  4435. Free Trade for British Columbia
    Is It A Bargain at the Price?
    First Published: 1987
  4436. Free trade harrassment charged
    First Published: 1990
  4437. "Free Trade" Is Today's Imperialism by the 1 Percent
    Building alternatives to free trade must become an essential component of a more progressive US foreign policy.
    First Published: 2019
    Principles of "free" trade allow global North corporations to continue the colonial policies that made them their wealth. Alternatives to free trade need to shift power and wealth to the global South to create fairness and progress.
  4438. "Free Trade:" Look at the Contents, Not Just the Label
    Response to comments in Green Revolution
    First Published: 1989
    I do not accept the idea that there should be no restrictions on trade or the market. If a particular economic activity is environmentally or socially harmful, why shouldn't we restrict it? If the so-called "free market" (i.e. an economic system where nothing is allowed to interfere with the freedom to make profits) results in economic activity that destroys the environment, or dumps people on the streets, then why shouldn't society be able to intervene?
  4439. Free Trade Tapes
    First Published: 1992
  4440. Free trade to mean higher pay for execs
    First Published: 1989
  4441. Free transit
    First Published: 2013
    A pamphlet which gathers together a number of essays on the struggle for public transit. It emerges especially out of the urban context of Toronto. But the essays speak also to the wider crisis of public transit in North America, and the importance of this demand to an eco-socialist vision of feasible futures.
  4442. The Free University: A people's history
    First Published: 2020
    A history of a Free University in Australia.
  4443. A Freed Political Prisoner Looks Ahead
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    Emily Citkowski interviews Dita Sari. In a surprise move by the Indonesian government, jailed labor leader Dita Indah Sari was released from Tengerang prison Monday, July 5th. Dita was jailed in May of 1997 for leading a strike of 20,000 workers. She was originally sentenced to six years, reduced on appeal to five.
  4444. Freedom...But to Do What?
    First Published: 2014
    Freedom. Everybody says freedom is such a very good thing that it's worth fighting for. But something so good and important deserves a clear meaning, no? Well, what is it?
  4445. The Freedom Charter
    First Published: 1955
    Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
  4446. Freedom for Nitassinan Walk
    First Published: 1990
  4447. Freedom for the Speech We Hate: a Legal Guide to Your Protest Rights
    First Published: 2017
    A list of Constitutional questions and answers, including laws and guidelines for peaceful protesting, aimed at promoting the effectiveness of the First Amendment.
  4448. Freedom indivisible: Gays and Lesbians in the African American Civil Rights movement
    PhD Thesis, University of Nebraska, 2013
    First Published: 2013
  4449. Freedom is a Constant Struggle
    The Civil Rights Movement in the Rural South Reconsidered
    First Published: 2013
    Is it possible to both win substantial benefits for people who are on the lower rungs of the socio-economic status ladder while at the same time building forms of democratic people power that can continue to challenge the present political oligarchy and the economic plutocracy whose interests it generally serves?
  4450. Freedom Not Licence
    First Published: 1969
    The staging of a question and answer scenario between puzzled parents and the director of an imagined free school, Mr. Oh Yes Zeal.
  4451. Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
    Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans"
    First Published: 2014
    Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled.
  4452. Freedom of information
    Connexipedia Article
  4453. Freedom of Information Takes Another Hit in the United States
    Keeping Americans Safe
    First Published: 2013
    The United States is a land of ill-informed sheep and the home of a bunch of cowards — cowards in government who are afraid of the truth and the open debate over facts and ideas, and cowards among the broader public who willingly allow these steady encroacments on our freedom in the name of “fighting terror.”
  4454. Freedom of Information vs Government Secrecy
    First Published: 1977
    OPIRG has established Freedom of Information Documentation Centres at their Waterloo and Peterborough offices. Their purpose is to: push for strong freedom of information legislation, to educate the public about the need for freedom of information, to document cases in which government informaiton has been denied the public, and to publicize the process of freedom of information legislation in both the federal and Ontario governments.
  4455. Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers
    First Published: 2015
    UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
  4456. Freedom of Speech Under Siege
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1999
    Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
  4457. Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
  4458. Freedom of the press
    Connexipedia Article
    Freedom of the press is the freedom of communication and expression through vehicles including print and electronic media.
  4459. The Freedom of the Press
    George Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm
    First Published: 1945   Published: 1971
    This essay was written as a preface to the first edition of Animal Farm but was never included in the published book and only discovered in the author's original typescript in 1971.
  4460. 'Freedom of the Seas' Means American Global Hegemony
    The US should stay out of the South China Sea dispute
    First Published: 2015
    There ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough to keep us from our sacred duty to protect the world from itself. From the South China Sea to the shores of the Black Sea, America stands guard over Freedom. This tweet from Foreign Policy magazine, the organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, states our mission bluntly: "The Obama administration will finally send a destroyer to uphold freedom of navigation in the South China Sea."
  4461. Freedom Riders
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    When Hillary Clinton expressed dismay over gender segregation on buses in ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem — where women are forced to sit separately — she somehow neglected to mention the Jewish-settlers-only bus system in the Occupied Palestinan Territories.
  4462. Freedom rides
    Connexipedia Article
    Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
  4463. Freedom Summer
    Connexipedia Article
    A campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters.
  4464. Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
    First Published: 2015
    The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, better known as "Freedom Summer," brought in volunteers to help with attempts to register Black voters who had long been prevented by chicanery and terror from doing so. At the same time, in view of the miserable conditions in the state's segregated public schools, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) planned to create "freedom schools" in which volunteers (mostly the whites from the North) would, that summer, teach Black young people in subjects ranging from basic education to Black history and leadership skills.
  4465. Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
    First Published: 2014
    Oppenheimer provides a historical overview of the events leading up to and surrounding the 1964 Freedom Summer, when organizers worked to register Black voters in segregationist Deep South in the United States.
  4466. Freedom Summer, 50 Years After
    The Power of Stories
    First Published: 2014
    In his memoir, Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers, Memories of Mississippi 1964-65, Jim Dann put to paper the stories from his time in Mississippi 50 years ago, working as a young college student for fifteen months in Sunflower County to establish Freedom Schools and to help register African-Americans to vote.
  4467. Freedom Summer Remembered
    Interview with Walter Kaufman
    First Published: 2014
    Walter Kaufman is a retired attorney, psychotherapist and former community college teacher living in Berkeley, California. He was a participant in the 1964 Freedom Summer, working in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Against the Current editor David Finkel interviewed him for the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer project.
  4468. Freedom Summer Remembered
    Interview with Walter Kaufmann
    First Published: 2014
    Finkel interviews retired community college teacher Walter Kaufmann about his experiences in the Freedom Summer project and teaching in the Freedom Schools.
  4469. Freedom takes over from law and order
    A squatted barracks is the HQ of Slovenia's underground scene, discovers.
    First Published: 2015
    Across the river from the old-town of central Ljubljana - a delicate maze of cobbled streets, medieval fortifications and colourful churches that characterise the many cities of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire - lie the dozen or so dilapidated buildings that make up what has become known as Slovenia's second capital. On first glance, it is hard to believe it's actually occupied. There are no signs directing visitors to its gates: the rubbish-strewn streets are eerily empty in the daylight, the graffiti covering the walls unread. But after dark, it becomes the focal point of the country's alternative culture scene.
  4470. The Freedom to be Yourself Campaign
    Connexipedia Article
    Promotes the right to be naked in public.
  4471. Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden's Permanent Record
    First Published: 2019
    Edward Snowden's life reveals it's not just "the computer guy" (or other non-male folks) at tech's helms, but the general U.S. public that bears witness to corporatized data surveillance state violations, or the data industrial complex. This secretive sprawling network is the invasive rule today; it involves regular media outlets, telecommunications, social media platforms, Internet service providers, and government agencies.
  4472. Freedomites
    Connexipedia article
    Freedomites, also called Svobodniki or the Sons of Freedom, first appeared in 1902 in Saskatchewan, Canada, and later in the Kootenay and Boundary districts of British Columbia, as a Doukhobor group.
  4473. Freeing Julian Assange: the Final Chapter
    First Published: 2016
    One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention -- the international tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations -- has ruled that Julian Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden.
  4474. The Freeland-Chomiak Connection: "It takes a village to raise a Nazi"
    First Published: 2017
    Sanders uncovers Chrystia Freeland's, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, own personal and professional connection with fascist groups and publications.
  4475. #FreeSiwatu!
    First Published: 2018
    Siwatu-Salama Ra, an activist, was arrested in Detriot for felonious assault despite the fact that Siwatu-Salama was acting to defend herself and her family.
  4476. Freikörperkultur
    Connexipedia Article
    A German movement whose name translates to Free Body Culture which endorses a naturistic approach to sports and community living.
  4477. Freinet Pedagogy
    First Published: 1990
  4478. Freire, Paulo
    Connexipedia Article
    Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy. (1921-1997).
  4479. The French Anarchists
    From Chapter 1 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
    Of this hard childhood, this troubled adolescence, all those terrible years, I regret nothing as far as I am myself concerned. I am sorry for those who grow up in this world without ever experiencing the cruel side of it, without knowing utter frustration and the necessity of fighting, however blindly, for mankind. Any regret I have is only for the energies wasted in struggles which were bound to be fruitless. These struggles have taught me that, in any man, the best and the worst live side by side, and sometimes mingle - and that what is worst comes through the corruption of what is best.
  4480. French Army Mutinies (1917)
    Connexipedia Article
    Involved nearly half of the French infantry divisions stationed on the western front.
  4481. French Democracy Dead or Alive?
    The Gilets Jaunes in 2019
    First Published: 2019
    An overview of the Yellow Vests: their methods, demands, media coverage and summary of major events from November 2018 to January 2019.
  4482. French Jews for Palestinian Rights
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    The following text (abridged here) was published in the French daily Le Monde of October 18, 2000 accompanied by the signatures of fifty French people of Jewish origin, several of them well-known political or intellectual figures. Citizens of the countries in which we live and citizens of the planet, we do not habitually express ourselves as Jews.
  4483. French Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    Was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
  4484. French Revolution of 1848
    Connexipedia Article
    One of a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe.
  4485. The French Riots: Dancing with the Wolves
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    In French suburban slang, to "dance with the wolves" means to provoke the cops, make them run and, obviously, to escape without being arrested. The unfortunate reality is much less romantic. The three weeks of recent riots may be seen as a long overdue political response to the profound racism of French society; but in this writer's view this uprising is more an index of desperation of French youth, of all national origins, than the beginning of a new political movement.
  4486. French Students Speak for Themselves What We Won - and Need
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    The following collective interview was conducted for ATC by Patrick Silberstein of Editions Syllepse.
  4487. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    First Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
  4488. Frequently Asked Questions about Workers Solidarity Alliance
    First Published: 2010
  4489. Friedan, Betty
    Connexipedia Article
    American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
  4490. Frieden für die Ukraine - Wie der Krieg beendet werden kann
    First Published: 2022
  4491. Friendship First
    First Published: 1980
  4492. From 1905 to Our Time
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    The 1905 revolution consisted of a series of mass strikes which pushed the Tsarist regime into at least the promise of major constitutional change. The focus here, however, is not on the “results” of the 1905 revolution, but on its “prospects”; on what its process promised and still can promise, even in so much less revolutionary times. 1905 was a crucial year not only for its revolutionary content but for its expression of the dynamic, and form, of working-class struggle.
  4493. From 1960s New Left to Trotskyism
    Recollections of a Participant
    First Published: 2011
    What I am going to do today is talk about the 1960s—the last time there was serious social struggle in the U.S.—and why some of us concluded that struggle, even quite militant struggle, is not enough.
  4494. From Academic to Assembly Line Worker: My Life of Precarity in Middle America
    First Published: 2019
    A non-tenured academic's story of trying to make ends meet in Indiana.
  4495. From Albrecht to Monsanto: A System Not Run for the Public Good Can Never Serve the Public Good
    First Published: 2016
  4496. From an Exile
    First Published: 1960
    Ten distinguished members of my faculty convened and unanimously declared me guilty of "deviousness, artfulness, and indirection hardly to be expected of a University colleague." I had refused, first before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and then before these juries of professors, to answer yes or no to the question, was I a Communist. The juries could assume (with that background and in the year 1954) that their recommendation that I be fired would mean my complete expulsion from the profession.
  4497. From an IN Correspondent Overseas
    First Published: 2015
    Insurgent Notes corresponent questions what has happened to the class struggle in the United States.
  4498. From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages 
    First Published: 2017
    Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
  4499. From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine
    "To Exist is to Resist"
    First Published: 2010
    The growing support for Palestinian liberation via BDS reminds of small but sure steps towards the full-fledged anti-apartheid sports, cultural, academic and economic boycotts catalyzed by Brutus against racist South African Olympics teams more than forty years ago. Today, these are just the first nails we’re hammering into the coffin of Zionist domination – in solidarity with a people who have every reason to fight back with tools that we in South Africa proudly sharpened: non-violently but with formidable force.
  4500. From Cairo to Madison, The Old Mole Comes Up For An Early Spring
    First Published: 2011
    Individual sectors, even as large as public employees in the U.S., have to reach out to all those who have been ground down over the past forty years. Any working-class movement worthy of the name embraces the interests of the most oppressed, and that today includes the 15-20% of the U.S. population currently unemployed and increasingly foreclosed into homelessness, the casuals and temps, the harassed immigrant workers both legal and illegal, the millions of marginalized youth, white black and Latino, and the three million people in prison. We know very well that not every struggle that erupts can immediately enlist all such people, but a “climate” must be created in which that universal outreach—what we might call a “class for itself” orientation– is understood as a necessity.
  4501. From Catholicism and the working class to communism and Marx
    First Published: 2018
    Garvey describes his childhood growing up in a Catholic community in New York and explains how Marx and Marxism were episodically present in the later periods of his life but first engagement with them was not nearly as deep as it needed to be. He asserts that in the 1960s Marx and Marxism that were on offer in the world of political practice were, more often than not, caricatures. What was needed in 1968 and beyond was not simply more Marx but a different Marx. At the end, he sketchs out some ideas of what a different Marx might have been and what difference it might have made.
  4502. From Central America to Iraq
    First Published: 2004
    Noam Chomsky bitterly criticizes the regular exclusion of America from the principle of universality and the impunity with which the nation acts.
  4503. From Ecological Disaster to Constitutional Crisis
    The Long Struggle Over the Xingú Dams Comes to a Climax at Belo Monte
    First Published: 2010
    The master plan for damming the Amazon river system, which includes Belo Monte and the Xingú dams, was originally created in the 1970s by the military dictatorship then in power. It essentially treats the Amazon as a reservoir of natural resources to be extracted without regard for the destruction of its riverine and forest environment or the displacement and pauperization of its indigenous and local Brazilian inhabitants.
  4504. From fear to solidarity: Canada’s Jewish community and Palestine
    First Published: 2021
    For Jewish people who are already on edge, social media has created an echo chamber where their worst fears are affirmed and amplified by like-minded people. Suddenly, they’re seeing anti-Semitism everywhere. But it isn’t fear of rockets from Hamas that has got some people spooked. It’s the fact that Israel’s supporters were on the defensive against an unprecedented show of public support for the Palestinians, as well as a changing media landscape where critical opinions about Israel are now leaking through the cracks. Indeed, the traditional pro-Israel consensus that has long dominated the corporate media is now overwhelmingly being circumvented by new social media, where solidarity with Palestine is growing.
  4505. From Ferguson to Baltimore
    First Published: 2015
    Combined with racial profiling, combined with the practice of predatory profiling and predatory policing, police departments are using parking and traffic tickets as a revenue base to increase their budget. All these bring us to a place where police violence is rampant. The more contacts you have with the police, the more possibilities you have of being subject to a violent interaction.
  4506. From Gaza With Rage
    First Published: 2023
    I have always signed my letters to supporters and friends from around the world with these words, "From Gaza with Love." But today I'm writing with a rage that no mother should know, a rage of desperation and disbelief about what is being allowed to happen. I still feel love for everyone in Palestine, and people who have stood in support and solidarity of our shared struggle. But please, take action. And then do more. We must stop this genocide.
  4507. From Hillsborough to pesticides
    Establishment cover-ups, lies and corruption
    First Published: 2016
    The British establishment does nothing quite so well as lies, cover-ups and high-level corruption - whether it's the Hillsborough disaster or permitting polluters to poison us. Georgina Downs won her own High Court legal victory protecting rural residents from pesticide exposure as long ago as 2008 - only to have it snatched away as Court of Appeal judges closed ranks.
  4508. From Hitler to MX: Media Softness on Nazi Zundel Part of Historic Softness on Nazism
    First Published: 1985
  4509. From Iron Mines to Iron Bars
    First Published: 2010
    Exploring some of the consequences of the long-term decline in union membership and the significant shift in membership towards public sector workers.
  4510. From Israel to ISIS
    Harper's 'Orwellian' Foreign Policy
    First Published: 2014
    It’s getting difficult to remember a time when the Canadian Parliament actually tried to make principled decisions regarding foreign policy and our place in the community of nations.
  4511. From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much 
    First Published: 2015
    As is ever clearer and ever more important to note, race politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency of a political order and moral economy in which capitalist market forces are treated as unassailable nature. An integral element of that moral economy is displacement of the critique of the invidious outcomes produced by capitalist class power onto equally naturalized categories of ascriptive identity that sort us into groups supposedly defined by what we essentially are rather than what we do.
  4512. From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
    First Published: 2010
    Under the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process. The treaty necessarily adopts a strict approach. One cannot attack a ship and then claim self-defense if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence. In other words, according to international law, the actions of the Israeli military were beyond the law and those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force.
  4513. From Left Radicalism to Radical Islamism
    First Published: 2017
    The current preoccupations of Islamic youth in Britian are much different from the anti-racist activism and political radicalism of the author's generation.
  4514. From Libraries to Climate Change
    Why Cindy Milstein Believes Anarchism is More Relevant Than Ever
    First Published: 2015
    Anarchism as a word to capture a set of ethics and political philosophy is more interesting to me, Milstein says.
  4515. From Maoism to Trotskyism
    Recollections of a Participant
    First Published: 2014
    In 1968, a massive movement of radical students in the U.S. was attracted to Maoism. By 1972, the movement had already ruptured and was rapidly dissipating. What happened?
  4516. From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader -- Review
    First Published: 1996
    Paul Le Blanc's From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics, while not wholly perfect, is a magnificent anti-capitalist gesture. It is an act of public revision, presupposing not just a Marxist past but a viable and vibrant Marxist future.
  4517. From Mass Strike to New Society
    First Published: 2014
    Jeremy Brecher examines where and how mass strikes have progressed into the working class attempting to run society in its own interests and the lessons we can learn from them.
  4518. From mobilisation to resistance: Portugal's struggle against austerity
    First Published: 2013
    Portugal has been subjected to increasingly harsh austerity policies that have led the country into a recession of historic proportions, the result being mass impoverishment.
  4519. From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public Rage
    First Published: 2018
    There has been forceful break from the culture of silence that has long protected men from being held accountable for their misdeeds. While rage emerges against male sexual abuse, some progressive feminists have raised concerns that this movement may slip into 'moral panic' and a possible conservative, neo-puritan anti-sex campaign.
  4520. From National Bolshevism to Ecologism
    First Published: 1980
    National Bolshevism, which made its appearance in the German council movement in 1920, was initially created by two ex-militants of the American I.W.W., who played in Germany the same role as anarcho-syndicalism in Italian fascism, confirming once again that non-Marxist anti-capitalism is a sine qua non in the development of fascism.
  4521. From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes
    First Published: 2019
    Recent research shows that the Armenian genocide began before its usually accepted date in 1915. This is consistent with other genocides which start away from the metropolises with only minimal instructions from higher government.
  4522. From Nukes to Occupy: The Rise and Fall of the Non-Violent Direct Action Movement in the United States, 1976 – 2012
    First Published: 2019
    The non-violent direct action movement originated in the anti-nuclear power movement of the late 1970s / early 1980s. Inspired by the German anti-nuclear movement, activists organized occupations of construction sites for nuclear reactors, aiming to insure no new plants were built. The processes, organizational structure, and culture adopted by these activists differed sharply from the movements of the sixties and early seventies.
  4523. From "Occupy" to ...
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    The question isn't whether the magnificent “Occupy” movement will continue after police action and the onset of winter have largely emptied the encampments. The righteous rage that made the movement possible, and the enormous social and economic crisis that made it necessary, are not going away anytime soon. Quite the contrary — capitalism’s inherent contradictions, made worse by economic policies in Europe and the United States that seem calculated to maximize the damage, pose the real possibility of a new global financial meltdown and potential world depression.
  4524. From Oligarchy to the New Challenge of Global Politics
    First Published: 2012
    Most analysts and citizens of Western society suppose that we live in a democracy.
    But is it really democracy – a system where the people rule and its representatives carry out the popular will? Or, do we live in an oligarchy disguised as democracy? Oligarchy: in others words, a system where a small, inner circle, makes the decisions they feel necessary.
  4525. From one apartheid state to another: Israel's secret military alliance with apartheid South Africa
    First Published: 2010
    Israel regarded the relationship as based on more than just convenience, but on a common position as colonial oppressor, under pressure from national liberation movements. The two countries shared "unshakeable foundations of common hatred of injustice and refusal to submit to it." The 'injustice' each refused to submit to was ending apartheid (South Africa) and reversing the Nakbah (Israel), in both cases the subordination of indigenous people to the interests of settlers from Europe.
  4526. From Paris to Boston, Terrorists Were Already Known to Authorities
    First Published: 2015
    Whenever a terrorist attack occurs, it never takes long for politicians to begin calling for more surveillance powers. Officials in the United Kingdom and the United States have been among those arguing that more surveillance of Internet communications is necessary to prevent further atrocities.
  4527. From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale
    The Anti-Empire Report
    First Published: 2011
    The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office.
  4528. From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already Privileged
    First Published: 2019
    The college bribery admissions scandal is only the extreme end of the inequality in the education system. Public policies, such as school funding based on property values, disadvantage children in low-income communities starting as early as pre-K.
  4529. From PRI to Foxismo
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    Mexico on July 2 experienced an alternation of parties in power at the national level. But the more fundamental shift away from the one-party state had begun already with the Salinas administration (1988-1994), when he tried to replace the ruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) with his own political and patronage apparatus, "Solidarity."
  4530. From Reconstruction to Capitalist Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    The outcome of the Civil War registered the defeat of the Army of the Confederate states, the defeat of the army of the slaveholders, and a victory for the army of the owners of the railroads and big industrial enterprises committed to free, or wage labor. The political party of the big property holders, the Republican party, was supported by the mass of small farmers, urban workers, small business owners and the abolitionist movement.
  4531. From Resistance to Power!
    Manifestos of the Fight for Indigenous Rights in Central and South America
    First Published: 2008
  4532. From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society 
    First Published: 2009
    Capitalism is built on various forms of oppression and structural inequality. But the subordination and exploitation of the working class remains at the heart of the system. A liberatory program and strategy for a remake of society needs to explain how workers can escape the class cage.
  4533. From Slavery to Debt-Bondage: Big Tobacco's Addiction to Cheap Labor
    First Published: 2015
    Cigarette manufacturers and leaf buyers perpetuate a global system of inequity that bolsters corporate profits at the expense of those who labor at the bottom of the tobacco supply chain. It is long past time for that system to end, and be replaced by a more fair tobacco trade that respects the workers who harvest this toxic crop.
  4534. From Somaly Mam to ''Eden'': How Sex Trafficking Sensationalism Hurts Sex Workers
    First Published: 2014
    Most activists, regardless of ideology, are trying to do the right thing. But when it comes to human rights and sex work, doing the right thing is often much more complicated than calling the cops or donating 75 cents a day to a starving child on TV.
  4535. From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage
    First Published: 2014
    When the Jihadist group Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) changed its name and declared the establishment of the Caliphate, it did so with the release of a promotional video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot." This was a reference to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of two zones of influence, British and French.
  4536. From Tahrir to Palestine
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    Nabeel Abraham, a professor of anthropology and director of the honors program at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan, is a longtime Palestinian and Arab community activist. Against the Current asked him to comment on the following question: “What impact do you think the Egyptian events might have on the Palestinian struggle — both against the Israeli occupation and for internal democracy — over the next few months or maybe the next year?”
  4537. From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
    First Published: 2009
    Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from below, as opposed to the top down model that encrusted around them and doomed the previous version of their careers. Truth is, there is a direct correlation between the space in the media sphere that gets freed up every time a daily newspaper loses circ or dies and the increased reach that we and others have as we replace them with a better more people-powered model. So don't mourn the American daily newspaper. Anything you liked about it will continue but from a different set of new media. The time will come when one or more of those publications, or a new one yet to come in the US, will turn to the models that work for the daily Por Esto! or El Libertador or others South of the border, kissing their slavish dependence on advertisers goodbye and throwing their lot in, instead, with the larger multitudes of society.
  4538. From the Editor: Green Living
    First Published: 1991
    To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
  4539. From the Editors
    First Published: 2017
    Beyond the specifics of the disagreements regarding the election results, it also became clear that political support for the Insurgent Notes project, as it had evolved within that small group was not as deep-seated as needed to allow for coherent decision-making about how we should proceed. We are in the process of forming a new editorial group that we hope will address that fundamental challenge.
  4540. From the Front Lines of Native Women's Struggles
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    As a longtime Black lesbian feminist progressive who came up through the women’s, anti-racism, labor and environmental justice movements in the United States and Canada, I like to think of myself as fairly well read, and up on my analysis of the historical and current material conditions of women of color and our movements for liberation.
  4541. From the Gazan Laboratory to the World's Borders
    A Conversation with Jeff Halper
    First Published: 2023
    The acclaimed Israeli author and anthropologist explains how Israel has become an enforcer for fortress Global North, selling systems of control first developed in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
  4542. From the Grassroots: The Company of Young Canadians, Local Activism, and Sustainable Development in Canada, 1965-1975
    First Published: 2020
    This study draws upon and extends recent work that examines grassroots environmental activism as well as government support for such ventures in the Canadian context. In doing so it examines how the CYC became midwife to initiatives that began to grapple with the meaning of sustainable development, from projects concerned directly with the environmental effects of air and water pollution, to urban countercultural communes and cooperatives experimenting with recycling programs and organic food. Though most of these CYC-sponsored projects and their affiliated community organizations were concerned primarily with economic and social development, it is argued here that members of the Company, like others in the nascent environmental movement of the period, were inevitably being drawn towards assessing issues and using strategies that linked people, land, and community in more broadly sustainable ways.
  4543. From the Green Revolution to GMOs: Toxic Agriculture Is the Problem Not the Solution
    First Published: 2019
    The pesticide industry lobbies governments to allow chemicals that have long been known to be harmful.
  4544. From the Middle East to Northern Ireland, Western States are All Too Happy to Avoid Culpability for War Crimes
    First Published: 2019
    Forgiving war crimes when they are committed by their own side is a practice of the Nazis that many western governements seem to be taking up.
  4545. From the Red Power movement to Idle No More
    First Published: 2013
    Red Power stands for mass, united, militant action. Red Power, like Black Power, set off a wave of action and a level of consciousness in both the indigenous and non-indigenous communities, which has never really ended.
  4546. From the right-wing to the revolutionary left
    First Published: 2015
    Tom Wetzel answers the question 'How were you radicalized?'.
  4547. From the workers: a practical critique of bourgeois sociology
    First Published: 1971
  4548. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Miners inspired Marxist-Humanism
    First Published: 2015
    The dialectic of the 1949-50 Miners' General Strike, as it transformed from a Lewis-authorized strike that already had lasted some six months into a challenge to John L. Lewis himself, laid the ground for new ways of thinking.
  4549. From Trident to Life
    First Published: 1976
    Pamphlet outlining PLC's campaign of resistance against the Trident submarine missile system based in Bangor, Wash.
  4550. From "Triple Oppression" to "Freedom Dreams" - reviews
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    Reviews of 'Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995' by Cheryl Higashida, 'Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War' by Dayo F. Gore, and 'Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism' by Erik S. McDuffie.
  4551. From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
    First Published: 2009
    The "liberalization" and 'corporatization' of agriculture under the World Trade Organisation would put at risk the livelihoods of more than 2/3 of India's 1 billion people.
  4552. From Wikileaks to TSA
    Anti-Empire Report
    First Published: 2010
    We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
  4553. From Wildcat Strike to Total Self Management
    First Published: 1974
    Vaneigem’s book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
  4554. From Words to Action
    1976 Labour Day Message of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops, Ottawa
    First Published: 1976
    Four page pamphlet outlining the bishop's message.
  4555. From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media's Enduring Role in Promoting War
    First Published: 2023
  4556. From Yeltsin to Putin: Modern Democrat Gives Way to Modern Nationalist
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    The power brokers in and around the Kremlin have orchestrated a transfer of power that could serve as a model for modern democratic rule—the kind of demonstration democracy (demonstrate the form, forget the content) practiced to a high art form in the United States.
  4557. Fromm, Erich
    Connexipedia Article
    Internationally renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. (1900-1980).
  4558. Fromm, Erich - Writings - Index
    Writings of Erich Fromm (1900-1980).
  4559. Fromm's sane society
    First Published: 1956
  4560. Front de libération du Québec
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A organization that used propaganda and terrorism to promote the emergence of an independent Québec.
  4561. Front Runner
    Marine Le Pen's campaign to make France great again
    First Published: 2016
    A look at Marine Len Pen, leader of the far-right National Front Party (FN), and the events and circumstances that led to her party's rise in popularity from a fringe movement to the forefront of French politics.
  4562. Frontier Films
    First Published: 2015
    Frontier films Inc. was a non-profit organization formed in March 1938 out of the Worker's Film and Photo League and Nykino, meant to continue the tradition of producing films for social change in a documentary format.
  4563. Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
    First Published: 2016
    We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn't always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
  4564. Fruits and perils of the 'bloc within': The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 3)
    First Published: 2018
    The most advanced experience of Communist alliance with national revolutionists occurred in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) prior to the Baku Congress. However, it was not mentioned at the congress, even though one of its architects – the Dutch Communist Maring (Henk Sneevliet) – was present in the hall. Maring had been a leader for many years of revolutionary socialist Dutch settlers in Indonesia, who had achieved the remarkable feat of transforming their group into one predominantly indigenous in leadership, membership, and programmatic orientation. The key to success had been a close alliance with a mass national-revolutionary organization of the type described by the Second Congress, called Sarekat Islam.
  4565. FSNL, 1979 and today: Nicaragua's compromised revolution
    First Published: 2016
    The Sandinista revolution happened over 30 years ago, but FSLN has completely altered within the past few years to a neoliberal organization.
  4566. FTAA, The Hydra's New Head
    Against The Current vol. 90
    First Published: 2001
    Capitalism in many ways is like the mythical hydra of Greek legend, a gigantic serpent with multiple heads, the center one being immortal; every time an attacker chopped off one of its outer heads, two others grew in its place. It was killed by Heracles, with the assistance of his charioteer Iolaus. As Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaus would burn its neck cavity to keep new heads from growing. Eventually they were able to reach the center head and sever it from the body.
  4567. Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
    Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters
    First Published: 2011
    A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
  4568. Fuck Love
    First Published: 2012
  4569. Fuel For Occupy Wall Street's Fire
    First Published: 2011
    Ultimately, the Occupy Wall Street protests have already succeeded. The movement has successfully re-focused the nation's debate on who ruined the economy and who should be targeted, shifting blame away from immigrants, unions, and other groups of working people, like public employees. The protests have also re-fueled working people's energy after the post-Wisconsin letdown, activating the energies of many who want to collectively organize for progressive change in the interests of working people.
  4570. Fukushima After Five Years
    First Published: 2016
    In the five years since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, at least 100,000 people remain displaced; 80 people have committed suicide in Fukushima alone over the loss of their families.
  4571. Full Democratic Rights for Transgender People!
    "Bathroom Bill" Bigotry
    First Published: 2016
    Transgender and gender non-conforming people -- that is, anyone whose appearance, behavior or dress falls outside of bourgeois gender norms -- face an exceptionally high degree of harassment. Around 75 percent of transgender students report being verbally harassed at school and more than 30 percent physically assaulted. Transgender individuals are vulnerable in public spaces, especially if the difference between their preferred gender identity and their biological sex is apparent. Barring them from bathrooms would turn them into criminals while inviting further harassment and physical violence. Everyone -- regardless whether they match the skirt-clad or pants-clad signage on the door -- should be able to go about their business in peace.
  4572. The Fun of Empire: Fighting on All Sides of a War in Syria
    First Published: 2014
    Now the Obama administration and American political class is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the failed “Bomb Assad!” campaign by starting a new campaign to bomb those fighting against Assad – the very same side the U.S. has been arming over the last two years.
  4573. The "Fundamentalism" in Police Operations
    First Published: 2016
    As police murders accumulate, and police chiefs get fired and replaced because they cannot stop it (as in Oakland and San Francisco), the notion that this represents a political crisis becomes a truism. It is not a "crisis of policing," which would suggest a situation beyond the capacities of the police. It is the police who have become the crisis. In Oakland, on July 7, 2016, 5000 people came to demonstrate on one day's notice against the two police killings that had occur the previous two days out of a profound awareness of the malignity afoot – and they shut down the Interstate. The magnitude of this crisis is represented by its insidious repetitiveness.
  4574. Funding for Native Education
    First Published: 1989
  4575. Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
    Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
    First Published: 2010
    A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project - or raises money for just about any public-interest activity - will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
  4576. Funding Health and Higher Education
    Danger Looming
    First Published: 1991
  4577. Funding Revolutions?
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    Nearly every person I have encountered who is seeking liberation from the various oppressive-isms of this world has asked the fundamental question, “How do I free myself (and others) from such an insidious system?”
  4578. A Fundraising Success
    A popular way to fundraise, increase the enthusiasm and participation of volunteers, and raise public awareness about the Third World.
  4579. Funeral Oration for the Athenian War Dead
    First Published: 0
    Speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war.
  4580. The Funny Business of Farm Credit
    First Published: 2016
    In May of 1998 we held a conference dedicated to two Government-sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In my statement to that assembly, I noted that both corporations had been enjoying good times, but cautioned that one of the unintended consequences of fat profits over a long period is the tendency of both government and private corporations to start believing in the fantasy of ever-rising profits. GSEs often escape the accountability that Congress or regulatory agencies should impose.
  4581. Für eine populäire Linke
    First Published: 2022
    Wir wollen eine LINKE, die für die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung, die Arbeitenden, die Familien, die Rentnerinnen und Rentner und die sozial Benachteiligten aktiv ist.
  4582. Furniture industry hurting
    First Published: 1990
  4583. Further Dialogue on Pornography
    Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality
    First Published: 1997
    The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
  4584. Further on Marikana Miners
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    The circumstances surrounding the mass murder in Marikana, and the political wildfire it unleashed for the African National Congress and the trade union movement, are the subject of an ongoing discussion within the South African and international left. Background material on the South African political climate.
  4585. Further Particulars of the Silesian Riots
    First Published: 1844
    The causes of these affrays were the incredible sufferings of these poor weavers, produced by low wages, machinery, and the avarice and greediness of the manufacturers.
  4586. Further Reading on the Russian Revolution
    First Published: 2019
    Several book recomendations with some comments on each.
  4587. Fury at Azaria Verdict is Israel's Trump Moment
    First Published: 2017
    Examining the popular reaction to the conviction in military court of Elor Azaria for manslaughter as demonstrating a deep social divide in the vein of Trump's election in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK.
  4588. Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
    First Published: 2016
    Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land
  4589. Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
    First Published: 2016
    Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land.
  4590. Fury Mounts Among Greek People
    "Do you think we are the parasites of Europe?"
    First Published: 2011
    Nobody trusts the government or the opposition because people blame them for starting the crisis in the first place.
  4591. Fusion... A Bridge to Nowehere?
    First Published: 1980
  4592. The Fusion of Anabaptist, Indian and African as the American Radical Tradition
    First Published: 1987
    The native American radical tradition, originating ultimately in the radical religious currents who "lost" at the very dawn of capitalism, and their meeting with the non-Western peoples--Indian and African--who shaped early American culture as much as white people, might have something very unique to contribute to the current and still completely unresolved crisis of the international revolutionary left.
  4593. The Futile Undertaking of Palestinian Statehood
    First Published: 2011
    Eventually a state that represents all its inhabitants on the basis of equality and genuine respect and dignity for all its citizens is one that the world will some day celebrate, not a phony declaration that legitimizes the oppressive nature of one and confers false hope on the other.
  4594. The futility of activism using violence as catharsis
    First Published: 2010
    The anarchist practitioners of violence are fundamentally elitist. They do violence because it makes them feel good, and they don't care about the fact that it undermines the real work for social change that movement activists are doing.
  4595. The Future Belongs to the Blasphemers
    A message from ex-Muslims to mark International Blasphemy Day
    First Published: 2017
    Some people believe that disagreeing with deeply held beliefs is hate. It is not. I want to remind you that many of the most powerful ideas, ideas that changed our world were once heretical. I want to remind you that many of the most radical thinkers and reformists in past eras were blasphemers against the established order of their day.
  4596. Future dustbowl? Fracking ravages Great Plains land and water
    First Published: 2015
    The fracking boom has caused massive vegetation loss over North America's rangelands, as 3 million hectares have been occupied by oil and gas infrastructure and 34 billion cubic metres of water have been pumped from semi-arid ecosystems.
  4597. The future is agroecology 
    First Published: 2014
    The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
  4598. The Future of Israel and Palestine - Interview
    First Published: 1999
    The first part of this interview with the Israeli human rights campaigner Professor Israel Shahak appeared in our previous issue ("The `Peace Process' and the CIA," ATC 78).
  4599. The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
    The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance
    First Published: 2014
    Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behaviour. Israeli Jews see and represent themselves as a chosen people and part of a superior Western civilization.
  4600. The Future of Israel/Palestine
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
    Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address to both houses of the U.S. Congress in May, 2006 was the clearest, most explicit presentation of Israel’s conception of where it is going vis-à-vis the Palestinians. It is perhaps the most skilled use of Newspeak since George Orwell invented the term in his novel 1984.
  4601. The Future of Palestine
    Righteous Jews vs. New Afrikaners
    First Published: 2010
    The Israel lobby is effectively helping Israel commit national suicide. Israel, is turning itself into an apartheid state, which, as Ehud Olmert has pointed out, is not sustainable in the modern era.
  4602. The Future of Public Housing
  4603. The future of the Nakba
    First Published: 2018
    If the Nakba’s most salient features are the theft of Palestinian land and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, and subjecting the lands that could not be stolen and the people who could not be expelled to systematic control and oppression, then, it would be most inaccurate to consider the Nakba as a discrete event that refers to the war of 1948 and its immediate aftermath. Rather, it should be historicized as a process which spanned the last 140 years, beginning with the arrival of the first Zionist conquerors to colonize the land in the early 1880s. In addition, Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continue to preserve the future survival of Israel. The Nakba then turns out to be not just a past event and an ongoing process in the present, but a calamity that has a decidedly planned future ahead of it. If so, what might that future be?
  4604. G4S To End Israel Prison Contracts Following Protests
    First Published: 2014
    G4S, the Anglo-Danish security contractor, has agreed to withdraw from prison work in Israel after activists disrupted the company annual general meeting for the second year in a row. The company is also under fire for ill-treatment of detainees in the UK, including the death of an Angolan man.
  4605. Gabor Maté on the misuse of anti-Semitism and why fewer Jews identify with Israel
    First Published: 2019
    Talking today about antisemitism, particularly posing it as a problem on the left.
  4606. Galeano, Eduardo
    Wikipedia article
    Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist (1940-2015). His best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1982–6). "I'm a writer," the author once said of himself, "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."
  4607. Galileo's Revolution
    First Published: 2014
    In celebration of the 450th anniversary of Galileo's birth, this article examines the famous scientist's life, contributions, and relevance today.
  4608. Galtung, Johan
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Peace advocate. (Born 1930).
  4609. Gandhi, Mohandas
    Connexipedia Article
    The pre-eminent political and spritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. (1869-1948).
  4610. Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm
    First Published: 2020
    State-sponsored assassinations employ the methods of gangsterism and discredit and delegitimise those who use them.
  4611. Garcés, Juan
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Human rights activist. (Born 1967).
  4612. Gardening and food-growing guide
    Personal advice and tips on growing your own fruit and vegetables to stay healthy and save money.
    First Published: 2004
    We all know the advantages of organically produced food, but why should we have to spend a fortune on organic fruit and veg? It is often from miles away, over packed, expensive, a bit manky by the time we get it and in some areas only available from supermarkets.
  4613. Miriam Garfinkle
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2019
    Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
  4614. Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
  4615. Garrison, William Lloyd
    Connexipedia Article
    American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. (1805-1879).
  4616. Gary Webb: Vindicated
    First Published: 2014
    Family Members of the Intrepid Investigative Journalist — Soon To Be Immortalized By An Upcoming Hollywood Movie — Share Their Story With The World.
  4617. Gas company: Amazon tribes vulnerable to 'massive deaths'
    First Published: 2014
    Amazon tribes in Peru's rainforest are at risk of 'massive deaths' from new diseases to which they lack immunity, gas company Pluspetrol admits - as it tries to expand its Camisea gas project into a Reserve for isolated indigenous people.
  4618. Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media
    First Published: 2021
    Other than the ever-present risk of nuclear war, there is no greater threat to humanity than the climate crisis. And there is no more damning example of gaslighting by state-corporate media when they tell us we can trust governments and corporations to do what is required to avert catastrophe.
  4619. Gassing the American People
    Fracking Democracy
    First Published: 2014
    Last year the World Health Organization said over 7 million people died from air pollution, making it the largest killer on the planet – killing almost 80 times more people in one year than died of poison gas over the 4 years of WWI.
  4620. The Gatekeepers Aren't Gone
    First Published: 2016
    Viral content seems democratic. But it's still mostly controlled by big media companies.
  4621. Gates Foundation 'feeds the world' with corporate agriculture
    First Published: 2014
    The Gates Foundation is spending half a billion dollars a year to 'feed the world', most of it aimed at Africa. But as GRAIN discovers, it is imposing a model of high-tech, high-input 'green revolution' farming, complete with GMOs, agro-chemicals and a pro-business neoliberal agenda, all in in alliance with corporate agriculture.
  4622. The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy
    Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts
    First Published: 2012
    Gates' leveraged philanthropy model is a public-private partnership to improve the world, partly through targeted research support but principally through public advocacy and tax-free lobbying to influence government policy. The goal of these policies is often to explicitly support profitability for corporate investors, whose enterprises are seen by the Gates Foundation as advancing human good. However, maximum corporate profit and public good often clash when its projects are implemented.
  4623. Gates of Delusion: Media Distortions and REAL Climate Scandals
    First Published: 2010
    Climate-related storms in a teacup have been appearing in the corporate media almost on a daily basis. This nonsense is distracting attention from a mountain of evidence that human-induced climate change is accelerating and poses a deadly threat to civilisation.
  4624. Gay activist's slaying commemorated
    First Published: 1989
  4625. Gay Games and Culural Festival
    First Published: 1990
  4626. Gay imperialism: Postcolonial particularity
    First Published: 2016
    Since her refusal to accept the Berlin Pride Civil Courage Award, Judith Butler has been a leading critic of "homonationalism" and the closely related phenomenon of so-called "pinkwashing." Homonationalism is understood here as an ideology which uses a nation's liberal attitudes toward homosexuality as a means of encouraging racist attitudes toward other nations, on the grounds that they are supposedly less enlightened. Butler stated in a May 2010 address on "Queer Alliance and Antiwar Politics" in Ankara, Turkey that "in some parts of Europe and surely in Israel as well, the rights of homosexuals are defended in the name of nationalism."
  4627. Gay Left
    A socialist journal produced by gay men - Number One, Autumn 1975
    First Published: 1975
    This is a socialist journal edited by gay men. We have a two-fold aim in producing this magazine. First, we hope to contribute towards a marxist analysis of homosexual oppression. Secondly, we want to encourage in the gay movement an understanding of the links between the struggles against sexual oppression and the struggle for socialism.

    A copy of this publication is in the Connexions Archive.
  4628. Gay Liberation
    Connexipedia Article
    The name used to describe the radical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.
  4629. Gay Liberation Front
    Connexipedia Article
    The name of a number of Gay Liberation groups.
  4630. Gay Marriage: End of the World?
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
  4631. Gay Marriage Yes!
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    Any doubts about the meaning of the struggle for the right of gay and lesbian marriage should have disappeared forever when Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco opened the marriage bureau at city hall to same-sex couples.
  4632. Gay Pride is Now Respectable, and the Worse for It
    First Published: 2002
    The gay community has retreated from radical idealism to cautious conformism.
  4633. Gay rights movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements share inter-related goals of social acceptance of sexuality and gender minorities.
  4634. Gays and the Left
    First Published: 1997
    The contemporary movement for lesbian/gay liberation was born out of the ferment of the New Left. Its leftist roots were openly acknowledged. Leading theorists identified with one socialist or communist current or another. They acknowledged their debt to Marxism as well as feminism and psychoanalysis. Times have obviously changed. While lesbian/gay movements have grown and won some significant victories in the past quarter-century, the socialist left has shrunk to a shadow of what it was. Unsurprisingly, lesbian/gay spokespeople and theorists are less likely to identify with the anti- capitalist left than they used to be.
  4635. Gays Beaten Up! Where's the Outcry?
    First Published: 1979
    The anti–gay campaign taking place at the moment threatens more than just gays. The same elements and the same authorities that attack gays are the ones who do their best to keep the rest of us "in line" -- the ones who want strikes banned, the ones who welcomed the imposition of wage controls, in short, the ones who cannot do anybody any good.
  4636. Gaza 2009: De-Osloizing the Palestinian Mind
    First Published: 2009
    The lesson we learn from Gaza 2009 is to harness all effort to fight the outcome of the Oslo Accords, and to form a United Front on a platform of resistance and reforms. This cannot be achieved without dismantling the PA and realizing that ministries, premierships, and presidencies in Gaza and Ramalah are a façade not unlike the South African Independent Homelands with their tribal chiefs. The classical national program, created and adopted by the Palestinian bourgeoisie has reached its end unsuccessfully.
  4637. Gaza and the Press
    Dress the Gaza Situation Up All You Like, But the Truth Hurts
    First Published: 2014
    The latest bloodbath in Gaza, which is being so graphically covered by journalists that our masters and our media are suffering a new experience: not fear of being called anti-Semitic, but fear of their own television viewers and readers – ordinary folk so outraged by the war crimes committed against the women and children of Gaza that they are demanding to know why, even now, television moguls and politicians are refusing to treat their own people like moral, decent, intelligent human beings.
  4638. Gaza - A Brutal Demonstration Of 'Western Values'
    First Published: 2024
    Displaced children having their faces painted ahead of New Year celebrations at an UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
  4639. Gaza Crisis: Far-Right Israelis Chant 'There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'
    First Published: 2014
    Right-wing Israelis have been filmed chanting "There's no children left there [in Gaza]" and "Gaza is a cemetery" in celebration of their military's attacks on Gaza.
  4640. Gaza: cuidados de saúde e crianças em risco
    As crianças de Gaza estão em risco
    First Published: 2007
  4641. Gaza Freedom March Blocked
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    Fourteen hundred international activists mobilized in Cairo, Egypt in late December for a Gaza Freedom March (GFM) to break the siege imposed by the U.S., Israeli and Egyptian governments. The marchers were blocked and attacked by Egyptian police and military forces; there can be no doubt that the authorization for these assaults and the orders to block the march from reaching Gaza came directly from the U.S. administration.
  4642. The Gaza Ghetto Uprising
    First Published: 2023
    From the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to the Gaza Ghetto uprising, the basic situation is the same: If half-starving people with no clean water or the ability to travel outside of their ghetto launch any kind of uprising, the obvious context is the fact that they were under siege, living in a walled ghetto, prevented from importing the things they need to survive and prevented from traveling. This is the obvious reason for any people living in such conditions to rise up against their occupying power. But instead, we are fed a narrative that begins with the ghetto uprising, without any explanation for the basic nature of the situation, that is, that an occupying army is forcing people to live and starve in a walled ghetto.
  4643. Gaza: Health System in Collapse
    First Published: 2008
    The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military's destruction of Gaza's basic infrastructure and Israel's closure of all Gaza's borders.
  4644. Gaza in Ruins
    First Published: 2015
    Gaza is a ruin, populated by nearly two million people. The July-August 2014 bombardment of this tiny enclave by Israel resulted in over 2,500 dead Palestinians and an infrastructure -- already weak -- utterly destroyed. A garrotted sliver of land that sits on the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza cannot import goods to survive, let alone to reconstruct the damage. Oxfam says that it would take over a hundred years to bring Gaza back to the conditions in June 2014 because of the ongoing Israeli siege. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an agency tasked with the provision of relief to the Palestinian refugees, complained that "people are literally sleeping amongst the rubble; children have died of hypothermia." Pledges for relief are not delivered, and even if they would be handed over to the United Nations (UN), the Israeli embargo makes it impossible for goods to enter Gaza. Gaza, like the rest of Palestine, is condemned to purgatory.
  4645. Gaza - is annexation Israel's 'permanent solution'?
    The real estate of Gaza would be an additional boon - and a highly valuable one, releasing 365 square kilometres of prime development land,
    First Published: 2014
    As Israel pursues its war on Gaza with ever-increasing ferocity, and with 25% of Gaza's people forced from their homes, what's the final objective? It's unthinkable that Israel's aim is to 'cleanse' the territory of its people, seize its vast gas reserves, and annex some of the Med's hottest real estate. Isn't it?
  4646. Gaza: Israel bombs water and sewage systems
    If this situation continues Gaza residents will be subjected to a humanitarian crisis even worse than the immediate one of trying to survive
    First Published: 2014
    Israel's armed forces have destroyed vital water and sewage infrastructure in their bombing campaign of the besieged territory. This constitutes a severe breach of the 1977 Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the part of Israel and all those conceiving, planning, ordering and perpetrating the attacks.
  4647. Gaza, Israel & The Hamas Attacks
    First Published: 2023
  4648. Gaza, Israel and 'Human Shields'
    The People Putting Innocents in Danger are the Israelis
    First Published: 2014
    What does it mean to use human shields? Employed by the Germans and Japanese in the Second World War, the tactic is premised on an underlying trust in your enemy’s humanity. It appeals to the compassion and mercy of the combatant that they not slaughter the innocent in order to avenge their target. The ‘shield’ is not the human bodies surrounding the ‘guilty’ party, the shield is the clemency that mankind instinctively affords the innocent. The shield evaporates only when confronted by an enemy who is not merely a fellow solder locked in a power battle, but a psychopath unconcerned with the pain of others.
  4649. Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fleeing Civilians
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.
  4650. Gaza: Israel's $4 billion gas grab
    First Published: 2014
    The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis. If Palestinians develop their own gas resources, the resulting economic transformation could in turn fundamentally increase Palestinian clout.
  4651. Gaza: Life and death under Israel's drones
    First Published: 2013
    There are many things to fear in Gaza. Drones are increasingly being used for surveillance and extra-judicial execution in parts of the Middle East, especially by the US. There are no statistics that detail the effect of the drones on Palestinians in Gaza.
  4652. Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
    First Published: 2018
    Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
  4653. Gaza Occupation And Siege Are Illegal
    First Published: 2010
    Collective punishment is specifically barred under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that the objective of the blockade is to weaken the Gaza economy and undermine support for Hamas. That is a political, not a military, objective, and it is impermissible under international law to target innocent civilians to achieve nonmilitary goals. Actions taken to enforce an illegal siege cannot themselves be legal. Israel's blockade violates the human rights of Gaza Palestinians and must be brought to an end.
  4654. Gaza Peace Protester Is Prisoner In Own Home
    First Published: 2009
    Nine months after he helped to organise protests against Israel's attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, an electronic bracelet around his ankle to alert the police should he step outside his front door.
  4655. Gaza, The World's Largest Outdoor Prison
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    Sara Roy couldn't have predicted the deterioration of Gaza since the 2005 unilateral pullout of Israeli occupation forces and settlers any more effectively than in her book Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. For those seeking a thorough understanding of the failure for peace to spontaneously erupt upon the exit of the settlers from Gaza, Failing Peace is a valuable resource.
  4656. Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
    First Published: 2014
    Israel's war on Gaza has seen the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for human survival. This represents an apparently deliberate 'cutting off of life support' to those that survive the bombardment now under way.
  4657. Gaza: What Would Lincoln Do?
    Sasha, Malia: Tell Your Parents About Sara al-Dalou!
    First Published: 2012
    The point of invoking Lincoln is not to guess what he might do in Obama’s shoes, but to reflect on what he did when forced to balance political calculus, the rule of law, and moral and humanitarian considerations.
  4658. Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).
  4659. Gaza: Whole Villages Have Been Wiped Off the Map
    A VIsit to Khuza'a
    First Published: 2014
    I’m writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuza’a.
  4660. Gaza wrecked by storm, floods, acute cold, sewage overflows and power cuts
    First Published: 2013
    The UN has described the Gaza Strip as a 'disaster area' following the onslaught of Storm Alexa and called on the international community to lift the blockade and allow recovery efforts to proceed.
  4661. Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' Go Mute 
    First Published: 2018
    Tens of thousands of protesters, raising Palestinian flags continue to hold their massive rallies across the Gaza border. Despite the high death toll and the thousands maimed, they return everyday with the same commitment to popular resistance that is predicated on collective unity, beyond factionalism and politics.But why are they still being largely ignored? It is politically convenient to criticize Palestinians as a matter of course, and utterly inconvenient to credit them, even when they display such courage, prowess and commitment to peaceful change.
  4662. Gazan Youth's Manifesto for Change
    First Published: 2010
    We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community!
  4663. Gaza's Kite Runners
    First Published: 2009
    Gazan children's kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
  4664. Gaza's Shocking Devastation
    First Published: 2008
    A Canadian Jew's visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw.
  4665. Gaza's Torment, Israel's Crimes, Our Responsibilities
    First Published: 2014
    It is important to understand what life is like in Gaza when Israel’s behavior is “restrained,” in between the regular manufactured crises like this one. When Israel is on “good behavior,” more than two Palestinian children are killed every week, a pattern that goes back over 14 years. The underlying cause is the criminal occupation and the programs to reduce Palestinian life to bare survival in Gaza, while Palestinians are restricted to unviable cantons in the West Bank and Israel takes over what it wants, all in gross violation of international law and explicit Security Council resolutions, not to speak of minimal decency.
  4666. Gaza's women of steel
    First Published: 2017
    Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.
  4667. GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
    First Published: 2013
    Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies.
  4668. GE boycott
    First Published: 1992
  4669. Gedanken über Selbstbestimmung
    First Published: 1994
    Bei der Unterstützung für die Unabhängigkeit handelt es sich bei ein großen Teilen der Linken um nicht mehr als kleinbürgerlichen Nationalismus. Im Gegensatz dazu hielten es Karl Marx und Rosa Luxemburg für wichtig zu analysieren und nur die progressiven Bewegungen zu unterstützen.
  4670. Gender and the Communist Manifesto
    First Published: 1998
    Families, along with other socially constructed relationships such as race and gender, are central mechanisms for organizing cooperation and coercion. They are also sites of contradiction in the Marxist sense--places where inherent oppositions occur that are necessary to perpetuate a particular process or social system, and yet also undermine that process or social system.
  4671. Gender is not an identity, it is a tool of patriarchy
    Gender hurts
    First Published: 2016
    Gender is a set of societally-imposed, socially-constructed norms which are the structure through which all males and females are boxed in, but which, in particular, are the building blocks of the hierarchy between males and females. From a very early age, almost birth, these gender expectations are imposed through the clothes we wear, the toys we play with, the colours that are considered appropriate, the behaviour that is expected of us, the attitudes expressed towards us. They may vary from culture to culture and throughout history but their purpose is the same, to mould us into roles in society. Let’s not swallow patriarchy’s lies, let’s keep asserting that the objective definition of us as a female or a male based on biological reality will never define our personality, our attitudes, our abilities, our desires, our behaviour, our place in the world.
  4672. Gender, Race and Marx's Whiskers
    First Published: 2018
    Roediger juxtaposes James and Marx quotations and discusses the iimplications for how Marx’s limits and his forward motion regarding race and gender might be understood together.
  4673. Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
    First Published: 2017
    The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.
  4674. Gene Drives: A Scientific Case for a Complete and Perpetual Ban
    First Published: 2017
    One of the central issues of our day is how to safely manage the outputs of industrial innovation. Novel products incorporating nanotechnology, biotechnology, rare metals, microwaves, novel chemicals, and more, enter the market on a daily basis. The majority of products receive no regulatory supervision at all.
  4675. Genealogies of the Uprisings
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    An interview with Adolph Gilly. Gilly is a longtime activist and prominent historian of the Mexican Revolution.
  4676. Genefke, Inge
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Campaigner and worker on behalf of torture victims.
  4677. General Electric boycott
    First Published: 1990
  4678. Gen. John Campbell, Commander in Afghanistan and Serial Liar
    First Published: 2015
    After weeks of lies, the Obama administration and the Pentagon, unable to find any way to explain their murderous hour-long AC-130 gunship assault on and destruction of a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, have turned to a new lie: they bombed the wrong building.
  4679. General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia
    First Published: 2009
    A discussion regarding the rise of the leftist movement in East Asia.
  4680. General Remarks on the Question of Organisation
    First Published: 1938
    Organisation is the chief principle in the working class fight for emancipation. Hence the forms of this organisation constitute the most important problem in the practice of the working class movement. It is clear that these forms depend on the conditions of society and the aims of the fight. They cannot be the invention of theory, but have to be built up spontaneously by the working class itself, guided by its immediate necessities.
  4681. General Strike of 1842
    Connexipedia Article
    The strike started among the Staffordshire miners and soon spread through the country affecting factories, mills and coal mines from Dundee to South Wales and Cornwall.
  4682. The general strike of 1842
    First Published: 2016
    A detailed history of the UK Chartist general strike of 1842 against pay cuts and for universal male suffrage.
  4683. General Strikes, Mass Strikes
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    Inspired by the boldness of the movement, activists of Occupy Oakland issued a “call for a general strike” in that city for November 2 — a sign of the movement’s radicalism and its sense of where social power lies.
  4684. Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies
    First Published: 2014
    The new Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Simon Stevens, was recently reported arguing that the NHS must be transformed to make people’s personal genetic information the basis of their treatments.
  4685. Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
    First Published: 1949
    Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, Held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August, 1949. Entry into force 21 October 1950.
  4686. The Genius of Huey P. Newton
    First Published: 2016
    To those of us who were alive -- and sentient, the name Huey P. Newton evokes an era of mass resistance, of Black popular protest and of the rise of revolutionary organizations across the land. To those of subsequent eras, youth in their 20s, the name is largely unknown, as is the name of its greatest creation: The Black Panther Party.
  4687. The Genocidal Language Behind Israel's Intent in Gaza
    First Published: 2023
    Long before October 7, 2023, the Zionist-Israeli discourse was always that of racism, dehumanization, erasure and, at times, outright genocide.
  4688. Genocide by Prescription: The "Natural History" of the Declining White Working Class in America
    First Published: 2016
    The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of 'premature deaths' -- a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic. This is the first time in the country's 'peacetime' history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline -- and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural communities of the United States.
  4689. Genocide - The Gaze From The Abyss
    First Published: 2023
    We lampooned the claim that although journalists are 'working within profit-maximising, billionaire-owned, advertiser-dependent, government-subsidised media, they are nevertheless exposing "disinformation" without the slightest trace of bias.
  4690. The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences
    First Published: 2012
    The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West Africa.
  4691. Genocide in Plain Sight: Shooting Bushmen From Helicopters in Botswana
    First Published: 2016
    In a healthy democracy, people are not shot at from helicopters for collecting food. They are not arrested, stripped bare and beaten while in custody without facing trial. Nor are people banned from their legitimate livelihoods, or persecuted on false pretenses. Sadly in Botswana, southern Africa's much-vaunted ‘beacon of democracy', all of this took place late last month in an incident which has been criminally under-reported. Nine Bushmen were later arrested and subsequently stripped naked and beaten while in custody.
  4692. The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets
    First Published: 2017
    To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the same forces in her country, Burma, at the time that the US-led western coalition isolated Rangoon for its alliance with China.
  4693. Gentrification and Class Struggles in Barcelona, Spain: Interview with Etcétera Collective
    First Published: 2018
    In an interview with the Barcelona-based collective Etcetera, the processes of urban development in one of the fastest gentrifying cities in Spain and their implications for potential movements and struggles are examined.
  4694. Gentrification Represents a Geography of Inequality
    First Published: 2017
    What does gentrification mean for the future of American cities? It means more than the arrival of trendy shops and expensive coffee. Peter Moskowitz intertwines human narratives with incisive analysis of the systemic forces contributing to America's crises of race and inequality, in How to Kill a City. Click here now to order this book with a donation to Truthout!The following is a Truthout interview with Peter Moskowitz, author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood.
  4695. The Geography of Marxism
    First Published: 2018
    David Harvey is a geographer and a Marxist. A collection of his works titled The Ways of the World was recently published in paperback. A collection pulled from his writing and lectures, the works are insightful, both in their approach to the world and the manner in which he combines geography and Marxism.
  4696. Geonzon, Winefreda
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Advocate for prisoners. Responsible for setting up the Free Legal Assistance Volunteers Association (FREELAVA) as a legal aid office for victims of human rights violations, prisoners who could not afford lawyers to act for them and people whose cases had implications for social justice.
  4697. George Bush's Unending War and Israel
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    The present U.S. strategy, defined by the neo-cons at the end of the 1980s, is no longer a strategy of stabilizing world order and building a “new Middle East” through multilateral negotiations, but imposing the “American age,” i.e. U.S. total hegemony, by a global non-ending preemptive war. The Israeli war against the Palestinian people and against Lebanon is part of this global war; indeed, it is the United States’ most advanced and important front.
  4698. George Carlin sums up class structure and the purpose media of divisiveness
    First Published: 2012
  4699. George Martell Writes
    First Published: 1969
    George Martell responds to Marjaleena Repo's response to his article "What Can I Do Right Now?: Notes from Point Blank School on the Canadian Dilemma".
  4700. Georgia Strait conference
    First Published: 1991
  4701. Georgia's RICO Law Is in the News -- but Its Use to Silence Protesters Gets a Pass
    First Published: 2023
    Georgia’s RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) law, modeled on the federal statute designed to attack mob bosses, has been in the news a lot, ever since Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis used Georgia's law to charge former President Donald Trump and his associates with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
  4702. Gerald Hannon, a key figure in the gay liberation movement, has died at age 77
    First Published: 2022
    Recalling Gerald Hannon.
  4703. Geri Allen: A Tribute
    First Published: 2017
    By the time Geri Allen, the pianist, composer and Detroit native who died June 27, 2017 at the age of 60, arrived in New York City in 1984, she had finished one of the most rigorous formal educations then available for an aspiring jazz musician, and it showed
  4704. Germ War: the US Record
    Who Will Intervene?
    First Published: 2013
    The United States has exposed of hundreds of thousands of unwitting US citizens to an astonishing array of germ agents and toxic chemicals, killing dozens of people.
  4705. German Auto Workers in the Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    German auto workers, unlike their U.S. brothers and sisters, were somewhat sheltered from the economic crisis in 2009. Given that it was an election year, the government passed a law last March that supplemented their wages when they worked a “short” week. Between what they were paid by their employer and the government supplement, they earned 65-90% of their usual wage. The government also had a version of “cash for clunkers” so some auto plants were at full production.
  4706. German guiltwashing in times of genocide
    First Published: 2024
    We have experienced the full severity of Germany’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism. We know it is not about historic guilt.
  4707. A German Lenin?
    Book Review of "In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi" edited by David Fernbach
    First Published: 2014
    A review of the compiled writings of Paul Levi, a leading figure in the German Communist movement.
  4708. German Parliamentarian in Washington Says No to NATO - Yes to Peace
    First Published: 2024
    NATO’s myths are losing their luster. The Alliance’s strategies are succumbing to their own imperial overextension. What we need now is an immediate end to arms deliveries to Ukraine and, at long last, a ceasefire there. Those who seek peace and security for their own populations must halt the aggressive policy of expansion into Asia. We need peace instead of NATO.
  4709. German police declare parts of Hamburg "no-go zone"
    First Published: 2014
    Early Saturday morning, police in the northern German city of Hamburg declared the entire district of St. Pauli and large parts of Altona, Eimsbuettel and Sternschanze to be a "no-go zone." The announcement of such a broad "no-go area" is unprecedented in German post-war history. In such areas police officers are entitled to arbitrarily check and search any individual and demand they leave the zone.
  4710. German resistance
    Connexipedia Article
    The opposition by individuals and groups in Nazi Germany to the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945.
  4711. The German Revolution (World Revolution for Beginners Part III) 
    First Published: 2017
    It's really important to understand that the Nazis made real appeals to the working class, not very successfully, but they considered themselves to be a party that was for a workers' revolution, but for a German Workers Revolution. So, that’s something often lost in translation when people just say "Nazis" or "National Socialists".
  4712. The German Revolution - First Stage
    First Published: 1919
    Through its rapidity and unanimity the revolution rested on the surface of civil society and could not as yet penetrate into the depth of the great masses.
  4713. German Revolution of 1918-19
    Connexipedia Article
    The politically-driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I.
  4714. German Social Democracy in Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    The Crisis in German Social Democratic Party (SPD) is now in a historic crisis, one that threatens its very existence as a part of the international progressive movement. Under the leadership of its chairman, Gerhard Schröder, who also heads the national coalition government with the Greens, the party has undertaken a series of neoliberal reforms that represent a sharp blow to its core constituency: Germany’s workers and the poor.
  4715. German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange
    First Published: 2020
  4716. Germans Down and Russians Out
    First Published: 2023
    Any sign of sympathy with Russia has been so demonized, repressed, even criminalized since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022, that most German protests initially avoided taking any position on the war and focused on the economic hardships caused by sanctions. But on January 25, 2023 of this year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave in to U.S. pressure to send German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, about the same time that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, of the Green Party, casually told an international meeting that "we are fighting a war against Russia." This jolted people into action.
  4717. Germany 1921: The March Action
    First Published: 1964
    The debacle represented by the ‘March Action’ in Germany in 1921 was a crucial turning point in the development of the Communist International. The defeat led to a crisis in the German Communist Party (KPD), which had repercussions for the entire International.
  4718. Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
    First Published: 2014
    Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Western Front stripped him of his jingoism. Much of his subsequent work explored the sorrow and suffering that he saw as the human condition.
  4719. Germany criminalizes journalist for exposing Ukrainian war crimes
    First Published: 2022
    Independent Donetsk-based journalist Alina Lipp of Germany details her prosecution by the German state for violating new speech codes through her reporting in the Donetsk People’s Republic. As the only German reporter on the ground in Donetsk, Lipp has exposed Ukrainian forces shelling civilians, attacking a maternity ward, mining harbors, and bombing a granary filled with corn for export. She faces three years in prison if she returns to her home country.
  4720. Germany and European Civilization
    First Published: 1944
    From at least the time of the publication of Capital to the present day, all political and social thought, particularly in Europe, have revolved around the ideas of Marxism. And these ideas were nourished, developed, propagated and defended above all by the German proletariat. Not only the revolutionary movement but modern thought owes the German workers a debt which it can never repay. So far has Marxism penetrated into the thought of the time that today the ideas of hundreds of thousands of intellectuals, who consider themselves anti-Marxists, have validity only to the extent that they have borrowed or unconsciously assimilated the very ideas which they oppose.
  4721. Germany's lost Bolshevik: Paul Levi revisited
    A review of David Fernbach (ed), In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings by Paul Levi
    First Published: 2012
    Paul Levi’s name is almost unknown today outside a small community of specialised historians. But in the years 1919 and 1920 he was well known in Germany and abroad as the chair of the young Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He would become the most controversial figure in the German Communist movement. He was mainly responsible for building the KPD from a relatively small organisation in early 1918 into a truly mass party.
  4722. Germany's position in America's New World Order
    First Published: 2022
    Discusses the American New Cold War and the creation of two camps: the U.S.-centered NATO, and the emerging Eurasian coalition. Germany finds itself in the midst of this fracture, and is being convinced by the US that it requires American protection.
  4723. Germany's Ban on Public Solidarity With Palestine
    First Published: 2023
    While other European countries are witnessing mass protests in solidarity with Palestine, Germany has been policing such scenes off its streets.
  4724. Germany's genocide in Namibia
    First Published: 2012
    Germany, which has done commendable remembrance work about the Holocaust, seems to have forgotten or deliberately buried its violent colonial past. A past that hides the first genocide of the 20th century.
  4725. Germany's Network Enforcement Act: Legal framework for censorship of the Internet
    First Published: 2017
    On October 1, 2017, the Network Enforcement Act took effect in Germany. Under the cover of a fight against "fake news" and "hate speech," it creates a legal framework for censorship of the Internet.
  4726. Get a Digital Life
    An Internet Reality Check
    First Published: 2001
  4727. Get out there and organise
    The excitement of activism has supplanted slowly organized structures working for social and political change
    First Published: 2016
    While there has been an explosion of activism over the past couple of decades, the left must better cultivate organizing to make activism more sustainable and effective.
  4728. Get the Internet working for you
    First Published: 1997
    A Web site works best when it is integrated into a co-ordinated communications strategy.
  4729. Getting Assange: the Untold Story
    First Published: 2017
    The witchhunt against Wikileaks founder Jullian Assange.
  4730. Getting Closer
    First Published: 2022
    The Greens -- recently called "the most hypocritical, aloof, mendacious, incompetent and, measured by the damage they cause, the most dangerous party we currently have in the Bundestag" by the indestructible Sahra Wagenknecht -- are rather more afraid of nuclear power than nuclear arms.
  4731. Getting Ink for Your New Product
    First Published: 2004
    Get media coverage of your product.
  4732. Getting Organized
    Advice on the basics of Public Relations (PR).
  4733. Getting Serious About Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground Means Getting Serious About a Just Transition 
    First Published: 2016
    If the climate movement is going to get serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground, the movement needs to get serious about cultivating a real vision for a just transition. If we’re going to see coal-fired power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants shut down we need to have a real vision about what the future looks like for those workers, their families and their communities.
  4734. Getting the Balance Right
    Gender Equality in Journalism
    First Published: 2009
    Gender equality in journalism.
  4735. Getting The Goods: Information in B.C. - Review
    Review of Getting the Goods: Information in B.C.: How to Find It, How to Use It, by Rick Ouston. A book valuable beyond the circle of writers and researchers. Many chapters contain pertinent information for the average person who needs a starting point for his or her research.
  4736. Getting the Most from Interviews
    First Published: 1997
    Tips from a pro for getting the most from media interviews.
  4737. Getting to Marxism in Wisconsin and Iowa
    First Published: 2018
    Dave Ranney recounts his experiences during the 1960s which led him to accepting Marxism. He emphasizes his experinces in Southeast Asia during the 1960s which exposed covert Americian military action in the region. Other formative experiences include those as an university professor in Wisconsin and Iowa where he witnessed and joined campus movements.
  4738. Ghana's farmers battle "Monsanto law' to retain seed freedom
    First Published: 2014
    Ghana's government is desperate to pass a Plant Breeders Bill that would remove farmers' ancient 'seed freedom' to grow, retain, breed and develop crop varieties - while giving corporate breeders a blanket exemption from seed regulations. But the farmers are fighting back.
  4739. Ghana's women farmers resist the G7 plan to grab Africa's seeds
    First Published: 2015
    Sharing and saving seed is a crucial part of traditional farming all over Africa. Governments, backed by multinational seed companies, are imposing oppressive seed laws that attack the continent's main food producers and open the way to industrial agribusiness.
  4740. The Ghetto Fights
    The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising
    First Published: 1945   Published: 1989
    On May 10th, 1943, the first period of our bloody history, the history of the Warsaw Jews, came to an end. The site where the buildings of the ghetto had once stood became a ragged heap of rubble reaching three storeys high. Those who were killed in action had done their duty to the end, to the last drop of blood that soaked into the pavements of the Warsaw ghetto. We, who did not perish, leave it up to you to keep the memory of them alive--forever.
  4741. Ghost Nation
    An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan
    First Published: 2017
    Reporter Nick Turse provides a first hand acount of his time spent covering a refugee crisis in Southern Sudan, where the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is committing atrocities that include mass rape, mutilation, torture, and the burning down of villages.
  4742. The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    First Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
  4743. Ghostbusters, GMOs and the Feigned Expertise of Nobel Laureates
    First Published: 2016
    Last week a controversy erupted just as the Roberts-Stabinow Digital Divide GMO labeling law was being discussed in the Senate. It involves a letter signed by 100+ Nobel laureates attacking Greenpeace for being "anti-scientific" in its stance against the proliferation and continued use of genetically engineered organisms.
  4744. The Ghosts of St. Louis Future
    First Published: 2017
    Maxwell provides an analysis of the court decision by Judge Timothy J. Wilson's acquital of Jason Stockley, the white St. Louis cop charged with the first-degree murder of Anthony Lamar Smith (a 24-year-old African American).
  4745. GI Coffeehouses Recalled: a Compliment From General Westmoreland 
    First Published: 2018
    The New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about the coffeehouses started near US bases during the War in Vietnam.
  4746. A Giant, Flushing Sound
    First Published: 2016
    The editors discuss the anti-TPP rhetoric of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton, as well as the pro-TPP positions of both the Democratic and Republican parties.
  4747. Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
    Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens
    First Published: 2016
    A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of current and former world leaders, politicians , public officials, and wealthy individuals around the world.
  4748. Giants and Immortal Legacies
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Lou Rawls and Wilson Pickett were two of the most distinctive Black voices in pop music. From the 1960s right up to the present, both were major players in that extraordinary scene of the 1960s and 1970s, an artistic and soulful creative renaissance that stretched the boundaries of what could be done with popular culture well beyond the expected. It is a renaissance still remembered, still very much cherished as much outside the borders of the United States as within, even as today’s virulently rampaging lowest-common-denominator commercial pandering tries to overwhelm us.
  4749. Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel
    First Published: 2018
    In spite of a systemic policy of demonization, Israeli journalist and human rights activist Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government and the crimes against Palestinians.
  4750. Gifts of the IWW
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    In June of this year, the Industrial Workers of the World celebrates 100 years of existence—a glorious and terrible 100 years. The IWW experienced the state-sponsored murder of its bravest members, most famously when "Wobbly Bard" Joe Hill was executed in 1915, having been framed for murder. It lived through years of slander and repression; limped along, still proud and singing, through decades when its membership dropped ever closer toward zero; and remains, not only as a piece of history, but as a force in the present and an inspiration for the future.
  4751. Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty
    First Published: 2017
    The rise of precarious employment is not a stimulus to "creativity" but a long-established way of explloiting the poor.
  4752. The "Gilets Jaunes" Seen From My Workplace
    First Published: 2018
    Due to the insular and ambiguous nature of social media, the Yellow Vests movement may spark political unrest but probably won't lead to real social revolution.
  4753. Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & Culture
    First Published: 2017
    The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.
  4754. Gimme the Loot
    First Published: 2012
    Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africa’s Gold Coast.
  4755. Gina Haspel's CIA nomination demands the United States account for its history of torture
    First Published: 2018
    President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. Dorfman recounts the impact of state sanctioned torture in Chile.
  4756. Ginger Group
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    An independent group of members of Parliament who in 1924 split from the Progressive Party.
  4757. A Ginger Revolution
    First Published: 2010
    Grassroots campaigns could break Britain's corrupt political system.
  4758. Ginsberg, Allen
    Connexipedia Article
    American poet best known for the poem "Howl", in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States. (1926-1997).
  4759. Girl Child: A Mother's Grief
    A tragic tale.
  4760. Girls Reduced to Being Repositories of Communal and Religious Identities in Kashmir
    First Published: 2018
    The rape and ruthless murder of an eight-year old girl in Jammu province underscores the brutal gender violence that is a consistent feature of the political thuggery that grips the subcontinent.
  4761. Give Us Our Money Back!
    How Harper Protects Canada's Tax Cheats
    First Published: 2012
    There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and order regime of Stephen Harper barely plays lip service to the issue of tax evasion through tax havens. While Harper cuts billions from government programs in the name of deficit reduction, he refuses to go after billions of dollars in revenue lost to tax evasion and avoidance every year.
  4762. Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
    First Published: 1979
    A series of article regarding the Ten Days for World Development conference focused on food.
  4763. Give your Sources media profile an extra boost
    First Published: 2006
    Creating a link from your Web site to your Sources listing boosts your visibility.
  4764. Givebacks in a Deepening Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    What can be called the latest phase of “concession bargaining” emerging in the past year — politically imposed concessions taking back working people’s “social wage” — is historic.
  4765. Giving a Voice to Local NGOs in a Flawed Global Aid Environment
    First Published: 2017
    Driven by wealthy donor countries, the global aid environment is flawed and unbalanced, and evidence suggests it is taking advantage of the regions they are supposed to be helping.
  4766. Giving Heads
    First Published: 1986
    Introducing Processed World #18, an issue devoted to the always-popular subject of sex.
  4767. Global Village? Global Pillage: Irish Moss from P.E.I. in the World Market
    First Published: 1978
  4768. Glaberman and Faber's Working for Wages - Book Review
    First Published: 1999
    Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency by Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber (Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Inc., 1998) $26.95 paperback. OVER THE LAST few years I have been privileged to teach a number of basic economics courses to trade unionists-"privileged" because in every case the students' experience, their awareness and critical understanding of what goes on in their lives, has provided a rich fund of knowledge of which I have become in my turn a grateful student.
  4769. Glaberman, Martin
    Connexipedia Article
    An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
  4770. Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
    Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
  4771. The Gladys We Never Knew
    First Published: 2015
    According to the Vital Statistics Act document entitled ''RETURN OF DEATH OF AN INDIAN,'' Gladys Chapman was 12 years, 10 months, and 12 days old on April 29, 1931, when she died in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. Occupation of the deceased was listed as ''Schoolgirl.'' On her death certificate, Dr. M.G. Archibald reported ''acute dilation of heart'' as the cause of death, with tuberculosis as the secondary cause. The duration of death was “several days.”
  4772. Glass buildings kill birds - architects must act!
    First Published: 2013
    Horrified at the giga-scale death of birds caused by collisions with trendy expanses of plate glass in modern buildings, James Fischer calls on architects to bring an end to the needless slaughter - and "save a billion birds"!
  4773. Glastnost and the Global Village
    First Published: 1991
  4774. Glezos, Manolis
    Connexipedia Article
    Greek left wing politician and writer, known especially for his participation in the World War II resistance. (Born 1922).
  4775. Global Agribusiness, Dependency and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficiency, Organic Farming and Agroecology
    First Published: 2016
    Is organic-based farming merely a niche model of agriculture that is not capable of feeding the global population? Or does it have a major role to play? In addressing these questions, it would be useful to consider a selection of relevant literature to see what it says about the role of organic farming, how this model of agriculture impacts farmers and whether or not it can actually feed the global population.
  4776. The Global Assault on Indigenous Peoples
    First Published: 2019
    Focusing on the the Ngäbe–Buglé in Panama, a look at the Indigenous people who have their way of life is destroyed by capitalism.
  4777. The Global Battle Against Noise Pollution 
    First Published: 2008
    Studies done in several European countries have demonstrated that noise can be a major killer. Awake or even asleep your brain and body react to sounds that increase the levels of stress hormones.
  4778. The Global Battle for Free Speech
    WikiLeaks: Bringing the First Amendment to the World
    First Published: 2014
    Since 2011, waves of global uprisings have been erupting as never before. The crisis of representation helped spawn decentralized movements as a manifestation of people’s aspiration to take the reins of their own destinies. For many, the presumption of legitimacy of their governments has been crumbling. What triggered this widespread global crisis? WikiLeaks was a game changer. Their publication of disclosed documents along with established media reaction showed the true face of liberal institutions and the waning effectiveness of the politics of representation.
  4779. Global BDS Against Israel Is Working
    First Published: 2010
    Israel's ruling elite is increasingly concerned about the international movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions, but they are unwilling to address the human rights abuses that brought the movement into existence.
  4780. Global Capital and Economic Nationalism (Part 2)
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    A number of aspects of global capitalism changed rapidly at the end of the 1980s. The most obvious was the collapse of most of the Communist states and the initiation of their integration into the world capitalist system. While the impact of this has yet to be fully felt in the West, it is in effect a giant "enclosure" (privatization) movement on a scale and at a speed never before seen in the transition to capitalism anywhere.
  4781. Global Climate Change Lobby
    First Published: 2009
    Inside the battle to influence the most important environmental treaty of our time.
  4782. Global Crisis and Opportunity
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis. Mike Davis is a veteran writer and activist who cut his progressive teeth in the 1960s civil rights and antiwar movements. He has worked as a meat cutter, long-distance trucker, and currently teaches history at UC Irvine.
  4783. Global inequality, illustrated, described, explained
    First Published: 2014
    Global inequality depitcted through images and quotes.
  4784. Global Justice Movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Is the broad globalized social movement opposing what is often known as "corporate globalization" and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.
  4785. Global Justice, What We Eat, Who We Are
    Against The Current vol. 92
    First Published: 2001
    Sara Abraham interviews Harriet Friedmann, who has devoted more than two decades to understanding the international politics of food and agriculture and to building local food systems that can be sustainable, polycultural in all senses, and enhancing of democratic, participatory communities.
  4786. Global Labor: Socialist Register 2001
    Book review
    First Published: 2001
    For all intents and purposes, I discovered the Socialist Register during the early '90s. When I say "discovered" I, of course, do not mean that I was the first to come across it. Rather, having heard of it for years, I actually read it.
  4787. Global Lessons of A Catastrophe
    First Published: 2015
    It is doubtful that Syria as a country will survive in anything like its pre-war form, that the millions of its citizens who have fled will have a place to return, or even whether seven million internally displaced Syrians will be able to remain.
  4788. Global Leveraged Buyout or the "Longest Boom in Capitalist History"?
    A Reply to Robert Fitch
    First Published: 2009
    Fitch's recent article, while making some good points about the unraveling of the world financial system, is seriously flawed.
  4789. A Global Matrix of Control
    War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Jeff Halper's War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification.
  4790. Global Militarism and the Environment
    First Published: 1991
    The connection between militarism and environmental damage.
  4791. The Global Movement Against Gentrification
    First Published: 2019
    Accounts of worldwide efforts to promote municipal engagement and organize locally for justice are given in the book Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement.
  4792. Global pitbulls: the US military mission to support corporate colonialism
    First Published: 2016
    With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination is often seen as an altruistic exercise to ensure world peace and harmony. It is, of course, the opposite: the essential underpinning of the US's predatory economic power, always ready to strike down any challenge to the rights and privileges of its corporate conquerors and financial oligarchy.
  4793. Global Sweatshops' Media Spin Doctors
    First Published: 1997
    On the whole, there's an imposed silence about the steadily increasing number of low-wage factories being set up in poor countries by wealthy multinational corporations: the "debate" is over.
  4794. Global Synergy
    First Published: 1991
  4795. The Global Village Voice
    vol. 1, no. 3
    First Published: 1977
  4796. The Global War on Tribes
    First Published: 2010
    The point is not that all tribal peoples pose an egalitarian alternative to neoliberal capitalism. Some (such as Indigenous peoples) certainly do have strong egalitarian principles, but many other tribal peoples -- such as in the new conflict zones -- certainly do not (particularly toward women). The salient point is not that all tribal cultures are paradise, but that they are not capitalist, and neoliberal capitalism cannot stand anything other than Total Control.
  4797. Global Warming's Unacknowledged Threat - The Pentagon
    First Published: 2015
    The Pentagon has admitted to burning 350,000 barrels of oil a day (only 35 countries in the world consume more) but that doesn't include oil burned by contractors and weapons suppliers. It does, however, include providing fuel for more than 28,000 armored vehicles, thousands of helicopters, hundreds of jet fighters and bombers and vast fleets of Navy vessels.
  4798. Global water crisis causing failed harvests, hunger, war and terrorism 
    First Published: 2015
    The world is already experiencing water scarcity driven by over-use, poor land management and climate change. If we fail to respond to the warnings before us, major food and power shortages will soon afflict large parts of the globe.
  4799. Global Week of Ecology Action
    First Published: 1990
  4800. Global Week of Ecology Action
    First Published: 1991
  4801. Die Globale Teleueberwachung des 21. Jahrhunderts
    Es entsteht zur Zeit eine globale Teleuberwachung, die sich von allen ethischen oder diplomatischen Voreingenomenheiten freimacht.
  4802. Globalization And Class Struggle
    First Published: 1997   Published: 1998
    There is a global capitalist division of labour, but it is not an absolute one. The image of capital simply uprooting and moving to more "backward" zones every time a government attempts to assert some control over its economy is simply false: While it is true that capital has relocated operations, companies do not in general abandon large investments of fixed capital overnight.
  4803. Globalization and Feminism
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    In the concluding chapter of this innovative and insightful anthology, Torry Dickinson and Robert Schaeffer argue that “A key development for both theory and politics has been that the intersection of different global hierarchies has led to the rise of global, intersecting social movements. Many of the movements that have emerged are feminist-inspired and women-centered because women have been targeted by male-dominated institutions as new sources of accumulation, profit, and greed.”
  4804. Globalization in the Academy
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    With the social movements of the 1960s, it was a good thing that Marxists pushed their way into the academy after being excluded for so long. Generations of college students were exposed to and benefited from Marxism’s challenge to mainstream social science.
  4805. Globalization of Capital, Globalization of Struggle
    First Published: 2012
    Something has escaped the control of the Democrats, the NGOs, the SEIU and the left sects — of official society and those attempting its mere facelift — which will not be easily brought to heel. Hundreds of thousands of people who had never before been in mass mobilizations (or mobilizations of any kind) found themselves confronting the police, facing tear gas and pepper spray, going to jail and learning in the streets what can never be learned any other way.
  4806. The Globalization of Garbage: Following the Trail of Toxic Trash 
    First Published: 2009
    Despite a near universal international ban on exporting toxic or hazardous material, most of electronic waste from the United States ends up in China, India, Vietnam, or in African countries like Ghana, and Nigeria.
  4807. Globalization vs. Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?
    First Published: 2017
    A brief history of US policy supporting globalization and the growing divide it has created between US hegemony and global capitalism, and criticism of the Trump administrations capability to deal with the impacts of this divide.
  4808. Globalization's Damages
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    The main argument in favor of neoliberalism is simple enough: individuals will freely exchange whenever mutual gains result. It follows that restricting trade and investment across borders both infringes liberty and prevents people from enjoying benefits. At this point an appeal is made to historical evidence: previously poor regions have lifted more people out of poverty at a faster rate than ever before in human history by opening up to trade and investment.
  4809. Globalizing Gaza 
    How Israel Undermines International Law Through "Lawfare"
    First Published: 2014
    At the same time as it engages in repeated massive military assaults on a primarily civilian popuation in Gaza, Israel is also engaged in an ongoing assault on international humanitarian law by a highly coordinated team of Israeli lawyers, military officers, PR people and politicians. It is an effort not only to get Israel off the hook for massive violations of human rights and international law, but to help other governments overcome similar constraints when they embark as well on “asymmetrical warfare,” “counterinsurgency” and “counter-terrorism” against peoples resisting domination. It is a campaign that Israel calls “lawfare” and had better be taken seriously by us all.
  4810. Globalizing the Culture Wars
    Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill
    First Published: 2010
    Uganda, like many countries in Africa and around the world, adheres to long-standing heterosexual and patriarchal traditions as to what is acceptable sexual behavior. In the West, such traditions are shared by a dwindling minority. The bourgeois capitalist marketplace has reconfigured that which is morally acceptable. Sexual practices among adults are areas of personal erotic experience, protected private activities.
  4811. Globalizing the Left
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
  4812. Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated with Stratfor
    Sellout Exposed
    First Published: 2013
    Using his celebrated activist status, Popovic opened many doors for Stratfor to meet with activists globally. In turn, the information Stratfor intended to gain from Popovic’s contacts would serve as “actionable intelligence”— the firm billed itself as a “Shadow CIA”—for its corporate clients.
  4813. The Globe and Mail as corporate apologists: behind the love affair with Barrick Gold
    First Published: 2013
    In the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a Canadian gold mine operates amongst the Ipili people, who were one of the last major ethnic groups to be contacted by the Australian colonial administration of New Guinea, or "white man", in 1939. Since that date, Porgera was known for its rich gold deposits and eventually became the site of one of the largest gold mines in the world. Today, Porgera is a site of controversy, as it riches are overshadowed by stories of gang rapes and killings of the Ipili people at the hands of Barrick security and police.
  4814. Globe and Mail promotes Controversial Mining Magnate
    First Published: 2017
    How close is too close when it comes to media outlets working with institutions set up by wealthy individuals to influence the news? The question becomes important to ask when Canada's "national newspaper" promotes a worldview paid for by one of the planet's most controversial mining magnates. The Globe and Mail's close ties to the Munk Debates and University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs should worry journalists and everyone who cares about foreign policy discussion in this country.
  4815. Glyphosate found in breast milk
    First Published: 2014
    A pilot study of American mothers' milk has found levels of the herbicide glyphosate around 1,000 times higher than allowed in European drinking water. Campaigners are demanding a ban on the use of glyphosate on food crops.
  4816. Glyphosate is a disaster for human health
    First Published: 2014
    Extensive, long running evidence for the cancer-causing effects of glyphosate, and other toxic impacts, have been ignored by regulators. Indeed as the evidence has built up, permitted levels in food have been hugely increased.
  4817. GM Closures -- What's Next?
    First Published: 2019
    Plant closures by GM in the US, Canada and internationally threaten workers and communities. Can unions fight to stop this destructive practice?
  4818. GM cotton really is helping to drive Indian farmers to suicide
    First Published: 2015
    A new study finds that Indian farmers in rain-fed areas are being driven to suicide from the increased cost of growing Bt GMO cotton varieties that confer no benefits to them. The extra expenses arise from buying new seeds each year, along with increased chemical inputs, while suffering inadequate access to agronomic information.
  4819. GM crops: Hunger as the key to world domination
    First Published: 2013
    Weapons and energy resources are apparently insufficient for total control over the world's nations, power-hungry globalists like David Rockefeller have come up with the idea of using people's daily need for food as a means to achieve global dominance.
  4820. GM wants U.S. holidays in Canada
    First Published: 1990
  4821. The GMO Dark Act Cannot Survive the Light
    First Published: 2015
    An ardent attempt is afoot on Capitol Hill to prevent states from requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods – made especially urgent by the fact that Vermont’s labeling bill is set to take effect July 1st.
  4822. GMO Propaganda and the Sociology of Science
    First Published: 2015
    In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto would go in order to control the narrative about their products – in particular, their genetically modified crops. While we all like to believe that our scientific/rational brains see through the transparent marketing, public relations rhetoric exists because it greatly sedates critical thought.
  4823. GMOs, Development and the Politics of Unhappiness
    First Published: 2016
    Modern state-corporate capitalism is stripping the environment bare through unsustainable levels of consumption. It is legitimised by a deceitful ideology that attempts to justify and sell a system which by its very nature is designed to benefit a minority at the expense of the majority.
  4824. GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
    First Published: 2018
    One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.
  4825. GMOs, Glyphosate & Tomorrow
    First Published: 2011
    Any time you have a single gene in so many different crops, especially a gene that impacts the normal resistance and defense mechanism in the plant, and you spread that same vulnerability across so many plants, you should anticipate a high level of vulnerability.
  4826. GMOs show 'substantial non-equivalence'
    First Published: 2014
    New studies document substantial differences of GM maize and GM soybean from their non-GM counterparts, writes Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji - exposing a permissive regulatory regime that has failed miserably in protecting public health and safety.
  4827. GNU Project
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    A free software, mass collaboration project.
  4828. Go Down Moses
    Connexipedia Article
    An American Negro spiritual which describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible.
  4829. Go-slow guide
    Instead of striking, workers with demands that the bosses are unwilling to meet can collectively decide to start a go-slow
    First Published: 2006
    By deliberately slowing the rate of work, all together, the bosses' profits are hit, without workers losing wages. If everyone sticks together in solidarity victimisation of individuals can also be prevented.
  4830. Go to the People...Some THoughts on Surveying Community Needs
    First Published: 1978
  4831. A Goal for National Survival: 50% Canadian TV Content
    The destruction of the CBC would be the greatest disaster to befall Canada.
  4832. The Goal of These Ads Is to Distract From Their Actual Business Model
    First Published: 2021
    CounterSpin interview with Duncan Meisel on oil industry greenwashing.
  4833. God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza Aslan
    Book review
    First Published: 2017
    Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt.
  4834. The God Question
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    Why is everyone talking about God? From the English scientist Richard Dawkins to the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, from the leading French thinker Alain Badiou to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, the Almighty is suddenly back on the agenda, summoned back on to the public stage at just the moment when he must have been looking forward to a well-deserved retirement from such a demanding career.
  4835. The God That Failed
    The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult
    First Published: 2008
    Perhaps the most striking fact revealed by the global financial crash -- or rather, by the reaction to it -- is the staggering, astonishing, gargantuan amount of money that the governments of the world have at their command. In just a matter of days, we have seen literally trillions of dollars offered to the financial services sector by national treasuries and central banks across the globe.
  4836. The God that fails: C-51, review committees and the dangers of window dressing
    First Published: 2016
    Among the Harper era's most destructive legacies is a toxic stew of repressive "anti-terror" laws that, in building on similarly repressive measures brought in under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, extended major new powers to Canadian state security agencies Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the RCMP, among numerous others.
  4837. Godavari: and the police still await an attack
    First Published: 2015
    Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
  4838. God's plan for climate change
    First Published: 2014
    How, and why, does the US Right and its evangelical 'Christian' wing campaign for mal-education, ignorance, corporate dominance, and the profligate consumption of fossil fuels?
  4839. God's Red Pencil? CRISPR and The Three Myths of Precise Genome Editing 
    First Published: 2016
    For the last seventy years all chemical and biological technologies, from genetic engineering to pesticides, have been built on a myth of precision and specificity. They have all been adopted under the pretense that they would function without side effects or unexpected complications. Yet the extraordinary disasters and repercussions of DDT, leaded paint, agent orange, atrazine, C8, asbestos, chlordane, PCBs, and so on, when all is said and done, have been stories of the steady unraveling of a founding myth of precision and specificity. Nevertheless, with the help of industry propagandists, their friends in the media, even the United Nations, we are once again being preached the gospel of precision. But no matter how you look at it, precision is a fable and should be treated as such.
  4840. Godwin, William
    Connexipedia Article
    English journalist, political philosopher and novelist, considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. (1756-1836).
  4841. Going to Chicago
    First Published: 1969
    Jim Allen describes Chicago as a city where millions of people are jammed into ghettos, denied purposeful employment, meaningful education, and protection from oppression.
  4842. Going to the Dogs (and Babies)
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    Activists are attempting to end the practice of terminating racing greyhounds that run out of the money. The dog-racing industry will retort that that's going to make it harder to motivate the ones that are running. (You don't think they're fooled by that mechanical rabbit, do you?)
  4843. Going to the Public -- Ten public speaking tips
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2000
    Advice on effective public speaking.
  4844. Golden Rice ignores the risks, the people and the real solutions
    First Published: 2013
    'Golden Rice' is being promoted by GM advocates as a solution to malnutrition. But Daniel Ocampo says it is for the 'target populations' in the Philippines and elsewhere to decide whether to accept the technology - and they don't want it!
  4845. The Golden Rule Of State Violence: Terrorism Is What They Do; Counterterrorism Is What We Do
    First Published: 2011
    A defining feature of state power is rhetoric about a ‘moral’ or ‘ethical’ role in world affairs. Errors of judgement, blunders and tactical mistakes can, and do, occur. But the motivation underlying state policy is fundamentally benign. Reporters and commentators, trained or selected for professional ‘reliability’, tend to slavishly adopt this prevailing ideology.
  4846. Golden Silences in the Propaganda System
    First Published: 2015
    Propaganda shapes the flow of information in many different ways, including, obviously, the choice of the news fit to print, its placement, and the selection of authorities to make those facts credible. But equally important, and implicit in news choices, especially where there are political interests at stake and possible varying interpretations of the news, is omitting facts and ignoring sources that call the chosen (often official) perspective into question.
  4847. Golden Veneer: How McDonald's Empty CSR Promises Failed Workers at Taylor Farms
    First Published: 2015
    The report documents systematic and serious violations of workers' fundamental rights protected under international labor standards and McDonald's own Supplier Code of Conduct to freely associate and bargain collectively at Taylor Farms. Further, it finds that McDonald's approach not only failed to prevent or remediate grave violations of workers' rights, it helped undermine workers' free exercise of their rights.
  4848. Goldman, Emma
    Connexipedia Article
    Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).
  4849. Goldsmith, Edward
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Was an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher. (Died 2009).
  4850. The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
    First Published: 2009
    It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but on the symbolic battlefield of legitimacy that has become global in scope.
  4851. Goldstone Report Dramatized
    First Published: 2010
  4852. Goldstone's shameful U-turn
    First Published: 2011
    This shameful U-turn did not happen this week. It comes after more than a year and a half of a sustained campaign of intimidation and character assassination.
  4853. Golly this is the stuff
    First Published: 1980
  4854. Gonick, Cy
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian socialist publisher, academic, and politician. (Born 1936).
  4855. Gonzo journalism
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
  4856. Good for the gander? As Alaska warms, a goose forgoes a 3,300-mile migration
    First Published: 2014
    Scientists have documented that increasing numbers of black brant are skipping that far southern migration and staying in Alaska instead. Fewer than 3,000 wintered in Alaska before 1977. In recent years, however, more than 40,000 have remained north, with as many as 50,000 staying there last year, during the most ice-free winter that Izembek had seen in more than a decade.
  4857. The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War
    R2P and Genocide Prevention
    First Published: 2013
  4858. "Good News," Iraq and Beyond
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky explores why the issue of Iraq seems to have fallen to the wayside following the 2006 mid-term election. He cites the necessity for diversion of the masses away from (lacking) political options to PR-created "character" and "good news". But he insists that the question of "the clash of civilizations" must indeed remain prominent in the minds of voters.
  4859. Good nutrition begins in healthy soils
    First Published: 2016
    There's no such thing as 'healthy food' if it's not produced by sustainable farming systems on living soils, Patrick Holden told the recent 'Food: The Forgotten Medicine' conference. But after 70 years of industrial farming, there's a huge job to be done to restore our depleted soils and the impoverished genetic diversity of our seeds and crops.
  4860. Good To Know You! - John Berger's ways of seeing
    First Published: 2017
    A tribute to the life and work of John Berger, author of the influential 'Ways of Seeing'.
  4861. The Good War, Revisited
    The Bombing of Pearl Harbor: What FDR Knew
    First Published: 2013
    Each Pearl Harbor day offers a fresh opportunity for those who correctly believe that Franklin Roosevelt knew of an impending attack by the Japanese and welcomed it as a way of snookering the isolationists and getting America into the war.
  4862. Good Westerners Don't Start Off Hating Israel, But Truth Eventually Leads Them There
    First Published: 2024
    A sincere dedication to truth, justice and kindness can only lead one to view the Zionist project with complete revulsion after learning the facts about what it really is, what it really does, and why our western governments really support it.
  4863. Good work strike
    Advice and tips on taking good work strikes
    First Published: 2006
    Instead of a conventional strike, workers with demands that the bosses are unwilling to meet can collectively decide to have a good work strike. One of the biggest problems for service industry workers is that many forms of direct action, such as go-slows, end up hurting the consumer (mostly fellow workers) more than the boss. One way around this is to provide better or cheaper service - at the boss's expense, of course.
  4864. Goodbye "Norma Rae"
    Eulogy for Crystal Lee Sutton, Labor Hero
    First Published: 2009
    Crystal Lee Sutton was a genuine hero. She will forever be remembered as one of the champions of organized labor, right up there with the Joe Hills, Bill Haywoods and Emma Goldmans.
  4865. Goodbye to democracy if TTIP is passed
    First Published: 2016
    The leaked chapters of the EU-US TTIP 'free trade' deal reveal a shredding of health, environmental and other protections for consumers and citizens. It's a wet dream for corporate monopolists and profiteers, and the elite bureaucrats that serve them. But for civil society it represents an irreversible destruction of democracy itself.
  4866. Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"
    First Published: 2017
    While proponents of Golden rice have blamed its failure to reach the market on "over-regulation" of GMOs and on "anti-GMO" opposition, the latest research suggests that problems intrinsic to GMO breeding are what have prevented researchers from developing Golden Rice suitable for commercialization.
  4867. Goodbye Welfare, Hello Workfare
    First Published: 2012
    The world’s richest countries are coercing their citizens to ‘donate’ their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
  4868. Goodman, Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
  4869. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Labour leader, and socialist who inspired the first General Strike in Canada on August 2, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1887-1918).
  4870. Goodwin's Award
    First Published: 1991
  4871. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Winners of the 3rd annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
  4872. The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
    Winners of the 4th annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
  4873. Goodwin's Awards
    First Published: 1989
  4874. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2012
    Canadian labour leader. (1887-1918)
  4875. Goodwn's awards
    First Published: 1990
  4876. Google Bans Press TV
    First Published: 2019
    Social media companies are banning media outlets in the name of alleged 'hate speech' but the companies' contacts and their targets make them instruments of government censorship.
  4877. Google Deceptively Tracks Students' Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2015
    EFF Launches 'Spying on Students' Campaign to Raise Awareness About Privacy Risks of School Technology Tools
  4878. Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet
    First Published: 2014
    Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information.
  4879. Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
    First Published: 2018
    Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google's involvement.
  4880. Google Is So Big, It Is Now Shaping Policy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. And It's Screwing It Up.
    First Published: 2017
    A snap decision by Google has begun to reshape the drug treatment industry, tilting the playing field toward large conglomerates-- the precise opposite outcome Google had hoped to achieve.
  4881. Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer
    First Published: 2018
    Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn't apply to its Maps and Search apps – which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.
  4882. Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
    First Published: 2017
    Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the public from accessing information that is critical of the US government.
  4883. Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
    First Published: 2017
    New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
  4884. Google's 'Smart City of Surveillance' Faces New Resistance in Toronto
    First Published: 2018
    A plan to develop 12 acres of the valuable waterfront just southeast of downtown Toronto
    by the government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has sparked concerns about privacy and lack of public consultation. A recent slew of resignations from its board has made these concerns increasingly urgent and public.
  4885. The Googlization of the Far Right: Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
    First Published: 2013
    Google, the tech giant, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers. The policies advocated by some of the Google’s grantees are in stark contrast with the progressive image that Google has worked to promote.
  4886. GOP Creates Perverse Online Voter Registration, Making It Harder for People to Vote
    First Published: 2015
    The bill will ultimately reduce voting by senior citizens, people with disabilities and minorities.
  4887. Gordon Campbell on the Vanuatu cyclone and media 'disaster porn'
    First Published: 2015
    Campbell discusses the Vanuatu cyclone and how it has become a 'disaster porn,'a process that occurs when media exploits someone else's misery so that it look attractive as a form of entertainment.
  4888. Gordon, Walter
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer. (1906-1987).
  4889. Gorter, Herman
    Connexipedia Article
    Dutch poet and socialist. (1864-1927).
  4890. Gorter, Herman - Writings - Index
    Writings of Herman Gorter (1864-1927).
  4891. Gorz, André
    Connexipedia Article
    Marxist, social philosopher. (1923-2007).
  4892. Gorz, André - Writings - Index
  4893. Gough, Kathleen
    Connexipedia Article
    Anthropologist, Marxist. (1925-1990).
  4894. Gould, Stephen Jay
    Connexipedia Article
    American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. (1941-2002).
  4895. Goverment vandalism
    First Published: 1989
  4896. Government backs down on safety bill
    First Published: 1989
  4897. The Government Is Trying to Make It Impossible For Reality Winner to Defend Herself in Court
    First Published: 2017
    The Justice Department is engaged in a multi-pronged effort to hamstring Reality Winner's defense against charges of violating the Espionage Act behind cumbersome classification rules.
  4898. The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying
    First Published: 2016
    Many consumers are wholly unaware that the smart devices making their home more custom and responsive are making data that can be hacked or collected.
  4899. Government Mass Murder
    First Published: 2018
    "This is not an assault." Twenty-five years ago, that was the lie blaring over government loudspeakers as the FBI and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) carried out its plan to obliterate the Branch Davidians, an integrated group that formed as a breakaway from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Orchestrated and overseen at the highest levels of the Clinton administration, the 19 April 1993 assault outside Waco, Texas, engulfed the Branch Davidians’ Mount Carmel commune in an inferno that killed over 80 people, including some two dozen children.
  4900. Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers
    First Published: 2013
    Whistle-blowing is vital, even more broadly than in government spying. Whistle-blowing is the moral response to immoral activity by those in power. What's important here are government programs and methods, not data about individuals.
  4901. Government Spying Aims to Silence Us
    First Published: 2013
    What the ruling class is aiming at, with these occasional "leaks" about its spying on us, is not so much to collect information about us but rather to make us feel so totally spied upon that we will be afraid to do or say anything we know the government doesn't want us to do or say.
  4902. The government's attempt to eradicate the travelling way of life
    First Published: 2012
    Elly Robson explores the deliberate criminalisation of the travelling way of life by Britian's coalition government.
  4903. Governments Giving Fossil Fuel Companies $10 Million a Minute: IMF
    First Published: 2015
  4904. Government's house and housing the governed
    Parliament Street: Regent Park, Cabbagetown (old and "Old") and St James Town
    First Published: 2001
    A recent history of the neighborhoods around Parliament Street in Toronto, with a focus on the planning challenges and the function of mixed-income communities.
  4905. Grabow Riot
    Connexipedia Article
    A confrontation between timber workers and owners in Louisiana.
  4906. Gracchi (Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus)
    Connexipedia Article
    A pair of tribunes in 2nd century BCE who attempted to pass land reform legislation in Ancient Rome that would redistribute the major patrician landholdings among the plebeians.
  4907. Grace Paley (1922-2007)
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    Grace Paley described herself as a “somewhat combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist,” and saw the role of the artist as that of “listener” who would relay stories of those made invisible by society. And she told it plain.
  4908. Grad Student Organizing "19th-Century Style"
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
  4909. Graffiti from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
    First Published: 2006
  4910. Graffiti guide
    First Published: 2006
    A beginners' guide to doing graffiti, covering paints, spraypaints, stencils, surfaces and general advice.
  4911. Grameen Bank
    Connexipedia Article
    A microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit" to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
  4912. Gramsci, Antonio
    Connexipedia Article
    Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. (1891-1937).
  4913. Gramsci & Syndicalism
    In a polemic against the syndicalists, Antonio Gramsci argued that the syndicalists were wrong in maintaining that unions were capable of being organs of workers' revolution. He said this confused a marketing organization of labor within capitalism -- the trade unions -- with an organization for running production in a socialized economy -- the workers councils. Because the function of a union is to affect the terms and conditions of the sale of labor to the employers, he argued, it is an organization specific to a capitalist society.
  4914. A Gramscian Historical-Materialist Analysis of the Informal Learning and development of Black Working- Class Organic Intellectuals in Toronto,1969-1975
    MA, University of Toronto, 2005
    First Published: 2005
  4915. A Gran Marcha and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    March, 2006 marked an eruption that hit the streets, showed its strength, and took everyone including its participants by surprise. Millions marched all over the country: 300,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in Denver, 10,000 in Detroit and Milwaukee, 10,000-20,000 in New York, 20,000 in Phoenix—and somewhere between 500,000 and a million in the Gran Marcha in Los Angeles on March 25. As the U.S. Congress and Senate hold their wretched deliberations on "immigration reform," the communities affected have shown they will not be passive objects, but active subjects, in this debate. As this issue goes to press, mass marches have continued and Congress has recessed in deadlock on the issue.
  4916. The Grand Illusion
    First Published: 2019
    As the ecological crisis deepens, nearing the infamous Tipping Point – taking us closer to planetary catastrophe – we are being led to believe that an imminent "greening" of the world economy will deliver us from a very dark future. Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a collective faith in the willingness of ruling governments and corporations to do the right thing.
  4917. Grand Jury Efforts: Jailing Chelsea Manning
    First Published: 2019
    The role of Grand Juries in the persecution of Chelsea Manning and a summary of their history.
  4918. "Granny dumping"
    First Published: 1992
  4919. Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
    First Published: 2017
    Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
  4920. Grassroots activist and human rights defender Jamal Juma' arrested
    Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
    First Published: 2009
    Jamal Juma's is the most high profile arrest within an intensifying campaign of repression of grassroots mobilization against the wall and the settlements. Initially only arresting local activists from the villages affected by the wall, the Israeli authorities have recently begun to shift their attention to the detention of internationally-known human rights defenders such as Mohammad Othman and Abdallah Abu Rahmeh.
  4921. Grassroots Cells, Devil's Architects Defend Communities
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1989
    Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
  4922. Grassroots Power and Non-Market Economies 
    An Interview with Beverly Bell
    First Published: 2009
    People are organized across many sectors that have never chosen to step out into the popular movement before. For example, indigenous peoples in the last 10 years or so have made a determination that they could no longer organize just as indigenous but had to become part of the so-called anti-globalization movement.
  4923. Grassroots Power vs. Police Brutality
    Against The Current vol. 84
    First Published: 2000
    Widespread police abuse is a long-time, normally mainly secret side of life in capitalist America, especially for minority communities. Now, in a number of cities, outrageous cases of police murders of civilians and grassroots outrage are forcing the issue into the open.
  4924. Grassroots Power, Women and Transformation: An Interview with George Friday
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    George Friday is an organizer with the Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN)—a national network of organizations working to build alternatives to the two-party system. An African-American woman who grew up in the South, George is currently based in Rockwell, North Carolina, and focuses her work in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
  4925. Grave contradictions of 1979 Iranian Revolution
    First Published: 1979
    In what proletarian revolution, exactly, was the taking of hostages, and not the rulers, but some fairly low embassy personnel, held to be a revolutionary tactic? Since when has war and revolution been made synonymous? Isn't it about time that Marxist revolutionaries labeled Khomeini's endless repetition of "we are men of war" "looking forward to martyrdom" for what it is by citing Marx, who wrote that Napoleon, the ultimate COUNTER-revolutionary, "substituted permanent war for permanent revolution"?
  4926. Gray Whales Are Dying: Starving to Death Because of Climate Change
    First Published: 2019
    A look at the plight of sea mammals and the state of marine science education.
  4927. The Great American Sex Panic of 2017
    First Published: 2017
    What interest of sanity or reason is served by this reckless lumping together of flicks of the tongue and forcible rapes into the single broad-brush term “sexual misconduct,” as though there is no important difference between an oafish pat or crude remark at an office party and a gang rape?
  4928. The Great British Empire Debate
    First Published: 2018
    Malik discusses the complex issues of British colonialism, its many painful legacies and how it should be dealt with in such fields as academia and politics.
  4929. The Great Bull Market vs. Looming Crisis: On Brenner's Theory of Crisis
    First Published: 1999
    The United States is experiencing the greatest bull market in the stock market.
  4930. The Great Car Insurance Crash
    First Published: 1991
    The Ontario NDP's backpedalling from public auto insurance demonstrates that this government doesn't want to take the drivers seat.
  4931. The Great Clutching at Pearls
    First Published: 2022
    Tt turns out Marx was right. The crisis of capitalism is now upon us. Neoliberalism (another word for designing state systems deliberately to lead to incredible concentrations of wealth amid general poverty) is coming to the end of its course.
  4932. The Great Corporate Tax Shift
    The $10 Trillion Heist
    First Published: 2013
    The great corporate myth-making machine has been hard at work of late, attempting to create the false impression that US corporations are increasingly uncompetitive with their foreign rivals due to the fact they allegedly pay higher corporate taxes.
  4933. The Great Fear of Israel's Leaders
    First Published: 2009
    The great fear of Israel's Zionist leaders is that ordinary people in all of historic Palestine, no matter what their religion, will define the struggle against Zionism not as Jew versus non-Jew but as a struggle by those who seek equality under the law for all people, no matter what their religion, versus those who oppose that goal.
  4934. Great Game II
    From Tallinn to Seoul and Tokyo, by Way of Kiev, the Declining American Superpower Lashes Out on the Borders of Russia and China
    First Published: 2008
    The US is playing the Great Game II from Estonia to Korea as a strategy to keep the Eurasian powers off balance and to preserve the ever-growing mass of nomad dollars from deflation and displacement.
  4935. The Great Hydro Boondoggle
    First Published: 1984
  4936. Great investigative reporters don't take no for an answer
    First Published: 2012
    The first thing to keep in mind about investigative journalism is that it’s not glamorous. (We can blame television with its “undercover” reporters and “hidden cameras” for this mistaken image.) It’s actually hard and often boring work. I have never pretended that I was anything other than a working reporter, nor chased a single guilty person down the street. But I did spend days poring over records in the House of Lords and devoted months trying to master the intricacies of accountancy, tax law and overseas trusts.
  4937. Great Lakes cleanup
    First Published: 1990
  4938. Great Lakes health danger
    First Published: 1989
  4939. Great Lakes Spills Pose Toxic Risks
    First Published: 1991
    As the largest source of fresh water in the world, and a primary trading route, pollution and the possiblity of toxic spills in the Great Lakes have the potentional to adversely affect millions.
  4940. Great Lakes United
    First Published: 1990
  4941. Great Lakes United
    First Published: 1991
  4942. Great Lakes Water Quality
    First Published: 1990
  4943. Great Lakes water quality
    First Published: 1991
  4944. Great Law of Peace
    Connexipedia Article
    The oral constitution that created the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy.
  4945. The Great Leap Forward in China (1958): Chairman Mao's Catastrophe
    First Published: 2010
    In 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong made a promise that Chinese steel production would soon surpass that of Great Britain and America. It was known as "The Great Leap Forward," and the massive focus on steel had catastrophic consequences as it diverted labour and millions died of starvation.
  4946. The Great Libya War Fraud
    First Published: 2016
    Coming so soon after the incomplete but still damning exposure of the Iraq deception - with the bloodbath still warm - the media's deep conformity and wilful gullibility on the 2011 Libyan war left even jaundiced observers aghast. It was clear that we were faced with a pathological system of propaganda on Perpetual War autopilot.
  4947. Great moments in satire: a love note to the haters
    First Published: 2014
    An article by Hugh Goldring about Great Moments in Leftism, a comic strip that highlights the often absurd nature of the radical left.
  4948. The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy
    First Published: 2016
    Chris Hedges has a discussion with the economist Michael Hudson (author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy) on a great Ponzi scheme that not only defines not only the U.S. but the global economy, how we got there and where we’re going.
  4949. The Great Power Shift: a Russia-China Alliance
    First Published: 2017
    A significant powershift in the triangular relaionship between the US, Russia and China is occuring as Sino-Russian relations are improving.
  4950. Great Railroad Strike of 1877
    Connexipedia Article
    Began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias.
  4951. The Great Republican Land Heist
    Cliven Bundy and the politicians who are plundering the West
    First Published: 2015
    Cliven Bundy and other politicans have seized public land and ravaged the area as they exploit it for their economic purposes.
  4952. The Great Schism
    Socialism and War in 1914
    First Published: 2014
    This article sketches the limitations of Second International Marxism before outlining the strengths and weaknesses of Lenin’s alternative.
  4953. The Great Seed Piracy
    First Published: 2016
    A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations -- which are becoming fewer and larger through mergers -- but also individuals like Bill Gates, the "richest man in the world". When the Green Revolution was pushed in India and Mexico, farmers' seeds were "rounded-up" and locked in international institutions, which used these seeds to breed green revolution varieties which responded to chemical inputs.
  4954. The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
    First Published: 2015
    American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
  4955. Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers.
  4956. Great Spirit and Dene Nation - God's Covenant and Indian Treaties
    First Published: 1978
  4957. The Great Spreadsheet Blunder
    Reinhart and Rogoff: One Year Later
    First Published: 2014
    It has been a bit more than a year since the Excel Spreadsheet error that shook the world. For those who may have missed it, in April of 2013, Thomas Herndon, a University of Massachusetts graduate student in economics, found an error in the calculations of Harvard Professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff on the relationship between government debt and economic growth.
  4958. The Great Strike at UNAM
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    The Great Strike of the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM), which for more than nine months was occupied by students organized in the Strike General Committee (CGH), started on April 20, 1999 and lasted until February 6, 2000. On that date 2500 federal police, following orders given by President Zedillo, evicted hundreds of students from the campus and arrested them.
  4959. Great Strike of 1913
    Connexipedia Article
    A near general strike that took place in New Zealand in 1913.
  4960. The great 'success' of a carbon trading failure
    First Published: 2009
    The right to pollute has never been more affordable. Energy companies and market speculators can buy a tonne of carbon for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The low cost gives an incentive for companies to pollute more in the short-term and prices renewable energy alternatives out of the market.
  4961. The great train robbery
    First Published: 2016
    Privatised networks of European railways have neglected safety, community and environmental issues in pursuit of profit.
  4962. The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
    Yes! Magazine Summer 2006
    First Published: 2006
    The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
  4963. The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
    First Published: 2017
    All of this ecological destruction has been driven by America’s most popular exports: capitalism and imperialism. William Hawes talked about using science and philosophy to decode modernity.
  4964. "Greater Israel" in Real Life
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    Book Review of "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" by Max Blumenthal.
  4965. Greater Riverdale Organization (GRO)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The Greater Riverdale Organization expanded on, and replaced, the Riverdale Community Organization (RCO) – a lively and effective organization fighting for issues relevant to Toronto east-side neighbourhoods.
  4966. The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly: A Hopeful Experiment
    First Published: 2011
    We are living in a kind of transitional era, where the old forms of working class organization and politics are sorely in need of a replacement, and the theoretical and practical bases of those replacements are still in the process of being born. The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly is one attempt to create a working class institution that tries to address this crisis within the class and on the left on the level of a city, in this case, Toronto.
  4967. Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly Solidarity Platform
    First Published: 2011
  4968. Greatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation
    First Published: 2016
    The U.K. government has announced that it is will be illegal for "local [city] councils, public bodies, and even some university student unions ... to refuse to buy goods and services from companies involved in the arms trade, fossil fuels, tobacco products, or Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank." Thus, any entities that support or participate in the global boycott of Israeli settlements will face "severe penalties."
  4969. Greece 1940s: A Revolution Betrayed
    Fruits of Stalinist Class Collaboration
    First Published: 2014
    The sharp polarization of Greek society has brought the memories of the Civil War in the 1940s, where workers and peasants under the leadership of the Communist Party (KKE) opposed the Greek ruling class. Seven decades later, these events remain a living part of the consciousness of the working class.
  4970. Greece: A no vote against blackmail
    Now is not the time for academic debates. It is time for struggle
    First Published: 2015
    Our response to the blackmail of the lenders is that the struggle against austerity will not be governed by concerns about the euro system or by the consent of the rulers of Europe. the response should include stopping debt repayments to the lenders, with the goal of cancelling a majority of the debt; carrying out measures to improve the life of workers and poor; and financing all of this with heavy taxes on corporations and the rich, renationalizing large public enterprises and putting the banks under social control.
  4971. Greece again Can Save the West
    First Published: 2015
    The 'Greek crisis' is not about debt. Debt is the propaganda that the Empire is using to subdue sovereignty throughout the Western world.
  4972. Greece, Austerity & Europe's Future
    First Published: 2015
    Easily lost in these political gyrations is the immense suffering of the Greek people. Unemployment continues to be 25% for the general population and 60% for younger people. One result has been that 300,000 Greeks, or 3% of the total population, has emigrated in the past few years.
  4973. Greece and the Future of European Democracy
    Disfunction in the Eurozone
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Tariq Ali, author of "The Extreme Center: A Warning". Discussion addresses the current economic situation in Greece and the European Union's role in it.
  4974. Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party
    Is the U.S. Ambassador One of Its Proud Godfathers?
    First Published: 2021
    This article explores Greek far-right organizations such as Golden Dawn and the "Greeks for the Fatherland" party, as well as former far-right MP Ilias Kasidiaris. He further explores American involvement in fostering the Far Right in the "cradle of democracy."
  4975. Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party - Is the U.S. Ambassador One of Its Proud Godfathers?
    First Published: 2020
    A new neo-Nazi party, "Greeks for the Fatherland," has formed in Greece under the leadership of former Golden Dawn (GD) leader Ilias Kasidiaris as the infamous GD Party begins to fade.
  4976. Greece is sold off and sold out
    Greece's public assets, including ports and airports, went at discount prices to predatory buyers who will deprive the state of much - need
    First Published: 2016
    A recent study has concluded that privatisation in Europe has undermined wage structures, made working conditions worse and increased income inequality; nowhere is this exemplified more than in Greece.
  4977. Greece mourns slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas
    First Published: 2017
    A self-professed Golden Dawn member stabbed leftist rapper Killah P to death in Piraeus on September 18, 2013.
  4978. Greece: postmodernism in power
    First Published: 2015
    Yanis Varoufakis, the Finance Minister in Greece’s Syriza government, shows where postmodernist attacks on Marx lead politically. This self-declared "erratic Marxist" states forthrightly that the task of today's Left is to save capitalism from itself, which requires "forging alliances with reactionary forces."
  4979. Greece: Syriza Shines a Light
    First Published: 2012
    Like a swan moving forward with relaxed confidence while paddling furiously beneath the surface, Syriza, the radical left coalition that could become the next government of Greece, is facing enormous challenges calmly but with intensifed activity.
  4980. Greece: The Crisis Continues
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    What's happened in Greece after the explosive strikes and street protests that erupted over the terms of the European bailout in 2010?
  4981. Greece and Tsipras' policy: Provoking a split with the working class
    First Published: 2015
    An interview with Panagiotis Lafazanis.
  4982. Greece: Was, and Is There, an Alternative?
    The Left confronts Greece's financial crisis
    First Published: 2015
    Addresses three major aspects of the Greek crisis of 2015: the debate over strategy and program within and around Syriza and how that was reflected in the months since the January election; the prospects for a recovery and revitalization of the Greek left in the coming period; and some promising initial reactions to the Greek events in the European left.
  4983. Greece's Fascist Threat
    First Published: 2013
    The increasingly bold Golden Dawn party has precipitated a political crisis in Athens whose resolution is far from certain. Golden Dawn, the largest fascist party in Europe and the third largest party in Greece, has grown rapidly during the economic crisis both by scapegoating immigrants, ethnic minorities and queer people, and offering basic necessities like food to Greek citizens impoverished by the country’s austerity program.
  4984. Greece's Golden Dawn: Fascists at the Gate 
    The party is deeply rooted in the political culture of Greece.
    First Published: 2015
    While Golden Dawn -- with its Holocaust denial, its swastikas and its Hitler salutes—looks like it might inhabit the fringe, in fact the organization has roots deep in the heart of Greece's political culture.
  4985. Greece's solidarity movement: 'it's a whole new model - and it's working'
    First Published: 2015
    Citizen-run health clinics, food centres, kitchens and legal aid hubs have sprung up to fill the gaps left by austerity – and now look set to play a bigger role under a Syriza government.
  4986. Greed Beyond Belief
  4987. The Greek Debt Crisis and Crashing Markets 
    A New Mode of Warfare
    First Published: 2015
    Greece has indeed become an example. But it is an example of the horror that the eurozone's monetarists seek to impose on one economy after another, using debt as a lever to force privatization selloffs at distress prices. In short, finance has shown itself to be the new mode of warfare. Resisting debt leverage andfinancial conquest is as legal as is resisting military invasion.
  4988. Greek Debt and the New Financial Imperialism
    First Published: 2016
    Describes how the Greek goverment is forced to extract income and wealth from its workers and small businesses resulting in a new form of financial imperialism that smaller states and economies, planning to join larger free trade zones and 'currency unions' should avoid at all cost.
  4989. Greek lesson: let's show some initiative on the Left
    First Published: 2015
    Kevin Ovenden provides some suggestions on initiatives that the European Left can take to deliver practical solidarity to the people of Greece.
  4990. Greek Resistance
    Connexipedia Article
    The term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941-1944 during the Second World War.
  4991. Greek War of Independence
    Connexipedia Article
    War of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1829.
  4992. The Greeks Get It
    First Published: 2010
    Here's to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare: the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.
  4993. The Green Book
    First Published: 1979
    Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the African National Congress National Executive Committee, 1979.
  4994. Green by default - how a nudge and wink can save the planet
    First Published: 2016
    There's a simple way to induce us to make good environmental choices: make them the default setting. Whether it's selecting double sided photocopies or renewable electricity tariffs, defining easily-overridden 'green defaults' is by far the most efficacious means to influence consumer choices for the environment and the planet.
  4995. Green construction and worker safety
    Green construction yields promising results for the future of our planet. But new technologies come with new safety risks for workers.
    First Published: 2019
    Eco-friendly construction exposes workers to new methods and materials which do not have the standard safety practices of those that are more established.
  4996. Green Corn Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Popular uprising against military conscription by poor farmers in Oklahoma aligned with the Socialist Party of America.
  4997. Green Municipalism
    First Published: 1991
    A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
  4998. Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environment
    First Published: 2017
    Myths of a pagan past in harmony with nature have been a feature of green nationalism, from its beginnings through to the Anastasia ecovillages in contemporary Russia where - unlike their equivalent hippy communes found in the West - sustainable living is combined with a 'reactionary eco-nationalism'. Could it happen here too?
  4999. A Green New Deal for New York
    First Published: 2014
    The Green Party outlines its revised goals for their campaign plan in the election for governor and lieutenant governor of New York.
  5000. Green Parties, Green Future: lessons from history for Green politics
    First Published: 2015
    How can Green parties acquire real political power? A new book by Per Gahrton, founder of the Swedish Green Party, is much more than a useful reference text on the history of Green Parties around the world. It's also a valuable manual in realpolitik that resonates here and now.
  5001. The Green Party After the Election
    First Published: 2017
    Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters
  5002. Green Party Convention: A Party Divided
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    In an election year when so many antiwar activists, progressives and even socialists are embracing the “anybody but Bush” (“ABB”) rationale for giving backhanded support to pro-war, pro-corporate John Kerry, the Green Party of the United States emerged from its June convention deeply divided.
  5003. Green politics
    Connexipedia Article
    A political ideology which places a high importance on environmental goals, and on achieving these goals through broad-based, grassroots, participatory democracy.
  5004. Green transformation is a political project, not an economic one
    First Published: 2016
    There is a need for public policy in order for green initiatives to be tangiblem in-depth projects.
  5005. Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Reach New Record
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2013
    The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, continuing an upward and accelerating trend which is driving climate change and will shape the future of our planet for hundreds and thousands of years.
  5006. Greening Capitalism? A Marxist Critique of Carbon Markets
    First Published: 2012
    Climate change is increasingly being recognized as a serious threat to dominant modes of social organization, inspiring suggestions that capitalism itself needs to be transformed if we are to ‘decarbonize’ the global economy.
  5007. Greenpeace 'peer review' climate sting's first scalp?
    First Published: 2015
    A leading member of the climate change-skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation has resigned from his post in the wake of a Greenpeace investigation that exposed its phoney 'peer review' process. But he insists: 'nothing going on here!'
  5008. The Greens: Nationalism or Anti-Nationalism?
    First Published: 1985
    The object of this article is to provide a better understanding of the Greens by attempting to describe them according to their own particular social contex, with the goal of allowing alternative movements in other countries to learn from the experience in West Germany.
  5009. Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe
    First Published: 2019
    Many solutions to climate change such as the Green New Deal do not address the real threat to the planet: capitalism. They in fact are a smokescreen under which to conduct business as usual.
  5010. Grenfell Tower: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
    First Published: 2017
    The Grenfell tower disaster is a consequence of social housing policies dating back to the 1980's.
  5011. Grenfell Tower fire: anger rising
    First Published: 2017
    Four days after the raging inferno that criminally took the innocent lives of so many, survivors and friends and families of the missing are still not only without the support from the authorities that they need, but are suffering an unacceptable lack of information and coordination. It is fair to say, that despite the Tory insistence that all is hand and all that can be done is being done, in reality, all that is being done, is being done by community brothers and sisters and a wider volunteer force. Lacking a central command, people are being fed, clothed and comforted from within the community, organised by those of the community. And while the community has so far largely remained peaceful, united by loss and grief, anger is bubbling.
  5012. Grenfell Tower Fire: Corporate Manslaughter in London
    First Published: 2017
    A massive fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in the early hours of June 14th. Grenfell Tower is a 24-storey building of public housing flats in the North Kensington area of London. Over 600 people were believed to be inside the building and there are fears that the death toll, currently at 58, will rise to over a 100. This incident generated a wave of public anger over ignored safety warnings, an inadequate response from authorities, and most of all about the (housing) policies that safeguard corporate greed over the rights of the poor and working class, in this case their very lives. This was no accident – it was corporate manslaughter.
  5013. The Grenfell Tower fire could have been avoided: this government must be held responsible
    First Published: 2017
  5014. Grenfell Tower: the Tragic Price of the Rolled-Back State
    First Published: 2017
    The British state used to be better organised and effective, but self-interested denigration of the state over the past 30 years has helped erode these strengths, leaving authorities less equiped to handle emergencies such as Grenfell tower disaster.
  5015. La greve de la United Aircraft
    First Published: 1980
  5016. Grey Owl (Belaney, Archibald Stansfeld)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Writer: one of Canada's first conservationist writers. (1888-1938).
  5017. The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians
    First Published: 2003
    "American" supremacy and populist imperialism are inseparable from the content of the U.S. origin story and the definition of patriotism in the United States today.
  5018. Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
    First Published: 2018
    A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.
  5019. Grieving the children of Palestine
    First Published: 2014
    Through all the turmoil of these last weeks and months I have been tortured by thoughts of children, Jewish children, Palestinian children, Syrian, Iraqi children – all those who most innocently of all, and most grievously of all, are the victims of the Middle East Madness.
  5020. The Grim Reaping
    Patterns of Racism in the Prairie Region
    First Published: 1978
    The text of an address given originally at the institute for Christian Life in Canada. It discusses the ways in which racism is embedded in the politcal economy of the Canadian praries.
  5021. A Grim Very Tale: The Kehoe Paradigm
    First Published: 2015
    In the 1920s two employees of GM working in the research lab discovered that the addition of tetraethyllead - TEL - to gasoline would reduce engine 'knock'. It would take sixty years to stop industry from adding TEL to gasoline. During that time the lead contamination in the environment - globally - was raised by hundreds of times. Billions of tons of lead was dispersed into the environment.
  5022. Grinding Down the U.S. Army
    First Published: 2009
    Prolonging a stalemated war will only mean more hurt for both Afghans and Americans. The hurt to Afghans will undoubtedly be worse, for their homes are the battlefield, but our own hurt shouldn't be underestimated. More broken bodies and shattered minds. More echoes of the horrifying violence that accompanies war.
  5023. Group marriage
    Connexipedia Article
    Is a form of polyamory in which more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit.
  5024. Group: Ontario North Today
    First Published: 1977
    An Ontario-wide adult education program which has two goals: to educate urban Ontarians about the culture and lifestyle of native people in Northern Ontario, and to begin a province wide process of public dialogue concerning resource development.
  5025. Group Sex
    Communal Ethics of Eroticism, Free Love, and the Extended Family
    First Published: 2000
    Is free love a relic of the past? Does principled promiscuity still persist at the dawn of the twenty-first century? Where do anti-authoritarian radicals stand in the cultural combat?
  5026. Group wins right to leaflet at airports
    First Published: 1992
  5027. Groups need to investigate impact of damaging corporate media censorship
    Freedom to Read Week 2013
    First Published: 2013
  5028. Groups That Aid Israel's War Crimes Can't Deny All Responsibility for Those Crimes 
    First Published: 2021
    But here is something that can be said with equal certainty. Israel’s apologists – whether Jews or non-Jews – cannot deny all responsibility for Israel's war crimes when they actively aid and abet Israel in committing those crimes, or when they seek to demonise and silence Israel's critics so that those war crimes can be pursued in a more favourable political climate.
  5029. The Growing Boycott of Israel
    A Force for Good
    First Published: 2010
    To join the boycott is good for the world's future in general. It is certainly good for the Palestinians, and yes, it is good for the Jews too.
  5030. Growing International Movement Seeks to Place Arms Embargo on Saudi Arabia
    First Published: 2016
    A lawsuit filed in Canada in March 2016 is seeking to halt a major $15 billion sale of light-armoured vehicles to the government of Saudi Arabia, part of a growing international movement to stop arms sales to the Saudi government over its alleged war crimes in Yemen.
    The suit, filed by University of Montreal constitutional law professor Daniel Turp, argues the vehicle sales to Saudi Arabia violate a number of Canadian laws.
  5031. Growing Poverty And Despair In America
    First Published: 2009
    Increasing homelessness and hunger highlight the growing problem as, in the face of deteriorating economic conditions and growing human needs, administration policies are indifferent, counterproductive, uncaring and hostile.
  5032. Growing Poverty Is Shrinking Mexico's Rain Forest
    First Published: 2002
    The struggle for land has started to pit the Zapatista rebel movement against ecologists who want to save the remains of the forest. The Zapatistas declared war on Mexico's government nearly nine years ago over the poverty of peasants in Chiapas. Today the movement criticizes efforts to conserve the bioreserve as a "war of extermination against our indigenous communities."
  5033. Growing Up ILWU in Tacoma, Washington
    First Published: 2011
    I grew up with militancy in a longshore family.
  5034. Nancy Gruber, 1930-2018
    First Published: 2019
    Obituary of radical activist Nancy Gruber.
  5035. GST another blow to magazines
    First Published: 1989
  5036. GST discriminates against co-ops
    First Published: 1991
  5037. GST subsidizes U.S. publishers
    First Published: 1992
  5038. Guadeloupe and Martinique threatened as pesticide contaminates food chain
    First Published: 2013
    Chemical once used on banana crops threatening livelihoods and public health by polluting soil and sea.
  5039. The Guangdong Six and the rule of law (of value): Preliminary theses on the December 3 crackdown
    First Published: 2016
    Information about the December 3, 2014 crackdown on Chinese labour activists is now widely available in English and several other languages, but there has been little satisfactory analysis of its significance -- in relation to business as usual in China, to comparable situations in other countries, or to workers' struggles as such.
  5040. Guaranteed income's dangerous outcome
    First Published: 2016
    The Ontario Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne is talking about a guaranteed basic income for all residents. It sounds great; in fact it sounds too good to be true. There are a number of very different models of guaranteed annual income (GAI) out there, and there are proponents on both the right and left. In Canada, most GAI proposals have come from the right and, importantly, at times when capitalism is experiencing crises.
  5041. Guardian Sells False Image of an Open Jerusalem
    First Published: 2017
    A Guardian essay on a new Israeli open-rooftops project in Jerusalem, part of a Season of Culture, sadly falls into a standard trap for feelgood articles of this kind. It fails to provide the main context for Jerusalem: that the native Palestinians live under a belligerent Israeli occupation that is ultimately trying to evict them from the city.
  5042. Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn - again
    First Published: 2016
    Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party's supposed "anti-semitism crisis" -- in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right, Israel supporters and the media. I have repeatedly pointed out that misleading claims of anti-semitism (along with much else) are being thrown at Corbyn to discredit him.
  5043. The guardians of the Andean potato
    First Published: 2017
    More than 2,800 types of potatoes are known to have originated in Peru. The existence of these varieties can be attributed to the high value the Quechua people place on their cultural traditions and biological diversity.
  5044. The Guardian's 'Anti-Semitism' Incident
    First Published: 2023
    With the row over its cartoon, the newspaper that helped oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party has briefly found that what you sow, you can reap.
  5045. Guardian's day of shame, and the dark depths of liberal McCarthyism
    First Published: 2017
    The liberal 'resistance' to Donald Trump has revealed a service media now plumbing its own dark, reactionary depths. A Guardian editorial has welcomed back to public prominence none other than George W Bush. Even for the Blair-protecting, war-apologising Guardian, it's a landmark day of shame.
  5046. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
  5047. Guatemala Coup Fails
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    While the coup in Honduras was successful, in Guatemala an attempted “cold” coup unraveled. Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered on May 10, 2009; the following day the media ran a video filmed shortly before his death. In it Rosenberg stated that if he were killed, President Alvaro Colom and his wife were responsible.
  5048. Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques
    First Published: 2009
    The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guatemala, where 527 women were killed last year alone.
  5049. Guatemala: Peaceful Resistance in the Face of Violence
    First Published: 2012
    Anti-mining activist speaks out for first time since being shot.
  5050. Guatemala: The Violence of "Free Trade"
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    On January 11, Guatemalan President Oscar Berger spoke to a group of reporters in Guatemala City about ongoing protests against a World Bank mining project in the northern part of the country. He said that his government had to establish law and order. “We have to protect investors,” said Berger.
  5051. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
    First Published: 2008
    Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
    themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
    in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of
    private corporations.
  5052. Guérin, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
    French anarchist and author. (1904-1988).
  5053. Guernica, 1937 / Gaza, 2014
    Only the Insignias Change
    First Published: 2014
    I invoke the Guernica example, not for spurious comparison or analogy, but because its occurrence is inscribed in the very DNA of modern historical oppression, in this case possessing precisely the same elements of overwhelming force on a largely defenseless population, in this case, having less to do with stopping rockets than a) terrorizing a people into abject submission, and b) testing out aerial warfare to soften an enemy and perhaps even clear the way for ground action—beyond consolidating settlement gains in the territories, also serving notice on Iran and whomever else (viz., Arab democracy) is viewed as a real or potential threat down the road.
  5054. Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of Children
    First Published: 2009
    The keynote speaker at the launch of the exhibition Gaza's childrens' paintings, referred to the paintings as 'a toxic cargo of beautiful but unwelcome images which it is necessary that we see and acknowledge.' Toxic because the blockade and assault on Gaza was, and is, toxic. Toxic because the paintings mirror back to our adult world the poisonous environment we have watched develop for these children. The paintings describe aerial bombardment of apartment blocks, mosques, schools, hospitals, ambulances. They portray phosphorous, helicopter and drone attacks on civilians. Gunboats fire inland from the sea. Bulldozers demolish homes. Everything happens in an enclosed space from which there is no escape.
  5055. Guerrilla gardening
    Connexipedia Article
    Political gardening, a form of direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists.
  5056. Guerrilla Tactics for Maximizing the Results of Your Media Campaign
    First Published: 2001
    Strategy and tactics for successful media campaigns.
  5057. Guesde, Jules
    Connexipedia Article
    French socialist journalist and politician. (1845-1922).
  5058. Guide to dealing with the corporate media
    A guide to using the mainstream corporate or state media to get your message across.
    First Published: 2006
    A guide to using the mainstream corporate or state media to get your message across.
  5059. Guide to dealing with the press
    First Published: 2004
    An article with advice on all aspects of dealing with the mainstream press, including face-to-face, press releases, interviews, making complaints and more.
  5060. Guide to giving speeches and presentations
    Tips and advice of public speaking, making speeches and giving presentations effectively.
    First Published: 2006
    Giving speeches and presentations is one of the most basic ways that an activist can communicate their ideas. Every activist should have at least a little experience with public speaking.
  5061. Guide to public order situations
    A brief survival guide for when a demonstration turns into a riot
    First Published: 2006
    Bear in mind that the police are probably much better equipped and trained for close combat than you or I. They have been psyching themselves up for hours, are likely to have plenty of reserves standing by and usually feel confident with the law behind them. Beating the police is about outwitting them, not necessarily hitting them over the head.
  5062. Guide to setting up a local newsletter
    A guide with tips and advice on how to set up a newsletter in your local area to cover issues that affect local residents.
    First Published: 2006
  5063. A guide to setting up and running stalls
    Tips and advice for running a stall for a political or campaign group to distribute literature and maybe raise funds.
  5064. Guide to sick-outs
    Rather than call a conventional strike, the sick-in is a good way to strike without striking. Sick-ins involve organising workers to call in
    First Published: 2006
    The idea is to cripple your workplace by having all or most of the workers call in sick on the same day or days. Unlike the formal walkout, it can be used effectively by single departments and work areas, and can often be successfully used even without a formal union organisation. It is the traditional method of direct action for public employee unions in the United States, which are legally prevented from striking.
  5065. Guide to Special Events Fundraising
    First Published: 1989
  5066. Guide to starting your own zine
    Tips and advice on starting a zine-style publication, from format and content to distribution and finance.
    First Published: 2006
    Are you ready to do a zine? This is probably the most important question you should ask yourself when you're considering doing a zine -- are you really ready to do one? Doing a zine can take up a lot of your time and become a big responsibility. There's no reason that you should have to do a whole zine -- if you aren't sure you can handle a zine on your own, consider maybe contributing to zines that you like or getting a couple friends to do one with you.
  5067. Guide to taking strike action
    Tips and advice on how to effectively organise and carry out strike action at your workplace.
    First Published: 2006
    Our labour is the ultimate weapon that workers possess. Without workers bosses cannot make a profit. Strike action can be very powerful, but at the same time it, at the very least, reduces take home pay. More worryingly it may also lead to dismissal. Hardly, surprising therefore, that strike action is usually last resort taken of workers.
  5068. Guide to the B.C. Women's Movement
    First Published: 1976
    Guest speakers, addresses, transition houses, and more.
  5069. Guide to the UFW Canadian Boycott: Toronto Office Audio-Visual Collection LAV002473
    First Published: 2016
    The UFW Canadian Boycott was part of a series of U.S. nation-wide boycotts that the United Farm Workers spearheaded during the mid 1960s and 1970s. These boycotts alerted the national consumer of the grape and lettuce strikes that had erupted in California, Texas, Arizona and other states. The main duties of the Toronto Boycott office were to enlist support for the striking farm workers by soliciting donations, spreading information and organizing marches and rallies.
  5070. A Guided Tour of AI and the Murky Ethical Issues It Raises
    In "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans," Melanie Mitchell explores the workings and ethics of AI.
    First Published: 2019
    Mitchell's goal is to give a thorough (and I mean thorough) account not only of the ethical issues artificial intelligence raises today (and tomorrow), but of how the various branches of AI that the Dartmouth group pursued actually work. She is a good writer with broad knowledge of the topic (unsurprising, since she has a Ph.D. in computer science), and a canny mindfulness of both the merits and problems of AI.
  5071. Guidelines for exiled journalists
    First Published: 2009
    A guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.
  5072. Guidelines for successful interviews
    First Published: 1998
    Things to keep in mind when going into a media interview.
  5073. Guiding principles for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal 
    First Published: 2019
    Statement of the Ecosocialist Working Group of the DSA on their demands for a Green New Deal that combats climate change and inequality.
  5074. Guillotining Gaza
    First Published: 2007
    Noam Chomsky briefly depicts the many factors which prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and promote ongoing conflict in the region.
  5075. Guilt of Anti-semitism Now Needs No Evidence
    First Published: 2019
    Accusations of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party make an effective smear in a corporate-contolled media that focuses on individual personalities.
  5076. Guilt of War Belongs to All
    First Published: 1995
    Chomsky discusses the guilt of war and Japan's refusal to apologize for its role in the Second World War.
  5077. Guilty as Charged
    First Published: 2024
    This is a hallmark crossroad: a generational test of time and purpose and a profound challenge for all those yet to come. In the presence of indisputable overwhelming evidence of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity, we are painfully, perhaps predictably, witness to collective inaction by the United Nations and other international bodies and tribunals that preach from on high while perched as little more than silent witness to unspeakable Israeli crimes.
  5078. Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Outrageous Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture
    First Published: 2015
    Civil asset forfeiture violates civil and property rights, not to mention fundamental notions of justice. Now, finally, it's under increasing fire.
  5079. Guinea Pigs Spell Independence for Women
    First Published: 2009
    Raising guinea pigs has become an important means for Peruvian women to earn money to support their families, as well as to learn how to defend their rights.
  5080. Gulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export?
    Follow the Oiltanking Trail
    First Published: 2014
    The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s KeystoneXL pipeline, but incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already promised it will get another vote when the GOP-dominated Senate begins its new session in 2015.
  5081. Gulf Commentary
    A Special Issue on the Aftermath of the War
    First Published: 1991
  5082. The Gulf Crisis
    First Published: 1991
    In light of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Chomsky identifies two different responses: economic sanctions and the threat of war. He questions the reason for these unprecedented actions as well as what was behind such tactical divisions over essentially shared interests. Noting that policy is dependent on goals, Chomsky illustrates that American action reveals the goal of establishing the rule of force as opposed to liberating Kuwait.
  5083. Gulf War Pullout
    First Published: 1991
    In a "question and answer" format, Chomsky addresses what he rationally does and does not find to be plausible motivations for America's invasion of Kuwait.
  5084. The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism & the Gulf War (book review)
    First Published: 1992
  5085. Gun Control
    First Published: 1992
  5086. Gun Control: Carnage in Context
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    What "the right to bear arms" means today is murkier in a society which is profoundly unorganized, exceptionally violent, highly racist, and with desperately inadequate care for the mentally ill.
  5087. Gun Control in Old East Germany
    First Published: 2018
    In Communist-run East Germany weapons and ammunition were strictly controlled. Rifles, though privately-owned, were locked up at the hunting clubs, usually connected with the forest rangers' home and station.
  5088. Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
    First Published: 2015
    Behind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money.
  5089. Gunman as Hero, Children as Targets, Iraq as Backdrop
    First Published: 2015
    American Sniper, directed by Clinton Eastwood about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle,
    is not only the latest blockbuster but also a war propaganda.
  5090. Gunning for destruction in Gaza: 'You want to see people in pieces'
    First Published: 2015
    36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer's Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted.
  5091. Guthrie, Woody
    Connexipedia Article
    American singer-songwriter and folk musician. (1912-1967).
  5092. Gutting Cities and Public Education
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    Almost sixty more Detroit public schools are to be closed over the next two years — with up to 45 open to being taken over by charter operators. This is the “Renaissance 2012 Plan” developed by state-appointed “Emergency Financial Manager” Robert Bobb. As Bobb’s two-year term ends it appears to have been a pilot project for the wholesale and anti-democratic restructuring of local governance.
  5093. The H-Block Struggle - Book Review
    First Published: 2013
    Book review of "Smashing H Block: The Rise and Fall of the Popular Campaign Against Criminalization, 1976-1982" by F. Stuart Ross.
  5094. Ha'am, Ahad
    Connexipedia Article
    Hebrew essayist and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. (1856-1927).
  5095. Habitat and Urban Core Issues: Report and Impressions
    First Published: 1976
    A brief report on the participation of the UCSN staff in the 1976 United Nations Habitat Forum.
  5096. Habitat Participation
    First Published: 1976
    Issues related to land use, indigenous peoples' rights, nuclear power, etc.
  5097. The Habits of Highly Cynical People
    First Published: 2016
    A look at the consequences and dangers of 'naive cynicism', where complex issues are oversimplified and the future and past is flattened out, reducing motivations to engage in intelligent dialogue, and to participate and act.
  5098. Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
    Is GCHQ awesome and 100% legal?
    First Published: 2014
    The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.”
  5099. Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years
    His Idealism Remains at Large
    First Published: 2013
    28-year-old political activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release at the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York. This was the maximum sentence he could receive after his non-cooperating plea deal.
  5100. Hagerty, Thomas J.
    Connexipedia Article
    American Roman Catholic priest from New Mexico, and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. (Born 1862).
  5101. The Hague Congress of the International Workingmen's Association
    First Published: 1872
    The fifth congress of the First International.
  5102. Hailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to be the Exact Opposite
    First Published: 2015
    Advocates of the U.S. intervention in Lybia regard the event as a proof of success. Greenwald discusses why things are working in the opposite way.
  5103. Haiti, Imperialist Disaster
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    The pictures and news reports tell the stories of Haiti’s physical destruction, the agony and heartbreak, the heroism of rescue efforts — and the filthy business of “missionary” child-snatchers — reporting the unfathomable scale of the reconstruction that may take decades.
  5104. Haiti in Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    In 2004, shortly after the coup in Haiti in which President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was removed from office, in the year of the bicentenary of the Haitian revolution, a group of concerned Caribbean Faculty at the University of Toronto organized an emergency public meeting that was exceptionally widely attended.
  5105. Haiti: Racially Profiled!
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    I thank the organizers for this event that places Haiti squarely in our consciousness where it belongs. I am grateful that Honor Ford-Smith, Jacqui Alexander and Alissa Trotz were so insistent that I attend despite my best efforts to excuse myself. A large number of campus units and off-campus organizations came together, and one knows that this is the proper way to approach our subject tonight. Men anpil, chay pa lou (many hands make the load light).
  5106. Haiti - The Broken Wing
    First Published: 2010
    The courage and compassion of thousands of people willing to enter a chaotic disaster zone threatened with aftershocks are very real. Compassion arises out of a recognition that 'their' suffering is no different to 'my' suffering. Joining compassion with reason means asking why over 80 per cent of Haiti's population of 10 million people live in abject poverty. Why less than 45 per cent of all Haitians have access to potable water. Why the life expectancy rate in Haiti is only 53 years. Why seventy-six per cent of Haiti's children under the age of five are underweight, or suffer from stunted growth, with 63 per cent of Haitians undernourished.
  5107. Haiti: An Example of Fake News by Omission
    First Published: 2018
    The main problem with the mainstream media today, as in the past, is not 'fake news' but what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.
  5108. Haitian Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    The only successful slave revolt in history which established Haiti as the first republic ruled by blacks.
  5109. Hal Draper
    Obituary
    First Published: 1990
    American Marxist 1914-1990.
  5110. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper
    First Published: 1990
    A comparison of socialism-from-below and socialism-from-above that considers Marx's struggle for socialism through liberal democracy.
  5111. Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity
    First Published: 2014
    An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors. In the long term, this dynamic could speed up the already fast-consolidating U.S. food industry, with broad ramifications for both human and environmental health.
  5112. Halfway Home Proposed for the Institutionalized
    First Published: 1980
  5113. Hallas, Duncas - Writings - Index
    Writings of Duncas Hallas (1925-2002).
  5114. Halle/Chomsky: An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting)
    First Published: 2016
    Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left in that any form of participation or non participation appears to impose a significant cost on our capacity to develop a serious opposition to the corporate agenda served by establishment politicians. The position outlined below is that which many regard as the most effective response to this quadrennial Hobson's choice, namely the so-called "lesser evil" voting strategy or LEV. Simply put, LEV involves, where you can, i.e. in safe states, voting for the losing third party candidate you prefer, or not voting at all. In competitive "swing" states, where you must, one votes for the "lesser evil" Democrat.
  5115. Halper, Jeff
    Connexipedia Article
    Co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). (Born 1946).
  5116. Hamas, Hezbollah, and so-called 'resistance' against Zionist imperialism
    First Published: 2010
    Imperialism, as Lenin states, is more progressive than the fanatical religious tendencies that fight to resist it. But to be clear, this does not amount to an endorsement of U.S. or Israeli policies of aggression. All that it means is one should not support tendencies that are even more wretched than foreign, imperialist domination, simply in the name of national self-determination.
  5117. Hamas 'mass rape' claim lacks evidence. But it's being used to justify genocide
    First Published: 2023
    Claims of systematic rape on October 7 appeal to a racist trope of the savage, predatory Arab. Which is why western politicians and media are so unconcerned by the dearth of evidence.
  5118. Hamas Rocket Launches Don't Explain Israel's Gaza Destruction -- Israeli Forces' Manipulated Figures and Fake Evidence
    First Published: 2014
    Israel and its supporters abroad have parried accusations of indiscriminate destruction and mass killing of civilians in Gaza by arguing that they were consequences of strikes aimed at protecting Israeli civilians from rockets that were being launched from very near civilian structures.
  5119. HAMAS Under the Spotlight
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    In a seemingly dramatic move in mid-2004, Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement which hitherto refused to participate in the Palestinian political system, expressed its willingness to be a part of that system.
  5120. Hamer, Fannie Lou
    Connexipedia Article
    American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. (1917-1977).
  5121. Hamilton Tenant
    A guide to tenants' rights and the Landlord and Tenant Act
    First Published: 1976
    A guide to the rights and obligations of tenants as set out in the current (1967) legislation.
  5122. Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
    First Published: 2008
    Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularly in Egypt and Burma.
  5123. Handling of Oka condemned
    First Published: 1992
  5124. Hands Up, Fast Food!
    The Fight for $15
    First Published: 2015
    Fast-food workers and supporters gathered late Tuesday evening to shut down the Phillips 66 convenience store in St. Louis. They chanted "hands up don't shoot" and did a die-in in remembrance of Mike Brown and Eric Garner.
  5125. Hanford's Leaky Nuke Tanks and Sick Workers, A Never-Ending Saga
    First Published: 2016
    It's been a toxic few weeks at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington. Not that this is exactly news -- Hanford is the most radioactive site in North America and is thereby always toxic. But what is news is how dangerous and negligent the remediation efforts at Hanford continue to be.
  5126. Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
    First Published: 2015
    If you’re an ordinary saver with your money in the bank, you may soon be paying the bank to hold your funds rather than the reverse.
  5127. Hanging on by our Fingernails
    First Published: 1991
    The West offers a false sense of security, and we are all at risk.
  5128. Hanging On: Native media are surviving
    First Published: 1992
    Native media are struggling to survice.
  5129. Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth and Morality
    Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
    First Published: 2017
    Observations on Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism" on the nature of Totalitarianism and the role of propaganda in its rise and support within societies.
  5130. Hans Blumenfeld 1892-1988
    First Published: 1988
    A look at the accomplishments of Hans Blumenfeld, a German-Canadian architect and city planner who was also active throughout his life in promoting peace.
  5131. Happy Activism 
    Six ways to make our movement strong and feed our spirit.
    First Published: 2016
    How do we make environmental organizations attractive to large numbers of people? And how do we keep these folks engaged for the years, even decades that it will take to create a sustainable society? My interest here is not to enumerate people’s reasons for activism but rather, based on these reasons, to articulate principles that movement organizers should follow to bring people to the cause.
  5132. 'The happy days are now just nostalgia'
    First Published: 2019
    Along with the temperatures, the Brokpa say, the entire weather pattern has become increasingly unpredictable in the past two decades in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, which border the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan and Myanmar.
  5133. Happy Hookers
    First Published: 2012
    Exploring the lives of sex workers and their would-be saviours.
  5134. Harand, Irene
    Connexipedia Article
    An early organiser of protests against Nazi Germany's persecutions of Jews 1900-1975.
  5135. Hard Core Green
    How to Kick Corporate Butt
    First Published: 2010
    Two uncompromised green activists and writers completely focused on winning, and utterly void of bullshit.
  5136. The Harmful Effects of Antifa
    First Published: 2017
    An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy.
  5137. Marta Harnecker, the Fighter
    First Published: 2019
    Obituary for Marta Harnecker, sociologist, political scientist, and activist from Chile.
  5138. Harold Pinter: Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Poetics
    Art, Truth & Poetics
    First Published: 2014
    A lecture given by the 2005 recipient of the Nobel Pize for Literature, Harold Pinter. The lecture reflects on the concept of "truth" in regard to a creative process.
  5139. Harper government silences pain of Gazan children
    First Published: 2014
    This past summer Israel's advanced military bombarded the tiny, impoverished and overpopulated Gaza Strip for a third time in six years...Nowhere was safe as schools, hospitals and mosques were targeted...Ignoring pleas from hospitals, health-care workers, the Ontario government and a petition by over 40,000 Canadians, his government refuses to grant the 100 visas Dr. Abuelaish needs.
  5140. Harper government's extensive spying on anti-oilsands groups revealed in FOIs
    First Published: 2013
    The National Energy Board, supposedly an independent federal agency, has directly coordinated efforts between CSIS, the RCMP and private oil companies against environmentalist groups and indigenous-rights activists.
  5141. Harper, The Ottawa Shooter, and Selling of War
    First Published: 2014
    The sensationalized media coverage of the police and military responses to the violent actions of one or more shooters in the Canadian capital of Ottawa Canada on Oct. 22 was truly global in scope. Among the newspapers that used on their front pages dramatic photographs of the elaborate militarization on Canada’s Parliament Hill were the New York Times.
  5142. Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
    The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.
    First Published: 2015
    Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government.
  5143. Harper: the Grim Reaper of Canadian politics
    Harper as Prime Minister would be a disaster for Canada.
  5144. Harper's Relationship With the Jewish Defense League Is Disturbing
    First Published: 2015
    With Canada's federal election less than two weeks away, Levitan addresses a highly topical matter: the Conservatives' close relations with the controversial Jewish Defense League (JDL).
  5145. Harper's Rule Breaking Rush to Crush Unions
    First Published: 2015
    Is there anything more undemocratic than Canada's most tainted organization -- the Conservative-controlled Senate -- breaking its rules and then overturning its own Conservative Speaker's ruling, all to hurriedly impose anti-union legislation before the federal election? That's what happened last week with Bill C-377, an odious private members' bill shepherded from beginning to end by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own office, passed by Parliament's Conservative majority and sent to the Senate for approval.
  5146. Harper's Seven-Year War on Science
    Chris Turner's treatise on Tory anti-empiricism should spark outrage. But those in power won't see it.
    First Published: 2013
  5147. Harper's Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record
    First Published: 2015
    The Middle East drought between 2006 and 2011 was without precedent since modern record keeping, killing over 80 per cent of livestock and driving up local food prices. Already poor populations had to contend with higher temperatures that dried soil and failed rains during the normally wet season due to weaker winds from the Mediterranean. A key long-term driver of this unfolding humanitarian catastrophe is climate change. And on that front, Canada’s record of contributing to this crisis is far more significant than our wretched record so far in resettling Syrian refugees.
  5148. Hartman, Grace
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian labour union activist. (1918-1993).
  5149. Harvesting the Blood of America's Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
    First Published: 2019
    In today’s wretched economy, where around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is of the few booming industries America has left.
  5150. Harvey, David
    Connexipedia Article
    Geographer and social theorist. (born 1935.)
  5151. Harvey's Toxic Aftermath in Houston
    First Published: 2018
    Wingard exposes the enviromental devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey. The hurricane caused chemical spills and explosions which Wingard says forecast a pending enviromental crisis.
  5152. Has Europe's Crisis Peaked Yet?
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    A discussion with Eric Toussaint, president of the Committee for Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) in Belgium.
  5153. Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
    First Published: 1930
    Bertrand Russell's 1930 critique of religious morality and metaphysics.
  5154. Has the meaning of "organizing" been forgotten?
    First Published: 2017
    Rising inequality, US anti-union laws crushing organized labour south of the boarder, and the slow unrelenting decline of union density here in Canada has renewed the focus on labour union organizing. The response from the leadership of the movement has been focused -- rightly -- on changes to law regulating labour unions that make it harder to organize. However, changing labour laws will not undo the slow decline in union density alone. Unions will also have to actually go out and talk to workers, sign them up, establish a local, bargain a first agreement, and enforce those terms.
  5155. Hasbara
    Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
  5156. Hassan Diab, trial in absentia
    First Published: 2023
    Hassan Diab's supporters are demanding that the government not put him through another unfair extradition hearing based on thin evidence.
  5157. Hassles in New Mexico
    Northern New Mexico’s explosive political situation has a new ingredient -- the hippies.
  5158. The Hate Crimes Bill: How Not to Remember Matthew Shepard
    First Published: 2009
    The problem with the Hate Crimes Prevention Act is that it creates a thought crime and also categories of crime victims for disparate treatment. Goodbye to equality under the law.
  5159. The Hate Preachers Fueling Sectarianism
    Al Qaeda's Second Act
    First Published: 2014
    On the public support systems, media presence, and propaganda of a second wave of fundamentalist jihadist organizations.
  5160. Hate Speech and Free Speech
    The Wrong Kind of Climate Control
    First Published: 2011
    Laws against sedition, in whatever guise, are an attack on free speech. Unlike laws against those rare instances of incitement which trigger immediate and actual violence against a present target (as in "get him boys!"), laws against sedition are always couched in vague, open ended terms because the real target is not the alleged "dangers" protected against but some political agenda or ideology that is opposed.
  5161. Hauser, Monika
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    German human rights advocate. (Born 1959).
  5162. Have You Got $10,00 to Burn?
    The Commidity Futures Link in the International Food Chain, Who Needs It and Why Most of Us Don't.
    First Published: 1977
    This research paper traces the central role played by commodity futures exchanges in the international farm-to-table food chain, especially as it affects Canadians.
  5163. Having the Hard Conversations 
    Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
    First Published: 2015
    An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
  5164. Hayden, Tom
    Connexipedia Article
    An American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the animal rights, and the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. (Born 1939).
  5165. Haymarket affair
    Connexipedia Article
    Disturbance that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
  5166. Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
    Connexipedia Article
    American unionist and communist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1869-1928).
  5167. The Hazards of Uranium Exploration
    First Published: 1979
    This booklet is sponsored by the Kootenay Nuclear Study Group. Its backdrop is the protest barricade by Genelle residents of the drilling and blasting operations of Noman Mines in the China Creek watershed that supplies that community's water.
  5168. The Hazards of Uranium Mining
    First Published: 1979
    This leaflet summarizes Britich Columbia opposition to uranium mining.
  5169. He who pays the piper...
    First Published: 1977
    Community groups have become dependent on government money resulting in an erosion of their community base and their independence.
  5170. Healing Images
    First Published: 1990
    A month-long art exhibition/symposium to be held in Toronto from November 9 to December 19, 1990.
  5171. Healing the Dark Legacy of Native American Families
    First Published: 2014
    Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) - educational issues among indigenous families.
  5172. Health and environmental victories for South African activists
    First Published: 2009
    In South Africa, major advances in health and the environment during the 2000s were only won by social activists by removing the profit motive.
  5173. Health and Safety conference
    First Published: 1989
  5174. A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients
    A startling example of algorithmic bias
    First Published: 2019
    A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw, which affects millions of patients, was revealed in research published in the journal Science.
  5175. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
    First Published: 2007
    These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
  5176. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza - Arabic text
    First Published: 2007
  5177. Health Care Around the World
    First Published: 2009
    Overview of the various ways health services are provided around the world, as well as accompanying issues and challenges. Topics include health as a human right, universal health care, and primary health care.
  5178. The Health Care Crisis and Kerry-Bush
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    A permanent crisis has plagued American health care since 1981. It began with Ronald Reagan, whose tax cuts led to cuts in Medicaid as well as more stringent eligibility rules. The crisis has continued, even through the boom years presided over by Bill Clinton, to the present.
  5179. Health Care and Immigration Policies that Kill
    First Published: 2015
    Cuts to Canada's Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), severely curtail access to health-care services for refugee claimants and refugees. Many beneficiaries and practitioners were already critical of the original IFHP because it provided inconsistent access to health care and many services were not covered. The situation only worsened after the cuts.
  5180. Health care monopoly
    First Published: 1998
    Rather than advocating the destruction of Canada's public health care system, critics should be speaking out against the government's strategy of running the system into the ground by mismanagement and underfunding.
  5181. Health Care Professionals In Canada Join with PHR-Israel
    First Published: 2008
    Canadian health care professionals are linking with Physicians for Human Rights - Isreal to support their work in struggling and advocating for human rights, in particular the right to health, for people both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
  5182. Health Care Reform or Ruin?
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    Far from laying the health care debate to rest, the Supreme Court decision on Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) put life back into it. Calling the individual health insurance mandate a “tax” aroused anger on the right, but the court’s ruling on federal Medicaid money is what really puts a new dimension into the fight.
  5183. Health Care Unions at War
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its former section United Health Care Workers-West (UHW) are at war after SEIU’s leadership ordered the seizure of UHW’s headquarters. UHW’s elected officers, deposed in the SEIU takeover, are forming a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
  5184. Health experts question handling of songbird-killing Superfund site
    First Published: 2014
    Health experts are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan state officials for their decades-long delays in cleanup of a Superfund site that is killing songbirds in yards, possibly leaving people at risk, too.
  5185. Health For People in the 1980's A Work in Progress
    First Published: 1980
  5186. Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
    First Published: 1992
    A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
  5187. Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
    First Published: 1994
    A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
  5188. Healthy Places-Healthy People/Healthy People-Healthy Places
    First Published: 1989
  5189. Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world
    First Published: 2017
    Some of the more common myths regarding the modern agricultural industry are outlined, notably that large scale commercial farming provides higher yields and greater diversity of products. Indeed the author contests the coversation should move beyond conventional farming vs organic, and that it is regenerative farming practices that concentrate on soil health that will provide the best solution.
  5190. Heap, Dan
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian politician with the New Democratic Party. (Born 1925).
  5191. Heaps, Abraham Albert
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
  5192. Heaps, Abraham Albert
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
  5193. Heartbreaking Genius of Staggering Over-Simplification
    First Published: 2020
    Planet of the Humans is a deeply frustrating work: for it is both seminal and deeply problematic. Its foes have missed or tried to drown out the seminal importance it potentially has or had. Its fans have missed or tried to paper over its profound flaws. In this review we explore the fundamental insights it offers as well as illuminate — as the film sadly does not — a path for the constructive use of renewable energy going forward. A path that is rather more limited and specific than most of those who are excoriating the film would like to believe.
  5194. A Heartfelt Apology to Haaretz Readers
    To all offended readers, I apologize for the one-sidedness. How could I not maintain a balance between the murderer and the murdered; the thief and his victim; and the occupier and the occupied?
  5195. Heartfield, John
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    John Heartfield (1891 - 1968) is the anglicized name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld.
  5196. Heat Wave
    First Published: 2020
    Like COVID-19 and much else, extreme heat disproportionately affects the poor and the elderly. They are the ones who often don’t have air conditioning, and often they live alone with no support networks.
  5197. Heatwave frequency rises twice as fast in the poorest countries
    New research proves that the countries least responsible for global warming, those least able to adapt, have already been hit much harder by
    First Published: 2017
    A feature of most statements about climate change is the use of the future tense: the poorest countries will be worse-hit than the rich ones. But new research shows that the predicted unequal climate future has actually been with us for decades. The poorest countries have already experienced twice as great an increase in extreme temperatures as the rich ones, and the gap has been widening for more than thirty years.
  5198. Heavy metal songs: Contaminated songbirds sing the wrong tunes
    First Published: 2014
    Scientists have long known that mercury is a potent toxicant: It disrupts the architecture of human brains, and it can change birds' behavior and kill their chicks. But after extensive research in Virginia, scientists have shown that mercury also alters the very thing that many birds are known for -- their songs.
  5199. Hebron Activist Who Died of Tear Gas Showed Israel's Crimes to the World
    First Published: 2015
    Hebron resident and anti-occupation activist Hashem al-Azzeh died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces.
  5200. Hebron - the heart of the occupation
    Justice for Palestine is central to the left. The situation in Hebron is a good example why.
    First Published: 2019
    The history and current situation in Hebron.
  5201. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
    Connexipedia Article
    German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. (1770-1831).
  5202. Hegel Quotes
    150 quotes from Hegel, linked to the context.
  5203. "Hegemony How-To": Rethinking Activism and Embracing Power
    A review of Hegemony How-To: a Roadmap for Radicals, by Jonathan Smucker
    First Published: 2017
    "How many times, I wondered, had I favored a particular action or tactic because I really thought it was likely to change a decision-maker’s position or win over key allies, as opposed to gravitating toward an action because it expressed my activist identity and self-conception? How concerned were we really, in our practice, with political outcomes?"
  5204. The Height of Kitsch
    First Published: 2009
    The attitude of the German government towards Israel is a Sonderbehandlung. It too says the Jews are something special. The "Jewish state" must be treated differently than all other states. That is to say, the Jews are different from all other peoples, their state is different from all other states, their morals are different from those of others.
  5205. Hekmat, Mansoor
    Connexipedia Article
    Iranian Marxist theorist and leader of the worker-communist movement. (1951-2002).
  5206. Hekmat, Mansoor - Writings - Index
    Writings of Mansoor Hekmat (1951-2002).
  5207. Held hostage by Big Pharma: a personal experience
    First Published: 2013
    Mike Marqusee looks at how drug firms can make huge profits from their state-enforced monopoly on an essential good.
  5208. Helicoptering to the cottage
    First Published: 2005
    Using the company helicopter to fly to and from the cottage.
  5209. Helping drought-stricken farmers requires recognising global warming and planning 
    First Published: 2018
    All of NSW has now officially been declared to be in drought, and 57% of Queensland has officially entered its sixth year of the current drought (though there has been little real change from when 88% was declared to be in drought in March 2017).Droughts keep getting worse, and the changing climate means they will continue to do so.The Coalition's "solutions" start with denying that climate change is real.
  5210. Helping the occupation bloom: An open letter to Cargoflora
    First Published: 2010
    Flowers from illegally occupied Palestinian land are being shipped to Europe.
  5211. Helping you reach the media
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
    First Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
  5212. Helsinski Citizens Assembly
    First Published: 1990
  5213. Hennacy, Ammon
    Connexipedia Article
    American pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly. (1893-1970).
  5214. Herbicides undermine antibiotics, threaten medical care
    First Published: 2018
    A New Zealand study adds to the body of evidence that industrial herbicides, not intended to be antibiotics, can have profound effects on bacteria, with potentially negative implications for medicine's ability to treat infectious diseases.
  5215. Here come the thought police
    First Published: 2014
    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.”
  5216. Here to stay, here to fight: How Asians transformed the British working class
    First Published: 2016
    During the blisteringly hot summer of 1976 a group of Asian workers, predominantly women, walked out on strike at a small factory in north west London. Most were recently arrived migrants from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and were as unlikely a group of militants as you were likely to find that year. The Grunwick strikers acted spontaneously, without a union to back them and without knowing whether they could count on any wider support. Yet their determination and courage during a dispute that would last until the summer of 1978 would transform the politics of race in the labour movement—and in doing so would have huge ramifications for British society in general.
  5217. Here We Go Again 
    First Published: 2012
    One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones.
  5218. Here We Go Again, Trash-Talking The Working Class
    First Published: 2016
    This column begins with a brief story about the author's two grandmothers who lived in trailer homes.
  5219. Here's how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
    First Published: 2015
    Documenting the corruption of the U.S. political system.
  5220. Here's How To Craft A Winning Climate Message
    First Published: 2016
    A guide to fighting back against dirty energy industry spin when discussing the climate crisis. The Climate Solutions for a Stronger America messaging guide is based on data from a repeat national survey of likely voters. Researchers examined the data to determine how to successfully communicate climate issues and identified three top-performing messages.
  5221. Here's how we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flight
    First Published: 2018
    Helen Brewer describes how she, and 14 other activists, broke into Stansted Airport on the 28th of March 2017, and blocked a mass deportation charter flight due to send 60 people to Nigeria and Ghana -- a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger.
  5222. Here's the Key Question in the Libyan War
    As the "Humanitarian Warriors" Gloat...
    First Published: 2011
    My principal opposition to this recent war is precisely that, at a time when even some in Washington were hesitant, the "humanitarian interventionists", with their sophistic pretense of "protecting innocent civilians", have fed and encouraged this monster by offering it "the low-hanging fruit" of an easy victory in Libya. This has made the struggle to bring a semblance of peace and sanity to the world even more difficult than it was already.
  5223. Here's the PR Firm Behind ‘Your Energy America’ Front Group Pushing Atlantic Coast Pipeline
    First Published: 2017
    A newly formed front group called "Your Energy America" is pushing Dominion Energy's Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline; evidence points to DDC Advocacy as the PR firm behind the group, which has known ties to the Republican Party.
  5224. Here's what war with North Korea would look like
    A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the chilling logistics and devastating loss of life a full-blown war between the USA and North Korea would cause.
  5225. Here's why papers don't deserve support; money should go to committed Internet sites
    First Published: 2017
    Governement funding should not go toward propping up mainstream print media, but rather towards access to information in communities where it is currently lacking.
  5226. The Heresy Of The Greeks Offers Hope
    First Published: 2010
    Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war rarely reported as such.
  5227. Herman, Edward S.
    Connexipedia Article
    Economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. (Born 1925).
  5228. Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Man
    RACE, CLASS AND THE CRISIS OF BOURGEOIS IDEOLOGY IN AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE WRITER
    First Published: 1998
  5229. The Hero' of Kronstadt Writes History
    Review of The Revolution Betrayed
    First Published: 1937
    It is only necessary to reflect on the paramount role which Trotsky played in the first thundering years of Bolshevik Russia to understand why he cannot admit that the Bolshevik revolution was only able to change the form of capitalism but was not able to do away with the capitalist form of exploitation. It is the shadow of that period that lies in the way of his understanding.
  5230. Heroes of the Exile
    First Published: 1852   Published: 1960
  5231. Heroism Against the Machine
    First Published: 2013
  5232. Herrin massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Occurred in June 1922 in Herrin, Illinois where 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners were killed in mob action between June 21-22, 1922.
  5233. Herrnhaag
    Connexipedia Article
    A communal spiritual center for the Moravian Unity, an early form of Protestantism.
  5234. Hersh's New Syria Revelations Buried From View
    First Published: 2017
    A look at veteran journalist Seymour Herst's latest investigation, which questions whether Syrian President Assad was responsible for another alleged gas attack at Khan Sheikhoun.
  5235. Hervé, Gustave - Writings - Index
    Writings of Gustave Hervé (1871-1944).
  5236. Het publieke belang negeren
    First Published: 2000
  5237. Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know 
    First Published: 2006
    We are supposed to think that the current crisis in the Middle East has no historical roots.
  5238. The Hidden Costs of the New Economy
    A Study of the Northeast Mission Industrial Zone
    First Published: 2000
  5239. The Hidden History of the SNCC Research Department
    First Published: 2017
    SNCC may have been the most important organization of the postwar civil rights movement. It grew out of the wave of sit-ins in 1960 and was guided initially by Ella Baker, the foundational organizer whose emphasis on bottom-up organizing and democracy deeply shaped SNCC’s vision and methods.
  5240. A Hidden Story of the 1905 Russian Revolution: The Unemployed Soviet
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    The movement of the unemployed in St. Petersburg is a little-known episode of the First Russian Revolution of 1905-7. The movement came as a complete surprise to everyone at the time, since it is did not fit any pre-conceived schema (although, strictly speaking, it had a precedent in the February Revolution of 1848 in France, when the revolutionary government established the "Ateliers nationaux" public-works program).
  5241. The hidden treasures of Gaza
    First Published: 2016
    A small room on a rooftop in the occupied Gaza Strip’s crowded Beach refugee camp resembles a miniature archaeological museum. It is the workshop of Nafez Abed, 55, who studies archaeological artifacts in order to replicate them in exquisite detail. Abed copies antiquities photographed in history books and ones he’s seen during visits to archaeological sites across Gaza, which many a civilization has passed through, as well as in other Arab countries and Europe.
  5242. The Hidden Welfare System
    A report on the personal income tax system in Canada
    First Published: 1976
    A critical analysis of the Income Tax Act and deductions that benefit the top 5% of filers.
  5243. The Hidden Welfare System Revisited
    A report by the National Council of Welfare on the Growth in Tax Expenditures
    First Published: 1979
    This document is an analysis of government spending through tax deductions. Tax deductions are an indirect way of spending money. The government does not declare how much money is spent in this way, as it does in relation to direct spending.
  5244. "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation
    First Published: 2014
    Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israel’s 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades.
  5245. Hierarchy of salaries and incomes
    First Published: 1974   Published: 1979
    The official ideology's justification of hierarchy does not coincide with either logic or reality.
  5246. Higgins, Jim - Writings - Index
    Writings of Jim Higgins (1930 – 2002).
  5247. The high price of cheap meat
    First Published: 2013
    A tiny percentage of the wrong animal passed off as beef in industrially processed food in western Europe? It’s a small misdemeanour set against the misuse of the world’s agricultural land to produce the luxury of meat.
  5248. High Stakes Testing
    Why Are They Doing This To Our Kids?
    First Published: 2000
    The tests are very destructive educationally. They test students on such a broad range of materials that teachers have to rush through the curriculum; they cannot allow real discussion or in-depth study. Education is reduced to memorization of disconnected facts.
  5249. Higher Education for Hire
    The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Henry Heller's The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945.
  5250. Higher Education Free for All?
    First Published: 2002
    The transformation of our society from one in which few working class people went to college into one in which a larger proportion do so has been accompanied by the growth of "lower tier" colleges, junior colleges and professional schools designed to prepare their students for "careers" in the new global economy that do not pay as much as people with only a high school degree used to make in jobs with a history of solidarity.
  5251. Highlander Research and Education Center (Highlander Folk School)
    Connexipedia Article
    A leadership training school and cultural centre located in New Market, Tennessee which provided training to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and many other organizers and activists.
  5252. The Highlights of "ChinaLeaks"
    First Published: 2014
    Reports by ICIJ and its partners revealing the secretive offshore holdings of China’s political and financial elite have generated a global wave of media coverage and an aggressive censorship campaign by Chinese authorities. These are some of the highlights of a worldwide selection of the original reports and ensuing media coverage.
  5253. The Hijab as a Billboard for Islamist Propaganda
    First Published: 2022
    Let's not fool ourselves about what is actually happening in Iran now and for the last five weeks. These women are not just merely "celebrating" or marching for their freedom of expression in general political terms, no! They are fighting a piece of cloth that has come to symbolise an all-encompassing religious intolerance and zealotry as the core of a disintegrating Islamist ideology.
  5254. The hijab: "preventing common impositions"
    First Published: 2019
    Children are not the property of their parents. They are individuals with rights and bodily integrity. And just because their parents believe in child veiling or FGM and male circumcision doesn't mean they should be automatically entitled to impose their views on their children, especially when these views are harmful.
  5255. The Hijacking of the Marianne by "The Pirates of the Mediterranean"
    First Published: 2015
    In the early hours of the morning (local time) of June 29th, three Israeli Navy ships intercepted and hijacked a Swedish flagged ship, the Marianne av Göteborg on route to Gaza in the State of Palestine.
  5256. Hilary Benn's speech The media's war footing on Corbyn and Syria
    First Published: 2015
    Britain's media is on a double-war footing. The first war is against Jeremy Corbyn, and is countering the threat that Corbyn's more popular policies may gain even wider support. The second war is for Britain's ongoing right to bomb somewhere whenever elites want.
  5257. Hill, Christopher
    Connexipedia Article
    English Marxist historian and author. (1912-2003).
  5258. Hill, Christopher - Writings - Index
    Writings of Christopher Hill (1912-2003).
  5259. Hill, Joe
    Connexipedia Article
    Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
  5260. Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism
    First Published: 2015
    Feminist enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is reflective of a profound crisis of U.S. liberal feminism, which has long embraced or accepted corporate capitalism, racism, empire, and even heterosexism and transphobia.
  5261. Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
    First Published: 2017
    During an interview with ABC's Sarah Ferguson, while promoting her new book about her loss in the 2017 presidential election, Hillary Clinton told five lies about the WikiLeaks.
  5262. Hillary Clinton, The Vote, and Contemporary Feminism's Class Blindness
    First Published: 2016
    The feminist fight for libreration has been sidelined.
  5263. Hillbilly Elitism
    The American hillbilly isn't suffering from a deficient culture. He's just poor.
    First Published: 2016
    J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is not aimed at that underclass (few books are), but rather a middle- and upper-class readership more than happy to learn that white American poverty has nothing to do with them or with any structural problems in American economy and society and everything to do with poor folks' inherent vices.
  5264. The Hillcrest Mine Disaster
    The worst coal mining disaster in Canada occurred in Hillcrest, Alberta, on Friday June 19, 1914. A total of 189 men died. 130 women were widowed and 400 children left fatherless.
  5265. Hindu far right pressured a Canadian university into cancelling a critical lecture
    First Published: 2024
    Exploiting the language of anti-racism and multiculturalism, Hindu nationalists are promoting their far-right ideology in Canada.
  5266. Hip-Hop Ain't Dead
    First Published: 2016
    Many rap artists used their words to question oppression. This is where hip-hop began, a radical middle finger to the system that created the need for such an outlet.
  5267. Hippies
    Connexipedia Article
    A subculture which was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world.
  5268. Hippies, Yippies, Radicals and Pranksters
    First Published: 2017
    Review of the book entitled "Did iT! From Yippie to Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, an American Revolutionary," by Pat Thomas.
  5269. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fictions and Facts
    First Published: 2018
    The New York Times reported that year, “Many historians believe the bombings [of] Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, which together took the lives of more than 200,000 people, saved lives on balance, since an invasion of the islands would have led to far greater bloodshed.” Many historians, perhaps; but not that many.
  5270. Hirson, Baruch - Writings - Index
    Writings of Baruch Hirson (1921-1999).
  5271. His Right to Say It
    First Published: 1981
    Chomsky takes the opportunity to clarify the details of the so-called Faurisson Affair in which he played a catalytic role by signing a controversial petition. He defends his involvement by reiterating and exploring the principle of self-expression irrespective of content.
  5272. Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
    An interview with the author of The Free State of Jones
    First Published: 2019
    The 1619 Project, launched by the New York Times in August 2019, presents American history in a purely racial lens and blames all "white people" for the enslavement of 4 million black people as chattel property.
  5273. Historic Declaration by Palestinians, Israelis in Support of Israeli Social Protest, Anti-Colonial Struggle
    First Published: 2011
    Some 20 political parties and social movements from both sides of the Green Line issued an historic declaration in support of the social protests currently rocking Israel and their necessary linkage to the struggle against Israel’s occupation and colonial policies.
  5274. Historic Film Withheld 36 Years
  5275. Historic Settlement Reached on Behalf of CIA Torture Victims
    First Published: 2017
    Details on the legal settlement between the U.S government and the victims of a CIA torture program in 2002.
  5276. Historic Speaker's Corner Becomes Site of Anti-feminist Silencing and Volence
    Efforts to silence feminist speech have taken a violent turn
    First Published: 2017
    The "What is gender" debate at the historic Speaker's Corner in London turned vitriolic and violent when opposing organizations accused the discussion of potentially inciting "transmisogyny."
  5277. A historic turning point in Brazil
    First Published: 2016
    President Dilma Rousseff's suspension is a historic turning point in Brazil -- the end of an era of Workers' Party (PT) national governments that began in 2002 with the election of Lula. The PT won four presidential elections, two with Lula (2002 and 2006) and two with Dilma (2010 and 2014). This political crisis and historic turning point is intertwined with an equally deep economic crisis -- in 2015 GDP shrank by 3.8 percent in Brazil and, taking into account IMF projections for 2016, GDP might shrink by a further 3.5 percent. These data suggest that now there is an economic crisis similar to the crisis of 1929-31, when Brazilian GDP shrank by 8.1 percent.
  5278. Historical Materialism
  5279. Historical method
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in form of accounts of the past.
  5280. The Historical Moment That Produced Us 
    First Published: 2010
    As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg's remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: "The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!" We assert the ongoing reality of communism, "the real movement developing before our eyes," as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel's "knights of history," we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
  5281. Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution
    A Discussion Article on the Thesis of the IKD
    First Published: 1946
    Capitalism fetters, i.e., hampers, impedes the development of the productive forces. But it does not bring them to a halt. They move forward by advance, retardation, standstill, but they move forward, bringing the proletariat with them. The theoretical analysis is that the more capitalism increases the productive forces, the more it brings them into conflict with the existing social relations. The more it increases and develops the productive forces the more it socializes labor and the more it degrades it and the more it drives it to revolt.
  5282. Historical Subjects Lost and Found
    First Published: 2018
    Looking at the legacy of Marx in the West Indies.
  5283. Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
    New Communities and the Institutional Church
    First Published: 1975
    A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
  5284. Historiography of the Salon
    Connexipedia Article
    Played an integral role in the cultural and intellectual development of France.
  5285. Historique et realisations du Reseau d'Aide de 1974-1980
    First Published: 1980
    Ce document, publié par le Réseau d'Aide aux personnes seules et intinérantes de Montréal Inc., donne les objectifs généraux de la Corporation, les catégories de ses membres et lea réalisations depuis sa fondation.
  5286. History and Realization of the Material Imagination
    First Published: 1979
    Questions the currently existing lines between "culture" and "nature" and to posit a possible unitary theory encompassing both.
  5287. History as Argument
    First Published: 2013
    On the argument of E.P. Thompson’s tremendous book, The Making of the English Working Class
  5288. A History of the Barricade
    First Published: 2016
    The barricade is the iconic tactic of historic class struggles, and its history is engagingly explored in Hazan's history, finds William Booth.
  5289. The History Behind the Organizer of the Water War 
    Oscar Olivera remembers how the Bolivian people took back their land and their power
    First Published: 2013
    Many know Oscar Olivera as the voice and the organizer of the water war in Cochabamba in 2000. Others remember his experience as a factory worker.
  5290. The History Channel Is Finally Telling the Stunning Secret Story of the War on Drugs
    First Published: 2017
    The US government's involvement with the drug cartels is examined in a new documentary on The History Channel.
  5291. History, Culture and the Communist Manifesto--Part 1
    First Published: 1998
    History and experience have convinced me that class analysis remains the best way of understanding social change.
  5292. History, Culture and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 3
    First Published: 1998
    Historical materialism will remain the overriding framework for any effort that is intended to assist revolutionary practice.
  5293. History of the Equals
    First Published: 2016
    Mahdi Ganjavi interviewed Professor pETER Linebaugh during his visit with a special focus on two of his major contributions to a Marxist study of "history from below": The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, and The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century.
  5294. History and Hypocrisy: Why the Korean War Matters in the Age of Trump
    First Published: 2017
    The DPRK's recent missile test is a "provocation" according to US state sources. A provocation indeed. Firing things into the air that go bang is clearly not a nice thing to do. People really should ease up on things that explode. I mean somebody could get hurt.
  5295. History Is Happening: WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate
    First Published: 2019
    An article based on and in discussions with Nozomi Hayase's book 'WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening'.
  5296. History is Knocking
    Popular Resistance's manifesto against the destructive aspects of U.S. foreign and domestic policy.
  5297. History of Algerian Independence
  5298. A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklin’s hatred of the Germans
    First Published: 2017
    In the 1750s, the United States of America was not yet a country, but its trouble with immigrants already had begun. People of non-WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) descent were crossing the ocean to start new lives in the new world, and earlier Colonial settlers were none too happy about it.
  5299. A history of American lynchings
    First Published: 2017
    A soil collection project is commemorating the forgotten victims of lynching and helping to tell their stories.
  5300. A History of International Women's Day in words and images
    First Published: 2018
    An online history of International Women's Day, which includes visual materials and numerous photographs from each decade.
  5301. A History of Political Terror
    The Ritual of Beheading
    First Published: 2014
    Decapitation is a public ritual of political theatre that dates from ancient times. It is designed not simply to gruesomely kill a victim, but to send a powerful message to adversaries, both local and foreign. It is designed not simply to gruesomely kill a victim, but to send a powerful message to adversaries, both local and foreign.
  5302. A History of Silencing Israeli Army Whistleblowers: From 1948 Until Today
    First Published: 2016
    One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions.
  5303. A history of struggle - book review
    First Published: 2014
    In his review of "Neil Faulkner, A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals", Stone posits that Neil Faulkner’s history is one which, in the classical Marxist tradition, is both profoundly internationalist, and which celebrates the self-activity of the exploited and oppressed and their potential to shape the future.
  5304. A History of Student Movements and Activism at Evergreen State College and the Greater Nation
    First Published: 2016
    Students and student movements have played a major role in struggles for reform and revolution in the United States and around the world. Before I turn to Evergreen, I will give a few examples, mainly from the United States in the 1960’s. I will also share a few conclusions based on many years of activism with student movements.
  5305. History of the Canadian peace movement until 1969
    First Published: 1969
  5306. History of the Gaza Strip
    First Published: 2023
    Maha Nassar provides historical context to the current violence in the densely populated and besieged enclave.
  5307. History of the Hippie Movement
    Connexipedia Article
  5308. A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of a book of the Indonesian massacres contains lengthy excerpts and summary of the history.
  5309. A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council
    1972-75.
    First Published: 1977
    This history is a resume of the activities of one group of women who have been involved in the women's movement in St. John's since the spring of 1972.
  5310. A history of the peace movement in Canada
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1982
  5311. History of the Socialist Party of Canada
    First Published: 1973
  5312. The History of the Undefeated
    A few words in commemoration of the 1979 Revolution
  5313. History of union busting in the United States
    Connexipedia Article
    Union Busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, organizing, and strike actions.
  5314. A History of Women's Rights in Toronto
    First Published: 2017
    Whether they were marching in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington or commemorating International Women's Day, women in Toronto have a longstanding tradition of advocating for gender equality across Canada.
  5315. History on the Printed Page
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    A small volume could be produced listing the books dealing with the times I have written about here. I will offer only a couple dozen.
  5316. The history and politics of the Communist Party of Canada: an overview
    First Published: 2020
  5317. History, Theory, Politics & Invisible Man
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    Paul Heideman's spirited critique of my review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling with the Left testifies to the reach of Foley’s study. That the politics of Ellison’s novel would be up for debate in a journal like Against the Current would be unthinkable without Foley’s efforts. In multiple articles going back more than a decade, and culminating in Wrestling, Foley challenges the consensus critical position that Invisible Man was made possible by Ellison’s clean break from the left, and that the novel offers an objective and accurate critique of U.S. Communism.
  5318. The History We Live With
    Indian Land Claims in B.C.
    First Published: 1977
    Booklet discussing the history of treaties and land claims in B.C.
  5319. History's Mad Hatters
    The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
    First Published: 2010
    Tea Party anger reaches far beyond the ranks of the modest Tea Party movement. It resonates with other Americans who understandably feel that political and economic elites, serving themselves at the expense of everyone else, have failed Americans. The big question is just exactly how (or even if) that private and personal rage gets transformed into moral and political outrage.
  5320. Hitler Wasn't Inevitable
    First Published: 2015
    The 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is cause to reflect on the forces that failed to halt Nazism’s rise.
  5321. Hitler's Bestiary from the Inside
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    Over a decade ago, I spent several months poring through the Martha Eccles Dodd papers at the Library of Congress. I was driven to research her life while working on a book about Left feminist culture and anti-fascist resistance in the McCarthy era. I had just read two of Dodd’s novels (Sowing the Wind and The Searching Light) and was driven to find out more about the sources of Dodd’s attraction to antifascist causes.
  5322. Hitting nature where it hurts: Iran feels the pernicious effects of US sanctions on biodiversity conservation
    First Published: 2019
    Iran is home to a rich and complex array of biodiversity. Efforts to protect its biodiversity have been challenged by decades of economic sanctions and political isolation.
  5323. Hitting the Maternal Wall
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    The “Maternal Wall” is not a new method of contraception, and it’s not the look mom gives when the kids miss curfew. In this slim and accessible book The Motherhood Manifesto, Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner update the two-dimensional “glass ceiling” to describe the maternal wall as “employment discrimination against a woman who has, or will have, children.”
  5324. Hizballah Through the Fog of War
    First Published: 2006
    An interview with Middle East specialist Augustus Richard Norton on the nature of the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group, in which he attempts to dispel some of the shibboleths that hamper Western understanding of its aims and design.
  5325. HMS Hermione
    Connexipedia Article
    A frigate which underwent a mutiny in 1782 in which her commander and most of the officers killed.
  5326. Hoffa Jr.: The Real Record
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    Many savvy Labor movement activists and observers are understandably puzzled by Teamster President James Hoffa’s sudden and enthusiastic endorsement of the Change to Win Coalition. Within the Teamsters, it’s been the reform movement and Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) who have championed the need for structural reform to free up resources to organize the union's core industries-usually in the face of boos and catcalls from the Hoffa crowd.
  5327. Hoffman, Abbie
    Connexipedia Article
    Social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). (1936-1989).
  5328. Holbach, Baron d'
    Connexipedia Article
    French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. (1723-1789).
  5329. Hold the Front Page!
    Time for a Fifth Estate
    First Published: 2013
    Today, we need a “fifth estate” right across the media and in journalism training and on the streets. We need those like Edward Smith Hall, who see themselves as agents of people not power.
  5330. Holding The Silent Killers Of Environmental Destruction Accountable
    First Published: 2014
    The findings of the most recent IPCC report are sobering. We have 15 years to mitigate climate disaster. It is up to us to make a major transition to a carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy within that timeframe. Big Energy and our plutocratic government are not going to do it without effective pressure from a people-powered movement.
  5331. A Hollowed-Out Keynesian Warfare State
    American Democracy Today and Historically
    First Published: 2003
    The Democratic Party today is a party of corporate lawyers. Forty years ago, it was still rooted in local urban political machines and in the unions. A similar gap has arisen between the business elite that controls the Republican Party and the small-town lower-middle class constituency that supports the Republican "cultural agenda" of a backlash against "permissiveness", as on the abortion issue, or the separation of church and state. The entire official political system is mobilized with a "hard" Hobbesian edge against the "social": the program is to close factories, close schools, close hospitals, build prisons.
  5332. Hollowing out democracy and law
    First Published: 2017
    The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.
  5333. Hollywood's 'Captain Marvel' Blockbuster Is Blatant US Military Propaganda
    First Published: 2019
    Captain Marvel is the latest in a long line of movies made with the cooperation and approval of the US military.
  5334. Hollywood's Gary Webb Movie and the Message that Big Media Couldn't Kill
    First Published: 2014
    Gary's email arrived quite by surprise. I knew about his Dark Alliance series, five years prior, documenting the CIA's trafficking of cocaine to fund paramilitary squads in Central America. I also knew he had been pummeled by corporate media and had lost his job over it. "They're trying to turn you into me," he said, “but you can win because you don't have a boss who can sell you out."
  5335. Holmes, Sherlock
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    A legendary consulting detective - a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887.
  5336. The Holocaust, the BBC and antisemitism smears
    First Published: 2020
    Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief reference to Israel and an even briefer reference to the Palestinians.
  5337. Holocaust survivor and activist for justice Hedy Epstein dies at 91
    First Published: 2016
    Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 91, died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on May 26, 2016. An internationally renowned, respected and admired advocate for human and civil rights, Hedy was encircled by friends who lovingly cared for her at home.
  5338. Holocaust survivor - why I support Palestinian rights
    First Published: 2010
    For me, the Israeli government's actions toward the Palestinians awaken horrific memories of my family's experiences under Hitlerism: the inhuman walls, the check points, the daily humiliations, killings, diseases, the systematic deprivation. There's no escaping the fact that Israel has occupied the entire country of Palestine, and taken most of the land, while the Palestinians have been expelled, walled off, and deprived of human rights and human dignity.
  5339. The Holy Spirit of Resistance
    Catholic Social Vision
    First Published: 1998
    Catholics all over the world are now becoming aware of their counter-cultural social vision. They are increasingly recognizing the call of God to active citizenship in building the Reign of God rather than accepting the hopeless parameters of a New World Order of exclusion and passivity so powerfully promoted by massive corporations.
  5340. Home is Where the Hatred Is
    A Conversation With Isabel Wilkerson
    First Published: 2011
  5341. Home of the Whopper
    First Published: 2013
    Frank observes a fast-food worker protest in North Carolina and ponders the intersections of technological efficiency and worker redundancy, corporate wealth and de facto government subsidies, and company rhetoric and profits alongside workers' struggles for survival.
  5342. Homefront Confidential, 6th Edition
    How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
    First Published: 2005
    In the days immediately following September 11, the U.S. government embarked on a disturbing path of secrecy. The atmosphere of terror induced public officials to abandon this country's culture of openness and opt for secrecy as a way of ensuring safety and security.
  5343. The Homeless 8-Year-Old Chess Champion and Other Horrific 'Uplifting' Stories
    First Published: 2019
    Stories in US media of people overcoming adversity are only inspiring if you ignore the unjust systems that create their oppression.
  5344. Homeless and Hungry at College
    Falling Through the Safety Net
    First Published: 2010
    With students and their family members losing jobs as tuition increases escalate and social services are cut, more and more students are falling through the tattered social safety net.
  5345. Homeless in America
    Throw Them Out With the Trash
    First Published: 2011
    What the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary, biologically necessary activities are illegal when performed in American streets — not just peeing, but sitting, lying down, and sleeping.
  5346. Homelessness Housing
    Introduction of Fall 1984 issue of the Connexions Digest
    First Published: 1984
    All across Canada, the number of homeless people in urban core areas has been increasing. The press have often featured the unemployed youth, women, and ex-psychiatric patients who are recent additions to the homeless. These groups have joined the men, women and families who have for some time been unable to find affordable and appropriate accommodation. All are being forced to rely on emergency shelters and hostels as the accommodation of last resort.
  5347. Homes Demolished in the South Hebron Hills
    First Published: 2016
    Israeli authorities have destroyed 24 homes in the South Hebron Hills. The homes lie within an area which Israel claims as Firing Zone 918, in which approximately 1000 Palestinian civilians live in 8 villages.
  5348. Homes in illegal Israeli settlements for sale at London expo
    First Published: 2007
  5349. Homestead Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    A labour lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
  5350. Homonationalism and Queer Resistance
    First Published: 2016
    For most young queers today, still, the image of a "worker" is white, male and straight. You can't understand the realities of class without an intersectional approach - an intersectional approach fused with some of the key insights of contemporary radical queer theory.
  5351. Homophobic comments from Conservative MPs raise concerns
    Quotes from a potential Conservative cabinet.
  5352. Honduran political murder
    First Published: 1990
  5353. Hondurans Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty
    Step by Step
    First Published: 2013
    About the Walk called 'Caminata Dignidad y Soberanía Paso a Paso' (Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty Step by Step), which culminated with over 400 people from various groups representing the social movements in Honduras reaching the National Congress in Tegucigalpa with various demands.
  5354. Honduras and Mexico: Open Season for Journalists
    First Published: 2014
    Washington has long been at the forefront of an effort to promote cultural devastation, targeting journalists, artists, and independent thinkers more generally. This cultural ruin is a predictable consequence of U.S. support for repressive regimes.
  5355. Honduras and the dirty war fuelled by the west's drive for clean energy
    First Published: 2014
    The palm oil magnates are growing ever more trees for use in biofuels and carbon trading. But what happens to the subsistence farmers who live on the lucrative land?
  5356. Honduras Bleeding
    The Coup and Its Aftermath
    First Published: 2015
    June 28 marked the six year anniversary of the military coup in Honduras -- the day that a democratically elected left wing government was ousted by a US-backed, US-trained cabal of generals and right wing politicians and landowners.
  5357. Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land
    First Published: 2015
    Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more of their territory to develop for mass tourism, oil palm plantations, illicit drug production ... and the land grabs have the full support of Honduras military government, backed to the hilt by Uncle Sam.
  5358. Honduras Since the 2009 Coup
    First Published: 2017
    As this is being written, news arrives of arrests and serious charges filed against 14 community members of a poor area of Choluteca for opposing land grabs to build a solar energy plant; 28 small farmers in the northern Agujn Valley criminalized for trying to keep and work their land; and 31 university students and three human rights defenders facing jail after government attacks on student protests in Tegucigalpa.
  5359. Honduras: U.S. Support for Repression & Fraud
    First Published: 2018
    The US has supported the illegitimate election in Honduras. The people continue to resist despite deaths, disappearances and incarcerations by the military.
  5360. Hong Kong's "pro-democracy" movement allies with far-right US politicians that seek to crush Black Lives Matter
    First Published: 2020
    As a Hong Kong protest leader promotes far-right condemnations of US anti-racism demonstrations and activists shut down a Black Lives Matter rally in the city, Hong Kong organizers forge close ties with hardline Republicans in Washington.
  5361. Hong Kong's opposition unites with Washington hardliners to 'preserve the US's own political and economic interests'
    First Published: 2019
    The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 19, 2019, without any opposition. Despite loudly proclaiming to protect "human rights" and "democracy," a closer look at this legislation reveals the imperial agenda underlying Washington’s actions in Hong Kong.
  5362. Honoring Helen Thomas
    A Great Journalist, Traduced By Hacks
    First Published: 2010
    Helen Thomas was done in because she embarrassed the group of lap dogs who call themselves White House reporters.
  5363. Honoring Mahmoud Darwish
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    Mahmoud Darwish lived through every major event in recent Palestinian history, and his experiences and his art made him a hero to his people and a companion of every Palestinian. Beloved and revered, he will continue to move every generation of Palestinians. As Nathalie Handal put it, "no other poet captures the Palestinian consciousness and collective memory the way he does… His work speaks of his internal exile and uprootedness, his meditations on his historical, collective, and personal past."
  5364. Honoring Our Gulf War Resisters
    Against The Current vol. 90
    First Published: 2001
    Facing their greatest recruitment crisis since at least the passage of the 1985 Montgomery G.I. Bill, and perhaps since the creation of the so-called "all volunteer" Army in 1973, the U.S. Armed Forces have gotten hip to the persuasive power of popular culture.
  5365. Honoring the Socialist Mary Marcy
    First Published: 2015
    Withe the centenary of World War I underway, it does us well to recall the remarkable socialist militant, Mary Marcy (1877-1922).
  5366. Honoring Walt Sheasby
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    Walt's passing is a triple loss. Personally he was a very dear friend. Second, as we are hearing, in many different ways he was a true stalwart activist, of immense energy and dedication.
  5367. The 'Honor' Killing of Aqsa Parvez
    First Published: 2008
    Feminists and reformist left have for the most part met the spate of 'honour' killings within Canada with disgraceful silence.
  5368. Honored Nazi Exposes Canada's Longstanding Ukraine Policy
    First Published: 2023
    By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a 'hero,' Canada's Liberal Party highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans.
  5369. Honoring Marta Russell (1951-2013)
    First Published: 2014
    A tribute to the life and work of the late disability rights advocate Marta Russell.
  5370. H.O.P.E. Brief to the P.E.I. Energy Corporation
    First Published: 1980
  5371. Hope in Dark Times
    First Published: 2017
    The most dynamic and emergent forces in U.S. politics today are on our side, and possibilities for a radical transformation of the system have not yet been foreclosed. Whether we make good on them is up to us.
  5372. Hope in the Future
    First Published: 1912
    A translation of an article on socialism from "Le socialisme". The article discusses demands made by socialists to amend problems that persist in the capitalist system.
  5373. Hope: The Care And Feeding Of
    First Published: 2011
    Hope is based on uncertainty, on the premise that we don’t know what will happen next.
  5374. Hordes of Vigilantes & Popular Elements Defeat MAI, for Now
    First Published: 1998
    Chomsky comments on the failure of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) intended to consider, for example, international environmental and labour standards.
  5375. Horizons for a New Left 
    The Next New Left: A History of the Future
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Alan Sears' The Next New Left: A History of the Future.
  5376. Horizontal and Vertical - The Dimensions of Occupational Segregation
    First Published: 1987
  5377. Horkheimer, Max
    Connexipedia Article
    German philosopher and sociologist and member of the Frankfurt School. (1885-1973).
  5378. Horrid Carcass of Indonesia - 50 Years After the Coup
    First Published: 2015
    Indonesia has matured into perhaps the most corrupt country on Earth, and possibly into the most indoctrinated and compassionless place anywhere under the sun.
  5379. Horror Beyond Description: Noam Chomsky on the Latest Phase of the War on Terror
    An interview with Noam Chomsky
    First Published: 2015
    Does the "war on terror" make sense? Is it an effective policy? And how different is the current phase of the "war on terror" from the two previous phases that occurred under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush's administrations, respectively? Moreover, who really benefits from the "war on terror"? And what's the link between the US military-industrial complex and war making?
  5380. The Horrors of Slavery: and Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn
    Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. The Horrors of Slavery is a vivid record of the history, ideas, and rhetoric of a leader in the movement to abolish slavery in the West Indies.
  5381. Horton, Myles
    Connexipedia Article
    American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School. (1905-1990).
  5382. Myles Horton
    Connexipedia
  5383. Horton, Zilphia
    Connexipedia Article
  5384. Hospital pays compensation over 'racism' death
    First Published: 2010
    Harinder Veriah's death helped to expose an ugly truth in Hong Kong: that racism is a serious problem. A report "Hong Kong's big dirty little secret" acknowledged that racism was so ingrained that derogatory terms for ethnic minorities such as gwei lo ("ghost people") for whites and hak gwai or ("black ghost") for blacks were barely noticed.
  5385. 'Hostile to privacy': Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox
    First Published: 2014
    Edward Snowden has identified Dropbox and other services as 'hostile to privacy." He urges web users to abandon unencrypted communication and adjust privacy settings to prevent governments from spying on them in increasingly intrusive ways.
  5386. Hot Wet Holiday Sex
    From Wikileaky Condoms to Yucky Zuckerburg
    First Published: 2010
    Whatever your preferences, do go on some kind of holiday sex adventure. Try not to hurt anyone, including yourself, and whatever your pleasure, enjoy it and infuse it with a sense of *sacred* solstice power, a promise to resist the deadly status quo of depression, perma-war and power-grabs, and a passionate commitment to love.
  5387. Hostels and Homelessness
    First Published: 1984
  5388. A house divided: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
    First Published: 2016
    Something remarkable happened over the summer of 2015. Immediately after Ed Miliband resigned following Labour's defeat in the general election, the grip exercised by Blairism over the Labour Party had seemed set to continue grimly on. The field competing for the Labour leadership was confined to various shades of uninspiring Blairites, with the supposedly "left" candidate, Andy Burnham, rushing to distance himself from the unions. Even after Jeremy Corbyn threw his hat in the ring, most (including Corbyn himself) assumed he would be soundly beaten.
  5389. House of Cards
    First Published: 1919
    Again and again the revolution will bring to the fore the basic question: the general reckoning between labour and capital. And this reckoning is a world historical conflict between two mortal enemies which can be fought out only in a long power struggle, eye to eye, hand to hand.
  5390. The House of Horrors that Jack Built
    A look at early childhood literature
    First Published: 1971
  5391. House on Laval Street
    First Published: 1977
    This article in the February edition of Benedict Labre House's paper gives a brief history of Le Groupe de l'Avenir and the alternate services it has created.
  5392. Housebroken
    First Published: 2012
    There’s a second environmental crisis, just as potent as the first.
  5393. Household Worker Organizing, Its Lessons for Labor Today
    First Published: 2015
    Domestic work is representative of a paradigmatic shift in labour, as the conditions of labour for other workers seem to converge with and more closely resemble those of private household workers.
  5394. Housework: An Annotated Bibliography
    First Published: 1983
  5395. Housing Co-operatives
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Continuing housing co-operatives emerged during the 1960s as an innovative way to meeting housing needs and foster community development.
  5396. Housing guide
    Advice on taking action to house yourself cheaply and know your rights
    First Published: 2004
    Advice on taking action to house yourself cheaply and know your rights, in a time when buying a property is beyond many people, council housing is being sold off, rents are rising and hundreds of thousands are homeless.
  5397. Housing in St. John's
    First Published: 1983
  5398. The Housing Mess
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    Despite recent CNBC and MSNBC media hosts suggesting we may be at the ‘bottom’ of the housing market crisis, and Market Watch June 3rd commentary headlines like “Housing market may turn more quickly than you expect,” statistics continue to say otherwise, in sobering fashion.
  5399. The Housing Question
    First Published: 1872
    Only by the solution of the social question, that is, by the abolition of the capitalist mode of production, is the solution of the housing question made possible.
  5400. Housing Rehabilitation Guides
    First Published: 1975
    A series of four booklets dealing with housing in Edmonton.
  5401. How a backwards shirt led to a lesson in kindness for P.E.I. kindergarten class
    First Published: 2018
    Students show their support for one of their own.
  5402. How a Christian Nonprofit Helped a Controversial Minnesota Mining Company Buy Gear for Local Police
    First Published: 2019
    A Christian non-profit called Shield616 that donates gear to police forces has received donations from mining companies. This sparks concerns of a conflict of interest among residents that are protesting these mines.
  5403. How a London court Repudiated Zionist Abuse of the Anti-Semitism Charge
    Tribunal Blow to Israel's Advocates
    First Published: 2013
    Taunting and tainting opponents with the charge of anti-semitism is a long-standing Zionist ploy, familiar to everyone involved in the Israel-Palestine issue.
  5404. How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History
    More than 500 slaves fought for their freedom in this oft-overlooked rebellion
    First Published: 2016
    on the night of January 8, 1811, more than 500 enslaved people took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S. history. They carried cane knives (used to harvest sugar cane), hoes, clubs and some guns as they marched toward New Orleans chanting "Freedom or Death."
  5405. How a PR company manufactured the Labour coup - Part I
    First Published: 2016
    As the chaos surrounding Jeremy Corbyn continues at an unprecedented rate, The Canary can exclusively reveal more elements to the Labour coup that has been unfolding since the EU referendum result. In an overarching investigation, more links have come to light between Portland Communications, its subsidiaries and parent company, members of staff both there and at the Fabian Society and the Progress wing of the party.
  5406. How a Selective Boycott Can Boost External Support for Palestinians
    First Published: 2016
    The pro-Palestine solidarity movement could enlarge its following, convince more influential supporters, and get past trivial, harmful and sectarian disputes -- if it wants to. A boycott must be humanist, as is the cause of supporting Palestinian self-determination. Boycotting humanism allows the cynical internal corrosion of any political movement of the left.
  5407. How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity
    First Published: 2011
    According to conventional wisdom, the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte has achieved something impossible. So, too, has the island of Cuba. They are feeding their hungry populations largely with local, low-input farming methods that enhance the environment rather than degrade it. They have achieved this, moreover, at a time of rising food prices when others have mostly retreated from their own food security goals.
  5408. How A-historical Journalism Serves Power
    A Calendar of Infamy
    First Published: 2013
    Contemporary journalism has a horrendous habit of considering history superfluous.
  5409. How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
    First Published: 2010
    The closeness of the mainstream to dominant economic, cultural and ideological forces means that the mainstream largely functions to promote the interests of the military/industrial/political complex. Yet within advanced capitalist economies, the contradictions and complexities of corporate media have provided certain spaces for progressive journalism.
  5410. How America Determines Friends and Foes
    First Published: 2004
    Bush II's approach to "ridding the world of evil" includes treating every nation harboring terrorists as terrorist states. Chomsky ponders what this standard would mean if applied to America.
  5411. How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
    First Published: 2023
    The New York Times called it a "mystery," but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept a secret - until now.
  5412. How American History Erases Mass Killings Against Native Americans
    First Published: 2017
    In the wake of recent American mass killings, the author reminds us of mass murders of indigenous people in American history.
  5413. How American media incited genocide
    Commentaries published by US media outlets have openly demonised Palestinians and justified the mass killings in Gaza.
    First Published: 2024
  5414. How and Why The Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro
    First Published: 2019
    A summary of the Intercepts investigation into Operation Car Wash based on a trove of private communication they have received and are making available to the public.
  5415. How 'Antifa' Mirrors the 'Alt-Right'
    First Published: 2017
    Behind the rhetoric of the "alt-right" about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust for violence. Behind the rhetoric of antifa, the Black Bloc and the so-called "alt-left" about capitalism, racism, state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence.
  5416. How Apple is Paving the Way to a 'Cloud Dictatorship' in China
    First Published: 2018
    Apple Inc. is set to hand over the operation of its iCloud data center in mainland China to a local corporation, but Apple has not explained the real issue. With the move a state-owned big data company controlled by the Chinese government will have access to all the data of its service users in China; this will allow the state apparatus to jump into the cloud and look into the data of Apple's Chinese users.
  5417. How are you going to pay for it? 
    First Published: 2017
    Debates on how government will pay for new programs suffer from a fundamental fallacy: the assumption that the government spends other people's money. It doesn't.
  5418. How Australian bank financed the heroin trade
    First Published: 2013
  5419. How Big is My Tribe? The Crisis in Catalonia
    First Published: 2017
    A look at recent divisive events in Catalonia, Britain and the US, proposing that we should really be concentrating more on important universal issues such as inequality, influence peddling, profit-only deregulation, and offshore tax havens.
  5420. How Big Oil Plans to Win Ugly in New York
    Leaked Transcript from PR Maven Shows Energy Companies will be Told to Make the Fight Against Fracking Opponents Personal
    First Published: 2014
    A PR firm well known for its hardball tactics in defense of Big Tobacco will deliver the keynote address at tonight’s Independent Oil and Gas Association conference.
  5421. How Big Oil seeps into Canadian academia
    Canada's oily universities
    First Published: 2016
    For years, Royal Dutch Shell has tried to portray itself as one of the good guys in the battle against climate change. It recently completed improvements to an oil upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan, near Edmonton, to capture up to a third of its greenhouse gas emissions - equivalent to removing the annual pollution of about 250,000 cars.
  5422. How Big Pharma Infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
    First Published: 2018
    Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix says Pharma and its operatives.
  5423. How Bosses Use 'Open Shop' Campaigns to Crush Unions
    First Published: 2017
    Chad Pearson's book "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" and Lane Windham's new book "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970's and the Roots of a New Economic Divide", take a historical look at anti-union tactics through the 20th century, and demonstrate how Unions can regroup, reform and fight back.
  5424. How Brazil's Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
    First Published: 2017
    Sex workers in Brazil have been organizing for 30 years and have influenced politics to the extent that the government recognizes sex-work as an official occupation. They are celebrating the anniversary in part with an exhibit of photographs taken by sex-workers.
  5425. How Brazil’s Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
    First Published: 2017
    In Brazil, sex work remains politically and socially contentious. But thanks to a staunch sex worker movement in the country, the people who actually do the work have made themselves key contributors to the debate.
  5426. How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room
    First Published: 2013
    A Leicester-based blogger's monitoring of weapons used in conflict has been taken up by media and human rights groups. Never having been near a warzone has not stopped him from breaking some of the most important stories on the Syrian conflict in the last year.
  5427. How California police are tracking your biometric data in the field
    Agencies are using mobile fingerprint scanners, tattoo and facial recognition software
    First Published: 2015
    EFF and MuckRock got together to reveal how state and local law enforcement agencies are using mobile biometric technology in the field by filing public records requests around the country. Thousands of pages of documents were obtained from more than 30 agencies.
  5428. How can environmental activists use social media? Part 1
    First Published: 2018
    Environmental activists and NGOs spend a considerable amount of time Facebook posting and Tweeting. But the best use of social networks is about what you want to achieve. Alessio Perrone spoke to some experts in the field and gives some tips about how to use platforms successfully to promote social change
  5429. How can environmental activists use social media? Part 2
    First Published: 2018
    Environmentalist activists and major NGOs all spend a considerable amount of time on social media - as an immediate and direct connection to the public. But to what effect?
  5430. How can environmental activists use social media? Part 3
    First Published: 2018
    Has Twitter jumped the shark? Is Facebook now MySpace? Should environmental activists bother with social media - and does the Cambridge Analytica scandal mean we should boycott?
  5431. How Can I Keep From Singing
    First Published: 2014
    Excerpts from an interview with Pete Seeger.
  5432. How can the U.S. dare lecturing China about Rights of the Muslims?
    First Published: 2019
    For some time, I have been warning the world that the West, and the United States in particular, are helping to radicalize the Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province and outside.
  5433. How Can the US Accuse Russia of Violating International Law?
    Not Funny, But it's Still Hard Not to Laugh
    First Published: 2014
    If you want to make moral or legal pronouncements, or to condemn bad behaviour, you have to be a moral, law-abiding person yourself.
  5434. How can we destroy capitalism?
    First Published: 2016
    Corporate Watch's new publication, 'Capitalism, What is it and how can we destroy it?' provides an accessible introduction to capitalism and explores how we might bring about its ending. What is capitalism? An economic system built on private property, markets, exploitation and profit, enforced by state violence. But also, digging deeper, a culture of fear and passivity, in which we learn to see the natural world, other people, and even ourselves, as objects to be owned and managed, bought and sold.
  5435. How Can We End the U.S. Government's Pro-Israel Foreign Policy?
    First Published: 2007
    We need to start thinking about building a revolutionary movement and not a reform movement focused just on one issue.
  5436. How Can We Step Outside the Box?
    To sustain our efforts and help them to grow, we need a solid core of relationships and ideas that confirm the best of what we know and do against the pressure of capitalist ideas and values. Building an organization of our own, an organization not dominated by capitalist ideas or by anti-worker ideology or by creeps, is how we step outside the box of corporate and elite domination.
  5437. How Canada could use the Saudi quarrel to help the Middle East - and itself
    First Published: 2018
    Saudi Arabia's overreaction to Canadian criticism on human rights provides an opportunity for Canada to rethink Middle East policy. Such a policy, based on universal human rights, would greatly benefit not just Saudi Arabians but those in the broader Middle East, and also Canada.
  5438. How Canada Subsidizes Illegal Israeli Settlements
    Enabling Crimes Against Palestinians
    First Published: 2011
    Canada's tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there's nothing that can be done about it.
  5439. How Canada's corporate media framed the Occupy movement
    First Published: 2011
    The Occupy movement occupied two parallel, rarely intersecting universes in the corporate media. In one, described frequently in the Toronto Star, occasionally in the Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail and only once in the National Post, Occupy is a worldwide movement created in response to the growing gap between the one percent at the top of the income-and-asset pyramid and the 99 percent below.
  5440. How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith
    A National Crime and Shame
    First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
  5441. How Capitalist Globalization Forecloses on Health Systems
    First Published: 2019
    Discussion of the multi-author collection "Health Care under the Knife." The book criticizes many aspects of medicine under capitalism but falls short of promoting radical alternatives.
  5442. How Cars Drive Inequality
    An Exclusive Form of Travel
    First Published: 2013
    Studies show that in car oriented cities are poor are less likely to rise the socioeconomic ladder than in transit and pedestrian oriented cities.
  5443. How Change Happens: A Three-Fold Strategy
    To build a new economy, we must work on three fronts
    First Published: 2011
    The power of authentic culture stories gives civil society the ultimate advantage in the contest for the human future. Stories alone will not, of course, bring down the institutions of Empire. Nor should we welcome the inevitable chaos that the collapse of Empire will bring if we have not first laid a foundation of the new rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy.
  5444. How Chavez Changed History for the Better
    A New Kind of Socialism
    First Published: 2013
    Hugo Chavez's impact on Venezuela.
  5445. How Churchill Broke the Greek Resistance
    First Published: 2017
    On May 8, 1945, Hitler’s successors signed Germany's capitulation. By that point, Greece had already been liberated for six months. Across more than three years, the Greek people had waged a mass resistance against the fascist occupiers -- the Italians, the Bulgarians, and above all the Germans -- in which they had shown heroic courage in the face of a boundless terror.
  5446. How Class Kills
    First Published: 2015
    A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
  5447. How climate scepticism turned into something more dangerous
    First Published: 2017
    The motley array of candidates who ran for the Republican presidential nomination was divided on many things, but not on climate change. None of them was willing to take the issue seriously.
  5448. How Cops Use 'Psychopaths and Liars' and Often Become Them to Achieve Their Goals
    First Published: 2015
    Does using criminals or actually becoming them, justify the path to security? American law enforcement tends to think so.
  5449. How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists
    First Published: 2015
    In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributed an intelligence bulletin to all field offices warning that environmental extremism would likely become an increasing threat to the energy industry. The eight-page document argued that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent "criminal incidents" suggested that environmental extremism was on the rise.
  5450. "How Could They?" Why Some Americans Were Drawn to the Communist Party in the 1940s
    First Published: 2019
    We did not become Communists because of any adoration of Stalin. We wanted a better world, one in peace, and we admired the giant achievements of the Soviet people in overcoming illiteracy and building a giant industrial base which proved so vital in defeating the Nazis. We also admired an economy which suffered no joblessness while nearly the entire world groaned under the Great Depression.
  5451. How Culture Came to Appropriate Race
    First Published: 2017
    Racism has historically played a major role in shaping adoption practices.
  5452. How Dare You Clean Up Our Mess?
    Tweedle Destruction and Tweedle Disaster
    First Published: 2009
    On the nauseating hypocrisy of our good friends on the regressive right. You know the rules. One set of sexual standards for us, another for them behind closed doors. Big thumping militarist patriotism when our kids go off to war, rather less when it's their turn. Itsy-bitsy small government ideology for the lil' folk, Washington as a great big candy-covered sugar teat for them. Etc., etc.
  5453. 'How Dare You!' The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action
    First Published: 2019
    Reality clashed with the BBC version of false consensus in a remarkable edition of HardTalk last month. Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, was starkly honest about humanity’s extreme predicament in the face of climate breakdown and refused to buckle under host Stephen Sackur’s incredulous questioning.
  5454. How 'dark fishing' sails below the radar to plunder the oceans
    Billions of dollars in illegal and unregulated fish supplies are mixed with legal catches and smuggled into the market.
    First Published: 2020
    In September 2019, the Greenpeace campaign ship Arctic Sunrise was scanning the mid-Atlantic ocean, thousands of kilometres from anywhere. On board, investigators were looking for vessels that were doing their best not to be found.
  5455. How Democracy Ends
    First Published: 2021
    The pandemic events of 2020-2021 outline a potential pathway for a future democratically elected President of the United States to systematically end democracy.
  5456. How Did It Start?
    First Published: 2017
    Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
  5457. How Did We Get Here? What Lies Ahead?
    First Published: 2016
    We need to understand the reasons why Trump won the 2016 U.S. election. This requires recognizing the uniqueness of this election on multiple fronts. Trump’s victory was just as much about the Democratic Party's implosion as it was about the triumph of Trump's "outsider" political campaign. The Republican victory was not driven by the party's ascendance among the public at large. If anything, the party is in big trouble looking ahead.
  5458. How 'diversity' breeds division
    First Published: 2004
    Diversity training is supposed to help 'promote good relations' between different ethnic groups and capitalise on workforce diversity. However, there is warranted scepticism about whether such training alleviates tensions or exacerbates them. Much of the content of this training is overreliant on pop sociology and pseudo-therapeutic techniques. Participants are expected to talk about stereotypes they harbour deep in their subconscious, and disclose feelings of harassment and victimisation. Trainers claim to eliminate stereotypes in the workplace, yet in talking about 'different cultural perspectives' they end up generating new and more insidious stereotypes in their stead.
  5459. How Do We Organize A Hundred Million?
    First Published: 2017
    The strategic considerations discussed in this series of posts assumes that it will take a hundred million activist in the US and many hundreds of millions more worldwide to make revolution. Real politics begin where there are millions, many millions.
  5460. How do you stop a pipeline when one family owns both the oil and the media?
    First Published: 2015
    Pipeline opponent’s op-ed rejected by Irving-owned newspaper in New Brunswick.
  5461. How Does the Subaltern Speak? 
    First Published: 2013
    Vivek Chibber argues that postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril. Focusing particularly on the strain of postcolonial theory known as subaltern studies, Chibber makes a strong case for why we can -- and must -- conceptualize the non-Western world through the same analytical lens that we use to understand developments in the West. He offers a sustained defense of theoretical approaches that emphasize universal categories like capitalism and class. His work constitutes an argument for the continued relevance of Marxism in the face of some of its most trenchant critics.
  5462. How does your Web site rank? Alexa tells you
    First Published: 2006
    Find out your Web site's reach and what other sites are popular with the people who come to your site.
  5463. How Dogs Forge a Bond with Rio's Homeless That Is Life-Saving for Both
    First Published: 2015
    Homelessness in Rio is, in many ways, virtually identical to how it manifests in other large cities: it entails unimaginable material and emotional deprivation, hopelessness, societal invisibility, and utter isolation. But one aspect of Rio's homeless population stands out: A huge number of them have dogs that were previously living as desperate, unwanted strays on the street.
  5464. How Drug Courier Profiles Begot Terrorism Watch Lists
    The Drug War and the Fourth Amendment
    First Published: 2013
    More than a million names are now included on the catch-all terrorist watch list maintained by U.S. government agencies.
  5465. How Embarassing when your messages unravel
    The Emperor's New Speak
    First Published: 2001
    Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
  5466. How Empires Fall
    An Interview With Jonathan Schell
    First Published: 2012
    Jonathan Schell discusses non-violent activism.
  5467. How Europe cancelled Germany's debt in 1953
    First Published: 2015
    The 1953 London Debt Accords show that European leaders know how to resolve a debt crisis in the interests of justice and recovery. Article discusses four key lessons for Greece's debt crisis today.
  5468. How Evil Wins: the Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
    First Published: 2019
    The injustices carried out under Trump are not new and people who believe they are or that partisan politics will fix things are being fooled.
  5469. How "Extreme Levels" of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
    Roundup Contamination of GMO Soybeans
    First Published: 2014
    Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in herbicide tolerant genetically modified (GM) plants, even after nearly 20 years on the market. The authors' research, however, demonstrates that roundup Ready GM-soy accumulates herbicide ingredient residues and also differs markedly in nutritional composition compared to soybeans from other agricultural practices, while organic soybean samples show a more healthy nutritional profile than both industrial conventional and GM soybeans.
  5470. How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it
    First Published: 2013
    As a feminist, I've always assumed that by fighting to emancipate women I was building a better world – more egalitarian, just and free. But lately I've begun to worry that ideals pioneered by feminists are serving quite different ends. I worry, specifically, that our critique of sexism is now supplying the justification for new forms of inequality and exploitation.
  5471. How Financial Transaction Taxes Make the Economy More Efficient
    First Published: 2017
    The efforts to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) within the European Union (EU) seem to be finally coming to a head. While the EU is far from unanimous in support of a FTT, an effort to implement a joint FTT has been moving forward for the last six years under a provision that allows ten or more countries to act collectively.
  5472. How the 'free' media dupe us on climate change
    First Published: 2018
    Commentary on a segment of Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post on why climate scepticism persists only in what it terms the "Anglosphere media", that is, those in the United States, UK, Australia and Canada.
  5473. How French 'Intellectuals' Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained
    First Published: 2017
    Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
  5474. How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movement
    First Published: 2017
    Shaw examines the rise in anti-discrimination social activism in Japan after the environmental disasters in 2011 and lack of support from the government towards its non-Japanese citizens.
  5475. How green are your ethics?
    First Published: 2007
    The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
  5476. How Greens and Labor can Win ... Together
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activists and the New South Wales Labourers Federation by Meredith and Verity Burgmann (UNSW Press, 1998).
  5477. How The Guardian Undermines Jeremy Corbyn and the Left
    First Published: 2016
    teleSUR spoke to David Cromwell and David Edwards, co-editors of Media Lens, about The Guardian and corporate media's bias against Labour party leader Jeremy Cobyn.
  5478. How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
    First Published: 2015
    Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of colour. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this program - now want to invoke these laws for their protection.
  5479. How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in Colombia
    Down Where the Death Squads Live
    First Published: 2013
    Human Rights Watch fails to name the names in its recent report on Colombia entitled, “The Risk of Returning Home, Violence and Threats against Displaced People Reclaiming Land in Colombia.” And, this is much to HRW’s discredit.
  5480. How I Became a "Recovering Documentary Filmmaker" and Learned to Reach a Wider Public
    The School of Authentic Journalism Saved My Life: Your Donations Make It Possible
    First Published: 2012
    A look into the way that the The School of Authentic Journalism guides journalists and organizers to reach wider audiences.
  5481. How I Became a Socialist
    First Published: 1894
    Morris looks back over his life and describes his political development.
  5482. How I Became a Socialist
    First Published: 1912
    I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists.
  5483. How I Became Radicalized
    It Can Happen To Anyone
    First Published: 2014
    I’m not exactly sure when I became radicalized, but it was sometime in the mid 1980s. I purposely use the term radicalize because, with the rise of globalized insurgency in general and al Qaeda and now ISIS in particular, the word has become a favorite in the media, especially for those on the right.
  5484. How I Learned Courts are Off-Limits to the 99 Percent
    First Published: 2017
    Rall discusses the expenses of the American justice system that benefit large corporations and the wealthy.
  5485. How Immigrants Built the American Left -- And Can Build It Again
    First Published: 2017
    The energy and upheaval unleashed by the Trump administration's assault on Muslims, Latinos, and other immigrants, documented or not, has been directed toward a restoration of their rights and dignity, toward the family reunions and free passage into our country that have been happily broadcast from airports all across the country -- and rightly so. But if our ambitions are simply to restore the old status quo or even recreate a liberalized version of the policies extant under President Obama, then we will be selling short the possibilities inherent in this moment.
  5486. How Imperialism Works Today
    Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis.
  5487. How Inequality Kills
    First Published: 2017
    The Global March of Neoliberalism: The World Inequality Report 2018
  5488. How International Financial Elites Change Governments to Implement Austerity
    Global War on the 99%
    First Published: 2014
    Many countries around the world are plagued by all kinds of armed rebellions, economic sanctions, civil wars, “democratic” coup d’états and/or wars of “regime change.” These include Ukraine, Venezuela, Syria, Thailand, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia and Lebanon. Even in the core capitalist countries the overwhelming majority of citizens are subjected to brutal wars of economic austerity.
  5489. How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays
    First Published: 2009
    Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry and hundreds are feared to be victims.
  5490. How Israel aims to redefine 'ethnic cleansing'
    First Published: 2016
    Netanyahu’s controversial comments have thrown another obstacle in the way of Palestinian statehood, analysts say.
  5491. How Israel Bought Off UN's War Crimes Probe
    Report's Fate Sealed by Threats to Palestinian Economy
    First Published: 2009
    Palestinian officials faced threats that Israel would retaliate by inflicting enormous damage on the beleaguered Palestinian economy, unless the Palestinian authority agreed to stop pursuing international action against Israel for war crimes.
  5492. How Israel Covers Up Its Ugly Racial Holy War
    First Published: 2015
    As the incitement to violence by Israeli leaders ramped up, so did racist attacks by Israeli citizens.
  5493. How Israel Created Its Monster
    First Published: 2009
    How and why Israel helped Hamas to power.
  5494. How Israel Empowers Islamist Movements
    Shukran, Israel
    First Published: 2011
    If Islamist movements come to power all over the region, they should express their debt of gratitude to their bete noire, Israel. Without the help of successive Israeli governments, they may not have been able to realize their dreams. That is true in Gaza, in Beirut, in Cairo and even in Tehran.
  5495. How Israel erases Palestinian cultural memory
    First Published: 2022
    On Israel's looting of Palestinian cultural and historical archives.
  5496. How Israel is digitally policing Palestinian minds
    First Published: 2017
    Israeli authorities have been arresting and holding hundreds of Palestinians it accuses of fanning the flames of violence in the occupied West Bank and Israel.
  5497. How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party's anti-Semitism crisis
    First Published: 2016
    Last year, socialist stalwart Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the UK’s Labour Party by a landslide. Since then, there has been a steady flow of claims by Israel’s supporters that Corbyn has not done enough to combat anti-Semitism.
  5498. How Israel Silenced its Gaza War Protesters
    First Published: 2009
    A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead.
  5499. How Israel Spins War Crimes
    The Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark Regev appear slicker and less aggressive than their predecessors, who were often visibly indifferent to how many Palestinians were killed.
  5500. How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck
    Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians
    First Published: 2012
    To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases.
  5501. How Israel uses an AI genocide program to obliterate Gaza
    First Published: 2023
    It should already have been evident from the scale of death and destruction inflicted on Gaza over the past eight weeks that Israel was implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
  5502. How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
    First Published: 2016
    Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel’s national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off – or significantly reduce – its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions. Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians.
  5503. How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history
    First Published: 2020
    Israel’s archives are being hurriedly sealed up precisely to prevent any danger that records might confirm long-sidelined and discounted Palestinian history. Last month Israel’s state comptroller, a watchdog body, revealed that more than one million archived documents were still inaccessible, even though they had passed their declassification date. Nonetheless, some have slipped through the net.
  5504. How Israeli Apartheid is Coming Unstuck
    Big Racists vs Little Racists
    First Published: 2013
    Segregation is enforced in all the main spheres of life for Jews and Arabs: land allocation and housing, citizenship rights, education, and employment.
  5505. How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
    First Published: 2017
    Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era.
  5506. How Labor Loses When it "Wins"
    First Published: 1996
    It is time for unions to stop looking for someone else to save them. They need to find ways to save themselves. Mass picket lines, sit-ins, solidarity strikes, secondary boycotts and refusing to handle struck work are weapons that we need to put back in labor's arsenal. Unions must learn to broadly mobilize workers as a class, even if it means violating court orders and injunctions, to regain the initiative for workers' rights.
  5507. How Labour's Campaigns Attempted to Make the Political Personal 
    First Published: 2018
    The basic techniques of convincing people on the doorstep are not different to those of convincing friends or workmates. However, election canvassers have typically gone door-to-door telling voters what the party's policies are. The British Labour Party's new approach, developed by Momentum, emphasized listening to people and identifying their key issues.
  5508. How Law Enforcement Can Use Google Timeline To Track Your Every Move
    First Published: 2015
    The recent expansion of Google's Timeline feature can provide investigators unprecedented access to users' location history data, allowing them in many cases to track a person's every move over the course of years. The expansion of Google's Timeline feature, launched in July 2015, allows investigators to request detailed information about where someone has been -- down to the longitude and latitude -- over the course of years.
  5509. How Laws Assault Queer People (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    Queer (In)Justice is authored by Joey Mogul, a partner at the People’s Law Office in Chicago and director of DePaul University’s Civil Rights Clinic; Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and organizer who works on issues of police misconduct; and Kay Whitlock, an organizer and writer around structural injustices.
  5510. How low will Israel stoop to win the propaganda war?
    First Published: 2009
    The Israel Project's training manual is an unpleasant piece of work. It recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry. And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world's civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
  5511. How many British MPs are working for Israel?
    First Published: 2017
    Investigating the revelations that UK embassy staff in Israel are cooperating with Israeli political parties to influence UK policy making.
  5512. How many dead Yemenis does it take to equal one Washington Post contributor?
    First Published: 2020
    The War Nerd dissects reporting on Saudi Arabia to show how the corporate media cares more about a dead Washington Post columnist than a quarter of a million Yemenis killed in a Western-backed war.
  5513. How Many Divisions?
    Israel is losing this war
    First Published: 2009
    In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. The disparity between the forces, between the Israeli army - with its airplanes, gunships, drones, warships, artillery and tanks - and the few thousand lightly armed Hamas fighters, is one to a thousand, perhaps one to a million. In the political arena the gap between them is even wider. But in the propaganda war, the gap is almost infinite.
  5514. How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America's Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3
    Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen
    First Published: 2018
    Davies investigates the death toll of U.S. covert and proxy wars in Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen and underscores the importance of comprehensive war mortality studies.
  5515. How many more
    First Published: 2015
    New report shows killings of environmental activists are increasing, with indigenous communities hardest hit. Global Witness shines a spotlight on Honduras - the most dangerous country to be an environmental defender.
  5516. How many spokespersons?
    First Published: 1998
    Speaking with one voice means your spokespersons should deliver the same message. It does not mean use only one spokesperson. If the news media representative knows your experts are available and reliable, you are more likely to be called and more importantly, to be believed.
  5517. How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation
    First Published: 2017
    The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.
  5518. How Media Relations Helps the Marketing Plan
    First Published: 2002
    Using media relations to support your marketing strategy.
  5519. How Most Aid to the Palestinians Ends up in Israel's Coffers
    First Published: 2016
    While Europe may think of itself as part of an enlightened West, using aid to defend Palestinians' rights, the reality is less reassuring. The aid may actually be making things significantly worse.
  5520. How Much Do Humans Pollute? A Breakdown of Industrial, Vehicular and Household C02 Emissions
    First Published: 2019
    Modified excerpt from author's new book, Privatized Planet: "Free Trade" as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment.
  5521. How Much Does Climate Change Change?
    First Published: 2015
    A review Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything.
  5522. How Much Does Climate Change Change?
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.
  5523. How much for your data?
    What you whistle in the shower
    First Published: 2014
    Rapacious financialisation risks turning everything we are and have into a productive asset. And the foremost asset is our personal data, mined by digitalised technology.
  5524. How Much Longer Can the U.S. Continue to Wage Economic War on Europe, and Much of the World, Without a Major Blowback Effect?
    First Published: 2022
    Sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has awakened many people to the gangster methods that have been deployed for years by the U.S. government doing the bidding of multinational corporations.
  5525. How the Murders of Journalists in the Middle East Are Brushed Aside
    First Published: 2019
    Though higher-profile than most, Jamal Khashoggi was far from the first Arab journalist to be murdered in the Middle East. In his case, just like most others, cover-ups disguised as investigations may placate public outcry.
  5526. How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor's Putin arrest warrant
    First Published: 2023
    ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev - and Hollywood.
  5527. How Neoliberal Fundamentalism Helped Make Trump President
    First Published: 2018
    A common, headache-inducing media narrative has surfaced since the election in 'mainstream' liberal U.S. publications they can no longer trust, such as The Washington Post or New York Times: that the true decline of U.S. democracy, the true dominance of U.S. corporate power in public life, and the true deterioration of the 'American Dream' has at last begun to arrive with the victory of Donald Trump.
  5528. How NGOs Failed Afghanistan
    "They Killed Every Incentive to Farm"
    First Published: 2014
    On the failures, opportunities, and complications of international aid with a particular focus on Afghanistan. Includes a discussion of a successful canal-building effort in Lower Shabelle province, Somalia -- a project run not by NGOs but a local al-Qa'ida affiliate.
  5529. How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
    First Published: 2017
    As white nationalism and the so-called "alt-Right" have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of this bipartisan coalition focuses on individual, extreme, and hate-filled mobilizations and rhetoric, rather than the deeper, politer, and apparently more politically acceptable violence that imbues United States foreign and domestic policy in the 21st century.
  5530. How Not To Fund Infrastructure
    First Published: 2016
    Recycling is supposed to be a good thing, so when the federal Liberals quietly announced that "asset recycling" would be part of their strategy for meeting their much-ballyhooed infrastructure promises, not many eyebrows were raised. They should have been. Asset recycling is an obscure code word for selling our public goods for private profit. It's privatization by another name.
    Don't have the taxes to pay for new buses? It's okay, you can sell your electricity utility to pay for them instead. In fact, this is precisely what the Ontario Liberal government is doing. Already 30 per cent of the profitable Hydro One have been sold and another 30 per cent will be sold before 2018. A public Hydro One could more directly fight climate change, lower energy costs for the poor or work with First Nations on whose lands generation often happens. A private Hydro becomes an instrument for profit first with other goals secondary.
    What the Liberals have started in Ontario will soon be rolled out across Canada. Here are the problems with these schemes.
  5531. How Not to Get Eaten When the Dinosaurs Escape from their Cages
    First Published: 2012
    The risks of moving too quickly to occupy TV stations, and “Suggestions for Radicals” who are in for the long haul.
  5532. How not to grow a new town
    First Published: 2013
    For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
  5533. How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class
    First Published: 2018
    This essay refutes conceptions of what working class really means by reactivating fundamental Marxist insights about class formation that have been obscured by decades of neoliberalism. The author argues that the key to developing a sufficient understanding of the working class is the framework of social reproduction.
  5534. How not to understand Islamist politics
    First Published: 2009
  5535. How Oakland Teachers Fought Back
    First Published: 1996
    The record in recent years of public-sector union battles, especially strikes, has largely been one of defensive actions. This is not so much due to anti-union propaganda, which labels such job actions as an attack on the 'public interest,' but because of the overall austerity programs.
  5536. How Offshoring Has Destroyed the Economy
    Nobel Laureate: Globalism Has Been Ruinous for Americans
    First Published: 2011
    All of economics is predicated on the notion that resources are inexhaustible, and that the only challenge is to use them most efficiently. But if resources are not inexhaustible and cannot be replicated by human capital, the world economy is being ruthlessly exploited to its detriment and to the detriment of life on earth.
  5537. How Our Lives Have Been Changed
    An interview with Kate DeSmet
    First Published: 1997
    You understand that there's a "common union" and "community," which of course is where "communion" comes from. That's better than what I had before. The best writers write with their own voice; and in this strike I've learned to speak with a voice I didn't know I had, the verbal rather than written voice.
  5538. How Palestinian women led successful non-violent resistance
    First Published: 2018
    Two women share their stories of how they peacefully protested during both Intifadas and challenged Israel's occupation.
  5539. How Paul Robeson found his political voice in the Welsh valleys
    First Published: 2017
    Acclaimed stage actor, American football player, and political activist Paul Robinson became invovled with the Welsh mining labor movement in Rhondda Valley.
  5540. How Photography Can Destroy Reality
    First Published: 2015
    It may be that some of the great philosophical work of our time is taking place, hidden and unheralded, in the field of image forensics. Where but under the scrutiny of digital experts who draw a line separating false representations of the world from truthful ones are contemporary questions of perception and reality brought so keenly to bear? Who but these detectives of the real pursue as explicitly-- as intricately-- our crime wave of the fake, the contrived, the uncanny, the exponential image?
  5541. How PR Sold the War in the Persian Gulf
    First Published: 2002
    This excpert from "Toxic Sludge Is Good For You" (chapter 10), looks at the PR players behind the war in the Persian Gulf and how a foreign-funded campaign manipulated American public opinion.
  5542. How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System
    First Published: 2013
    With huge profits at stake, CCA and the Geo Group are pushing discreetly for enforcement-heavy immigration reform.
  5543. How Private Prisons Profit From the Criminalization of Immigrants
    Lobbying for Lock-Up
    First Published: 2012
    How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, class, sexual orientation, age or other inherent characteristics is a form of tyranny. Yet few people realize that this is happening on an enormous scale in the United States.
  5544. How Propaganda (Actually) Works 
    First Published: 2016
    Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
  5545. How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
    First Published: 2017
    Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
  5546. How protesters are 'deanonymising' Russia's riot police
    Online tools identify policemen who violently dispersed protesters in Moscow
    First Published: 2019
    Tools such as reverse-image search are being used to identify police who violently broke up a protest in Moscow. The legality of releasing this information and the threats some people are making with it is discussed.
  5547. How Protests Against Israeli Bombing of Gaza Stopped Zim Ships
    With Longshore Workers Support
    First Published: 2014
    Protests against the Israeli bombing of Gaza erupted around the world but none had a more powerful impact than picketers in the port of Oakland, California in August and September.
  5548. How Putin Derailed the West
    First Published: 2016
    Whitney argues that Washington is involved in a grand project to remake the world in a way that better meets the needs of its elite constituents, the international banks and multinational corporations.
  5549. How Race Fuels Rightist Agenda
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    Nearly 50 years after the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights, the conservative movement is mobilizing its electoral base by using the wedge issues of race and racism. The principal targets are not new — African Americans and “illegal immigrants” from Mexico.
  5550. How "Race Neutral" Policy Failed
    Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit
    First Published: 2017
    Book review ofKaren R. Miller's Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit.
  5551. How Rich Are the 400 Richest Americans?
    And What They Do With Their Money
    First Published: 2014
    According to Forbes, a leading business magazine, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans has now reached the staggering total of $2.3 trillion. This gives them an average net worth of $5.7 billion – an increase of 14 percent over the previous year.
  5552. How Right-Wing Extremists Stalk, Dox, and Harass Their Enemies
    First Published: 2017
    How neo-Nazis in the U.S use the online chatroom Pony Power to harass anti-facist activists.
  5553. How Russia Became "Our Adversary" Again
    First Published: 2017
    How did Russia, which has been a capitalist state for a querter of a century, become "our adversary" to the United States?
  5554. How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship
    First Published: 2017
    The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reports Joe Lauria.
  5555. How SDS Imploded: an Inside Account
    First Published: 2019
    A look at how Students for a Democratic Society imploded 50 years ago and how it is similar to the behaviour of political parties in the US today.
  5556. How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich
    First Published: 2017
    Seattle further cemented its reputation as one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. last week, when its City Council passed a law to tax the rich, sponsored by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant along with Councilmember Lisa Herbold.
  5557. How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression Without Doctors
    Drugless Antidotes
    First Published: 2012
    While Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway received extensive medical treatment for depression but tragically committed suicide, other famously depressed people — including Abraham Lincoln, William James, Georgia O’Keeffe, Sigmund Freud, William Tecumseh Sherman, Franz Kafka, and the Buddha — took different paths.
  5558. How should we remember Ralph Klein?
    First Published: 2013
    Ralph Klein was one of Canada's most aggressive neo-liberals. Klein's true legacy is a string of anti-social policies and programs.
  5559. How Slick Consulting Firms Get Us on Drugs
    First Published: 2019
    A look at some of the techniques drug companies use to get doctors to prescribe their products.
  5560. How Smart Are the "Smart" Meters?
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    What does it really mean when a corporation calls a new product “smart?” Gas and electric corporations are calling their newest technology “smart meters.”
  5561. How Social Movements Can Win More Victories Like Same-Sex Marriage 
    First Published: 2014
    The rapidly expanding victory around same-sex marriage defies many of our common ideas about how social change happens. This was not a win that came in measured doses, but rather a situation in which the floodgates of progress were opened after years of half-steps and seemingly devastating reversals. It came about through the efforts of a broad-based movement, pushing for increased acceptance of LGBT rights within a wide range of constituencies.
  5562. How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    How the high Internet ranking of the Sources Web site helps magnify the public profile of organizations and companies who are listed in Sources.
  5563. How Strikers Educated Miami University
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    The cleaning workers, kitchen workers, and maintenance workers at Miami University of Ohio -- the people who make this place work because they work -- voted on Wednesday, October 8 to end their strike and return to their jobs.
  5564. How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the '1 Percent'
    First Published: 2012
    I began to learn that the Swedes and Norwegians paid a price for their standards of living through nonviolent struggle. There was a time when Scandinavian workers didn't expect that the electoral arena could deliver the change they believed in. They realized that, with the 1 percent in charge, electoral "democracy" was stacked against them, so nonviolent direct action was needed to exert the power for change.
  5565. How Sweet It Is!
    GATT-Flyer No.4
    First Published: 1977
    A critical analysis of the financing of a sugar complex for the Government of the Ivory Coast by Canada's Export Development Corporation.
  5566. How Syria's Secular Uprising Was Hijacked by Jihadists
    Al Qaeda's Second Act
    First Published: 2014
    On Syria's descent into a sectarian civil war.
  5567. How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega's Panama Super-Charged US Militarism
    First Published: 2017
    Manuel Noriega is dead at 83. He seems like a sad footnote to the last disastrous quarter century, but the December 1989 US invasion of Panama really was a permission slip for Washington -- led by both Republicans and Democrats -- to waste whatever potential benefits the end of the Cold War might have brought.
  5568. How the aristocracy preserved their power
    First Published: 2017
    After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.
  5569. How the 'black bloc' protected the G20
    First Published: 2010
    The black-clad mob in Toronto has left a lot of people not only in the general public but in the wider nonviolent social/global justice movements in Canada feeling disgusted, demoralized and dispirited. Just the result you want if your goal is to marginalize and stifle dissent. The blocistes, in other words, are the most effective tool on the ground for silencing the valid concerns of the broad social movements.
  5570. How the CIA made Google
    Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet - Part 1
    First Published: 2015
    How the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain "information superiority.'
  5571. How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses
    U.S.-Colombia Mass Displacement Policy Succeeding
    First Published: 2012
    The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian. The article explores the displacement of indigenous peoples in the last year.
  5572. How the cops try to predict our next move
    First Published: 2013
    As civil dissent ramps up, UK secret police develop new modes of repression. Kevin Blowe reports on cops, kettles and a database profiling thousands of activists.
  5573. How the Easter Rising changed the world
    First Published: 2016
    Chris Bambery argues that the Easter Rising relaunched the struggle for independence in Ireland and inspired national liberation movements globally.
  5574. How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means
    First Published: 2011
    When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history.
  5575. How the Elites Use Identity Politics to Wage Class War
    First Published: 2022
    I fail to perceive how this ideology menaces an established order that its identity-activists have unctuously and sedulously wooed. Worse, identity politics weakens worker solidarity, because it never mentions class.
  5576. How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
    First Published: 2020
    Chevron has hired private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him. As a result, Donziger has been disbarred and his bank accounts have been frozen.
  5577. How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East
    First Published: 2018
    A look at how the European Union is creating greater instability, distrust, and casualties like Jamal Khashoggi, by trading fundamental values such as human rights for more practical avenues coined as "principled pragmatism".
  5578. How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books
    First Published: 2013
    I have wanted to be a historian of hope. We can take heart from the fact that no matter how dire the situation, some will find means to resist, some will find means to cope, and some will remember and tell stories about what happened.
  5579. How the French pension system works
    First Published: 2011
    Behind the pension reform demonstrations–discontent with politics and politicians, and with the capitalist system itself.
  5580. How the Guardian aided the anti-semites
    First Published: 2018
    Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians – and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?
    The answer is: you help anti-semites.
  5581. How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
    First Published: 2018
    Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
  5582. How the Hand of Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep into our Lives
    Israeli software used on Palestinians is producing new cyber weapons that are rapidly being incorporated into global digital platforms
    First Published: 2019
    Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted.
  5583. How the internet 'punishes' Palestinians
    Tech giants Google, Airbnb and PayPal accused of shaping false narratives with policies in Palestinian territories.
    First Published: 2018
    Multinational tech companies, including Google, Facebook and PayPal are being accused of complicity in rights violations and in shaping false narratives with regard to policies in Palestinian territories.
  5584. How the Israeli flag became a symbol for white nationalists
    First Published: 2021
    The U.S. white nationalist movement's admiration for the Jewish state's supremacist values fits comfortably with its deep antisemitism. Lorber argues that for right-wing groups in the United States, Israel has become a symbol for a set of values and a worldview that transcends any geopolitical reality and takes on a life of its own.
  5585. How the Left betrayed the Truckers
    The convoy is despised by those who should support it
    First Published: 2022
    Ottawa's truckers are a symptom of the massive class divide that is opening up across the West. Marxists are sticking their heads in the sand about this generational moment, or papering it over with absurd topsy-turvy leaps.
  5586. How the Left has Won
    First Published: 2012
    Capitalism was the unintended consequence of bourgeois revolutions, whereas socialism has been the avowed purpose, or at least a crucial component, of every revolution since 1911. This difference has become so important that when we think about the transition from capitalism to socialism, we take the short view: we look for ideological extremes, social movements, vanguard parties, self-conscious revolutionaries, radical dissenters, armed struggles, extra-legal methods, political convulsions – as if the coming of socialism requires the abolition of capitalism by cataclysm, by insurgent, militant mass movements dedicated to that purpose.
  5587. How the left is being manipulated into colluding in its own character assassination
    First Published: 2021
    This is the left's dilemma. We struggle to win the argument in a corporate media environment that not only denies us a hearing but also promotes the voices of those like Freedland trying to destroy us from the centre and those supposedly on the left like George Monbiot and Owen Jones who are too often destroying us from within. We need to find ways to turn the tables on the war criminals who have been gaslighting us in demanding that Assange, who exposed their crimes, is the one who needs to be locked up. We need to make clear that it is those who are so ready to smear anti-racists as antisemites – as Corbyn’s successor, Sir Keir Starmer, has done to swaths of Labour party members – who are the real racists. And we need to unmask as war hawks those who accuse the anti-war left of serving as apologists for dictators when we try to stop western states conducting more illegal, resource-grab wars with such devastating results for local populations.

    We must get much more sophisticated in our thinking and our strategies. There is no time to lose.
  5588. How the left should deal with the referendum results
    First Published: 2016
    With many of the old political certainties breaking up, the left have to rise to the challenge.
  5589. How the Left Should Frame Issues
    First Published: 2007
    The art and science of strategic frame analysis -- issue framing -- is relatively new in Canada, though the concept of framing is not. The right has been framing its issues carefully for years while the left has been oddly complacent about re-framing issues from their perspective.
  5590. How the Media Can Be Positive For Your Business
    First Published: 2001
    If both you and the reporter benefit, the chances are you will do business with that reporter again, good business.
  5591. How the Media Gets It Wrong
    On Asking the Wrong Questions and Mapping Media Dead Zones
    First Published: 2014
  5592. How the Media Manipulated the Democratic Primary
    First Published: 2016
    Though it might not always seem like it, the news media is composed of human beings. Humans aren't, can’t be, and possibly shouldn't be, objective. Still, there's a reasonable expectation among consumers of political news that journalists of all political stripes strive to be as objective as possible. At their minimum, media outlets ought to be straightforward about their biases. They certainly shouldn't have, or appear to have, their thumbs on the scales.
  5593. How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
    First Published: 2017
    An interview with James Q. Whitman about his new book "Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law".
  5594. How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers Lives Hell
    First Published: 2015
    Whatever it's called – just-in-time scheduling, on-call staffing, on-demand work, independent contracting, or the "share economy" -- the result is the same: No predictability, no economic security.
  5595. How the NSA Helped Turkey Kill Kurdish Rebels
    First Published: 2014
    On a December night in 2011, a terrible thing happened on Mount Cudi, near the Turkish-Iraqi border. One side described it as a massacre; the other called it an accident.
  5596. How the NSA Infiltrated Mexico's Computers
    A Cyber Invasion
    First Published: 2014
    NSA internal information provided by former security consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden once again shows that Mexico features prominently as a target for massive U.S. espionage.
  5597. How the Obama Administration Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    US nuclear policy is undermining our safety and national security
    First Published: 2014
    When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he famously pledged to place nuclear disarmament at the center of his national-security strategy. Why, then, we must ask, is the Obama administration moving forward with an ambitious nuclear-weapons modernization program that could dramatically raise the threat of nuclear war?
  5598. How The Oligarchy Gets Politicized
    A Short History of Elite Responses To Political-Economic Crisis
    First Published: 2011
    The political activism of the elite is striking in times of crisis, when the latter takes the form either of severe economic contraction or of working-class militancy, or both.
  5599. How the One Percenters Divorce: Offshore Intrigue Plays Hide and Seek with Millions
    Firm that practices no matrimonial law nonetheless plays big role when the superrich around the globe decide to split
    First Published: 2016
    Offshore companies used 'in a game of hide and concealment' after marriages break down
    Documents list luxury cars and yachts, lavish homes, and art collections. Spouses face a costly battle to prove ownership of offshore assets in protracted divorce proceedings.
  5600. How the organized Left got Covid wrong, learned to love lockdowns and lost its mind
    An autopsy
    First Published: 2022
    For two years the left has championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and radically unaccountable censorship by large media and technology corporations. For the entire pandemic, leftists and liberals - call them the Lockdown Left - cheered on unprecedented levels of repression aimed primarily at the working class: those who could not afford private schools and could not comfortably telecommute from second homes.
  5601. How the People's Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign
    First Published: 2014
    I've never been to a protest march that advertised in the New York City subway. That spent $220,000 on posters inviting Wall Street bankers to join a march to save the planet, according to one source. That claims you can change world history in an afternoon after walking the dog and eating brunch.
  5602. How The Press Hides The Global Crimes Of The West: Corporate Media Coverage Of Chad
    First Published: 2016
    One of the essential functions of the corporate media is to marginalise or silence acknowledgement of the history -- and continuation -- of Western imperial aggression. The coverage of the recent sentencing in Senegal of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad, for crimes against humanity, provides a useful case study. The verdict could well have presented the opportunity for the media to examine in detail the complicity of the US, UK, France and their major allies in the Middle East and North Africa in the appalling genocide Habré inflicted on Chad during his rule - from 1982 to 1990. After all, Habré had seized power via a CIA-backed coup.
  5603. How the Saami Indigenous People Fended Off Gates-funded Geoengineering Experiment
    First Published: 2021
    The first ever stratospheric test of geoengineering technology, funded by Bill Gates, has been suspended under pressure from the indigenous people over whose heads it would take place, the Saami of northern Scandinavia.
  5604. How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
    First Published: 2015
    It is amidst this wider rape culture, and the ways feminists are fighting back, that SlutWalk not only emerged, but exploded as a global grassroots movement. What is significant about SlutWalk is not the premise; after all, women have been protesting against sexual violence for decades. What is striking about SlutWalk was its ability, despite its feminist roots, to capture the mainstream media's attention.
  5605. How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
    First Published: 2018
    Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
  5606. How the tiny fishing village of Pugwash tried to stop a nuclear war
    First Published: 2017
    The Pugwash Conference in Nova Scotia, a gathering of leading scientists to help thwart nuclear war, is the inspiration for a new play by Vern Thiessen.
  5607. How the U.S. Military Feeds at the Terror Trough
    First Published: 2019
    A meandering take on the US's perpetual wars around the world.
  5608. How the UAE Tried to Silence a Popular Arab Spring Activist
    First Published: 2014
    Earlier this year (2014), as a wave of counterrevolution and repression continued to roll back popular democratic uprisings across the Middle East, one of the Arab Spring’s most popular online activists found himself sitting in a jail cell.
  5609. How the UAW Can Make It Right
    First Published: 2018
    Aswar discusses how the UAW lost the vote at the Nissan plant in Mississippi and proposes that Organized laboUr adapt Opertaion Dixie to move forward.
  5610. How the UAW Lost at Nissan
    First Published: 2017
    In early August, the UAW's union recognition campaign at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi ended in a disastrous 63% "no" vote - 10% greater than the loss at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee three and a half years earlier.
  5611. How the Unions Killed the Working Class Movement
    First Published: 2006
    An analysis of how the vertical integration of unions disempowers workers and forces them to use captilist systems such as courts instead of relying on friendship and solidarity.
  5612. How the US and Israel exchange tactics in violence and control
    First Published: 2020
    Two decades of Israeli-US police cooperation includes training in racial profiling and violent suppression of protests.
  5613. How the U.S. Department of Justice Makes Murder Respectable, Kills the Innocent and Jails their Defenders
    Redefining "Imminent"
    First Published: 2014
    In order to justify its global assassination program, the Obama administration has had to stretch words beyond their natural breaking points. For instance, any male 14 years or older found dead in a drone strike zone is a 'combatant' unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving him innocent.
  5614. How the West Creates Terrorism
    First Published: 2016
    Terrorism has many forms and many faces, but the most terrible of them is cold cruelty.
    And so the West linked terrorism with Islam, which is one of the greatest cultures on earth, with 1.6 billion followers. In order to make Islam a worthy enemy, the Empire had to first radicalize and pervert countless Muslim movements and organizations, then create the new ones, consequently training, arming and financing them, so they could really look frightening enough.
  5615. How the West's Economic Sanctions are Inflicting Suffering on Ordinary Syrians
    First Published: 2016
    The US and EU economic sanctions on Syria are causing huge suffering among ordinary Syrians and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid, according to a leaked UN internal report.
  5616. How the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S. Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria
    First Published: 2016
    Created by Western governments and popularized by a top PR firm, the White Helmets are saving civilians while lobbying for airstrikes.
  5617. How the World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor
    First Published: 2015
    The World Bank has broken its promise. Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, an investigation has found.
  5618. How the World Depression Hits Orissa 
    First Published: 2009
    The recession in the West is having a profound impact on the deep rural interior of Orissa.
  5619. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State
    First Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
  5620. How They Sold the Iraq War
    First Published: 2018
    The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management.
  5621. How Tides Canada Controls the Secret North American Tar Sands Coalition
    First Published: 2013
    Mainstream environmental groups are being positioned to make a bad deal on the Tar Sands.
  5622. How to Avoid Action on Climate Change
    The fine art of greenwash in Canadian politics
    First Published: 2008
  5623. How To Be A Reliable 'Mainstream' Journalist
    First Published: 2018
    A commentary on what is required to be a 'good' and 'reliable' journalist for the mainstream Western media.
  5624. How to Become a Real Muslim
    First Published: 2010
    When I was growing up in the 1980s the concept of a radical in a Muslim context meant someone who was a militant secularist, someone who challenged not just racism but the power of the mosques too. Someone like me. Today, of course, it means almost the opposite, a radical is a religious fundamentalist.
  5625. How to Build a Media List
    First Published: 2004
    Often your desired target audiences are diverse so this should be clearly defined before beginning to build your media list.
  5626. How to combat boredom and formalistic thought
  5627. How to create an ecological society
    First Published: 2018
    A review of the book "Creating an Ecological Society: Towards A Revolutionary Transformation" by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, which addresses different aspects of the debate on the politics of the environment.
  5628. How to Deal with a Racist Incident
    First Published: 1977
    Pamphlet prepared to help people act rationally, safely, and sensibly in the face of racist and discriminatory incidents.
  5629. How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
    First Published: 2006
    Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
  5630. How to Defend Israel
    First Published: 1948
    Out of the night of national hatred in Palestine, from the ranks of the working class there, there can arise a real Zion, a Middle East in which Jew and Arab build together a workers, a world without exploitation and oppression.
  5631. How to End the Tea Party (and Scare Obama at the Same Time)
    A Black / Brown Coalition
    First Published: 2010
    One of the reasons the left doesn't do better is because it tends to view the right's transgressions as a moral issue rather than as a pragmatic problem as, for example, a baseball coach would do if the Tea Party were the other team. In fact, calling someone a racist is not a particularly useful political move whereas figuring out why they're getting to first base all the time, and you're not, is. The right keeps it simple. It speaks plain talk, not bland abstractions devised by some third rate branding coach. There is hardly anyone in the country who doesn't know the right opposes gay marriage, abortion and illegal immigration. Now try describing three primary goals of liberals or the left and you see the problem.
  5632. How to Escape the Present
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need". Klein's focus is the global economy and the deeply flawed value system it creates, at the expense of people and the environment.
  5633. How to Fight a Giant: Militant Labor Organizers Catch PepsiCo Off Guard
    First Published: 2017
    The sudden closing of a factory by PepsiCo, the world's second-largest snacks producer, leaves hundred's of workers in Argentina without jobs or sucurity, resulting in a massive demonstration of solidarity for worker's rights.
  5634. How to fight reactionaries
    First Published: 2006
    Fundamentalists of all kinds only thrive when their communities feel besieged. Understanding why is not an indulgence.
  5635. How to Fight Western Propaganda
    Time for a Creative Revolution
    First Published: 2015
    The western propaganda apparatus is enormously efficient and effective. It is also brilliant in how it ensures that its inventions get channeled, distributed, and accepted in all corners of the world. The system through which disinformation spreads, is incredibly complex.
    What are we, who oppose the regime, supposed to do?
  5636. How to Grow Up Under Occupation
    A Childhood Under the Nazi's
    First Published: 2012
    Rochat illustrates the effect adult wars and occupations have on children, and how the relative safety of the Anglo-Saxon world make it hard to comprehend what effect these wars have on children in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and so many other countries under attack.
  5637. How to Help Someone With a Disability: Listen to Them
    First Published: 2020
    If you know someone with a disability, the best thing you can do is listen to them. Let them tell you about their strengths, and weaknesses, and needs.
  5638. How to Jumpstart Your Union (Book Review)
    A Guide to Fighting Back
    First Published: 2014
    An invaluable book for any union activist. It details the successful 2010 strike by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), starting with the formation of CORE (Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators) back in 2008 when they had only 22 members; their election to union leadership positions in 2010 when their membership had swelled to 400; and their determination to maintain the struggle in the aftermath of the strike.
  5639. How to Leak to The Intercept
    First Published: 2015
    Leaking can serve the public interest, fueling revelatory and important journalism. Here are instructions for how to leak safely.
  5640. How to Light a Prairie Fire
    The Spell Can be Broken
    First Published: 2010
    If there's one thing I think many people need to understand, it is this: sustained mass movements rarely happen unless many of the participants believe they might win.
  5641. How to Lobby Like a Pro
    First Published: 1997
    To reach government with your message you need to lobby like the professionals do.
  5642. How to Make a Revolution
  5643. How To Make India Safer For Women
    First Published: 2013
    What’s to be done to make India, a country where women are veneered in the temple and beaten at home, safer for women?
  5644. How to Make Union Meetings Interesting and Useful
    First Published: 2016
    Meetings should give members a sense of power by bringing them together. They can see and feel that they are not alone, that others have similar problems, and that others have found solutions. They can learn from each other, combine ideas, and build something bigger.
  5645. How to Make Your B-roll Work
    First Published: 2003
    Getting a videographer or camera assigned to your story is a challenge to say the least. If you're lucky, you may get one or two cameras out to your news event. That leaves another three or four stations, not including the networks that will not cover your story because they are not there with a camera. PR practitioners can maximize their TV impact by investing in B-roll and hiring a news videography service.
  5646. How to Make Your PR Photos Work
    First Published: 2003
    There is a real art and science to the news photo.
  5647. How to Organize
    15 Key Points
    First Published: 2015
    I would like to share with you this list of points on organizing. I'm by no means an expert organizer, but I have gained some experience in the past decade. This list is not definitive or faultless. If you think I got it wrong, or if you have more points to add, let me know.
  5648. How to Overthrow the Illuminati
    First Published: 2013
    This article explores the creation, migration and refutation of the Illuminati theory.
  5649. How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap 
    A Superfund for Workers
    First Published: 2015
    A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
  5650. How to really fight anti-Semitism
    First Published: 2009
  5651. How to Re-Imagine the World
    A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
    First Published: 2007
    A conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change.
  5652. How to Remove the Rich from Power and Abolish Class Inequality
    First Published: 2014
    Here are step by step instructions for removing the rich from power and abolishing class inequality. The instructions, however, will be in reverse order.
  5653. How to Resist Collection
    Or Make the Most of Collection When it Occurs
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2005
    A practical guide for resistance to tax collection in the United States, as a statement of ethical opposition to the government's advocacy of immoral war.
  5654. How to Rig an Election
    First Published: 2012
    Election fraud in the United States in the era of computerized voting machines controlled and programmed by far-right corporate executives.
  5655. How to Spot - and Defeat - Disruption on the Internet
    The 15 Rules of Web Disruption
    First Published: 2012
    Over a number of years, we've found that the most effective way to fight disruption and disinformation is to link to a post such as this one which rounds up disruption techniques, and then to cite the disinfo technique you think is being used.
  5656. How to Start a Nuclear War
    The increasingly direct road to ruin
    First Published: 2018
    A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.
  5657. How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
    First Published: 2018
    This article outlines ways to address common climate-contrarian arguments, all of which contain errors in reasoning that are independent of the science itself.
  5658. How to Write about Haiti
    First Published: 2010
    How to make sure that you stick to the tried and proven cliches.
  5659. How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
    First Published: 2007
    John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
  5660. How Ultraleftism Divided UNAM Strike
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    MEXICO CITY -- Commandeered buses flying red and black flags and Che Guevara portraits sped through the city on October 2, ferrying students to a demonstration commemorating the 1968 student massacre at the Plaza of the Three Cultures. Led by veterans of the 1968 movement, 60,000 students and their supporters slogged the fifteen kilometers from the university campus up Insurgentes and Reforma, the world's longest urban avenues, to a torchlight ceremony in the plaza. Just five weeks before, on August 28, 30,000 students had marched in support of the electricity workers' struggle against privatization.
  5661. How Urban Planners Promote Gentrification
    First Published: 2019
    A review of Samuel Stein's book "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State" which looks at how private interests and government promote gentrification.
  5662. How US Democracy Triumphed Again
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky explores the discrepancies of the Bush-Gore tie in the 2000 elections such as income correlation and the lack of voter participation, revealing meaningful flaws in the democratic system.
  5663. How US Tax Breaks Fund Israeli Settlers
    Peace Group Targets Settlement's Charitable Status
    First Published: 2009
  5664. How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
    First Published: 2015
    Verizon advertising partner Turn is using Verizon Wireless's UIDH tracking header to resurrect deleted tracking cookies and share them, forming a vast web of non-consensual online tracking. The tehcnology makes it impossible for customers to control their online privacy.
  5665. How 'Virtual Crime Scenes' Became a Propaganda Tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Syria
    First Published: 2022
    Creating "virtual crime scenes" is a tool which enables establishment media such as the New York Times, the BBC or (in Spain) El Pais, to convey interpretations of the events which conveniently coincide with the way they are seen by the US government and its allies.
  5666. How We Ended the Cold War
    First Published: 1999
    Peace activists' demand for an end to nuclear madness played a decisive role.
  5667. How We Fought the War
    Bob Kerrey's Revolting Medal of Honor
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2016
    On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama heaped praise on Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. What Obama failed to mention is that Kerrey also supervised one of the most atrocious war crimes of that ghastly war. The unit he lead killed women and children during an assassination mission in 1969. Some of the victims had their throats slit. Instead of being charged with war crimes, Kerrey was awarded a Medal of Honor for his role in another operation of that year in Nha Trong Bay.
  5668. How we learned to stop having fun
    First Published: 2007
    We used to know how to get together and really let our hair down. Then, in the early 1600s, a mass epidemic of depression broke out - and we've been living with it ever since. Something went wrong, but what?
  5669. How We Live and How We Might Live
    First Published: 1884   Published: 1887
    Morris sees capitalist society as based on war between nations, between rival capitalists, against colonial peoples and between classes. Only the victory of Socialist revolution can end all these wars.
  5670. How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power 
    First Published: 2020
    If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
  5671. How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote
    First Published: 2016
    Michael Hudson argues that military interventions in the Middle East created refugee streams to Europe that were in turn used by the anti-immigrant right to stir up xenophobia.
  5672. How will we get to an ecological civilization?
    First Published: 2015
    Capitalism's infrastructure, which is designed to dominate nature, cannot simply be taken over and used for an ecological transformation. Only a complete, root-and-branch change will do the job.
  5673. How Workers Made May Day Theirs
    First Published: 2017
    The extraordinary thing about the evolution of this institution is that it was unintended and unplanned. To this extent it was not so much an ‘invented tradition’ as a suddenly erupting one.
  5674. How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?
    There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?
    First Published: 2019
    A look at how a revolutionary government would combat climate change. Includes a lengthy excerpt from the pamphlet The Green Tax Fraud by Dick Nichols.
  5675. How Would Canadians Perceive Russian Troops On Their Border?
    First Published: 2023
    The Canadian government's plan to double its semi-permanent military force on Russia's border ratchets up tensions that should be reduced. It highlights the West's betrayal of promises made to Soviet officials and Canada's addiction to stationing troops in Europe.
  5676. How You Can Help Make A Difference
    First Published: 1989
    Your actions can make a difference. There are a host of things you can do in and around your home to reduce pressures on the environment.
  5677. How Zelensky Made Peace With Neo-Nazis
    First Published: 2022
    While Western media deploy Zelensky's heritage to refute accusations of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the president now depends on them as front line fighters in the war with Russia.
  5678. How Zionism's brutality reaches from Gaza's beaches to US academia
    First Published: 2015
    Read one way, Steven Salaita's new book is about lies and children. (Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom by Steven Salaita, Haymarket Books). There are the persistent lies about Israel's continued attacks on Palestinians, and in particular its lies about how it kills children.
  5679. How Zionist terrorism determined Palestine's fate
    First Published: 2017
    A book review on State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel, Thomas Suárez, Olive Branch Press (2017).
  5680. Howard Zinn (1922-2010): In Lieu of Flowers, Organize
    First Published: 2010
    Where other leftish icons have spent these decades gnashing their teeth, lecturing and bemoaning how awful everything that happens up above has been (as if most folks born down below didn't already know that by the time we were eight), Howard answered the call, again and again, to help us do something about it. He walked out to the picket lines every time he was called - by neighborhood organizers fighting against his university's real estate grabs, by striking workers that cleaned and fed the students and professors, by almost anyone who organized and fought that asked, and often before they asked, for his support.
  5681. Huawei executive's arrest provokes anti-US protests in China
    First Published: 2018
    The arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada has led to a wave of anger in China, in a move perceived to undermine China's increasingly dominant position in advanced technology. On Chinese social media comments denounce the arrest and call for the executive's immediate release as well as a boycott of Canadian brands.
  5682. Huawei Sting Operation Exposed
    First Published: 2020
    December 1, 2020 is the second anniversary of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest — or kidnapping, depending on your point of view — in Vancouver, Canada. If you work for the U.S.’s Departments of Justice, Treasury and State, with the CIA/NSA cheering from the galleries, it is just a simple extradition request to "carry out the law." If, however, you are company executive Frédéric Pierucci, Meng was kidnapped by the U.S., just as he was in 2013, whereupon he was imprisoned for two years on similar — he would say trumped-up — charges. His seizure was used to extort France’s flagship Alstom Corporation to pay $772 million in fines (ransom according to Pierucci) and sell off its most valuable portfolios to General Electric (GE), its U.S. competitor — all to gain his release.
  5683. Hue Back When: the Bloodbath in Vietnam Was Us
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Mark Bowden's book "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam", which provides a two-sided perspective on a particularly tragic moment in the Vietnam War.
  5684. Huerta, Dolores
    Connexipedia Article
    The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
  5685. Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania
    First Published: 2015
    Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipeline construction site. The hiring came after a request from the corporation for uniformed officers that could "deter protests and prevent delays."
  5686. Hugo Chávez and me
    First Published: 2013
    Tariq Ali's thoughts on how Hugo Chavez, the late president of Venezuela, will be remembered by his supporters as a lover of literature, a fiery speaker and a man who fought for his people and won.
  5687. Hugo Chávez and the Crisis of the Dependent Countries: Nationalism, Populism & Democracy
    First Published: 1999
    THE SMASHING ELECTORAL triumph of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez, previously imprisoned because of his participation in a failed military coup against the government of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez provoked diverse reactions and much confusion.
  5688. Hugo Chavez and the Revolutionary Imagination
    A Benevolent Revolution
    First Published: 2013
    Chavez was one of the most important voices for peace in Colombia – a country ravaged by over 50 years of civil war. The revolution Chavez led in Venezuela is, without exaggeration, the most benevolent one in human history.
  5689. Human Be-In
    Connexipedia Article
    A happening in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967
  5690. Human Nature
    First Published: 2009
    Dowie sympathizes with the view that 'wildenress' is a human creation.
  5691. Human nature
    First Published: 2016
    A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.
  5692. Human Nature and Social Theory
    First Published: 1969
  5693. Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property
    Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
    First Published: 1844
  5694. Human Rights and Economic Policy ( Draft II)
    First Published: 1978
  5695. Human rights books
    First Published: 1989
  5696. Human Rights Education: Resource Booklet
    First Published: 1978
  5697. Human Rights in Canada
    A Focus on Racism
    First Published: 1977
    A look at the history of discrimination in Canada and suggestion on how to improve the current situation.
  5698. Human Rights in Canada: A Focus on Racism
    First Published: 1978
  5699. Human Rights: the Latest Weapon Against Venezuela
    First Published: 2017
    Non-governmental organizations are using false information to charge Venezuela with "human rights violations." These are merely extensions of the US and western foreign policy apparatus, working as the local infrastructure that is necessary in regime change operations as well as a source for the media to build its biased narrative.
  5700. Human Rights Need Not Apply
    America's Racist Links
    First Published: 2013
    Americans, particularly Muslim Americans and Arab and Desi Americans have experienced overt discrimination first hand for over a decade.
  5701. Human Rights Programme
    First Published: 1990
  5702. Human Rights Protections Weaken as Tunisia Fights Terror
    First Published: 2015
    The Tunisian government is cracking down on civil and political rights as it fights a rise in Islamist insurgency, in the aftermath of the deadliest terror attack in the country's history.
  5703. Human rights violations in Latin America
    First Published: 1990
  5704. Human Rights Watch Confirms Israel is an Apartheid State
    First Published: 2021
    The forthright branding of Israel as an apartheid state by Human Rights Watch could be a watershed moment in mainstream acceptance of what Israel has become. Human Rights Watch is not an outlier or left wing organisation. It is very much a part of the establishment in the United States and is not generally associated with hard hitting criticism that conflicts with the promoted interests of the American state. Kenneth Roth, the Human Rights Watch CEO who has been in power longer than Putin, is a darling of the New York liberal and Democratic Party Establishment. That is an important financial source for HRW and includes many members of New York’s highly altruistic liberal Jewish community.
  5705. Human Rights Watch investigator among those attacked by Israeli forces
    First Published: 2015
    "We didn't see any soldiers near us. That's why we felt safe. No one was throwing rocks or anything. Soldiers just started shooting."
  5706. Human Rights Watch's Revolving Door to US Government
    A Letter from Nobel Peace Laureates
    First Published: 2014
    Human Rights Watch characterizes itself as “one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.” However, HRW’s close ties to the U.S. government call into question its independence.
  5707. Human Rights Week 2002
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky details the meaning behind Human Rights Week, despite the lack of enthusiasm in North America. He highlights, in particular, the achievements of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP).
  5708. Human scale
    Connexipedia Article
    A number of characteristic physical quantities can be associated with the human body, the human mind, human societies, and the preservation of human life and well-being.
  5709. Human Settlements
  5710. Humanism
    Connexipedia Article
    Humanism is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity, concerns, and capabilities, particularly rationality. Although the word has many senses, its meaning comes into focus when contrasted to the supernatural or to appeals to authority.
  5711. Humanism
    Entry in the Marxists Internet Archive Glossary
    The system of views which makes the human being its central value, as opposed to abstract notions such as God, religious or political ideals, abstractions like History or Reason, or sectional interests such as race or gender.
  5712. Humanism and its Aspiration
    Humanist Manifesto III, a successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933
    First Published: 2003
    Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.
  5713. Humanism and Socialism
    First Published: 1965
    The resumption of the struggle for socialism would also be the rebirth of socialist humanism.
  5714. Humanist Manifesto I
    First Published: 1933
    Outlines affirmations on cosmology, biological and cultural evolution, human nature, epistemology, ethics, religion, self-fulfillment, and the quest for freedom and social justice.
  5715. Humanist Manifesto II
    No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.
  5716. Humanitarian Imperialism
    The New Doctrine of Imperial Right
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky considers "humanitarian intervention" and "the responsibility to protect" as new norms in international affairs by examining the institutional structures which produced the policies responsible for such developments.
  5717. Humanity Imperiled: The Path To Disaster 
    First Published: 2013
    For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.
  5718. Humanity in the Capitalist Cul-de-sac
    First Published: 2015
    As a result of 200 years of capitalism, humanity is deep in a very dangerous cul-de-sac which could result in barbarism on an unprecedented scale.
  5719. Humanity Once Came to the Cliff's Edge of Total Self-Annihilation -- Let's Make Sure It Never Happens Again
    Revisiting the catastrophe that almost was
    First Published: 2012
    The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended -- though unknown to the public, only officially.
  5720. Humans are not the problem: Reflections on a "useless" documentary
    First Published: 2020
    With nearly everyone trapped at home for the fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day, Michael Moore released a film that picks apart the US environmental movement as it may have looked ten years ago, and then misleadingly presents it as breaking news.
  5721. Humans Nature and the Illusion of Separateness
    First Published: 2021
    One of the biggest lies that people in the global north were sold and have largely internalized is that we are separate from the biosphere from which we evolved and on which we depend upon for our very survival. Even as we stand on the precipice of ecological collapse, human supremacy over nature has been the unchallenged narrative.
  5722. Humans and Subhumans: Weill Cornell and the Death of the American Soul
    First Published: 2017
    All patients that walk through the door of Weill Cornell are put into two categories: the humans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "good insurance," and the subhumans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "bad insurance." If you fall into the category of the former, they will generally make a grudging effort to provide you with good care. If you fall into the category of the later, they will literally bend over backwards to see to it that you are provided with truly awful and atrocious care.
  5723. Humans will be remembered for leaving a 'plastic planet'
    First Published: 2016
  5724. The Humble Tuna
    First Published: 2009
    The humble tuna, "the chicken of the sea", is an unfortunate metaphor for all that is dysfunctional about our contemporary, western, capitalist world. The story of the Tuna is the story of our triumphant world, and provides a unified theory of its runaway excess
  5725. Humboldt, Alexander von
    Connexipedia Article
    Naturalist. (1769-1859).
  5726. The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
    Kangaroos Missing
    First Published: 2012
    It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing.
  5727. Hundreds of Proofs of God's Existence
    First Published: 2004
    From the Atheists of Silicon Valley Humor Page.
  5728. Hungarian Revolution of 1848
    Connexipedia Article
    One of many revolutions that year and closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
  5729. Hungarian Revolution of 1956
    Connexipedia Article
    A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Stalinist government of the People's Republic of Hungary.
  5730. Hungary: Politics and the Refugee Crisis
    First Published: 2016
    Long before Daesh/ISIS appeared, climate change and globalization had shoved over 1.5 million Syrians off the land and out of their villages. Today over eight million have been displaced, along with 1.5 million Iraqis who came to Syria looking for refuge.
  5731. Hunger in Venezuela? A Look Beyond the Spin
    Special Report
    First Published: 2016
    Venezuala has food shortages when it comes to specific foods, but there have been grassroots and governmental responses.
  5732. Hunting in Algonquin Park
    First Published: 1992
  5733. Hunting the CIA's Keystone Kommandos
    On the Trail of Agency Kidnappers
    First Published: 2011
    You cannot overstate the CIA’s capacity to bungle things. Sheer incompetence explains far more of America’s espionage fiascos than most of us might think. The other point is the importance of hubris in CIA history—the idea that the CIA operates in such a different universe, is so far above the law, that its people often feel they can’t possibly get caught, and that if they do, they couldn’t possibly be punished.
  5734. Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
    Houston is the city where capitalism's victory over nature is the most complete - and also where nature takes its ultimate revenge
    First Published: 2017
    Proyect argues that historically the shortsighted nature of capitalism has led to natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey. To understand nature, the ripple effects of its manipulation and to implement laws that protect it is in our only hope to prevent catastrophes such as Hurricane Harvey in the future.
  5735. Hurricane Mitch and Disaster Relief: The Politics of Catastrophe
    First Published: 1999
    THE LEVEL OF destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch is hard to overstate. While there is no way to know exactly how many lives were affected by the category-five hurricane that devastated the region between October 26 and November 1, early reports indicated that across Central America 11,000 people are reported dead, 15,000 are missing and at least 2.4 million made homeless.
  5736. Hurtig, Mel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A Canadian publisher, author, political activist and political candidate. (Born 1932).
  5737. Hussites
    Connexipedia Article
    A Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus (c. 1369-1415).
  5738. Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart
    First Published: 2016
    The gloomy and repulsive night when the female President of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.
  5739. Hydro-Quebec
    First Published: 1992
  5740. The Hydroponic Threat to Organic Food
    First Published: 2019
    The US Department of Agriculture is approving methods as "Certified Organic" which are contrary to the principles of organic, sustainable agriculture. This is done mostly to comply with the demands of large agribusiness companies.
  5741. Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism
    First Published: 2023
    It has been clear for some time that US corporate news media have explicitly taken a side on the Ukraine War. This role includes suppressing relevant history of the lead-up to the war, attacking people who bring up that history as 'conspiracy theorists', accepting official government pronouncements at face value, and promoting an overly rosy picture of the conflict in order to boost morale. For most of the war, most of the US coverage has been as pro-Ukrainian as Ukraine's own media, now consolidated under the Zelenskyy government.
  5742. The Hypocrisies of Terror Talk
    First Published: 2016
    The religious identity of terrorists and the place where terror strikes shapes the rhetoric that media uses to describe the perpetrators and places.
  5743. The Hypocrisy of Puritanism
    First Published: 1917
    More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is, indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change. Puritanism, on the other hand, rests on a fixed and immovable conception of life; it is based on the Calvinistic idea that life is a curse, imposed upon man by the wrath of God. In order to redeem himself man must do constant penance, must repudiate every natural and healthy impulse, and turn his back on joy and beauty.
  5744. Hypocrisy over Cuba's 'political prisoners' 
    First Published: 2009
    Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
  5745. Hypocrisy Reigns
    Don't Forsake the Struggle
    First Published: 2010
    When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
  5746. Hypocrisy and war
    First Published: 2023
    The Ukraine war is a graphic case study of the pitfalls of playing the geopolitical game.
  5747. I accuse!
    Letter to the President of the Republic
    First Published: 1898
    Emile Zola's condemnation of the frame-up of Captain Dreyfus.
  5748. I Am a Woman and a Human: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory 
    First Published: 2013
    In the United States, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a specific set of politics among the left reigns king. Today, you could go into any university, on any number of liberal-to-left blogs or news websites, and the words “identity” and “intersectionality” will jump out you as the hegemonic theory. But, like all theories, this corresponds to the activity of the working class in response to the current composition of capital.
  5749. I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
    The Denial of My Parole
    First Published: 2009
    Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
  5750. I am not that Woman in a burqa
    A Palestinian novelist remembers the liberated, educated women of her life, and how their freedom has been, and is being, curtailed.
    First Published: 2015
    Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh discusses growing up as a girl and woman in Arab culture, and how Arab women are represented in Western culture.
  5751. I am Occupied/Yo Soy Occupado
    First Published: 2011
  5752. 'I am prepared to die': Mandela's speech which shook apartheid
    First Published: 2024
    Sixty years ago during the Rivonia Trial in South Africa, Nelson Mandela delivered one of the most famous speeches of the 20th century. He expected to be sentenced to death but instead lived to see his dream ‘of a democratic and free society’ realised.
  5753. I Don't have to be what you want me to be
    First Published: 2016
    'A strange fate befell Muhammad Ali in the 1990s', Mike Marqusee writes in Redemption Song, his wonderful, illuminating study of 'Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties'. ‘The man who had defied the American establishment was taken into its bosom. There he was lavished with an affection which had been strikingly absent thirty years before, when for several years he reigned unchallenged as the most reviled figure in the history of American sports.' The global outpouring of grief, affection and tribute to Ali this weekend has been moving and heart-warming. Yet, there is a part of me that thinks that, as affection has washed away the old contempt with which he once was greeted by large sections, especially of American society, we have also lost something of the sense of Ali's true greatness.
  5754. I fit the description....
    First Published: 2015
    On my way to get a burrito before work, I was detained by the police. I noticed the police car in the public lot behind Centre Street. As I was walking away from my car, the cruiser followed me. I walked down Centre Street and was about to cross over to the burrito place and the officer got out of the car. "Hey my man," he said. He unsnapped the holster of his gun.
  5755. I Found My Voice in Spanish, a Language Once Used to Subjugate My Ancestors
    First Published: 2016
    Author Shirley Campbell explains how her Afro-Caribbean parents decided not to speak to her and her siblings in English, perhaps as an attempt to give them one less reason to be different in Spanish-speaking Costa Rica.
  5756. "I have been there before" - For Sri Lankan Christians like me, the Easter attacks revived old
    First Published: 2019
    A personal narrative about the complicated politics of language, ethnicity, and religion in Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter bombings.
  5757. 'I KNEW I WAS WITNESSING A TERRIBLE EVIL'
    First Published: 2016
    Today marks 50 years since the South African apartheid government declared District Six, in the heart of Cape Town, a 'whites only' area from which all non-whites would be forcibly removed.
  5758. I know Isis fighters. Western bombs falling on Raqqa will fill them with joy
    First Published: 2015
    Militants in Syria dream of a big showdown with the US and Europe. There are other ways to defeat them.
  5759. I know Israel practices apartheid because I helped enforce it
    First Published: 2022
    Rafael Silver left Israel because he could no longer be a part of a system that practices apartheid against the Palestinian people. "I have seen it in action with my own eyes," he writes. "I have enforced it during my military service in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip and supported it as an Israeli taxpayer."
  5760. 'I lost four sons': In Kashmir, women suffer brunt of conflict
    Women's Day is a grim reminder of atrocities and hardships faced by the women of the region in decades-long conflict.
    First Published: 2019
    Women in Kashmir suffer the loss of their sons, husbands, and fathers in ongoing conflict.
  5761. "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" the Mendacity of Evil
    First Published: 2018
    While Americans consider themselves well above the authoritarianism and atrocities of such regimes as Nazi Germany, the author takes a look at some disturbing connections and similarites with the United States.
  5762. I see Gaza in Beirut
    First Published: 2020
  5763. I Spent 5 Years With Some of Trump's Biggest Fans. Here's What They Won't Tell You.
    How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage.
    First Published: 2016
    Trump masculinizes benefits, but with a key proviso: restrict government help to real Americans.
  5764. I Stand Before You as a Proud Man - I Feel No Guilt
    First Published: 1978
  5765. I wanted to understand why racists hated me. So I befriended Klansmen
    First Published: 2017
    Daryl Davis befriended Ku Klux Klan members in order to gain some understanding of the organization, their beliefs and hatred.
  5766. I Was a CIA Whistleblower. Now I'm a Black Inmate. Here’'s How I See American Racism.
    First Published: 2016
    From the moment I crossed the threshold from freedom to incarceration because I was charged with, and a jury convicted me of, leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter, I needed no reminder that I was no longer an individual. Prison, with its "one size fits all" structure, is not set up to recognize a person's worth; the emphasis is removal and categorization. Inmates are not people; we are our offenses. In this particular prison where I live, there are S-Os (sex offenders), Cho-Mos (child molesters), and gun and drug offenders, among others. Considering the charges and conviction that brought me here, I'm not exactly sure to which category I belong. No matter. There is an overriding category to which I do belong, and it is this prison reality that I sadly "compare unto the world": I'm not just an inmate, I'm a black inmate.
  5767. I was a psychic for the FBI
    First Published: 1979
    Para-review investigates parapathology
  5768. I was "part of a terror organization," says Israeli pilot turned activist
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli air force pilot and current supporter of the Palestinian-led call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
  5769. I Was Sick for a Year After an Oil Spill. Five Years Later, Pipeline Accidents Are Worsening
    First Published: 2016
    Early in the morning on July 2, 2011, I walked down the gravel road on our Montana farm to let the goats out to graze for the day. I found an oily rainbow sheen on the Yellowstone River flowing through our hay fields and pasture, plus large clumps of crude oil sticking to trees, cattails and brush. The oily water was in our sloughs, our pond and the creek that runs along the eastern edge of the farm. I checked the local news on my phone and found that an Exxon oil pipeline had ruptured underneath the Yellowstone River upstream. More than 300 people upstream from us were evacuated, but no one had thought to notify those of us further from the spill. The smell of hydrocarbons was overwhelming. In the end, more than 63,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River from what we later learned was a "guillotine cut" in Exxon's Silvertip pipeline, which lay in a trench only four to five feet under the Yellowstone River.
  5770. I Was the Only U.S. Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program - Because I Opposed It
    First Published: 2023
    The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it - John Kiriakou.
  5771. I was wrong on veganism
    Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense
    First Published: 2010
    An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requirement of livestock rearing so much as an entrenched practice, and offers suggestions for greening the industry.
  5772. I will be nude, I will protest, and I will challenge you to your core!
    First Published: 2014
    A nude woman is the antithesis of the idealised veiled and submissive woman. Whilst nude protest is not the only way to resist Islamism and the veil, it is a very modern, practical and appropriate way of doing so. It also challenges discrimination against women and a system which profits from the commodification and sexualisation of women’s bodies.
  5773. 'I wish I was a boy': The Kenyan girls fighting period poverty
    First Published: 2020
    In Kenya, one million girls miss school each month because they cannot afford sanitary pads, while some share used ones.
  5774. 'I Would Have Refused Such An Order' - Former RAF Pilot Gives His View of US Bombing Of MSF Hospital In Kunduz
    First Published: 2015
    In our previous media alert, 'Sick Sophistry', we examined media coverage of the deliberate US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on October 3, 2015. In particular, we exposed the BBC's Pentagon-friendly reporting of the hospital as having been 'mistakenly' bombed.
  5775. I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed
    First Published: 2013
    Forty-four years ago this month, in December 1969, I quit my job as a manager of a bookstore in New York City's Greenwich Village and began to write the Anarchist Cookbook. My motivation at the time was simple; I was being actively pursued by the US military, who seemed single-mindedly determined to send me to fight, and possibly die, in Vietnam.
  5776. Ian Angus: COP21, the climate crisis, and ecosocialism
    An interview with Ian Angus
    First Published: 2015
    An interview with Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus. Angus says 'The environmental question is the most important problem that we face in the 21st century: If we don’t recognize its centrality, our politics will be irrelevant.'
  5777. Ian Birchall reviews Ernie Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
    First Published: 2014
    Anyone who was active in Britain's Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) in the late 1960s will remember Ernie Tate, whose energy and enthusiasm made such a contribution. Now, 45 years later, he has published two volumes of memoirs from the 1950s and 1960s.
  5778. Icarians
    Connexipedia Article
    A French utopian movement, founded by Étienne Cabet, who led his followers to America where they established a group of egalitarian communes during the period from 1848 through 1898.
  5779. The ICC is now an instrument of imperialism
    First Published: 2015
    The Rome Statute is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC was to be an international tribunal and intergovernmental organisation that would prosecute all individuals for international crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  5780. The ICC Must Investigate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
    The Credibility of the Court is at Stake
    First Published: 2014
    Regardless of the efforts of Israel or its closest ally, the United States, to prevent the International Criminal Court from seeking justice for the Palestinians and international aid workers killed and wounded in Gaza, the Court has a duty to at least open an investigation. The credibility of the ICC hangs in the balance. No individual who violates international law should escape justice. If Israeli officials are not investigated for possible war crimes in Gaza, then the tragic lessons learned from the last century about failures in international criminal justice and the consequences of inaction will have been in vain.
  5781. ICE: The making of an American Gestapo
    First Published: 2018
    Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and co-author with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal, takes an in-depth look at the troubling history and practices of a government agency that more and more people are calling to be abolished.
  5782. The Ice Melts Into Water
    Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media
    First Published: 2012
    Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just a few decades from now. Some scientists say it may happen within the next few years.
  5783. Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves 
    Further Adventures in the Territories of Hope
    First Published: 2010
    Capitalism is only kept going by this army of anti-capitalists, who constantly exert their powers to clean up after it, and at least partially compensate for its destructiveness. Behind the system we all know, in other words, is a shadow system of kindness, the other invisible hand. Much of its work now lies in simply undoing the depredations of the official system.
  5784. Icebreaker sunk
    First Published: 1990
  5785. Iceland Jail Top Bankers For 46 Years, Europe 'Outraged'
    First Published: 2016
    Iceland has differed from the rest of Europe and the US by allowing bankers to be prosecuted as criminals, rather than treating them as a protected species.
  5786. The Iceland women's strike, 1975
    First Published: 2016
    A short history of the strike, or day off, by the of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975.
  5787. Iceland's Loud No
    Can't Pay Back, Won't Pay Back
    First Published: 2011
    The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?
  5788. Iceland's Revolution
    First Published: 2016
    After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital. In reality the responses to the 2008–9 Icelandic banking crash were only modestly progressive and failed to bring about any kind of shift to the left. They have also been much more contested locally than most international media accounts reflect.
  5789. ICIJ Releases Paradise Papers Data From Appleby
    First Published: 2017
    A look at data released from the Paradise Papers investigation, a global journalistic collaboration that exposed offshore deals of political players and corporate giants. A team of journalists explored a trove of 13.4 million records from two offshore firms and 19 secret jurisdictions.
  5790. Idaho, Mountain Lions and a Rattlesnake Friend
    Against The Current vol. 90
    First Published: 2001
    We moved to Pocatello, Idaho three years ago. And there are certainly some mighty friendly people hereabouts. But from the very moment we first arrived, we've been subjected to bizarre harassment—coming obviously from Federal, state, local "lawmen" and vigilante types, and just as obviously stemming from my traditionally Left Native rights/civil rights/labor affiliations and beliefs and history and contemporary activities.
  5791. The Idea of May Day on the March
    First Published: 1913
    The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
  5792. The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
    First Published: 2018
    Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read? But here's a seditious idea. Would that be such a bad thing? Maybe it would better if we were far more wary of the corporate media and began to think of it chiefly as a sales platform – selling us an ideology harmful to our individual welfare and that of our societies.
  5793. The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
    First Published: 2018
    Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations?
    Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?
  5794. Idealism, Pride & Anger- The Beginnings of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Britain
    First Published: 1989
    A glorious chaotic enthusiasm. At times, shocking. Always unapologetic and defiant. An exhilarating mixture of idealism, pride, anger, bravado and imagination.
  5795. Ideas for the Struggle: required reading for activists in these challenging times
    First Published: 2016
    Arguing why the ideas presented in Marta Harnecker's collection of essays, 'Ideas for the Struggle', are essential and important for present-day activists and organizers.
  5796. Identities and Solidarity
    On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice, published by Jewish Voice for Peace.
  5797. "Identity”" -- the bane of the contemporary Left
    First Published: 2013
    Historically, identitarian ideology is a product of the failure of the Left. The various forms of identity politics associated with the “new social movements” coming out of the New Left during the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s (feminism, black nationalism, gay pride) were themselves a reaction, perhaps understandable, to the miserable failure of working-class identity politics associated with Stalinism coming out of the Old Left during the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s (socialist and mainstream labor movements). Working-class identity politics — admittedly avant la lettre — was based on a crude, reductionist understanding of politics that urged socialists and union organizers to stay vigilant and keep on the lookout for “alien class elements.” Any and every form of ideological deviation was thought to be traceable to a bourgeois or petit-bourgeois upbringing. One’s political position was thought to flow automatically and mechanically from one’s social position, i.e. from one’s background as a member of a given class within capitalist society.
  5798. Identity is that which is given 
    First Published: 2008
    In this age of globalisation many people fret about Western culture taking over the world. But the greatest Western export is not Disney or McDonalds or Tom Cruise. It is the very idea of culture.
  5799. Identity politics
    Connexipedia Article
    Refers to political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of social minorities, or self-identified social interest groups.
  5800. Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
    First Published: 2017
    ‘How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
  5801. Idiot Bosses and Valiant Women
    Labor and Capital in Actual Practice
    First Published: 2010
    "No matter what the enterprise, most employees know who the hard workers are, even though it's not their job to know. They know who hustles, pitches in and lends a hand, who goofs off and avoids work, and who strives to keep the operation going by performing those thankless little tasks that don't necessarily get noticed by management." This piece looks at a specific case of a boss benifting from the hard work of their employees who gained nothing.
  5802. An Idiot's Guide to Prosecuting Corporate Fraud
    First Published: 2016
    A new group called Bank Whistleblowers United have just pushed out a comprehensive plan they think would put the executive branch in the United States back in the business of enthusiastically identifying, indicting, and convicting financial fraudsters -- restoring accountability while protecting the public.
  5803. An Idiot's Guide to Why They Hate Us
    First Published: 2015
    Nobody who is reasonably knowledgeable and honest about the long and ongoing history of U.S.- and Western-imperial policy in the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and Africa has any business claiming to find the origins of anti-American and anti-Western terrorism in the Muslim world mysterious.
  5804. IDRC Reports discontinued
    First Published: 1989
  5805. Idylls of the Liberal: The American Dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates
    First Published: 2017
    Social change is not made by noble heroes, even if they find themselves in the right place at the right time to take the credit. It is made by the commoners -- by those who remain nameless and faceless in the legends, and in the political ideologies of Lilla and Coates.
  5806. If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
    First Published: 1996
    A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
  5807. If Canada were a Christian state
    What would Canada be like if it were a Christian state in the same sense that Israel is a Jewish state?
    First Published: 2022
    What apartheid looks like in Israel, and what it would like in Canada.
  5808. If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We
    First Published: 2017
    What the US could learn from China about funding infrastructure initiatives.
  5809. If Gaza's Dead Were America's Dead
    Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
    First Published: 2014
    Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
  5810. If I Can't Dance ....
    Why is the Left So Boring?
    First Published: 2008
    Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
  5811. 'If I don't come back, call my lawyer': Practical solidarity for people
    First Published: 2018
    A recommendation of practical steps to help people facing the threat of detention, and the importance of standing in solidarity with others who are dealing with a hostile environment.
  5812. If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours 
    First Published: 2006
    There is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
  5813. If John Bolton Is Right, Pearl Harbor Was Perfectly Legal
    First Published: 2018
    Michigan attorney Kary Love explores the legal basis for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea by the USA.
  5814. If Lula can call for peace in Ukraine, why not Canada's left?
    First Published: 2023
    Progressive governments are rejecting pleas to send more weapons to Ukraine. Canada should follow suit and push for peace talks.
  5815. "If not now, when?" On BDS and 'singling out' Israel
    First Published: 2014
    This is an edited version of a letter I've sent to a relative in the US who's been trying to figure out the BDS issue in the wake of the recent onslaught against the American Studies Association's decision to support the academic boycott.
  5816. If only we could revive the fruitful tension between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
    Reflections on Dr King’s death have overlooked how his liberal universalism and Malcolm X’s separatism gave each other strength
    First Published: 2018
    Kenan argues that conflict averse approach to activism blunts the edge of contemporary social movements for change.
  5817. If Paris Killers Had Western Media on Their Side
    Flip the Script
    First Published: 2015
    Imagine if the Charlie Hebdo killings had been reported on in a slightly different manner, say in the manner that drone strike killings are reported.
  5818. I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
    First Published: 1989
  5819. If the 'product' is wrong, a rebrand won't help Israel
    First Published: 2015
    Cook discusses Israel's attempt to rebrand itself. Specifically, he addresses "hasbara", translated as "public diplomacy", a campaign that calls for Israelis to justify and defend any policy regarding occupied territories.
  5820. If this is feminism...
    First Published: 2017
    Part of the problem with the response to Tuvel's article is that some seem to feel that they are the only ones who have the legitimate right to talk about certain topics. At best, this is identity politics run amok; at worst it is a turf war.
  5821. If This Story Needs Fixing, Don't Call Us - Just Call THEM
    The Department of Corrections.
  5822. If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
    Snowden Coverage
    First Published: 2013
    The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
  5823. If We're on the Left, How Come We're Still Here?
    First Published: 2018
    Andrew Levine looks at why the Left is largely ignored by Trump's more radical followers and pundits.
  5824. If You Like Obama, You'll Love Trump!
    First Published: 2016
    Oh, what fun we have with the nonsense that flows out of the mouth of Donald J. Trump. The man is suffocatingly banal, racist, dishonest, inarticulate, uninformed, uneducated, narcissistic, a bully, just plain stupid, and an asshole (or in the immortal words of my people -- a schmuck!) I would guess that as the boss of his own enterprises for many years, with the power and the habit of firing people, he eventually became deeply accustomed to not having his thoughts seriously questioned or challenged, to the extent that he really believes the crap that comes out of his mouth and doesn’t really understand what others actually think of him.
  5825. Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019
    First Published: 2019
    Yesterday I learned that my friend and comrade Noel Ignatiev passed away. He’d been in poor health for some time, diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer that made it difficult for him to swallow properly or digest, but it still caught me off guard.
  5826. The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Frank Loesser's 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the social forces which have aggressively pushed the new 'Puritanism' that seeks to have the song banned.
  5827. Ignore Their Words; Watch Their Actions
    First Published: 2024
    While the mass media publish White House press releases disguised as news stories about the president’s feelings and celebrity progressives assure us that this administration is "working tirelessly for a ceasefire," the Israeli Defense Ministry is announcing that it has secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from the US.
  5828. Ikanan, Evaristo Nugkuag
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Activist working to protect the rights of the indigenous people of the Amazon.
  5829. Il danse avec la Culpabilité
    Un regard sur les hommes qui regardent la violence
    First Published: 1991
    Des théories simplistiques qui sont reliées à la violence à un facteur et seulement un facteur, la masculinité qui sert à décourager un examen sérieux sur la cause qui mène certains hommes et aussi certaines femmes a devenir violents.
  5830. I'll bet you didn't know you own billions of dollars in coal stocks
    First Published: 2016
    Exposing the investments and other involvements of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the fossil fuel industry.
  5831. Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru's forest but timber finds global buyers
    First Published: 2014
    State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
  5832. Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
    First Published: 2018
    A recent report indicates that Illegal wood trafficking is the most profitable crime against natural resources, and allows other crimes to flourish, including deforestation, labor exploitation, land invasions, tax evasion, document forgery and state corruption.
  5833. Illegal logging behind deaths of indigenous leaders
    Assassination of forest defenders highlights extensive network of logging and the illegal timber trade.
    First Published: 2014
    "In the forest, the silence at night is absolute," says Sara, a settler who owns a plot of land in the middle of Peru's central jungle. "But suddenly, at 9 p.m. you start hearing chainsaws in the distance. I get up immediately and go quietly with my gun and my dogs to see where they are cutting down my trees. But I don’t find the loggers. They hide. In the morning I find felled trees and cut planks that they were unable to take away."
  5834. Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
    First Published: 2018
    Illegal timber trafficking is a complex type or ogranized crime that involves other crimes such as tax evasion, labor exploitation, and land invasion. Countries in Latin America need to work together to fight this crime.
  5835. The Illegals
    First Published: 1908
    For the anarchist, if he doesn't care about bourgeois legality and honesty, must above all aim at preserving himself as long as possible for action and realizing to the greatest extent possible for himself the life he desires . His work, rather than appearing harmful and destructive, should be a work of life, a long apostolate of stubborn labor, of goodness, of love.
  5836. "Illegals" of the World Unite?
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    An interview with David Bacon.
  5837. Illich, Ivan
    Connexipedia Article
    Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
  5838. The Illusion of Consumer Sovereignty
    First Published: 1988   Published: 2010
    I tend to see the issue as social, economic, and political. I simply refuse to blame us consumers.
  5839. The Illusion of Debate
    Consensus for the People that Matter
    First Published: 2014
    A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing.
  5840. The Illusion of Democracy
    Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions
    First Published: 2012
    In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
  5841. The Illusion of Gaza Withdrawal
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
    We gather here in difficult times, when it seems that the Palestinian cause has been almost eliminated from the international agenda. The Western world is hailing the new “peace vision” of Sharon’s disengagement plan.
  5842. Illusion or Advance? Ecosocialists debate the 'Green New Deal'
    Activists from System Change Not Climate Change discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal.
    First Published: 2019
    Activists from 'System Change Not Climate Change' discuss the strengths and weaknesses of 'Green New Deal' proposals, and how the left should respond.
  5843. An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour 1800-1945
    First Published: 1978
  5844. 'I'm bored, so I shoot': The Israeli army's approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
    First Published: 2024
    Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission.
  5845. I'm Omar Saad and I will not be a soldier in your army
    First Published: 2012
    Omar Saad, a young (Druze) Palestinian musician from the Galilee has received a summons to the Israeli army. The Druze citizens of Israel are forced to enlist in the Israeli military, since 1956, when conscription law applied to Druze men (not to other Palestinians).
  5846. Images
    First Published: 1977
    This is a women's paper using a thematic approach to report on women's activities in the Kootenay area such as the Crafts Conference in February, women's theatre, health, art and politics.
  5847. Images Festival
    First Published: 1989
  5848. Images of Militarized Police in Baton Rouge Draw Global Attention
    First Published: 2016
    Photographs and video of heavily armed police officers wearing body armour and helmets arresting protesters in Baton Rouge over the weekend reverberated on social networks and in the world's media, focusing new attention on the militarization of police forces across the United States.
  5849. The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
    First Published: 2015
    Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that "Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S." Fox's claim of an imaginary enemy alliance relies on two sources: the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and an anonymous U.S. official.
  5850. Imagination and Nuclear Weapons
    First Published: 2019
    Imagining the horror of nuclear war is not enough to prevent it. Governments with nuclear weapons must be forced to disarm.
  5851. Imagine a Stadium
    First Published: 2012
    A plea for organization.
  5852. Imagining a New Social Order: Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin in Conversation
    First Published: 2017
    Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin discuss how the left can save the US from neoliberal excesses.
  5853. Imagining Socialism in Our Lives
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of "Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA" edited by Francis Goldin, Debby Smith and Michael Steven Smith.
  5854. The IMF's Imperial "Reform"
    First Published: 1998
    The International Monetary Fund bailout of Korea could not be more of a misnomer. The IMF program aims to bail out not Korea, but the U.S., European and Japanese banks that made bad loans to Korean capitalists.
  5855. Immanuel Kant on Electoral Interference
    First Published: 2017
    Historically the United States has been far more inclined to engage in politcal interference than Russia.
  5856. An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by Police
    First Published: 2016
    The Black Panther Party remains unfulfilled fifty years after the Party's founding. This truth is a tragic acknowledgement of both the failure of US capitalism to resolve its greatest disgrace and an admission that it may not be able to. The unpunished murders of Black men by police are just the most graphic proof of this truth.
  5857. Immigrant and Visible Minority Women
    First Published: 1989
  5858. Immigrant Housewives In Canada
    First Published: 1981
    This report, sponsored by Toronto's Immigrant Women's Centre, is the result of a three-year study on the conditions of working class immigrant women from rural backgrounds.
  5859. Immigrant Students and Workers Take to the Streets: Outpouring in Chicago
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    In late February, word began to spread around Chicago about a protest against HR 4437, a bill passed by the House of Representatives to criminalize undocumented immigration, as well as aid given to undocumented immigrants (for more information on HR 4437, see http://www.ilrc.org/HR4437.html). A humble-looking activist website announced, in English and Spanish, "Unite!.March against HR 4437 General Strike!"
  5860. Immigrant Workers in the United States (Part 1)
    Against The Current vol. 127
    First Published: 2007
    The rise of mass immigration in much of the developed world began its acceleration with the global economic crisis of the 1970s. A deepening crisis of profitability; the collapse of the Bretton Woods currency system; and the recession of 1974-75 encouraged an acceleration of foreign direct investment, the rise of multinational corporations, and the subsequent increase in trade.
  5861. Immigrant Youth Victory!
    Against The Current vol. 159
    First Published: 2012
    President Obama’s directive removing the threat of deportation from hundreds of thousands of young people is a tribute to the heroism of those who have come out as “Undocumented and Unafraid.” It’s still a long way from stopping the terror affecting immigrant communities — but under an administration that frankly has been a disgrace and disaster for civil liberties, human rights and due process, this victory shows the power of well-rooted and courageous activism to make a positive difference.
  5862. Immigration
    First Published: 1977
    A report on the current state of immigration policy in Canada and the possible ramifications of Bill C-24.
  5863. Immigration Act Repressive in The Canadian Student
    First Published: 1979
  5864. Immigration and Cultural Loss
    First Published: 2018
    While immigration has brought major changes in the physical character of British cities and in the rhythm of social life, it is not alone in driving social changes nor is it even the most important driver of social change.
  5865. Immigration Is Good, Immigration Is Bad, Migration Is (a Fact)
    A Human Drama in Three Acts and a Few Ideas
    First Published: 2012
    Immigration is bad – that is what the propagandists of populist politics are blazoning, in unison with their primitive media set on singing the same tune. Immigration is good, say the left, the greens and NGOs. I share the human-rights concerns and the socio-economic analysis of the second position, but would like to add a third and more fundamental one: immigration IS happening. Immigration is what is human, because only through migration could humankind spread from its places of origin in Eastern Africa to the entire globe. Only if we remember this can we tackle the phenomenon of migration adequately and develop an immigration policy suitable for human beings.
  5866. Immigration Policy Should Be Social, Not Economic Says Economic Council
    A study conducted by the Economic Council of Canada reveals the positive impact of immigration on the Canadian lifestyle and economy.
  5867. Immigration and Racial Bias
    First Published: 2013
    The immigrant debate, once again at the center of U.S. politics, was accelerated by the success of president Obama winning more than 70% of the Latino and Asian vote in the 2012 elections. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s call for all 11 million undocumented immigrants to "self deport" was a significant reason for his defeat. Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the country -- and growing rapidly -- and more and more of them vote.
  5868. Immigration "Reform"
    First Published: 2013
    Some thoughts on the U.S. Senate's tortuous immigration reform bill.
  5869. Immigration Reform: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    The introduction of “immigration reform” legislation is a tribute first and foremost to the heroic activism of proud “Undocumented and Afraid” youth coming forward to demand their rights and refusing to live in the shadows.
  5870. Immigration's Troubled History
    Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Charles R. Leinenweber's Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919.
  5871. Impacts of mass coral die-off on Indian Ocean reefs revealed
    Warming sea waters - caused by climate change and extreme climatic events - threaten the stability of tropical coral reefs, with potentially
    First Published: 2017
    New research by the University of Exeter shows that increased surface ocean temperatures during the strong 2016 El Niño led to a major coral die-off event in the Maldives, and that this has caused reef growth rates to collapse. They also found that the rates at which some reefs species, in particular parrotfish, are eroding the reefs had increased following this coral die-off event.
  5872. The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
    A Review of the Literature
    First Published: 2004
    It is clear that mountain biking is harmful to some wildlife and people. No one, even mountain bikers, tries to deny that. Bikes create V-shaped ruts in trails, throw dirt to the outside on turns, crush small plants and animals on and under the trail, facilitate increased levels of human access into wildlife habitat, and drive other trail users (many of whom are seeking the tranquility and primitiveness of natural surroundings) out of the parks.
  5873. Impeach the U.S. Constitution
    First Published: 2017
    This article explains that democracy was the last thing the U.S. founding fathers wanted to see break out in the new republic, and the Constitution was carefully crafted by propertied elites to protect the privileged from the 'wicked' masses.
  5874. Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA
    First Published: 2019
    Despite occasional warm gas passed in a leftish direction, establishment Democrats never had any intention of allowing a left political program to move forward. After four decades of asserting that they 'believe' climate science, the moment has arrived when the only political path forward is to take on their donors.
  5875. Imperial Presidency
    First Published: 2005
    Chomsky explores the conception of presidential authority and sovereignty, depicting the dangers of the Bush administration's understanding of these concepts.
  5876. Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya
    First Published: 2016
    The campaign last year to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College, Oxford, has provoked more discussion of the British Empire and its crimes than we have seen for many years. Rather than keeping quiet about Britain's imperial past, the Rhodes Must Fall campaign has actually flushed establishment apologists out into the open. They have been forced to defend the legacy of a man who, if he had not been British and had not given a substantial bribe to Oxford University, would today be generally acknowledged by everyone as a corrupt fraudster, thief, liar and killer for profit, as someone marked out only by the enormity of his crimes. The hypocrisy that the debate over Rhodes Must Fall has occasioned has been very instructive in itself, but what is intended here is an examination not just of the part played by hypocrisy in the defence of British imperialism, but of the other strategies employed: suppression and amnesia.
  5877. Imperialism 101
    First Published: 2011
    Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders.
  5878. Imperialism, the Cold War and the Creation of Pakistan
    First Published: 2012
    The true intent of the partition was to detach Pakistan from India, create a militarily strategic foothold aimed at the Soviet Union and maintain control over the oil fields of the Middle East.
  5879. Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
    First Published: 2015
    An excerpt from John Smith's book "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century", in which he examines the relationship between the core capitalist countries and the rest of the world in the age of neoliberal globalization.
  5880. Imperialism and the Logic of Mass Destruction
    First Published: 2017
    As throughout much of its war-obsessed history, the United States is currently engaged in military conflict – or threatening such action – across a broad contested terrain. In the cases of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, Washington has resorted to its familiar global modus operandi: sending off barrages of missiles and bombs, much of it hitting civilian populations and resources needed for their survival. Death tolls mount, the largest numbers lately in the protracted battle for Mosul. Heavier casualties are being visited upon non-combatants in Yemen, thanks to U.S.-backed Saudi aerial savagery.
  5881. Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy
    First Published: 1914
    The true cause, the trigger, the author of this war, is therefore not any particular State, but all the States that pursue an imperialist policy and seek to expand their territories: Germany, England, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Belgium and Japan; each one separately and all of them together are its cause. All the chatter of the bourgeois and socialist parties and their newspapers, according to which we are witnessing a war of national defense in which we are obliged to participate because we were attacked, all this chatter is nothing but a trick to dissimulate each country's culpability under a beautiful façade. To say that Germany, Prussia or England is the cause of the war is as stupid and as false as to assert that the cracks which open up on a volcano are the cause of its eruption.
    For many years, all the European States have been arming for this conflict. All of them want to satisfy their own rapacity and greed. All of them are equally guilty.
  5882. The Implacable Russell Maroon Shoatz
    Book review
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of Maroon the Implacable The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz
  5883. Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in India
    First Published: 2017
    While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.
  5884. The importance of dealing with Occupy's misogyny problem
    First Published: 2012
    An account of some misogynist dynamics within the Occupy movement and the need to challenge them.
  5885. The Importance of Journalism and Communications to Social Movements
    First Published: 2012
    Remarks of Javier Sicilia to the School of Authentic Journalism.
  5886. The Importance of Making Trouble: In conversation with Frances Fox Piven
    First Published: 2016
    Coversation with Frances Fox Piven, a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the City of University of New York Graduate Centre and the past president of the American Sociological Association, about the importnace of social movements and upcoming 2016 US election.
  5887. The importance of women's paid labour
    Women at work in World War II
    First Published: 1982
    An examination of women's paid labour, which was used as a cheaper labour force both prior to and during the Second World War.
  5888. The Impossibilities of Reformism
    First Published: 2012
    We would like to use this text to begin a dialogue with those comrades within social democracy who contend that the last 25, 15 or 5 years of bleak development is the result of a series of coincidences – poor leadership, international pressure, mistakes, cunning opponents, etc. – and we would instead propose a more fundamental explanation. The problems we face are problems that are inherent and unavoidable in the very reformist strategy that social democracy is built upon – in both its successes and its failures.
  5889. Impossibleism
    First Published: 2009
    Impossibleists want unrestrained sustainable growth in the face of its inevitable impossibility. It is a mystery how they think this way, knowing as they surely do that eventually the bill will come due, and the engine will run out of gas - literally. Think about it - growth that never stops, ever. Even with limitless resources, it is simple intuition that eventually, somewhere, sometime....
  5890. Impressions of Gaza
    First Published: 2012
    Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment.
  5891. Improve your privacy and security on the Internet using Tor
    First Published: 2013
    This user manual contains information about how to download Tor, how to use it, and what to do if Tor is unable to connect to the network
  5892. Improve Your Publicity Awareness
    First Published: 1997
    Tips on networking for success.
  5893. In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
    First Published: 1990
    A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
  5894. In 2011 the dacha gardens of Russia produced 40% of the nation's food.
    First Published: 2013
    While many in the world are completely dependent on large scale agriculture, the Russian people feed themselves. Their agricultural economy is small scale, predominantly organic and in the capable hands of the nation's people. It's not just a hobby but a massive contribution to Russia's agriculture.
  5895. In a time of duplicity
    From the Diary of Victor Serge - III
    First Published: 1945
    A selection of three enteries in the diary of Victor Serge - III
  5896. In Africa, the U.S. Military Sees Enemies Everywhere
    First Published: 2016
    From east to west across Africa, 1,700 Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and other military personnel are carrying out 78 distinct "mission sets" in more than 20 nations, according to documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act.
  5897. In an endless war on terror, we are all doomed to become Palestinians
    First Published: 2015
    Jeff Halper's new book sheds light on the arms industry, arguing that Israel is now the go-to nation for armies and police forces around the world.
  5898. In Blow to 'No Fly' List, US Judge Rules Air Travel Is a Right
    Precedent Could Allow Fliers to Contest Travel Bans
    First Published: 2013
    US District Judge Anna Brown ruled that the ability to travel internationally by airplane is a constitutionally protected right.
  5899. In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
    First Published: 2019
    The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
  5900. In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
    First Published: 2015
    China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
  5901. In Defence of Democracy
    First Published: 2012
    On Jacques Berlinerblau's book How to Be Secular.
  5902. In Defence of Diversity
    First Published: 2013
    An essay on immigration.
  5903. In Defence of Sex and Science: Review of Kinsey
    First Published: 2005
    A review of the film "Kinsey".
  5904. In Defense of Amira Hass
    Claiming the Right of Resistance
    First Published: 2013
    Amira Hass is a reporter for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. She reports on Palestinian affairs in the occupied territories and, over the years, has come to understand the Palestinians’ plight from their own point of view.
  5905. In Defense of Cultural Appropriation 
    First Published: 2017
    It is just as well that I’m a writer, not an editor. Were I editing a newspaper or magazine, I might soon be out of a job. For this is an essay in defense of cultural appropriation. In Canada last month, three editors lost their jobs after making such a defense.
  5906. In Defense of Divestment
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
    As an Israeli citizen and former tank gunner in the Israeli army, I feel the need to explain why I, along with many other Jews, support divestment from Israel. We are asking the city of Somerville, as well as other cities and civic institutions, to divest from companies involved in selling arms, bulldozers and military technologies that are used by the Israeli army to commit war crimes against Palestinians.
  5907. In Defense of Ecological Marxism: John Bellamy Foster responds to a critic
    First Published: 2016
    One of the most important books of Marxist theory published in recent years is Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature, in which John Bellamy Foster rediscovered and expanded on Marx’s understanding of the alienation of human beings from the natural world, crystallized in the concept of metabolic rift. In a recent conversation, Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus asked Foster about Moore’s criticisms of ecological Marxism.
  5908. In Defense of Free Speech
    It's Easier to Blame Bad Filmmakers Than to Address Massive War Crimes
    First Published: 2012
    The answer to speech you disagree with is … (drum roll) … MORE SPEECH.
  5909. In Defense of Grand Narratives
    First Published: 2011
    The postmodernist attack on Marxism conflates the crudities of “Marxism-Leninism” with the thought of Marx himself. Its critique of Enlightenment rationality fails on its own terms, but it also fails to discern Marx’s break with his Enlightenment forebearers. Marx’s goal — the emancipation of the human individual from need and the flowering of “rich individuality” — is not that of rationalism, Hegelianism or classical political economy.
  5910. In Defense of Leninism: Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism
    First Published: 2007
    The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists.
  5911. In Defense of the Student Movement
    First Published: 1971
    In 1971, Chomsky proclaims the student movement to be the one organized segment of the intellectual community that is genuinely and actively committed to the kind of social change needed. However, he outlines what he finds to be the grave tactical mistakes being made by the movement, one being their search for confrontation. Chomsky sees this as "suicidal". However, regardless of his practical criticisms, he continues to express his explicit support.
  5912. In defense of To Kill a Mockingbird: The 1962 film about racism in theaters this week
    First Published: 2019
    Attempts to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from curricula are misguided and ignore the artistic and courageous ambitions of the book and film.
  5913. In Dresden, PEGIDA meets opposition
    First Published: 2015
    PEGIDA's quick growth derives largely from the many fears, especially in eastern Germany, about the scarcity of decent, steady jobs, about constant rent hikes and dwindling hopes about having enough to live on when they retire. Echoing past fascists, today's "pied pipers" try to deflect such fears and resentment against refugees.
  5914. In Hebron, a South African Compares Israeli Occupation to Apartheid
    First Published: 2006
    Israelis have generally blinded themselves to the apartheid in the back yard because if they did acknowledge it they would have to do something. This complacent blindering recalls the American south during the civil rights movement, or the founding fathers during slavery.
  5915. In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
    First Published: 2013
    A slowly but steadily growing phenomenon in Jordan, urban agriculture has vast potential for reducing poverty and improving food security, and it has the added benefit of greening and cleaning up more rundown sections of cities.
  5916. In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case - Part II - The Punjab Trial
    First Published: 2017
    In a follow-up to an article detailing how Delhi's legal system was able to detain Kobad Ghandy in Tihar Jail for engaging in supposedly communist activities, this article discusses a separate attempt to prosecute Ghandy for his social activism.
  5917. In Israel, an Ugly Tide sweeps over Palestinians
    First Published: 2016
    In Israel's evermore tribal politics, there is no such thing as a "good" Arab -- and the worst failing in a Jew is to be unmasked as an "Arab lover". Or so was the message last week from Isaac Herzog, head of Israel's so-called peace camp.The shock waves of popular anger at the recent indictment of an Israeli army medic, Elor Azaria, on a charge of "negligent homicide" are being felt across Israel's political landscape.
  5918. In Memoriam: Bobby Lee, Black Panther
    First Published: 2017
    Hy Thurman remembers Bobby Lee.
  5919. In Memoriam, Gabriel Kolko
    b. Paterson, Aug. 17, 1932-d. Amsterdam, May 19, 2014
    First Published: 2014
  5920. In memoriam: John W. Warnock
    First Published: 2022
    John Warnock leaves behind an incomparably rich political legacy.
  5921. In Memoriam: Beloved Chairman Mao
    A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao!
    First Published: 1977
    A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao.
  5922. In Memory of Carl Oglesby
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    Forty-six years ago this November, then-SDS president Carl Oglesby stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and told those assembled to protest the war in Vietnam that the men who were responsible for that war were not evil, they were “trapped in a system.” They were, like Antony had told the crowd of those who had killed Caesar, “all honorable men.” Indeed, they were all liberals.
  5923. In Memory of Ernie Tate (1934-2021)
    A Life of Revolutionary Activism
    First Published: 2021
    The socialist movement lost an outstanding educator and organizer with the passing of Ernest (Ernie) Tate in Toronto on 5 February, 2021. An outstanding partisan of global anti-imperialist solidarity, Ernie also contributed, with his partner Jess MacKenzie, to building revolutionary Marxist groups and to promoting socialist unity in Canada and Britain.
  5924. In Memory of the Proletariat Party
    First Published: 1903
  5925. In Memory of Tim Costello
    First Published: 2009
    Remembering Tim Costello.
  5926. In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
    First Published: 2012
    The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
  5927. In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
    First Published: 2018
    In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.
  5928. In Myanmar, Anti-Terrorism Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing
    First Published: 2017
    A brutal crackdown in Myanmar under the guise of anti-terrorism is really ethnic cleansing against a long-persecuted Rohingya minority.
  5929. In new book, Ilan Pappé says settler colonialism and apartheid best explain Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    First Published: 2016
    An analysis of Ilan Pappe's new book, Israel and South Africa - The Many Faces of Apartheid, and how Israel's settler colonization of Palestinians is similar to apartheid in South Africa.
  5930. In North Vietnam
    First Published: 1970
    Chomsky traveled to North Vietnam in 1970 to explore the state of the country and give lectures at the Polytechnic University. While there, he discovered that although the nation had begun to lay the foundations for modernization and development, progress had been dramatically disrupted through the war with America. He reveals that the "air war of destruction" was in fact not as accurate in targeting military points as previously claimed. Yet Chomsky notes the enduring spirit of the Vietnamese who accept each struggle - whether with the Chinese, Mongols, Japanese, French, or Americans - as a succession of victories.
  5931. In northeastern BC, over 10% of oil and gas wells are leaking methane
    There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.
    First Published: 2020
    Northeastern British Columbia has been a major centre of conventional oil and gas production since the 1960s. More recently, the shale gas sector has also targeted the region.
  5932. In or out of the European Union? A tale of two referenda
    First Published: 2016
    Andrew Burgin argues for a 'Remain' vote in the Brexit referendum.
  5933. In perspective: John Holloway
    First Published: 2012
    John Holloway’s Change the World Without Taking Power (2002), like that other key text of autonomist post-Marxism, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri’s Empire (2000), cut with the grain of the global anti-capitalist mood at the beginning of the millennium. More than this, Holloway’s book was the focus for important debates on the international left and deserves praise both for emphasising the link between socialism and human self-activity and for criticising the idea that the capitalist state can be used to bring about socialist change.
  5934. In Praise of Direct Action (and More)
    First Published: 2019
    The speed with which air traffic controllers' work stoppage put an end to the government shutdown shows the power of direct action especially when it threatens capitalist profit.
  5935. In Print: Maximizing Coverage in Community Newspapers
    First Published: 2004
    How to get coverage in community newspapers.
  5936. In Protest Against Police Raping Spree, Women Burn Their Station in Mexico City.
    First Published: 2019
    A first person account of protests in Mexico City in response to reports of rape by police officers which have been dismissed by the administration.
  5937. In refuge on Refugee Rights Day: The Awan family story
    First Published: 2014
    On a day where we remember migrant and refugee struggles for freedom, dignity and security and recommit to fighting ongoing injustice, we highlight the struggle of the Awan family.
  5938. In Remembrance of Things Lost
    First Published: 2012
    It’s astonishing that I actually have to make an argument (and a losing one at that) against murdering children, but this is the reality we ourselves have given birth to.
  5939. In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent
    MSNBC outflanked from the left by Breitbart
    First Published: 2018
    Johnson expresses concern about the lack of MSNBC coverage of the role of the USA in the conflict in Yemen since 2015.
  5940. In Search of Los Angeles' Lost Socialist Colony, Llano del Rio
    First Published: 2017
    In search of the ruins of Llano del Rio, a socialist colony founded in 1914 by Job Harriman, looking to create a utopian community.
  5941. In Search of Social Justice -- A National Food Policy
    One Way Ahead
    First Published: 1977
    Working paper defining NAPO as a special interest group concentrating on legislation and policy surrounding issues of the Canadian poor.
  5942. In search of the common good
    First Published: 2017
    This essay examines the historical change in the meaning and understanding of the 'common good', particularly between ancient times and the modern world, and also takes a look at the social and political changes of recent decades that have shaped how we look at the issue.
  5943. In search of the unseen: an investigation into plastics in our oceans
    First Published: 2016
    One of the biggest threats facing marine life is the 'microplastic' particles found in ocean ecosystems from bottom to top of food chains. Just back from a voyage of environmental exploration in the tropical Atlantic sampling the waters to build up a global picture of this ubiquitous pollutant, Ana Stanic writes of the joys and trials of life on the waves, and the need to keep our oceans clean.
  5944. In Service to Scarcity: The Pursuit of Value as the Production of Poverty
    First Published: 2016
    This essay argues that exploring the roots and subsequent development of capitalist value theory over the course of the nineteenth century reveals a Janus-faced project:on the one hand, the development of a popular narrative which insists upon the "natural" inevitability of the scarcity which both backs value and precludes socialism, and on the other, an esoteric discussion of the need to channel the labor-power of society in directions that maintain the scarcity of the goods for which the majority exchange their time.
  5945. In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
    First Published: 2015
    Numerous writers thus demanded: to show "solidarity" with the murdered cartoonists, one should not merely condemn the attacks and defend the right of the cartoonists to publish, but should publish and even celebrate those cartoons. "The best response to Charlie Hebdo attack," announced Slate's editor Jacob Weisberg, "is to escalate blasphemous satire."
  5946. In Solidarity with Imprisoned Poet, Ashraf Fayadh
    Sentenced to death on charges of apostasy and promoting atheism, Ashraf had his sentence reduced to eight years and 800 lashes
    First Published: 2016
    Countless people, including the poet Ashraf Fayadh, are imprisoned because of things they wrote.
  5947. In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
    First Published: 2013
    The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
  5948. In Struggle! Canadian Marxist-Leninist Group
    First Published: 1978
  5949. In Support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action
    First Published: 2009
    In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence.
  5950. In Syria, Western Media Cheer Al-Qaeda
    First Published: 2017
    Khalek criticizes Western media for their failure to report on attacks in Syria because to do so would highlight how the West has been responsible for prolonging Al-Qaeda's bloodshed.
  5951. In Ten Years, We Will Have Zero Privacy
    Spying on Consumers
    First Published: 2014
    When we consider the “progress” that has been made in the ability to delve into the private lives of consumers, it’s terrifying. They know where we shop, where we vacation, what we buy, what we read, what we watch on television, and what we visit on the Internet.
  5952. In the Aftermath of the G20: Reflections on Strategy, Tactics and Militancy
    First Published: 2010
    The tactics of the Black Bloc make it clear that, for them, it is more important to smash windows than to try and march with thousands of workers and engage them in arguments about how to move struggles forward or that the problem is capitalism. How radical is it to trash a few windows? For us, radical is about workers gaining confidence and consciousness to fight back, not just at work, but in solidarity with others. Radical is about developing a sense of mass power, organising based on moving others into struggle, winning others to challenge the power in their workplace or community collectively, beyond the individualization of our society. Radical is about going to the roots of the system - not trashing its symbols.
  5953. In the battle of people vs. pipelines, round one went to the people
    First Published: 2014
    Last Wednesday I was arrested. I crossed a police line intended to mark the area where Kinder Morgan plans to drill into a mountainside as part of the survey work for an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from the tar sands to the ocean.
  5954. In the belly of the beast
    Book Review
    First Published: 2016
    In these days of intense state and media racism, any book that offers a deeper understanding of the role of anti-racist and black liberation struggles is invaluable. Høgsbjerg’s book provides a thorough and engrossing account of such struggles in the colonial world and in the belly of the imperial beast -- where C L R James lived from 1932 to 1938. James left Britain ten years before the Windrush docked in London; the story of his time in the UK is a valuable insight into the vibrant political organisations built by black people in Britain before what is generally considered to be the start of "Black British History".
  5955. In The Best Interests of the Child
    First Published: 1979
  5956. In the Dead of Night
    Israel's military raids into Palestinian homes
    First Published: 2023
    Almost every night, between midnight and 5am, the Israeli army breaks into Palestinian homes across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
  5957. In The Eye of the Beholder: USA History of Imprisoning Women Politicals
    Part One of review and discussion of Linda G. Ford's Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart
    First Published: 2019
    An in-depth review of Linda Ford's "Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart" (2018). The author draws on his personal experience as a journalist and organizer.
  5958. In the footsteps of Gandhi: an interview with Vandana Shiva
    First Published: 2016
    Vandana Shiva is more than just a leading scientist, author and campaigner on green issues and anti-globalisation. She is also among the most prominent of Mahatma Ghandi's intellectual heirs. In this interview, she discusses how this led her to be an outspoken voice on such crucial environmental issues as seed legacy, biopiracy and economic injustice.
  5959. In the Matter of the International Community v Israel
    First Published: 2015
    In its first full week of a "new" get tough policy, almost 500 young Palestinian demonstrators were injured, shot and maimed, and at least three teens murdered in response to what Israel sees as a rising tide of "militant" resistance against the illegally occupied and, by now, almost completely annexed West Bank.
  5960. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Mexico proved that debt can be repudiated
    First Published: 2017
    Mexico's past demonstrates that despite the domination of the major powers and international finance, a country can make major social advances.
  5961. In the Shadow of the Fatwa
    First Published: 2014
    Twenty five years ago not even death threats, bombings, and murders could not stop the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Today, all it takes is for one person to shout ‘offence’ for liberals to haul out the metaphorical burqa to protect our sensitivities. But in defending one's right to say what they wish, even if it is deemed by some to be offensive, what we are truly defending is the necessity for a plural world.
  5962. In the Shadow of the Storm
    First Published: 2015
    Ten years ago this month, on the day Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I was at Camp Casey, an informal encampment outside George W. Bush's Crawford ranch, listening to a group of veterans talk about their opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By chance, it was also the day my first feature for Harper's Magazine went to press, an essay about how people react in the wake of major urban disasters.
  5963. In the Storm
    First Published: 1904
    The war destroys the appearance which leads us to believe in peaceful social evolution; in the omnipotence and the untouchability of bourgeois legality; in national exclusivism; in the stability of political conditions; in the conscious direction of politics by these statesmen or parties.
  5964. In the US: Imagining Socialism
    First Published: 2014
    Book review. This welcome book, Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA, is an important and unique attempt to bridge that gap between the obvious and mass apathy. As an argument for socialism, presented from multiple angles in short essays by some thirty contributors, it is persuasive, passionate, and at times eloquent.
  5965. In the US, money talks when it comes to Israel
    First Published: 2016
    Investigates the 2016 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates and their allegiance to Israel.
  5966. In the Wake of Carnage
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    Book review of "Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru" by Kimberly Theidon.
  5967. In These Days of Great Tension
    First Published: 2022
    Rather than allow this war to escalate and for positions to harden, it is important for the guns to go silent and the discussions to recommence. writes Vijay Prashad.
  5968. In Times of Crisis
    First Published: 2003
    As anyone facing a crowded room of reporters during an emergency will tell you, effective crisis communications is paramount in overcoming the predicament.
  5969. In Uganda, Rioters Strip Women Wearing Trousers
    First Published: 2009
    Rioters attacked and stripped about 20 Ugandan women who were wearing trousers last week during deadly riots in Kampala. The humiliations were part of a major confrontation between a traditional kingdom and President Yoweri Museveni's government.
  5970. In Ukraine, 'No One Hears That There Is a Diplomatic Solution'
    First Published: 2022
  5971. In Vietnam War US deliberately bombed hospitals
    First Published: 2015
  5972. 'Inappropriate Behaviour' - Michael Fallon, Yemen, And The 'Mainstream' That Is Anything But
    First Published: 2017
    A look at 'mainstream' journalism, a product of corporate conformity and a deference to power that is anything but mainstream.
  5973. Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
    First Published: 1864
    Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
  5974. The Inauthentic Opposition is "Stunned" by a Crime it Encouraged
    First Published: 2020
    Top Democrats are "stunned" that Trump impulsively ordered the killing of "the commanding general of a sovereign government" (New York Times) – Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassim Soliemani - on the sovereign territory of Iraq without the permission of Iraq's government. The imperial assassination of Soliemani is a criminal act of war guaranteed to provoke a reaction that could produce a regional war involving U.S. forces in the Middle East.
  5975. 'Incapacitating' chemical weapons threaten a new arms race
    First Published: 2014
    December's meeting of the Chemical Weapons Convention offers the opportunity to control very dangerous and often fatal chemical agents deemed 'incapacitating'.Currently a legal gray area, it's essential to bring the development and use of these substances before a full blown arms race breaks out.
  5976. Incarcerated Inside Israel
    Palestinians Tortured and Isolated
    First Published: 2012
    Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and indeed children.
  5977. Incarceration and Resistance
    First Published: 2015
    Book reviews of Dan Berger's two works Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era and The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States.
  5978. Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work
    First Published: 2012
    The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause, was deemed utterly irrelevant beside his allegedly unbearable personal failings.
  5979. Inclosure Acts
    Connexipedia Article
    A series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country. This meant that the rights that people once held to graze animals on these areas were denied.
  5980. Inclusao ou Exclusao?
    First Published: 2008
    Enqanto isso acontece, nós vamos preferir acreditar que as "comunidades étnicas" nao tem interesse nenhum em tais assuntos e nenhuma posiçao na luta que está sendo travada em volta deles?
  5981. Inclusión o exclusion?
    First Published: 2008
  5982. Inclusion or exclusion 
    First Published: 2008
    People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
  5983. Inclusion or Exclusion - Arabic text
    First Published: 2008
  5984. Inclusion or Exclusion - Chinese Text
    First Published: 2008
  5985. Inclusion or Exclusion? - Farsi
    First Published: 2008
    People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
  5986. Inclusion or Exclusion - Japanese text
    First Published: 2008
  5987. Inclusione o Esclusione?
    First Published: 2008
  5988. Increasing Legal Suppression of Freedom of Thought and Expression in So-called Free and Democratic Societies
    As evidence for increasing totalitarianism
    First Published: 2015
    That freedom of speech is the foundational individual right for a truly democratic system to exist or emerge. And that this freedom must be defended without compromise, and without bias against any particular view, no matter how distasteful or disturbing the particular view might be to some or most people.
  5989. Incredibly, I Face Investigation for Terrorism - Defence Funds Appeal
    First Published: 2023
    My phone is not being returned to me by police as, astonishingly, I am now formally under investigation for terrorism. Whether this relates to support for Palestine or for Wikileaks has currently not been made clear.
  5990. Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel
    First Published: 2006
    The state of Israel practises its own, quite violent, form of Apartheid with the native Palestinian population.
  5991. Indeed, there is no comparison: Israel's crimes are far worse than Hamas's
    First Published: 2024
    Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as 'absurd and false' the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides. Here's why.
  5992. Indefensible design: the high social costs of 'security'
    First Published: 2013
    The pedlars of gates, alarms and CCTV have an ever-growing business. It’s the community that pays.
  5993. The Indefinite Detention of the Progressive Voter
    The Politics of Continual Servitude
    First Published: 2012
    Earlier this year President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law. It allows for the indefinite detention without trial for any U.S. citizen deemed to be a terrorist or an accessory to terrorism.
  5994. Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
    First Published: 1975
    Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
  5995. Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
    First Published: 2009
    As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
  5996. Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
    First Published: 2010
    We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
  5997. Independent media guide
    A guide with advice and information on developing your own media, from online and printed publications to speeches, flyposting and more.
    First Published: 2004
  5998. Independent Politics and Self-Determination
    First Published: 2013
    A inteview with Chokwe Lumumba about a project combining community organizing and electoral efforts in a changing South.
  5999. Independent power producers
    First Published: 1990
  6000. India - buried under stinking rubbish heaps
    First Published: 2013
    Under the 'Incredible India' brand lurk millions of fast-growing piles of decomposing waste. As they await removal, polluting waters and stinking under the tropical sun, India is rapidy becoming the world's biggest rubbish dump.
  6001. India: Growing Inequality and Destructive Development
    Misery for the Many, Benefits for the Few
    First Published: 2013
    Under the careful guidance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund the Indian government has for the last twenty years or so, embraced market liberalization and the global market; garlanded corporations with all manner of subsidies and damned the poor to greater poverty, destitution, suffering and, suicide in the case of farmers.
  6002. India is taking acid attacks more seriously
    First Published: 2013
    Women campaign for courts and public to take notice of impact of devastating assaults.
  6003. India - Now Nuclear and Environmental Dissent is a Crime
    First Published: 2014
    In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack as enemies of the state and a threat to economic growth.
  6004. India : The United Tea Workers Front (UTWF) launched to break a vicious circle of poverty
    First Published: 2013
    The United Tea Workers Front (UTWF) has been launched, primarily to raise the issue of a living wages and related matters in the forthcoming wage negotiations in North Bengal.
  6005. India, Where Corporate Socialism is a Growth Industry
    $608 Billion in Write-Offs
    First Published: 2014
    It was business as usual in 2013-14. Business with a capital B. This year’s budget document says we gave away another $88.6 billion to the corporate needy and the under-nourished rich in that year.
  6006. India: Why are Suzuki automobile workers in jail?
    First Published: 2017
    Why are automobile workers being jailed for murder? The story at Maruti is a familiar one in India's industrial scene.
  6007. India: Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die
    First Published: 2022
    "The streets, she says, are lined with dead things. Dogs. Cats. Cows. Animals of all kinds are just there, dead. They've perished in the killing heat. They can't survive." People spend all day in canals and rivers and lakes. Some people line the streets passed out at the edge of life or death.
  6008. Indian bands join defence alliance
    First Published: 1989
  6009. Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
    First Published: 2018
    Discusses how even though issues such as the Dakota Access Pipeline have received lots of public attention people are unaware of how Indigenous dispossession is deeply ingrained in the fabric of the US.
  6010. Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
    First Published: 2018
    A discussion of Stephanie Woodard's book "American Apartheid: The Native Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion" and looking at how present-day colonial practices impact Native people in the US.
  6011. Indian independence movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Encompasses a wide spectrum of political organizations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending British colonial authority in South Asia.
  6012. Indian Journalist Offers Harsh Critique of Globalization
    First Published: 2014
  6013. Indian Rebellion of 1857
    Connexipedia Article
    The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May, 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region.
  6014. Indian Women and the Law in Canada
    First Published: 1978
    This report examines section 12 (1) (b) of the Indian Act.
  6015. The Indiana "Subversion" Case 50 Years Later
    First Published: 2013
    The case of the Bloomington Three began at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis with updates on the case appearing in the state and national press for several years. Alan Wald assesses the case as a foreshadowing of the mass radicalization of the late 1960s.
  6016. Indianapolis' Extortion Dome
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    The Indianapolis Colts’ new Lucas Oil Dome portends to be exorbitant for the taxpayers of Marion County, where Indianapolis is situated. But the cost is genteelly hidden, so the taxpayers are liable to overlook what this new Dome is going to cost them. This is the new Dome the Colts’ owning Irsay family insisted had to be built for them by public funds, or else they’d leave as they formerly abandoned Baltimore.
  6017. Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913
    Connexipedia Article
    The Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913, the Indianapolis Police Mutiny of 1913, and the 1913 Indianapolis Riots began as a workers strike by the union employees of the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company and occurred during November 1913.
  6018. Indians, Leftists, and Rebellion in Bolivia - review
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia' by Jeffery Webber.
  6019. India's acid attack victims unite against the horror of their past
    First Published: 2015
    Last year, 349 people in India, mostly women, had acid thrown on them in deliberate assaults. A groundbreaking cafe allows some of them a new start. Sheroes (run by an NGO in the city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal) is a rare beacon of hope where the aim is to help change perceptions of the survivors of acid attacks and to allow them to regain some confidence.
  6020. India's Autoworkers Behaving Like the Old UAW
    The Real Deal
    First Published: 2011
    While it's true that international banks and corporations have their slimy tentacles in everything from foreign governments to foreign armies, the world's workers have two weapons of their own. One is the crippling, paralyzing effect of no-go dockworkers. The other is the logistical potential of the Internet.
  6021. India's Coal Inferno
    100,000 Premature Deaths a Year and Rising
    First Published: 2014
    As India pursues its aggressive path of coal-powered industrialisation, its leaders are showing themselves willing to sacrifice millions of people and huge swathes of the country to a dark and uncertain future.
  6022. India's Communalist Violence Against Women
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    In the colonial and post-colonial periods in India, both the state and the religious communities identified women as a site of concern. Yet at the close of the 20th century, the condition of women in India remains deplorable—a condition that should not be belittled on the ground that colonialism used it in order to discredit India's peoples and achievements.
  6023. India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse
    First Published: 2016
    From hospital wards to skinning fields, India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse and fears for their future.
  6024. India's Freedom Struggle Influenced by Marxism
    First Published: 2018
    In India Marxism has influenced revolutionary figures to varying degrees. As inequality rises a renewed interest in Marx that engages local philosophies could invigorate a proletarian movement.
  6025. India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons
    First Published: 2015
    India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
  6026. India's killer heatwave - a deadly warning of the world we face, without climate action
    First Published: 2015
    As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands. If this is an indicator of the warming world to come, it's giving us all the reasons we could possibly want to act decisively before it's too late.
  6027. India's Rice Warrior Battles to Build Living Seed Bank as Climate Chaos Looms
    First Published: 2014
    Rice conservationist Debal Deb grapples with 'mindless Indian elite' to reintroduce genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties
  6028. India's UID And The Fantasy Of Dataveillance
    First Published: 2009
    The perils of establishing nationwide identity systems have always been a hot topic of debate in countries that attach great value to privacy and human rights of its citizens. In India, there is not even a whimper of protest from politicians and civil society groups.
  6029. India's Vanishing Vultures
    First Published: 2011
    Can the world's fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences?
  6030. Indicting the System with Noam Chomsky
    First Published: 2016
    In this interview Noam Chomsky brings once more to bear on current and historical events his eviscerating analysis of power systems.
  6031. Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites
    First Published: 2016
    In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q'eqchi' Mayan communities surrounding the site. On February 8, tensions erupted and led to the occupation of the municipality building of Lanquín by over 200 members of the communities near the tourist attraction. Community members demanded the recuperation of the site. Since that day, residents have maintained management of the park.
  6032. Indigenous Community Wins Land Rights Victory in Guatemala After 200 Years of Struggle
    First Published: 2015
    Success is rare among indigenous peoples' struggles for land rights in Guatemala. But the nearly 300 Poqomchi' Maya families that make up the Primavera communities in the department of Alta Verapaz have just won a significant victory.
  6033. Indigenous People, the First Victims of Brazil's New Far-Right Government
    First Published: 2019
    Anti-Indigenous sentiment in Brazil is emboldened by Bolsonaro's regime. This is leading to greater efforts by the government and agribusiness to seize Indigenous Lands.
  6034. Indigenous peoples in Latin America fight to safeguard their knowledge
    First Published: 2015
    Equal Times met up with William Park just a few months after he had completed a project of mammoth proportions: a 500-page encyclopaedia compiling, in collaboration with the community, a large portion of their medical knowledge. "The aim is to help the community to preserve and pass on their knowledge without it being pillaged by foreign businesses. If they decide to share it one day, that is their choice. It isn't up to us to decide for them," explains the specialist in sustainable agriculture.
  6035. Indigenous resistance: my fight for land and life in Colombia
    First Published: 2017
    On World Day of Indigenous Resistance, Wayúu woman ANGELICA ORITZ shares her experience as a human rights defender, living and fighting for the future of her community in the shadow of the largest opencast mine in Colombia.
  6036. Indigenous Resistance to Gold Mine Gains Momentum
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    Last June 13 indigenous communities in Sipacapa, in the western highlands of Guatemala, voted overwhelmingly to reject gold mining on their lands. Oxfam’s press release announced the results: 2,486 people cast their vote against the mine, 35 voted in favor, 32 abstained and one cast a blank vote.
  6037. Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
    First Published: 2017
    Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
  6038. Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis
    First Published: 1944
    The history of science is a history of erroneous statements. Yet these erroneous statements which mark the progress of thought have a particular quality: they are productive. And they are not just errors either; they are statements, the truth of which is veiled by misconceptions, is clothed in erroneous and inadequate concepts. They are rational visions which contain the seed of truth.
  6039. Individualist anarchism
    Connexipedia Article
    Refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and his/her will over any kinds of external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems.
  6040. Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon
    First Published: 2019
    There are several indications that India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) are obsessed with the perverse urge to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons by unleashing a first or a second strike.
  6041. Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
  6042. Indonesia: 41 dead, 546 assaulted, 51 shot in agrarian conflicts under Jokowi’s watch
    First Published: 2019
    An explosion of agrarian conflicts between 2014 and 2018 has resulted in many casualties including 41 people killed, 546 people assaulted and 51 people shot since President Joko Widodo came to office.
  6043. Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
    First Published: 2015
    Fire is raging across the 5,000km length of Indonesia.It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but here’s a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions of Germany.
  6044. Indonesia: Reformasi Betrayed
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    In complete betrayal of the student-led Reformasi (reform) movement, the ruling judge in the Suharto corruption trial dropped the case after hearing a report by a twenty-three member team of court appointed doctors that the former Indonesian dictator was physically and mentally unfit to stand trial.
  6045. Indonesia Update: An Economic Titanic
    First Published: 1998
    "LIVING IN AN Economic Nightmare" is the headline of Time Asia's cover story on Indonesia (August 3). In one year's time Indonesia's per capita income dropped from $1300 per capita to less than $300. In human terms, this has meant unbelievable suffering for an average working person. According to Indonesian government figures, more than 50 million people have fallen below the poverty line since the country's financial crisis began in July 1997.
  6046. Indonesia's Fraud-Riddled Election
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    The elections are over in Indonesia. The international press, calling them "the first free and fair elections in over 44 years," noted the relative lack of violence during the campaign period leading up to the June 7 vote.
  6047. Indonesia's Unfolding Democratic Revolution
    First Published: 1998
    AS WE GO TO PRESS, the pro-democratic forces continue to push their advantage against the weakened army-backed Habibie government. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund agreed to soften implementation of its economic austerity package to give Habibie and the military more time to hopefully bring political stability. In addition, the big Western banks, led by Chase Manhattan, have agreed to reschedule repayment of nearly $80 billion in private debt.
  6048. Indoor Air Quality: No Scents is Good Sense
    First Published: 1998
    Establishing a scent-free workplace.
  6049. Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, Alberta
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the troubling indifference to the alarming statistics on worker fatalities, and the lax occupational health and safety regulations that are designed to protect employers and permit the further expansion of company profits.
  6050. Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
    First Published: 2017
    Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the outbreak.
  6051. Industrial Unionism
    First Published: 1905
    In capitalist society you are the lower class; the capitalists are the upper class-because they are on your backs; if they were not on your backs they could not be above you.
  6052. Industrial Workers of the World
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A revolutionary industrial union founded in 1905. Wobblies were mostly unskilled, low-status migrant workers. The IWW advocated the organization of all workers into one body and supported direct action as the only form of protest open to immigrant workers, who were excluded from the electoral process.
  6053. Industrial Workers of the World
    Connexipedia Article
    The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
  6054. Ineffective 350.org divestment campaign should give way to direct corporate actions
    First Published: 2017
    While 350.org runs a number of important campaigns, such as "Resist Trump's Climate Agenda" , there are serious questions about whether divestment campaigning is effective or whether it should be replaced by direct action campaigning.
  6055. Inequalities Are Unhealthy
    First Published: 2004
    The growing inequalities we are witnessing in the world today are having a very negative impact on the health and quality of life of its populations.
  6056. Inequalities grow in U.S.
    First Published: 1992
  6057. Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary's Loss
    Working-class women who voted for Trump tell us a lot about feminism's relationship to class politics.
    First Published: 2016
    The outcome of the 2016 American election was, like any, multi-causual. In addition to factors of racism and sexism, economic inequality, specifically economic inequality among women, must be identified as an additional culprit.
  6058. The Inevitability of Communism
    First Published: 1936
    A reaction to Sidney Hook's Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx.
  6059. The 'Inevitability of Socialism'
    The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula
    First Published: 1947
    It is our conviction that the socialist revolution will triumph. There is no question of 'equal possibility.' But this conviction is based on an examination of evidence - in the first place, upon our Marxist analysis of the social forces at work, the truth of which, like all human truth, is tested and confirmed only in practice (in struggle). It is not the same as saying that the socialist revolution is inevitable.
  6060. Infant Formula Controversy Kit
    First Published: 1980
  6061. Infiltrating Antifa: the Feds and Their Long History of Subversion
    First Published: 2020
    On May 31st, 2020, President Trump (or his people) tweeted: “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.” Attorney General, William Barr, said: “The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly.”
  6062. Infiltration To Disrupt, Divide And Mis-direct Are Widespread In Occupy - Part I
    First Published: 2012
    This article describes public reports of infiltration as well as results of a survey and discussions with occupiers about this important issue.
  6063. The Influence of Social Factors in Child Development
    First Published: 1958
    f parents really wish that their children be not only successful but also to be mentally healthy, they must consider as essential those norms and values that lead to mental health and not only those that lead to success.
  6064. The Influence of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement in Canada
    First Published: 1995
    Published in Race, Gender and Class, 2.3 (Spring 1995)
  6065. Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin America
    First Published: 2017
    A large proportion of the 4.3 million migrant workers in Latin America and the Caribbean survive by working in the informal economy or in irregular conditions. An invisible wall that is necessary to bring down, together with discrimination and xenophobia.
  6066. The Informal Work Group
    First Published: 1973
    Stan Weir on some of his life experiences at work and what he saw as the "the only organizational form opposed to formal bureaucracies which cannot be captured by them", the informal work group.
  6067. Information and Action for Church IMPACT on Canadian Banks and South African Apartheid
    First Published: 1977
    This kit contains a number of articles which provide background information on the issue of apartheid and which give guidelines for action.
  6068. Information et Formation
    First Published: 1977
    Ce feullet d'information hebdomadire est publie pour l'usage des associations et groupes quil constituent CRANO.
  6069. Information is Everywhere and Everywhere We are Ignorant
    First Published: 2015
    An international survey of young people in the US and other countries asked 56 questions about geography and current events. The organization’s survey discovered that about 87% of Americans could not place Iraq on the map. Americans could find on average only seven of the 16 countries in the quiz. Only 71% of the surveyed Americans could locate the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest body of water.
  6070. Information Overload
    Driving a Stake Through the National Security State
    First Published: 2012
    Here’s an idea. Let’s all start salting all of our conversations and our written communications with a selection of those 300 key words. If every liberty-loving person in America virus were to do this, the NSA would have to employ all 15 million unemployed Americans just to begin to look at all those transcripts!
  6071. Information Terrorists? 
    The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
    First Published: 2010
    WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
  6072. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
    Book review
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Shashi Tharoor's book "Inglorious Empire", which is a scorching indictment of British rule in India and British imperialism in general.
  6073. Iniciales
    Wikipedia article
    Iniciales was a Spanish individualist anarchist and naturist eclectic magazine which ran between 1929 and 1937. As an eclectic magazine, it dealt with diverse subjects such as anarchism, pedagogy, individualism, sex education, naturism, nudism, free love, hiking, dance and it criticized alcohol and drug consumption.
  6074. The Injured Workers Movement
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    History and formation of The Injured Workers Movement.
  6075. The injustice industry
    First Published: 2014
    There is a major legal business in corporate lawsuits against governments, seeking either a change in proposed legislation to suit corporate demands, or compensation. Under TTIP, European governments could face the same claims.
  6076. Inland Terminals threaten Small Towns
    First Published: 1975
    The threat of American multinationals to Canadian farming system.
  6077. Inmate's Rights
    A Handbook of prisoners: Rights and Obligations in Newfoundland and Labrador
    First Published: 1984
  6078. Inner-City Housing, Rehabliltation and Relocation Committee Working Paper
    First Published: 1977
    A paper on housing shortage issues in Winnipeg, Canada.
  6079. Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education
    First Published: 2016
    Williams discusses why American universities' current trend of advocating innovation ends up prioritizing corporate interests over the gola of accessible education.
  6080. Innu acquittals overturned
    First Published: 1989
  6081. Inquiry on Canada's future
    First Published: 1991
  6082. The Insanity of the COP: We Must Adopt a Different Vision
    First Published: 2015
  6083. Inshore/Offshore - The Struggle for Survival in the Atlantic Fishery
    First Published: 1981
    The question of whether the inshore fishermen or the offshore trawlers are going to benefit most from the riches of the Atlantic fishery is an old problem.
  6084. Inside Avaaz - can online activism really change the world?
    First Published: 2013
    With 30 million members, Avaaz is an organisation with ambitions to save us all through technology.
  6085. Inside Bahrain After the Crackdown
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with Nada Alwadi, one of the journalists who reported honestly about the events on the streets of Manama, Bahrain’s capital, and in the rest of the small kingdom. She founded the Bahraini Press Association as a vehicle to fight for the right of journalists to report stories freely.
  6086. Inside Corbyn's Office
    An interview with Matt Zarb-Cousin
    First Published: 2017
    Jeremy Corbyn’s former press officer on sabotage within the British Labour party, his relationship to the media, and how Labour can close the polling gap.
  6087. Inside El Salvador's Military Blacklist
    The Yellow Book
    First Published: 2014
    The Yellow Book (Libro amarillo) is a 270 page document from 1987 that the National Security Archive in Washington DC made public on September 28th, 2014. The Yellow Book includes 1,975 photographs that the Salvadoran Armed Forces and the State Department of Intelligence of El Salvador used to catalogue people as “terrorists” and “enemies” of the state. The Yellow Book is the only military document that has been made public to this day.
  6088. Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China
    First Published: 2018
    Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.
  6089. Inside Komen's NGOized Culture
    First Published: 2014
    The authors analyze the monopoly that the Komen Foundation has over breast cancer research and how the process of "NGOization" has cultivated a consumer culture in how participants engage with the movement.
  6090. An Inside Look at Our Penal System
    Review of Go-Boy! Memoirs of a Life Behind Bars, by Roger Caron
    First Published: 1979
    GO-BOY! can be read as a major social document which cries out for long–overdue prison reforms in Canada. It's a major contribution to prison literature and criminology. But GO-BOY!, like much concentration camp literature, can also be read and appreciated as a forceful witness to survival in hell. Caron has been there and come back to life whole, human and still fighting.
  6091. Inside NSA, Officials Privately Criticize 'Collect It All' Surveillance
    First Published: 2015
    As Members of Congress struggle to agree on which surveillance programs to re-authorize before the Patriot Act expires, they might consider the unusual advice of an intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency who warned about the danger of collecting too much data.
  6092. Inside/ Outside the Campus Box
    The Cutting Edge
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of David Lanksy's The Cutting Edge.
  6093. Inside Quadro
    First Published: 1990
  6094. Inside Rochdale
    First Published: 1971
    What Rochdale has done is to provide a meeting ground on which those disenchanted with the running of modern society can attempt to work out an alternative environment.
  6095. Inside the Capitalist Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    The bi-partisan austerity offensive — corresponding to the logical of capitalist profitability and accumulation — continues.
  6096. Inside the Corporate University
    First Published: 2013
    Recent corporate transformation of the university, the profit-driven research orientation and the direction of instruction to the requirements of the private sector discourages faculty from finding common cause with other constituencies. The article looks into problems of neoliberal university and how to help create a genuine university community.
  6097. Inside the European Cataclysm
    First Published: 2015
    During this second Thirty Years War, from 1914-1945, Europe experienced an extraordinary fusion of conflicts.
  6098. Inside the Global Crisis
    First Published: 2011
  6099. Inside the Global Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    “The roots of the modern financial system lie in developments in the early 1980s when investors of capital could not find avenues where they could obtain reasonable returns after a decline, from the early 1970s onwards, in the profit levels of traditional companies.”
  6100. Inside the International Socialist Organization
    Putting the Sect Into Sectarian
    First Published: 2013
    Intellectual conformity in such groups is not a function of bureaucratic measures such as expulsion. It is all about peer pressure.
  6101. Inside The Mushroom Cloud Part1: The "Physics Package"
    First Published: 1983
  6102. Inside The Mushroom Cloud Part2: The Human Package
    First Published: 1983
  6103. Inside The Mushroom Cloud: Introduction
    First Published: 1983
  6104. Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate known as the CIA: an Interview with Douglas Valentine
    First Published: 2019
  6105. Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?
    First Published: 2015
    It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways.
  6106. Inside The Scorpion
    A Journalist's Ordeal in Egypt's Most Notorious Prison
    First Published: 2017
    The story of journalist Mohamed Fahmy's experiences during their two-year confinement in an Egyptian prison.
  6107. Inside the Sensational Business of "Rescuing" Sex Workers
    First Published: 2015
    For years, the sex worker movement has been at odds with a conservative wing of the anti-human trafficking movement.
  6108. Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
    First Published: 2016
    Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.
  6109. Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers
    First Published: 2015
    Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer. An investigation by The Intercept indicates that this targeting was likely not an isolated event.
  6110. Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the 'fall of China'
    First Published: 2020
    In recent years, few stories have generated as much outrage in the West as the condition of Uyghur Muslims in China. Reporting on the issue is typically represented through seemingly spontaneous leaks of information and expressions of resistance by Uyghur human rights activists struggling to be heard against a tyrannical Chinese government.
  6111. The Insidious Power of Propaganda
    First Published: 2014
    To study the effects of political propaganda in what used to be called the 'free world' there could hardly be a better time than now. We are living through an instance of insidious propaganda that has clean contours. It fills a common need. In a period of large-scale slaughter and other man-made disaster the morally conscious person can do with some clear categories of good and bad, desirable and despicable.
  6112. Insisting on Humanity
    The Plight of the Palestinians
    First Published: 2010
    It is important that we preserve the distinction between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people, who have held on to their rights for so many years, and unleashed two of the greatest expressions of people's power and resolve: the First Uprising of 1987 and al-Aqsa Intifada of 2000. A whole population taking on the self-celebrated "greatest army in the Middle East" is hardly "powerless". The Palestinian people have printed themselves on the practical discourse of this conflict, and they have proved themselves to be powerful players in determining their own fate.
  6113. Insouciant Americans
    Blinding Hypocrisy
    First Published: 2010
    Hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed.
  6114. An Inspiration Named Chubby
    First Published: 2011
    Theodore Fontaine's memorr of his 12 years in a residential school.
  6115. Inspired by Injustice: Scottsboro in History
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    “In many respects this is an archival project,” writes James A. Miller, Chair of the American Studies Department at George Washington University, at the end of his introduction to Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial.
  6116. The Inspiring Outrage of Norman Finkelstein
    First Published: 2023
    A few thoughts on the new book, "I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!"
  6117. Institute for the Study of Cultural Evolution
    First Published: 1972
    An attempt to make the university of humanity a conscious coordinated effort towards humanity at peace with itself and its environment.
  6118. The Institutionalization of Tyranny
    When Victory Has Nothing to do With Justice
    First Published: 2013
    Republicans and conservative Americans are still fighting Big Government in its welfare state form. Apparently, they have never heard of the militarized police state form of Big Government, or, if they have, they are comfortable with it and have no objection.
  6119. Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can't Agree to Disagree
    First Published: 2018
    As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to -- or even allow for the existence of -- other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along. Here's the thing: if Americans don't learn how to get along--at the very least, agreeing to disagree and respecting each other's right to subscribe to beliefs and opinions that may be offensive, hateful, intolerant or merely different--then we're going to soon find that we have no rights whatsoever (to speak, assemble, agree, disagree, protest, opt in, opt out, or forge our own paths as individuals). In such an environment, when we can't agree to disagree, the bullies (on both sides) win and freedom suffers.
  6120. Insurance and the orgin of big data
    Between the ledger and the computer was the card index - the basis of the mass commodification of personal insurance
    First Published: 2015
    A historical look at the origins of 'Big Data' and the collection of personal information by corporate America in the early 20th century.
  6121. Insurrectional Black Power 
    CLR James on Race and Class
    First Published: 2015
    During the exhilarating and dangerous late 1960s and early 1970s, no world historical figure of older generations had a more militant defense of Black Power than CLR James. But it was always a vision within a context, and after all these years have passed (along with James himself who died in 1989), the context remains crucial.
  6122. Intag's Recurrent Nightmare: Adding Up The Costs Of Ecuador's Mineral Wars
    First Published: 2015
    Intag is situated in Northwestern Ecuador. In the 1990s Bishimetal, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, found evidence of a large copper deposit lying in the bowels of the biodiverse Toisan Range. In 1997 it was forced to abandon the project. In 2012 CODELCO, Ecuador’s state-owned mining company moved to revive the project as part of a government to government agreement. The nightmare returns.
  6123. The Intangible Benefits of Media Training
    First Published: 2002
    One of the greatest frustrations of media relations specialists, and news media, is the slow response to interview or information requests. Many times I've noticed that executives don't understand the rapid timelines that the news media operate under - they don't understand how quickly something ceases to be "news" or how quickly the media may lose interest in a proactive media relations venture.
  6124. Integracja czy wykluczenie?
    First Published: 2008
  6125. Integration oder Ausgrenzung?
    First Published: 2008
  6126. Intégration ou Marginalisation?
    First Published: 2008
  6127. Intellectual Charlatans & Academic Witch-Hunters
    First Published: 2012
    Butler’s work has always divided critics. While some view her as a courageous and innovative thinker, others view her as an intellectual charlatan.
  6128. Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
    First Published: 2008
    Keeping the media safe for big business.
  6129. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 2
    Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds
    First Published: 2008
    Most ambitious journalists start out on a daily local newspaper owned by one of a handful of large media groups. There one quickly feels all sorts of institutional constraints on one's reporting. As a young journalist, if you know no better, you simply come to accept that journalism is done in a certain kind of way, that certain stories are suitable and others unsuitable.
  6130. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3
    First Published: 2008
    The tendency to self-deception appears to be greatly increased when we join as part of a group. Groups create a sense of belonging, a "we-feeling", which can provide even greater incentives to reject painful truths.
  6131. An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
    First Published: 2022
    Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  6132. Intellectual Property Regime Undermines Equity, Progress
    First Published: 2018
    Developing countries must reject the intellectual property rights regime imposed on them by powerful foreign monopolies in recent decades.
  6133. The Intelligence Apparatus Is Checking Out Your "Intimate Body Parts"
    Privates Eyes
    First Published: 2014
    According to the latest Snowden revelation, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which works in close collaboration with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), has been intercepting and storing images of millions of Yahoo webcam-chat users in a program appropriately code-named "Optic Nerve."
  6134. The intelligence of ravens and the foolishness of (some) humans
    First Published: 2021
    The problem with studies that continue to propagate the idea that intelligence is a single quantity, a thing that can be measured and quantified.
  6135. Intelligent Design?
    First Published: 2005
    Chomsky discusses the Bush Administration's understanding of science, touching upon issues such as Evolution, Creationism, and environmental policy.
  6136. Intentional community
    Connexipedia Article
    A planned residential community designed to have a much higher degree of teamwork than other communities.
  6137. Inter-Church Energy Committee
    First Published: 1978
  6138. Interactions
    First Published: 1975
    These are nots of remarks made at an all-day consultation between New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.
  6139. Interactive map of Latino urban riots and social unrest
    First Published: 2016
    A map that displays Latino riots in the United States from 1964 to 2016.
  6140. Interactive map of workers' councils (1917-1927)
    First Published: 2017
    This article charts the spread of the workers' council movement in the ten-year period after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
  6141. The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
    First Published: 2019
    First Look Media, owner of The Intercept, is shutting down access to Snowden’s leaked NSA documents. Their reporters still have copies of all the documents and are looking to find a new outlet for them.
  6142. Interior Ministry protection programme for journalists also used for "close-quarters spying"
    First Published: 2009
    Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, has been harassed and intimidated by Colombia's intelligence services, who obtained information about her from her alleged protectors.
  6143. International arms companies make a killing in Turkey: a case study of the Roboski Massacre
    First Published: 2016
    Today, Turkey continues its brutality in its war against its Kurdish population. The state is imposing new curfews daily in the south-east of the country. Hundreds of citizens have been killed so far, whilst the western mainstream media and politicians remain largely silent about the massacres. Anti-militarist activists in the UK, however, are taking action against atrocities carried out by states such as Turkey.
  6144. International Brigades
    Connexipedia Article
    Republican military units made up of many non-state-sponsored, anti-fascist, mostly socialist and communist, volunteers from different countries who traveled to Spain to fight for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.
  6145. International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party
    Connexipedia Article
    A political international whose member organisations identify with the Italian left communist tradition.
  6146. International Communist Tendency
    Connexipedia Article
    An international centralised left communist organisation formed in 1975.
  6147. International Communities as a Strategy for Social Change
    First Published: 1976
    Analysis of the significance of the role of "community" in the struggle toward a more human social order.
  6148. The International Context of Global Outrage
    Part I: Looking back on the movements that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street
    First Published: 2012
  6149. International Injustice: the Conviction of Radovan Karadzic
    First Published: 2016
    Last Thursday, news reports were largely devoted to the March 22, 2016 Brussels terror bombings and the US primary campaigns. And so little attention was paid to the verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for (former) Yugoslavia (ICTY) finding Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of every crime it could come up with, including "genocide".
  6150. International Liquidity and Class Struggle: A First Approximation
    First Published: 1998
    In my view, the current situation is merely the latest eruption of a crisis in accumulation that first surfaced ca. 1965 in the simultaneous recessions in the U.S., Germany and Japan, signaling that the postwar boom was running out of steam.
  6151. International of Anarchist Federations
    Connexipedia Article
    Founded during an international Anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile.
  6152. International Olympic Committee bans Russia from 2018 Olympics in political provocation
    First Published: 2017
    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board announced Tuesday that it had decided to ban the Russian Olympic team from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
  6153. International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
    Connexipedia Article
    Was an international association of left-socialist parties. The member-parties rejected both mainstream social democracy and the Third International.
  6154. International Terrorism
    Image and Reality - In Alexander George (ed.), Western State Terrorism
    First Published: 1991
    Chomsky identifies two approaches to evaluating terrorism: the literal and propagandistic. He further explores various cases, factors and forms of terrorism according to literal analysis, yet concludes by admitting that in order to understand the phenomenon in the context of reality, one must abandon the literal for the propagandistic approach.
  6155. International Women's Day
    First Published: 2018
    The annual day for recognition of and struggle for women's economic, social and political rights.
  6156. International Women's Day and Working Class History
    First Published: 1986
    In this concise essay Beaton looks at the Socialist roots of International Women's Day.
  6157. International Women's Day. A Militant Celebration
    First Published: 1920
    Written by Alexandra Kollontai and first published in Mezhdunarodnyi den' rabotnitz, Moscow, 1920.
  6158. International Women's Day. Defend the Gains of October
    First Published: 1987
    Beaton calls for the defence of the gains made in the emancipation of women by the October revolution.
  6159. International Women's Day
    Connexipedia Article
    Marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.
  6160. International Workers Association
    Connexipedia Article
    An international anarcho-syndicalist federation of various labour unions from different countries.
  6161. International Workers' Day
    Connexipedia Article
    A celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement.
  6162. International Workers' Olympiads
    Wikipedia article
    International Workers' Olympiads were an international sporting event arranged between 1925 and 1937 by Socialist Workers' Sport International (SASI). It was an organisation supported by social democratic parties and International Federation of Trade Unions. Workers' Olympiads were an alternate event for the Olympic Games. The participants were members of various labor sports associations and came mostly from Europe.
    The Workers' Olympiads were created as a counterweight for the Olympic Games, which were criticized for being confined for the upper social classes and privileged people. The international workers' sports movement did not believe that the true Olympic spirit could be achieved in an Olympic movement dominated by the aristocratic leadership. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee, had always opposed women's participation and supported the cultural superiority of white Europeans over other races. His followers, Henri de Baillet-Latour and Avery Brundage, were openly anti-semitic and both collaborated with the Nazis. On the contrary, the Workers' Olympiads opposed all kinds of chauvinism, sexism, racism and social exclusiveness. The Olympic Games were based in rivalry between the nations, but the Workers' Olympiads stressed internationalism, friendship, solidarity and peace.
  6163. International Working Union of Socialist Parties
    Connexipedia Article
    A political international for the co-operation of socialist parties. 1921-1923.
  6164. International Working Women's Day
    First Published: 1921
    First published on March 8, 1921 in a Supplement to Pravda No. 51.
  6165. The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
    First Published: 1864
    Rules of the First International Workingmen's Association, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
  6166. International Workingmen's Association (The First International)
    Connexipedia Article
    An international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
  6167. The International Workingmen's Association Documents and Writings 1864 - 1874
  6168. The internationalist case against the European Union
    First Published: 2015
    For the first time in a generation Britain will vote on its membership of the European Union. How to vote in that referendum is a difficult choice for anyone on the left. Since the 1990s the anti-EU camp has been dominated by the chauvinist and racist right, initially on the Thatcherite wing of the Tory party, but now enjoying separate and increasingly powerful representation in the shape of the UK Independence Party. But anyone who contemplates therefore voting Yes in the referendum is confronted with the reality of the EU as a neoliberal club currently busy nailing the people of Greece to the cross of austerity.
  6169. The Internet: a Giant Job-Killing Machine?
    Andrew Keen's "The Internet is Not the Answer"
    First Published: 2015
    Andrew Keen's The Internet Is Not the Answer is the most frightening book I have read in years (perhaps in my lifetime), as frightful as the conservative Supreme Court justices and the deniers of climate change.
  6170. The Internet, Capitalism, and the State - Book Review
    A Review of Robert McChesney's "Digital Disconnect"
    First Published: 2013
    Robert McChesney's Digital Disconnect is an account of the internet's history and likely future within the context of corporate-dominated U.S. society.
  6171. Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
    First Published: 2015
    In the age of information, companies are hungry for your data. They want it - even if it means resorting to trickery.
  6172. Internet Hackers and the Real Threat They Expose
    Government and Corporations are the Real Problem
    First Published: 2013
    There were nearly ten major cyber attacks in August 2013 against very prominent targets such as The New York Times.
  6173. The Internet is Already Broken
    First Published: 2017
    Nick Pemberton's article on the already broken internet.
  6174. The Internet and Monopoly Capitalism
    First Published: 2016
    A review of Robert W. McChesney's Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet against Democracy.
  6175. The internet, social media and the workplace
    First Published: 2014
    Upchurch argues that the impact social media has on social movements is overestimated. Instead, it is imperative to focus on the impact of communication technology in the workplace, at the point of production, if we are to fully understand its implications.
  6176. The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
    First Published: 2011
    The economic context points to the paradox of the Internet as it has developed in a capitalist society. The Internet has been subjected, to a significant extent, to the capital accumulation process, which has a clear logic of its own, inimical to much of the democratic potential of digital communication, and that will be ever more so, going forward. What seemed to be an increasingly open public sphere, removed from the world of commodity exchange, seems to be morphing into a private sphere of increasingly closed, proprietary, even monopolistic markets.
  6177. Internship program
    First Published: 1990
  6178. Interpol’s Red Flag
    First Published: 2011
    Interpol's Red Notices used by some to pursue political dissenters, opponents.
  6179. Interracial Antiracism
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    The wide range of topics covered in Romance and Rights: the Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 by Alex Lubin and Stacy I. Morgan’s Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953 converge around the central importance of the Second World War and anticommunism.
  6180. An Interracial Movement of the Poor
    Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s
    First Published: 2001
  6181. Interrogating the Feminine Mystique
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    An interview with Stephanie Coontz. Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Dianne Feeley interviewed Stephanie about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.
  6182. Intersectionality and black communist women
    First Published: 2014
    Erik S McDuffie's book "Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism and the Making of Black Left Feminism" looks to an especially marginalised group, black women in the United States who joined the Communist Party.
  6183. Intersectionality Coming Alive
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    It's hard to choose just one thing to recommend for a socialist feminist “must-read,” as there are so many writers that influenced my thinking, from Audre Lorde to Meredith Tax. However, when I think about the works that have had the greatest impact on my thinking, I’d have to focus on fiction. While I appreciate reading history and theory, I’ve found that novels give me the opportunity to visualize other worlds in a much deeper and lasting way.
  6184. "Intersectionality" in Real Life
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Loretta Ross. Loretta Ross is National Coordinator of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a network of 80 organizations.
  6185. Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging, Part 1 of 2
    First Published: 2018
    Dixon argues that intersectionality - or, rather, its interpretation by the so-called "US left" - decenters class struggle in its effort to equalize oppressions.
  6186. Interval House
    First Published: 1976
    Two articles briefly describe the shelter for women and children.
  6187. Interview: Agriculture, class and capitalism
    First Published: 2013
    Henry Bernstein, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, has for decades been at the forefront of research into the class structure and political economy of agriculture.
  6188. Interview conducting guide
    Tips and advice on carrying out interviews with people for articles, publications, books, etc.
    First Published: 2006
    Interviews can be a useful tool to aid publishing and media efforts. Think of them as an opportunity to get information you don't already know. It is a particularly useful way of relieving the pressure on people intensely involved in a particular struggle who don't have the time to report on their activities and perspectives.
  6189. Interview - Greece: the struggle radicalises
    First Published: 2012
    Editor of the Greek newspaper Workers Solidarity on the latest developments in Greece.
  6190. Interview mit Ulli Diemer
    First Published: 1990
  6191. Interview with director of "Like"
    First Published: 2016
    The director of a documentary about Bangladeshi workers who get paid to "like" Facebook posts discusses the people and ideas behind her film.
  6192. Interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood 
    Democracy & Capitalism: Friends or Foes?
    First Published: 1996
    Postmodernist pluralism, just like the old variety, obscures the realities of power in capitalist societies. It also disarms and disintegrates the opposition to capitalism. Postmodernism brings us back to the old and uncritical forms of capitalist ideology, which leave the system fundamentally unchallenged. Marxism -- historical materialism -- is the best foundation for an understanding of the society in which we live and therefore also the best guide in our search for a better one.
  6193. An interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood - co-editor of Monthly Review
    First Published: 1999
    The strength of the Marxist project is that it does recognize difference, specificities, and grounds its project in a real social word, but that it has a unifying principle - class - based upon lived experience. Obviously class can't cover all emancipatory struggles, but it can provide some sort of unifying principle among emancipatory struggles that's completely lacking in the postmodernist perspective. It can bring together women and men, black and white, based on their common experience of work and exploitation and common interest in a classless society.
  6194. Interview with Gilbert Achcar
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Susan Weissman interviewed Gilbert Achcar for her program, "Beneath the Surface," on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. In the following excerpt, Achcar discusses the questions of immediate withdrawal and civil war in Iraq.
  6195. An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times' 1619 Project
    First Published: 2019
    I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it's going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways.
  6196. Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975
    First Published: 1975
    Transcript of an interview with J.J. Lebel.
  6197. Interview with Karl Marx Head of L'Internationale
    Revolt of Labour Against Capital - the Two Faces of L'Internationale - Transformation of Society - Its Progress in the United States
    First Published: 1871
  6198. Interview with Lotta Continua 1977
    First Published: 1977
    Revolutionary actions are directed against the system as a whole - for its overthrow. This presupposes a general disruption of society which escapes political control. Thus far, such revolutionary actions have occurred only in connection with social catastrophe, such as were released by lost wars and the associated economic dislocations. This does not mean that such situations are an absolute precondition for revolution, but it indicates the extent of social disintegration that precedes revolutionary upheavals. Revolution must involve a majority of the active population. Not ideology but necessity brings the masses into revolutionary motion. The resulting activities produce their own revolutionary ideology, namely an understanding of what has to be done to emerge victoriously out of the struggle against the system's defenders.
  6199. Interview with Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Bahraini activist Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
  6200. An interview with Mike Leigh
    First Published: 2018
    Working on the film, there were people of various generations, from their twenties to people of my age, from the area, who said, 'I didn’t know about this.' And yet the massacre was widely reported and is a famous and significant, seminal event in the history of democracy in Britain, the labour movement, etc., etc.
  6201. An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
    Nothing Can Justify Torture
    First Published: 2012
    America's human rights record under the administration of President Obama and the military intervention policies that have seen increased use during the Arab Spring.
  6202. An Interview with Norman Finkelstein: "I'm Not Betraying the Legacy of My Parents in Order to Make Myself Palatable."
    First Published: 2018
    Norman Finkelstein is among the leading scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict in the United States. His work primarily focuses on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Nazi Holocaust. For decades, he has advocated for a two state solution on the June 1967 borders, a "just solution to the refugee question," an end to the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the deconstruction of the border wall, the right to clean water, and an end to the occupation, the Gaza blockade, and the use of force against the Palestinians.
  6203. An Interview with Patricia Campbell
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    Patricia Campbell is President of the Irish Independent Workers Union (IWU), an independent trade union and social movement in both the north and south of Ireland. She is a deputy editor of the journal Fourthwrite, founded by a group of Irish Republicans most of whom are former political prisoners from the Republican movement.
  6204. Interview with Ralph Borsodi
    First Published: 1974
  6205. An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
    The Roadmap to Nowhere
    First Published: 2006
    Persistent struggle can have an effect, and can lead governments to act. Such struggle begins with the Palestinian people, who have withstood years of brutal oppression, and who, through their spirit of zumud--sticking to their land - and daily endurance, organizing and resistance, have managed to keep the Palestinian cause alive
  6206. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  6207. Interview with Ulli Diemer - Arabic text
    First Published: 1990
  6208. Interview with Ulli Diemer - Japanese
    First Published: 1990
  6209. An Intimate Life
    First Published: 1984
    Volume 1 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
  6210. Intimidating or coercing a civilian population is terrorism. Right?
    First Published: 2020
    So, Donald Trump's "peace plan" threatening to wipe out the Palestinians' legitimate rights and reduce them to a fragmented vassal mini-state with restricted freedom and limited self-rule, to be forever at the mercy of their cruel and lawless neighbour, is a terror document. Right?
  6211. Intolerance, Saudi-Style
    With Friends Like These...
    First Published: 2015
    What all of those victims of the Saudi criminal justice system have in common is that their offenses related strictly to intellectual activities and not physical violence.
  6212. The Intractable Marginality of the Activist Left
    First Published: 2014
    Strikes are only one form of struggle, and perhaps less and less important as the years pass. But the disappearance of strikes is not an anomaly. It reflects a pattern of diminishing overall levels of oppositional social mobilization. Although there aren't (as far as I know) statistics on it, it is obvious that levels of social struggle generally, in the Canadian state, are lower now than at any time since written records have been kept.
  6213. Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones
    Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  6214. Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones: Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
    First Published: 1989
    Este Anuario está dedicado a la idea que el cambio es ambos, posible y necesario. Su propósito principal es práctico: proveer la información sobre grupos en Canadá que están trabajando al ras del césped social para crear soluciones positivas a los problemas sociales, ambientales, económicos e internacionales.
  6215. Introducing the Year 1905: Centennial of Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
    The year 1905 stands out as the onset of an era of explosive anticapitalist struggle—all the more so 100 years later, when we feel stranded in a neoliberal ice age. Looking back at the events of that year helps give some perspective on how rapidly consciousness and levels of struggle can change.
  6216. Introduction
    In Juan Pablo Ordoñez, No Human Being Is Disposable
    First Published: 1995
    Chomsky explores the relationship between America, Columbia and human rights. He touches upon the issues of arms, drugs and America's general establishment of a favourable investment climate in the region.
  6217. Introduction to Root & Branch #7
    First Published: 1979
    An introduction to all the featured articles the Root & Branch #7
  6218. An Introduction: Capital's Global Turbulence
    First Published: 1999
    A JOYLESS IRONY of our time is that just as capitalism seemed all-triumphant and the sirens of neoliberalism had declared history to be at an end, the crisis rolling out of Asia has brought the self-regulating global market to its knees. Add to this that at the same time as Marxism as political doctrine has been declared dead, Marxist economics has never been better argued and empirically defended than today.
  6219. Introduction de l'Annuaire Connexions
    Un livre d'origine sur les alternatives sociaux et environnementaux
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  6220. Introduction: Project Censored 25th Anniversary
    In Peter Phillips (ed.), Project Censored 2001
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky examines "Project Censored" and its contents, revealing a telling pattern: the stories all appeal to public rather corporate-state interests. Such an observation poses questions of media ownership and censorship in relationship to democracy.
  6221. Introduction to 'Anti-Bolshevik Communism' 
    First Published: 1978
    The international socialist movement must of course be an anti-imperialist movement. But it has to actualise its anti-imperialism through the destruction of the capitalist system in the advanced countries. Were this accomplished, anti-imperialism would become meaningless and the social struggles in the underdeveloped part of the world would focus on internal class differences.
  6222. Introduction to Capital 
    First Published: 1932
    Marx's book on capital, like Plato's book on the state, like Machiavelli's Prince and Rousseau's Social Contract, owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life. All the economic, political, and social questions, upon which the analysis in Marx's Capital theoretically devolves, are today world-shaking practical issues, over which the real-life struggle between great social forces, between states and classes, rages in every corner of the earth.
  6223. Introduction to Fall 1984 issue of Connexions Digest: Homelessness and Housing
    First Published: 1984
  6224. Introduction to Is There a Human Future?
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    Following Chris Hedges’ forced retirement as a war correspondent and New York Times reporter (where his reputation was forged by his acclaimed first book War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning), Hedges has emerged as a trenchant and increasingly radical critic of the politics and imperial culture of the United States. His prolific articles and speeches paint a picture of a society well on its way to self-destruction through the dominance of corporate power and sheer greed.
  6225. Introduction to Issue 5
    First Published: 1980
  6226. Introduction to Karl Marx's The Class Struggles in France 1848 to 1850
    First Published: 1895
  6227. Introduction to Spain's Revolution & Tragedy
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    The year 2009 marks a tragic 70th anniversary, not only globally – the beginning of the Second World War, which would claim the lives of tens of millions and give rise to a whole new lexicon that includes “genocide” and “nuclear weapons” — but also the final defeat of the Spanish Revolution and the onset of 26 years of fascist rule under Francisco Franco.
  6228. Introduction to the Connexions Annual - Japanese
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  6229. Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme 
    First Published: 1922
    Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the 'General Introduction' to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx's shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory.
  6230. An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave trade
    First Published: 2016
    The Indian Ocean slave trade encompassed Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with people from these areas involved as both captors and captives. The numbers of people enslaved and the exact length of the trans-Indian slave trade have not been definitively established, but historians believe that it preceded the transatlantic enslavement by centuries. Even though it is largely ignored as an international slave trade, examples of its impact abound. Writing on Indian Ocean slavery frequently mentions African people in China and Persia as well as in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which also served as central slave markets.
  6231. Introduction to the Inside/Outside Strategy
    First Published: 2017
    The inside/outside strategy (IOS) is an approach to organizing and movement building that emphasizes learning from and coordination with resistance movements and political positions you do not completely agree with.
  6232. Introduction to the Israel Lobby
    First Published: 2014
    The Israel lobby is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States. It consists of a multitude of powerful institutions and individuals that work to influence Congress, the president, academia, the media, religious institutions, and American public opinion on behalf of Israel.
  6233. Introduction to the Johnson-Forest Tendency and the Background to 'Facing Reality'
    First Published: 2004
  6234. Introduction to the Media Guide
    An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
  6235. Introduction to the POUM's Seven Decades
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    We present this leading participant’s account of the Party Of Marxist Unity (POUM) as an historical document. The POUM was the most important organization of the revolutionary left in the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39. Its historic role is twofold: as a critical political and military force in the struggle against fascism, and as a target of the murderous Stalinist campaign that ultimately destroyed the revolution from within. Wilebaldo Solano was General Secretary of the Iberian Communist Youth — Juventud Comunista Ibérica (JCI) in 1936, member of the Executive Committee of the POUM, imprisoned until 1944 and later elected as General Secretary of the POUM (while in exile). He is the author of El POUM in la Historia. Andreu Nin y la revolución española, and founder of the Fundacion Andreu Nin.
  6236. Introduction to the Red Menace
    First Published: 1976
    An introduction to, and the mission statement of, the libertarian socialist publication, The Red Menace.
  6237. Introduction to this issue (#3)
    First Published: 1978
  6238. Introduction to this issue (#4) (Vol. 3, #1)
    First Published: 1979
  6239. Introduction to When the UAW Was Young
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
  6240. Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change
    First Published: 2009
    Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to Canada's eastern Arctic islands, a circle of more than 300,000 indigenous people.
  6241. Invaders from Marx 
    On the Uses of Marxian Theory, and the Difficulties of a Contemporary Reading
    First Published: 2005
    Heinrich stresses the difference between Marxian theory and traditional understandings of Marxism, emphasizing the "new reading of Marx", which has developed through the last decades.
  6242. Invaluable History and Important Lessons - Book Review
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    Book review of 'The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988. A Political Memoir. Volume 2: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988' by Barry Sheppard.
  6243. Invasion Newspeak
    U.S. and USSR
    First Published: 1989
    In 1983, newscaster, Vladimir Danchev, declared opposition to Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. Chomsky comments on the remarkability not just of this opposition, but the use of the term "invade" - a word, he points out, that had not been used in American mainstream media in reference to South Vietnam.
  6244. The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves
    Levine reviews the transition from peasantry to industrial labour and the impacts of captitalism in workers.
  6245. The Invention of Nature: adventures of Alexander Humboldt, lost hero of science
    First Published: 2016
    Andrea Wulf's book about the remarkable 19th century explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt is welcome, opportune and a pleasure to read, packed as it is with high adventure and amazing discoveries. We have much to learn from him today in tackling the world's environmental crises; reading this book is an excellent - and enjoyable - way to begin.
  6246. Invergordon Mutiny
    Connexipedia Article
    An industrial action by sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet that took place in September 1931. For two days, ships of the Royal Navy at Invergordon were in open mutiny.
  6247. Investigation Reveals 'Environmental Ruin' And Workers Rights Abuses
    First Published: 2015
    Broken promises to impoverished communities, serious environmental concerns and poor health and safety records linked to Australian mining companies have all been revealed by Africa’s largest ever collaborative journalistic investigation.
  6248. Investing in a Sustainable Future
    First Published: 1991
    The Cerro Gordo community.
  6249. Investing in the care economy: a gender equitable alternative to austerity
    First Published: 2016
    A new report by the United Kingdom (UK) Women’s Budget Group for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shows that sustained investment of public funds in childcare and eldercare services is worthwhile and that it is more effective in reducing public deficits and debt than austerity policies.
  6250. The Invisibility of Fascism in the Postwar United States
    First Published: 2014
    Vials examines the use of the term "fascism" in post-war United States politics since the Tea Party have twisted its meaning to denote a left-wing phenomenon.
  6251. Invisible War Crimes - The Corporate Media On Yemen
    First Published: 2015
    Anyone struggling to understand the violent upheaval in Yemen this year might be tempted to consult the country's 'most important source of news' -- the BBC.
  6252. Invitation to a Hanging
    Pity the Executioner
    First Published: 2013
    A recently filed lawsuit suggests Texas execution officials were forced to engage in illegal activities in order to obtain a death dealing drug.
  6253. Invitation to form Operative Groups YoSoy#132
    First Published: 2012
    #YoSoy132 is against Enrique Peña Nieto, seeks the democratization of the mass media, and behaves as a peaceful movement.
  6254. Involve Your Audience During TV Interviews
    First Published: 2000
    People who are watching the news are usually doing something else as well, like washing clothes, eating dinner or helping the kids with homework. It's up to you to get their attention.
  6255. The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
    First Published: 2014
    Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
  6256. IPPN Standing Strong in the Storm
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    If I were asked to name the one virtue that best describes the political left in America, I would say “perseverance.” As we know all too well, the long history of the left in our country is a history of frustration, betrayal and defeat, yet also of hope, vigor and determination despite many setbacks and our repeated failure to win any real political power.
  6257. Die Irak-Krise im Kontext
    First Published: 2003
  6258. Iran and Leftist Confusion
    First Published: 2009
    Why are some leftists siding with the Iranian rulers rather than the popular demonstrations against the regime?
  6259. Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
    First Published: 2018
    Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
  6260. Iran: The Impact of October
    First Published: 2017
    The Russian Revolution had a profound influence on the revolutionary movement in the countries neighbouring the new Soviet Republic, and Iran was no exception.
  6261. Iran in Christian Zionist crosshairs
    First Published: 2009
    Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations has stirred up two leading Christian Zionists, Mike Evans and Joel Rosenberg, to once again open fire on Iran.
  6262. Iran on the Verge of Revolution?
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    Interest in the political situation in Iran has grown noticeably in recent months. In large part, this is due to the far more aggressive policies of the current U.S. administration, which has used the attacks of September 11 as the excuse to intervene directly in the region and bring about “regime change” in accordance with its own longstanding interests.
  6263. Iran - The War Dance
    First Published: 2009
  6264. Iran: "This is a woman's revolution in the making"
    First Published: 2022
    If you look at the Handmaid's Tale, people talk about it as fiction. But it is real life in Iran. We're talking about a government that legally discriminates against women and legally imposes and encourages violence against us.
  6265. Iran: Which side are you on?
    First Published: 2009
    Why are some U.S. leftists siding with the repressive Iranian regime against pro-democracy protesters?
  6266. Iran will be the Scene of a Mass Anti-Islamic Offensive
    Interview with with Radio Hambastegi
    First Published: 1999
    We have seen in the last 20-25 years the emergence and considerable development of political movements that have organised themselves under the banner of Islam. There are a series of extremely Right-wing, anti-human and violent movements in North Africa, the Middle East and today, in all countries in which the so-called official religion is Islam or which have significant Muslim minorities. Their conduct is primarily in the form of opposition to the freedom of women, women's civil liberties, freedom of expression in the cultural and personal domains and the enforcement of brutal laws and traditions against people, and even killing, beheading, and genocide of people from young children to the elderly.
  6267. Iran: Youth Protests and the Regime's Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 83
    First Published: 1999
    Against The Current interviewed Ali Javadi, a member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI), on the July protests and ongoing repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran. For information on WPI visit www.wpiran.org. The lives of all those arrested in recent protests and all political prisoners in Iran are in great danger.
  6268. Iranian police arrest 29 women over protests against compulsory hijab
    First Published: 2018
    Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
  6269. The Iranian Revolution and the Role of the Proletariat (Theses)
    First Published: 1978
  6270. Iraq 1990-1991
    Desert Holocaust
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
  6271. The Iraq Crisis in Context
    First Published: 2003
    A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
  6272. Iraq Crisis in Context - Greek text
    First Published: 2003
  6273. Iraq: Guerrilla War in Sadr City
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
    In attacking first Najaf, then Tal Afar and Samarra, and finally tackling the center of Sunni resistance in Fallujah, the United States was seeking to reverse this process. But these attacks were not designed to restore order; they were, instead, intended to prevent the consolidation of a very orderly anti-American status quo in a constantly expanding set of "liberated" areas. Ironically, the American attacks in the Fall of 2004 underscore the larger contradictions in American policy in Iraq: that the chaos American leaders keep saying there are preventing will, in fact, occur only if U.S. military forces succeed in destroying these nascent city-states.
  6274. Iraq: 'Islamic State' atrocities fuelled by decades of reckless arms trading
    First Published: 2015
    Decades of poorly regulated arms flows into Iraq as well as lax controls on the ground have provided the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) with a large and lethal arsenal that is being used to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity on a massive scale in Iraq and Syria, Amnesty International said in a new report today.
  6275. Iraq: Taking stock: The arming of Islamic State
    First Published: 2015
    The armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) deploys a substantial arsenal of arms and ammunition, designed or manufactured in more than 25 countries. Their military campaign has relentlessly targeted civilians with small arms, artillery fire and improvised explosive devices. This report catalogues the array of weapons, ammunition and other military equipment observed in the possession of IS. Supplier states and the Iraqi authorities urgently need to implement far stricter controls on the transfer, storage and deployment of arms to avoid further proliferation to armed groups and abuses of human rights.
  6276. Iraq Under Siege
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    The German Nazis killed two million Jewish children. The Bush-Clinton sanctions on Iraq have killed over 500,000 Iraqi children with thousands more being added monthly. As a crime against humanity, the scale of death, misery and environmental destruction visited on Iraq this past decade now rivals what the United States did to Vietnam from 1962-1975.
  6277. The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky highlights that while the war in Iraq was being shaped, the voices of the people - neither in Iraq nor Europe - were being heard or considered. This is a clear violation of the principle that people play the main role in democratic societies.
  6278. The Iraq War Was an Act of Military Aggression Launched on a False Pretext: Remarks on the Chilcot Inquiry Report
    First Published: 2016
    The following is a transcript of Jeremy Corbyn's remarks in the House of Commons.
  6279. Iraq: Women's Liberation and the Struggle Against Imperialist Subjugation
    First Published: 2003
    The women of Iraq illustrate the status of most of the world's women, caught between the domination of imperialism and the oppression of stifling ancient 'customs' like the veil, holdovers from a more backward era.
  6280. Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
    First Published: 2016
    As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
  6281. Iraq's Torture by Sanctions
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    An interview with Kathy Kelly. Kathy Kelly, organizer for Voices in the Wilderness, has been involved in the struggle around ending sanctions against Iraq for the past decade. David Finkel interviewed her for Against the Current in January 2001.
  6282. Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Who Said What When
    First Published: 2016
    This is a list of quotations is excerpted from Imperial Crusades: a Diary of Three Wars.
  6283. Ireland Continues to Remember 1916 and Continues to Betray It (With Some Canadian Help)
    First Published: 2016
    Do you remember Ireland’s 1916 commemorations in late March? Do you remember the spectacle? Do you remember all those fighting words and strong images of national independence and national justice? The attention of the world was on Dublin for a few days and Dublin played the part of the rebel city. Well it was all a bit too real and too popular. And for that reason it had to be officially repressed as soon as possible.
  6284. IRELAND: Slaying the Celtic Tiger
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    Like most nations, Ireland has its share of myths and legends. Most of us know a few of them — Saint Patrick drove out the snakes, the Children of Lir were turned into swans, the ancient warrior Cúchulainn took on all comers. And, since the mid-1990s, Ireland and the international community trumpeted a new myth and legend, the so-called Celtic Tiger.
  6285. Ireland's Unfinished Revolution
    First Published: 2016
    The revolutionary period sparked by the 1916 Easter Rising offered a vision of a truly democratic Ireland.
  6286. Irene Morgan, Max Roach: Two Soldiers of Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    Two pioneers of the freedom struggle died in August, leaving legacies for the ages.
  6287. Irish Communist Policy
    Letter to Sylvia Pankhurst
    First Published: 1922
    The belief that some foreign power, the State, may accomplish it for the workers by decrees and laws is a social-democratic belief - nay, only the most narrow-minded social democrats believe it; most social democrats in former times knew quite well that the chief force of transformation must come from below. The programme of the Communist Party of Ireland is not only non-Communist because it appeals to the State for everything, but also because it asks from this State only reforms.
  6288. The Irish Dead: Fighting Fascism in Spain, 1937
    First Published: 2017
    In the springtime of 1937, Spain was in the grip of civil war which flared as intense and as hot as the sun that hung over its skies. Of the many different nationalities that went to Spain to help the Republicans defeat the fascists, it was the Irish who proved to be a dominant force, but death stalked the men from the emerald isle and many of them did not see the end of that intensely hot Summer.
  6289. The Irish Language and Marxist Materialism
    First Published: 2019
    A review of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin's book "Language From Below: the Irish language, ideology and power in 20th century Ireland" which looks at the role language and nationalism has played in Irish liberation movements.
  6290. The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus
    First Published: 2017
    While the blight did strike and take down most of Ireland’s potatoes, the truth is that Ireland was exporting more than enough food to feed everyone at the same time as the famine was happening.
  6291. Irish War of Independence
    Connexipedia Article
    A guerrilla war mounted against the British government in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army.
  6292. The Irishmen Who Fought in the Last Great Battle Against Spanish Fascism
    First Published: 2018
    An account of the numerous Irishmen who were killed, injured, captured and who simply disappeared while volunteering to fight against the rising fascist tide during the Spanish Civil War.
  6293. Iron Cagebook
    The Logical End of Facebook's Patents
    First Published: 2013
  6294. The "Irrepressible Conflict:" Slavery, the Civil War and America's Second Revolution
    First Published: 2019
    The purpose of this lecture series, hosted by the Socialist Equality Party, is to address the falsifications of the New York Times' "1619 Project" and undertake a historical materialist analysis of American history, and in this lecture, the Civil War.
  6295. IRS seizes hundreds of perfectly legal bank accounts, refuses to give money back
    First Published: 2014
    The Internal Revenue Service has been seizing bank accounts belonging to small businesses and individuals who regularly made deposits of less than $10,000, but broke no laws. And the government is refusing to return all the money taken. The practice - called civil asset forfeiture - allows IRS agents to seize property they suspect of being tied to a crime, even if no charges are filed, and their agency is allowed to keep a share of whatever is forfeited.
  6296. Irvine, William
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
  6297. Irvine, William
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
  6298. Is Anti-Capitalism Enough? The New Crisis & the Left
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    Whether or not the current economic crisis and a historic presidential election open up hidden potentials for renewed popular protest and collective action, it is obvious that the radical Left has lost a great deal of its size, visibility, élan and influence since the 1970s.
  6299. Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the US Experience
    First Published: 2008
    Recently, countries from China and Brazil to Malaysia and South Africa have passed laws promoting the patenting of publicly funded research, and a similar proposal is under legislative consideration in India. These initiatives are modeled in part on the United States Bayh-Dole Act of 1980.
  6300. Is Canada's government trying to kill off the wild salmon?
    First Published: 2015
    Matthews discusses how the Canadian government's actions and legal changes threaten the wild salmon.
  6301. IS and climate change - an inconvenient truth for Republicans
    First Published: 2015
    US Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley sparked controversy last month by saying that the conditions for the rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS, also known as Isil, Isis or Da'esh) were set by the impact on Syria of climate change, which drove farmers from their land into slums around cities and created extreme poverty.
  6302. Is Democracy Dead In The West?
    First Published: 2015
    This is the "New Democracy." It is a resurrection of the old feudal order. A few super-rich aristocrats and everyone else serfs obliged to support the ruling order. The looting that began in Greece has spread into Ukraine, and who knows who is next?
  6303. Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics?
    First Published: 2015
    Feminist Fightback has for many years described itself as seeking to practice an 'intersectional' form of feminism, whereby we argue that the struggle for gender liberation must take account of, and join with, struggles against all other forms of oppression and exploitation around the axis of class, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism etc. We began to use 'intersectional' in place of 'socialist feminist' in about 2007-8 because we felt that the latter term implied an interest in gender and class but did not give due emphasis to race. We continued to be inspired by a variety of Marxist and class-struggle anarchist currents, and we did not feel these to be in contradiction to a commitment to intersectionality.
  6304. Is Israel singled out for its human rights violations?
    First Published: 2014
    Some people assert that human rights activists and the international community are disproportionately – and unjustifiably – focusing their attention on the Jewish state. They are "ignoring" human rights violations elsewhere — Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Chad, wherever — in order to unfairly vilify Israel. This bias, the argument usually goes, is motivated by anti-Semitism.
  6305. Is it already too late to say goodbye? 
    First Published: 2022
    My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares. Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be counted in the hundreds. "Going viral" is a distant memory.
  6306. Is It Even Worthwhile Doing the Dishes? Canadians and the Nuclear Threat, 1945-1963
    PhD Thesis, McGill University, 2004
    First Published: 2004
  6307. Is It Realistic to Demand the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees?
    First Published: 2009
  6308. Is it really 'disinformation' to show Russians as human beings
    First Published: 2024
    he Liberals are openly suppressing alternative views and escalating a war with a nuclear armed state. In recent days they’ve helped ban an anti-war film, labelled a media outlet foreign interference and sought to bomb deep inside Russia. Last Tuesday Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland boosted a campaign to suppress the screening of Russians at War at the Toronto International Film Festival.
  6309. Is it the Beginning of the End for the Alberta Oilsands?
    First Published: 2015
    A new report from Oil Change International challenges industry's common assumption that the continued production of oilsands crude is inevitable.
  6310. Is It True What They Say About NIEO
    First Published: 1977
    A series of one page articles explaining the New International Economic Order.
  6311. Is Law Enforcement "Going Dark" Because of Encryption? Hardly, Says New Report
    First Published: 2016
    Unbreakable encryption -- which prevents easy, conventional surveillance of digital communications-- isn’t a big problem for law enforcement, says a report published by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The report, titled "Don’t Panic," finds that we are probably not "headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible" because of companies that offer end-to-end encryption, such as Apple.
  6312. Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
    How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother
    First Published: 2011
    The increasing influence and role of Lockhead Martin, the giant weapons corporation.
  6313. Is Marxism Eurocentric?
    This reading of Marx is virtually hegemonic in some branches of academia
    First Published: 2015
    Many activists today first encounter Marxist ideas in and around college campuses, where certain interpretations of Karl Marx and Marxism have solidified into a sort of conventional wisdom. One of these is the idea that Marxism is "Eurocentric" -- and therefore has little to say to the mass of people in the 21st century globalized world. This reading of Marx is virtually hegemonic in some branches of academia.
  6314. Is Peace at Hand?
    First Published: 1988
    In light of the signing of a Peace Agreement by the Central American Presidents in 1988, Chomsky discusses if this step could be the first towards peace in this region of U.S dependencies, investigating primarily the prospects of implementation.
  6315. Is Peace or War at Hand?
    First Published: 2015
    Roberts discusses the outcomes of the meeting in Moscow between Merkel, Hollande, and Putin as a result of Washington's aggressive position toward Russia.
  6316. Is renewable energy really environmentally friendly?
    First Published: 2016
    Renewable energy sources may have low CO2 emissions at the point of use, but the mines that make the technology possible are often environmentally destructive.
  6317. Is Saudi Women's Vote a Step Forward?
    First Published: 2015
    The global press has been heralding the December 13, 2015, vote in Saudi Arabia as a breakthrough for women, since it's the first time in history that Saudi women have been allowed to vote. But is this vote really a significant step forward?
  6318. Is Socialism Really Dead in Europe?
    After the German Elections
    First Published: 2009
    With over 12 percent of the vote, the Left Party became Germany's fourth strongest, just ahead of the Greens. This was a promising score, considering the way the mildly left Left Party has been ostracized by media and the political class as though it were a reincarnation of the Bolsheviks. For the media, a party calling for a minimum wage and a pullout from Afghanistan is the "hard left" not fit to be associated with. The SPD and the Greens stressed that they would never consider a coalition with such disreputable folk.
  6319. Is Space Research Corporation (Quebec) Inc. Using Barbados to Trans-Ship Arms to Southern Africa?
    First Published: 1978
  6320. Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
    First Published: 2012
  6321. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
  6322. Is The Air Fit to Breathe?
    First Published: 1977
    This pamphlet describes some of the more common air-pollution health dangers at the work site and outlines some workers rights guaranteed by law.
  6323. Is the Corporation Obsolete?
    Corporate irresponsibility? Predatory behavior? Blame the charter--and rewrite it
    First Published: 2001
    The more pervasive the corporation becomes, the less we seem to notice. It's just the way things are, the new normal, and rapidly it is becoming the norm for the entire world.
  6324. Is the Islamic State Really Such a Psychological Enigma?
    A Bizarre Excursion Into the Surreal
    First Published: 2015
    The costly debacle known as the Iraq War put the US government in a tough spot that's now exacerbated by the rise of the Islamic State in Anbar Province and western Syria.
    A recent New York Times story referred to the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL) as a "conundrum" - "a hybrid terrorist organization and a conventional army."
  6325. Is the James Bay Model Good Enough for the N.W.T.?
    First Published: 1976
    An analysis of the $225 million James Bay Agreement forced upon the Inuit and Cree of Northern Quebec.
  6326. Is the Media Your Message?
    Mainstream media are good for getting exposure, but for social change activists they may not be the best avenue.
  6327. Is the Pentagon Behind the Rise in Lyme Disease?
    First Published: 2019
    A conversation with Kris Newby author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.
  6328. Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
    First Published: 2009
    A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
  6329. Is There a Gig Economy?
    First Published: 2018
    A data-heavy analysis questioning whether 'gig-economy' precarious jobs are indeed growing rapidly as reported.
  6330. Is there a vast cowspiracy about climate change?
    First Published: 2016
    Cowspiracy movie review: Cowspiracy's argument is based on badly flawed and almost unanimously rejected interpretations of science. Actual science and scientists are practically absent among the many talking heads in the film.
  6331. Is there a White Skin Privilege?
    First Published: 2013
    The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left -- but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism.
  6332. Is This Class Warfare?
    First Published: 2016
    Is there a conspiracy to keep wages from rising or is it just plain-old class warfare? Well, what do you know? Everywhere the global bank cartel has its tentacles, wages are either flatlining or drifting lower."Coincidence", you say? Not bloody likely, I say. There's either policy coordination between the various heads of state and their central banks or wealthy elites have secretly seized the levers of power and imposed their neoliberal dogma when no one was looking.
  6333. Is this how it all ends?
    First Published: 2022
  6334. Is this how western media would report Netanyahu's killing by Hezbollah? 
    First Published: 2024
    Western journalists claim to report the news objectively and fairly. If they really did, this is what coverage of Netanyahu’s assassination might look like…
  6335. Is this what a police state looks like?
    First Published: 2010
    The corporate security state is not static - it will keep filling more and more space to the extent that they are allowed to by civil society. The police actions in Toronto are one of those key moments, one that we will look back on as a time when the authoritarian governments we now endure tested our resolve. They know exactly what they are doing. There was no spontaneous 'over-reaction.' There were no cops 'out of control' - the obvious fact is they were always in control. The decision to allow the Black Bloc to do its destructive work without any intervention at all was strategic. They were assisted in their work by the Black Bloc, some of them agents provocatuers, all of them enemies of social change.
  6336. Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower?
    First Published: 2017
    Historically, the criminal justice system has been a particularly inept judge of who is a whistleblower. Moreover, it has allowed the use of the pernicious Espionage Act – an arcane law meant to go after spies – to go after whistleblowers who reveal information the public interest.
  6337. Is Water a Human Right in Detroit?
    First Published: 2014
    Feeley examines the questionable actions of the Detroit Water and Sewage Department's recent decision to shut-off the water of residents with outstanding bills, a process that penalizes the large portion of the population that is low-income in a city that is undergoing bankruptcy.
  6338. Is World Hunger our Responsibility?
    First Published: 1976
    Collection of articles discussing how we cause world hunger and what we must do.
  6339. Is Your Web Site Media Friendly?
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2005
    How to make your Web site media-friendly.
  6340. ISIS Church Bombings Kill 47 in Egypt
    First Published: 2017
    Ditz details two recent ISIS attacks in Egypt targeting Christian churches and followers.
  6341. ISIS and counter-revolution: towards a Marxist analysis
    First Published: 2015
    The article analyzes ISIS from a Marxist perspective and explores the Iraqi context in which ISIS first set down roots. Alexander further examines the interaction between the defeat of the Syrian Revolution and the consolidation of Nouri al-Maliki's authoritarian rule in Iraq.
  6342. ISIS and the Far Right: a Joint Assault on Multicultural Countries
    First Published: 2016
    ISIS's assaults on multicultural countries is to provoke the non-Muslim people of those countries to reject their millions of Muslim fellow-citizens.
  6343. ISIS and the IDF: Canada's Double Standard
    Who are the Real Terrorists?
    First Published: 2014
    Why can westerners join the Israeli Defense Forces while westerners joining Islamic State are despised and killed? In what sense is the IDF scenario any less reprehensible than the IS one?
  6344. ISIS Slave Market Puts Women and Girls on Same List as Cattle
    First Published: 2015
    I am thinking of the price list leaked out from the ISIS Sex Slave Market that included women and girls on the same list as cattle. ISIS needed to impose price controls as they were worried about a downturn in their market.
  6345. ISIS Thrives on the Disunity of Its Enemies
    First Published: 2015
    The aftermath of terrorist attacks such as the massacre in Paris are a bad time to produce new policies, but they provide ideal political conditions for a government to take radical, if ill-thought-out, initiatives. Leaders are carried away by a heady sense of empowerment as a worried or frightened public demands that something be done in response to calamity and to prevent it happening again. The moment of greatest risk is not when the bombs explode or the guns fire, but when governments react to these atrocities.
  6346. ISIS Was Born In An American Detention Facility (And It Wasn't Gitmo)
    First Published: 2016
    The US seems to have a knack for creating, incubating, and training its future enemies. As the late Chalmers Johnson showed in BLOWBACK, this pattern goes back quite far and includes recent struggles with Islamist terrorists. In the 1980s, of course, the US armed and trained the Taliban as well as Osama Bin Laden as part of a proxy war with Russia. Years later, Bin Laden's criminal network, sheltered by the Taliban, attacked the US in Yemen, Kenya, New York, and more. In response to those attacks, the US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, killing and detaining hundreds of thousands of men. At the time, many people wondered -- none more forcefully than Johnson -- whether the US response to blowback would engender more blowback.
  6347. Iskra
    Connexipedia Article
    Russian socialist newspaper published 1900-1905.
  6348. Islam and De-Islamisation
    First Published: 1999
  6349. Islam, Children's Rights, and the Hijab-gate of Rah-e-Kargar
    In Defence of the Prohibition of the Islamic Veil for Children
    First Published: 1997
    It has been proved time and time again that pushing back religiosity and religious reaction is not possible except through unequivocal defence of human values against religion. It has been proved time and time again that preventing religious barbarism does not come about through bribing it and trying to give it a human face, but through the fight against reactionary religious beliefs and practices.
  6350. Islamic Extremism is a Product of Western Imperialism
    First Published: 2016
    So what happened to bring Islamic fundamentalism to the forefront of global politics? While there are many factors involved, undoubtedly one of the primary causes is Western imperialism.
  6351. Islamic Fundamentalism in Britain
    First Published: 1995
    Muslim fundamentalists are a growing threat to gay human rights in Britain.
  6352. Islamic State in Ukraine: A Christmas present from the West
    First Published: 2018
    The report in British newspaper the Times, that Chechen Islamists, many reeling from defeat in Syria and Iraq amongst the alphabet soup of fanaticism, had indeed arrived at the war front in eastern Ukraine, woke me up from any Christmas torpor.
  6353. Islamic State's Goal: "Eliminating the Grayzone" of Coexistence Between Muslims and the West
    First Published: 2015
    In a statement published in its online magazine, Dabiq, this February, the militant group the Islamic State warned that "Muslims in the West will soon find themselves between one of two choices." Weeks earlier, a massacre had occurred at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attack stunned French society, while bringing to the surface already latent tensions between French Muslims and their fellow citizens.
  6354. Islamic Terrorism
    First Published: 1994
    There is not the slightest real and legitimate relationship between the appalling calamities that have befallen the Jewish people in this century and the suppression and crimes committed by the extremist right wing government in Israel against the Palestinians. There is not the slightest real and justified relationship between the sufferings of the deprived people of Palestine and the terrorism of Islamic or non-Islamic organisations attributed to these people.
  6355. Islamophobia, Left and Right
    First Published: 2012
    Should Muslims be worried about rising Islamophobia? Of course they should! Anti-Islam bigotry is becoming a key element of the revival of the far Right – a Right that doesn’t merely slander Muslims but also takes action against them.
  6356. The Islamophobia Myth
    First Published: 2005
    Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
  6357. Islamophobia Sets the Terms
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    The Dutch government didn’t fall in February over involvement in Afghanistan, the unstable governing coalition stumbled over it. But the Islamophobic right wing might be the beneficiary.
  6358. Islamophobic U.S. Megadonor Fuels German Far-Right Party With Viral Fake News
    First Published: 2017
    An American website, the Gatestone Institute, is peddling fake news focused on anti-immigration and anti-Islamic rhetoric that many fear will influence the upcoming German federal election.
  6359. Island Airport Insanity
    First Published: 2003
    Airports don't belong in the middle of downtown.
  6360. An Island Lies Bleeding
    First Published: 1994
    Chomsky criticizes the major powers for their role in Indonesia's assault against East Timor and cites John Pilger's work as the key to heightened awareness of the situation.
  6361. Island of the Widows
    First Published: 2011
    Mysterious kidney disease in Central America.
  6362. Israel and the A-Word
    First Published: 2017
    Israel's apartheid foundations were laid in its dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948. They were reinforced by the immediate erection of colonial constitutional structures that cemented the exclusion of the colonised. Since then, Israeli law and policy has only deepened the state apparatus of separation and segregation, discrimination and domination. Over the years, countless activists, authors and artists, as well as leading anti-apartheid figures from South Africa, have referred to Israel’s particular brand of structural discrimination as akin to apartheid. In the last decade, international lawyers have also begun to do likewise, but with reference to the definition of apartheid under international law rather than by analogy to southern Africa.
  6363. Israel and Academic Freedom: a Closed Book
    First Published: 2016
    It’s not by accident that free speech and association is under attack from coast to coast in ways unseen since the academic purges that targeted largely "radical" Jews of the 1950's brought to us by a guy named McCarthy. He too had this notion that good thought must necessarily adhere to a checklist of sanitized ideas. That safe speech and association demanded a line of logic dictated by the powerful and pervasive.
  6364. The Israel Advocacy Push to 'Reclaim' York University
    Putting Current Events in Context
    First Published: 2009
    York is a longstanding hub for "Israel advocacy" organizations (as they designate themselves). This reality expresses itself in various ways. At the grassroots level, far-right Zionist organizing has been common at York since at least the early 1980s, and seems to have even included direct recruitment for armed settler movements in the West Bank (and more commonly for the Israeli military itself). At the level of university fundraising, York has thoroughly integrated some of Canada's leading Israel advocacy figures into its main administrative bodies. And at the level of university governance, York has earned a reputation for deep association with the Israeli state and for heavy-handed regulation of campus politics in favor of Israel advocates.
  6365. Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It "In Response"?
    First Published: 2019
    In this case it is undoubtedly the Palestinian side that is responding to Israeli violence. But even if Palestinians would fire missiles without an immediate cause it would be within the full rights of the Palestinian people. In its 1982 Resolution 37/43 the General Assembly of the United Nations reaffirmed:
    "the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;"
    The UN GA resolution is standing international law. The Palestinian people have the right to resist against the occupation force. In practice as well as legally Israel is a colonial entity that occupies Palestinian land, especially in Gaza and the West Bank. Any armed struggle by Palestinians against the occupation, provoked or not, is thus morally and legally justified.
    But do not expect that any 'western' mainstream media will ever point that out.
  6366. Israel and its allies are repurposing the goals and lies of 1948 -- in Gaza in 2023
    First Published: 2023
  6367. Israel and the Arabs: the good guys don't always wear white hats
    Review of Israel: A Colonial-Settler State, by Maxime Rodinson
    First Published: 1973
    The tragedy of two peoples brought into conflict by forces largely outside of their control.
  6368. Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
    The 'democracy' that can do no wrong
    First Published: 2009
    Paul J. Balles considers the, "...lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel's apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
  6369. Israel and apartheid: A fair comparison?
    First Published: 2010
    The comparison between Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and to apartheid is a legitimate part of that debate and this is an analogy frequently used by Israelis and also by South Africans.
  6370. Israel: Are democracy and despotic racism compatible?
    First Published: 2019
    A criticism of Zionism as a "melding of an elitist pseudo-democracy with racist despotism."
  6371. Israel Barring Palestinians From Entering for Medical Care Over Cellphones, Witnesses Say
    Gaza women say they were turned back at border because they didn't have their cellphones, which were taken by Hamas.
    First Published: 2017
    Palestinians from Gaza attempting to enter Israel claim that Israel's Shin Bet security service has recently begun demanding they hand over their cellphones when being questioned and that those who refuse are barred from entering.
  6372. Israel: Boycott, divest, sanction 
    First Published: 2009
    The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
  6373. Israel boycott may be the way to peace
    First Published: 2006
    The non-violent international response to apartheid was a campaign of boycott, divestment and UN-imposed sanctions which enabled the regime to change without bloodshed. We should try to follow the same route to a just peace.
  6374. Israel Calls a Man Its Soldiers Killed a 'Terrorist': Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew
    First Published: 2015
    The Jerusalem Post today describes the killing of a man by two IDF soldiers after, the soldiers claim, he was acting erratically and tried to grab one of their guns. When he was fatally shot by the IDF, says the paper, he was "believed to be an Arab terrorist." As it turns out, he was not an Arab Palestinian but rather an Israeli Jew. Upon learning this, the "terrorist" designation was officially and "immediately" rescinded.
  6375. Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
    First Published: 2018
    On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
  6376. Israel Continues Its Attack on Palestinian Freedom of Expression
    First Published: 2017
    The arrest of a teenager for voicing an opinion on a social media site raises serious concerns over freedom of expression in Israel.
  6377. Israel Continues to Cripple Gaza with its Sea Blockade
    First Published: 2015
    The Jerusalem Post reports that the Swedish boat Marianne with 18 passengers has been "interdicted" by Israeli commandos 85 miles from the Gaza coast and towed to Ashdod. The three other vessels in the flotilla turned back and another big-hearted mission ended "with a whimper". Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon called his operation to deprive desperate, poverty stricken Gazans a "success". The Marianne‘s passengers would be be deported. "There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza," he added.
  6378. Israel continues to sow the seeds of discontent
    First Published: 2016
    Israel, it seems, has found a new weapon against Palestinian attacks -- the humble cucumber seed. Soldiers have been handing out seeds at checkpoints with advice to Palestinians -- a nation of farmers until their lands were swallowed up by Jewish settlements -- to stop their recent knife attacks on Israelis and invest in a peaceful future.
  6379. Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
    First Published: 2018
    The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets."
  6380. Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
    First Published: 2018
    The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets." The Times has a reporter in Gaza, Iyad Abuheweila, but the paper had nothing to say whatsoever about how Gazans were reacting to being under assault. Maybe their cellphones were also buzzing, and their children were also afraid?
  6381. Israel divides the Jews
    Reform Judaism vs Israel
    First Published: 2015
    Something significant recently happened in the ongoing political-ethical drama that grips Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism publicly broke with Israel's political and religious leadership.
  6382. Israel does not want peace 
    First Published: 2014
    Rejectionism is embedded in Israel's most primal beliefs. There, at the deepest level, lies the concept that this land is destined for the Jews alone.
  6383. Israel experiments on Palestinians with AI-powered guns at checkpoints
    First Published: 2022
    Discusses the ways Israeli weapons development efforts uses Palestinians as guinea pigs to be able to market their military technology as field-tested to foreign governments.
  6384. Israel Has Been 'Singled Out' in the US for a Very Long Time
    To whom much is given, much is expected
    First Published: 2013
    The American Studies Association, the umbrella organization of academics devoted to the study of US literature, history and culture, recently voted to join the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
  6385. Israel hopes 'lost tribes' can boost Jewish numbers
    First Published: 2015
    Facing Palestinian majority, Israeli officials seek way to loosen legal definition of 'Jew' so millions more can qualify for immigration.
  6386. Israel ignoring "tectonic change" in public opinion
    First Published: 2014
    World public opinion is important. More than that, it is vital. The British parliament’s resolution may be non-binding, but it expresses public opinion, which will sooner or later decide government action on arms sales, Security Council resolutions, European Union decisions and what not.
  6387. Israel in Gaza: A Critical Reframing 
    First Published: 2009
    The critical reframing we offer, that of Israelis committed to human rights, international law and a just peace as the only way out of this interminable and bloody conflict, argues that security cannot be achieved unilaterally while one side oppresses the other and that Israel's attack on Gaza is merely another attempt to render its Occupation permanent by destroying any source of effective resistance.
  6388. Israel Intercepts International Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla
    First Published: 2015
    The Israeli Navy has intercepted the Swedish boat "The Marianne", part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, in International waters at 05:11 AM Gaza time (GMT +3) and forced it to redirect to the nearest Israeli port of Ashdod. The coalition was on its way to Gaza to deliver aid. In a statement immediately afterward, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition accused the Israeli government of “state piracy in international waters."
  6389. 'Israel is a terrorist state'
    First Published: 2015
    The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in Israel over recent days, with repeated clashes with Israeli police in Nazareth, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Taibeh, Sakhnin, Rahat, Kfar Qassem and elsewhere. Dozens of protesters have been arrested.
  6390. Israel is a Terrorist State
    First Published: 2015
    The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned.
  6391. Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy
    First Published: 2010
    Israel is losing legitimacy in the world because of what their government is doing to the Palestinians, not because of anti-semitism.
  6392. Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
    First Published: 2018
    A report on Israeli weapons and training being provided to anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi soldiers in the Ukraine.
  6393. Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn 
    First Published: 2023
    Disinformation over the blast at Gaza's al-Ahli hospital worked as planned, taking the focus off the victims and lifting pressure on Israel to stop its rampage.
  6394. Israel Is Now a Lunatic State
    First Published: 2010
    What happened with the Gaza flotilla was not an accident. You have to remember that the Israeli cabinet met for a full a week. All the cabinet ministers discussed and deliberated how they would handle the flotilla. At the end of the day, they decided on a nighttime armed commando raid on a humanitarian convoy. Israel is now a lunatic state. It's a lunatic state with between two and three hundred nuclear devices. It is threatening war daily against Iran and against Hezbollah in Lebanon. We have to ask ourselves a simple, basic, fundamental question: can a lunatic state like Israel be trusted with two to three hundred nuclear devices when it is now threatening its neighbours Iran and Lebanon with an attack?
  6395. Israel Is The Real Problem 
    First Published: 2018
    Elite power cannot abide a serious challenge to its established position. And that is what Labour under Jeremy Corbyn represents to the Tory government, the corporate, financial and banking sectors, and the 'mainstream' media. The manufactured 'antisemitism crisis' is the last throw of the dice for those desperate to prevent a progressive politician taking power in the UK: someone who supports Palestinians and genuine peace in the Middle East, a strong National Health Service and a secure Welfare State, a properly-funded education system, and an economy in which people matter; someone who rejects endless war and complicity with oppressive, war criminal 'allies' such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
  6396. Israel lawfare group plans 'massive punishments' for activists
    First Published: 2016
    "Why are we using the word Palestinian? There’s no such thing as a Palestinian person," Brooke Goldstein declared to enthusiastic applause at a meeting of key Israel lobby operatives in New York earlier this month. Goldstein is the director of the Lawfare Project, a legal group that aims, in her words, to "make the enemy pay" -- that "enemy" being mainly comprised of Palestine solidarity activists and students.

    The Lawfare Project was founded with the support of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an important forum for anti-Palestinian organizing in the US.
  6397. Israel, Lebanon and Torture
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    An interview with Marty Rosenbluth. Marty Rosenbluth is Amnesty International’s country specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority.
  6398. Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
    Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
    First Published: 2006
    Amnesty International calls for the immediate establishment of a comprehensive, independent and impartial inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law by both Hizbullah and Israel in the conflict. The inquiry should examine in particular the impact of this conflict on the civilian population. It should propose effective measures to hold accountable those responsible for crimes under international law, and to ensure that the victims receive full reparation.
  6399. Israel, Lebanon, and the "Peace Process"
    First Published: 1996
    Chomsky illustrates the position of Lebanon amidst the conflicts and interventions belonging to the Israel-Arab contention.
  6400. The Israel Lobby?
    First Published: 2006
    Noam Chomsky comments on an article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in which they assert that "the Lobby" dominates over strategic-economic interests in Israel's policy-making. Although Chomsky praises this courageous stand, he explains why he does not agree with this thesis.
  6401. The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions
    First Published: 2003
  6402. The Israel Lobby and the "National Interest"
    First Published: 2007
    Israel's ethnic cleansing does, in fact, serve the elite's interest. It is a classic example of divide-and-rule applied to the population of the Middle East: foment an ethnic war of Arab versus Jew. Israel plays the same role in the Middle East that the Klu Klux Klan played in the American South for the benefit of the South's upper class: keep the working class population fighting each other along racial lines.
  6403. Israel Lobby's Disastrous Domination
    First Published: 2023
    AIPAC has involved the U.S. in a revolting crime against humanity that will almost certainly undermine American security at home and abroad. It must be broken.
  6404. The Israel Lobby's Power Comes from The American Ruling Class
    First Published: 2009
    By ensuring that the American mass media refrain from telling Americans the true reason (Israel's ethnic cleansing) why Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims take up arms against Israel, the American ruling class ensures that Americans will believe the lie that Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims are hateful, irrational, anti-semitic terrorists who kill decent Israelis "just like us" and would likewise kill Americans if we fail to obey our upper class rulers who protect us from terrorism.
  6405. Israel maintains robust arms trade with rogue regimes
    First Published: 2017
    Israel's collusion with Myanmar's military is part of a pattern of military aid to rogue regimes that goes back decades, and reflects the importance of the arms trade to Israel's economy.
  6406. Israel may have the least 'moral army' in the world
    The rate of civilian death during Israel’s assault on Gaza has few precedents this century
    First Published: 2024
    It is a sign of desperation that Israel and its supporters go on making the outlandish claim that the IDF is a beacon of morality. This is an indication of how isolated from world opinion, particularly in the Global South, Zionism has become. That the project is that detached from reality is a sign of its vulnerability.
  6407. Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
  6408. Israel Moves to Check Its Artists
    First Published: 2016
    As a writer/photographer and a tax-paying American citizen, a story in the New York Times about Israel's culture wars made me cringe. It seems the powerful, militarist right in Israel -- so committed to expansion and settlements in the West Bank -- is now trying to suppress ideas among the nation's artistic and literary minds.
  6409. The Israel Narrative Is Crumbling Because Of Phone Cameras And The Internet
    First Published: 2021
    Social media is teeming with viral video footage of police assaulting peaceful worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, of Israelis cheering and chanting “Yimach shemam (may their names be erased)” at the sight of a fire near the mosque, of Israeli soldiers arresting Palestinian protesters using the signature knee-on-neck maneuver made famous by the murder of George Floyd, many of which have millions of views.
  6410. Israel: Neither Democratic or Jewish
    First Published: 2017
    After 50 years of Occupation, Israel is neither democratic, nor Jewish.
  6411. Israel: Obama's "Bibiyahu" Problem
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    Is this the government of Biberman [Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud Party, and foreign minister Avigdor Liberman of the ultra-right Israel Beitenu], or perhaps of Bibarak [Bibi and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak]?
  6412. Israel offered Nukes to Racist South Africa for Use on Black Neighbors
    First Published: 2010
    The implication, that Iran must be stopped because it would proliferate to neighbors, may come back to haunt pro-Israeli propagandists, given Tel Aviv's own secret role in attempting to proliferate nukes to South Africa.
  6413. Israel and Palestine After Disengagement
    Noam Chomsky debates with Alan Dershowitz
    First Published: 2005
  6414. Israel/Palestine: "It's Complicated" ... Or Is It?
    First Published: 2007
    We often hear it said that the Israel/Palestine conflict is complicated. But is it really?
  6415. Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
    First Published: 2014
    If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine. If you use common usage, you will run into confusions, paradoxes, and hostile responses from pro-Israel people. Please follow these guidelines and you will have no problems with editors, politicians, or organized pro-Israel groups. For each phrase, this guide will present first (a) the common usage, and then (b) the specific Israel/Palestine usage that you must use in order to write for major US (and UK and Canadian of course) media (NYT, Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, etc.)
  6416. Israel put up a £1,000,000 bounty for Labour insiders to undermine Corbyn
    First Published: 2017
    A second release from an Al Jazeera undercover sting operation has revealed the existence of a £1,000,000 plot designed by the Israeli government to undermine Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  6417. Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe's neo-fascists
    First Published: 2018
    The recent visit to Israel of a dominant figure in Italy's right-wing coalition government, is the latest in an increasingly open alliance between the Israeli state and resurgent forces of the far-right and neo-fascism in Europe.
  6418. Israel Seeks 'Jewish' Non-Jews in Numbers Battle with Palestnians
    First Published: 2017
    With a shortage of Jews to defeat the Palestinians demographically, the Netanyahu government is considering a revision to the traditional rabbinical injunction that a Jew must be born to a Jewish mother -- opening the doors to a new category of 'Jewish' non-Jews.
  6419. Israel seeks to 'publicly shame' human rights groups
    First Published: 2016
    The Israeli government is being accused of implementing a campaign that criminalizes human rights groups.
  6420. Israel Seeks Ways To Silence Human Rights Groups
    First Published: 2009
    In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel's winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.
  6421. Israel Shamir and Slavoj Zizek
    First Published: 2011
    Despite my general aversion to Slavoj Zizek, I want to defend him against the misrepresentations found in Israel Shamir’s Counterpunch article from July 14th titled “Doing a Full Monty for Tel Aviv: Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla“. Zizek is not above criticism but Shamir’s article is nothing but a hatchet job.
  6422. Israel showed restraint in Gaza before attacking? You must be kidding 
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli journalist Amira Hass, writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, demolishes some myths.
  6423. Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza
    First Published: 2016
    Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - On January 7, 2016, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides on to Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. The sprayed areas belong to Israel's unilaterally imposed and poorly delineated "buffer" or "no-go zone".
  6424. Israel Steps up Dirty Tricks Against Boycott Leaders
    First Published: 2017
    The current obsession with the challnege posed by BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) reflects a changing political environment for Israel.
  6425. Israel steps up its war on mixed marriages
    First Published: 2018
    The Israeli government has long funded various efforts to try to prevent romantic relationships between Jews and non-Jews, both inside territories it controls and around the world. But a new program confirmed this month by the tourism ministry takes Israel's war on families of mixed religion or ethnicity to a new level.
  6426. Israel Supporters Are Some Of The Worst People In The World
    First Published: 2024
    No political faction I have ever interacted with is as immoral and dishonest, or so frequently says things that are so jaw-droppingly disgusting I am sure I must be misinterpreting it at first. I’ve never tangled with a more odious group of people.
  6427. Israel supporters flout Canadian law with impunity
    First Published: 2024
    Canadians fighting in a force that’s slaughtered tens of thousands should be investigated under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. Highlighting reports of Canadians in the Israeli military, a Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East letter to Justice Minister Arif Virani called on him to “Issue a warning to Canadian nationals that serving or volunteering with the Israeli military may make them criminally liable under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act”.
  6428. Israel Targets Ha'aretz
    "A Shin Bet State"
    First Published: 2010
    Israel uses police state tactics to crush journalists who expose crimes committed by the military.
  6429. Israel uses Palestinian land to illegally dump toxic waste
    First Published: 2017
    Israel dumps unknown waste and military garbage in a disposal site in Kisan village, in the occupied West Bank.
  6430. Israel will imprison soldier, 19, for publicly criticizing the occupation
    First Published: 2015
    The Israeli government is imprisoning Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Shachar Berrin for criticizing its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.
  6431. Israel will withdraw only under pressure
    First Published: 1991
    The overwhelming majority of the Jewish public has been determined since 1967 not to relinquish any territory except if forced to do so.
  6432. Israeli activists 'thought it nice' to hold BBQ near Palestinian hunger strikers
    First Published: 2017
    In the face of increasing human rights abuses being committed towards Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, an Israeli right-wing group mocked the Palestinian mass hunger strike by hosting a BBQ outside a military prison.
  6433. Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
    "Lost" American Youth Urged to Come to Israel
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
  6434. Israeli agents to screen judges before appointment
    Fury as security service gets veto over judiciary
    First Published: 2009
    Israel's internal security service has been given a de facto veto over the appointment of judges.
  6435. An Israeli Anti-Zionist Memoir: On the Border
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    Michael Warschawski has written a richly deserved prize winning book On the Border. Warschawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem and a well known anti-Zionist activist, first came to Israel from France before the1967 war, to study at a religious-Zionist Talmudic academy. He is a comrade and the husband of noted Israeli civil rights lawyer Lea Tsemel.
  6436. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    First Published: 1994
    If Jews in France were required to carry identification cards designating them Jews, could not acquire land or buy or rent homes in most of the country, were not eligible for service in the armed forces, and French law banned any political party or legislation calling for equal rights for Jews, would France be widely praised in the United States as a "symbol of human decency" and paragon of democracy?
  6437. Israeli Army Admits Tweeted Hezbollah Map Actually Fake
    First Published: 2016
    The Israeli media has been forced to admit a map purported to contain information on Hezbollah positions, distributed to foreign diplomats and on twitter, is a fabrication.
  6438. Israeli army razes home of prominent Palestinian activist
    First Published: 2018
    The Israeli army has demolished a residential building owned by a prominent Palestinian activist, whose six sons have been imprisoned by Israel. The building, owned by Latifa Abu Hmeid, is located in the Amari refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
  6439. Israeli army shuts down prominent Palestinian rights groups
    First Published: 2022
    Israeli occupation forces have raided, sealed and imposed closure orders on the offices of several prominent Palestinian human rights, feminist and social services organizations in the West Bank.
  6440. Israeli army's attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punished
    First Published: 2003
    The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on journalists working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, especially Palestinians. Israeli officials are unstinting in their criticism of the way the foreign press covers the conflict. The foreign press rejects the criticism and accuses the Israeli authorities of trying to restrict access to information and to influence the way it is treated. Some go so far as to accuse the Israeli army of deliberately targeting journalists.
  6441. Israeli attacks on a dissident soldiers' group could backfire
    First Published: 2015
    Yehuda Shaul was an infantryman in the Israeli army in Hebron during the second intifada. But in recent weeks, he and his group of veterans have been vilified by right-wing organizations and mainstream politicians in a public campaign against Israeli groups critical of their country's occupation of Palestinian territories.
  6442. Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitch
    First Published: 2014
    Concerned humanists may have hoped that when a group of Jewish Israelis confessed to kidnapping and killing Muhammad Abu Khudair, a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem — forcing him to drink gasoline and torching him to death from inside his body — that top Israeli legislators and rabbis would have been horrified at what their revenge rhetoric had triggered.
  6443. Israeli Cease Fire Violations and Media Propaganda
    The Conquest of Palestine
    First Published: 2014
    The Israeli conquest of Palestine has always been a difficult issue for Western mainstream media to cover. The difficulty lies not in the task of reporting the facts on the ground and transmitting an accurate depiction of them to the public, but in refraining from doing so.
  6444. Israeli Company 'Doing Good' Using Luxembourg Outpost
    First Published: 2014
    The international business and philanthropic group led by Israel's richest woman includes a Luxembourg subsidiary that shares its address with more than 1200 other companies, and uses complex financial structures like internal loans and hybrid tools, according to analysis of secret tax documents by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
  6445. Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli-owned shipping company Zim, the target of recent port blockades organized by Palestinian solidarity activists in California, is importing millions of rounds of small arms ammunition into the United States each year.
  6446. Israeli Deaths Matter More
    First Published: 2008
    The reality is that by devoting disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths over Palestinian deaths, the BBC's claims to 'impartial' reporting are simply demolished. With great consistency, lives in the 'Third World' are presented as being of far less importance than those who are 'like us'.
  6447. Israeli Defense Force fires 43 elite reservists for protesting 'persecution' of Palestinians
    First Published: 2015
    The Israeli military has dismissed 43 members from the elite intelligence 8200 unit. In September 2014, they wrote an open letter protesting Israeli covert activities towards Palestinians, particularly the 2014 military operation in Gaza Strip. In the letter, written in the wake of the Operation Protective Edge, the 10 officers and 33 soldiers wrote that they "refused to take part in actions against Palestinians and refuse to continue serving as tools in deepening the military control over the Occupied Territories."
  6448. Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli human rights groups charge that Israel's watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture.
  6449. The Israeli Execution of Shireen Abu Akleh
    First Published: 2022
    Israel, which shoots hundreds of Palestinians a year, routinely includes reporters and photographers on its target lists. The execution of Abu Akleh was not an accident. She was singled out for elimination.
  6450. Israeli exports hit hard by Palestinian boycott, World Bank says
    First Published: 2015
    The Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has exacted a major cost on Israel's exports to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even though the World Bank's report has modestly recognized so, they have failed to address any trace of occupation.
  6451. Israeli forces 'deliberately killed' Palestinian paramedic Razan
    First Published: 2018
    Probe by Israeli rights group B'Tselem concludes that intentional fatal shot was fired at the Palestinian paramedic.
  6452. Israeli fury at unofficial ads on London Underground
    First Published: 2016
    Activists from London Palestine Action put up these posters criticizing Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians all over London's underground train network early Sunday morning. An activist from the group told The Electronic Intifada that they posted 150 copies around at least four different lines on the network.
  6453. Israeli Government Fears Palestinian Cameras
    First Published: 2018
    A report on a Bill by the Israeli Knessett that would criminalize the filming of Israeli soldiers in Palestine, with a proposed five year jail sentence for offenders.
  6454. Israeli government pays students to spread propaganda online
    First Published: 2012
    The Israeli government has launched a program to pay students to promote the Israeli agenda on Facebook and internet chatrooms.
  6455. Israeli guards 'humiliated inmates'
    First Published: 2009
    A group of female former Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails have accused prison guards of subjecting them to intrusive and degrading treatment.
  6456. Israeli human rights organization highlights deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation
    First Published: 2015
    Two reports from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel detail how Israeli occupation is harming the health of Palestinians.
  6457. Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
    The 89-year-old said the media was largely ignoring vital issues such as climate change
    First Published: 2019
    Chomsky on the brazen interference of Israel in US politics to which supposed Russian meddling in the US election pales in comparison.
  6458. Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December
    First Published: 2010
    An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court order on assassinations in the occupied West Bank.
  6459. Israeli Justice... a Futile Chase
    First Published: 2020
    Seventeen years ago, 23 year old Rachel Corrie (a Washington State volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement) was crushed to death by an armoured military bulldozer as she stood on top of a mound of dirt trying to prevent the dozer from destroying a civilian home in the Southern Gaza Strip village of Rafa.
  6460. Israeli Military Censor Seeks to Expand Control to 'Prominent' Facebook Users
    High-Profile Critic Ordered to Submit All Writing to Censors in Advance
    First Published: 2016
    The Israeli military censor usually tries to stay out of the headlines. It's not always easy, as several times high-profile Israel-related stories have broken in the US media first, and aren’t "allowed" in Israeli papers for days after.
  6461. Israeli Military Resisters' Tour Hits New York City
    First Published: 2009
    A 19-year-old Israeli military resister explains why she refused to join the Israel Defense Forces.
  6462. Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
    First Published: 2008
    Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
  6463. Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"
    First Published: 2018
    As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
  6464. Israeli Myths: An Interview with Ramzy Baroud
    First Published: 2016
    For many years, much of the Western world understood Israel based on a cluster of myths, from the early fables of the Zionists making the desert bloom, to Palestine supposedly being a land without people for a people without land. That intricately constructed and propagated mythology evolved over time, as Israeli hasbara laboured to provide a perception of reality that was needed to justify its wars, its military occupation, its constant violations of human rights and its many war crimes.
  6465. Israeli occupation damages Palestinian health, human rights group shows
    First Published: 2015
    Israeli group Physicians for Human Rights has released two reports documenting the deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation. Divide and Conquer documents the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
  6466. Israeli Police Impunity
    First Published: 2010
    Israeli police expect, and usually receive, impunity for using violence against Palestinians.
  6467. Israeli Property Theft is Nothing New
    Is the Custodian of Absentee Property Awaiting the Absentees?
    First Published: 2013
  6468. Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of 'comely gentile women' during war becomes chief army rabbi
    First Published: 2016
    “New IDF Chief Rabbi: in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to "have sex with comely gentile women against their will".
  6469. Israeli Rabbis Ban Marriage For Jewish 'Untouchables'
    First Published: 2009
    New immigrants to Israel from Russia with inadequate documentation have found themselves on a collision course with Israel's Orthodox rabbis, who regard themselves as guarding the Jewish people's ethnic and religious purity.
  6470. Israeli refusers follow South African footsteps in the struggle against apartheid
    First Published: 2009
    Shministim are conscientious objectors. We are Israeli high-school graduates who refuse conscription into the military, and are repeatedly imprisoned as a result. We will not take part of the occupation of another people, the Palestinians, particularly when doing so goes against human values and cannot be explained on grounds of security.
  6471. Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Children
    First Published: 2010
  6472. Israeli Soldiers Shut Down Media Outlets In The West Bank
    First Published: 2017
    Israeli soldiers and secret security officers invaded media outlets in dawn raids in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The media outlets provide services to Palestinian TV stations such as Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds.
  6473. Israeli Spying in the United States
    Full-Spectrum Penetration
    First Published: 2009
    Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage networks targeting the U.S.
  6474. Israeli spyware being used to monitor Indonesian LGBT community, religious minorities
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the company and spyware product that is used by various institutions to monitor the activities of the LGBT community and religious minority groups in Indonesia.
  6475. Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'
    First Published: 2017
    Investigation of the practice of torture by Shin Bet interrogators, revealing the practice as systematic.
  6476. Israeli Violations of Human Rights
    First Published: 2002
    Speech by Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one."
  6477. The Israeli War Crime That Goes Unmentioned
    First Published: 2015
    Here set out in black and white in the Israeli media is a moral conundrum that western politicians, diplomats and international human rights organisations are resolutely failing to address -- and one I have been highlighting since 2006.
  6478. Israeli War Crimes? Who, Us??
    First Published: 2015
    The concept of "war crimes" is dubious. The biggest crime is starting the war in the first place. This is not the business of soldiers, but of political leaders. Yet they are rarely indicted.These philosophical musings came to me in the wake of the recent UN report on the last Gaza war.
  6479. Israelis have the Upper Hand when it Comes to Vengeance
    First Published: 2014
    As Human Rights Watch warned, Israel’s recent actions – mass arrests; armed raids; the killing of Palestinians, including minors; lockdowns of cities, house demolitions; and air strikes – amounted to “collective punishment”, international law’s euphemism for revenge, against Palestinians. In the face of the enduring violence of Israel’s occupation, and the licence it provides soldiers to humiliate and oppress, ordinary Palestinians have a stark choice: to submit or resist. Ordinary Israelis, on the other hand, do not need to seek revenge on their own account. The Israeli state, military and courts are there every day doing it for them.
  6480. Israelis Just Keep Killing People, Stealing Land
    First Published: 2018
    The recent killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli sharpshooters following the "The Great March of Return" is outlined, as well as the ongoing futility of Israel's policy and actions against the self-governing Palestinian territory whose population are forced to live under dire conditions.
  6481. Israelis rattled by search for truth about the Nakba
    First 'truth commission' avoids issue of reconciliation as veteran Israeli fighters due to confess to 1948 war crimes
    First Published: 2014
    The first-ever "truth commission" in Israel will feature confessions from veteran Israeli fighters of the 1948 war who are expected to admit to perpetrating war crimes as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes. The commission is the culmination of more than decade of antagonistic confrontations between a small group of activists called Zochrot, the Hebrew word for Remembering, and the Israeli authorities, as well as much of the Jewish-Israeli public.
  6482. Israelis Shoot Motionless Arab Woman - Video
    First Published: 2015
    In the age of phone cameras, we have become increasingly used to photos and videos of Palestinians in the West Bank being shot by soldiers in unjustifiable circumstances.
  6483. Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating nonviolent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community. They see non-violent activists as a major threat because they undermine the legitimacy of Israel's occupation and apartheid policies.
  6484. Israelizing the American police, Palestinianizing the American people
    First Published: 2020
    Israel has not influenced U.S. law enforcement by training it to be more violent, but rather has served as a model in creating the American Security State.
  6485. Israel's anti-African dragnet tightens
    First Published: 2014
    The past year saw some of the most ruthless Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since the territories were occupied in 1967. Israeli political leaders incited violence against Palestinians and soldiers and civilians carried out these commands, while the government’s parallel war on African refugees raged on.
  6486. Israel's Apartheid
    First Published: 2010
    Blacks in South Africa never faced a 20-foot wall dividing their communities. Palestinians' land is still being seized, their orchards bulldozed.
  6487. Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians
    First Published: 2022
    Amnesty International has analysed Israel's intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and examined its key components: territorial fragmentation; segregation and control; dispossession of land and property; and denial of economic and social rights. It has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid. Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so. All those with jurisdiction over the crimes committed to maintain the system should investigate them.
  6488. Israel's appalling bombing of Gaza
    First Published: 2006
    Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
  6489. Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
    First Published: 2001
    Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books.
  6490. Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
    First Published: 1956
    Excerpt:

    Without in the least derogating this moral indignation at the treatment of the Arab minority, which is richly justified, one aspect of the denunciation misses the mark. The moral indignation should not be visited in the first place against the miserable, harassed, driven Jewish DPs from Europe who, in their fear and need, were used as pawns to grab the land and property of the dispossessed Arabs. They were steered and pushed into this position by those who knew what they were doing - Zionist arms like the Jewish Agency, Zionist authorities in the armed forces and government, both by design and by toleration.
    Zionism - the ideology of Jewish chauvinism - showed that it was and is one of the deeply reactionary conceptions of the political world. The child of anti-Semitism, it became the father of another form of ethnic oppression; if genocide means the murder of a people as such, then there should be a word for the robbery of a people as such.
    What Zionism created in Palestine in 1948 was the first act of a tragedy.
  6491. Israel's Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery
    First Published: 1957
    Something that is disturbing about those Israeli liberals who do tell the truth about the Arab minority is that they tend to pass the guilt off onto the backs of "the Jewish people." They ask how could "the Jewish people" do this to "a helpless minority" when it has itself been the victim of robbery and exploitation and has so often vowed itself to righteousness and justice? One must respect the motives of this breast-beating, but the content is distressing. It was not "the Jewish people" who did this but the Zionist authorities, the Zionist movement, and the Zionist government that bear the responsibility; and the difference is enormous.
  6492. Israel's Arab Women Workers Need Not Apply
    First Published: 2009
    Israel's private sector is almost entirely closed to Arab women because of discriminatory practices by employers.
  6493. Israel's atrocities in Gaza prompt unprecedented political fallout
    First Published: 2014
    "Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM Julie Bishop condemned what she called "shocking" and "indefensible" incidents, with "hundreds of innocent people" killed.
  6494. Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
    First Published: 2006
    Israel's leaders could care less about world outrage. Israel's superpower patron, the United States, supports everything Israel does and keeps supplying money and arms, while the U.S. and Canadian media provide uncritical support.
  6495. Israel's Attack on Us All
    First Published: 2010
    If we needed any evidence of the degree to which Western TV journalists are simply stenographers to power, the BBC, CNN and others are amply proving it. Mark Regev, Israel's propagandist-in-chief, has the airwaves largely to himself. The passengers on the ships, meanwhile, have been kidnapped by Israel and are unable to provide an alternative version of events. We can guess they will remain in enforced silence until Israel is sure it has set the news agenda.
  6496. Israel's Bogus History Lesson
    First Published: 2016
    It was presumably intended as an Israeli history lesson to the world. A video posted to social media by Israel's foreign ministry shows an everyday Jewish couple, Jacob and Rachel, in a home named the "Land of Israel". A series of knocks on the door brings 3,000 years of interruptions to their happiness. First it's the Assyrians, followed by the Babylonians, Hellenists, Arabs, Romans, Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottomans – all straight out of Monty Python central casting. Jacob and Rachel are forced by the warring factions to relocate to ever smaller parts of their home until finally they have to pitch a tent in the garden. Their fortunes change only with the arrival of a servant of the British Empire, who returns the title deeds. A final knock disturbs their celebrations. On the doorstep are a penniless Palestinian couple, craning their necks to see what goodies await them inside.
  6497. Israel's Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
    First Published: 2009
    Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
  6498. Israel's Crimes, America's Silence
    First Published: 2009
    To date, too little mention has been made of investigations that show there is sufficient evidence to bring charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israel's political and military leadership for their actions in Gaza. Recently, two comprehensive independent reports have been published on Gaza, and earlier this month a mission mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, and chaired by South African Richard Goldstone, visited Gaza to conduct a further investigation into Israel's offensive....
  6499. Israel's crisis is about who gets to play tyrant: the generals or religious thugs
    First Published: 2023
    Over the years, international human rights groups have slowly come to acknowledge this fundamental lack of democracy, too. They now describe Israel as what it always was: an apartheid state.
  6500. Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
    First Published: 2015
    Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
  6501. Israel's education system peddles intolerance and lies
    First Published: 2014
    John Kerry spent last week testing the waters with the Israelis and the Palestinians over his so-called framework agreement – designed to close the gaps between the two sides. But the issues he is trying to resolve appear more intractable by the day.
  6502. Israel's Efforts to Hide Palestinians From View No Longer Fools Young American Jews
    First Published: 2017
    The denial of Palestinian history by Israel is no longer accepted by many young American Jews, a community that is increasingly polarized by the issue.
  6503. Israel's Ever-More Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood
    First Published: 2017
    Israel argues that a potential attacker can only be dissuaded by knowing his loved ones will suffer harsh retribution.
  6504. Israel's Exterminatory Impulse Toward Gaza
    A Protracted Genocide
    First Published: 2014
    Disproportionate power yields the psychopathology of sadism.
  6505. Israel’s Fascistization of Judaism
    A Nation in Authoritarian Lockstep
    First Published: 2014
  6506. Israel's Gaza backlash targets Arab minority
    First Published: 2014
    Israel's large Palestinian minority is facing an unprecedented backlash of incitement and violent reprisals as Israeli Jews rally behind the current military operations in Gaza, human rights groups and political activists have warned.
  6507. Israel's Indigenous Invaders
    How Israel Justifies the Immanent Relocation of Thousands of Palestinian Bedouin by Characterizing Them as Invaders
    First Published: 2013
    If implemented, the “Prawer Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev” will expel an estimated forty thousand Palestinian Bedouin from their current homes.
  6508. Israel's latest attempt to erase Palestine
    First Published: 2019
    Efforts by teams from the Israeli defense ministry to remove sensitive documents from Israeli archives must be understood in a new political climate and are not simply an attempt to spare Israeli governments embarrassment, as some have suggested.
  6509. Israel's 'left' apologists 
    Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
  6510. Israel's 'mad dog' diplomacy doesn't make it more secure
    First Published: 2010
    Israel is feeling cornered on every front it considers important; and like Dayan's 'mad dog,' it is likely to strike out in unpredictable ways. These trends are likely only to deepen in the coming months and years. The mad dog is baring his teeth, and it is high time the international community decided how to deal with him.
  6511. Israel's 'nation-state law' parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws
    First Published: 2018
    Israel's new 'nation-state' law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.
  6512. Israel's new 'attack on freedom of speech'
    First Published: 2010
    The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a 'McCarthyite' campaign against human-rights groups.
  6513. Israel's New Cultural War of Aggression
    First Published: 2017
    A few weeks ago my book Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace was published by Pluto in Britain. I was in London and Scotland at the time to do a series of university talks to help launch the book. Its appearance happened to coincide with the release of a jointly authored report commissioned by the UN Social and Economic Commission of West Asia, giving my appearances a prominence they would not otherwise have had. The report concluded that the evidence relating to Israeli practices toward the Palestinian people amounted to 'apartheid,' as defined in international law.
  6514. Israel's New Land Law: Clearing the Path to Annexation
    First Published: 2017
    The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night, widening the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits.
  6515. Israel's new police chief emerges from shadowy world
    First Published: 2015
    Palestinian minority in Israel worried by top cop's twin-track as interrogator for secret police and hardline settler.
  6516. Israel's New Strategy: "Sabotage" And "Attack" The Global Justice Movement
    First Published: 2010
    Reut's analysis vindicates the effectiveness of the Boycot Divestment Sanctions strategy. As Israeli elites increasingly fear for the long-term prospects of the Zionist project they are likely to be more ruthless, unscrupulous and desperate than ever.
  6517. Israel's New Travel Ban
    First Published: 2017
    Weir calls attention to the bizarre state of affairs in which the recent Israeli travel ban denying entry to anyone supporting Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment against Israel is denied entry to Palestine as well as Israel. What right does Israel have, asks Weir, to decide who may or may not visit Palestine?
  6518. Israel's Occupation Continues Because Economic and Political Elites Around the World Benefit From It
    First Published: 2016
    American-Israeli scholar and activist Jeff Halper, co-founder of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, sought to discover the source of Israel's seeming immunity. He focused on Israel's arms trade, and argues that it was "parlaying its military prowess into political clout," as he writes in a book entitled War Against The People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Halper spoke with In These Times about the book.
  6519. Israel's occupation is more complex than a genocide
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli officials were caught in a revealing lie late last month as the country celebrated the Jewish New Year. Shortly after declaring the most popular boy’s name in Israel to be "Yosef", the interior ministry was forced to concede that the top slot was actually filled by "Mohammed".
  6520. Israel's Ploy Selling a Syrian Nuke Strike
    First Published: 2017
    Evidence now available shows that there was no nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert, and that the Israelis had misled George W. Bush's administration into believing that there was in order to draw the United States into bombing missile storage sites in Syria.
  6521. Israel's racist elections
    First Published: 2015
    I didn’t expect any good from the elections to the Israeli Knesset. Its results are decided a priori by the definition of the voters’ register.
  6522. Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence
    First Published: 2019
    A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight members of one family. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada discusses Israel's latest bombings, which come after more than one year of weekly, deadly Israeli attacks on non-violent Palestinian demonstrators.
  6523. Israel's 'right to self-defense' - a tremendous propaganda victory
    First Published: 2012
    By supporting Israel's offensive on Gaza, Western leaders have given the Israelis carte blanche to do what they're best at: Wallow in their sense of victimhood and ignore Palestinian suffering.
  6524. Israel's Rightward Turn
    First Published: 2022
    The backlash against the increasingly vocal demands for recognition and equality on the part of Israel’s Arab citizens has decisively shaped twenty-first-century Israeli politics.
  6525. Israel's road signs policy 'erases memory of place'
    First Published: 2015
    Israeli authorities have long banned the Palestinian Authority (PA) from putting up its own road signs that refer to Palestinian towns and villages.
  6526. Israel's School Apartheid Highlighted By Court Case
    First Published: 2009
    Instances of Arab children being denied places at kindergartens and junior schools have become more common in recent years. Now, an Arab couple whose daughter was expelled from an Israeli daycare centre on her first day because she was Arab is taking the case to court.
  6527. Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explained
    First Published: 2017
    Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land? Follow this journey to find out.
  6528. Israel's Slander Network
    First Published: 2017
    The author responds to an article titled "It’s Time to Talk About Yves Engler", which was written by a York University student affiliated to the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
  6529. Israel's starvation diet for Gaza
    First Published: 2012
    Israel’s calculating of daily caloric needs shows how it manages the lives of Palestinians in Gaza in almost microscopic detail.
  6530. Israel's Struggle Within
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    ATC interviews Uri Davis.
  6531. Israel’s Terrible Problem: Two States or One?
    First Published: 2017
    Israel has created a terrible problem which it is incapable of solving. That is why it has always been the case that the United States must pretty much dictate a solution, but it is unable to do so, paralyzed as it is by the heavy influence of Israel and America’s own apologists and lobbyists.
  6532. Israel's vivid act of piracy may yet turn the tide of global opinion
    First Published: 2010
    In the summer of 1947 a steamer named the Exodus set out from France to run the British blockade of Palestine. The British authorities boarded and seized the ship, and killed three passengers who tried to fight the British attackers. The British succeeded in preventing the ship from landing, but the event helped to turn world public opinion against the British. Israel's attack on the Gaza aid convoy may prove to have the same result.
  6533. Israel's War Against Gaza's Women & Their Bodies
    First Published: 2014
    As Gaza is pummeled, the level of anti-Palestinian racist incitement from top Israeli political, religious and cultural figures continues to ring at peak pitch, and has taken on a dangerous misogynistic tone.
  6534. Israel's War on African Refugees
    First Published: 2014
    Isral implements public policies that support a racist agenda. In the past twenty-four months, the country has deported thousands of non-Jewish Africans and the Netanyahu government has declared that it will not rest until the remaining 50,000 are expelled.
  6535. Israel's War on Hospitals
    First Published: 2023
    Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza's hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear. Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die. Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they are 'Hamas command centers.' Israel is systematically and deliberately destroying Gaza's medical infrastructure as part of a scorched earth campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable and escalate a humanitarian crisis. It intends to force 2.3 million Palestinians over the border into Egypt where they will never return.
  6536. Israel's "Withdrawal" Toward Apartheid
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    David Finkel interviews Jeff Halper. “From Sharon's point of view it’s a done deal. Israel has won its century-old conflict with the Palestinians,” writes Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
  6537. Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression
    First Published: 2012
    Researched, written, and edited by members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, this pamphlet focuses on the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression. The states most involved with this industry profit from perpetual war and occupation across the globe while maintaining vastly unequal societies of their own.
  6538. Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
    First Published: 2015
    Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
  6539. Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansing
    First Published: 2017
    Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.Two commissioners resigned in protest just days earlier, criticizing the group’s participation as an act of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a public relations strategy that deploys Israel's supposed enlightenment toward LGBTQ issues to deflect criticism from its human rights abuses and war crimes and as a means to build up support for Israel among Western liberals and progressives.
  6540. Israel's War Echo Chamber
    Lost Voices of Dissent
    First Published: 2014
    For several days now, some of my neighbours have suggested that the time has come to “destroy them”- meaning either Hamas or Palestinians – “once and for all”. Government ministers, members of Knesset and leading media commentators have also been consistently pouring oil onto the fire. Indeed, it seems the only vocal criticism against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that he is too soft on the Palestinians. There is no public debate about the necessity of another war, but only about how punitive Israel should be.
  6541. The Issue Dividing Democratic Candidates Is Hidden in Plain Sight
    First Published: 2020
    Takes came in hot and heavy last weekend after the New York Times editorial board endorsed both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination, mercifully ending the paper's self-aggrandizing pseudo-event widely compared to … that's right … "The Apprentice."
  6542. The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us
    First Published: 2017
    Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.
  6543. Issues, Outcome and Prospects: The Ukranian Events
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    Although the Ukrainian presidential elections were front-page news for the last two months of 2004, and no event in the history of Ukraine has ever attracted so much media coverage and analysis, what happened, why, and its significance are questions impossible to answer with certainty.
  6544. Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid
    First Published: 2012
    With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most crucial issues we face. The simple answer is: badly, or not at all. If so, some important questions arise: why, and what can we do about it?
  6545. Istanbul's LGBT pride march violently disbanded by police
    First Published: 2015
    As Americans celebrate a momentous step forward for the LGBT movement, Turkish gay pride marchers were met with rubber bullets and water cannons from the police. While uncharacteristic of the police force, these violent acts are, unfortunately, in line with the general atmosphere in Turkey. There is an ever-growing epidemic of violent homophobia and transphobia in the country.
  6546. Istanbul's Shameful May Day
    Silencing the Masses
    First Published: 2013
    "I was walking through the streets of Istanbul. Smoke and tear-gas bombs were exploding everywhere and people were running, pursued by police in riot gear". I lay for a while analysing my dream. It was May the first – International Workers’ Day.
  6547. Istvan Meszaros: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction 
    First Published: 2017
    In memorium to Istvan Meszaros, an excerpt of his writing shows how he was one of the first Marxists to identify the global environmental crisis as a central contradiction of late capitalism.
  6548. Istvan Meszaros and Marx's theory of alienation
    First Published: 2017
    The article explains how alienation can only be overcome by collective action which challenges capitalist relations of production.
  6549. It Ain't the Meeting Its The Motion
    A guide to conducting productive and inclusive meetings in the context of social change.
  6550. It Doesn't Matter to Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth.
    The Anti-Empire Report
    First Published: 2011
    The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
  6551. "It Is Profitable to Let the World Go to Hell": Will Capitalism Doom the Planet?
    First Published: 2017
    Disaster, poverty and misfortune have become great ways to make a fortune. From Afghanistan to Haiti, Pakistan to Papua New Guinea, the United States to the UK, and from Greece to Australia, journalist Antony Lowenstein uncovers how companies cash in on organized misery.
  6552. It Is True That Corruption Caused The 737 MAX Accidents. But It Was Not Foreign.
    The New York Times blamed the foreign pilots for the crashes of two 737 MAX airplanes. It now takes a shot at the foreign airlines
    First Published: 2019
    So someone from Indonesia's air safety agency took another job in the industry. Three years later he changed back into a government role. That shows that Indonesia is a corrupt country and that Lion Air is the most corrupt, says a former pilot with an ax to grind.
  6553. It makes economic sense to kill people
    Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth
    First Published: 2008
    A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in consumption that would result from death and disease in the third world. Monbiot challenges the ethics of this economic model.
  6554. It Pays to Kick
    A poem about two frogs.
  6555. "It Surpassed Tragedy": The Horrors of Being Pregnant and Giving Birth in Gaza
    First Published: 2024
    Women in Gaza are giving birth in a health care system that is on the brink of collapse, with little access to prenatal or postnatal care.
  6556. ‘It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazon’s Credibility’
    CounterSpin interview with Neil deMause on Amazon's retreat from New York
    First Published: 2019
    Transcript of interview with Neil deMause about NY's bid for Amazon HQ. Included downloadable MP3 of interview.
  6557. It's The Blind Partisanship
    First Published: 2015
    Why did the peace movement grow large around 2003-2006 and shrink around 2008-2010? Military spending, troop levels abroad, and number of wars engaged in can explain the growth but not the shrinkage. Those factors hardly changed between the high point and the low point of peace activism.
  6558. It's More Than A Matter of Saving A Buck Isn't It?
    First Published: 1978
  6559. It's War on the Poor
    First Published: 2014
    Miah analyzes the increase in numbers within the working poor class and the economic structures that keep them poor.
  6560. It's Your Move
    First Published: 1980
  6561. The Italian Factory Occupations of 1920
    When 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces
    First Published: 1988
    During the month of September, 1920, a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their workforces took place, which originated in the auto factories, steel mills and machine tool plants of the metal sector but spread out into many other industries: cotton mills and hosiery firms, lignite mines, tire factories, breweries and distilleries, and steamships and warehouses in the port towns. But this was not a sit-down strike; the workers continued production with their own in-plant organization. And railway workers, in open defiance of the management of the state-owned railways, shunted freight cars between the factories to enable production to continue. At its height about 600,000 workers were involved.
  6562. The Italian Long ’68
    First Published: 2018
    Taddeo describes how the charateristics of 1968 continued in Italy passed 1968 and his subsequent participation in various movements. He explains that with the struggles of 1977 and the repression that followed, one can say that the social ferment begun in Italy in 1968 had exhausted itself.
  6563. Italy 1980-81: After Marx, jail! The attempted destruction of a communist movement
    First Published: 2017
    Charting the repression of Italy's 1970s extraparliamentary communist movement.
  6564. Italy: Womein in the Fiat Factory
    First Published: 1971
    An article was written by a Turin collective working on the problems of women employed by Fiat, originally published in Lotta Continua, February 1970. Underlying this article is the idea that the significance of a fight in one department within a factory, for instance, or strata within the working class, in this case women, can only be understood in terms of the relationship between this particular point of struggle and others.
  6565. 'It's a New Day': Why Environmentalists Need to Change Their Strategy Under Trudeau Government
    First Published: 2015
    Now that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have taken the helm, advocates have high hopes for a course correction on the environment and energy files. But after nearly a decade of working under hostile conditions, environmentalists need to make a course correction of their own if they want to effectively influence public policy, experts say.
  6566. It's a Question of What Unites Us
    First Published: 2016
    An interview with Harold Lavender on accountable structures, systemic change, and the peril and promise of alliances against gentrification.
  6567. It's Fantasy Economy!
    Some Expert Views on What Should Happen Next
    First Published: 2008
    What happens next should be up to the public. It's striking to note that this is not even an option here.
  6568. It's here, and it's growing: the self-assembling Coalition of the Radical Left
    First Published: 2015
    The progressive left is drawing together diverse strands that encompass the fight for social and racial justice, the right to work, health, clean air and fresh water, and our freedom to be alive and thrive on this our one planet.
  6569. It's Imperialism, Stupid
    First Published: 2005
    Chomksy claims that when Bush proclaimed the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction as the premise for invading Iraq, imperialism was, in fact, the genuine motivation.
  6570. "It's Killing the Student Movement": Canary Mission's Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll
    First Published: 2018
    Canary Mission, a website that compiles dossiers on Palestinian rights advocates and labels them racists, anti-Semites, and supporters of terrorism has taken a toll on activists' mental health and their ability to engage in free speech and public advocacy on Palestine.
  6571. It's Nato that's empire-building, not Putin
    First Published: 2015
    Two sides are required for a New Cold War — and there is no obvious need for an adversarial system in post-Soviet Europe.
  6572. 'It's No Longer About Saying No': How B.C.'s First Nations Are Taking Charge With Tribal Parks
    First Published: 2016
    On June 26, 2014, the Tsilhqot’in Nation's 25-year court battle came to an end when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the nation holds title to approximately 1,900 square kilometres of its traditional territory.
  6573. It's No Wonder the Military likes Violent Video Games, They Can Help Train Civilians to Become Warriors
    First Published: 2019
    Most studies show no correlation between video games and violence but the adoption of computer simulations by the military and their similarity to video games should give us pause about their ethical impact on society.
  6574. It's Not Gonna Be Okay: the Nauseating Nothingness of Neoliberal Capitalist and Professional Class Politics
    First Published: 2017
    Confronted with statements of concern and/or disgust over how they are giving the nation state away to an ever more neofascistic, white-nationalist Republican Party, "Indivisible" liberals say that "things are going to be okay" since their party will "win power back in 2018 and 2020." Paul Street begs to differ.
  6575. "It's not just 2 pesos; It's the country:" Mexico City's #PosMeSalto Movement Protests Rising Transit Costs
    First Published: 2014
    The author surveys the 2 peso transit fare hike in Mexico within the context of the country's suffering ecomomy and low living wage to showcase why the decision is a mistake.
  6576. It's not just radicalised Islamists - what about foreign fighters who flock to the IDF? 
    Is the Government interested in UK citizens who have been fighting in Israeli uniform in Gaza in the past couple of weeks?
    First Published: 2014
    Let us hope and pray that no UK citizens have been involved in such terrible deeds. But it wouldn’t be a bad idea, would it, if the lads in blue had a friendly word with them when they arrive back at Heathrow – and insist on knowing exactly what they were up to when they wore another country’s uniform.
  6577. It's not just the bees! 'Neonic' pesticides linked to bird declines
    The higher the imidacloprid concentration the more severely the bird populations dropped.
    First Published: 2014
    A study published today in Nature shows a strong correlation between concentrations of a popular neonicotinoid pesticide in water, and bird declines. Regulators are under pressure to tighten up, but the industry still claims there's 'no substantiated evidence'.
  6578. It's Not OK for Grown Adults to Think This Way About Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
  6579. It's Not Piracy!
    The International Law Framework
    First Published: 2010
    The crimes that Israel committed during its assault on the vessels and civilian passengers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla fall firmly within the category of "high crimes." The assault, rather than an act of piracy, must be defined as a "crime against the peace" and a "crime against humanity" as Israel subjected "part of the high seas to its sovereignty" in a murderous attack on unarmed civilian vessels. The severity of these crimes is magnified precisely because the criminal actor is not an individual but a highly militarized state.
  6580. 'It's okay to be racist in Israel'
    An Israeli conscientious objector speaks out about racism and subjugation as the occupation enters its 51st year.
    First Published: 2017
    An interview with Sahar Vardi, a conscientious objector in opposition to Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories, who was sentenced to prison and detention for her defiance.
  6581. It's Raining Bombs and Shells
    A Doctor's Notes From Gaza
    First Published: 2014
    I’m still alive. I don’t know what this means, but I can say that most of the time I can still walk and do some work with people who need help. It all depends on my luck. And here, for people living in Gaza, luck means how close to you the bombs fall from Israel’s tanks, planes, or warships. Some hours it’s raining bombs. Americans say “It’s raining cats and dogs.” In the new Gaza idiom, we say “It’s raining bombs and shells.”
  6582. It's Raining Sand in Rayalaseema
    First Published: 2019
    In the Rayalaseema region in India, changing agriculture has reduced biodiversity, depleting the soil and leading to aridity and sandstorms.
  6583. It's Still the Iraq War, Stupid.
    First Published: 2016
    No rational person could blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit. So why are the Blairites moving against Corbyn now, with such precipitate haste? The answer is the Chilcot Report. It is only a fortnight away, and though its form will be concealed by thick layers of establishment whitewash, the basic contours of Blair’s lies will still be visible beneath. Corbyn had deferred to Blairite pressure not to apologise on behalf of the Labour Party for the Iraq War until Chilcot is published.
  6584. It's the Law
    First Published: 2004
    The laws of media relations.
  6585. It's the Oil, stupid!
    First Published: 2008
    Noam Chomsky questions why the USA is in Iraq. He determines that the suspicion of oil-induced motivation is indeed an understatement.
  6586. It's Time for America to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars
    First Published: 2018
    Researchers strive to count the casualties of American wars but are faced by a lack of political and military accountability and a seemingly apathetic public.
  6587. It's Time for the Left to Ask "What Are We For?"
    First Published: 2017
    Sarah Jaffe interviewed Maria Poblet. Maria Poblet has been working in base building and community organizing in the Bay Area for 18 years, building Causa Justa Just Cause, a democratically held grassroots organization where she is currently transitioning out of the role of executive director.
  6588. It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
    First Published: 2018
    Cockburn argues that economic sanctions impose collective punishment on the general population rather than targetting the people in power.
  6589. It's Time to Put an End to Israel's "Don't ask-don't tell" Nuclear Policy
    First Published: 2013
    Israel and its allies in the U.S. Congress continue to lobby against a deal that would meet Iran in the middle, insisting on a “zero-enrichment” policy that is a deal-breaker for Iran.
  6590. It's tough at the top
    So THAT's Why They Can't Afford a Decent Wage Increase...
    Top CEOs struggle to get by.
  6591. It's WMD all over again. Why don't you see it?
    First Published: 2017
    Today’s frenzy over alleged use of poison gas in Syria is the 2017 version of Anthony Blair’s WMD in Iraq. Why can you not see it? Did you think they would do it in exactly the same way again? You are being assailed through your emotions, to act first and think long after, and far too late.
  6592. I've changed my mind on the gay cake row. Here's why
    First Published: 2016
    Like most gay and equality campaigners, I initially condemned the Christian-run Ashers Bakery in Belfast over its refusal to produce a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan for a gay customer, Gareth Lee. I supported his legal claim against Ashers and the subsequent verdict – the bakery was found guilty of discrimination last year. Now, two days before the case goes to appeal, I have changed my mind. Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion.
  6593. 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
    First Published: 2007
    According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private.
  6594. J. Arch Getty, Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition (Yale, 2013) (Review)
    First Published: 2014
    Review of Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition by J. Arch Getty (Yale, 2013).
  6595. Jackson, Clarence Shirley
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    (1906-1993). Was a trade union leader.
  6596. Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
    First Published: 2018
    Moser reviews Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
  6597. Jackson, Wes
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    American agronomist and advocate for sustainable agriculture.
  6598. Jacobin and ecomodernism: Two replies
    First Published: 2017
    Two readers, David Schwartzman and David Walters, respond to criticism of Jacobin magazine's special issue on climate change.
  6599. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  6600. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia Article
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  6601. Jacquerie
    Connexipedia Article
    Was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe by peasants that took place in northern France in the summer of 1358.
  6602. Jagannathan, Krishnammal and Sankaralingam
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winners
    Gandhian activists who have protested against social injustice.
  6603. Jagger, Bianca
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    A Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and fashion icon. (Born 1950).
  6604. Jailed by Israel for his cartoons, Mohammad Saba’aneh speaks out
    First Published: 2013
    Mohammad Saba’aneh, who has a daily cartoon in the Palestinian newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida, has published his work in newspapers across the Arab world. His cartoons are decidedly political, frequently criticizing Israel, the Palestinian Authority and mainstream Palestinian political parties. Targeted by Israeli occupation authorities for the opinions expressed in his art, he was arrested by Israeli occupation forces, and jailed.
  6605. Jails for Jesus
    First Published: 2003
    President Bush wants faith-based programs to take over social services. But what happens when evangelical Christians try their hand at running prisons?
  6606. Jamaica's Culture of Fear Allows Police to Get Away With Murder
    First Published: 2016
    In the past decade, the Caribbean island nation's police have killed more than 2,000 people - until recently an average of four people every single week, mostly young men in inner-city, marginalized communities.
  6607. The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement--An Overview
    The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement - An Overview is a booklet produced by the United Native Nations, an organization dedicated to developing a community-based voice for status and non-status Indians in British Columbia.
  6608. James Bay Development Will Cause Cultural Genocide, Cree Chief Says
    Quebec's James Bay hydroelectric plant construction could be disastrous for the Cree.
  6609. James Bellamy Foster's Marx's Ecology, Paul Burkett's Marx and Nature - Review
    First Published: 2000
    Review of the books 'Marx's Ecology' by James Bellamy and 'Marx and Nature' by Paul Burkett and how they explore the ecological concerns of Marx and Engels.
  6610. The James Brown Theory of Black Liberation
    First Published: 2015
    After decades of frustration with what Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay calls "white saviour" narratives, antiracist progressives appear to have settled on an ideologically more appealing alternative - what Adolph Reed calls the James Brown Theory of Black Liberation.
  6611. James, C. L. R.
    Connexipedia Article
    Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, Marxist, socialist theorist and essayist. (1901-1989).
  6612. James, C.L.R.
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, Marxist, socialist theorist and essayist. (1901-1989).
  6613. James, C.L.R. - Writings - Index
    Writings of C.L.R. James (1901-1989).
  6614. James Connolly: The Irish Rebel
    First Published: 2016
    The Graphic History Collective is pleased to release GHC member Sean Carleton’s comic book, "James Connolly: The Irish Rebel." Written and illustrated by Sean, the comic book commemorates the life of Irish socialist James Connolly and the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
  6615. James Green's Death in the Haymarket
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    James Green's Death in the Haymarket tells the story of the anarcosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers’ rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886. They were subsequently framed, convicted, and four martyrs hanged by the judicial system of Cook County on “Black Friday,” November 11, 1887.
  6616. James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy 
    First Published: 2013
    Hansen has provided the starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy aimed at keeping the increase in global average temperatures below 2°C (3.6° F), an amount that constitutes the planetary tipping point with respect to climate change.
  6617. James P. Cannon on the Legacy of the IWW
    First Published: 1955   Published: 2015
    Formed in direct opposition to the craft unionism of the American Federation of Labor, the IWW drew its membership largely from young workers who took to the road to find work where they could -- as railroad construction workers, lumberjacks, metal miners and seamen. Taught by harsh experience that the bosses could not be overpowered at the ballot box, those who formed the IWW called for "One Big Union" that would serve as the instrument to seize the means of production from the capitalist class.
  6618. Jan and Carrol Cox, Political Activists
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for Jan and Carrol Cox, long-time activists from Illinois.
  6619. Janus and My Ode to Capital
    First Published: 2018
    Looking at Marx and how to make him relevant to people through 40 years of teaching Capital.
  6620. Japan suspends some driftnetting
    First Published: 1991
  6621. Japan's post-Fukushima 'secrecy' clampdown
    First Published: 2013
    Japan's secrecy law, just passed by parliament, gives the government carte blanche to designate state secrets - and restrict information about anything it likes.
  6622. Jared Diamond, Greenwasher
    Shilling for Chevron
    First Published: 2005
    Since Jared Diamond and the economists all believe in the inviolability of the capitalist system, there is a certain cognitive dissonance at work in their writings. They harp on the symptoms, but stop short at identifying the root cause. It is what psychologists call denial.
  6623. Jaurès, Jean
    Connexipedia Article
    French Socialist leader. (1859-1914).
  6624. Javier Sicilia Calls Out to Alternative Media as a Force for Communication
    First Published: 2012
    At the 2012 School of Authentic Journalism, a poet reviews the first year of the movement against the drug war that he inspired.
  6625. Je Suis Charlie - But I Have Others
    "Brothers, Our Town is Burning!"
    First Published: 2015
    We must work to close gaps, clasp hands and work together for a better world. We dare not forget those countless bloody deeds recorded largely in dusty archives - and their urgent lessons! I may well join in with "Je suis Charlie!" but must add: "I am Gul Rahman! I am Abu Zubaydah! I am Charles Horman and Ken Saro-Wiwa! I am Ghassan Kanafani and Victor Jara!"
  6626. Je Suis Charlie? It's a Bit Late 
    First Published: 2015
    Hardly had news begun filtering out about the Charlie Hebdo shootings, than there were those suggesting that the magazine was a 'racist institution' and that the cartoonists, if not deserving what they got, had nevertheless brought it on themselves through their incessant attacks on Islam. What is really racist is the idea only nice white liberals want to challenge religion or demolish its pretensions or can handle satire and ridicule. Those who claim that it is ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’ to mock the Prophet Mohammad, appear to imagine, with the racists, that all Muslims are reactionaries. It is here that leftwing ‘anti-racism’ joins hands with rightwing anti-Muslim bigotry.
  6627. Jealousy, Friendship, and Bisexual Chopped Liver
    First Published: 2008
    According to this theory, bisexuals could never, ever have any friends at all. We couldn't be friends with gay men, straight men, straight women, lesbians. And we definitely couldn't be friends with other bisexuals. According to this theory, the fact that we're attracted to both women and men makes us ineligible to be friends with anybody, of any gender, ever.
  6628. Jeden Glos na Demokracje
    First Published: 1986
  6629. Jeff Bezos' Quest to Find America's Dumbest Mayor
    First Published: 2018
    Baker questions the wisdom of cities offering online-retailer Amazon tax and infrastructure incentives to host the company's second head quarters.
  6630. Jeff Halper's Obstacles to Peace
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    “The occupation challenges us all… Can a system of control, displacement, denial of fundamental rights and repression actually prevail? What does it mean if we are unable to end an occupation that is growing continually stronger by the day, before our very eyes, in defiance of international law and more than 200 UN resolutions? If occupation and repression actually defeat a people’s aspirations for freedom and fundamental human rights, then what are the implications for oppressed peoples in other parts of the world far from public attention?”
  6631. Jeff Sharlet (activist)
    Wikipedia article
    First Published: 2016
    Jeff Sharlet (1942–1969), a Vietnam veteran, was a leader of the GI resistance movement during the Vietnam War and the founding editor of Vietnam GI.
  6632. Jeremy Brecher on How Labor and Climate Movements Build Power from Below
    First Published: 2024
    Author, labour historian and activist Jeremy Brecher has been engaged at the intersection of labour, the environment, and the climate for decades. We talk with Jeremy about strikes, unions, and union leadership, the labour-climate movements and much more.
  6633. Jeremy Brecher responds 
    First Published: 1973
    Jeremy Brecher responds to Murray Bookchin's critical response of Brecher's review of Bookchin's book.
  6634. Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian 'Collaborator' for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border
    First Published: 2017
    The armed forces minister for Britain's right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin.
  6635. Jeremy Corbyn is right to reject Trident
    First Published: 2015
    Jeremy Corbyn has come under attack yesterday for his refusal to countenance the use of nuclear weapons. But his stance is honourable and both legally and strategically correct - especially with his opposition to renewing the Trident nuclear missile system.
  6636. Jeremy Corbyn Wants to Requisition Homes of the Rich for Fire Survivors - Like Churchill Did in WWII
    First Published: 2017
    British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has a bold proposal to house the survivors of a devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower apartment complex in empty luxury homes.
  6637. Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are so dangerous they took over the Labour Party before they were even born
    First Published: 2016
    If you were cynical you might wonder if, despite their ability to reach out to people, Corbyn's opponents feel they'd be unlikely to beat him in a straight vote of members.
  6638. Jeremy Hammond's Court Statement Upon Being Sentenced To 10 Years In Jail
    First Published: 2013
    Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to ten years in prison for hacking Stratfor communications, then releasing information to Wikileaks. This is his statement.
  6639. The Jericho `98 March: Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners
    First Published: 1998
    Pushing for justice and freedom for political prisoners in the United States.
  6640. Jerry Tucker, 1938-2012
    First Published: 2013
    Jerry Tucker died last October 19, 2012 of pancreatic cancer, at age 73. A passionate advocate of workers’ rights, his career in the labor officialdom was hindered by his investing greater loyalty in the workers he represented than in the organizations for which he worked.
  6641. Jerusalem: Colonized City
    First Published: 2016
    An interview with author Thomas Abowd.
  6642. Jerusalem: the Unholy City
    A Long and Checkered History
    First Published: 2014
    Jerusalem is called "the City of Peace". This is a linguistic mistake. True, in antiquity it was called Salem, which sounds like peace, but Salem was in fact the name of the local deity. It is also a historical mistake. No city in the world has seen as many wars, massacres and as much bloodshed as this one. All in the name of some God or other.
  6643. Jetskis Should Be Banned
    First Published: 1998
    To launch a jet ski into the shallow waters that are so important to marine wildlife takes little money, little training, and little energy. Jet skis put our most vulnerable marine and avian wildlife directly into the hands of some of our most biologically ignorant and least responsible citizens.
  6644. The Jewish-Arab Conflict
    First Published: 1938
    The conflict between the Arab masses and Zionist aspirations can only be solved to the extent that Jewish masses in Palestine renounce Zionist exclusivism.
  6645. A Jewish Atonement for Zionism
    First Published: 2017
    A review of “Not by Might, nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism, by author Moshe Menuhin. Drawing from personal experience, the book is a methodical and chronological survey of Jewish nationalism.
  6646. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
    First Published: 2009
    We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
  6647. Jewish Combat Organization
    Connexipedia Article
    A World War II resistance movement which was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
  6648. Jewish dissenters speak out over Gaza
    First Published: 2009
    On Wednesday, a dozen Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto, demanding an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza. The women expressed "outrage at Ottawa's refusal to condemn the massacres," said spokesperson Miriam Garfinkle. They urged the media to report that "many Jewish-Canadians do not support Israel's violence and apartheid policies."
  6649. Jewish Groups' Whitewash of Israeli Racism Ensures It Will Fester
    First Published: 2014
    As news spreads of the circumstances surrounding last week's murder of 17-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdair, many international observers are responding with incredulity.
  6650. Jewish Labour Committee
    Connexipedia: Article on HistoryofRights.com
    Formed in 1936, the JLC was a front runner in the push for anti-discrimination legislation in Ontario.
  6651. Jewish National Fund: Teaching Children an Exclusive, Religious/Ethnic Nationalism
    First Published: 2017
    The JNF has produced puzzles and board games as well as organizing a Youth Summer experience program. According to JNF Canada's Education Department, the group "educates thousands of young people in Israel and abroad, helping them forge an everlasting bond with the Land of Israel."
  6652. Jewish Peace Activists Defend German Critic of Israel Calling for a Boycott of Israel for its Treatment of Palestinians is not Anti-Semitic
    First Published: 2009
    More than 370 Jewish peace activists from around the world signed a statement defending German politician Hermann Dierkes against charges of anti-Semitism.
  6653. The Jewish Problem After Hitler
    Palestine and the Fourth International
    First Published: 1947
  6654. Jewish Question Since World War II
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1947
  6655. Jewish resistance under Nazi rule
    Connexipedia Article
    The resistance of the Jewish people against Nazi Germany leading up to and through World War II, including against the Holocaust.
  6656. Jewish Statement in Opposition to the Geneva Accord
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    A false peace is no peace at all. A peace not based on human rights and justice will collapse and rekindle violence.
  6657. Jewish Voice for Peace conference - what solidarity looks like
    First Published: 2015
    When a Palestinian woman went to this Jewish group's annual conference, she found a growing movement of Jews and other allies.
  6658. Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
    First Published: 2009
    A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
    See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
  6659. Jews, Arabs & the Geneva Accord
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Talking publicly about the virtues and hazards of the Geneva accords these days is not an easy task, as the topic is both highly emotional -- rightly so, as a matter of utmost importance -- and highly divisive.
  6660. Jews Are Not an Equity-Seeking Group
    First Published: 2009
    Anti-Semitism, pervasive and deadly only a couple generations ago, is no longer a form of oppression. Jews are not currently oppressed on the basis of Jewish identity alone. Measured in terms of social power, a white Jewish male is just another white male, his Jewishness of no more relevance than if he were Dutch or Irish.
  6661. the Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust - Key Texts
    First Published: 2016
    The Blairites' crocodile tears are about defending empire, writes David Moyles in this introduction to The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust by Tony Cliff.
  6662. Jews of All Colors
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    In The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, a long-time feminist activist, disabuses the Jewish left of its most common assumptions: that Jewish culture is Ashkenazi culture and that Jews are white people.
  6663. The JFRP: For a New Communist Party
    First Published: 2016
    Real change, the kind of change that Occupy Wall Street had hoped to start, can be achieved through -- I know you’re going to find this hard to believe -- a political party. I found it hard to believe, until I read Jodi Dean's book Crowds and Party. Jodi is here to explain to us how a political party can bring about real change.
  6664. Jim Crow laws
    Connexipedia Article
    Were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
  6665. Job makes us sick
    First Published: 2013
    Corporations blame individual workers for their own state of health, which in reality is adversely impacted by unsafe work conditions individual workers have little or no control over. When management puts austerity and cost-cutting ahead of well-being, individual human beings pay the price.
  6666. Jobs and Poverty
    First Published: 1977
    The National Council of Welfare was established by the Government Organization Act, 1969 as a citizens advisory body to the Minister on matters pertaining to welfare.
  6667. Jobs, Ecology, and Survival
    First Published: 2015
    Lars Henriksson presents some thoughts about solving the old contradiction between jobs and the environment, ilooking specifically at the auto industry.
  6668. Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump Agenda
    A working paper from the Labor Network for Sustainability
    First Published: 2017
    Jobs for Climate and Justice exposes and challenges the Trump agenda and proposes the kind of economic program we must fight for. It also offers examples of the great organizing efforts around the country – led by working people – that provide the foundation for the a transition to a just and climate-safe economy.
  6669. Jobs and industry in the Hunter Valley: Context for a conversation about a Just Transition away from coal
    First Published: 2017
    The development of employment opportuniteis outside the coal miniing industry is both possible and necessary.
  6670. Jobs said lost under free trade
    First Published: 1989
  6671. Joe Biden's Saber-Rattling Threatens World War III - with China and Russia
    Fits long pattern of war-mongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century
    First Published: 2022
  6672. Joe Hill House
    Connexipedia Article
    A Catholic Worker Movement house of hospitality in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  6673. Joel Kovel (1936-2018)
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for psychiatrist, teacher and author Joel Kovel.
  6674. Jogiches, Leo
    Connexipedia Article
    Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany. (1867-1919).
  6675. Johanna Lawrenson: Organizing on the Run
    Lawrenson and Partner Abbie Hoffman Ran the Guantlet of US Law Enforcement to Organize for Justice
    First Published: 2013
    In 1978, Johanna Lawrenson launched a social movement with a fugitive. Her partner was Abbie Hoffman, an experienced organizer who at the time was wanted by the FBI.
  6676. John Ball Was Right!
    First Published: 2014
    John Ball was a leader of the English Peasant Rebellion of 1381, also known as Wat Tyler's Rebellion from the name of another of its leaders. Ball was a priest at a time when the feudal society consisted largely of "villeins" and "gentlefolk".
  6677. John Bellamy Foster answers five questions about Marxism and ecology
    Can Marxism strengthen our understanding of ecological crises? The author of Marx's Ecology replies to a critic on metabolic rift, sustainab
    First Published: 2017
    In the Anthropocene, we are faced with the eventual prospect, if society continues to follow the path of business as usual, of the end of civilization (in the sense of organized human society) and even potentially of the human species itself. But well before that hundreds of millions of people will be affected by increasing droughts, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events of all kinds.
  6678. John Berger (1926-2017)
    "He helped form a generation for whom he made it possible to discover a different, critical way of seeing"
    First Published: 2017
    John Berger's revolutionary insistence was that our reality could be seen differently, and altered by our intervention.
  6679. John Brown, Abolitionist
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    Why do some people take literally the admonitions of our faiths, both religious and secular? We are all advised to “do unto others.” We all hear, from early childhood, that “all men are created equal.” Yet, not all of us abide by these “faiths of our fathers.”
  6680. John Handcox, "Sharecropper's Troubadour"
    First Published: 2014
    Robin Lindley interviews University of Washington labour history professor Michael Honey regarding his biography about singer and labour activist John Handcox.
  6681. John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
    First Published: 2014
    The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an egalitarian atheist who explicitly opposed patriarchy, corresponded with progressive thinkers including Paul Goodman and Noam Chomsky, and helped initiate the still emerging children’s rights movement.
  6682. John Kerry and Me
    First Published: 2012
    Experiences in community organizing and electoral organizing.
  6683. John Locke Against Freedom
    First Published: 2015
    John Locke's classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom. It's a defense of expropriation and enslavement.
  6684. John Pilger - 'A Majority Of One
    First Published: 2024
  6685. John Pilger: The dirty war on WikiLeaks
    First Published: 2012
    War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception is essential for starting an unpopular colonial war.
  6686. John Pilger's Guide to Propaganda
    First Published: 2023
    Journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger, who has spent decades studying governments’ nefariousness, tells Katie Halper how to spot propaganda.
  6687. John Reed Clubs and Proletarian Art - Part I
    First Published: 2015
    The writings of Marx and Engels provide no support for the idea, frequently associated with Marxism, that the movement of the working class to emancipate itself from capitalism and build a classless society requires a proletarian or revolutionary art as an aid to its struggles.
  6688. John Sayles and Working-Class History
    First Published: 1997
    Even if we know that community and solidarity will be harder to win than Sayles' newer efforts seem to suggest, the fact that someone is bucking Hollywood forgers of dominant ideology and that audiences are responding may offer hope that even more of American working-class history-and the history of American working-class aspirations can yet be redeemed.
  6689. Johnson-Forest Tendency
    Connexipedia Article
    Refers to an American radical left tendency associated with Marxist theorists C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya.
  6690. Johnstone Brings her Moral Compass to our Dantesque World
    Review of Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher
    First Published: 2020
    Diana Johnstone's memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students of history and all those struggling to not only dismantle the beast, but to prepare us for what follows it.
  6691. La Joie de la Révolution
    First Published: 1997   Published: 2007
  6692. Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israel's Gaza Offensive
    The International Community Must End Israel's Collective Punishment of the Civilian Population in the Gaza Strip
    First Published: 2014
    The indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, the targeting of objectives providing no effective military advantage, and the intentional targeting of civilians and civilian houses have been persistent features of Israel’s long-standing policy of punishing the entire population of the Gaza Strip, which, for over seven years, has been virtually imprisoned by Israeli imposed closure.
  6693. Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1 
    First Published: 2008
    However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain's 'leftwing' media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the 'character' of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking - when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
  6694. Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
    Connexipedia Article
    American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
  6695. The Jordan Valley: stolen land, stolen childhood
    First Published: 2014
    The Jordan Valley in the Palestinian West Bank is under active annexation to Israel - in breach of the 4th Geneva Convention. Victoria Brittain went there to explore what this means for the people of the Valley.
  6696. Joshua Kurlantzick, A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA: Book Review
    First Published: 2017
    Review of A Great Plaave a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA, by Joshua Kurlantzick.
  6697. Journalism and the Arms Race
    First Published: 1983
  6698. Journalism and The Bomb
    First Published: 1983
  6699. Journalism and The Bomb, Words and War
    First Published: 1983
  6700. Journalism and 'the words of power' 
    First Published: 2010
    More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
  6701. Journalism as a Weapon of War
    John Pilger address to Columbia University
    First Published: 2006
    On 14 April 2006, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York brought together John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass for a discussion entitled 'Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire'. The following is a transcript of John Pilger's address - 'War by Media'
  6702. Journalism as We Knew It Is Never Coming Back
    First Published: 2017
    It’s old news that Donald Trump abuses reason, knowledge, decency and dark-skinned people. If you are paying attention, each one of his assaults on decency, intelligence and knowledge will feel urgent, ridiculous or both. Each day he threatens grave damage to actual human beings and the rest of Planet Earth, and each day he demonstrates his incapacity to do anything but inflict more damage.
  6703. Journalism, History and War: Sit, Type and Bleed
    First Published: 2017
    There are millions of victims throughout the Middle East region, that cannot be understood or expressed through typical media narration: a gripping headline, couple of quotes and a paragraph or two by way of providing context.The price is too high for this kind of lazy journalism.
  6704. Journalism and Pornography
    Real crime is always organised
    First Published: 2017
    As long as we cannot name something that is bothering us, we have an enormous if not insurmountable impediment to action. The capacity for titillation, for erotic stimulation even with simultaneous pain, is enhanced by suspension of belief or cognition. This is what pornography does and it is also the function of compatible journalism.
  6705. Journalism, Pro-GMO Triumphalism and Neoliberal Dogma In India
    First Published: 2016
  6706. Journalism’s Search for Metaphor and Meaning
    Barking Dogs and Sinking Ships
    First Published: 2014
    Journalists often aren’t alert watchdogs, but limiting the profession to the role of a barking dog is a dead-end anyway.
  6707. Journalist Security Guide
    Covering the news in a dangerous and changing world
    First Published: 2012
    This guide details what journalists need to know in a new and changing world. It is aimed at local and international journalists of varied levels of experience.
  6708. Un journaliste du National Post traumatisé d'avoir à attendre son tour
    First Published: 2006
    Jonathan Kay retourne à l'hôpital pour un traitement de suivi, et - horreur - il doit s'asseoir et attendre avant d'être vu. En fait, il nous dit « tous les cas sauf les plus graves » doivent s'asseoir et attendre leur tour. Il n'y a pas - c'est dur à croire mais c'est vrai - de file spéciale pour les nantis et les privilégiés, même s'ils sont journalistes au National Post.
  6709. Journalistic Integrity: Allan Nairn vs. Julian Assange
    First Published: 2017
    I've been really upset since the inauguration and trying to cope with the emotions I am encountering daily. It is pretty obvious that a successful meme has been implanted in the progressive mindset that will have as much impact as the claim Ralph Nader gave the 2000 election to Bush. By this I mean that people are extremely pissed off at me for having backed the Green Party and Jill Stein and seem to say with almost a psychic vitriol that it is somehow my fault that Trump got elected. Didn’t you throw your vote away on the Greens? Didn't you say awful things about Hillary?
  6710. Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
    Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
    First Published: 2013
    Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government.
  6711. Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US
    First Published: 2017
    Fearing assassination, Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan and independent journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem file US legal complaint.
  6712. Journalists assaulted and censored
    First Published: 2010
    Palestinian journalists are under attack from Israeli forces and are also subjected to raids and arrests as a result of political rivalry between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, report the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom (MADA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Meanwhile, Israel continues to target and detain scores of Palestinians involved in protests against the separation barrier in the West Bank with freedom of movement and expression violations, reports Human Rights Watch.
  6713. Journalists, community groups need to develop independent Canadian media
    First Published: 2011
    It is shocking that – in the 21st Century – we still have a system under which corporate over-lords – not the journalists who produce the news – control the process that determines the content of mainstream media.
  6714. A Journalist’s Death in Oaxaca
    The Murder of Crime Reporter Alberto López Bello
    First Published: 2014
    Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the Americas to practice journalism.
  6715. The Journalists Do The Shouting
    First Published: 2019
    Today’s meaningful art is samizdat stickers on wireline poles and spray-canned corporate advertising. Corporate media is no longer considered a sure source of credible reporting.
  6716. Journalists Killed since 1992
    First Published: 2009
    A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
  6717. Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
    First Published: 2019
    Journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express their grave concern for Julian Assange's wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges.
  6718. Journalists' treatment at Oka criticized
    First Published: 1992
  6719. Journaux radicaux
    First Published: 1979
  6720. A Journey from Satire to Legal Suite to Defense of Democratic Rights
    First Published: 2008
    An account of CanWest's lawsuit arising out of a parody satirizing the Vancouver Sun's biased reporting on Israel and Palestine.
  6721. The Journey of James Neugass
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    At the age of 32, Isidore James Newman Neugass (1905-49), a lesser poet of the Lost Generation crowd who published as “James Neugass,” departed New York City to spend six months mostly on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. In late 1937 and early 1938, Neugass, serving as a volunteer ambulance driver as part of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, was present at Teruel, one of the conflict’s bloodiest battles, claiming over 100,000 casualties.
  6722. Journey of Reconciliation
    Connexipedia Article
    An attempt in 1947 to challenge segregation laws on interstate buses in the Southern United States, through non-violent direct action.
  6723. Journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Crimea
    First Published: 2023
    At the end of April of this year [2023], the two of us ventured together to Russia. We went with the purpose of fact-finding and also to make a point that we do not believe that Russia should be isolated from the world through sanctions and travel bans.
  6724. Journeying to freedom in a closed-off world
    First Published: 2020
    Palestinians know only too well what it’s like to be under lockdown or prevented from traveling, hemmed in by walls, checkpoints and bureaucracy, themes Qumsiyeh tackles in Walled Citizen.
  6725. The Journeys of Julia de Burgos
    Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Vanessa Perez Rosario's Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon.
  6726. Jousting With Toothpicks - The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism
    First Published: 2013
    A critic responding to a recent alert objected to our use of the term 'corporate journalist'. In fact the meaning of 'corporate journalist' could hardly be clearer: it describes someone paid to write for a corporation.
  6727. Joy Kogawa in conversation with Ulli Diemer
    First Published: 2017
    Ulli Diemer spoke with Joy Kogawa in Toronto on March 14, 2017. Joy Kogawa is the author of Obasan, Gently to Nagasaki, and other works of fiction and poetry.
  6728. Joyless in Zion
    First Published: 2018
    Israel is held in contempt by much of the western world, and Israelis know it even as they get down to the hard business of shooting border-crossers. The New York Times did a piece suggesting that Israelis have a conscience about the violence they poured forth at the Gaza border, and they hope that it was the right thing to do. But Gideon Levy says they have lost their conscience; and that was my impression too from interviewing Israeli Jews in West Jerusalem. I talked to 20 people. Every one expressed support for the killings. There was simply no dissent.
  6729. Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of Venezuela Doesn't Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
    First Published: 2019
    The US coup in Venezuela uses constitutional arguments to give legitimacy to Guaido's presidency. This article details how this argument is false.
  6730. Jubilee 2000
    First Published: 1998
    Asserting that debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact, Chomsky examines various qualifications for the Jubilee 2000 that called for international debt cancellation.
  6731. Judge approves Detroit bankruptcy plan
    First Published: 2014
    The more than yearlong bankruptcy case in Detroit concluded Friday with a US judge sanctioning a savage restructuring plan for the city, which creates a new precedent for an assault on public workers throughout the United States.
  6732. Judge: Providing Water to Dying Immigrants in Desert is a Crime
    First Published: 2019
    Activists who leave water near the US-Mexico border have been found guilty of various charges. Others in similar situations are still awaiting trial.
  6733. Judges Run Wild
    First Published: 2004
    The puffed-up arrogance of many family court judges is born of their unfettered control over our lives.
  6734. Judging workers for control and profit
    First Published: 2013
    The computer with its air of objectivity has come to dominate human beings. The usurping of human judgment pervades all of society, from healthcare and education to manufacturing and the judicial sphere. Human empathy and understanding have been replaced by automated thinking that mimics the computer. Reclaiming our own minds is a step towards human freedom.
  6735. Judicial Inquiry Demanded
    Into Uranium Mining in B.C.
    First Published: 1978
    A breif that calls for an immediate moratorium on uranium exploration and the establishment of a full public judicial inquiry to ensure a fair and thorough examination of all relevant questions. It also asks for public preliminary hearings in which public interest groups would be permitted to participate.
  6736. The Judicial Persecution of Steven Donziger 
    First Published: 2021
    in the U.S., a judge acts as prosecutor and jury on behalf of a giant oil company, Chevron, as it destroys the life and career of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger. His crime? Daring to win a judgment against Chevron in an Ecuadorian court. For those less enchanted with the U.S. justice system, this is no surprise.
  6737. Judicial Secrecy: Where Justice Goes to Die 
    First Published: 2019
    The trend of courts imposing gag orders and press bans on judicial proceedings is a hallmark of police states and a threat to freedom and justice.
  6738. Julian Assange: A Fight We Must Not Lose
    First Published: 2023
    The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press.
  6739. Julian Assange Show Trial Resumes: Why the U.S. Government Wants Him Silenced
    First Published: 2020
    Julian Assange has been held in isolation (23 hours per day) at Belmarsh high-security prison since he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on April 11, 2019.
  6740. Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive
    First Published: 2010
    The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head.
  6741. Julius Nyerere: Legacy and defeated dreams in Tanzania
    First Published: 2017
    Julius Nyerere is regarded as one of the greatest African political leaders. He was a visionary for African unity, socialist development and self-reliance in the aftermath of colonialism, and still commands great respect. Though much of his vision failed to materialise he leaves a legacy of ethnic and religious tolerance and peace in his East African country, Tanzania.
  6742. June Days: Paris 1848
    First Published: 2016
    The euphoria that set in after the revolution in February was short-lived among the workers in Paris.
  6743. The June Revolution
    First Published: 1848
    The defeated plebeians are tormented by hunger, abused by the press, forsaken by the physicians, called thieves, incendiaries and galley-slaves by the respectabilities; their wives and children are plunged into still greater misery and the best of those who have survived are sent overseas.
  6744. Jungk, Robert
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Austrian writer, journalists and peace activist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. (1913-1994).
  6745. The Jungle at 100
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    When it was first published as a book in 1906, The Jungle’s graphic revelations about the American meatpacking industry, combined with its compelling story of an immigrant worker’s brutal degradation, made it an immediate sensation.
  6746. Junk Economics and the Parasites of Global Finance
    First Published: 2016
    Justin Ritchie intervieww Michael Hudson about economics and global finance.
  6747. The Junk Food Economy
    First Published: 1992
    Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
  6748. Jura Federation
    Connexipedia Article
  6749. Jurassic Ballot
    First Published: 2010
    This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do their bidding.
  6750. Jurassic Park in France: The Return of the French Communist Party and the Melenchon Phenomenon
    An Interview with Yves Coleman
    First Published: 2012
    For the moment what preoccupies working class people in France is not so much the next elections but the euro crisis and the massive layoffs postponed by the bosses and the Right until after the elections.
  6751. Just a Matter of Gloves
    An account of a work stoppage over the issue of gloves being supplied in a factory.
  6752. Just because they hunt witches doesn't mean we have
    First Published: 2010
    The Big Brother defence of WikiLeaks is that if everyone had a camera upon them, society would be a better place. This is a view that fails to distinguish between the need to control those who possess power, and the need to prevent those who possess power from controlling us.
  6753. Just How Bad Is Yelp's Fake Review Problem?
    First Published: 2014
    You're probably aware of multiple controversial issues surrounding Yelp reviews. There are several to choose from. You have some businesses accusing the company of holding positive reviews hostage (with advertising being the ransom). You have a court ordering Yelp to turn over the identities of anonymous Yelp reviewers. You have people paying other people to write fake reviews, whether it's negative reviews for competitors or positive reviews for their own business.
  6754. Just How Gray Are the White Helmets of Syria?
    First Published: 2016
    While thousands of humanitarian organisations around the world are struggling fiercely with diminishing support from governments and the public, one has achieved a surprising amount of support from Western governments in a surprisingly short period of time and gained a surprising attention from mainstream media and ditto political elites: The Syrian Civil Defence or White Helmets.
  6755. Just Like You and Me
    Images of the downtown eastside, Vancouver
    First Published: 1975
    Photographic and poetic images of the people of the "skid row" area of Vancouver.
  6756. Just say no to Sharia law
    First Published: 2009
    Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism.
  6757. Just Society Movement
    Connexipedia article
    The Just Society Movement was founded in 1968 by two single mothers, who were fed up with a welfare system that did not serve their needs. Cleverly named to hold Trudeau's Liberals accountable to their self-proclaimed commitment to a "Just Society," the JSM movement relied on grassroots organizing and information campaigns to contest unjust laws and educate welfare recipients about their rights.
  6758. The Just Society Movement
    For the Poor by the Poor - A Model for Grassroots Activism
    First Published: 2017
    The Just Society Movement (1968 - 1972) was a short-lived but remarkably successful Toronto based grassroots social and political advocacy network run by and for Toronto’s poorest residents.
  6759. The Just Society Movement - Pour les pauvres par les pauvres – Un modèle d’activisme populaire
    "The Just Society Movement" (1969-1972) était un groupe activiste populaire de Toronto, qui malgré sa courte durée de vie a beaucoup accomplis en termes d’aide social.
  6760. Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands 
    A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
    First Published: 2013
    The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding.
  6761. Just Transition: Let Detroit Breathe!
    A talk by William Copeland
    First Published: 2018
    William Copeland presents the campaign, Let Detroit Breathe. The campaign's prinicipal aim is to help Detroiters win their right to breathe clean air.
  6762. Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
    First Published: 2017
    A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agreed with his post, and I made a long reply. Here, I incorporate what I said into a more coherent commentary.
  6763. A Just War? Hardly
    First Published: 2006
    Chomsky identifies the premises of "just war theory". He claims that in both the case of Kosovo and Afghanistan these were not adhered to, thus the foundation for "just war" was absent.
  6764. Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
    First Published: 2018
    The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.
  6765. Just winning next election not enough for Liberals or NDP
    First Published: 2013
    if there is a new government, it will come to power with the extreme right wing more entrenched than ever before.... Aggressive organizations are determined to maintain policies that tend to reward the rich and penalize the rest of us.
  6766. Justice Demands Action
    First Published: 1976
    A statement presented to the Prime Minister and Federal Cabinet by Canadian church leaders.
  6767. Justice denied: Latimer case exposes flaws in legal system
    First Published: 2007
    Robert Latimer believes it was his moral duty to save his daughter from a life of unbearable pain. Many Canadians agree with him.
  6768. Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
    First Published: 2018
    Deutsch examines the case of Dr. Hassan Diab - a sociology professor and Canadian citizen who was accused of bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue - and uses it to critique international and domestic justice systems.
  6769. Justice for Injured Workers
    The Struggle Continues
    First Published: 1995
    Published in Journal of Law and Social Policy 41 (1995)
  6770. Justice for Julian Assange is Justice for All
    First Published: 2021
    Following the final High Court hearing to decide whether or not Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States - for the 'crime' of revealing a landscape of government crimes and lies -- John Pilger looks back on the decade Assange has been fighting for his freedom, and the implications for independent journalists and the very notion of justice.
  6771. Justice for Southern Africa
    First Published: 1989
  6772. Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
    First Published: 2009
    A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
  6773. Justice Kennedy and the Myth of the Legal Neutrality
    First Published: 2018
    The enduring myth in America that law and politics are separate is put into question at the end of 2017 with 5-4 decisions upholding President Trump's travel ban, the striking down mandatory public sector union fees, and the resignation of Justice Kennedy.
  6774. Justice, Peace and the Israeli State
    Rule by Ruthless Force
    First Published: 2012
    International Law and the creation of a world body to aid in the direction of nation states to live in peace and justice under defined conditions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charters of the UN suggests that Israel must change, it must recognize that it is not the sole determiner of world events, that it has lifted its beliefs beyond those that exist elsewhere in the world and it must, therefore, reverse its direction to become one with its neighbors and all the nations of the UN.
  6775. Justice Proclaimed
    First Published: 1995
    The evolution of justice as the central concern for the Catholic church, and in particular, the Canadian Catholic church is an exciting story with a long history, a history defined by the realization that charity, while always and everywhere important for the Christian, is not the central concern of the gospel.
  6776. Justice Today: A Conference Outline
    First Published: 1980
  6777. Justification of the Correspondent from the Mosel
    First Published: 1843
    The press is obliged to reveal and denounce circumstances, but I am convinced that it should not denounce individuals, unless there is no other way of preventing a public evil or unless publicity already prevails throughout political life so that the German concept of denunciation no longer exists.
  6778. Justification pour des archives locales
    Ce document décrit la raison d’être de Connexions Archive & Library, un projet basé à Toronto qui voit à la préservation et au partage d’informations et documents en lien avec les mouvements populaires pour un changement social. Connexions possède sur le site www.connexions.org des archives physiques documentaires, ainsi qu’une vaste bibliothèque.
  6779. Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
    First Published: 2009
    Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
  6780. Kalahari Bushmen unite to end oppression
    First Published: 2013
    Representatives of the Basarwa or Bushman peoples of Botswana step up their fight to end structural oppression of their communities.
  6781. Kalliasseri: In search of Sumukan
    First Published: 2015
    The village that battled on all fronts, fighting the British, local landlords, and caste.
  6782. Kalliasseri: Still fighting at 50
    First Published: 2015
    When the God of the Hunters sheltered the communists in Kerala from the Raj.
  6783. Kamal, Meena Keshwar
    Connexipedia Article
    An Afghan women's rights activist, founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), a group organized to promote equality and education for women. (1956-1987).
  6784. A Kangaroo in Obama's Court
    Will the Guantánamo Tribunal Execute a Man We Tortured?
    First Published: 2013
    Can a tribunal born of an impatient contempt for due process prove itself a legitimate institution of American law? On trial by military commission at Guantánamo's courtroom.
  6785. Kansas Is Punishing a Teacher for Following Her Church's Guidance to Boycott Israel
    First Published: 2017
    As part of her employment with a state program in Kansas a woman was asked to sign a statement proclaiming she not boycott Israel, a clear violation of her first amendment rights says the American Civil Liberties Union.
  6786. Kara Smierci
    First Published: 1984
    Celowe, prawnie sankcjonowane odbieranie z.ycia ludzkiego, jest silnym emocjonalnym totemem, czynem, przez który symbolicznie uczestniczymy w zakazanym akcie zabijania. Nic dziwnego wie;c, z.e debata na temat kary s'mierci budzi tyle emocji, jest tak kategoryczna, uboga w analize; na temat tego, czy kara s'mierci w?as'ciwie ma jakis' sens.
  6787. Karen J. Kassirer: Artist, Friend and Comrade
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    Karen was my oldest and dearest friend. We were young women together in Detroit, working for the newspaper of the International Socialists beginning in the early ‘70s. She had moved to Detroit along with IS members from other cities, mostly on the West or East coasts, to help establish our political center and an infrastructure to support our factory and trade union activism.
  6788. Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
    Part 1: Before the War: The Bolsheviks Applaud Kautsky's Tactics
    First Published: 2019
    Lenin remained true to the tactical ideas of Karl Kautsky after the latter had abandoned them.
  6789. Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
    Part 2: 1917: The Bolsheviks Apply Kautsky’s Tactics
    First Published: 2019
    The Bolsheviks came into 1917 with two pieces of Kautsky advice firmly under their belts: enlist the peasantry as a revolutionary ally, and do not deviate from militant anti-agreementism.
  6790. Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler
    First Published: 1939
    What distinguished Kautsky from the general run of intellectuals who flocked to the labour movement as soon as it became more respectable and who were only too eager to foster the trend of class collaboration, was a greater love for theory, a love which refused to compare theory with actuality. Only as a theoretician could Kautsky remain a revolutionist; only too willingly he left the practical affairs of the movement to others. However, he fooled himself. In the role of a mere 'theoretician,' he ceased to be a revolutionary theoretician, or rather he could not become a revolutionist. As soon as the scene for a real battle between capitalism and socialism after the war had been laid, his theories collapsed because they had already been divorced in practice from the movement they were supposed to represent.
  6791. Karl Kautsky: From Pope to Renegade
    First Published: 2018
    Once recognized as "The Pope of Marxism" for his popularization and systematization of Marxist ideas, Kautsky fell into obscurity following the Russian Revolution. In recent revival of interest in his politics, in both academia and on the political left, raises questions about the meaning of Kautsky's orthodox Marxism and about what a renewed revolutionary left should adopt from it as their own.
  6792. Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism 
    First Published: 1962
    For Korsch, all the imperfections of Marx's revolutionary theory which, in retrospect, are explainable by the circumstances out of which it arose, do not alter the fact that Marxism remains superior to all other social theories even today, despite its apparent failure as a social movement. It is this failure which demands not the rejection of Marxism but a Marxian critique of Marxism, that is, the further proletarisation of the concept of social revolution. There was no doubt in Korsch's mind, that the period of counter-revolution is historically limited like everything else -- that the new social productive forces embodied in a socialist revolution would re-assert themselves and find a revolutionary theory adequate to their practical tasks.
  6793. Karl Marx and Religion
    First Published: 2005
    For Marx, to positively assert that God does not exist is childish. “Man makes religion, religion does not make man. ... The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.”
  6794. Karl Marx: Economist or Revolutionary?
    First Published: 1983
    Cleaver illustrates how, in the history of Marxist work on the theory of crisis, many have forgotten the revolutionary content of Marx’s own work and thus left themselves open to the dangers of capitalist appropriation. He suggests an alternative approach to the study and elaboration of Marx’s analysis of crisis that makes its political and revolutionary content explicit and thus more immune to appropriation.
  6795. Karl Marx in the 21st Century
    First Published: 2018
    Looking at how Marx's theories can explain today's global crisis.
  6796. Karl Marx: Revolutionary Heretic
    First Published: 2018
    A celebration of Marx as a thinker who constantly adapted his ideas and thinking.
  6797. Karl Marx and the War Against Slavery
    Black History and the Class Struggle
    First Published: 1990
    Alexander discusses Marx and Engels's views on the Civil War, the role of the First International in the struggle to overthrow black chattel slavery, and why the Marxist program of international working-class revolution is the key for black freedom and working-class emancipation.
  6798. Kashmir: A Brief Background
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    Kashmir was divided between India and the newly created Pakistani state in the chaotic division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947-48, with little reference to the wishes of Kashmir’s people. The larger part is occupied by India, with a volatile “Line of Control” separating it from the Pakistan-administered zone. The formal name of Indian-occupied Kashmir is Jammu and Kashmir; the Pakistan-controlled region is known as the Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) and Azad Kashmir. The territory’s largest city is Srinagar.
  6799. Kashmir: A Time for Freedom
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    “Freedom” represents many things across rural and urban spaces in India-ruled Kashmir. These divergent meanings are steadfastly united on one point: freedom always signifies an end to India’s authoritarian governance.
  6800. Kashmiris launch calendar to remember disappeared loves ones
    At least 8,000 people have disappeared since 1989 according to human rights groups, leaving relatives in no-man's land
    First Published: 2019
    Women whose husbands were disappeared have spent decades wondering what happened to them and fighting for justice. They and a group representing families of disappeared persons have published a calendar commemerating 12 victims.
  6801. Kashmiris outraged as authorities fell thousands of apple trees
    First Published: 2020
    India engages inethnic cleansing in Kashmir.
  6802. Katrina, Climate Justice and Fish Dinners: Social Justice Lawyer Colette Pichon Battle
    First Published: 2016
    Colette Pichon Battle gave up a great job working as a corporate immigration lawyer in Washington DC to live in a tent in front of her flooded family home 50 miles from downtown New Orleans. She is now a much honored director of a small but powerful non-profit climate justice human rights firm advocating all along the Gulf Coast. Why the big change in her life? Katrina, climate justice and fish dinners.
  6803. The Katrina Pain Index, 2013
    New Orleans Eight Years Later
    First Published: 2013
    Eight years after Katrina, New Orleans has lost about 86,000 people, and the city remains incredibly poor.
  6804. Kautsky, Karl
    Connexipedia Article
    German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
  6805. Kautsky, Karl
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
  6806. Kautsky, Karl - Writings - Index
    Writings of Karl Kautsky.
  6807. Kautsky, Lenin, and the transition to socialism
    First Published: 2019
    Counterposing Karl Kautsky's perspective of a "democratic road to socialism" as against a supposed Leninist "insurrectionary strategy" presents a false framework for the debate.
  6808. Kavita Krishnan: 'Women's Liberation, Everyone's Liberation'
    First Published: 2014
    Kavita Krishnan, a socialist organizer and a well-known international spokesperson for the movement against sexual violence in India, speaks on sexual violence, everyday sexism, protest, solidarity, and public space in India.
  6809. Keep It Down (and Rediscover Silence)
    First Published: 2002
  6810. Keep it in the Ground
    First Published: 2015
    A campaign by The Guardian newspaper to stop climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the ground, featuring a series of articles on different aspects of the issue across the world.
  6811. Keep it Real
    First Published: 2020
    A review of Diana Johnstone's book Circle in the Darkness: Memoirs of a World Watcher
  6812. Keep on truckin'
    First Published: 1971
    Mac Brockway analyes the machinations of unions in maintaining order in the workplace, with particular focus on a small dispute in the truck driving industry in New York.
  6813. Keep our front gardens green!
    First Published: 2015
    It's time to halt the loss of the nation's front gardens to dreary paving, writes Jenny Jones. Green gardens protect against floods, provide homes for wildlife, keep cities cool in summer, and help us all feel happier. Now, with 7 million gardens already paved over, we must protect those that remain.
  6814. Keep raising the issue of democracy
    First Published: 1989
    Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
  6815. Keep your mouths shut
    First Published: 2016
    The media coverage of union and Nuit Debout protests in France are evidence that publications and channels now serve only the wealthy and influencial.
  6816. Keeping Books Safe
    A Bad Law Threatens Our Past
    First Published: 2009
    Imagine a dystopian horror tale in which virtually all books from the past were destroyed...Books that did not meet the ideologies of the publishers, the demands of the mass market, the trends of the day would be destroyed...That incredible scenario is actually playing out in terms of children's books under a law meant to protect toddlers from lead contaminant in toys. Called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), the law was passed in August 2008 -- quickly, without scrutiny and nearly unanimously.
  6817. Keeping Current
    First Published: 2006
    With a blog, a piece in the Globe or an appearance on a cable show that only two percent of the population watches, you can get a bounce or multiplier effect. Mainstream networks and cable news shows are reading blogs on the air to viewers, thus giving them legs.
  6818. Keeping Independent Politics Alive
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    It's important for us on the left at least to salute the most courageous candidacy of 2008: Cynthia McKinney (former Georgia congresswoman) and Rosa Clemente (Puerto Rican hip-hop cultural activist), the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Green Party.
  6819. Keeping It In The Human Family
    First Published: 2015
    What socialists set out to prove is that not only has "human nature" changed many times in the past but that there is no such thing as a static human nature. We are products of our environment, particularly of the economic system in which we live.
  6820. Keeping the Record Straight: About Noam Chomsky's Trip to the Middle East in May 2010
    First Published: 2010
  6821. Keeping the Rich Invisible: How Census Bureau Hides the Super-rich
    First Published: 1998
    Of late much media attention has been given to the CEOs who rake in tens of millions of dollars annually in salaries and perks. But little is said about the tens of billions that these same corporations distribute to their affluent shareholders each year.
  6822. Keeping us in the dark
    First Published: 2014
    The TIPP negotiations are being conducted almost in secret, with governments and the European Parliament deliberately denied essential information. However, business lobbyists can access all areas, and do.
  6823. Keller, Helen
    Connexipedia Article
    American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).
  6824. Keller's Hatchet Job
    The NYT vs. Assange
    First Published: 2011
    For evidence of the sorry state of honesty and integrity in American public life, one need go no further than the New New York Times.
  6825. Kelly, Petra
    Connexipedia Article
    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  6826. Kelly, Petra
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  6827. Ken Saro-Wiwa's Antiwar Masterpiece
    First Published: 1996
    Saro-Wiwa reflects the chaos and lawlessness of the war by introducing the chaos and lawlessness of the language. Of course it only appears to be chaotic. But it creates an idiomatic rhythm that both functions to provide comic relief and the power of a distinctive voice.
  6828. Kengir uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    A prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954.
  6829. Kent State shootings
    Connexipedia Article
    The shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970.
  6830. Kenyans Forced Off Tea Highlands By British Colonialists Seek Justice
    First Published: 2017
    Kericho -- One of hundreds of elderly Kenyans seeking to sue the British government for alleged displacement and torture by its colonial predecessor in 1934 to plant tea on their family land, in a case that could encourage other former colonies to press similar claims.
  6831. Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
    First Published: 2018
    Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
  6832. Kenya's Opposition Party
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    That the elections in Kenya were rigged is no longer in question. And for most people that the culprit is the sitting president, sworn in so quickly that the ceremony has been jokingly likened to a lightning wedding, is no longer a question.
  6833. Kerista
    Connexipedia Article
    A religion founded in 1956 by John Peltz "Bro Jud" Presmont. Throughout much of its history, Kerista was centered on the ideals of polyfidelity (called "responsible non-monogamy") and creation of intentional communities.
  6834. Kerry's Propaganda War on Russia's RT
    When specialists insist that war with Russia is "not unthinkable" precipitated by events in Ukraine, one should take note
    First Published: 2014
    Secretary of State Kerry, who has bumbled through a string of propaganda fiascos on Ukraine, decries Russia's RT network as a "propaganda bullhorn" that Americans should ignore - just trust what the U.S. government tells you, an idea that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern rejects.
  6835. Key evidence in EU's risk assessment of glyphosate must not remain 'trade secret'
    First Published: 2016
    The chemical industry and the European Food Safety Authority are refusing to disclose key scientific evidence about glyphosate's risks, citing 'trade secrets' protection, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. They must be compelled to publish the 'mysterious three' scientific studies EFSA used to assess glyphosate as 'unlikely' to cause cancer to humans - contradicting the IARC's view.
  6836. Key findings: The Panama Papers by the numbers
    First Published: 2016
    The largest cross-border journalism collaboration ever has uncovered a giant leak of documents from Mossack Fonseca, a global law firm based in Panama.
  6837. Key ideas for community organising
    Some very broad basic ideas for getting started at organising in your local area
    First Published: 2006
    Look around your local area and determine what issues it faces. Talk to your neighbours, what issues do they think are important regarding the area. Determine what kinds of projects you can develop or direct action you can take that meet the area's needs or address the community's issues. Find out if others are already working on the problems in their area and if they've been effective and what you can learn from them. Determine what kinds of resources you have available and who in your area might be useful allies in accomplishing your goals.
  6838. The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
    First Published: 2009
    There's just one pathway to happiness in which this deep, human need for power is given pride of place: democracy. By this I mean democracy as a living practice that enables us to have a real say in every dimension of our public lives, from school to workplace and beyond.
  6839. Key to the Leap: Leave the oil in the soil
    Movement Building
    First Published: 2016
    Ian Angus and John Riddell argue that using the Leap Manifesto as the basis for building a new socialist movement in Canada must include confronting the climate crisis and the power of Big Oil.
  6840. Keys, comb and a plant: Palestinians tell of their past through cherished belongings
    First Published: 2015
    The first national museum for the geographically dispersed and exiled Palestinian people is taking shape, not only physically but conceptually. The goal is "to connect the Palestinians and present different narratives to the world of who we are, where we come from and what we aspire." Since the Israeli occupation authorities prevent many Palestinians from travelling to their homeland, the Palestinian Museum seeks to become the hub connecting a network of institutions in Jordan, Beirut, Gaza, Haifa and elsewhere.
  6841. Keystone Cops
    TransCanada Cultivates Close Ties With Nebraska Police Agencies
    First Published: 2014
    Since August 2011, the Nebraska Information Analysis Center (NIAC) – one of more than 70 Department of Homeland Security “fusion centers” – and TransCanada Corporation, the company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline, have shared information about anti-pipeline protesters, Nebraska landowners, and opposition to the project.
  6842. Keystone and Humanity's Fate
    First Published: 2013
    With the desicion looming for the Keystone XL pipeline, what's really at stake for climate change, for human civilization, and for the environmental movement that's fighting to save the future? That tar sands development may determine "game over for the climate, in the phrase of NASA scientist and climate researcher James Hansen, is illustrated by data provided by environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben.
  6843. Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists
    Green Scare Continues
    First Published: 2013
    TransCanada has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska, labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for “terrorism” charges and other serious criminal charges.
  6844. Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program 
    First Published: 2015
    The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
  6845. Kicked a Cadillac (Dented a Daimler)
    Poem.
  6846. Kicking Ass for the Working Class
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    There it was, staring at me from the AFL-CIO’s very own blog: a black sign with bold red letters saying “KICKING ASS FOR THE WORKING CLASS,” signed AFL-CIO. Surely they meant to say “working for,” or in SEIU-speak “uniting” “working families” or “working people” or some other euphemisms for struggle and class. Had the decline and split of organized labor pushed our otherwise moderate business union leaders to new extremes?
  6847. Kidd, Bruce
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    A Canadian academic, author, and athlete.
  6848. Kidnapper Trump as Symptom
    First Published: 2018
    The current plight of asylum seekers in the United States and the traumatic separation of children from parents at the southern U.S. border, is the most recent American policy that is racially motivated.
  6849. The Kidnapping Of Haiti
    First Published: 2010
    Not for tourists is the US building its fifth-biggest embassy. Oil was found in Haiti's waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington's "rollback" plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela's abundant petroleum reserves, and sabotage of the growing regional co-operation.
  6850. Kidron, Michael - Writings - Index
    Writings of Michael Kidron (1930-2003).
  6851. The Kids Are All Right: They're Fighting the Corporations
    First Published: 2001
    If the anti-sweatshop movement gains confidence in saying that its goal is revolution to shape the world with the anti-capitalist values of equality, democracy, and solidarity; and if it spreads an understanding that these values are shared by most men and women, football fans and soccer fans, suburban, rural, and urban working people all over the world, then the movement can be unstoppable.
  6852. Kiel Naval Mutiny (Wilhelmshaven mutiny)
    Connexipedia Article
    A major mutiny by sailors of the German High Seas Fleet in October 1918.
  6853. Kill a Black Kid and Get Rich
    An American Disgrace
    First Published: 2014
    This is America folks. Where you can kill a black kid and justified or not (NOT!) you will then become a millionaire through interviews and book deals and film rights. This is your capitalist system at work. No laws that make this illegal. A cop can actually kill someone on purpose if he wants, because cops get away with almost anything, with the knowledge that they can then quit their awful jobs and become rich.
  6854. The "Kill a Leftist" Law
    First Published: 2021
    So now it’ll be legal in some Neolithic U.S. states to run over leftists with your car.
  6855. The Kill Chain
    The lethal bureaucracy behind Obama's drone war
    First Published: 2015
    Secret military documents offer documentary evidence of the process by which the Obama administration creates and acts on its kill lists in Yemen and Somalia.
  6856. Killer Coke Exposed
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    In their September-October 2006 Against the Current (ATC 124) article “The Real Life Side of Coke,” Camilo Romero and Leslie Gill documented the growing movement of students and labor organizations that developed as a response to calls for international solidarity by victims of torture and intimidation at Coke bottling plants in Colombia starting in the 1990s. Joe Zacune wrote in the same issue about a movement of communities in India fighting to preserve their water and their health from a series of infractions on Coke’s part.
  6857. A Killer Dies, a Teacher Lives: George H.W. Bush v. Noam Chomsky
    First Published: 2018
    The obsequious praise of the life and legacy of the now deceased mad-dog killer George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) contradict the reality of his actions during his life and presidency.
  6858. Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
    First Published: 2016
    Those responsible for this policing crisis are none other than the police unions that are helping police officers evade accountability for wrongdoing; the police academies that are teaching police officers that their lives are more valuable than the lives of those they serve; a corporate military sector that is making a killing by selling military-grade weapons, equipment, technology and tactical training to domestic police agencies; a political establishment that is dependent on campaign support and funding from the powerful police unions; and a police state that is transforming police officers into extensions of the military in order to extend its reach and power.
  6859. Killing America's Kids 
    First Published: 2009
    Why is the Secretary of Defense so angry at having the war photographed? Easy: Spin control. Spin is so very important in war these days. While America is only barely a democracy, still, if the public, the great sleeping, acquiescent, ignorant beast, ever gets really upset, the war ends. The Pentagon is acutely aware of this.
  6860. Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
    First Published: 2018
    The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.
  6861. Killing Civilians to Protect Civilians
    The Warped Logic of the Syrian Bombing Mission
    First Published: 2013
    The Obama administration will reportedly launch a military strike which would invariably kill civilians for the purpose of showing the Syrian government that killing civilians is wrong
  6862. Killing Corbyn
    First Published: 2016
    The 'Brexit' referendum vote, split 52% to 48% in favour of leaving the European Union, has been exploited by the 'mainstream' media to launch yet another assault on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  6863. Killing for Credibility: A Look Back at the 1999 NATO Air War on Serbia
    First Published: 2019
    A detailed look back at NATO's 1999 war on Yugoslavia.
  6864. "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
    First Published: 2018
    Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
  6865. Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
    First Published: 2009
    While it is often the case that the majority of Americans do see the light "about the need for healthcare reform, a new energy policy or affordable, high-quality day care." The dominant journalistic practices, especially in broadcast and cable news, dim the light in favor of noise. Far-right Republicans understand, almost instinctively, this preference for noise. And they appreciate "and know how to cultivate" the greatest bias in electronic journalism right now: the laziness bias. The laziness bias means you feature sensation over substance, provocative sound bites over investigative reporting, misinformation over fact.
  6866. Killing Mosquitoes: The Latest Gaza Massacres, Pro-Israel Media Bias And The Weapon Of 'Antisemitism'
    First Published: 2018
    The most recent brutality against Palestinians, and brazenness with which the killings were carried out, is yet another demonstration of the Israeli contempt for the people it tried to ethnically cleanse in 1948.
  6867. The Killing of History 
    First Published: 2017
    Pilger examines Ken Burns' documentary about the Vietnam War and the ongoing revisionist history it presents, as well as the acquiescence of the American 'left' in the era of Trump.
  6868. The Killing and Raping Game in Kenya and the Despots Who Run It
    First Published: 2020
    Politics in Kenya is dominated by rapacious elites consumed with the looting of state resources, using violence to avoid any possible accountability. Elections serve as key points of entry and consolidation in this system for both ruling and competing elites, and are manifestations of corruption, fraud, and repression.
  6869. Killing 'Schizophrenics': Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry
    First Published: 2017
    In the United States in the earlier part of the twentieth century, there was widespread compulsory sterilization of those diagnosed with serious mental illness; and from the 1970s through the early 1990s, dehumanizing experiments that ignored the Nuremberg Code of research ethics were administered on this population by prominent American psychiatrists.
  6870. Killing Trend - The Cruise Missile Liberals
    First Published: 2014
    News that 2015 might turn out to be the first year since 1914 when British troops will not be fighting a war somewhere in the world appeared to come as a shock to many.
  6871. The Killings Fields of Gaza
    Asymmetric Warfare
    First Published: 2013
    Revelations from Israeli sources such as ‘Breaking the Silence’ and ‘Physicians for Human Rights-Israel’ that the Israeli assaults on Gaza in 2008/9 (Cast Lead) and 2012 (Pillars of Defence) were planned many months ahead pose many questions about the real motives for the seven year siege and these massive attacks on a helpless concentration of impoverished and imprisoned people.
  6872. Kim Jin-suk, the Welder Who Helped Bring Democracy to South Korea
  6873. "A kind of super-stress": The Experiences of a Temporary Agency Worker in Montreal
    First Published: 2014
    Immigrant's experiences reflect the difficulties faced by temporary agency workers in Montreal.
  6874. Kinder Morgan's $136 million pipeline 'war chest' to be paid by Canadians
    First Published: 2014
    In what an economist calls an "unfair" decision, the National Energy Board has allowed Kinder Morgan to build a $136 million 'war chest' to fund its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion application through shipping surcharges. The charge, called a "firm service fee", allows Texas-based pipeline company Kinder Morgan to offload the cost of the pipeline application to Canadian shippers.
  6875. King, Martin Luther Jr.
    Connexipedia Article
    (1929-1968). Was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
  6876. Kinsey, Alfred
    Connexipedia Article
    American biologist and sexologist. (1894-1956).
  6877. KIO-Evolution of a Journal
    First Published: 1991
    The current Kick It Over editors reprint an article written two years prior for readers interested in knowing how the original editors were motivated to start Kick It Over.
  6878. Kitchener-Waterloo Free Press
    First Published: 1974
    An account of an attempt to start a weekly alternative newspaper in Kitchener-Waterloo in 1973-1974.
  6879. Ki-Zerbo, Joseph
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Scholar, activist, and advocate for endogenous development. (1922-2006).
  6880. The KKK and Other Grassroots Movements
    Venezuela isn't as divided as its right-wing opposition would have you believe
    First Published: 2014
    A sign of a real revolution is its knack for conjuring a counter-revolution. To the extent that the Bolivarian Revolution has problems, the solution to them won’t come from chats with those looking to overthrow it, but rather the organization of workers trying to fulfill its potential. There can be no neutral ground between those two positions.
  6881. Klein vs. Klein
    First Published: 2015
    This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once. But a real climate-justice movement will at some point have to make choices.
  6882. Klein, Bonnie Sherr
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Filmmaker, author, disability rights activist. (Born 1941).
  6883. #KMFace photos mock Kinder Morgan claim that facial expressions are a form of "assault"
    First Published: 2014
    Anti-pipeline protestors took to social media to post their best #KMFace, following Kinder Morgan's court case against residents this week, where the company's lawyer stated that the protestors' angry snarls are "not just intimidation," but "actually assault."
  6884. Knabb, Ken
    Connexipedia Article
    American writer, translator, and radical theorist. (Born 1945).
  6885. Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
    First Published: 2009
    The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
  6886. Knights of Labor
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    The major labour reform organization of the late 19th century in the United States.
  6887. Know Thy Enemy
    First Published: 1976
    A poem.
  6888. Know Your Rights!
    First Published: 2011
    Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast amounts of personal information about you and your family. This is sensitive data that's worth protecting from prying eyes - including those of the government.
  6889. Know-Nothings of 2010
    The New War of the Christian Crusaders
    First Published: 2010
    Over the last four centuries, Quakers, Mormons, Catholics, Jews and many others have been targets of religious persecution, often the victims of imprisonments, hangings, lynchings and other acts of violence.
  6890. Koch Brothers View Universities As Propaganda Machines
    First Published: 2016
    New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer’s new book, "Dark Money," includes details that bolster concerns publicized by UnKoch My Campus, and students and professors across the USA who have blown the whistle on Charles Koch’s co-optation of higher education programs. Universities are the spine of Charles Koch's lobbying model, which after four decades of finance has grown into an integrated network of professors, public relations agents, lobbyists, pundits, and politicians. Koch foundations started investing in campuses at an exponential pace, starting with just seven campuses in 2005.
  6891. The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity
    More Tentacles Surface at Rightwing Front Group
    First Published: 2010
    Tracking to funding of extremist right-wing groups.
  6892. Koch Entertained Justice Thomas At His Private Club
    Supreme Court Scandal Widens
    First Published: 2011
  6893. Koch Political Machine Focuses on "Freedom" to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes
    First Published: 2015
    Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that "we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back."
  6894. The Koch Whisperers
    Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media
    First Published: 2011
    A review of documents and tax records for the dizzying, interconnected web of corporate front groups, frequently created, supported and influenced by Charles or David Koch, shows just how dangerous these groups espousing free markets and liberty have become to a free society. The game plan is to devalue the rights of actual citizens by seeking human voices dangling from a corporate marionette string, that might be willing for the right amount of cash incentive to broadcast the Orwellian reverse-speak: liberty means more liberty for corporations (corporate serfdom for real citizens); freedom means corporate freedom to privatize national resources, pollute the environment and fleece the consumer with impunity; free market means the freedom to draw a dark curtain around how the corporations are actually screwing us and stealing our liberty.
  6895. Kohr, Leopold
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Advocate of human scale, economist, jurist and political scientist. (1909-1994).
  6896. Kolko, Gabriel
    Connexipedia Article
    An American revisionist historian and author. (Born 1932).
  6897. Kollontai, Alexandra
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Russian Communist revolutionary. (1872-1952)
  6898. Kollontai, Alexandra - Writings - Index
    Writings of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952).
  6899. Kathe Kollwitz
    First Published: 2017
    The life of the German socialist artist Kathe Kollwitz.
  6900. Komiks from the Underground: the Radicalism of Gilbert Shelton
    First Published: 2019
    A review and history of "Radical America Komiks," a reprint collection of underground comics from 1969.
  6901. Kommune Niederkaufungen
    Connexipedia Article
    One of the largest intentional communities in Germany.
  6902. Konsensprinzip
    Connexipedia
    Das Wort „Konsens“ beschreibt oft sowohl die allgemeine Übereinkunft an sich, als auch den Prozess, der zu dieser Übereinkunft führt.
  6903. Kontaminiert: Das giftige Erbe der Kürzungen in Ontario's Umweltpolitik
    Ein Artikel über Katastrophe für die Umwelt in Kanada.
    First Published: 2000
  6904. Korea: The Elections and Sexual Violence
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    In the April 13 South Korean parliamentary elections, the closest the Democratic Labor Party came to victory was in the Hyundai company town of Ulsan. Their candidate was defeated by a small margin (43% to 41.8%) by the Grand National Party, the traditional party of the military dictatorship, anticommunism, and Kyongsang chauvinism (Ulsan is in South Kyongsang Province). The combination of money, regionalism and boss politics still exerts influence in the working class.
  6905. Korea: What the Generals Aren't Telling You
    First Published: 2018
    Hamilton points out that the 24 nuclear power stations in South Korea represent high risk targets in a retaliatory attack from North Korea.
  6906. Korean Labor: Protest by Suicide
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    In January 2003, Dalho Bae, a 47-year-old worker at Doosan Heavy Industry Co., committed suicide by burning himself. On October 17 Juik Kim, the chief of the metal labor union branch at Hanjin Heavy Industry Co., a ship-constructor, committed suicide after a 129 day-siege on the jeep-crane.
  6907. The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008
    First Published: 2008
  6908. Korea's New Revolutionaries
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    Against the background of a rising militant working-class movement, revolutionary socialists in South Korea are undergoing a process of regroupment. An important force in this development are comrades of the Power of the Working Class (PWC) organization, formed in August of last year.
  6909. Korsch, Karl
    Connexipedia Article
    German Marxist theorist. (1886-1961).
  6910. Korsch, Karl
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    German Marxist theorist. (1886-1961).
  6911. Korsch, Karl - Writings - Index
    Writings of Karl Korsch (1886-1961).
  6912. Kosovo Peace Accord
    First Published: 1999
    In response to the Peace Accord achieved between Serbia and NATO, Chomsky questions how peace could be declared or radical change expected considering the lack of institutional or structural adjustment in the region.
  6913. Kosovo: Where NATO Bombing Only Made the Killing Worse
    The Big Lie: From Serbia to Syria
    First Published: 2013
    The NATO powers brandished the charge of genocide as justification for the bombing that destroyed much of Serbia’s economy and killed around 2,000 civilians, with elevated death levels predicted for years to come.
  6914. Edmond Kovacs, 1924-2010
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    I first met Edmond Kovacs in the fall of 1961. I was then 19 and he 37. He was teaching a class for the Los Angeles chapter of the Young Socialist Alliance, the youth group of the Socialist Workers Party. He was the SWP’s Southern California Chairman, introduced under his party name, Theodore Edwards. Most of us in those days had nommes de guerre, fake names that we rather optimistically hoped the FBI wouldn’t figure out. It was only years later that I got in the habit of calling him Edmond.
  6915. Kovel, Joel
    Connexipedia Article
    American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist. (1936 - 2018).
  6916. A közérdek mellozésre kerül
    First Published: 2000
  6917. Kronstadt 1921: Trotsky's Defense. Response to Trotsky
    First Published: 1938
    It is in fact in the domain of repression that the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party committed, from the very beginning of the revolution, the gravest errors, those which were to most dangerously contribute to on one hand to the bureaucratization of the party and the state, and on the other to disarming the masses and, more particularly, the revolutionaries. It is about time that we realized this.
  6918. Kronstadt Again
    First Published: 1939
    Serge charges that, after the rebels had been disarmed, there was a general massacre of prisoners. And that such as were not shot down on the spot were executed in batches by the Cheka, after secret trials, for some weeks after the uprising had been completely crushed.
  6919. Kronstadt rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    An uprising of Soviet sailors, soldiers and civilians against the Bolshevik government in 1921.
  6920. Kropokin on Mutual Aid - Review
    First Published: 1956
  6921. Kropotkin, Peter
    Connexipedia Article
    Geographer, zoologist, and anarchist. (1842-1921).
  6922. Kropotkin Was No Crackpot
    First Published: 1997
  6923. Kruhonja, Katarina
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Croatian peace activist. (Born 1962).
  6924. Kryzys w Iraku - podsumowanie
    First Published: 2003
  6925. Kunduz Killers Go Free
    First Published: 2016
    On the night of October 3, 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship repeatedly attacked a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Forty-two people were killed and dozens wounded. The US military plane conducted five strafing runs over the course of more than an hour despite MSF pleas to Afghan, US and Nato officials to call off the attack.
  6926. Kunstler, William
    Connexipedia Article
    American radical lawyer and civil rights activist. (1919-1995).
  6927. The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
    Against the Current vol. 192
    First Published: 2018
    In discussion of right of self-determination for the between 28 and 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, the author considers the current polticial landscape.
  6928. Kurdish refugees
    First Published: 1992
  6929. The Kurdish struggle - An interview with Dilar Dirik
    First Published: 2017
    Dilar Dirik interviewed by George Souvlis.
  6930. Kurdish women speak out for freedom
  6931. Kurt Vonnegut and the American Police State
    Just Say "Hi-Ho!" as They Strip Search You
    First Published: 2012
    The country seems to have crossed over a dark threshold. We are now a police state in all but name. Cops and wannabe cops are shooting innocent people and nothing gets done.
  6932. Kuruma, Samezo
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Japanese Marxist economist. (1893-1982).
  6933. The KXL's Big Fail
    An Empty Victory
    First Published: 2014
    The Keystone XL bill failed to pass Congress. The Big Fail marks a huge success for groups who have been struggling to expose the KXL for the dirty policy it represents. The actions taken on the day of the vote, including disrupting the Senate vote in the chamber and blocking Senators Bennet (D-Col.) and Carper (D-Del.) from leaving their offices, speak to the dedication and tirelessness of the movement to stop the pipeline.
  6934. Kyrgyzstan After Akayev
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    Kyrgyzstan’s March 2005 “Tulip Revolution,” if something less than really a revolution, resulted in its president, Askar Akayev, fleeing the country. Once hailed as the most democratic leader in the region, Akayev was overthrown by spontaneous demonstrations of a population angered by corruption, nepotism, economic despair and demoralization.
  6935. Kyrgyzstan's dubious success
    First Published: 1995
    In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
  6936. La Moralidad en un Mundo Inmoral
    First Published: 2020
  6937. LA Sweatshops: Common Threads In Struggle
    First Published: 1998
    Seeing how power is exercised by those who have it in this society opens one's eyes to the profound need for power on our side. You recognize the need to build organizational strength and resources. You come to see the need to inflict damage in order to budge those who hold the power. You realize that their ruthlessness knows no bounds. You learn that soft, liberal notions of hoping you can sit down and work it out in a civilized manner are out of this world.
  6938. LA Teachers Face the Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    Interview with UTLA activist. Against the Current interviewed a longtime activist and current leader in the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) about the impact of California’s devastating budget crisis on public services and on education in particular.
  6939. LA Theses
    First Published: 2015
    Notes on class struggles, conflicts and unification.
  6940. Labour
    First Published: 1978
  6941. The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative in their politics than lower paid workers. They point to the example of mostly white New York City construction workers ("hardhats") attacking antiwar demonstrators in the Spring of 1970; and contrast them with the militancy and progressive politics of some of the recent "Justice for Janitors" campaigns.
  6942. Labor at War or in the Tank?
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    Steve Early is one of a small handful of extraordinarily keen-eyed observers who see things from within the shrinking world of U.S. organized labor — and who hold nothing back from readers.
  6943. Labor in the Age of Climate Change 
    First Published: 2016
    Climate change must be stopped. But who will do the stopping? Who, in other words, could be the political subject of an anticapitalist climate revolution? Stefania Barca argues that this social agent could be, and indeed must be, the global working class. Yet to play this role, the working class must develop an emancipatory ecological class consciousness.
  6944. Labor Law Won't Save Us
    First Published: 2015
    The strike is still labour's strongest weapon.
  6945. Labour Militancy in Canada
    A History of the Right to Strike
    First Published: 2023
    Bill 28, the Keeping students in Class Act, 2022, had its first reading in the Ontario Legislature on October 31, 2022. The name was a distraction from the Act's actual wording and intention, which were less about keeping students in class and more about removing education workers' right to strike.
  6946. Labour movement
    Connexipedia Article
    The term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour relations.
  6947. The Labour Movement and Socialism
    First Published: 1908
    Unions and political organizations each have their role in the struggle against capitalism.
  6948. Labor on the Ropes
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    In U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition, Kim Moody focuses on why the organized labor movement went into decline and points to potential signs of revival. The author’s explanation begins with the worsening economic situation in the 1970s and a harsher anti-union climate, both politically and in the workplace, as “business refined its ability to act as a class.”
  6949. Labor Organizing Across Israel's Apartheid Line: An Interview with Israeli Labor Activist Yoav Tamir
    First Published: 2016
    Yoav Tamir is an organizer with the new Israeli labour union, Workers Advice Center, or WAC-MANN. WAC-MAAN was founded in the late 1990s as (as its name might suggest) a workers' advice center, and began organizing unions and negotiating contracts in 2010. A product of both deepening austerity within Israel as well as the wave of uprisings in the Arab world in 2011, WAC-MAAN organizes both across the racial line and across the Green Line, doing what no other labor organization in Israel or Palestine's history has done: create a multi-ethnic, bi-national workers' movement.
  6950. The Labor Party in the Big Picture
    First Published: 1999
    THE LABOR PARTY convention was inspiring. At the Detroit chapter's report-back meeting, locked-out newspaper workers talked about how good it felt to be in a convention hall where everyone would support you, "unlike the Democrats and Republicans."
    Authorizing the possibility of electoral campaigns means that, in the places where those happen, we have the potential to attract a whole different layer of members.
  6951. Labor Politics in Action, 1901-1911: The Union Labor Party of San Francisco
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    In 1900 San Francisco had an organized labor movement that reflected the unique development of this metropolis of the West. San Francisco did not experience the slow and steady growth of Chicago and other cities of the plains, but became a city overnight in 1850 when thousands of gold seekers poured in from the East and every part of Europe, and beyond.
  6952. Labor Scores at Verizon
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    On August 6 87,000 members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) struck Verizon Communications in twelve states from Maine to Virginia, and the District of Columbia. At the heart of the strike was the unions' attempt to maintain wall to wall unionization in an industry which is rapidly changing, to strengthen job security for workers in the wake of a national merger, and to fight the spread of lean production. The three-year contract we won represents a major victory on all of these issues.
  6953. Labour Spies
    Connexipedia Article
    Labor spies are persons recruited or employed for the purpose of gathering intelligence, committing sabotage, sowing dissent, or engaging in other similar activities, typically within the context of an employer/labor organization relationship. Labor spying is most typically used by companies or their agents, and such activity often complements union busting.
  6954. Labor Studies Under Siege
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    More than a decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, leftists are now more likely to be targeted by the right wing as "terrorists" than as "communists"—yet redbaiting is alive and well in the field of Labor Studies. In recent years, university labor programs have been attacked in the press for their teaching and research, and been targeted by university administrators for drastic budget reductions or elimination.
  6955. Labor's Bitter Defeat in Detroit, Book Review
    First Published: 2013
    Review of The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor by Chris Rhomberg.
  6956. Labour's Day of Protest -- The Issues and the Press
    First Published: 1976
    An issue sheet examining the biases of the Canadian Press in its coverage of the Oct 14th national Day of Protest against wage and price control policies.
  6957. Labor's Disaster at American Axle
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    The 87-day strike earlier this year at American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) ended in a rout that has devastating implications for the organized U.S. labor movement. Begun on a snowy morning early February 26, the strike ended on May 22, a late spring day just before the Memorial Day weekend.
  6958. Labor's Last Stand
    Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal
    First Published: 2018
    The slow degradation of workers' rights through the use of the courts has led to a weakening of negotiated power of unions and the retreat of organized labour.
  6959. Labour's lost leader
    The legacy of Tony Benn
    First Published: 2014
    From an interview to Tony Benn - sometime in the mid-1990s - his point of view about how broad and profound was the defeat of both trade unionism and the democratic socialist left over the previous decade.
  6960. Labor's Schoolhouse
    Lessons from the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
    First Published: 2017
    The author recounts the Paterson Silk Strike, a 1913 labour dispute organized by mill workers and noted for its large size, duration, and non-violence. Central to the dispute was the requirement by overworked weavers to start running four large looms instead of two, an appropriation of technolgy for the bottom line which has particular relevance for us today.
  6961. Labrador: Land Claims Run Aground
    Atlantic Issues, Vol. 3, No. 1
    First Published: 1978
    The Indians of Labrador have been pressing land claims as have Native people in other parts of Canada.
  6962. Labriola, Antonio
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Italian philosopher and socialist, 1843-1904.
  6963. Lack of regulation behind West Virginia water disaster
    First Published: 2014
    A chemical spill at the Etowah River Terminal, near Charleston, West Virginia, resulted in nearly 300,000 people in the state losing access to drinkable water. Since then, several reports have been released detailing the decades-long lack of regulation by state or federal agencies of the site responsible.
  6964. Lafargue, Paul
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist. (1842-1911).
  6965. Lafargue, Paul - Writings - Index
    Writings of Paul Lafargue (1841-1911).
  6966. Laing, R. D.
    Connexipedia Article
    Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness. (1927-1989).
  6967. Lakota vow: dead or in prison before we allow the KXL pipeline
    First Published: 2014
    On February 2,7 2014 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists joined in a four-directions walk to commemorate Liberation Day, an event to mark the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. As they do each year, four groups gather to the north, south, east and west and then walk eight miles until converging on top of Wounded Knee, where they honour the fallen warriors and the tribe’s rich history of resistance.
  6968. Lambert leaves CPA
    First Published: 1992
  6969. Lancet: an Open Letter for the People of Gaza
    The Massacre Must Stop
    First Published: 2014
    A public letter from doctors and scientists to stop the massacre.
  6970. Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe
    First Published: 2015
    The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds -- at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
  6971. Land Conflict and Injustice
    Development in 'New India'
    First Published: 2014
    On agrarian crisis and the commercialization of the countryside in India.
  6972. Land Day 2017: Israel's relentless land grab continues
    First Published: 2017
    As Israel resumes its settlement expansion with impunity, Palestinians have plenty to protest at this year's Land Day.
  6973. 'Land Grabbing': exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communities
    Film review
    First Published: 2016
    Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces. The documentary 'Land Grabbing' investigates what happens when well-financed agro-investors take over rural communities' land and water.
  6974. The land is whose land? The Housing squeeze
    First Published: 1982
  6975. Land of Impunity
    First Published: 2010
    If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there's no justice in Britain.
  6976. The Land of Milk and Honey - The National Report of the People's Food Commission
    First Published: 1980
  6977. Land of the Free? Harvard Study Ranks America Worst in the West for Fair Elections
    First Published: 2016
    According to the EIP, U.S. elections scored lower than Argentina, South Africa, Tunisia, and Rwanda -- and strikingly lower than even Brazil. Specifically compared to Western democracies, U.S. elections scored the lowest, slightly worse than the U.K., while Denmark and Finland topped the list.
  6978. Land and Racism
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, and its exclusionary land policies.
  6979. Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization
    First Published: 2015
    Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing millions of small cultivators and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties.
  6980. Land Study Committee Report
    First Published: 1978
  6981. Land Study Kit
    First Published: 1988
  6982. Land Tenure Problems and the Saskatchewan Land Bank
    First Published: 1979
    This brief, presented to the People's Food Commission in Langenberg, Sask. examines the food issue from the perspective of the high cost of farm land.
  6983. Land trust
    Connexipedia Article
    There are two distinct definitions of a land trust: 1) a private, nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, or by its stewardship of such land or easements Land Trust Alliance website, and 2) an agreement whereby one party (the trustee) agrees to hold ownership of a piece of real property for the benefit of another party (the beneficiary.
  6984. Land Trusts: Land Held in Common
    First Published: 1994
    With land trusts, we can ensure that the land is used the way we believe it should be used (or not used at all). With land trusts, we can ensure that human beings left behind in the race for corporate profits have a roof over their heads that no bureacrat or business interests can take away from them.
  6985. Land Use
    First Published: 1976
    Critical examination of social concers in a way designed to strengthen discussion and action.
  6986. Land Use and Occupancy
    First Published: 1977
    This news release makes reference to an Inuit Tapirisat-commissioned report on Inuit land use and occupancy in the Northwest Territories.
  6987. Land Use or Land Abuse?
    First Published: 1977
    This Study Action Kit has been compiled to help the interested Canadians learn the facts about the nature, scope and urgency of the present land use situation in Canada. The materials are intended as a starting point for both study and action.
  6988. Landless Peoples Movement
    Connexipedia Article
    An independent social movement made up of the poor and landless in South Africa formed in 2001.
  6989. Landless Workers' Movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Social movement in Brazil.
  6990. Landless Workers' Movement on the True Origins of Brazil's Political Crisis
    First Published: 2016
    Brazil's Landless Worker's Movement, MST, takes a profound look at Brazil's political crisis, how it affects the working class and how they must respond.
  6991. Landmines still exacting a heavy toll on Vietnamese civilians
    First Published: 2012
    37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam.
  6992. Landsberg, Michele
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).
  6993. Langer, Felicia
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Israeli human rights lawyer, winner of the Right Livelihood Award.
  6994. Berta Langston, 1926-2010
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    Berta Langston (1926-2010), a founder and member of Solidarity, died of lung cancer at age 84 in Norwalk, Connecticut on June 23. Born Berta Green on the Lower East Side of New York City, she was one of four sisters. She joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1940s and throughout nearly four decades of activity she was widely esteemed on the Left as one of the party’s most devoted and capable militants, a person who could work with sundry individuals to develop coalitions and political defense committees of national and international import. From time to time she used the party name “Berta Graham,” and she received a Marxist education at the “Trotsky School” at Mountain Spring Camp in New Jersey. During the mid-1960s she served briefly on the SWP National Committee.
  6995. Language death
    Connexipedia Article
    A process that affects speech communities.
  6996. Language for Resisting Oppression
    Review of Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left
    First Published: 2018
    Review of the Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left by Ian Parker.
  6997. The language of the unheard
    First Published: 2018
    A book review of "A People's History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) by author Matt Clement.
  6998. Language Wars
    First Published: 2017
    Issues of language are examined, in particular the maintenance of power by a linguistic or political majority through imposition of linguistic norms and beliefs on a minority.
  6999. Lanlord sues tenant
    First Published: 1990
  7000. Laos After the Bombs
    First Published: 2015
    From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
  7001. LAPD Chickens Come Home to Roost
    Why I'm More Scared of the Cops Than I Am of Christopher Dorner
    First Published: 2013
  7002. Lappé, Frances Moore
    Connexipedia Article
    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  7003. Lappé, Frances Moore
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  7004. Larkin, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Irish trade union leader and socialist activist. (1876-1947).
  7005. The Last American Newspaper
    First Published: 2013
    Nostalgia is a particularly Bostonian pastime, and now almost anyone who ever set foot in that city over the past half-decade has another trigger for melancholy. The Boston Phoenix is dead, boys and girls. The Phoenix wasn’t merely the newspaper where I worked in my thirties. It was the place that gave me the time, space and freedom to evolve into who I would become for the rest of my life.
  7006. The last battle of Laxmi Panda
    First Published: 2015
    Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
  7007. The Last Bundist
    First Published: 2009
    Marek Edelman died last week [2009]. He was 90. He was buried on Friday. Marek Edeleman was the last surviving member of the Warsaw Ghetto. He was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and its last commander - after Mordechai Anelewicz was killed.
  7008. A Last Chance for the World's Forests?
    First Published: 2016
    An alarming new study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of 'core forest' -- remote interior areas critical for disturbance-sensitive wildlife and ecological processes -- are vanishing even faster.
  7009. Last Chance to Save Windy Bay
    First Published: 1988
  7010. Last Frontier
    Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes
    First Published: 2009
    Afro-descendant communities in Colombia are fighting to retain control of their ancestral goldmines in the face of pressure from private interests.
  7011. The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment?
    First Published: 2013
    The Last Post was one of the best alternative publications of the 1970s. While the small team of journalists was creating solid investigative journalism, the RCMP Security Service was keeping a close watch. One of its aims? Protect the government from embarrassment.
  7012. The Last Refuge
    Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
    First Published: 2009
    Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
  7013. Last Sparks From Tahrir Square
    Tahrir Square Died, But Not the Revolution
    First Published: 2013
    Once again, the prisons of Egypt are full. The hospitals are overflowing with injured men and women. But the fight, the ‘process’ goes on; it is not dying. Tahrir Square died, but the revolution is getting stronger.
  7014. The last word (Diemer)
    First Published: 1980
    The movement has no need of self-appointed or any other kind of saviours, not even well-intentioned anarchist ones.
  7015. Last Words to the Nation
    First Published: 1973
    This speech was delivered at 9:10 am on September 11, 1973, in the midst on an ultimately successful US-sponsored coup d'etat against the democratically-elected government. Barricaded inside La Moneda, the presidential palace, President Allende gave his life defending Chilean democracy.
  7016. The Lasting Legacy of Florynce Kennedy, Black Feminist Fighter
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    Several decades after the 1960s political upheavals, very few people recognize the name of the Black feminist lawyer and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000). However, during the late 1960s and 1970s Kennedy was the country’s most well-known Black feminist. When reporting on the emergence of the women’s movement, the media covered her early membership in the National Organization for Women (NOW), her leadership of countless guerilla theatre protests and her work as a lawyer helping to repeal New York’s restrictive abortion laws. Indeed, Black feminist Jane Galvin-Lewis and white feminists Gloria Steinem and Ti-Grace Atkinson credit Kennedy with helping to educate a generation of young women about feminism in particular and radical political organizing more generally.
  7017. The Late Butchery at Leipzig. The German Working Men's Movement
    First Published: 1845
  7018. Latest Corbyn Hit-Piece: He earns MP's Salary
    First Published: 2016
    If I hadn’t seen for myself that this article "exposing" Jeremy Corbyn was published on the Daily Telegraph’s website, I would have assumed it was a spoof from The Onion – an even more preposterous one than normal.
  7019. Latin America and Caribbean INSIDE REPORT
    First Published: 1977
    Report to raise the conciousness of citizens to the political-economic-social situation in Canada and Latin America.
  7020. Latin America and Asia Are at Last Breaking Free of Washington's Grip
    First Published: 2006
    Chomsky discusses the growing independence of these regions from US domination.
  7021. Latin America: A Conservative Restoration?
    First Published: 2017
    After a decade of the left's near-hegemonic control over government structures throughout Latin America, previously discredited conservative politicians who favour a return to the capitalist neoliberal polices of privatization and austerity are staging a comeback.
  7022. Latin America Crises and Contradictions
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Detailed review of a collection of essays on Latin America.
  7023. Latin America Declares Independence
    First Published: 2006
    After centuries of foreign domination, South America is rising to shed the dependencies of North America on the continent's resources, markets, and investment opportunities.
  7024. Latin America to Iraq: Greg Grandin's Empire's Workshop
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    The decade of the '70s was not good for U.S. imperialism. The American defeat in Southeast Asia led to the development of the “Vietnam syndrome” and with it the reluctance to use U.S. troops in wars abroad.
  7025. Latin America: Women in History - More than Just Heroines
    First Published: 2009
    Women in Latin American struggles.
  7026. Latin American coups upgraded
    These days the military go back to their barracks
    First Published: 2014
    The classic Latin American coup used to put the military in direct command and control of a country. That doesn’t work well on the world stage, and is being replaced by more clever manipulation, however the same people end up in power.
  7027. Latin American progressives and environmental duplicity
    First Published: 2014
    Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
  7028. The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces
    First Published: 2014
    A call to white Americans to unite with suppressed minorities who are incarcerated daily, killed in the streets, and who hold little political power against these militarized police forces.
  7029. Latin America's Pink Tide
    First Published: 2011
    Current governments in Latin America – not quite red and hardly cresting the wave – are discovering that policies of redistribution, for which they were elected, now have limits.
  7030. Latin America's Social Policies Have Given Women a Boost
    First Published: 2015
    Although they do not specifically target women, social policies like family allowances and pensions have improved the lives of women in Latin America, the region that has made the biggest strides so far this century in terms of gender equality.
  7031. Lattimer massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    The killing of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, by a sheriff's posse.
  7032. Laughing at the People of Walmart While Class Warfare Rages in America
    First Published: 2011
    What is it that POW and the TSG are really selling? Conformity, my friends. You there, in your comfortable suburban house or your hipster urban condo pad, yes, you are one of the cool people. You’d never be caught dead out in public dressed like one of these freaks.
  7033. Laughing on the Way to Armageddon
    First Published: 2017
    Roberts argues that he real threat is not from foreign powers like Russia, but from corruption and power games within US politics, and the military/security complex that truly undermine democracy.
  7034. Laundering Carbon and the New Scramble for Africa
    First Published: 2024
    The carbon offset market is an integral part of efforts to prevent effective climate action. Most carbon credits traded today are fictitious and do not result in any real reduction in carbon emissions.
  7035. Laura Flanders talks to Gar Alperovitz about What Then Must We Do?
    First Published: 2013
    Alperovitz says we may be witnessing the prehistory of the next American Revolution.
  7036. Lavell, Jeannette Vivian Corbiere
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Native women's rights activist. (Born 1942).
  7037. A Lavish Bollywood Musical Is Fueling A Culture War In India
    First Published: 2018
    Review of the controversial 2018 Bollywood film "Padmaavat". Qureshi summarises the politically charged campaign of misinformation and resulting sectarian violence that has dogged its release.
  7038. The law-breaking MLA
    First Published: 2002
    Alberta MLA plans to break the law.
  7039. Law Professor's Response to Black Lives Matter Shirt Complaint
    First Published: 2016
    A first year law school student wrote a complaint about her professor having worn a Black Lives Matter T-shirt during class. Here is the professor’s response.
  7040. Law Union News
    First Published: 1978
    A report on the activities of the Law Union, a group of socialist and progressive lawyers, law students and legal workers.
  7041. The LAWG Library and Archives: A personal reflection by Caese Levo, LAWG's Librarian
    First Published: 2015
    From early research projects the Latin American Working Group Library evolved. The Library is a unique collection of material that reflects the areas of research undertaken by the LAWG staff and collective over the years. While always focusing on Canadian connections – especially government and corporate interests – the collection is especially strong on the countries of the Dominican Republic, Chile, Brazil and Central America.
  7042. Lawless in Gaza: Why the West Backs Israel No Matter What
    First Published: 2023
    As Western politicians line up to cheer on Israel as it starves and bombs Gaza's civilians, it's important to understand how we reached this point -- and what it means for the future.
  7043. Lawless Trump-Canada Connections
    First Published: 2019
    Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto, a gross hypocrisy explains Yves Engler in light of oversights of more flagrant US and Israel terror victims. But the behaviour of Canada Foreign Affairs in joining the lawless US war of sanctions, embargos and military threats against Iran goes deeper than hypocrisy.
  7044. Lawlessness is the New Normal
    The Lust for Washington's Money
    First Published: 2013
    No country has been willing to stand up to Washington and to give Snowden asylum.
  7045. Lawrence textile strike
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The strike is often known as the "Bread and Roses" strike, or, "The Strike for Three Loaves".
  7046. Laws Unto Themselves
    First Published: 2014
    A frequent criticism of “free trade” agreements is that corporations are elevated to the level of a country. It might be more accurate to say that corporations are elevated above countries.
  7047. Lawson, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement. (Born 1928).
  7048. Lawsuit accuses DC police of collusion with far right
    An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation.
    First Published: 2018
    Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.
  7049. Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
    First Published: 2014
    Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers. Many modern software companies offer free tools to everyone like email, games and search engines that come with strings attached. Google is perhaps the best known because it offers students an entire suite of applications from calendars to chat services and data storage. In return the company has made money by selling personal information gleaned from users for targeted advertising.
  7050. Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
    First Published: 2014
    Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers.
  7051. Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals
    First Published: 2009
    Lawyers in a number of European countries are collecting information on Israeli soldiers who are implicated in war crimes.
  7052. Laxer, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian political economist, professor and author. (Born 1941).
  7053. James Laxer - Canadian iconoclast 1941-2018
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for the prominent campaigner, author and academic James Laxer, who passed away February 23rd 2018.
  7054. Laxer, Robert
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian psychologist, professor, author, and political activist. (1915-1998).
  7055. Laying the Groundwork for Change
    A Review of Michael Riordon, Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine.
    First Published: 2011
    Michael Riordon's new book (published in Toronto by Pluto Press/Between the Lines, 2011, 242 pages) explores what a just peace between Israel and Palestine might look like and how it might be built. It does so by describing the work of a wide range of NGOs and movements, both Palestinian and Israeli, involved in a non-violent struggle for peace and/or justice.
  7056. Layoffs at CRIAW
    First Published: 1989
  7057. Lazy Journalists are the Darlings of the Corporations
    Indian Country and the Lessons of McCarthyism
    First Published: 2009
    Lazy journalists are great friends of the corporations. They are known as "armchair journalists" because they sit in comfort and rewrite press releases from politicians and corporations. To spice it up a bit, they dial a few numbers, get a few comments and call it a news story. They are the "darlings of the energy companies," as Buffy Sainte Marie says.
  7058. Lead poisoning - fighting industrial pollution in Kenya is a dangerous business
    First Published: 2015
    Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception -- lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
  7059. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    First Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
  7060. Leadership and Democracy
    Against The Current vol. 86
    First Published: 2000
    I am grateful to Fred Bustillo for the opportunity to expand on the necessarily brief comments on political leadership in my review of Daniel Singer's Whose Millennium? (Against the Current 82, September-October 1999). If we consider the working class and its allies, not abstractly and schematically but in concrete historical and political terms, we find that they do not constitute homogeneous social forces, nor are they likely to become homogeneous even on the eve of revolution. In other words, these social groups are and will likely remain uneven, whether in terms of political consciousness or organizational experience, and with divergent but reconcilable interests.
  7061. Leadership in housing
    First Published: 1990
  7062. The Leadership Institute: PR School for Right-wingers
    First Published: 2021
  7063. The Leading Article in No. 179 of the Kölnische Zeitung
    First Published: 1842
    What are we to make of an article which disputes the right to its own existence, which prefaces itself with a declaration of its own incompetence?
  7064. Leading Principles of Marxism: A Restatement 
    First Published: 1937
    Marx's study of society is based upon a full recognition of the reality of historical change. Marx treats all conditions of existing bourgeois society as changing, ie more exactly, as conditions in the process of being changed by human actions. Bourgeois society is not, according to Marx, a general entity which can be replaced by another stage in a historical movement. It is both the result of an earlier phase and the starting point of a new phase, of the social class war which is leading to a social revolution.
  7065. The Leading Terrorist State
    First Published: 2014
    "It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it." That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels."
  7066. Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
  7067. Leaf Blower Facts
  7068. League for Social Reconstruction
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Organization of left-wing intellectuals, founded 1931-32 in Montréal and Toronto.
  7069. League for Social Reconstruction
    Connexipedia Article
    A circle of Canadian socialist intellectuals formed in 1931 by academics advocating radical social and economic reforms and political education.
  7070. League for Student Democracy (LSD)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    An article about the history of the League for Student Democracy (LSD) in Toronto.
  7071. The League of Assad-Loving Conspiracy Theorists
    First Published: 2018
    So the global capitalist ruling classes' War on Dissent is now in full swing. With their new and improved official narrative, "Democracy versus the Putin-Nazis," successfully implanted in the public consciousness, the corporatocracy have been focusing their efforts on delegitimizing any and all forms of deviation from their utterly absurd and increasingly paranoid version of reality.
  7072. League of Revolutionary Black Workers
    Connexipedia Article
  7073. League on Rights and Freedom Information Sheet
    First Published: 1979
    This information sheet, published by the League on Rights and Freedom (formerly the League on Human Rights), reveals that two Québec citizens are prosecuting the RCMP and some security officers for unlawfully subjecting them to illegal investigations following their refusal to "collaborate."
  7074. Leak Ties Ethics Guru to Three Men Charged in FIFA Scandal
    Secret documents show how deeply the world of soccer has become enmeshed in the world of offshore havens
    First Published: 2016
    Four of the 16 FIFA officials indicted in the United States used offshore companies created by Mossack Fonseca. Files show offshore companies used by some soccer players to hold money from image rights deals. Offshore revelations extend beyond soccer to other sports including hockey and golf.
  7075. Leaked Documents Expose Global Companies' Secret Tax Deals in Luxembourg
    First Published: 2014
    Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny European duchy, leaked documents show.
  7076. Leaked emails expose Paul Mason's collusion with senior British intelligence agent
    First Published: 2022
    In leaked emails, celebrity journalist Paul Mason plots extensively with Andy Pryce of the UK Foreign Office Counter Disinformation and Media Development unit.
  7077. Leaked Records Reveal Offshore Holdings of China's Elite
    First Published: 2014
    Close relatives of China's top leaders have held secretive offshore companies in tax havens that helped shroud the Communist elite's wealth, a leaked cache of documents reveals.
  7078. Leaked TTIP papers reveal 100% corporate sellout
    First Published: 2016
    Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests.
  7079. Leaked: USA's Feb 2018 Plan for Coup in Venezuela
    First Published: 2019
    Publication of a military document outlining the military, diplomatic, and propaganda policies to overthrow the Maduro governnment.
  7080. Leaks reveal FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info
    First Published: 2023
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
  7081. Leamington, Ontario: Growing Tomatoes in the Era of Free Trade
    First Published: 2016
    Southwestern Ontario is the historic home of Canadian tomato growers. The bulk of the crop goes to processing, and since 1909 the dominant corporation had been H. J. Heinz, a food giant based in Pittsburgh. But in 2013 the Heinz Corporation was bought by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (26%) and 3G Capital (51%), based in Brazil. It was soon announced that they were planning to close their plant in Leamington. The story has been a snapshot of what has happened to the manufacturing industry in Ontario following the "free trade" agreements with the United States.
  7082. Lean & Mean Health Care
    First Published: 2014
    Chern examines the Affordable Care Act from the perspective of being an industry and how this will regulate, standardize, and consolidate the healthcare system.
  7083. The Leap Manifesto
    A Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
    First Published: 2015
    We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory. so we need to Leap.
  7084. A Leap Toward Radical Politics?
    First Published: 2016
    The Leap Manifesto is, in a way, Canada's version of the burst of Left and socialist energies that have come with the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Democratic Party in the U.S. and the Jeremy Corbyn leadership win in the Labour Party in Britain. As with these, the explosion of popular interest reflects general disquiet about the limits of recent protests demanding changes from the state but having no strategy to transform it, on the one hand; and disappointments with electoral politics and social democratic parties that only seem to reinforce neoliberalism, on the other.
  7085. Learn from Malcolm X
    First Published: 2017
    It's time to re-learn lessons from Malcolm in the Black community - nationalism and pride, solidarity and militancy, and a worldview that African Americans are part of a global community in struggle against the injustices of capitalism.
  7086. Learning for the Revolution
    A review of 'Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920'
    First Published: 1997
    Socialist sunday schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
  7087. Learning from Autonomous Marxism
    First Published: 2004
  7088. Learning from our History
    Ernie Tate's Memoir of His Early Years
    First Published: 2014
    Richard Fidler reviews political activist Ernest Tate's two volume Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: Ernest Tate, A Memoir.
  7089. Learning from Vienna
    The city housing program was the work of the Vienna social-democratic movement, based on the city's unions. At the end of World War I, Vienna had lost direct access to its markets in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Because Austria now had to export to the world market, the Austrian unions faced a difficult task if they tried to raise wages to enable workers to afford high rents. Faced with becoming uncompetitive, Austrian employers would put up a stiff fight and some might go bankrupt. This led the social-democrats to develop a strategy for improving workers' standard of living by lowering rents.
  7090. Learning how to live with editors
    First Published: 1998
    Pay attention to editorial fit, readership relevance, and good writing.
  7091. Learning to struggle: my story between workerism and feminism
    First Published: 2013
    An account of an Italian Marxist feminist's experiences and development in the autonomist and feminist movements in Italy in the 1970s.
  7092. Leave most fossil fuels in the ground, or fry
    First Published: 2015
    For the world to meet its climate goals, a third of the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground.
  7093. Leave the libraries alone. You don't understand their value.
    First Published: 2011
    I love the public library service for what it did for me as a child and as a student and as an adult. I love it because its presence in a town or a city reminds us that there are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about, things that have the power to baffle the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism, things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination and knowledge and the value of simple delight.
  7094. Lebanon and Middle East: On the Hezbollah and fundamentalism - "We need a large movement from below!"
    First Published: 2017
    Interview with Joseph Daher on his new book on the political economy of the Hezbollah.
  7095. LeBourdais, Isabel
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).
  7096. Lectures on Philosophy
    First Published: 1932   Published: 1933
  7097. The Left & Disability
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    I joined “the crips” 13 years ago, upon being forced to quit work due to toxic exposure at my workplace. “The crips” are not a group you really fight to get into, but they can have excruciating initiation rites, worse than to get into “Skull and Bones.” And you don’t have to come from a rich family; in fact, membership almost always insures that you become poor, and very quickly!
  7098. The Left and the Elections
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    Two electoral paths will be taken by those left of center this year, and all the spilled ink in the world won't affect the choices.
  7099. The Left and the Jihad
    First Published: 2006
    The left was once the principal enemy of radical Islamism. So how did old enemies become new friends?
  7100. Left Behind by Good Friday 
    First Published: 2016
    In 1969 Bernadette Devlin traveled to the United States on a fundraising tour. At age twenty-two, she was the youngest woman ever elected to Westminster and already a veteran of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement and the radical student group People's Democracy.
  7101. Left Communism and Trotskyism: A Roundtable
    First Published: 2007
  7102. The Left Continues to Destroy Itself and Others With Evidence-Free Destruction of Reputations 
    First Published: 2021
    Equating accusations with proven fact is reckless and repressive. It is also standard behaviour in liberal politics, whereby they ruin lives without a second thought.
  7103. The Left and the EU
    Why Cling to This Reactionary Institution?
    First Published: 2016
    Why is it that many people who consider themselves left-wing have such difficulty grasping that the EU is a deeply reactionary institution? The mere fact that those running the EU present it as an internationalist venture dedicated to the creation of a world free of nationalist enmities does not make it so. If we want to examine the EU in its proper light, then we should ignore the high-flown rhetoric in which its supporters indulge, and consider its actual record. And what is the record of the EU, once we penetrate the obfuscatory rhetoric about ‘internationalism’ that surrounds EU policy? Without a doubt, that record is one that should cause those on the left now defending it acute embarrassment, as it starkly contradicts the ideals that the left has always claimed to uphold.
  7104. Left Green Meeting
    First Published: 1990
  7105. Left Gun Nuts
    Opposition to Gun Control Comes from Many on the Left Also. Here's Why They're Wrong
    First Published: 2014
    In the aftermath of the Isla Vista massacre, we can expect the far Right to vehemently oppose any renewed call for gun control. They will tout the supposedly Constitutional right of Americans to keep and bear arms.
  7106. The Left Has Better Things to Do Than Watch Liberals Scratch Their Heads
    First Published: 2018
    Drawing from author David Harvey's work "The Ways of the World", Munson examines how Liberal-democracy has changed when the nucleus of capitalism shifted in the 1970's from the production of goods to the production of 'signs'. He further examines how 'neo-liberalism' is now grappling and adjusting in the era of Trump.
  7107. The Left and Immigration
    A Major Challenge for a Different Vision of the European Union
    First Published: 2013
    After the latest drama in Lampedusa, where more than 350 immigrants, mostly Eritreans, perished 600 metres from the Italian coast, the immigration policies of the European Union and its member states are more than ever under scrutiny.
  7108. Left-libertarianism
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2010
    A doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and egalitarianism.
  7109. Left Nationalism and Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Iranian Experience
    First Published: 1987
    No amount of theoretical and political radicalisation can in itself change the social character of present-day communism and bridge the gulf that separates it from the working class. What is needed, if the proletarian communism of the Communist Manifesto is to become a reality, is a real social shift. Communism must be taken back from all those who employed it throughout the twentieth century to reform capitalism, and returned to the working class to be used against capital, for real human emancipation. A worker-communist movement must be shaped; one in which communism is once again an expression of class protest and class activity.
  7110. Left Needs Soul Searching
    First Published: 2009
    The left fears that the people it is trying to persuade and mobilize aren't capable of imagining or accepting a truly radical vision of the future.
  7111. The Left needs to "find common ground" with Evangelical Christians 
    "There's no point arguing that it can't be done because the cultural differences are too great," says Chomsky
    First Published: 2017
    A discussion between Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber excerpted from the novel by Derber entitled, "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Democracy for Social Justice in Perilous Times."
  7112. Left Out History - review
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power' by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy.
  7113. "Left Reformism" and socialist strategy
    First Published: 2013
    Rooksby talks about the renewed interest in radical left "big picture" questions of socialist strategy that represents a return to "important debates of the left largely absent over the last three decades." The major factors driving this are several years of deep capitalist crisis together with the almost total capitulation of social democratic parties across Europe to the austerity agenda, opening up a clear space to the left of these organisations.
  7114. Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
    First Published: 2017
    The recent calls for the British left either to “reclaim Labour” (Len McCluskey) or to build a new party capable of emulating Syriza’s successes in Greece (Ken Loach) demand serious consideration on these pages. At their core these proposals reflect a widespread desire, shared by members of the Socialist Workers Party, to fight the cuts, alongside revulsion at the Labour Party’s failure to do so. They also reflect a genuine excitement across the left about the prospects for new left formations such as Syriza and France’s similar Front de Gauche.
  7115. Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
    First Published: 2013
    Blackledge claims that, while it is of the first importance that revolutionaries welcome and work alongside these coalitions, it is also imperative that we maintain our political independence from them so that we are better able to struggle for an alternative beyond the limitations of their politics. This perspective demands a clear analysis of the nature of reformism.
  7116. The Left/Right Challenge to the Failed "War on Drugs"
    First Published: 2017
    More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called "war on drugs" needs serious rethinking.
  7117. The Left and South Africa's Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    An interview with Brian Ashley, the editor of the South African journal AMANDLA!
  7118. A Left Voice in Pakistan
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    Following the October 18 attack on the massive procession into Karachi welcoming Benazir Bhutto back from an eight-year exile, Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, expressed his solidarity with the families of the more than 135 killed and 540 injured.
  7119. The Left Will Never Achieve Its Goals Until It Prioritizes Countering Establishment Propaganda
    First Published: 2021
    The idea that China or Russia pose a threat to you is so self-evidently ridiculous, so transparently absurd, that the only way to make you believe it would be to propagandize you. And if you do believe it, that’s exactly what has happened. You can expand this principle to include the entirety of US foreign policy on the global stage today. No ordinary American benefits from the US having troops in Syria, sanctioning Venezuelans to death, supporting Saudi Arabia while it rapes Yemen, circling the planet with military bases and working to destroy any nation which refuses to bow to its dictates. The only way to get Americans to consent to any of these agendas is to propagandize them into doing so.
  7120. Left-wing internationals, list of
    Connexipedia Article
    This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist internationals. An "International" such as, the "First International", the "Second International", or the "Socialist International" may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical, socialist, or union organizations, typically composed of national sections.
  7121. The Left-Wing Media Fallacy
    Jeremy Bowen, The BBC, And Other National Treasures
    First Published: 2009
    The issue is not complex, not esoteric: in a world dominated by corporate power we rely on media corporations for news about that world. Future generations will surely be aghast that so few people today are able to perceive the perfectly obvious problem, the very clear source of mass control, that this implies.
  7122. The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the Resistance
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the groups to the left of the PCI, during WW2 by independent Marxist historical researcher Arturo Peregalli. It was first published in 'Revolutionary History, Vol.5, No.4', and translated by Barbara Rossi and Doris Bornstein.
  7123. Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks
    Connexipedia Article
    A series of rebellions and uprisings against the Bolsheviks led or supported by left wing groups.
  7124. The left-wing case against identity politics
    It is time progressives stood up to the racism, classism and misogyny of wokeness.
    First Published: 2022
    Book review of The Identity Myth by David Swift.
  7125. The left's contempt for bodily autonomy during the pandemic is a gift to the right
    First Published: 2021
    When did parts of the left get so contemptuous of the principle of "bodily autonomy"? Answer: Just about the time they started fetishising vaccines as the only route out of the current pandemic.
  7126. The Left's Crisis
    First Published: 2011
    It was indicative of the left's sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities.
  7127. The Left's Crisis
    First Published: 2011
    It was indicative of the left's sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities.
  7128. Left-Wing Disaster Relief Efforts Spread Goodwill for Socialism
    First Published: 2018
    A look at some of the disaster relief initiatives by left-wing groups in the United States, as well as the disconnect that seems to underscore a number of issues with the state's disaster relief efforts.
  7129. Left-Wing Drexel Professor Who Opposes Free Speech Has His Curtailed
    First Published: 2017
    Outspoken Drexel University associate professor George Ciccariello-Maher has been put on-leave by his employer, stiring the debate about academic freedom and free speech.
  7130. The Legacy of 1968
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    In 1989, the world systems theorists Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein wrote the following five short sentences: “There have only been two world revolutions. One took place in 1848. The second took place in 1968. Both were historical failures. Both transformed the world.”
  7131. The Legacy of CLR James
    First Published: 2002
    Facing Reality is an often maddening book containing a marvellous critique of the pretentiousness of the numerous little vanguards, and at other times a telling naivety about opposition forces in society.
  7132. The Legacy of Forest Defender Chut Wutty
    First Published: 2012
    On the life, work, and death of the late Cambodian forest activist Chut Wutty, shot and killed at a logging site by military police.
  7133. The Legacy of the New Left
    First Published: 1994
  7134. Legal decisions threaten press freedom
    Minus Five
    First Published: 1979
  7135. Legal Lessons From the Green Scare
    When the Constitution is No Obstacle to the FBI
    First Published: 2010
    Green Scare prosecutors and their coordinators in Washington are willing to destroy individual lives to score political points, and to trample their own rules in the process.
  7136. Legal Ruling Will Allow Rain Forest Indigenous Peoples to Pursue Chevron in Canada
    First Published: 2014
    Ontario Court of Appeal says communities of Ecuador affected by Chevron can enforce Ecuadorian rulings in Canada.
  7137. Legal Weed Is Great, But Black and Brown Communities Can't Be Left Behind
    Marijuana legalization must bring both equity and justice for those most impacted by the War on Drugs.
    First Published: 2019
    Marginalized populations that were hardest hit by the War on Drugs should be at the forefront of legalization legislation as well as recipients of the tax revenue from legalized marijuana.
  7138. Legalize Free Movement of Labor: Viewing A National Debate
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    The immigration debate is exposing deep social, racial and class divisions within American society. The arguments are sharp, furious and divide many families - immigrant as well as native born.
  7139. Legalize It!
    Why Decriminalization of Drugs Won't Get the 10,000 Ton Monkey Off of Mexico's Back
    First Published: 2009
    Decriminalization is turning into a bonanza for Mexico City cops who have taken to carrying scales to weigh confiscated drugs and shaking down those "criminals" who exceed the decreed limits. Shaking down small-time users and dealers is nothing new in this the most corrupt, crime-ridden, and conflictive city in the western hemisphere. Indeed, crooked cops have been planting drugs on unwary citizens as long as cops have patrolled these mean streets.
  7140. Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage: What is at Stake?
    First Published: 2008
    There are good people on either side of the same-sex marriage debate. Unfortunately, however, it has been one of the most divisive issues in society. Opponents of same-sex marriage perceive the other side as part of a cabal of gay activists and social-engineering judges and politicians, intent on making a mockery of important social values. Proponents of same-sex marriage often perceive the other side as "homophobic" bigots or religious fundamentalists who want to deprive gay or lesbian couples of a right enjoyed by others because they hate homosexuals. The debate over same-sex marriage has divided people who share common values and beliefs on many fundamental questions--war and peace, economic security, democracy versus the increasingly anti-democratic and repressive nature of American society. This divisive debate cripples the ability of ordinary Americans to unite around the things that we agree on.
  7141. The Legend of Marx, or 'Engels the founder'
    First Published: 1970
  7142. "Legitimate target" - Bellingcat defends terror attack at St. Petersburg cafe
    First Published: 2023
    Christo Grozev of the US government-sponsored Bellingcat endorsed the terror attack that killed a Russian war reporter and injured many others during a public event in St. Petersburg. He also defended Ukraine's attempt to assassinate a Russian philosopher because he was a 'propagandist.'
  7143. A Legless Veteran's Struggle
    Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran"
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Robert Goldstein's Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran".
  7144. Das Leiden der Kinder im Gazastreifen
    Katastrophale Lage im Gazastreifen - Unzureichende Gesundheitsversorgung
    First Published: 2007
  7145. Lemke, Birsel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Turkish environmentalist. (Born 1950).
  7146. A Lemming Leading the Lemmings
    Slavoj Zizek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left
    First Published: 2022
    Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the U.S. and U.K.'s invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer of the left into joining the pro-NATO, pro-war camp?
  7147. Lena Horne & Her Times
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    If there were any doubt that the blues could be elegant, Lena Mary Calhoun Horne Hayton (as she signed her name) dispelled it. At age 26, she sang the title song to the film “Stormy Weather” and her sultry, silky voice branded the tune as hers forever.
  7148. Lenin 1917-18: the road to the authoritarian state.
    First Published: 2014
    Lenin’s focus when he returned to Russia in 1917 was on the facts of the revolution, rather than outdated Bolshevik theory. He began with what was real, rather than an abstract possibility.
  7149. Lenin and the Vanguard Party
    First Published: 1963
    To believe that Bolshevism, or to be more precise, Leninism, would under the circumstances advocate or preach the theory of the vanguard party is to continue slander of Leninism, but not to his theory of the party (that is no longer viable) but to his central doctrine - the role of the proletariat in the preservation of society from barbarism. To interpret Leninism as the advocacy of a vanguard party of three million is nearly as bad as the doctrine of Goebbels that Christ was not a Jew. Objective circumstances in Russia forced Lenin into a certain position. He accepted it without apologising for it. He knew what he was doing and he knew also, for he said it many times, what he was not doing. His doubts about it, not only for other countries but for Russia, he made public many, many times.
  7150. Lenin as Philosopher
    Some additional remarks to Anton Pannekoek's recent criticism of Lenin's book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
    First Published: 1938
    Both in his revolutionary materialist philosophy and m his revolutionary jacobinic politics, Lenin hid from himself the historical truth that his Russian revolution, in spite of a temporary attempt to break through its particular limitations in connection with the simultaneous revolutionary movement of the proletarian class in the West, was bound to remain in fact a belated successor of the great bourgeois revolutions of the past.
  7151. Lenin and the Bolshevik Party: A revolutionary collective
    First Published: 2018
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 clearly reveals the complexities of Bolshevism – Lenin's party – as a revolutionary collective.
  7152. Lenin in 1917
    First Published: 1924   Published: 1925
  7153. The Lenin Legend
    First Published: 1935
    For Lenin, socialism was in the last instance merely a kind of state-capitalism.
  7154. Lenin and Luxemburg (World Revolution for Beginners, Part I 
    First Published: 2017
    Both of these people are great revolutionaries and there are libraries of books written about them. So in two hours, I’m going to try to sort of summarize what I think is really important about them.
  7155. Lenin and Luxemburg: Negation in theory and Praxis
    First Published: 1970
  7156. Lenin On The Need For Political Compromise
    First Published: 2013
    Considering the nature of compromises and how to deal with them.
  7157. Lenin Quotes
    Writings of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924).
  7158. Lenin and the Tsarist Duma
    A review of August H Nimtz, Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both
    First Published: 2018
    Donnelly reviews Nimtz's two volume account of Lenin's pre-revolution electoral strategy and summarises the thesis that Lenin's critique of reformism in parliamentary democracy was rooted in the conclusions of Marx and Engels.
  7159. Lenin, V.I.
    Connexipedia Article
    Russian revolutionary. (1870-1924).
  7160. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Russian revolutionary. (1870-1924).
  7161. Lenin, Vladimir - Writings - Index
  7162. Lenin: Yes! Leninism: No?
    First Published: 2014
    It is currently a commonplace on the left and not-so-left to announce that Leninism is dead. Indeed, one might wonder why it is necessary to keep repeating the point. Nobody is writing articles to explain that alchemy or social credit are dead. The enthusiasm to bury Leninism tells us that this is something that people want to be dead.
  7163. Leninism vs. Debs's Socialist Party
    The Communist Fight Against Black Oppression
    First Published: 2015
    Articles by Eugene Debs, written as polemics against racists within the Socialist Party, are eloquent in defending black people against racism, in calling for working-class unity across racial lines and in emphasizing that the Socialist Party should open its ranks to black people. In "The Negro in the Class Struggle," Debs stressed, "The history of the Negro in the United States is a history of crime without a parallel." Debs stands out favorably against most of his contemporaries in the labor movement -- including within the SP. Debs's writing remains a powerful denunciation of white workers' racism. Debs recognized that black oppression, rather than making white workers privileged, degrades them, thus providing a refutation of the later concept of "white skin privilege."
  7164. Leninism without the working class? The missing subject in Malm's ecological revolution
    First Published: 2020
    Although scientists have been publishing on the viral consequences of deforestation for decades, Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency is the first publicly accessible book that connects pandemics, climate change, and capitalism.
  7165. The Leninist Facade
    First Published: 1979
    In direct oppostion to what Marx advocated, the Bolsheviks tried to institute socialism without democracy. The damage to the socialist movement resulting from this was immense.
  7166. Lenin's April Theses and the Russian Revolution
    First Published: 2017
    In 1917 Lenin arrived from exile iin Petrograd, soon to give an outline of what were to be called the April Theses. Broadly, the theses can be summarised as follows: Only the overthrow of the provisional government and the fight for soviet power could secure a state of affairs that would bring bread to the workers, land to the peasants and peace to end the imperialist war.
  7167. Lenin's "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder revisited
    First Published: 2013
    Lenin’s famous pamphlet holds the key to unlocking the reasons why the October 1917 Russian Revolution failed to spread to the more advanced industrial countries in Europe.
  7168. Leo Panitch and the Socialist Project
    First Published: 2020
    Maher reflects on Leo Panitch's contributions to democratic socialism.
  7169. Leon, Abraham
    Connexipedia Article
    Jewish Trotskyist activist and theorist. (1918-1944).
  7170. Leon Rosselson on Gaza
    First Published: 2018
    In Gaza the slaughter was premeditated and calculated. The snipers were primed to kill. They had their orders. They used the protesters, men women, children, for target practice. According to the latest reports, 109 Palestinians?—?including children, one an 8 month old baby -- have been killed and over 6,000 wounded, including nearly 1000 children. The wounds were particularly debilitating because Israeli soldiers used dumdum bullets which expand when they enter the body. The bullets used are causing injuries local medics say they have not seen since 2014. The entrance wound is small.The exit wound is devastating, causing gross comminution of bone and destruction of soft tissue.
  7171. Leonard Peltier: 'My Last Hope for Freedom'
    First Published: 2016
    Leonard Peltier is a political prisoner and Native freedom fighter who has been unjustly incacerated for 40 years. The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee is ramping up efforts for Peltier's clemency under U.S. President Obama’s last year in office. This may be his last chance at freedom and justice. Find out how you can help achieve Peltier's freedom here: whoisleonardpeltier.info.
  7172. Leonard Weinglass in History
    Len, A Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Seth Tobocman's Len, A Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass.
  7173. Leopold, Aldo
    Connexipedia Article
    American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist who was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness preservation. (1887-1948).
  7174. Gerda Lerner, 1920-2013
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    Gerda Lerner has been the single most influential figure in the development of women’s and gender history since the 1960s.
  7175. Lesbian and Gay Studies
    First Published: 1990
  7176. Lesbian Conference
    First Published: 1990
  7177. Lesbian and gay liberation in Canada: a selected annotated chronology, 1964-1975
    First Published: 1996
    This authoritative reference guide covers the first twelve years of the organized homophile/gay liberation movement in Canada, from 1964 (when the Association for Social Knowledge [ASK], Canada's first large-scale homophile organization, was formed in Vancouver) through 1975 (the year of the founding of the National Gay Rights Coalition [NGRC], the first truly national coalition of Canadian lesbian and gay groups).
  7178. Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1976–1981
    First Published: 2016
    This authoritative reference guide is a continuation of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964–1975. It starts where the first volume left off, and highlights some of the seminal events and people involved in the fight for gay rights in Canada to the end of 1981.
  7179. Lesbian Sex Mafia ("l s/m") speakout
    First Published: 1982
    Report of a workshop on "politically correct, politically incorrect sexuality."
  7180. Lesbians, gays and psychiatry
    First Published: 1990
  7181. Less Than Fundamental: the Myth of Voting Rights in America
    First Published: 2018
    The story of voting rights in America is one of exceptionalism. In 1787 when the US Constitution was drafted the right to vote was absent from the text.
  7182. The 'Lesser-Evil' Syndrome: Noam Chomsky's Fall Into Self-Contradiction
    First Published: 2020
    No matter whether or how we cast our ballots, policy is insulated from voter preferences and keeps moving to the right. Nevertheless, Chomsky takes leftists who abstain or vote third party (in swing states) to task for failing to carry out what he considers to be a straightforward exercise in damage mitigation.
  7183. The Lesson of Germany
    First Published: 1945
    Hitler's hundreds of thousands of storm troopers represented an enormous expense. They were thugs hired by the German bourgeoisie to fight its battles against the working class. In the years 1930-33 the German bureaucracy engineered election after election hoping to discredit parliamentary government and open the way for authoritarian rule. Despite his immense influence over the petty bourgeoisie, Hitler, by 1932, was on the wane. The German bourgeoisie deliberately maintained Nazism to have some power in reserve against Bolshevism. True, he dominated them afterward. We do not mean for one moment to deny the energy, the inventiveness, the will, the tenacity of Hitler and the other Nazi leaders. We do not deny their skilful use of social contradictions. He himself was obviously a born leader of men and an orator the like of whom Europe has not often seen. But from the time he began, the German bourgeoisie, the military caste, the bureaucracy, all built him up and without their active conscious support he would have been nothing.
  7184. Lessons From Arizona
    Direct Action Organizing From 1999 to Now
    First Published: 2010
    What we saw in Arizona over the summer showed a new model of organizing, wherein cooperation between people who are dedicated to different tactics as well as space for accountability within the struggle takes centre stage.
  7185. Lessons from Canada: On Women's Libraries and Liberation
    First Published: 2019
    A report on a talk Bec Wonders gave at the For Women Scotland event held on May 14, 2019, detailing her experiences as co-founder of Vancouver Women's Library and the value of knowledge produced by second wave feminists.
  7186. Lessons from COINTELPRO
    First Published: 2011
    We can best honor those who have been murdered by our government and their agents, not by mourning but by organizing, by building movements that put into practice solidarity across borders that are inclusive in all the important ways - class, gender, race, sexual orientation, language, immigrant status and age - that resist boldly and courageously all forms of inequality and environmental degradation.
  7187. Lessons from James Baldwin
    Review of James Baldwin: The FBI File; Against the Current vol. 192
    First Published: 2018
    A review of James Baldwin: The FBI File, a novel edited by William J. Maxwell which sets out an interpretive frame,through which readers may study his excerpts his file from the FBI.
  7188. Lessons from New Orleans 
    First Published: 2017
    Interview with author Kristen Buras.
  7189. Lessons from small shop organizing
    First Published: 2013
    A significant amount of organizing experience in the IWW comes from working in relatively small workplaces such as stand-alone single shops or franchises of multiple smaller shops. These places present their own set of difficulties and opportunities.
  7190. Lessons from the 1905 Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    1905 was a decisive year in Socialist History in that the working class movement developed two crucial weapons in its armory: Soviets (workers’ councils), which were new, and the general strike, which was not. Since that time both political forms have been extensively used and theorized.
  7191. Lessons from the Tekel strikes: class solidarity and ethnic (in)difference
    First Published: 2010
    A worker puts it: “There are no differences between Kurds, Alevis, Sunnis and Turks. We have no party.”
  7192. Lessons From the Working Class
    First Published: 2013
    Acuna tries not to romanticize the working class, but he considers them his teachers.
  7193. Lessons in leftism: Pete Seeger and the black power movement
    First Published: 2017
    The rise of "black power" led Pete Seeger to realize he had become a towering figure in a movement he didn't fully understand. The way he dealt with criticisms of him and his friends holds lessons for today.
  7194. The Lessons of Amish Agriculture
    First Published: 1987
    Amish agriculture offers valuable eco-lessons to those interested in organic, earth-friendly farming.
  7195. Lessons of an Ambiguous Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    The conflict around Congress' granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) signals the opening of important new terrain of political struggle. With the background of the two major mass demonstrations against neoliberalism in Seattle and Washington D.C., perhaps the most significant and interesting political development is the leadership role of the AFL-CIO in mobilizing against the most important policy initiative of the waning Clinton administration.
  7196. The Lessons of Gaza 2009
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    First the numbers: "1285 Palestinians killed, mostly civilians, including 167 civil police officers. 4336 Palestinians wounded, mostly civilians. Two political leaders of Hamas assassinated, Nizar Rayan and Said Siam, in bombs that flattened their home and also killed many of their family members and neighbors. Tens of thousands of people forced to abandon their homes: 2400 houses completely destroyed, and 17,000 semi-destroyed or damaged. Tens of mosques, public civilian facilities, police stations, and media, health, and educational institutions either completely or partially destroyed. 121 industrial and commercial workshops destroyed and at least 200 others damaged."
  7197. The Lessons of Lebanon
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    So what has happened to the Israeli army? This question is now being raised not only around the world, but also in Israel itself. Clearly, there is a huge gap between the army's boastful arrogance, on which generations of Israelis have grown up, and the picture presented by this war.
  7198. Lessons of Life and Death from Henry Spira: By Any Compromise Necessary?
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    A friend of Henry Spira once asked him why he left teaching in New York City, where he was successful and loved by the students, to go into the animal rights struggle. Spira said that humans were more able than animals to help themselves because humans have “freedom in this country” and minds to think for themselves. This statement came not from a naive liberal dilettante do-gooder, but from a man with years of radical activism to his credit, including work with the Longshoremen and the Socialist Workers Party.
  7199. Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
    First Published: 2019
    A recent story about residents of a Nashville neighborhood rallying to protect their neighbors from ICE agents shows the power of class solidarity in the face of attempts at racial division.
  7200. The Lessons of October
    First Published: 1924
  7201. Lessons of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes
    Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
    First Published: 2009
    A depiction of the Trotskyist union militants' organization of mass strikes in Minneapolis during 1934.
  7202. Lessons of the Battle of Longview
    ILWU Holds the Line Against Union Busting
    First Published: 2012
    Reflections on the battle fought by the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) against the giant EGT grain conglomerate.
  7203. Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part One)
    Police Terror and Black Oppression
    First Published: 2015
    Police reform is a hoax and a hustle. Federal investigations go nowhere and the Democrats are simply the soft cops of the capitalist system. There is no road to black liberation and the liberation of all working people short of workers revolution.
  7204. Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part Two)
    Police Terror and Black Oppression
    First Published: 2015
    Formal, legal inequality in the South was susceptible to reform. But getting rid of the economic and social reality that is black oppression in America -- from de facto segregation and poverty to police brutality -- is not subject to reform because it is integral to the capitalist system.
  7205. Lessons of the Egyptian Struggle
    First Published: 2016
    I almost cannot believe that five years have passed since the chants of "the people want to bring down the system" and "Bread...Freedom...Social Justice...Human Dignity..." Maybe this is because even in my cell I am filled with dreams of freedom and with hope.
  7206. Lessons of the Snowden Revelations
    You are the Target!
    First Published: 2013
    We in the Left have long worried about “police state tactics”. Now we have to confront the police state structure. It’s here and it can morph into a real police state with very little effort. Opposing and dismantling it should now be among our top priorities.
  7207. Lessons of the Spanish Revolution
  7208. The Lessons of the World Cup for our Victim Culture
    First Published: 2018
    That we are living in an age of victim culture is well-exemplified by an article recently published by the CBC suggesting that minorities "feel apprehensive about heading into the wild because they don't see themselves reflected in the outdoor industry and media." The underlying premise is that a paucity of representations of members of these groups constructs the outdoors as a kind of "unsafe space" of which people from these communities ask, according to the African-American author of a book called The Adventure Gap, James Mills, "'Do I belong here? And if somebody believes that I don’t belong here, will they do something to harm me?'"
  7209. The lessons we have learned
    Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
    First Published: 2002
    A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
  7210. Lest We Forget: Tar Sands and War
    First Published: 2015
    Over the past decade, Canada has been a war profiteer and fuel tank for the US military, who have killed well over a million people since the turn of the new millennium.
  7211. "Let Me Go Get My Big White Man"
    The Clientelist Foundation of Contemporary Antiracist Politics
    First Published: 2022
    No matter what those who propound it may believe about themselves or, more meaningfully, want the rest of us to believe about them, contemporary race-reductionist politics - i.e., what is commonly recognized as antiracist politics - is not in any way left, egalitarian, or democratic. It is not linked to any popular, insurgent, or 'bottom-up' black or other political expressions. It is not oriented practically toward a vision of broadly egalitarian social transformation, nor is it at all aligned with or congenial to any project of generating a political movement toward such ends.
  7212. Let the People Know
    Put Full Texts of Government Contracts Online
    First Published: 2013
    Openness in our government is essential for a healthy democracy
  7213. Let Them Eat Climate Change
    First Published: 2015
    The winds are changing for the energy giants. And so the black plumes of smoke emitted by the climate deniers in an attempt to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been refined.
  7214. Let Them Eat Cuts
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    The good times are flowing again for Wall Street and bank executives, and U.S. corporate profits have rarely if ever looked so lush. But it’s a brutal moment for working people, with much worse possibly to come. These twin realities set the economic and political agenda heading into 2011-12. Everyone knows the Republicans are hell-bent on “making Obama a one-term president,” but few expected that they’d capture the White House in 2010. If that’s an exaggeration, it’s a mild one.
  7215. Let Us Now Praise Infamous Animals
    First Published: 2018
    In medieval Europe (and even colonial America) thousands of animals were summoned to court and put on trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from trespassing, thievery and vandalism to rape, assault and murder. The defendants included cats, dogs, cows, sheep, goats, slugs, swallows, oxen, horses, mules, donkeys, pigs, wolves, bears, bees, weevils, and termites. These tribunals were not show trials or strange festivals like Fools Day. The tribunals were taken seriously by both the courts and the community.
  7216. Let Us Take Care!
    First Published: 1977
    "Let us Take Care!" is the result of discussions held with representatives of the chartered locals of the Ontario Nurses' Association. This report came about when nurses became concerned with the effects of the government's constraints program on health care in Ontario. The report is a compilation of observations of working places, concerns, and recommendations.
  7217. A Lethal Industrial Farm Fungus is Spreading Among Us
    First Published: 2019
    Agricultural fungicides are creating strains of drug-resistant fungi.
  7218. Let's Back Up A Sec And Ask Why Free Speech Actually Matters 
    First Published: 2022
    To really answer the question of whether the increasingly widespread practice of Silicon Valley censorship via algorithm and deplatforming is a major problem and whether an increase in speech restriction is desirable, we need to take a step back and ask ourselves why free speech even matters in the first place.
  7219. Let's Be Practical
    First Published: 1997
    Building a movement to destroy capitalism and create a society which truly reflects the aspirations of most people, though it may sound scary, is actually more practical than trying to reform a union.
  7220. 'Let's Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman' - Bombing Syria
    First Published: 2015
    If you want to get close to the 'defence' establishment, you better be close to the 'defence' establishment: ideologically, sympathetically, 'patriotically'.
  7221. Let's Call Out Institutional Insanities
    A Grotesque Inversion of Priorities
    First Published: 2014
    What are the signs that an institution is clinically insane? For over thirty-five years I have been trying to persuade psychological and psychiatric specialists and their professional associations to take up this serious subject for study and corrective suggestions. Alas, to no avail.
  7222. Let's Get to Work
    First Published: 2017
    Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left.
  7223. Let's Just Pretend
    We Didn’t Offshore Manufacturing?
    First Published: 2014
    Is an iPhone made in China and exported to Europe a U.S. export? Is an Apple executive a manufacturing worker? Yes, and yes. At least those could become the answers if a new proposal afoot among some in the administration is allowed to take effect. Federal agencies grouped under the bland-sounding Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC) are proposing to radically redefine U.S. manufacturing and trade statistics. The proposal would deceptively deflate the size of reported, but not actual, U.S. manufacturing trade deficits, while artificially inflating the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs overnight.
  7224. Let's Knock Off the Fare Box
    First Published: 2007
    Olsen supports the argument in favour of fare-free transit by investigating the costs surrounding fare collection that are left largely unexamined by officials and unannounced to the public in various North American cities.
  7225. Let's Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
    First Published: 2019
    I don't know how many times I've heard that if we don't stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn't put my finger on it. Now I think I can.
  7226. Let's Not Be Cremated Equal
    The combined Universites Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1959 - 1967
    First Published: 2009
    Published in The Sixties in Canada: A Turbulent and Creative Decade, M. Athena Palaeologu ed. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2009
  7227. Let's Stop Google from Gobbling Up Our Schools
    First Published: 2016
    In October of 2006, Google launched its Apps for Education, with Arizona State University being its first client. Today there are more than 25 million individual users in both K-12 and higher ed institutions, and 74 of the top 100 universities use Google apps for their university communications and software applications.
  7228. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP 
    First Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
  7229. Let's Talk About Another Burning Color: Black Flame vs. Red Fire Extinguisher?
    First Published: 2010
    Class struggle anarchists are not the only revolutionary forces on the left, and are not the only libertarian left revolutionary forces. In my opinion, anarchists can learn a lot from some marxists.
  7230. Let's Talk TPP
    By now, many of us have heard that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was negotiated in complete secrecy, with no opportunity for Canadians to engage with the process or to have their voices heard. This changes today. Right now the government is asking Canadians what they think before they move to push this agreement into law. This is your best chance to let your MP and the Parliamentary Committee reviewing the TPP know where you stand. Use this tool to get your views on the public record of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
  7231. Let's wage war for energy independence
  7232. Letter - Coleman
    First Published: 1979
  7233. Letter - Flosznick
    First Published: 1979
  7234. Letter - Canadas pride
    First Published: 1980
    One of the nicest things about my brief visit to Canada was finding Red Menace.
  7235. Letter - Flogging away
    First Published: 1980
    A great many anarchists adopt a critical stance to Bakunin's legacy as well as towards the anarchist movement generally. Our rejection of Marxism is not monolithic.
  7236. Letter from a Birmingham Jail
    First Published: 1963
  7237. Letter from Baltimore
    First Published: 2012
    Coming to grips with the impact of Occupy Baltimore means not just evaluating what the movement has been able to do or not do on its own terms but rooting its experiences in this larger picture of class decomposition and re-composition that in Baltimore followed in the wake of the same patterns of deindustrialization, suburban flight and disinvestment .
  7238. Letter from Ecuador - where defending nature and community is a crime
    First Published: 2015
    Ecuador's president attacked eco-defender Carlos Zorrilla in TV broadcasts for resisting a new copper mine in an area of pristine forest, and opposing the advance of oil exploration into the Amazon. Zorilla seeks international support for him and his battle for land.
  7239. Letter from Marty Glaberman to Zerowork
    First Published: 1977
    Martin Glaberman explains some of his criticism of the Zerowork journal.
  7240. Letter From Mexico
    First Published: 2017
    The editors of Insurgent Notes sent a couple of articles on Mexico from the Financial Times to our Mexico correspondent to check their accuracy. The following is his reply.
  7241. Letter From Mexico City
    First Published: 2012
    A letter from a Mexican comrade about the specifics of the “neo-liberal” phase of capitalism in Mexico since the 1970s, and the role in it of Carlos Salinas, as Mexican president from 1988 to 1994, and subsequently.
  7242. Letter From Mexico: The Privatization of PEMEX
    First Published: 2014
    In 2009, the Compañia Luz y Fuerza (or LyFC, Luz y Fuerza del Centro), a semi-state company providing electricity to Mexico City and some other states in the centre of the country, was disappeared on a moonless Saturday night.
  7243. Letter from Nazareth
    The forgotten Palestinians
    First Published: 2015
    The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies
    At 26 metres, Nazareth's artificial Christmas tree is the tallest in the Middle East, or so city officials boast. Its glinting red, silver and golden baubles have brought a temporary, but much-needed cheer to the city of Jesus' childhood. Despite the festive mood, friends and neighbours in what is Israel's largest Palestinian city struggle to sound hopeful about the future. Even the inflatable Father Christmases hanging from shop awnings look forlorn.
  7244. Letter from Nazareth: The forgotten Palestinians
    First Published: 2015
    The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies.
  7245. Letter from New York
    Child poverty and death.
  7246. A Letter from North America – Our Migrant Crisis
    First Published: 2017
    This is the third of Ernie Tate’s letters to Left Unity detailing and analysing the struggles against Trump as they emerge on the other side of the pond.
  7247. Letter From the Gazan Prison
    Gaza Is a Prison Under Siege. This Is My Letter to the World Outside.
    First Published: 2023
    Ahmed Abu Artema, a founder of the Great March of Return, on facing Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza.
  7248. Letter from Tokyo: In "The Zone" of Disaster
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    On the morning of Thursday, March 17th, six days after the earthquake and tsunamis, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper had just one advertising supplement: a full-color glossy piece from a Buddhist temple, selling grave sites.
  7249. Letter: Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge
    First Published: 1843
    Constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
    Therefore I am not in favour of raising any dogmatic banner. On the contrary, we must try to help the dogmatists to clarify their propositions for themselves.
  7250. Letter - Manchester calling
    First Published: 1980
    The Red Menace: very stimulating reading.
  7251. A letter of resignation
    I refuse to brainwash Canadian students
    First Published: 1971
  7252. Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People
  7253. Letter - The quoting urge
    First Published: 1980
    A reader submits a collection of quotes from Bakunin.
  7254. Letter - Raised consciousness
    First Published: 1980
    Debunking jargon.
  7255. Letter Regarding Canada’s Extradition Law and the Case of Dr. Hassan Diab
    First Published: 2014
    In light of the case of Hassan Diab, a Canadian citizen under threat of extradition to France, we, the undersigned, call on the Federal Minister of Justice to substantially revise current Canadian extradition law. We further demand that the Federal Minister of Justice refuse the request from France that Dr. Hassan Diab be extradited, a refusal that ought to have been rendered six years ago when this nightmare began.
  7256. Letter - Terrorism
    First Published: 1980
    You can't blow up a social relationship.
  7257. Letter - The good and the bad
    First Published: 1980
    What are the contemporary differences between serious anarchists and serious libertarian Marxists? It is the present historical situation that is relevant, since after all we cannot go back and change the past.
  7258. Letter to a Progressive Democrat
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    Dear Progressive Democrat: I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and I'm proud of it. You voted for Nader and you regret it (or, you voted for Gore, even though you liked Nader better).
  7259. Letter to Bracke
    First Published: 1875
    Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
  7260. Letter to Canadian Dimension
    First Published: 1982
    The left of the NDP consists of a scraggly band of public service union bureaucrats, almost as out of touch with their union membership as the right wing, and a declining number of socialist academics ensconsced in their ivory towers. The traditional NDP left, whose link up with the 'new left' in the Waffle almost defeated the party leadership no longer exists.
  7261. A Letter To Other Occupiers
    First Published: 2012
    We need to act within a wide strategic context, and engage in more than tactical exercises. We need to invite local people to join our ranks and institutions. We cannot hope to win the trust of others, especially others different from ourselves in class background, cultural preferences, race, or gender, unless we stay long enough to win that trust one day at a time. We must be prepared to spend years in communities where there may not be many fellow radicals. In thinking about our own lives, and how we can contribute over what Nicaraguans call a “long trajectory,” we need to acquire skills that poor and oppressed persons perceive to be needed.
  7262. Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
    First Published: 2006
    We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
  7263. Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9
    Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project
    First Published: 2015
    A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to Open' status granted to the Enbridge Line 9B reversal project by the National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.
  7264. Letter to Readers
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    We are writing you this letter to invite you to support the effort to preserve and renovate the Leon Trotsky Museum (IDA-MCLTAC) in Mexico City as we mark the 70th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, the 35th anniversary of the opening of the Trotsky Museum, and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Institute on the Right of Asylum.
  7265. Letter to Socialisme ou Barbarie
    First Published: 1953
    Councils are not only the means by which workers will exercise power after the taking of social power by the workers; we consider them as also being the organisms by means of which the workers will conquer this power.
  7266. A Letter to the ATC Editors
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    A brief letter doesn’t allow much space to speak on markets and planning under socialism, but perhaps these few notes will help clarify the issues.
  7267. Letter to the Editor of Canadian Dimension
    First Published: 1978
    PAYDAY is a group of people struggling to get recognition in our society for work now unrecognized by the capitalist system, They believe housework, looking for a job, and raising children are, in themselves, wage-deserving enterprises.
  7268. Letter to the Editors
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    The argument for sweatshops comes not only from “free market” ideologues but sometimes from voices of establishment liberalism. An argument against.
  7269. Letter to the Editors
    First Published: 2018
    Georgakas responds to the book review of Finally Got the News in a previous issue of the journal. He was disheartened that pertinent political and artistic seeds that directly fed that period have been neglected.
  7270. Letter to the Joint Clerks of the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada
    First Published: 1978
    The Letter to the Joint Clerks of the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada is an official response of the United Native Nations to Bill C-60, the Act to amend the Canadian Constitution.
  7271. Letter to the New Left
    First Published: 1960
  7272. Letter to the Next Left
    First Published: 2011
    The problem of agency is especially relevant to what remains of the Left today, and it is the part of C. Wright Mills’ Letter to the New Left that is the most problematic.
  7273. Letter to the Red Menace- Unpublished letter (Linnille)
    Inquiring letter.
  7274. Letter to the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration
    First Published: 1976
    A letter rasing critical questions about the commission.
  7275. Letter - Useless pastime
    First Published: 1980
    Let's get down to the business of really discussing the issues: the role and nature of the State, trade unions, feminism, nationalism, sexuality, etc.
  7276. Letters (Issue #3)
    First Published: 1978
    Comments on Wages for Housework, libertarian socialism, workplace articles, etc.
  7277. Letters from an Inhabitant of Geneva to His Contemporaries
    First Published: 1803
    I think that all classes of society would be happy in the following situation: spiritual power in the hands of the scientists; temporal power in those of the proprietors; power to nominate those called upon to carry out the functions of the great leaders of mankind in the hands of everyone; the reward for those who govern is high esteem.
  7278. Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht
    First Published: 1918
  7279. Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 1870 & after
    First Published: 1870   Published: 1895
  7280. Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1850s
    First Published: 1859
  7281. Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1860s
    First Published: 1869
  7282. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1844
    First Published: 1844
  7283. Letters of Marx and Engels 1845
    First Published: 1844
  7284. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1846
    First Published: 1846
  7285. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1847
    First Published: 1847
  7286. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1848
    First Published: 1848
  7287. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1849
    First Published: 1849
  7288. Letters to the Editor
    First Published: 2004
    The Letters page is one of the most popular sections of any newspaper, and is therefore an ideal way to keep your name and your core message in front of the public.
  7289. Letters to the Editors: What Are You For? Democracy Vs. Politics
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    I’ve been reading Against the Current for a long time. I agree with 99% of it, because we’re against the same things. But what are you for?
  7290. Letters: (Issue #2)
    First Published: 1977
  7291. Lettuce Picking and Left-Wing Organizing
    A Bottom Up View of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers
    First Published: 2014
    Early reviews Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in The Fields of California by Bruce Neuburger, who spent much of the 1970s as a lettuce- and agricultural product picker during the heyday of the United Farm Workers (UFW).
  7292. Levellers
    Connexipedia Article
    A political movement during the English Civil Wars on the 17th century which emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance.
  7293. Levi, Paul - Writings - Index
    Writings of Paul Levi (1886-1930).
  7294. Lewis attacks Waffle, begins to purge faction from NDP
    Wafflers only allowed three-minute rebuttals
    First Published: 1972
    In March 1972, Ontarion NDP leader Stephen Lewis delivered a major attack against the party's left-wing Waffle group, laying the ground for forcing the Waffle to either disband or to leave the party.
  7295. Lewis, David
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Socialist politician, labour lawyer, and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1909-1981).
  7296. Lewis Mumford
    Obituary
    First Published: 1990
  7297. Lewis, Stephen
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Politician, diplomat, author, journalist, labour arbitrator, and former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. (Born 1937).
  7298. LGBT: a Dissection
    First Published: 2016
    "LGBT" is everywhere these days. But is it here to stay, or is it a passing fad? Where did it come from? Why was it promoted? By whom? And to what end? How did it acquire its seemingly endless variants? The acronym, in its many permutations, designates a movement very different from the gay liberation movement it evolved from. Some might see it as progress, expansion, and greater inclusivity, others as a tombstone for what was once a radical sexual liberation movement.
  7299. LGBT history, Timeline of
    Connexipedia Article
    The following is a timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) related history.
  7300. LGBT Social Movements
    Connexipedia Article
    Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements.
  7301. Libel Law is dangerous
    First Published: 1992
    Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
  7302. Liberal Antiwar Activism is the Problem
    First Published: 2016
    Every election season, veterans and their families are used as political pawns. During the Democratic National Convention in Philly, the Khans, the mother and father of a Marine Captain who was killed in Iraq, conveniently filled the role for Hillary Clinton and the Neoliberals. At the Republican National Convention, Patricia Smith gladly took the stage for the Neofascists and talked about the death of her son and the non-scandal that is, Benghazi. In the meantime, anyone who opposes U.S. Empire is shit-out-of-luck when it comes to presidential elections and the two major parties. Here, we should commend Gary Johnson and Jill Stein for remaining principled in their views surrounding foreign policy, militarism, torture and surveillance. They’re the last of a dying breed.
  7303. The liberal climate agenda is doomed to failure 
    First Published: 2014
    Liberal environmentalism represents a dangerous delusion, writes Scott Parkin - that 'playing nice' with Earth-destroying corporations and politicians can yield results worth having. Radical change on climate will only result from bold, confrontational direct actions against the fossil fuel industries and their apologists.
  7304. Liberal Condescension
    First Published: 2016
    In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election, a debate has erupted on the liberal left about the best way to deal with working class people who voted for Trump. The disagreement, for many of the participants, appears to revolve around whether liberals ought to spend their time giving patronizing lectures about white privilege, or patronizing lectures about other aspects of reality. What people on both sides of the debate seem to share is the assumption that the job of middle-class liberals is to lecture the working class.
  7305. Liberal dogma shipwrecked
    From Market Madness to Recession
    First Published: 1998
    The first serious crisis of the post-communist era is at once economic, political, ideological and strategic. All the postulates put forward over the past 10 years as fundamental to modern society are called into question, this time throughout the world.
  7306. A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss 
    First Published: 2019
    A recent manifesto decrying "populism and nationalism" see today's problems as coming from the abandonment of liberal ideals when they are in fact caused by extreme adherence to them.
  7307. The Liberal Hounding of Julian Assange: From Alex Gibney to The Guardian
    First Published: 2016
    At what point do we cry foul when we witness the abuse of a political dissident, one who dares to take on mighty vested interests? When his own state, the local legal system and the media all turn on him? When he is forced to seek sanctuary in a foreign embassy for many years, surrounded by state security forces threatening to arrest him if he leaves? When the world’s highest arbiter on the matter of his confinement, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, supports his case? When the state, legal authorities and the media ignore the ruling and continue to demand his arrest?
  7308. 'Liberal' Libel Law: Still a Disgrace to Democracy
    First Published: 2017
    In the age of social media, our allegedly liberal libel laws might pose more of a threat to unfettered free speech than ever.
  7309. The "Liberal" Media’s Propaganda War on Bernie Sanders
    First Published: 2020
  7310. A Liberal Pillar Of The Establishment - 'New Look' Guardian, Old-Style Orthodoxy
    First Published: 2018
    Respected liberal media like the New York Times and Guardian are key battlegrounds in the relentless elite efforts to control public opinion.
  7311. Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
    First Published: 2018
    Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
  7312. The liberal way to run the world - "improve" or we'll kill you
    First Published: 2012
    Since 1945, more than a third of the membership of the United Nations - 69 countries - have suffered some or all of the following. They have been invaded, their governments overthrown, their popular movements suppressed, their elections subverted and their people bombed. The death toll is estimated to be in the millions. This has been principally the project of the liberal flame carrier, the United States.
  7313. Liberalism as Class Warfare
    First Published: 2017
    Liberals, as guardians of the status quo, are class warriors on the side of economic mal-distribution and the immiseration of the labouring classes and poor for the benefit of the rich.
  7314. Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.
  7315. Liberals' 'humanitarian' open arms is not a solution to migrant crisis; radical economic changes are needed
    First Published: 2019
    Calls by Liberals to 'open our hearts' to immigrants from poor countries are about maintaining the status quo in the capitalist world. The solution is a radical change in the global economic system which encourages migration.
  7316. Liberals' interim pipeline measures fall short
    Band-aid solutions cannot fix deeply flawed pipeline reviews, environmental assessments
    First Published: 2016
    The Harper government’s 2012 environmental law rollbacks were a blunt-force trauma to the environmental assessment of pipelines. Last week, the new federal Liberal government prescribed band-aids for an ailing patient that needed more.
  7317. Liberals' Neglect of Hassan Diab a Scar on Canada's History
    First Published: 2017
    An innocent Canadian citizen has been wrongly incarcerated by foreign powers and torn away from his family, but our country's leader seems unfazed.
  7318. Liberating Sexual Desire
    First Published: 1992
    Everyone is potentially bisexual; the struggle for lesbian and gay equality is about the right of all people to share the joy of same-sex relationships without guilt or anxiety, and without the fear of prejudice and discrimination.
  7319. Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media
    First Published: 2010
    Prospects for democracy are dependent upon the growth of an independent media with wide exposure in the general population comparable to that of the corporate press.
  7320. Liberation News Service
    Connexipedia Article
    A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
  7321. Liberation of Dalits: Key to Indian Workers Revolution
    Review of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
    First Published: 2018
    Ants Among Elephants is both a family memoir and a political history.
  7322. Liberation, Then What?
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    In a lucid contribution to our understanding of contemporary Africa, David Seddon and Leo Zeilig recently charted that continent's two waves of popular protest and class struggle over the last 40 years, as well as pointing to signs of a nascent third wave.
  7323. Liberation theology
    Connexipedia Article
    The Theology of Liberation is a theology in which the salvation or liberation wrought by Christ is examined not only in terms of liberation from individual sin, but also in terms of liberation in other spheres: the aspirations of oppressed peoples and social classes; an understanding of history in which the human being is seen as assuming conscious responsibility for human destiny; and Christ the Saviour liberating the human race from sin, which is the root of all disruption of friendship and of all injustice and oppression.
  7324. La "libertad de expresión", siempre y cuando no ofenda a nadie
    First Published: 2008
  7325. Libertaria: A Libertarian Paradise
    First Published: 2014
    Most people have never heard of Libertaria (not to be confused with Liberia), so let discover a little bit about this most interesting nation. It is a veritable libertarian paradise. With a population of fifty million people and plentiful natural resources, Libertaria is truly blessed.
  7326. Libertarian communism: an introduction
    First Published: 2014
    A short introduction to what we at libcom.org refer to as communism or libertarian communism, what it is and why we think it is a good idea.
  7327. Libertarian League
    Connexipedia Article
    A name used by two American libertarian organisations during the twentieth century.
  7328. Libertarian Marxism
    Wikipedia article
    Libertarian Marxism refers to a broad scope of economic and political philosophies that emphasize the anti-authoritarian and anti-state aspects of Marxism.
  7329. A libertarian Marxist tendency map
    Connexipedia Article
    This tendency map was produced by Chris Wright for endpage.com, now part of the libcom.org library - it is designed to trace some of the important tendencies in libertarian Marxism. Contains a brief written history with links to key individuals, groups and publications, and a graphic map.
  7330. Libertarian Socialism
    First Published: 1977
    There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
  7331. Libertarian Socialism
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2010
    A socialist political orientation which promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of the coercive social relations of capitalism
  7332. "Liberté de parole" - aussi longtemps que cela n'offense personne
    First Published: 2009
  7333. La Liberté Speech
    First Published: 1872
    Citizens, let us think of the basic principle of the International: Solidarity. Only when we have established this life-giving principle on a sound basis among the numerous workers of all countries will we attain the great final goal which we have set ourselves. The revolution must be carried out with solidarity; this is the great lesson of the French Commune, which fell becaue none of the other centres -- Berlin, Madrid, etc. -- developed great revolutionary movements comparable to the mighty uprising of the Paris proletariat.
  7334. Liberties and Commons for All
    Preface to the Korean Edition of Magna Carta Manifesto
    First Published: 2012
    Liberties and Commons for All expresses two aspects of the ancient English Charters of Liberty; first is the restraint on political power of the King, second is the protection of subsistence in the commons.
  7335. Librarians and Palestine
    An Interview with Vani Natarajan
    First Published: 2013
    Working to preserve Palestinian records and memory in the face of deliberate destruction by Israel.
  7336. Libya and the World We Live In
    The Holy Triumvirate
    First Published: 2011
    The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”.
  7337. Libya's Hell, Enabled by Canadian Humanitarians
    Who Will Protect Libyans Now?
    First Published: 2013
    One of the darkest and most shameful chapters in Western military intervention continues to play out in spades in Libya. Recent news from Benghazi revealed that one of the (literally hundreds) of murderous militias opened fire on peaceful, white-flag-bearing protesters (protesting militias), killing at least 20 and wounding over 130.
  7338. Libya's second civil war
    From armed resistance to jihadist networks
    First Published: 2015
    With the events that led to Gaddafi's fall, a civil war between local groups and rival militias started in Libya. Four years later IS has appeared, and the country seems on the brink of collapse.
  7339. License to Kill
    First Published: 2018
    Halimi places alleged Russian involvement in the attempted assasination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the context of routine extrajudicial killings by the wider inernational security services.
  7340. Carl Lichtenstein
    1942 - 2011
    First Published: 2011
    Obituary for archivist for the Prometheus Research Library.
  7341. The Lie Machine
    The Media and the TTIP
    First Published: 2014
    I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests. Consider, for example, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnership.
  7342. The Lie of American Innocence
    First Published: 2022
    The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. It is unclear how anyone would try Putin for war crimes since Russia, like the United States, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But justice is not the point. Politicians like Biden, who do not accept responsibility for our well-documented war crimes, bolster their moral credentials by demonizing their adversaries. They know the chance of Putin facing justice is zero. And they know their chance of facing justice is the same.
  7343. Liebknecht, Karl
    Connexipedia Article
    German socialist, revolutionary, and a co-founder of the Spartacist League. (1871-1919).
  7344. Liebknecht, Karl - Writings - Index
    Writings of Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919).
  7345. Liebknecht, Wilhelm
    Connexipedia Article
    German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD. (1826-1900).
  7346. Lies about Assange and UN human rights jurists imperil us all
    First Published: 2016
    The defence secretary, 'comedians' on BBC Radio's News Quiz, and the entire media commentariat have ganged up this weekend up to pour mockery and poisonous lies over Julian Assange and the UN's human rights jurists. As they attempt to fight off the UN's 'guilty' verdict against the British state, they are putting dissidents at risk everywhere.
  7347. The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
    First Published: 2019
    Newspapers and other media in the United States and Britain have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the "Assange effect".
  7348. Lies, damned lies, and energy statistics - why nuclear is so much less than it claims to be
    First Published: 2015
    It's odd how often the contribution of nuclear energy is overstated by mixing up 'energy' and 'electricity', while a similar trick understates the importance of renewables like wind and solar. Even odder is how the mistake always seems to go the same way, to make nuclear look bigger than it really is, and renewables smaller. Welcome to the nuclear 'X factor'!
  7349. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics... and U.S. Africa Command
    First Published: 2016
    One of the strangest news developments of our time is the way the media now focus for days, if not weeks, 24/7, on a single event and its ramifications. Omar Mateen's slaughter of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is only the latest example of this. If no other calamitous or eye-catching event comes along (“‘Unimaginable’: Toddler’s body recovered by divers after alligator attack at Disney resort"), it could, top the news, in all its micro-ramifications and repetitions, for three or four weeks. Such stories -- especially mass killings, especially those with an aura of terrorism about them -- are particularly easy for strapped, often downsizing news outfits to cover. They are, in a sense, pre-packaged.
  7350. "Lies, Lies and More Lies" - GMOs, Poisoned Agriculture and Toxic Rants
    First Published: 2016
    As as been well documented, it is the pro-GMO lobby/industry that distorts and censors science, captures regulatory bodies, attacks scientists whose findings are unpalatable to the industry and bypasses proper scientific and regulatory procedures altogether.
  7351. The Lies of Alan Dershowitz
    First Published: 2006
    Violence is never the answer. Nor is racism. Nor is hate. Alan Dershowitz is a proponent of all three. Israelis and sympathetic Jews must finally realize that Dershowitz and other uncritical apologists of Israel are neither doing them nor the world any favors. Quite the opposite is true.
  7352. The Lies of Alan Dershowitz
    First Published: 1989
  7353. The Lies of Neoliberal Economics (or How America Became a Nation of Sharecroppers)
    First Published: 2016
    Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges talk about how America become a nation of 'sharecroppers'.
  7354. Lies That Capitalists Tell Us
    First Published: 2017
    Counter-arguments against common beliefs of the benefit of capitalism.
  7355. Life After Death for Labor?
    The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement (Book Review)
    First Published: 2015
    In his new book, veteran labour activist/academic Stanley Aronowitz offers a critique of what is wrong with the labour movement in the United States, as well as a 10-point manifesto for the steps "Toward a New Workers Movement."
  7356. The Life and Death of Socialist Zionism
    First Published: 2003
    As a mass movement, Socialist Zionism is finished. One might say that it accomplished its actual goal -- the building of the Jewish state. Unless one identifies "socialism" with statism, socialism was never a goal of Ben-Gurion and his co-thinkers.
  7357. Life and Labour Commune
    Connexipedia Article
    A Tolstoyan agricultural commune founded in 1921 and disbanded as a state run collective farm in 1937.
  7358. The life and times of Occupy Wall Street
    First Published: 2012
    Occupy Wall Street (OWS), and the Occupy movement that rapidly spread across the country in late September 2011, marked a watershed moment in the re-emergence of mass struggle and radical politics in the United States.
  7359. A Life Beyond Imagination - review of Searching for Sugar Man
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    A review of “Searching for Sugar Man”, Malik Bendjelloul directing.
  7360. Life Beyond Pamphlets
    Creating Effective Words and Images for Health Promotion
    First Published: 1988
  7361. Life and Death After the Steel Mills
    First Published: 2017
    In her study of a community devastated by industry's flight, anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world.
    Steel mills were the economic backbone of many cities across the Midwest and Northeast until the 1980s. When the industry left, former workers not only took a hit economically -- they also felt displaced and suffered disillusionment and a loss of identity.
  7362. The Life and Death of Objective Peckham
    Stripped of British citizenship and killed by an American drone
    First Published: 2015
    Documentation of the final years of Bilal el-Berjawi's life, a British-Lebanese citizen suspected of being a terrorist. The story raises questions about the British government's role in the targeted assassination of its citizens, and provides an insight into covert U.S. military actions.
  7363. Life Inside of the Song of History with Pete Seeger
    First Published: 2014
    Remembering Pete Seeger, his music, and his impact.
  7364. Life Itself is an Art
    The life and work of Erich Fromm
    First Published: 2019
  7365. The Life, Loves, Wars and Foibles of Edward Abbey
    Monkeywrenching the Machine
    First Published: 2015
    Fifty-three years ago, long before I had heard of Edward Abbey and Abraham Polonsky, I saw a film titled "Lonely are the Brave" that was based on Polonsky's adaptation of Abbey's novel "The Brave Cowboy".
  7366. A Life of Challenge to the Dogma of "Objectivity"
    Richard Bell Is Practiced at Juggling Journalism, Advocacy and Politics
    First Published: 2012
    Journalism, advocacy, politics: Are they completely different fields or aspects of the same game? Can someone actually do all three? Richard Bell has done them all and has lived to tell the tale.
  7367. The Life of Death: An Exchange 
    First Published: 1985
    The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
  7368. Life of Korolenko
    First Published: 1918
    Rosa Luxemburg wrote this article as a preface to her translation, from Russian into German, of Vladimir Korolenko’s autobiographical novel Istoriia Moego Sovremennika (A History of My Contemporary). She undertook this work during her imprisonment for socialist opposition to the imperialist war from 1915 to 1918. The preface was written July 1918 in Breslau Prison
  7369. A Life of Struggle: Farewell to Hermann Gorter
  7370. Life on the Line
    First Published: 1971
    Working on an assembly line in an auto plant.
  7371. Life, Preempted
    First Published: 2024
    Policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are undertaking increasingly brazen acts of escalation in Ukraine designed to bring Russia to the breaking point.
  7372. The Life and Resistance of a Chinese Worker
    First Published: 2016
    Under China's labour management system, independent unionism is strictly banned, and the state's official trade union body monopolizes worker representation. That means that all of China’s 806,498,521 workers are barred from forming independent organizations to agitate for their interests -- in an economy where the poorest 25 percent of households own just 1 percent of the country’s total wealth, and where long hours, safety hazards, and authoritarian management define life in the factories. This official antagonism has not stopped the emergence of workers' resistance. The number of strikes has been increasing over the past two decades, and as Eli Friedman wrote last year, "on a typical day anywhere from half a dozen to several dozen strikes are likely taking place."
  7373. Life sentence for fighting Africas last colonial power
    First Published: 2015
    Kenworthy talks about the systematic violence, abusive treatment and torture that political prisoners and activists undergo in Western Sahara.
  7374. Life Support for Labor? 
    First Published: 2015
    A review of the book "Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress" written by Steve Early.
  7375. Life Support for Labor?
    First Published: 2015
    The Debate Over how to save the labour movement suffers from a serious deficit of books written by organizers. Rarely do we get an entire book by someone who has been organizing for four decades, and is still actively engaged with union members, staff and leaders.
  7376. Life without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
    First Published: 2018
    In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? This delusion is not limited to one country, one group, or one political party, but rather is the unstated assumption of everyday life in the high-energy/high-technology industrial world. This is the delusion that we are -- to borrow from the title of a particularly delusional recent book -- the god species.
  7377. Lifestyles
    First Published: 1976
    Booklet about over-consumption, vegetarianism, co-ops, and Third World model of co-operation.
  7378. A Lifetime for Socialism
    First Published: 1997
    An obituary of Milt Zaslow.
  7379. Lifting the Burden of Debt
    First Published: 1991
  7380. Lifting the Iraq Embargo After Almost 2 Million Deaths
    What Have We Learned From the Embargo's Lessons?
    A summary of the 1991-2003 Iraq Embargo, and its devastating attack on the Iraqi civilian population.
  7381. 'Like a poison': how anti-immigrant Pegida is dividing Dresden
    First Published: 2015
    A year since its launch, German protest group has evolved into slick operation whose polarising rhetoric is increasingly blamed for attacks on refugees.
  7382. Like Israeli settlers, white mass shooters are a manifestation of their society
    First Published: 2019
    A caution against calls from the left to label white mass shooters as terrorists. Calling them terrorists does not address the fact that they carry out the objectives of their settler-colonial states.
  7383. Like Recycled Paper? Try Re-used
  7384. Lilburne, John
    Connexipedia Article
    English political agitator before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. (1614-1657).
  7385. The limits of anti-racism 
    First Published: 2009
    The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of 'racism' -- over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither 'overcoming racism' nor 'rejecting whiteness' qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the 'revolution' or urging God's heavenly intervention.
  7386. The Limits of State Intervention
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    The Nation, as befits the preeminent journal of left-liberal opinion, has run a series of articles by Robert Pollin and by James K. Galbraith that have sparked great attention. These, as well as numerous other arguments in a similar vein, mount a spirited defense of job generation through deficit spending as effective counter-cyclical measures.
  7387. Lincoln: A Review
    Civil War, Not Compromise, Smashed Slavery
    First Published: 2013
    Lincoln—Steven Spielberg’s new movie reduces the abolition of slavery to so many parliamentary maneuvers.
  7388. Abbey Lincoln and Freedom Now
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    Abbey Lincoln — singer, composer, actor — left us on August 14 at age 80. A prolific and multidimensional artist (born Anna Marie Wooldridge), she took her performing name in the 1950s by combining “Westminister Abbey” and “Abraham Lincoln.” Composer and percussionist Max Roach, her partner in life — they were married from 1962-1970 — and in music and in political action, died on August 16, 2007.
  7389. Lincoln, Abraham
    Connexipedia Article
    President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
  7390. Lincoln Brigade
    Connexipedia Article
    Volunteers from the United States who served in the Spanish Civil War in the International Brigades.
  7391. Lineages of the Arab Revolt
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A review of "Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East" by Adam Hanieh.
  7392. Linguistic data analysis of 3 billion Reddit comments shows the alt-right is getting stronger
    Taxonomy of Trolls
    First Published: 2017
    The alt-right isn't one group. They don't have one coherent identity. Rather, they're a loose collection of people from disparate backgrounds who would never normally interact: bored teenagers, gamers, men's rights activists, conspiracy theorists and, yes, white nationalists and neo-Nazis. But thanks to the internet, they’re beginning to form a cohesive group identity.
  7393. Die Linke: Ten Years On
    First Published: 2016
    Political organizations, particularly those committed to radical change, face their greatest tests in times of crisis. In 1914, German social democracy, the international socialist movement’s crown jewel, was brought to its knees by its inability to confront the outbreak of World War I. Two decades later, German Communism’s ultra-leftism proved similarly impotent in the face of the growing Nazi threat, and Europe's most powerful laboUr movement was decimated within a couple of years.
  7394. Linking class and gender theory
    First Published: 2018
    A detailed review of "Social Reproduction Theory" an essay collection edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. Contributors include Nancy Fraser, Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman, Susan Ferguson, Carman Teeple Hopkins, Serap Saritas Oran and Alan Sears.
  7395. The Lion and the Gazelle
    On Jewish History
    First Published: 2008
    If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
  7396. Lise Vogel and the politics of women's liberation
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory.
  7397. Lissa Lucas Dragged Out of West Virginia House Judiciary Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions
    First Published: 2018
    Mokhiber's article summarizes the case of political candidate Lissa Lucas, whose testimony against a bill "that would allow companies to drill on minority mineral owners' land without their consent" was censored by the court.
  7398. List of Canadian Firms in Southern Africa
    First Published: 1978
  7399. List of Groups Involved in Social Action in Canada
    First Published: 1976
    CISS's first list of people networks engaged in Social Action in Canada.
  7400. List of war crimes and crimes qualifying as genocide committed by Israel in Gaza since 7th October 2023
    First Published: 2023
    Defenders of Israel's bombing and invasion of Gaza have challenged me to offer a 'chapter-and-verse' list of war crimes that Israel has committed since the Hamas Offensive of 7th October. Here is an indicative, but not exhaustive, list.
  7401. Listen Marxist: a reply
    First Published: 1973
    Murray Bookchin replies to Jeremy Brecher's review of Post-Scarcity Anarchism.
  7402. "Listen, Yankee!": Tom Hayden Captures Absurdity of Cuban Embargo
    First Published: 2015
    The US embargo of Cuba, like a bad hangover from the Cold War, has lingered on for far too long. After decades of bingeing on the country's particularly potent brand of anticommunism, the nation's ruling elite has found it near impossible to kick its predilection for holding Cuba to a higher standard than it does for putative US allies and, for that matter, the United States itself.
  7403. Listening to Trump
    First Published: 2016
    Trump is a racist and misogynist. But the heart of his message spoke to legitimate working class concerns.
  7404. Listing of Progressive Periodicals
    First Published: 1977
    Listing of progressive and alternative periodicals with many that are financially wanting and deserve support.
  7405. Listing of Women's groups
    First Published: 1983
  7406. Little Brother Watches Back
    First Published: 1987
    Perhaps the most exciting aspect of working in the margins is the effect on the mainstream. What innovation in radio, television, journalism, or, for that matter, any social institution or relationship has not first appeared on the margin, only to be adapted and adopted. Margin and mainstream in dialectic move society forward.
  7407. A Little Crooked House: Trudeau, Morneau, BMO & KPMG Inc
    First Published: 2017
    Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau has recently reinvigorated his promise to crack down on tax evasion schemes, but how can we trust him when he is himself named in the Panama Papers?
  7408. Little, Frank
    Connexipedia Article
    American labour leader who organized miners, lumberjacks and oil field workers. (1879-1917).
  7409. Little Rock Central High School
    Connexipedia Article
    The site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement.
  7410. Livesay, Dorothy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Poet, journalist, writer of short fiction, autobiography and literary criticism. (1909-1996).
  7411. Living and Learning
    The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    The "Hall-Dennis" Report, proposing new objectives and direction in education in Ontario.
  7412. Living and Working Uncovered
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    An interview with Sonya Huber. Sonya Huber (www.sonyahuber.com) is the author of Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir.
  7413. Living by the Clock of the World: Grace Lee Boggs' Call for Visionary Organizing
    First Published: 2012
    Grace Lee Boggs recently argued that activists should spend less time on protest organizing because it "leads you more and more to defensive operations" and "Do visionary organizing" because it "gives you the opportunity to encourage the creative capacity in people and it’s very fulfilling."
  7414. Living For Change - Review
    First Published: 1999
  7415. Living in Pitiless Times: Baghdad, Beirut and Paris
    First Published: 2015
    A week of horrible carnage -- bomb blasts in Beirut and Baghdad and then the cold-blooded shootings in Paris. Each of these acts of terror left dead bodies and wounded lives. There is nothing good that comes of them – only the pain of the victim and then more pain as powerful people take refuge in clichéd policies that once again turn the wheel of violence. How does one react to these incidents? Horror and outrage come first. They are instinctual.
  7416. LIVING IN THE U.X.A.
    First Published: 2009
    At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn't working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history.
  7417. The Living Legacy of Cornel West
    First Published: 2016
    To some of his critics, West is a bitter intellectual prizefighter past his prime who feels the need to broadcast his paroxysms of rage over feeling snubbed by Obama.
  7418. Living principles: In memory of Ed Finn
    First Published: 2020
    Born in Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland, in 1926, Ed Finn grew up in Corner Brook, where he later became first a printer’s apprentice, then a reporter, columnist, and editor of that city’s daily newspaper, the Western Star. His long career as a journalist later included two years at the Montreal Gazette and 14 years at the Toronto Star. During his four-year fling in politics in Newfoundland (1959-1962), he served as the first provincial leader of the NDP. He worked closely with Tommy Douglas and helped defend and promote his pioneering Medicare legislation in Saskatchewan. And throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, he did communications work for several labour unions, and served on the board of directors of the Bank of Canada. From 1994 to 2014 he was Senior Editor at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Editor of the CCPA Monitor. On November 27, 2020, Ed was appointed to the Order of Canada.
  7419. Living the Spanish Language as the Descendant of Afro-Caribbean Migrants in Costa Rica
    First Published: 2016
    Several generations of the black population have been forced to fight in order to conserve the language they brought with them, and with it all of their accumulated history, wisdom, and identity. They struggle against the rejection of the mestizo majority as well as the governments in office, who have for years denied them Costa Rican nationality, despite being born in the country.
  7420. Living Under Occupation
    Against The Current vol. 159
    First Published: 2012
    In her autobiography, Palestinian militant Leila Khaled calls the 1960s “America’s decade,” pointing to several spots around the world where the U.S. intervened against people’s struggles as evidence that the decade was not a cause for celebration.
  7421. Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement
    First Published: 1998
    IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideological effect on legislators and other organizations' agendas; the creation of strong and lasting coalitions; the development of new worker organizations; and the growth of existing worker organizations.
  7422. Living Wage Campaigns: Part I
    First Published: 1998
    ROBERT KUTTNER WROTE in a recent Washington Post op-ed that living wage campaigns are “the most interesting (and under-reported) grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement.”1
  7423. A Living Wage in London
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    At a time when the United States is associated with the export of neoconservatism in the form of George Bush, readers will be heartened to read this tale of a more positive export as the living wage movement has leapt across the Atlantic over to the United Kingdom.
  7424. Living Wage Movement: An Update
    Against The Current vol. 90
    First Published: 2001
    Several months ago, a few hundred service workers in Santa Cruz, California won a raise. Workers who work for the city or for private sector firms who perform city services will now be eligible for $11 per hour plus health benefits or $12 per hour without benefits.
  7425. Livingstone, Kay
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Social activist, radio host. (1918-1975).
  7426. 'A Load Of Tosh'– The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
    First Published: 2018
    BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda.
  7427. The Lobby Up Close & Personal
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    "AIPAC has one goal only," said Lee Rosenberg, "Strengthening the U.S. Israel relationship." Acting on behalf of the Board of Directors of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), Lee welcomed 1600 participants to a conference entitled "AIPAC Presents: The Israeli Summit, Tools for Action".
  7428. Lobbying, Capitalism And The State
    First Published: 2015
    Lobbies pose a threat to a modern democracy and alienate the majority of the people outside the services of lobbyists who have become a fixture in politics.
  7429. Lobbying Elites: The Fast Track To Extinction 
    First Published: 2013
    As we evaluate the outcomes of the recent UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, one lesson that we are invited to learn, again, relates to our strategy for getting effective action taken on the ongoing climate catastrophe and other critical environmental.
  7430. Lobbyists for the havens: ICIJ's guide to the offshore system's defenders
    First Published: 2013
    Across the world, tax havens are under attack. Leading global organizations like the G20 and OECD have put cracking down on offshore tax avoidance at the top of their agendas. Ambitious plans for automatic sharing of tax data between countries are in the works.
  7431. Lobbyists Mourn House Speaker John Boehner's Departure
    First Published: 2015
    House Speaker John Boehner’s surprise resignation on Friday was reason to celebrate for members of his own party who often complained that he let corporate lobbyists exercise undue influence over Congress. For lobbyists, Boehner's announcement was a reason to mourn.
  7432. Local and Organic Food and Farming
    The Real Gold Standard
    First Published: 2011
    When the local chemical grower tells you that local is better than organic, tell them that they should switch to organic so that you can trust their food to be safe, clean, inspected, and environmentally friendly. Local food is not the gold standard, and may not even be safe. Local-organic is the gold standard.
  7433. Local Autonomy: A Key to Protection of the Ecosystem
    Apo Island's Protected Landscape and Seascape
    First Published: 2018
    In his book, The Plundered Seas, Michael Berrill called the Grand Banks and Georges Bank maybe the saddest story of overfishing.Berrill’s solution was the management of Large Marine Ecosystems.
  7434. Local currency
    Connexipedia Article
    A currency not backed by a national government (and not necessarily legal tender), and intended to trade only in a small area. This amounts to a formalization of the barter system, a useful tool for raising awareness of the state of the local economy.
  7435. Local Exchange Trading Systems
    Connexipedia Article
    Local, non-profit exchange networks in which goods and services can be traded without the need for printed currency.
  7436. Local fishermen: caught between the pros and cons of traceability
    First Published: 2019
    Consumers concerned about the environmental impact of fishing are demanding more transparency and accountablity from the industry. Ironically, the resulting regulations are prohibitive to the small scale fishermen that are the most sustainable part of the industry.
  7437. "Local" Goes Loco
    First Published: 2009
    Buying "local" has become a popular movement in American agriculture and commerce. Some corporations, however, are taking "local" a step farther.
  7438. Local Harvest for an Urban Landscape
    Laying the Foundations for Sustainable Local Food Systems
    First Published: 2011
    How do you create a locally harvested food system for a city of 100,000?
  7439. Local Initiatives Program (LIP)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The Local Initiatives Program or LIP was a federal program established by the Liberal government in 1971 to provide grants to a variety of community and cultural projects. The program was billed as part of the Pierre Trudeau's effort to create a "Just Society." LIP grants were intended to create jobs, especially in areas where de-industrialization had left many people unemployed.
  7440. Local schools perpetuate social inequality says survey
    First Published: 1976
    The more money your parents earn, the better you are likely to do in school. This is the conclusion of a massive study of the Toronto school population just released by the Board of Education.
  7441. Localism's Contradictions in Hong Kong
    First Published: 2019
    Localism, as a recent political phenomenon in the Hong Kong political landscape, stresses Hong Kong’s political and cultural autonomy as distinct from that of China, while older pan-democratic organizations tend to stress this continuity between democratic struggles in Hong Kong and China. Localism has politicized the younger generations in many ways – but is localism a coherent political ideology, and how does it square with an anti-capitalist, mass-led political practice?
  7442. Location Tracking: A Pervasive Problem in Modern Technology
    First Published: 2013
    NSA is tracking people around the Internet and the physical world. These newly-revealed techniques hijacked personal information that was being transmitted for some commercial purpose, converting it into a tool for surveillance. One technique involved web cookies, while another involved mobile apps disclosing their location to location-based services.
  7443. Lock 'Em Up
    The Prison State
    First Published: 2010
    Without a doubt, most of those enmeshed in the (in)justice system are not dangers to society and would not have been in it at all in a society that wasn't so racist and so shot through with every kind of social and economic inequality. Unfortunately, whatever the reasons why so many men and women have been denied their freedom, once the numbers began to rise dramatically, constituencies came into being: lawyers, police, probation officers, prison guards and staff, drug and alcohol rehabilitation counselors, sex offender counselors, vendors of all sorts, clerks and other clerical support staff, court officers, judges, community service employers that have a strong stake in milking the new cash cow.
  7444. The Lockdown Society Goes Primetime
    First Published: 2013
    Michael Schwalbe ponders the influence on society of incorporating authoritarian jargon into everyday use, with specific reference to the use of 'Lock down' normalizing the concept of restrictions on movement in non-prison situations.
  7445. Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands
    First Published: 2015
    Climate change is here and now. And if world leaders had heeded scientific warnings 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even as recently as the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 -- it's possible we would be well on our way to securing the decarbonized future that the world desperately needs.
  7446. Locked Out! One Wife's Story of the Staley Struggle
    First Published: 1997
  7447. Lockheed Martin receives bloody images instead of cool weapons photos in failed Twitter campaign
    First Published: 2018
    The world's largest defense contractor fails miserably in a social media campaign asking Twitter users to send them an "amazing photo" of a Lockheed Martin product.
  7448. Logger's death
    First Published: 1989
  7449. The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
    First Published: 2013
    Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
  7450. The Logic of Human Survival
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Review of a Marxist look at the concept of the Anthropocene.
  7451. The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
    First Published: 2016
    "Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
  7452. The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
    First Published: 2016
    "Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
  7453. The Logic of Torture
    It's About Domination, Not Intelligence
    First Published: 2014
    Torture seems to have been as bureaucratic as any other government program, with the interrogators more obsessed about memos and ass covering and obscure turf wars than stopping the progress of ticking time bombs. Like all the other Beltway drones, the CIA’s team kissed up and kicked down, sucking up to their superiors while they tortured men to death.
  7454. The London Climate Protests - Raising The Alarm
    First Published: 2019
    Analysis of media coverage of the climate crisis looks at how many outlets try to discredit 'alarmist' activists. However a sense of panics is rational and needed to avoid catastrophe.
  7455. London Dock Strike of 1889
    Connexipedia Article
    An industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London which resulted in a victory for the strikers and established strong trade unions amongst London dockers.
  7456. London matchgirls strike of 1888
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike of the women and teenage girls working at a match factory in London.
  7457. London Pub Crawl with Karl Marx
    First Published: 2018
    An account by Wilhelm Liebknecht of an incident which occured during a 'beer trip' -pub crawl- between Karl Marx, other Germans, and some Englishmen.
  7458. London Terror Attack: It's Time to Confront Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia
    First Published: 2017
    In the UK people are dealing with the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack in which innocent civilians were butchered and injured, this time in London. It is time for an honest conversation about Wahhabism, specifically the part this Saudi-sponsored ideology plays in radicalizing young Muslims both across the Arab and Muslim world and in the West.
  7459. London tube posters
    First Published: 2016
    Israel and its supporters are used to having the mainstream media repeat their talking points. We put up around 150 posters on the tube to shine a spotlight on the support Israel gets from the UK: the government, arms industry, and companies like G4S. Turns out the world loves/hates our tube ads.
  7460. The Loneliest Library in the World
    First Published: 2014
    At 73, P.V. Chinnathambi runs one of the loneliest libraries anywhere. In the middle of the forested wilderness of Kerala’s Idukki district, the library’s 160-books — all classics — are regularly borrowed, read, and returned by poor, Muthavan adivasis.
  7461. Long Before "Boondocks"
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s Black newspapers presented a picture of African-American life rendered invisible by the white media. Like white newspapers, they carried a funnies page where Black readers faithfully followed the foibles of cartoon characters like Ollie Harrington’s “Brother Bootsie,” Samuel Milai’s “Bucky” and Wilbert Holloway’s “Sunny Boy Sam.”
  7462. Long Distance High Tech State Terror
    Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Andrew Cockburn's Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins.
  7463. The long ecological revolution 
    First Published: 2017
    Up until the rise of the ecological movement in the late twentieth century, the conquest of nature was a universal trope, often equated with progress under capitalism (and sometimes socialism). To be sure, the notion, as utilized in science, was a complex one. As Francis Bacon, the idea's leading early proponent, put it, "nature is only overcome by obeying her." Only by following nature's laws, therefore, was it possible to conquer her.
  7464. The Long Game for the Long War
    First Published: 2015
    Fourteen years in, and the Terror War is raging on, mass-producing exactly what it was supposed to eliminate: terrorism and chaos. Western intervention has racked up at least six jihadi-overrun failed states throughout the Greater Middle East: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. The scope and scale of the imposed civilizational meltdown have become so great that the West itself has been increasingly inundated by its wreckage (in the form of refugees) and stung by its shrapnel (in the form of terrorist attacks).
  7465. The Long Goodbye of Antiwar Protest
    First Published: 2019
    There is a lack of real opposition - both by other governments and the public - to US-led regime changes.
  7466. Long March to Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    Revolutions at first appearance may seem sudden or spontaneous events. But they are also built over the long-haul, through generations of resistance and the preservation in collective memory of traditions of struggle and solidarity.
  7467. The Long Shadow of Mass Incarceration: A Generation Imprisoned
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    This January, the U.S. Supreme Court started what may prove to be a fundamental overhaul of criminal sentencing in federal jurisdictions. In two interrelated cases, Booker and Fanfan, the court struck down key elements of the current federal sentencing system, put in place over twenty years ago when Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act.
  7468. The long struggle of the Palestinians in Israel
    First Published: 2015
    An excerpt from the book "Chief Complaint: A Country Doctor's Tales of Life in Galilee." The essay talks about Palestinian social, economic and territorial displacement.
  7469. The Long War at Staley
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    Staley recounts the epic struggle of workers in a corn-processing plant in Decatur, Illinois in the 1990s and provides insight into how a pivotal struggle ended in defeat. That ending was not inevitable.
  7470. The Longest Occupation
    First Published: 2017
    In the current maelstrom of imperialism and regional wars, Israeli military supremacy, Islamic fundamentalism and the destruction of whole societies and even civilizations in Iraq and Syria, the very possibility of any positive outcome sometimes seems remote.
  7471. Longuet, Jenny
    Connexipedia Article
    Socialist activist. Daughter of Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx. (1844-1883).
  7472. A Look at Skid Row 1976 - Where is it Going?
    First Published: 1976
    A final report to the Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate on trends in Skid-Row movement.
  7473. Looking at Che Guevara
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    That Che Guevara's silhouette has found its way onto walls and T-shirts around the world is nothing new. A traveler through Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s would have seen Che’s face spray-painted onto walls in working-class neighborhoods. In revolutionary Nicaragua Che graffiti was officially sanctioned, as was the massive outpouring of pro-Sandinista, anti-contra wall art. As a fallen martyr Che symbolized commitment and hope for anti-imperialist guerilla organizations throughout the Americas.
  7474. Looking at Israel from the other side
    Book Review
    First Published: 2006
    A review of two books: Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries, by Suad Amiry, and The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide.
  7475. Looking at the Conference
    First Published: 1976
    Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
  7476. Looking Back -- and Ahead
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and appalling visual images — street rioting over the Vietnam War and the Martin Luther King assassination; the murder of Robert Kennedy; the debacle of the Democratic convention in Chicago, with police beating heads while Hubert Humphrey proclaimed “the politics of joy” in his nomination acceptance speech.
  7477. Looking back in anger - The Miners' Strike 30 years on
    First Published: 2014
    With new papers released by the National Archives about the Miners’ Strike Chris Strafford caught up with Harry Paterson, author of the upcoming book Look Back in Anger: The Miners’ Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 years on, to discuss what we have learnt.
  7478. Looking back, moving forward
    The McGill students who made contraception accessible
    Students at McGill published the Birth Control Handbook in 1968 when it was still illegal to distribute information about birth control. It was a watershed moment for sexual health but students today still fight obstacles to access birth control.
  7479. Looking Back on Occupy
    First Published: 2012
    A look at the Occupy movement and its relevance today.
  7480. Looking Beyond the Abolition of Restaurants
    First Published: 2020
    What does a revolutionary society do to produce food for people who aren’t necessarily in the mood to cook for themselves that day?
  7481. Looking for Democracy
    First Published: 1989
    Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
  7482. Looking for Trouble
    First Published: 2010
    Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can't afford to use existing reserves?
  7483. Looking Inside the Education Crisis
    Book review
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of The Future of our Schools:Teachers Unions and Social Justice by Lois Weiner.
  7484. Looking North for Labor Revival?
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    It isn't news that the U.S. labor movement is in profound crisis, and has been for some time. Readers of this magazine are by now all too familiar with the symptoms: waves of concessionary contracts, eroding labor laws, vicious government and employer attacks, defeated strikes, the precipitous decline in union membership.
  7485. Looking Shell in the eye: Ken Saro-Wiwa's last writings
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2013
    Author Ken Saro-Wiwa spear-headed the resistance of the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta against environmental devastation from oil drilling and ruptured oil pipelines. He was executed in 1995. Dr Laurence Cox introduces his last letters.
  7486. Looming Climate Catastrophe: Extinction in Nine Years?
    First Published: 2017
    Reports from the Arctic are getting pretty grim.
  7487. The Looming Crisis of World Capitalism
    First Published: 1998
    MARXIST ECONOMISTS ARE famous for having accurately predicted seven out of the last one international economic crisis. Perhaps for that reason, many in recent times have been unusually cautious about once again "crying wolf," even as the evidence of international economic dislocation has mounted around them. Today, however, prediction is no longer necessary. The international economy, outside of the United States and Europe—perhaps 50% of the world—is already experiencing...
  7488. Loon, interrupted: Chicks dying, social chaos. Is their comeback unraveling?
    First Published: 2014
    It’s a scenario playing out across North America -- loons are raising fewer chicks to fledgling stage than they were two decades ago. Researchers suspect that hormone-disrupting pollutants such as flame retardants may have eroded the birds' delicate social structure and contributed to a mysterious drop in Squam Lake’s loon population. In other parts of the Northeast, scientists have implicated acid rain and mercury in declining numbers of chicks.
  7489. Loosing Another Round
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    The strike at American Axle, which we reported on in ATC 134, ended when workers voted to go back under a concessionary agreement. The 25% who voted no didn’t feel they were close to winning but they said they couldn’t look themselves in the mirror if they voted yes. Yet the strike idled nearly three dozen assembly plants and put enormous pressure on GM. The UAW did not develop a longterm relationship with the union at the AAM plant in Mexico. All during the strike that plant produced 6,000 axles a day, thus enabling GM to keep some production going.
  7490. Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
    First Published: 2009
    A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
  7491. The Looting Machine Called Capitalism
    First Published: 2017
    I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment. In other words, capitalists make profits because their costs are externalized and born by others. In the US, society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
  7492. The Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany's Assault on the IMF
    First Published: 2016
    Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek "leftwing" government into a pawn of Germany's banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to loot Greece into oblivion.
  7493. Lopez Obrador in Mexico: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old?
    First Published: 2018
    The newly elected President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been described by some in the U.S. as a radical socialist, however this article explains that he has already back-peddled on important pre-election promises.
  7494. Loray Mill Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    One of the best known labor strikes in the history of the United States.
  7495. Lee Lorch
    Connexipedia article
    Lee Lorch (1915 – 2014) was a mathematician and an early civil rights activist.
  7496. Los Angeles: Assessing D2K Protests
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    More than 10,000 activists gathered in LA for the Democratic convention protests August 5-18. The main protest held Monday, August 12 drew around 10,000 activists. Three thousand had gathered for the Mumia march held the previous day.
  7497. The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
    First Published: 1997
    The Bus Riders Union began as an outgrowth of the Labor/Community Strategy Center's "Equity in Transportation Project," a policy analysis group which to study the transportation problems of the urban poor. What they discovered was an increasingly polarized allocation of public resources based on race.
  7498. Los Angeles: Hands Up, Fight Back
    First Published: 2015
    A basic and incomplete chronological overview... Protests and marches continued throughout the fall in Los Angeles, linking the Ezell Ford, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Antonio Martin murders together.
  7499. Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
    First Published: 2014
    As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
  7500. Loss of Librarians Devastating to Science and Knowledge in Canada
    First Published: 2014
    The closure of federal libraries and loss of specialized librarians impacts negatively on the state of science and knowledge in Canada.
  7501. Loss of night: Artificial light disrupts sex hormones of birds
    First Published: 2014
    Around the world, scientists seeking to answer that question have gathered mounting evidence that city lights are altering the basic physiology of urban birds, suppressing their estrogen and testosterone and changing their singing, mating and feeding behaviors. One lab experiment showed that male blackbirds did not develop reproductive organs during the second year of exposure to continuous light at night.
  7502. Lost children of Francoism
    Connexipedia article
    The lost children of Francoism were the children abducted from Republican parents, who were either in jail or had been assassinated by Francoist troops, during the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Spain. The number of abducted children is estimated to be up to 300,000. The kidnapped children were sometimes also victims of child trafficking and illegal adoption.
  7503. The Lost History of Antifa
    First Published: 2017
    72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa.
  7504. The Lost Ideal
    First Published: 1967
    “The Lost Ideal” was published in the Sydney University student newspaper honi soit on Tuesday, 3 October 1967. It was the foundation manifesto of what was to become known as the Free U, initially operating out of rented premises in Redfern before moving to premises in nearby inner suburbs. The first Free U courses commenced in December 1967, and early in the new year involved 150 people. At its peak, during the summer of 1968-1969, over 300 people were involved in courses.
  7505. Lost Liberties in the Age of Obama
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    When World War II broke out on September l, l939 the poet W.H. Auden sat in a bar on 42nd Street and penned a poem using that fateful date for its title. He reflected that the past ten years had been “a low dishonest decade.” And so has our last ten.
  7506. The Lost Partisans
    First Published: 2016
    Italy's April 25 holiday marks the anniversary of the country's liberation from fascism. This day in 1945, antifascist partisan units freed the northern industrial centers of Milan and Turin from the grip of Hitler and Mussolini's remaining loyalists, after Allied forces had swept through the country. Just three days later, in a humiliating epitaph to the twenty-year regime, partisans captured and executed il Duce and his entourage, hanging them upside down in Milan's Piazzale Loreto. Now the resistance is remembered more as representing 'national unity' than working-class resistance to fascism.
  7507. The Lost Revolution
    First Published: 2014
    A discussion of the Haitian revolution, read through the lens of Julia Gaffield's paper on the lost and found Haitian Declaration of Independence.
  7508. Lost, leaking H-Bomb 'no danger'
    First Published: 1989
  7509. Lots of Scurrying But No Revolution in Sight
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Disappointed review of a collecton of essays of women and climate change, mostly in support of reforming the status quo.
  7510. Lotta Continua
    Connexipedia Article
    Italian left-wing organization.
  7511. Louisianans, Oil & Petro-Addiction
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    The Deepwater Horizon oil horror has again focused the nation on South Louisiana. For the second time in less than five years, we are on the front pages of America’s newspapers. Again, this region is being misunderstood. Easy explanations miss the reasons why this area is so vulnerable, and why we in Louisiana are paying for the American economy’s dependence upon petroleum.
  7512. Louisiana's For-Profit Prisons
    How Long Jail Sentences for Trivial Offences Enrich Local Sheriffs' and Police Departments
    First Published: 2013
    In Louisiana, writing a cheque that bounces still carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, and the minimum sentence for a repeat burglary offender is 24 years without parole.
  7513. Louisiana's profitable prisons
    Inside America
    First Published: 2013
    Long jail sentences for trivial offences enrich local sheriffs' and police departments in the state of Louisiana -- and keep the local economy going.
  7514. Lount, Samuel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Blacksmith, politician, rebel. (1791-1838).
  7515. L'ouverture, Toussaint
    Connexipedia Article
    Leader of the Haitian Revolution. (1743-1803).
  7516. Love in the Time of Israel's War on Africans
    First Published: 2014
    Sheen discusses the unchecked popular hostility and racism towards Africans in Israel.
  7517. Love, Therapy And Politics
    First Published: 1976
    This ia a collection of articles compiled from the first year of "Issues in Radical Therapy." It includes political perspectives on therapy, group dynamics, male/female sex roles, and other concerns relevant to the practice of radical therapy.
  7518. Lowell Mill Girls
    Connexipedia Article
    Female textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
  7519. Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the face of suffering
    First Published: 2011
    Researchers have found that people in the lower socio-economic classes are more physiologically attuned to suffering, and quicker to express compassion than their more affluent counterparts. By comparison, individuals in the upper middle and upper classes were less able to detect and respond to the distress signals of others.
  7520. Luddites
    Connexipedia Article
    A social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested - often by destroying mechanized looms - against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which were leaving them without work.
  7521. Ludlow massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    The violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914.
  7522. Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
    First Published: 1886
  7523. Lukács, Georg
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, literary critic, and socialist. (1885-1971).
  7524. Lukács, György
    Connexipedia Article
    Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, literary critic, and socialist. (1885-1971).
  7525. Lupeni Strike of 1929
    Connexipedia Article
    Near the end of 1928, miners' leaders in the Jiu Valley had begun agitating for an extension of their collective work contract.The two sides could not reach an agreement. A trial, and then a strike ensued. The strike was glorified by the Communist regime as a symbol of the struggle of labour against capitalism.
  7526. Lupercalian Valentine's Day
    Whip It Good
    First Published: 2011
    The tradition of honoring all-inclusive, natural LUST around February 14 pre-dates classical times when Ancient Romans celebrated the Lupercalia, an archaic festival of the now obscure old shepherd god Lupercus (or perhaps Faunus, the Roman Pan), and a celebration of communal sexuality, purification, fertility, the rush of hormones, the howl of the wolf, the crack of the whip and the coming of Spring.
  7527. Luring Doctors from Poorer Countries is the UK's Quiet Scandal
    First Published: 2022
    The United Kingdom brings in medical professionals from poor and middle-income countries to make up for their shortage while disintergrating these countries' health systems.
  7528. Des luttes et des rires de femmes
    First Published: 1981
  7529. Luttons pour des comptoirs de luttes de classes
    First Published: 1978
  7530. Lutzenberger, José
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Environmentalist and organic farming advocate (1926-2002).
  7531. Luxembourg Puts Journalist and Whistleblowers On Trial for Ruining Its "Magical Fairyland" of Tax Avoidance
    First Published: 2016
    Luxembourg istrying to throw two French whistleblowers and a journalist in prison for their role in the "LuxLeaks" exposé that revealed the tiny country’s outsized role in enabling corporate tax avoidance.
  7532. Luxembourgian general strike 1942
    Connexipedia Article
    A pacific resistance movement organised within a short time period to protest against a directive that incorporated the Luxembourg youth into the Wehrmacht.
  7533. Luxemburg, Müller and the Berlin workers' and soldiers' councils
    First Published: 2015
    Rose reviews and discusses two important books about the German Revolution, "Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement", and "The German Left and the Weimar Republic: A Selection of Documents".
  7534. Luxemburg, Rosa
    Connexipedia Article
    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  7535. Luxemburg, Rosa
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  7536. Rosa Luxemburg 
    A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
    First Published: 2000
    In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
  7537. Luxemburg versus Lenin 
    First Published: 1935
    On many essential points the conceptions of Luxemburg differ from those of Lenin as day from night, or -- the same thing -- as the problems of the bourgeois revolution from those of the proletarian.
  7538. Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
    Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
  7539. Luxemburgism
    Connexipedia Article
    A revolutionary theory within Marxism and communism based on the writings of Rosa Luxemburg.
  7540. Luxemburg's Theory of Accumulation
    How it Differed with Marx and Lenin
    First Published: 1946
    Dunayevskaya argues that Luxemburg was on the wrong track in her attempt to revise the conclusions of Marx's Capital.
  7541. The lying silence of those who know
    Holocaust Denied
    First Published: 2009
    In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
  7542. Lying to Ourselves About the Air War
    The Killers
    First Published: 2014
    Most US citizens have never been subjected to an air raid. They have never heard the roar of planes flying high above them while an air raid siren wails, its whine competing with the planes’ roar and piercing the audio centers of the brain making sequential thought difficult if not impossible. Nor have they heard the sound of bombs — canisters filled with high explosives and fire — whistling as they fall through the air toward their targets on the ground. Nor have most US citizens ever sat in a bomb shelter wondering if their homes will survive the aerial assault they are hoping to survive themselves.
  7543. Lyme Disease and Biowarfare
    First Published: 2019
    Historical look at the connection between Lyme disease and US government-produced bioweapons by a journalist who has been researching it for decades.
  7544. Lynching Free Speech
    First Published: 2017
    In Charlottesville, as in so many parts of the country right now, the conflict is over how to reconcile the nation's checkered past, particularly as it relates to slavery, with the present need to sanitize the environment of anything -- words and images -- that might cause offense, especially if it's a Confederate flag or monument.
  7545. Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
    First Published: 2015
    A report documenting the lynching of millions of African Americans from the Civil War until the Second World War. The work maintains that America's legacy of racial terror must be more fully addressed if racial justice is to be achieved.
  7546. The Lynching of Ted Smith
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the brutal slaying of Ted Smith, an African American teen who was burned at the stake by a mob of white men in Greenville, Texas on July 28, 1908.
  7547. Lynd, Staughton
    Connexipedia Article
    American author, activist, historian, and lawyer. (Born 1929).
  7548. Lynne Stewart: 1939-2017
    First Published: 2017
    Radical attorney Lynne Stewart died in Brooklyn on March 7, 2017 at the age of 77. The immediate cause was a series of strokes which, together with metastasized breast cancer, finally drained the life out of this tireless fighter for the oppressed. Lynne's death will be keenly felt by the incarcerated opponents of the U.S. government, for whom she fought until the end. Without her, the world is a lonelier, crueler place for these prisoners and their families.
  7549. Ma Commande Me Fait Mourir
    First Published: 1979
    Ce dossier a été préparé par un groupe de mères de Pointe St-Charles.
  7550. MA Stops Charter School Expansion
    First Published: 2017
    Despite their $24 million, the charter forces - which in March had more than a 20-point lead in the polls - lost by an amazing 24 points, 62% to 38%.
  7551. Maathai, Wangari
    Connexipedia Article
    Winner of the1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1940).
  7552. Maathai, Wangari
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Winner of the 1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (1940-2011).
  7553. Macaroni & Cheese and Revolution
    The Anarchist Cookbook
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Keith McHenry's and Chaz Bufe's The Anarchist Cookbook.
  7554. Macdonald, Dwight
    Connexipedia Article
    American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical. (1906-1982).
  7555. Machismo and Its Discontents
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
  7556. MacInnis, Angus
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian social democratic politician. (1884-1964).
  7557. Grace MacInnis
    First Published: 1992
    Canadian politician and feminist: obituary in the Connexions Digest.
  7558. MacInnis, Grace Winona
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian politician and feminist.
  7559. MacInnis, Grace
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).
  7560. Mackandal, François
    Connexipedia Article
    Haïtian Maroon resistance leader. (died 1758).
  7561. The Mackenzie Valley: Native Land Claims and Corporate Growth
    First Published: 1977
    An overview of the demands on the Dene Nation regarding the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline proposal.
  7562. Mackenzie, William Lyon
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
  7563. Mackenzie, William Lyon
    Connexipedia Article
    Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
  7564. Macphail, Agnes
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).
  7565. Macphail, Agnes Campbell
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian polician. (1890-1954).
  7566. Macpherson, C. B.
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian political scientist. (1911-1987).
  7567. Macroanalysis Bibliography For Canadian Groups
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of Canadian materials to accompany a seminar programme to develop social change programs.
  7568. Mad dogs and Englishmen
  7569. Mad, Passionate Love - and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
    First Published: 2012
    The Occupy movement had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter. Until they did.
  7570. The Mad Violence of Casino Capitalism
    First Published: 2016
    American society is morally bankrupt and politically broken, and its vision of the future appears utterly dystopian. As the United States descends into the dark abyss of an updated form of totalitarianism, the unimaginable has become imaginable in that it has become possible not only to foresee the death of the essential principles of constitutional democracy, but also the birth of what Hannah Arendt once called the horror of dark times.
  7571. Madagascar: At the Bottom of the Capitalist Abyss
    First Published: 2013
    Madagascar is a country still too little known today and yet, in many ways, it is an emblematic victim of contemporary capitalist pillage. Set in the Indian Ocean, the size of France, with a population of more than 20 million people, Madagascar shows symptoms of advanced general degradation.
  7572. The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him
    First Published: 2017
    The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.
  7573. Made-in-China fake news overwhelms Taiwan
    First Published: 2018
    Since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected as Taiwan's president relations between Taiwan and China have been increasingly strained. In parallel, a series of fake news campaigns have captured Taiwanese media, with experts tracing several of these stories back to China.
  7574. Made in the USA: Report Shows ISIS Using US Arms from 'Syria Rebels'
    First Published: 2014
    From the moment the US began sending lethal arms to Syrian rebel factions, there was a chorus of people expressing fears that those arms would end up in the “wrong hands,” and US officials insisted they were going to carefully vet everyone who got those weapons.
  7575. Madiba in Palestine
    Apartheid Died on the Sharp Edge of Principles
    First Published: 2013
    The profound political ties between Palestinians and South Africans are quite strong, matched, perhaps, only by the deep connections to the black freedom movement in the U.S. Madiba’s death has generated an outpouring of mourning and remembrance from Palestinian activists.
  7576. Madison Revisited
    First Published: 1993
    Published in Radical History Review, 57 (1993)
  7577. Madison: Sitting Down for Justice
    Against The Current vol. 86
    First Published: 2000
    These words aptly describe recent events at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At 2:00 PM. on Wednesday, February 16, 2000, seven students walked into UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward's office in Bascom Hall. The students-Brendan O'Sullivan, Molly McGrath, Mark Brakken, Sarah Turner, Riza Falk and Adam Klaus, chairperson of the Associated Students of Madison-demanded that the university change its sweatshop practices.
  7578. The Magic and Deadly Dust: Asbestos and Your Health
    First Published: 1979
  7579. A Magical Moment
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    Penelope Rosemont, poet, artist and essayist, is the well known author of Surrealist Women. An International Anthology. Her new book is a lively and fascinating document, based on her personal notes from the 1960s, a time when a window to the impossible seemed to open. The story begins in Chicago, and takes us to Paris, London, and back to the United States; the author did not make it to the Seven Cities of Cibola, because they exist only in an Uncle Scrooge comic strip…
  7580. The Magna Carta
    First Published: 1215
    The Magna Carta consists of concessions wrung from the unwilling King John by his rebellious barons in 1215. It established for the first time a very significant constitutional principle: that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant.
  7581. Mahmoud Darwish, A Poet's Complex Trajectory
    Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Khaled Mattawa's Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation.
  7582. The Maidan Massacre, Censorship & Ukraine
    First Published: 2023
    Natylie Baldwin interviews Ivan Katchanovski, a Canadian-Ukrainian professor whose research focuses on the Ukraine coup of 2014 and the killing that year of protesters in Kiev.
  7583. Mailing list know-how
    First Published: 1998
    Your mailing list is one of the cornerstones of a good communications strategy.
  7584. Mailing List of Individuals Interested in Diversion Process
    First Published: 1978
  7585. The main enemy is at home
    First Published: 2022
    The outbreak of war is always a human disaster with unforeseeable consequences. The 'fog of war,' incessant propaganda, rapidly changing events, our own confused thoughts and emotions, all make it exceedingly difficult to know how to react.
  7586. The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
    First Published: 2017
    The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
  7587. The main problem with Israel is that it is based on religion
    First Published: 1999
  7588. Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
    A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh
    First Published: 2014
    This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
  7589. Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
    First Published: 2009
    Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
  7590. Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
    First Published: 2019
    Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
  7591. Mainstream News And USA's Heroics In Vietnam
    Why The Silence About The 7 Million Dead?
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the media's role in suppressing information about US military actions in Indochina from the 1940s and onward, and how the same tactics persist in the present.
  7592. Maintenant qu'est ce qu'on fait?
    Établir un mouvement social suite aux conséquences du libre échange
    First Published: 1989
    Nous savons que l'accord du libre échange va éroder l'indépendance Canadienne qui est déjà limitée. Ce qui rendra encore plus difficile de résister la croisade néo conservatrice qui tien à éliminer tout ce qui se tient devant un profit sur le marché.
  7593. Maji Maji Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    A violent African resistance to colonial rule in the German colony of Tanganyika.
  7594. Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
    First Published: 2017
    New Orleans is the nation's largest and most complete experiment in charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana took control of public schools in New Orleans and launched a nearly complete transformation of a public school system into a system of charter schools.
  7595. Major confrontation looms over rent controls removal
    First Published: 1978
    Support for an end to rent controls is growing among government officials who say that apartments aren't being built because developers no longer find it profitable enough. Critics of this line of thinking agree that apartment construction isn't keeping up with demand, but argue that rent controls are not the cause. They point to similar apartment shortages in cities without rent controls, and note that the construction slowdown began before the controls were introduced.
  7596. Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems
    First Published: 2017
    Long term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has "direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind."
  7597. A Majority Black Police Force - It's Not Enough
    First Published: 2015
    Although 61% oF Detroit's police force is Black - and headed by a Black police chief - between 1995-2000 police shot 47 people; from 2009-14 there were 18 additional shootings. Perhaps the most publicized case has been the SWAT-like raid on a home that resulted in the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, killed as she lay sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother.
  7598. Make 2015 the Year of the Bonobo!
    First Published: 2015
    We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobo. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
  7599. Make Art! Change the World! Starve!
    The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice - Part I
    First Published: 2012
  7600. The Make-Believe Crisis in Iran
    More lies and Misinformation
    First Published: 2012
    The Iranian nuclear program scenario has been in place for years and is becoming tedious, but we now seem to have arrived at a new plateau of mass hysteria thanks to the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign. Why?
  7601. Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
    First Published: 2012
    Discontent and rage have always been there, but while Social Democracy was in power, the supporters of the regime -- well placed in the open spaces for action and thought in high schools, universities and companies -- were able to use them to channel protests into directions that did not endanger the political credibility of the ruling parties.
  7602. Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
    First Published: 2012
    To understand and make sense of the recent wave of social unrest in Chile, we have to refer to the history of the last half century of this country: the revolutionary upsurge that had its peak in late 1972, the destruction of the social movement after the military coup, the neo-liberal restructuring imposed by the Pinochet regime and the consolidation of that legacy by successive civilian governments.
  7603. Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
    First Published: 1977
    A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
  7604. Make the World a Home
    First Published: 1976
    A pamphlet with the theme "Live simply that others may simply live".
  7605. Makers of our Daily Bread
    An interview with two bakery workers
    First Published: 1971
  7606. The Makhno Myth
    Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
    First Published: 2007
    Starting in the 1970s, a new consensus emerged among serious scholars of the Russian Revolution. Instead of seeing the rise of Stalinism as the predetermined outcome of Leninism or workers' power, "revisionist" historians looked instead to the devastating effects of civil war and international isolation. They discovered that the early years of the workers' state were far more complicated and rich than the standard right-wing inevitable-march-to-totalitarianism version. In its broad outlines, their work confirmed that material conditions, rather than Bolshevik original sin, transformed a mass, popular revolution into its opposite, Stalinism.
  7607. Makhno, Nestor
    Connexipedia Article
    Ukrainian anarcho-communist guerrilla leader. (1888-1934).
  7608. Making a Sow's Ear from Palestinian Protest
    First Published: 2014
    The recent decision by the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) to place a pig's head in what was assumed to be the kosher section of Woolworths, and then, in fact, turned out to be the halal section, could be written off as a mere "fail of the week."
  7609. Making Connections
    First Published: 2001
    The pressure to view things narrowly and out of context is a form of social control. Without seeing connections, we can't make sense of the world, and if we can't make sense of the world, we can't change it. "Making connections" among the many different issues and areas of our experience is a vital task of the revolutionary movement.
  7610. Making Conservation Strategy: Can Greens Learn from Military?
  7611. Making Gay Redundant
    First Published: 1996
    Peter Tatchell suggests that gay identity has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with homophobia. Winning gay freedom will make gay identity redundant.
  7612. Making Green Jobs Good Jobs
    Unions organize the clean energy sector
    First Published: 2016
    Jobs versus the environment -- it's an old dilemma that pits unions seeking work for their members against activists rallying against projects like the Keystone XL. An expanding renewable energy sector might provide a way out of this quandary. Solar and wind energy projects can put people to work without imperiling the planet. But will these jobs be friendly to workers, as well as the environment?
  7613. Making It Visible to Ourselves
    First Published: 2015
    Cheryl Harris reflects on Ferguson and the current and persisting issues Black people are facing in the U.S.
  7614. Making mid-life changes
    First Published: 2001
    "I'm so much more myself." So says Miriam Garfinkle, a family physician who recently left her busy private practice to work in a community health centre.
  7615. Making mid-life changes - Chinese translation
    First Published: 2001
  7616. Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep
    First Published: 2019
    Building through the privatization-friendly Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s, ramping up significantly with Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, and solidified through the de facto repeal of the post-Great Depression separation between investment and commercial banks at the end of Clinton’s scandal-plagued final term in office at the turn of the millenium, the United States went through a very noticeable shift in how its economy functioned.
  7617. Making Nuclear Weapons Usuable Again
    First Published: 2017
    A chilling look at the urge of both President Trump and key figures in the Pentagon to normalize nuclear weapons as a basic war-fighting tool in the American arsenal.
  7618. The Making of C.L.R. James
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    A short, positive review of a graphic novel about CLR James.
  7619. The Making of Corporate Empire
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Review of a book covering Henry Ford's "ethos of the assembly line" and how his racist views shaped it in different places.
  7620. The Making of Egypt's Revolution
    People Power in Action
    First Published: 2011
  7621. The Making of Jericho Road
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
  7622. The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
    First Published: 2019
    A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
  7623. The Making of the Muslim World
    First Published: 2017
    Review of Christopher de Bellaigue's 'The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason', Cemil Aydin's 'The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History' and Tariq Ramadan's 'Islam: The Essentials'.
  7624. Making Race Disappear
    First Published: 2016
    Black lives are discounted in the eyes of whites and official arms of the state. It is not conspiracy theory to say this. It is hard fact.
  7625. Making Sense of Sex and Gender
    First Published: 2021
    Feminist politics is not a denial of trans people’s experiences but an alternative way to understand those experiences that does not involve drugs, cross-sex hormones, and surgery. Feminist politics is an embrace of our differences and a way to live with those differences collectively, as we struggle to eliminate the hierarchies that impede our ability to thrive.
  7626. Making Sense of This Economic Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    While it now is generally agreed that the main source of the 2008 financial implosion was the accumulation of too much toxic debt, there is little agreement on the factors that precipitated the buildup of all that unsustainable debt. Whereas neoclassical/neoliberal economists blame the “irrational behavior of the agents” (both lenders and borrowers), Keynesian economists blame financial deregulation and insufficient public policy.
  7627. Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal
    First Published: 1980   Published: 1990
    This popular essay provides a brief introduction to civilian-based defense, a policy in which civilians are prepared to use nonviolent resistance as a means of national defense.
  7628. Making the City
    Women Who Made a Difference
    First Published: 2012
  7629. Making the most of spontaneous rebellions at work
    Advice on how to react when a big issue immediately angers a large number of people at your workplace
    First Published: 2006
    It would be nice if we always had tested and trusted structures in place able to respond to unexpected situations at work. Unfortunately this doesn’t describe many workplaces where structures tend to be weak and disorganised or slow and bureaucratic. The situations that upset us the most are likely to be unanticipated. Sudden rebellion is most likely to develop as a response to unexpected decisions or circumstances i.e. unfair sackings, shift changes etc, and our actions need often be rapid and ad hoc.
  7630. Making the Promises Real: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement 
    First Published: 2016
    As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen agreement, it applauded the Paris climate change agreement as "a landmark achievement in international cooperation" and called on America "to make the promises real."
  7631. Making the Rulers Obey
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of "Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements" edited by Clinton Ross and Marcy Rein.
  7632. Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto, 1960-1970
    PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2007
    First Published: 2007
  7633. Making Their Own Freedom
    Book Review of Rediker's "The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Rediker's re-centering of The Amistad Revellion toward a bottom-up perspective from that of the African slaves involved.
  7634. Making Their Own History
    A People's History of Modern Europe
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of William A. Pelz's A People's History of Modern Europe.
  7635. Making Their Voices Heard
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
  7636. Making Trouble Today
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    Activists who read the first A Troublemaker’s Handbook, published by Labor Notes in 1991, recognized themselves in the stories of courageous workers who fought to improve their workplaces and their lives. They were gratified that they were not alone, that there was a whole network of troublemakers out there, and even a handbook that took the lessons they’d learned and made them accessible to thousands of other workers.
  7637. Making Trump's America Ungovernable
    First Published: 2017
    The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible.
  7638. The Malaise on the Left 
    First Published: 1974
    Let us take it for granted that meaningful activity needs to be collective, that social transformation needs emancipated individuals, and that the institutional framework of any new society will probably be based, in part at least, on those forms which the struggle itself has repeatedly thrown up at its moments of deepest insight and creativity. What we now need to think about - and to discuss widely throughout the libertarian left - is the political content of an activity that consciously seeks both to avoid recuperation and to be relevant to the conditions of today.
  7639. Malatesta, Errico
    Connexipedia Article
    Italian anarcho-communist. (1853-1932).
  7640. Malawi: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
    First Published: 2009
    Combatting traditional practices that harm women.
  7641. The Malevolent Hypocrisy of Selective Sanctions
    First Published: 2018
    A look at why the US government is steadfast in its support of the Saudi dictatorship no matter what criminal excesses may be perpetrated by the Riyadh regime, while on the other hand it is determined to punish other countries like Cuba and Venezuela with severe economic sanctions.
  7642. Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis
    Following the Money
    First Published: 2013
    The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.
  7643. Malik, Kenan
    Connexipedia Article
    Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
  7644. Mall of America Security Catfished Black Lives Matter Activists, Documents Show
    First Published: 2015
    Documents indicate that security staff at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota used a fake Facebook account to monitor local Black Lives Matter organizers, befriend them, and obtain their personal information and photographs without their knowledge.
  7645. Man fired for AIDS gets damages
    First Published: 1989
  7646. The Man the Media Loved to Hate
    The US Press and Hugo Chavez
    First Published: 2013
    Chávez was a “classic petro-dictator”, a “charismatic demagogue” whose chosen successor guaranteed “that the combination of buffoonery and thuggery that Chávez pioneered will continue past his grave.”
  7647. 'The Man Who Knew Everyone' - Gore Vidal Through The Eyes Of The One Per Cent Press
    First Published: 2012
    Since Gore Vidal's death the corporate media have had nothing serious to say about his political dissent warning against the dominance of corporate power. As Vidal himself put it: ‘The bullshit just flows and flows and flows, and the American media is so corrupt and so tied into it that it never questions it.’
  7648. The Man Who Was Chemically Tortured
    First Published: 2012
    The torture of David Hicks at Guantanamo.
  7649. Management of protected areas
    First Published: 1991
  7650. Managing the Media: A Lesson in Making Publicity Come First
    First Published: 2002
    Case study of media relations strategy.
  7651. Managing Volunteers, Building Consensus, Nurturing Creativity
    First Published: 1987
    Techniques for managing volunteers, staff and board members for positive results; how to make everyone more effective; and methods to reduce conflict while building consensus.
  7652. Mandate for Change
    Or Business as Usual
    First Published: 1993
    In light of the newly elected President Clinton, Chomksy illustrates why the key word of his campaign, "change", really meant that nothing would indeed. He covers issues including some which he a categorzes as broken campaign promises and others which escape this label.
  7653. A Mandel for All Seasons
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    The German New Left activist Rudi Dutshcke declared just prior to his death in 1979 that his friend Ernest Mandel “continues to surprise and yet remains the same.” Dutshcke’s appraisal draws attention to the appeal of Ernest (born Ezra) Mandel (1923-95), the Belgian Marxist economist and revolutionary activist, for a generation of young people impelled toward Leftist politics in the 1960s era of decolonization, civil rights activism, and the student revolt.
  7654. Mandela, Nelson
    Connexipedia Article
    Anti-apartheid leader, first black to be elected President of South Africa. (Born 1918).
  7655. Mandela the radical
    First Published: 2013
    Nelson Mandela will be celebrated principally for the dignity with which he emerged onto the world stage after decades in prison and for the forgiveness that he displayed towards his former enemies in forging a democratic, multi-racial South Africa from the poisoned legacy of apartheid.
  7656. The Mandela Years in Power
    Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?
    First Published: 2013
    South Africa's democratization was profoundly compromised by an intra-elite economic deal that, for most people, worsened poverty, unemployment, inequality and ecological degradation, while also exacerbating many racial, gender and geographical differences.
  7657. Mandela's art of 'understanding the enemy'
    First Published: 2013
    A senior correspondent reflects on decades of covering the savvy political operator who became an African icon.
  7658. Mandela's Democracy 
    First Published: 1999
    Nelson Mandela's ideological legacy — in South Africa and globally — is startlingly complex. He has provided inspiration for the struggles of oppressed people throughout the world, and he has made himself a symbol of reconciliation in a world in which their oppression continues. To understand his historical role, and come to terms with his legacy, we need to see how his greatness and his limitations stem from the same source.
  7659. Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom
    First Published: 2013
  7660. Mandela's Paradoxes Made His Journey Even Greater
    First Published: 2013
    Mandela was in it to win it. He sought concrete, historic and “big” change, knew that it could not be achieved without the support of public opinion, and proved expertly flexible in, through trial and error, discovering what worked and what did not work, and embracing what did work.
  7661. Mandel's Economics
    First Published: 1969
  7662. Manhunting in the Hindu Kush
    Civilian casualties and strategic failures in America's longest war
    First Published: 2015
    U.S. military forces set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces that remained hidden in Hindu Kush. Dubbed Operation Haymaker, the campaign has been described as a potential model for the future of American warfare. Devereaux explains how this looks.
  7663. Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
    First Published: 1990
    1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
  7664. Manifeste de l'Anarchie
    First Published: 1850
    Le Manifeste est une intervention passionnante contre la folie politique que, sous le nom de démocratie, prétend que nous cédions nos droits à la liberté et à l'autonomie à des représentants élus pour qu'ils fassent ce qu'ils veulent.
  7665. Manifeste - la Situation economique des retraites au Quebec
    First Published: 1977
  7666. Manifesto
    10 Theses of the Leftist Opposition in Ukraine
    First Published: 2014
    Replacing one set of politicians and oligarchs with another without overall systemic changes will not improve Ukrainian's lives. Instead, the Left Opposition Collective, a group of social and union activists, is proposing ten basic conditions for overcoming the economic crisis and ensuring Ukraine’s future growth.
  7667. Manifesto - Ecology Action East
    First Published: 1970
    Root and Branch puts forward a communist approach to environmental issues.
  7668. Manifesto for the Green Mind
    Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone.
    First Published: 2017
    Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. The first call to action is: "Every child outdoors every day".
  7669. A Manifesto of Emancipation
    Marx's "Marginal Notes to the Programme of the German Workers' Party" after One hundred and twenty-five years
    First Published: 2000
    The Critique of the Gotha Program contains a condensed discussion of the most essential elements of the capitalist mode of production, its revolutionary transformation into its opposite and a rough portrayal, in a few bold strokes, of what Marx had called in Capital the “union of free individuals” destined to succeed the existing social order.
  7670. Manifesto of Indian Farmers
    First Published: 2018
    Adopted by an assembly representing the farmers of India, the manifesto outlines Indian farmers convictions, principals, concerns, rights and calls on the parliament of India to hold a Special Session to address the agrarian crisis by passing and enacting the two Kisan Mukti Bills and address additional demands.
  7671. Manifesto of Surrealism
    First Published: 1924
    Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
  7672. Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
    First Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
  7673. Manifesto of the Makhnovists
    First Published: 1918
    We must win - win not so that we may follow the example of past years and hand over our fate to some new master, but to take it in our own hands and conduct our lives according to our own will and our own conception of truth.
  7674. The Manifesto of the Network of Alternative Resistance
    First Published: 1999
    Contrary to the defensive position in which rebel and alternative groups and movements often find themselves, we believe true resistance must include the creation, here and now, of the ties and pioneering alternative forms of movements, groups and persons who, through an activism for life, overcome capitalism and reaction.
  7675. Manifesto of the Paris Commune
    First Published: 1871
    Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
  7676. The Manifesto of the People's Global Action
    First Published: 1998   Published: 1999
    We assert our will to struggle as peoples against all forms of oppression. But we do not only fight the wrongs imposed on us. We are also committed to building a new world.
  7677. Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
    First Published: 1920
    Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
  7678. Manifesto of the Sixteen
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    A document drafted in 1916 by eminent anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Jean Grave which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War.
  7679. The Manifesto of The Socialist League
    First Published: 1885
    Advocating the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism; that is, we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities.
  7680. Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - 1910
    First Published: 1910
    Tthe Socialist Party of Canada is the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.
  7681. Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
    First Published: 2006
    The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
  7682. Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism
    Writers' statement on cartoons
    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.
  7683. Manifiesto de Cartagena
    First Published: 1812
  7684. The Manipulation of Fear
    Resort to Fear
    First Published: 2005
    Chomsky discusses the effects of using fear as a control mechanism to manipulate the population.
  7685. Mann, Tom
    Connexipedia Article
    British trade unionist. (1856-1941).
  7686. Manning Marable and Malcolm X: The Power of Biography
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    Social movement theorists have written much about the political opportunities, constraints, and levels of organizational readiness enabling or inhibiting popular insurgency. We still know less, however, about the complex framing processes involved in forging and maintaining activist identities and self-narratives.
  7687. Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
    First Published: 2015
    The Syriza left is at a crossroads. For all the belief that Syriza is a different kind of party, one that transcends the division between reform and revolution and therefore should be the home for the entire left, its left faces exactly the same problem as the reformist left in social democracy -- the trap of impotence. This article is written in the spirit of offering an alternative, around which the left as a whole can unite.
  7688. Manoir Richelieu Dispute
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Few labour disputes have included such dramatic developments as the eventful Manoir Richelieu conflict, which shook Quebec in December 1985 when the Parti Québécois government sold the property, a renowned tourism heritage site, to businessman Raymond Malenfant for $555 555.55.The new owner maintained that he had purchased only a building and was not bound through the transaction by any obligation to the union or the existing collective bargaining agreement.
  7689. Manorama, Ruth
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Advocate for the right of Dalit women. (Born 1952).
  7690. Missak Manouchian
    First Published: 2016
    Missak Manouchian (1906 - 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist.
  7691. Manual for Amnesty International, Canadian Section Members & Groups
    First Published: 1977
    The Canadian appendix of the Amnesty International manual.
  7692. A Manual for Tenant Organizers
    First Published: 1977
    This manual examines the problems of evictions, rent increases, reduction of services and lack of repairs encountered by Montrealers and provides information on possible recourses and action.
  7693. Manual For The Jobless Worker
    First Published: 1978
    A manual that describes the rights of unemployed and the unemployment insurance process.
  7694. Manual teaches intelligence agency employees how to spy on problem journalists
    First Published: 2009
    The weekly Semana has revealed the existence of an instruction manual for employees of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia's leading intelligence agency, that explains how they should spy on, threaten, intimidate and discredit NGOs, judges and journalists who create problems for the government.
  7695. George Manuel
    First Published: 1989
    Obituary in the Connexions Digest
  7696. Manufactured Consent
    Power, Media and Thinktanks
    First Published: 2017
    Corporations don't just shape our politics or economics, they also seek to change public opinion to serve their interests. Which corporations play the biggest role in shaping knowledge and news? What do they fund? Who do they represent? What role have they played in the rise of authoritarian populists? This infographic for State of Power 2017 exposes those 'manufacturing consent'.
  7697. The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
    First Published: 2009
    The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
  7698. Manufactured Revolutions?
    A look at the dynamics of US imperial manipulation, internal opposition and and popular revolt
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2014
    When is a revolution not a revolution? That is the question commentators have been asking following a wave of regime changes that has zigzagged its way progressively eastwards over the last five years.
  7699. Manufacturing Bankruptcy
    First Published: 2014
    The authors analyze the politics behind Detroit's manufactured bankruptcy through an analysis of capitalism's expropriation of assets in order to produce wealth -- a process that is at the expense of the working-class majority.
  7700. Manufacturing Consensus - Hilary Benn's Speech
    First Published: 2015
    Everyone laughs when dictators claim 'Victory!' having secured fully 99 per cent of the vote. The deception is so naked, so obvious - nobody is fooled by this supposed 'national consensus'.
  7701. The Many Faces of Bank Nationalization
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    Calls for nationalization of the banking industry have been bubbling since at least September 2008, when the current banking panic began in the wake of the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the initial AIG bailout, and the quick absorption of Merrill Lynch-Wachovia-Washington Mutual banks by their larger competitors, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase.
  7702. The Many Lessons of Ukraine War
    First Published: 2023
    Combatting Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy.
  7703. The many shades of Ukraine
    First Published: 2014
    When is an invasion not an invasion? When is sovereignty not sovereignty? When is an unelected regime more legitimate than an elected government? The answer, it seems, is when we are discussing Ukraine.
  7704. Maple syrup farmers lose fight against fracking pipeline
    First Published: 2016
    A family of maple syrup farmers in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania cannot stop their trees being cut down to make way for a new fracking pipeline project owned by billion dollar oil companies, a federal judge ruled Friday. The Holleran family opposes the seizure of their maple grove to make way for the new 124-mile-long Constitution Pipeline. The group faced contempt of court charges for obstructing tree cutting on their property.
  7705. Mapuches: People of the Land
    First Published: 1980
  7706. Marat, Jean-Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    Radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. (1743-1793).
  7707. Marc Lamont Hill's Detractors are the True Anti-Semites
    First Published: 2018
    Temple University's administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Yet, the university's Board of Trustees felt compelled, nonetheless, to issue a statement further maligning Dr Hill, albeit indirectly this time.
  7708. Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere With Same Old Denial Myths
    First Published: 2015
    Marc Morano is never short of a superlative or two, but when it has come to promoting his long-gestating documentary Climate Hustle, the climate science denialist extraodinaire has been outdoing himself.
  7709. The March
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    An account of a peace march.
  7710. The March 29 Strike Against Labor Law Reform in Spain
    Outline of the Conjuncture
    First Published: 2012
    The general strike of March 29, although it mobilized a good part of the population, apparently took place with more pain than glory. Once the day of the strike was over, everything seemed to continue as before: namely, the continuation of an aggressive policy against the wage-labor population, in an economic context characterized by recession.
  7711. The March 29 Strike Against Labor Law Reform in Spain: Outline of the Conjuncture
    First Published: 2012
    The general strike of March 29, although it mobilized a good part of the population, apparently took place with more pain than glory. Once the day of the strike was over, everything seemed to continue as before: namely, the continuation of an aggressive policy against the wage-labour population, in an economic context characterized by recession.
  7712. March of the Vouchers - What Should the Left Learn from School Choice Debates?
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    In April, Florida became the first state to adopt a statewide school voucher plan. By a vote of 25-15 the State Senate adopted the absurdly named “A+ Plan for Education” which had previously been passed in the House by a vote of 70-48.
  7713. The March on Blair Mountain
    A Historic Day in West Virginia
    First Published: 2011
    The coal industry is an industry which has admitted it can not make a profit without breaking laws.
  7714. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
    Connexipedia Article
    Large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 at which Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial.
  7715. March to Freedom, 1963 and Beyond
    First Published: 2015
    Charles Simmons recounts his participation in the Walk to Freedom with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963.
  7716. Marching for Science and Humanity
    First Published: 2017
    On April 22, 2017 the March for Science took place in Washington DC, which I attended. It was a dreary rainy day that was lit up by the large crowd of scientists and concerned citizens gathered at the Washington Monument. The atmosphere was festive and defiant despite the weather.
  7717. Marching Once a Year is Not Enough
    First Published: 1983
    Argues against the levels of immobilism that characterize the Canadian left, and for the transcendence of the these immobilisms.
  7718. Marching to Jerusalem
    Searching for Dignity in Occupied East Jerusalem
    First Published: 2013
    46 years ago, Israel seized East Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has undertaken measures to restrict Palestinian movement.
  7719. Marcos, Subcomandante
    Connexipedia Article
    Spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
  7720. Marcus Gee's Confusion
    First Published: 1999
    The United States didn't 'fail to intervene' in East Timor -- it intervened massively, on the side of the Indonesian invaders.
  7721. Marcuse, Herbert
    Connexipedia Article
    Marxist philosopher, political theorist and sociologist. (1898-1979).
  7722. Marek Edelman: A True Mensch
    First Published: 2009
    To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
  7723. Margaret Benston
    First Published: 1992
    Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
  7724. The Margins and the Center: For a New History of the Cultural Revolution
    First Published: 2014
    Repost of an informative reflection on the lessons to be learned from China's "Cultural Revolution" in light of China's grim political situation circa 2014, centered on a review of Yiching's Wu's pathbreaking new book, Cultural Revolution at the Margins.
  7725. Mariátegui, Jose Carlos
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Peruvian socialist. (Born 1894).
  7726. Marikana A Point of Rupture?
    First Published: 2012
    South Africa, despite 18 years of majority rule, continues to be one of the most unequal societies on an increasingly unequal planet and is in crisis. Around half the population, mostly black Africans, live below the poverty line. Almost half of all black African households earned below R1670 a month in 2005–06, while only 2 percent of white households fell in that income bracket.
  7727. Marikana, Gaza, Ferguson - 'You Should Think of Them Always As Armed'
    First Published: 2014
    In colonial wars the occupying power invariably reaches a point where it has to acknowledge that its true enemy is not a minority - devil worshipers, communists, fanatics or terrorists - subject to external and evil manipulation, but the people as a whole. Once this point is reached every colonised person is taken as a potential combatant and the neighbourhood and the home are cast as legitimate sites of combat.
  7728. The Mark
    First Published: 1892
    A short essay on the primitive form of collective land ownership in Germany and the subsequent development of private property.
  7729. Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
    Doctrines and Reality
    First Published: 1997
    Noam Chomsky illustrates the importance of considering doctrine against the background of reality. He reveals that the political and economic principles that have prevailed are often remote from those that are proclaimed.
  7730. Market Uber Alles
    Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Lester K. Spence's Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics.
  7731. The market vs. the family
    First Published: 1989
  7732. Markets Gone Mad
    First Published: 2015
    Until recently, stocks had been on a tear that pushed valuations into the stratosphere. Volatility stayed low because Bernanke's easy money and QE made investors more placid, serene and mellow. They ventured further out on the risk curve and took more chances because they were convinced that the Fed "had their back" and that there was nothing to worry about. Then things began to fall apart.
  7733. Marriage and the Capitalist State
    For the Right of Gay Marriage...and Divorce!
    First Published: 2004
    Gays and lesbians ought to have the right to marry - but they shouldn't have to.
  7734. Marshall, Donald, Jr
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Accused of murder, Marshall, a 16-year old Micmac, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. After he had served 11 years in a penitentiary, a re-examination of the case found him innocent. (1953-2009).
  7735. Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
  7736. Martí, José
    Connexipedia Article
    Cuban poet and rebel. (1953-1895).
  7737. Martial Matters
    First Published: 2012
    A selection of commentaries on Australian martial experience at radical odds with mainstream Australian histories.
  7738. Martin Glaberman: 1918 - 2001
    First Published: 2001
  7739. Martin Glaberman: La Classe Ouvrière - Préambule
    First Published: 1975
  7740. Martin Kramer, Harvard and the Eugenics of Zion
    First Published: 2010
    At Herzliya the cream of the Zionist security elite gather to raise the alarm about Arab births and hear scholarly analyses of family size and fertility rates among Jews and Arabs as 'existential' threats to the State. Meanwhile, in the Israeli Knesset there are elaborate debates on how to define who is a Jew and who is not - along with legislating what extra privileges should be allocated to the former and denied to the latter. It would be hard to imagine another modern country where such discussions are part of the intellectual mainstream, rather than isolated in the more shadowy fringes of racist right-wing politics. Similar attitudes are expressed in the Zionist Diaspora, where bemoaning Jewish assimilation, promoting Jewish childbearing and financing Aliya to strengthen Israel's Jewish demography are common themes. Early eugenicists (and their successors) once warned against 'miscegenation' and 'mongrelization' as a danger to the White Aryan Race. Today, Jewish charities like the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation announce their prime mission as education against 'intermarriage.'
  7741. Martin Luther King Jr's Radicalism Muted by MLK Archives' Corporate Sponsors
    First Published: 2014
    The MLK Archive, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase and Co., omits Martin Luther King Jr's speech delivered at Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1968 on the 100th anniversary of W.E.B Du Bois' birth. The speech is included in its entirety here.
  7742. Martin Luther King's Speech on Vietnam
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    On January 20, President Bush made a photo-op visit to Atlanta, Georgia, to participate in the celebration of the life of the greatest civil rights figure in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
  7743. Martin Luther the Man-Devil
    First Published: 2017
    A review of the book 'Manteuffel' by Danish author and public intellectual Peter Tudvad, a work of popular fiction that also takes on religious and social-political issues.
  7744. Martinique
    First Published: 1902
    Written after the volanic eruption in May, 1902 at the port of St. Pierre.
  7745. Marx and Freud
    First Published: 1956
    Marcuse's book renews the endeavor to read Marx into Freud. Marcuse wants to resurrect the 'explosive' revolutionary content of Freud's theories.
  7746. Marx and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49)
    First Published: 1884
  7747. Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature
    First Published: 2013
    The rediscovery over the last decade and a half of Marx’s theory of metabolic rift has come to be seen by many on the left as offering a powerful critique of the relation between nature and contemporary capitalist society. The result has been the development of a more unified ecological world view transcending the divisions between natural and social science, and allowing us to perceive the concrete ways in which the contradictions of capital accumulation are generating ecological crises and catastrophes.
  7748. Marx and the Working Class
    First Published: 1999
    Francis Wheen's 1999 biography of Marx, from which this is extracted, painted a warts-and-all portrait which shatters all the romantic and orthodox-Marxist idealisations of the founder of modern communism, while leaving intact and perhaps clearer than ever, Marx’s essential humanist and critical insights into the trajectory of modernity.
  7749. Marx as a Food Theorist 
    First Published: 2016
    Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
  7750. Marx at 200; Capital at 150
    First Published: 2018
    Holmstrom discusses the relevance of Marx's Das Capital in understanding modern and historical economic systems. Specifically, she looks at the themes of exploitation, gender, race and capital.
  7751. Marx, Bakunin, and the question of authoritarianism 
    First Published: 2010
    Marx characterized the International as "a bond of union rather than a controlling force" and considered it "the business of the International Working Men's Association to combine and generalize the spontaneous movements of the working classes, but not to dictate or impose any doctrinary system whatever."
  7752. Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype
    First Published: 1977
    The real Jewish question in Marx's time was: For or against the political emancipation of the Jews? For or against equal rights for Jews?
  7753. Marx, Eleanor
    Connexipedia Article
    Socialist author and activist. (1855-1898).
  7754. Marx, Eleanor - Writings - Archive
    Writings of Eleanor Marx (1855-1898).
  7755. Marx and Engels and the 'Red Chemist'
    The Forgotten Legacy of Carl Schorlemmer
    First Published: 2017
    New studies of Marx’s long-unavailable notebooks, now being published in the massive Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (Marx-Engels Complete Works), decisively refute claims that Marx was uninterested in the natural sciences or considered them irrelevant to his politics.
  7756. Marx and Engels Belong to the Workers of the World
    First Published: 2014
    Lawrence & Wishart, the British publisher of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (MECW), has compelled the Marxists Internet Archive to remove free digital versions of this 50-volume treasure from its Web site. This step is meant to further the publisher’s pursuit of private, profitable licenses with paying customers.
  7757. Marx, Engels and the National Question
    First Published: 2018
    A historical look at the role of class and nation-states in socialism.
  7758. Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical critics 
    First Published: 2017
    A review of the book "Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique" authored by Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster, who respond to critics of ecological Marxism with a comprehensive examination of what the founders of historical materialism wrote and thought about mankind's relationship to the earth.
  7759. Marx & Engels papers completely available online
    First Published: 2015
    The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
  7760. Marx and the Family Revisited
    Book Review
    First Published: 2015
    A book review: Marxism and the Oppression of Women Toward a Unitary Theory, by Lise Vogel.
  7761. Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading
    First Published: 2019
    In-depth look at the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
  7762. Marx, Hegel, Ricardo; The "Inverted World" in the Heart of the Critique of Political Economy
    First Published: 2004
  7763. Marx in 1968 in France
    First Published: 2018
    In a personal essay, Coleman describes his personal experiences in France from 1966-1968.
    He highlights significant number of Marxists teaching in both high schools and secondary settings. Furthermore, he discusses how the working class perceived in the Marxist far left, Trotskyist and Maoist press before May 1968.
  7764. Marx in 1968: Report on a Journey
    First Published: 2018
    Harvey Goldman discusses his intellectual jounrey during the 1960s in relationship to Marism. As a member of SDS, Goldman was engaged actively in student activism.
  7765. Marx and the "International"
    First Published: 2018
    A rebuttal of the idea of Marx as Eurocentric and a white supremacist.
  7766. Marx is dead, long live Marx!
    First Published: 2018
    Duran describes 1968 as an an "ideological revolution which unquestionably affected the dominant revolutionary ideology, Marxism, and here begins my contribution, which I will divide into two large sections: an account of the situation in Spain, and then the rebirth of
    Marxism, and why we can say: 'Long live Marx!'"
  7767. Marx, Karl
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Brief biography of Karl Marx. (1818-1883).
  7768. Marx, Karl
    Connexipedia Article
    German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. (1818-1883).
  7769. Marx and Keynes: The Limits of Mixed Economy
    First Published: 1979
    A look back at Paul Mattick's book Marx and Keynes, ten years after its original publication.
  7770. Marx et Makhno a la rencontre de McDonald's
    First Published: 2005
    A Paris, les travailleurs précaires qui sont sortis vaniqueurs de plusieurs grèves en ont perud d'autres avec les honneurs à cause des méthodes à la fois légales et illégales des syndicats et des ultra-syndicalistes.
  7771. Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's 
    First Published: 2005
    Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
  7772. Marx and Marxism in Berkeley in 1968
    First Published: 2018
    Setting context by describing the early twentieth century political landscape in Berkeley, Goldner continues to describe his experince as a student at UC Berkeley by discussing local, national and international contexts for my encounter with Marx in Berkeley, 1968.
  7773. Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective - Book Review 
    First Published: 2015
    Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marx’s critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
  7774. Marx on Children (and on Forgiving Christianity)
    First Published: 2019
    An exploration of Marx's and Christianity's views on children.
  7775. Marx on Democratic Forms of Government 
    First Published: 1974
    Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
  7776. Marx on the Planet
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    We have arrived at a turning point in human history. Scientists feel that we have until perhaps 2050 before the multiple and massive environmental problems we face will become irreversible. After that, the planet will not support the existing global capitalist civilization.
  7777. Marx and Organization
    First Published: 2018
    Lause examines Marx's involvement in different organizations and argues that he seems never to have had a problem not being in an organization -- not because he accorded organization no importance, but rather that the importance he accorded it depended entirely on the demands of the class struggle around him.
  7778. Marx rediscovered
    A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
    First Published: 2015
    Sheila McGregor states that Heather Brown has written an important study of Marx’s writings on women’s oppression. Brown situates her book in the current economic and political context, noting the role that women play both in the world economy and in recent tumultuous struggles such as the Occupy movement and, not least, in the revolutions in the Middle East beginning in 2011. At the same time, parts of Brown's book are contraditory and frustrating.
  7779. Marx the Feminist?
    First Published: 2016
    In the face of global economic crisis and the dismantling of social programs under austerity policies, many feminists are re-engaging Marx's critique of capitalism. This return to Marx is necessary if we are effectively to overcome gender oppression, especially since the latest trends in feminism -- or at least those "fit to print" and discussed in the popular press -- place the onus of equal treatment squarely on women's shoulders. Newfound feminists like Sheryl Sandberg advise women to "lean in" and adjust their behaviour to suit the aggressively entrepreneurial norms rewarded in the real world that men lead. As Nancy Fraser aptly puts it, these tendencies within feminism serve as "capitalism’s handmaiden": such identity-centered, cultural critiques have helped obscure capital's dependency on gendered oppressions.
  7780. Marx Turns 200: A Mixed Gift
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    A mixed but detailed review of a biography of Karl Marx. The author likes the Life material but has problems with the treament of the Works.
  7781. Marx versus Bakunin
    First Published: 2010
  7782. A Marxian Oddity
    A review of Marxiam and Freedom. From 1776 Unitl Today, by Raya Dunayevskaya
    First Published: 1958
    Paul Mattick says although Raya Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Marxian doctrine is occasionally true and eloquent, this book as a whole is a scatterbrained hodge-podge of philosophical, economic and political ideas that defy description and serious criticism.
  7783. Marxism
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A world view developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th century and further developed by various theorists and political activists.
  7784. Marxism 2.0: New commodities, new workers?
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Ursula Huws, 'Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age' and Nick Dyer-Witheford, 'Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex'.
  7785. Marxism & Alienation
    Documents on alienation and Marxism.
  7786. Marxism and Anarchism
    First Published: 2013
    Remarks in our meeting in the London Anarchist Bookfair.
  7787. Marxism & Anarchism: Documents in the Marxists Internet Archive
    Resources on the theory and practice of anarchism and the unity and conflict between Marxists and Anarchists over the past 150 years.
  7788. Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Latin America
    Selected documents.
  7789. Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition 
    First Published: 2015
    Socialist thought is re-emerging at the forefront of the movement for global ecological and social change.
  7790. Marxism and the Critique of Scientific Ideology
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1992
  7791. Marxism and the Fate of the European Jews
    First Published: 1996
    Enzo Traverso's The Marxists and the Jewish Question; is valuable not only for what it says about Jews in one region or one period, though it is particularly strong on Eastern European Jews and their role in the workers movement in the early 20th century.
  7792. Marxism and the Trade Unions
    First Published: 1970
    Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
  7793. Marxism and women's oppression today
    First Published: 2013
    Times reflect how much in society in relation to women has changed, but also how much appears to have stayed the same.
  7794. Marxism, the Arab Spring, and Islamic fundamentalism
    First Published: 2017
    While Islamic fundamentalists are united by a reactionary worldview, the movements are not the same and must be approached differently. The Left must stake out an independent view based on democracy, social justice, equality, and liberation and freedom from oppression.
  7795. Marxism as Action
    First Published: 1915
    Now is the time to bring to the fore the other part of Marxism which has been so neglected; now, when the workers movement must find a new direction, in order to overcome the narrow views and the passivity of the old era, if it wants to overcome the crisis. Men must themselves make history, or else history will be made by others for them. Of course, they cannot build without taking the circumstances into account, but they build nonetheless.
  7796. Marxism as if the planet mattered 
    A Return to Marx's Ecological Critique
    First Published: 2013
    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels held that capitalism inevitably tears apart the natural conditions that sustain life. They argued capitalism's exploitation of working people, and the unsustainable exploitation of nature, were linked and part of the same process.
  7797. Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution
    First Published: 2018
    This article assesses the influence of 1917 on African liberation movements and explains how it influenced struggles against and beyond colonialism.
  7798. Marxism and the Dialectics of Ecology 
    First Published: 2016
    The recovery of the ecological-materialist foundations of Karl Marx’s thought, as embodied in his theory of metabolic rift, is redefining both Marxism and ecology in our time, reintegrating the critique of capital with critical natural science. Marx's materialist conception of history is inextricably connected to the materialist conception of nature, encompassing not only the critique of political economy, but also the critical appropriation of the natural-scientific revolutions occurring in his day.
  7799. Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition 
    First Published: 2017
    A review of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique.
  7800. Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
    Book review of Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique
    First Published: 2017
    Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marx’s and Engels’s original work.
  7801. Marxism, ecology and human history
    First Published: 2013
    Land and Labour: An important new book explores humanity’s contradictory relationship with the environment: our role in destroying nature, and our potential to for positive change.
  7802. Marxism and Feminism in the student movement
    First Published: 2014
    The ideas of Feminism have traditionally found support in universities, and these ideas are currently enjoying a surge in popularity amongst students. At a time when the ideas of Marxism are also finding a growing echo in the student movement, what attitude do Marxists take towards different feminist ideas? How far are these schools of thought compatible? What are the points of contention between them? And what does it mean to call yourself a "Marxist-Feminist"?
  7803. Marxism, feminism and transgender politics
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of feminism and transgender politics through a Marxist lens.
  7804. Marxism and the Fight Against Native Oppression in Canada
    First Published: 2014   Published: 2015
    Our political tendency has always emphasized the need to combat the special oppression of Natives, blacks, women and others. Such oppression is intimately connected with the “normal” capitalist exploitation of the workers and must be fought by means of the class struggle. Most of our opponents on the left these days reject historical materialism, just as they reject the perspective of working-class revolution and instead push variants of Native cultural nationalism and "ecosocialism."
  7805. Marxism in Japan
    Selected documents.
  7806. Marxism and the Intellectuals
    A review of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society and The Long Revolution
    First Published: 1962
    Raymond Williams has shown the origins of British socialism in the history of Britain itself. He has concentrated on the manner in which British writers and the British workers have created what exists in Britain today. He has developed the idea of culture from an exclusive possession of the educated and intellectuals and shown that the only meaning the word has for today is a total way of life of the whole people.
  7807. Marxism: an Introduction to a Misunderstood Philosophy
    First Published: 2017
    An introduction to fundamental principles of Marxism, and and examination of how these principles have been misrepresented by dictators and war criminals, leading to widespread misunderstanding.
  7808. Marxism and LGBT politics: a new wave of discussion
    First Published: 2016
    Colin Wilson reviews Peter Drucker's book Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism.
  7809. The Marxism of Karl Korsch
    First Published: 1964
  7810. The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg
    First Published: 1923
    It is characteristic of the unity of theory and practice in the life work of Rosa Luxemburg that the unity of victory and defeat, individual fate and total process is the main thread running through her theory and her life. As early as her first polemic against Bernstein’s she argued that the necessarily ‘premature’ seizure of power by the proletariat was inevitable. She unmasked the resulting opportunist fear and lack of faith in revolution as “political nonsense which starts from the assumption that society progresses mechanically and which imagines a definite point in time external to and unconnected with the class struggle in which the class struggle will be won”.
  7811. The Marxism of the First International
    First Published: 1924
    On 28 September 1864 it was decided at an international meeting of workers in London to found the International Workingmen's Association. On 25 July 1867, Karl Marx wrote the preface to the first edition of the first volume of Capital. Within one single period of history, in the 1860s, both aspects of Marxism attained their full realization: the new autonomous science of the working class attained its developed theoretical form in literature at the same time as the new autonomous movement of the proletariat achieved its practical form in history.
  7812. Marxism and organization
    First Published: 2011
  7813. Marxism and the Petition 
    First Published: 2016
    Many petitions operate only on the reformist appeal to authority (this is especially true of the many online petitions from sites like Change.org), which fits perfectly within the liberal democratic framework. But the petition can operate on more than one level. Its dual nature means that it is often an indispensable tool in building collective power for more radical ends.
  7814. Marxism and "Subaltern Studies" 
    First Published: 2013
    A review of Vivek Chibber's book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital.
  7815. Marxism and the Anthropocene
    First Published: 2016
    As you read this article every breath you take in contains about 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide, around a third more than your great grandparents breathed 100 years ago. As well as leading to potentially catastrophic global warming, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has changed the way plants photosynthesise and has also made seas and lakes more acidic, more so than they have been for the last 800,000 years. The effect human activity is having in the world is on such a huge scale that, for a growing number of thinkers, Earth has entered a new geological epoch defined by human activity. Using the Greek word Anthropos (human) they propose to name this epoch the Anthropocene.
  7816. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
    From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution
    First Published: 1996
    Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
  7817. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 6
    1914-1918: Imperialist War and the Realignment of the Left
    First Published: 1996
    The conclusion to a six part series, this article deals with how the formation of the Communist International, under the profound impact of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, culminated the realignment of the left which had begun in August 1914.
  7818. Marxism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 
    First Published: 1978
    Until now the history of revolutionary Marxism has been the history of its defeats, which include the apparent successes that culminated in the emergence of state-capitalist systems. It is clear that early Marxism not only underestimated the resiliency of capitalism, but in doing so also overestimated the power of Marxian ideology to affect the consciousness of the proletariat. The process of historical change, even if speeded up by the dynamics of capitalism, is exceedingly slow, particularly when measured against the lifespan of an individual. But the history of failure is also one of illusions shed and experience gained, if not for the individual, at least for the class. There is no reason to assume that the proletariat cannot learn from experience.
  7819. Marxism's 'Communicative Crisis'?
    Mapping Debates over Leninist Print-Media Practices in the 20th Century
    First Published: 2006
    Marxism’s ‘communicative crisis’, it was a topic of concern that was addressed, debated and negotiated over by party leaders, intellectuals and activists on a continuous basis throughout the 20th century. These concerns revolved around three areas: first, the primary means of print communication, the party paper; second, the specialization of production, particularly around the role of writers and journalists; and third, the search for a popular rhetoric and writing style, which would appeal to the general public.
  7820. Marxist Art Historian: Meyer Schapiro, 1914-1996
    First Published: 1996
    Schapiro will no doubt be remembered for his brilliance, for the extraordinary range of his mind, but his legacy as a scholar belongs to those willing to engage his most profound and most challenging work, in particular the Marxist studies he produced during the 1930s.
  7821. A Marxist critique of the theory of 'white privilege' 
    First Published: 2015   Published: 2020
    Candace Cohn outlines the origins and problems of privilege theory. She aruges that In holding white workers co-responsible for systemic racism, the privilege model attributed a power to white workers they manifestly do not have: control over the institutions of American capitalism – schools, jobs, housing, factories, banks, police, courts, prisons, legislatures, media, elections, universities, armed services, hospitals, sports, political parties – all of which function in a racist manner. These institutions are owned and controlled by the capitalist class.
  7822. A Marxist Ecological Vision 
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    The questions facing environmental activists, and socialists in particular, range from the sheer scale of the environmental disasters already underway to the problems of beginning a transition from a system organized around massive consumption of fossil fuels, vast megacities and global agribusiness.
  7823. Marxist feminism
    Connexipedia Article
    Focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as the key to liberating women.
  7824. Marxist and Feminist Interventions
    Marxism and Feminism
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Shahrzad Mojab's edited volume Marxism and Feminism.
  7825. The Marxist and the Gamers: Reading, Fortnite, and My Students' Identities
    First Published: 2018
    A school teacher reflects on the differences he sees in his students from past generations, notably the many young people who are avid online gamers.
  7826. A Marxist History of Capitalism (Book Review)
    First Published: 2018
    A book review of Henry Heller's "A Marxist History of Capitalism" which restores class struggle to a central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome.
  7827. A Marxist History of the World: Making the future
    First Published: 2012
    Historian Neil Faulkner concludes A Marxist History of the World by looking at what that history can tell us about the possibility for radical social change.
  7828. A Marxist History of the World Part 1: The Hominid Revolution
    First Published: 2010
    In the first of a regular series, Neil Faulkner charts the evolutionary development of modern day humans from primitive apes to socially co-operative human beings.
  7829. A Marxist History of the World part 10: Men of Iron
    First Published: 2010
    The constant rise and fall of Bronze age societies was a product of their wasteful, crisis ridden nature. But in the barbarian periphery around 1300 BCE an industrial revolution had begun that was to transform the world.
  7830. A Marxist History of the World part 100: 1968-1975: the workers' revolt
    First Published: 2012
    As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere.
  7831. A Marxist History of the World part 101: The Long Recession
    First Published: 2012
    By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.
  7832. A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
    First Published: 2012
    The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
  7833. A Marxist History of the World part 103: 1989: the fall of Stalinism
    First Published: 2012
    The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect.
  7834. A Marxist History of the World part 104: 2001: 9/11, the War on Terror, and the New Imperialism
    First Published: 2012
    The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital.
  7835. A Marxist History of the World part 105: The 2008 Crash: from bubble to black hole
    First Published: 2012
    The financial crisis represents the end of an era in which greed and casino-madness had been given free rein by market deregulation and rising debt.
  7836. A Marxist History of the World part 106: The Second Great Depression
    First Published: 2012
    Four years after the beginning of the crisis, the neoliberal elite is trapped by the contradictions of the system on which its wealth depends.
  7837. A Marxist History of the World Part 11: Western Asia: the Persian Empire
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the centuries following 1000 BCE when the scale of civilisation and empire exploded as the productivity of iron tools boosted the surpluses available to Iron Age empire-builders.
  7838. A Marxist History of the World part 12: India: the Mauryan Empire
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the growth of the Mauryan Empire which at its zenith encompassed almost the whole of what is today India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
  7839. A Marxist History of the World part 13: China: the Ch'in Empire
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of the Ch'in Empire - short-lived, created by conquest and terror and characterised by extreme centralisation, military-style exploitation, and murderous repression.
  7840. A Marxist History of the World part 14: The Greek Democratic Revolution
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the radical participatory democracy which began in Athens between 510 and 506 BCE and spread to virtually every city-state in the Aegean.
  7841. A Marxist History of the World part 15: The Macedonian Empire
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the defeat of the democratic empire centred around Athens in a protracted counter-revolution led by Greek aristocrats, Macedonian kings, and Roman viceroys.
  7842. A Marxist History of the World part 16: Roman Military Imperialism
    First Published: 2010
    Rome represented a unique fusion of Greek-style citizenship with Macedonian-style militarism. The result was the most dynamic imperialist state in the ancient world.
  7843. A Marxist History of the World part 17: The Roman Revolution
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the Roman Revolution - a complex, distorted, century-long process of class struggle.
  7844. A Marxist History of the World part 18: The Crisis of Late Antiquity
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner explains how the Roman Empire entered its terminal crisis as its military imperialism came up against geographical, economic, and sociological barriers to expansion.
  7845. A Marxist History of the World part 19: Mother-goddesses and power-deities
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of private property altered the position of women - from occupying a central role in society to suffering what Engels called ‘the world historic defeat of the female sex’.
  7846. A Marxist History of the World Part 2: The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution
    First Published: 2010
    In the second of his regular series Neil Faulkner reveals the incredible innovation and adaptability of our ancient ancestors, their unique combination of language and imagination and how cultures formed to fit the different environments in which early societies lived and worked.
  7847. A Marxist History of the World part 20: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner examines how the three great monotheistic religions produced by the contradictions of the ancient world owed their extraordinary power to their origins in the myths and rituals of the oppressed.
  7848. A Marxist History of the World part 21: Huns, Goths, and Romans
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner charts the transformation of the Huns from tribal nomads into continent-straddling militarists.
  7849. A Marxist History of the World part 22: Arabs, Persians, and Byzantines
    First Published: 2010
    This week Neil Faulkner describes the rise and explosive spread of the third great monotheistic religion, where compassion, charity, and protection became moral imperatives - Islam.
  7850. A Marxist History of the World part 23: The Abbasid Revolution
    First Published: 2010
    Islam created a single overarching allegiance throughout the Arab-ruled world yet the Middle East came to be a divided region of weak and unpopular states. Neil Faulkner looks at the conflicts that lay behind this process.
  7851. A Marxist History of the World part 24: Hindus, Buddhists, and the Gupta Empire
    First Published: 2010
    More than half a millennium separated the fall of India’s Mauryan Empire in the late 3rd century BCE (before the common era) from the rise of the Gupta Empire in the early 4th century CE (common era). Economic and social change during the interval altered the foundations of imperialism.
  7852. A Marxist History of the World part 25: Chinese History's Revolving Door
    Door
    First Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner examines China's imperial history, where for two millennia political revolution did not lead to social transformation, but simply to the replacement of one dynasty by another.
  7853. A Marxist History of the World part 26: Africa: cattle-herders, iron-masters, and trading states
    First Published: 2011
    Neil Faulkner looks at the early civilisations in Africa and how geography ensured the continent would develop differently from Eurasia.
  7854. A Marxist History of the World part 27: New World Empires: Maya, Aztec, and Inca
    First Published: 2011
    The early civilisations of the Americas were limited by its geography - in only two areas did urban revolution occur and civilisations develop: in parts of Mesoamerica, and in the Central Andes.
  7855. A Marxist History of the World part 28: The cycles and arrows of time
    me
    First Published: 2011
    In Part 9 of A Marxist History of the World, we paused to discuss ‘how history works’. It would be useful to pause again to review some general lessons of the history of the ancient and medieval civilisations we have looked at since.
  7856. A Marxist History of the World part 29: The peculiarity of Europe
    e
    First Published: 2011
    Why Europe? Why was it that the second great transformation in human existence - the development of capitalism and industrial society - was pioneered on the western edge of the Eurasian land-mass?
  7857. A Marxist History of the World Part 3: The Neolithic Revolution
    First Published: 2010
    In part three of Neil Faulkner's Marxist history series he reveals how the advent of farming lead to primitive communistic societies who through land depletion and scarcity of resources would be forced into global war.
  7858. A Marxist History of the World part 30: The rise of western feudalism
    First Published: 2011
    Following the collapse of the Roman Empire Western Europe became a politically fragmented region of warring states from which a radically new social, military, and political order developed.
  7859. A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and Jihad
    First Published: 2011
    The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the banner of religion.
  7860. A Marxist History of the World part 32: Lord, burgher, and peasant in medieval Europe
    First Published: 2011
    Feudalism is often portrayed as a stagnant system where little changed over centuries. The reality was a system that was more dynamic and productive than anything before it argues Neil Faulkner.
  7861. A Marxist History of the World part 33: The class struggle in medieval Europe
    First Published: 2011
    Despite dominating western Europe in the 11th century by the 14th century Feudalism was faced with a crisis that generated a wave of revolutionary struggle. Neil Faulkner looks at the causes and outcomes.
  7862. A Marxist History of the World part 34: The new monarchies
    First Published: 2011
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the transition from feudalism to capitalism introduced a new model of unified states, centralised government, royal armies, internal repression and national-dynastic wars.
  7863. A Marxist History of the World part 35: The new colonialism
    First Published: 2011
    The Portuguese and Spanish overseas empires founded at the beginning of the 16th century were soon followed by Dutch, English, and French empires. Neil Faulkner looks at how the transformation of the world by European colonialism began.
  7864. A Marxist History of the World part 36: The Reformation
    First Published: 2011
    The Reformation after 1521 tore apart church and state. Neil Faulkner looks at how the new social forces formed inside late medieval Europe helped undermine the thousand year domination of the Roman Catholic Church.
  7865. A Marxist History of the World part 37: The Counter-Reformation
    First Published: 2011
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the Reformation was followed by a counter-revolutionary response which involved a dogmatic reassertion of Catholic orthodoxy: the Counter-Reformation.
  7866. A Marxist History of the World part 38: The Dutch Revolution
    First Published: 2011
    For more than 40 years, with wildly fluctuating fortunes, the Dutch Revolution of 1566-1609 took the form of a protracted popular war of national defence against the Spanish Empire.
  7867. A Marxist History of the World part 39: The Thirty Years War
    First Published: 2011
    Between 1618 and 1648 Germany was wrecked by insecurity, depopulation, disruption to trade, the destruction of property, and military plundering. Neil Faulkner looks at The Thirty Years War.
  7868. A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and Religion
    First Published: 2010
    This week Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of War and Religion in the Early Neolithic world.
  7869. A Marxist History of the World part 40: The causes of the English Revolution
    First Published: 2011
    Neil Faulkner looks at the how the unresolved contradictions in English society and the attempt to establish Continental-style absolutism led to the execution of the king, and the establishment of a bourgeois republic.
  7870. A Marxist History of the World part 41: 1640-1645: revolution and war in England
    First Published: 2011
    The attempt to impose Absolutism by Charles I led to a revolutionary civil war in which the King would be executed - Neil Faulkner looks at the English Civil War.
  7871. A Marxist History of the World part 42: The Army, the Levellers, and the Commonwealth
    First Published: 2011
    Neil Faulkner looks at how even the most radical bourgeois forces, if they are to preserve their property and status, must break the momentum of the movement that has brought them to power.
  7872. A Marxist History of the World part 43: Colonies, slavery, and racism
    First Published: 2011
    Capitalist contradictions were most evident in the 18th century, when the wealth of the merchant-capitalist class of Britain’s port-cities was contrasted with the untold human misery of the slaves, ramping up the historical significance of racist ideology.
  7873. A Marxist History of the World part 44: Wars of empire
    First Published: 2011
    The English Revolution transformed Britain into a capitalist economy engaging in geopolitical competition. Neil Faulkner looks at how Britain became the dominant global superpower of the 19th Century.
  7874. A Marxist History of the World part 45: The Enlightenment
    First Published: 2011
    What gave the Enlightenment its subversive, politically corrosive character was its critique of institutions and practices which appeared comparatively irrational in the light of modern thinking, argues Neil Faulkner.
  7875. A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
    First Published: 2011
    In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
  7876. A Marxist History of the World part 47: The French Revolution - Storming of the Bastille
    First Published: 2011
    In the latest of his series on the Marxist understanding of history, Neil Faulkner explores revolution and counter-revolution in 18th-Century France.
  7877. A Marxist History of the World Part 48: The French Revolution - The Jacobin Dictatorship
    First Published: 2011
    In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the rise of the Jacobin dictatorship and the ever-present threat of counter-revolution in 18th Century France.
  7878. A Marxist History of the World part 49: The French Revolution - Themidor, Directory and Napoleon
    First Published: 2011
    In his third chapter on the French Revolution, Neil Faulkner discusses the contradictions of bourgeois revolution - but celebrates the gains it won.
  7879. A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
    First Published: 2010
    The Early Neolithic economy was doomed by insoluble contradictions. Technique was primitive and wasteful. Society lacked reserves against natural disaster and hard times. Virgin land ran out as old fields were exhausted and populations grew.
  7880. A Marxist History of the World part 50: The Industrial Revolution
    First Published: 2011
    Frederick Engels was sent to Manchester, centre of the Industrial Revolution, to dispel his radicalism. Instead it made him the revolutionary he is remembered as today, Neil Faulkner explains.
  7881. A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
    First Published: 2011
    Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
  7882. A Marxist History of the World part 52: The 1848 Revolutions
    First Published: 2011
    Even when progress is reversed, some hard-won gains are permanent. Neil Faulkner examines how the counter-revolution in 1848 failed to entirely turn the clock back.
  7883. A Marxist History of the World part 53: What is Marxism?
    First Published: 2011
    In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the complex history of Marxism - and how capitalism produced its own gravediggers.
  7884. A Marxist History of the World part 54: What is Capitalism?
    First Published: 2011
    In this critical chapter of his world history, Neil Faulkner explores capitalism and what it means from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.
  7885. A Marxist History of the World part 55: The Making of the Working Class
    First Published: 2011
    The development of capitalism entails two complementary processes. The first, explored in MHW 54, is competitive capital accumulation. The second, explored here, is the making – and continual re-making – of the working class.
  7886. A Marxist History of the World part 56: The Indian Mutiny
    First Published: 2012
    The Indian Mutiny was the subcontinent’s first war of independence, with Indians of different ethnic and religious backgrounds fighting side-by-side despite the divide and rule fostered by the British.
  7887. A Marxist History of the World part 57: The American Civil War
    First Published: 2012
    One hundred and fifty years ago North America saw the start of a revolutionary war fought between rival systems and opposing political ideologies. Neil Faulkner looks at The American Civil War.
  7888. A Marxist History of the World part 58: The Meiji Restoration
    First Published: 2012
    An event which would shape the history of the Far East until 1945, Japan’s bourgeois revolution ‘from above’ is explored by Neil Faulkner in this week's Marxist History.
  7889. A Marxist History of the World part 59: The Franco-Prussian War
    First Published: 2012
    In this week's chapter of the Marxist History series Neil Faulkner looks at how Germany’s ruling elite brought about a bourgeois revolution ‘from above’.
  7890. A Marxist History of the World part 6: The First Ruling Class
    First Published: 2010
    This week Neil Faulkner looks at the rise of the first ruling classes as the surplus created through the increasing productivity of human labour allowed a section of society to live without producing.
  7891. A Marxist History of the World part 60: The Paris Commune: the face of proletarian revolution
    First Published: 2012
    The Franco-Prussian war produced the first proletarian revolution in history, and showed to the world for the first time what a workers’ state looks like.
  7892. A Marxist History of the World part 61: The Long Depression, 1873-1896
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner writes about the The Long Depression – an unprecedented economic slump which started the countdown to the First World War.
  7893. A Marxist History of the World part 62: The Scramble for Africa
    First Published: 2012
    The imperial competition to control Africa spawned a predatory colonialism of mines, plantations, and machine-guns and propelled humanity towards industrialised world war writes Neil Faulkner.
  7894. A Marxist History of the World part 63: The Rape of China
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at the impact of western imperialism's repeated and bloody attempts to control the wealth of China
  7895. A Marxist History of the World part 64: What is Imperialism?
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of giant monopolies and the fusing of industrial, bank, and state capital created global competition - and the roots of World War I.
  7896. A Marxist History of the World part 65: The 1905 Revolution: Russia's great dress rehearsal
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the Russian Revolution of 1905 helped Leon Trotsky formulate an answer to the century-old riddle of Russian history: what form must the revolution take in order to be victorious.
  7897. A Marxist History of the World part 66: The Ottoman Empire and the 1908 'Young Turk' Revolution
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the revolution that began in Turkey in 1908 initiated a process that would transform the middle east over the following two decades.
  7898. A Marxist History of the World part 67: Reform or Revolution?
    First Published: 2012
    The world Socialist movement was blown apart as its members supported the First World War. Neil Faulkner looks at how the question of reform or revolution lay behind the split.
  7899. A Marxist History of the World part 68: 1914: descent into barbarism
    First Published: 2012
    In the summer of 1914 capitalism tipped humanity into an abyss of barbarism that would leave millions dead. Neil Faulkner looks at the First World War.
  7900. A Marxist History of the World part 69: The First World War
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at how capitalism plunged humanity into an abyss of carnage, destruction, and waste without precedent, as mass production methods produced industrialised slaughter.
  7901. A Marxist History of the World part 7: The Spread of Civilisation
    First Published: 2010
    This week Neil Faulkner looks at the spread and development of ancient city civilisations around the world, each governed by a new ruling class of priests, city-governors and war-leaders.
  7902. A Marxist History of the World part 70: 1917: the February Revolution
    First Published: 2012
    As WWI turned into a protracted, bloody struggle the initial enthusiasm gave way to growing class tensions which exploded first in Russia's February Revolution.
  7903. A Marxist History of the World part 71: Dual power: the mechanics of revolution
    First Published: 2012
    The centuries old Russian monarchy was overthrown in a matter of days in February 1917. Neil Faulkner looks at the months of turmoil that followed.
  7904. A Marxist History of the World part 72: February to October the rhythms of revolution
    First Published: 2012
    The situation of 'dual power' that emerged after the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917 was marked by a series of major political crises.
  7905. A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
    First Published: 2012
  7906. A Marxist History of the World part 75: The German Revolution
    First Published: 2012
    At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded?
  7907. A Marxist History of the World part 76: Italy's 'Two Red Years'
    First Published: 2012
    Like Germany, Italy was on the brink of revolution in the summer of 1920, after the strains of imperialist war had levered open deep fractures in an unstable social order.
  7908. A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
    First Published: 2012
    In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
  7909. A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
    First Published: 2012
    In 1927, the Chinese nationalists smashed the country's first working-class revolutionary movement – a defeat that would shape the whole subsequent history of China.Counterfire
  7910. A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
    First Published: 2012
    The anti-colonial revolts of the early 20th century were inspired by radical ideas, but, as the examples of Ireland, India and Mexico show, history exacts a heavy price for political timidity.
  7911. A Marxist History of the World part 8: Crisis in the Bronze Age
    First Published: 2010
    Why did Bronze Age empires rise and fall amid crisis and war? And why did this contradictory social form simply replicate itself over long periods of time? Neil Faulkner looks at the evidence.
  7912. A Marxist History of the World part 80: Stalinism: the bitter fruit of revolutionary defeat
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at the time when the Bolshevik regime turned in on itself and morphed into a mockery of its socialist ideals.
  7913. A Marxist History of the World part 81: The Roaring Twenties
    First Published: 2012
    Although the 'American Dream' became a reality for millions in the 1920s, it was built on shaky grounds - the huge speculative bubble that was building up on Wall Street was waiting to collapse
  7914. A Marxist History of the World part 82: The Hungry Thirties
    First Published: 2012
    Beginning with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the world economy entered the Great Depression. The misguided policies that world leaders pursued ensured that millions of lives were torn apart.
  7915. A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: The Nazi seizure of power
    First Published: 2012
    By the early 1930s, the German ruling class was determined to use the Nazis to make the world safe for German capital. But the fascist victory was not inevitable – it resulted from the failure of those who opposed fascism.
  7916. A Marxist History of the World part 85: June 1936: the French general strike and factory occupations
    First Published: 2012
    In the mid-1930s French workers launched a wave of strikes and occupations. Neil Faulkner explains how the Stalinised Communist Party worked to contain this resistance.
  7917. A Marxist History of the World part 86: The Spanish Civil War
    First Published: 2012
    In 1936, after General Franco had led an unsuccessful coup against a democratically elected government, revolution swept across Spain. Neil Faulkner explains why the workers were ultimately defeated.
  7918. A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
    First Published: 2012
    As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
  7919. A Marxist History of the World part 88: The Second World War
    First Published: 2012
    With the great powers fighting to defend their empires, the Second World War would re-divide the world between competing blocs of capitalists.
  7920. A Marxist History of the World part 89: 1941-1945: barbarism in a world gone mad
    First Published: 2012
    The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible war crimes.
  7921. A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History Happens
    First Published: 2010
    The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history happens argues Neil Faulkner.
  7922. A Marxist History of the World part 90: The Second World War: resistance
    First Published: 2012
    Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth.
  7923. A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War
    First Published: 2012
    The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
  7924. A Marxist History of the World part 92: The Great Boom
    First Published: 2012
    In the first three decades after the war, the world economy experienced unprecedented growth rates and falling unemployment. But the boom rested on unstable foundations.
  7925. A Marxist History of the World part 93: Maoist China
    First Published: 2012
    After the revolution of 1949, the Chinese Communists resorted to state capitalism to force the country’s industrialisation. The consequences were disastrous.
  7926. A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire?
    First Published: 2012
    In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism.
  7927. A Marxist History of the World part 95: Oil, Zionism, and Western Imperialism
    First Published: 2012
    British support for the Zionist movement led to the foundation of Israel in 1948. In conjunction with US imperialism, the Israeli state is an enduring source of oppression in the Middle East.
  7928. A Marxist History of the World part 96:1956: Hungary and Suez
    First Published: 2012
    1956 was a year of war, revolution, and disillusionment – a year after which nothing could ever be quite the same again.
  7929. A Marxist History of the World part 97: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution
    First Published: 2012
    The reforms that Fidel Castro introduced after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship were real, but they were bestowed from above and straitjacketed by poverty.
  7930. A Marxist History of the World part 98: The Vietnam War
    First Published: 2012
    How an army of peasant guerrillas managed to defeat US imperialism in a full-scale war.
  7931. A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
    First Published: 2012
    The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
  7932. Marxist-Humanism's concept of 'Subject'
    First Published: 1971
    Transcendence has, in academia, both a theological and philosophic meaning far removed from practice. But transcendence as a historic category means people abolishing the old, creating the new; indeed it is the only real transcendence; all else is hogwash.
  7933. Marxist Scholars Conference
    First Published: 1991
  7934. Marxist Theories of the State Played out in Venezuela
    First Published: 2017
    The implications of Marxist state theories developed by Nicos Poulantzas and Ralph Miliband are useful for framing issues related to leftist strategy in twenty-first century Venezuela.
  7935. Marxist Theory and Revolutionary Tactics
    First Published: 1912
    If the party saw its function as restraining the masses from action for as long as it could do so, then party discipline would mean a loss to the masses of their initiative and potential for spontaneous action, a real loss, and not a transformation of energy. The existence of the party would then reduce the revolutionary capacity of the proletariat rather than increase it. It cannot simply sit down and wait until the masses rise up spontaneously in spite of having entrusted it with part of their autonomy; the discipline and confidence in the party leadership which keep the masses calm place it under an obligation to intervene actively and itself give the masses the call for action at the right moment. Thus, as we have already argued, the party actually has a duty to instigate revolutionary action, because it is the bearer of an important part of the masses' capacity for action; but it cannot do so as and when it pleases, for it has not assimilated the entire will of the entire proletariat, and cannot therefore order it about like a troop of soldiers. It must wait for the right moment: not until the masses will wait no longer and are rising up of their own accord, but until the conditions arouse such feeling in the masses that large-scale action by the masses has a chance of success.
  7936. Marxist Theory and the Proletariat
    First Published: 1903
    A sketch of Marxist theory.
  7937. A Marxist view of ecology and human history
    First Published: 2014
    A review on Martin Empson's "Land & Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History."
  7938. Marxist Views of the Working Class
    First Published: 1974
    We are not discussing the working class because we want to find out what the noble worker is all about. We are concerned with social change. The fundamental problem of how you define and how you view the working class is the problem of whether the working class is a viable instrument for social change.
  7939. Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
    First Published: 1976
    The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women's movement, which was undoubtedly the most important one of its kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the memory hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
  7940. Marxists Internet Archive Encyclopedia of Marxism
  7941. Marxists Internet Archive - Historic Events in the Encyclopedia of Marxism
  7942. Marxists Internet Archive - History Archive
    A History of the Revolutionary Working Class: Documents by the People Who Practiced It
    An overview of the history of efforts of organising workers regardless of race, ethnicity, gender - or border, the effort to organise and create collaboration and co-operation between workers the world over in order to win the world for those who make it run.
  7943. Marx's Capital as Organizing Tool
    First Published: 2018
    A guide to how the left could use Marx's Capital as a text for organizing.
  7944. Marx's Capital at 150
    History in Capital, Capital in History
    First Published: 2017
    A look at Karl Marx's historic book 'Capital' Volume 1 on the 150th anniversary of publication, its historical significance and influence, and what it means for those who read the book today.
  7945. Marx's Ecological Notebooks
    First Published: 2016
    This article investigate Marx's natural-scientific notebooks, especially those of 1868, which will be published for the first time in volume four, section eighteen of the new Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe(MEGA). As Burkett and Foster rightly emphasize, Marx's notebooks allow us to see clearly his interests and preoccupations before and after the publication of the first volume of Capital in 1867, and the directions he might have taken through his intensive research into disciplines such as biology, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy, much of which he was not able fully to integrate into Capital.
  7946. Marx's Ecology: Recovered Legacy
    First Published: 2018
    Löwy says that while mainstream ecologicail theory has been dismissive of Karl Marx, serious research in recent decades has recovered some of his very important insights on ecological issues.
  7947. Marxs Humanism Today
    First Published: 1965
    The 1844 Manuscripts didn't just pave the way for scientific socialism. Humanism wasn't just a stage Marx passed through on his voyage of discovery to scientific economics or real revolutionary politics. Humanist philosophy is the very foundation of the integral unity of Marxian theory, which cannot be fragmented into economics, politics, sociology, much less identified with the Stalinist monolithic creation.
  7948. Marx's Marginal Notes on the Program and Rules of Bakunin's International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
    First Published: 1868
  7949. Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
    First Published: 1982
  7950. Marx's Theory of Working-Class Precariousness
    First Published: 2016
    In the last decade and a half the concept of worker precariousness has gained renewed currency among social scientists. This trend grew more pronounced after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2009, which left in its wake a period of deep economic stagnation that still persists in large parts of the global economy. Most scholars define precariousness by reference to what workers lack, including such factors as: ready access to paid employment, protection from arbitrary firing, possibility for advancement, long-term job stability, adequate safety, development of new skills, living wages, and union representation.
  7951. Marx's unchaining of the dialectic
    First Published: 1983
  7952. Marx's Vision of Communism
    A Reconstruction
    First Published: 1977
    Ollman tries to reconstruct Marx's vision of communism from his writings of 1844, the year in which he set down the broad lines of his analysis, to the end of his life.
  7953. The Masked Avenger
    First Published: 1994
    Super Barrio is a living comic strip character, a masked man who wrestles with evil slumlords and corrupt politicians.
  7954. Masking Tragedy in Ukraine
    Sinister Illusions
    First Published: 2014
    It is no secret that Barack Obama is one of the supreme illusionists of modern times. The disconnect between his words and his deeds is so profound as to be almost sublime, far surpassing the crude obfuscations of the Bush-Cheney gang.
  7955. Anne Mason-Apps
    First Published: 1992
    Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
  7956. Mass Action
    First Published: 1911
    No party executive in the world can replace the mass of the party's own energy, and an organisation of a million which, at a great time and in the face of great tasks, would want to complain that it did not have the right leaders would prove its own shortcomings, because it would prove it has not understood the historical essence itself of the proletarian class struggle that consists in the proletarian masses not needing "leaders" in a bourgeois sense, that they are themselves leaders.
  7957. 'A mass assassination factory': Inside Israel's calculated bombing of Gaza
    First Published: 2023
    Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.
  7958. Mass Incarceration
    New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?
    First Published: 2018
    Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration.
  7959. Mass Incarceration and Black Oppression in America
    The New Jim Crow and Liberal Reformism
    First Published: 2012
    The singular focus on mass incarceration as the embodiment of racial oppression has a purpose: it poses the fight for black freedom as a matter of "dismantling" that system, much as the civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow. But mass black incarceration is both a symptom and a means of enforcing the special oppression of black people that is fundamental to American capitalism
  7960. Mass Incarceration and Capitalism
    The Violence of Economic Exploitation
    First Published: 2014
    On the intersections of race, class, capitalism, and social repression via mass incarceration in the United States.
  7961. Mass Incarceration and the Left
    First Published: 2014
    Thompson opens up a discussion regarding the American criminal justice system and why incarceration does not lead to rehabilitation back into society.
  7962. Mass Incarceration for Profit
    First Published: 2015
    In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
  7963. Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States
    First Published: 2017
    Federal Prison Industries (FPI) under the brand UNICORE operates approximately 52 factories (prisons) across the United States.
  7964. Mass Media Omertà
    Burying Al Jazeera's 'The Labour Files'
    First Published: 2022
    The damaging revelations about the Labour Party in the recent four-part Al Jazeera series, ‘The Labour Files’, and the almost totalitarian silence in response by British news media, should ram home the illusory nature of ‘democracy’ in the UK.
  7965. The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public’s Trust 
    First Published: 2021
    It doesn’t ultimately matter what mainstream pundits and reporters believe is the cause of the public’s growing disgust with them, because there's nothing they can do to fix it anyway. The mass media will never regain the public's trust.
  7966. Mass Murder at Colfax, The Bloody Death of Reconstruction
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    On April 13, 1873, white supremacists laid siege to a Black Republican stronghold in rural north Louisiana, brutally slaying freedmen and altering the course of the United States. The Colfax massacre happened at the courthouse of newly created Grant Parish, located in a town named after Vice President Schuyler Colfax. Colfax is situated in cotton country along the Red River.
  7967. Mass murder by botulism: Surge in Great Lakes bird deaths driven by invaders
    First Published: 2014
    The botulism bacterium "is the most toxic natural substance on Earth. Just one gram could kill off like two million people. And for these birds it's essentially just widespread food poisoning."
  7968. Mass murder in a Turkish coal mine
    Over 300 miners have been killed by a system that values fossil fuels and profits above the lives of those who are paid poverty-level wages
    First Published: 2014
    Think about the last time you reached the top of a mountain one mile high. Now think about descending that distance below the surface of the earth, foot by dark foot, far below all life, light or oxygen. You go down there to dig.
  7969. The mass strike in the First World War
    First Published: 2015
    The mass strikes of the First World War displayed all the characteristics earlier described by Rosa Luxemburg. City and trade-wide strikes; national strikes; street fighting; demonstrations; the raising of economic demands and political demands, and of both.
  7970. Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
    The Lesson of Hacking Team's Malware
    First Published: 2015
    A report published by Privacy International as well as an article posted by Vice Motherboard clearly show that both the DEA and the United States Army have long-standing relationships with Hacking Team, an Italian company that’s notorious for selling malware to any number of unsavory characters.
  7971. The Massachusetts Plan: "Universal Coverage"?
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    On April 12, 2006 Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed legislation that is being touted nationally as the model for providing health care for all people. The goal of the legislation is to provide health insurance for the State's 780,000 people who have no health insurance, by July 1, 2007.
  7972. The Massacre
    First Published: 1982
    All other news, all other concerns, fade into insignificance beside the enormous horror of the massacre in Beirut. All humanity is outraged at the wanton slaughter of hundreds of men (mainly elderly), women, and children in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. The days of the massacre -- September 16 to 18 -- shall truly live in infamy.
  7973. The Massacre and the Cover-Up
    First Published: 2010
    Without much stronger international pressure than the international community has applied to date, there is every reason to expect Israeli massacres to steadily become more severe, their PR rationales more outlandish. Mild diplomatic rebukes will not sway them. Unless serious costs are imposed for such crimes, much worse is yet to come.
  7974. The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
    Excerpted from the book War Crimes: A report on United States war crimes against Iraq
    First Published: 1992
    I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions. U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see.
  7975. Massacres as a weapon of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba
    First Published: 2020
    Sitta explores the ways massacres were an integral element of the Israeli settler colonial state, and aims to challenge the Zionist narrative that has dominated the Western mind. He provides a chronology of the violence and massacres commited by the Israeli state towards various Palestinian settlements.
  7976. Massacres - List of events named massacres - Wikipedia
    Connexipedia Article
  7977. Massacres and Morality
    First Published: 2018
    What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
  7978. Massacres That Matter - Part 1 - 'Responsibility To Protect' In Egypt, Libya And Syria
    First Published: 2013
    Where offending states fail to live up to this responsibility by inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity on their own people, the international community has a responsibility to act.
  7979. Massacres Under the Looking Glass
    The ICC and Colombia
    First Published: 2012
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia. In the Report, the ICC explains that Colombia has been under preliminary examination by the ICC since June 2004. The military carried out its most notorious violations while under the ICC’s Clouseau-like scrutiny.
  7980. The Masses & The Vanguard
    First Published: 1938
    The leadership principle, the idea of the vanguard that must assume responsibility for the proletarian revolution is based on the pre-war conception of the labour movement, is unsound. The tasks of the revolutionary and the communist reorganization of society cannot be realized without the widest and fullest action of the masses themselves.
  7981. A Massive Crisis in Auto: Delphi, GM, the UAW, and Soldiers of Solidarity
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    On December 19, facing a strike threat and pressure from GM, Delphi Corporation backed away from its "final offer" to the United Auto Workers, pushing the deadline back to the end of February. With the demand for a 63% wage cut off the table, complicated horse trading will ensue—but what's clear is that rank-and-file anger and mobilization makes a big difference.
  7982. Master builders meet citizen activists
    Trefann Court and beyond: from "urban renewal" to true civic life
    First Published: 2001
    Examining former Toronto Mayor John Sewell's role as a community organizer and advocate during the urban renewal of the Trefann Court neighborhood and the importance of community self-determination in urban planning.
  7983. Master composters
    First Published: 1992
  7984. Masterless Men of Newfoundland
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A legendary outlaw society of men escaping press gangs, Royal Navy deserters and runaway indentured servants from Newfoundland fishing plantations.
  7985. Masterless Men: Poor whites and slavery in the Antebellum south by Keri Leigh Merritt - Book review
    "1619" and the myth of white unity under slavery
    First Published: 2019
    A critique of the New York Times' "1619" initiative, marking the 400th anniversary of the disembarkation of the first African slaves in what was to become the United States.
  7986. Materialism And Historical Materialism
    First Published: 1942
    Marxism is not an inflexible doctrine or a sterile dogma. Society changes, the proletariat grows, science develops. New forms and phenomena arise in capitalism, in politics, in science, which Marx and Engels could not have foreseen or surmised. But the method of research which they formed remains to this day an excellent guide and tool towards the understanding and interpretation of new events.
  7987. Mattachine Society
    Connexipedia Article
    One of the earliest lasting homophile organizations in the United States, founded in 1950.
  7988. Matthew Coon Come Speech, September 19, 1994
    Speaking Notes for Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come Centre for Strategic and Iinternational Studies
    First Published: 1994
    The status and rights of the James Bay Crees in the context of Quebec secession from Canada.
  7989. Matthews, Peter
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Farmer who participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. (1789? - 1838).
  7990. Mattick Paul
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
  7991. Mattick, Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
  7992. Mattick, Paul - Writings - Index
    Writings of Paul Mattick (1904-1981).
  7993. Mau Mau Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    An insurgency by Kenyan peasants against the British colonialist rule.
  7994. The Mau Mau uprising against British imperialism
    Kenya's independence struggle in the 1950s
    First Published: 2011
    In Kenya the colonial rulers imprisoned in concentration camps a large proportion of the million and a half Kikuyu people, the country’s largest ethnic group. The Mau Mau rebellion was essentially a peasant-based revolt of the landless Kikuyu people against colonial rule that had dispossessed them of their lands, the basis of their existence. Although it was ultimately defeated, the uprising forced an end to colonial rule.
  7995. Maubere Timor: Keeping East Timor's songs of resistance alive
    First Published: 2020
    Presumed dead for years, musician and independence fighter Berliku returns to pay tribute to his nation through music.
  7996. Max Eastman: One American Radical's View of the 'Bolshevization' of the American Revolutionary Movement and a Forgotten, and Unforgettable, Portrait of Trotsky
    First Published: 2006
  7997. Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
    First Published: 2002
    When it comes to getting coverage in the local newspaper, presentation is paramount. Tto maximize your profile and get your story or event covered, give the newspaper what it wants, when it wants it.
  7998. Maximum Horror
    Where One Feeds on the Other
    First Published: 2015
    It was a horrific event. It was condemned in most parts of the world and most poignantly by many cartoonists. Those who planned the atrocity chose their target carefully. They knew that such an act would create the maximum horror. It was quality, not quantity they were after. The response will not have surprised or displeased them.
  7999. The May 18 Gwangju democratic uprising
    First Published: 2016
    The text is by the official May 18 History Compilation Committee of Gwangju. A detailed account of the May 18 popular uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, against the dictatorship's declaration of martial law and for workers' rights in 1980.
  8000. May 1968 Documents
    First Published: 1968
  8001. May 1968 Graffiti
    First Published: 1968
    "Don't consume Marx, live him."
  8002. May 1968 in France
    Connexipedia Article
    May 1968, referring to the period when the events occurred in France, saw the largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an advanced industrial country,[1] the first wildcat general strike in history,[1] and a series of student occupation protests.
  8003. May 4th Movement (M4M)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The May 4th Movement (M4M) was a Toronto-based radical group formed after the Kent State shootings of unarmed university students on May 4, 1970.
  8004. May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx 
    Seeds of Fire
    First Published: 2013
    Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions - and the seeds of revolution it contains.
  8005. The May '68 Events and Revolution in the West
    First Published: 2018
    The political explosion fifty years ago in May 1968 in France has become a key historical marker for the Left. In an outburst of political revolt, workers seized factories and students occupied universities bringing France to a halt in a series of massive general strikes.
  8006. May Day
    Connexipedia Article
    Occurs on May 1 and refers to several public holidays.
  8007. May Day at 125
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    In the spring of 1886 workers at Chicago’s McCormick Harvesting Machine Company struck for the eight-hour workday. They were locked out by the employers, who hired strikebreakers in their place. On May 1 a protest parade was held outside of the plant; two days later police attacked the demonstrators, killing one.
  8008. The May Days in Barcelona
    First Published: 1936
    The struggle under way in Spain between revolution and counter-revolution is now entering a new phase, in which the proletariat, educated by the experience of these months of struggle and, above all, by the magnificent May Days, must direct all its forces towards strengthening its class independence, defending the conquests of the revolution and preparing for the taking of power, the indispensable premise for the institution of a socialist regime which will regenerate the country's economy and establish order.
  8009. May '68 Revisited
    First Published: 2016
    Mitch Abidor recently spent weeks in France tracking down people who came of age politically in May 1968, to ask them how they viewed that experience, then and now. He went out of his way (with 1–2 exceptions) to talk to people "unknown," in contrast to the "stars" who feature in so many accounts of May. He talked with anarchists, Trotskyists, Stalinists, and even anarchists who had become Stalinists later. We publish this short summary of his results in Insurgent Notes because we like his direct, unvarnished access to participants, while taking our distance from some of his interpretations, which are subject to debate. We (the editors of Insurgent Notes) found Mitch's results sobering, if not downright deflating, because his subjects across the board say that the French working class in May 1968 was not revolutionary.
  8010. Maybe 99% is a bit much, but...
    First Published: 2011
    It is a fact that over the last couple of decades, much of the growth in total income in the U.S. has gone to the upper reaches of society.
  8011. Maybe we can all learn from smaller islands?
    First Published: 2014
    Europe's periphories are meant to be in a state of collapse - but not so the Shetland Isles, where it can be found a land of open skies, howling storms, historic traditions, and an active, growing community of notable individuals.
  8012. Mayday
    The Case for Civil Disobedience
    First Published: 1971
    Chomsky addresses the expected "cooling" of the Student Movement in light of negative reviews of the May Day demonstration. He analyzes this cooling as a key factor in US strategy, especially in relation to the Congress and disputes arguments such as civil disobedience is illegitimate in a democracy as decisions are reached via democratic institutions. After his exploration of the numerous questions surrounding the issue of civil disobedience, Chomsky warns that by blocking channels of protest, the government may "bring about a domestic crisis of indeterminable proportions".
  8013. Mayday, the 8-hour movement and the Knights of Labor
    First Published: 2013
    Jeremy Brecher's account of the growth of the Knights of Labor union in the US, the agitation for a maximum 8-hour working day and the Chicago Haymarket events of 1886.
  8014. Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
  8015. The Maypole's Revolutionary Heritage
    Time to Replant Trees of Liberty
    First Published: 2014
  8016. Mazdak
    Connexipedia Article
    A proto-socialist Persian reformer.
  8017. Maze of Injustice: The failutre to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA
    First Published: 2007
    More than one in three Native American or Alaska Native women will be raped at some point in their lives. Most do not seek justice because they know they will be met with inaction or indifference. Index Number: AMR 51/035/2007.
  8018. MCAS: Why Is This Being Done to Our Kids?
    High stakes tests are meant to legitimize the growing inequality of society. They are designed to drive millions of students out of school so that, if they end up with a low-paying job or no job at all, they will blame themselves instead of the corporate system. Tests like MCAS are not about education but about social control.
  8019. McClung, Nellie Letitia (Mooney)
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. (1873-1951).
  8020. McLachlan, James Bryson
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Labour leader. (1869-1937).
  8021. McNamara's Vietnam
    First Published: 1996
    McNamara's Cold War mentality is as firmly fixed as ever. The purpose of American policy in Southeast Asia was to stop Communism, invariably characterized as "Communist aggression." That end justified any means employed. It was just that McNamara and the rest of the best and brightest opted for ineffective means and failed to acknowledge it in time. Only in this tactical misjudgment does he believe that they were "wrong, terribly wrong."
  8022. McNaughton, Violet
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
  8023. David McReynolds, 1928-2018
    First Published: 2019
    Obituary and memoir of leftist activist David McReynolds.
  8024. Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
    First Published: 2018
    With Me Too’s focus where it is, on man’s injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over time erased our cultures, communities and is set to destroy all life on the planet.
  8025. The Meaning of Democracy
    First Published: 1996
    Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
  8026. The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of Identity
    First Published: 2018
    A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage.
  8027. The Meaning of Mondragon
    Fantasties and (Possible) Realities
    First Published: 2012
    We can apply lessons learned from the extensive experience of worker self-management to encourage their unrealized radicality.
  8028. The Meaning of the Paris Commune
    What can the Paris Commune offer to present struggles for emancipation?
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Kristin Ross about her new book, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune.
  8029. The Meaning of the Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    These are the words of Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old woman whose January 18 blog is said to have helped mobilize the million that turned up in Cairo and the thousands in other cities on January 25. Asmaa’s blog, like the stories of many Egyptian women of this revolution, offer a challenge to two key questions framing U.S. discourse on the Egyptian revolution.
  8030. The meaning of the school testing obsession
    First Published: 2016
    This article focuses on the new frontiers for the calculation of human productivity in its earliest forms, in early years education in Britain; but the general points are applicable across continents and educational age-phases. It will be argued that the English baseline test is just one example of the policing of capital's interests in our classrooms, but a particularly pernicious one for the way it reaches deep into the experience of the youngest children.
  8031. The Meaning of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    A feature of revolutions is that they keep coming around in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Who would have dared predict the eruption that was Seattle in November 1999, when the powers behind neoliberal globalization seemed completely incontestable?
  8032. The Meaning of Vietnam
    First Published: 1975
    Chomsky believes that no outside power will make the USA own up to the factual account of the war and the domestic resistance it faced. He claims that efforts will actually be made to obscure this history. Consequentially, Chomsky, as a sort of custodian of history, attempts to gather these facts and discuss the ideological conflict over "the lessons of Vietnam".
  8033. The Measure of a Revolutionary: Remembering Eugene V. Debs
    First Published: 2015
    Debs was an articulate, far-reaching critic of American society, staunchly anti-capitalist and opposed to both Democratic and Republican parties, which he saw as controlled by Wall Street. In his five campaigns as the Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, Debs excoriated the economic exploitation of workers, including the then rampant abuses of child labor, with rare oratorical skill. He advocated for unions in all major industries and promoted a vision of socialism as grassroots economic democracy. In a deeply racist, patriarchal society, he was also staunchly anti-racist and pro-women's rights. When war hysteria swept the country, Debs openly defied the warmongers to oppose U.S. entry into World War I. He did so not as a pacifist, but because he saw the world war as an inter-imperialist dispute among the ruling classes of competing capitalist nations.
  8034. Meat inspections slashed
    Connexions Digest News Brief, 1989
    First Published: 1989
    1989 article on greatly reduced inspections of meat products.
  8035. The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn
    The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn
    First Published: 2016
    The British media has never had much time for Jeremy Corbyn. Within a week of his election as Labour Party leader in September, it was engaging in a campaign the Media Reform Coalition characterized as an attempt to "systematically undermine" his position. In an avalanche of negative coverage 60 percent of all articles which appeared in the mainstream press about Corbyn were negative with only 13 percent positive. The newsroom, ostensibly the objective arm of the media, had an even worse record: 62 percent negative with only 9 percent positive.
  8036. The Media and Civil Defence
    First Published: 1983
  8037. Media and publicity guide
    First Published: 2006
    How to get the word out about your group or campaign? There are two main approaches, which should both be used: using the mainstream and corporate media, and building your own independent media.
  8038. The Media and the Far Right
    Showcasing the Crude, the Violent and the Aberrant
    First Published: 2010
    The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year.
  8039. The Media and the Paranoid State
    Das Bild to FoxNews
    First Published: 2014
    In 1975, West Germany was often under varying degrees of lockdown. Roadblocks were set up at autobahn exits and identification was checked; groups of heavily armed police were seen in city centers holding machine guns and looking menacing; and airports were under armed guard. The reason given for this military-like presence was the existence of a leftist terror group known as the Rote Armee Fraktion.
  8040. Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
    First Published: 2015
    After the US airstrikes that hit an MSF (Medecins Sans Frontières) hospital, many news outlets have depicted the event in a way that evades any American responsibility.
  8041. Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
    An interview with Robert McChesney
    First Published: 2009
    Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
  8042. The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
    First Published: 2011
    Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common.
  8043. Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States
    An Interview With Catherine Komp
    First Published: 2013
    An excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity.
  8044. Media Events - Maximizing Your Attendance & News Pick-up
    First Published: 2002
    Maximizing your attendance and news pick-up at media events.
  8045. Media Exposure
    First Published: 1997
    Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
  8046. Media for Social Change
    First Published: 1986
  8047. Media for Social Change Bibliography
  8048. Media Gets Targeted by Obama, Discovers No One Cares Except the Media
    Welcome to the Freakshow
    First Published: 2013
    The news media has a role to play and it’s not entertainment. Instead of informing people what their government is doing abroad, news organizations are making up fiction about food stamps breaking the budget and digging through Michael Jackson’s grave.
  8049. Media Guide addition
  8050. MEDIA IN CRISIS - 1: Why feds should step in to help democracy's watchdogs
    First Published: 2016
    A flourishing, capable news media is the oxygen of democracy. In Canada, our traditional oxygen-providers, the mainstream corporate-owned newspapers, are dying. We need to come up with something better to serve our communities.
  8051. MEDIA IN CRISIS - 2: Citizens, government need to plan now to have quality media in future
    First Published: 2016
    Canada's mainstream media are in a state of incipient meltdown. They no longer deliver the volume or quality of news that Canadians need to be informed about important happenings in their communities, let alone to participate in a healthy democratic process.
  8052. Media in the United States
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2009
    Media omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US is something acknowledged by many outside the USA, and is slowly realized more and more inside the US. However, due to those very same omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US mainstream media, it is difficult for the average American citizen to obtain an open, objective view of many of the issues that involve the United States (and since the United States is the largest economic and military power in the world, they are naturally involved in many issues!).
  8053. The Media Kept Assange Behind Bars 
    First Published: 2024
    The establishment press acted in concert to assassinate the character of the WikiLeaks founder, making it respectable to hate him.
  8054. Media Lessons from Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
    First Published: 2015
    The LA Times editors want Snowden imprisoned, but not the leakers whose leaks make the U.S. government look good, much of which gets laundered in that particular paper.
  8055. Media Literacy Guide
    How to Detect Bias in News Media
    First Published: 2024
  8056. Media Manipulation
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
    Media manipulation often involves government or corporate propaganda and spin. Sometimes organizations and governments can feed fake news or politically or ideologically slanted stories to broadcasters which depict them as quality news items and journalism.
  8057. Media More Outraged by Possible Murder by Putin Than Definite Murder by Obama
    First Published: 2016
    The British government, whose foreign policy is overtly hostile to their Russian counterpart, declared last week that their investigation into the killing of a former Russian intelligence agent in London nearly a decade ago concluded there is a "strong probability" the Russian FSB security agency was responsible for poisoning Alexander Litivenko with plutonium. They further declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably approved" of the act.
  8058. Media-MX Deal Denies Protestors' Rights Through News Blackout
    First Published: 1983
  8059. Media Panic Over the Stock Market Plunge
    First Published: 2018
    The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.
  8060. Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
    First Published: 2017
    The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
  8061. Media Rally Around 'Forever War' in Afghanistan
    First Published: 2019
    A round up of some of the alarmist reporting on supposed withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
  8062. Media Relations (Review)
    A book that helps you conquer the challenges of dealing effectively with the media.
  8063. Media Relations - Behaviours Unbecoming
    First Published: 2003
    What NOT to do when dealing with the media.
  8064. Media Relations: Rule of Engagement
    First Published: 2004
    Rules for dealing with the media.
  8065. Media spies put all journalists in danger
    First Published: 2014
    The increasing tendency of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies to disregard previous prohibitions against the use of journalists as agents puts every legitimate reporter around the world in jeopardy.
  8066. Media Strategy Chart: Advantages & Limitations
  8067. Media Support 'Self-Determination' for US Allies, Not Enemies
    First Published: 2022
    Non-Western media outlets have identified a precedent for Russia citing Donetsk and Luhansk's right to self-determination as a rationale for attacking Ukraine: the Kosovo War. In 1999, NATO conducted a 78-day war that helped to dismember Yugoslavia and create a new state, Kosovo, a Serbian province whose population was 90% ethnic Albanians.
  8068. The Media's Dirty War on Occupy
    Against The Current vol. 159
    First Published: 2012
    In media portrayals of a protest movement widely criticized for its broad message and vague demands, one picture of the Occupy movement remained consistent across various outlets: the protestors are filthy.
  8069. The Media's Emphasis on Russian Hacking is a Diversion
    First Published: 2016
    It's highly likely that the flurry of reports on alleged Russian hacking has more to do with a rejection of the status quo than with the act of clandestine meddling.
  8070. Medic Who Killed Palestinian Being Portrayed as 'National Hero'
    DM Slams Coalition Members for Backing Execution
    First Published: 2016
    Tensions within Israel's extremely narrow right-far-right coalition continue to grow, as the military's investigation into an Israeli medic who shot and killed an already wounded and disarmed Palestinian has become a cause célèbre for the settler movement and for hawks in general.
  8071. The Medicaid Kill-Off
    First Published: 2005
    President George W. Bush and Congress slashed $10 billion from the Medicaid budget for this coming year [2006]. Medicaid is the primary public health care program for impoverished persons that serves over 53 million people. The cut is clearly an attack on poor people, and it may wind up killing disabled and chronically ill persons before all is done. It is also a strike from those segments in our society who wish to dismantle the entire Medicaid system.
  8072. The Medical Cannabis Victory: A Textbook Case of Organizing and Resistance
    First Published: 2009
    Shifting from mere activism and advocacy to a referendum strategy also forced significant swathes of drug policy reform movements to enter a new phase: that of community organizing. Referenda in most states require the collection of signatures, which means advocates had to get out of the circle jerk cycle of endless meetings and internal debate and go out there, door to door, to recruit from the general public. Once they got the proposed laws on the ballot that meant campaigning for votes. This marked a paradigm shift in what had been a self-marginalized reform movement: a wake up call.
  8073. Medical Privacy Under Threat in the Age of Big Data
    First Published: 2015
    Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the growing multibillion-dollar legal market for anonymized medical data. The threats to individuals seeking to protect their medical data can come externally, from data breaches; internally, from "rogue employees" and others with access; or through loopholes in regulations.
  8074. Medical Reform Group News Releases 1979 - 1995
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1995
  8075. Medical Reform Group of Ontario
    Connexipedia article
    The Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG) was a physicians' organization formed in 1978 to act as a voice for progressive doctors who were dissatisfied with the conservatism and self-interest of the established medical profession. The MRG played a significant role in shaping public opinion around health care and health policy in Ontario and Canada for the next several decades, until the group's eventual dissolution in 2014.
  8076. Medicare in Crises - A Submission on Ontario's Health Care System
    First Published: 1979
  8077. Medicare Myths and Realities 
    First Published: 2012
    Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
  8078. Medicare: On the Critical List
    First Published: 1984
  8079. Medicine & State Security
    First Published: 1984
  8080. The Medium is The Middleman: For a Revolution Against Media 
    First Published: 1997
    Media now controls a new economic order: one that has supplanted governments, churches and productive industry to impose a mediating tyranny over people and our Daily Lives.
  8081. Meet Europe's Left Nationalists -'A momentous turn against free movement in Europe'
    First Published: 2019
    The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe-at the expense of immigrants.
  8082. Meet the Robin Hood of Science
    First Published: 2016
    The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it.
  8083. Meet The Folks On The Front Lines Of Fracking In California
    First Published: 2014
    The oil and gas industry has worked very hard to push the narrative that fracking is completely safe, and that any opposition is led by a small group of full-time activists.
  8084. Meet the Real Death Panels 
    44,000 Americans a Year Die From Lack of Health Insurance
    First Published: 2009
    Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
  8085. Meet Wikipedia's Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation's regime-change operative CEO
    First Published: 2020
    Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran US regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher.
  8086. Meeting Alexandra Kollontai
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    My first encounter with Wikipedia was several years ago when I was looking up some female Bolsheviks — there was very little about them by way of normal Googling, and I had never tried this collective online encyclopedia before.
  8087. Meeting Collectively
    First Published: 1983
    The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
  8088. Meeting the Media
    Dealing with the media can be a less than thrilling experience, but it's a necessary one.
  8089. Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
    First Published: 2004
    What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
  8090. Meetings with James Baldwin
    Stan Weir writes about his relationship with writer James Baldwin.
  8091. Mehring, Franz
    Connexipedia Article
    German socialist publicist, politician and historian. (1846-1919).
  8092. The Mekong must run free!
    First Published: 2013
    The Mekong is among Southeast Asia's greatest rivers, sustaining tens of millions from its abundant fisheries and its floodwaters which both irrigate and fertilise. But Nature's bounty, and beauty, are at risk from a series of 11 dams.
  8093. Mel Hurtig's new book designed to oust prime minister Stephen Harper
    First Published: 2015
    Article on author Mel Hurtig and his new book criticizing Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and his government.
  8094. Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    Over 15 000 people from all corners of Australia and farther afield blockaded the Asia-Pacific summit of the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) in Melbourne between September 11 and 13 in the latest expression of the mood of anti-capitalist action around the world.
  8095. The Meltdown of the Careerist Greens
    First Published: 2020
    The wildly, uniquely popular, documentary “Planet of the Humans” has been viewed over 2 million times in less that four days – likely 100s of thousands more by the time you read this.
  8096. Melville and A Lot More
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    More than a decade ago, an unpublished manuscript began filtering its contents into the minds of a fairly wide circle of erstwhile New Left intellectuals. It was fascinating, like no other theorizing on the text of Moby Dick and its significance; or rather, resembling many others in some of its evidence but ranging far beyond them in its implications.
  8097. Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
    First Published: 2017
    Puerto Rico is dying. Let those words sink in.Three and a half million people are without power, water, fuel, food, and support. This isn’t some uninhabited atoll.
  8098. Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
    First Published: 2017
    Ian Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.
  8099. Memoir From the Underground
    First Published: 2018
    A review of the film "Memoir of War", directed by Emmanuel Finkiel, a semi-fictional memoire of writer Marguerite Duras who lived under a facist regime in Vichy France.
  8100. A Memoir of Life in Struggle
    Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir, Volume One, Canada 1955-1965
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Ernest Tate's Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir, Volume One, Canada 1955-1965.
  8101. Memorial Essay: Benedict Anderson
    First Published: 2016
    The reception of Imagined Communities took its author by surprise. Anderson was like a person who posts a home video online and then discovers the next morning that she is an international celebrity.
  8102. Memories
    First Published: 1995
    Regarding 1995 as the year of memories, Noam Chomsky critically accounts numerous historical conflicts before exploring the content of Robert McNamara's memoirs, In Retrospect.
  8103. Memories of [my] Syndicalism
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    A handful of friends, old and new, have asked me about the path that my ideas and activities have taken me, some 50 years after I happened across a civil rights picket line in my hometown of Champaign, Illinois in the summer of 1960. The following is a radical memory unusual in some ways, but with many similarities to the memories of my New Left contemporaries in the outcome.
  8104. Memories of the Depression
    First Published: 1979
    Daily life experiences during the Great Depression.
  8105. Memory Against Forgetting: the Resonance of Bloody Sunday
    First Published: 2017
    The museum John guards is a physical manifestation of the moral necessity of remembering that day’s cataclysmic violence. An attempt to remember the silences imposed on peoples’ experiences by time and traumatised memory, and, most of all, murderous rampage. And of course, if those left behind do not remember who will? It certainly will not be the guilty.
  8106. Memory as paying business
    Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
    First Published: 2015
    A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
  8107. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    First Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
  8108. Memory, History, and a Pillar of Salt
    First Published: 2019
    A personal memoir about art and history in the early days of AIDS and ACT UP.
  8109. A Memory of Howard
    First Published: 2010
    A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
  8110. Memory and Repression in El Salvador
    First Published: 2013
    The raid on Pro-Busqueda happened three days after the Salvadorean Supreme Court heard testimony from survivors of a 1982 raid carried out by government forces.
  8111. Men for women's choice
    First Published: 1989
  8112. Men's Groups
    Towards A National Listing.
    First Published: 1988
  8113. Men's Groups
    Towards a National Listing
    First Published: 1988
  8114. The Menace of Boko Haram and Fundamentalism in Nigeria
    Sexual Slavery, Sexual Terrorism and the Context of the Kidnapping
    First Published: 2014
    ‘I will sell your girls in the market.’ - Abubakar Shekau. From time to time in the life of a society, one episode or a series of episodes shock the social system and brings to the fore long festering sores that need resolution. The kidnapping of over 200 young girls and the depravity of those who proclaimed that these youths would be sold into sexual slavery are one of such episodes. The statement about selling the girls in the market brought out the deep contradictions of Nigerian society and called for firm and clear resolution of the questions of slavery, exploitation, sexual violence, male oppression and the manipulation of religion to serve the needs of particular sections of the looters and zealots of Nigeria.
  8115. The Menace of Liberal Scholarship
    First Published: 1969
    Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become agents. Chomsky agrees with Fullbright that this phenomena betrays public trust and states that the subversion of scholarship is a threat to society as a whole. He reveals several causes of this subversion, for example the access to power, shared ideology, and professionalization. Through the presentation of the positions of numerous scholars, he explores this malady and points to the potential of the intellectual community to revolutionize this tradition of scholarship though a more humane, objective, and independent movement.
  8116. The "Menace" of Nelson Small Legs Jrs.' Peacepipe
    Aquash Murder Case Coverage - Periodical profile published 1977
    First Published: 1977
    Two articles discuss the failings of the Canadian press in covering major events in the Native community.
  8117. The Menace of Right "Populism"
    First Published: 2019
    Editorial about Trump and right-wing regimes world-wide and the opportunities for left-wing organizing.
  8118. Menchú, Rigoberta
    Connexipedia Article
    Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).
  8119. Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section
    First Published: 1977
    This report is put together by the Task Force on Women in Church and Society of the MCC.
  8120. Mental Illness in the Workplace
    It Still Haunts
    First Published: 2013
  8121. Menwith Menace: Britain's Complicity In Saudi Arabia's Terror Campaign Against Yemen
    First Published: 2016
    The 'mainstream' Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Since March 2015, a 'coalition' of Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, and supported by the US, Britain and France, has been dropping bombs on neighbouring Yemen. The scale of the bombing is indicated in a recent article by Felicity Arbuthnot - in one year, 330,000 homes, 648 mosques, 630 schools and institutes, and 250 health facilities were destroyed or damaged.
  8122. Julian Mer-Khamis
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    We mourn the tragic and senseless assassination of the brilliant revolutionary filmmaker Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was gunned down April 4 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. His documentary film “Arna’s children,” about his mother’s lifelong struggle and her work in founding the Jenin Freedom Theater, and the realities of life for Palestinian youth under occupation, is a masterpiece. The Freedom Theater is a priceless center for resistance as well as the healing of these young people.
  8123. Mercredi, Ovide William
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Aboriginal Canadian politician and leader. (Born 1946).
  8124. Mercury Poisoning
    First Published: 1976
    Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
  8125. Merkel in the Knesset
    Israel, Israel Above Everything!
    First Published: 2008
    We are still confronted with the phenomenon that critics of the Jewish State are labeled as anti-Semites or as self-hating Jews, respectively.
  8126. Mer-Khamis, Arna
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Israeli educator and human rights activist. (1929-1995).
  8127. Merry Pranksters
    Connexipedia Article
    Group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and who promoted the use of psychedelic drugs.
  8128. Merthyr Rising 1831
    Connexipedia Article
    The violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class population of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales and the surrounding area.
  8129. The Message and Meaning of Groundings 2005: Walter Rodney Lives!
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    Seeking to grasp at the core of Walter Rodney's legacies for Caribbean peoples today, speakers at the recent Groundings in Guyana used the words "decency," "boldness," and "humanity." It was in such spirit that the Groundings were organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Rodney's assassination at the hands of the ruling paramount party, PNC, in Guyana in 1980.
  8130. Message from the High Court: Carry on arming the Saudis
    First Published: 2017
    Campaigners are furious with a High Court decision in London allowing the UK Government to carry on exporting arms to Saudi Arabia for use against Yemenis.
  8131. Message of the Non-Jewish Jew
    First Published: 1958
    The Jewish heretic who transcends Jewry belongs to a Jewish tradition.
  8132. Messer-Kruse's Haymarket History
    First Published: 2016
    Book reviews of Timothy Messer-Kruse's two works The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age and The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks.
  8133. Mészáros István - Writings - Index
    Writings of István Mészáros.
  8134. Metacomet (Metacomb)
    Connexipedia Article
    A war chief of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War. (Died 1676).
  8135. Metadata Is More Intrusive Than Direct Listening Of Phone Calls Says Snowden
    First Published: 2014
    Government monitoring of “metadata” is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading emails.
  8136. Metadata - your files talk for you
    First Published: 2013
    Few Internet users are aware that many file formats contain hidden data, or metadata. Text processing files or PDFs are likely to contain the name of the author, the date and time of the creation of the file, and often even part of its editing history.
  8137. Metal madness: Lead doesn't just poison birds, it scrambles everything they need to survive
    First Published: 2014
    It's well-known that high levels of lead kill birds. But now it's becoming clear that amounts commonly encountered by waterfowl and raptors can mess up their digestion, brains, hearts, vision and other body processes critical for their survival in the wild.
  8138. Metalclad vs. Mexico, Toxic Waste and NAFTA
    Against The Current vol. 90
    First Published: 2001
    Last August 25 the NAFTA Tribunal for the case of Metalclad Corp vs. Mexico ruled in favor of Metalclad, ordering the Mexican government to pay US$16.7 million in compensation. It is the first ruling in an investor-to-state lawsuit under NAFTA.
  8139. The Metaphors of Movements - review
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Guerillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric' by Ursula McTaggart.
  8140. Metastasizing of the Police State of America
    NY Times Report Documents
    First Published: 2014
    The latest news on the burgeoning police state in the US -- a page-one investigative report in the New York Times disclosing that at least 40 agencies of the US government from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Supreme Court (!) are using undercover agents to spy on and even to entrap law-abiding American citizens -- suggests that we have passed the tipping point.
  8141. #MeToo for All Women
    First Published: 2018
    The #MeToo movement exposed systems that abuse and silence of women. It's important to note that these systems are not just individual professions or university administrations but they are enabled by the larger system of capitalism.
  8142. The #MeToo Revolution Edtorial
    First Published: 2018
    The editors ask whether the #MeToo Movement will be different than other moments in which sexual abuse was revealed, and propose that organized labour can play a role in ensuring harassment-free work enviroments.
  8143. Metro World '91
    First Published: 1990
  8144. Metro World '91
    First Published: 1990
  8145. Metropolitan Toronto Task Force On Housing For Low-Income Single People: Final Report
    Organization profile published 1984
    First Published: 1984
  8146. Mexican Environment Laws
    Mexico's lax environmental laws.
  8147. Mexican Journalists Say 'No to Silence'
    First Published: 2017
    In Mexico powerful entities -- ranging from government officials, to law enforcement, to drug cartel leaders -- routinely and systematically intimidate journalists and media outlets to prevent them from investigating state corruption and drug-related violence. Efforts to silence media often take place in the shadows, forcing victims to choose between self-censorship, forced displacement, or risking their lives for doing their jobs.
  8148. The Mexican Student Movement Is Younger & Faster than "Occupy"
    First Published: 2012
    It has been decades since I have seen any march of this size include a pledge by participants with that much discipline and awareness that the march is about influencing public opinion (in other words, not about "us" but about everyone). It reminds more of the guidelines from the victorious struggles of Ghandi to win independence from colonial rule in India, the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 70s.
  8149. Mexican War of Independence
    Connexipedia Article
  8150. Mexican Women -- Then and Now
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    Araceli's gnarled hands knead the corn dough in a smoke-filled lean-to next to her kitchen, as the 5 a.m. sunlight begins to squint through the slats. She will make about 48 pounds of tortillas, as she does every day. By noon they’ll be on the table in houses all over the 500-inhabitant town she has lived in her whole life, half-way between Mexico City and Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico.
  8151. Mexico 2010: The Spreading Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    On July 4, in an atmosphere of widespread insecurity, unabated violence, and an uncertain allocation of authority and impunity,* Mexico held local elections in 15 of its 32 states.
  8152. Mexico at War
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    Mexico is at war. The drug war has become all the news this fall: Real war. Bloody war. With bombings, massacres and body counts.
  8153. Mexico: Community Police and the War on Drugs
    Self-Defense vs. Vigilantism
    First Published: 2014
    Various "self-defense" groups or “community police” have emerged in rural areas, mainly in the states of Guerrero and Michoacán. The embrace of such "alternative security" schemes by nearly all of the left is rooted in a sub-reformist liberal perspective. As long as capitalism is not overthrown, any group dedicated to "fighting crime" will act as an auxiliary of the capitalist state and will have, in the final analysis, a fundamentally reactionary character.
  8154. Mexico in Labor's Crucible
    Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"
    First Published: 2013
    These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
  8155. Mexico in the Grip of Corruption
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    Mexico's left of center Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has been shaken by a scandal that could well reshape the nation's political life.
  8156. Mexico: Insurrection and Disintegration
    First Published: 1996
    While Mexico boils at the bottom, it is also cracking up at the top.
  8157. Mexico - Subcomandante Marcos Steps Down: What's Next for the EZLN?
    Subcomandante Marcos, announced he ending his role as the group's spokesperson and military commander.
    First Published: 2014
    In stepping down, Marcos pointed to demographic changes in the thirty-year old organization as new younger, indigenous leaders stepped forward replacing an older largely mestizo leadership, several of whom came out of the student and guerrilla struggles of the 1970s and 1980s.
  8158. Mexico: The Zapatistas' New Fight
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    "We are fighters, but not with guns," said the man in the ski mask, one of a group of masked peasants addressing us and a dozen other visitors. "We invite all of the common people, who are of the left, who are not with the government, to join us in struggle," he continued, speaking in the Mayan Tzotzil language. "Because we know the government will never hear our word, and will never help us."
  8159. Mexico's Crisis in Context
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    In this article I offer an historical context for understanding Mexico’s current economic, political, and human crisis triggered by 28 years of neoliberal economic policies. Neoliberal governments have privatized most sectors of the economy and reduced the Mexican state’s role to one of being a repressive apparatus. NAFTA and related neoliberal policies have left the economy without a dynamic internal market for local products and with a socio-economic inequality that is one of the most extreme in the world.
  8160. Mexico's Deepening Crises
    First Published: 2015
    The "democratic transition" has brought little democracy and great disappointment. And the "war on drugs" has not diminished the production and export of drugs but increased violence and provided political cover for the government's escalation of repression.
  8161. Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
    First Published: 2009
    Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
  8162. Mexico's PATCO Moment?
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), made up of approximately 43,000 active and 22,000 retired workers in Mexico City and surrounding states, is fighting for its life. The union’s struggle has rallied allies in the labor movement and on the left in Mexico and solidarity from throughout the country and around the world, but if it is to survive the union and its supporters have to take stronger actions than they have so far, and time is not on their side.
  8163. Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
    First Published: 2013
    Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
  8164. The Miami Model in Your Face
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    The major police riot in Miami was an operation undoubtedly as thoroughly planned as it was obscene. This was a deliberate, bare-knuckled threat: Assemble in 2004 against war, “free trade,” the Republican Convention or roundup of immigrants under the police-state monstrosity known as Homeland Security, and this is what you'll get.
  8165. Michael Berg for U.S. Congress in Delaware: A Voice Against War
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    On June 8 Americans awoke to the news that the U.S. military in Iraq had killed Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the midst of press coverage that cravenly accepted government claims that this was, once again, a turning point in the war, one voice in the mass media dramatically countered government claims - that of Michael Berg, Green Party candidate for Delaware's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  8166. Michael Lebowitz's "The Socialist Alternative" - Book Review
    Proyect, Louis
    First Published: 2011
  8167. Michael Levine's Ten commandments for Dealing with the Media
    First Published: 2003
    Rules for dealing with the media.
  8168. Michael Lynch
    First Published: 1992
    Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
  8169. Michael Ratner's inspiring activist life culminated with dramatic change on Israel
    First Published: 2021
    Michael Ratner personally changed human rights law, and in doing so he let go childhood views of Israel. "I thought of [Israel] as the home of my people. I had my bedroom ceiling painted with the seven wonders of the world and a huge map of Israel. I had no idea how my view of Israel would change later in life."
  8170. Michael Riordon in conversation with Barbara Goslawski
    "People are not specimens or statistics," says Michael Riordon, author of Eating Fire:
    Family Life on the Queer Side.
  8171. Michel Foucault: friend or foe of the left
    First Published: 2008
    Examines why a man who was a technocrat working for the state came to appeal to people both on the left and the right of the political spectrum.
  8172. Michel, Louise
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. (1830-1905).
  8173. Michelle Goldberg Goes to Washington
    The problem isn't just voting for Democrats, it's letting a rightward-moving Democratic Party set the Left's political horizons
    First Published: 2014
    The author defends his electoral position during the U.S. election, which was described by Michelle Goldberg as "electoral nihilism".
  8174. Micro Militarism
    First Published: 2012
    The author explains why the introduction of military messages and advertisements in the everyday lives of the public is troubling and harmful to society.
  8175. A Microcosm of the Nation - Control Unit Prisons
    Out of Control
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons' by Nancy Kurshan.
  8176. The Microfinance Delusion
    Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
    First Published: 2012
    By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
  8177. Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
    First Published: 2018
    Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
  8178. Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan
    First Published: 2010
    Selective enforcement of alleged software infringement is being used with some frequency in the former Soviet republics as cover to harass independent media. Local law enforcement officials have been given broad powers, in the name of fighting piracy, to raid premises and seize hardware. For the most part, Western companies and governments have encouraged this broadening of powers.
  8179. Microsoft vs. General Motors
    If Microsoft made cars.
  8180. A Middle-Class Diversion from Working Class Struggle?
    The New Zealand New Left from the Mid-1950s to the Mid-1970s
    First Published: 2012
    Published in Labour History, 103 (November 2012).
  8181. Middle-Class Women Begin to Organise
    Chapter 9 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1975
  8182. Middle class would go to jail for what big corporations are allowed to do
    First Published: 2014
    The Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government issued a report on November 18 which revealed that seven of the 30 largest US corporations paid more money to their CEOs last year than they paid in US federal income taxes. US corporations have enough profit to grease the wheels of Washington DC to have legislation that benefits them, and their workers which are becoming fewer and fewer, are shouldering the tax burden.
  8183. Middle East at the Crossroads
    First Published: 1946
    The events of the last few weeks (1945) in the Middle East have drawn the attention of the whole world to what is happening in this region. The terroristic acts of Zionist military organizations, the strikes and demonstrations of the Arab masses in Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad against Zionism, and the concentration of British troops in Palestine has aroused numerous questions whose answer will demand an uncovering of the socio-economic roots of the tangle in which this part of the world is involved.
  8184. Middle East Cauldron
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    The past three decades of Middle East history present a process of what I sometimes call “permanent counterrevolution,” unfolding under the ever-present reality of imperial domination, rivalry and of course the politics of oil.
  8185. Middle East Diplomacy
    Continuities and Changes
    First Published: 1991
    In October 1991 a Conference on the Middle East was held in Madrid. Chomsky compares and contrasts two perspectives on this event. The first praises President Bush's diplomacy skills and accredits this great achievement to US efforts and is the one that dominates public discussion. The other is Chomsky's own which probes such questions as why these efforts came about when they did and were they to mark a new US position.
  8186. Middle East Imperial Meltdown
    First Published: 2015
    How U.S. drive for "stability" in the Middle East produces the opposite, and how these crises feed back into the peculiarities of U.S. domestic political culture.
  8187. The Middle East in Flames
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    Andrew Kennedy and Suzi Weismann Interview Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar is the author of Eastern Cauldron and The Clash of Barbarisms, both published by Monthly Review Press.
  8188. The Middle East's "World War"
    First Published: 2014
    The editors compare the reasons driving the United States' involvement in Iraq and Syria with those behind the decision to invade Afghanistan.
  8189. Midland Revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    A popular uprising which took place in the Midlands of England in 1607.
  8190. Midwives Acquitted
    First Published: 1991
    A historic decision by the Supreme Court of Canada clears midwives on charges in a case of a death during a home birth.
  8191. A Mighty Voice for Peace Has Gone Silent: Uri Avnery, 1923-2018
    First Published: 2018
    A brief article in commemoration of Israeli human rights activist Uri Avnery, who died in Tel Aviv at the age of 94.
  8192. Migrant laborers building 2022 World Cup facilities worked to death in Qatar
    First Published: 2013
    Deprived of their pay for months at a time, migrant construction workers building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are being worked to death under slave labour conditions.
  8193. Migrant Workers Fight Exploitation in New Zealand
    First Published: 2013
    Unite Union has dealt with several cases of extreme exploitation of migrant workers. It seems that some of the liquor shops around Auckland have been employing students from India and paying a pittance four or five dollars an hour, well below the legal minimum of $13.75 an hour.
  8194. Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
    Killed Beaten Raped
    First Published: 2013
    With few opportunities at home, millions of poor, desperate men and women from South East Asia and the horn of Africa migrate annually to Saudi Arabia. Vulnerable at home and vulnerable abroad where many are enslaved and badly abused, some killed.
  8195. Migration and Morality
    First Published: 2013
    Paul Collier's book Exodus has been welcomed as a humane and rational intervention in an often toxic debate. It seems to tell us more about the character of the contemporary immigration debate than it does about the merits of Collier’s arguments.
  8196. The Migrations of Roma in the European Union
    An Ethnic Minority as the Sport of European Politics
    First Published: 2012
    France is sending Roma back to Romania, Roma are "voluntarily" leaving the country to go to Macedonia, Czech Roma are seeking asylum in Canada -- these headlines of recent years have repeatedly drawn the eyes of the public to the migrations of Roma in Europe. The resulting debates emphasise the legal status of migrants.
  8197. Mike Marqusee: A contender for the living
    First Published: 2015
    Mike's humane socialism and his ability to express sophisticated ideas in an accessible way has enriched the left in the UK and elsewhere.
  8198. Mike Marqusee's columns: a look back
    First Published: 2015
    As we remember Mike Marqusee, Nick Dearden highlights some of Mike's most timeless writing in Red Pepper
  8199. Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing Politicians
    First Published: 2009
    Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.
  8200. Miliband, Ralph
    Connexipedia Article
    Marxist political theorist and sociologist. (1924-1994).
  8201. Miliband, Ralph - Writings - Index
    Writings of Ralph Miliband (1924-1994).
  8202. Militant as Hell on the Waterfront
    The Political Thought of Stan Weir
    First Published: 2007
    New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
  8203. Militant Hope in the Age of Trump
    First Published: 2017
    Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?
  8204. A Militant, "Minority" Union?
    First Published: 2013
    At the AFL-CI0 convention in Los Angeles in September 2013, a small group of rank-and-file workers managed to alter the convention agenda -- by threatening to protest the presence of Kaiser Permanente, which happens to be their employer.
  8205. Les Militants et la Police
    First Published: 1977
  8206. Militarism degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy
    First Published: 2014
    As the Canadian government plays at fighting wars in Iraq/Syria and in eastern Europe, we see daily examples of how militarism ultimately degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy.
  8207. The Militarization of Canada: Chrystia Freeland's Budgetary Coup
    First Published: 2017
    Canada is to increase military spending by 70% over the next ten years following Donald Trump's demand for NATO allies to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP.
  8208. The Militarization of Empathy
    First Published: 2019
    Surprise reunions between returning soldiers and their families are a major spectacle in US media. But these heartwarming scenes serve as a distraction from the activities of the soldiers while they are overseas.
  8209. Militarization: Obstacle to Development
    First Published: 1984
  8210. The Militarized Police State Opens Fire
    First Published: 2017
    Police and government agents are often left out of the conversation on gun violence, despite being among the greatest purpotrators of gun violence in America.
  8211. Militarizing Latin America
    First Published: 2009
    Establishing US military bases in Colombia is only one part of a much broader effort to restore Washington's capacity for military intervention. There has been a sharp increase in US military aid and training of Latin American officers, focusing on light infantry tactics to combat "radical populism" -- a concept that sends shivers up the spine in the Latin American context.
  8212. Military bases
    First Published: 1990
  8213. Military Emancipation
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of Levine's "The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South," and Oakes's "Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865."
  8214. Military Ethics in Society
    First Published: 1978
    This paper is part of a kit on "militarism" which is to be published soon by Project Ploughshares. It begins by outlining the traditional role of the military, namely, that of defending society against outside aggression. The paper then refers to a new source of socialism. Accordingly, much of the opposition to those in power is seen to come from subversive elements.
  8215. A Military Resister and Conscientious Objector
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    ATC Interviews Camilo Mejia. Sgt. Camilo Mejia, the first active-duty U.S. military resister to be imprisoned for refusing re-deployment to Iraq, spoke at a Detroit antiwar rally Friday, March 18, the day before attending the founding convention of Iraq Veterans Against the War in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
  8216. Military 'Service' Serves the Ruling Class
    First Published: 2018
    Military veteran and peace activist Will Griffin comments on the military campaigns in which he participated, and why he believes that military service ultimately serves noboby but a minority ruling class.
  8217. Military Spending is the Capitalist World's Fuel
    First Published: 2016
    It is common for activists to decry the enormous sums of money spent on the military. Any number of social programs, or schools, or other public benefits could instead be funded. Not least is this the case with the United States, which by far spends the most of any country on its military. The official Pentagon budget for 2015 was $596 billion, but actual spending is far higher. (Figures for 2015 will be used because that is the latest year for which data is available to make international comparisons.) If we add military spending parked in other portions of the U.S. federal government budget, we’re up to $786 billion, according to a study by the War Resisters League. Veterans benefits add another $157 billion. WRL also assigns 80 percent of the interest on the budget deficit, and that puts the grand total well above $1 trillion.
  8218. The military's carbon bootprint 
    First Published: 2020
    As the biggest single user of fossil fuels, why is the military exempt from the climate discussion?
  8219. The Militia and Militarism
    First Published: 1899
    In militarism, the power and rule of both the capitalist state and the bourgeois class are crystallized; just as Social Democracy is the only party which opposes them in principle, so too, inversely, is the opposition in principle to militarism part of the nature of Social Democracy. To abandon the struggle against the military system amounts in fact to the same thing as renouncing the struggle against the present social order in general.
  8220. The Mill Hill, Natural Communism, And The Loray Mill Strikes
    First Published: 2014
    There are no less than six books on the Gastonia Loray Mill strike of 1929. There are scores of papers, hundreds of opinions and a common conception that although the strike itself was a failure, it led to better working conditions for many workers that followed.
  8221. A million species 'threatened with extinction'
    First Published: 2019
    A summary of a dire climate report on the decline in global biodiversity.
  8222. Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering Operation
    First Published: 2014
    At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
  8223. Millions of people yearning for a "Brexit" from destructive trade deals
    First Published: 2016
    While the votes for Brexit, and the support for Trump, may not always choose the best political framing, politicians and elites would be arrogant to dismiss the widespread discontent with the status quo.
  8224. Mills, C. Wright
    Connexipedia Article
    American sociologist. (1916-1962).
  8225. Milosevic exonerated, as the NATO war machine moves on
    First Published: 2016
    When Slobodan Milosevic, the former Present of Yugoslavia, was put on trial in 2002 for alleged war crimes, the Western mainstream media went into full hue-and-cry mode in denouncing the man they called "The Butcher of the Balkans." Milosevic's guilt was taken as a given. Anyone who dared to challenge the NATO line was labeled a Milosevic apologist, or a genocide denier, Now, fourteen years later, and ten years after Milosevic died in a prison cell in The Hague without ever having been convicted of anything, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has quietly issued a report which states that, er, well actually, Milosevic was not guilty. That piece of news has been met with complete silence in the same media that trumpted Milosevic's guilt.
  8226. Milton Rogovin: Portraitist to the People
    He Gave Them Respect
    First Published: 2011
    His photography did not turn people into victims, nor did it make them heroes.
  8227. Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools
    Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic
    First Published: 2009
    The battle to keep the public in control of the public schools.
  8228. Mine Wars Museum Opens, Revives Lost Labour History
    First Published: 2015
    Mine Wars museum opens in Matewan to revive West Virginia’s labour history.
  8229. The Mine Wars: West Virginia's Coal Miners March on Public Television
    First Published: 2016
    This riveting history of southern West Virginia's coal industry eventually caught the eye of a national television network.PBS is premiering a two-hour documentary called The Mine Wars as part of American Experience, the network's flagship history series.
  8230. Miners Protest Brutal Beatings
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    Five thousand members of the Mexican Miners and Metal Workers Union and their families and other unions and social movements marched five kilometers May 24 to protest the brutal police beating of more than 20 union leaders and activists. The march ended at the port which serves the local steel mills in Lázaro Cárdenas, a steel mill city in the state of Michoacan, blocking it for two hours or more.
  8231. Minimising the Risk of Police Violence
    Police may be violent at nonviolent actions for various reasons. In my experience, the most important ones are because police are directed to use violence as a form of political repression and because police are afraid of what to expect. Thus, in addition to considering the many other aspects of any nonviolent strategy, the planning process might consider ways in which any action can be made less vulnerable to police repression (or, for that
    matter, violence by provocateurs).
  8232. Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses
    First Published: 2000
    One person's thoughts on the subject of utopias as we approach a new century and millennium.
  8233. The Minimum Wage Debate
    First Published: 2014
    In a discussion of the debate over the minimum wage increase in the United States, Miah advocates for a socialist mentality and a focus on individual rights in order to provide an economic solution to the decline of the middle class caused by capitalisim.
  8234. Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses
    First Published: 2011
    Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
  8235. Mining History Written in Blood
    First Published: 2018
    Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
  8236. Mining Peru
    Canada's New Territory?
    First Published: 2010
    In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
  8237. Minneapolis 1934 Strike Revisited
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of "Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934" by Bryan D. Palmer.
  8238. Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis.
  8239. Minority publishers
    First Published: 1990
  8240. Miramichi Lumber Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    The Miramichi Lumber Strike began 20 August 1937 when 1500 millworkers and longshoremen along the Miramichi River in northern New Brunswick struck 14 lumber firms for increased wages, shorter working hours and union recognition.
  8241. Mirror Crack'd
    First Published: 2002
    Noam Chomsky suggests that Western powers have regularly induced such atrocities in foreign lands as were perpetrated on 9/11 on American soil. He warns that through pre-emptive military action in Afghanistan, the international society may be in danger of less than attractive consequences in the future.
  8242. The misbegotten 'war against cancer'
    First Published: 2009
  8243. Misconceptions About King's Methods for Change
    A Matter of Life and Death
    First Published: 2005
    Nonviolent social change requires long, hard and sustained work, research, development of solutions, and, importantly, on-going commitment. It demands far more than bringing folks together to march and wave banners. Unfortunately, many activists throughout the world seem to be of the opinion that if you are concerned about an issue you should organize huge "feel good" rallies, which is hoped will almost magically result in changes.
  8244. The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville 
    First Published: 2017
    You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLU’s universal defense of speech rights, will create results that are the exact opposite of those they claim to want. It’s an indescribably misguided strategy that will inevitably victimize themselves and their own views.
  8245. Misguided Missiles:
    Canada, The Cruise and Star Wars
    First Published: 1987
  8246. The Misogyny of Welfare "Reform" - Interview
    First Published: 1999
    Randy Albelda teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and is active in several welfare rights organizations. She is co-author of Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty (South End Press, 1997) and author of "What Welfare Reform Has Wrought," Dollars and Sense, January/February 1998. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
  8247. Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
    First Published: 1991
    Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
  8248. Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
    First Published: 2006
    An interview with Julia Buxton about Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, and target of concerted criticism in the western media.
  8249. Misrepresenting the White Working Class
    First Published: 2016
    In McDowell County -- the poorest county of West Virginia , people were open to, even preferred, a real alternative to Trump and Clinton.
  8250. Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong
    First Published: 2016
    Most of the time the white working class is invisible in the U.S. But during elections there is a flurry of attention to this "demographic" among political reporters and operatives.
  8251. Miss Calculatsia: Danger of War That No One Wants
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    Introducing Miss Calculatsia, that fashionable foreigner, the new star in Israeli discourse.
  8252. Missing Children: The Pottery Barn Rule Revisited
    First Published: 2018
    If one in five American parents couldn't figure out where their kids were, most people would rightly see the phenomenon as a crisis and a national scandal. Grandstanding prosecutors with visions of gubernatorial campaigns dancing in their heads would conduct mass parental perp walks. Legislators would boost their presidential aspirations by co-sponsoring legislation requiring universal implantation of GPS trackers at birth.
  8253. Missing from the Paris Agreement: the Pentagon's monstrous carbon boot print
    First Published: 2015
    How much of the mainstream media coverage given to COP21 and the Paris Agreement mentioned the mysterious exemption given to the US's massive military and security machine? None, writes Joyce Nelson. Not only are these emissions entirely outside the UNFCCC process, but a 'cone of sillence' somehow prevents them from even forming part of the climate change discourse.
  8254. The Missing Piece
    First Published: 2016
    A strong, independent labour movement could lead the struggle for democracy and justice in the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte's revolution, at least so far, looks like nothing more than a reshuffling of the country's political elite. The election seems to mark a period of continuity, not progressive change, in Philippine politics.
  8255. Mission and Ministry Workbook: Metropolitan Core
    First Published: 1978
    This workbook is being used by the Task Group on The Church in the Metropolitan core as part of a process to develop a policy statement on Urban Mission for the 1980 Council of The United Church in Canada.
  8256. Missionary Involvement and Catholics in Canada
    First Published: 1976
    Report on survey results on missionary activities at home and abroad.
  8257. Mississippi Family Faces Jail Time for Cheering at High School Graduation
    First Published: 2015
    When Ursula Miller attended her niece's high school graduation from Senatobia High School in northwestern Mississippi last month, she didn't expect to leave with an arrest warrant. But in a prime example of excessesive criminalization, Miller and three others were charged with disorderly conduct for cheering on their relatives during the ceremony held at Northwest Mississippi Community College.
  8258. The Mississippi Summer Project 50th Anniversary Reunion
    First Published: 2014
    Greenwood was the place where the first major cracks in the wall of Mississippi racism were broken open.
  8259. Missouri's Legacy of Violent Racism
    Quantrill's Raiders Come to Ferguson
    First Published: 2014
    What is clear about the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is that the cop murdered Michael Brown pretty much in cold blood. What is also clear is that if Michael Brown was a suspect in this shoplifting case and regular procedures were followed, then he should have been arrested and gone to court. What is less clear is whether or not this killer cop will ever see justice.
  8260. Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence 
    In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Our Spies
    First Published: 2013
    Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy enough. It’s a reasonable supposition that, before the Snowden revelations hit, America's spymasters had made just that mistake. If the drip-drip-drip of Snowden’s mother of all leaks -- which began in June and clearly won’t stop for months to come -- has taught us anything, however, it should be this: omniscience is not omnipotence. At least on the global political scene today, they may bear remarkably little relation to each other. In fact, at the moment Washington seems to be operating in a world in which the more you know about the secret lives of others, the less powerful you turn out to be.
  8261. "Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
    First Published: 2018
    Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers -- a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
  8262. Mr. Bush's truthfulness
    First Published: 2005
    The truthfulness-challenged President.
  8263. Mistranslating Marx? The "idiocy of rural life"
    First Published: 2011
    One often hears the criticism that Marxism was from the beginning an extreme modernizing philosophy that looked with complete disdain on rural existence. Did not Marx himself in The Communist Manifesto, it is frequently asked, refer to "the idiocy of rural life"? Here a misconception has arisen through the mistranslation of a single word in the English translation of the Manifesto. In fact, Marx's criticism of the isolation of rural life then had to do with the antithesis of town and country under capitalism as expressed throughout his work.
  8264. Mitziton: A community in Chiapas resisting the government road
    First Published: 2010
  8265. Mixing Metaphors and Diluting Memory: Lynching - The Reality
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    On October 9, 2005, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter appeared on ABC's "This Week" to defend Harriet Miers, President Bush's confidante whose nomination to the Supreme Court had evoked howls of protest, particularly from the Christian Right. Specter told George Stephanopoulos that Miers' verbal critics made up "one of the toughest lynch mobs ever assembled in Washington, DC, and we assemble some tough lynch mobs." In claiming Washington's penchant for "tough lynch mobs," Senator Specter was not speaking literally—though he could have been. It is unlikely that Specter meant to evoke the actual lynch mobs roaming the streets of Washington D.C. for four days during the "Red Summer" of 1919, attacking African-Americans in a frenzy whipped up by racism, anti-communism, fears of joblessness, and post-war jingoism.
  8266. Mkhuseli "Khusta" Jack and the Art of the Boycott
    27 Years Later, a South African Organizer Looks Back at a Tactic that Hastened the End of Apartheid
    First Published: 2013
    A key figure in organizing a consumer boycott was the young South African Mkhuseli (Khusta) Jack, who recently discussed his experiences in that campaign with students and professors assembled for the 2013 Narco News Authentic School of Journalism.
  8267. MLK in Memphis, 1968
    First Published: 2019
    A look at MLK's actions and speeches in Memphis and their relevance today.
  8268. MLK: To the Promised Land
    Charles Williams interviewing Michael Honey
    First Published: 2018
    Interview with Michael Honey author of the study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.
  8269. Mobile Family Service Society
    First Published: 1977
    This report describes the operation of an "integrated, comprehensive emergency intervention service." This service fields staff in emergency situations primarily during those days and hours when the rest of the service system is closed.
  8270. Mobile homes can't move on
    Trailers are the cheapest available homes in the US, but thire owner - tenants are always at risk
    First Published: 2015
    The challenges and vulnerabilities facing mobile home owners and tenants is examined.
  8271. Mobile Schools Help Nomadic Somalis Fight Drought
    First Published: 2009
    Mobile schools - secular pre-schools which follow these groups as they move to find pasture and water for livestock - are an attempt to help nomadic communities develop more options as the climate becomes increasingly hostile.
  8272. Mobilizing Temporary Migrant Workers
    A Compendium of Forms and Preliminary Discussion
    First Published: 2014
    While labour migration has been a recurring phenomenon in human history, what is new in the post-1970 period of restructuring in the world capitalist economy is the increased use of temporary migrant labour by employers around the world. The widespread rise of employer use of temporary migrant workers in various economic sectors internationally can be dated from circa 1990.
  8273. A Model of Theological Reflection
    First Published: 1976
    Training document to organise analysis of the conditions that foster the existence of skid row.
  8274. Model scientists
    First Published: 2008
    In contrast to the plethora of day-to-day conversations on how to fit into the
    administrators directives, this essay provides a historical context, particularly though its extensive bibliography, to encourage today's biologists to question authority and question nature.
  8275. Models of Coming U.S. Interventions: Iraq or Haiti?
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis.
  8276. Modern "Gunboat" Diplomacy in the Caribbean
    First Published: 1996
    There is no such thing as humanitarian intervention on the part of the current U.S. state.
  8277. A Modern Utopia
    First Published: 1905
  8278. Modernity and Negations
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Finkel reviews The End of Jewish Modernity and What is Modern Israel? He says they offer complementary perspectives on some of the tragedies confronting today’s world, and their historical backgrounds.
  8279. Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism?
    First Published: 1996
  8280. A Modest Proposal
    First Published: 2002
    Chomsky explores the idea of having Iran liberate Iraq from the grips of Sadaam Hussein. He suggests that had the genuine goals mirrored those which were proclaimed, this may have been a plausible alternative.
  8281. Modi in Canada
    What Canadians Should Know About Harper's New Guest
    First Published: 2015
    When Stephen Harper hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Canada this week, they will be greeted with both adoring fans and with protests. Modi, an extremist Hindu nationalist, has a strong support base within a section of the Indian community. But his past comes back to haunt him. A human rights organization called Sikhs for Justice has appealed to the Canadian government to prosecute Modi for the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.
  8282. 'Modi is God's gift to Pakistan security establishment'
    Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about shrinking freedoms, liberal voices and human rights in Balochistan.
    First Published: 2017
    Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani journalist and writer. In an interview with Al Jazeera he talks about the shrinking freedoms in mainstream and social media in Pakistan, the role of liberal voices and the state of human rights in Balochistan.
  8283. Module on Combatting Discrimination: Face to Face: The Self and Others
    First Published: 1980
  8284. Moffatt, Gary
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian anarchist and activist.
  8285. Moffatt, Gary (French text)
    Connexipedia
  8286. Moffatt, Gary (Italian text)
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2010
    Gary Archibald Moffat era un attivista Canadese specializzato nella costruzione di movimenti radicali ai fini di cambiamenti sociali e politici.
  8287. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
    First Published: 2010
    Khatib's arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bilin to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees - the leadership of the popular struggle - who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
  8288. Mohawk defense fund
    First Published: 1990
  8289. Mollison, Bill
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Australian who developed the theory and practice of permaculture. Born 1928.
  8290. Molly house
    Connexipedia Article
    An archaic English term for a tavern or private room where homosexual and cross-dressing men could meet each other and possible sexual partners.
  8291. Monbiot Still Can't Admit Media's Core Problem
    First Published: 2017
    After more than two decades at the Guardian, George Monbiot has finally written a column in which he concedes that the entire British media has a problem, including its supposedly left-liberal elements like the Guardian.
  8292. Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
    Connexipedia Article
    A group of manufacturing, financial and retail enterprises based in the Basque Country and extended over the rest of Spain and abroad which is one of the world's largest worker cooperatives and one important example of workers' self-management.
  8293. Mondragon Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
    First Published: 2009
    The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business - a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
  8294. The Money Gusher
    First Published: 2010
    The oil industry's decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.
  8295. Money Is Made Up And We Can Change The Rules Whenever We Want
    First Published: 2021
    Have you ever noticed how online capitalism cultists who condescendingly tell socialists they “just don’t understand economics” are always unable to lucidly defend their own understanding of economics? If you've never pressed such a character to clearly and concisely explain what it is you "don't understand" using their own words, I highly recommend that you try it, because it’s one of the funniest things in the world.
  8296. Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
    First Published: 2019
    It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
  8297. Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News
    First Published: 2019
    None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates.
  8298. Mongolia, Canada, Israel & the United States
    Colonialism, Mining and Oil Shale: Don't Let the Genie Out of the Bottle
    First Published: 2013
    Genie Energy announces a deal they struck with the Petroleum Authority of Mongolia.
  8299. Monitoring the Miners: Rio Tinto, Drones and Surveillance
    First Published: 2016
    Management at the mining giant Rio Tinto have ambitions to take the technology of monitoring employees to another level – quite literally-drones.
  8300. Monogamous Voles
    First Published: 2004
    Vole reversal.
  8301. Monographs on the Portuguese
    First Published: 1975
    A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
  8302. The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
    First Published: 2017
    The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder.
  8303. Monopoly Capital
    First Published: 1966
    For Baran and Sweezy, capitalist problems are exclusively market problems.
  8304. Monsanto: Contamination By All Means Necessary
    First Published: 2013
    What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state's food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price.
  8305. Monsanto Crops Pushing Monarch Butterfly to Verge of Extinction
    First Published: 2015
    Herbicide-resistant genetically modified crops have brought the iconic monarch butterfly to the brink of extinction, according to a new report by the Center for Food Safety.
  8306. Monsanto is buying up non-gmo seed companies
    First Published: 2013
    A positive trend in recent years is the growing number of gardening enthusiasts choosing to plant gardens using organic and/or heirloom seeds.
  8307. Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information
    First Published: 2015
    Next year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed. It is a vital investigative tool for exposing government and corporate wrongdoing.
  8308. Monsanto monarch massacre: 970 million butterflies killed since 1990
    First Published: 2015
    A shocking statistic released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday summed up the plight of the monarch butterfly: Since 1990, about 970 million of the butterflies – 90 percent of the total population – have vanished across the United States.
  8309. Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance
    Putting Profits Before Populations
    First Published: 2013
    Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.
  8310. Monsanto and Ukraine
    GM Food, Ukraine and the Return of Hill + Knowlton
    First Published: 2014
    The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under terms of their $17 billion loan to Ukraine, will force that country to permit genetically-modified (GM) crops and genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.
  8311. Monsanto vs. Vernon Bowman's Farm
    The Fiction of Intellectual Property
    First Published: 2013
    Monsanto’s entire case against Vernon Bowman — as with Percy Schmeiser — is that their profits will be negatively affected if they’e not empowered to dictate what Vernon Bowman does on his own land and with his own stuff. The relief they’re requesting is that the state should therefore so empower them.
  8312. The Monster That Israel Helped Create
    First Published: 2014
    There is a terrible irony in Israel’s current assault on Gaza. More than 200 Palestinians have died in an onslaught supposedly aimed at weakening Hamas and degrading its capacity to fire rockets into Israel. It was Israel itself, however, that helped Hamas to power in Gaza.
  8313. Montenegro, Raúl
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Environmental and indigenous rights activist. (Born 1949).
  8314. Montgomery Bus Boycott
    First Published: 1955
    A successful year-long protest against the segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
  8315. Montreal: Campus Feminists Fail to Gag Marxists
    For Women's Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
    First Published: 2015
    The logic of feminism is class collaboration. It also means relying on the bourgeois state to "defend women." The role of the capitalist state is to defend the interests of the capitalists. It has nothing to do with ending the misery of the oppressed.
  8316. Montreal revolutionaries, Canadian security and race: An interview with author David Austin
    First Published: 2013
    Recently, Montreal writer David Austin published Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, a groundbreaking work that details the significant breadth and scope of Black Power activism in Montreal in the 1960s and 1970s.
  8317. Montreal spends $110,000 on private lawyers to fight challenge to anti-protest bylaw
    There's room for austerity around everything except repression
    First Published: 2014
    As the city of Montreal tightens its belt-buckle and is cutting budgets, two Montrealers who are challenging the city's regulations around demonstrations are questioning the amount of resources the city is putting in to defend the bylaws.
  8318. Mooney, Pat
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1947).
  8319. Moral Appeals Aren't Enough
    First Published: 2015
    The wonderful thing about Black Lives Matter is that they're saying you cannot use moral suasion to win this. You've got to disrupt, and make sure that things don't work in order to make the demand for change.
  8320. Moral bankruptcy of capitalism': UK's top public doctor shames western society over Ebola
    First Published: 2014
    Western countries should tackle drugs firms' "scandalous" reluctance to invest in research into the virus which has already killed over 700 people in West Africa, the UK's top public doctor said, adding, “They'd find a cure if Ebola came to London.”
  8321. Moral Clarity
    First Published: 2015
    Shatz discusses the underlying meaning and implications of the slogan 'Je suis Charlie', an expression that became widespread after the shootings at the Charlie Hebdo's (French satirical magazine) office.
  8322. The Moral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
    First Published: 2017
    The Jerry Berrigan Brigade, named after Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan, were called to court for their nonviolent witness against drone warfare at the state-side drone base Hancock.
  8323. The Moral Economy of the Iranian Protests
    Beset by inequality and corruption, Iran's provincial working classes are revolting against the revolution's broken promises
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the root causes of the widespread protests that have been taking place, primarily in provincial towns, throughout Iran. Persistent unemployment and inflation, overdue wages and pensions, environmental degradation, and ponzi schemes are a far cry from the social justice vision that animated and united the revolutionary forces of 1979.
  8324. Moral Poverty and the Riots
    First Published: 2011
    Because the right has appropriated the arguments about moral failure, many on the left have rejected moral arguments altogether. The left talks much about the social and economic impact of neoliberal policies. But little about their moral impact. Such willful blindness is dangerous. Morality is as important to the left as it is to the right, though for different reasons. There can be no possibility of a political or economic vision of a different society without a moral vision too. Moral arguments lie at the heart of our understanding of social solidarity, and of the distinction between notions of social solidarity and pious rightwing claims of ‘we’re all in it together’.
  8325. Moral Truisms, Empirical Evidence, and Foreign Policy
    First Published: 2003
    Noam Chomsky systematically discusses terrorism and "just war" in relationship to moral standards such as "what goes for others goes for us". He demonstrates that, according to US behavior in the past and this principle, other actors may be entitled to use terrorist strategy against the USA.
  8326. Moralidade em um Mundo Amoral
    First Published: 2020
  8327. Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality
    A Contribution to German Cultural History Contra Karl Heinzen
    First Published: 1847
  8328. Morality in an Amoral World
    First Published: 2020
    A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
  8329. Morality in an Amoral World - Bulgarian text
    First Published: 2020
  8330. Morality in an Amoral World - Vietnamese text
    First Published: 2020
  8331. Morality Policing
    First Published: 2010
    The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power.
  8332. Morant Bay rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
  8333. Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
    Connexipedia Article
    A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
  8334. More chance of dying from work than going to war
    First Published: 2014
    Going to war may seem one of the most hazardous ordeals on the planet, but perhaps not. The International Labor Organization (ILO) says there is more chance of dying from work than fighting for your country on the battlefield.
  8335. More From Pacific High
    Notes from an xprmentl school
    First Published: 1969
    Jack Spicer explores the current obstacles and future plans for the experimental school Pacific High.
  8336. More from the Greatest [sic] Generation
    This is What We Are Up Against
    First Published: 2014
    The Nazi-CIA connection is ancient news but is finally getting play some seven decades later when it’s safe to file it under "Mistakes, well-intentioned." Here’s my “scoop”: The Nazi-CIA connection should be filed under "Policy, standard operating."
  8337. The More Information The Less Knowledge
    First Published: 1995
    While our short-term quest for knowledge must be related to the immediate problems of saving society from environmental and economic collapse, the long-term goals of learning more about humanity's place in the universe must not be neglected.
  8338. A More Just and Humane Criminal Justice System
    First Published: 1976
    Outline of the council's objectives, goals, history, and programme developments.
  8339. More on the Red Chemist
    First Published: 2017
    More on the important role that the eminent chemist Carl Schorlemmer played in the development of Marx and Engels' understanding of the natural sciences.
  8340. More Propaganda Than News Coming Out of Aleppo
    First Published: 2016
    The dominance of propaganda over news in coverage of the war in Syria.
  8341. More tear gas in in Artvin, Turkey as anti-mining protests enter 7th day
    First Published: 2016
    Hundreds of activists gathered in the Black Sea province of Artvin, Northwest Turkey, to oppose plans to build a gold mine in the area. Police again used tear gas and batons to disperse the angry crowd.
  8342. More Than a Few Rogue Cops: the Disturbing History of Police in Schools
    First Published: 2016
    Another week, another video of police abuse surfaces. This time the video shows San Antonio school resource officer Joshua Kehm body-slamming 12-year-old Rhodes Middle School student Janissa Valdez. Valdez was talking with another student, trying to resolve a verbal conflict between the two, when Kehm entered and attacked her. "Janissa! Janissa, you okay?" a student asked before exclaiming, "She landed on her face!" In a statement on the incident, co-director of the Advancement Project Judith Browne Davis wrote, "Once again, a video captured by a student offers a sobering reminder that we cannot entrust school police officers to intervene in school disciplinary matters that are best suited for trained educators and counselors."
  8343. More than equality: reasons to be a feminist socialist
    First Published: 2015
    Equality? Feminist socialism has something better in mind: using power to transform hierarchies.
  8344. More than one way to strike
    First Published: 1978
    Rather than simply walk away from their vehicles, drivers could keep driving, but refuse to collect fares. This puts pressure on the employer without inconveniencing riders.
  8345. More VIA cuts predicted
    First Published: 1990
  8346. Morgentaler, Henry
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Dr. Henry Morgentaler (1923-2013) was a Canadian physician and prominent pro-choice advocate who fought numerous legal battles for abortion rights.
  8347. Moroccan Catastrophic Convergence
    First Published: 2018
    The convergance of injustices in Morocco - climate change, neoliberalism, political suppression - make for a completely untenable situation. This could make people hopeful since it makes radical change the only possibility.
  8348. The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
    First Published: 2008
    I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them.
    Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
  8349. Morris Slavin: 1913-2006
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    Morris Slavin, a historian of the French Revolution and one of the last remaining veterans of the American Trotskyist movement of the early 1930s, died on February 6 in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 92. The vast majority of Slavin's years were spent in Youngstown, Ohio, but his childhood took place in Russia.
  8350. Morris, William
    Connexipedia Article
    British artist, designer, author, and socialist. (1834-1896).
  8351. Morris, William - Internet Archive - Index
  8352. Morrison, Norman
    Connexipedia Article
    Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. (1933-1965).
  8353. Mortgage Companies Seek Time Travelers to Find Missing Documents
    First Published: 2016
    Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn’t exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians.
  8354. Moscow Gangsters
    First Published: 1992
    A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
  8355. Moscow sells photos of Canadian base
    First Published: 1989
  8356. Mossad contradicted Netanyahu on Iran nuclear programme
    First Published: 2015
    Spy cables reveal that Mossad concluded that Iran was not producing nuclear weapons, even though Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told the UN the opposite.
  8357. Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter
    First Published: 2010
    An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned at the weekend they would "remove the gloves" to track him down.
  8358. The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Review
    First Published: 1996
  8359. The Most Enduring Media Cover Up
    First Published: 2019
    Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, a website that provides factual information about the Israeli State and Palestine.
  8360. The Most Moral Army?
    First Published: 2017
    War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
  8361. Most of All, I am Offended as a Muslim
    On Hamline University's shocking imposition of narrow religious orthodoxy in the classroom
    First Published: 2022
    Barring a professor of art history from showing a painting, lest it harm observant Muslims in class, is just as absurd as asking a biology professor not to teach evolution because it may offend evangelical Protestants in the course.
  8362. The most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on the Canadian people
    Can the Courts Liberate the Bank of Canada?
    First Published: 2015
    You know the old aphorism -- "If a tree falls in the forest….?" Well, how about this one: if citizens win a significant victory in court against an autocratic government involving the fleecing of Canadians of billions of their hard-earned tax dollars and no one in the media actually covers it, did it really happen?
  8363. The Most Terrifying Pressures Occur in Silence
    First Published: 2015
    Ivancic narrates his prosecution by the Croatian government, which is one of the many examples of violence against Feral journalists.
  8364. Most US drone strikes in Pakistan attack houses
    Drone strikes in Pakistan
    First Published: 2014
    Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals.
  8365. Most US Jewish students don't see Israel as 'civilized' or a 'democracy,' Luntz tells secret anti-BDS conference
    First Published: 2016
    Minister Gilad Erdan has organized a secret conference in Jerusalem, with 150 top supporters of Israel.
  8366. The Most Wanted List, International Terrorism
    First Published: 2008
    Revealing the difference between America's use of the term "the world" and the conception which would actually include the entire globe, Chomsky demonstrates that if the "world's" voice were heeded, other terrorist concerns would likely top the agenda.
  8367. The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story
    'I Want to Know Who's Down There'
    First Published: 2014
    It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life upside-down.
  8368. Mother Earth
    Connexipedia Article
    An anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature," edited by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, and published. (1907-1917).
  8369. Mother Russia and the Soviet Fatherland: Canadian Women and the Communist Party of Canada,1929-1939
    PhD. Thesis, Queen's University, 2010
    First Published: 2010
  8370. Mothers and Children First
    First Published: 2017
    An interactive report on mothers and child bearing in Bolivia where deaths are highest among indigenous populations. This report looks at the efforts by doctors, indigenous midwives and healers who are collaborating in what is being called 'intercultural health care'.
  8371. Mothers' milk threatened by trade pact
  8372. Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
    First Published: 2009
    Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
  8373. Mountain Warfare in the Past and Present
    First Published: 1857
    The article was prompted by the Neuchâtel conflict and the plans for the invasion of Switzerland by Prussian troops, widely discussed in the press.
  8374. Mountaintop Removal: Environmental And Human Destruction For Profit
    First Published: 2011
    Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) is an initiative "to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal, to improve the quality of life in our area, and to help rebuild sustainable communities."
  8375. Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army
    First Published: 2014
    An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing testimonies from doctors, nurses, and ambulance personnel working in the area.
  8376. Mounting Repression: Its Meaning and Importance for Quebec and Canada
    First Published: 1978
  8377. Mourn Liu Xiaobo, Free Liu Xia
    First Published: 2017
    Assessment of the death of Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, as well as the house arrest of his wife, Liu Xia.
  8378. Mourn, Then Organize Again
    Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Enzo Traverso's Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory.
  8379. Mourning a home filled with memories, destroyed by Israel's army
    First Published: 2023
    Nablus, occupied West Bank -- rubble, destroyed window frames, remnants of a couch shrouded in dust and debris -- that is all that was left of the 130sq-metre home of the al-Jouri family. Overnight, Israeli soldiers, backed by armoured vehicles and bulldozers, surrounded the three-bedroom apartment in Nablus, filling it with explosives and blowing it to smithereens.
  8380. Mouths Wide Shut: Obamas War on Whistleblowers
    First Published: 2015
    The Obama administration has been ruthless in its prosecution of whistleblowers.
  8381. Move along
    A personal story of racism.
  8382. Move into the light?
    Postscript to a turbulent 2007
    First Published: 2007
    Can the left movement move into the light and become visible?
  8383. Move-A-Thon
    First Published: 1990
  8384. The Movement Comes to Jena
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    The humid air felt electric as the sun ascended over the hundreds of buses idling a 20-mile stretch of Louisiana Route 49, the gateway to the rural hometown of the Jena 6. It was 6 AM, September 20, 2007 — the day Mychal Bell was initially scheduled to be sentenced for his role in the beating of a white classmate — and northeast central Louisiana, on the border of Mississippi, was looking anything but sleepy.
  8385. Movement for Christian Feminism
    First Published: 1977
    This pamphlet outlines the goals of the Christian Feminist Movement which is engaged in an ecumenical project designed to enable women concerned about sexism in the Churches to discover their role in strengthening the life of the church.
  8386. Movement for Municipal Reform (ReforMetro)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The Movement for Municipal Reform (often called ReforMetro) was created in Toronto in 1975. Its purpose was to establish and institutionalize close linkages among community organizers, left-wing city aldermen (as they were still called at that time), and their constituents (primarily in working-class wards).
  8387. The Movement for Peace Marches On Against the Drug War
    The Goal Is Clear: Peace With Justice and Dignity
    First Published: 2012
    The one-year anniversary of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a grassroots groundswell against the drug war, played out March 28 in a small plaza in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City — absent the cameras and pens of the mainstream media.
  8388. The Movement Has a History
    First Published: 2015
    I was born in the '70s in East Oakland. All of our parents are Panthers, or Black Power organizers, or organizers. We come out politicized.
  8389. 'The movement is ours!': Lesbian activist critique
    First Published: 2008
    We have recently claimed a right to reciprocity in the support of our struggles, but how many in the Queer rights movement have actively worked for the liberation of those groups whose endorsement we demand?
  8390. Movement Pachamama: Indigenous Movements in Latin America
    First Published: 2009
    It is no accident that most of the remaining natural resources are on indigenous land. First the white world destroys their own environment, then they come asking for the last pieces of land they have put us on, the earth we have protected.
  8391. A Movement Without Demands?
    First Published: 2012
    We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
  8392. A Movement's Loss
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    Puerto Rico is neither a state of the union, nor an independent nation-state. Its residents are U.S. citizens, go to war, have one representative in Congress who cannot vote or even present a motion, pay no taxes and do not vote for president, have no influence or say in federal law, yet are held to all federal standards. Thanks to this legal limbo, for years the island and its people have been used as testing ground for chemicals (e.g. the pill), war agents (e.g. Agent Orange), and even Monsanto is reaping profits now from transgenic crops (Puerto Rico has the highest proportion of Genetic Modification experiments per land area in the world).
  8393. Moving Beyond Keystone XL
    Direct Action on Line 9
    First Published: 2013
    Line 9, which is a pipeline that moves oil west towards Sarnia and the refining facilities there, is where a group of people walked onto the Canadian energy corporation Enbridge’s North Westover pumping station and occupied the facility on June 20th, 2013.
  8394. Moving forward while celebrating Palestinian art's past
    First Published: 2016
    Unlike Other Springs, on display at the Birzeit University Museum in the occupied West Bank through the end of June, pulls off the heavy feat of looking back while moving forward. Conceived as both a celebration and retrospective, the exhibition is guest curated by the museum's formidable founder, the renowned artist Vera Tamari, who oversaw its transformation from the Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University into the center of contemporary Palestinian and international art that it is today.
  8395. Moving past climate denial
    Deniers feel that the impacts of climate breakdown don't matter, but the solutions pose an imminent threat, new research shows.
    First Published: 2019
    Katharine Hayhoe, a climate researcher and political science professor argues that it's more productive to show climate change skeptics that solutions are beneficial to them rather than trying to make them believe in the science of climate change.
  8396. Mozambique won't be Mato Grosso
    First Published: 2018
    A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.
  8397. Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari
    First Published: 2018
    Parenti and Liberti examine the Nakarari community's ongoing resistance to commercial agricultural planning.
  8398. Mozambique's Movement to End Land Grabs
    First Published: 2016
    To corporations, the forest is only business. To communities, the forest is everything: trees, medicine, culture, spirituality. Land-grabbing and the removal of communities from forests and land breaks the community, displaces access to food and water, and uproots the connection to nature and [local] knowledge. There is an old saying in Africa: the land doesn’t belong to us; it belongs to our children, and the children of our children.
  8399. Mr. Mosey is a Paper Tiger
    An interview with Judy Dexter
    First Published: 1969
    Judy Dexter shares her experiences as a Grade 13 student at Forest Hill Collegiate in Toronto.
  8400. Mubarak's Last Gasps
    From Counter-Attack to Departure Day
    First Published: 2011
    Revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt.
  8401. Mubarak's third force terror tactic
    First Published: 2011
    President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime. The tactics of deploying so-called third forces is a tried and tested method of autocratic regimes, usually utilised when the regime realises that it is on the strategic defencive politically.
  8402. Much Has Been Said...
    First Published: 2014
    In the wake of Nelson Mandela, Finkel brings attention to contemporary political activists being imprisoned by their governments.
  8403. Muddying the waters
    First Published: 2015
    The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
  8404. Mueller Indictment - The "Russian Influence" Is A Commercial Marketing Scheme
    First Published: 2018
    An explanation of why the U.S. Justice Department's indictment is based on a misunderstanding of the commercial activities of a Russian marketing company in U.S. social networks.
  8405. Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks
    First Published: 2023
    India's right-wing government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.
  8406. Muhammad Ali: Free Black Man
    First Published: 2016
    Muhammad Ali spoke truth to power. Even after he became ill with Parkinson's disease and eventually lost much of his verbal skills, he stood by his militant spirit and youth. He never apologized for his words or action.
  8407. Multicultural Health directory
    First Published: 1989
  8408. Multiculturalism Conference
    First Published: 1991
  8409. Multiculturalism or World Culture? 
    On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2000
    Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
  8410. Multiphasic Bureaucratic Follow the Leader Exam
    First Published: 1978
  8411. Mumford, Lewis
    Connexipedia Article
    American historian and philosopher of technology and science. (1895-1990).
  8412. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond; Political Prisoners In The Sacrifice Zone Of Empire
    First Published: 2014
    Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
  8413. Mumia Faces Life in Prison
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    On Wednesday, Decemerber7, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams held a news conference to announce that the city will no longer seek the death penalty against long-time political prisoner and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jama — convicted in a frameup trial for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
  8414. Mumia on COINTELPRO Activists and Other Ordinary Heroes
    The Linear Ancestors of Edward Snowden
    First Published: 2014
    Mumia Abu-Jamal was one of hundreds of journalists who received in the mail a packet of covertly-copied COINTELPRO documents. They were sent by eight activists who broke into FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971—and whose identities just became known last week. The papers detailed names and activities of individuals he knew well for years, living and working closely together in communal spaces, who were FBI informants.
  8415. Mundurukú Indians in Brazil Protest Tapajós Dams
    First Published: 2013
    10 Mundurukú chiefs and 30 warriors made the trek to the capital of Brazil to demand the demarcation of their territory and the right to prior consultation in order to block the Tapajós hydroelectric dam, which could flood several of their villages.
  8416. Municipal Solid Waste Management
    First Published: 1989
  8417. Munir
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Indonesian human rights activist. (1965-2004).
  8418. Müntzer, Thomas
    Connexipedia Article
    An early Reformation-era German theologian and Anabaptist. (1488-1525).
  8419. Murder at the Algiers Motel
    First Published: 2017
    The following account is abridged from an anthology, Detroit 1967, just published by Wayne State Press. McGuire has uncovered material that hadn't previously come to light.
  8420. The Murder of Kevin Cooper
    First Published: 2017
    I, Kevin Cooper, have been on death row in the state on California for 32 years, going on 33. I came to this place in May of 1985, and I have been fighting for my life ever since.
  8421. The Murder of Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh
    First Published: 2015
    Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh, 32 years old, a mother, poet and member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, was gunned down January, 2015 24 by black-clad snipers who were seen on video pointing rifles in her direction
  8422. The murder of the Mon Valley
    First Published: 2011
    Only the combined struggle of the international working class can overcome the tyranny of capital and transform the world into a place fit for human beings. This must be our goal. Otherwise the murderer of the Mon Valley may become the murderer of humankind.
  8423. The Murder of Trayvon Martin
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    Popular anger, mass protests and leadership from Trayvon Martin’s parents, the African-American community and its organizations have exposed the racial divisions that run throughout U.S. society.
  8424. The Murder of Walter Scott
    First Published: 2015
    A video capturing the murder of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer, has gone virtal.
  8425. Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
    First Published: 2019
    In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
  8426. The Murdered Women of Juarez
    Trails of Impunity
    First Published: 2011
    The murder of young women, often raped and tortured has brought international infamy to Cuidad Juarez.
  8427. Murdochville Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    On 10 March 1957 the 1000 workers of Gaspé Copper Mines, Murdochville, Qué, struck for the right to unionize. The conflict lasted 7 months and ended in defeat for the miners.
  8428. Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
    First Published: 2011
    When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same "moral panic," invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called "Ground Zero mosque."
  8429. Murray Bookchin -- Anarchism without the Working Class
    First Published: 2015
    Murray Bookchin was an influential and prolific writer and thinker on anarchism. While he made significant contributions, Wayne Price agrues that he made a major error in rejecting the working class as important for an anarchist revolution. This article reviews why he believed this and why, on the contrary, the working class must be a major force for a successful anarchist revolution.
  8430. Murray Bookchin's New Life
    Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin's ideas should be studied by today's left
    First Published: 2016
    Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the centre of a new vision of socialism. Here is a thinker, who in the early sixties, declared climate change as one of the defining problems of the age. Bookchin saw the environmental crisis as capitalism's gravedigger.
  8431. A Museum Dedicated to Stalin: An Example of How to Deal With Historical Memory
    First Published: 2021
    I think that the Stalin Museum is an example of how to deal with historical memory.
  8432. Museum of the World and Image
    First Published: 2013
    Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
  8433. Museums, Art and the Rackets
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    In the late 1990s when it appeared that the laws of capitalism had been suspended temporarily and wealth could be accrued purely on speculation, the New York Times began an annual full-section report on museums, those once fusty and staid zones of quiet suddenly become hot public draws. Its 21 April, 1999, issue extols the role museums play in rebuilding urban economies worldwide. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and new wings of the Metropolitan in New York have been instrumental in fostering urban pride and capital flows.
  8434. Music education makes for a poor commodity
    First Published: 2017
    Privatizing the teaching of music into a commodity and decreasing attention spans is leading to poorer music education.
  8435. Music inspires child who lost hand in Israeli attack
    First Published: 2024
    Muhammad Abu Aida, 14, and his mother, Muna, had hoped they had found some measure of safety in the Nuseirat refugee camp, even though the sounds of explosions resonate constantly and feelings of fear permeate every corner. But the UN school at which they had sought shelter eventually proved to provide no protection. On 16 July, ten months after they were forcibly displaced from their home, Israeli warplanes bombed the school that had become their haven.The attack partially destroyed the school, killed 23 people, and wounded more than 70, including Muhammad, whose right hand had to be amputated.
  8436. Muslims in Britain: After the London Bombs
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    Whitechapel Market is in the heart of George Galloway’s Bethnal Green (London) constituency, packed every Saturday wiith traders selling low priced fruit, unreliable electrical goods and cheap cigarettes.
  8437. Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous results
    First Published: 2015
    The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present – and not only their present but everyone else's as well. Whatever one might think of the teachings of the Bible and Quran, this is a highly problematic desire. In fact, it is downright dangerous.
  8438. Mussolini & Syndicalism
    Mussolini succeeded in persuading thousands of syndicalists including the main leaders of the syndicalist movement to support Italy's entry into the First World War. A majority of syndicalists, however, opposed the war.
  8439. A. J. Muste
    Wikipedia article
    Abraham Johannes Muste (January 8, 1885 - February 11, 1967) was a Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist. Muste is best remembered for his work in the labour movement, pacifist movement, antiwar movement, and the Civil Rights Movement.
  8440. Muste, A. J.
    Connexipedia Article
    A socialist active in the pacifist movement, the labour movement, and the US civil rights movement. (1885-1967).
  8441. Mutiny
    Connexipedia Article
    An action members of a group of similarly-situated individuals (typically members of the military; or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians) to openly oppose, change or overthrow an existing authority. The term is commonly used for a rebellion among members of the military against their superior officer(s).
  8442. Mutualism
    Connexipedia Article
  8443. MUZAK: Music to Whose Ears?
    A brief overview of research commissioned by The Royal National Institute for Deaf People
    First Published: 1998
    For many people background music, or "muzak" as it is commonly known, is both irritating and frustrating. For the UK's 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people background muzak often causes pain, discomfort and unnecessary distress.
  8444. My 1968 in the Heartland
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    “Ezekiel's brother got arrested. He’s a Communist!”
  8445. My Coal Childhood: Lessons From Germany's Mine Pit Lakes
    First Published: 2017
    A personal account of living near a coal mine in the Lausitz region of Germany, where extensive mining has severely damaged the environment and current 'solutions' are creating even further challenges.
  8446. My Experiences in 1968 in Working-Class Turin
    First Published: 2018
    Lepore recounts his experiences growing up in 1968 in working class Turin. He highlight the influence of the newspaper, Lotta Comunista, its developed Marxist approach and his subsequent involvement with, and then commitment to, that group.
  8447. My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor
    First Published: 2006
    Those of us in the first documented generation of donor babies -- conceived in the late 1980s and early '90s, when sperm banks became more common and donor insemination began to flourish -- are coming of age, and we have something to say. I'm here to tell you that emotionally, many of us are not keeping up. We didn't ask to be born into this situation, with its limitations and confusion. It's hypocritical of parents and medical professionals to assume that biological roots won't matter to the "products" of the cryobanks' service, when the longing for a biological relationship is what brings customers to the banks in the first place. We offspring are recognizing the right that was stripped from us at birth -- the right to know who both our parents are.
  8448. My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon
    First Published: 2019
    Paulino paid with his life for trying save his tribe's forest, the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in the north-east Amazon.
  8449. My Interview with Pisstex
    First Published: 1986
    Currently the government is trying to whip up national hysteria over drug consumption. Part of this hysteria is the effort to implement mandatory drug testing for all American workers. The administration's war on drug consumption presumes that drug abuse can be stopped by police and military repression.
  8450. My Journey from Racism
    And how we can best end it
    First Published: 2015
    A white individual's experience of racism growing up in America in the 1940's and 1950's.
  8451. My Last Talk with Gary Webb
    "I Knew It Was the Truth and That's What Kept Me Going"
    First Published: 2014
    The 'Dark Alliance' series in the Mercury News came under fire by other news organizations, and the paper’s own investigation concluded the series did not meet its standards. Mr. Webb resigned a year and a half after the series appeared in the paper. He then published his book, 'Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.'
  8452. My Longest Day: How World War II Ended for My Family
    First Published: 2018
    An essay excerpted from Hans-Armin Ohlmann's memoirs, which recounts his experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War.
  8453. My Mother, Stopped for Driving While Black
    First Published: 2016
    When the police pulled their guns on my mother, I reached for my phone and told her to be calm and do as they say. My parents and I had just been swarmed by police cars, sirens blaring, as we drove on I-64 through Virginia. Shock and fear consumed my family as we came to a stop and were ordered out of the vehicle at gun point. A third car even showed up to stop traffic. The officers then arrested my mother without any explanation. I felt helpless.
  8454. My Nelson Mandela is dead
    First Published: 2022
    The way to liberate the Palestinians from Israel requires replacing the apartheid regime known as "Israel" with a free, democratic Palestine – and not expecting that Israel itself will allow Palestinians to be free. Israel isn't just the perpetrator of the crime, it is, in and of itself, the crime. The existence of Apartheid Israel is the crime.
  8455. My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death
    First Published: 2011
    We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
  8456. My Response to the PBS Series: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
    First Published: 2019
    A criticism of the PBS series on Reconstruction which presents slavery as a 'southern problem,' ignoring its ties to capital and class.
  8457. My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
    First Published: 2017
    An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
  8458. My Studs Terkel, and Yours
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    When Against The Current asked me to write a piece on Studs Terkel, I wondered why me? But after I pondered the idea, I thought, of course me. And you. All readers of his books, Against the Current and other magazines, large and small that serve as a mouthpiece for those with the desire for a better world and anger against the hypocrisy of our times.
  8459. My Year of Transition
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
  8460. My Years at Wal-Mart
    Making One Do the Work of Three
    First Published: 2013
    Wal-Mart is but the largest wave in a rising tide, and, unless we stand together, united and with dignity, as a great levy for justice to hold and push it back, this tide threatens to drown us all.
  8461. Myanmar Rohingya Face "Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing"
    First Published: 2017
    As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State, thousands that remain in the country face mass atrocities at a scale never seen before.
  8462. Myanmar's Other Reporters
    The world cheered when two Reuters journalists were freed from prison. But who’s watching out for the rest?
    First Published: 2019
    Detailed analysis of the state of freedom of speech and the press in Burma/Myanmar.
  8463. Myles Horton
    First Published: 1990
    Obituary.
  8464. Myles Horton
    Insights from organizer Myles Horton
    First Published: 1990
  8465. Myron Perlman, Z"L: Working-Class Jewish Radical
    First Published: 2018
    Memorial for Myron Perlman, union carpenter and social justice activist.
  8466. The myth of a free market in publishing and high-tech
    First Published: 1999
    The high-tech industries, in the U.S. in particular, owe their very existence to massive levels of government subsidies and intervention.
  8467. The myth of the 'brutal savage' and the mindset of conquest 
    First Published: 2016
    The 'brutal savage' meme has enjoyed a resurgence in popular culture and establishment narratives, despite abundant evidence that it's fundamentally wrong. But it suits today's dominant mindset of conquest, conflict and colonialism all too well, and serves to justify the ongoing genocide and expropriation of surviving Indigenous Peoples today.
  8468. The Myth of Corbyn's Labour Failure and Neoliberalisms Western Electoral Success
    First Published: 2021
    The spin on recent history presupposes two false premises. Firstly, that the era of Corbyn’s grassroots mobilisation was some sort of oxymoron democratic failure, this the available evidence belies. Secondly, that rather than being a process of direct democratic representation on behalf of the mass of society, electoral politics should be treated as some sort of advertising/marketing game designed to facilitate the careers of a small handful of individuals, operating on behalf of highly financed corporate lobbyists.
  8469. The Myth of 'Cultural Appropriation' 
    First Published: 2017
    Arguing that certain people don’t have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.
  8470. The Myth of Greek Profligacy
    Destroying the Livelihoods of Thirteen Million People
    First Published: 2011
    The top 20 per cent of the income distribution in Greece pay virtually no taxes at all, the product of a corrupt bargain reached during the days of the junta between the military and Greece’s wealthiest plutocrats. No wonder there is a fiscal crisis.
  8471. The Myth of Israel as 'US Aircraft Carrier' in Middle East
    First Published: 2024
    If Israeli apartheid were to disappear, oil and trade would still flow from the Middle East towards the West, write Jean Bricmont and Diana Johnstone.
  8472. The myth of Israeli morality
    First Published: 2010
    Israel has consistently reacted with repression or even extreme violence to cultural and political manifestations of Palestinian identity.
  8473. The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of The Party'
    What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
    First Published: 1990
    Lenin protested more than once that his initial formulations in WITBD were being distorted and misinterpreted by opponents, after which he went on to clarify and modify. If we want to know Lenin's 'concept of the party' we must look at the formulations he came to, after there had been discussions and attacks.
  8474. The Myth of Lenin's 'Revolutionary Defeatism'
    First Published: 1954
    Lenin discovered in practice that the defeat-slogan was incompatible with a living Marxist approach to the problem of the defense of the nation, conceived not in the social-patriotic sense of the 'defense of the fatherland' but in the light of a Marxist class understanding of, and a dynamically revolutionary program for, the nation.
  8475. The Myth of Marx's Economic Determinism
    First Published: 2005
    Karl Marx is often represented as an "economic determinist" who credited economic structures with a basic determining role in just about every aspect of human life, and simple models such as "base"/"superstructure" are often invoked to support this. Whilst it may be true that Marx understood individuals to have the scope for meaningful thought and action determined by their social context, as Peter G. Stillman shows, it does not follow that there is a direct causal relationship between "economic" circumstances and spheres such as religion, politics or culture.
  8476. The Myth of Muslim Conquest
    Less Threatening Than Imagined
    First Published: 2010
    It's easy to mistake the high visibility of Islam in the West for a massive return to piety in Muslim communities. But for the last 20 years religious observance has stagnated, even slightly waned.
  8477. The myth of one Jewish nation
    First Published: 2017
    Zionism is an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning. Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zionism was not just a geographical transplantation, but also a means of turning the despicable commercial Jew of the diaspora into an upright, industrious human being.
  8478. The Myth of Peaceful Protest
    The Patronizing Intransigence of Power
    First Published: 2015
    Johnson discusses how peaceful protest is depicted as the way to speak out, and any kind of disorder or defiance of authority is presented not only unacceptable, but unnecessary.
  8479. The Myth of Precision-Guided Coercion
    From Serbia to Libya
    First Published: 2011
    The weapons makers love the marriage of high-cost precision weapons to coercive diplomacy, because it generates an astronomical need for a never ending flow of money into their financial coffers with orders for new weapons.
  8480. The Myth of 'Simple Commodity Production'
    First Published: 2005
    Many misunderstandings have arisen from and about the structure of Capital. One of these is that Capital has an historical structure beginning with "Simple Commodity Production." As Chris Arthur shows in this article, Marx knows of no such mode of production. Marx begins with the simplest relation of capital and exhibits the relations of capital by means of a LOGICAL, not a historical structure.
  8481. The Myth of Symmetry
    First Published: 1983
  8482. The Myth of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    The persistence of reformism and outright conservatism among workers, especially in the imperialist centers of North America, Western Europe and Japan, has long confounded revolutionary socialists. The broadest outlines of Marxist theory tell us that capitalism creates it own "gravediggers" - a class of collective producers with no interest in the maintenance of private ownership of the means of production. The capitalist system's drive to maximize profits should force workers to struggle against their employers, progressively broaden their struggle and eventually overthrow the system and replace it with their democratic self-rule.
  8483. The myth of the reactionary white working class
    First Published: 2016
    This identity-based presentation of Tuesday's election is a false narrative exploded by the most basic analysis of the data from the election.
  8484. The myth of the reactionary white working class
    First Published: 2016
    Following the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic Party and media have attributed the results to the ignorance, backwardness and inherent racism and sexism of the "white working class." This identity-based presentation is a false narrative exploded by the most basic analysis of the data from the election.
  8485. The Mythology of Corporate Social Responsibility
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    For Dow Chemical, corporate social responsibility means encouraging its employees to volunteer in their communities as long as that doesn't take up company time. It means, according to the Dow website, that "At Dow, protecting people and the environment is part of everything we do and every decision we make."
  8486. The Mythology Of Trump's 'Working Class' Support
    His voters are better off economically compared with most Americans.
    First Published: 2016
    It's been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump's candidacy as a "working-class" rebellion against Republican elites. Narratives like these risk obscuring an important fact about Trump's voters: As compared with most Americans, Trump's voters are better off.
  8487. Myths of Cultural Dysfunction
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    This is another “blame the victim” book faulting Latino immigrants for not being as prosperous as other ethnic and racial groups, such as the Asians, in the United States. According to the author, the cause is Latino culture, particularly its “counterproductive” values such as living for the moment, valuing and having large families, and, most important of all, resisting and not wanting to learn English.
  8488. The Myths of 'Green Capitalism'
    A system based on the accumulation of capital without restraint will require unsustainable growth, however cleverly we measure our ecologica
    First Published: 2014
    Environmental politics in the U.S. appears hopelessly polarized. Liberals and progressives try to sustain and occasionally strengthen environmental legislation, while those on the right are unalterably opposed, even seeking to defund core institutions such as the EPA.
  8489. Myths of the Exile and Return
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    So where did “the Jewish people” come from anyway? Was there an Exodus from Egypt, an Empire of David and Solomon, an Exile ending in a triumphant Return to Zion? Does any of it matter and if so, why?
  8490. Myths and reality about the Ukraine war
    First Published: 2023
    How one views the war depends very much on the starting point of one's analysis.
  8491. Mzwanele Mayekiso's Township Politics
    First Published: 1997
    Given the inadequate media coverage of the new South Africa, it is easy to forget about the ordinary citizens who were always the strength of the anti-apartheid struggle.
  8492. Na przekór wszystkim przeciwnoscia
    First Published: 1985
  8493. The NAACP at 100
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) marks its 100th anniversary this year. It plans a full celebration at its centennial national convention July 11-16 in New York City.
  8494. The NAACP's Future
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    The NAACP is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the country. Founded in 1909, it played a leading role in opposing lynching laws and legal segregation until the demise of Jim Crow three decades ago .
  8495. Nader, Greens and Socialists
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    Blaming Ralph Nader for Bush is like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. The Greens ran Nader to end corporate oligarchy, not to support one wing of the oligarchy as a lesser evil against the other wing. Nevertheless, the Democrats, their liberal satellite organizations, and the corporate media are playing the blame game for all it is worth.
  8496. Nader, Ralph
    Connexipedia Article
    American attorney, author, lecturer, and political activist. (Born 1934).
  8497. NAFTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals
    First Published: 2015
    According to a new study, Canada is the most-sued country under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a majority of the disputes involve investors challenging the country's environmental laws.
  8498. The Nagorno-Karabakh Story the US Does Not Want You to Know
    First Published: 2016
    In the early morning hours of April 1-2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched a major military offensive into the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) that's been controlled and defended by NK Armenian forces since the Russian brokered truce ended a bloody three year war in 1994. While Azeri President Ilham Aliyev was flying back to Baku after meeting 24 hours earlier with John Kerry in Washington who claimed "an ultimate resolution" had been reached, Azerbaijan was already once again at war with the NK Armenians.
  8499. The Nakba - an event that did not occur (although it had to occur)
    First Published: 2004
  8500. Nakba One, Two, Three?
    Against The Current vol. 128
    First Published: 2007
    In sheer magnitude, the Palestine partition of 1947 wasn’t even that year’s most disastrous division of a former British colonial possession. The partition of the Indian subcontinent — between India and the new Muslim state Pakistan — produced roughly as many deaths, in horrific communal violence between Muslims and Hindus, as the numbers of Palestinian Arabs expelled from their homeland and robbed of their lands in the 1947-49 Catastrophe — al-Nakba — accompanying the establishment of the state of Israel.
  8501. The naked class politics of Ebola
    First Published: 2014
    Just as a glass prism differentiates sunlight into its component colours, corresponding to the different wavelengths, the Ebola crisis ravaging three West African countries has produced three distinct responses, corresponding to the three principal classes of capitalist society.
  8502. Name change
    First Published: 1990
  8503. Names, Graffiti and Culture
    First Published: 1969
    Herbert Kohl discusses how rather than a furtive expression of the lives of the poor, young and disenfranchised, grafitti is a public monument which presents a challenge and a warning to the makers of stone, glass, and steel monuments.
  8504. The Names You'll Never Know
    First Published: 2021
    Americans have been killing civilians since before there was a United States. At home and abroad, civilians -- Pequots, African Americans, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Filipinos, Haitians, Japanese, Germans, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, and Somalis, among others -- have been shot, burned, and bombed to death. So many civilians have been obliterated, incinerated, or "shredded" in America’s forever wars. Who in the United States remembers them? Who here ever knew of them in the first place?
  8505. Naming the Darfur Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    How can we name the Darfur crisis? The U.S. Congress, and now Secretary of State Colin Powell, claim that genocide has occurred in Darfur. The European Union says it is not genocide. And so does the African Union.
  8506. The Nangle Report
    Canadian Businesses In South Africa
    First Published: 1977
  8507. Nanking Massacre
    First Published: 2018
    A summary of the massacre at Nanking (Nanjing) , which occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937. During this period soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army perpetrated horrific atrocities, and murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000.
  8508. Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine
    First Published: 2009
    An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law.
  8509. Naomi Klein: To fight climate change we must fight capitalism
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Naomi Klein, the author of "This Changes Everything."
  8510. Naomi Klein's "Courage"
    Ain't But One Way Out
    First Published: 2005
    In saying that we need to make Iraq safe for democracy, Klein is buying into the US agenda for Iraq.
  8511. Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Review
    Naomi Klein provides us with an engaging and easy to read account of the rise and rise of neoliberalism. However, her limited historical and analytical scope are disappointing.
  8512. The narcissism of America's race politics
    The realities of black British lives were eclipsed by BLM
    First Published: 2022
    in the aftermath of Floyd’s death, the catch-all framework of "Black Lives Matter" was imported to every corner of the planet, even though race relations are not the same throughout the world. They are instead mediated by a country's unique history and culture.
    It was bizarre, watching the majority of liberal democracies use the example of America to make sense of race in their own countries.
  8513. Narcs Versus Big Pharma
    Behind the Meth Curtain
    First Published: 2013
    Communities in the heartland of America are fighting an epidemic of methamphetamine labs.
    The driving force behind the scourge? Big Pharma.
  8514. Narmada Bachao Andolan
    Connexipedia Article
    An organisation that has mobilised tribal people, adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river, Gujarat, India.
  8515. Narrating American Antifascism
    Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Christopher Vials' Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States.
  8516. Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
    First Published: 2020
    On reports regarding social and mainsteam media attempting to censor and control narrative surrounding current protests in the US.
  8517. Narrative of the dispossessed
    First Published: 2015
    Discussion of conspiracies tends to be polarised: people see them everywhere, or nowhere.
  8518. Nat Turner in Gaza
    First Published: 2023
    Finkelstein draws parallels between the Nat Turner rebellion in the United States and the Gaza rebellion of 2023.
  8519. The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part 2
    Black History and the Class Struggle
    First Published: 2017
    Nat Turner’s 1831 revolt in Virginia tears apart the myth that there is no history of slave rebellion or resistance in colonial America or the United States. This is a lie often promoted by racist apologists for American slavery. But it is also untrue to think that the U.S. has a history of slave rebellions similar to the massive uprisings that convulsed the Caribbean, most notably the Haitian Revolution.
  8520. The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part One
    Black History and the Class Struggle
    First Published: 2017
    In 1831, American slaveowners learned what it means to have the fear of God put into them. In August of that year, an insurrection was launched by rebel slaves led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia. Before their suppression, the rebels killed up to 60 whites in the course of a few days -- the highest number to die in a slave uprising in the U.S. It was the unmistakable justice and vengeance of revolutionary terror. And it was met with the reactionary terror of the slaveowners.
  8521. The Nation is Not Divided and Still Prefers Bernie Sanders
    First Published: 2016
    The reportage of the presidential primaries has been heavy on personalities and the latest numbers, and light on information useful to voters. Comparisons to a horse race are apt. Were the news to take a documentary approach instead, the campaigns would be revealed as they are: something existing contrary to the public's interests.
  8522. A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
    First Published: 2012
    The religion of self-improvement is a way of redirecting criticisms or outrage from socio-economic structures back to the individual, imprisoning any reformist or revolutionary impulse within our own feelings of inadequacy – which is why the process of improving our nation’s schools has taken on the tone of a spiritual cleansing rather than a political reckoning. Now, instead of saying “our socioeconomic system is failing us,” an entire generation of children will learn to say, “I have failed myself.”
  8523. A Nation of Millennial Entitlements
    First Published: 2015
    A student twice sued Misericordia College because she failed a nursing class. Why do significant numbers of people believe they are entitled to get the credentials they want even if they don't have the qualifications required?
  8524. Nation That Says It Can't Afford Medicare for All Has Spent $5.6 Trillion on War Since 9/11
    Because, as new study notes, wars force the question: "What we might have done differently with the money spent?"
    First Published: 2017
    A new analysis offers a damning assessment of the United States' so-called global war on terror, and it includes a "staggering" estimated price tag for wars waged since 9/11—over $5.6 trillion.
  8525. National Anarchism
    Connexipedia Article
    National-Anarchism is a syncretic political current that was developed in the 1990s by former Third Positionists to reconcile anarchism with nationalism and in some cases racial separatism. It has philosophical roots in the writings of Julius Evola and the neo-Spenglerian Francis Parker Yockey, and claims Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Max Stirner among its influences. Critics are concerned that national-anarchism may be the potential new face of fascism. They argue that by adopting selected symbols, slogans and stances of the left-wing anarchist movement in particular, this new form of post-war fascism hopes to avoid the stigma of the older tradition, while injecting its core fascist values into the newer movement of anti-globalization activists and related decentralized political groups.
  8526. National Anarchism: Trojan Horse for White Nationalism
    First Published: 2010
  8527. The National Assembly
    First Published: 1918
    Today it is not a question of democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has placed on the agenda is: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy?
  8528. National Catechism
    First Published: 1866
    Bakunin sketches out his vision of an anarchist social and political revolution, stating that "in order to prepare for this revolution it will be necessary to conspire and to organize a strong secret association coordinated by an international nucleus."
  8529. National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine
    Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion
    First Published: 2022
    The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) -- a CIA offshoot founded in the early 1980s to advance "democracy promotion" initiatives around the world—has deleted all records of funding projects in Ukraine from their searchable "Awarded Grants Search" database.
  8530. The National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela
    The Stealth Destabilizer
    First Published: 2014
    As protests have been taking place in Venezuela the last couple of weeks, it is always good to check on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the US Empire’s “stealth” destabilizer.
  8531. National liberation and Bolshevism reexamined: A view from the borderlands - An analysis of the socialist debates on the national question up through 1914
    A view from the Czarist empire's borderlands obliges us to rethink assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917
    First Published: 2014
    The following paper analyzes the socialist debates on the national question up through 1914. I argue that an effective strategy of anti-colonial Marxism was first put forward by the borderland socialists, not the Bolsheviks. Lenin and his comrades lagged behind the non-Russian Marxists on this crucial issue well into the Civil War.
  8532. National Liberation and Bolshevism Reexamined
    A View from the Borderlands
    First Published: 2014
    A view from the Czarist empire's borderlands obliges us to rethink many long-held assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as the development of Marxist approaches to national liberation, peasant struggle, permanent revolution, and the emancipation of women.
  8533. The National Missionary Council Resource File
    First Published: 1976
    An information package offered to assist in identifying agencies of similar interests.
  8534. National Pensioners and Senior Citizens' Federation Brief to the Government of Canada
    First Published: 1977
    Resolutions regarding the needs of seniors.
  8535. National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
    Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2012
    Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
  8536. National Security in the Nuclear Age
    First Published: 1981
  8537. The National Security State Cops a Feel
    Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)
    First Published: 2010
    It's finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your "safety" will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
  8538. The National Security State Exposed
    Obama v. Snowden
    First Published: 2013
    Snowden disclosed orders demanding that all of the nation’s internet providers allow for secretly conducted, and ongoing government sweep of phone calls, audio and video chats, e-mails, photographs, and other communications used daily by American citizens.
  8539. National Security Through Civilian-based Defense
    First Published: 1985
    This publication offers an introduction to civilian-based defense. It also identifies significant research areas and policy studies that are relevant to advancing the field.
  8540. National Skid Row Coalition Conference, Vancouver May 12-15, 1975
    First Published: 1975
    Description of conference with reflections on implications for Calgary.
  8541. The Nationalisation of the Land
    First Published: 1872
    I do not intend discussing here all the arguments put forward by the advocates of private property in land, by jurists, philosophers and political economists, but shall confine myself firstly to state that they have tried hard to disguise the primitive fact of conquest under the cloak of "Natural Right". If conquest constituted a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them. In the progress of history the conquerors found it convenient to give to their original titles, derived from brute force, a sort of social standing through the instrumentality of laws imposed by themselves.
  8542. Nationalism and Socialism
    First Published: 1959
    Nations, whether "knitted together" by ideology, by objective conditions, or by the usual combination of both, are products of social development. There is no more point in cherishing or damning nationalism in principle than in cherishing or damning tribalism or, for that matter, an ideal cosmopolitanism. The nation is a fact to be suffered or enjoyed, to be fought for or against according to historical circumstances and the implications of those circumstances for various populations and different classes within these populations.
  8543. Nationalism, Patriotism, Hate Crimes
    First Published: 2019
    A look at the (mis)use of the word "nationalism" to describe Trump and white supremacists.
  8544. Native Canadians and the United Church in Winnipeg
    First Published: 1973
    A study of the status of Ministries, Lodge and Indian workers, and recommendations.
  8545. Native Children And Their Schools: Sources Of Cultural Conflict.
    First Published: 1982
    This paper outlines some of the cultural problems faced by Native children within the Canadian public school system.
  8546. The Native Inmate in Ontario -- A Preliminary Survey
    First Published: 1978
    The above study was conducted jointly by the Ontario Native Council on Justice, together with the Planning and Research Branch of the Ministry of Correctional Services in Ontario.
  8547. Native Issues: Introduction to Winter 1983/84 issue of the Connexions Digest (Volume 8, Numbers 3-4)
    First Published: 1983
    We hope that the 41 abstracts in the NATIVE ISSUES section of this edition of CONNEXIONS will leave our readers better informed about the current concerns, struggles and hopes of Native people.
  8548. Native land claims make lawyers rich
    First Published: 1989
  8549. Native People
    One Sky Information Kit
    First Published: 1983
    An educational kit offering an historical introduction to the situation of Native people in Canada.
  8550. Native People's Caravan
    First Published: 1974   Published: 2024
    The Native People's Caravan was a 1974 cross-country protest that saw Indigenous activists travel from Vancouver to Ottawa to meet with parliamentarians and demand justice for Indigenous peoples. In addition to delivering its demands to the federal government, the Caravan aimed to unite Indigenous peoples and call national attention to the injustices they faced. The Caravan culminated in a protest at Parliament that was met with a violent response from the RCMP.
  8551. Native People's Caravan (Deutsch)
    First Published: 1974   Published: 2024
    Der «Native People’s Caravan» bezeichnet den Protest aus dem Jahr 1974, der quer durch Kanada zog, bei welchem indigene Aktivisten von Vancouver und andern Orten nach Ottawa reisten, um von Parlamentsmitgliedern Gerechtigkeit für die indigenen Völker zu fordern. Neben der Intention seine Forderungen der Regierung mitzuteilen, zielte der Native People’s Caravan auch darauf ab, die indigenen Völker zu vereinen und das Bewusstsein der Öffentlichkeit für die von ihnen erlebten Ungerechtigkeiten zu stärken. Seinen Höhepunkt erreichte der Caravan bei einem Protest am Parlament, bei dem die Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) zu Gewalt griff.
  8552. Native pollution nightmare
    First Published: 1992
  8553. Native press axed
    First Published: 1990
  8554. Native Seeds Sustain Brazil's Semi-Arid Northeast
    First Published: 2017
    More than a thousand homes that serve as "seed banks", and 20,000 participating families, make up the network organised by ASA to preserve the genetic heritage and diversity of crops adapted to the climate and semi-arid soil in Brazil’s Northeast.
  8555. NATO does not, and never did, 'defend' democracy
    First Published: 2023
    Its record demonstrates that NATO is not a consensual, popular alliance to defend democracy. NATO is not only a hazard to peace, it is also a threat to democracy.
  8556. NATO Expands to Border of Russia, Then Blames Russia for Being On NATO's Doorstep
    First Published: 2014
    Russia at the gates? US State Dept, Pentagon grilled over NATO expansion. Watch the video or read the transcript: with clowns like these, it is no wonder that the USA has lost wars in Viet Nam, Afganistan, Iraq, etc.
  8557. NATO isn't defending Ukraine. It's stabbing it in the back
    First Published: 2023
    The US and its allies are sustaining the very war they now cite as grounds for disqualifying Kyiv from Nato membership.
  8558. NATO - New York Times Convoy Fabrications
    First Published: 2014
    On Saturday, the entire humanitarian convoy of 227 trucks crossed back into Russia without incident after having successfully delivered its contents to the Luhansk distribution centre. The unwavering round trip project from Russia surmounted considerable bureaucratic delays and political obstacles including wild assertions that the convoy’s true purpose was to ‘smuggle weapons’ to the east Ukraine rebels.
  8559. NATO Prepares for War: Confrontation and Insanity
    First Published: 2016
    The US-NATO military alliance is gearing up for war, and its meeting 8-9 July, 2016 is yet another step to nuclear confrontation and a gigantic leap backwards in world sanity. The gathering in Warsaw, capital of implacably anti-Russia Poland (NATO member since 1999, when the US-inspired military push towards Russia's borders gathered further momentum), is a symbol of Western determination to menace Moscow.
  8560. NATO and Serbia, 15 Years On
    The Bombs that Failed
    First Published: 2014
    As Ukraine’s situation accelerates with actions of sanctions, annexations, coups and counter-coups, it is worth noting how another compact was firstly dissolved and then subsequently tortured in the 1990s. The trends are similar – the moralising, the external interference, the bullying of powers extraneous yet obsessed with holding the levers of a disintegrating country. On NATO, the Yugoslavian Federation, and the Kosovo bombings.
  8561. NATO Sets Its Sights on Colombia
    Trouble Brewing in South America
    First Published: 2013
    Colombian Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón and the Deputy Secretary-General of NATO, Alexander Vershbow, signed an Agreement on the Security of Information which include future collaboration in matters of security, and facilitates the participation of Colombia in a number of NATO activities.
  8562. The NATO War and Its Aims
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    A principled Left position must contain a strong, clear denunciation both of NATO's imperialist designs and of the brutal national oppression of the Kosovar Albanians by the Yugoslav regime. The ATC editors' position, "NATO's Road to War/Ruin," does this. However, it does not deal adequately with the arguments of the prowar, pro-NATO left, and it is this aspect I would like to comment on.
  8563. NATO/US vs Russia in Ukraine: A Trotskyist Analysis
    A litmus test for Trotskyists
    First Published: 2022
    The current conflict in Ukraine seems in all likelihood to eventually be viewed as a major historical turning point. It has three interrelated threads: the decline of the American imperium; Russia’s role in an emerging multipolar geopolitical world order; and sharpening of national/ethnic antagonisms within Ukraine itself.
  8564. NATO's Crises
    The 2% goal as defence illiteracy
    First Published: 2019
    NATO's London Summit on December 3 and 4, 2019 displays the deep political crisis of the 70-year-old alliance: Only a dinner and a short meeting, no statement to be issued, quarrels among the leading military members, accusations, substantial differences on Syria and many other issues, the deepest-ever Transatlantic conflict and the usual issues of burden-sharing.
  8565. NATO's Road to War and Ruin
    First Published: 1999
    THE CARNAGE IN Kosovo and the United States/NATO air campaign—which, we will argue, is escalating toward either humiliating defeat or a full-scale ground war—pose one of the greatest challenges in a generation to the left's principles, political courage and moral backbone. During most of our lifetimes, it's been unprecedented to confront such a situation of apparent total conflict between competing imperatives: between the need for immediate action to stop the crimes against...
  8566. Natural Pathogens and Social Affliction
    First Published: 2020
    On how focus on COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a lack of attention and resources to other diseases, particularly in developing nations.
  8567. Nature and Animal Conservation
    First Published: 2009
    Conservation of ecosystems and the species within them would help to maintain the natural balances disrupted by recent human activity. Unfortunately, despite the effort put into conservation by organizations and activists, their work can easily be undermined by those who have other interests. This occurs, for example, from habitat destruction, illegal poaching, to influencing or manipulating laws designed to protect species.
  8568. Nature and the Communist Manifesto
    First Published: 1998
    What is needed is a broadening of the original socialist vision rather than a rejection of that vision or its amalgamation with something else, like liberal or neo-liberal) environmentalism.
  8569. Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism
    First Published: 2017
    The nature of capitalism puts it at war with Nature.
  8570. The Nature of Mass Demonstrations
    First Published: 1968   Published: 2017
    John Berger analyses the social dynamics and strengths of mass demonstrations.
  8571. The Nature of Police, the Role of the Left
    Learning From Ferguson
    First Published: 2014
    Iit would be hard to deny that the police are a racist institution par excellence. They kill young Black, Latino, and Native people at a disproportionately higher rate than white youth, and the institution itself descended from the patrols created to capture fugitive slaves in the South and police urban immigrants in the North.
  8572. The Nature of War Has Changed
    The Vicious Forces of Sectarian Strife
    First Published: 2014
    A new kind of war is developing. It is very different from the mass conflict of the First World War when governments mobilised millions of men and vast industrial resources. Wars have got smaller, but are equally and, on occasions, more vicious than in the past.
  8573. Nature: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
  8574. Naturism
    Connexipedia Article
    A cultural and political movement advocating and defending social nudity in private and in public. It may also refer to a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudism.
  8575. Naturism and Civil Disobedience
    First Published: 1996
    May a naturist go so far as to break the law to encourage the liberalization of anti-nudity laws? When is nonviolent civil disobedience justified in advocating the naturist cause?
  8576. The Naturist Society: A Brief History
    First Published: 2000
    What is The Naturist Society? How, why, and where did it begin? What does it hope to accomplish?
  8577. Nauka i jej wrogowie
    Polish translation of Science and its Enemies
    First Published: 2016
  8578. Navajo Diné Fight Uranium Resources Inc. Mining Permits In New Mexico
    First Published: 2016
    The Navajo Diné community have notched up a victory over Uranium Resources Inc. decades old plan to dig for uranium at Crownpoint and Churchrock, New Mexico, by successfully appealing a state permit for the Colorado company to dump waste into the Westwater Canyon aquifer.
  8579. Nazi Zombies Ate Gloria Steinem's Brain!
    Why US Politics Turns Ordinary People into Drooling Morons
    First Published: 2016
    The problem, in a nutshell, is this: when people decide to support a prospective candidate in the US primary races they are putting themselves in the position of defending the indefensible. The very nature of this politico-Darwinist death match means that once you pick your chosen leader you must reject all criticism and suppress all doubt. You must become aggressively defensive and you must, above all, prevent your own wayward brain from thinking those bad thoughts that weaken the image of the immaculate leader. Any chink in their armour will be exploited by the enemies that surround them. Loyalty must be automatic and unconditional. Vigilance must be constant.
  8580. The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye's Demolition of Derrida 
    First Published: 1993
    A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
  8581. NBC News Releases the Long-Awaited Trailer for its Summer Horror Film About ISIS
    First Published: 2015
    ISIS now officially poses a bigger threat to the "U.S. homeland" than the one posed by former title-holder Al Qaeda.
  8582. NDP, Liberals smear Palestine Demo
    First Published: 2024
    Canada's liberal political establishment are echoing Kahanist fascists in their smears of internationalist, anti-genocide, activists.
  8583. Nearing, Scott
    Connexipedia Article
    American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living. (1883-1983).
  8584. Nearly $2 Trillion Purloined from U.S. Workers in 2009
    First Published: 2011
    The upward redistribution has remained as hidden as possible. The forms it has taken—as bonuses, bloated salaries, elephantine stock options, padded consulting fees, outsized compensation to boards of directors, sumptuous conferences, palatial offices complete with original artwork, retinues of superfluous “support” staff, hunting lodges, private corporate dining rooms, regal retirement agreements, and so on—defy exact categorization. Some would appear as profit, some as interest, some as dividends, realized capital gains, gigantic pension programs, retained earnings, or owners’ income, with the remainder deeply buried as “costs of doing business.”
  8585. 'Nearly Every War Has Been The Result Of Media Lies'
    Julian Assange, State-Corporate Media and Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
    Julian Assange once observed that, 'Nearly every war has been the result of media lies.' For daring to publish evidence of US war crimes, Assange now sits in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London, at risk of being extradited to the US within the next few weeks. The prospects for a fair trial range from miniscule to zero.
  8586. The NED's Useful Idiots 
    First Published: 2018
    On Friday, June 8, 2018, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow augmented her nightly Russiagate fetish by extolling the merits of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), telling her huge audience that the NED, created in the 1980s by the Ronald Reagan administration, still does the "non-partisan hard work around the world, of promoting small D democracy and promoting the institutions of civil society that any culture needs in order to have a functioning democracy."
  8587. The Need for a Compelling Anti-Capitalist Narrative
    First Published: 2019
    To inspire people with possibility socialists need to create a vision of the world they want to create instead of just showing how bad capitalism is.
  8588. The Need for a New Political Vocabulary
    First Published: 2024
    Political differences between Europe’s centrist parties are marginal, all supporting neoliberal cutbacks in social spending in favor of rearmament, fiscal stringency and the deindustrialization that support of U.S.-NATO policy entails. The word “centrist” means not advocating any change in the economy’s neoliberalism. Hyphenated-centrist parties are committed to maintaining the pro-U.S. post-2022 status quo.

    That means letting U.S. leaders control European politics via NATO and the European Commission, Europe’s counterpart to America’s Deep State. This passivity is putting its economies onto a war footing, with inflation, trade dependence on the United States and European deficits resulting from U.S.-sponsored trade and financial sanctions against Russia and China.
  8589. The Need for a New Socialist Movement
    First Published: 1984
    It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
  8590. The Need for a New Socialist Movement
    First Published: 1984
    It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
  8591. The Need for Alternative Employment
    First Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
  8592. The Need for Clear Demands at the Peoples' Climate March
    First Published: 2014
    In New York City on September 21st, a major climate march is planned. It will take place two days before UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's UN Climate Summit -- a one-day closed door session where the world's "leaders" will discuss "ambitions" for the upcoming climate conference (COP20) in Lima Peru.
  8593. The Need for Community Based Programs for Former Psychiatric Patients
    First Published: 1981
    St. Johns, like other cities across Canada, has been facing an increase in the number of former psychiatric patients who are largely left to their own resources for survival in the city.
  8594. The Need for Third Sector Development
    First Published: 1977
    A paper that argues that large centralized government and business enterprises are incapable of responding to the critical needs of small communities.
  8595. The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent
    First Published: 2011
    The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing – the use of sophisticated software to drown out real people on web forums – is on the rise. How do we stop it?
  8596. The Need to Radicalise the Bolivarian Revolution
    First Published: 2017
    Through an interview with Jorge Martín, the secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela solidarity campaign, the events leading to the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela are examined.
  8597. Needed: 5% Participation to Overthrow Crony Capitalism
    First Published: 2013
    Erica Chenoweth, author of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, explains how to overthrow U.S. crony capitalism: “In raw numbers, movements generally achieve systematic change (i.e., in the +80% likelihood category) when they mobilize over 5 percent of the population. The Iranian Revolution, among the largest popular uprisings, achieved about 10 percent mobilization. In the US with 311 million people, this would mean between 15.5 million and 31.1 million people.”
  8598. The Needle is Deep Into the Red Zone
    First Published: 1983
  8599. Neeginan: A Report on the Feasability Study
    First Published: 1978
  8600. Negar la cobertura de salud a los trabajadores migrantes lesionados es vergonzoso
    First Published: 2013
  8601. Negroes in the Civil War
    First Published: 1943
    The struggle of the Negro masses derives its peculiar intensity from the simple fact that what they are struggling for is not abstract but is always perfectly visible around them. In their instinctive revolutionary efforts for freedom, the escaping slaves had helped powerfully to begin and now those who remained behind had helped powerfully to conclude, the self-destructive course of the slave power.
  8602. Neill, A. S.
    Connexipedia Article
    Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
  8603. Nelson Mandela
    First Published: 2013
    Mandela was not alone. The struggle to liberate South Africa was a collective effort. Moreover it was the power of the most downtrodden, the workers in the factories, the poor in the community, working class women and youth that brought the Apartheid government, if not completely to its knees – at least to negotiate the terms of the end of their racist system.
  8604. Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
    Connexipedia Article
  8605. Nelson Mandela: A Dissenting Opinion
    First Published: 2013
    It is an indication of what Mandela was up against that the man who fought so hard and long against a brutal apartheid regime was so completely defeated when he took power in South Africa. That was because he was no longer struggling against a rogue regime but against the existing order. As I suspect Mandela realised only too well, one cannot lead a revolution when there are no followers.
  8606. Nelson Mandela's Long Walk
    First Published: 2014
    A look at Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom" in the context of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.
  8607. Nelson Small Legs Jr. Foundation
    First Published: 1978
    A foundation set up to help native ex-offenders to integrate into society.
  8608. Neo-liberalism and the ongoing economic assault on ordinary Canadians
    First Published: 2012
    Two recent stories out of Ottawa underline the ongoing political and economic assault on ordinary Canadians. More Canadians are now working for low wages than at any time in decades, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s, and Stephen Harper has announced major changes to retirement benefits -- including delaying Old Age Security(OAS) eligibility to age 67. What kind of society beggars those of its citizens who worked all their lives and now want to retire in dignity while privileging the rich and super-rich?
  8609. Neo-Nazis in Ukraine? No, Yes, No-Yes
    First Published: 2023
    A New York Times' reporter's job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.
  8610. Neocolonial Invitation to a Tribal War
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky discusses American involvement and authority in the affairs of Israel, for example, regarding Israel's withdrawal and the establishment of a Palestinian state. He attributes the lack of progress in the region to such intervention.
  8611. Neo-Colonialism and The Canadian Political Economy
    First Published: 1977
    This study paper provides information for those seeking to reflect on the dynamics of the Canadian economy in an international context.
  8612. Neocon con game: First deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
    Margaret Wente's Chutzpah
    First Published: 2005
    The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
  8613. Neo-fascism
    Connexipedia Article
    Neo-fascism is a post-World War II ideology that usually includes nationalism, anti-immigration policies or, where relevant, nativism (see definition), anti-communism, and opposition to the parliamentary system and liberal democracy.
  8614. Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
    First Published: 2015
    Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
  8615. Neoliberalism against capitalism?
    First Published: 2015
    Neil Davidson on how the current neo-liberal project has been almost too successful as a ruling class strategy, creating a form of capitalism which endangers the long-term security of capital itself and edges society ever closer to barbarism.
  8616. Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power?
    First Published: 2019
    The idea of "free market fundamentalism (FMF)" omits the fact that neoliberalism requires state intervention to run, so criticism of neoliberalsm based on FMF is ahistorical and self-defeating.
  8617. Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match In China
    First Published: 2019
    Unless China starts playing by neoliberal rules Trump's economic war with them will lead the US to a race to the bottom or isolation from international markets.
  8618. Neoliberalism Is a Political Project
    First Published: 2016
    David Harvey gives his views on what neoliberalism is, how it unfolds, and what resistance to it looks like.
  8619. Neoliberalism and the New Lynching
    First Published: 2015
    I don't think it's a coincidence that they would raise mass Black and Brown incarceration as being a counterinsurgency tactic. I think we've seen that out there on the streets, out there in Baltimore and Ferguson lately.
  8620. The Neoliberalism Order Begins to Crack
    First Published: 2017
    Western ruling classes are now beginning to suffer political payback for 40 years of neoliberalism and nearly ten years of economic crisis.
  8621. Neonicotinoids are Poisoning Entire Farmland Ecosystems
    First Published: 2014
    The widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides is causing a neurotoxic overload afflicting entire farm ecosystems from earthworms to bees, other pollinators and birds. A collapse in food production may inevitably follow.
  8622. Neo-Racism in the Southwest
    The (Mis)education of the Coming Majority
    First Published: 2012
    What is taking place in southern Arizona deserves our attention as the most fanatical episode in the war against public education.
  8623. Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis
    First Published: 2012
    Demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water.
  8624. Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
    First Published: 2010
    Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
  8625. 'Net zero' emissions is a dangerous hoax
    First Published: 2021
  8626. Netanyahu goes nuclear ... now wait for the fallout
    First Published: 2015
    Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has spent years trying to convince the international community and Israelis that Tehran is racing towards building a nuclear bomb, when evidence presented by his own spies show the opposite.
  8627. Netanyahu: Have You No Shame?
    First Published: 2015
    Israel’s Prime Minister attributing the Holocaust to Palestinian influence over Hitler is a "Blood Libel" level lie.
  8628. Netanyahu's Operation Stupidity
    Who is Winning in Gaza?
    First Published: 2014
    Who is Winning in Gaza? Which must be answered, the Jewish way, with another question: how to judge?
  8629. Netizen Report: Rights at Risk Under Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
    First Published: 2015
    The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement may soon become reality after years of high-level trade deliberations that have been held almost entirely behind closed doors.
  8630. Netizen Report: Why Did YouTube Censor Your Videos? You May Never Know.
    Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights ar
    First Published: 2017
    Amid an apparent shift in YouTube’s approach to monitoring for rules violations and staying in the good graces of advertisers, a wave of YouTube users have found their work either blocked or relegated to "restricted" mode in recent months.
  8631. Nettlau, Max
    Connexipedia Article
    German anarchist and historian. (1865-1944).
  8632. The Network
    Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police With Little Oversight
    First Published: 2016
  8633. A Network of Indigenous Language Digital Activists in Mexico
    First Published: 2014
    The Internet has emerged as a space where many in Mexico can communicate online using indigenous languages, as well as to create new digital content instead of being just consumers of content.
  8634. Networks refuse anti-TV ads
    First Published: 1991
  8635. Networks: The Ecology of the Movements
    First Published: 2003
  8636. Neue Zeit, Die
    Connexipedia Article
    German socialist theoretical journal of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
  8637. Never Be A Soldier
    First Published: 1998
    [This classic, written in 1915, was one of numerous leaflets by Socialist Party leader Debs opposing World War I. His opponents sent co pies of this and other antiwar statements by Debs to the U.S. Attorney General. See Eugene Debs. Spokesman for Labor and Socialism, by Bernard Brommel (Charles H. Kerr, 1978), 117, and Tim Dayton's review of "We Called Each Other Comrade" in this issue of ATC.]
    WORKING MEN ARE forced into war as working women are forced into prostitution.
  8638. Never Neutral
    On Labour History/Radical History
    First Published: 2011
  8639. The Never-Ending Curse of Coal
    First Published: 2019
    Last week Murray Energy, one of the largest coal mining corporations in the nation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That makes it the fifth coal company to do so in the last year.
  8640. The New "Politics from Below"
    Book review of Raul Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements"
    First Published: 2013
    Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance" centres on the practices in Latin American movements, such as the Zapatistas and the Landless Workers Movement, analysing their strengths and weaknesses over time vis-à-vis the central governments that they helped bring to power.
  8641. A New Age Of People Power: Lessons From The Dongria Kondh
    First Published: 2010
    With greater power to build alliances across boundaries, the Davids of the world are having more success throwing off the Goliaths.
  8642. New Bank Leak Shows How Rich Exploit Tax Haven Loopholes
    First Published: 2014
    The identities of thousands of wealthy offshore clients of a major Jersey, Channel Isles private bank have been leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
    The data leaks reveal how the very richest families dip in and out of British jurisdiction as it suits them, exploiting what academic experts call Jersey's 'fictitious space.'
  8643. The New Blanquism
    First Published: 1920
    The revolution can only issue from the masses, and it is only through the masses that it is carried out. The Communist Party has forgotten this simple truth and, with the insufficient forces of a revolutionary minority, it wants to do what only the class can do, in such a way that the consequence will be defeat, which will set back the cause of the World Revolution for a long time, at the cost of the most painful sacrifices.
  8644. New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
    First Published: 2006
  8645. A New British Provocation in Palestine
    First Published: 1946
    British imperialism, for years on end, has attempted to direct the ire of the Arab masses against the Jewish population of the country. For this purpose the policy of Zionist expansion has been supported, a policy which results in the eviction of Arab tenants from the land, drives Arab workers from jobs, and strengthens the Zionist fortress which is determined to establish a Jewish State in Palestine. Imperialist support for Zionism is calculated to achieve two results: One, to establish a power which directly supports it, which will constitute a faithful ally against the Arabs in every instance of an anti-imperialist uprising of the Arabs of the Middle East; the other, to have Zionism serve as a means of diverting the ire of the oppressed Arab masses away from imperialism onto a side issue - clashes with Jews.
  8646. The New Brunswick Forest Industry/Breif to the New Brunswick Ministries of Agriculture & Natural Resource
    First Published: 1977
    A discussion of the history and current situation in regards to the forestry industry and small woodlots in New Brunswick.
  8647. The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle
    First Published: 1975
  8648. New Catholic Bishops Report says workers in crisis
  8649. New Challenges to Tenant Organizing in New York City
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    On June 16, 2006, 305 West 150th Street, a rundown 84-unit apartment building in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, sold for $6.95 million. The City of New York has documented 274 housing maintenance code violations on this property, reflecting the presence of leaks, broken front door locks and exposed lead paint. The tenants are mostly poor and working class Latinos from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; many depend on subsidies, such as Section 8, to pay rent.
  8650. The New Chinese Nationalism
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    Corporate globalization has been remarkably successful in driving down wages and the welfare of working people across the world. Resistance to this is necessary and inevitable, hence the birth of the anti-globalization movement. The movement is vastly heterogeneous, but internationalist aspirations are strongly visible.
  8651. A New COINTELPRO?
    First Published: 2018
    Malik discusses the revelations that the FBI is targeting Black Lives Matters and what Justice Department head Jeff Sessions calls “Black identity” extremists as well as the response to open racism and how to move forward.
  8652. The New Cold War Policy Has Backfired
    How the US Created Its Own Worst Nightmare
    First Published: 2014
    The world’s geopolitics, major trade patterns and military alliances have changed radically in the past month. Russia has re-oriented its gas and oil trade, and also its trade in military technology, away from Europe toward Eurasia. The result is the opposite of America’s hope for the past half-century of dividing and conquering Eurasia: setting Russia against China, isolating Iran, and preventing India, the Near East and other Asian countries from joining together to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar area.
  8653. The new colonialism: Greece and Ukraine
    First Published: 2015
    According to Jack Rasmus, aA new form of colonialism is emerging in Europe. Not colonialism imposed by military conquest and occupation, as in the 19th century. Not even the more efficient form of economic colonialism pioneered by the U.S. in the post-1945 period, where the costs of direct administration and military occupation were replaced with compliant local elites allowed to share in the wealth extracted in exchange for being allowed to rule on behalf of the colonizers. In the 21st century, it is 'colonialism by means of financial asset transfer.' It is colony wealth extraction by colonizing country managers, assigned to directly administer the processes in the colony by which financial assets are to be transferred. This new form of colonialism by direct management plus financial wealth transfer is now emerging in Greece and Ukraine.
  8654. The new conquistadors making their presence felt at COP20 in Peru
    First Published: 2014
    A new report released at COP20 by CEO, the Democracy Center and Transnational Institute shows how corporations causing social and environmental destruction in the Andes and Amazon are driving climate change, whilst enjoying influential seats at the climate-negotiating table.
  8655. The New Dark Ages
    First Published: 1996
    For hundreds of millions of people in parts of the Middle-East, Africa and South-East Asia, the ascendancy of Islamic fundamentalism has ushered in an era of religious obscurantism and intolerance. The liberal, compassionate wing of Islam - although it still has large numbers of adherents - is being forced onto the defensive and increasingly eclipsed.
  8656. The New Dawn Story
    An Experiment In Economically-Based Community Development
    First Published: 1983
  8657. New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind 
    First Published: 2020
    The latest idea to be heavily promoted by big conservation NGOs is doubling the world's so-called "Protected Areas" (PAs) so that they cover thirty percent of the globe's lands and oceans. This is now their main rallying cry and response to two of the world's biggest problems -- climate chaos and loss of biodiversity. It sounds good: It's easy to grasp and has numbers that are supposed to be measurable, and advertisers do love numbers. What better answer to climate change and biodiversity loss than to ban human "interference" over huge areas? If, that is, you think "everybody" is guilty of causing both crises and that everything's solved by keeping them away. The idea's been around for years, but now governments and industries are promoting it to the tune of billions of dollars, so it'll be difficult to oppose. But it's actually dangerous nonsense which would have exactly the reverse effect to what we're told, and if we want to save our world, it must be stopped.
  8658. New Democratic Party
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A social democratic party and a member of the Socialist International.
  8659. A New Economic Model for the South: Ditch Corporate Welfare and Fund Agricultural Co-ops
    First Published: 2018
    A report from the Institute for Policy Studies, titled "Agricultural Cooperatives: Opportunities and Challenges for African-American Women in the South," makes the case that redirecting governmental support from corporate welfare to agricultural co-ops could provide an alternative vision for economic development in the Southern United States.
  8660. New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit
    First Published: 2015
    A key witness has admitted under oath that he lied on behalf of Chevron, the California oil multinational, when the company sued to overturn a $9.5 billion verdict for pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
  8661. The New Face of the Radical Right? 
    Amerika's Would-be Pravy Sektor
    First Published: 2014
    In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Political Research Associates agreed that Anarchist Nationalism "could become the new face of the radical right" in the USA. Attempting to mix subcultural anarchist mores with a cross-cutting class analysis that hinges on racial separatism and ancestral traditions, such as tribalism, Anarchist Nationalism demonstrate a worrying tendency of reactionaries to co-opt radical language in attempts to gain control over large popular fronts.
  8662. The New Far-Right Government in Poland
    First Published: 2016
    IN asked a European comrade who spends a lot of time in Poland to comment on a recent article, "Poland: Anti-government rallies continue as Lech Walesa warns of civil war," in the (Trotskyist) World Socialist Web Site.
  8663. New Fight to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
    First Published: 2015
    In 2011, after years of international protest, Mumia's 1981 death sentence (following his wrongful conviction for killing a Philadelphia police officer) was rescinded allowing him to enter the general prison population. Although this was a major victory for the movement to win his freedom, it brought its own set of issues.
  8664. New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
    First Published: 2016
    Oliver Stone's latest film, "Snowden," bills itself as a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities.
  8665. New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
    First Published: 2014
    Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things they’re not intended to kill, including birds.
  8666. A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
    First Published: 2022
    US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight Russians in Ukraine. This program follows the blueprint established by Western intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and Syria.
  8667. The New Global Financial Cold War
    First Published: 2016
    Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson, a financial economist and historian.
  8668. New GMOs are 'not GM' -- EU folds under US pressure
    First Published: 2016
    The EU Commission has caved in to US pressure in TTIP trade talks by deciding to consider organisms modified by new "gene editing" techniques as non-GM -- in violation of the EU's own laws. The move could make the 'new GMOs' exempt from labeling and from health and environmental testing.
  8669. New group challenges role of Israel lobby inside Labour Party as effort to undermine Corbyn
    First Published: 2017
    Jeremy Corbyn's recent declaration of support for the Palestinian cause came as sections of his party's establishment demonstrated that they are determined to undermine his leadership; the issue they have selected as his Achilles' heel relates directly to the debate about the Palestinians.
  8670. New group urges progressives to build 'One Big Campaign' to take on Harper
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2012
    A campaign urging Canadian social activist groups to work together under one massive umbrella to take on the Harper regime and his right-wing supporters was officially launched today.
  8671. New headaches for tar sands pipeline proponents as oil fouls Vancouver harbour
    First Published: 2015
    A bad turn of events for the local environment and for some of the oil barons targeting their entire planet in their climate-wrecking plans. That's an apt summary of the oil spill that has fouled the beaches and harbour of Vancouver BC beginning on April 8, 2015.
  8672. New Hogtown Press
    After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward
    First Published: 1975
    A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
  8673. New Hogtown Press
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2010
    New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
  8674. New Hogtown Press
    Connexipedia article - French
    New Hogtown Press était un éditeur canadien de gauche actif durant les années 70 et 80.
  8675. New Hogtown Press - Esperanto
    Connexipedia article - Esperanto
  8676. New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
    Wikipedia article - Spanish
  8677. A New International
    First Published: 1944
    The idea of socialism is henceforth inseparable from respect for the individual, the spirit of liberty, and of really democratic institutions. Socialist ideology demands strict self-criticism, a re-exami-nation of theories, whilst allowing for the scientific learning of the last 50 years and of historic experience. "Marxism is a method and not a dogma."
  8678. The New Iron Curtain
    First Published: 2022
    The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe's crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment. And here's the thing about this profoundly misguided project. The populations of the Western post-democracies will pay a far higher price for letting their leaders build the thick stone wall of Cold War II than those it is supposed to consign to the wilderness. Westerners will pay this price in blindness, in ignorance, and in isolation from the global majority.
  8679. The new Jewish left
    In Canada, young Jews are fighting antisemitism while opposing the Israeli occupation
    First Published: 2019
    Young Jewish people in North America are fighting antisemitism while opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.
  8680. The New Jim Crow: A talk
    First Published: 2010
    Nothing short of a broad-based social movement can address this problem. Such a movement has to be multi-racial: Latinos and women, especially women of color, are the fastest growing segment of the prison population. If we don't create care and compassion across racial lines, then, even if this system collapses, we will recreate it in another form.
  8681. A New Language is the Number One Imperative for a New Left Project
    First Published: 2014
    Socialists “use words few people know to make arguments few people understand to fight for causes few people recognise on people who don’t care.”
  8682. The new language of diversity
    First Published: 2009
    Racial talk today is as likely to come out of the mouths of liberal anti-racists as of reactionary racial scientists.
  8683. New Left
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    The New Left was a loose international political movement of the 1960s
  8684. New Left
    Connexipedia Article
    Left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s .
  8685. New Left Caucus
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The New Left Caucus (NLC) was a radical student group active on the University of Toronto campus in 1969-1970.
  8686. The New Left in New Zealand
    First Published: 2002
    Published in In On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand, edited by Pat Moloney and Kerry Taylor Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2002.
  8687. New Left, not New Liberal
    1960s Movements in English Canada and Quebec
    First Published: 2004
    Published in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 41 (February, 2004)
  8688. New Legal Landscape Affecting PR
    First Published: 2004
    New laws affecting public relations.
  8689. New map records sites of Australia's colonial massacres
    First Published: 2017
    Map is the first to detail evidence of more than 150 massacres involving almost every aboriginal clan between 1788 and 1872.
  8690. New maps of land destruction show why caravans flee Central America
    First Published: 2018
    A new map developed at the University of Cincinnati illustrates the extent of worldwide land degradation, including the deforestation that is now forcing migrants to leave Guatemala and Honduras.
  8691. The New Masses
    Connexipedia Article
    American Marxist publication.
  8692. The New McCarthyism In Israel
    First Published: 2010
    The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a 'McCarthyite' campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel's attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say.
  8693. New Media... Endless Possibilities
    First Published: 2000
    Using new media to get your message out.
  8694. New Monasticism
    Wikipedia article
    New Monasticism, Neomonasticism, or Lay Monasticism refers to a modern movement within Protestant Christianity modelled on a monastic way of life in a contemporary context to expand the way of life of traditional monastic communities to lay people.
  8695. The New Movement for Global Justice
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    The new movement for Global Justice arose in the last few years out of the convergence of groups concerned with environmental, human rights and trade issues, and the labor movements. While this article will focus on the United States, we might pause to remember that we form part of a broad international movement against neoliberal globalization.
  8696. New name for External
    First Published: 1992
  8697. A New Native-Led Strategy for Fighting Keystone XL
    First Published: 2018
    Sacred crops planted by the Poca represent another legal barrier for the construction of the Keystone pipeline, as its intended path must now cross sacred historic sites owned by a sovereign tribal nation.
  8698. New Orleans general strike of 1892
    Connexipedia Article
    A general strike in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, that began on November 8, 1892.
  8699. New Orleans' History of Struggle
    Review of Development Drowned and Reborn; Against the Current vol. 192
    First Published: 2018
    A review of Development Drowned and Reborn which is a novel by Clyde Woods.
  8700. New Orleans' Police Death Squads
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    An interview with Malcolm Suber, a New Orleans community activist and fighter for justice, and a former candidate for city council. Against the Current asked him to comment on the struggle around murders by police during Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing fight over police brutality.
  8701. New Palestine Party Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed
    Letter to the New York Times
    First Published: 1948
  8702. A New Phase of Economic Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    In early AprilL 2008 the general consensus was that the U.S. economy had clearly fallen into recession. A long list of key economic indicators from November 2007 through March 2008 were all flashing red — from retail sales, job loss, business and consumer confidence and spending to industrial production and other prime indicators.
  8703. The New Police Surveillance State
    The Rising Price of Political Assembly
    First Published: 2012
    Police are increasingly being deployed to restrict if not prevent mass political actions, especially directed at the banks.
  8704. The New Political Democracy
    Chapter XXIII of History of the United States
    First Published: 1921
  8705. A New Politics? Movements, Power and Transformation
    First Published: 2018
    Hilary Wainwright’s latest book, A New Politics from the Left (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press), represents a timely appeal for a democratic, participatory, and bottom-up political transformation.
  8706. The New Politics of Disablement: The Contribution of Mike Oliver
    First Published: 2019
    Obituary for Mike Oliver, one of the founders of the social model of disability. Includes historical information, his legacy, and suggested reading.
  8707. The New Poor People's Campaign
    First Published: 2018
    Though there has been progress in electoral politics since the days of MLK this success leaves many people behind. The New Poor People's Campaign seeks to create a grassroots movement to counter that.
  8708. The New Puritans
    First Published: 2020
    The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
  8709. The New Puritans
    First Published: 2020
    The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
  8710. New Reasoner
    Connexipedia Article
    Left-wing publication edited by E.P. Thompson and John Saville. (1957-1960).
  8711. New Red-Green Politics
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    In their preface to the 43rd volume of the Socialist Register, Coming to Terms with Nature, editors Leo Panitch and Colin Leys admit that this edition “has been one of the most challenging to put together.”
  8712. The New Red Scare
    Reviving the art of threat inflation
    First Published: 2016
    An examination of miltary escalation through the Cold War, and how the United States continues to use 'threat inflation' as a means of increasing military spending by pointing towards China as well as renewing fears of Russia.
  8713. New report details 'brutal' Israeli policies
    First Published: 2014
    The first bullet struck 16-year-old Samir Awad in his left leg. He staggered away as fast as he could, but was too slow. A second round slammed into his left shoulder, exiting from the right side of his chest. Then, moments later, a third bullet penetrated the back of his skull and exited from his forehead.
  8714. New report documents "a living death" in US prisons
    First Published: 2013
    The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a massive report that meticulously documents the unconstitutional practice of life imprisonment without parole in federal and state prisons in the US.
  8715. New Report Shows Corporations and Western Governments Continue to Profit from Looting of Africa
    First Published: 2017
    A recent report published by a coalition of African and British social justice organizations indicate that foreign corporations and governments continue to exploit the world's most impoverished continent.
  8716. New research shows 50 year binge on chemical fertilisers must end to address the climate crisis
    First Published: 2021
    New research shows that synthetic nitrogen fertilisers are a major driver of the climate crisis, responsible for 1 out every 40 tonnes of GHGs currently pumped into the atmosphere. Now is the time for the world to kick its addiction to synthetic nitrogen fertilisers and urgently transition to farming without fossil fuels and chemicals.
  8717. New Seeds, Old Pesticides
    A Farmer on 2,4-D and Next Gen GMOs
    First Published: 2014
    I doubt very many people have ever heard or seen a "tank mix." Simply put, it is a mix of several crop chemicals used together to control a variety of weeds. I have not looked into a swirling mix of chemicals in a crop spray rig for probably 20 years – that's about how long it has been since we have used any herbicides on our farm.
  8718. The New Sexual Radicalism
    Socialist Feminist Questions About Queer Activism
    First Published: 2010
    What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision - whether implicit or explicit - of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projects as feminism, antiracism, global justice and socialism?
  8719. The New Sexual Radicalism
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    From its beginning in the 1990s in the United States, a “queer” activist current has gradually spread to other countries, including in recent years in Western Europe. In decades when the prevailing trend in LGBT movements has been to orient to legal reforms by parliamentary means, queer activism has constituted a third wave of sexual radicalism, emphasizing visibility, difference, direct action, refusal to assimilate to the dominant culture, and the fluidity and diversity of sexual desire.
  8720. New Strategy and Tactics for Labor in the Airlines: Beyond Bankruptcy
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    The airlines have been leading the way in the transformation of labor-management relations. The goal of the owners is the radical restructuring of labor costs and working conditions, to provide the maximum payout to executives and value to major shareholders.
  8721. The new strikes in China
    First Published: 2014
    An article by "friends of gongchao" describes the development of strikes in China in recent years as well as the strike at Yue Yuen shoe factories in Dongguan, South China, in April 2014.
  8722. The New Struggle for Public Transit
    First Published: 2014
    In an argument against privatization of Toronto's transit system, Rosenfeld draws on Booth's examination of the ongoing situation in London since the city had turned over responsibility of planning, operating, and budgeting transit to private companies and have since suffered from economic decline and inefficiency.
  8723. New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship
    First Published: 2016
    A newly published study from Oxford's Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Reporting on the study, the Washington Post this morning described this phenomenon: "If we think that authorities are watching our online actions, we might stop visiting certain websites or not say certain things just to avoid seeming suspicious."
  8724. New tax loophole for the wealthy
    First Published: 1992
  8725. A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare R&D
    First Published: 2004
    The AIDS crisis has brought to public notice what has always been generally true — that the existing business model for drug development leads to high prices and unequal access. There is now widespread dissatisfaction with drug prices in both the developed and developing world.
  8726. A New Type of Political Organization?
    The Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
    First Published: 2010
  8727. New videogame gives you a tough course in capitalist theory
    First Published: 2016
    The video game Crisis Theory aims to teach players about capitalism.
  8728. The New War
    First Published: 1919
    Soldiers who enlisted, or were conscripted, for the old war have been quietly kept on to fight in the new war which began without any formal declaration. They have not been asked: "Do you approve this war; do you understand it?" They have merely been detained and will now fight against their comrades. Officially the British Government is not at war with Socialism in Europe though in actual fact British and other Allied soldiers have been fighting it for a long time, and British money and munitions are keeping the soldiers of other governments in the field against it.
  8729. New wave of attacks on freedom of information
    First Published: 2013
    With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under wa, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures include military trials, arbitrary arrests, and abusive treatment in detention as Egyptian authorities maintain their campaign of repression.
  8730. A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
    First Published: 2016
    Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
  8731. A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad
    Making a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration
    First Published: 2014
    This radio documentary is the third segment in Truthout's serialization of Chris Moore-Backman's Bringing Down the New Jim Crow based on Michelle Alexander's book of the same name. The series explores and gives voice to the continuing struggle for racial justice in the United States during the era of mass incarceration.
  8732. The New Woman Centre
    Annual Report
    First Published: 1977
    This report documents the work of the New Woman Centre for 1976.
  8733. The New Worker Organizing 
    First Published: 2013
    Many, perhaps most, worker center–based organizing projects focused on workers in low-wage jobs, are conducted with the active support and, often enough, leadership provided by a variety of community-based organizations—with support from one or more unions.
  8734. New World Order
    A postwar analysis
    First Published: 1991
    Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
  8735. New York Police Have Used Stingrays Widely, New Documents Show
    First Published: 2016
    The NYPD has used cell-site simulators, commonly known as Stingrays, more than 1,000 times since 2008, according to documents turned over to the New York Civil Liberties Union. The documents represent the first time the department has acknowledged using the devices.
  8736. NY Public Workers Under Attack
    Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Richard Steier's Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions.
  8737. New York Times Admits it Sent Story to Government for Approval
    The American paper of record just provided a major example of the symbiotic relationship between U.S. corporate media and the government
    First Published: 2019
    The NY Times' seeking approval for a recent story is part of a history of the mainstream media's collaboration with the US government.
  8738. The New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year’s Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled by the U.S., Its Media, and the Times
    First Published: 2020
    The U.S. government and its media once again help destroy a thriving Latin American democracy.
  8739. New York Times Job Listing Shows How Western Propaganda Operates
    First Published: 2020
    In order to get a job at the New York Times, you need to demonstrate that you subscribe to the mainstream oligarchic imperialist worldview which forms the entirety of western mass media output. You need to demonstrate that you have been properly indoctrinated, and that you can be guided into toeing the imperial line with simple attaboys and tisk-tisks from your superiors rather than being explicitly told to knowingly lie.
  8740. The New York Times Outrage at Trumps Refusal to Demonize Russia
    First Published: 2016
    Donald Trump is criticized by the American media for behaving in a diplomatic manner towards Russia, as opposed to vilifying Russia.
  8741. The New York Times Suddenly Embraces International Law To Condemn Russia
    First Published: 2016
    As the Syrian Arab Army dug in for a fight against the self-declared Islamic State on September 17, they were struck by an air raid that killed 62 soldiers and injured 100 more. The culprit was a foreign military that has never been attacked by, and has not declared war on, Syria. Two weeks later, that same nation’s military killed 22 soldiers in a strike inside Somalia, another country which it had never been attacked by nor declared war on. The very next day the New York Times published a stinging editorial decrying flagrant violations of international law by an "outlaw nation."
  8742. The New York Times' Second Assassination of Razan at-Najjar
    First Published: 2018
    On 1 June 2018, an Israeli assassin poised along "the largest concentration camp ever to exist" killed 20-year-old paramedic Razan al-Najjar. On 7 June 2018, the New York Times assassinated her a second time. It surely does not surprise that the Times provides yeoman’s service for Israeli hasbara.
  8743. New York Times, Obamacare and the war on the elderly
    First Published: 2013
    “On Dying After Your Time” by Daniel Callahan advances the notion that the burning issue vexing the US health care system is that people are living too long. The cost of keeping them alive, Callahan argues, is threatening a social catastrophe.
  8744. New York Transit Activists' Account: The Strike and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    ATC interviews Josh Fraidstern and Jaime Veve. The transit strike that shut down New York City for three days in December dramatically showed the power of labor, yet ended after three days by order of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 leadership. This was followed by a rank and file rejection of the proposed contract, to universal amazement—with the result that the critical issues of the strike remain unresolved.
  8745. New York Transit Between Old and New Directions
    First Published: 1998
    IN ATC 74 ("Transit Workers Try a New Direction"), Marian Swerdlow described the fight taking place in Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) between the entrenched Willie James bureaucracy and the reformers in New Directions. Local 100 represents New York City's bus and subway workers. Written earlier this year, Swerdlow's article concluded as the stage was being set for the rerun election ordered when the International TWU was forced to admit that the narrow victory by the...
  8746. New York Trotskyism in the 1930s
    First Published: 1939
    A look into the 1930s socialist movement in New York, including a historical background of Trotskyism and a list of the Trotskyists goals to improve American politics.
  8747. New York's Latino Workers Center
    First Published: 1996
    By organizing around both "labor" and "social" issues-and seeking to transcend this distinction-workers' centers can integrate a variety of unifying issues into their efforts to build an organization that can fight for their members' varied social, political and economic interests.
  8748. New Zealand - Open letter: Betraying women and free thought in the name of Christchurch massacres
    First Published: 2019
    An open letter questioning shows of solidarity with Muslims after the Christchurch massacre, specifically non-Muslim women wearing head coverings and a Canadian university that disinvited an ex-Muslim atheist speaker.
  8749. New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents
    First Published: 2014
    Agents from New Zealand's national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden. The stated purpose of the 10-hour police raid was to identify the source for allegations that the reporter, Nicky Hager, recently published in a book that caused a major political firestorm and led to the resignation of a top government minister.
  8750. The New Zealand Shootings, a Microcosm of Imperialism
    First Published: 2019
    The New Zealand Shootings and other mass murders use the same justification as governments that carry out campaigns against the same targets on a larger scale.
  8751. New Zealand waterfront dispute of 1951
    Connexipedia Article
    The largest and most widespread industrial dispute in New Zealand history.
  8752. The Newfoundland Fishery
    First Published: 1981
    This brochure investigates the fishing industry in Newfoundland. The harvesting and processing of fish products is Newfoundland's greatest economic boon.
  8753. The Newfoundland Government's rejection of the MicMac land claim
    First Published: 1982
  8754. Newfoundland Loggers' Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    The Newfoundland Loggers' Strike began 31 December 1958 when hundreds of loggers employed by Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co at Grand Falls struck for wage increases and for improvements in living conditions at wood camps.
  8755. Newly Released FOIA Documents Shed Light on Border Patrol’s Seemingly Limitless Authority
    First Published: 2019
    More than 1,000 pages of previously unseen Customs and Border Protection training documents, shed light on the details of the Amercian Border Patrol’s seemingly limitless authority.
  8756. News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
    First Published: 1991
    Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
  8757. News and Letters Committees - Wikipedia article
    Connexipedia Article
  8758. News Conferences
    Basic guidelines for conducting news conferences.
  8759. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    First Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
  8760. News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
    Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
    First Published: 1997
    Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
  8761. News Releases
    The hows and whys of preparing and distributing media releases.
  8762. News releases that work -- and those that don't
    First Published: 1999
    Media relations know-how: effective media releases.
  8763. News report writing guide
    A guide to writing news stories for the independent and alternative media.
    First Published: 2006
    The first thing to remember about reporting for a libertarian or anarchist newspaper or magazine is that it is not propaganda.
  8764. Newsboys Strike of 1899
    Connexipedia Article
    A youth-led campaign to force change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer's and William Randolph Hearst's newspapers compensated their child labor force.
  8765. The Newsfakers
    Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?
    First Published: 2012
    YouTube and blogs have made it easier than ever to fabricate events. The media are happy to run unsubstantiated reports and footage.
  8766. Newsletter
    First Published: 1978
    A newsletter about how unemployment insurance overpayments and "cheating" are handled in Nova Scotia.
  8767. News/Notes
    First Published: 1978
    One article examines the rapid moves made by the Saskatchewan government to push forward on the nuclear path. As the public becomes more informed of the dangers created by nuclear energy and the motivation of 'economic benefits' as opposed to abundant, clean, safe power; opposition is rising from many sectors.
  8768. Newspaper boycotted for honesty
    First Published: 1989
  8769. Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential "Terrorists"
    First Published: 2017
    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has produced a report titled, "Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project," dated April 7, 2017. The DHS field analysis report points to lessons from policing the Dakota Access pipeline, saying they can be applied to the ongoing controversy over the Diamond pipeline, which, when complete, will stretch from Cushing, Oklahoma to Memphis, Tennessee. While lacking "credible information" of such a potential threat, DHS concluded that "the most likely potential domestic terrorist threat to the Diamond Pipeline … is from environmental rights extremists motivated by resentment over perceived environmental destruction."
  8770. Newspapers and the Workers
    First Published: 1916
    The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
  8771. Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press
    First Published: 2005
    Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press.
  8772. Newton, Huey P.
    Connexipedia Article
    Co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party. (1942-1989).
  8773. Next Door to BC, the Bus Is Free
    First Published: 2007
    Olsen writes about his experience with fare-free transit on Whidbey Island, debunking myths about the inefficiency, impracticality, and unsustainability of such a system.
  8774. The Next Mexican Revolution
    Don't Look Now, But It's Already Started
    First Published: 2010
    If this is to be the year of the next Mexican revolution, the time to move is now.
  8775. The Next Step
    First Published: 1910
    A decision must be made as to whether German Social Democracy, which is supported by the strongest trade-union organization and the greatest army of voters in the world, can bring about a mass action (which has been done at various times with great success in little Belgium, in Italy, in Austria-Hungary, in Sweden - not to mention Russia), or whether in Germany a trade-union organization numbering two million members and a powerful, well-disciplined party is just as incapable of giving birth to an effective mass action at the crucial moment as were the French trade unions, which had been crippled by anarchist confusion, and the French Socialist party, which had been weakened by internal disputes.
  8776. The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces
    First Published: 2011
    The occupation movement needs to build on the creative militancy in the streets of thousands of people (as shown in Oakland, Portland, Seattle, New York and elsewhere) to reach out to that large majority which sometimes seems, a block or two from the street battles, to be going about business as usual. The growing number of anti-eviction and anti-foreclosure actions has made that outreach.
  8777. The Next War on Washington's Agenda
    First Published: 2012
    It could not be more obvious that Washington’s war preparations against Iran have nothing to do with deterring Iran from a nuclear weapon. So, what are the war preparations about?
  8778. NFB Video Series
    First Published: 1989
  8779. The NGO-Industrial Complex - Book Review
    First Published: 2016
    Review of "Paved with Good Good Intentions: Canada's development NGOs from idealism to imperislism" by Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay.
  8780. NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims
    First Published: 2009
    This week, two respected human rights organisations - one Palestinian, one Israeli - each came out with very full reports into the extent of the damage caused by the assault Israel waged against Gaza last winter.
  8781. NGOs Are Cages
    How Capitalists Control Mass Movements
    First Published: 2014
    We really need to understand the methods used by NGOs to undermine radical political organizing efforts and divert us into political dead ends.
  8782. NGOs condemn sentencing of Bahraini photographer to ten years in prison
    First Published: 2015
    Award-winning photographer Sayed Ahmed al-Mousawi was sentenced on Monday, 23 November 2015, to 10 years in prison and had his nationality revoked, along with 12 others, after covering a series of demonstrations in early 2014.
  8783. NHS Patient Data to be Made Available for Sale to Drug and Insurance Firms
    First Published: 2014
    Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients once a single English database of medical data has been created. Privacy experts warn there will be no way for public to work out who has their medical records or how they are using it.
  8784. Nicaragua: The Other Revolution Betrayed
    First Published: 2019
    A look at the current neoliberal regime in Nicaragua and how the Sandinista government failed to deliver on the promise of the 1979 Revolution.
  8785. Nicaragua Twenty-five Years Later
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    Twenty-five years ago, on July 17th — under the impact of an insurrectional general strike — President Anastasio Somoza Debayle fled Nicaragua, leaving the government in the hands of his Vice President Francisco Urcuyo. Urcuyo’s task was to negotiate a “provisional government” and, with Washington’s agreement, implement a cease-fire that would freeze the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) army and National Guard positions.
  8786. Nicaraguan Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    Encompasses the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.
  8787. Nicaraguans Fight to Save Land and Sovereignty from Canal Development
    First Published: 2015
    There has been a popular storm gathering to protest the proposed cross-Nicaragua canal.
  8788. Nicolas Calas: The Trotskyist Time Forgot
    First Published: 2018
    A lengthy, detailed look at modern Trotskyist poet Nicolas Calas (1907-88).
  8789. Nigerian farmers face destitution from 300 sq.km land grab backed by UK aid
    First Published: 2015
    Farmers in Nigeria's north eastern state of Taraba are being forced off lands they have farmed for generations to make way for US company Dominion Farms to establish a 300 square kilometre rice plantation.
  8790. The Nigerians Who Dare to Speak of Love as a Tide of Anti-gay Hatred Rises
    First Published: 2014
    A new crackdown on gender minorities has led to arrests and fears of mob violence. But a brave few are still fighting for sexual freedom.
  8791. The Nightmare Comes True
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    I was standing on a hill overlooking the infamous Kalandia checkpoint. Below me was a narrow road, packed with Palestinians in the blazing sun, 30 degrees centigrade in the shade (but there was no shade) trudging towards the checkpoint.
  8792. The nightmare hidden within liberal Zionism
    First Published: 2013
    Since the American Studies Association (ASA) announced this month that its members had voted overwhelmingly to endorse the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, the predictable outpouring of furious responses has been proliferating.
  8793. The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism
    First Published: 2018
    Henry A. Geroux gives his analysis on such subjects as fascism and white nationalism in the age of Trump, and the state of higher education in a time of Neo-liberalism.
  8794. Nim and Noam
    Skinner, Chomsky and the Chimp
    First Published: 2011
    How psychologists abused a chimpanzee in a failed attempt to prove that Noam Chomsky was wrong about language.
  8795. NIMBI
    First Published: 1989
  8796. Nin, Andrés
    Connexipedia Article
    Spanish Communist revolutionary. (1892-1937).
  8797. Nin Andrés - Writings - Index
    Writings of Andrés Nin (1892-1937).
  8798. Nine decades of non-violence
    First Published: 2015
    Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
  8799. 9/11 and the "War on Terror" - Had the U.S. done the right thing, thousands of lives could have been saved
    First Published: 2011
    In reflecting on the disastrous last decade we might ask, What would the world be like today if the United Sates, Britain, Canada and the other countries using their military might to kill fanatical young people had instead used that money to buy school books, drill wells, educate people, and promote religious tolerance throughout the Middle East – and at home?
  8800. The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years?
    First Published: 2011
    The 9/11 conspiracists seize on coincidences and force them into sequences they deem to be logical and significant. Their treatment of eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence is whimsical.
  8801. 9/11: Debunking The Myths
    First Published: 2005
    Popular Mechanics special report on September 11 conspiracy theories.
  8802. 9-11 Loose Change Second Edition Viewer Guide
    Debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories.
  8803. Nine-Hour Movement
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Was an international workers' attempt to secure shorter working days.
  8804. Nine Out of 10 Americans Tested Positive for Monsanto's Cancer-Linked Weedkiller Glyphosate
    A probable human carcinogen is found in far too many foods
    First Published: 2016
    If you participated in the glyphosate test project launched last year by the Detox Project (formerly Feed The World) and Organic Consumers Association, you probably failed. A staggering 93 percent of Americans tested positive for glyphosate, according to the test results, announced on May 25, 2016.
  8805. The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
    First Published: 2019
    They now warn us that we have to drastically reduce global emissions – by at least 45 percent – over the next decade. Otherwise, we'll pass the point of no return – defined as reaching 450 ppm or more of CO2 in the atmosphere sometime between 2030 and 2050 – when our climate crisis will morph into a climate catastrophe.
  8806. 9 things you need to know about Venezuela and the recent violence
    First Published: 2014
    Behind the attempts to overthrow the Venezuelan government.
  8807. The Nine Worst Lawfare Injustices in the US and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
    First Published: 2019
    "Lawfare" is when the law is weoponized and directed against a group of people declared to be an enemy. This is a brief history with nine examples.
  8808. Nine Years' War (Tyrone's Rebellion, Ireland)
    Connexipedia Article
    Ireland 1594 to 1603.
  8809. The Nine-Hour Movement
    How civil disobedience made unions legal
    First Published: 2013
    From today’s strike-first strategy of fast food workers in America, to the 1965 postal workers wildcat which ushered in public sector collective bargaining, civil disobedience has long been essential to breaking through legal barriers imposed on workers. The birth of Canada's labour movement was during a movement of mass civil disobedience in attempt to secure the nine hour workday.
  8810. The 1981 Bathhouse Raids
    The protests after the bathouse raids had a galvanizing effect on gay Toronto --- our first realization of the power we actually held, and the beginnings of the explosive growth of the community.
  8811. 1988 Poverty Lines:
    Estimates By The National Council Of Welfare
    First Published: 1988
  8812. The 1989 Budget and Social Policy
    First Published: 1989
  8813. 1987 Poverty Lines
    Estimates By The National Council of Welfare
    First Published: 1987
  8814. 19 February 'Rage Against the War Machine' Protest in D.C.: Why socialists should attend
    First Published: 2023
    The Bolshevik Tendency plans to attend the February 19 (2023) protest against the war. We do not agree with political views of the organizers, but we plan to attend in order to talk to participants who agree (as we do) with many of its slogans.
  8815. 1956: Hungary's lost revolution
    First Published: 2016
    The 21st century anti-capitalist movement owes a debt to the heroic and inspiring working-class uprisings in Hungary.
  8816. 1919: The Year the World Was on Fire
    First Published: 2019
    A sprawling take on international revolutionary events of 1919 using Emma Goldman, Bill Haywood, and John Reed as focal points.
  8817. The 1990 Prague Appeal: Let Us Found a Helsinki Citizens Assembly
    First Published: 1990
    The peaceful transition of Europe is unthinkable without the full observance of all human and civil rights.
  8818. 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
    First Published: 1990
    The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
  8819. 1992: A White Christian Perspective
    First Published: 1990
    I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
  8820. 1917 and the Colonial Revolution
    First Published: 2018
    Solenberger discuss the 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent spead of the communist movement internationally. He focuses on the conditions which led to the rapid spread of its ideas and how in 1920 the movement went from being on the offense to defence.
  8821. 1917: The View from the Streets #8 - 'The only guarantee of Polish independence is international solidarity'
    First Published: 1917   Published: 2017
    One hundred years ago, on March 17 (4) 1917, the following appeal calling on Polish workers to support the Russian Revolution and fight for Polish independence was adopted at a rally of Polish socialist workers in Petrograd.
  8822. 1917: The View from the Streets #9 - Petrograd Soviet: 'World's workers must join to achieve peace'
    First Published: 1917   Published: 2017
    One hundred years ago today, on March 27 (14), 1917, the Petrograd Soviet issued the following appeal "To the Peoples of the World," calling for a restoration of workers' unity in the cause of peace.
  8823. The 1970s: Finally Got the News!
    Charles Williams interviews Brad Duncan
    First Published: 2018
    Interview with Brad Duncan, editor of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979.
  8824. The 1978 Seminar on Education Finance: Financial Implications of Declining Enrolment
    First Published: 1978
    In his opening address, Professor Brock Rideout identifies the real problem facing educational finance today as "the crisis in the economic climate and the change in public policy with respect to education," rather than declining enrolment.
  8825. 1973 Redux?: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation
    First Published: 2006
    The world today is poised between the U.S. and East Asian centered phases of capitalist expansion.
  8826. 1978 Annual Report of San Juan River Salmon Enhancement Program
    First Published: 1978
  8827. 1976 Prisoner of Conscience Week Booklet
    First Published: 1976
    A list of 14 prisoners on conscience. Chosen for Prisoner of Conscience Week.
  8828. 1960s CounterCulture in Toronto
    First Published: 2020
    Amidst the overt political developments of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a small but significant portion of youth became attracted to Beat or bohemian culture.
  8829. 1965-1966: Files Reveal US had Detailed Knowledge of Indonesia's Anti-Communist Purge
    First Published: 2017
    Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s.
  8830. 1965 U.S. Invasion of Dominican Republic
    First Published: 1965   Published: 2015
    In 1965 Democratic U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson launched a bloody invasion of the Dominican Republic. Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched to that Caribbean country to suppress a prerevolutionary situation and secure the interests of American sugar companies.
  8831. The 1960 Sit-ins in Context
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    We think of the Sit-In Movement as beginning on February 1, 1960, fifty years ago. In the minds of many this was the initiating event that led to many subsequent developments in the broader civil rights movement, indeed as a turning point in Black, and more generally, U.S. history. But the sit-ins, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s had their origins in vast social changes that began long before.
  8832. The 1960 Sit-ins in Context
    First Published: 2010
    The Civil Rights Movement that we associate with the 1960s was the culmination of a vast set of social and economic changes. The tradition of Black struggle itself, going back to the very beginnings of slavery in the New World, was also part of the context for the new movement.
  8833. 1934: American workers in revolt
    First Published: 2014
    In 1934 three mighty strikes brought the bosses and bankers to their knees and ushered in a new era of labour-capital relations in the United States writes Sean Ledwith
  8834. The niqab represents a pernicious ideology and its spread should worry us all
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the controversial niqab and similar veils, and why they are so concerning.
  8835. Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth's life support systems
    Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
    First Published: 2019
    The rift in the nitrogen cycle is a major threat to the stability of the Earth System. This and subsequent articles will discuss how the natural cycle works and how it has been disrupted in the Anthropocene.
  8836. No action on human rights
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The Mulroney Tories are doing nothing at all about human rights.
  8837. No Actually The US Empire Is Still The Power To Criticize
    First Published: 2022
  8838. No Ban! No Wall! No War?
    First Published: 2017
    The corporate media avoids connecting our wars to Trump's ban because war and empire is a matter of agreement among the political elites, an elite that the corporate media is very much a part of.
  8839. No base in Goose Bay
    First Published: 1990
  8840. No Border Network
    Connexipedia Article
    Loose associations of autonomous organisations, groups, and individuals in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and beyond. They support freedom of movement and resist human migration control by coordinating international border camps, demonstrations, direct actions, and anti-deportation campaigns.
  8841. No Cheers For Anarchism
    First Published: 2015
    A successful movement requires compromise, organization, and yes, even leadership, to actually get things done, none of which appeal to anarchists.
  8842. No Child Left Un-Mined? Student Privacy at Risk in the Age of Big Data
    First Published: 2015
    Chideya discusses the implications of the compilation of big data trails containing information about children's performance in school.
  8843. No child should be afraid to drink a glass of water ...
    First Published: 2014
    Nasser Nawajah wrote this open letter to Israel's economics minister Naftali Bennett - leader of The Jewish Home - about the water starvation suffered by Palestinians.
  8844. No Classes for Torture! Protests Escalate Against "School of the Americas"
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    Spurred by an enormous and unexpected victory in Congress, thousands of protesters will gather later this year at the gates of Fort Benning, GA to demand the closure of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), a military facility that provides training for Latin American and Caribbean soldiers and officers.
  8845. No comment: the defendant's guide to arrest
    A guide on your rights if you are arrested, with advice on what police are likely to do and say, and what you can do to protext yourself
    First Published: 2006
    If you think you might one day run the risk of being arrested, you must find out what to do in that situation. If prison, fines, community service etc. don’t appeal to you by following what’s written in this article you can massively reduce the risk of all three. In the police station, the cops rely on people’s naivety.
  8846. No Easy Victories
    First Published: 2013
    In today's "new Middle East" with its cauldron of Arab upheavals and the likelihood of longterm revolutionary processes, the United States cannot dictate terms unilaterally.
  8847. No Exit
    The ongoing abuses of Australia's refugee policy
    First Published: 2018
    A first person account of the refugee crisis in Australian detention centres. At great expense the Australian government holds detainees offshore in crowded camps, many of whom are stranded and living under deplorable conditions.
  8848. No Fare Is Fair: A Campaign for Free Public Transit in Toronto
    Why Do We Need Free Transit?
    First Published: 2018
    Public transit should be a right for everyone in Toronto. Using subways, buses, and streetcars shouldn't require paying fares, or user fees, that penalize riders with lower incomes.
  8849. No Fares!
    Time for a free ride on public transit
    First Published: 2007
    This series of articles in The Tyee takes a hard look at fare hikes and spending priorities by B.C.'s transit planners, as well as rising greenhouse emissions and pollution by the private automobile, and asks: Why are we creating barriers for people who might take public transit?
  8850. No-Fault Journalism at the New York Times
    The Case of Wen Ho Lee
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2014
    The New York Times,?without whose agency Wen Ho Lee would never have spent a day in a prison cell,?perhaps not even have lost his job, is now, with consummate effrontery, urging?that an investigation of the bungled prosecution take place.
  8851. No Fixed Address: The Housing crisis in Canada
    First Published: 1982
    What can we do about the present housing crisis? This the slide show suggests that "Those of us who feel we have a right to decent, affordable housing will want to examine alternatives and look at new initiatives."
  8852. No Fooling - Corporations Evade Taxes
    First Published: 2011
    Closing corporate loopholes so that corporate income tax revenues in the United States match the 3.4% of GDP collected on average by OECD corporate income taxes would add close to $200 billion to federal government revenues—more than five times the $39 billion of devastating spending cuts just made in the federal budget in 2011. Returning the corporate income tax revenues to the 4.0% of GDP level of four decades ago would add close to $300 billion a year to government revenues.
  8853. No Grades in Higher Education Now!
    Is the Revolution any closer?
    First Published: 2015
    Author and social scientist Stuart Tannock has recently published a historical and critical overview of the practice of grading in education.
  8854. No Hassle Transit? Try Hasselt
    First Published: 2007
    A consideration of Belgium's transit infrastructure and fare-free system implementation as a model for BC to draw upon.
  8855. No Heroes in Montreal -- Why Endless Protest Does Not a Movement Make
    First Published: 2012
    No matter what you've taken to the streets to oppose - no matter how just your cause - your message gets lost when you don’t engage the community, you don't exercise discipline, or you just start acting like assholes.
  8856. No Last Frontier
    First Published: 1977
    This booklet was published by the World Council of Churches as part of a series of RISK issues dealing with the struggles of aboriginal peoples. The present issue, a joint venture between RISK and the WCC Programme to Combat Racism, draws attention to the Dene of the Northwest Territories. The struggle of the Dene to control their destiny involves questions of energy policies for North America, racial justice, development, the role of transnational corporations, land and water rights and human rights.
  8857. No Lasting City
    First Published: 1981
    Larry Bantleman has assembled information on the growing housing crisis for low income people in Vancouver in order to determine a way that First United Church can "provide low-income, low-rent housing in the Downtown Eastside."
  8858. No Lasting City
    First Published: 1982
  8859. No Laughing Matter: The Manchester Bomber is the Spawn of Hillary and Barack's Excellent Libyan Adventure
    First Published: 2017
    The jihadi bomber in Manchester and miltants in the hotel massacre in Mali were direct products of American and Western regime change in Libya, a project that was executed by the Obama administration and spearheaded by Hillary Clinton.
  8860. No Limits. The Disabled People's Movement: A Radical History - book review
    First Published: 2020
    In No Limits, Judy Hunt recovers the history of the disabled people’s movement, showing how disabled people organised themselves against ‘the challenge of an inaccessible society’ and achieved significant gains.
  8861. No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
    First Published: 2010
    The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
  8862. No matter how it appears, Trump isn't getting out of Syria and Afghanistan
    First Published: 2018
    Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria don't reflect a large change in US foreign policy. US troops are only a small part of the forces currently deployed there and they will probably be replaced with mercenaries paid for by oil monarchies.
  8863. No More Missouri Compromises
    First Published: 2014
    I do have some ideas about the larger set of circumstances that resulted in Michael Brown’s murder and some suggestions for things that might be done to bring the fight where it needs to be fought beyond the streets of Ferguson.
  8864. No more plastics in Southeast Asia paradise
    First Published: 2021
    Plastic waste has accumulated in Southeast Asia since China stopped importing it for recycling. The region's governments want western exporters to stop using it as a dumping ground.
  8865. No More Secrets
    First Published: 1990
  8866. No News is Not Good News
    Cops Taping Protesters & Journalists
    First Published: 2010
    If cops photograph and videotape protesters and journalists, it's news if it happens in China, but when it happens in the U.S., as it routinely does, the media are silent.
  8867. No, Not All Bi Women Love Threesomes
    Silly Myths About Women and Bisexuality
    First Published: 2009
    Being bisexual means that you are attracted to members of both sexes, even if you're not sleeping with them. Here are some things bisexuality doesn't mean.
  8868. No nukes
    First Published: 1990
  8869. No olvides escribir
    First Published: 1997
  8870. No One Else Will Stop The Killing
    First Published: 2009
    Because we personally understand what war truly means, we have written, called and demonstrated repeatedly for an end to the killing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  8871. "No one represents us": the 15 May movement in the Spanish state
    First Published: 2011
    On 15 May 2011 thousands of people, mainly young, demonstrated all over the Spanish state under the slogans "For real democracy now" and "We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers". The demonstrations explicitly rejected the participation of political parties or trade unions.
  8872. No Outside Saviors!
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    Against The Current spoke with Gwendolyn M. Patton as part of our retrospective on the events of 1968 and the surrounding years.
  8873. No platform or no democracy?
    First Published: 1996
    Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
  8874. No Platform Won't Work
    First Published: 2009
    It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything 'establishment' is viewed as a conspiracy. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
  8875. No Remorse: Reflections on Radical "Purism"
    First Published: 2018
    Street justifies his critical commentary on the disappointing presidency of Barrack Obama and the standard neoliberal manipulation of campaign populism and identity politics in service to big-money. He also takes a cynical look at the DMC, another party of corporations, as well as Bernie Sanders and what a Sanders Presidency might have looked like.
  8876. No "Respect" for Class
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    In his article on Britain’s ‘Respect Coalition’ in ATC 111 (July-August 2004), Liam MacUaid used the indisputably anti-working class record of the Blair government to justify the highly disputable claim that Respect is a supportable alternative. We want to reply.
  8877. No Rights - No Candu in Argentina
    First Published: 1978
  8878. No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
    First Published: 2015
    The spread of knowledge about the NSA's surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S. law.
  8879. NO SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT FREE SPEECH
    First Published: 2014
    Fredrik deBoer, who teaches at Purdue University in Indiana, recently wrote a passionate polemic about the way that what he calls the ‘social justice left’ has abandoned the struggle for free speech, and indeed take up the struggle for censorship.
  8880. No Spirit Of Liberty - The Salisbury Case, Corbyn And The Need For Dissent
    First Published: 2018
    A look at recent 'Mainstream' media coverage, notably the Guardian and BBC, which has been instrumental in presenting a misleading image of Prime Minsiter May as a stable leader, and yet presents Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a much less flattering light.
  8881. The No State Solution: Institutionalizing Libertarian Socialism in Kurdistan
    First Published: 2014
    In what many outside of the territory are referring to as the Rojava Revolution, a major shift in political philosophy and political programmatics has taken place in Kurdistan.
  8882. No Strikes in Canada over health care
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are very different, leading to different approaches to disagreements, and significantly different outcomes.
  8883. No such thing as socialist Zionism
    The historic contradictions of the Zionist left are being played out in the death throes of Meretz, writes Tony Greenstein
    First Published: 2018
    Greenstein discusses the historic contraditions associated with Labour Zionism and explains why the term 'Socialist Zionist' just cannot exist.
  8884. No surrender in Greece
    First Published: 2010
    A member of International Workers Left (DEA), reports from Athens on the May 20 general strike and workers' growing radicalization.
  8885. No to 'Climate Smart Agriculture', yes to agroecology
    First Published: 2015
    Climate Smart Agriculture sounds like a great idea. But in truth it's a PR front for international agribusiness to promote corporate agriculture, pesticides and fertilisers at COP21, with a heavy dose of greenwash. Countries must resist the siren calls - and give their support to true agroecology that sustains soil, health, life and climate.
  8886. No to Crackdown on Prostitution!
    First Published: 2014
    In eight years, the Harper Tories [Conservative Party under Prime Minister Stephen Harper] have waged war on pretty much everyone. Now it is prostitutes and their clients who, if the government has its way, are to be abolished.
  8887. No To Preventive Detention: From Palestine, to Guantanamo, to U.S. Jails!
    First Published: 2022
    On administrative detention of 500 Palestinians when they announced a boycott of Israeli military courts.
  8888. No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO
    First Published: 2018
    Murray explains why the notion that those who do not want Clinton in power are therefore supporters of Trump is intellectually risible and politically dishonest.
  8889. No Unity of the Police and the Community is Possible or Desirable
    First Published: 2016
    After the police murders of Alton Sterling, 37, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, 32, of St. Paul, Minnesota, we are asked to embrace the police, to form a partnership, to work together. From President Barack Obama on down, Democratic and Republican party politicians have called upon the police and communities to unite to solve our common problems.
  8890. No, US Didn't 'Stand By' Indonesian Genocide - It Actively Participated
    First Published: 2017
    Within the coverage of the newly declassified telegram that proves the US actively participated in the Indonesian genocide the media frames Washington as a passive onlooker rather than active participant. This not only lessens the government's culpability; it also tells readers that if the US is to be faulted, it's to be blamed for not doing enough. That's a handy attitude to cultivate for the next time you want to sell a "humanitarian" war.
  8891. No way to remember anything
    First Published: 2016
    An analysis of the 2011 Egyptian revolution reproduces the same mistakes on the left that led to the revolution’s defeat in 2013.
  8892. No Well - The Canborough (Ontario) Success Story
    Or - How to Wage an Environmental Campaign
    First Published: 1978
  8893. Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
  8894. Noam Chomsky and Over 100 Intellectuals Denounce 'Savage' Media Treatment of Britain's Jeremy Corbyn
    First Published: 2016
    "We do not expect journalists to give any elected leader an easy ride," a letter published in The Guardian and signed by more than 100 intellectuals reads, "but Corbyn has been treated from the start as a problem to be solved rather than as a politician to be taken seriously."
  8895. Noam Chomsky and the Left: Allies or Strange Bedfellows?
    Why does Chomsky always seem to 'stand at a slight angle to the universe' of given wisdom (to borrow E.M. Forster's memorable phrase) in everything he does? The answer is not far to seek, though it has several components. One, Chomsky always insists on thinking everything through to the end. No halfway house for him in anything he ventures on, no ceding of ground to high rhetoric, or to radical impetuosity.
  8896. Noam Chomsky Announces Las Vegas Residency
    First Published: 2016
  8897. Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
    First Published: 2017
    A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
  8898. Noam Chomsky - Everyday Anarchist
    First Published: 2013
    Interview with Noam Chomsky.
  8899. Noam Chomsky and Marxism
    On the roots of modern "authoritarianism" - Part One
    First Published: 2004
    Heiko Khoo argues that Noam Chomsky doesn't understand Marxism.
  8900. Noam Chomsky: Moral & Social Thinker
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    Noam Chomsky is a powerhouse of insightful thought – this book attests to that. So analyzing or even summarizing Anthony Arnove’s The Essential Chomsky is no simple task. A moderately lengthy and notably chronological collection of texts plucked from Chomsky’s enormous output, The Essential Chomsky leaps from linguistics to Palestine to libertarian socialism and back to linguistics again. Given the political nature of Against the Current, we will focus on Chomsky’s views on political philosophy, morality, U.S. foreign and domestic policy, and propaganda, ending with thoughts on the editing. But first, a few introductory remarks on the man himself.
  8901. Noam Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines US Politics
    First Published: 2018
    An interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the political parties' lack of focus on crucial issues. Though made hopeful by young progessive candidates winning in the midterms, electoral politics should not be the focus for radical political change.
  8902. Noam Chomsky on 1968
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky explores the milestones achieved in this monumental year, including human and ethnic rights, global solidarity, environmental concern, etc. Despite simultaneously tragic realities of 1968, the results have been long-lasting and positive.
  8903. Noam Chomsky: Palestine 2012 - Gaza and the UN resolution
    First Published: 2012
    An analysis of the political context of Gaza since the first free elections in the Middle East were held.
  8904. Noam Chomsky tells Al Jazeera "I'm not an absolute pacifist"
    First Published: 2016
    In an interview with Al Jazeera English’s flagship current affairs show, 'UpFront', MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky, a long-standing critic of US foreign policy and overseas interventions, said he supported U.S. air strikes against ISIL.
  8905. Noam Chomsky: Trump's First 100 Days Are Undermining Our Prospects for Survival
    First Published: 2017
    No recent US president has demonstrated such an overwhelming ignorance about governing as the current occupant of the White House. But is Trump's apparent inability to govern and conduct himself in a remotely conventional manner an innate character flaw or part of a well-conceived strategy aimed at a society that loves reality TV? In this exclusive Truthout interview, Noam Chomsky shares his views about the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
  8906. Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
    First Published: 2018
    A brief look back at the life and work of world reknowned linguist, philospher and social activist Noam Chomsky, who turns 90 on December 7, 2018.
  8907. Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"
    First Published: 2017
    Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.
  8908. The noble cause of the Heathrow 13
    First Published: 2016
    With the 'Heathrow 13' protestors expecting custodial sentences today for their occupation of a Heathrow runway last July, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP writes that their direct action followed years of official lies and broken promises, and forms part of a long tradition of direct action protests in defence of democracy.
  8909. Noise Busters 
    First Published: 2001
    Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves.
  8910. Noise, the 'ignored pollutant': health, nature and ecopsychology
    The sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul Mobbs.
    First Published: 2017
    For those who like to enjoy the natural environment, noise is something to be escaped from within the relative sanctuary of the landscape. These days that's getting harder and harder to accomplish. That's not only because of noise from all around - in particular from urban areas, roads and the increasing mechanisation of agriculture - but also due to the increasing level of air traffic overhead.
  8911. Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
    First Published: 2007
    Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth, urbanization, and the associated growth in the use of increasingly powerful, varied, and highly mobile sources of noise. It will also continue to grow because of sustained growth in highway, rail, and air traffic, which remain major sources of environmental noise. The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant.
  8912. Noise, Sovereignty, and Civility
    Noise is caused by people and businesses claiming rights, usually property rights, to emit noise into the air, and by people who do not possess the civility to be good neighbors. While its effects are an environmental health issue, its causes are tied to the issues of sovereignty (who owns the air?) and civility (how should we treat our neighbors?).
  8913. Non-cooperation movement
    Connexipedia Article
    A series of nationwide people's movements of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress.
  8914. Non-Movements as Social Activism
    Book Review
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Asef Bayat's 'Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East.'
  8915. Non-profits get exemption
    First Published: 1992
  8916. A Non-Dogmatic Approach to Marxism
    First Published: 1946
    As against that altogether dogmatic approach which had already sterilized the revolutionary Marxist theory in all but a few phases of its century-long development in Europe, and by which the attempted extension of Marxism to the US has been blighted from the very beginning, it is here proposed to revindicate the critical, pragmatic, and activistic element which for all this has never been entirely eliminated from the social theory of Marx and which during the few short phases of its predominance has made that theory a most efficient weapon of the proletarian class struggle.
  8917. 'None Of It Reported': How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
    First Published: 2020
    When it comes to arguably the most important political trial in our lifetimes, there is a not-so-curious media reluctance to dwell on it or even mention it, never mind grant it the kind of blanket coverage that celebrity trials regularly generate. Thus, media attention given to the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and editor, was minimal and dwarfed by the coverage devoted to the actor Johnny Depp over the summer.
  8918. None of the world's top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use
    First Published: 2013
    The notion of "externalities" refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. Roberts argues that, although the term is useful in folding ecological concerns into economics, it has its downsides.
  8919. Non-monogamy
    Connexipedia Article
    A blanket term covering several different types of interpersonal relationships in which some or all participants have multiple marital, sexual, and/or romantic partners.
  8920. The Nonsense of Planning
    First Published: 1937
    The literature dealing with the problems of a planned economy has attained proportions comparable only with those of the depression which brought it forth. In all this welter of thought, we may distinguish three main currents: one which stands for the possibility of capitalist planning, another which denies it on principle, and a third which hovers between these extremes and finds its champions both in the bourgeois and socialist camps.
  8921. Nonviolent Defence, The Road Not Taken
    The Case of India
    First Published: 1990
    One of the most unfortunate missed historical opportunities occured when India, after achieving independence through nonviolent action, took the course of military defence. Let us imagine what might have happened if Gandhi and other nonviolent enthusiasts had spent their time in prison planning the specifics of nonviolent defence in detail.
  8922. The Nonviolent History of American Independence
    First Published: 2016
    Often minimized in our history books, the tactics of nonviolent action played a powerful role in achieving American Independence from British rule. Benjamin Naimark-Rowse wrote, "the lesson we learn of a democracy forged in the crucible of revolutionary war tends to ignore how a decade of nonviolent resistance before the shot-heard-round-the-world shaped the founding of the United States, strengthened our sense of political identity, and laid the foundation of our democracy.'
  8923. Nonviolent resistance
    Connexipedia Article
    The practice of achieving socio-political goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence.
  8924. A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela 
    To the People of Venezuela
    First Published: 2019
    An open letter to the people of Venezuela regarding the US coup and with support for how they can resist.
  8925. The Nord Stream Sabotage
    A New Low For Western Mainstream Media
    First Published: 2022
    Condemning the Guardian's coverage of the recent Nord Stream sabotage, Lascaris discusses the increasing lenghts which Western media will go to promote the U.S. government's hegemonic agenda. He highlights several examples of the Guardian's exercises in propoganda-masquerading-as-journalism.
  8926. Norman Finkelstein: A National Treasure?
    First Published: 2023
    Among the most dangerous people in the US are those who actually once fervently believed the foundational myths of the country's social and political order.
  8927. North End Diversion and Neighborhod Justice Project
    First Published: 1978
  8928. The North Korea Standoff, Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Exposes the Reckless U.S. Worldview
    First Published: 2017
    The confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea has cooled off slightly with Kim Jong-un's announcement that, at least for the time being, he will not attack Guam with an "enveloping fire." A good place to start is with the repeated comparisons U.S. politicians have made between the situation with North Korea and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.
  8929. Northern Freedom Chronicles - book review
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    Review of 'Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North' by Thomas J. Sugrue.
  8930. Northern Ireland's Marching Season Crisis
    First Published: 1998
    IT IS DIFFICULT for those fortunate enough to live in more sophisticated communities to understand and appreciate the deep sense of fear, outrage and humiliation that marks these annual incursions into the little streets of this little town. . . .
    So begins an editorial which appeared in the Belfast-based Irish News a number of years ago.
  8931. Northern Ireland's Troubled Compromise
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    August 31 marked the ten-year anniversary of the Provisional Irish Republican Army’s (IRA) cease-fire, and a turning point in the recent history of Northern Ireland.
  8932. Northern Perspectives
    First Published: 1973
    The Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) has met three of its seven objectives: to report on any research related to Northern development; to compile background material needed to educate the public concerning the environmental effects of development; to publish pertinent information relating to Northern development and the Arctic.
  8933. Northstar Compass
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2017
    Northstar Compass was a monthly magazine containing the latest news and views of the struggles of the Soviet peoples against the capitalist regime which took power after the fall of the Soviet Union. An archive of back issues from 1991 to 2017 is available online at www.connexions.org/CxArchive/Northstar/archive.html, along with additional articles and resources.
  8934. The Northwest Airlines Strike: Where is Labor Going?
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) strike at Northwest Airlines offers a window into class relations and the state of the labor movement in the United States. What we can see through that window is very grim.
  8935. North-West Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    A brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada, which they believed had failed to address their concerns for the survival of their people.
  8936. The Northwest Strike: Acid Test for Labor
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    The following speech was given by Malik Miah, a United Airlines Airline representative and editor of Way Points of Local 9 of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), at a San Francisco Airport rally on Labor Day, September 5, organized for striking mechanics, custodians and cleaners at Northwest Airlines.
  8937. Norwegian Pension Fund Divests from Israeli Military Giant Elbit
    First Published: 2009
    The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has excluded the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. from the Government Pension Fund - Global, on the basis of the Council on Ethics' recommendation. The Council on Ethics has found that investment in Elbit constitutes an unacceptable risk of contribution to serious violations of fundamental ethical norms as a result of the company's integral involvement in Israel's construction of a separation barrier on occupied territory.
  8938. Norwegian resistance movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.
  8939. 'Not a Good Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall' With Expanded Border Surveillance
    'More surveillance' has become the default answer to far too many difficult policy questions
    First Published: 2019
    Digital rights advocates called on Democratic lawmakers to expand their fight against the wall into a fight for all human and constitutional rights-instead of suggesting alternative "border security" proposals that would infringe on civil liberties.
  8940. Not Another Disaster Movie
    First Published: 2010
    Whose will is it that keeps us going the way we are? The will of capital, albeit a capital that’s been refurbished for our modern times. That will cloaks itself in the garb of progress, science and technology. At the same time, it justifies itself by the invocation, in the developed countries and those (like China) on the fast track to development, of an apparently all but incontrovertible need to maintain “our way of life.” That way of life threatens to fairly quickly become a threat to the possibility of life in any form that we would want to be part of.
  8941. Not Bad Policy, But Class Policy
    Holes in the Keynesian Against G20 Austerity Plan
    First Published: 2010
    Liberal critics of the vicious austerity policies passionately argue against such policies as bad, misguided, or unwise as if the governments that make such policies do not know what they are doing. Accordingly, these critics offer all kinds of elegant Keynesian arguments in favor of stimulus deficit spending that could lead to improved economic conditions, increased tax revenues, and decreased debt and deficit. What these critics tend to overlook, however, is the fact that the governments that impose austerity policies are serving as bailiffs or debt-collecting agencies on behalf of their corporate/financial masters.
  8942. Not by Bread Alone
    First Published: 2017
    Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War focused on people's daily needs--who doesn't love hot, buttered toast? People in Spain were starving--they needed food. People--were homeless and needed homes; people were jobless and needed something to do; people were rejected from their communities needed to be included. Anarchists focused on these practical, attainable and above all human needs. And, these are the basic rights that should undergird all human social organizations.
  8943. Not My Revolution
    First Published: 2018
    The Women's March is not immune to the same forces that have confronted the political left in the U.S. for decades. The larger women's movement itself, that sprang from the antiwar movement and civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, carried flaws along with its development that are not new to left political movements in the U.S.
  8944. Not Quite "Ordinary Human Beings" - Anti-imperialism and the anti-humanist rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon
    First Published: 2012
    In our struggle against Zionism, racism, and all forms of colonialism and imperialism, there is no place for antisemitism or the vilification of Jews, Palestinians or any people based on their religions, cultures, nationalities, ethnicity or history.
  8945. Not Saving Private Ryan
    The Murderous Finale of the Great War. November 11, 1918, One Hundred Years Ago
    First Published: 2018
  8946. The "Not so Bright" Protégés and the Comrades that "Never Quarreled"
    C.L.R. James's Disputes on Labor's Self-Emancipation and the Political Economy of Colonial Freedom
    First Published: 2013
    Surveying C.L.R. James's shifting and evolving views on the making of national liberation struggles, whether in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, Eric Williams’s Trinidad, or Toussaint L'Ouverture's Haiti, which he was associated as anti-colonial activist and independent socialist historian, may lead observers to conclude he was either inconsistent in defending his most cherished ideals or, alternatively, strategically minded in specific historical moments.
  8947. The not-so-hidden persuaders
    The Israel lobby's global propaganda manual
    First Published: 2009
    A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
  8948. The Not-So-Secret History of Capitalism
    First Published: 2013
    This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between that evidence and Collier’s more contentious arguments, while many of his policy prescriptions are morally questionable.
  8949. Not Speaking and Speaking
    Chapter 1 of 'Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry'
    First Published: 1971
  8950. Not Such A Lonely Crusade
    The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Brian Dolinar's The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation.
  8951. Not Your Father's Far Right
    Populist Radical Versus Traditional Extremism
    First Published: 2014
    All over Europe, the new, populist far-right parties have become part of the political scene. They're not defined, as the old far-righters used to be, by what they want, but by what they don't want.
  8952. Not Your Mother's Electrolux
    Planned Obsolescence
    First Published: 2014
    Documentary goes on to present new evidence on the school of engineers who were driven by the market and who were clearly interested in making the most disposable product that they could. Electrolux began selling its vacuum cleaners in the UK.
  8953. Notes from a Revolution Dying
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
  8954. Notes from the class struggle: small group workplace organising 
    First Published: 2009
    This pamphlet aims to show what small groups and unions can achieve in workplace disputes. These examples and analyses of successful small-scale actions should prove instructive to workers in a variety of fields from a variety of backgrounds, whether they are in the transport or manufacturing sector, students or illegal immigrants, or are employed in another branch of industry.
  8955. Notes of the Atlantic Workshop on Single Displaced Persons
    First Published: 1978
    This workshop was held in Halifax on September 6, 7, 8, 1978, and attended by fifteen people from five Atlantic province cities. The goal of the event was to enable the participants to "share their perception of the situation, problems and attempted strategies with respect to single displaced or marginal persons in the various Atlantic cities."
  8956. Notes on a factory uprising in Yangon
    First Published: 2017
    Examination of a recent strike and riot at a Chinese-owned H&M supplier in Myanmar (Burma), looking beyond the headlines into its local context and broader political significance.
  8957. Notes on a Future Politics - Part I
    First Published: 2016
    In the aftermath of the 2016 US election, Garvey argues that no variety of liberalism, progressivism or social democracy will be adequate for addressing the multiple global crises of capitalist society nor will they be adequate for providing a genuine alternative to the many millions of people who are drawn to varieties of populist or fascist politics.
  8958. Notes on a Future Politics? Part I
    First Published: 2016
    This essay is intended to enable those of us associated with Insurgent Notes and others to imagine how we might contribute to the emergence of an emancipatory, anti-capitalist mass politics in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election.
  8959. Notes on a Staggering ISO
    The Slow Death of "Leninism"
    First Published: 2014
    A critique of the International Socialist Organization and discussion of the decline of Leninism.
  8960. Notes on Alabama: Searching for the Ghost of "Big Jim" Folsom
    First Published: 2014
    Huntsville Free Clinic in Alabama is a Free Clinic that serves the poor and working class of Huntsville not covered by Alabama’s stingy Medicaid program. Many users of Free Clinic services work, but at jobs that don’t offer health insurance.
  8961. Notes on Anarchism
    In Daniel Guerin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
    First Published: 1970
    Noam Chomsky explores numerous variations and philosophies associated with the anarchist notion. He considers them in a context of historical development and elaborates with his own perspectives, explanations, and general commentary.
  8962. Notes on Exterminism, the last stage of civllization
    First Published: 1980
  8963. Notes on NAFTA
    The Masters of Man
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky depicts the negative consequences of protectionist measures such as NAFTA in the wider context of the rights of workers, consumers, and the future generations who cannot "vote" in the market on environmental issues.
  8964. Notes on Radicalism
    First Published: 2010
    Questions frequently asked when introduced as a co-author of Radical Sydney are: "What is radicalism?"; "Is radicalism dead?"; and specifically with regard to Australia, "Where is radicalism today?". Often, it seems, the unstated, implied premise behind some of these questions is that radicalism once was, but is no more, a questioning underpinned by senses of defeat, confusion, with a hint of nostalgia thrown in.
  8965. Notes on Russia
    First Published: 1936
  8966. Notes on Terminology
    First Published: 2018
    A look at common and popular terminology and 'labeling', especially in the media, which at times is not only inaccurate and misleading, but also diminishes or softens the severity of an event.
  8967. Notes on the Current Crisis
    First Published: 2014
    The editors debate the subjectivity of international law as the United States publically denounces Russia's seizure of Crimea yet condones Israel's occupation of Palestine and treatment of its people.
  8968. Notes on the Diagnostic Process Review of November 22,29 and Dec. 6, 1977.
    First Published: 1978
  8969. Notes on the Fly
    First Published: 2011   Published: 2012
    A report from Occupy Wall Street
  8970. Notes on the Millenium
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    Jane Slaughter interviews Daniel Singer. Daniel Singer specializes in explaining pivotal social movements. His books on the French worker-student revolt of May 1968 and on Polish workers' rebellion against the party-state bureaucracy showed us the real-life workings of movements from below, and their potential to go farther. Best known to American socialists as the European correspondent of The Nation, Singer's elegantly written dispatches are notable for avoiding the false trails of various social democratic election victories.
  8971. Notes on the postal strike, 1970
    First Published: 1970
    Root and Branch on the wildcat strike of US postal workers in 1970 and its implications.
  8972. Notes on Trotsky, Pannekoek, Bordiga - Gilles Dauvé (Jean Barrot) (1972)
    First Published: 1973
    An examination on the standpoints of Trotsky, Pannekoek and Bordiga.
  8973. Notes sur l'histoire et les conditions de vie des travailleurs immigres au Quebec
    First Published: 1980
  8974. Notes Towards a Critique of Maoism
    First Published: 2012
    Maoism was part of a broader movement in the twentieth century of what might be called “bourgeois revolutions with red flags,” as in Vietnam or North Korea. To understand this, it is important to see that Maoism was one important result of the defeat of the world revolutionary wave in 30 countries (including China itself) which occurred in the years after World War I. The major defeat was in Germany (1918–1921), followed by the defeat of the Russian Revolution (1921 and thereafter), culminating in Stalinism.
  8975. Nothing for workers at bankrupt firm
    First Published: 1989
  8976. Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way Gorgon Stare Did
    First Published: 2019
    An interview with an expert on drones about a new camera technology that drastically improves wide-area sureillance capabilities.
  8977. Nothing Left
    The long, slow surrender of American liberals
    First Published: 2014
    On the gradual decline of the U.S. liberal-left party and its principles.
  8978. Nothing personal, just business
    First Published: 2007
    "A street entrepreneur or a life-destroying psychopath?" asks a review of the film American Gangster, which portrays the life of drug kingpin Frank Lucas.
    How is that an either-or choice?
  8979. Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
    First Published: 2015
    The U.S. has been warring with the Islamic State (IS) for more than a year now. The centerpiece of that war has been an ongoing campaign of bombings and air strikes in Syria and Iraq, thousands upon thousands of them.
  8980. Notorious Portuguese political prison becomes museum of resistance
    First Published: 2019
    A historical fortress Peniche used to hold dissidents under Portugal's dictatorship is being turned into a museum to remind people of the life under fascism.
  8981. N'oubliez pas d'écrire
    First Published: 1997
  8982. A Nous De Decider
    First Published: 1977
    Ces pages detaillent l'histoire et principes de l'associaton des forestiers.
  8983. Nous, les travailleurs immigrants
    First Published: 1979
  8984. Le Nouvel Ordre Economique International
    First Published: 1975
    Une vue d'ensemble du "nouvel ordre economique international."
  8985. Nova Scotia Labour Research and Support Centre - Newsletter
    First Published: 1978
  8986. Nova Scotia Micmac Aboriginal Rights Position Paper
    First Published: 1977
    This tabloid edition of a position paper presented to the Federal Government in 1977 was signed by twelve chiefs representing the Union of Nova Scotia Indians.
  8987. The Nova Scotia Worker
    First Published: 1981
    Three issues stand out in this edition of the newspaper: steel, mine safety and bank organizing.
  8988. The Nova Scotia Worker
    First Published: 1981
    A number of issues related to unorganized workers appear in this issue of the Nova Scotia Worker.
  8989. A Novel of Class Struggle & Romance
    Book review
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'The Gleaming Archway' by A.M. Stephen.
  8990. The November 2011 General Elections in Spain: Indignation Trapped in the Ballot Box
    First Published: 2012
    The “outrage” expressed in the Spanish streets, deflated after the electoral ritual, is confronted with the limitations of the movement’s citizen-based abstractions (electoral reform, the affirmation of democracy, denouncing corruption, etc.) when confronted with the reality ( labor reform, social cuts) imposed by capital and its democratically elected administrators. Or, perhaps, indignation has completed its cycle and we are at the beginning.
  8991. Now, if only the law was applied equally
    First Published: 1978
    There is a double standard for you - postal workers are threatened when they refuse to obey the law, policemen are threatened when they refuse to break it.
  8992. Now Is The Time
    First Published: 2006
    The world must be offered the chance to see the good Palestinian, the good Arab and the good Muslim. We must be offered the chance to see the good Jew and the well-intentioned Christians and West. It is all in our grasp, but, we need to take that important leap by acting now with courage and wisdom. A unified vision and strategy on the Palestinian side must lead us toward peace.
  8993. Now is the Time to Prepare for Retirement
    You prepare for retirement in the way you lead your life long before retirement.
  8994. Now it's Israel's IDF Leveling Gaza
    Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto
    First Published: 2014
    Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto, Now it’s Israel’s IDF leveling Gaza.
  8995. Now that we've burned our boats...
    The Report of the People's Commission on Unemployment, Newdoundland and Labrador
    First Published: 1978
    This report analyzes unemployment in the context of the political and economic history of the Newfoundland and Labrador.
  8996. Now they're going to ruin the economy
    First Published: 1992
    The geniuses who brought us the constitutional debacle are turning their energies to the economy.
  8997. Now We Have Your Attention
    First Published: 2023
    There have been decades of photos of dead Palestinian women and children, and kids being beaten, humilated and imprisoned by Israeli soldiers. The historic killing rate in this 'conflict' has been fairly consistent at about 40:1.
  8998. NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians
    First Published: 2018
    The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
  8999. The NRA's Latest Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil
    First Published: 2017
    It's long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in the United States as terrorist attacks on the U.S. populace conducted by the nation’s plutocracy through one of its key and rightward campaign funding, lobbying, and policy organizations -- the National Rifle Association (NRA).
  9000. The NSA and the Infrastructure of the Surveillance State
    In Search of Real Liberty
    First Published: 2013
    The NSA’s surveillance and data-gathering activities illustrate the extent to which US intelligence seeks “full-spectrum dominance” in cyberspace.
  9001. The NSA Apologists
    It's Not Snowden Who Betrayed Us
    First Published: 2013
    The NSA controversy is about whether we should trust people with institutional power.
  9002. NSA, GCHQ mapping "political alignment" of cellphone users
    New report reveals
    First Published: 2014
    New information made public by Edward Snowden reveals that the governments of the United States and United Kingdom are trawling data from cellphone “apps” to accumulate dossiers on the “political alignments” of millions of smartphone users worldwide.
  9003. NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
    First Published: 2013
    The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
  9004. The NSA Has Effectively Destroyed Internet Privacy
    Snowden's Latest
    First Published: 2013
    Whistle-blower Edward Snowden prove that the NSA, working with its British counterpart the Government Communications Headquarters has conducted an intentional and largely sucessful campaign to destroy all privacy on the Internet.
  9005. NSA learning how to snoop on pacemakers
    First Published: 2016
    The NSA is seeking new ways to satisfy its hunger for raw data by exploiting the so-called internet of things, an emerging network connecting objects such as vehicles, home appliances and biomedical devices. "We're looking at it sort of theoretically from a research point of view right now," the spy agency's Deputy Director Richard Ledgett told a conference on military technology at Washington's Newseum on Friday.
  9006. NSA Turns Cookies (And More) Into Surveillance Beacons
    First Published: 2013
    These Google cookies - known as 'PREF' cookies - last two years and can uniquely identify you. The NSA is using this to enable remote exploitation (hacking into people’s computers) - an act aided by the ability to uniquely identify individuals on the Internet.
  9007. The NSA's Corporate Collaborators
    Willing Accomplices
    First Published: 2014
    Emails published by Al Jazeera America, in addition to showing hi-tech executives and senior intelligence officials interacting on a casual first-name basis, reference a government program referred to as the Enduring Security Framework (ESF).
  9008. NSA's Cyberwarfare Blowback
    First Published: 2017
    In May and June 2017, hackers took over thousands of computers around the world, encrypted their contents, and demanded ransom to decrypt them. They used tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) to exploit vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
  9009. The NSA's Invasion of Google and Yahoo Servers
    Your Email is Likely Being Monitored
    First Published: 2013
    The American National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting information coming in and out of Google and Yahoo servers over non-public, internal network fibre optic lines. In December, 2012 alone, the program (revealingly called “MUSCULAR”) processed 181,280,466 Google and Yahoo records that included email, searches, videos and photos.
  9010. The NSA's Mantra
    Collect It All
    First Published: 2014
    This is the world we’re living in now. One where privacy is quickly becoming a thing of the past – where the government collects our metadata using dragnet surveillance. Who you talked to, where, when, and for how long are collected with each and every phone call. Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Microsoft, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and numerous other corporations partner with the NSA to subvert your right to privacy. The NSA has even been physically intercepting packages containing servers and switches, taking it from FedEx or the US Postal Service, opening the package, and planting a device that redirects information sent over these servers back to the NSA.
  9011. NSA's Path to Totalitarianism
    Ever-Shrinking Democracy in America
    First Published: 2013
    The American National Security Agency (NSA) appears as a “rogue” organization, extremism in the putative service of liberty. Or better, call it, stripped of all cosmetics, the unerring mark of a Police State, itself become identical with Fortress America, the National-Security State.
  9012. The NSA's Spying Operation on Mexico
    Systematic Eavesdropping on the Government
    First Published: 2013
    The American NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. Three major programs constitute a massive espionage operation against Mexico.
  9013. NSW protesters: 'We will break these laws'
    First Published: 2016
    "This is a law to protect the rich. We will need to break these laws to protect our democratic rights," Aboriginal activist and lead NSW Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance team in the federal elections Ken Canning, said on March 15, 2016. Canning was addressing protesters who had occupied the road outside State Parliament following a rally, called by Greens MLC David Shoebridge, against the state government's new laws attacking the right to protest.
  9014. The Nuclear Death of a Nuclear Scientist
  9015. Nuclear Deceit: The Times and Iran
    First Published: 2010
    Is the Times engaged in reporting or propaganda in its coverage of Iran's nuclear program?
  9016. The Nuclear Dilemma
    First Published: 1977
    This paper report on discussions hold at a June 1977 seminar at the Institute for Saskatchewan Studies.
  9017. The Nuclear Enterprise Is on Autopilot
    CounterSpin interview with William Hartung on nuclear overkill
    First Published: 2017
    Janine Jackson interviewed William Hartung about nuclear overkill for the November 17, 2017, episode of CounterSpin.
  9018. Nuclear expert speaks on the dangers of war between the US and Russia
    Interview with Greg Mello
    First Published: 2022
    Nuclear war is not one or two Hiroshima-sized bombs. The imagination cannot encompass nuclear war. Nuclear war means nuclear winter. It means the collapse of very fragile electronic, financial, governmental, administrative systems that keep everyone alive. We’d be lucky to reboot in the early 19th century. And if enough weapons are detonated, the collapse of the Earth’s ozone layer would mean that every form of life that has eyes could be blinded. The combined effects of a US-Russian nuclear war would mean that pretty much every terrestrial mammal, and many plants, would become extinct.
  9019. Nuclear facts and figures
    First Published: 1990
  9020. Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises
    First Published: 2019
    When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an economic meeting in the city of Sivas this September that Turkey was considering building nuclear weapons, he was responding to a broken promise. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the government of Iran of lying about its nuclear program, he was concealing one of the greatest subterfuges in the history of nuclear weapons.
  9021. Nuclear opponents have a moral duty to get their facts straight
    First Published: 2011
    My request to Helen Caldicott was a simple one: I asked her to give me sources for the claims she had made about the effects of radiation. Helen had made a number of startling statements during a television debate, and I wanted to know whether or not they were correct. Scientific claims are only as good as their sources.
  9022. Nuclear Power
    First Published: 1976
    A well-documented account of the nuclear industry in Canada illustrated with lively cartoons.
  9023. Nuclear Power And P.E.I.
    First Published: 1978
  9024. The Nuclear Power Booklet
    The Case for a Nuclear-Free Ontario
    First Published: 1988
  9025. The nuclear renaissance is stone cold dead
    First Published: 2013
    2013 has been the nuclear power industry's annus horribilis and the nuclear renaissance can now be pronounced stone cold dead. The industry is finding it increasingly difficult to profitably operate existing reactors - especially ageing reactors requiring refurbishments - let alone build new ones.
  9026. Nuclear Testing
    First Published: 1992
  9027. Nuclear War And Corbyn - The Fury And The Farce
    First Published: 2015
    The British media is outraged that La bour leader Jeremy Corbyn won't press the nuclear button under any circumstances.
  9028. Nuclear War: A Thought Experiment
    First Published: 2020
  9029. Nuclear Wastes - What, Me Worry?
    First Published: 1978
  9030. Nuclear Weapons Ban? What Needs to be Banned Is U.S. Arrogance
    First Published: 2017
    Nuclear disarmament will be possible only when leaders in Washington recognize that other peoples also have a right and a will to live.
  9031. Nuclear Weapons Spoilers Sentenced to Long Prison Terms
    Injustice in Knoxville
    First Published: 2014
    Three anti-war activists who easily snuck into what is touted as one of the United States' most secure nuclear weapons facilities were sentenced to long terms in federal prison on February 18, 2014.
  9032. Nude beach
    Connexipedia Article
    A beach where users are legally at liberty to be nude.
  9033. Nudity
    The state of wearing no clothing.
  9034. Nudity and protest
    Wikipedia article
    Nudity is sometimes used as a tactic during a protest to attract public attention to a cause, and sometimes promotion of public nudity is itself the objective of a nude protest.
  9035. The NUHW Revolt
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    The largest battle within the U.S. union movement in decades is happening right now. It is an organizing campaign to leave the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for the newly formed National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
  9036. Nukes Now: Obama Worse Than Reagan
    First Published: 2014
    President Obama released his fiscal 2015 budget March 4. Ready for this? It asks for considerably more money (in constant dollars) for nuclear weapons maintenance, design and production than Reagan spent in 1985, the historical peak of spending on nukes: $8.608 billion, not counting administrative costs.
  9037. Numsa strike against sexual harassment is a 'powerful moment in labour history'
    First Published: 2019
    A union of metal workers in South Africa staged a strike underground in harsh conditions to support a coworker whose sexual harassment complaint had been dismissed by management.
  9038. Nutrient Runoff is Killing American Waters and Voluntary Actions Aren't Working
    First Published: 2017
    The ongoing causes and devastating effects of nutrient pollution on American lakes, bays and waterways is examined.
  9039. The Nuts and Bolts of Occupy Wall Street
    First Published: 2011
  9040. NYC Cop Backlash
    Amid Protests Against Racist Police Terror
    First Published: 2015
    Weeks of mass protests that erupted after the policemen who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner got off have left cops across the country seething. These hired guns of the capitalist rulers are howling over any criticism of how they do their job, which in racist capitalist America does include terrorizing and killing unarmed black people. Leading the pack in New York City are the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) and its ilk, which have seized on the December 20, 2014 killing of two Brooklyn cops to further push their agenda of bonapartism: that is, to stand above the law as judge, jury and executioner.
  9041. NYC Transit Workers' Fare Strike 2012: Can Occupy Open Horizons for a Frustrated Labor Movement
    First Published: 2012
    Transit workers belonging to New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 exhibit a familiar sight in the 21st century U.S. labor movement: broke, angry, slandered, disillusioned, directionless and top heavy.
  9042. NYC's Workfare Shell Game: An Interview with Heidi Dorow
    First Published: 1999
    HEIDI DOROW IS director of the Urban Justice Center Organizing Project in New York City. In ATC 73 (March-April 1998) she spoke with Dianne Feeley and David Finkel about New York's “Work Experience Program” (WEP), and her organization's campaign to convince non-profit organizations to refuse to participate in this workfare program. We spoke to her again in February, 1999 to learn about developments in the past year.
  9043. Nyerere, Julius
    Connexipedia Article
    African politician and socialist. (1922-1999).
  9044. The NYPD Is Kicking People out of Their Homes, Even If They Haven't Committed a Crime
    And it's happening almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods.
    First Published: 2016
    The morning of May 4, 2011, Jameelah El-Shabazz watched out the window of her Bronx apartment as a team of police officers fanned across the rooftop of Banana Kelly High School. The 43-year-old mother of five said she didn’t think much of the scene -- drug raids were common in her neighbourhood.
  9045. NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
    First Published: 2016
    The New York Times wants a system of censorship for the Internet to block what it calls "fake news," but the Times ignores its own record of publishing "fake news."
  9046. NYT Editorial Slams "Disgraceful" CIA Exploitation of Paris Attacks, But Submissive Media Role Is Key
    First Published: 2015
    A truly superb New York Times editorial this morning mercilessly shames the despicable effort by U.S. government officials to shamelessly exploit the Paris attacks to advance long-standing agendas.
  9047. NYT Hypes Russian Threat to the Internet
    First Published: 2015
    As if Americans didn't already have enough to worry about in regards to the recently resurrected Red Menace, we can now add the fear that those devious Russians are threatening to -- horror of horrors -- bring down the Internet.
  9048. NYT op-ed describing Israel as a place of refuge is missing the word, Palestinians
    First Published: 2018
    A rebuke by author Levine to the New York Times op-ed written by Susan Silverman titled "How Did Israel Become A Place of No Refuge?".
  9049. The NYT's Love Letter to Death Squads
    Hymns to the Silence
    First Published: 2012
    It is, I confess, beyond all my imagining that a national leader so deeply immersed in murdering people would trumpet his atrocity so openly, so gleefully - and so deliberately, sending his top aides out to collude in a major story in the nation's leading newspaper, to ensure maximum exposure of his killing spree.
  9050. NYU: Nerds on Strike!
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    On November 9, 2005, graduate student employees at New York University (NYU) put down their red pens and picked up their picket signs. After a 2004 ruling by a Bush- appointed majority of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NYU administration seized the opportunity to refuse to recognize and renegotiate with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)/ UAW Local 2110.
  9051. O Caso dos Arquivos de Movimentos de Raiz
    First Published: 2012
  9052. Oakland After Ferguson
    First Published: 2015
    Already #BlackLivesMatter protests in Oakland are being likened to the sustained unrest following the videotaped murder of Oscar Grant by cops. But this time something is different.
  9053. The Oakland General Strike of 1946
    An account of the General Strike in Oakland, California.
  9054. The Oakland Port Shutdown
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    A personal account of the growing dialogue between the labour movement and the Occupy organizing, as seen by someone heavily involved in attempting to build these linkages.
  9055. Oaxaca: Autonomy Under Seige
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    On April 27, 2010, the Mexican state of Oaxaca again garnered international attention as a humanitarian aid and solidarity caravan comprised of national and international activists heading to the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala was ambushed by state-backed paramilitaries, resulting in the deaths of two activists, leaving several wounded, and others disappeared for days.
  9056. The Oaxaca Commune
    The Other Indigenous Rebellion in Mexico
    First Published: 2008
  9057. Oaxaca protests 2006
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
  9058. Obama Administration Muzzling Its Scientists
    Just Like Canada's Harper Government
    First Published: 2014
    Muzzling of scientists matters because they make policy decisions with real-world impacts on society.
  9059. Obama, African Americans and War on the Working Poor
    First Published: 2013
    Malcom X's speech given nearly 50 years ago still remains valid today even in the age of the first African-American president and a sizable Congressional Black Caucus. While much has changed legally and socially -- upper-class African Americans can work and live almost anywhere if qualified -- much hasn’t changed for the working poor who are Black.
  9060. Obama and "I Have a Dream" in 2008
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    As we enter the 2008 presidential election, it is noteworthy that Illinois Senator Barack Obama is still a serious contender for the Democratic Party nomination. I say “noteworthy” because his campaign has been marked throughout with ambivalence among many African Americans.
  9061. Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
    The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
    First Published: 2010
    Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
  9062. Obama and the Empire
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    As Barack Obama’s campaign shifted focus to battle John McCain following his victory over Hillary Clinton, various observers began to suggest that Obama had begun to “move to the center” in order to get elected. Supporters explained that shift as a necessary pragmatic step; others, airing varied degrees of disappointment, went so far as to suggest that he had somehow “lurched to the right.”
  9063. Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve
    First Published: 2011
  9064. Obama food aid ravages Third World farmers
    Despite uplifting rhetoric, Obama is perpetuating a program that sabotages foreigners' self-sufficiency
    First Published: 2014
    The US taxpayers who finance foreign food aid surely believe they are feeding starving people. But the truth is the reverse - it is undermining indigenous agriculture in recipient countries - creating famine and chronic malnutrition, while sabotaging self-sufficiency.
  9065. Obama: Human Rights Disaster
    First Published: 2013
    The presidency of Barack Obama has continued, consolidated and institutionalized the human rights catastrophe of its predecessor. It's frankly impossible to look at the string of atrocities without becoming enraged and it's also critical to understand why they're happening.
  9066. Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
    First Published: 2017
    The U.S. continues to massacre Yemeni civilians, both directly and through its tyrannical Saudi partners.
  9067. Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
    First Published: 2014
    President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, as well as the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
  9068. Obama on Israel-Palestine
    First Published: 2009
    Noam Chomsky criticizes Barack Obama's vague stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict and warns that there is much importance in what he is not expressing.
  9069. Obama Pushes for Regime Change in Venezuela
    Once Again, South America Says No
    First Published: 2014
    When is it considered legitimate to try and overthrow a democratically-elected government? In Washington, the answer has always been simple: when the U.S. government says it is. Not surprisingly, that’s not the way Latin American governments generally see it.
  9070. The Obama Reality Disconnect
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    There is a sharp reality disconnect in the Black community. On the one hand, the Black population continues to support the first African-American president, Barack Obama, by more than 90%.
  9071. Obama signs police state legislation
    First Published: 2012
    Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home.
  9072. Obama to sign AIPAC-promoted trade bill that legitimizes Israeli occupation and fights BDS
    First Published: 2016
    The U.S. Senate has passed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 by a 75-20 veto proof margin. The large trade policy bill includes anti- BDS trade legislation promoted by AIPAC and introduces new U.S. policy language by including all "Israeli-controlled territories" as part of Israel.
  9073. Obama's Afghanistan War: Morally Wrong, or Incompetently Waged?
    First Published: 2009
    For our rulers, the point of a war is to make us Americans feel the way only a war can--determined to prevail over a dangerous foreign enemy by supporting our leaders when we would otherwise oppose them over domestic issues. Wars are waged for domestic social control and to justify enormous arms expenditures and contracts. Our leaders need wars to drag on so the enemy can be deemed sufficiently dangerous and implacable and thus the war made to seem important or necessary.
  9074. Obama's Double-Standard On Russia: He Attacks Russia, Then Condemn's Putin For Defending Russia From His Attack
    First Published: 2015
    Obama overthrew the legal Government, and replaced it by this illegal one. But now he criticizes Putin as if he were the aggressor instead of the defender here. And Obama demands that the Soviet dictator's forced transfer of Crimea to Ukraine be legal and that Putin's defense of Crimeans' democratic self-determination in response to that coup be considered illegal.
  9075. Obama's House of Cards
    Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative?
    First Published: 2014
    Barak Obama's September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life. It is absolutely amazing that the president of the United States would stand before the entire world and tell what everyone knows are blatant lies while simultaneously demonstrating Washington's double standards and belief that Washington alone, because the US is exceptional and indispensable, has the right to violate all law.
  9076. Obama's Hypocritical Crusade Against Extremism
    Will the Feds Soon be Targeting People With a "Bad Attitude"?
    First Published: 2014
    In his speech last month to the United Nations, President Obama summoned foreign leaders to join his "campaign against extremism." Obama has repeatedly invoked the "extremist" threat to justify attacking abroad and seizing more power at home since taking office in 2009. But the president's own record makes it tricky for him to pirouette as the World Savior of Moderation.
  9077. Obama's Imperial Continuity
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    Despite the rhetoric of hope and promises of “change we can believe in” that ushered him into the White House, Barack Obama has offered anything but a marked shift in the fundamental course of U.S. foreign policy. The change Obama has brought — to the relief of U.S. and global elites — is away from the George W. Bush-era fantasy that U.S. military firepower and ideological muscle could unilaterally dominate the globe. But his underlying policy goals are very much in continuity not only with Bush but with a century of his predecessors.
  9078. Obama's Legacy and the Rise of Trump
    First Published: 2017
    So much has been written about why Donald Trump won the presidency and the anger of the white working class. White supremacists are overjoyed by his victory. Much less is written or discussed about the failures of liberalism and the Obama presidency for Blacks and other minorities who voted for Hillary Clinton as a lesser evil.
  9079. Obama's Liberty Problem
    Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
    First Published: 2010
    The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
  9080. Obama's Obscenities on Syria
    Obama Offers No Evidence Assad was Behind Poison Gas Attack in Damascus, Yet Defends Unprovoked War Anyway
    First Published: 2013
    President Obama did not give any compelling evidence to prove that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was behind the alleged Sarin attack on residents of a suburb of Damascus.
  9081. Obama's Reform, Recovery Stalled
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    The Reform agenda of president Obama and the Democrats, such as it was, is exhausted. Two failing wars, a fragile and almost jobless economic recovery teetering on the cusp of a double-dip Great Recession, and an all-out rightwing racial, economic and political offensive have defined the ground for the November midterm election and the period to follow.
  9082. Obama's role model to journalists — Dorothy Thompson — turned against Zionism and was silenced
    First Published: 2015
    Dorothy Thompson, whose truly stellar career ended in false charges of antisemitism made by Zionists.
  9083. Obama's RTTT vs. Teacher Unions
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    The 165 Washington, DC public school teachers terminated for poor evaluations on July 23 may be the first victims of the Obama reform agenda. The teachers were fired because of low scores on the DC school system’s new evaluation procedure — one which ties teacher evaluations to student scores on standardized tests.
  9084. The Obamas' "Rustin"
    Fun Tricks You Can Do on the Past
    First Published: 2023
    When I learned that the Obamas were producing a biopic on Bayard Rustin, I shuddered a bit in apprehension of what such a project would be.
  9085. Obama's Sinister Crackdown on the Press
    Detention of Greenwald Partner in London Clearly Came on US Orders
    First Published: 2013
    David Miranda was placed on such a watch list by the US because of his relationship with Greenwald and was detained and held, without access to a lawyer, for nine hours.
  9086. Obamas Sordid Record on Censorship and Secrecy
    Blindfolding the Republic
    First Published: 2015
    Obama’s failure to attend the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris and the condemnations of this press freedom omission.
  9087. Obama's "We Got No Money" Rap
    Why It Augurs a Sinister Banksters' End Game
    First Published: 2009
    Obama is deliberately precipitating another crisis on the advise of his chief lieutenants. Summers and Geithner are steering the economy back into recession so they can implement the same austerity measures and "structural adjustment" programs which have been used throughout the developing world. It's "starve the beast" all over again. As the stimulus dries up, revenue-depleted states will be forced to auction off public lands, resources, parks and other assets to the highest bidder. The banksters and robber barons will feast on the country's treasures while the middle class is crushed by the freefalling dollar, lost home equity, and persistent high unemployment.
  9088. Obituary: Eric Hobsbawm: 1917-2012
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    An obituary for Eric Hobsbawm.
  9089. Obituary: Flint Sitdowner: Olen Ham (1917-2012)
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    Obituary for Olen Ham.
  9090. Obituary: Leon Sedov
    First Published: 1938
    In Leon Lvovich, Trotsky has lost more than a son of his own blood - he has lost a son in spirit, an irreplaceable companion in struggle.
  9091. The obliteration of memories
    First Published: 2021
    Over 16,000 housing units were damaged during the recent [2021] Israeli attacks on Gaza. What that number doesn't capture however is what else was lost in those places -- the irreplaceable photos, keepsakes, and possessions and that made each a home.
  9092. The Obliteration of Privacy
    Snowden and the NSA
    First Published: 2014
    It’s remarkable how little outrage Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations have provoked in the American public. One often heard response is something like, “Well, I don’t have anything to hide, so I don’t care if the government is listening to what I say. And if they catch some terrorists, so much the better.”
  9093. Obscenity conviction
    First Published: 1992
  9094. Obscenity exposed
    First Published: 1978
    The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
  9095. Observations in Germany
    First Published: 1923
  9096. Obsessions of Berlin
    First Published: 1948
    The Russians are Berlin's second great obsession. The rape of the city is burned deep into the minds of its inhabitants because it is associated with their greatest disappointment. Long before the fall of the city, refugees from the East told horrible stories about the Russians' behavior. So did the radio. But wishful thinking discounted these stories as exaggerations and propaganda. At any rate, it could not get worse than it was. The same hope that welcomed Hitler in exchange for the depression welcomed now the Russians in exchange for the bombings.
  9097. The Occupation and the Anti-War Movement After the Election
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    Anyone watching the message on Iraq in George W. Bush's February 3 State of the Union address must be convinced that members of both Houses of Congress, starting with Dick Cheney himself, are definitely making the physical effort needed to sustain their cardiac health. The frenzied rhythm of their standing ovations indeed equaled the most intensive aerobics.
  9098. Occupation captured
    First Published: 2017
    Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.
  9099. Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
    A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
    First Published: 2009
    A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
  9100. Occupation Industries: The Israeli Industrial Zones
    First Published: 2009
    In a climate in which the call for a consumer boycott of Israeli goods is finally gaining strength, one area of Israel's economy is, as yet, surprisingly under-researched. Most of Israel's industrial zones in the West Bank are connected to illegal residential settlements and provide an indispensable economic backbone to the local settler economy. Business areas like the industrial zones are at the forefront of Israel's brutal occupation of Palestine, facilitating ethnic cleansing and acting hand-in-hand with the Israeli state in their quest for territorial dominance.
  9101. Occupation of Anicinabe park
    The Occupation of Anicinabe Park 1974; Two Interviews
    First Published: 1992
    These interviews with Lyle Ironstand and Louis Cameron have been reprinted from Paper Tomahawks: From Red Tape to Red Power by James Burke, published in 1976 by Queenston House Publishing.
  9102. The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end
    First Published: 2008
    The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end. The dispossession of the Palestinians must be fully acknowledged and Israel must reach out to embrace the full rights of Palestinians to nationhood and viability. Only then will the nightmare end that is the reality of the Palestinian people living in the Occupied Territories and the refugee camps. And only with that can there be any hope for a real peace.
  9103. Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2009
    Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
  9104. The Occupation's Dark Underbelly Exposed
    The Revelations of the Israeli Refuseniks
    First Published: 2014
    A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite Israeli military intelligence unit declaring their refusal to continue serving the occupation has sent shockwaves through Israeli society.
  9105. Occupational health centre dumped
    First Published: 1989
  9106. Occupational Health Congress
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
  9107. The Occupier Defines Justice
    First Published: 2006
  9108. Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom
    First Published: 2015
    At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers.
  9109. Occupy Amazonia? Indigenous activists are taking direct action - and it's working
    First Published: 2015
    The native peoples of the Amazon are employing the tactics of the Occupy movement against oil companies, gold miners and illegal loggers. Lacking the protection of the state, they fight their own battles. Recent campaign successes owe much to outside support.
  9110. Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists 
    First Published: 2011
  9111. Occupy and the Urgency of Inclusiveness
    First Published: 2012
    Occupy is a social movement that purports to give expression to working class concerns in the absence of working class participation. Occupy has evolved into a form of organization that effectively excludes many who might otherwise participate, and, even worse, may ultimately result in a predominately middle class orientation over time.
  9112. Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics of Popular Self-Management for the Post-Civil Rights City
    First Published: 2012
    The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis.
  9113. Occupy Cincinnati as a Case Study
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    Occupy Cincinnati was "an event, not a movement." It is argued that viewing Occupy — both in Cincinnati and nationally — as a movement, causes it to be seen as something that is now over, diminishing its significance.
  9114. Occupy and Detroit's Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    What's the new center of gravity on the political landscape? Dan La Botz has provocatively remarked that Occupy Oakland’s November 2 shutdown of the Port of Oakland — one of the largest recent labor actions — was initiated from outside union structures. Earlier, in New York City, on the morning Mayor Bloomberg dispatched police to expel Occupiers from Liberty Park, 5,000 people — many city workers, transit workers and teachers — turned out, forcing him to back off.
  9115. Occupy Everywhere
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    The decision by Time magazine to name “the protester” its Person of the Year was largely a response to the two major events that bookended 2011: the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement.
  9116. Occupy: The Fall of the Oakland Commune
    First Published: 2017
    For many people, the Occupy movement was an initiation into radical politics, an experiment in decentralized and nonhierarchical movement-building, and a glimpse at the possibility for a new kind of society. Yet the whole thing was over in just a few weeks -- a crisis quieted, a moment of hope extinguished.
  9117. Occupy Giving Why do the 1% give less than the rest of us?
    First Published: 2011
    Nearly two thirds of Americans donate to charities each year. This year we will send more than $225 billion to charities. This year, when the stark divide between the 1% and the 99% has begun to inform our thinking and our approach, it might be instructive to examine the world of giving through that lens.
  9118. Occupy Isla Vista for the 99%
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    Isla Vista is an unincorporated community within the Santa Barbara County, a gentrified ghetto on the sunny seaside of southern California packing 23,000 people within its meager 1.8 square miles. The core is composed of students studying at the nearby University of California, with a largely ignored community composed of Latino/Latina working-class and other permanent residents, including a houseless population.
  9119. Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best
    First Published: 2012
    A report from the 2011 Occupy movement in Los Angeles.
  9120. The Occupy movement and class politics in the US
    First Published: 2012
    The Occupy movement that began in New York in September 2011 and has spread with remarkable speed across the country represents a massive shift in the politics of the United States.
  9121. Occupy Oakland activists take up the question of decision-making
    First Published: 2012
    Exclusionary strategies and tactics alienate those of us who are interested in a slower, more solid, more inclusive approach of mass movement building.
  9122. Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown and Beyond - All Eyes on Longview!
    First Published: 2012
    The Occupy movement – and especially Occupy Oakland – has demonstrated remarkable resilience and an almost unprecedented ability to repeatedly mobilize mass actions against economic injustice and police brutality.
  9123. Occupy Portland Regroups
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    Early on a dark and freezing Monday morning, December 12, 2011, more than 800 people descended on terminals five and six at the Port of Portland. Having announced their intention to occupy and shut down the port, the demonstrators arrived to find that the Port of Portland management had beaten them to the punch and closed the two terminals over “safety concerns.”
  9124. Occupy the Workplace - review
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present', edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini.
  9125. Occupy Wall Street - Wikipedia article
    Connexpedia article
    First Published: 2011
    About the demonstrations in New York City, 2011.
  9126. Occupy Wall Street! Observations from a New York Public Sector Worker
    First Published: 2011
    A lot remains to be seen, but if Madison is any indication, upping the ante in this struggle and achieving real results will require more than crowds ... it will require the focused activity of significant layers of the organized working classes, that have the roots and the experience to help leverage the power that is being built against the establishment here and nationally. Even if we don't get concrete wins, this will have been a hugely important protest but there is a potential for it to be concretely effective as well.
  9127. Occupying Trump?
    Five years after its formation and demise, Occupy is mostly a study in what to avoid for the anti-Trump movement.
    First Published: 2016
    Instead of creating a movement that materially attacked the institutions of the 1 percent, many members of the Occupy movement vowed to transform themselves and raise awareness at the individual level. Some responses to Trumpism have fallen into the same trap - treating the election as an opportunity for soul-searching or a reason to rail against individual Trump voters.
  9128. Occupying Trump?
    First Published: 2016
    Five years after its formation and demise, Occupy is mostly a study in what to avoid for the anti-Trump movement.
  9129. Occupy's A**hole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old Hippie
    First Published: 2011
    Watching the OWS organizers struggle with drummers, druggies, sexual harassers, and racists brings me back to a few lessons we had to learn the hard way back in the day, always after putting up with way too much over-the-top behavior from people we didn’t think we were allowed to say no to. It’s heartening to watch the Occupiers begin to work out solutions to what I can only indelicately call the a**hole problem.
  9130. Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
    First Published: 2015
    Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
  9131. OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP? 
    First Published: 2015
    The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
  9132. Ochs, Phil
    Connexipedia Article
    U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. (1940 - 1976).
  9133. Phil Ochs: Interview on the Chicago Convention
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1976
    When Phil Ochs returned to New York from the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention he gave an interview to Izzy Young of the folklore Center in the village to be sent up to Broadside.
  9134. October 7: Defend Education!
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    Students, faculty and campus workers across the United States will kick off the 2010-2011 school year with an October 7 national day of action to defend public education. This day of action will attempt to pick up from where last year’s movement to defend public education left off. March 4 represented the broadest point of last year’s organizing, with strikes, major rallies and marches, and smaller local speak-outs taking place throughout California, across the country, and to some extent around the world.
  9135. An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    This appeal from Russian intellectuals and artists on the 90th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution comes to us from veteran leftists, social democrats, artists and even children of Left Oppositionists, most of them politically active at least since the Gorbachev years of glasnost and perestroika. It has been abridged here for space reasons.
  9136. October Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    The October Revolution, also known as the Soviet Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution.
  9137. The October Revolution: Its Necessity & Meaning
    First Published: 2018
    On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Mandal examines the necessity and meaning of the October Revolution.
  9138. 'October Song' - A challenging portrayal of the Russian Revolution
    Review of Paul Le Blanc, October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924
    First Published: 2018
    A review 'October Song,' Paul Le Blanc's book about the Russian revolution. Detailed with excerpts and criticism.
  9139. An Ode on Whistleblowers and Revolutionaries
    Give Thanks
    First Published: 2014
    May 27th marked exactly four years of prison time for whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
    Four years for releasing documents disclosing torture and abuse by US and allied forces: rape, whippings, electric drills used on body parts, waterboarding, beatings, murder. Four years for disclosing previously unreported civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan – deaths that number in the tens of thousands. Four years for pulling back the fog of war and exposing US wars abroad for what they are - not the clean, surgical, tactical operations that we hear about on the news but dirty, bloody, and filled with the bodies of innumerable civilian victims: the bodies of men, women, and children who did nothing more than appear in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the ‘wrong’ skin color and the ‘wrong’ god.
  9140. An Ode To Seasons For Peter Matthiessen
    First Published: 2014
    When human survival is continuously being threatened by varieties of anthropogenic injuries (ecological, economic, social), our capacity to think about the non-human animal become very limited indeed. Nevertheless, it is our ethical obligation to also consider their survival as well.
  9141. Of a Type Developed by Liars
    First Published: 2018
    Porton Down scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation "of a type developed by Russia" after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation.
  9142. Of Forest and Trees Part Two
    First Published: 2011
    Capitalism is first and foremost a system of accumulation. Value is, if not nothing today, pretty much nothing tomorrow. The reproduction of value is pretty much everything. Swindles, looting, theft certainly exist but only phenomenally, as expressions of moments in the organization, and disorganization, of value production.
  9143. Of Hegel and Bernie Sanders 
    First Published: 2017
    My concern is not with Bernie Sanders (basically a New Deal liberal) but with the social dynamics of the Sanders phenomenon. What is going on when we see a surge of mass support for someone who identifies himself (however inaccurately) with socialism? What is the social process driving this unexpected shift in political goals and ideas toward the left? What lies behind the re-entry of socialism into the mass vocabulary of political life?
  9144. Of Justice, Revolutions and Human Rights: Notes on a trip to Central America
    First Published: 1980
  9145. Of National Lies and Racial America
    Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
    First Published: 2008
    To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
  9146. Of Sowing and Harvests
    First Published: 2009
    Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don't know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
  9147. Of time and the river
    The Don: salmon to sludge to concrete; in time, to life revived
    First Published: 2001
    A history of the Don River in Toronto and reflections on its relationship with the city and citizenship as a natural space, and its decline and renewal.
  9148. Off the Map: Disabilities and Just Mobility
    People with disabilities who rely on local public transit are getting squeezed between gentrification and austerity.
    First Published: 2018
    An examination of the tensions between investment driven public transit improvements and displacement of less affluent residents; with particular reference to people with mobility issues or disabilities.
  9149. Off the Rails - The Rise and Fall of the Streetcar
    First Published: 2016
    A history of the streetcar in the United States, beginning with the need for a modern, cost-efficient form of public transit, to its surging popularity, and ending with the General Motors conspiracy that sought to destroy rail-based public transit.
  9150. Off the Record
    The reporter always has the upper hand when you make an 'off-the-record' statement.
  9151. The Offense of Public Nudity
  9152. Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny: the Corporate Capture of Agriculture
    First Published: 2019
    Proponents of genetically modified seeds say they are opening up 'choice' to farmers and consumers but end up giving monopolies to powerful corporations with proprietary agricultural tools and methods. This lessens environmental and dietary health and diversity.
  9153. Office worker's survival guide
    First Published: 2012
    The modern office is fraught with dangers. From the risk of getting fired, to stress, repetitive strain injury (RSI), mindnumbing boredom and more. This helpful guide from libcom.org will help you navigate these hazards to a happy work life, and perhaps a slightly better world.
  9154. Officers caught on video beating California homeless man to death acquitted of all charges
    First Published: 2014
    Two former Fullerton, California police officers, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, are found not guilty in the killing of Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old schizophrenic living on the streets.
  9155. The Official Fake News
    First Published: 2018
    Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency, has instructed his parliamentary majority to provide him with a law against 'fake news' during election campaigns. The law would be a selective halt to the the dissemination of information with dangerous consequences.
  9156. Official Report on the International NGO Conference on Discrimination
    Against Indigenous Populations - 1977 - In The Americas.
    First Published: 1978
  9157. Oh, Freedom
    Connexipedia Article
    African American freedom song.
  9158. Oh! How -- German is this Revolution!
    First Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
  9159. Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
    First Published: 2000
    Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
  9160. Ohio Socialist Runs for U.S. Senate
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    I’m running as the Ohio Socialist Party candidate for the U.S. Senate because I believe that the severity of the crisis, and the depth of dissatisfaction and discontent in our society, obligate socialists to put forward our alternative and to organize to achieve it. We on the left need to present the vision of a democratic socialist society, a society which can only be achieved through building a mass social movement and a radically different sort of political organization.
  9161. The Ohio Vote in November
    First Published: 2017
    Donald Trump won Ohio because the total Democratic vote declined more than the drop in the total two-party vote, and significantly more than the Republican increase.
  9162. Ohio Workers, Services Under Fire
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    As in so much of the country after the recent election cycle, a newly-elected Republican administration has taken the reigns of state government in Ohio. The centerpiece of their ambitious austerity agenda is the notorious Senate Bill 5, which will severely restrict the collective bargaining rights of most public sector workers in the state. The bill has galvanized a section of Ohio workers to a degree not seen a decades. On March 31, Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed SB 5 into law, but the movement to defeat the bill still carries on.
  9163. The OIC does not speak for Muslims
    First Published: 2008
    Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
  9164. Oil & Gas Bibliography
    First Published: 1981
    The Extension Service of Memorial University of Newfoundland, has long been involved in community development throughout the province.
  9165. Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman
    First Published: 2014
    Leave it to Washington's top attack-dog lobbyist Richard Berman to verify what many always suspected: that the oil and gas industry uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and discredit journalists who cast doubt on the prudence of fossil fuels.
  9166. Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed: Dean's E-Mail
    First Published: 2015
    The billionaire CEO of Continental Resources told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers dismissed.
  9167. Oil dollars
    First Published: 1989
  9168. Oil Industry Cleanup Costs Vastly Exceed Alberta Government’s Estimates
    First Published: 2018
    Transcript of interview with Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta on the cost to clean up after Alberta's tar sand industry.
  9169. The Oil Revolution
    First Published: 1981
    According to the author of this article, there will be increasingly dramatic changes in Newfoundland as the offshore oil "boom" further affects the economy and society.
  9170. Oil and Water
    First Published: 2017
    A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  9171. Oil-sands protesters descend on Parliament Hill
    First Published: 2011
    The Council of Canadians and Greenpeace Canada hold a rally featuring a civil disobedience sit-in against the tar sands on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, September 26, 2011.
  9172. The Okinawa missiles of October
    First Published: 2015
    John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. Only recently has the US Air Force given him permission to tell the tale, which, if borne out as true, would constitute a terrifying addition to the lengthy and already frightening list of mistakes and malfunctions that have nearly plunged the world into nuclear war.
  9173. The Old Braceros Fight On
    First Published: 2016
    Dozens of men assemble to remember their lives as contract guest workers in the United States and discuss the latest news or lack thereof in their decades-old movement to recover the 10 percent that was deducted from their paychecks and supposedly deposited in a savings account created for the return to Mexico under the old Bracero Program.
  9174. Old-Fashioned Political Activism Doesn't Work
    First Published: 2013
    If you have ever read an article aiming to make you angry at some government or corporation by exposing some vile wrong-doing of it, then you've experienced at least one author's old-fashioned politcal activism. And if you've ever been asked by some organization, that avoids talking about the necessity and possibility of revolution, to attend a demonstration or sign a petition or vote against some particular governmental or corporate wrong-doing, then you've encountered an old-fashioned political activist organization. If you are, yourself, an old-fashioned political activist, as I once was, then this article is for you.
  9175. Old left, new left, what's left?
    First Published: 1970
    Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movement at the end of the 1960s.
  9176. Old Left, New Left, What's Left?
    First Published: 1970
    Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movements at the end of the 1960s.
  9177. The Old Mole
    First Published: 1917
    The question of peace is in reality bound up with the unimpeded, radical development of the Russian Revolution. But the latter is in turn bound up with the parallel revolutionary struggles for peace on the part of the French, English, Italian and, especially, the German proletariat.
  9178. Old Mother Forest
    First Published: 2019
    A poignant look at the ecosystem of a rainforest from a conservationist in India.
  9179. Old North End Community Housing Limited
    First Published: 1978
  9180. The Olga Document 
    For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership
    First Published: 2004
    A document written in a series of meetings in Givat Olga, Israel, and titled after the location, The Olga Document. Advoctes coexistence of the peoples of this country, based on mutual recognition, equal partnership and implementation of historical justice.
  9181. Olive oil, opposition and Gaza
    First Published: 2009
    Rick Salutin writes about increasingly widespread Jewish opposition to Israel's actions.
  9182. The olive tree, symbol of Palestine and mute victim of Israel’s war on Gaza
    First Published: 2024
    The loss of these steadfast companions has left deep scars on the hearts of many Palestinians in Gaza.
  9183. Oliver Law, the Lincoln Brigade's Black Commander
    First Published: 2018
    General Colin Powell was three months old when at 33 tall, broad-shouldered Texas African American Oliver Law, became the first Black Commander of an American Army.The date was June 12, 1937.Law was selected by a committee of three white officers to lead this integrated army.Heard of Colin Powell but never heard of Oliver Law? Hardly surprising. Law’s not mentioned in school books or social studies classes, and has yet to find a place in most college texts or history courses. But Law made his mark on world history in June 1937and for very good reasons.
  9184. Omar and the Checkpoint
    The Essential Story that is Rarely Told
    First Published: 2014
    Omar is a 7-year-old boy from Gaza. His family managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez checkpoint to Jerusalem, through the West Bank, in order to undergo surgery. He was accompanied by his father. On the way back, the boy and his father were stopped at the Qalanidya checkpoint, separating occupied East Jerusalem from the West Bank. The father needed another permit from the Israeli military to take his son, whose wounds were still fresh hours after the surgery, back to the strip. But the soldiers were in no obliging mood.
  9185. The Omega Principle: A vicious circle of fish, cattle and capitalism (Book review)
    First Published: 2018
    A review of Paul Greenberg's book "The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet", which examines how the fishing industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is supporting unsustainable industrial agriculture.
  9186. Omerta in the Gangster War
    First Published: 2022
    The sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has virtually announced that the war in Ukraine can only intensify with no end in sight.
  9187. On 9/11 and the Politics of Language
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    An interview with Martin Espada. Called "the Latino poet of his generation” and “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors,” Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published more than 15 books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator.
  9188. On a Cross of Coal
    How Massey Crucified Miners
    First Published: 2011
    Federal investigators investigated the Massey mine disaster in which 29 miners died discovered that Massey Energy was keeping two sets of books (safety logs). One log reflected actual mine conditions, which, alas, were demonstrably unsafe, and the other log was a fictionalized showpiece, a veritable Potemkin village, used to mislead government safety inspectors.
  9189. On Academic Labor
    How Higher Education Ought to Be
    First Published: 2014
    An edited transcript of remarks given by Noam Chomsky on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA.
  9190. On Activism and Organizing: There is a Distinction
    First Published: 2016
    What's the difference between an organizer, an activist, and someone who is just plain fighting for their life, on a personal level? Often, there is no discernible distinction, as these roles often blend together in ways that could never be separated. But for some people, there is no such complexity. I point this out because, in recent years, there has been a verbal shift in social justice spaces towards referring to everyone involved as an organizer. As a person who believes that we too often negate the meanings of words by transforming them into umbrellaed concepts, I have to say my piece about the matter.
  9191. On Assata Shakur
    First Published: 2013
    In one of those all too frequent outrages where the facts of the case mean nothing, the FBI has placed political refugee Assata Shakur, now 65, who has lived in Cuba since receiving asylum there in 1984 following her prison escape, on its "fugitive terrorist" list. Among other things, this deprives "terrorism" of any specific meaning.
  9192. On Atena Farghadani and the longstanding repression of artistic expression in Iran
    First Published: 2015
    It all started with a harmless political cartoon posted on Facebook. What followed was extreme retaliation to say the least; imprisonment, and physical abuse. Unfortunately, this is not an extraordinary story for artists in Iran.
  9193. On Being Disappeared 
    First Published: 2022
    YouTube has removed the entire six-year archive of the author's show 'On Contact.' This censorship, he says, is about supporting what I.F Stone reminded us is what governments always do - lie.
  9194. On Being Watched in the 60s
    When Police Power was Embraced as a Form of Government
    First Published: 2013
    There would seem to be the notion that the Sixties were the product of immaculate conception. In fact, they were more an act of conversion, conversion of the isolated, unfocussed, dispersed and inarticulate alienation of the 1950s into a mass movement with common language, direction, and rules.
  9195. On Bernie Sanders' Campaign
    First Published: 2015
    We strongly disagree with Bernie Sanders' approach of running in the Democratic primary and his pledge to support the party nominee. However, it would be a mistake for the left not to recognize the enormous significance and potential inherent in the millions of people rallying around his campaign looking to fight against corporate America and what they perceive as the hijacking of the democratic process.
  9196. On Brexit, Borders, Being Offensive (But not being in a Hollywood movie)
    First Published: 2016
    Kenan Malik recently gave a long interview to Dutch journalist Marco Visscher about Brexit, migration, democracy, politics, being offensive, growing up in racist Britian, and not being in a Hollywood movie. The interview has been translated from English to Dutch then (roughly) back to English, so may not read very coherently in places. Malik has edited it lightly. It was published in Knack under the headline Het 'Europese migratiebeleid is ten diepste immoreel' (‘European migration policy is deeply immoral’).
  9197. On Buddhist Fundamentalism
    Hollywood, Please Take Note
    First Published: 2013
    Four years after the brutal assault on the Tamil population and the killing of between 8—10,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army, there is trouble again. The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS — Bodu Bala Sena: the most active and pernicious of Buddhist fundamentalist groups that have sprouted in Sinhala strongholds throughout the island— are on the rampage again.
  9198. On 'Bullshit Jobs'
    First Published: 2018
    A review of the book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by anthropologist David Graeber, which provides a classification for the many forms of employment, some which he deems not only meaningless and unfullfilling, but ultimately harmful to society.
  9199. On Catalonia: Debates in the Greek Left
    First Published: 2017
    Without the burden of self-censorship or "political correctness" on our backs, let us examine what the possible secession of Catalonia actually means and where it could potentially lead.
  9200. On China's 1989 Tiananmen Upheaval
    First Published: 2015
    The bourgeois media falsely portray the events in the spring of 1989 as a movement for capitalist counterrevolution under the banner of Western-style "democracy." The social explosion was triggered by protests initiated by students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, which increasingly drew in groups of workers and spread throughout the country. Far from seeking a return to capitalism, Chinese workers overwhelmingly directed their anger at the sharply rising economic inequalities, rampant corruption and inflation encouraged by Deng’s program of "building socialism with capitalist methods."
  9201. On Criticizing Marx
    First Published: 1998
    MICHAEL LOWY'S ARTICLE in ATC 71 was titled “For a Critical Marxism.”This is obviously a misprint. The original title could only have been “Where Marx Went Wrong.”
  9202. On Darwin's 200th Anniversary
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of his celebrated book On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Darwin left an indelible mark on our understanding of the world we live in and our place in history.
  9203. On Democracy As A Good
    First Published: 2013
    Is democracy good in itself? Exploring the impact of democracy during and after the Arab Spring.
  9204. On Describing the Other
    First Published: 2012
    My criticism is not primarily about Judith Butler’s style; it is principally about the substance of her arguments and, more broadly, of poststructuralist arguments. I am not opposed to ‘difficult’ writing. There are many philosophers with whom it repays to work through the difficulties, the obscurities and the obtuseness; Hegel, for instance, even Heidegger in parts. Butler, in my eyes at least, is not such a philosopher.
  9205. On Disposability and Rebellion: Insights From a Rank-and-File Insurgency
    First Published: 2020
  9206. On the 'Duty to Protect'
    First Published: 2018
    On April 14, 2018, U.S.-British-French forces launched a missile strike on alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities, citing as justification the 'duty to protect'. Finkel make it clear that this attack was illegal under international law.
  9207. On Economic Madness
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    A mostly positive, informative review of "Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason" by David Harvey.
  9208. On Egypt
    First Published: 2011
    Historical compromise over an attempt at democratic change.
  9209. On Egypt
    An interview with Gilbert Achcar
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with Gilbert Achcar.
  9210. On E.P. Thompson's Legacy 
    First Published: 2014
    In a tribute to E.P. Thompson, Cohen gives insights into his work "The Making of the English Working Class" regarding its valuable focus on the self-activity and self-organization of the people.
  9211. On Equating BDS With Anti-Semitism: a Letter to the Members of the German Government
    First Published: 2019
    An open letter to the German government by a Jew arguing against a motion equating BDS with anti-Semitism.
  9212. On Freedom of the Press (5)
    Censorship
    First Published: 1842
    A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in general legal terms what it can carry out in practice through the agency of the censor. For that reason, too, the operation of the censorship is entrusted not to the courts but to the police.
  9213. On Freedom of the Press (1)
    Prussian Censorship
    First Published: 1842
    Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imaginary, attitude to the press, whereas the defenders of the press in this Assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending. They have never come to know freedom of the press as a vital need. For them it is a matter of the head, in which the heart plays no part.
  9214. On Freedom of the Press (2)
    Opponents of a Free Press
    First Published: 1842
    What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press!
  9215. On Freedom of the Press (3)
    On the Assembly of the Estates
    First Published: 1842
    Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly - and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? - precisely for that reason freedom of discussion is not desirable in the province. Because it is desirable that we speak frankly, it is still more desirable to keep the province in thrall to secrecy.
  9216. On Freedom of the Press (4)
    As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind?
    First Published: 1842
    From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment of freedom, a positive good, whereas censorship is an embodiment of unfreedom, the polemic of a world outlook of semblance against the world outlook of essence; it has a merely negative nature.
  9217. On Freedom of the Press (6)
    Freedom in General
    First Published: 1842
    Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends!
  9218. On Hal Draper's Zionism
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    I would like to add some more information on the book by Hal Draper, Zionism, Israel and the Arabs, which is the source of the excerpt from his 1948 essay “How to Defend Israel” printed in the May/June 2007 issue of ATC.
  9219. On Handcuffed and Felonious Children
    First Published: 2005
    Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law in an extreme and uncompromising manner to any activity, violent or not, that is deemed to be anti-social.
  9220. On Hidden Cultural Corruptors
    First Published: 2017
    The educational institution and military institution both purport to be a source of the nation's highest values, yet they often corrupt and bring out the worst qualities in American citizens.
  9221. On Hunger and Capitalism
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    On September 11, 2001, approximately 35,000 of our brothers and sisters died from what is perhaps the worst possible cause of death — starvation. A decade after the 1996 World Food Summit set the goal of cutting the rate of hunger in the world by half, today approximately 854 million people are still starving, which is a great increase in comparison to the 842 million in the year 2000.
  9222. On Immigration and Wages
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
  9223. On Imperialism and Refugees
    First Published: 2015
    The call to "open the borders" and its variants are hopelessly utopian. The modern nation-state arose as a vehicle for the development of capitalism and will remain the basis for the organization of the capitalist economy until the world capitalist order is shattered through a series of workers revolutions. Policing its borders is vital to the very existence of the capitalist state power. Moreover, "open the borders" can have a reactionary content, from advancing imperialist economic penetration of dependent countries to obliterating the right to national self-determination.
  9224. On Imperialist Barbarism & the Need for World Democracy
    First Published: 1991
    Four articles in Ideas & Action #16 (Fall 1991):
    1. The Destruction of Iraq: Why?
    2. The Rise and Decline of the American Empire
    3. Every Nation-State is Imperialist by Nature
    4. For National Autonomy within a World-wide Democracy
  9225. On International Women's Day
    First Published: 1920
    Written by Lenin in Pravda, March 4, 1920.
  9226. On Islam And Gender Equality
    First Published: 2009
    A review essay on Salbiah Ahmad's book Critical Thoughts on Islam, Rights and Freedom in Malaysia.
  9227. On Israel, Ukraine and Truth
    The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother's War
    First Published: 2014
    As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular. In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in 1984. "Democracy" is now a rhetorical device. Peace is "perpetual war". "Global" is imperial. The once hopeful concept of "reform" now means regression, even destruction. "Austerity" is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few.
  9228. On Israel's colonial narrative
    First Published: 2015
    Analysis: Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa deconstructs Israel's insidious language of power.
  9229. On Justice for Kashmir
    First Published: 2022
    Among the self-determination struggles of our time, Kashmir is at risk of being forgotten by most of the world (except for Pakistan), while its people continue to endure the harsh crimes of India’s intensifying military occupation that has already lasted 75 years.
  9230. On Justice And Vengeance
    First Published: 2018
  9231. On left-wing dogmatism - a senile disorder
    plus, Vanguard, vanguard, who's got the vanguard?
    First Published: 1974
  9232. On Lenin and the Right to National Self-Determination
    First Published: 2016
    I’d suggest that the Leninist formulations of policy on the national question do not deserve to be taken seriously as poles of debate on the matter. More precisely, they should be viewed as all but completely hypocritical.
  9233. On Lesbian/Gay Liberation
    First Published: 2003
    The link between the oppression of LGBT people and women's oppression is key to our understanding and the struggles for liberation are consequently closely linked.
  9234. On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever
    First Published: 2009
    Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people's movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and there will be many more in the near future.
  9235. On Marxism and Method
    First Published: 1998
    Martin Glaberman writes that the essay by Michael Lowy, "For A Critical Marxism," provides a useful beginning for discussion. His subtitle, “The Centrality of Self-Emancipation,”is an important departure from the more vanguardist views that used to prevail on the left, though it remains rather ambiguous and amorphous. Glaberman addresses two weaknesses that he sees in Lowy's article.
  9236. On May '68
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Michael Löwy. Michael Löwy is the author of numerous works on socialist thought from Marx to the present as well as on liberation theology in Latin America.
  9237. On Media Outlets That Continue to Describe Unknown Drone Victims As "Militants"
    First Published: 2014
    Most large western media outlets continued to describe completely unknown victims of U.S. drone attacks as "militants" -- even though they (a) had no idea who those victims were or what they had done and (b) were well-aware that the term had been "re-defined" by the Obama administration into Alice in Wonderland-level nonsense. They count the corpses and they're not really sure who they are.
  9238. On Militancy, Self-reflection, and the Role of the Researcher
    First Published: 2018
    Researcher Jared Sacks examines and questions methodologies of social movement researchers through a self-reflective investigation into his own experience and work.
  9239. On Morality and Moralism
    First Published: 2014
    Comments in a discussion about moralism at the recent Battle of Ideas conference.
  9240. On Nakba Day Palestinians in Gaza explain why they joined the 'Great March of Return'
    First Published: 2018
    Palestinian refugees in their own words, on the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel. In the context of the 2018 opening of the USA embassy in Jerusalem.
  9241. On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
    First Published: 2007
    Capitalism has always been a shock doctrine of selfish predation, as one can discover from Hobbes and Locke, Marx and Weber, none of them saluted by Klein. However there are huge third world economies that have been ravaged by neoliberalism that haven't endured "the shock doctrine" as defined by Klein. Ultimately Klen's analysis is limited and she is too gloomy and pessimistic about the power of capitalism.
  9242. On "Occupy Wall-Street" and the Demobilizing Interpretation of Postwar American Protest Politics
    First Published: 2011
    Adams discusses the Occupy Wall Street protests.
  9243. On Oil and Quicksand
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
    The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
  9244. On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
    First Published: 2018
    The authors tell the story of the Midsummer's day 1908 'Votes for women' Suffragist rally and the March 1971 Women's Liberation Movement Demonstration in Hyde ParK, London.
  9245. On Palestinian Civil Disobedience 
    The Google Matrix
    First Published: 2009
    Human rights organizations have documented the forms of repression Israel deploys against villages that resist the annexation of their land. Once a village decides to struggle against the annexation barrier the entire community is punished. In addition to home demolitions, curfews and other forms of movement restriction, the Israeli occupation forces consistently use violence against the protestors - and most often targets the youth -- beating, tear-gassing, as well as deploying both lethal and 'non-lethal' ammunition against them.
  9246. On Pre-Capitalist Social Formations and the Peasantry
  9247. On Purpose, In Kabul
    First Published: 2018
    Amid years of fighting and war profiteering the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV) forge ahead with impressive work that demonstrates what needs to be done to rebuild the war-torn and economically devastated country.
  9248. On Religious Cruelty
    First Published: 1769
    In this essay I am going to examine the different kinds of religious cruelty. Under this name I include those religious opinions that proceed from this cruelty or give birth to it, those acts of barbarism imposed by religion itself, and those its zealots take as an obligation occasioned by its service and love.
  9249. On Reparations
    First Published: 2000
    The notion that the United States government, or white institutions in general, owe reparations to black Americans for slavery and its legacy has been around for some time. Recently, however, talk of a movement to demand reparations for black Americans has been spreading beyond the nationalist enclaves where it has usually been contained. How has this happened? And what is its significance? To put it more provocatively, how does a project that seems so obviously a nonstarter in American politics come to capture so much of the public imagination?
  9250. On Resistance
    First Published: 1967
    Several weeks after the 1967 anti-war demonstrations in Washington, Chomsky shares his impressions of resistance - both its possibilities and limitations.
  9251. On Resistance: BDS and Israel's Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews
    First Published: 2018
    Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world.
  9252. On Revolutionary Organization: Points for Discussion
    First Published: 1934
  9253. On Richard Wright's Centennial: The Great Outsider
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    In the spring of 1940, Richard Wright’s Native Son was published to such acclaim that Black Marxist C.L.R. James decreed the novel “not only a literary but also a political event.” By means of a riveting naturalist fictional technique, depicting the world through the eyes and ears of a 20-year-old unemployed African American named Bigger Thomas, Wright evokes the volatile brutality of poverty and segregation on Chicago’s South Side during the latter part of the Great Depression.
  9254. On Second Congress of Comintern
    From Chapter 3 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
    World capitalism, after its first suicidal war, was now clearly incapable either of organizing a positive peace, or (what was equally evident) of deploying its fantastic technical progress to increase the prosperity, liberty, safety, and dignity of mankind. The Revolution was therefore right, as against capitalism; and we saw that the spectre of future war would raise a question-mark over the existence of civilization itself, unless the social system of Europe was speedily transformed. The fearful Jacobinism of the Russian Revolution seemed to me to be quite unavoidable; as was the institution of a new revolutionary State, now in the process of disowning all its early promises. In this I saw an immense danger: the State seemed to me to be properly a weapon of war, not a means of organizing production. Over all our achievements there hung a death-sentence; since for all of us, for our ideals, for the new justice that was proclaimed, for our new collective economy, still in its infancy, defeat would have brought a peremptory death and after that, who knows what? I thought of the Revolution as a tremendous sacrifice that was required for the future's sake.
  9255. On "Sweet," "Yellow Head," and "Two-Spirit"
    First Published: 2015
  9256. On Syria Crisis and Prospects
    First Published: 2013
    This article speculates and considers the probable outcomes and consequences that could result if a U.S. bombing campaign against Syria takes place.
  9257. On the "Transformation Problem"
    First Published: 2018
    Further discussion of Marx's "transformation problem." References a previous column reviewing Fred Moseley's "Money and Totality."
  9258. On the 20th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
    First Published: 1891
  9259. On the 800th Anniversary of the Charter of the Forest
    First Published: 2017
    A Keynote Address, Delivered in the State Rooms at the House of Commons, 7 November 2017 about the Charter of the Forest.
  9260. On the anniversary of the birth of Erich Fromm
    First Published: 1980
    The many articles that poured forth in 1980 when Erich Fromm died on March 18 all praised him only as a "famous psychoanalyst." The press, by no accident at all, failed to mention that he was a Socialist Humanist. Moreover, in writing MARX'S CONCEPT OF MAN (which succeeded in introducing Marx's Humanist Essays to a wide American public), and in editing the first international symposium on SOCIALIST HUMANISM, he did so, not as an academician, but as an activist.
  9261. On the Backgrounds of the Pacific War
    First Published: 1967
    This essay touches on several questions: on Muste's revolutionary pacifism and his interpretation of it in connection with the Second World War; on the backgrounds of Japan's imperial ventures; on the Western reaction and responsibility; and, by implication, on the relevance of these matters to the problems of contemporary imperialism in Asia. WHile Chomsky does not advocate a particular "political line", he does assert that it was the lack of radical political critique which, though not exclusively, contributed to the atrocity of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  9262. On The Class Situation In Spain
    First Published: 1979
  9263. On the Clock
    First Published: 2003
    What happens to people when they become speeded up and hyper-sensitive to the passing of time? Think, for example, of how the pace of life has increased over the past 100 years. We don't believe anything should take any time at all. Five minutes is too long. We travel now by automobiles or airplanes, covering in hours what once took days. "News" comes instantaneously from around the world - live (and carefully crafted) pictures from both Washington and Baghdad. Our culture has conditioned us to think of speed as improvement, as advancement, as progress, but nothing comes without cost.
  9264. On the Coast of Oaxaca, Afro and Indigenous Tribes Fight for Water Autonomy
    First Published: 2019
    In southern Mexico, a multi-ethnic network of towns has halted the construction of a mega-dam. Now they are organizing to manage their own natural resources and revitalize their culture as native water protectors.
  9265. On the Content of Socialism: Part 1
    From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
    First Published: 1955
  9266. On the Content of Socialism: Part 2
    From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1957
    The development of modern society and what has happened to the working-class movement over the last 100 years (and in particular since 1917) have compelled us to make a radical revision of the ideas on which that movement has been based.
  9267. On the Content of Socialism: Part 3
    From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1958
    We have tried to show that socialism is nothing other than people's conscious self-organization of their own lives in all domains; that it signifies, therefore, the management of production by the producers themselves on the scale of the workplace as well as on that of the economy as a whole; that it implies the abolition of every ruling apparatus separated from society; that it has to bring about a profound modification of technology and of the very meaning of work as people's primordial activity and, conjointly, an overthrow of all the values toward which capitalist society implicitly or explicitly is oriented.
  9268. On the Cowardice & Irrelevance of Social Science Scholars
    First Published: 2014
    The stakes are too high for scholars to continue down this path of irrelevance.
  9269. On the CP-USA and the Unions
    First Published: 1997
    Trade union officialdom, especially its top layers, not only defends the rights of the employer against those demands of the members that can't be met at a given time; it also, and at the same time, defends the gains won by previous struggles. The inability to see this duality accounts for the instability of radicals in the trade unions.
  9270. On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws
    First Published: 1842
    Two ways are open to the Prussian for the publication of his thoughts. He can either have them printed in his own country, in which case he has to submit to the domestic censorship; or, should he meet with objections here, outside the frontiers of his own state he can still either place himself under the censorship of another state in the Confederation or take advantage of press freedom in foreign countries. In any case the state retains the right to take repressive measures against possible breaches of the law.
  9271. On the Defeat of Megan Leslie & Peter Stoffer
    First Published: 2015
    What happened on Monday is proof of how divorced from reality we are. Progressives, radicals, the Left, whatever you call the people who believe in and strive for deep social change - we are disconnected from the majority of people. We are insulated in our communities of like-minded activists, surrounded by people with similar beliefs and thoughts.
  9272. On the degradation of political debate
    First Published: 2019
    Today, political debates have become vacuous and insipid because politicians have become contemptuous of the electorate. Voters, many believe, are ignorant, swayed more by emotion than by reason, happy to accept lies and drawn to politicians with easy answers.
  9273. On the Democratic Character of Socialist Revolution
    First Published: 2019
    Great social movements redefine legality and human rights, setting in motion a process of change that becomes irresistible. Socialists utilize electoral opportunities while recognizing that they are far from the whole story. A workers’ government committed to socialism will probably be achieved as the democratic ratification of a program that has already gained majority support through discussion and mobilization among the population at large.
  9274. On the ethics of immigration
    First Published: 2014
  9275. On the Extreme Margins of the Centennial of the October Revolution 
    The Legacy of 1917 We Can Affirm
    First Published: 2017
    The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is more important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued up to 1927 in China), which the forced the end of the first inter-imperialist world war (1914-1918).
  9276. On the Extreme Margins of the Centennial of the October Revolution: The Legacy of 1917 We Can Affirm
    First Published: 2017
    The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued up to 1927 in China), which forced the end of the first inter-imperialist world war (1914–18).
  9277. On the First Workday of the New Year, the Average CEO Will Make More Than an Average Workers Earns in an Entire Year
    First Published: 2022
    If the typical CEO of a large U.S. corporation clocks in at 9 am on January 2, by 3:37 pm that afternoon he'll have earned $58,260 - the average annual salary for all U.S. occupations.In other words, in less than seven hours on the first workday of the New Year, that CEO will have made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year.
  9278. On the Front Lines of the Climate Change Movement: Mike Roselle Draws a Line
    First Published: 2019
    An excerpt from the book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. An account of environmental activists fighting massive industries to save the environment.
  9279. On the Frontlines of Peace
    The Life of Daniel Berrigan
    First Published: 2016
    Certain events in one's life often determine the choices made later in that same life. These crucial events can be of a personal nature -- a romance, a family death, the birth of a child, or something less universal -- or they can be events that take place in the public sphere. One such event of the latter category in my life occurred May 17, 1968.
  9280. On the Grenfell Towers Fire
    First Published: 2017
    Still working on things in relation to Grenfell as something that belongs to a more long-term development -- if you like, a culmination of so many cover-ups since the advent of brutalised Thatcherism as the neoliberal agenda unfolded during the last 40 years or so.
  9281. On the History of Early Christianity
    First Published: 1894   Published: 1895
  9282. On the History of Human Nature
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    First, humans have the capacity for love, solidarity, compassion AND the capacity for great aggression and cruelty. Which capacity dominates depends on certain geographic and social conditions.
  9283. On The History of the Communist League
    First Published: 1885
  9284. On the Importance of the Right to Offend
    First Published: 2014
    There is something truly bizarre that someone should become the focus of death threats and an international campaign of vilification for suggesting that an inoffensive cartoon was inoffensive. What gives the reactionaries the room to operate and to flex their muscles is, however, the pusillanimity of many so-called liberals, their unwillingness to stand up for basic liberal principles, their fear of causing offence, and their reluctance to call so-called community leaders to account. Such backsliding liberals need reminding of some basic points about liberalism, free speech and the giving of offence.
  9285. On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
    A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine.
  9286. On the Intolerant Left
    First Published: 2017
    Julian Vigo's concern with the growing pattern of intellectual and political intolerance he's witnessed within allegedly progressive circles.
  9287. On the Irresponsible Handling of the Palestine Question
    First Published: 1947
    The American and English working class must not support the Zionist drive for a Jewish State (or what, under existing conditions means the same thing, a drive for Jewish immigration and colonisation) which, while befitting imperialism, opposes the most elementary interests equally of the Arab masses as of the Jewish.
  9288. On the Jewish Problem
    First Published: 1937   Published: 1940
    Four statements (1937-1940) by Trotsky during the last years of his life.
  9289. On The Jewish Question
    First Published: 1843   Published: 1844
  9290. On the Labor Bureaucracy
    First Published: 1997
    The job of socialists today, as in the past, is to help organize a rank-and-file movement within the unions that is critical of the methods of bureaucratic business unionism and promotes militancy, solidarity and union democracy. While today the main job of such a reform movement "from below" would be to educate and organize a "militant minority," rank-and-file groupings can promote an alternative vision of "class struggle unionism" and prepare for large scale struggles in the future.
  9291. On the Legacy of Che Guevara
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    Peter Drucker's letter (ATC 144) commenting on Kit Wainer's review of Besancenot and Löwy's new biography of Che (ATC 143) rehearses many of Besancenot and Löwy's arguments that Che's Marxism was some sort of alternative to Stalinism. I, for one, am no longer convinced by these claims.
  9292. On the nature and causes of environmental violence
    First Published: 2013
    We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate brutal act of aggression, and one that includes an environmental dimension.
  9293. On the nature of change
    First Published: 2018
    The first in a series of articles exploring how dialectical systems thinking can direct change making. The 'On the Nature of Change' series will have three clear sections: 'The Philosophers' will examine a philosophical theory of change, and how this has developed and evolved over time. The second, 'Interpreting the World', and will apply this theory to three fundamental areas: the self, the team, society. Lastyly, 'Changing the World', will present clear ways in which this theory of change can be practically applied.
  9294. On the Nature of Police
    First Published: 2016
    Having a group of reluctant citizens charged with the enormous responsibility that came with being a cop was preferable.
  9295. On The Non-Formation of a Working-Class Political Party in the U.S., 1900-1945
    First Published: 1983   Published: 2002
    Thus the basic thesis presented here is that no major working-class political party developed in the U.S. in the 20th century because in the U.S., in contrast to all other major capitalist countries, capitalism made the transition to the intensive ("Taylorist" or "Fordist") phase of accumulation without requiring the participation of a working-class political party in the state.
  9296. On the Perils of Imperialism
    First Published: 2013
    Barak Obama's September 10, 2013 address, originally meant to mobilize Congress in support of an authorization for using military force against Syria, turned into a "life-saving" speech for Obama avoiding embarrassment and political defeat.
  9297. On the Polish Question
    First Published: 1848
    It is above all our Germany which ought to congratulate itself on this explosion of democratic passion in Poland. We are, ourselves, on the eve of a democratic revolution. enceforth the German people and the Polish people are irrevocably allied. We have the same enemies, the same oppressors.
  9298. On the Question of Free Trade
    First Published: 1847   Published: 1888
  9299. On the Question of Revolutionary Organization: the Case of the NPA in France
    First Published: 2009
    The challenge of creating an anti-bureaucratic, democratic revolutionary socialist party.
  9300. On the Second Coming of Religion
    First Published: 2012
    The question we should ask is not just: ‘What is it about religion that makes people believe or behave in certain ways?’ It is also: ‘What is it about contemporary societies that draws many people, both religious and non-religious, towards nihilistic, narcissistic, anti-modern forms of belief?’
  9301. On the Spartacus Programme 
    First Published: 1918
    For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize.
  9302. On the Uprisings in France
    First Published: 2016
    At the beginning of March 2016, France's now ultra-liberal Socialist Party (PS) government officially revealed a labour reforms bill whose objective was to promote the competitiveness of businesses operating in France. The bill, commonly referred to as the El Khomri (the country's Labour Minister) law, was instantly perceived by most leftist factions as a fundamental attack on workers rights and a downright sabotage of the French Labour Code ("Code du Travail"), considered one of Europe's most progressive. The law allows for companies to reach "agreements" with its staff over working conditions without the need to negotiate with trade unions, subjecting workers to employers' arbitrary decisions (in regards to longer hours and lower overtime pay) without any legal protection. It also facilitates mass sackings and individual lay-offs by relaxing French law's constraint on firing and hiring, and casts aside the sacrosanct 35-hour work week in favour of a lengthened, more "flexible" one.
  9303. On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
    First Published: 2006
    The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
  9304. On the Warpath in Venezuela
    Against the Bolivarian Revolution
    First Published: 2013
    Nicolas Maduro won Venezuela’s presidential election in April by a slim margin, a result still unrecognized by the U.S. government. Opposition demonstrations quickly spread, killing 13 people. Now his government faces municipal elections on December 8, and engineered social turmoil has returned.
  9305. On Third Congress of Comintern
    From Chapter 4 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
    I did not feel disheartened or disoriented. I was disgusted at certain things, psychologically exhausted by the Terror and tormented by the mass of wrongs that I could see growing, which I was powerless to counteract. My conclusions were that the Russian Revolution, left to itself, would probably, in one way or another, collapse (I did not see how: would it be through war or domestic reaction?); that the Russians, who had made superhuman efforts to build a new society, were more or less at the end of their strength; and that relief and salvation must come from the West. From now on it was necessary to work to build a Western working-class movement capable of supporting the Russians and, one day, superseding them.
  9306. On to Ottawa Trek
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    In 1935, 1500 residents of federal unemployment relief camps in BC went on strike and moved by train and truck to Vancouver, spurred by angry concern for improved conditions and benefits in the camps. They then began a trek to Ottawa, but were stopped by police in Regina.
  9307. On-to-Ottawa Trek
    Connexipedia Article
    A 1935 social movement of unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.
  9308. On Translating Securityspeak into English
    In the Land of False Cognates
    First Published: 2012
    The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them.
  9309. On Troy Davis
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    A letter to the editor by Theresa El-Amin, regional director of the Southern Anti-Racist Network.
  9310. On Tunisia
    First Published: 2011
    When proletarians are willing to defy the forces of repression with bare hands and not retreat from the bullets of the police, they bring to oppositional ferment a determination that can shake state power, despite the more than 100 deaths reported. This is exactly what happened in Sidi Bouzid during the final days of December 2010 and in the first half of January 2011. Thus, in three stages, the movement which began in the south spread to all regions of Tunisia, to finally conclude in Tunis beginning on January 11.
  9311. On Ukraine, 'progressive' proxy warriors spell disaster
    First Published: 2022
    'Progressives" who urge leftists to support the Ukraine proxy war whitewash the US role, attack dissenting voices, and advocate the dangerous militarism that they claims to oppose.
  9312. On Victimless Crime Laws: And a Call to Release All Who Have Been Victimzed by Them
    First Published: 2015
    In recent months, a Seminar on Prisoners' Writings has been meeting in Oakland. The idea of this seminar is to take some of the writings of people politicized by imprisonment, and make their insights available to the movements and the general public.
  9313. On Walter Reuther: Legends and Lessons
    First Published: 1997
    When we attempt to evaluate the best strategies for revitalization of the labor movement, it is good to know, in an older vernacular, which approaches and leaders were part of the problem and which were part of the solution.
  9314. On Western media and the erasure of Palestine
    First Published: 2023
    The Palestinian struggle brings to the forefront the colonial relations that underpin today's world, and that the West, and its media, work tirelessly to hide.
  9315. On 'White Fragility'
    First Published: 2020
    A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism.
  9316. On Wielding the Subversive Scalpel
    First Published: 1970
    In subversion, we leave behind the interminable argument between the good bureaucrats & the bad ones. By subversion we do not mean, as in its common usage, "overthrowing the government" & replacing it with ourselves. We mean undermining the very addiction, the sick, junkie-like need, to govern or be governed at all. In the end / in the beginning, there are no leaders, no followers: there are only actors.
  9317. On Workers' Culture
    First Published: 1953
    From the stories that we get every day from the shops, we can see a new form of struggle emerging. It never seems to be carried to its complete end, yet its existence is continuous. The real essence of this struggle and its ultimate goal is: a better life, a new society, the emergence of the individual as a human being.
  9318. On workplace organisation
    First Published: 1997
    A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation.
  9319. On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza
    How the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas
    First Published: 2014
    All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most “precise and surgical”, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitably transforms their inhabitants into potential human shields.
  9320. Once Again on Education: Beyond Ordinary Leftism
    First Published: 2012
    An article exploring elements of education in the USA.
  9321. Once Again, On Fictitious Capital
    First Published: 2003
    Luxemburg rightly took seriously, as a guide to Capital, Marx's vision of capitalism as a transitory phase between feudalism and socialism, and analyzed capitalism's expanded reproduction of society as meaningful in laying the material basis for a higher form of society.
  9322. Once More: Kronstadt
    First Published: 1938
    I admire Trotsky and accept many of his theories. An article like this - essentially a piece of special pleading, however brilliant - makes it harder to defend Trotsky from the often-made accusation that his thinking is sectarian and inflexible.
  9323. Once More: Kronstadt
    First Published: 1938
    The question which dominates today the whole discussion is, in substance, this: When and how did Bolshevism begin to degenerate?
  9324. Once more on left reformism: A reply to Ed Rooksby
    First Published: 2014
    Paul Blackledge replies to Ed Rooksby’s arguements about left reformism.
  9325. One Big Union
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada met at the Western Labour Conference in Calgary and proclaimed support for the Bolshevik and other left-wing revolutions. They decided to conduct a referendum among Canadian union members on whether to secede from the American Federation of Labor and the trades and labour congress of Canada, and form a revolutionary industrial revolution to be called the One Big Union.
  9326. One Big Union
    An Outline of a Possible Industrial Organization of the Working Class, with Chart
    First Published: 1911
    This is the first edition of a booklet that was revised and republished many times by both the I. W. W. and Daniel De Leon's "Detroit I. W. W." (later the W. I. I. U.), to which the author defected in 1913. Later editions are available on this site: 1919 and ca. 1924.
  9327. One by One, South Sudan Tries to Name Its War Victims
    First Published: 2016
    In South Sudan, where a vicious civil war has been raging, no government office or nongovernmental organization has kept a tally of the names of those killed by government forces, rebels, and other armed groups. But in a country in which automatic weapons are more plentiful than civil rights, and local journalists are regularly under assault, a tiny civil society group is trying to step into the breach by naming all of the names. It began on the first anniversary of the civil war's outbreak, when a small group of volunteers unveiled a list of 568 names of the people - from toddlers to centenarians - killed in the war to that point. Naming the Ones We Lost was a first step in what the organizers knew would be a long journey to grapple with the immense loss of South Sudanese life over the previous year. Today, the project goes by a slightly different name, Remembering the Ones We Lost, and has a radically expanded mission with a recently launched website [http://rememberingoneswelost.com/main]. The goal of the website is nothing short of remarkable - it aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan since 1955.
  9328. One Democratic State Campaign Manifesto 
    We contend that the only way to achieve justice and permanent peace is dismantling the colonial apartheid regime in historic Palestine and the establishment of a new political system based on full civil equality, and on full implementation of the Palestinian refugees’ Right of Return, and the building of the required mechanisms to correct the historical grievances of the Palestinian people as a result of the Zionist colonialist project.
  9329. The 'One Democratic State Campaign' program for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/Israel
    First Published: 2018
    As the Leonard Cohen song goes, ":everybody knows" the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionism’s 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine – to transform Palestine into the Land of Israel – has been completed. Every Israeli government since 1967 has refused to seriously entertain the notion of a genuinely independent and viable Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.
  9330. One Dimensional Man In Class Society
    First Published: 1972
  9331. One Earth -- Two Worlds
    First Published: 1977
    Package of materials dealing with food-related themes.
  9332. One Earth, One Sky
    First Published: 1976
    A pamphlet about the links among all people, historically, daily.
  9333. One foreign government openly interferes in Canadian politics
    First Published: 2023
    Amidst widespread anxiety over foreign interference in this country's politics, Israel's embassy recently mobilized its domestic lobby to strategize on shaping Canadian policy. The absence of media outrage, or even a little embarrassment, speaks loudly about which foreign governments are allowed to ‘interfere' in Canadian politics.
  9334. One Gigantic Prison
    The Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay
    First Published: 1976
    Three Canadian MPs report on human rights violations in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.
  9335. One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFL
    First Published: 2014
    In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
  9336. One Half-Cheer for Trump?
    First Published: 2017
    June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced that "The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord," setting off alarm bells and outraged protests in U.S. cities and around the world. We would suggest that under present circumstances, he chose the better - well, less bad - of the existing options.
  9337. One Historian's Journey
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of "A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor" by Nelson Lichenstein.
  9338. 150,000 Jobs lost to Free Trade
  9339. 150 Years After the Communist Manifesto
    First Published: 1997
    Loren Goldner writes: "Every generation of communists, beginning with Marx, has made the understandable mistake of believing that it lived in the "final days". Marx was righter than he knew when he described communism as the "old mole", which burrows beneath the surface, seems to have disappeared, and then reappears stronger than ever before. It is necessary to ask where the old mole is today."
  9340. 150 Years Since the Emancipation Proclamation
    Finish the Civil War!
    First Published: 2013
    The Emancipation Proclamation was a pledge, a promise. It only freed slaves in areas that were not yet controlled by Union armies, true enough. But in that sense it was like the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which didn’t make any of the colonies free—it took a victorious war to free the colonies from British rule. The Emancipation Proclamation bound the defense of the Union to the destruction of slavery.
  9341. 105,000 jobs lost to free trade
    First Published: 1991
  9342. 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
    First Published: 1973
    Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of "nonviolent weapons" at their disposal. Listed are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. Excerpted from The Politics of Nonviolent Action.
  9343. 101 Web Sites for Inquiring Minds
  9344. 165,000 factory jobs lost
    First Published: 1990
  9345. 100 Best Non-Fiction Books (in Translation) of the 20th Century... and Beyond
    A CounterPunch Reading List
    First Published: 2014
    As the clock clicked down on the arrival of the new millennium, Alex and I were bemused at the spate of “100 best of the century lists” pouring forth. The lists were predictable and not many of the entries remained on our groaning shelves. So we decided to compile our own catalogue of the best books written in English and, later translated into English, during the 20th Century. We spent weeks whittling it down to roughly 100 titles for each.
  9346. 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century (and Beyond) in English
    A CounterPunch Reading List
    First Published: 2004   Published: 2014
    CounterPunch editors' list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the 20th century,originally compiled in 2004.
  9347. 150 years of dirty water
    First Published: 1984
    Toronto's water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded - but that doesn't mean we should put up with it.
  9348. One Hundred Innovations for Development
    First Published: 1988
  9349. 100 Percent Wishful Thinking: the Green-Energy Cornucopia
    First Published: 2017
    A growing body of research has debunked overblown claims of a green-energy bonanza.
  9350. 100 years ago: Two calls to struggle against the world war
    First Published: 2014
    Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, 100 years ago, two Russian socialist leaders, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, published antiwar manifestos that greatly influenced the international socialist response to the conflict.
  9351. One Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration
    First Published: 2017
    The Balfour Declaration then not only legitimized the Zionist project in Palestine and transformed it into a contender in international relations. It in effect precipitated the spread of Zionism among British Jews.
  9352. '100 years to repair Gaza': Oxfam says blockade remains, aid almost non-existent
    First Published: 2015
    Reconstructing Gaza could take an entire century, if Israel doesn't stop the siege, leading charity Oxfam warned. And that's just the time frame for essential projects. The NGO's regional director calls the situation "deplorable."
  9353. One Hundred Years, "We" Past and Present
    Review
    First Published: 2018
    A review of Steve Bloom's epic poem about the Russian Revolution.
  9354. 100th Anniversary of 1918 Australian & New Zealand Surafend Massacre Of Palestinians
    First Published: 2018
    A look back at the premeditated massacre of male Palestinian villagers by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the village of Surafend and a nearby Bedouin camp, which took place on December 10, 1918. The massacre has been largely ignored but serves as an allegory of settler colonialism.
  9355. One in five Israelis lives in poverty
    First Published: 2014
    With just over 8 million people, Israel has over 1.7 million, more than 20 percent of the population, living below the poverty line, according to the latest report issued by the National Insurance Institute (NII) and the Central Bureau of Statistics. Issued in December, the figures relate to 2012 and will have worsened since then.
  9356. "One less traitor": Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition
    First Published: 2022
    While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals' arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
  9357. One of History's Biggest B & E's
    First Published: 2014
    The story told in Betty Medsger's new book The Burglary is a tale of a government drunk on its own power, some citizens determined to end the binge, and a time when heroes were not only made in sporting venues and the movies. It is about people putting their lives on the line in opposition to an encroaching police state and the men determined to imprison those people for their opposition.
  9358. One of the Best Ways to Protect Biodiversity is to Preserve Indigenous Languages
    First Published: 2020
    Is there a connection between loss of biodiversity and loss of Indigenous languages? Or, to put another way, what significance protecting Indigenous languages might have for protecting biodiversity?
  9359. One of the Greatest Environmentalists of the 20th Century
    Barry Commoners RIP
    First Published: 2012
    Dr. Barry Commoner, equipped with a Harvard PhD in cellular biology, used his knowledge of biology, ecosystems, nuclear radiation, public communication, networking scientists, political campaigning, and community organizing to become the greatest environmentalist in the 20th century.
  9360. One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
    Life and Health are the most precious things humans can have
    First Published: 2016
    Introducing Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast. Abu Nasser has created a 200-square-meter (2,000-square-foot) micro-farm using a hydroponic system and homemade organic pest-control solutions consisting of garlic, pepper, soap and more.
  9361. One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
    First Published: 2017
    Urban agriculture is playing an increasing role in helping feed communities. The article and accompanying video introduces Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine.
  9362. The 1% of the 99% and an Anti-Capitalist Alternative
    First Published: 2011
    What we need right now is for autonomous political organizing in both unionized and non-unionized workplaces, schools,and in the streets.
  9363. One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
    First Published: 1988
    'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
  9364. One Sky Information Kit: Native People
    First Published: 1982
    One Sky is a resource centre dedicated to assisting those struggling for social change by providing development education resources on a wide variety of topics.
  9365. One Sky needs help
    First Published: 1989
  9366. One State is Not Snake Oil: A Reply to Michael Neumann
    First Published: 2007
    The income of the 18 wealthiest families in Israel is equivalent to 77 percent of Israel's national budget, which is NIS 256 billion a year. This means that in less than 4.4 years the 18 wealthiest families in Israel could pay the entire debt owed by Israeli Jews living in homes and land stolen from Palestinians. It means that in 4.5 years a fund set up by these 18 wealthiest families could offer every Jewish Israeli who lives on stolen land a million U.S. dollars which they would use either to buy their home from the rightful Palestinian owner or buy another home (probably it would have to be newly constructed) so they could return the stolen one but not end up homeless.
  9367. One State: Trump Has Reminded Palestinians What It Was Always About
    First Published: 2017
    For more than 15 years, the Middle East "peace process" initiated by the Oslo accords has been on life support. Last week, United States president Donald Trump pulled the plug, whether he understood it or not.
  9368. One Step Up, Three Steps Down
    First Published: 2014
    In an interview with author Barbara Garson, Against the Current examines the economic meltdown surrounding the Occupy movement and the effect it has had on working-class Americans.
  9369. One Taxi Driver's Story of Trying to Survive in the Age of Uber
    First Published: 2017
    Since Uber and other "ride-share" businesses emerged in Chicago, the livelihood that once sustained one taxi driver's family of five has now virtually disappeared.
  9370. The one thing that won't stop terror is more war
    First Published: 2015
    Provoking retaliation is a key part of the jihadists' strategy, writes Alex Nunns - we need a different approach.
  9371. #131+1: Voices in Movement An Oral History of the Mexican Youth Movement of 2012
    First Published: 2013
    On May 11, 2012, in the heat of the presidential campaign, history took an unexpected turn: a video, the social networks, and marches and mass actions managed to bring a new moment of hope into the history of Mexico, and the Mexican youth surprised the whole world.
  9372. One Thousand Years of Solitude
    Life in the SHU
    First Published: 2012
    Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation.
  9373. One Vote for Democracy 
    Consensus vs. democracy
    First Published: 1986
    Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
  9374. One Vote for Democracy - Chinese text
    First Published: 1986
  9375. One Vote for Democracy - Japanese text
    First Published: 1986
  9376. One Vote for Democracy - Korean text
    First Published: 1986
  9377. One Who Raged Against the Machine
    Remembering Gerald Berreman
    First Published: 2014
    Remembering anthropologist Gerald Berreman on the occasion of his December 2013 death. Barreman became an important voice of dissent in the 1960s and 1970s, speaking out against anthropologists’ interactions with the CIA and other intelligence agencies and championing openness in science.
  9378. One Woman Is Behind the Most Up-to-Date Interactive Map of Femicides in Mexico
    First Published: 2017
    The interactive 'Femicides in Mexico Map' is a "citizen-led, civic, independent initiative based on open data which, using geographical coordinates, has been mapping cases of femicide since 2016.
  9379. One woman's brush with Sharia courts in the UK: "It ruined my life forever"
    First Published: 2016
    The UK government is conducting an inquiry into the operation of Sharia courts which is being boycotted by a number of women's organisations because its remit is too narrow, and the panel of judges is not seen as 'independent' enough. Parallel to this, the Home Affairs Committee has also launched an inquiry into whether the principles of Sharia are compatible with British law.
  9380. One Year of the BP Blowout
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    In the years after Hurricane Katrina, I saw New Orleanians suffer from lack of health care. The storm and subsequent flooding caused immediate illness, with infections from the foul flood water and debris. As time passed, ever-present mold exacerbated respiratory conditions and mental health deteriorated in the face of immense stress.
  9381. An ongoing debate
    First Published: 1978
    The Red Menace is meant to be a forum of dissenting views withing the broadly defined boundaries of libertarian socialism.
  9382. Online classes, offline class divisions
    First Published: 2020
    Students living in the Ambujwadi slum in north Mumbai are struggling with online classes for months, while also working to support their families after their parents' income was hit by the lockdown and its aftermath
  9383. Online encyclopedias: List of online encyclopedias - Wikipedia
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
  9384. Online Survival Kit
    First Published: 2013
    This Online Survival Kit offers practical tools, advice and techniques that teach you how to circumvent censorship and to secure yo communications and data. This handbook will gradually be unveiled over the coming months in order to provide everyone with the means to resist censors, governments or interests groups that want to courntrol news and information and gag dissenting voices. The Reporters Without Borders Digital Survival Kit is available in French, English, Arabic, Russian et Chinese. Published under the Creative Commons licence, its content is meant to be used freely and circulated widely.
  9385. An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block
    First Published: 2014
    A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
  9386. The Online World Is Also On Fire
    How the Sixties Marginalized Literature in American Culture (and Why Literature Mainly Deserved It)
    First Published: 1995
  9387. Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2015
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Visualizing Impact launched Onlinecensorship.org on November 19, 2015, a new platform to document the who, what, and why of content takedowns on social media sites.
  9388. Only Edward Snowden Can Save James Bond
    First Published: 2015
    Bond is doomed because early in the movie Spectre, the otherwise benevolent Q, muttering something about nanotechnology and microchips, injects him with "smart blood."
  9389. 'Only I and my paper were prosecuted'
    Journalist who exposed Turkey's hospitality for jihadists
    First Published: 2015
    Jihad fighters are treated in Turkey with state complicity; Journalist Dogu Eroglu of the opposition daily BirGun (One Day) was prosecuted.
  9390. Only in America: an Indiscreet Selfie Can Put A Kid in Prison
    First Published: 2016
    Did you know that if you are an American under 18 years old and you use your cell phone to send a nude "selfie" of yourself to a friend, you can be convicted of manufacturing and distributing "child pornography" and sent to prison? This is how expansively prosecutors, whose main purpose in life is to ruin as many people as possible, interpret laws passed to protect children from sexual exploitation.
  9391. Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious
    First Published: 1896
    We must, first of all, learn how we ought to do our work among women.
  9392. The Only People Making Money Off the Seal Hunt Are Anti-Sealing Campaigners
    First Published: 2014
    Audla presents the perspective of Inuit communities who depend on the seal hunt.
  9393. Only Poetry Can Address Grief
    Moving Forward after 911
    First Published: 2001
    A guide for global justice activism in the face of increased repression and potential public opposition.
  9394. The Only Treatment for Coronavirus Is Solidarity
    First Published: 2020
    We live in an interwoven, interconnected world where an injury to one is truly an injury to all. We must confront the coronavirus with solidarity and fight for a society where the health of all is more important than profits for a few.
  9395. Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Blood Begin to Dry
    First Published: 2015
    In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves". As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty.
  9396. Only women can get pregnant
    First Published: 2023
    The GMC and the NHS are promoting gender pseudo-science. The idea that men can also get pregnant, or have periods and go through the menopause, is the sort of bonkers thing you might expect to hear from a students' union, not from respected medical professionals.
  9397. Ontario allows 'monster' trucks
    First Published: 1989
  9398. Ontario Environment Network
    First Published: 1990
  9399. Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) Briefs Dealing with Labour Relations in Ontario
    First Published: 1981
    Labour legislation in Canada comes largely within the provincial jurisdiction.
  9400. Ontario Hydro
    The Rising Cost of Power
    First Published: 1979
    This four page booklet explains why electricity prices continue to skyrocket and why they will continue to do so unless we opt for a more energy efficient society based on conservation and renewable energy sources.
  9401. Ontario Legislature Investigate Nuclear Safety
    Why Pickering Safety Systems Need to be Upgraded
    First Published: 1980
  9402. Ontario man publishes coal-mining novel
    William Pancoast recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan."
    First Published: 2017
    William Pancoast likes to call his writing working-class literature for the working class. The Galion native recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan." The novel includes history from a turbulent time in West Virginia history. The Battle of Matewan, also known as the Matewan Massacre, involved a May 19, 1920, shootout in Mingo County.
  9403. Ontario Teachers Face Austerity Drive
    First Published: 2015
    Although conditions for teachers and students in Ontario, and Canada more broadly, remain far better than they are for their counterparts in the United States, concessionary austerity demands similar to those being more aggressively advanced in the United States have been rolled out in one guise or another across Canada too.
  9404. The Ontario Waffle and the Struggle for an Independent and Socialist Canada: Conflict within the NDP
    First Published: 1983
    Published in Canadian Historical Review, 83.2 (June 1983)
  9405. Ontario's Future - Ontario Hydro
    First Published: 1979
    This brochure is produced co-jointly by Energy Probe, Toronto Mobilization for Survival, Greenpeace Toronto and Birchbark Alliance (OPIRG) and deals with Ontario Hydro's expanding construction program.
  9406. Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social 
    Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
    First Published: 2001
    We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
  9407. Opa Nobody
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    In Opa Nobody, Sonya Huber — an activist struggling to reconcile her politics with the demands of human relationships and the realities of contemporary U.S. life — undertakes an ambitious task: the political nonfiction novel.
  9408. Opchanacanough
    Connexipedia Article
    A tribal chief of the Powhatan Confederacy. (Died 1646).
  9409. Open Borders and the Tragedy of Open Access Commons
    First Published: 2013
    “Open borders” refers to a policy of unlimited or free immigration. I argue here that it is a bad policy. If you are poor and your country provides no social safety net, you move to one that does. If you are rich and your country makes you pay your taxes, you move (or at least move your money) to one that doesn’t. Thus safety nets, and public goods in general, disappear as they become both overloaded and underfunded. That is the “world without borders,” and without community. That is the tragedy of open access commons.
  9410. Open and Hidden Horrors
    First Published: 2018
    Before Trump's December 6, 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, American aggression and its results were apparent in the Middle East and Africa.
  9411. Open Letter by 50 Israeli Army Reservists on Why They Refuse to Fight in Gaza
    Petition By Israeli soldiers and reservists
    First Published: 2014
  9412. An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2009
    Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
  9413. An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
    First Published: 2017
    This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
  9414. An Open Letter to Chelsea Manning: A Free Woman in An American Prison
    First Published: 2019
    A message of courage and strength addressed to Chelsea Manning.
  9415. Open Letter to Comrade Lenin
    A reply to 'left-wing' communism, an infantile disorder
    First Published: 1920
    he tactics that are brilliant for Russia are bad here. They lead to defeat here.
  9416. Open Letter to German Left Party (Die Linke)
    First Published: 2010
    The state of Israel does not deserve prizes for its occupation, racist separation and its war crimes. Only international policy which emphasises to Israel that violations of international law are not tolerated will succeed in promoting a just peace for all residents of this land.
  9417. Open Letter to "Human Rights Defenders" on Aleppo
    First Published: 2017
    Syria is the legitimacy of the interventionist policies of the U.S. and its "allies", Europeans, Turkey, and the Gulf states in that country.
  9418. An Open Letter to Latin Americans
    First Published: 1978
  9419. An Open Letter to Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys (cc: Antifa)
    First Published: 2021
    What the elite from both ruling parties want is division. What they want is for us to shout at each other and shoot each other.
  9420. An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him
    First Published: 2016
    Ta-Nehisi Coates recently criticized the Bernie Sanders campaign for Sanders’ pessimism regarding black reparations for slavery and Jim Crow segregation. When asked during a campaign event whether he would support reparations, Sanders responded with characteristic bluntness, saying that "its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil," before adding that a push for formal reparations for slavery would be politically divisive.
  9421. An Open Letter to the British Left
    First Published: 2016
    Dear friends and comrades, To a foreigner who has been living and working in the United Kingdom for the last sixteen years, the immediate post-referendum situation appears highly paradoxical. It seems as if the shock has been of such a magnitude that even the most celebrated British virtues -- sense of humour, understatement and, above all, solid common sense -- have faded away.
  9422. An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy
    First Published: 2020
    As the 2020 presidential election approaches the Green Party faces the challenge of settling on a platform, choosing a candidate for president, and deciding its campaign strategy.
  9423. Open Letter to the People of the United States from Puerto Rico, A Month After Hurricane Maria
    First Published: 2017
    An open letter to the people of the U.S., following the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico.
  9424. An Open Letter to the President of the Ford Motor Company of Canada
    First Published: 1979
    The Ford Motor Company of Canada is the parent company of Ford South Africa. Through Ford South Africa, Ford of Canada sells vehicles to the South African Military and police. The taskforces on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR) sees this practice as a reinforcement of the status quo in South Africa, and as a statement in favour of apartheid.
  9425. Open marriage
    Connexipedia Article
    Open marriage typically refers to a marriage in which the partners agree that each may engage in extramarital sexual relationships, without this being regarded as infidelity.
  9426. Open Politics and Community
    An Everdale Parent Speaks to a School Meeting: Feb '69
    First Published: 1969
    Staughton Lynd talks about the experience of being a parent of children at Everdale School.
  9427. Open relationship
    Connexipedia Article
    An open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional, spiritual and/or physical relationships with other partners.
  9428. "Open Skies" Coming?
    First Published: 1991
  9429. 'Open skies' proceeding
    First Published: 1992
  9430. Open Source Software: a necessary tool to build our movements | What's Left
    First Published: 2016
    Software companies are exploitative and other companies should invest in unionized products, condem work to lower wages and act in solidarity with other workers in the software industry.
  9431. Opening Doors
    Vancouver's East End
    First Published: 1979
  9432. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
    First Published: 2009
    Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
  9433. Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua 'national security threat' and targets Mexico
    First Published: 2019
    One successful coup against a democratically elected socialist president is not enough, it seems. Immediately after overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia on November 10, the Trump administration set its sights once again on Nicaragua, whose democratically elected Sandinista government defeated a violent right-wing coup attempt in 2018.
  9434. Operation Freedom
    First Published: 1978
    A tabloid designed to inform the public about the growing national measures in Canada
  9435. Operation Liberte
    First Published: 1978
  9436. Operation Liberte Becomes a Permanent Coalition and Letter
    from Provisional Organizing Committee for Operation Liberte
    First Published: 1978
  9437. Operation Liberte Builds Support
    First Published: 1978
  9438. Operation Mockingbird
    Operation Mockingbird was an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early 1950s and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. It funded student and cultural organizations and magazines as front organizations.
  9439. Operation Nazification
    Of Empire and Government
    First Published: 2014
    Annie Jacobsen’s new book is called Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. It isn’t terribly secret anymore, of course, and it was never very intelligent. Jacobsen has added some details, and the U.S. government is still hiding many more. But the basic facts have been available; they’re just left out of most U.S. history books, movies, and television programs.
  9440. Operation Smoke and Mirrors: In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn't Happen, It Didn't Happen
    First Published: 2016
    On May 31, 2016, the city of Chicago agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by two police officers who allege they suffered retaliation for reporting and investigating criminal activity by fellow officers. The settlement, for $2 million, was announced moments before the trial was to begin.
  9441. An Operational Strategy for Development Education in the 80's
    First Published: 1987
  9442. Opieka zdrowotna i dzieci Gazy w kryzysie
    First Published: 2007
  9443. Opinion: It's gettin' hot in here... so take back all your carbon
    First Published: 2015
    In Africa rapidly rising temperatures foreshadow increased drought, famine and disease. The most vulnerable populations -- of which millions are smallholder farmers -- need solutions, and they need them now.
  9444. Opinion: Lakota values soar with the eagles
    First Published: 2014
    In the defense of eagles, people came together. In respect of them, they remembered their values. In sight of them, they felt the pride of a nation.
  9445. Opinion: We must hear - and heed - the nightingale's warning
    First Published: 2014
    These threatened species continue to sing, but their songs aren't poetic or musical -- they are alarm songs. The good news is that when we listen to the birds, when we notice their diminished presence and when we change our behaviour even slightly to accommodate their needs, they respond spectacularly.
  9446. Opportunism and the art of the possible
    First Published: 1898
    Opportunism is a political game which can be lost in two ways: not only basic principles but also practical success may be forfeited.
  9447. Opportunities for Youth
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Opportunities For Youth was a federal Liberal program of the early 1970s that provided funding for a variety of community projects.
  9448. Opposing Censorship
    First Published: 1978
    According to Ulli Diemer, it is dangerous to think that liberation - in this case, sexual liberation - can be promoted by repressive legislation and censorship.
  9449. Opposing Honourary Degree for George Bush
    We should not uphold George Bush as a role model nor defend his responsibility for warfare bloodshed, international terrorism and attacks on basic human dignity.
  9450. Opposing War: No Disclaimers Required
    First Published: 2023
    My own opinion on US meddling in Russian/Ukrainian relations doesn't depend on an assessment of whether the invasion was provoked, unprovoked, justified, or unjustified, so I don't need any such disclaimers.
  9451. The Opposite of Transparency: What I Didn't Read in the TIPP Reading Room
    First Published: 2016
    TTIP, the EU-US free trade deal, has secrecy written all over it. Those responsible for it live in dread of any public scrutiny. If it was up to me, I would give everyone who's interested the chance to make up their own minds on the text of the agreement in its current form.
  9452. The Opposites Game
    All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article
    First Published: 2010
    The surpassing strangeness of the American way of war in distant lands.
  9453. Opposition to U.S. war against Vietnam
    Connexipedia Article
  9454. Optic Nerve
    Millions of Yahoo Webcam Images Intercepted by GCHQ
    First Published: 2014
    Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.
  9455. Option for the poor
    Wikipedia article
    The option for the poor or the preferential option for the poor is one of the basic principles of the Catholic social teaching as articulated in the 20th century.
  9456. Oral history
    Connexipedia Article
    The recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information, based on the personal experiences and recollections of the speaker.
  9457. The Oratory of Malcolm X
    Against The Current vol. 120
    Spike Lee closes his 1989 film “Do the Right Thing” with two quotes: In one, Malcolm X proclaims the right to self defense and in the other, Martin Luther King, Jr. insists upon non-violent protest. Each quote has the potential to produce a drastically different reading of the film, which ends in a police murder of an African-American youth and a subsequent street riot. Lee, however, chooses to maintain a tension between the two interpretations of the riot, asking his audience to juggle both or to choose for themselves.
  9458. Orbán: Strong Man, Authoritarian Ideology
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of a book about Viktor Orbán's political career.
  9459. Ordeal of Australia's child migrants
    First Published: 2009
    The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect.
  9460. The Ordeal of Hassan Diab
    First Published: 2017
    Sociology professor and Canadian citizen Hassan Diab was wrongfully arrested and extradiated to France in 2008. To this day the Canadian government is silent on the events.
  9461. The Ordeal of Migrants
    First Published: 2017
    Migrants face prejudices, xenophobia and racism, besides bureaucratic obstacles that do not recognize their qualifications.
  9462. Order Prevails in Berlin
    First Published: 1919
    Rosa Luxemburg's last article, written just before she was murdered.
    She concludes with the words: "You foolish lackeys! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
    I was, I am, I shall be!"
  9463. An ordinary Labour member just gave the most moving speech of the party conference so far
    First Published: 2017
    An ordinary member's speech to the Labour Party conference left the audience stunned. And it's one that everyone needs to hear, as the moving address reflects a crisis in the UK.
  9464. Ordinary People
    First Published: 2001
    When we talk about revolution, we aren't talking about pie in the sky or something that's never existed. We're talking about reshaping the world with the very best values that we practice now, today, in our families, with our friends and co-workers, with our students and patients. We believe that the smallest acts of kindness and the most public, collective acts of revolution are on a continuum of struggle to make the world the way we believe it should be.
  9465. Organic Agriculture Conference
    First Published: 1990
  9466. Organic and Beyond
    Friendship, Solidarity and Patriotism
    First Published: 2011
    Organic is not enough. Organic will be an effective proposal for change only to the extent that it is integrated into the local and global movements that carry on the fight for food sovereignty, climate justice, ecological debt, women's rights and labor organizing; and against enclosures of common goods.
  9467. Organic certification - inorganic bureaucracy
    Today's certifiers arrive in patent leather shoes and get no further than the office - and this is meant to be an improvement?
    First Published: 2014
  9468. The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto
    What Now?
    First Published: 2011
    Unprecedented wholesale and retail control of the organic marketplace by companies employing a business model of selling twice as much so-called "natural" food as certified organic food, coupled with the takeover of many organic companies by multinational food corporations, threatens the growth of the organic movement.
  9469. Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
    First Published: 2016
    Henderson argues that biotechnologists conflate anti-science with anti-genetic engineering, and that genetically engineered crops are being commercialized without proper testing.
  9470. Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
    First Published: 2016
  9471. The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
    First Published: 1921
    Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
  9472. Organised persecution of ethnic Germans
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
  9473. Organising at work - some basic principles
    A list of what successful organisers say are the most important principles to remember
    First Published: 2006
    Organising begins when people question authority. Someone asks, "What are they doing to us? Why are they doing it? Is it right?" Encourage people to ask, "Who is making the decisions, who is being forced to live with the decisions, and why should that be so?" People should not accept a rule or an answer simply because it comes from the authorities, whether that authority be the government, the boss, the union - or you. An effective organiser encourages their fellow workers to think for themselves.
  9474. Organising at work - the basics
    A basic introduction on why we should organise at work, and a few tips on how to get started.
    First Published: 2006
    Almost everyone in this society is underpaid and over-worked. Many temps, contract and casual workers have very few rights, and permanent workers are still always under the threat of redundancy. Many people are massively exploited and ill-treated, and in Britain over 20,000 people are killed at or by their work each year*. Millions more suffer stress, depression, anxiety and are injured.
  9475. Organising your workplace - getting started 
    You're working, or just started work somewhere where there is no active collective workers' organisation. What can you do to get organised?
    First Published: 2006
    Nowadays many workplaces have no active workers' organisation. Depending on whereabouts you are in the world and what sector you work in there may or may not be much of a trade union presence. And even if there is it may just be a skeleton organisation which only represents workers with individual problems, and is unable to win demands of management. Or worse, it could be actively in cahoots with management against the workers.
  9476. The Organization of Social Services and its Implications for the Mental Health of Immigrant Women
    First Published: 1979
  9477. Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
    First Published: 1926
    In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
  9478. Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy 
    First Published: 1904
    Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the debate within the Russian Social Democratic movement on party organization and democratic centralism. Luxemburg joins Trotsky in warning of the dangers inherent in centralism and argues against the concentration of power in a Central Committee. From a Socialist Revolutionary perspective Luxemburg puts forward compelling arguments against Lenin's conception of the revolutionary party.
  9479. Organizations & Leaders' Critique of S.744
    A statement by the Mexican American Political Association
    First Published: 2013
    A statement by the Mexican American Political Association
  9480. Organize! My Life as a Union Man
    First Published: 1971
  9481. The Organized Left and the Death of "Pragmatic" Politics
    First Published: 2016
    Shifting political winds are battering the establishment, as the breeze flows to the back of the populists. The left-populist Bernie Sanders didn't conjure the hurricane but adjusted his sails to it. As the political storm grows apace with rising income inequality, new social attitudes are bringing fresh expectations, transforming politics as we know it.
  9482. Organizer Renny Cushing Tapped the Power of Community to Pull the Plug on Nuke Plants 
    Clamshell Alliance Drew a Line in the Sand That the Nuclear Energy Industry Has Not Crossed to This Day
    First Published: 2013
    As one of the key figures in the Clamshell Alliance in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cushing was effective in organizing a movement that played a major role in freezing the construction of new nuclear power projects in the United States for decades.
  9483. Organizers Worth Their Salt
    "Let's drink to the hard working people; Let's drink to the salt of the Earth"
    First Published: 2014
    A few unions are recruiting salts these days, usually young people who apply for low-wage jobs in retail, hospitality, or logistics. But unions are reluctant to talk about salting, not wanting to alert management to look out for suspicious characters.
  9484. Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
    First Published: 2011
    For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
  9485. Organizing for the 90s
    First Published: 1991
    On the sixth Labor Notes Conference.
  9486. Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition 
    First Published: 2009
    David Harvey says that there is a lot of work to be done to coalesce various tendencies around the underlying question: can the world change materially, socially, mentally, and politically in such a way as to confront not only the dire state of social and natural relations in so many parts of the world, but also the perpetuation of endless compound growth? This is the question that the alienated and discontented must insist upon asking, again and again, even as they learn from those who experience the pain directly and who are so adept at organizing resistances to the dire consequences of compound growth on the ground.
  9487. Organizing for Workers' Power!
    Allan Engler, author of Economic Democracy, critiques segments of the left for largely ignoring working class power. Recognizing that social change can only be carried through by the working class, Engler puts forth a series of demands designed to facilitate solidarity and comraderie with and among workers.
  9488. Organizing Immigrant Labour
    First Published: 2014
    Barriers to unionizing the smelter workers of Trail, British Columbia, during the Second World War.
  9489. Organizing in a Small Town
    First Published: 1976
    Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
  9490. Organizing In Mexico
    It's Tough, Often Brutal, And It Means Taking On The State
    A survey of the challenges of organizing and operating democratic unions under Mexican labour law.
  9491. Organizing In Mexico: It's Tough, Often Brutal, And It Means Taking On The State
    First Published: 2016
    The system in Mexico operates to the detriment of independent unions. Although the Mexican system of labour relations initially conferred real benefits on workers and peasants whose organizations supported the government, it now functions to maintain a status quo where benefits flow only to corrupt union leaders.
  9492. Organizing Korean Contingent Labor
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Interview with Ae-Lim Yun. Ae-Lim Yun is an activist in Solidarity for the Abolition of Contingent Work, in Seoul, South Korea.
  9493. Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry
    First Published: 1936   Published:
    "Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry” is written with the object of aiding the most active workers in the steel industry and steel workers generally in organizing the industry in the present campaign. There can be no doubt that a mastery of the principles developed in this pamphlet, principles based on practical experiences, would result in a greater efficiency on the part of all those now engaged in organising the industry. It is really a manual of organization methods in the organization of the unorganized in the mass production industries. The organizational principles and methods here developed can be easily adapted to problems of organizing other mass production and large-scale industries such as auto, rubber, chemical, textile, etc.
  9494. Organizing that Changed Mississippi
    Book Review of Salter Jr.'s "Jackson Mississippi" and Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
    First Published: 2014
    A review of two books about the Mississippi's civil rights movement in 1965 from the perspectives of an African-American female student and a Native American male professor.
  9495. Organizing "The Organized"
    First Published: 2014
    For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize of the unorganized” to offset, and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying membership. In union circles, a distinction was often made between that "external organizing" – to recruit workers who currently lack collective bargaining rights – and "internal organizing," which involves engaging more members in contract fights and other forms of collective action aimed at strengthening existing bargaining units.
  9496. Organizing The Unorganized is the key to building the Union
    First Published: 1981
    This article comments on a policy paper presented for discussion at the 1981 UEW conference in Montreal.
  9497. Organizing to ampliyfy ecosocialist voices around the world
    African journal interviews John Molyneux, a founder of the new Global Ecosocialist Network, on the challenges before ecosocialists today.
    First Published: 2020
    John Molyneux, a socialist activist and writer based in Ireland, has played a central role in organizing the Global Ecosocialist Network. He was interviewed by Leo Zeilig of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE).
  9498. Organizing to Stop Police Brutality in Riverside, California: Organizing for Accountability
    Against The Current vol. 83
    First Published: 1999
    interview with Chani Beeman. Chani Beeman is co-chair of the Riverside Coalition for Police Accountability, whose principles and mission statement can be found at their website (www.ucr. edu/ethnomus/rcpa/rcpa.html). A complete file of articles on the shooting of Tyisha Miller and subsequent coverup can be found on the website of the Riverside Press-Enterprise (www.inlandempire online.com/special-reports/tyishamiller). Dianne Feeley and David Finkel of the ATC editorial board interviewed Chani on September 28.
  9499. Organizing with Love: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign 
    First Published: 2010
    Great organizing campaigns are like great love affairs. You begin to see life through a different lens. You change in unexpected ways. You lose sleep, but you also feel boundless energy. You develop new relationships and new interests. Your skin becomes more open to the world around you. Life feels different, and it’s almost like you’ve been reborn. And, most importantly, you begin to feel things that you previously couldn’t have even imagined are possible.
  9500. Organizing Workers Strikes Against War and Repression
    First Published: 2018
    A Brief History of Labour Strikes Against Imperialist Wars and Reaction
  9501. Orientalism and ahistoricism
    First Published: 2021
    The ahistoricism of Orientalism leads Said to mimic the very discursive structures against which he polemicises. Said creates a “Western tradition” which runs in an unbroken line from the Ancient Greeks, through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to modernism. It is a tradition which defines a coherent Western identity through a specific set of beliefs and values which remain in their essence unchanged through two millennia of European and Western history. This, of course, is the myth of “Western civilization” propagated by many an advocate of Western superiority.
  9502. Origin and Function of the Party Form
    First Published: 1961   Published: 1974
    The central thesis that we wish to state and illustrate is that Marx and Engels derived the characteristics of the party form from the description of communist society.
  9503. The Origin of America's Intellectual Vacuum
    First Published: 2010
    A profile of Chandler Davis, a blacklisted mathematician who served six months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
  9504. Original Sin and the Future of Socialism
    First Published: 2000
    Marxism's Original Sin and the Future of Socialism.
  9505. The Origins of Dialectical Materialism
    First Published: 1967
    The myth that Karl Marx formulated a fully worked-out method and philosophical system called “dialectical materialism” is the core claim of Marxism, but it has no basis at all in the writings of Karl Marx and but a slim basis in the writings of Frederick Engels. It is widely recognised now that Marx was not a philosopher and the term “dialectical materialism” was invented after his death.
  9506. The Origins of the Union Shop
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1989
    Though the typical union contract nowadays contains some sort of union shop provision, union membership was voluntary under almost all CIO contracts prior to 1942. The dues "check off" was virtually unknown in the late '30s and dues were collected on the shop floor by shop stewards and committeemen.
  9507. Orlando: Home-Grown Terror
    First Published: 2016
    In some ways the most shocking thing about Orlando may be that it's hardly shocking at all, in context. Only the scale is unusual.
  9508. Orrego, Juan Pablo
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Chilean environment activist. (Born 1949).
  9509. Orwell, George
    Connexipedia Article
    British author. (1903-1950).
  9510. Orwell in the Maze of Memory
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    On 23 June 1937, George Orwell and his wife Eileen boarded a train in the Barcelona station, destination Portbou.
  9511. The Orwell quotes right-wingers never mention
    First Published: 2019
    A brief look at George Orwell's revolutionary, left-wing views to counter the superficial references to "thought police" or "big brother" used in right-wing circles.
  9512. The Orwellian Re-Branding of 'Mass Surveillance' as Merely 'Bulk Collection'
    First Published: 2015
    Just as the Bush administration and the U.S. media re-labelled "torture" with the Orwellian euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" to make it more palatable, the governments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance are now attempting to re-brand "mass surveillance" as "bulk collection" in order to make it less menacing (and less illegal).
  9513. Orwell's Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
    First Published: 2015
    Novels may be the best medium for describing a distopian world in which everyone is under constant surveillance.
  9514. Osama Bin Laden, Bradley Manning and Me
    First Published: 2013
    As far as can be deduced, the government believes that the documents and videos that Bradley Manning gave to Wikileaks, which Wikileaks then widely distributed to international media, aided the enemy because it put US foreign policy in a very bad light.
  9515. Oscar Hangover Special: Why "Spotlight" Is a Terrible Film
    First Published: 2016
    I am astonished (though I suppose I shouldn't be) that, across the past few months, ever since Spotlight hit theatres, otherwise serious left-of-centre people have peppered their party conversation with effusions that the film reflects a heroic journalism, the kind we all need more of. I was in Boston in the Spring of 2002 reporting on the priest scandal, and because I know some of what is untrue, I don't believe the personal injury lawyers or the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team or the Catholic "faithful" who became harpies outside Boston churches, carrying signs with images of Satan.
  9516. Oscar Lopez Rivera and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence
    An Indomitable Spirit of Resistance
    First Published: 2013
    Oscar López Rivera has served 32 years in the dungeons of imperialism for the crime of fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico as a member of the Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN). The continued militancy of Oscar López Rivera, after more than three decades of imprisonment, is a living testimony of the indomitable will to resist all attempts to break the combative spirit of a man, who has become a symbol of his people, yearning for freedom.
  9517. Osceola
    Connexipedia Article
    War chief of the Seminole in Florida who led a small band of warriors in the Seminole resistance when the United States tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands. (1804-1838).
  9518. Oshawa Strike 1937
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    In 1937, more than 4000 workers if General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario, went on strike to fight for better wages and working conditions.
  9519. Osprey whisperers: Deciphering decades of clues from the sea hawk
    First Published: 2014
    Ospreys tell a story, and Elliott, Lee and the other scientists who track them are trying to decipher their messages. For more than two decades in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, the osprey has revealed disturbing tales about DDT, PCBs, pulp mill dioxins, flame retardants, stain-resistant compounds, urban runoff, mining wastes, prescription drugs, mercury and more.
  9520. Ossetia-Russia-Georgia
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky points out the hypocrisy of threatening Russia with exclusion from international society due to the violation of the international principle of respecting other nations' sovereignty. He further explores how to integrate and handle Russia in the context of the modern world order and the threat of a Cold War II.
  9521. Ossietzky, Carl von
    Connexipedia Article
    German radical pacifist. (1889-1938).
  9522. Ostula and Mexican Army Hold to Clashing Versions of Recent Attack
    First Published: 2015
    In Mexico, the independent investigation agency SubVersiones has published a compilation video that chronologically shows what events that took place on July 19, 2015, in the indigenous Nahua community of Santa María de Ostula. That day ended with a child dead and four people wounded.
  9523. The Other 9/11
    First Published: 2014
    Whether or not activists will ever mount a serious threat to U.S. hegemony and propaganda remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however: Without such organizing, action, and sacrifice, there will be many more wars and interventions and many more lies told to obscure the truth about them.
  9524. Other dimensions
    First Published: 1973
    Paul Mattick's critique of Marcuse reviewed by Peter Rachleff in Root & Branch No. 4.
  9525. The Other Police State
    Private Cops vs. the Public Good
    First Published: 2013
    A revealing study on "Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits" written by Gary Ruskin confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state. It details how some companies use the security apparatus, including questionable espionage tactics, against anyone who challenges their authority.
  9526. The Other Public Humanities
    First Published: 2014
    Among the conclusions frequently drawn about the heavily reported "crisis in the humanities" is that humanities departments are woefully out of touch with today's students, with the new economy, with the public at large.
  9527. The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a child
    First Published: 2018
    Here in Gaza, I want to tell this story. To show our audience a piece of a normal life, away from Hamas, or Israel's "terror" rhetoric, away from the diplomatic efforts, the political bargaining, away from the weekly Friday protests. Just show you something normal.
  9528. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
    First Published: 2014
    Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
  9529. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 24, 2015
    Whistleblowers and national security
    First Published: 2015
    This issue sheds light whistleblowers and the murky world of national security. Governments may often pay lip service to the importance of protecting whistleblowers, but in reality they are almost always persecuted. Repercussions can range from being fired to being imprisoned.
  9530. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
    Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
    First Published: 2016
    Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
  9531. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
    Back to School
    First Published: 2016
    Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
  9532. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2021
    Following the science
    First Published: 2021
    When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make? We should be sceptical of anyone who says that it can, because that isn’t actually what science does. It can certainly provide information we need to take into account when making choices and trade-offs, but choices don’t automatically follow from science.
  9533. The Other Whisper Network
    How Twitter feminism is bad for women
    First Published: 2018
    Katie Roiphe takes a closer look at the #MeToo movement, particularly the use of Twitter and social media which can dangerously be used to rouse extremes in a similar way that Trump has energized his supporters.
  9534. The Other World Is Here
    First Published: 2010
    You see what you’re looking for. Most of us are constantly urged to see the world as, at best, a competitive place and, at worst, a constant war of each against each, and you can see just that without even bothering to look too hard. But that’s not all you can see.
  9535. Otherwise Occupied / The genius of Israeli evil: It poses as concern
    How to murder human beings without using an explosive or a knife, how to empty them from within
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli evil is not at all banal. Abundant in inventions and innovations as well as in age-old techniques, it trickles like water and bursts out from hidden places. But unlike floods, it does not reach an end, and it affects some while being invisible, undetectable and non-existent for others. The genius of Israeli evil is in its ability to disguise itself as compassion and concern.
  9536. Ottawa-Carleton Tenants Guide
    First Published: 1988
  9537. Ottawa shrugs off ICJ genocide verdict while cutting funds to Palestinian refugees
    Many Western powers are now plausibly complicit in the genocide of Palestinians
    First Published: 2024
    The ICJ’s ruling puts the lie to the dominant claims by Western media and government officials that Israel is simply defending itself against terrorism, and its actions in Gaza, however excessive, are nonetheless justified. In short, the global majority has rejected the West’s framing of the Israeli war on Gaza.
  9538. Ottawa tightens up information tap
    First Published: 1989
  9539. Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
    First Published: 1935
  9540. Ou-Vont Les Chambreurs Expulses du Centre-ville
    First Published: 1982
  9541. 'Our Auschwitz, our Dachau'
    Reckoning with Germany's genocide in Namibia
    First Published: 2022
  9542. Our Differences
    Interview about Worker-communism
    First Published: 1989
    There are two parts to the interview. The first deals with issues of working class and communism at a general level. The second focuses on more specific problems concerning the Iranian left and, particularly, the Communist Party of Iran (CPI).
  9543. Our exclusive right to self-defense
    Rattling the Cage
    First Published: 2009
    This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism. And there are no limits on our right to self-defense. There is no such thing as "disproportionate."
  9544. Our future
    First Published: 1990
  9545. Our Generation
    Volume 19 Number 1
    First Published: 1987
  9546. Our global commitment
    First Published: 1990
  9547. Our Guns, Our Rights
    First Published: 2016
    For the past several decades, this country has been periodically caught up in anti-gun fear and hysteria, some generated deliberately by self-serving political forces and some by presumably well meaning liberals whose knowledge of firearms - and of hunting and sensible individual/family self-defense - usually adds up to Zero.
  9548. Our History Recovered
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    For thirty-six years since its apogee in the late 1960s during the worldwide movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam, the global Left, including the Left in the United States, has been in decline. Globally, perhaps the most significant causal factor accelerating decline at the beginning of the 1990s was the collapse of the Soviet Union as a perceived alternative to dominant capitalist economic and governmental modes.
  9549. Our job is to oppose the U.S.-NATO Empire
    First Published: 2023
    The U.S.-NATO empire is the main enemy for those of us who live in that empire. That empire is far and away the main enemy of peace, and of working people, in the world today.
  9550. Our leaders are terrified. Not of the virus - of us
    First Published: 2020
  9551. Our Life, Work, Struggles
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    At the time I joined Solidarity about a year and a half ago, I had been involved with activist and organizing work for about five years, which comprised most of my post-college life. Specifically, I was active in an organization called Jews Against The Occupation (a Palestine solidarity organization) and working as staff organizer for a housing group. I wanted a way to understand what I was doing in a bigger context, and to be around people who were thinking about how their current work fit in to a much longer term struggle.
  9552. Our Little Victory
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    It took an issue like Litton to get us working together, and in our little victory we can take a great deal of pride. We were lied to, threatened, denied information and harassed, all in an unsuccessful effort to discredit us as "ignorant" and "of the enemy." American-inspired militarism has mastered the means by which its opposition in this way becomes popularly misinterpreted. It is worthwhile to look at some aspects of the work of The Island Way which enabled the groups to be a credible opposition.
  9553. Our Lives are Militarised
    First Published: 2014
    Sam Walton examines the PR strategy of placing soldiers at civil society events.
  9554. Our Movement Is Global
    an interview with Alice Ragland
    First Published: 2015
    Against the Current interviewed Alice Ragland, who has been central to organizing Black youth in Cleveland against the police murder of Tamir Rice, the 12-year old shot to death two seconds after the police arrived at the park where Rice was playing with a toy gun.
  9555. Our Movement, Our Lives
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of a history of the Black Lives Matter movement, both nationally and locally.
  9556. Our Path: Against Putschism
    First Published: 1921
    If a Communist Party is to be built up again in Germany, then the dead of central Germany, Hamburg, the Rhineland, Baden, Silesia and Berlin, not to mention the many thousands of prisoners who have fallen victim to this Bakuninist lunacy, all demand in the face of the events of the last week: “Never again!”
  9557. "Our Path Doesn't Depend on Media Coverage"
    The Zapatistas and Their Coming Strategy Together with Mexico's Original Peoples
    First Published: 2012
    Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee-General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
  9558. Our Planet, Our Movement
    First Published: 2014
    In response to recent activist activity regarding climate change in New York City, the editors examine the dimensions of the global environmental crisis and how to confront it.
  9559. Our Program and the Political Situation
    First Published: 1918
    Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
  9560. Our Promiscuous Prehistory
    A Review of Sex at Dawn
    First Published: 2010
    Most otherwise topnotch evolutionary psychologists, primatologists and anthropologists come up with flip, vague or convoluted ways to explain away unpopular evidence. They seem to be trying to squeeze the square peg of monogamy into the round hole of humanity. Ryan and Jethá have chosen a more well-rounded term to characterize the essence of human sexuality as practiced by our prehistoric progenitors: promiscuity.
  9561. 'Our Rivers are Black with Coal' - living with Siberia's mines
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the aggressive coal mining industry in Siberia where local opposition and human rights are ignored, and indigenous communities and ecosystems are being destroyed.
  9562. Our 10 pledges to rebuild and transform Britain
    First Published: 2016
    Jeremy Corbyn - 10 Pledges to Rebuild and Transforme Britain: Full employment and an economy that works for all; A secure homes guarantee; Security at work; Secure our NHS and social care; A national education service, open to all; Action to secure our environment; Put the public back into our economy and services; Cut income and wealth inequality; Action to secure an equal society; Peace and justic at the heart of foreign policy.
  9563. Our transportation future
    First Published: 1990
    The billions of dollars proposed to be spent on roads would be better invested in electrifying the main rail lines in Canada.
  9564. Our two cents' worth...
    First Published: 1976
    Analysis of the Popular Education Conference
  9565. Our Veggie Gardens Won't Feed us in a Real Crisis
    First Published: 2019
    Small scale farming that can actually provide for people requires more knowledge and resources than people think.
  9566. Our Words Are Our Weapons
    The Feminist Battle of the Story in the Wake of the Isla Vista Massacre
    First Published: 2014
    It was a key match in the World Cup of Ideas. The teams vied furiously for the ball. The all-star feminist team tried repeatedly to kick it through the goalposts marked Widespread Social Problems, while the opposing team, staffed by the mainstream media and mainstream dudes, was intent on getting it into the usual net called Isolated Event. To keep the ball out of his net, the mainstream's goalie shouted “mental illness” again and again. That “ball,” of course, was the meaning of the massacre of students in Isla Vista, California, by one of their peers.
  9567. Out From the Shadows
    First Published: 1976
    A bigliography of the history of women in Manitoba.
  9568. Out in the Open
    Remarks on the Trump Election
    First Published: 2016
    With the Republicans' monopoly control over the government, even those who normally focus on electoral politics must realize that for some time to come the main struggle will be outside the parties and outside the government. It will be grassroots participatory actions or nothing.
  9569. Out Lickspittle Press
    Doorkeepers to the House of Lies
    First Published: 2010
    Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people’s god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
  9570. Out of Bounds
    First Published: 2012
    Why do we talk so much about hate speech these days? Largely because hate speech has become a way of rebranding extremist ideas to stress their moral content; in other words, of rebranding obnoxious political claims as immoral arguments. Where once we might have challenged such sentiments politically, today we are more likely to seek criminal sanctions to outlaw them.
  9571. Out of School -- Into the Labour Force
    First Published: 1978
    A report on the trends involving newly graduated people seeking jobs in Canada.
  9572. Out of Sight, Out of Trouble
    First Published: 2010
    The UK could tap into vast renewable resources, without any of the aggro caused by existing wind farms.
  9573. Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation Across the Anglo-American World
    PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2015
    First Published: 2015
  9574. Out of the Ghetto - Review
    First Published: 1999
    This book deals with working class, predominately Jewish, life in the East End of London in the years between the first and second world wars.
  9575. Out of Your Mind: The New Anarchy
    A Review by Satu Repo
    First Published: 1969
    Sat Repo reviews writings expressing the new mood in radical dissent emerging in advanced industrial nations - a mood which combines a revolf against all forms of social repression with an active search for a more humane, sensuous, and playful new lifestyle.
  9576. Outbreaks of Democracy
    First Published: 2000
    For most of its history, democracy was seen as a degenerate mode of politics, much feared for its reliance on a populace seen as foolish and volatile. Yet since the adoption of representation in the eighteenth century, and the provision of an institutional place for democracy at the level of the state, we have laid to rest those dangerous images of noisy and volatile mobs, constant mass assemblies and endless inefficient talk. With the people being ruled by proxy, and periodically consenting to elite rule in elections, we have found a way to combine legitimacy with decency and viability.
  9577. Outcry Over Israel's War Crimes
    First Published: 2009
    Jonathan Cook describes legal actions underway to hold Israel accountable for war crimes.
  9578. Outline of Marx's Capital Volume I
    First Published: 1979
    Marxism is wrongly considered to be a new "political economy." It is true that, loosely speaking, even Marxists refer to Marx's analysis of capitalist production as Marxian political economy But Marxian political economy is, in reality, a critique of the very foundations of political economy, which is nothing else than the bourgeois mode of thought of the bourgeois mode of production.
  9579. Outrage Against Big Pharma! Activists Protest "Obscene" Conference
    First Published: 2016
    It was in their fancy tailored suits and with suspicious eyes that Big Pharma CEO's and investors got interrupted by protestors as they came and went from the (too-big-to-fail) JP Morgan-sponsored conference on "health care" (read: profit care) at the elite Westin St. Francis hotel on Union Square in San Francisco on Monday, the 11th of January 2016.
  9580. Outrage as plant bosses acquitted over fatal toxic spill in Hungary
    First Published: 2016
    Prosecutors had demanded prison terms for those on trial after alumina works disaster killed 10 and wrecked villages.
  9581. Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
    First Published: 1992
    OutRage! therefore consciously tries to make its protests informative and amusing. It projects it's political message with wit, style, humour and theatricality. Indeed, a typical OutRage! action could be described as "radical theatre of the streets".
  9582. Outreach Employment Services
    1976-1977
    First Published: 1977
    This document is a brief overview of the approach, objectives and strategies of this program to "increase employment opportunities for special needs people."
  9583. Outsourcing & the Unions
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    Why are outsourcing and offshoring hot button issues? The Bush administration defends it; the Democratic challenger John Kerry attacks it.
  9584. Outsourcing in India and the US Election
    Thus Spake the Cyber-Coolies
    First Published: 2012
    When Romney criticized outsourcing in his election campaign, he broke with Republican tradition. Outsourcing had been one of the few topics in which both parties appeared to genuinely disagree on, the one issue in which the underlying class dynamics of the pro-business Republicans and labour-backed Democrats were laid bare.
  9585. Outsourcing racism: Bill C-31, Prison Expansion, and the Detention of Immigrants
    First Published: 2013
    Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, CBSA may arrest and detain a foreign national or permanent resident they deem a threat to public safety, a potential flight risk, unable to substantiate their identity, or a threat to “national security.” Despite the regular invocation of migrants as potentially dangerous and as “criminal,” in reality the overwhelming majority of detainees (94.2%) are held for reasons entirely unrelated to questions of security. Indeed, entire families, including young children, are currently imprisoned in Canadian detention centers.
  9586. Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
    First Published: 2015
    Reporters have named eleven companies that have won millions of dollars in contracts to plug a shortage in personnel needed to analyze the thousands of hours of streaming video gathered daily from the remotely piloted aircraft that hover over war zones around the world.
  9587. Over 200 arrested at Ottawa tar sands protest
    First Published: 2011
    Over 200 protesters objecting to the federal government's enthusiastic support for Alberta's tar sands and the Keystone pipeline XL were arrested Monday morning as they attempted to stage a sit-in in the House of Commons. The protesters wanted the chance to air their grievances with the environmentally reckless policies of the Harper-led Conservatives inside Parliament but were blocked from entering by fenced barricades and over 50 RCMP officers. The protesters were encouraged by hundreds of boisterous supporters as they passed the media scrum and calmly hopped over police barricades.
  9588. Over 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air every day
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the WHO report on "Air pollution and child health: Prescribing clean air", a study of the heavy toll of both outdoor and household air pollution on the health of the world's children, particularly those living in low and middle-income nations.
  9589. Over the hill and picking up speed
    An interview by Doug Wilson
    First Published: 1985
    An interview with three older gay activists about aging and society.
  9590. Over the River
    Returning home to Flint
    First Published: 2017
    Author Richard Manning returns to his childhood home of Flint, Michigan and recounts the city's decline from thriving industry into an economic depression, from which the city has never recovered. Flint is left with an eroded infrastructure, neighbourhoods rife with crime and public health emergencies, and the decades old question of how will it ever recover.
  9591. Overcoming Male Oppression
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
    People join a social change movement in order to alleviate an external problem. Too often we are confronted with the same kind of behaviour we find in our everyday lives. We are all too often stifled by heavy handed authority: bosses at work, parents or spouse at home and teachers at school.
  9592. Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe are the root causes of war
    First Published: 2015
    Civil war in Syria is the result of the desertification of the ecologically fragile Syrian steppe, which began in 1958 when the former Bedouin commons were opened up to unrestricted grazing. That led to a wider ecological, hydrological and agricultural collapse.
  9593. Overlooking the Obvious With Naomi Klein
    Climate, Capitialism and the Left
    First Published: 2014
    The lesson that Naomi Klein overlooks seems clear. Climate chaos is just one DEVASTATING symptom of our dysfunctional society. To survive catabolic capitalism and germinate an alternative, movement activists will have to anticipate and help people respond to multiple crises while organizing them to recognize and root out their source.
  9594. Overseas placements
    First Published: 1989
  9595. Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn't Racist
    First Published: 2009
    The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Christians.
  9596. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
    First Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
  9597. Overwhelmed NSA Surprised to Discover Its Own Surveillance "Goldmine" on Venezuela's Oil Executives
    First Published: 2015
    A top-secret National Security Agency document, dated 2011, describes how, by "sheer luck," an analyst was able to access the communications of top officials of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela.
  9598. Overwrought Empire
    First Published: 2012
    Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century. You could say that they experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism -- think of it as the real “American Century” -- from World War I to the end of the Cold War, with time off for a destructive stalemate in Korea and a defeat in Vietnam too shocking to absorb or shake off.
  9599. Owen, Robert
    Connexipedia Article
    English social reformer. (1771-1858).
  9600. OWS and the working class
    First Published: 2012
    As frustrating as this may sound to the left, who are justifiably excited over a revival of radical politics, many workers cannot see the movement’s relevancy to their own lives, yet still feel the pangs of the crisis perhaps more painfully than most.
  9601. Ozone depleting quickly
    First Published: 1992
  9602. Pacifism
    Connexipedia Article
    The opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage.
  9603. Pagkaka-isa sa Paggawa ng Desisyon
    Ang consensus decision making o pagkakaisa sa paggawa ng desisyon ay isang proseso hindi lamang naglalayon ng kasunduan ng karamihan sa mga kalahok, ngunit din ang resolusyon o pagpapagaan ng minoryang tutol.
  9604. Paid Off in Passion: The Life Lessons of John Ross's Rebel Reporting
    First Published: 2016
    A book review of Rebel Reporting, written by Cristalyne Bell and Norman Stockwell.
  9605. Paine, Thomas
    Connexipedia Article
    Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
  9606. Tom Paine, restless democrat
    Profile of a radical
    First Published: 2009
    Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that "my country is the world and my religion is to do good."
  9607. A Painful Peace
    First Published: 1996
    Noam Chomsky investigates the factors of the Oslo II peace agreement struck between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
  9608. A Painful Struggle for Renewal
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    Twenty-one years after the Sandinista National Liberation Front's triumph of July 1979, and ten years since the FSLN government lost power in an electoral upset, Nicaragua's political and economic picture is generally bleak. Widespread corruption, natural disasters made more catastrophic by social and environmental mismanagement, and a debilitating political pact between the top levels of the Liberal government (PLC) and the FSLN have sucked much of the life from the once vibrant popular movements. At the base, these movements are struggling for a renewal and reorientation.
  9609. Painting a false picture
    First Published: 2018
    A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
  9610. Pakistan: Another young woman killed by her family for marrying without their consent - Stoned just a few yards from the Lahore High Court
    First Published: 2014
    The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious alarm and disgust over the murder of a young woman, who was killed by her family in a manner like stoning to death, close to the Lahore High Court for marrying without their consent.
  9611. Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
    Part One: Hidden History of the 1968-69 Workers Upsurge
    First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
    Pakistan’s 1965 war with India over Kashmir -- a reactionary war in which the working class had no side -- was a key turning point in Bhutto’s career. The Pakistani military's poor showing provoked a bitter backlash against the regime among much of the population. Following the signing of a January 1966 armistice agreement in Tashkent, student demonstrations erupted in cities throughout the country. Despite being a principal architect of the war, Bhutto emerged as a national hero, denouncing the Tashkent accords (which he had helped negotiate) and accusing the regime of having given away at the peace table what the generals claimed they had won on the battlefield. In November 1967, Bhutto launched his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) based on a combination of virulent anti-Indian chauvinism, "socialist" demagogy and paeans to Islam.
  9612. Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
    Part Two: The Bangladesh War
    First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
    The Pakistani military expected to put a quick end to the nationalist aspirations of the Bengalis. Just before midnight on 25 March 1971, Pakistani troops led by General Tikka Khan launched "Operation Searchlight," an orgy of killing directed against the civilian population of Dhaka and other cities and towns. Working-class and Hindu neighbourhoods in Dhaka were attacked with tanks, mortars and machine guns. Using prepared lists, soldiers went door-to-door gunning down Awami League activists. U.S.-supplied tanks led a military assault on student residences at the University of Dhaka. The students and teachers who were killed were dumped into a mass grave in the football ground.
  9613. Pakistan / Gilgit-Baltistan: Advocate Ehsan Ali, a symbol of political sanity
    First Published: 2018
    In Gilgit-Baltistan, one of the most politically sensitive regions of Pakistan, the author explains why it is important to recognize and support people like Ehsan Ali, who is a vocal human rights activist and a symbol of interfaith harmony.
  9614. Pakistan, hostage of the religious - The radical left in resistance
    First Published: 2018
    Radical leftists strive amid fundamentalist hostility in Pakistan where blasphemy is a serious charge with its roots in colonial religious divisions.
  9615. Pakistan on the Brink? The Real Threat from Within
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    The American antiwar movement must understand that what is unfolding in Pakistan bears no resemblance to the “failed-state” proclamations of establishment hacks the world over. The danger is not at all that the country will fall to the Pakistani Taliban, drowned in a tidal wave of instability said to be cascading eastwards from Afghanistan. While sham elections in Afghanistan have hopefully helped clarify the venal, corrupt character of NATO’s efforts there, at times an unhealthy haziness still afflicts the Left’s thinking on Pakistan.
  9616. Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
    First Published: 2018
    On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
  9617. Pakistan: The hell of sexual harassment in the workplace
    First Published: 2016
    In increasingly competitive Pakistani work situations, women continue to be targets for men with power.
  9618. Pakistan Women's Voices
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    An interview with Bushra Khaliq. Bushra Khaliq is general secretary of the Women Workers Help Line (www.wwhl.org.pk) and a member of Labour Party Pakistan.
  9619. Pakistani Journalists Left in Limbo Amid Vicious Media War
    First Published: 2015
    Pakistani journalists working for BOL Network, a Pakistani media outlet co-owned by journalists, protest against the license cancellation of this organization. Protesters complain against violations of their rights.
  9620. Pakistan's blasphemy laws – The Supreme Court, Asia Bibi and the laws' historical background
    First Published: 2018
    A description of a blasphemy case in Pakistan. Also includes a history of blasphemy laws going back to British India.
  9621. Pakistan's Dark Journey
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    The recent verdict of a lower court sentencing a Christian woman to death in a “blasphemy” case, and the subsequent murder of the Punjab Governor who supported the imprisoned woman, has posed the very vital question of whether Pakistani society has become intolerant, violent and extremist to the point of incorrigible.
  9622. Pakistan's Gramsci: Remembering Sibte Hasan (1916-1986)
    First Published: 2016
    2016 marks the birth centenary of Pakistan's own Gramsci, the pioneer of the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA) in undivided India and of the Communist Party in Pakistan, Sibte Hasan. Like the famed Italian thinker and activist, Hasan endured repeated jail terms, first during his sojourn in the United States, and then in Pakistan in 1951-55, and again during the Ayub dictatorship. It's surprising that despite Hasan’s iconic stature in the Indian subcontinent, very little is known about his biographical details.
  9623. Pakistan's Women's March: Shaking patriarchy 'to its core'
    Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women's rights in Pakistan.
    First Published: 2020
    Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan's main urban centres to mark International Women's Day. 2020 is the third successive year that the Aurat March, women's march, has been held in the country.
  9624. Palestine: Another Desperate Cry for Help
    First Published: 2017
    The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) has just issued a final plea for help in the form of an open letter to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement.
  9625. Palestine Freedom Battle "will be won": Interview with Author Miko Peled
    First Published: 2012
    An interview with Miko Peled, the Israeli author of The General’s Son.
  9626. Palestine is a loud echo of Britain's colonial past - and a warning of the future
    First Published: 2022
    In moving from Nazareth back to the UK, I have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
  9627. Palestine is not an environment story
    How I was censored by The Guardian for writing about Israel's war for Gaza's gas
    First Published: 2014
    After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale.
  9628. Palestine/Israel: A single state, with liberty and justice for all
    First Published: 2009
    The notion of religious-ethnocentric entitlement and exclusivity for one people at the expense of another has been rejected the world over. Palestinians reject it and we assert that we are human beings worthy of the same human rights accorded to the rest of humanity; that we are worthy of our homes and farms, our heritage, our churches and mosques, and our history; and that we should not be expected to negotiate with our oppressors for such basic dignities. The two-state solution was and remains an instrument to circumvent the basic human rights of Palestinians in order to accommodate Israel's desire to be Jewish. Polls show that Palestinians refuse to be the enemies of our Jewish brothers and sisters anywhere, just as we refuse to be oppressed by them.
  9629. Palestine, Israel and 'Rockets'
    The Increasing Isolation of Israel
    First Published: 2014
    It is with increasing frustration that one hears about Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, only through the skewed lens of the corporate-owned media.
  9630. Palestine Museum of Natural History
    First Published: 2017
    The Palestine Museum of Natural History provides testimony to the Palestinian attachment to the land, for preservation of plant and animal life, as well as cultural expression and identity to the Palestinian community.
  9631. Palestine overwhelmed by Illegal American Immigrants
    First Published: 2015
    Israel illegally annexed part of the Palestinian West Bank to its district of Jerusalem and then settled it with squatters, not only Israeli but also American.
  9632. Palestine Strike
    Arabs and Jews Unite
    First Published: 1946
    The biggest strikes in the history of Palestine far surpassing any other which have taken place, broke out last month (April 1946). 32,000 workers came out, of which 26,000 were Arabs and 6,000 Jews.
  9633. Palestine: Victims of Violence
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    Nurit Peled delivered this speech to the European Parliament on International Women’s Day. Nurit Peled is an Israeli peace activist (her father Gen. Mati Peled was instrumental in founding the Israeli peace movement in the 1970s). She and her husband work with Bereaved Families (Palestinian and Israeli).
  9634. Palestine, War and the Lethal Role of Journalists
    Two Films by John Pilger
    First Published: 2014
    John Pilger first made the film ‘Palestine Is Still The Issue‘ in 1977. It told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land in 1948, and again in 1967. Twenty five years later, in 2002, John Pilger returned to the West Bank of Jordan and Gaza, to make another film, giving it the same title. The film asks why the Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo – refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times.
  9635. Palestine's 'Prayer for Rain': How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
    First Published: 2016
    Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians, according to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. The irony is that the water provided by "Mekorot' is actually Palestinian water, usurped from West Bank aquifers. While Israelis, including illegal West Bank settlements, use the vast majority of it, Palestinians are sold their own water back at high prices.
  9636. Palestine's Unfolding Horror
    First Published: 2014
    Weissman interviews Dr. Hisham Ahmed regarding the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2014, its underlying causes, and possible impact on the political prospects for the future of Hamas and Israel.
  9637. Palestinian Arrested After Filming Settlers Throwing Stones
    First Published: 2014
    Yesterday, August 17, 2014, at approximately 5:30 PM in the old city in al-Khalil (Hebron), settlers from the illegal settlement of Beit Hadassah threw rocks and water at Palestinians living on Shalala Street.
  9638. Palestinian Democracy
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    Few elections throughout the world have been perceived by the local population, as well as international observers, as democratic and transparent as the Palestinian ones. At first glance, Palestine seems to be the perfect example of the “democratization of the Middle East” that President George W. Bush and his administration are fighting for.
  9639. Palestinian Economic Boycott Hits Israeli Settlers
    First Published: 2010
    Israeli settlers are beginning to feel the bite of an economic boycott campaign launched by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements dotting the occupied West Bank.
  9640. The Palestinian Facebook Movement: Can it take up the baton of revolution?
    First Published: 2011
    At the heart of the new movement is a proposal that Palestinians should return to the methods of the first, unarmed, intifada – similar to what has recently been happening in many Arab states. This, they believe, is the right way to achieve the political and social aspirations of the Palestinians, and an alternative to the two failed strategies previously attempted: armed struggle and futile negotiations.
  9641. Palestinian farmers face settler terror
    First Published: 2004
    Jewish settlers have a long history of terrorising olive farmers, and they are now increasingly resorting to a worrying tactic: poisoning Palestinian water sources.
  9642. Palestinian general strike 1936
    Connexipedia Article
    Part of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
  9643. Palestinian Human Rights Defender Arrested for a Facebook Post
    First Published: 2017
    The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its crackdown on free speech in the West Bank, this time arresting prominent Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro for criticizing a journalist's arrest in a Facebook post.
  9644. Palestinian, Jewish Voices Music Jointly Challenge Israel's Past
    First Published: 2017
    Baroud analyzes how Israel has appropriated the Palestinian narrative of Al-Nakba to rewrite history and place the occupation of Palestine in a positive light.
  9645. Palestinian Memory and Hope
    First Published: 2015
    A group of activists are working to create a Nakba Museum of Memory and Hope in Washington, D.C. The project aims to tell the Palestinian refugee story, one that has been silenced or ignored for too long.
  9646. Palestinian olive farmers defy Israeli attacks for prized crop
    First Published: 2020
    Israeli restrictions, attacks and intimidation continue to hinder the vital olive harvest but Palestinians persevere.
  9647. Palestinian photographer brings towns lost in Nakba to life on walls of refugee camps
    First Published: 2023
    As soon as you enter Madaris street in Balata refugee camp, to the east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, your gaze is drawn to the right-hand wall of the street - now adorned with 30 depictions of villages and towns that were purged of Palestinian residents during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. In 17 refugee camps across the West Bank, Palestinian photographer Ahmed al-Bazz has brought to life images of historic Palestine to the descendants of those who were expelled during the Nakba.
  9648. The Palestinian Resistance is Winning
    The Movement Must Expose and Defeat Netanyahu's "Final Solution" to the Palestinian Question
    First Published: 2024
    Netanyahu makes his objectives clear. He wants a "final solution" to the Palestinian problem -- the mass annihilation of the Palestinian people. His goal is a Palestine without any Palestinians so Israel can completely occupy all of Palestine once and for all.
  9649. 'Palestinian Rights Has Become an Incredibly Mainstream Issue'
    CounterSpin interview with Josh Ruebner on BDS bans
    First Published: 2019
    Interview with Josh Ruebner about anti-BDS legislation. With downloadable MP3 of interview.
  9650. The Palestinian Struggle and the Anarchist Dilemma
    First Published: 2009
    A review of the discussion of the relationship between anarchism and the Palestinian/Israeli struggle by Uri Gordon, an Israeli anarchist, in his book "Anarchy Alive!".
  9651. Palestinian villagers tilled their land so well, Israel is now confiscating it from them
    First Published: 2016
    The separation barrier will cut residents of Al-Walaja from their lands by the end of the year; the beauty of the terraces they cultivated for decades was used as one of the main reasons for announcing the area a national park.
  9652. Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
    First Published: 2009
    Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
  9653. Palestinians' access to water in 2015
    First Published: 2016
    Thirsting for Justice finds that Palestinians' access to water was worse in 2015 than in 1995 due to Israel’s discriminatory water regime.
  9654. Palestinians and Israelis call for a single democratic state
    First Published: 2020
    The Palestinian-led One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC), comprised of Palestinians from every major community ('48, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the refugee camps and the Diaspora/Exile), together with their critical Israeli Jewish partners, has issued a call for the establishment of a single democratic state including everyone living between the River and the Sea, including Palestinian refugees who choose to return to their homeland.
  9655. Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle
    It's time for Israel to accept that as an occupied people, Palestinians have a right to resist - in every way possible.
    First Published: 2017
    International law recognises the fundamental rights to self-determination, freedom and independence for the occupied. For Palestinians that includes the right to armed struggle.
  9656. Palestinians and the Queer Left
    Book review
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman.
  9657. Palestinians Speak Israel's Language
    First Published: 2023
    Israel follows the colonial playbook. Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
  9658. Palestinians torn over contact with Israelis
    First Published: 2014
    A Palestinian university’s decision to bar from its campus an Israeli journalist and outspoken critic of the occupation has exposed a growing rift among Palestinian activists about the merits of contact with Jewish Israelis.
  9659. The Palestinians: "We Shall Not Be Moved"
    First Published: 2021
    The resolve of the Palestinians to live on the land that is rightly theirs, despite all the Israeli efforts to dislodge them and drive them out, has never wavered. Just as the long struggle of African Americans has persisted in the face of white resistance.For both peoples their simple determination to win their rights remains their greatest strength.
  9660. Palm Oil company plan to slow deforestation 'another land-grab'
    First Published: 2014
    A palm oil company's 'forest conservation' programme in Indonesia has ended up being a second land grab, seizing resources from local communities' control.
  9661. Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
    First Published: 2013
    In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
  9662. Pan-Africanism, feminism and finding missing pan-Africanist women
    First Published: 2016
    There are numerous women in the African Diaspora who have worked for the liberation of Africans under the banner of Pan-Africanism. They must be rescued from political obscurity. Pan-Africanism as a revolutionary ideology must firmly embrace feminism.
  9663. Panama invasion protest
    First Published: 1990
  9664. The Panama Papers
    Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash
    First Published: 2016
    The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions. Based on a trove of more than 11 million leaked files, the investigation exposes a cast of characters who use offshore companies to facilitate bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, financial fraud and drug trafficking.
  9665. Panama Papers show that capitalism is working perfectly 
    First Published: 2016
    While corporate fraud is gargantuan in its scale, it is not the expression of a system that "isn't working". In fact, this is the way the system is designed to work.
  9666. Panama Papers: The Power Players
    First Published: 2016
    This interactive presentation produced by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) explores the stories behind the use of offshore companies of politicians and their relatives and associates -- more than 100 in all. Among them are 12 current or former country leaders and 33 other politicians and public officials with direct connections to structures in tax havens. Their names appeared inside a cache of 11.5 million leaked files from Panama's Mossack Fonseca, one of the biggest offshore service providers.
  9667. Panamanian Law Firm Is Gatekeeper To Vast Flow of Murky Offshore Secrets
    Files show client roster that includes drug dealers, Mafia members, corrupt politicians and tax evaders - and wrongdoing galore
    First Published: 2016
    Founding partners of Mossack Fonseca had international pedigrees and backgrounds in the worlds of money, power and secrets. The law firm helps clients respond swiftly to changes in laws, shifting business from one secrecy jurisdiction to another. Among additional services offered are yacht and plane registrations, and, for some clients, handling of finances. Mossack Fonseca kept a low profile -- until recent scandals brought international attention.
  9668. Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly disaster
    First Published: 2016
    In Brazil's microcephaly epidemic, one vital question remains unanswered: how did the Zika virus suddenly learn how to disrupt the development of human embryos? The answer may lie in a sequence of 'jumping DNA' used to engineer the virus's mosquito vector - and released into the wild four years ago in the precise area of Brazil where the microcephaly crisis is most acute.
  9669. Panimara's foot soldiers of freedom - 2
    First Published: 2015
    Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
  9670. Panimara's foot soldiers of freedom - 1
    First Published: 2015
    Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
  9671. Panitch, Leo
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian political scientist. (Born 1945).
  9672. Leo Panitch (1945-2020) - "An irreparable loss"
    First Published: 2020
  9673. Pankhurst, Emmeline
    Connexipedia Article
    English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
  9674. Pankhurst, Sylvia - Writings - Index
    Writings of Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960).
  9675. Pannekoek, Anton
    Connexipedia Article
    Scientist and Marxist. (1873-1960).
  9676. Pannekoek, Anton - Writings - Index
    Writings of Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960).
  9677. Pannekoek's "The Party and the Working Class"
    First Published: 1941
  9678. Panoply of the Absurd
    First Published: 2006
    Conspiracy theorists are filling bestsellers with their supposed evidence about September 11.
  9679. Pansexuality
    Pansexuality (also referred to as omnisexuality) is a sexual orientation, characterized by the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire towards people, regardless of their gender identity or biological sex. Some pansexuals suggest that they are gender-blind; that gender and sex are insignificant or irrelevant in determining whether they will be sexually attracted to others. For others, an individual's sex, gender expression, or gender identity can be a key factor of attraction, despite the pansexual individual's wide range of sex and gender attractions.
  9680. Papanek, Victor
    Connexipedia Article
    Designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. (1927-1999).
  9681. Papineau, Louis-Joseph
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Lawyer, seigneur, politician, defender of the national heritage of French Canada. Led the fight for control of the political institutions of Lower Canada. (1786-1871).
  9682. Pappe and Israel's New Historians
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    An irony of Israeli political culture is that Zionism is exceptionally rigid in comparison to the democratic philosophy that legitimizes the U.S. political system, yet the breadth of political debate that appears in Israeli mainstream media is much wider than one would find in the United States.
  9683. A Parable of Women's Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Meredith Tax.
  9684. Paradise of Untouchable Assets
    Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
    First Published: 2013
    Trusts held in the Cook Islands can put money beyond the reach of the American legal system.
  9685. The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
    Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6- November 2009
    First Published: 2009
    A growing army of self-styled “sustainable developers” argues that there is no contradiction between the unlimited accumulation of capital and the preservation of the earth. The system can continue to expand by creating a new “sustainable capitalism,” bringing the efficiency of the market to bear on nature and its reproduction. In reality, these visions amount to little more than a renewed strategy for profiting on planetary destruction.
  9686. Paradoxes of Politics
    First Published: 2015
    Is there a viable presence for genuine independent politics, whether it’s a political party formation or broader coalition? What's needed is a force embracing the rising social insurgencies around race and national oppression, mass incarceration, immigrant rights, Fight for Fifteen, confronting the environmental disaster and endless imperialist wars - along with labor's traditional economic issues - capable of attracting thousands or tens of thousands of activists out of the corporate two-party trap.
  9687. The Paradoxical Seeds of The Holocaust
    Oppression and Death Live On in the Apartheid State
    First Published: 2022
    It is becoming increasingly difficult for Israel and the agencies that promote Zionism around the world to portray Zionism in rosy colors. This is primarily because there is a history of close to 100 years of Zionism; and the actions of the Zionist State, Israel, have a history of seven and a half decades of violence and racism. To add to that, in February, Amnesty International came out with a damning report demonstrating in no uncertain terms that Israel is engaged in the crime of apartheid and has been since the day it was established.
  9688. Paraguay: A well-rehearsed coup
    First Published: 2012
    The story behind the overthrow of Paraguayuan President Fernando Lugo.
  9689. Paraguay: Women at the Center of Resistance
    First Published: 2014
    The headquarters of Conamuri is a gentle place that combines work with intimacy, like the campesino life that in some way it reproduces. The experience of Conamuri is great. They make their own rules and follow them in an educated way, not aggressively, but responsibly and with commitment. Although it may hurt, they tell us things to our face.
  9690. Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are More than Skin Deep
    First Published: 2020
    Cook argues that there are significant parallels between the United States and Israel, particularly the use of police brutality and the lack of prosecution against police officers and soldiers. He notes that the US police forces have learned from Israel's decades of experience in crushing Palestinian resistance and applied their techniques to the Black American underclasses.
  9691. The Paranoia of The Superrich And Superpowerful
    First Published: 2013
    The United States is in favor of stability. But you have to remember what stability means. Stability means conformity to U.S. orders. We “stabilize” countries when we invade them and destroy them.
  9692. Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism 
    First Published: 2015
    Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
  9693. Parcel of Rogues
    A review of the book 'Parcel of Rogues.'
  9694. Parecon and the nature of reformism
    A review of Robin Hahnel (2005). Economic Justice and Democracy; From Competition to Cooperation. NY
    First Published: 2005
    The concept of participatory economics, as developed by Hahnel and Albert, is worth exploring. They are inspired by the tradition of libertarian, councilist, socialism. They share the values of revolutionary class struggle anarchism. Even in disagreeing with them, there is much to be learned from reading their work, since they are t houghtful people who are dealing with important issues. Yet they demonstrate, in spite of themselves, that it is not enough to attempt to not be reformist. It is necessary to be revolutionary.
  9695. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  9696. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  9697. The Pariah State 
    A Short History of Israeli Impunity
    First Published: 2014
    Hasbara has elevated the manipulation of language to a new plateau. This is a qualitative leap. Moving beyond the difficulty of seeing the stye in our own eye, the Hasbara upends linguistic conventions. Black becomes white, evil is translated into righteousness. Victims of murderous ethnic cleansing become terrorists. The conventions of language go completely out the door. Mass murder is self defense. The Great Wall is a barrier or a mere fence. Land grabs are voluntary relocations into disputed territories.
  9698. Paris Climate Agreement Threatened by Trade Deals
    First Published: 2015
    Pope Francis' visit to the U.S. has galvanized discussion about climate change and raised hopes for the upcoming December COP21 Paris climate change talks. Those talks are intended to lead to a multilateral agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with serious pledges from the many participating countries.
  9699. Paris Climate Deal: How Could They Do This to Us?
    First Published: 2015
    On Sunday morning, 13 December 2015, the 2015 Paris Climate Summit (COP21) finally wound to close as the last decisions were agreed. At almost 1 a.m. observers representing youth, women, labour unions, research centers, indigenous peoples, and business were asked their opinion. Most media had already left COP21. Cleaners were dismantling the massive structures that had been erected to house thousands of conference participants for two weeks plus two overrun days. The Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had finished their work, late as usual and with an usual outcome.
  9700. The Paris Commune
    First Published: 1880
    Under the name "Commune of Paris" a new idea was born, to become the starting point for future revolutions. As is always the case, this fruitful idea was not the product of some one individual's brain, of the conceptions of some philosopher; it was born of the collective spirit, it sprang from the heart of a whole community.
  9701. The Paris Commune told in pictures
    First Published: 1934
    An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
  9702. Paris: May 1968
    First Published: 1968
    This is an eyewitness account of two weeks spent in Paris during May 1968. It is what one person saw, heard or discovered during that short period.
  9703. Paris police use pepper spray against seated climate change protesters
    First Published: 2019
    Police in Paris have been filmed pepper-spraying peaceful protestors. This is part of Macron's crackdown on the "yellow vest" movement in which several protestors have been seriously injured.
  9704. Paris terror attacks - who profits?
    First Published: 2015
    The attacks in Paris are placed in a geo-political context of France, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Syria.
  9705. Paris terrorists operated "in plain sight"
    First Published: 2015
    Reports over the past several days have revealed that most of the Islamists who engaged in the suicide attacks in Paris were known to the French and Belgian security services well before November 13. But no intelligence or police agency took action against them to prevent the murderous rampage.
  9706. Parkdale Tenants' Association (PTA)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    History of the Parkdale Tenants’ Association (PTA) in Toronto.
  9707. Parkdale tenants' campaign blames real estate agent for loss of rooming houses
    First Published: 2018
    A look at 'displacement realty' in the Parkdale area of Toronto, where the selling affordable homes at inflated prices pushes new landlords into forcing out old tenants in order to increase rents.
  9708. Parks, Rosa
    Connexipedia Article
    African American civil rights activist. (1913-2005).
  9709. Parlby, Irene Marryat
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Politician, farm women's leader. (1868-1965).
  9710. The Parliament Streetcar (Deceased)
    First Published: 2015
    A history of the Parliament streetcar route in Toronto, including the eventual closure of the route.
  9711. Parrot, Jean-Claude
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Trade unionist. (Born 1936).
  9712. Parsons, Lucy
    Connexipedia Article
    Radical American labour organizer and anarchist communist. (1853-1942).
  9713. A Partial Peace in Colombia
    First Published: 2017
    Colombia's peace accord serves capitalist interests, but may also open new space for the grassroots left.
  9714. A Partisan Mayor
    First Published: 2017
    A look back at the "French Tito," partisan militant Georges Guingouin.
  9715. Partnering With Neo-Nazis in Ukraine: An Inconvenient History
    First Published: 2022
    Under pressure from neo-Nazi parties that have large power that is disproportionate to their small support, Zelensky abandoned his campaign peace promise and refused to talk to the leaders of the Donbas and implement the Minsk Agreements.
  9716. Party and Class 
    First Published: 1936
    The belief in parties is the main reason for the impotence of the working class; therefore we avoid forming a new party - not because we are too few, but because a party is an organization that aims to lead and control the working class. In opposition to this, we maintain that the working class can rise to victory only when it independently attacks its problems and decides its own fate.
  9717. Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    The Russian Revolution of October 1917, the first successful revolution made by and for workers in world history, posed an immense paradox for revolutionary socialists. On the one hand, the combination of the most advanced forms of industrial capitalist development with a largely non-capitalist countryside and autocratic-absolutist state institutions made Russia “the weak link” in world capitalism, the society where a workers’ revolution could first succeed. On the other, Russia’s economic underdevelopment and the minority status of the working class in the population made the prospects of constructing a viable, democratic post-capitalist society impossible.
  9718. Party and Working Class
    First Published: 1936
    We are only at the very earliest stages of a new workers' movement. The old movement was embodied in parties, and today belief in the party constitutes the most powerful check on the working class' capacity for action. That is why we are not trying to create a new party.
  9719. Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises
    First Published: 2011
    While the pre-World War I Lenin and the Bolsheviks did not leave original theoretical tools to guide the reconstruction of revolutionary workers’ organizations, the study of their historical experience remains invaluable.
  9720. Party for the Revolution
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of Crowds and Party by Jodi Dean, a philosophical look at the crowd and the individual in revolutionary action.
  9721. Party Organization in Lenin's Comintern
    First Published: 2020
    Many socialist groups today seek to shape their organizational principles in the spirit of "democratic centralism" identified with V.I. Lenin. Yet as historian Lars Lih has demonstrated ("Fortunes of a Formula" and "Further Fortunes of a Formula"), Lenin himself used the term only occasionally, and then with widely varying emphasis. The formula's meaning for socialists today is in fact derived mainly from its application by the Communist International (Comintern) in Lenin's lifetime and under his guidance (1919–23).
  9722. The Passing of Bhaskar Save
    What The 'Green Revolution' Did for India
    First Published: 2015
    Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the 'Gandhi of natural farming'.
  9723. The Passing of Ronnie Gilbert
    A Great Woman Has Died
    First Published: 2015
    Ronnie Gilbert, an original member of the legendary folk group, the Weavers, has died .
  9724. The Passion for Free Markets
    First Published: 1997
    Chomsky discusses the reasons for being skeptical of the WTO and its use as the forum for the export of American values.
  9725. The Passion of Richard Seymour
    Book Reviews of "The Liberal Defence of Murder" and "UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchen" by Richard Seymour
    First Published: 2013
    The books of Richard Seymour skewer the predictable platitudes and puncture the sanctimonious pretensions of the "Pro-War Left," what was a transatlantic confederacy of journalists, public intellectuals, and bloggers that championed the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as a "humanitarian intervention."
  9726. Passion, Perversion, and Politics
    First Published: 2012
    The Folson Street Fair is the centerpiece of a growing number of gatherings of formally illicit or deviant sexual practices that are taking place across the country. In the 2012 election, sexuality - especially abortion and homosexuality - is a critical issue. The election is about values, a choice between two ethical standards. Once again, Americans have to choose between the humane, the secular, and the religious.
  9727. Passphrases That You Can Memorize - But That Even the NSA Can't Guess
    First Published: 2015
    A passphrase is like a password, but longer and more secure. In essence, it's an encryption key that you memorize. Once you start caring more deeply about your privacy and improving your computer security habits, one of the first roadblocks you'll run into is having to create a passphrase. You can't secure much without one.
  9728. The past belongs to everyone: British Library calls on public to help piece together history
    First Published: 2015
    As the British Library thrusts itself into the digital age, more than a million images from its archives are available online. And it wants the public's help to expand what is known about them.
  9729. Past Contributors on Unemployment 1976 - 1978
    First Published: 1978
    A list of organizations abstracted in past issues of Connexions from 1976 through 1978.
  9730. Pat Califia - A Three Part Interview
    First Published: 2001
    "If you believe that inequities can only be addressed through extreme social change, then you qualify as a sex radical, even if you prefer to get off in the missionary position and still believe there are only two genders."
  9731. Patent Absurdity
    First Published: 2005
    If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted.
  9732. Patenting human life
    First Published: 1992
  9733. Patently Biased
    First Published: 2016
    Journalists share responsibility for the increasing commercialization of scientific research.
  9734. The path to power: 'Let's commit to the long haul'
    First Published: 2016
    The following discussion of strategy for social change, by Umair Muhammad, was first published under the title "An Altered Position," as an afterword to the second edition of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism.
  9735. Pathological Deceit: The NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela's Cuban Doctors
    First Published: 2019
    Claims that the Maduro government is using Cuban doctors to coerce voters by refusing care to the opposition are based on very dubious evidence.
  9736. Patients' Rights Handbook
    First Published: 1977
    A document that outlines the list of rights held by patients and how to complain if those rights are being ignored.
  9737. The Patriarchal Stranglehold
    Book review
    First Published: 2018
    A review of the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne.
  9738. Patriarchy Gets Funky
    The Triumph of Identity Marketing
    First Published: 2001
    How identity politics among young people through the 1980's and 1990's provided a lucrative market for corporations. From Chapter Five of the book "NO LOGO" (Flamingo).
  9739. Patricia Isasa's Quest for Justice
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    Patricia Isasa turned 16 on April 24, 1976 in her home town of Santa Fe, Argentina. She was an honor student, a delegate of her school and a member of a Catholic group in support of the poor - all completely open and legal activities.
  9740. Patrick Buchanan's Ezola Virus
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    Amidst all the turmoil of the Reform Party this summer, Pat Buchanan named Ezola Foster as his running mate for his third bid at the presidency. For a man who has openly questioned the holocaust, and battled to save white America, choosing a Black woman is a little puzzling.
  9741. The PATRIOT Act: Darkness With No Sunset
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    A report by Amnesty International released May 13, 2005 concluded that the treatment of detainees being held around the world, including Guantanamo, in the United States' "war on terror," as glaring and systematic violations of human rights, describing the conditions at the Guantanamo Detention Center as "the gulag of our times, entrenching the notion that people can be detained without any recourse to the law." ("Guantanamo and Beyond: The Continuing Pursuit of Unchecked Executive Power," Amnesty International, 5/13/05)
  9742. The Pattern (Musically Annotated)
    From the Annals of Occupation
    First Published: 2014
    The war of words heats up. Israeli and US leaders are all over the airwaves, saying Israel has a right to defend itself and that Hamas is responsible for all deaths on both sides. The news organizations feel they have to have some reporters in Gaza for a change. They keep trying to spin the news in Israel’s favour, but once they’re showing even a little bit of the reality on the ground, it all starts looking really bad for the Israelis with each new dead Palestinian child buried beneath the rubble.
  9743. Patterns of Occupied Palestine and Kashmir: Part 4 of Uncountable
    First Published: 2020
  9744. Paul Buhle's Tim Hector
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    Paul Buhle's account of Tim Hector, Caribbean radical of Antiguan origin who passed away in 2002, is provocative and welcome. Its span is broad and appropriate for a general rather than specialist readership.
  9745. Paul Burkett's Marx and Nature Fifteen Years After
    First Published: 2014
    Revisiting the content and contributions of Paul Burkett's book 'Marx and Nature', considering the changes in historical context and perceptions of environmental issues since its original publication.
  9746. Paul D'Amato and the Red Condom
    First Published: 2012
  9747. Paul Levi: A Luxemburgist Alternative?
    A review of In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi
    First Published: 2012
    Among the adversaries of capitalism, some have argued that a revolution could have been achieved differently and better in the spirit of Rosa Luxemburg, who wrote a critique of the Bolsheviks’ undemocratic policies as early as 1918. Paul Levi, Luxemburg’s lawyer, briefly her lover, her follower, and from 1919 to 1921 her successor at the head of German Communism, was the first to defend a Luxemburgist alternative to Bolshevism.
  9748. Paul Mason's covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed
    First Published: 2022
    Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through "relentless deplatforming" and a "full nuclear legal" attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.
  9749. Paul Mattick Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975
    First Published: 1975
  9750. Paula Broadwell, Whistleblower
    It's More Than a Sex Scandal
    First Published: 2012
    We await the follow-up to Paula Broadwell’s assertion that two prisoners were being held at the CIA “annex” near the consulate in Benghazi at the time of the assault that left Ambassador Christopher Stephens and three other Americans dead.
  9751. Paulina González Uses Story Telling as a Tool of Civil Resistance
    The organizer from south Los Angeles believes that you can touch peoples' hearts with stories
    First Published: 2013
    Paulina González believes that story telling is fundamental to succeed any social movement needs the support and dedication of a critical mass.
  9752. Pauling, Linus
    Connexipedia Article
    American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. (1901-1994).
  9753. Pay-to-Print
    "News" Stories for Cash Scandal Rocks India
    First Published: 2009
    On "paid news".
  9754. Paying Dearly
    The International Debt Crisis
    First Published: 1987
  9755. Paying for 'Free' Transit
    First Published: 2007
    Olsen discusses the politics surrounding funding options for transit systems outside of passenger fare to support a fare-free system and proposes shifting spending costs towards avenues that favour riders and transit needs rather than corporate needs, in order to improve service.
  9756. PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account freeze
    First Published: 2010
    PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department.
  9757. PayPal censors journalists who criticize Israel
    First Published: 2018
    Under apparent influence from Benjamin Weinthal, PayPal chose to close down the account of the French online publication Agence Media Palestine. Such a move constitutes censorship as it denies journalists the means to raise money for their work and freedom to express ideas.
  9758. Paz, Pan y Libertad/Bread, Peace and Liberty
    First Published: 1979
    The report of the Canadian delegation to Chile on the occasion of the International Symposium on Human Rights in Santiago, Chile (November 1978) contains the statement of the five-member church delegation and extensive appendices on human rights, economic structures and Canada-Chile relations.
  9759. PBS's Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913 commemorates Michigan's bitter labor past
    First Published: 2014
    One hundred years ago, a major strike by copper miners was continuing in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which protrudes into Lake Superior in northern Michigan. In the middle of the months-long battle against intransigent mine owners, at least 73 people, mostly children, were killed in a horrific incident at a celebration on Christmas Eve in 1913.
  9760. The PCP in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-5: crisis, state and revolution
    First Published: 2018
    How did the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), loyal to the Soviet Union deep into the second half of the 20th century, react to a social revolution in 1974-5? The moments are rare when we can study workers' revolutions in a European country where the Communist Party had a decisive influence. I argue here that the revolution happened despite the party, not because of it. The USSR wanted above all to maintain the equilibrium of the Cold War, and Portugal was, in the division made at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945, in the NATO sphere. The PCP was faithful to that policy.
  9761. Peace and Conflict Studies
    First Published: 1977
  9762. Peace and Environment Rally
    First Published: 1990
  9763. Peace Beyond Annapolis
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    What are the prospects for progress toward Israeli-Palestinian and regional peace coming out of the one-day conference called by president George W. Bush? One leading Arab-American organization offering a positive vision “hopes to see a just, comprehensive and lasting peace result out of the initial Middle East peace discussions taking place in Annapolis, Maryland.”
  9764. Peace churches
    Connexipedia Article
    Christian churches, groups or communities advocating Christian pacifism.
  9765. Peace, Freedom and McCarthyism
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    The title of this volume is a bit misleading. It has hardly anything to do with the ideological substance of U.S. anticommunism in its encounter with the African-American freedom movement.
  9766. Peace in El Salvador
    First Published: 1990
  9767. Peace, Love, Respect and the Blues
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    Popa Chubby is a well-accomplished blues-rock guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in New York City, and on his CD “Peace, Love & Respect” (Blind Pig BPCD 5089), he’s angry. Angry at the war in Iraq, and its waste of young lives. Angry at Bush and his assault on all of us except the very rich. Angry at the frustration and rage he sees in the ordinary people all around him. Angry at the social pathology that’s his daily lot in New York City, and anymore, seemingly everywhere else (including Indianapolis).
  9768. Peace Magazine
    First Published: 1989
  9769. Peace messages are wrapped in quilt
    First Published: 2001
    Sima Elizabeth Shefrin wanted to do something to contribute to peace in the Middle East. And she wanted to do something that would draw the world's eyes to a just peace for both Arab and Jew.
  9770. Peace movement
    Connexipedia Article
    A social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.
  9771. Peace Movement (Canada)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canada has a long tradition of an active and vocal peace movement. During the late 1950s and 1960s, concern over the dangers of atmospheric testing and the debate over the presence in Canada of nuclear weapons provided a focus for Canada's fledgling peace movement.
  9772. The Peace Movement's Limited Agenda
    First Published: 1987
    In Canada, the peace movement's strength has been reduced by its limited agenda caused, for the most part, by a refusal to recognize the important value conflicts within it. Fundamental divisions occur once the agenda goes beyond the development of new weapons systems. A significant example is the refusal of any peace coalition in English–speaking Canada to direct attention to the bloc system, and the persecution of the independent peace movement in eastern Europe.
  9773. The Peace Petition Caravan Campaign: The View From Sudbury
    First Published: 1985
  9774. Peace Prospects in the Middle East?
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    The primacy of economic concerns notwithstanding, the interplay between peace and the Obama Administration’s policies toward the Middle East can be considered a defining measure of the new administration’s success. It was only natural and also telling that President Obama decided to cut the ribbons on his foreign policy making journey by initiating phone calls to leaders in the region.
  9775. Peace tax denied
    First Published: 1990
  9776. Peace Utopias
    First Published: 1911
    What is our task in the question of peace? It does not consist merely in vigorously demonstrating at all times the love of peace of the Social Democrats; but first and foremost our task is to make clear to the masses of people the nature of militarism and sharply and clearly to bring out the differences in principle between the standpoint of the Social Democrats and that of the bourgeois peace enthusiasts.
  9777. Peaceful warrior: Permaculture visionary Bill Mollison
    First Published: 2016
    Australian educator, author and co-inventor of Permaculture, Bruce Charles 'Bill' Mollison, died on the 24 September 2016 in Sisters Creek, Tasmania. He has been praised across the world for his visionary work, and left behind a global network of 'peaceful warriors' in over 100 countries working tirelessly to fulfill his ambition to build harmony between humanity and Mother Earth.
  9778. The Peasant Question in France and Germany
    First Published: 1894   Published: 1895
    Part of the current debate around agrarian issues in which Engels discusses a policy of alliance between the working class and the working peasantry.
  9779. Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323-1328
    Connexipedia Article
    A popular revolt in late medieval Europe. (1323-1328).
  9780. Peasant Sovereignty?
    First Published: 2015
    The Spain-based international agrarian organization, Grain, reported that small farmers not only "feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland," but they are also the most productive farmers on Earth.
  9781. Peasants' Revolt (Wat Tyler's Rebellion)
    Connexipedia Article
    Revolt in England in 1381.
  9782. Peasants' War
    Connexipedia Article
    A popular revolt that took place in Europe during 1524-1525.
  9783. Pedalling Upwind
    Why Halting Highway Construction Belongs on the Bicyclist's Agenda
    First Published: 1992
    Roads are at the crux of almost every current environmental problem, and hence, halting the expansion of the highway system (and other parts of our auto-dependent culture) is one of the most effective spigots by which we can choke off environmental destruction.
  9784. Peddling miracles and amnesia
    First Published: 1999
    The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect.
  9785. Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
    First Published: 2010
    Church leaders seem to forget that pedophilia is a felony crime and that, as citizens of a secular state, priests are subject to its laws just like the rest of us. Clerical authorities repeatedly have made themselves accessories to the crime, playing an active role in obstructing justice, arguing that criminal investigations of 'church affairs' violates the free practice of religion - as if raping little children were a holy sacrament.
  9786. Peer Review and the New Teacher Unionism: Mutual Support or Policing?
    Against The Current vol. 82
    First Published: 1999
    This spring, the California state legislature passed a bill sponsored by the newly elected governor, Democrat Gray Davis, making California the first state to mandate peer review in every school district. Until then, the handful of established peer review programs scattered around the country had been the products of local teacher union and district bargaining.
  9787. La Peine Capitale
    First Published: 1984
    Malgr# les croyances # base #motionnelle, la peine de mort ne dissuade pas. D'un pays # autre, on a pu trouver que l'existence, l'abolition, ou la re-application de la peine capitale n'avait aucune influence visible sur la fr#quence de meurtres.
  9788. The Peking University Marxist Society and Student Activists
    First Published: 2019
    Their report on the living and working conditions of university staff approaches Mao's suggestion that 'knowledge of any kind is inseparable from direct experience' when it states that 'it is only through practice that you can produce genuine knowledge.'
  9789. Peltier, Leonard
    Connexipedia Article
    American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. (Born 1944).
  9790. William A. Pelz
    Obituary
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for labour history scholar and activist William A Pelz.
  9791. Pemulwuy
    First Published: 2016
    Pemulwuy (aka Pimbloy, Pemulvoy, Pemulwoy, Pemulwye) (c1750 - 2 June 1802) was an Aboriginal Australian man born around 1750 in the area of Botany Bay in New South Wales. He is noted for his resistance to the European settlement of Australia which began with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. He is believed to have been a member of the Bidjigal (Bediagal) clan of the Eora people.
  9792. A Pen to Battle Fascism
    Remembering George Seldes (1890-1995)
    First Published: 2016
    During the course of his life, George Seldes repeatedly accused the American Press of "covering itself in filth" when glorifying fascist regimes, no matter how brutal and undemocratic, as long as it was in the name of anti-Communism.
  9793. The Penal State in an Age of Crisis
    Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 2 - June 2009
    First Published: 2009
    We may be approaching a moment where it will be possible to open up a debate on the obscenity and absurdity of the present order and its punitive social control mechanisms. Smashing the penal state is job one for socialist politics as we put the neoliberal hell in our rearview mirrors.
  9794. Penal transportation
    Connexipedia Article
    The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
  9795. Penguin destroys books
    First Published: 1990
  9796. Penner, Jacob
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Canadian radical. (1880-1965).
  9797. Pensando en la Auto-determinación
    First Published: 1994
    Un buen lugar para empezar seria preguntarse si el familiar principio de la Izquierda, "el derecho de auto-determinacion" realmente significa algo o si es otro eslogan vacio cuyo principal uso es que la Izquierda lo puede repetir como mantra y asi salvarse de tener que pensar de manera critica.
  9798. Pensando sobre Autodeterminaçao
    First Published: 1994
    O significado oculto, a essência real, desse slogan, é a crença de que nao é possível ou desejável por dois ou mais grupos étnicos ou de linguagem viver juntos em um país. Nao consigo imaginar um momento mais pessimista e menos socialista do ponto de vista.
  9799. The Pension Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    First, wages. Then health care. Now pension benefits.
  9800. Pension Terminations
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    Pensions have been an example of a major social wage that most Americans took for granted, both in private and public sector employment. That’s no longer the case. Ask the workers at United Air Lines.
  9801. The Pensions Funding Gap
    Against The Current vol. 159
    First Published: 2012
    A pension crisis of major dimensions is growing in the United States across all three forms of defined benefit plans (DBPs) — public, private single-employer, and private multi-employer plans. Corporate America and its political friends have begun to use the economic crisis that commenced in 2007 as an opportunity to initiate and expand yet another offensive, aimed at further undermining defined benefit pensions.
  9802. Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepower in Mexico
    The Big Clubs in Mexico's Drug War Aren't Slipping Through the Gun-Show Loophole
    First Published: 2011
    The deadliest of the weapons now in the hands of criminal groups in Mexico, particularly along the U.S. border appear to be getting into that nation through perfectly legal private-sector arms exports, measured in the billions of dollars.
  9803. Pentagon Hypes 'Surging Sales' for US Missile Makers
    First Published: 2015
    The massive US military industrial complex is struggling to keep up, according to officials, with ever-escalating attacks on various targets across the planet, and growing demands from its various customers looking to build up their assorted missile arsenals for assorted wars.
  9804. The Pentagon Papers and U.S. Imperialism in South East Asia
    First Published: 1972
    Chomsky considers the imperial interests of the USA in South East Asia, claiming that these are revealed in the Pentagon Papers. Then, after a detailed account of the content, he suggests that mere anti-communist goals were not the sole motivation for moving into the region but it was rather the "perceived significance of Southeast Asia for the integrated global system that was to be organised by American power."
  9805. Pentagon rewrites 'Law of War' declaring 'belligerent' journalists as legitimate targets
    First Published: 2015
    The Pentagon has released a book of instructions on the "law of war," detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled "unprivileged belligerents," an obscure term that replaced "enemy combatant."
  9806. The Pentagon Says One Civilian Died in Drone Strike on Syrian Mosque. Witnesses Say It Killed Dozens.
    First Published: 2017
    A Pentagon review concludes that a missile strike only killed one person and was a legal attack on a legitimate target. The review did not include eye witness testimony which claims dozens of lives were lost as well as damage to a mosque.
  9807. Pentagon Spent Over $500 Million Making Fake Al-Qaeda Videos
    Troops Would Litter Videos Around Sites of Raids
    First Published: 2016
    It has already been well-documented that the Pentagon spent a substantial amount of money on propaganda during the occupation of Iraq, running pro-occupation commercials and also covertly getting pro-occupation news stories into the media around the region. It turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg. It has now been revealed that there was a third program ongoing, in which a London-based PR agency was paid $540 million to make fake al-Qaeda propaganda videos for Pentagon use.
  9808. The Pentagon's New Plan to Confront Latin America's Pink Tide
    Panetta Down South
    First Published: 2012
    U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was in Uruguay recently, where he spoke of the need to strengthen the southern hemisphere’s police forces. This proposed policy has a precedent, almost unknown in this country, but potentially indicative of what awaits Latin American governments willing to cooperate with their northern neighbor’s defense establishment.
  9809. The Pentagon's Secrecy Syndrome
    First Published: 1997
    After years of duplicity, denial, and cover-up the Pentagon has had to admit that U.S. troops suffered exposure to chemicals and gases following the Iraqi war. Yet even in the face of TV coverage, Congressional hearing and countless personal stories by veterans, the stonewalling continues.
  9810. Pentagon's War on the Earth
    First Published: 2016
    We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces -- and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices -- also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil many Americans falsely regard as protected by legislation fought for by those trying to protect our environment.
  9811. People and Systems
    Multiple Authorship
    First Published: 1975
    Packet of materials on how the people of Tanzania, Cuba, China, U.S, and Canada are coping with education, health care, religion, work, and the status of women.
  9812. The People and the Land are One
    First Published: 1977
    Outline of the position taken by the Cree-Ojibway chiefs against granting further cutting rights to Reed Pulp and Paper.
  9813. The People are Not the Enemy: Police Anarchy in America
    First Published: 2017
    With alarming regularity unarmed American men, women, children and even pets are dying at the hands of police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later, yet government seems to do little to resolve this crisis in policing.
  9814. People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution: An interview with Christina Schiavoni
    First Published: 2017
    In this interview Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics.
  9815. The People Emerge: The Storming of the Bastille
    First Published: 2019
    A history of the storming of the Bastille emphasizing the revolutionary history that is glossed over in patriotic celebrations.
  9816. People, Get Ready
    First Published: 2002
    There is nothing more necessary for the success of popular struggle in the coming years than a worthy revolutionary alternative to aim for. This alternative must inspire confidence that we can create a truly democratic, humanly fulfilling, successfully functioning new society.
  9817. The People Haven't Risen Up For The Same Reason Abuse Victims Don't Leave Their Abusers 
    First Published: 2021
    Abusive relationships aren't just one partner doing cruel things to another. If they were, there would be no relationship: there'd just be a woman getting assaulted one time by her boyfriend and then immediately leaving. Abusive relationships necessarily include the construction of psychological barriers to leaving, or else they would not exist. Victims of abuse are kept constantly confused, off-balance, insecure and unsure of themselves, because their abuse always necessarily includes the element of psychological manipulation.
  9818. The People in Gravest Danger
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky discusses what makes the Kurds in Iraq the likeliest population to suffer most due to the war in Iraq.
  9819. People of Color Talk is Cheap
    First Published: 2005
    A concept like ‘People of Color’, which obscures privilege and hierarchy within the racial system itself, can often make work harder for antiracists.
  9820. People Power
    First Published: 1976
    Pamphlet about over-consumption, multinationals, and developing countries.
  9821. People power: how Montana stopped the biggest coal mine in North America
    First Published: 2016
    Campaigners are celebrating after defeating plans to build America's largest open pit coal mine. In an epic 'David and Goliath' battle, Montana activists challenged the project, and all the politicians and businessmen that supported it, with fierce opposition, protests and demonstrations. The outcome spells hope for all in the fight against dirty energy.
  9822. The People v. the Bankers
    Greece Today, US Tomorrow
    First Published: 2010
    The Greek "bailout" is actually a bailout of the international banks.
  9823. The People vs. Big Oil
    Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Steve Early's Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City.
  9824. The people who are preparing for war, and the lies they tell
    First Published: 2020
    The double standards, hypocrisy, and dishonesty of the media are absolutely breathtaking.
  9825. The People's Food Commission, Press Release
    First Published: 1978
  9826. The People, The Land, Our Hope
    First Published: 1976
    Pamphlet outlines the plan of the committee to hold land in trust on which to develop a cooperative community.
  9827. People's Assembly: we need unity to beat austerity
    First Published: 2013
    Argues that the People's Assembly is not merely a nice idea or a worthwhile event, but the main basis for co-ordinating resistance to cuts for some time to come.
  9828. The People's Charter
    First Published: 1839
    The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
  9829. People's History, Memory & Archives 
    First Published: 2017
    A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
  9830. A people's history of England
    First Published: 2017
    A posting which attaches in pdf format the 1938 work by AL Morton outlining the most important turning points of British history.
  9831. A People's History of the German Revolution 1918-19 - book review
    First Published: 2020
    William Pelz’s People’s History of the German Revolution is a vivid and accessible introduction to socialism's greatest lost revolution.
  9832. A People's Manifesto: Let's Roll Back Austerity and Claim Real Democracy! 
    Urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe
    First Published: 2013
    Europe stands on the edge of a precipice, looking into the abyss. Austerity policies drive the peoples of Europe into poverty, undercut democracy and dismantle social policies. Rising inequalities endanger social cohesion. Ecological destruction is worsening while acute humanitarian crises devastate the most affected countries.
  9833. The People's Petition
    First Published: 1838
    The Chartist Petition of 1838.
  9834. The People's Point of View: The Toronto Workers' History Project
    First Published: 2020
  9835. The People's Police Commission
    Trial By Amateur Video
    First Published: 2011
    Now we have a people’s police commission of our own. It’s called amateur video. And it will do to criminal scum like Lt. Pike what a whole world of police commissions, pretending to act on our behalf, couldn’t.
  9836. A People's Science
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Historical narratives of science tend to be triumphant tales of magnificent men (and an occasional wily woman) who, through brilliant insight and/or dedicated persistence, changed the way we understand the world and, frequently, how we manufacture our space in that world. An opposite tendency is the cautionary tale of mad scientists aiming to invent ice-nine, the technology that will ultimately spell doom for us all.
  9837. People's Skepticism About Covid-19 Is The Fault Of The Lying Mass Media
    First Published: 2020
  9838. People's Songs
    Connexipedia Article
  9839. People's struggles in Latin Asia & Philippines, colonial protests during the Spanish era
    First Published: 2008
    At the end of the nineteenth century, the Philippines was the first country in Asia to be liberated from colonial power. The first anti-colonial revolt against Spanish rule occurred from 1896 to 1898.
  9840. PEPCON
    First Published: 1990
  9841. Perché tante storie per l'omicidio di una ragazza musulmana dalla pelle scura?
    First Published: 2008
  9842. The Perfect Organizer - Almost
    First Published: 2016
    Fred Ross, Sr. was as close to the perfect embodiment of the myth of the organizer as is humanly possible. Cesar Chavez called him "my secret weapon". In "Finding and Making Leaders," Nicholas Von Hoffman, Saul Alinsky's favorite organizer, said, "The good organizer ... judges his work a success when he can leave the organization without even being missed. He is rare, rarer than first-rate leadership, but he exists ... and he can work in almost any situation."
  9843. Peril from the Right
    First Published: 2012
    Many serious observers hold that the crisis in Europe has not come to an end. With the restructuring of the Greek national debt and the enlargement of the European Stability Mechanism, only time was bought, yet the fundamental problems of over-accumulation2 and the imbalances of the current accounts among the members of the Eurozone still persist.
  9844. A perilous journey: Seabird runs gauntlet of hazards on 40,000-mile annual trip
    First Published: 2014
    Right around now, flocks of sooties are finishing up their summer vacations feasting in the rich, upwelling currents of the Northern Pacific and are heading south to breed. En route, they'll run a gauntlet of manmade obstacles in the ocean: fisheries that deplete their prey and snare them with hooks and long lines, drifting continents of trash and noxious industrial spume.
  9845. The Perils of Embedded Journalism: 'Afghan Papers' Wouldn't Be Needed If We Had a Real Independent News Media
    First Published: 2019
    If the Post and other major news media outlets had been pursuing the truth over the years about these all the wars, and the so-called "War" on Terror, instead of leaving the hard work of exposing all the lies to the likes of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden and journalist/whistleblower publisher Julian Assange, we'd already know about the venality and culpability of our government.
  9846. The Perils of Probabilities
    First Published: 1979
    A list of issues with report 1149 of the Atomic Energy Control Board regarding safety and liscencing of nuclear energy stations.
  9847. Periódicos Radicales
    First Published: 1979
  9848. Perlas, Nicanor
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Filipino opponent of corporate globalization. (Born 1950).
  9849. Perlman, Fredy
    Connexipedia Article
    Radical author, publisher and activist. (1934-1985).
  9850. Permaculture
    Connexipedia Article
    An approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimics the relationships found in natural ecologies.
  9851. Permaculture workship
    First Published: 1990
  9852. Permanent Autonomous Zone
    A Conversation With Zine Writers Erick Lyle and Jeff Miller
    First Published: 2010
    What if our lives were filled with moments of liberation from the everyday? Is it possible to carve out spaces that challenge the dominant logic of the market, where we can pursue meaningful work and actualize our dreams?
  9853. The Perpetual Punitive Machine Backfires
    Not Very Smart
    First Published: 2015
    Our nation has a penchant for creating unnecessary complexity and obstacles for its people in areas such as the tax, health insurance and student debt miasmas. The prison industry adds to this with what it euphemistically calls "collateral consequences."
  9854. Perpetual War
    "Grand Strategy" after 9/11
    First Published: 2011
    A decade after the attentats of 9/11, the United States and its European allies are trapped in a quagmire. The events of that year were simply used as a pretext to remake the world and to punish those states that did not comply. And today the majority of Euro-American citizens flounder in a moral desert, now unhappy with the wars, now resigned, now propagandized into differentiating what is, in effect, an overarching imperial strategy into good/bad wars.
  9855. Perpetuating the Abu Ghraib Culture
    The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women
    First Published: 2014
    The phenomenon of kidnapping, torturing, raping, and executing women is shockingly widespread within the Iraqi criminal justice systm, which continues the policies of the US miliary administration. If such a reality were to exist in a different political context, the global outrage would have been profound.
  9856. The Persecuted
    First Published: 2019
    Fundamentalist Christians maintaining that they are persecuted may not make sense given the prevalence of sympathetic and Christian-owned media and businesses. Listening to a sermon reveals they see the inability to impose their views in society as persecution.
  9857. The Persecution of Julian Assange
    The Farcical Siege of Knightsbridge
    First Published: 2014
    The siege of Knightsbridge is a farce. For two years, an exaggerated, costly police presence around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state. Their quarry is an Australian charged with no crime, a refugee from gross injustice whose only security is the room given him by a brave South American country. His true crime is to have initiated a wave of truth-telling in an era of lies, cynicism and war.
  9858. The Persecution of Pfc. Bardley Manning
    The Leaker as American Hero
    First Published: 2010
    If Manning did what he is suspected of doing, he should be honoured as an American hero for exposing war crimes.
  9859. The Persecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning
    A Sick Game
    First Published: 2011
    The torture and prolonged confinement without trial of Pvt. Manning are the tactics of a totalitarian state. They are exactly what is done in countries like China, Iran, and Burma.
  9860. The Persecution of Wikileaks
    Burning the Messenger
    First Published: 2012
    There is a landmark case, actually more of an affair, involving the US government and WikiLeaks, the online organization that provides anonymity for sources to leak information. The US feels it has leaked too much information about the wrong country, the US.
  9861. Persian Gulf crisis
    First Published: 1991
  9862. Personal Ad Politics
    Race, Sexuality and Power at The Body Politic
    First Published: 2003
    Published in Labour/Le Travail 8.2 (2003)
  9863. Personal guides
    First Published: 2004
    The advice contained in this section won't change the world, but it can help you improve your life by helping you not get messed around by debt collectors, social services or the police.
  9864. Personal histories of the early CIO
    First Published: 2012
    Transcript of a talk given by 5 people who were involved in CIO organizing in the 1930s.
  9865. Personal Reflections: Saving Social Security
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    My dad died when I was 15. I was going into my junior year of high school, my younger brother was still in grammar school. From then on my mother received a Social Security check for each of us until we graduated from high school, and — since I went to college — until I was 21. Unlike so many students today, I finished college debt free.
  9866. Personal testimony of an Irraeli refusnik
    First Published: 2002
    Why would a regular guy get up one morning in the middle of life, work, the kids and decide he's not playing the game anymore?
  9867. Perspectives for Conscious Change in Everyday Life 
    First Published: 1961
    Guy Debord says that to study everyday life would be a completely absurd undertaking, unable even to grasp anything of its object, if this study was not expressly for the purpose of transforming everyday life.
  9868. Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
    First Published: 2019
    The title for this meeting is "Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America." It begins with the understanding, broadly felt by a growing section of workers and youth throughout the world, that we live in a revolutionary period.
  9869. Perspectives on Canadian Drug Policy Volume 1
    First Published: 2003
    A symposium of articles on issues of drug addiction and treatment in Canada. Articles include "Substance Abuse and Crime," "Canada's Drug Laws: Prohibition Is Not the Answer," and "Drug Policy in Canada: War if Neccessary But Not Neccessarily War."
  9870. Perspectives on Putin's Russia
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    The demonstrations of December 10 and 24, 2012 in Moscow, in which tens of thousands of people took part, show clearly that the period of social passivity in Russia is nearing its end.
  9871. Peru: Amazon tribes sacrificed to gas project
    First Published: 2014
    Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of isolated Amazon tribes - who will be put at risk of a massive death toll or extinction from introduced diseases.
  9872. Pesticide safety research shouldn't be left to the pesticide companies
    If the research is to command public confidence, independent controls need to be maintained at every step.
    First Published: 2014
    Pesticide companies are responsible for assessing the safety of their products - and this situation cannot continue. The research should be carried out independently, subjected to peer review, and published.
  9873. Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
    First Published: 2015
    In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
  9874. Pesticides residues and waxes
    First Published: 1989
  9875. Pete Seeger: a Troubadour for Peace and Justice
    Farewell to a Great American
    First Published: 2014
    Pete Seeger is a man who stood up, lived live on his own terms and never stopped speaking out.
  9876. Pete Seeger, Musical Revolutionary
    First Published: 2015
    On Seeger's banjo was printed the motto: "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It to Surrender." With these words, Seeger plainly stated that he intended to use music as a means to facilitate social change. He believed that music held the potential to help people understand their troubles and to take action to change repressive circumstances.
  9877. Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician
    First Published: 2019
    A memorial to Pete Seeger on what would have been his 100th birthday.
  9878. Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto.
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. The book is generous in its treatment of most of them, though it offers, as it should, analysis of why some groups achieved more in the short term than others while still others left a lasting legacy, for example, in preserving natural areas or working-class neighbourhoods that corporate interests wanted to bulldoze.
  9879. Peter Maurin's Vision for the Catholic Worker, an Idea Whose Time has Come
    First Published: 2017
    Today it seems obvious that a return to the land, to a proper relationship with creation and to meaningful, productive work is integral to the aims of the Catholic Worker movement. For much of its history, however, since its beginning in 1933, this aspect of its founder's original intentions was relegated to the margins of an already marginal movement.
  9880. Peter Rosenthal’s passions for law and math make for a beautiful, if different, life
    At 72, lawyer and professor is still in love with his two jobs and says he plans to work until he dies.
    First Published: 2014
    Peter Rosenthal has died several times. Once he died in court when his heart stopped. Each time doctors brought him back. Now he is dying a different death in front of a University of Toronto math class.
  9881. Peterloo (film review)
    First Published: 2019
    Review of a movie about the massacre at a popular revolt in St Peter's Field in Manchester, U.K in 1819.
  9882. Peterloo Massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    The Peterloo Massacre (or Battle of Peterloo) occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000-80,000 gathered at a meeting to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. It is estimated that 11-15 were killed and 400-700 injured.
  9883. The Peterloo massacre and Shelley (1)
    Part 1: The aftermath of the massacre and the responses
    First Published: 2019
    The escalation of repression by the ruling class that followed, resulting in a greater suppression of civil liberties, was met with meetings of thousands and the widespread circulation of accounts of the massacre. There was a determination to learn from the massacre and not allow it to be forgotten or misrepresented.
  9884. The Peterloo Massacre and Shelley (2)
    Part 2: Shelley's politics and his Peterloo poems
    First Published: 2019
    The Peterloo poems adopt various popular forms and styles. Addressing a popular audience with his attempt at a revolutionary understanding suggests a sympathetic response to the emergence of the working class as a political force, and the poems are acute on economic relations.
  9885. Peterson unmasks stitch-up of TV interviews
    First Published: 2018
    Jonathan Cook on Jordan Peterson’s recent interview with Channel 4’s Cathy Newman.
  9886. Petition for the Immediate Release of all Prisoners of Conscience
    1977: Prisoners of Conscience Year
    First Published: 1977
    During 1977, Amnesty International is attempting to bring the situation of prisoners of conscience into stronger international focus. As part of this effort they are circulating a petition for which they hope to get one million signatures.
  9887. Petition for the Total Economic Isolation of South Africa
    First Published: 1978
  9888. Petition in Support of Letter: Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
    First Published: 2014
  9889. Petition of Right, 1628
    First Published: 1628
    A document setting out the rights and liberties of the subject as opposed to the prerogatives of the crown.
  9890. Petitions next to useless in campaign to defend CBC
    First Published: 2013
    Pressure groups put a lot of effort into petitions, but the question is - does sending petitions have any effect. Are they just wasting everyone's time?
  9891. Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
    First Published: 2015
    David Petraeus, the former Army general and CIA director, admitted today that he gave highly-classified journals to his onetime lover and that he lied to the FBI about it. But he only has to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor that will not involve a jail sentence thanks to a deal with federal prosecutors.
  9892. Petro-Canada to be sold
    First Published: 1990
  9893. Petroleum Disaster in the Great Bear Rainforest
    First Published: 2016
    Outrage is the only word for what people are feeling after a tug and fuel barge, owned by Texas-based Kirby Offshore Marine, crashed on rocks in the heart of B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest on October 13, 2016. It’s been leaking 200,000 litres (59, 024 gallons) of diesel fuel into the sensitive marine ecosystem ever since.
  9894. The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists
    First Published: 2015
    Jonathan Chait’s denunciation of the "PC language police" provoked intense reaction: much criticism from liberals and praise from conservatives.
  9895. PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot
    Why Manning was Within His Rights to Give Secrets to Wikileaks
    First Published: 2010
  9896. Pfizer's Elixir of Youth?
    Tamoxifen Makes Women Live Longer (Says Manufacturer of Tamoxifen)
    First Published: 2012
    It was a great moment in Pharma funded physician “education.” At a symposium at the American Psychiatric Association’s 2010 meeting called “Mood, Memory and Myths: What Really Happens at Menopause,” two Wyeth/Pfizer funded speakers tried to resurrect the benefits of cancer-linked hormone therapy. But the mostly-female audience was having none of it: what can we do about our “tamoxifen brain” from the cancer we already have, they wanted to know.
  9897. Pham Binh's historical survey of demands
    First Published: 2011
  9898. The phantom election
    First Published: 2015
    The author criticises the elections took place on 1 November 2015 in Turkey.The ruling party AKP took away two millon votes from the fascist party MHP, one million from HDP the predominantly Kurdish party. half a million from SP a fundamentalist Islamist party, the predecessor of the AK, another million from new strata that came to vote at a higher rate this time. The author questions and attempts to explain the discrepancy between the opinion polls and the electoral results.
  9899. Pharma Funded "Patient" Groups Keep Drug Prices Astronomical
    First Published: 2017
  9900. Pharma Greed Run Amuk
    First Published: 2016
    Congress, especially its GOP members, created the Martin monster. Martin Shkreli is only one of the monsters the GOP Congress has created. Probably our best hope is that one or many, like Shkreli, will overreach in an outrageous greed that our government has condoned for decades. Like errant spoiled children, pharmaceuticals (Pharma) have run roughshod over an obliging Congress and a consuming public since politicians -- in effect -- gave them license to steal.
  9901. The Phenomenology of Mind: Preface
  9902. Phil Ochs Lives!
    "There But For Fortune"
    First Published: 2011
    Phil Ochs and his influence.
  9903. Philadelphia: The PPD's Strategic Response to the Movement Against Police Violence
    First Published: 2015
    A rebellion first began in early August 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police murder of black teenager Mike Brown. Militant solidarity protests spread across the country, and have since intensified following the non-indictment of the cops who killed Brown (also, Eric Garner in NYC). This wave of protests against the police represents the largest, most radical movement in this country since the 1960s.
  9904. Philanthropic colonialism: embedding agribusiness and GMOs into African agriculture
    First Published: 2016
    Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.
  9905. Philip Mirowski, Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste (Book Review)
    How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (Verso, 2013)
    First Published: 2013
    Philip Mirowski has written an important book, one well worth reading. Both an economist and an historian/philosopher of science, Mirowski is unusual in being highly attuned to the purging (long ago) of both economic history and the history of economic thought from the Anglo-American academic “economics” curriculum.
  9906. The Philipinnes: War Against the Poor
    First Published: 2017
    President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is responsible for a so-called "war on drugs" that is costing thousands of lives and is increasingly concentrating power in his own hands.
  9907. Philippine revolts against Spain
    Connexipedia Article
    Revolts during the Spanish colonial period.
  9908. Philippines islanders unite to resist 'land grab' palm oil companies
    First Published: 2016
    Farmers on Palawan are being tricked into giving land away to palm oil companies with local government support, writes Rod Harbinson. Under the palm oil company 'leases' the farmers lose all rights to their land, never receive any money, and are saddled with 25 years of debt. Those who resist the land grabs are now in fear for their lives following the murder of a prominent campaigner.
  9909. Philippines Organizing and Repression
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    Delia Aguilar interviews Vicvic Justiniani. I first met Victoria (Vicvic) Justiniani eight years ago when she had just emerged from the Philippine underground, where she was immersed in the revolutionary struggle for twenty years beginning at age 16. Vicvic attracted international media attention in 1986 when she represented the women's organization, MAKIBAKA, at the ceasefire talks called by the then newly elected president, Corazon Aquino. At the collapse of these talks, Vicvic resumed her clandestine work until her arrest and release in 1992.
  9910. Philippines: Resisting Gobble-ization
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2011
    In his latest book, Epifanio San Juan Jr. uncovers the concealed operations of power and the historic inequalities of political economic systems that have impacted Filipinos in an age of globalized crisis and contradiction. While the definition of globalization is often debated, for the majority of people in the Philippines the process of globalization can be more accurately described as “gobble-ization.”
  9911. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings
    First Published: 2016
    Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
  9912. Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
    First Published: 2017
    Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
  9913. Philippines: when the police kill children - Kulot, Carl, Kian...
    First Published: 2017
    Murders of several teenagers in the Philippines suspected to have been killed as part of the government's war on drugs.
  9914. Phillips, Utah
    Connexipedia Article
    Labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, and poet. (1935-2008).
  9915. Utah Phillips 1935-2008
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    Bruce “Utah" Phillips, who died in May 2008, was a living, singing museum of radical working-class culture. Through his songs and stories he connected three generations to the living memory of class struggle martyrs, hobo lore and life, and the pacifists and anarchists of the early 20th century. In addition to being a world beloved folksinger and performer, Phillips spent time as a peace campaigner, a freight train hopper, and a union organizer. Phillips will be best remembered for his countless renditions of the songs of Joe Hill and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Wobblies.
  9916. Philosophers and Public Philosophy
    First Published: 1968
    In order for Chomsky to address the symposium's topic of Philosophers and Public Policy, he outlines the premises upon which his discourse is based. He claims that the USA faces a crisis that is largely due to "moral degeneration". For example, he asserts that the change of Vietnam policy should have been based on the fact it was "wrong" as opposed to the fact it was merely failing. Chomsky recognizes that philosophers are versed in the analysis of the intellectual culture of society and limits their responsibility to interpreting the world differently; the task of working for actual change is assigned to all citizens. Accordingly, he calls upon universities and professors to analyze the premises and ideologies of public policies - independent of the organs of power - consequentially laying the foundation for reestablishing the integrity of intellectual life, moral perception, and cultural values.
  9917. Philosophy journal spoofed, retracts hoax article
    First Published: 2016
    A philosophy journal that focuses on the teachings of philosopher Alain Badiou has apparently fallen victim to yet another Sokal hoax, and has retracted a fake article submitted by authors trying to expose the publication's weaknesses. The paper, "Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-)Being-Queer," attributed to Benedetta Tripodi of the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Romania, is apparently the work of two academics, who submitted the absurd article to Badiou Studies to expose its lack of rigor in accepting papers.
  9918. Philosophy of the GNU Project
    First Published: 2013
    A collection of essays dealing with the ideas behind the GNU Project.
  9919. Phone service
    First Published: 1992
  9920. Photographing Tragedy
    What Victims Actually Want
    First Published: 2013
    What is the use of a photo when the human conscience has grown numb, and barely appreciates the artistic expression of the photo, not the moral and political crisis it represents?
  9921. Photography and the Powerless
    First Published: 1971
    A critique of photographers who come to exploit "the poor."
  9922. The Picket of the Zim Piraeus
    First Published: 2014
  9923. Picketing
    Connexipedia Article
    A form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in ("crossing the picket line"), but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause.
  9924. Piketty on Capital and Inequality
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty.
  9925. Pilbara strike of 1946
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for human rights recognition and payment of fair wages and working conditions.
  9926. Pilecki, Witold
    Connexipedia Article
    A member of the Polish resistance and the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. (1901-1948).
  9927. Pinkney Fight Continues
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    Reverend Edward Pinkney was ordered released from prison last Christmas Eve while his conviction and 3-10 year prison term — for quoting Deuteronomy in regard to divine punishment of a racist judge — is on appeal. He remains under house arrest and is prohibited from speaking out on racism and corporate abuses in Berrien County, Michigan.
  9928. Pioneers of Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    Emancipation Betrayed attempts to fill in the historical gap between the end of Reconstruction and the post-World War I period through examining Black organizing in the state of Florida. The author, Paul Ortiz, worked on oral histories for the study "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South" at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His research peeled back a lineage of struggle several generations long, connecting the post-World War II civil rights movement to how African Americans dealt with the reimposition of anti-Black laws following the collapse of Reconstruction:
  9929. Pioneers of Women's Liberation
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Hal Draper's book "Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism."
  9930. Pioneers of Women's Liberation
    Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism (Book Review)
    First Published: 2015
    Hal Draper (1914-1990) was both a master polemicist and an erudite scholar of Marxism and of socialist history, often combining these talents in withering critiques of alternative analyses. These qualities are fully manifested in Women and Class: Towards a Socialist Feminism, now released by the Center for Socialist History, a collection of essays some of which were written in connection with his multivolume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution.
  9931. Pipeline Company Paid Pennsylvania Police Department to 'Deter Protests'
    First Published: 2015
    Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan's aim, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, was to use law enforcement to "deter protests" in order to avoid "costly delays."
  9932. Pipeline Rights vs Private Property Rights 
    First Published: 2016
    The U.S. natural gas industry views private property with less reverence than it did when the shale gas revolution began 10 years ago. Companies are chomping at the bit to build new pipelines that will move natural gas and natural gas liquids to profitable markets. However, building a single long-haul pipeline is a timely and costly endeavour that often requires working with hundreds of individual private property owners to create a right of way.
  9933. Pirate radio
    Connexipedia Article
    Illegal or unregulated radio transmitters.
  9934. Pirate radio guide
    A technical primer and guide with advice about micropower broadcasting and other aspects of running a pirate radio station.
    First Published: 2006
    Many people still assume that an FM broadcast station consists of rooms full of equipment costing tens of thousands of dollars. The Micropower Broadcasting, Free Radio Movement has shown this to be untrue. Micropower broadcasting uses FM transmitters whose power output is in the range of 1/2 to 40 watts. Such transmitters have a physical size that is not greater than that of your average brick. These transmitters combined with other equipment including inexpensive audio mixers, consumer audio gear, a power supply, filter and antenna enable any community to put its own voice on the air at an average cost of $1000-$1500. This is far more affordable than the tens or hundreds of thousands required by the current FCC regulatory structure.
  9935. Pirates of the Mediterranean
    Israel Kidnaps Peace Boat Crew
    First Published: 2009
    On June 30, 2009, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the "Spirit of Humanity" and kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries.
  9936. Pirating Creativity
    The MPAA Is Going After Schoolchildren
    First Published: 2013
    The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) goes all-out enforce its “intellectual property” claims upon those who would dare share and distribute media.
  9937. Pitfalls and radical mutations: Frantz Fanon's revolutionary life
    First Published: 2012
    In the 1960s and 1970s Fanon was the quintessential Third Worldist. He was taken up by movements that looked to guerrilla struggle in the countryside and in the newly independent Third World. His work became a manual to Maoists and the guerrilla intelligentsia predicting an imminent revolutionary wave that would overturn the world from the countryside.
  9938. The Pittsburgh Reds, 1911-1914: Revolutionary Socialists in Allegheny County
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    The Socialist Party of America reached the peak of its strength and influence in 1912. In that year, the party could claim 118,000 members, and 879,000 American voters (about 6% of the total) cast their votes for Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs. There were some 1,200 Socialist elected officials throughout the United States in 1912, and over 300 Socialist periodicals.
  9939. Pity the Nation
    First Published: 2022
    Fact-based arguments Scott Ritter made challenging the case for war against Iraq were effectively silenced. Today he sees the same template in play towards anyone challenging the dogma of 'Putinism.
  9940. Place de l'Avenir.
    First Published: 1977
    Le Groupe de l'Avenir is a recently formed self-help organization of single transient men in downtown Montreal.
  9941. El placer de la revolución
    First Published: 1997   Published: 2007
  9942. Places in Need - Mountain Bike Damage
    Trails are easily and seriously degraded by mountain bike use - especially when those bikes are ridden on wet or muddy trail.
  9943. The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics
    First Published: 2021
    In the age of neoliberal tyranny, historical amnesia is the foundation for manufactured ignorance, the subversion of consciousness, the depoliticization of the public, and the death of democracy. It is part of a disimagination machine that is perpetuated in schools, higher education, and the corporate controlled media.
  9944. The Plague of Nationalism
    First Published: 2017
    Catalan nationalists insist that "self-determination" is an inalienable right and cannot be curbed by the Spanish Constitution. Well, then, why stop with an "autonomous community" as Catalonia is designated? Why don’t provinces everywhere have the right to declare their independence? How about cities? Or neighbourhoods?
  9945. A Plague of Rats: How Years of Austerity Prompted Many Britons to Vote for Brexit
    First Published: 2019
    Many Britons in poor areas voted for Brexit even though they benefited financially from the EU. Though often blamed on fear of immigration it is also a result of discontent brought on by severe austerity and privatization.
  9946. Plain people
    Connexipedia Article
    Christian groups characterized by separation from the world and simple living, including plain dress.
  9947. Le Plan d'Action 1977
    First Published: 1981
    Une réponse de l'association provinciale des Acadiens de l'I.P.E. au dossier Les héritiers de Lord Durham.
  9948. Plan for Detoxification Center
    First Published: 1976
    Proposal given to the Quebec government to establish a detox center in downtown Montreal.
  9949. Planes disabled for servicing
    First Published: 1989
  9950. The planet cannot begin to heal until we rip the mask off the West's war machine
    First Published: 2020
  9951. 'The Planet Can't Keep Doing Us A Favour'
    First Published: 2013
    With humanity's huge impact on the planet's climate becoming ever clearer, the claim of 'history in the making' is truly deserved.
  9952. Planet of the Censoring Humans 
    First Published: 2020
    The campaign to remove Michael Moore’s new documentary from the Internet -- led by Moore's erstwhile progressive "allies" -- is a significant advance in the censorship revolution.
  9953. Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together
    First Published: 2016
    Liberal environmentalists insist that we are all passengers on Spaceship Earth, sharing a common fate and a common responsibility for the ship's safety. In reality, a handful of Spaceship Earth's passengers travel first-class, in plush air-conditioned cabins with every safety feature, including reserved seats in the very best lifeboats. The majority are herded into steerage, exposed to the elements, with no lifeboats at all. Armed guards keep them in their place.
  9954. The Planetary Rift
    First Published: 2021
    In "Imperialism in the Anthropocene," we developed an argument that departs from most traditions on the left, in that it takes physical geography seriously as the climate catastrophe demands. Thus, we explained how low-latitude countries, essentially the Global South, are affected most, as a result of Earth System dynamics, by climate change, independently of the fact that they are already economically exploited by the nations of the Global North.
  9955. Planned Parenthood Scholarships
    First Published: 1990
  9956. Planned Parenthood under siege
    First Published: 2015
    Women, especially poor women, have already been severely impacted by an avalanche of laws that effectively strip them of being able to obtain what is a legal medical procedure. The Republican vow to defund Planned Parenthood would mean $500 million cut from two programs aimed at helping poor people: 75% from Medicaid; and the rest from Title X—the federal family planning program that serves poor Americans.
  9957. Planning for Agriculture
    First Published: 1978
    This brief was presented to the Ontario Municipal Board to express some concerns of the Christian Farmers Federation (CFF) about the direction of agricultural planning in the Niagara Region of Ontario.
  9958. Plant breeder's rights
    First Published: 1989
  9959. The Plant Next Door
    A Louisiana Town Plagued by Pollution Shows Why Cuts to the EPA Will Be Measured in Illnesses and Deaths
    First Published: 2017
    When the Environmental Protection Agency informed people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, last July that the local neoprene plant was emitting a chemical that gave them the highest risk of cancer from air pollution in the country, the information was received not just with horror and sadness but also with a certain sense of validation.
  9960. Planting seeds of sovereignty in Gaza
    First Published: 2024
    Food sovereignty is a matter of life and death in Gaza, where Israel has been deliberately destroying Palestinians’ ability to sustain themselves. Over the past year, many farmers in Gaza like Abu Rabee have had to abandon their land, crops and way of life due to Israeli bombing and evacuation orders. Instead of producing their own food, they, like everyone else in Gaza, have become dependent on the little humanitarian aid allowed in as Israel deliberately destroys Palestinians’ self-sufficiency. And they have also become the targets and victims of Israel’s genocide.
  9961. The Plastic Industry's Fight to Keep Polluting the World
    First Published: 2019
    An in-depth look at the failure of recycling intiatives and the plastics industry's PR efforts that put the onus on small scale efforts to reduce waste while they fight any initiatives that curb production at the industry level.
  9962. Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islands
    First Published: 2018
    A look at a report titled " Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas", which examines the alarmingly high concentrations of plastic on southern Atlantic islands and throughout the food chain.
  9963. The Platform of the Communist International
    First Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
  9964. A Play with No End
    What the Gilets Jaunes really want
    First Published: 2019
    When I caught up with the Gilets Jaunes on March 2, near the Jardin du Ranelagh, they were moving in such a mass through the streets that all traffic had come to a halt. The residents of Passy, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Paris, stood agape and apart and afraid.
  9965. Playgrounds are only one aspect of the struggle
    First Published: 1972
  9966. Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country
    First Published: 2017
    Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white. But if we look at one of the most significant parts of the rural economy – the poultry industry – we get a different picture. Not only do we see more workers of color, we also see more exploitation and greater potential for resistance.
  9967. Playing Hard Ball With Soft Power
    FBI Versus FIFA
    First Published: 2015
    The United States claims the right to impose its laws on other countries and on organizations and individuals in those countries. It claims the sole right to decide what is right and wrong, what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. The U.S. mostly ignores the rampant corruption in and around its own government and corporate sector, while going after rivals and enemies in other countries.
  9968. Playing Right Into ISIS's Hands
    First Published: 2015
    Now that we're all supposedly involved in the world battle against the worst enemy since Hitler - not climate change, of course, but Isis - it's time to understand just how the forces of law, order and security, who are supposed to protect us, can do more to recruit European Muslims to the Islamist cause than all the Isis videos combined.
  9969. Playing the 'Anti-Semitism' Card Against Venezuela
    First Published: 2009
    Even after the attack on a Caracas synagogue was shown to be an inside job, a robbery perpetrated by employees of the synagogue's security firm, the international media has continued to portray the incident as an anti-Semitic attack, while suggesting that the Chavez government is somehow to blame.
  9970. Playing the Long Game
    First Published: 2014
    The 2014 midterms did not change the dominant reality we face - one of substantial ongoing political stalemate and decay - and this sets the terms of reference for those serious about long-term fundamental change.
  9971. A Plea for Justice
    A Plea for Justice was written by a group of people in Saskatchewan who have formed the Carswell Lake Dene Support Committee.
  9972. "Please Step Away from the Socialism": The Red Scare Dems at MSNBC
    First Published: 2019
    The anti-socialist scaremongering at MSNBC should put paid to the idea that they have any leftist bias.
  9973. Please Stop Chanting That 'We' Won the Popular Vote!
    First Published: 2017
    "We" didn’t win the popular vote, because we weren't on the ballot. We are the ninety-nine percent.
  9974. Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Russian socialist. (1856-1918).
  9975. Plight of Young Black Men: The Scars and the Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Recent studies have reaffirmed a long known reality: young poorly educated Black men are disproportionately disconnected from mainstream society. The numbers are significantly worse than for Latinos, Asians and whites.
  9976. Plunder in the Pacific
    First Published: 2012
    Chilean legislators clear the way for legally binding international measures to protect threatened fish across the southern Pacific, after an ICIJ investigation.
  9977. Plutocracy in America
    Runaway Exploitation
    First Published: 2013
    Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
  9978. Podcast with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen, Steve Grumbine
    First Published: 2022
  9979. Podemos, Catalonia and the workers' movement in the Spanish state
    First Published: 2017
    Following a long period of electoral upheaval and failure of the left, it is argued that the two key areas where the Spanish ruling class could have been confronted was through the workers' movement and the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, both of which were not sufficiently addressed by the Podemos campaign.
  9980. A Poet for Our Planet
    Book Review of Friedman's "A Turnpike Utopia"
    First Published: 2013
    Azure provides a review of Friedman's poems within the collection "A Turnpike Utopia" dealing with issues of AIDS, workers' rights, racism, and the mistreatment of immigrants.
  9981. Poetry and Latin American Revolution
    Written in Blood and Dreams
    First Published: 2012
    A discussion about the poetry, and about the songs, that have had such a decisive influence on the changes and revolutions in South America.
  9982. The Poetry of J. Quinn Brisben
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    J. Quinn Brisben is known as a retired schoolteacher, civil rights worker, disability rights advocate and former Socialist Party presidential candidate. In publishing a literary historical account in verse, he reveals to us his role of poet.
  9983. Point of order
    First Published: 1979
    Letter on dialectical materialism and on lefty language.
  9984. Point of view: Solidarity
    First Published: 1970
    Root and Branch introduce the British libertarian socialist group Solidarity to their American readers, appending the group's statement of principles, As We See It.
  9985. Poison in the Fields: Agriculture as Chemical Warfare
    First Published: 2017
    Highly poisonous chemicals ( that were originally designed as weapons of war) have been allowed for many decades, under successive Government policies, to be sprayed on crop fields all over the UK, and with literally no protection at all for the many millions of rural citizens living or attending schools in the locality of such chemically treated areas. (In fact, there is actually no protection for rural residents and communities in the majority of other countries around the world either!)
  9986. Poison Papers Snapshot: HOJO Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion With Chemical Industry
    First Published: 2017
    A commentary on the "Poison papers", chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back decades, which shed light on what was known about chemical toxicity and practices in the often-incriminating words of the participants themselves, and which still have implications for us today.
  9987. Poisoned: A dying bald eagle and its healers fight for a second chance
    First Published: 2014
    Nearly three-quarters of the 22 lead-poisoned birds that had reached the Teton Raptor Center in recent years either died or were so far gone they had to be euthanized. But this eagle had so far survived what could have been a lethal dose.
  9988. Poisoned Fruits of Austerity
    First Published: 2015
    The most dramatic advance of the far right is that of the National Front in France. It is not unusual that such forces prosper, with some working-class support, in the absence of well-articulated progressive alternatives.
  9989. The Poisoned Pill of Obama's War
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    The Obama administration looked into the abyss of endless war in Afghanistan, considered all its options, pondered the consequences — and jumped. This is a war without honor, or purpose, or hope.
  9990. Poisoning the Democratic Well
    First Published: 2015
    Opponents of so-called free trade deals have always struggled with the question of why these international treaties don't generate more alarm and vocal opposition from Canadians. These treaties, after all, trump all other Canadian authority to make laws -- provincial legislatures, Parliament, the courts and even the Constitution.
  9991. Poisoning the Well
    Special Report: Toxic Firefighting Foam Has Contaminated U.S. Drinking Water With PFCS
    First Published: 2015
    Lori Cervera had always been an active person. She liked camping, playing outdoors with her kids, and practically lived in her running shoes. She didn’t have much patience for illness. So when she developed a dull ache on her right side in May 2014, Cervera took a few Tylenol and did her best to ignore it. But after a few days in which the pain grew sharper and more intense, she went to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a mass. To her complete surprise, Cervera, a mother of four and grandmother of two who was 46 at the time, was diagnosed with stage 2 kidney cancer. That July she underwent surgery to remove both the tumor and almost half her right kidney.
  9992. Poisoning Wells
  9993. Poland's Solidarity and Its Fate
    Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in Poland
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Jack Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in Poland.
  9994. Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
    First Published: 1986
    Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
  9995. The Police and the 1918-19 German Revolution
    A Correction to Our Militant Labour Pamphlet
    First Published: 2015
    After the SPD took the helm of the government, Emil Eichhorn, a member of the left wing of the USPD, became the Berlin chief of police, acting on the false view that this arm of the bourgeois state could be transformed into a revolutionary instrument. On 4 January 1919, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior dismissed Eichhorn in a deliberate provocation.
  9996. Police and the American Mind
    From "Broken Windows" to the "Thin Blue Line"
    First Published: 2015
    Making sense of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, by understanding two concepts. Firstly, the police believing themselves to be the thin blue line between civilization and chaos. Secondly, the "broken windows" theory of policing.
  9997. The police are not here to protect you
    First Published: 2017
    It is a liberal fantasy that policing exist to protect us from the bad guys, rather it serves more to manage and suppress those on the losing end of economic and political arrangements.
  9998. The police are not here to protect you
    First Published: 2017
    The police spend little of their time making arrests, and most crimes are not solved, writes Alex Vitale - their real purpose is social control
  9999. Police are the Enemy Within
    First Published: 2020
    Yates argues that the police are the enemy of the working class, and that "law enforcement" has a long history of violence against Black and Indigenous individuals and communities. Moreover, in the capitalist system where the law is biased in favour of property over persons, the role of the police continues to be the protection of business from damage, and that harm to persons is simply collateral damage.
  10000. Police Attack Palm Oil Protestors in Sierra Leone
    First Published: 2013
    Sierra Leone police opened fire on a group of protestors who were demonstrating against a palm oil plantation in the southern province of Pujehun. The project is being developed by Societe Financiere des Caoutchoucs (Socfin), a French agri-business giant.
  10001. Police Behavior and Neoliberalism
    Explaining Bill de Blasio's Inaction
    First Published: 2015
    One of the more important questions spinning out of the recent confrontation between NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Police Force has been why, in the face of public disobedience by the force, has there been no attempt by the mayor's office to prepare ground for significant changes in police policies.
  10002. Police Blast #NoDAPL Activists With Water Cannons in Sub-Freezing Temps
    First Published: 2016
    Law enforcement unleashed concussion grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons in sub-freezing temperatures on peaceful water protectors battling the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota late Sunday.
  10003. Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning's Home with Guns Drawn - in a 'Wellness Check'
    First Published: 2018
    A video recording of a 'wellness check' by police in Maryland, USA, shows police officers arriving with weapons drawn. The incident sheds light on a very disturbing police procedure and whether law enforcement should be called at all as first responders in matters of mental health.
  10004. The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
    First Published: 2015
    The criminal justice system has increasingly become the preferred way to fund city governments in the modern neoliberal nightmare that is the United States. The police target the poor for petty infractions that produce fines. When predictably these fines cannot be paid additional fines are piled on top and the person is thrown in prison.
  10005. The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
    First Published: 2015
    Last week Biloxi, Mississippi became the latest city to be sued by the ACLU for running a "modern-day debtors’ prison."
  10006. Police Go on Fishing Expedition, Search the Home of Seattle Privacy Activists Who Maintain Tor Network
    First Published: 2016
    Seattle police descended on the Queen Anne condo of two outspoken privacy activists with a search warrant early this morning, leaving them shaken and upset. Jan Bultmann and David Robinson, a married couple and co-founders of the Seattle Privacy Coalition, said they were awakened at 6:15 a.m. by a team of six detectives from the SPD knocking on the door. Bultmann said were made to sit outside as the officers, who had a search warrant, examined their equipment.
  10007. Police Intimidation: From Dalton Trumbo to Deep Green Resistance
    First Published: 2016
    Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security agents have contacted more than a dozen members of Deep Green Resistance (DGR), a radical environmental group, including one of its leaders, Lierre Keith, who said she has been the subject of two visits from the FBI at her home.
  10008. Police Militarism in America
    In Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
    First Published: 2014
    The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands up in the air, pleading “Don’t shoot, I’m not armed,” is exposing everything that is wrong with policing in the US today. What we need today is community resistance to police abuse, and a demilitarization of policing.
  10009. The Police Riot at OccupyCAL
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    I remember as if it were just yesterday. I was linked in arms, peacefully protesting in support and solidarity with the students of UC Berkeley and my friend Meleiza. What I would soon have to witness would leave me traumatized and utterly disgusted.
  10010. Police Ripped Off More Stuff Than Burglars Did Last Year
    Civil asset forfeiture is big business for cops
    First Published: 2015
    Law enforcement use of asset forfeiture laws to seize property -- often without a criminal conviction or even an arrest -- has gone through the roof in recent years, and now the cops are giving the criminals a run for their money, and winning.
  10011. Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified
    First Published: 2014
    The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud Sioux community. Four police officers decided that this young girl who had a small paring knife was "a danger to herself," requiring them to taser her.
  10012. Police Shootings, Helicopter Crashes and Bystanders With Cameras: Weighing the Rights of Accidental Journalists'
    First Published: 2015
    Accidental Journalist are everyday people who stumble across something news-worthy. Most commonly, these accidental journalists report on those who abuse their power.
  10013. Police State India
    Robert Clive and the Forbidden
    First Published: 2012
    Describing security-mania in India.
  10014. The Police State is Real
    It Has Happened Here
    First Published: 2013
    The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
  10015. Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track "Subversive Propaganda" Online
    First Published: 2014
    The creation of the Truthy database by Indiana University researchers has drawn sharp criticism from free-speech advocates and others concerned over government censorship of political expression.
  10016. Police Taser and Beat Innocent Disabled Vet, Hold Quadriplegic Wife at Gunpoint, Demand She Stand
    First Published: 2015
    Mr. and Mrs. Hayes filed a lawsuit against the Delaware state police for raiding their home. Officers were looking for their nephews, who faced a charge for possession of the drug paraphernalia.
  10017. Police Terror in the Big Apple
    First Published: 2014
    Scott exposes the realities of police brutality and the character of organized opposition in New York City.
  10018. Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society
    First Published: 2015
    What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if approached by the police on the street with the demand that one respond. That would constitute being "uncooperative." Neither does one have the right to protect one's property from the police.
  10019. Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
    Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
    First Published: 2015
    Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
  10020. Police Violence Against Native People
    First Published: 2015
    In April 1974, three white high school students from Farmington, New Mexico murdered three Navajo men, Benjamin Benally, John Harvey, and David Ignacio. The brutal murders were nothing new in Farmington, where white high school students had been known to sever the fingers of inebriated Navajo men and display them proudly in their lockers at school.
  10021. Police Violence and Media Coverup
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
  10022. Police Violence in the Spotlight
    First Published: 2015
    Our investigation concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that CDP [Cleveland Division of Police] engages in a pattern or practice of using unreasonable force in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
  10023. Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy
    First Published: 2011
    What clearly sets a number of recent cases apart is not the fact of police violence, but the fact that that violence is being challenged. The controversy, in other words, is not only about violence, but about authority. It is a crisis of legitimacy.
  10024. Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    On September 5, 2010, Los Angeles police shot and killed a Guatemalan day laborer named Manuel Jamines.
  10025. The police vs. the law
    First Published: 1981
    One of the main differences between a democratic society and a police state is that in a democracy, the police are supposed to obey the law. In a police state, they don't.
  10026. The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor Poeple, Not 'Serve and Protect'
    First Published: 2015
    On the history and origins of policing in the US.
  10027. Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.'s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
    First Published: 2017
    Commentary on 'policing for profit', or civil asset forfeiture, which allows police and prosecutors to seize property and sell it to help fund agency budgets.
  10028. Policy Formation on Aspects of Canada's Nuclear Waste
    First Published: 1982
  10029. The Policy of Abstention
    First Published: 1887
    Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
  10030. Policy Recommendation on the Abortion Issue
  10031. Policy Recommendations on the Abortion Issue
    Response of Metropolitan Toronto YWCA to the Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Abortion Law (Bagley Report)
    First Published: 1978
  10032. A Policy without a Conscience
    First Published: 2013
    The tragedy and the horror of Lampedusa did not come out of the blue. Much of the responsibility lies with the policies pursued by European nations. The only policy that could prevent more tragedies like that is that no European politician will countenance: the liberalization of border controls, and the dismantling of Fortress Europe.
  10033. The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968
    First Published: 2008
    The first student uprising in 1968, year of millennial hopes and young insurrections, took place in Warsaw. But the west's media commemorations of 1968 - selective, supercilious about such idealism, and yet faintly nervous in case a new generation feels tempted into imitation - overlook Poland entirely.
  10034. The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
    First Published: 1896
  10035. Polish Righteous among the Nations
    Connexipedia Article
    Polish citizens have the world's highest count of individuals awarded medals of Righteous among the Nations, given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews from extermination during the Holocaust.
  10036. Polish underground press
    Connexipedia Article
    Underground newspaper with a long history of combatting censorship.
  10037. The Politcal Economy of Fascism
    First Published: 2017
    For all of the millions of words written about the fascist danger posed by Donald Trump, there are very few devoted to an actual analysis of fascist economics both as ideology and state policy.
  10038. Political activist Ken Stone takes CSIS to task for alleged harassment
    First Published: 2015
    What is it like to be targeted by Canada's spy agency? Veteran anti-war and environmental activist Ken Stone knows firsthand and is willing to talk about it.
  10039. Political Appeal to American Workers
    First Published: 1912
    There is but one issue that appeals to this army the unconditional surrender of the capitalist class. To be sure this cannot be achieved in a day and in the meantime the party enforces to the extent of its power its immediate demands and presses steadily onward toward the goal. It has its constructive program by means of which it develops its power and its capacity, step by step, seizing upon every bit of vantage to advance and strengthen its position, but never for a moment mistaking reform for revolution and never losing eight of the ultimate goal. Socialist reform must not be confounded with so-called capitalist reform. The latter is shrewdly designed to buttress capitalism; the former to overthrow it. Socialist reform vitalizes and promotes the social revolution.
  10040. Political Controls from Above
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    When in 1961 Fidel Castro proclaimed “inside the revolution everything; outside the revolution, nothing,” he left out the key question of who decided what was and who qualified as being “inside the revolution.” The slogan was immediately followed by repressive measures directed not against right-wing counterrevolutionaries but against non-Communist leftists.
  10041. Political correctness demands diversity in everything but thought
    First Published: 2016
    For 50 years I've been painstakingly cataloguing the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of US foreign policy, building up in the process a very loyal audience. To my great surprise, when I recently wrote about the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of the Islamic State, I received more criticism from my readers than I've gotten for anything I've ever written. Dozens of them asked to be removed from my mailing list, as many as I'd normally get in a full year. Others were convinced that it couldn’t actually be me who was the author of such words, that I must have been hacked. Some wondered whether my recent illness had affected my mind. Literally! And almost all of the Internet magazines which regularly print me did not do so with this article.
  10042. Political Correctness: Handle with Care 
    First Published: 2016
    Racial, gender, and ethnic diversity matters, of course, but political correctness (PC) tied to bourgeois identity politics can be deadly to left thinkers and activists and to the causes of peace and social justice.
  10043. Political Developments in South Africa
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    An excerpt from the South African journal Amandla! regarding current political events in South Africa.
  10044. The political economy of hunger
    Why is there hunger? It's nothing to do with a lack of food.
    First Published: 2014
    The fact there's enough food to feed everyone has slowly been acknowledged amongst the ruling institutions. The intuitive answer to this question is that there must be a lack of food. This explanation comes in two flavours. Chronic hunger is typically explained by the Malthusian argument that population growth perennially outstrips food production. Acute hunger, such as famines, is typically explained in terms of Food Availability Decline, such as crop failures due to drought.
  10045. A Political Education and Militant Intervention Before, During and After May ’68
    First Published: 2018
    In the context of the Algerian War for independence, Charroussart discusses his political education and activism before, during after 1968 in relation to Marixsm.
  10046. Political Indifferentism
    First Published: 1873
  10047. The Political is Personal: Why women in the Canadian Marxist group in Struggle changed from opposing to supporting the feminist ideology of the autonomous women's
    MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1983
    First Published: 1983
  10048. The Political Is Political: In Conversation With Yasmin Nair
    First Published: 2016
    An activist and writer based in Chicago, Nair is one of the founders of Against Equality, a group that was born in 2009, initially as an online archive of pieces that were critical of the gay-marriage movement and mainstream gay politics.
  10049. The Political Mass Strike 
    First Published: 1913
    If we want to prove ourselves worthy of the great coming events then we must not begin at the wrong end by attempting to make technical preparations for the mass strike. When the situation is ripe, the tactic of the mass strike will present itself. Let us not rack our brains about supporting it at the right time. What is necessary is that you watch the party press to ensure that it is your instrument and expresses your opinion and your mood. You must also see to it that our parliamentarians feel a mass pressing them from behind.
  10050. Political Persecution in Puerto Rico: Uncovering Secret Files
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    In the summer of 1987 Puerto Rico was shaken by revelations that the island's police was collecting information on so called “political subversives,” and that it was in possession of thousands of extensive carpetas (files) concerning individuals of all social groups and ages.
  10051. Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire
    Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond
    First Published: 2014
    Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
  10052. Political Prisoners in the USA
    First Published: 2013
    A list of political prisoners in the USA (with links to support websites).
  10053. Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears End
    First Published: 2017
    In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen.
  10054. Political Protest
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Political protest is the kind of political activity, eg, demonstrations, strikes and even violence, usually but not always undertaken by those who lack access to the resources of organized pressure groups, or by those whose values conflict sharply with those of the dominant elite.
  10055. Political Repression in Russia
    First Published: 2011
    When someone in Russia today calls himself a Communist, in most cases it will turn out that what you have is a particular version of a National Socialist; all too many anarchists turn out to be “national anarchists.”
  10056. Political Repression in Russia
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    The full implications of the extraordinary drought that struck the European part of Russia this past summer became apparent only in the third quarter of 2010, when accurate statistics on the human casualties and economic losses became available. But from the outset a solid foundation on which to base projections emerged from amongst the potpourri of facts and expert opinions.
  10057. Political Revolution -- What Is It?
    First Published: 2016
    The editors discuss Bernie Sanders' concept of a political revolution, as well as the terror attack in Orlando.
  10058. The Political and Rhetorical Strategies of Martin Luther King
    First Published: 2017
    What we can learned from Martn Luther King about political and rhetorical strategy, as well as movement building and organizing.
  10059. The Political Situation and the Tasks of the Proletariat
    First Published: 1937
    In the present, unequivocally revolutionary situation the slogan "fight for the parliamentary-democratic Republic" can serve no other interests than those of the bourgeois counter-revolution.
  10060. The Political Slaughterhouse
    Statism's Death Knell for Liberty and Democracy
    First Published: 2010
    The issue of government coercion has been taken off the radar screen of politically correct thought. The more government power has grown, the more unfashionable it becomes to discuss or recognize government abuses- as if it were bad form to count the dead brought about by government interventions.
  10061. Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYT's 1967 Attack on MLK's Anti-War Speech
    First Published: 2015
    John Oliver's Monday night interview of Edward Snowden -- which in 24 hours has been viewed by 3 million people on YouTube alone -- renewed all the standard attacks in Democratic circles accusing Snowden of being a traitor in cahoots with the Kremlin.
  10062. A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
    First Published: 2014
    Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia.
  10063. The Politics (and Anti-Politics) of Occupy Wall Street
    First Published: 2011
    At present, the occupation reveals a lot about where people's politicization begins in the United States.
  10064. Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 1 
    First Published: 1998
    Marxists used to be attacked from the right as "reductionists." Today, that accusation has become a favorite of the (postmodernist) left. We've reached a point where any attempt at explanation, any tendency to think in terms of causality, is "reductionist."
  10065. Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 3
    First Published: 1998
    The ongoing purpose of independent revolutionary organization must be to advance in every possible situation the self-organization and capacity for self-mobilization of the working class.
  10066. Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 4
    First Published: 1998
    As Rosa Luxemburg contended, until a socialist revolution is successful, the most important result of any struggle is the building of working-class self-confidence and organization. This transforms the struggle for reforms in a more radical direction, and expresses an understanding of self-emancipation of the working class as both means and end of a socialist revolution.
  10067. Politics and the English Language
    First Published: 1946
    In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
  10068. Politics and Memory in the Flint Sitdown Strikes
    A comment on Historiography
    First Published: 1996
    The General Motors strike of 1936-37 was the most important union victory of the 20th century, but the very meaning of its success was ambiguous indeed.
  10069. The Politics of a Punch: Richard Spencer and the Black Bloc
    First Published: 2017
    Alt-right leader Richard Spencer was punched in the face by a man dressed in black bloc garb. Louis Proyect gives his interpretation of the punching incident.
  10070. The Politics of Being Queer
    First Published: 1969
    Goodman writes: "On balance, I don't know whether my choice, or compulsion, of a bisexual life has made me especially unhappy or only averagely unhappy. It is obvious that every way of life has its hang-ups, having a father or no father, being married or single, being strongly sexed or rather sexless, and so forth; but it is hard to judge what other people's experience has been, to make a comparison. I have persistently felt that the world was not made for me, but I have had good moments.
  10071. The Politics of the California Drought
    First Published: 2015
    As if in compensation for a historic drought, California is being deluged by expressions of grim satisfaction that it is finally getting its comeuppance for environmental sins. Judgement was especially swift after California Gov. Jerry Brown imposed a 25 percent reduction in water usage for urban areas. The media asked if this is "The End of California?", as well as declaring "So Long, California," and "Dust Bowl 2.0."
  10072. The Politics of Extractivism
    Book Review of "Geopolítica de la Amazonía: Poder hacendal-patrimonial y acumulación capitalista" by Alvaro García Linera
    First Published: 2013
    García Linera's work is most certainly an expression of the dramatic changes in Bolivia and the "cultural and democratic revolution" Morales and his MAS party claim to have inaugurated.
  10073. The Politics of Food and Poverty
    First Published: 2014
    The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
  10074. The Politics Of Gorter
    First Published: 1952
    In the years after 1920, Gorter in contact with the small groups of the extreme left, worked to clarify the idea of the organisation of workers councils and thus collaborated in the future renewal of the class struggle of the proletariat. During this time the socialist politicians of the second international, as members of parliament and ministers, were occupied in bailing out a bankrupt capitalism for the bourgeoisie.
  10075. The politics of identity, left and right
    First Published: 2019
    One of the consequences of the bifurcated debate is historical amnesia about the origins of identity politics. Most people imagine that its roots are on the left. In fact, they lie on the reactionary right, in the counter-Enlightenment of the late 18th century. It wasn’t then called the politics of identity. It was called racism. It is, however, in the concept of race -- the insistence that humans are divided into a number of essential groups, and that one’s group identity determines one’s moral and social place in the world -- that we find the original politics of identity, out of which ideas of white superiority emerged.
  10076. Politics of Illusion
    First Published: 1980
    Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
  10077. The Politics of Impatience: An open letter from anarchists to the anarchist movement
    First Published: 2010
    Militancy and dramatic tactics require trust, and trust is built by humbly listening to people who have their own ideas and plans for their liberation. It is now more than ever, exactly because of the urgency of the crisis created by capitalism, that we need to be careful that our actions are as respectful, strategic, and collectively discussed and agreed-on as possible.
  10078. The Politics of Mass Incarceration
    First Published: 2015
    An interview with activist and author James Kilgore about his book, "The Politics of Mass Incarceration."
  10079. The Politics of Pachamama
    Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America
    First Published: 2014
    While many economies and citizens have benefitted from the state’s larger involvement in the extraction of these resources, extractivism under progressive governments, as it had under neoliberalism, still displaces rural communities, poisons water sources, kills the soil, and undermines indigenous territorial autonomy.
  10080. The Politics of Prisons and Prisoners
    First Published: 2015
    They are getting ready to activate another super-max prison. Like Pelican Bay, Marion, and Florence, this prison will be dedicated to holding people in solitary confinement. They say it is for "the worst of the worst" , but we know it refers to political prisoners.
  10081. The politics of rebranding
    First Published: 2021
    How politics and social activism have too often become exercises in rebranding not material change.
  10082. The Politics of Repair
    First Published: 2015
    The politics of repair are often invisible, hidden by the idea that repair is no more than the mundane practice of putting what is broken or worn-out back in good working order.
  10083. The Politics of Servility
    Congress and the Israel Lobby
    First Published: 2007
    Our legislators, fearing their own potential loss of their House or Senate seat, continue to support the desires of the Neo-cons and AIPAC and its fellows despite the condemnation of the world's communities that see nothing but hypocrisy in their behaviour.
  10084. The Politics of Some Bodies
    The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection.
  10085. The Politics of South Africa: The Transition to Democracy
    First Published: 1998
    OVER THE PAST few years, South Africa has undergone the dramatic political transition from apartheid to non-racial democracy. As one might expect in a country where racial and economic inequality is so stark, dismantling the economic structures of apartheid has proven more difficult.
  10086. The Politics of Surrealism
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    In the first notebook of his Grundrisse, composed in 1857, Marx predicted that the “romantic viewpoint” would “accompany [capitalism] as its legitimate antithesis up to its blessed end.” He believed that romanticism, with its celebration of the richness — real or imagined — of pre-capitalist life, would remain a perennial reaction to the reification of social life under capitalism.
  10087. Politics of Terror and Scandal
    First Published: 1998
    SCENARIO: AGAINST THE background of a depression in Japan, the economic collapse of Russia and stock market crashes on three continents, a United States president facing imminent expulsion from office for concealing illicit sex in the Oval Office orders retaliatory Cruise missile strikes on two already-ravaged Middle Eastern countries and declares "war on international terrorism."
    Take that idea and try to sell it to Hollywood. Forget about it: Even in "Wag the Dog," after all, not only...
  10088. The Politics of Terror Mirrors the Politics of Heroin
    First Published: 2017
    While terrorist activities of ISIS in the West are describes as blowback. a more sinister connection than ‘guilt by association’ comes to the surface if we analyse Western elite behaviour elsewhere.
  10089. Politics of the Communist Manifesto -- Part 2
    Brenner, Johanna; Resnick, Bill
    First Published: 1998
    In the end, when we engage in reform movements, we have to measure success not simply in terms of the good we've done. Although we do need to win real things for real people, we also have to measure success, win or lose, by the quality of the working relationships we've built and whether the alliances made within the reform movement self-consciously bridge existing divisions within the working class.
  10090. The Politics of the Exodus Myth
    Pillar of Superstition
    First Published: 2012
    Cook provides conclusions that would suggest that the Bible as the word of God is rather a fabrication created for the masses for political, religious and cultural reasons.
  10091. Politics of the New Normal
    First Published: 2016
    For those of us on the socialist left, the biggest issue is what will come from the passion and commitment of millions of voters and tens of thousands of activists who are feeling the Bern.
  10092. The Politics of the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign
    First Published: 1984
    LaFramboise on how the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign as a national campaign would now appear to be a tactical mistake of gargantuan proportions.
  10093. Politics of Transportation
    First Published: 1976
    Articles on the role of transportation in Saskatchewan society.
  10094. Politics on the Plate: Mob Wives, GMOs and Salt
    First Published: 2016
    How can we broaden our movement to appeal to and involve the majority of people out there who do not seem to be aware, do not seem to care or are just too apathetic?
  10095. Politics and Pensioners Concerned
    First Published: 1978
    A report by the Canadian Pensioners Concerned about the possibility that tax-exempt charitable organizations could lose this status if they become involved in the political process.
  10096. Politics and the Prayer Warriors
    Dominionism Hits the Big Time
    First Published: 2011
    Dominionism is a totalitarian movement within Christian evangelicalism that aims at taking over the centers of power—law, culture, government and the like—and establishing a dictatorship. Once having gotten power, Christian Dominionists would then impose their religious practices on the rest of America.
  10097. Politics without Democracy, Democracy without Politics
    First Published: 2011
    The aim of the Occupy movement is to create a big tent, to represent the 99%, in the name of democracy. But democracy requires not big tent politics, but the very opposite. It requires the drawing of political lines, the engaging in political conflict, the making of political choices.
  10098. Politics Without Politicians
    Citizens can - without representatives - run society by voting directly for policies rather than for politicians.
  10099. Politics Without Politics
    First Published: 2017
    Jonathan Smucker's recently published book Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals offers a flawed road map for rebuilding the Left.
  10100. Les Politiques Dites "Sociales"
    First Published: 1980
  10101. Politkovskaya, Anna
    Connexipedia Article
    Russian journalist, author and human rights activist. (1958-2006).
  10102. Lillian Pollak
    First Published: 2017
    Activist, revolutionary socialist and writer Lillian Pollak died in New York City at the age of 101.
  10103. Polluted Logic
    First Published: 1998
    The business of allowing polluters to buy their way out of complying with the law is an innovation with vast untapped potential.
  10104. Polluter wins tax break
    First Published: 1992
  10105. Polyamory
    Connexipedia Article
    The practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one intimate relationship at a time with the consent of everyone involved.
  10106. Polyamory and Polygamy: Is the Media Right?
    First Published: 2016
    There are a few of repeated themes emerging in many of the articles railing against polyamorous marriage.
  10107. Polyfidelity
    Connexipedia Article
    A form of polyamorous group marriage wherein all members consider each other to be primary partners and agree to be sexual only with other members of this group.
  10108. Pontiac
    Connexipedia Article
    An Ottawa chief who led Pontiac's Rebellion. (1763-1766).
  10109. Pontiac's Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    A war launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War.
  10110. Poor fetishes, poor critiques: gentrification as violence
    First Published: 2016
    Hating on hipsters is not the answer to gentrification. If we want to reclaim our cities, we should organize for genuinely affordable housing in common, argues Gloria Dawson.
  10111. Poor Memory leads to fame
    Researcher Dr. Fergus Craik discusses his life, his work and, of course, his memory.
  10112. The Poor Must Die
    Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101
    First Published: 2010
    For more than 30 years, the world-dominating Anglo-American alliance has been under the sway of factions which, for all their internal squabbling and hair-splitting, are strongly united in their steadfast, unshakeable adherence to the perpetuation -- and expansion -- of elite power and privilege. They have shown themselves willing -- eager -- to degrade their own societies (and destroy many others) in the service of this brutal, barbaric, inhuman faith. The poor have no place in this system.
  10113. Poor West Virginia? Think Again
    Resistance in the Valley of Death
    First Published: 2014
    The chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia has once again put Appalachia on the map. This is what it usually takes. People have to not just die at the hands of the coal and chemical industry, they have to die dramatically. The long slow death spiral West Virginia has been in for over a hundred years is not news unless they do.
  10114. Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview with Historian Keri
    First Published: 2017
    Historian Keri Leigh Merritt presents a comprehensive study of this malignant and overlooked aspect of slavery in her new book Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press). This is an interview with her.
  10115. The Pope at Herzl's Grave
    Patagonian Dreams
    First Published: 2014
    During his short visit to Israel, Pope Francis laid a wreath on the grave of Theodor Herzl.
    That was not a usual gesture. Foreign heads of state are obliged to visit Yad Vashem, as did the pope, but not the grave of Herzl.
  10116. Pope Francis' Call to 'Hear Both the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor' Resonates in the Philippines
    First Published: 2015
    After Pope Francis' well publicized statement on the ecological crisis, his visit to Hurricane-stricken Philippines was met with applause and amazement. It's not everyday that a Pope breaks conservative conventions so publically.
  10117. Popular education
    Connexipedia Article
    An educational technique designed to raise the consciousness of its participants and allow them to become more aware of how an individual's personal experiences are connected to larger societal problems.
  10118. Popular Education Conference
    First Published: 1976
    The level of discussion was brought down to actual examples and practice quite in contrast to the sloganeering and shallow definition of terms that is typical of most formal intra-left gatherings.
  10119. Popular Education Conference - Overview
    First Published: 1976
    A report on the Popluar Education Conference.
  10120. Popular Front Counter-Memories
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Ehlers reviews Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Benjamin Balthaser.
  10121. The Popular Front Didn't Work
    First Published: 2017
    The Communist Party's 1930s popular front strategy weakened the labour movement and empowered the Democratic Party, a strategy that would be even more destuctive to the socialist left today.
  10122. The Popular Front Didn't Work
    First Published: 2017
    This article focuses on the recent growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Through a historical overview of worker's parties in the United States, the article discusses the party's vision for the future.
  10123. The Popular Front: Rethinking CPUSA History
    First Published: 1996
    Very simply, the legacy of the Communist movement in the United States points to the need for revolutionaries today to develop rank-and-file worker organizations independent of and opposed to the labor officialdom; to organize independently of the Democratic party and promote independent political action.
  10124. Popular Front (Spain)
    Connexipedia Article
  10125. Popular Movements Toward Socialism
    Their Unity and Diversity
    First Published: 2014
    The following reflections deal with a permanent and fundamental challenge that has confronted, and continues to confront, all popular movements struggling against capitalism. By this I mean both those of movements whose explicit radical aim is to abolish the system based on private proprietorship over the modern means of production in order to replace it with a system based on workers’ social proprietorship, and those of movements which, without going so far, involve mobilization aimed at real and significant transformation of the relations between labor and capital. Both sorts of movements can contribute, in varying degree, to calling capitalism into question; but they also might merely create the illusion of movement in that direction, although in fact only forcing capital to make the transformations it would need to co-opt a given set of working-class demands.
  10126. Popular revolt in late medieval Europe
    Connexipedia Article
    Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by (typically) peasants in the countryside, or the bourgeois in towns, against nobles, abbots and kings during the upheavals of the 14th through early 16th centuries.
  10127. Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks
    First Published: 2015
    The National Security Agency and its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, have worked to subvert anti-virus and other security software in order to track users and infiltrate networks, according to documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
  10128. Population Issues
    First Published: 1976
    A pamphlet linking the overpopulation problem to over-consumption in rich countries.
  10129. Populism
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Populism mixes elements of core political ideologies, like socialism, liberalism and neo-conservatism, opposition to powerful elites in public life, and advocacy of more real power for "the people." All populisms explain the distribution of power and operation of basic social institutions in terms of a fundamental antagonism between "the people" and "power elites."
  10130. Populism: What, Why, How?
    Preface to European Populism and Winning the Immigration Debate
    First Published: 2014
    Preface to a new book on European Populism and Winning the Immigration Debate.
  10131. Por que fazer um alarido sobre o assassinato de uma garota muçulmana morena?
    First Published: 2008
  10132. Por qué protestar por el asesinato de una chica musulmana de piel oscura?
    First Published: 2008
  10133. Porn can be good for you
    First Published: 2008
    While pornography can be dehumanising and exploitative, it can also be educative, liberating, empowering, fulfilling and immensely socially beneficial. It all depends on how it is made, who makes it, what it depicts and why it is being used.
  10134. Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
    A Response to Gail Dines
    First Published: 2014
    I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
  10135. Pornography
    A brief submitted to the Commission D'Etude sur le Cinema et l'Audiovisuel
    First Published: 1982
  10136. Pornography and the Sex Censors
    A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
    First Published: 1996
    The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
  10137. Port Chicago mutiny
    Connexipedia Article
    A refusal by servicemen to load munitions in 1944 in the face of unsafe working conditions which had led to an explosion the previous month in which 320 sailors had been killed.
  10138. The Port Huron Statement 
    First Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
  10139. Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
    First Published: 2013
    We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
  10140. Portrait of an Icon
    Review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
    First Published: 2018
    A review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical by Judith E. Smith.
  10141. Portraits of the Unionista
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Like all women workers, Filipina workers' experiences in the labor force are shaped by gender. Tracked into the lowly-paid service economy doing “feminine” labor, they often have dead-end jobs with a secondary wage-earner status. In mixed-gender unions and labor movements, their status is also secondary.
  10142. Portraying the men and events of our times
    The Diary of Victor Serge #2
    First Published: 1937   Published: 1950
  10143. Portugal
    First Published: 1976
    The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
  10144. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution (review)
    First Published: 1977
    Book offers a clear analysis of events in Portugal 1974-1975.
  10145. Portuguese Workers vs. Austerity
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    The General Strike of March 22, 2012 was the second called by the Portuguese trade unions since the IMF/European Commission/European Central Bank (“Troika”) intervened a year ago to impose austerity measures that almost forced the country to its knees. This is the third strike since the financial crisis took hold.
  10146. The Position and Significance of J. Dietzgen's Philosophical Works
    First Published: 1902
    A thorough study of Dietzgen's philosophical writings is an important and indispensable auxiliary for the understanding of the fundamental works of Marx and Engels. Dietzgen's work demonstrates that the proletariat has a mighty weapon not only in proletarian economics, but also in proletarian philosophy.
  10147. The Position of Working-Class Women in the Nineteenth Century
    Chapter 11 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    Capitalism broke down the old forms of social relations both at work and between men and women in the family. Middle-class women found themselves cut off from production and economically dependent on a man: working-class women were forced into the factory and became wage-labourers.
  10148. Position Paper: Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women
    First Published: 1977
    This Position Paper was prepared by the Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women (C.A.D.I.W.) in response to the growing discrimination and harassment faced by immigrant women.
  10149. Position Paper of Moratorium Committee on Prison Construction
    First Published: 1978
  10150. Position Paper on Rural Development
    First Published: 1978
    In the above paper submitted to the Canadian Council on Rural Development, the National Farmers Union (NFU) encourages the CCRD to continue to press for federal policies which develop a publicly planned economy in Canada and which include all sectors in a definite development plan.
  10151. Possible Connections Between Militant Islamic Fundamentalists and the U.S. Extreme Right
    Right-wing racial nationalists and antisemites have attempted to spread their conspiracist message to the political left by stressing the anticapitalist aspects of the Third Position.
  10152. Post 9/11 Conspiracism
    First Published: 2006
    The tendency to explain all major world events as primarily the product of a secret conspiracy is called conspiracism. The antidote to conspiracism is Power Structure Research.
  10153. A post-affluence critique 
    First Published: 1973
    Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (Ramparts Press, 1971) reviewed by Jeremy Brecher Root & Branch No. 4 (1973), pp. 7-22.
  10154. Post box rates hiked
    First Published: 1990
  10155. Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Third Reconstruction?
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    When Union Army troops under the command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler entered and occupied New Orleans in April of 1862, so began the first Reconstruction of the city and the state of Louisiana. The rise and then the defeat of the historic democratic struggle known as the first Reconstruction — discussed in the accompanying sidebar [as well as reviews by Robert Caldwell and Jim Toweill elsewhere in this issue] — sets the context in which we find today’s New Orleans, four years after the levee collapse.
  10156. The Post MFA Era and the Rise of China, Part 1
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing expired in 2005, ending 30 years of a quota system under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). Ending the Agreement signalled the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) promotion of free trade in this sector; but phasing in free trade here has proved to be far from frictionless.
  10157. Post-Modernism Meets the IMF: The Case of Poland
    First Published: 1990
    The historical experience of Stalinism has delayed by decades, perhaps generations, the maturation of the historical project, first elaborated by Marx, of a positive supercession of the formal juridical universality of "civil", or bourgeois society, and the commodity status of labor power in that society upon which it rests. Nothing illustrates the weight of the albatross of Stalinism better than Polish society in the past decade.
  10158. Post Office workers have some rights
    First Published: 1989
  10159. Post-war Left Feminism - review
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture' by Kathlene McDonald.
  10160. Post-World War II demobilization strikes
    Connexipedia Article
    Strikes within Allied military forces stationed across the Middle East, India and South-East Asia in the months and years following World War II.
  10161. Post-Zionism Zionism
    What do we need to do to let go of all fear that separates Jew and Arab, and embrace a truly pluralistic, secular, democratic, multicultural and loving society?
  10162. Postal cuts threaten magazines
    First Published: 1989
  10163. Postal workers bugged
    First Published: 1992
  10164. PostCapitalism: A reply to Pete Green
    First Published: 2016
  10165. Postcard from a liberated Gaza
    First Published: 2020
    A piece of fiction published as part of +972’s New Futures project. In this series, writers, thinkers, and activists share how they visualize Israel-Palestine the day after the pandemic, as a way of transforming this dystopian moment into an exercise in radical imagination of rethinking through the past, present, and future of this region, and envisioning a different reality for all those living between the river and the sea.
  10166. Postcolonial Thought's Blind Alley 
    First Published: 2014
    Throughout the 20th century, the anchor for anti-colonial movements was, at least for the left, a belief that oppression was wrong wherever it was practised, because it was an affront to basic human needs for dignity, liberty, wellbeing. But now, in the name of anti-Eurocentrism, postcolonial theory has resurrected the cultural essentialism that progressives rightly viewed as the ideological justification for imperial domination. What better excuse to deny peoples their rights than to impugn the idea of rights, and universal interests, as culturally biased? No revival of an international and democratic left is possible unless we clear away these ideas, affirming the universalism of our common humanity, and of the threat to it from a universalising capitalism.
  10167. Postering bylaw
    First Published: 1992
  10168. Postering Revolution
    Wheat Paste, the Marxist Glue
    First Published: 2013
    On the role of postering in the activist agenda.
  10169. Postmedia, Paul Godfrey and the demise of journalism
    First Published: 2015
    A criticism of the right-wing political bias expressed by outlets of the Postmedia group under direction of CEO Paul Godfrey.
  10170. Postmodern Disrobed
    Review of Intellectual Impostures
    First Published: 1998
    An admirable job of exposing the daffy absurdity of postmodernism intellectuals.
  10171. The postmodern left and the success of neoliberalism
    First Published: 2016
    The rise of neoliberalism across the globe for decades, and its continued resilience since the 2007-2008 financial crisis in particular, forces us to ask why there has not been a more successful resistance against it.
  10172. Postmodernism and the Left
    First Published: 1997
    Barabara Epstein provides an overview of the approach and subculture of postmodernism and how they relate to, or conflict with, leftwing ideas.
  10173. Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (excerpt from Chapter 1)
    First Published: 1991
    This whole global, yet American, postmodern culture is the internal and superstructural expression of a whole new wave of American military and economic domination throughout the world: in this sense, as throughout class history, the underside of culture is blood, torture, death, and terror.
  10174. Postmodernism, the Academic Left, and the Crisis of Capitalism
    First Published: 2013
    Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory — an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and others — has generally dominated most fields in the humanities and some in the social sciences. But the economic meltdown in 2008 and the subsequent chronic crisis in capitalism have dealt a fatal theoretical blow to the varied and nearly ineffable assemblage of perspectives that are often grouped under the rubric of “postmodernism.” postmodernism was indeed tragedy. It was tragedy for the massive amounts of “cultural capital” that it wasted; it was tragedy for the defrauding of intellectual integrity that it represented; it was tragedy for the abandonment of reality that it recommended. Further, like the financial fiasco, it was criminal.
  10175. The Potash Story
    First Published: 1977
    An analysis of the exploitation of potash resources in Saskatchewan.
  10176. Potrait of a Strikebreaker
    First Published: 1995
    It was hard to reconcile this affable young man with the picture he was presenting of himself as a narrow-minded careerist who had found strikebreaking was a fast track to advancement at Gannett. But however he justified his actions, it was easy to see that John's ambitions had made him a willing pawn in Gannett's battle of Detroit.
  10177. POUM - Partido Obrero Unificacion Marxista
    Connexipedia Article
  10178. The POUM's Seven Decades
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    The Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista (The Workers Party of Marxist Unification, POUM) was founded in Barcelona on September 30, 1935 in a small house in the Horta district. That was 70 years ago. The event was not public, since we were still in a phase of relative clandestinity imposed on the movement after October 1934, so we felt it prudent to limit the number of delegates.
  10179. Pour des conditions de vie decentes: Action collective
    First Published: 1980
  10180. Pourquoi faire toute une histoire a propos du meurtre d'une musulmane a peau mate?
    First Published: 2008
    L'Histoire donne de nombreux exemples de mouvements sociaux qui avec le temps adoptent des positions directement opposées aux principes sur lesquels ils ont été fondés.
  10181. Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools
    First Published: 2016
    What's the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the American school system -- or rather, the militarization of the impoverished schools ... the ones that can't afford new textbooks or functional plumbing, much less art supplies or band equipment. My town, Chicago, is a case study in this national trend.
  10182. The poverty of sociology
    A review of James Lorimer's "Working People"
    First Published: 1971
  10183. Poverty Profile 1988
    First Published: 1988
  10184. Poverty Report and Recommendations
    First Published: 1977
    This booklet, addressed to the membership of the United Church, presents the recommendations adopted by the last General council. It also includes a background for the recommendations and integrates them into the history of the United Church Task Force on Poverty.
  10185. Power: Building it Without Taking it
    First Published: 2003
  10186. Power, illusion and America's last taboo
    First Published: 2009
    Since 1945, the United States has overthrown fifty governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 liberation movements, and supported tyrannies and set up torture chambers from Egypt to Guatemala. Countless men, women and children have been bombed to death. Bombing is apple pie. And yet, here is the 44th President of the United States, having stacked his government with warmongers and corporate fraudsters and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, teasing us while promising more of the same.
  10187. Power in Play
    Reclaiming Play in the Serious Work of our Lives
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    For too long, our culture has 'viewed play as appropriate only for children, and in some rare instances for adults (when they are artists, nursery school teachers, or living out their retirement years). When we dare to question the Protestant Work Ethic and affirm both what feels good, and what works for us, it seems to me that play must be reclaimed from childhood memory and made a reality in everyday adult life.
  10188. The Power of a Dollar
    First Published: 2015
    Microcredit is nothing more than a socially validated way for financial elites to exploit the poor.
  10189. The Power of Idle No More
    A Resurgent Radicalism
    First Published: 2013
    The remarkable Idle No More movement is the biggest and most important national outpouring of grass roots aboriginal anger ever seen in Canada.
  10190. The Power of Money
    Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
    First Published: 1844
  10191. The Power of Nonsense
    First Published: 2011
    Slavoj Žižek's diagnosis of late capitalism is of genuine interest. His remedies, however -- dictatorship and terror -- are a disgrace.
  10192. The Power of public relations
    First Published: 1999
    An overview of the role of public relations practitioners.
  10193. The Power of Story, the Evidence of Experience
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Review of a book of oral histories of migrant farmworkers.
  10194. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon
    First Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
  10195. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
  10196. Power and Protest: The Electoral Tactics of Leftist Social Movements
    First Published: 2017
    The central difficulty for left social movements is determining electoral tactics that will enable them to win both in the short run and in the middle run. On the surface, it seems that winning in the short run conflicts with winning in the middle run.
  10197. The Power Struggle in Catalonia, or the Staging of a Tragicomedy
    First Published: 2018
    One, a consolidated power, is the Spanish state. The other, an emerging power, drives the project to create a state of its own, a project promoted by nationalists and pro-independence currents. These include a fraction of the divided system (PdeCat, erc and cup) and some social organizations (the Catalan National Assembly, Omnium Cultural and some trade unions) -- with the support of an important part of society.
  10198. Power to the (Palestinian) People!
    First Published: 2008
    I am not a Palestinian; I am not one of the oppressed. I only hope I can use my privilege in an effective way in order to redeem the gift the people of Gaza have given all of us: the realization that the people do have power and can prevail even in the face of overwhelming power. We may each express our responsibility towards the people of Gaza in whatever way most suits us, but as the privileged we must do something.
  10199. Power to the Soviets
    Book Review of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of China Miéville's October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.
  10200. A Power We Have Been Taught to Bury
    First Published: 1989
    Published in In Up and Doing: Canadian Women and Peace, Janice Williamson and Deborah Gorham, eds. Toronto: Women's Press, 1989
  10201. The PR Campaign to Hide the Real Cause of those Sky-High Surprise Medical Bills
    First Published: 2019
    Since 2010, an increasing number of hospitals have outsourced their emergency rooms, radiology, anesthesiology, and other specialized services to physician staffing firms. Patients who need these critical services may inadvertently receive care from a doctor outside of their insurance network and find that they owe thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in surprise medical bills.
  10202. Practical Approaches to Non-violence
    First Published: 2014
    The Quaker group Turning the Tide works with communities in the UK and Kenya to help different groups and organizations develop their own nonviolent approaches to radical change and social justice. Edward Dingwall catches up with staff member Steve Whiting on the Turning the Tide's aims and methods.
  10203. A practical guide to protecting your identity and security when using mobile phones
    First Published: 2013
    Many activists have been tracked via their mobile phones. Assess the risk for your own activities given the practices used in your country, how high-profile your work is, and what others in your community have experienced.
  10204. A Practical Guide to Tackling Factory Hazards
    First Published: 2015
    A review of a "Workers' Guide to Health and Safety", a comprehensive work of ten years, which organizers can use to empower workers and "encourage" bosses to do the right thing.
  10205. Practice and Ideology in the Direct Action Movement
    First Published: 2000
    In the midst of enthusiasm and grandeur, the direct action movement sees a growing anti-capitalist movement everywhere. This illusion stops them from recognizing that, in its present form, the direct action movement is going nowhere.
  10206. Practice and Ideology in the Direct Action Movement
    First Published: 2000
    Movements are never homogenous (practically or theoretically) but rather consist of contradictions and immediate limitations, which could potentially be overcome the more the movement develops. The history of the revolutionary movement against capitalism is full of examples of some tendencies.
  10207. Practice involuntary recognition
    First Published: 2022
    An old pamplet holds some contemporary wisdom, argues Marianne Garneau. She advocates for "involuntary recognition," in which workers force employers to recognize the union outside the boundaries drawn by labour law.
  10208. Practicing Hope
    He's Just 17
    First Published: 2014
    It seems like teachers want to do the right thing and, along with most white people, they don’t want to say the wrong thing about race (or class or LGBT or adoption or disabilities) so they just don’t bring it up. Most white folks I know here don’t see any evidence of racism unless someone points to specific incidents or talks through the issues, like Driving While Black or Shopping While Black. Even then, some of my white friends, and many of my students, get exasperated, “Racism is so old-school,” I’ve been told. They don’t want to believe that racism exists. This essay is for them, and for my kids.
  10209. Prague: Reflections on S26
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    Even beofre the clouds of tear gas over Prague had dissipated, the mainstream media were eager to declare the September 26 demonstration against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank a failure. According to the New York Times, the international gathering of up to 20,000 protesters had tried "desperately ... and ultimately unsuccessfully, to shut down a global finance meeting."
  10210. Prague Spring
    Connexipedia Article
    A period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
  10211. The Praxis Affair
    First Published: 2015
    A cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded.
  10212. The Praxis Affair
    There's a reason we put limits on spying within Canada
    First Published: 2015
    This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded, its spying responsibilities handed to a newly formed Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
  10213. Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations I
    The process which precedes the formation of the capital relation or of original accumulation
    First Published: 1857
    Notes by Marx not intended for publication.
  10214. Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations II
    First Published: 1857
    Notes by Marx not intended for publication.
  10215. The Precautionary Principle: the basis of a post-GMO ethic
    First Published: 2016
    GMOs have been in our diets for about 20 years. Proof that they are safe? No way - it took much, much longer to discover the dangers of cigarettes and transfats, dangers that are far more visible than those of GMOs. On the scale of nature and ecology, 20 years is a pitifully short time. To sustain our human future, we have to think long term.
  10216. The Predatory Pedagogy of On-Line Education
    New Techno-peasants of the Latifundia
    First Published: 2013
    Distance learning amounts to the erosion of the traditional face-to-face classroom.
  10217. Predicting Torture
    The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
    First Published: 2010
    Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
  10218. Pre-Emptive Murder
    First Published: 2022
    The lives of the latest fifteen Palestinian children to be murdered by Israel in Gaza, lives ripped from their small, terrified bodies with devastating violence, do not seem of much concern to the powerful in the West, or indeed anywhere.
  10219. Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 
    First Published: 1859
    Perhaps Marx's most succinct summary of his analysis of political economy.
  10220. Preface to the French Edition of 'Anti-Patriotism'
    First Published: 1906
    In case of mobilization, regardless of who the aggressor appears to be (for, after all, when a war breaks out, one can never tell who the real aggressor is), the proletariat of the belligerent countries should respond to the call to arms, by an insurrection against their rulers, each within his own boundaries, to establish the Socialist or Communist regime.
  10221. Preferred Conclusions -- The BBC, Syria And Venezuela
    First Published: 2017
    In 2013, it was remarkable to see the BBC reporting claims from Syria on a daily basis in a way that almost always blamed the Syrian government, and President Assad personally, for horrendous war crimes. But as the New York Times reported last month, the picture was rather less black and white.
  10222. Prefigurative politics
    Connexipedia Article
    The concept of building a new world in the shell of the old.
  10223. Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program 
    First Published: 1960
    Written as a platform for discussion within the Situationist International, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement.
  10224. Preliminary Observations on the Chicago Teachers' Strike
    First Published: 2012
    An insight into the Chicago's teacher strike and its victories.
  10225. Prelude to Paris: Four Tragic Tactics by President Obama and Four Climate Justice Proposals He Must Support
    First Published: 2015
    In December 2015 the world's governments meet in Paris for a truly historic event -- the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference. (UNFCCC). The objective of the conference is to protect Mother Earth from the assault of its most ungrateful inhabitants. The challenge is whether Homo sapiens, especially those of the ruling classes of the United States and Europe, can be civilized by the rest of the world before it is too late for all of us.
  10226. Preoccupation with Demonology, Bone-deep Current of Darkness
    First Published: 1983
  10227. Prepared evidence for the case of the Committee for Justice and Liberty
    before the National Energy Board's hearings on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline
    First Published: 1977
    Various materials to be presented to the NEB's hearings opposing further pipeline development.
  10228. Preparing for a Digital 9/11
    First Published: 2012
    In recent years, in one of the more dangerous, if largely undiscussed, developments of our time, the Bush and then Obama administrations have launched the first state-planned war in cyber space. First, there were the "Olympic Games," then the Stuxnet virus, then Flame, and now it turns out that other sophisticated malware programs have evidently followed.
  10229. Preparing for a Post-Chávez Venezuela
    Not One Step Backward, Ni Un Paso Atrás
    First Published: 2013
    Hugo Chávez is no more, and yet the symbolic importance of the Venezuelan President that exceeded his physical persona in life, providing a condensation point around which popular struggles coalesced, will inevitably continue to function long after his death.
  10230. Preparing For More Slaughter in Syria
    Moloch's Minions
    First Published: 2013
    it is likely that Western leaders will give the nod to launch the airstrikes that will kill a large number of human beings.
  10231. Prescription for Survival
    A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott
    First Published: 2011
    The crisis in Japan has refueled the rigorous global debate about the viability of nuclear power.
  10232. PRESENT AND FUTURE STATUS OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS IN RURAL CANADA
    First Published: 1978
  10233. The Present State of the Problem of 'Marxism and Philosophy'
    An Anti-Critique
    First Published: 1930
    A fundamental debate on the general state of modern Marxism has now begun, and there are many indications that despite secondary, transient or trivial conflicts, the real division on all major and decisive questions is between the old Marxist orthodoxy of Kautsky allied to the new Russian or 'Leninist' orthodoxy on the one side, and all critical and progressive theoretical tendencies in the proletarian movement today on the other side.
  10234. Presentation by Noel V. Starblanket
    First Published: 1978
  10235. Presentation / Critique of Eamonn Fingleton, In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity
    First Published: 1999
    Fingleton makes possible an understanding of how deeply our experience over the past three decades in the U.S. has been conditioned and distorted by de-industrialization and the supposed triumph of the "post-industrial" "New Paradigm" economy associated with the computer, the Internet, e-commerce and so forth. His book is one big broadside against the feelgood ideologies which have hyped these developments, and provides much ammunition which the radical left can put to its own uses.
  10236. Presentation to a Select Committee of the Ontario Legislature
    First Published: 1978
  10237. Presentation to Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
    First Published: 1978
  10238. Presentation to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities of Ontario
    and the Ministry of Community and Social Services of Ontario
    First Published: 1978
    The central concern of this brief is the discriminatory nature of the Ontario Student Grants Program (OSGP), against most female students.
  10239. Presenting Insurgent Notes
    First Published: 2010
    We take our Marx and Engels seriously. Recent history, beginning perhaps (in the US) with the UPS strike of 1997 and the 'battle of Seattle' in 1999, now quickened by the abject financial and ideological meltdown (Fall 2008) of the three decades of the stifling 'neo-liberal' era, has favored a certain revival of the radical critique of capitalism, by which we understand first and foremost the work of Karl Marx.
    "Theory must seek its practice," Marx wrote long ago, but "practice must also seek its theory", and such theoretical ferment expresses the rising tide, in fits and starts reaching back to the 1990's, of an accelerating global reaction to the ravages of the 'neo-liberal', 'Washington consensus' phase of capitalism, after the rollback of what we might consider he last (l968-1977) offensive of the world working class.
  10240. Preservation Acts
    Toward an ethical archive of the web
    First Published: 2018
    But they began to wonder what it meant to take an ephemeral object -- destined, after days and weeks, to sink to the bottom of an ever-shifting pile -- and render it permanent. It wasn't hard to see how an archive of civil disobedience could become a tool of government surveillance.
  10241. Preserving our Planet
    First Published: 1990
  10242. The President of Honduras Is Deploying U.S.-Trained Forces Against Election Protesters
    First Published: 2017
    Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, using the specter of rampant crime and the drug trade, won extensive support from the American government to build up highly trained state security forces. Now, those same forces are repressing democracy.
  10243. The President and the Presidency
    First Published: 1973
    Chomsky assesses public reactions to the Watergate scandal, dividing them into two categories: cynicism or outrage. He further explores the different perceptions of what in fact Nixon's criminal actions were and discusses the meaning of the principle of unconstrained executive power in relation to democracy.
  10244. President Trump?
    First Published: 2016
    No matter what happens, the old US party system is broken. Donald Trump is like no major candidate in living memory.
  10245. President Trump's War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses Assad of
    First Published: 2018
    The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump's orders launched a wave of over 100 cruise missiles against Syria was that once again the US violated the most profound international law of war: initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no threat, imminent or otherwise, to the US or its allies.
  10246. Presidential Assassinations Of US Citizens
    First Published: 2010
    Just think about this for a minute. Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests." They're entitled to no charges, no trial, no ability to contest the accusations.
  10247. The President's Speech
    First Published: 1984
  10248. Presidio mutiny
    Wikipedia article
    First Published: 2017
    The Presidio mutiny was a sit-down protest carried out by 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California on October 14, 1968. The stiff sentences given out at courts martial for the participants (known as the Presidio 27) attracted attention to the extent of sentiment against the Vietnam War in the armed forces.
  10249. The Press and the Class Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    Early on the morning of August 19, 1997, the U.S. labor movement experienced something it had rarely known in recent years: a victory on a national scale. After two weeks out on strike, over 185,000 members of the Teamsters Union had reached a contract settlement with shipping giant United Parcel Service. It was hard to paint it as anything other than a win for the union. On almost every major issue, the Teamsters were able to force UPS to agree to their demands.
  10250. Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
    First Published: 2019
    The US was not among the conulates protesting controversial new extradition bill in Hong Kong. They can't with a straight face object to Hong Kong passing an act that endorses extradition for political crimes while Washington is pursuing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
  10251. Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
    First Published: 2019
    The author draws parallels between the US and Hong Kong's treatment of freedom and individual rights.
  10252. Press Release
    First Published: 1980
  10253. Press Release
    United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America
    First Published: 1979
    At the end of June, longshoremen in Sait John, N.B., refused to load a cargo of heavy water destined for use by NANDU nuclear reactor in Argentina. This press release contains the text of a telegram of support sent by the Electrical Workers Union to the longshoremen.
  10254. Press release guide
    Advice and tips on how to make an effective press release or media advisory.
    First Published: 2006
    What is a media advisory? A media advisory is a means of notifying the press of an event or news story that will happen in the future. It is essentially an event reminder that is in a format that makes it easy for journalists to record the event in their calendars or day planners. It is a proactive way for activists to inform news outlets of events and actions that you want publicized in the future.
  10255. Press Release: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
    First Published: 1978
    A report on United Electrics concern with the use of SIN numbers on identification tags at the General Electric plant in Peterborough, Ontario.
  10256. La Presse Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Two days later, the 3 main Union Centrals defied a municipal ban to organize a huge march in solidarity with the newspaper workers. More than 12 000 people clashed with 100 Montréal policemen. The outcome was some 50 arrests, several dozen injuries and one death from natural causes.
  10257. Pressing for Press
    First Published: 1988
    A serious attempt to get press coverage can be a campaign in itself. If you really want it, go after it methodically and shamelessly.
  10258. Pressure Group
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    An organization formed by like-minded people who seek to influence public policy to promote an interest.
  10259. Pressures, Problems and Prevention:
    Chidren And The Health Care System
    First Published: 1988
  10260. Pret-A-Patriarchy – on "modest" fashion
    First Published: 2018
    "Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.
  10261. Preventive War 'the Supreme Crime'
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky illustrates how the US-UK coalition reconfigured the term "pre-emptive" into "preventive" in an attempt to justify the invasion of Iraq despite opposition from the international society.
  10262. The Price of Books, The Value of Civilization
    First Published: 2014
    I have come to think that books occupy this valuable position in our civilisation because they are the only medium for thick descriptions of the world that human beings possess. By ‘thick’ description, I mean an extended, detailed, evidence-based, written interpretation of a subject. If you want to write a feature or blog or wikipedia entry, be it about the origins of the first world war; the authoritarian turn in Russia; or the causes and effects of the 2008 financial crisis, in the end you will have to refer to a book. Or at least refer to other people who have referred to books. Even the best magazine pieces and TV documentaries – and the best of these are very good indeed – are only puddle-deep compared with the thick descriptions laid out in books. They are ‘thin’ descriptions and the creators and authors of them will have referred extensively to books to produce their work.
  10263. The Price of Torching Mosques
    Burning Rage
    First Published: 2011
    By reminding Palestinians on either side of the Green Line of their common fate, Israel may yet unleash a force too powerful to control. The price tag – this time demanded by Palestinians – will be high indeed for the Jewish supremacists.
  10264. Pride parade in Vancouver rejects Iranian over veil float
    First Published: 2017
    Iranian Shawn Shirazi and his group Cirque de So Gay were denied entry to the Pride Parade in Vancouver, Canada this year because their float criticising the veil was deemed to be 'culturally [in]sensitive'.
  10265. Prime Time Information Kit
    First Published: 1979
  10266. A Primer on Immigrant Rights
    First Published: 2011
    The struggle for immigrant rights is one of the most important struggles of our time, and it occurs under a working-class banner.
  10267. Primitive Heterosexuality
    Carnal Knowledge
    First Published: 2013
  10268. The Princess and the Press
    How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2005
    Your relationship with the press might not be a fairy tale, but it definitely doesn't have to be horror story: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball.
  10269. The Princess and the Press: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
    How to write effective press releases.
  10270. The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels 
    First Published: 1971
    For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, "there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above."
    Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
  10271. Principles for Troublemakers
    How to Fan the Flames
    First Published: 2014
    The authors outline some trouble-making movement-building principles that should be the hallmarks of the labour movement.
  10272. Principles governing municipal/provincial financial relationships
    First Published: 1997
    In past decades, provincial governments have generally recognized the separate nature of local government and have not acted unilaterally in the field of financial relationships, but have attempted to reach amicable agreement.
  10273. Principles of Environmental Justice
    First Published: 1991
    A defining document for the grassroots movement for environmental justice.
  10274. Principles of Nuremberg
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    First Published: 1950
  10275. Principles of Organizing
    First Published: 2017
    Explores the culture of organizing, the challenging and confusing dialectical tension that is every organizers terrain: change and continuity, the personal and the political, ideals and interests, planning and opportunity, and the transitions from evolutionary to revolutionary forms of unionism.
  10276. The Principles of Revoltuionary Unionism
    First Published: 1922
    Adopted at the Berlin Congress of Revolutionary Unionist organizations, 1922.
  10277. Priorities For Action
    A Report of the National Advisory Committee on Aging
    First Published: 1982
    Established by a federal Order-in-Council May 1, 1980, the eighteen-member National Advisory Council on Aging is charged with assisting and counselling the Minister of Health and Welfare on matters relating to the quality of life of Canada's rapidly growing aging population.
  10278. Prise de décision par consensus
    Connexipedia
    La prise de décision par consensus est un processus décisionnel d’un groupe qui cherche non seulement l'accord de la plupart des participants, mais également, une résolution ou une atténuation des objections des membres minoritaires.
  10279. Prison Abolition & Alternatives
    Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists
    First Published: 1976
    A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
  10280. Prison Food
    First Published: 2022
    "Not for Human Consumption." The author, who saw that label himself when he was incarcerated, calls out a widespread human rights violation being committed in U.S. prisons.
  10281. The Prison-Industrial Complex
    First Published: 1998
    Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars "the majority of them nonviolent offenders" mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers.
  10282. Prison Labor: Workin' For The Man
    Article in Covert Action Quarterly #54, Fall 1995
    First Published: 1995
    Article analysing the roots of prison labour in America.
  10283. Prison organising
    First Published: 2004
    If you're struggling for a better world, there is a chance that someone you know or even you yourself could go to prison. Thousands of people have been jailed for standing up for themselves and their communities - be they strikers, anti-war demonstrators, non-payers of unfair taxes.
  10284. Prison survival guide
    A guide to surviving prison or preparing yourself to go to prison
    First Published: 2006
  10285. The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother 
    First Published: 2019
    A tribute to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Includes details of some of the corruption they have exposed.
  10286. Prisoner support guide
    First Published: 2006
    If you’re active in a group or campaign why not choose one or two prisoners to consistently support. Pass cards round meetings, send useful stuff, knock up a flyposter and get their case some publicity if they could use it, get in touch with the prisoner’s support group if there is one. Of course you can take this on as an individual, too.
  10287. Prisoners of the War on Terror
    Time to Give up "Hope" and Think About Active Change
    First Published: 2013
    Status of prisoners of war in Guantanamo.
  10288. The Prisoners' Revolt: The Real Reasons behind the Palestinian Hunger Strike
    First Published: 2017
    Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all prisoners.
  10289. Prisoners' Rights Group
    First Published: 1978
  10290. Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
    First Published: 1917
    The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice, society has retained the primitive motive in dealing with the offender; that is, revenge. It has also adopted the theologic idea; namely, punishment; while the legal and 'civilized' methods consist of deterrence or terror, and reform.
  10291. Prisons Full of Innocents
    The Big Lockup
    First Published: 2013
    The number of convictions and the lengths of sentences has increased and some men have been wrongly convicted of crimes they simply did not commit.
  10292. Privacy for the other five billion
    First Published: 2013
    Aadhaar is but one example of the development sector's growing fascination with technologies for registering, identifying, and monitoring citizens
  10293. Privacy and the Right to Strike in Canada
    First Published: 2013
    The neoliberal assault on labour has now entered its fourth decade. Equally concerning for the labour movement has been the long assault on the post-war labour freedoms to organize, bargain, and strike.
  10294. Privacy tapped out
    First Published: 2013
    For over a century, Americans and their judiciary fiercely fought any attempt by security agencies and law enforcement to listen in on private electronic communications. Now they’ve stopped fighting, and the surveillance is out of control.
  10295. Private Banks: Creating Money Out of Thin Air
    First Published: 2016
    In his book The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society, Richard Murphy, UK Tax Justice Network co-founder, offers a radically pioneering approach to tax and fiscal policy. Murphy is one of the first economists to link tax policy to the 400- year-old reality that nearly all money is created by private banks out of thin air.
  10296. Private guards block public street
    First Published: 1989
  10297. Private Property and Communism
    Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
    First Published: 1844
  10298. Private Property and Labour. Political Economy as a Product of the Movement of Private Property
    Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
    First Published: 1844
  10299. Privatise Child Protection Services, Department for Education Proposes
    First Published: 2014
    Experts sound alarm over UK proposal to outsource children's services to private firms.
  10300. Privatising the Oceans
    Fished out in our Lifetimes
    First Published: 2013
    Long-range fishing with the backing of the EU deprives countries elsewhere in the world of employment and a crucial food source. And it is depleting the seas to the point of ecological collapse.
  10301. Privatization by Stealth: Canadian Health Care in Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    The recent growth of obstacles to getting health care here in the United States has led to a renewed interest in Canada's system of universal access, called Medicare. Premium inflation has accelerated after stabilizing in the mid-1990s.
  10302. Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
    First Published: 1992
    The corporate sector is the big winner from privatization.
  10303. Privatization is Killing Us: Dispatches from the Capitalist War on Society
    First Published: 2018
    A look at various sectors of society that are suffering under privatization in the United States- including education, the prison system, healthcare, and the environment.
  10304. The privatization of rivers in Chile
    Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way.
    First Published: 2020
    The Chilean government has continued with the mercantile treatment of common goods, putting several rivers in the Bio Bio Region up for auction, despite ongoing social unrest.
  10305. Privatizing Social Security: Who Wins?
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
    Over the years, there have been numerous attempts and proposals to privatize the social security system. It was a key Republican platform item in the 2000 election. The idea was subsequently thwarted by the small matter of the stock market bust that wiped out $8 trillion of market value, and caused a 60% drop in the NASDAQ over the first two years of Bush's first term.
  10306. Privatizing the IRS
    First Published: 2018
    The headline in the New York Times on January 10, 2018, a few short days before Congress decided it was easier to shut down the government than to legislate, announced that the I.R.S. "paid $20 million to collect $6.7 million in Tax Debts." At first blush the reader assumed this was a story that had somehow crept into the newspaper by mistake and escaped the attention of the articles editor. The reader who thought that could be forgiven for being surprised at seeing the story. That is because that story had appeared in the New York Times and other publications on two earlier occasions.
  10307. Privatizing the Public Realm
    First Published: 1998
    Public spaces are the arenas where the collective, common life which defines us as a society is acted out, and where we come into contact with those who are like and those who are different from ourselves. They are the places where we are all equal and where we are all "home." They are the places where our freedoms of speech and assembly are protected, where we can exercise the precious right of criticizing the government. In public spaces we are reminded of the most important civics lesson: We are all in this together. When private agendas of stratification and control are imposed on those places, the very heart of democratic principle is threatened.
  10308. Privatizing Water, The New World War
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    Capitalism and corporate science have colluded to bring us the latest, most insidious crisis. According to the United Nations research, 1.3 billion people in the world today lack access to clean water and 2.5 billion do not have adequate sewage and sanitation. The human suffering and environmental damage that those figures represent is unspeakable.
  10309. Privilege politics is reformism
    First Published: 2012
    A critique of privilege politics, which the author sees as a demobilizing force that boils down issues of oppression into what happens between individuals.
  10310. Pro-Canada group asks contributions
    First Published: 1991
  10311. Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right
    First Published: 2009
    An IPS investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organisations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
  10312. A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
    First Published: 2008
    Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
  10313. Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
    First Published: 2006
    Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
  10314. The problem is more than integration
    First Published: 2017
    Polls show that minorities, and Muslims in particular, have a greater attachment to Britain than does the population at large. They also show that nine out of ten Britons think that their community is cohesive, and local area a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together. According to Casey this figure has increased (from 80 per cent to 89 per cent) since 2003. Britons, in other words, have become more positive about social cohesion in the very period in which ‘uncontrolled immigration’ has supposedly eroded peoples’ sense of community and belonging.
  10315. Problem Isn’t 'Patent Trolls'
    First Published: 2014
    The problem isn’t “patent trolls.” The problem is patents.
  10316. The Problem Isn't Willie Pete, The Problem is War Crimes
    First Published: 2017
    The problem with bombarding Syrian cities, or any populated areas, isn't just that it is being done with white phosphorous, it's that it is being done at all.
  10317. The problem of autonomism
    First Published: 2011
    Direct action is crucial to win – but it needs to be orientated to building a mass movement, through strikes, civil disobedience and occupation.
  10318. The problem of Greece is not only a tragedy. It is a lie. 
    First Published: 2015
    According to John Pilger, the leaders of Syriza are revolutionaries of a kind - but their revolution is the perverse, familiar appropriation of social democratic and parliamentary movements by liberals groomed to comply with neo-liberal drivel. Like the Labour Party in Britain and its equivalents among former social democratic parties such as the Labor Party in Australia, still describing themselves as “liberal” or even “left”, Syriza is the product of an affluent, highly privileged, educated middle class, schooled in postmodernism.
  10319. The Problem of Nationality and Autonomy 
    First Published: 1908
    Rosa Luxemburg on the national question, federalism, autonomy, and the right of nations to self-determination.
  10320. The Problem of the Democratic Opposition Organization
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2014
    The basis for this proposal is an attempt to address the classic dilemma of the broad democratic opposition. In summary it is the need for a competent professional cadre to implement the changes needed, combined with the maintenance of a democratic and effective membership control of this 'elite'.
  10321. The problem of the one-day strike: a response to Sean Vernell
    First Published: 2014
    An overview of the wave of strikes that took place over the issue of pensions across public sector trade unions between March 2011 and June 2012.
  10322. The problem with 1199's 'Advice to Rookie Organizers' 
    First Published: 2020
    One of the most widely-circulated statements on organizing is SEIU 1199’s “Advice to rookie organizers,” popularized most recently by Jane McAlevey but originally drafted in 1985 at an SEIU organizing conference. It’s good advice — it’s actually excellent advice for the most part — and I think anyone who takes a hard look at almost any organizing can spot where things went right by how closely it followed this advice and where things went wrong by where it deviated from it.
  10323. The Problem With College Educated Revolutionaries
    First Published: 2014
    The political views of college-educated activists are shaped by their experiences in an educational institution. They unknowingly impose these particular experiences on the movement and on working class people. They have played a crucial role in preventing any working class leadership from developing.
  10324. The Problem With Conservation Easements
    First Published: 2020
    The Washington Post recently published an article that repeated the old and flawed idea that ranching will "protect" the land and suggesting conservation easements are the solution to sprawl.
  10325. The problem with identity politics
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of identity politics, and how experience alone is an inadequate foundation from which to develop an analysis of oppression or to devise political strategies to end it.
  10326. Problems of Autonomism
    Strategies for the Latin American Left
    First Published: 2005
    Since the mid-1990s, autonomist politics has gained influence in Latin America. Its theorists are attentively listened to and their practical proposals awaken great interest. But this scenario has begun to change with the appearance of new nationalist and center-left governments. The rise of Lula, Kirchner, and Tabaré, the increased strength of Chávez, the resurgence of Fidel, and the shift of López Obrador changes the playing field that favoured the expansion of libertarian theories.
  10327. Problems of Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labour Force
    First Published: 1979
    This report begins with the recognition that Canada has promoted immigration in the past for economic reasons.
  10328. Problems of Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labour Force
    First Published: 1981
    The purpose of this paper is to fill in some of the information gaps relating to the immigrant woman's role and experience in the Canadian labour market.
  10329. Problems With Big Dams
    The world's large dams have wiped out species; flooded huge areas of wetlands, forests and farmlands; and displaced tens of millions of people.
  10330. Problems with Red Menace method
    First Published: 1979
    our attempts to develop a positive alternative to DiaMat Marxism and Marxist-Leninist sects suffers from a polemical method which reproduces the very problem you want to get away from.
  10331. Proceedings of the 1977 Conference of the Institute for Christian Life in Canada (August 21-26, 1977)
    First Published: 1978
  10332. Producers' strike at CBC/Société Radio-Canada
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A strike by producers at Société Radio-Canada in Montréal in 1958-59.
  10333. Product of Mexico: Child Labor
    In Mexico's fields, children toil to harvest crops that make it to American tables
    First Published: 2014
    About 100,000 children under 14 pick crops for pay at small- and mid-size farms across Mexico, where child labor is illegal. Some of the produce they harvest reaches American consumers, helping to power an export boom.
  10334. Product of Mexico: Company Stores
    Company stores trap Mexican farmworkers in a cycle of debt
    First Published: 2014
    The company store is supposed to be a lifeline for migrant farm laborers. But inflated prices drive people deep into debt. Many go home penniless, obliged to work off their debts at the next harvest.
  10335. Product of Mexico: Harsh Harvest
    Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables
    First Published: 2014
    Farm exports to the U.S. from Mexico have tripled to $7.6 billion in the last decade, enriching agribusinesses, distributors and retailers. But for thousands of farm laborers south of the border, the boom is a story of exploitation and extreme hardship.
  10336. Product of Mexico: No Way Out
    Desperate workers on a Mexican mega-farm: 'They treated us like slaves'
    First Published: 2014
    A raid exposes brutal conditions at Bioparques, one of Mexico's biggest tomato exporters, which was a Wal-Mart supplier. But the effort to hold the grower accountable is looking more like a tale of impunity.
  10337. Production or Reproduction?
    Against A Reductionist Reading of Capital In the Left Milieu, And Elsewhere
    First Published: 2002
    Most readers of Capital come to it with a 'tool kit' of prejudices acquired from their immediate political and social milieu, (and one of course influenced by the dominant society), a 'tool kit' usually imbued with various 'hard-headed' ideas about an early and a late Marx, about Marx as being a completion of the political economy of Smith and Ricardo (and not the critique of political economy, as the sub-title of his book suggests), that this late Marx was and economist in the way that Keynes or Milton Friedman are (in fact) economists, and so on.
  10338. Pro-European Union protests mount in Kiev
    First Published: 2013
    Over 100,000 demonstrators protested in Kiev on Sunday to demand the resignation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich. They were protesting Yanukovich’s abandonment of an association agreement with the European Union (EU.
  10339. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
    Connexipedia Article
    A United States trade union which operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following a strike which was broken by the Reagan Administration.
  10340. The Professor of Torture
    Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
    First Published: 2007
    Whitney exposes the hypocrisy of Alan Dershowitz, who claims to support civil liberties while advocating the use of torture. Dershowitz seems to believe that he should be considered a liberal because he says that prisoners should only be tortured by "nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain wthout endangering life." Whitney characterizes this as "barbarism".
  10341. The 'Professorial President' And The 'Small, Strutting Hard Man'
    First Published: 2014
    Exactly what is happening in Ukraine is not easy to disentangle from corporate news media reports. The current crisis began in November 2014 when the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, withdrew from a cooperation agreement with the European Union to forge closer ties with Russia.
  10342. Professors for Israel try to Shut Down Lancet
    First Published: 2015
    Some 400 medical professors are blackmailing Reed Elsevier, publishers of The Lancet, by threatening to boycott its publications unless the company sacks editor Richard Horton - or as they duplicitously phrase it, "enforce appropriate ethical standards of editorship".
  10343. Professor's Work Shows People Power Trumps Violence
    First Published: 2012
    Erica Chenoweth’s research is taking the bang out of armed struggles.
  10344. A Profile of East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta
    First Published: 1999
    JOSE RAMOS-HORTA DENIES he is a bitter man, claiming that he feels only disdain for the invaders of his country. But too much has been inflicted on East Timor, too many of his friends and relatives killed, the diplomatic war he has waged has carried on too long for him not to feel an abiding resentment.
  10345. Profiled
    From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities
    First Published: 2015
    Amid a renewed push from the U.K. government for more surveillance powers, more than two dozen documents being disclosed by The Intercept reveal for the first time several major strands of GCHQ’s (Government Communications Headquarters) existing electronic eavesdropping capabilities.
  10346. Profiles in Courage, and in the Lack of Courage
    First Published: 2013
    The White House's press release of Malala's meeting with Barack Obama further diminished the import of her visit, and her remarkable courage, by failing to note that she had taken the opportunity of her visit to tell the president directly to his face that he should halt the drone attacks that he has been ordering on suspected Taliban “leaders” in western Pakistan — drone attacks that have often been calculated to kill not just targeted individuals but many innocent men, women and children in the vicinity of the blasts.
  10347. Profit by Fiat
    First Published: 2012
    The current bond rigging scandal, in which banks colluded to rig bids on municipal bonds, was a scam that the banks learned from the mafia, who in turn learned it from the Rockfellers and tehri partners in crime.
  10348. Profit motives behind sexualization of 'tween girls
    First Published: 2008
    The sexualization of 'tween girls - those between the ages of 8 and 12 -- in pop culture and advertising is a growing problem fueled by marketers' efforts to create cradle-to-grave consumers.
  10349. Profit of Capital
    Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
    First Published: 1844
  10350. Profiting from Christian Credulity
    Manufacturing the Jesus Legend
    First Published: 2014
    A brand-new book, entitled The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus’ Marriage to Mary the Magdalene, is receiving a lot of attention. How could it not? The authors of the book declare that it proves that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, with two children. The media eats this stuff up.
  10351. Profiting from Gaza Children's Agony
    First Published: 2015
    The shocking decision by the government-owned New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) to NOT divest from Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), manufacturer of white phosphorus, blatantly violates the NZSF Responsibilities and Standards for Human Rights.
  10352. Profiting from Loss: How Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements Continues Unchecked
    First Published: 2020
    UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing, and exposing the hypocrisy of western states.
  10353. The Profits of War: Planning to Bomb Iran
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    It is no longer a secret that the Bush administration has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources.
  10354. A Profound and Jarring Disconnect
    The Writing on the Wall
    First Published: 2011
    How the US government has gone against the wishes of the public majority on key issues.
  10355. Program III - Study, Dialogue, Reflection, Action, on Social Issues
    First Published: 1977
    This borchure describes the nature and purpose of Program 3, and lists workshops planned for 1977-78.
  10356. A Program Of Action for the Labour Movement
    First Published: 1978
  10357. The Program of the International Brotherhood
    First Published: 1869
    Bakunin maintains that his revolutionary anarchist vision "excludes any idea of dictatorship and of a controlling and directive power." but then goes on to say "It is, however, necessary for the establishment of this revolutionary alliance and for the triumph of the Revolution over reaction that the unity of ideas and of revolutionary action find an organ in the midst of the popular anarchy which will be the life and the energy of the Revolution. This organ should be the secret and universal association of the International Brothers.... a sort of revolutionary general staff, composed of dedicated, energetic, intelligent individuals, sincere friends of the people above all, men neither vain nor ambitious, but capable of serving as intermediaries between the revolutionary idea and the instincts of the people."
  10358. The Program of the Minority
    First Published: 1946
    Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
  10359. Programme du Centre de Pastorale en Milieu Ouvrier 1977-78
    First Published: 1978
  10360. The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier
    First Published: 1880
    This document was drawn up in May 1880, when French workers' leader Jules Guesde came to visit Marx in London. The Preamble was dictated by Marx, while the other two parts of minimum political and economic demands were formulated by Marx and Guesde, with assistance from Engels and Paul Lafargue, who with Guesde was to become a leading figure in the Marxist wing of French socialism.
  10361. Progress Against Poverty
    First Published: 1987
  10362. Progressive Christianity
    Wikipedia article
    Progressive Christianity is a form of Christianity which is characterized by a willingness to question tradition, acceptance of human diversity, a strong emphasis on social justice and care for the poor and the oppressed, and environmental stewardship of the Earth. Progressive Christians have a deep belief in the centrality of the instruction to "love one another" within the teaching of Jesus Christ. This leads to a focus on promoting values such as compassion, justice, mercy, tolerance, often through political activism.
  10363. Progressive doctors condemn opting out
    First Published: 1982
    An interview with Toronto physicians Miriam Garfinkle and Fred Freedman, members of the Medical Reform Group of Ontario.
  10364. Progressive Ideas Matter to Voters. So Why Do Democrats Fixate on the Identity of the Messenger?
    First Published: 2019
    There is a larger rhetorical trend toward divorcing voter preferences from ideology to focusing on identity. Wittingly or not, the effect is to undermine the obvious power of progressive ideas.
  10365. Progressive Movement Security and Self-Defense
    First Published: 2016
    A comprehensive list of security measures organizers should take to protect themselves and their groups from government, corporate and right-wing surveillance and persecution.
  10366. "Progressive" Obama: He's Melting, He's Melting
    First Published: 2015
    Beneath progressive pretentions, Barack Obama the national political phenomenon has never been anything other than a tool of the US corporate and financial ruling class.
  10367. Progressive virtue, performed in public
    First Published: 2023
    Wokeness, however it is defined, has more in common with a religious mindset than a political project, says Ian Buruma.
  10368. Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
    First Published: 1984
    The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
  10369. Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
    First Published: 2009
    The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
  10370. Project Chile
    First Published: 1977
    The pamphlet serves as background material for Project Chile, a national campaign to stop Canadian private investment in Chile and all governmental support for such investment until human rights and democratic institutions are restored.
  10371. Project North
    The Inter-Church Project on Northern Development
    First Published: 1977
    Project North's purpose is to help these churches address more effectively the issues of Native land claims and Northern development.
  10372. Project Ploughshares
    First Published: 1977
    A project aimed at educating the Canadian public about Canadian defense policy.
  10373. Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
    First Published: 2020
    A group of right-wing Venezuelans has managed to ban the use of a range of alternative media outlets covering Venezuela, including MintPress News.
  10374. Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
  10375. Proletarian management: Informal workplace organization - Kämpa Tillsammans
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2007
    Interesting article about informal workplace organising, management tactics and suggestions for workers to build power on the job.
  10376. The proliferation of neo-primitives
    First Published: 1979
    Neo-primitives prefer an imaginary past to the work of creating a different society.
  10377. The Promise of a Revolution
    Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards, and the Origins of the Council
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Ralf Hoffrogge's Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards, and the Origins of the Council.
  10378. The Promises and Limitations of Radical Local Politics
    First Published: 2017
    Steve Early's most recent book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of An American City (Beacon Press), describes the building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in the United States, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp.
  10379. Promises......Promises
    First Published: 1981
  10380. Promoting Unity and Solidarity
    First Published: 1996
    I think that the current situation calls instead for a strategy that emphasizes working-class solidarity among a plurality of working-class organizations. This solidarity must bridge the divide between industrial and other workers, union and non-union workers, white and non-white workers, public and private sector workers, and so on.
  10381. The Promotion of Tourism Prince Edward Island Style
    A brief presented to Hon. Gilbert R. Clements, Minister of Tourism, Parks and Conservation
    First Published: 1975
    Critique of the impact of tourism and its promotion on the people of P.E.I.
  10382. Proof of concept: An insurgent left can achieve electoral success - even in Canada
    First Published: 2017
    The article looks at Vancouver's current political climate on the municipal level. Jean Swanson's recent support placed her in second place in a civic election, and demonstrates the city's shift to the centre - left.
  10383. Propaganda
    'The Dominant Grand Narrative of Our Time'
    First Published: 2014
    Today, it is clearer than ever to a growing number of people that there is something seriously wrong with 'the news'. The current system of planet-crushing propaganda relies on a mere façade of overall 'balance', 'reasonableness' and 'range of views'. In the UK, BBC News is the crucial foundation stone of this propaganda system, with the Guardian playing an accompanying role.
  10384. Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
    The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms
    First Published: 2017
    The PRP industry has experienced phenomenal growth since 2001. In 2015, three publicly traded mega PR firms -- Omnicom, WPP, and Interpublic Group -- together employed 214,000 people across 170 countries, collecting $35 billion in combined revenue. Not only do these firms control massive wealth, they also possess a network of connections in powerful international institutions with direct links to national governments, multi-national corporations, global policy-making bodies, and the corporate media.
  10385. Propaganda Feeds Fear and Loathing
    First Published: 2017
    The disturbing and growing trend of misinformation in news reporting.
  10386. Propaganda and Lies, Canadian Style
    First Published: 2017
    As Canadian politicians speak freely and with less accountability on international affairs, indiviuals need to educate themselves on international issues and through alternative sources of information.
  10387. Propaganda model
    Connexipedia Article
    A theory that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product - readers and audiences - to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the people.
  10388. Propaganda of the deed
    Connexipedia Article
    A concept that promotes violence against political enemies as a way of inspiring the masses and catalyzing revolution.
  10389. Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla - Part 1
    First Published: 2010
    We are trained to react to violent acts, not on the basis of their objective legality and human cost, but on the basis of the perceived legitimacy of the people committing the act. Violence committed by authority figures will tend to be viewed as legitimate and well-intentioned. Violence committed by non-state actors or "rogue states" resisting the state will tend to be seen as illegitimate and malevolent.
  10390. Propaganda Techniques of Empire 
    First Published: 2016
    Washington’s quest for perpetual world power is underwritten by systematic and perpetual propaganda wars. Every major and minor war has been preceded, accompanied and followed by unremitting government propaganda designed to secure public approval, exploit victims, slander critics, dehumanize targeted adversaries and justify its allies’ collaboration. In this paper Petras discusses the most common recent techniques used to support ongoing imperial wars.
  10391. The Property Waiver Regime: Nicaragua's Continued Punishment
    First Published: 2009
  10392. The Prophet Alarmed
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Tariq Ali's book "The Extreme Centre: A Warning."
  10393. The Prophet Alarmed
    The Extreme Center: A Warning (Book Review)
    First Published: 2015
    Review of Tariq Ali's The Extreme Center: A Warning. In The Extreme Center, Ali gives more than just a pungent and entertaining smack-down of corruption in British politics.
  10394. The Prophet: Deutscher's Trotsky
    First Published: 2017
    The Old Testament prophets belonged to a religious order devoted to the study of sacred texts, which they interpreted, and from which they proclaimed the obligations of the leaders of their nation to the people. From these scriptures they envisioned the coming of the Messiah, who would usher in an era of justice and goodwill toward men.
  10395. Proposal for a Billingual Half-Hour Film
    (on Sudbury women during the INCO strike)
    This proposal for production of a film about the wives of Sudbury's striking workers is addressed to a variety of church, labour and women's organizations.
  10396. Proposal for a Participatory Socialist International
    First Published: 2010
    A statement endorsing the idea of a new International.
  10397. A Proposal for a Public Seminar on Fundy Tidal Poswer
    First Published: 1977
    The Coalition for Tidal Power Education was organized through the summer of 1977 for the purpose of promoting a wider public discussion of the possibility of tidal power development. It consists of representatives of community and public interest groups in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
  10398. A Proposal for the Development of a Community Socio-Legal Clinic
    First Published: 1977
    A report on the success of the addition of a legal clinic to an established community centre.
  10399. A Proposal for the Legislation to Establish a Self Development Corporation
    First Published: 1977
    This proposal challenges the Canadian government to take immediate action to stop the critical unemployment situation in Canada by introducing a concrete long term job creation program. NAPO's proposal calls for the establishment of a Self Development Corporation which would have as its goal the rehabilitation of people through the development of self sustaining economic enterprises.
  10400. A Proposal to American Labor
    'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
    First Published: 2002
    The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
  10401. Proposed Communist Settlement
    A New Colony for Tyneside or Wearside
    First Published: 1895
  10402. A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War
    First Published: 2022
    An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group.
  10403. Proposed Torture Ban Includes New Transparency and Oversight Mechanisms
    First Published: 2015
    The US senate has approved the ban for government torture. Along with this move, they have also implemented transparency and oversight policies into government agencies like the NSA and FBI.
  10404. Proposition d'Ecole Plate-forme revendicatrive pour une ecole de masse a batir maintenant
    First Published: 1978
  10405. The Prosecution and Persecution of Bradley Manning
    Setting An Example
    First Published: 2013
    The desire to strip Manning of careful intent has been a tactic of the government that is prosecuting him and the mainstream media who parrot their propaganda from the start.
  10406. Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
    First Published: 2017
    US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy.
  10407. Prospects for African Americans
    Against The Current vol. 150
    First Published: 2011
    Much of the debate in Washington and Wall Street is about the ongoing world economic crisis and what to do about it. The ruling elites’ solution: cut taxes for the rich, who will “trickle down” their investments to hire more people who will then jumpstart the economy. The fact that this hasn’t worked for the past 10 years is irrelevant.
  10408. Prospects for an Alt-Left
    First Published: 2016
    Examining the limitations and issues with prevalent approaches of younger progressives and how a more effective 'alt-left' movement might be formed.
  10409. Prostitution Rights
    First Published: 1980
    Decriminalization takes prostitution from the jurisdiction of the criminal code. It means private sexual acts between consenting adults are placed outside the realm of criminal laws.
  10410. Protect our sacred water!
    First Published: 2014
    The curse of Uranium has fallen once again on the Black Hills of South Dakota, ancestral home to the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and groundwater.
  10411. Protect the Freedom to Shock
    First Published: 2001
    Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
  10412. Protect your freedom and privacy; join us in creating an Internet that's safer from surveillance
    First Published: 2013
    In order to defang surveillance programs like PRISM, we need to stop using centralized systems and come together to build an Internet that's decentralized, trustworthy, and free "as in freedom."
  10413. Protect Yourself from Electronic Spying with Surveillance Self-Defense
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2014
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched its updated "Surveillance Self-Defense" report, a comprehensive how-to guide to protecting yourself from electronic spying for Internet users all over the world.
  10414. Protecting the environment
    First Published: 1990
  10415. Protecting the Girl Child
    Using the Law to End Child Marriage, Early and Forced Marriage and Related Human Rights Violations
    First Published: 2014
    The report states that child marriage of legitimizes human rights violations and abuses of girls under the pretense of culture, honour, and religion.
  10416. Protection for Journalists
    First Published: 1992
  10417. Protectionism or Solidarity? (Part I)
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    As the 21st century opened, U.S. labor seemed more energized and more engaged in grappling with the forces that had so long kept it on the defensive. Perhaps it was the fact that over a million workers had joined unions in the last two years and new members outnumbered lost ones by over a quarter of a million. Maybe it was the high-visibility experience of Seattle and the promise of a new coalition of forces.
  10418. The Protectionist Trap
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    In July, the United Nations and some fifty large corporations came to an agreement that the companies would all respect workers' rights and protect the environment in their investments around the world. Anyone who believes that this will actually happen is maybe in the market for a certain bridge as well.
  10419. Protest against cruise missile tests
    First Published: 1991
  10420. Protest Alone Won't Stop Fascism 
    First Published: 2017
    Desperate people are vulnerable to fascism, and the desperation is deepening: millions are eyeball deep in debt and 80% live paycheck to paycheck, while skyrocketing healthcare costs and rising rent heat up the social pressure cooker. It's this economic gut punch that the fascists hope to benefit from: as working people struggle to breathe the fascists hope to offer cheap, ready-made oxygen.
  10421. Protest Inc. - The Corporatization of Protest (Book Review)
    First Published: 2014
    Review of "Protest Inc. - The Corporatization of Activism" by Peter Dauvergne & Genevieve LeBaron.
  10422. The protest march of September 3 -- where to?
    Efrat, Yacov Ben
    First Published: 2011
    We, workers from all sectors, Arabs and Jews, marched to the square on Saturday with a clear message: Bibi, your time is up, go home! We marched with a socialist worldview, according to which the economy should exist to serve society, not capital. Those who truly struggle for social justice must seek universal justice. There will be no true welfare state until the occupation is ended!
  10423. Protest song
    Connexipedia Article
    A song which is associated with a movement for social change.
  10424. Protesters in Eastern India Battle Against Mining Giant Arcelor Mittal
    First Published: 2010
    In the rural, tribal lands of Eastern India, protesters are going head-to-head with world steel giant Arcelor Mittal. "We may give away our lives, but we will not part with an inch of our ancestral land," the villagers cry. "The forest, rivers and land are ours. We don't want factories, steel or iron. Arcelor Mittal Go Back."
  10425. Protesting the "slave law" in Hungary: The erosion of illiberal hegemony?
    First Published: 2019
    Popular protests have arisen in Hungary to oppose exploitive changes to the labor code. The government opposition has supported the protests but this could result in weakening the protests' legitimacy as a movement.
  10426. Protests of 1968
    Connexipedia Article
    The Protests of 1968 consisted of a worldwide series of protests, largely led by students and workers.
  10427. Protests, Prosecution And Punishment In Saudi Arabia
    First Published: 2012
    Saudi Arabia is experiencing protests, prosecution and punishments.
  10428. Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
    Connexipedia Article
    French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. (1809-1865).
  10429. Provocateur Cops Caught Disguised As Anarchists At G20
    First Published: 2009
    At every single major summit over the past few years, authorities have inserted agent provocateurs into protest groups in order to spy on them and if necessary, provoke violence to justify oppressive police brutality in the eyes of the watching world.
    We have documented numerous different occasions where the leadership of the black bloc anarchists were actually working with the authorities to provide a pretext for a police state crackdown.
    During the previous G20 protest in London, black bloc anarchists were allowed by police to smash up bank buildings while being accompanied by more press photographers than other protesters in what was obviously a stage-managed spectacle for mass consumption
  10430. Provoking Nuclear War by Media
    First Published: 2016
    The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain too much about how the rulers of the world rule.
  10431. Prussian uprisings
    Connexipedia Article
    Uprisings by the Prussians, one of the Baltic tribes, against the Teutonic Knights that took place in the 13th century.
  10432. Przemyslenia o samostanowieniu i niepodleglosci
    First Published: 1994
  10433. Psychiatry's 'Defect Model of Mental Illness:' a Path for Those it Has Failed
    First Published: 2016
    For some depressed, anxious, and substance-abusing people, it feels better to believe that they are essentially defective, as it provides them with a defense of sorts against insulting accusations that they are malingering. But the defect model of mental illness doesn't work for everyone.
  10434. Psychiatry's Manufacture of Consent
    The Chemical Imbalance Theory and the Antidepressant Explosion
    First Published: 2014
    Starting in the 1990s — despite research findings that levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin were unrelated to depression — Americans began to be exposed to highly effective television commercials for antidepressants that portrayed depression as caused by a “chemical imbalance” of low levels of serotonin and which could be treated with “chemically balancing” antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
  10435. Psycho-corporal therapy
    First Published: 1990
  10436. Psychogeography
    Connexipedia Article
    Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."
  10437. Psychologists' Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions
    The Status Quo of Torture
    First Published: 2012
  10438. The Psychology of Mountain Biking
    First Published: 2000
    The first thing one notices about mountain bikers is that they lie continually.
  10439. The Psychology of Political Violence
    First Published: 1917
    Compared with the wholesale violence of capital and government, political acts of violence are but a drop in the ocean. That so few resist is the strongest proof how terrible must be the conflict between their souls and unbearable social iniquities.
  10440. The Psychology of the Arms Race
    First Published: 1983
  10441. Psychotherapist out of touch
    First Published: 1992
    Touching and hugging are natural behaviour all over the world among people who like or love each other.
  10442. The Public Assistance Food Allowance Increase
    First Published: 1973
    An analysis of the effect on the Alberta poor of a 9% food allowance increase in 1972-73.
  10443. Public Broadcasting is Cultural National Defence
    The role of the national public broadcaster is to do those things which private broadcasters have demonstrated they will not, or cannot, accomplish.
  10444. The Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Evokes the Antebellum Slave Codes
    First Published: 2020
    Immigration historians have written extensively about how the archaic provision Trump is relying on had antecedents in state laws regulating Atlantic immigration in the 1800s. But little, if anything, has been said in the media about how Trump's rule is also rooted in a different set of state laws, specifically, state slave codes and other antebellum-era laws designed to preserve slavery and limit the movement of freed slaves.
  10445. Public Declaration: Solidarity against police repression in Montreal
    We will not submit to the municipal by-law P-6
    First Published: 2013
    With this public declaration, we assert our opposition to by-law P-6: we will continue to demonstrate without negotiating our demo routes with police, and we will systematically challenge all tickets that arise from this by-law.
  10446. Public Disinterest: Information Commons Dismantled
    First Published: 2010
    Seventy-five years after the Federal Radio Commission declared there was no room on the public airwaves for “propaganda stations” and denied a license renewal to a station that attacked Jews and law enforcement agencies, the airwaves are filled with both propaganda and venom. Today the airwaves, stripped of commons rules, feed hatred.
  10447. Public Education in California--What's After March 4?
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    On March fourth, we marched forth. Hundreds of marches, rallies and direct actions in defense of public education took place on March 4 across California. Now what?
  10448. Public Enemy Number One: the Public
    Keeping Us in the Dark and Under Watch
    First Published: 2013
    Those in power use language to obscure meaning more often than to convey it. Their power depends on keeping us — the enemy — in the dark.
  10449. Public Gives Direction for Clark's Nuclear Inquiry
    First Published: 1979
    Suggestions given to the federal governemnt as to how a public inquiry into nuclear energy should be conducted.
  10450. Public health or private wealth?
    How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism
    First Published: 2021
  10451. Public Housing Redesign
    First Published: 1994
    The solution to the specific problems of illegal drug dealing and prostitution is decriminalization.
  10452. The Public Library: Antidote to Everyday American Banality
    First Published: 2019
    A celebration of the local library that includes conversations with librarians and patrons.
  10453. Public Ownership and Common Ownership 
    First Published: 1947
    Under public ownership the workers are not masters of their work; they may be better treated and their wages may be higher than under private ownership; but they are still exploited.
  10454. The public reaction to new power lines could kill renewable energy: they must be buried
    First Published: 2011
    Anti-wind campaigners are highly selective. The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, obsessed by wind farms, says nothing about the opencast coal mines ripping south Wales apart. Nor do you hear a word about the destruction of the ecosystems of upland Wales (and England and Scotland) by sheep grazing. These champions of the countryside want to save it from only one threat.
  10455. Public Relations Strategy a Valuable Fundraising Tool
    First Published: 2002
    A case study of using public relations to enhance a charity's fundraising activities.
  10456. Public Servants or Corporate Security?
    An Open Letter to Law Enforcement and National Guard in North Dakota
    First Published: 2016
    Detailing the role of the National Guard and law enforcement services as protecting corporate interests opposed to public safety in the context of the North Dakota pipeline protest action, and appealing to these public servants to consider the impact and implications of their role in the conflict.
  10457. Public space - we must defend our freedoms!
    First Published: 2014
    Laws handing sweeping new powers to police and private security to restrict access to Britain's public space will extinguish the diversity of civic life. Time for us to rediscover and defend our freedoms.
  10458. Public Spaces, Private Control
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the commercialization of public spaces in Britain and elsewhere in the industrialized world, where gentrification and increasingly troubling privatization of public spaces goes largely unnoticed by a populace caught up in the day-to-day grind of living.
  10459. Public transit is a women's issue
    First Published: 2016
    Drimonis highlights the problem of sexual harrassment of female passengers and the failure of transit officials to address this problem.
  10460. Public Universities in Peril
    Against The Current vol. 135
    First Published: 2008
    It's hare to imagine that only a year ago the privatization of a public university would emerge as a major political issue in Bloomington, Indiana. That is not to say the topic took the community by surprise. As early as 1994, the Indiana University’s Board of Trustees formed various tasks forces to evaluate the university’s potential for privatization.
  10461. Publications List of the Canadian Association in Support of the Native Peoples
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1976
    Comprehensive list of publications relating to native peoples.
  10462. Publicised Cruelty: Scott Morrison Visits Christmas Island
    First Published: 2019
    Australia is reopening the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island. The prime minister made a public tour of the facilities.
  10463. La publicite sexise c'est quoi?
    First Published: 1979
  10464. Pueblo Revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    An uprising of many pueblos of the Pueblo people against Spanish colonization of the Americas in the New Spain province of New Mexico in 1680.
  10465. Puerto Rico: a Junta By Any Other Name
    First Published: 2016
    Empire is once again fashionable. The financial crisis that is presently gutting the island of Puerto Rico plays out like the world's worst case of botched assisted suicide. The sell of its municipal funds and its constitutionally guaranteed promise of repayment to investors has plunged the island into a very precarious situation for its millions of citizens and the opportunity of a lifetime for hedge fund vultures.
  10466. Puerto Rico Is an Artificial Economy
    First Published: 2015
    CounterSpin interview with Ed Morales on Puerto Rican debt crisis.
  10467. Puerto Rico, The Oldest U.S. Colony
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    When I was a high school senior, my history teacher promised the class that the Americans “would land” in Puerto Rico by the New Year. What he meant to tell us was that, different from most Puerto Rican history courses, our class would spend considerable time studying more recent historical events, and therefore the most controversial period of Puerto Rican history — the American Century. He kept his promise and many of us, including me, left the class with a deep sense of uneasiness against Puerto Rico’s colonial condition under the United States.
  10468. Puerto Rico: The Real Bombers
    Against The Current vol. 83
    First Published: 1999
    Practically every article concerning the Puerto Rican political prisoners repeats one item of information: They were members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a pro-independence group blamed for 130 bombings in the United States that killed six people and wounded dozens of others from 1974 to 1983.
  10469. Puerto Rico's La Huelga del Pueblo
    First Published: 1998
    AFTER FORTY DAYS on strike, several paros (one-day stoppages) in various government agencies and a two-day general strike, Puerto Rico's telephone workers have returned to work without attaining their objective: forcing the government to break its agreement to sell the state-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) to a group of investors led by GTE.
  10470. Puerto Rico's default is fine, as long as Wall Street is repaid
    First Published: 2015
    On August 1, 2015, Puerto Rico defaulted on part of its enormous $72 billion debt, paying back only $628,000 on a relatively small $58 million loan that was due at the start of the month. The default, which marks the most serious credit event in US public bond markets since the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy in 2013, has led many to draw obvious comparisons to Greece – and understandably so.
  10471. Pugachev's Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    The principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in Russia after 1762.
  10472. Pullman Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    A nationwide conflict between labour unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.
  10473. Punching the Clock
    First Published: 2018
    An excerpt from David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" published by Simon and Schuster. Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, looks at the existence of meaningless work and the psychological and societal harm that results.
  10474. Punctuation Marks: A Story of Class Struggle
    From 1905 to Our Time
    First Published: 2005
    An essay on the relevance of the 1905 revolution in Russia.
  10475. Pungesti, Romania: people versus Chevron and riot police
    First Published: 2013
    Pungesti is at the terrifying front line of Romania's resource war - where villagers are fighting off rapacious corporations and their private army of violent riot police, backed by corrupt politicians.
  10476. The Punishment of Cuba
    The USA as Judge, Jury and Executioner
    First Published: 2014
    For years American political leaders and media were fond of labeling Cuba an "international pariah". We haven’t heard that for a very long time. Perhaps one reason is the annual vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution which reads: "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba".
  10477. Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle
    First Published: 2007
    The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
  10478. Pure: Ten Points I Just Can't Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative
    First Published: 2021
    A lie repeated often enough enters the public consciousness, so I am republishing this in the hope of stimulating the honest and the intellectually awake.
  10479. The Purge
    First Published: 1988
    Between 1947 and 1960 it was even harder than usual for left-wingers in the United States to get by. If you were active on the left, or were thought to be, there were more ways then than now that you could be arrested or threatened with arrest, or have civil rights such as the right to travel abroad withdrawn.
  10480. The Puritanical Glee Over the Ashley Madison Hack
    First Published: 2015
    High school students have long read The Scarlet Letter, the 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne set in a Puritanical Massachusetts town in the mid-17th century. As The Atlantic noted in 1886, "the punishment of the scarlet letter is a historical fact." To see just how current is the mentality driving the scarlet letter, observe the reaction to the Ashley Madison hack.
  10481. The Purpose And The Pretence - Bombing Isis
    First Published: 2014
    Traditionally, claims that an Official Enemy is uniquely Evil rise to a deafening crescendo just prior to an attack on that enemy.
  10482. The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism
    First Published: 2012
    Four years ago, a barely noticed Pentagon document, leaked by WikiLeaks, described how WikiLeaks and Assange would be destroyed with a smear campaign leading to "criminal prosecution". We are witnessing the implementation of that plan.
  10483. Pushing Back Civil Rights
    First Published: 2015
    An examination of the roll back of civil rights in the context of police violence against African Americans.
  10484. Pushing Demands at OWS?
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    A debate is going on about whether Occupy Wall Street should adopt a list of demands. A number of people I know and respect have supported the Demands Working Group in New York and have called for the General Assembly to adopt their list. The draft includes great demands — there is nothing I’ve seen that I don’t agree with, and I’ve worked hard for some of them for much of my life. Yet I keep thinking that pushing the list of demands is not the way to go right now.
  10485. Put it in writing
    Top five tips for writing press releases.
  10486. Put it in Writing
    Advice on writing news releases.
  10487. Put the Palestinians on a Diet
    Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel's Deliberate Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza
    First Published: 2010
    Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”.
  10488. Put the Palestinians On A Diet
    First Published: 2010
    Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”.
  10489. Putin on the Ritz
    First Published: 2014
    Forgive the word-play; colossal demonization notwithstanding, I’ll go with Putin and Russia over Obama, the US, Rasmussen, Cameron, friends and allies everywhere. America has an unerring nose for smelling Fascism and quickly joining ranks. Today Putin used the political “F” word correctly, and for that I honor him.
  10490. Putin's Contribution to Democracy
    Against The Current vol. 86
    Behind Vladimir Putin's election are the accoutrements of Russia's 21st century democracy -- a controlled media which smears opponents and lies about the war in Chechnya, journalists who publish their price to regurgitate government propaganda (the going rate is $4000 for a laudatory article), unbridled patriotism and just in case none of this works, filling the voter roster with dead souls.
  10491. Putin's Question and the Ambassador's Answer
    First Published: 2015
    A fascinating, if brief, verbal exchange recently took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987 – 1991), Jack Matlock.
  10492. Putting Nature First
    Principles to Guide the Settlement of Aboriginal Land Claims
  10493. Putting Socialism Back on the Agenda 
    Daring to Hope
    First Published: 2013
    Is Socialism Capitalism's future?
  10494. Putting Syria Into Some Perspective
    First Published: 2012
    The 19th- and 20th-century colonialist-imperialist mentality is alive and well in the West.
  10495. Putting Technology to Work for Palestine Activism
    Palestine Activism Handbook Module
    First Published: 2008
  10496. Putting the Arms Industry on Trial
    First Published: 2014
    Sean Douglas and other activists are prosecuting two companies that promoted torture equipment in the UK.
  10497. Putting the Fox in Charge: What's Fair About the Fair Labor Association?
    First Published: 1999
    AFTER THE EXPOSÉS in the early 1990s of horrendous conditions in sweatshops producing clothing and shoes for some of the largest U.S. companies, the fight against sweatshops has come a long way. Companies that once refused to acknowledge responsibility for factory conditions by alleging they were “only the buyers” now have codes of conduct, undertake more serious internal monitoring of the factories they buy from, and several companies have begun experimenting with different forms...
  10498. Putting the Racist Flyers at University of Michigan in Context
    First Published: 2017
    On Monday morning, September 26, 2017, students arrived to the U-M campus to find racist flyers plastered in Haven Hall, Mason Hall, and several other buildings
  10499. Q&A: On the Untouchable 'Lords of Secrecy'
    First Published: 2015
    Horton, a lawyer, journalist and human rights advocate, makes the case in his book, Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Foreign Policy, that because the public is allowed to know so little, it has effectively been cut out of national security decisionmaking.
  10500. Quaker Prison Committee
    A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee
    First Published: 1977
    A look at two case histories vis. the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
  10501. The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Communications
    First Published: 2013
    This is a hitherto unpublished chapter of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966). The text as published here has been edited and includes notes by John Bellamy Foster. The style conforms to that of their book. Part of the original draft chapter, dealing with mental health, was still incomplete at the time of Baran's death in 1964, and consequently has not be included in this published version.
  10502. Quality and Propaganda 
    First Published: 2024
    An obviously fake video created and circulated by the Australian Jewish Association, which purported to show protesters chanting 'Gas the Jews,' received massive media coverage and went viral, even though it was immediately shown to be fake. Hundreds of mainstream journalists reported it as if it were true.
  10503. Quand Ferment Les Usines: un dossier d'animation
    First Published: 1979
    Préparer à la demande de la CRC-Q (Conférence religieuse canadienne-section Québec) ce dossier d'animation se veut une suite pour aller plus loin, à la prise de position de la CRC-Q à l'occasion de la fermeture de Cadbury.
  10504. Quand le coeur et la tete sont en affaire
    First Published: 1978
  10505. Quantitative Easing: the Most Opaque Transfer of Wealth in History
    First Published: 2017
    Quantitative Easing, by 'injecting' money into the economy, was supposed to get banks lending again, boosting investment and driving up economic growth, but this has proven not to be the case.
  10506. Le quartier de Yorkville dans les années 60
    First Published: 2020
    Yorkville était un quartier dans la ville de Toronto qui était le centre de la contreculture des années 60s. Son nom vient de l’avenue Yorkville, mais en tant que district, ses limites était aux alentours de la rue Bloor vers le sud, la rue Davenport vers le nord, la rue Yonge vers l’est et la rue avenue vers l’ouest. L’avenue Hazelton et les rues Cumberland, Scollard, et Bellair faisaient partie du quartier de Yorkville.
  10507. Que es el Socialismo Libertario?
    First Published: 1977
  10508. Que hacemos ahora? Construir un Movimiento Social en el Resultado del Libre Tratado
    First Published: 1989
    Cuando creamos un movimiento para cambiar la sociedad, nos cambiamos a nosotros mismos, y al cambiarnos a nosotros mismos, hacemos que los cambios sociales sean posibles.
  10509. Quebec - A Double Revolution
    First Published: 1964
    Discusses Quebecois nationalism in the early 1960s.
  10510. Quebec Agrees to Negotiate, Kidnap Crees First But "Negotiate"
    First Published: 1997
    Canadians as a whole seem to be unaware of the depth of the double standards advocated by the separatist leaders. We Crees are only too grimly aware of them, however, since we will be the first and most deeply affected community if the separatists ever get a chance to put their current secessionist policies into practice.
  10511. The Quebec general strike 1972
    The story of one of the largest working class rebellions in American history. 300,000 workers participated in North America's largest general strike to that date, radio stations were seized, factories were occupied, and entire towns were brought under workers' control, and it won important gains.
  10512. The Quebec National Question and the Case for Socialism
    A debate between the International Bolshevik Tendency and the Trotskyist League
    First Published: 1999
  10513. Quebec police monitor TV, radio
    First Published: 1989
  10514. Quebec police shop for tanks
    First Published: 1992
  10515. Québec Shoe Workers' Lockout
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A lockout of Quebec shoe workers in 1900.
  10516. Quebec: The Struggle of A Nation
    A study kit organized for small group study over a period of a year.
  10517. Quebec's two solitudes
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Quebec's hopes to chart a smooth course to sovereignty may founder on claims to Quebec's territory by its original inhabitants - claims that could involve as much as 80 per cent of its land mass.
  10518. Quebecers' right to protest restricted after 2012 "Maple Spring" in Canada
    First Published: 2013
    In 2012, a massive student strike over tuition fee increases rocked Quebec and thousands took to the streets, marching in protest. In the aftermath, Montreal residents find that their ability to protest has been restricted, as the police employ increased powers to arrest and fine demonstrators.
  10519. Quebec's Antifa movement on rise in response to growth of far-right groups
    Left-wing activists grapple with tactics to fight racism, neo-Nazism
    First Published: 2017
    A report on anti-facist groups and their roots in Quebec, and what they are doing to counter the rise of right wing nationalism in the province.
  10520. Queen Mab
    A Philosophical Poem (in 9 parts)
    First Published: 1813
  10521. Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
    First Published: 2015
    Smith's review of a book published on the history of LGBT activisim within the labour movement.
  10522. Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
    First Published: 2015
    In the 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation private while organizing textile workers at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina. When the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) offered her an organizing position in a small town in Virginia, Rankin, turned down the opportunity fearing isolation due to her sexual orientation.
  10523. Queer in a Lean World
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    The queer movement has made impressive gains in the thirty-one years since the Gay Liberation Front emerged out of the Stonewall Riots in New York City. It is now possible for many lesbians and gay men to live relatively open lives in fairly supportive environments with access to real community resources.
  10524. The Queer Movement Today
    First Published: 2016
    A year after marriage equality was legalized nationwide in the United States, and two months since the June 12, 2016 massacre at a gay club in Orlando, the LGBT movement confronts a contradictory future.
  10525. A queer take on Safe Schools and identity politics
    First Published: 2016
    In recent weeks, the debate over the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program has intensified, taking what is in many ways a bizarre turn. The brief suspension of program architect Roz Ward from her position at La Trobe University has reopened the debate about whether Safe Schools is 'cultural Marxism' by stealth, the program once again coming under fire from conservatives across the country. Even trans advocate and member of the ADF Catherine McGregor has weighed in. One of the more interesting elements of this, however, has been the debate it has created about the role gender and sexual politics can and should play within Marxism. Here enters Guy Rundle. In the pages of Crikey, Rundle penned a treatise on the program and what he considers the failures of 'queer theory'. Rundle believes Safe Schools (via queer theory) presents the view that 'gender and sexuality are infinitely fluid'. He argues, however, that such a view denies the material realities of sexuality and gender, not to mention his view that 'almost no-one really believes it -- and they certainly do not let it shape their lives'.
  10526. Queer theories and militant practices
    First Published: 2009
    A critical look at queer theories.
  10527. Queer theory and politics
    First Published: 2011
    Queer theory and politics originated in the 1990s and continue to be influential today. This article traces the development of queer theory and politics, and assesses their claim to provide a radical alternative to what they see as the LGBT mainstream.
  10528. Queer Vows, Pros and Cons
    First Published: 1996
    Equality ain't liberation, honey, but it's important nonetheless. We fight for the right to jobs, as horrible as so many of them are. We should fight for queer marriage, as problematic an institution as it is.
  10529. Queering the Cold War
    First Published: 2010
    A review of the book 'The Canadian War on Queers' and its examination of how homophobia, national security, and queerness unfolded in Canada during the Cold War.
  10530. Qu'est ce que le socialisme libertaire?
    First Published: 1977
    L'idée que le socialisme est avant tout à propos de liberté et donc sur le dépassement de la domination, de la répression, et de l'aliénation qui bloquent la libre circulation de la créativité humaine, de la pensée et de l'action.
  10531. Quest for Justice
    First Published: 2002
    Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
  10532. A Question of Place 
    First Published: 2000
    Global capitalism relentlessly displaces people and abandons places because it views local communities, cities, and even nations as inconveniences in the path of progress. Place-consciousness, on the other hand, encourages us to come together around common, local experiences and organize around our hopes for the future of our communities and cities. While global capitalism doesn't give a damn about the people or the natural environment of any particular place because it can always move on to other people and other places, place-based civic activism is concerned about the health and safety of people and places.
  10533. Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
    First Published: 2014
    Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
  10534. Questions for a New Movement
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    Public universities in California during Fall 2009 saw the eruption of a movement to defend public education — and more broadly, public services and goods — from an onslaught of cuts and fee hikes in the wake of the 2008-09 economic downturn and federal and state budget cuts.
  10535. Questions for the APA Board Regarding Claims in James Risen's Book "Pay Any Price"
    Colluding With the CIA on Torture?
    First Published: 2014
    In his new book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, James Risen, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, documents apparent collaboration between (American Psychological Association) APA leadership and the CIA to support psychologist participation in torture.
  10536. A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
    First Published: 2015
    The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.
  10537. A Quick Reaction
    First Published: 2001
    Noam Chomsky offers his immediate reactions to the atrocities of 9/11, focusing on the need to acquire insight into what may have led the perpetrators to commit such crimes.
  10538. Quicksilver and Slow Death
    A study of mercury pollution in Northwestern Ontario
    First Published: 1976
    A comprehensive paper describing the causes and effects of mercury pollution.
  10539. Quiet, Please! The Latest Threat to the Big Wild
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the growing problem of noise pollution in Glacier National Park in Montana, where each summer helicopters carrying tourists fly low over the landscape.
  10540. A quiet walk along the Don
    First Published: 1977
    What you don't see in the lower Don Valley are human beings. Right here the stream is flowing through what must be the densest population area that any river in Canada flows through. There are lots of people up there on the streets and buildings and zipping along the thruways, but almost none of them get down here beside this peaceful stretch of the river.
  10541. Quilombo
    Connexipedia Article
    A Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, Quilombolas, or Maroons.
  10542. Quilt gives peace a chance
    First Published: 2001
    Now more than ever people need to try to understand one another. That is what Miriam Garfinkle believes in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and why she feels it is even more important for people to come out and view the Middle East Peace Quilt when it comes to North York.
  10543. Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
    First Published: 2019
    Some Lebanese call what is happening on the streets of Beirut, Tripoli and other cities, an "October Revolution", but in reality, this uprising has very little to do with the iconic Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
  10544. Québec solidaire reviews the election and maps campaign on climate crisis
    First Published: 2018
    Meeting in Montréal December 7-9, 2018, Québec Solidaire reviewed elections results, adopted a proposal to prioritize the issue of climate crisis, and held a discussion on how to prepare an internal debate on "secularism and religious signs."
  10545. Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
    First Published: 2016
    Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
  10546. Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
    First Published: 2016
    Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
  10547. Rabbis Take on Settlers
    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.
  10548. Race & Class: Obama & the Politics of Protest
    Against The Current vol. 146
    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.
  10549. Race & Class: Obama Forgets Black Community
    Against The Current vol. 145
    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.
  10550. Race and Politics
    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.
  10551. Race and Politics: A Color-Blind America?
    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.
  10552. Race and Politics: Blacks in Corporate America
    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.
  10553. Race and Politics: Profiling and DWB
    Against The Current vol. 81
    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.)
  10554. Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts
    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.
  10555. Race and Racism in China
    Discrimination against the minority ethnic groups in contemporary China remains significant.
  10556. Race and the Enlightenment
    Part I: From Anti-Semitism to White Supremacy, 1492-1676
    First Published: 1997
  10557. Race and the Enlightenment
    Part II: The Anglo-French Enlightenment and Beyond
    First Published: 1999
  10558. Race and Class: African Americans in a Sick System
    Against The Current vol. 142
    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.
  10559. Race and Class: Blacks Still Taking the Hit
    Against The Current vol. 144
    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.
  10560. Race and Class: Brown v. Board of Education 50 Years Later
    Against The Current vol. 111
    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."
  10561. Race and Class: Busing and Integration, 1975-99
    Against The Current vol. 82
    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.
  10562. Race and Class: Downturn Undermines Black "Middle Class"
    Against The Current vol. 139
    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.
  10563. Race, class and the election of Trump
    First Published: 2016
    An analysis on the 2016 US presidential election.
  10564. Race and Class in Civil War Mississippi
    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.
  10565. Race and class in the United States: J. Sakai and the politics of revolution
    First Published: 2016
    Doug Greene offers a critique of J. Sakai's 1989 work, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat.
  10566. Race and Class in the Work of Oliver Cromwell Cox
    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.
  10567. Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans
    Against The Current vol. 120
    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.
  10568. Race, class and police murder in America
    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.
  10569. Race and Class: The Agenda of Pure Racism
    Against The Current vol. 141
    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.
  10570. Race and Class: The Wealth Gap
    Against The Current vol. 88
    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.
  10571. Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
    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.
  10572. Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
    Against The Current vol. 149
    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.
  10573. Race and Class: What Counts in the Census?
    Against The Current vol. 86
    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.
  10574. Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows
    Against The Current vol. 131
    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.
  10575. Race, Class, and White Privilege: A response
    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?
  10576. Race and the Communist Manifesto
    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.
  10577. Race from the 20th to the 21st Century: Multiculturalism or Emancipation?
    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.
  10578. Race, Gender, and Class Politics in the US Primaries
    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.
  10579. Race, Identity and the Political Economy of Hate
    First Published: 2019
    A look at statistics casts doubt on the supposed rise of white nationalist groups and violence.
  10580. Race and the Logic of Capital
    Review of Class, Race, and Marxism
    First Published: 2018
    A review of Review of Class, Race, and Marxism by David Roediger.
  10581. Race Obsession harms those it is meant to help
    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.
  10582. Race, Politics and Christianity in America
    Against The Current vol. 140
    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.
  10583. Race and the Real California
    The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Sarah D. Wald's The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl.
  10584. Race Relations Conference
    First Published: 1991
  10585. Race, Religion and Rounding Up Africans in Israel
    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.
  10586. A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
    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.
  10587. Race to the screen
    First Published: 1991
  10588. Race v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates 
    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.
  10589. Race Without Class: the "Bougie" Sensibility of Ta-Nehisi Coates
    First Published: 2016
  10590. Rachel Corrie Presente!
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    The following is an excerpt from a statement from the family of Rachel Corrie.
  10591. 'Rachel' screening in San Francisco shows a growing movement tired of being censored about Israel
    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.
  10592. Racial and Cultural Conflict and the Law Project
    First Published: 1977
  10593. Racial Capitalism and the "Digital Divide"
    Against The Current vol. 84
    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.
  10594. Racial categories are reactionary
    One of the most banal and vulgar ways to think about humanity is to classify by 'race'
    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.
  10595. Racial Justice, Class Justice
    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.
  10596. Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit
    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?
  10597. Racial Terror & Totalitarianism - Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    A review of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
    by Vaughn Rasberry.
  10598. The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes
    First Published: 2020
    On the racial wealth gap in the US and how it is driven by the upper classes.
  10599. Racialism, art and the Academy Awards controversy
    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.
  10600. Racism
    First Published: 2010
    An overview of racism
  10601. Racism & Conflict at Southern Illinois
    Against The Current vol. 118
    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.
  10602. Racism and Responsibility
    Against The Current vol. 133
    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.”
  10603. Racism and Sexual Violence in Indonesia
    Where Fear Stalks the Streets
    First Published: 2013
    Indonesia, since 1965, performed three genocides fully backed by the West.
  10604. Racism and Structural Solutions
    Against The Current vol. 135
    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.
  10605. Racism, capitalism and contradictions
    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.
  10606. Racism in Australia: from 1788 to stopping the boats
    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.
  10607. Racism in Israel
    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.
  10608. Racism in the Canadian Context
    First Published: 1980
  10609. Racism Refusing to Go Away
    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.
  10610. Le racisme au Quebec
    First Published: 1979
  10611. Racist housing? How postwar suburban development led to today's inner-city lead poisoning
    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.
  10612. Racist of the year, Ian Khama: Not Botswana's finest
    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.
  10613. Racist Outrage at UMass-Amherst
    Against The Current vol. 114
    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.
  10614. Racist Terror, Then and Now
    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.
  10615. Racist Terror, Then and Now: Many Ways to Die
    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.
  10616. Racist Undercurrents in the "War on Terror"
    Against The Current vol. 125
    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.
  10617. Racist Universities?
    New Rules Favor Former IDF Soldiers
    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.
  10618. Racist Violence is Used to Maintain an Unjust Social Order
    From Trayvon Martin to Wall Street
    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.
  10619. The racist worldview of Arthur Balfour
    First Published: 2017
    A look at British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, whose Declaration of 1917 led to the expulsion of Palestinians.
  10620. 'Radical Academia: Beyond the Audit Culture Treadmill'
    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.
  10621. Radical America - Wikipedia article
    Connexipedia Article
  10622. The Radical Center and Armed Revolution
    A Challenge for the Left
    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.
  10623. Radical chic' and the left's problem with race
    White, middle-class left-wingers are still in thrall to age-old prejudices.
    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".
  10624. Radical economics, Marxist economics and Marx's economics
    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.
  10625. Radical Faeries
    Connexipedia Article
    A loosely affiliated worldwide network of queer people seeking to "reject hetero-imitation" and redefine gay identity.
  10626. Radical Islam, Nihilist Rage
    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?
  10627. The Radical Left in Europe
    An Outline
    First Published: 2013
    An attempt to understand what unites the organisations of the new left and the nature of its radicalism.
  10628. The radical legacy of Nelson Mandela
    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.
  10629. The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg 
    A graphic novelization of the revolutionary life and legacy of "Red Rosa"
    First Published: 2015
    An excerpt from Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.
  10630. Radical Newspapers
    First Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
  10631. Radical Political Economics
    Event Listing 1990
    First Published: 1990
  10632. The radical Robert Burns
    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".
  10633. The Radical Roots of Free Speech
    First Published: 2019
    Interview with Laura Weinrib author of "The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise."
  10634. Radical Ruptures Emerging from Global Wageworkers
    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.
  10635. Radical Simplicity And The Middle Class
    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.
  10636. The 'Radical trip' of the the Canadian Union of Students, 1963-69
    First Published: 2009
    MA Thesis, Trent University, 2009
  10637. A Radical Vision for Victory
    A Freedom Budget for All Americans
    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.
  10638. Radical Waste Reduction
    First Published: 1991
  10639. Radical White Workers During the Last Revolution
    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.
  10640. Radicalising the rank and file
    First Published: 2015
    A discussion with U.S. labour historian Kim Moody focusing on the labour movement and rebuilding workplace organisation.
  10641. The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle
    First Published: 2012
    A report on Occupy Seattle 2011.
  10642. The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification
    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.
  10643. The Radicalness of the Accessory
    Book review
    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
  10644. Radicals and Revolutionaries
    The History of Canadian Communism from the Robert S. Kenny Collection
    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.
  10645. Radio Alice
    Connexipedia Article
    Italian free radio broadcasting from Bologna at the end of the 1970s.
  10646. Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
    First Published: 1978
    Radio in action in Italy.
  10647. Radio Canada slashed
    First Published: 1992
  10648. Radio Frequency ID Removes Freedom
    First Published: 2006
    Radio Frequency ID violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is part of the stealthy forging of a police state.
  10649. Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people
    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.
  10650. Rafael Correa, the Press, and Whistleblowers
    Corporate Control and Double Standards
    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.
  10651. Rafferty-Alameda: The American Connection
    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.
  10652. Raffi
    First Published: 1992
  10653. Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. Consensus
    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?
  10654. The Rage of the "Righteous"
    On Muslim Outrage at a Danish Cartoon
    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?
  10655. Rage, Race and Violence on the Western Range
    The Origins of the Rancher Insurrection
    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.
  10656. Raging Against the Algorithm: Google and Persuasive Technology
    First Published: 2019
    Fears of Google's algorithms detrimental effect on society may be well-founded but the proposed solutions are problematic.
  10657. The Raging Grannies
    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.
  10658. Ragpicking Through History: Class Memory, Class Struggle and its Archivists 
    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?
  10659. Rahul Pandita's New India: A Hindutva India On the Ashes Of Democratic Secular India
    First Published: 2017
    Shamsul Islam responds to the rise of the Hindutva in India and challenges their anti-Muslim propaganda.
  10660. The Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
    A Midwest Gothic
    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.
  10661. Rail accidents up
    First Published: 1990
  10662. The Railroading of Tonya Craft
    A New Wave of Prosecutorial Hysteria
    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.
  10663. The Rain On Our Parade 
    A Letter To My Dismal Allies
    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.
  10664. Rainbow Capital, Queerness, and Black Lives Matter's Shocking Reformism
    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.
  10665. Rainbow Coalition or Class War?
    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.
  10666. Rainbows and Weddings
    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.
  10667. Raising Consciousness About The Color of Law
    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.
  10668. Raising Hell for Labor
    Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Jane McAlevey's Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement.
  10669. Rallying to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
    Against The Current vol. 163
    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.
  10670. Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt
    Against The Current vol. 88
    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."
  10671. Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 2)
    Against The Current vol. 89
    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.
  10672. Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3)
    Against The Current vol. 90
    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.
  10673. The "Ralph Nader" Illusion
    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."
  10674. Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia - Book Review
    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.
  10675. Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
    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.
  10676. Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System
    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.
  10677. Ranchers, the Real Eco Terrorists?
    Malice Toward Wildlife
    First Published: 2015
    Analysis on acts of "eco-terrorism" on public lands and towards wildlife.
  10678. Randolph, A. Philip
    Connexipedia Article
    African-American civil rights leader. (1889-1979).
  10679. Random Shots: Annals of Combat
    Against The Current vol. 90
    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.
  10680. Random Shots: New and Old Millenia
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    Kampfer prepared for Y2K by stockpiling ammunition. He figured that would get him anything else he needed.
  10681. A Range of Abuses
    The Invisible Deaths of Lebanon's Migrant Domestic Workers
    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.
  10682. Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions
    First Published: 1983
    Suggests rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions.
  10683. The Rank and File Strategy: Building A Socialist Movement in the U.S.
    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.
  10684. Rankin, Harry
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Politician. (Born 1920).
  10685. Rape
    First Published: 1988
  10686. Rape as Colonial Legacy
    The Beginning and End of Rape
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Sarah Deer's The Beginning and End of Rape.
  10687. The Rape of Irish Children
    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.
  10688. Rapport Annuel 1977-78
    avec le rapport sur la colloque Police et Liberte
    First Published: 1978
  10689. Rapport du Comite d'orientation au congres specail de la CSN sur la question nationale
    First Published: 1979
  10690. Rasmea Odeh's Appeal Gains
    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."
  10691. Rasmea Odeh's Long Struggle
    First Published: 2015
    A report of Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh's arrest and ongoing immigration problems.
  10692. Rasmea Odeh's Sentence/Appeal
    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."
  10693. Rationalism
    Connexipedia Article
    A method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive".
  10694. Rationality/Science 
    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."
  10695. Rättigheter och Friheter
    First Published: 1984
  10696. The Rawick File: How Do People Revolt?
    Against The Current vol. 148
    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.
  10697. Raymond Williams and the Moral Project of the New Left
    A review of 'Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics'
    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.
  10698. Raymond Williams, and Why Culture Matters
    Against The Current vol. 137
    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.
  10699. Razor Wire, Prison Cells, And Black Panther Robert H. King's Life of Resistance
    First Published: 2014
    An interview with filmmaker Ron Harpelle.
  10700. RCMP (Recent Coercive Methods of Pacification)
    First Published: 1979
    Strike, Vol.2, No.8
  10701. RCMP bombed oil site in 'dirty tricks' campaign
    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.
  10702. RCMP unit disbanded
    First Published: 1989
  10703. The RCMP versus the 'anti-petroleum movement'
    First Published: 2015
    Canada's political police serve the oil industry, citing lobbyists and rightist demagogues to slander environmental activists as potential terrorists.
  10704. The reactionary, class nature of left Academia today
    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.
  10705. Reactionary Tide in Latin America
    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.
  10706. Reactions a l'ordonnance sur les conges maternite
    First Published: 1978
  10707. Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
    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.
  10708. Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
    First Published: 2017
    How hatred of Muslims is unwittingly an effective tool for ISIS recuritmenent.
  10709. Read before attacking
    First Published: 1979
    Letter: too quick to attack.
  10710. Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity
    First Published: 2015
    John Holloway claims that Marx, in Capital, does not start with the commodify.
  10711. Reading CAPITAL - Book Review
    First Published: 2016
    Review of "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital" by Michael Heinrich.
  10712. Reading Eduardo Galeano Through Palestinian Eyes
    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.
  10713. A Reading List for the Delhi Police
    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.
  10714. Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant's The Great Replacement
    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.
  10715. Reading Paine from the Left
    First Published: 2015
    A biography of the revolutionary Thomas Paine.
  10716. Reading Red: Art & Social Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 117
    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.
  10717. Reading Red Women Writers
    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.
  10718. Reading and Returning to Denise Levertov
    A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Donna Hollenberg's A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov.
  10719. Reading the "unreadable" Marx
    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.
  10720. Reading, Writing and Union Building
    Against The Current vol. 138
    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.
  10721. Readings from the Peasants' Revolt
    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.
  10722. Readings: Intersectional Black Activists
    Domestic Worker Organizers, 1960s-1970s
    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.
  10723. The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
    First Published: 2006
    The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
  10724. The real cause of Trump: rampant neoliberalism
    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.
  10725. The Real Conspiracy: Notes From The Edge of the Narrative Matrix
    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.
  10726. The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
    Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?
    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.
  10727. The Real Cost of a Hamburger
    The Ecological Consequences of Welfare Ranching
    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).
  10728. The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
    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”.
  10729. The Real Costs of Empire
    Against The Current vol. 123
    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.
  10730. The real costs of transportation
    First Published: 1989
  10731. The Real Dad’s Army
    First Published: 2017
    Britain's wartime Home Guard is immortalized in popular culture -- but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten.
  10732. The Real Expenses Scandal
    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.
  10733. The real first casualty of war
    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.
  10734. The Real Giants Whose Shoulders We Stand On
    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.
  10735. The Real Link Between Israel's Forest Fires and Muezzin Bill
    First Published: 2016
    Examines and contextualizes the discriminatory 'muezzin bill', which would ban the broadcasting of Muslim calls to prayer in Israel.
  10736. The Real Merchants of Death
    The Global Arms Trade
    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.
  10737. The Real Modi: Do the Killings of Muslims Represent India's Kristallnacht?
    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.
  10738. The Real Motive Behind the Gaza Flotilla Attack
    Sabotaging Peace
    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.
  10739. The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
    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.
  10740. The Real Secret of the South China Sea
    First Published: 2016
    The South China Sea is the ultimate geopolitical flashpoint of the 21st century. The future of Asia is at stake.
  10741. Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines
    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.
  10742. The Real Value of Diversity 
    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'.
  10743. The Realist: Irreverence Was Their Only Sacred Cow
    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.
  10744. The Realist's Dilemma
    First Published: 2016
    Brazil's Workers' Party thought accommodating capital could save them. That was a grave mistake.
  10745. The Realities of Chicago School Reform
    Against The Current vol. 82
    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."
  10746. The Realities of China Today
    Against The Current vol. 137
    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."
  10747. Realities of Zionism - Book Review
    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.
  10748. The 'Reality' around Us is Constructed by Liars: 'Journalists are War Criminals'
    First Published: 2024
  10749. Reality check: Croatian uniform virtually identical to...
    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.
  10750. The Reality of the "Geneva Accord"
    Against The Current vol. 109
    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.
  10751. The Realpolitik of President Jimmy Carter
    First Published: 2015
  10752. Reasoning about terror
    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
  10753. Reasons to Fear U.S.
    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.
  10754. Reassessing Podemos
    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.
  10755. Rebecca Riots
    Connexipedia 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.
  10756. Rebel Without a Clue: Autonomy and Authority in the American Public School
    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?
  10757. The Rebellion in Bolivia
    Against The Current vol. 116
    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.
  10758. Rebellion in India's Heartland - Book Review
    First Published: 2013
    Review of the "Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion" by Gautam Navlakha.
  10759. Rebellion of the Remences
    Connexipedia Article
    A popular revolt in Catalongia against seignorial pressures that began in 1462.
  10760. Rebellions and Black Wealth
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    What is a working-class family’s most valuable asset? What does every family seek to own?
  10761. Rebellions of 1837
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    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.
  10762. Rebellions of 1837
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 and 1838.
  10763. Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom
    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.
  10764. Rebick, Judy
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).
  10765. Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists
    First Published: 2008
    On the organizational and intellectual history of national anarchism.
  10766. Rebranding The Conquistadors As Social Justice Warriors - The Guardian, Corporate Sponsorship And 'Branded Content'
    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.
  10767. Rebuilding A Class Movement
    In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Kim Moody's In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States.
  10768. Rebuilding communities: a type of resistance
    Communities in the Amazon resort to constitutional rights to recover territories granted to mining companies.
    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.
  10769. Rebuilding the Antiwar Movement
    Against The Current vol. 152
    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.
  10770. Rebuilding the International
    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.
  10771. Rebuilding the Left in a Time of Crisis
    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.
  10772. Rebutting Israel's "We don't kill civilians on purpose" argument
    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?
  10773. Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America's Endless 'War on Terror'
    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.
  10774. Recent Class Struggles in the USA
    First Published: 2003
  10775. Recent Nuclear Moratorium Announced in B.C.
    First Published: 1980
  10776. Recentering the Lumpen Question Today
    Understanding Lumpenization and Bonapartism
    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.
  10777. Rechte und Freiheiten
    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.
  10778. A Recipe for Killing a School System
    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.
  10779. The reckoning: the future of the Venezuelan Revolution
    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.
  10780. Reckoning with Apocalypse
    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.
  10781. Reclaim the Power! Climate protestors rout security with UK-wide fossil fuel strikes
    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.
  10782. Reclaim the power! Democratic energy must replace corporate capture
    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.
  10783. Reclaim the Streets
    Connexipedia 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.
  10784. Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
    First Published: 2019
    Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
  10785. Reclaiming Socialism
    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.
  10786. Reclaiming Socialism
    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.
  10787. Reclaiming the Commons
    First Published: 2002
    Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment.
  10788. Reclaiming the Commons in Appalachia
    Property is Theft
    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.
  10789. Reclaiming Toronto's Don River
    First Published: 1989
  10790. Reclaiming Utopia: The Legacy of Ernst Bloch
    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.
  10791. Reclus, Élisée
    Connexipedia Article
    French geographer, writer and anarchist. (1830-1905).
  10792. Recognition of the Dene Nation Through Dene Government
    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.
  10793. Recollections of Harry Press
    Against The Current vol. 147
    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.
  10794. Recolonized by the Past
    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.
  10795. Recommended Changes in Canada's Refugee Status Determination Procedure:
    A Brief to the Hon. Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration
    First Published: 1979
  10796. Reconstructing Marx's Critique of Political Economy from His London Notebooks
    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.
  10797. A Record of Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 121
    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.
  10798. Recording Reveals Oil Industry Execs Laughing at Trump Access
    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.
  10799. La Recouverture de Centre Meurling
    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.
  10800. Recovering Forgotten Voices
    Against The Current vol. 132
    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.
  10801. Recovering our history: 'Eco-Socialism in a Nutshell'
    First Published: 1980   Published: 2013
    A pamphlet that introduced the coming together of greens and reds in comic strip form.
  10802. Recovering the Sandinista Murals
    Review of The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1992 by David Kunzle
    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.
  10803. Recovery from sexual assault
    First Published: 1989
  10804. Recruiting To Kill - It Is Not Just An Israeli War On Gaza 
    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.
  10805. Recyclers Battle Waste Management... and the Teamsters Union
    With Friends Like These
    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.
  10806. Recycling Council
    First Published: 1990
  10807. Recycling council
    First Published: 1990
  10808. Recycling is not enough! Sharing is the way to achieve a circular economy
    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.
  10809. Recycling Symbols Discussion Paper
    First Published: 1991
  10810. Recycling week
    First Published: 1990
  10811. Red cap terror at the moussaka line: West London ready-meal workers' report and leaflet
    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.
  10812. Red Clydeside
    Connexipedia 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.
  10813. Red Fawn Fallis and the Felony of Being Attacked by Cops
    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.
  10814. Red-Green Alliance: A Green Earth With Peace And Room For Us All
    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.
  10815. The "Red Light" of Yugoslav Partisan Photography
    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.
  10816. Red Lines Drawn with Syrian Blood
    The Problems With Obama's Case Against al-Assad
    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.
  10817. Red Menace #1
    Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1976
    First Published: 1976
    The first issue of The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist newsletter.
  10818. The Red Menace Interviews Prime Minister Trudeau
    First Published: 1977
    An exclusive interview with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, published in The Red Menace and nowhere else.
  10819. A Red Metamorphosis
    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.
  10820. Red Morning
    Connexipedia 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.
  10821. Red River Rebellion
    Connexipedia 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.
  10822. Red River Rebellion
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    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.
  10823. Red Sport International
    Wikipedia 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.
  10824. Red Terror: Anti-Corbynism and Double Standards
    First Published: 2017
    A defence oif Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour party.
  10825. Red Vienna
    Wikipedia 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.
  10826. Redeeming Chávez's Dream
    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.
  10827. Redemption Road
    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.
  10828. Rediscovering Radical History
    First Published: 2011
    This essay studies the early days of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Society (ASSLH).
  10829. Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
    First Published: 2004
    Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
  10830. Redress for injustices to Chinese
    First Published: 1990
  10831. Reed International
    Profile of a Transnational Corporation
    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.
  10832. Reed, John
    Connexipedia Article
    American journalist and communist activist. (1887-1920).
  10833. Reed, John - Writings - Index
    Writings of John Reed (1887-1920).
  10834. Reesor Siding Strike of 1963
    Connexipedia Article
    A labour conflict which resulted in the shooting of 11 union members.
  10835. Re-examine revolution, but don't abandon it
    Book review
    First Published: 2017
    Re-examine revolution, but surely now is not the time to abandon it. Chris Nineham reviews Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution
  10836. Reflecting New U.S. Control of TikTok's Censorship, Our Report Criticizing Zelensky Was Deleted
    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.
  10837. Reflections After Ferguson
    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.
  10838. Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
    First Published: 1978
    I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
  10839. Reflections for the US Occupy Movement
    From Barcelona's Neighborhood Assemblies
    First Published: 2011
    The deeper a struggle’s historical roots, the greater its collective knowledge.
  10840. Reflections on a Political Trial
    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.
  10841. Reflections on a Religion of Hate
    Engaging in War Crimes
    First Published: 2013
    Refelctions on US preparations to engage in more acts of war against yet another Middle Eastern country.
  10842. Reflections on a violent day in Ottawa 
    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.
  10843. Reflections on a whistleblower: Two years after Snowden
    First Published: 2015
    Two years after Snowden, the international state of surveillance and the ranks of whistleblowers both continue to grow.
  10844. Reflections on Chomsky's Voting Strategy: Why The Democratic Party Can't Be Saved
    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.
  10845. Reflections on coherence and comradeship
    First Published: 2019
    A lengthy personal meditation on strategic challenges facing left organizing.
  10846. Reflections on DC: Promises and Pitfalls in the Anti-Trump Uprising
    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.
  10847. Reflections on Genocide as the Ultimate Crime
    de Zayas, Alfred; Falk, Richard
    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.
  10848. Reflections on October 7th
    Against The Current vol. 149
    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.
  10849. Reflections on the 7th Special Session of the U.N. General Assemly
    First Published: 1975
    Overview and critique of the U.N. conference dealing with the New International Economic Order.
  10850. Reflections on the Brussels Attacks
    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.
  10851. Reflections on the Corporate Security State
    "He's nuts. Like out there."
    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).
  10852. Reflections On The New Brunswick Farmers' Tour Of Bolivia.
    First Published: 1982
  10853. Reflections on the New School Occupation
    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.
  10854. Reflections on the Occasion of Dimitri Roussopoulos' 70th Birthday and Public Intellectuals
    First Published: 2006
  10855. Reflections on the way to the gallows
    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.
  10856. Reflections on Tom Hayden
    First Published: 2017
    Reflections on Tom Hayden and the 1962 Port Huron Statement.
  10857. Réflections sur l'autodétermination
    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.
  10858. Reflexions sur le role de l'Etat et de la Police Series: On Vous a a l'Oeil
    First Published: 1978
  10859. Reform and Revolution at Left Forum 2013
    Tension and Transformation
    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.
  10860. Reform Is Not A Tea Party
    Against The Current vol. 143
    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.
  10861. Reform or Revolution?
    First Published: 1896
    Socialism knows that revolutionary upheavals and transformations proceed from the rock bed of material needs.
  10862. Reform or revolution? A response to three intriguing questions
    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.
  10863. Reform Party
    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.
  10864. Reformism - Social Democracy: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
  10865. Re-Framing Dissent As Criminal Subversion
    Paradigm Shift and Political Repression
    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.
  10866. Refuge from Militarism? The Canadian Movement to Support Vietnam Era War Resisters, and Government Responses,1965 - 1973
    First Published: 2009
    PhD Thesis, Carleton University, 2009
  10867. The Refugee As Neighbour
    First Published: 1987
  10868. Refugees Are in the Channel Thanks to the Actions of the West
    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.
  10869. Refugees at Home and Abroad
    First Published: 1991
  10870. Refugees and Capitalism
    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."
  10871. Refund on tires suggested
    First Published: 1990
  10872. The Refundable Child Tax Credit:
    What it is...how it works
    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.
  10873. Refusal to Call Charleston Shootings 'Terrorism' Again Shows It's a Meaningless Propaganda Term
    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.
  10874. 'Refusing to serve in the army is my small act of making change'
    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.
  10875. Regent Park
    Connexipedia 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.
  10876. Regent Park Community Improvement Association
    Connexipedia 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.
  10877. Regime Change in Ukraine and the IMF's Bitter "Economic Medicine"
    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.
  10878. Regina Committee for World Development
    First Published: 1977
    Six one-page articles discuss energy production in the Third World.
  10879. Regulation -- Who Needs It?
    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.)
  10880. A Regulatory Agenda for Solid Waste Reduction
    First Published: 1990
  10881. Reich, Wilhelm
    Connexipedia Article
    Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. (1897-1957).
  10882. Reimagining the Harper's Ferry Revolt
    The Good Lord Bird
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird.
  10883. Reinterpreting the Cotton Kingdom
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    Book review of Walter Johnson's "River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom."
  10884. Reintroducing Sarah Wright
    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.
  10885. Rejected for jury duty
    Discussing the effectiveness of the policies of the "war on drugs" -- in the courtroom.
  10886. Rejecting the "Vanguard" Party
    Against The Current vol. 86
    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?
  10887. A Rejoinder on Antiwar Strategy
    Against The Current vol. 153
    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”.
  10888. A Rejoinder on Respect
    Against The Current vol. 113
    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.
  10889. Rejoinder to Criticism of Chomsky: Asset or Liability?
    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.
  10890. A Rejoinder to Joel Kovel
    Against The Current vol. 133
    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.
  10891. A Rejoinder: Strategy or Doctrine?
    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.
  10892. Rejoinder: The Dynamics of Revolution
    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.
  10893. Relax a Little!
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2001
    Learning how to relax can mean the difference between a serene sense of accomplishment and a pounding headache.
  10894. Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
    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.
  10895. Release To Those In Prison
    First Published: 1978
  10896. Relevance of Hannah Arendt's "A Report On The Banality Of Evil" To Gaza
    Self-Deception, Lies And Stupidity
    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.
  10897. The reliable tyrant
    First Published: 2004
    The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
  10898. Religion
    First Published: 1947
  10899. Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit
    Against The Current vol. 134
    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.
  10900. Religion, The Golden Rule, and Revolution
    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.
  10901. Religion is Part of the 'Lumpenism' in Society
    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.
  10902. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
    Connexipedia Article
    A religious movement, whose members are known as Friends or Quakers.
  10903. Religious Zealots Ready for Takeover of Israeli Army
    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.
  10904. Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
    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.
  10905. A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
    Against The Current vol. 134
    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.
  10906. Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
    Against The Current vol. 135
    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.
  10907. The Remaking of the American Working Class
    The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain
    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.
  10908. Remaking the Politics of Palestine Solidarity in Canada
    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.
  10909. A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying
    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.
  10910. RE/MAX Cashes in on Israel's Illegal Settlements
    End the sale of Settlement Properties
    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.
  10911. Remember the '80s
    Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web
    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.
  10912. Remembering a Revolutionary Artist: Vlady Presente!
    Against The Current vol. 118
    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.
  10913. Remembering a Vietnam Veteran
    The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd
    First Published: 2013
  10914. Remembering Ahmad Rahman and Ron Scott
    First Published: 2016
    Addressing the lives and accomplishments of Ahmad Rahman and Ron Scott.
  10915. Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
    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."
  10916. Remembering Another Occupy
    Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
    First Published: 2012
  10917. Remembering Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared
    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.
  10918. Remembering Barbara Zeluck
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    Remembering Barbara Zeluck
  10919. Remembering C.L.R. James
    A review of C.L.R. James, A Political Biography
    First Published: 1998
    Worcester's biography of James is both critical and yet sympathetic.
  10920. Remembering Dangerously 
    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.
  10921. Remembering Dave Dellinger
    Against The Current vol. 112
    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.
  10922. Remembering David Montgomery
    Against The Current vol. 158
    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.
  10923. Remembering Don Weitz, 1930-2021
    First Published: 2021
  10924. Remembering Dorothy Healey: An Activist with Vision
    Against The Current vol. 125
    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.
  10925. Remembering E.P. Thompson
    First Published: 2013
    An article about E.P. Thompson
  10926. Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
    A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland
    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.
  10927. Remembering Italy's Cervi brothers amid far-right surge
    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.
  10928. Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
    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.
  10929. Remembering Jim Campbell
    First Published: 2008
    Canadian anarchist.
  10930. Remembering Joanne Landy
    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.
  10931. Remembering Manning Marable
    Against The Current vol. 153
    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.
  10932. Remembering Medgar Evers
    First Published: 2013
  10933. Remembering Michael Manley
    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.
  10934. Remembering Milt Zaslow
    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.
  10935. Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65
    Interview with Claudia Morcom
    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.
  10936. Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65
    Interview with Claudia Morcom
    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.
  10937. Remembering Mitch Podolak
    First Published: 2019
  10938. Remembering Murray Dobbin: activist, intellectual, mentor, friend
    First Published: 2022
  10939. Remembering Nonviolent History
    Freedom Rides
    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.
  10940. Remembering Otelo Carvalho: from colonial war to revolution
  10941. Remembering Peekskill
    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.
  10942. Remembering Pinochet's Coup: A Taste of Justice for Chile
    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.
  10943. Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
    First Published: 2015
    Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
  10944. Remembering Spain's Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 143
    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.”
  10945. Remembering the Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews and their fight for Palestinian rights
    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.)
  10946. Remembering the Earth Day Wall Street Action
    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.'
  10947. Remembering the Paris Commune
    Against The Current vol. 153
    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."
  10948. Remembering the War and the Movement
    Against The Current vol. 90
    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.
  10949. Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike against the Remington Rand company.
  10950. Remote-Controlled Killing
    The Spot-and-Shoot Game
    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.
  10951. The Renaissance and Rationality
    The Status of the Enlightenment Today
    First Published: 1995
  10952. Renewable energy conference
    First Published: 1990
  10953. Renewable Energy conference
    First Published: 1992
  10954. Renewable Energy isn't a Shortcut to Reversing Global Warming
    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.
  10955. Renewal through Strike
    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.
  10956. Renewing New York
    Against The Current vol. 151
    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.
  10957. ‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
    First Published: 2019
    Media analysis shows that calls to renounce violence are directed at Muslims or other victims of Western occupation.
  10958. Rensburg, Patrick van
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    African educator.
  10959. Rent of Land
    Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
    First Published: 1844
  10960. Repair cafés are about fixing things - including communities
    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.
  10961. Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
    First Published: 2019
    Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
  10962. Repertoire
    First Published: 1982
  10963. Reply
    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.
  10964. A Reply on Overcoming Zionism
    Against The Current vol. 132
    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.
  10965. Reply to A Reviewer
    Against The Current vol. 146
    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.”
  10966. A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
  10967. A Reply to Martell's "Canadian Dilemma"
    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.
  10968. A Reply to Nelson Lichtenstein: Assessing Union Leaderships
    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.
  10969. A Reply to Robert Brenner
    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.
  10970. Report - Canadian Enquiry into Human Rights in Chile
    First Published: 1978
  10971. A Report Card on Women and Poverty
    First Published: 2000
  10972. Report Confirms Gang Rapes at Canadian-Controlled PNG Mine
    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.
  10973. Report From Chicago
    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.
  10974. Report from Dubai
    Against The Current vol. 131
    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.
  10975. Report from Moscow from Otto Ruhle
    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.
  10976. Report From Southeast Asia
    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.
  10977. Report from Spain: On the May 15th Movement
    First Published: 2011
    A brief account of the culmination of the “May 15th movement” in Barcelona in 2011.
  10978. Report from the Pvt. Manning Contingent at SF Pride, June 2015
    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.
  10979. Report from Winter Soldier
    Against The Current vol. 134
    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.
  10980. Report: Hundreds of Civilians Killed by U.S.-Led Bombing of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
    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.
  10981. Report of Canadian Assembly on Disarmament
    First Published: 1978
  10982. Report of Church Persons' Seminar
    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.
  10983. Report of Question Period of Annual Shareholder Meeting of Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd.
    First Published: 1978
  10984. Report of the Committee Studying Residential Services in Saskatchewan with Long Term Psychiatric Illnesses
    First Published: 1982
  10985. The Report of the Newfoundland Medical Association Committee
    (formed to review the medical aspects of the Spruce Budworm epidemic and control program.)
    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.
  10986. Report of the Panel of Public Enquiry Into Northern Hydro Development
    First Published: 1977
    Report describing the evidence to the public enquiry concerning the Nelson-Churchill River Diversion of Northern Manitoba.
  10987. Report of the Siberian Delegation
    First Published: 1903
  10988. Report of the Task Force on High Risk Pregnancy
    First Published: 1980
  10989. Report of the Work Group on Civil and Political Rights: Church Persons' Seminar
    First Published: 1978
    A church seminar that asks whether or not Canadians are at risk of losing their civil liberties.
  10990. Report on Conference on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment for Women Workers
    First Published: 1978
  10991. A Report on Noranda Mines Limited
    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.
  10992. A Report On Noranda Mines Limited.
    First Published: 1982
  10993. A Report on Recent Struggles in Greece
    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.'
  10994. Report on Services to Homeless Men: Working Paper
    First Published: 1980
    It is estimated that there are between 50 and 300 "homeless" men in the city of Halifax.
  10995. Report on Skid Row
    First Published: 1978
  10996. Report on Sydney Street
    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).
  10997. Report on the Assemble Generale de U.C.S.N. au Monteal of May 4,5,6, 1976
    First Published: 1976
    Report of a workshop designed to aid individuals involved in urban core issues.
  10998. Report on the Conference; Vancouver 1975
    May 12-13, 1975
    First Published: 1975
    Conference on stategies used on Skid Row, focusing on Vancouver organisations.
  10999. Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organization and Action
    First Published: 1957
    Founding manifesto of the Situationist International.
  11000. A Report On The Media Coverage Of Our World
    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."
  11001. Report on the Potential of Consumer Animation for Energy Conservation
    First Published: 1978
  11002. Report on the Winnipeg Workshop
    May 4th-8th, 1977.
    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.
  11003. Report and Recommendations for Government Action and Statement of Concern
    Housing for Low Income Canadians
    First Published: 1977
    The report identifies maldistribution of income as the prime factor in the housing problem.
  11004. Report to the Civic Authorities of Metropolitan Toronto and its Citizens
    First Published: 1979
  11005. 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.
    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.
  11006. A Reporter's mindset
    First Published: 1999
    Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
  11007. Reporting Gender Based Violence
    A Handbook for Journalists
    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.
  11008. Reporting the Realities of Poverty
    First Published: 1997
    Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
  11009. Reports from the Occupy Wall Street Events of Mid-November
    First Published: 2012
  11010. The Representation of Torture in the 'War on Terror'
    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.
  11011. The Repression at Belgrade University
    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.
  11012. The Repression in Bahrain
    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.
  11013. Repression in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    First Published: 1978
  11014. The Repression Strengthened Us!
    Letter From Bolivia
    First Published: 2011
  11015. The Reproduction of Daily Life
  11016. Reproductive Justice in an Age of Austerity
    Book review
    First Published: 2018
    Reviews of two books about reproductive rights.
  11017. Reproductive Justice Needed
    Against The Current vol. 163
    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.
  11018. Reproductive Rights Assaulted
    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.
  11019. Republic of Dunces
    Against The Current vol. 146
    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.
  11020. Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information for Virtually Every American Voter
    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.
  11021. Republican Estate Tax Repeal: An Effort to Avoid Ever Being Taxed
    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.
  11022. Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says "Nazi"
    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.
  11023. A Request For More Effective Regulation of jet skis
    First Published: 1999
    Jet skis produce noise pollution, water pollution, adversely impact wildlife and aquatic plants, and pose serious safety risks.
  11024. Requiem for a Black Trotskyist
    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.
  11025. Requiem for a Fourteen-Year-Old
    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.
  11026. Rescue of the Danish Jews
    Connexipedia 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.
  11027. Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
    First Published: 2016
  11028. Research Bulletin
    First Published: 1977
    The main article of this issue looks at the energy crisis.
  11029. Research Bulletin
    First Published: 1980
  11030. Research funding draining awasy
    First Published: 1990
  11031. Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria
    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.
  11032. Researcher loses job at NSF after government questions her role as 1980s activist
    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.
  11033. Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
    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.
  11034. Researchers Find 'Astonishing' Malware Linked to NSA Spying
    First Published: 2015
    Security researchers have uncovered highly sophisticated malware that is linked to a secret National Security Agency hacking operation.
  11035. Reshaping History
    First Published: 2004
  11036. Reshaping Work
    Union Responses To Technological Change
    First Published: 1995
  11037. Resignation from IMF
    First Published: 1990
  11038. Resignations rock US civil rights institute after it strips Angela Davis of award over pro-BDS views
    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.
  11039. Resist This: the United States is at War With Syria
    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.
  11040. The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax
    Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
    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.
  11041. Resistance After Foreclosure
    Against The Current vol. 158
    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.
  11042. Resistance during World War II
    Connexipedia Article
  11043. Resistance in China Today
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    Cases of resistance in China continue to grow.
  11044. Resistance in China Today
    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.
  11045. Resistance in Gaza: Young Palestinians Find Their Voice Through Hip-Hop
    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.
  11046. Resistance is life: Mehmet Aksoy's last letter to his family
    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.
  11047. Resistance on the Mexican 'Riviera': The Zapatistas Visit Manzanillo, Colima
    First Published: 2006
  11048. Resistance and Resolve in Russia: Memorial HRC
    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.
  11049. Resistance Stirring Again
    Against The Current vol. 130
    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.
  11050. Resistance to Antibiotics: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
    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.
  11051. Resistance to Reporting on Discrimination in Israel
    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.
  11052. Resistance to Ukraine occupation good, Palestine bad: politicians
    Jewish suffering matters to Canadian politicians. Palestinian suffering doesn't.
    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.
  11053. Resistance with the Scent of a Woman
    Against The Current vol. 145
    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.”
  11054. Resisting Agent Orange
    Against The Current vol. 149
    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.
  11055. Resisting Capital's Disasters
    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.
  11056. Resisting State Violence
    Justice Or Just Us
    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.
  11057. Resisting the Gutting of CUNY
    Against The Current vol. 142
    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.”
  11058. Resisting the New McCarthyism
    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.
  11059. Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil
    First Published: 2014
    About Zatoun, which brings Plaestinian olive oil to Canada.
  11060. Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Arabic text
    First Published: 2014
  11061. Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Korean text
    First Published: 2014
  11062. Resolutions Advocating a Boycott of Israel
    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.
  11063. Resource and Development in Newfoundland
    First Published: 1976
    This pamphlet traces the history and inequities of Newfoundland's development of resources.
  11064. Resource Kit - Consultation on Racism
    First Published: 1980
  11065. Resource Kit on Northern Development
    First Published: 1976
    Introduction to issues surrounding Native rights and northern development.
  11066. Resource Limits to American Capitalism & the Predator State Today
    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.
  11067. Resource/Reading List 1987
    First Published: 1987
  11068. Resources are Important
    First Published: 1989
  11069. Resources - "Awareness towards Action"
    First Published: 1976
    Booklet to provide parish Youth Corp groups with essential information for dealing with issues of social justice.
  11070. Resources Exchange Project: 1973-1977
    First Published: 1977
  11071. Respect Bathurst
    First Published: 2001
    A protest against inviting a Harris Tory to speak at the closing of Bathurst Heights Secondary School.
  11072. Respect is a Two-Way Street
    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.
  11073. Respect, not restraints, for workers in Thailand's seafood industry
    First Published: 2015
    A report on a year-long investigation into forced labour in the global seafood supply chain in Thailand.
  11074. Responding to Antifa and Riseup
    On Revolutionary Politics and Non-Violence
    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.
  11075. Responding to capitalist disaster, in 1914 and today
    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.
  11076. Responding to Washington's Haiti Coup
    Against The Current vol. 110
    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.
  11077. Response
    Against The Current vol. 146
    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.
  11078. Response from Alexandra Devon
  11079. A Response on "Critical Marxism"
    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."
  11080. A Response on NATO and Kosovo
    Against The Current vol. 81
    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.
  11081. A Response on Trotsky
    First Published: 2015
    Paul Le Blanc's reponse to Alan Wald's book review of his work on Leon Trostsky.
  11082. A Response to Critics
    Against The Current vol. 123
    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.
  11083. Response to George Fish
    Against The Current vol. 133
    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.
  11084. A Response To George Monbiot's 'Disavowal'
    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.
  11085. Response to May '68 Revisited
    First Published: 2016
    "May '68 was another step in the modernization of French capitalism." So was 1789, but it was a lot more too.
  11086. A Response to Norman Finkelstein
    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."
  11087. A response to Paul LeBlanc’s “Marxism and Organization”
    First Published: 2011
    We need to be flexible tactically and organizationally while remaining steadfast on our goals.
  11088. A Response to the Anti-Defamation League
    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.
  11089. Responses to "People in Action"
    First Published: 1978
  11090. The Responsibility of Intellectuals 
    First Published: 1967
    It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.
  11091. Responsible Polyamory
    First Published: 2008
  11092. Rest in Peace Pete Seeger, A True Progressive Hero
    First Published: 2014
    In the wake of his death, a look back at Pete Seeger's music and activism.
  11093. Restoring a safe climate: Impossible dream or dangerous distraction?
    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.
  11094. Restoring the Heartland and Rustbelt through Clean Energy Democracy
    First Published: 2017
    Al paper discussing ways to simultaneously fight climate change and create jobs.
  11095. Restoring the Heartland and Rustbelt through Clean Energy Democracy: an Organizing Proposal
    First Published: 2017
    A proposal to end capitalism and fight climate change at the same time.
  11096. Restrict antibiotics to medical use, or they will soon become ineffective
    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.
  11097. Restricting People’s Use of Their Courts
    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.
  11098. Retail Workers Fight 'Just in Time' Scheduling
    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.
  11099. Rethinking community organising
    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.
  11100. Rethinking Dominant Approaches to Climate change
    First Published: 2019
    Market-based attempts to curb climate change are inadequate since they further enable its root cause, capitalism.
  11101. Rethinking Educational Failure and Reimagining an Educational Future
    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.
  11102. Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotry 
    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.
  11103. Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe'
    First Published: 2011
    Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe.
  11104. Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity 
    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.
  11105. Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
    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.
  11106. Retracting Séralini Study Violates Science and Ethics
    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.
  11107. Les retraites et pre-retraites parlent au ministre
    First Published: 1980
  11108. The Retreat of the Intellectuals
    First Published: 2016
    Ellen Meiksins Wood saw a great danger in the reluctance of today's intellectuals to criticize capitalism.
  11109. The Retrograde Quest for Symbolic Prophets of Black Liberation
    Moving beyond the Moses Complex
    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.
  11110. The Return of COINTELPRO?
    Time to Target the Real Terrorists
    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.
  11111. The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
    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.
  11112. The Return of Crisis: Everywhere Banks are in Deep Trouble
    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.
  11113. The Return of Debtors' Prisons
    Reservations for the Poor
    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.
  11114. The Return of Engels 
    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.
  11115. The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
    Police War on the Poor
    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.
  11116. The Return of the Coup in Latin America
    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.
  11117. Return of the Evil Empire
    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).
  11118. The return of the "grand narrative"
    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.
  11119. Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to "weaken Russia," leaked docs reveal
    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.
  11120. Rev. Edward Pinkney Imprisoned
    Against The Current vol. 136
    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.
  11121. Rev. Edward Pinkey Freed after 30 Months
    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.
  11122. Reve/cauchemar: Allende's Chile and the Polarization of the Quebec Left in the 1970s
    MA Thesis,Queen's University, 2014
    First Published: 2014
  11123. Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer
    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.
  11124. Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
    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.
  11125. Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent
    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.
  11126. Revealed: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria
    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.
  11127. Revenge of the Pomo
    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.
  11128. Revered Rabbi Preaches Slaughter Of Gentile Babies
    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".
  11129. Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology
    Against The Current vol. 134
    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.
  11130. Reverse Robin Hood: Six Billion Dollar Businesses Preying on Poor People
    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.
  11131. Reversing Enbridge & Big Oil's Pipeline Plans
    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.
  11132. Review: Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change
    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.
  11133. Review: The American Working Class in Transition by Kim Moody
    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.
  11134. Review: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations
    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.
  11135. Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
    First Published: 2016
    A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
  11136. Review: Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012)
    First Published: 2014
    Review on Chris Rhomberg's book 'The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.'
  11137. Review: Cyber-Marx - Aufheben
    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.
  11138. Review Essay: Reaching for Revolution
    Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Howard Brick's and Christopher Phelpss Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War.
  11139. Review Essay: Reutherism Redux
    Against The Current vol. 112
    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).
  11140. Review falsifies history
    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.
  11141. Review: Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness (2019)
    First Published: 2019
    A detailed review, focusing mainly on gun violence, of Jonathan Metzl's book Dying of Whiteness.
  11142. Review: Kate Evans, Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg (2015)
    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."
  11143. Review: Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam (2013)
    First Published: 2014
    Review of Nick Turse's book Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam.
  11144. Review of 'Karl Marx' by Karl Korsch
    First Published: 1939
    In conspicuous distinction to many other interpretations of Marx, this book concentrates upon the essentials of Marxian theory and practice.
  11145. Review of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman
    by Alonzo L Hamby
    First Published: 1996
    Chomsky criticizes Hamby's biographical attempt claiming that Truman - regardless of how his achievements are regarded - deserves a better account.
  11146. A Review of Mary Gabriel's Love and Capital and Some Thoughts Prompted by the Review
    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.
  11147. A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo
    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.
  11148. Review of the Press: Portugal 1974
    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.
  11149. Review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
    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.
  11150. Review: Poster art of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    First Published: 2004
  11151. Review: Riding the Bus to Freedom
    Against The Current vol. 132
    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.
  11152. Review: The Politics of Some Bodies - On "Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection"
    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.
  11153. Review: Defying Fundamentalism
    A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
    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.
  11154. Review: Political War Over Palestine
    Against The Current vol. 131
    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.
  11155. Reviewing Red: Love and Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 140
    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.
  11156. Reviews from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Politisch-okonomische Revue
    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.
  11157. Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam
    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.
  11158. Revising Class: Lumpen in Literature
    Book Review
    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.
  11159. La revision du code civil attente aux droits de la femme dt du couple
    First Published: 1980
  11160. Revisit the province's royalty regime and make De Beers compensate Attawapiskat fairly.
    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.
  11161. Revisiting 'Black Power,' Race and Class
    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.
  11162. Revisiting the partition of Palestine
    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.
  11163. The Revolt of the Fragments
    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.
  11164. The Revolt of the Aganaktismeni
    Huge Popular Uprisings in Greece
    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.
  11165. Revolt of the Brotherhoods
    Connexipedia Article
    A revolt by artisan guilds against the government of King Charles I in the Kingdom of Valencia which lasted from 1521-1523.
  11166. Revolt of the Comuneros
    Connexipedia Article
    An uprising by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles V and his administration between 1520 and 1521.
  11167. Revolution
  11168. Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
  11169. Revolution against "progress": the TIPNIS struggle and class contradictions in Bolivia
    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.
  11170. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
    First Published: 1851   Published: 1896
  11171. Revolution and counter-revolution take world stage
    Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2011-2012
    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.
  11172. Revolution and the Color Line
    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.
  11173. Revolution and counter-revolution in Syria
    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.
  11174. Revolution für soziale Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie!
    Vorschläge für eine offensive Strategie der LINKEN
    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?
  11175. Revolution in Paris
    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.
  11176. The Revolution in Russia
    First Published: 1905
  11177. Revolution in the Metropolis
    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.
  11178. The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair
    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.
  11179. Revolution Never Sleeps: Nuit Debout in France and Beyond
    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.
  11180. Revolution of '89
    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.
  11181. Revolution of the Deaf
  11182. Revolution of the Snails
    Encounters with the Zapatistas
    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.
  11183. The Revolution Party
    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.'
  11184. Revolution Re-Assessed 
    Politics of Human Liberation
    First Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
  11185. The Revolution that Wasn't
    First Published: 1988
    An essay about radical history, revolution and socialism.
  11186. Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance
    The Power of Story
    First Published: 2010
  11187. Revolutionärer Optimist
    Ein Interview mit Martin Glaberman
    First Published: 2000
  11188. Revolutionaries in the a Time of Retreat
    Book Review
    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.
  11189. The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
    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.
  11190. The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
    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.
  11191. The Revolutionary Art of Failure
    Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Martin Espada's Vivas to Those Who Have Failed.
  11192. A revolutionary attitude to Archives
    From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
    First Published: 1985   Published: 2015
    Raya Dunayevskaya takes up the development of the Marxist-Humanist concept of Archives.
  11193. Revolutionary Catechism
    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.
  11194. Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion
    Against The Current vol. 114
    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.
  11195. A Revolutionary Detroit Memoir
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of autobiographical memoir of a white, working-class, Catholic woman who became involved in Black activisim.
  11196. Revolutionary Feminism, Communist Interventions vol. 3
    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.
  11197. Revolutionary France
    Documents on revolutionary France 1789 -
  11198. Revolutionary Greece
    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.
  11199. A Revolutionary Marxist History of May Day
    First Published: 2011
    The revolutionary heritage of May Day
  11200. Revolutionary Optimist 
    An interview with Martin Glaberman
    First Published: 2000
  11201. Revolutionary Organization 
    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".
  11202. Revolutionary reels: Soviet propaganda film and the Russian Revolution
    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."
  11203. Revolutionary Rojava: An polyethnic, feminist and anti-capitalist experiment
    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.
  11204. Revolutionary roots of women's suffrage: Finland 1906 - an International Women's Day tribute
    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.
  11205. Revolutionary Self-Theory: A Beginners' Manual
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1985
    A booklet is for people who are dissatisfied with their lives.
  11206. Revolutionary Spain
    Articles by Karl Marx in the New-York Herald Tribune
    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.
  11207. A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo
    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.
  11208. Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
    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.
  11209. Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
    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.
  11210. Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
    A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part One)
    First Published: 2014
    A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
  11211. Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
    A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part Two)
    First Published: 2014
    A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
  11212. Revolutionary "Termites" in Faridabad
    A Proletarian Current In India Confronts Third Worldist Statism
    First Published: 1998
    Kamunist Kranti/Collectivities: Presentation and Critical Dialogue
  11213. Revolutionary theory, academia and Marxist political parties
    First Published: 2019
    According to Lenin, revolutionary work has four parts: theoretical work, propaganda, agitation and organization.
  11214. Revolutionary Unionism
    First Published: 1905
    Speech at Chicago, November 25, 1905
  11215. A Revolutionary Woman in Mind and Spirit: The Passions of Rosa Luxemburg
    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.
  11216. Revolutionary workers' movements and parliaments in Germany 1918-23
    A reply to Tony Phillips
    First Published: 2016
  11217. List of revolutions and rebellions
    Connexipedia Article
    This is a list of revolutions and rebellions
  11218. A Revolution's Heritage (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 155
    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.
  11219. Revolutions of 1848
    Connexipedia 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.
  11220. Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
    Connexipedia 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.
  11221. Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states
    Connexipedia Article
  11222. The Rewilding of Humanity?
    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.
  11223. A rich diversity: Underground channels and stream of US Trotskyism, 1928-1965
    First Published: 2019
  11224. The rich get richer
    First Published: 1992
  11225. Rich Getting Richer Via Tax Policies
    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.
  11226. Rich Man, Poor Man: Who's the Thief?
    First Published: 1977
  11227. Richard Levins: Scientist, Activist and Friend
    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.
  11228. Richest 1% have more money than poorest half of world's population
    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.
  11229. Richmond, CA vs. Chevron
    Against The Current vol. 139
    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.
  11230. Richmond: Company Town or People's Town?
    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.
  11231. Richmond and Eminent Domaine
    The Stone That Brings Down Goliath?
    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.
  11232. Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
    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.
  11233. Riel, Louis
    Connexipedia Article
    Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
  11234. Riel, Louis
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
  11235. Rigged
    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).
  11236. Rigged. Forced into Debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.
    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.
  11237. Rigging the Science of GMO Ecotoxicity
    First Published: 2019
    Scientific article about dangers of GMO plants and techniques used by developers to disguise harms to get GMOs through testing.
  11238. Right and Wrong Responses to Palestinian Suicide Bombers
    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.
  11239. Right But Wrong: Trump's Defense of Confederate Symbols and Its Threat to Color-Blind Liberalism
    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.
  11240. The Right Kind Of Terror
    First Published: 2012
    When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies.
  11241. Right Livelihood Award
    Connexipedia Article
    An award presented annually to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today".
  11242. Right Livelihood Award Recipients List
    Connexipedia Article
    List of Right Livelihood Award Laureates.
  11243. The Right of Return & Transformative Justice
    Against The Current vol. 111
    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.
  11244. The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
    First Published: 1939
  11245. Right on the Marx
    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.
  11246. The Right to Food First
    First Published: 1978
    A look at the structures that support world food trade and prevent even distribution of food worldwide.
  11247. The Right to Housing - A Human Right
    First Published: 1982
  11248. The Right to Housing - A Human Right
    First Published: 1983
  11249. Right to Life - Ghouls and the Schiavo Case
    First Published: 2005
    Exploiting the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
  11250. "Right to Life" Horror in Texas
    First Published: 2014
    A Texas hospital keeps a corpse hooked up to machines.
  11251. The Right to Offend
    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.
  11252. Right to poster upheld
    First Published: 1990
  11253. "Right to Try" Is a Cruel Farce
    First Published: 2018
    Drug companies want you to think they're providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don't believe them.
  11254. "Right to Work": Menace to Labor
    Against The Current vol. 157
    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.”
  11255. Right-Wing Assault, Liberal Retreat
    Against The Current vol. 143
    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.
  11256. The Right-Wing Doesn't Want to Talk About Christian Atrocities, So Let's Talk About Christian Atrocities
    First Published: 2015
    History is full of atrocities committed by Christians for Christ, against not just other religions but against Christians themselves.
  11257. Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo
    'Yell,' 'Stand Up And Shout Out,' 'Rattle Him'
    First Published: 2009
  11258. Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
    First Published: 2009
    The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
  11259. The right-wing, racialist attacks on the film Free State of Jones
    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.
  11260. Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
    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."
  11261. Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings
    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.
  11262. Right Woos Left
    Populist Party, LaRouchite, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1999
  11263. The Right-to-Farm Scam
    Third Wave Corporatocracy
    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.
  11264. The Right-Wing Assault on the Truth in India Claims the Life of Another Journalist
    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.
  11265. Right-wing coup or popular revolt? The April 2018 Nicaraguan uprising examined
    First Published: 2018
    Description of a report on the causes of the April 2018 conflict in Nicaragua.
  11266. Righteous among the Nations
    Connexipedia Article
    An honorific used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
  11267. Rights and Liberties - Arabic text
    First Published: 1984
  11268. Rights and Liberties - Chinese text
    First Published: 1984
  11269. The Right's Fringe Festival
    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.
  11270. Rights group criticizes Canada
    First Published: 1991
  11271. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    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.
  11272. Rights of Indigenous Peoples 'Critical' to Combat Climate Change
    Details the intersection between climate change and the defense of rights for indigenous peoples.
  11273. Rights on Condition: Association for Civil Rights in Israel State of Human Rights Report 2009
    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.
  11274. Rights and Realities: Discrimination and the Gay Women and Men of British Columbia
    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.
  11275. Rights vs. Privileges
    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.
  11276. Rightwing Manipulation of the Wisconsin Revolt
    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.
  11277. Rigoberta Menchú: A Witness Discredited?
    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.
  11278. 'Rigorous' Maidan massacre exposé suppressed by top academic journal
    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.
  11279. The Rigors of Organizing: On the Road with the German Climate Resistance 
    First Published: 2019
    Ende Gelände, is a broad coalition of German climate resistance organizers. Members are touring the US sharing info about their tactics.
  11280. 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
    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.
  11281. Riot and Revolution
    Speech by Rosa Luxemburg on Trial for Inciting to Riot
    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.
  11282. Riots, List of - Wikipedia
    Connexipedia Article
    This is an incomplete chronological list of events characterized by at least one source as riots.
  11283. RIP Betty Dodson, Sex Revolutionary
    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.
  11284. RIP Tony Benn. Tireless and inspirational fighter for peace, justice and equality
    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.
  11285. The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party
    A Revolutionary Marxist Analysis
    First Published: 1993
    A talk recounting the beginnings and tragic end of the Black Panther Power, a radical black power movement and political organization.
  11286. The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund
    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.
  11287. The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation:
    First Published: 1977
    Dixon uses a Marxist analysis to try to explain the decline of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's.
  11288. The Rise and Fall of Liberation Theology in Latin America
    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.
  11289. Rise and Fall of "Proletarian Art," Part II
    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]
  11290. The Rise of British Imperialism
    Part I: The Protestant Reformation to the English Revolution
    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.
  11291. The Rise of British Imperialism
    Part II: Capitalism and Slavery
    First Published: 2014
    On the ascent of Britain as the first modern imperialist power.
  11292. The Rise of British Imperialism: Capitalism and Slavery (Part Two)
    First Published: 2015
    A presentation on the developments that made Britain the first modern imperialist power.
  11293. The Rise of Fascism in Greece
    Waiting is Not an Option
    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.
  11294. The rise of humanism and secularism in Iran
    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.
  11295. The Rise of the Fast Food Worker
    First Published: 2013
  11296. The Rise of the Illegitimate Authority of Transnational Corporations
    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.
  11297. The Rise of the Intellectual Pornstar
    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.
  11298. Rise of the Left Party: Germany's Election and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 144
    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.
  11299. Rise of the naked female warriors
    First Published: 2013
    Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
  11300. The Rise of the Tea Party
    Where Did They Come From?
    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.
  11301. The Rise of Vermont's Fracked Gas Battle: Communities Organize Against Pipeline Plans
    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.
  11302. The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
    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.
  11303. Rising suicide rate for Indian farmers blamed on GMO seeds
    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.
  11304. Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter
    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.
  11305. Rivera, Diego
    Connexipedia Article
    Mexican artist. (1886-1957).
  11306. Riverdale
    Connexipedia 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.
  11307. Riverdale Community Organization
    Connexipedia 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.
  11308. Riverdale Zoo/Riverdale Farm
    Connexipedia 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.
  11309. Rivers in crisis: water theft and corruption in the Darling River system
    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.
  11310. Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East
    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.
  11311. The RNC Comes and Goes
    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.
  11312. The Road from Copenhagen
    Against The Current vol. 144
    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.
  11313. The Road to Civil War
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it.
  11314. Roadblocks to Climate Activism
    The Problem of Natural Localism
    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.
  11315. 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
    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.
  11316. Roaming Charges: Whitelash, White Heat?
    First Published: 2016
    Debunking Whitelash Theory in the context of the 2016 US presidential election and more.
  11317. Roback, Léa
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Union organizer, social activist. (1903-2000).
  11318. Robbed by Law Enforcement
    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.
  11319. Robert Fisk - Death Of A 'Controversial' Journalist
    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.
  11320. Robert Fisk had True Independence of Mind, Which is Why He Angered Governments and Parts of the Media
    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.
  11321. Robert Wedderburn: race, religion and revolution
    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.
  11322. Robeson, Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    Musician, actor, speaker, lawyer, radical. (1898-1976).
  11323. Robin Hood
    Connexipedia Article
    English folklore hero.
  11324. Robot Cops Are Racist, Too
    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.
  11325. Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics
    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.
  11326. Robots Kill, But The Blood Is On Our Hands
    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.
  11327. A Robust Doctrine: Break the Taboo on Odious Debts and their Repudiation
    The Challenges for the European Left regarding Debt and the Banks
    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.
  11328. Rochdale College
    Connexipedia Article
    An experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Canada. 1968-1975.
  11329. Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
    Wikipedia 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.
  11330. Rocker, Rudolf
    Connexipedia Article
    (1873-1958). Anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist.
  11331. Rocket Attacks on Israeli Civilians
    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.
  11332. Rockets from Gaza
    Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups' Rocket Attacks
    First Published: 2009
    Documents rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by armed groups in Gaza.
  11333. Lester Rodney: The Long Ball Hitter
    Against The Current vol. 145
    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.
  11334. The Rogue Agency
    A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species
    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.
  11335. Rogue States
    First Published: 1998
    Chomsky investigates the meaning of the term "rogue state", its conception, and its role in international relations and policy-making.
  11336. Rohingya and the Myth of Buddhist Tolerance
    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.
  11337. Rojava: reality and rhetoric
    First Published: 2016
    A detailed critical analysis of the "Rojava revolution".
  11338. The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy
    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.
  11339. The Role of Economic Competition in Canadian Society
    A Statement to the Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs, House of Commons
    First Published: 1977
  11340. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle
    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.
  11341. The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change
    Part 1 of 2
    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.
  11342. The Role of Socialist Intellectuals
    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.
  11343. The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures
    First Published: 1980
    Stan Weir compares wildcat strikes in Poland and San Diego and their basis in the 'informal work group'.
  11344. The Role of the Soviets in Russia's Bourgeois Revolution: The Point of View of Julius Martov
    First Published: 1976
    An essay on Russian revolution.
  11345. Rollback
    First Published: 1995
    Chomsky investigates the meaning of the "the triumph of conservatism" against the background of democracy, human rights and civil society.
  11346. Rolling Back Reconstruction
    Against The Current vol. 159
    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.
  11347. Romania - a Peasants' Revolt against Fracking
    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.
  11348. Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
    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.
  11349. Romanian Revolution of 1989
    Connexipedia Article
    A week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the Government of Nicolae Ceausescu.
  11350. Romania's 'occupy forests' movement demands clampdown on corporate crime
    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.
  11351. Romero, Oscar
    Connexipedia Article
    Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. (1917-1980).
  11352. Rooming House Tenant Project, Toronto Christian Resource Centre
    Progress Report: January 1, 1977-January 30, 1978.
    First Published: 1978
  11353. Rooming Houses in Toronto -- 1960s & 1970s
    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.
  11354. The Root of the Mid-East Conflict and the Reason Our Government Supports Israel's Government
    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.
  11355. Rooted in the neighbourhood: what happened to Spain's assemblies?
    First Published: 2012
    Oscar Reyes reports on the successes and setbacks of neighbourhood assemblies in Spain.
  11356. Rooting rebellion in nature
    First Published: 2019
    Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, ten years after his death.
  11357. The Roots of Academic Freedom
    Book review
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of 'Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge.'
  11358. The roots of anti-Semitism
    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.
  11359. Roots of Bureaucracy
    First Published: 1969
  11360. The roots of gay oppression
    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.
  11361. The roots of Israel's most racist law
    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.
  11362. Roots of Israel's violence
    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.
  11363. Roots of Militarism
    First Published: 1980
  11364. Roots Of Militarism.
    First Published: 1982
  11365. Roots of the Rebellion
    First Published: 2017
    Kim D. Hunter interviews Melba Joyce Boyd about the 1967 rebellion.
  11366. Roots of U.S. Capitalism (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 156
    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.
  11367. Rosa Lives
    First Published: 2016
    The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
  11368. Rosa Luexmburg in retrospect
    First Published: 1973
    Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
  11369. Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution 
    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.
  11370. Rosa Luxemburg and the Global Violence of Capitalism
    First Published: 2010
  11371. Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement
    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."
  11372. Rosa Luxemburg & the Mass Strike
    Against The Current vol. 118
    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.
  11373. Rosa Luxemburg for Our Time
    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?
  11374. Rosa Luxemburg - From Street Organizer to Street Name
    First Published: 2015
    Overview of the life of Rosa Luxemburg.
  11375. 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
    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.
  11376. Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
    First Published: 1978
    Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
  11377. Rosa Luxemburg of Our Time 
    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?
  11378. Rosa Luxemburg on the Socialist Civic Virtues
    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.
  11379. Rosa Luxemburg: Speech to the Hanover Congress
    First Published: 1899
    In its struggle, the working class has no greater enemy than its own illusions -- and those who foster illusions.
  11380. Rosa Luxemburg: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress
    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."
  11381. Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital
    New Perspectives on Capitalist Development and American Hegemony
    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.
  11382. Rosa Luxemburg's contribucion al Marxismo
    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.
  11383. Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
    The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
    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.
  11384. Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009)
    Against The Current vol. 141
    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.”
  11385. Peter Rosenthal
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2024
  11386. Rosmer, Alfred - Writings - Index
    Writings of Alfred Rosmer (1883-1969).
  11387. Rossing Uranium Limited: Fact Sheet on Rio Tinto-Zinc, Rio Algom, Nuclear Power and Namibian Uranium
    First Published: 1978
  11388. Rote Fahne, Die
    Connexipedia Article
    German socialist newspaper.
  11389. Rothbury Riot
    Connexipedia Article
    An incident in which police shot into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales.
  11390. Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic
    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.
  11391. Rowbotham, Sheila
    Connexipedia Article
    British socialist feminist theorist and writer. (Born 1943).
  11392. Rowley, Robert Kent
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Trade unionist. (1917-1978).
  11393. J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues
    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.
  11394. Roy, Arundhati
    Connexipedia Article
    Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).
  11395. Roy, M N
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Indian communist leader. (1887-1954).
  11396. Roy, M.N. - Writings - Index
    Writings of M.N. Roy (1887-1954).
  11397. Royal greed and oppression sold as culture in Swaziland
    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.
  11398. Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
    Connexipedia 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.
  11399. Royal Moments in Broadcasting
    First Published: 1939   Published: 2007
  11400. RT's ban from media freedom conference shows British irony is alive and well
    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.
  11401. Rubel, Maximillien - Writings - Index
    Writings of Maximillien Rubel (1905-1996).
  11402. Rubin, Isaak Illich - Writings - Index
    Writings of Isaak Illich Rubin (1886-1937).
  11403. Rühle, Otto
    Connexipedia Article
    German Marxist. (1874-1943).
  11404. Rühle, Otto - Writings - Index
    Writings of Otto Rühle (1874-1943).
  11405. The Ruins of War, Then and Now
    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.
  11406. Rule change may hide executives' pay
    First Published: 1991
    An essay about the laws regarding the disclosure of wages made by executives that are paid by publicly traded companies.
  11407. The Rule of Law Won't Save Us
    First Published: 2017
    Donald Trump won't be stopped by the law -- in fact, his worse abuses are enabled by it.
  11408. The Ruling Class's Hatred of Trump is Different Than Yours
    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.
  11409. Runaway Industries
    First Published: 1976
    Study of transnational corporation investments and its effect on international union solidarity.
  11410. Running Government Like a Business is Bad for Citizens
    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.
  11411. Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997): Journalist, Communist, Intellectual
    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.
  11412. Rupert's Empire of Slime
    Murdoch's Knife in the Heart of Journalism
    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.
  11413. Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them
    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.
  11414. Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archive
    The everyday lives of everyday people
    First Published: 2015
    Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
  11415. Rural Mental Health
    First Published: 1990
  11416. The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath
    Kenan Malik's "From Fatwa to Jihad"
    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.
  11417. Rushdie rails against Islamic 'totalitarianism'
    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.
  11418. Russell, Bertrand
    Connexipedia Article
    Philosopher, logician, mathematician, pacifist, social critic. (1872-1970).
  11419. Russell, Dora
    Connexipedia Article
    British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).
  11420. Russell-Einstein Manifesto
    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?
  11421. Marta Russell
    Wikipedia article
    Marta Russell was an American writer and disability rights activist.
  11422. Russell Means: Warrior for the People
    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.
  11423. Russia and the West: between sanctions and war
    First Published: 2022
    On sanctions as economic war.
  11424. Russia Bashing: Hatred, Hysteria and Humbug
    A Tale of Three Aircraft Tragedies
    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.
  11425. Russia and the Democrats
    First Published: 2019
    The Democratic Party's insistence of Russian meddling in the election show how out of touch and unfit their leadership is.
  11426. Russia has the historical right to invade Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
    The simple question is: What was Russia to do?
  11427. Russia – How the Revolution was Lost
    First Published: 1967
  11428. Russia Invades Ukraine: Again. And Again. And Yet Again
    The Missing Burden of Proof
    First Published: 2014
  11429. Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression
    First Published: 2022
  11430. Russia, Ukraine and the Law of War: War Crimes
    First Published: 2022
    Scott Ritter lays out what the law says about war crimes and how it applies to the conflict in Ukraine.
  11431. Russia-Ukraine Resources: History, context and analysis of the crisis
    First Published: 2022
    Articles and interviews examining the context and background of the 2022 crisis.
  11432. Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow's invasion
    First Published: 2023
    Nearly a year after Russia's invasion, the western narrative of an 'unprovoked' attack has become impossible to sustain.
  11433. Russia-Ukraine: Western media are acting as cheerleaders for war
    First Published: 2022
    Journalists are cheering on the arming of militias and civilians making improvised explosives - acts they usually treat as terrorism
  11434. Russia and the War Party
    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.
  11435. Russiagate and the Democratic Party are for Chumps
    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.
  11436. Russiagate and the Dry Rot in American Journalism
    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.
  11437. Russiagate is Dead! Long Live Russiagate!
    First Published: 2019
    Looking at the fiasco of Russiagate, it's instigators, who profits from it and the issues that it distracts from.
  11438. Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus
    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.
  11439. Russian aggression and the BBC's drums of nuclear war
    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.
  11440. The Russian Dossier Reminds Me of the Row Over Saddam's WMDs
    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.
  11441. The Russian Enigma: Lenin, Also...
    Chapter 9 of Book 3 of The Russian Enigma, cut by the publisher of the original 1938 version
    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.
  11442. The Russian-Georgian Clash
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny.
  11443. The Russian Hack That Wasn't
    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.
  11444. The Russian Hacking Story Continues to Unravel
    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.
  11445. Russian Oligarch Wanted to Turn My Joke Into Reality
    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.
  11446. The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
    Part Two
    First Published: 2017
  11447. The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
    Part Three
    First Published: 2017
  11448. The Russian Revolution and Workers Democracy
    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.
  11449. The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
    Part One
    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.
  11450. The Russian Revolution in Retreat
    Against The Current vol. 136
    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.
  11451. The Russian Revolution Ninety Years After
    Against The Current vol. 131
    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.
  11452. Russian Revolution of 1905
    Connexipedia Article
    A wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
  11453. The Russian Revolution Revisited
    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.
  11454. The Russian Revolution Revisited - Review
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    A review of 'The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History' by John Eric Marot.
  11455. The Russian Revolution: Workers in Power
    October 1917: Workers in Power
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Fred Leplat's and Alex de Jong's October 1917: Workers in Power.
  11456. The Russian Social Democrats and the National Question
    First Published: 1917
  11457. The Russian tragedy
    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.
  11458. Russia's Chechnya Syndrome
    Against The Current vol. 84
    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.
  11459. Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
    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.
  11460. Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real Ones
    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.
  11461. Russia's Intervention and Syria's Future
    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.
  11462. Russia's truckers protest
    First Published: 2016
    Russian government leniency towards protesting truckers indicates that the country's social crisis could overshadow its noisy diplomacy.
  11463. Russkies at the Doorstep
    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.
  11464. Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid
    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.
  11465. "Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists"; Against the Current vol. 194
    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."
  11466. Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics
    From DDT to Roundup
    First Published: 2015
    The mix of power and politics in the proliferation of pesticides from DDT to Roundup.
  11467. RWB publishes 2014 round-up of violence against journalists
    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.
  11468. Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel Discussion
    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.
  11469. Ryerson, Stanley Bréhaut
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Historian, Communist. (Born 1911).
  11470. SA xenophobic attacks: A view from below
    First Published: 2015
    The attacks on African migrants in South Africa are connected to oppression of poor black people in general. To prevent the poor from organizing and standing up to their real enemies, the state is tacitly encouraging violence against foreigners.
  11471. Sabotage
    Connexipedia Article
    In a workplace setting, sabotage is the conscious withdrawal of efficiency generally directed at causing some change in workplace conditions.
  11472. Sabotage in the workplace
    Sabotage is the generic term for a whole host of tricks, deviltry, and assorted nastiness that can remind the boss how much he needs his wor
    First Published: 2006
    The term "sabotage" derives from French factory workers throwing their wooden shoes ("sabots") into machinery to jam them and stop production. Sabotage refers to all activities which workers can undertake to reduce production or rate of work. These can be minor activities such as making personal phone calls on work time to major destruction of property or information.
  11473. Sacco and Vanzetti
    Connexipedia Article
    Labourers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed in Massachusetts in 1927.
  11474. Sacco and Vanzetti
    First Published: 1929
    This struggle marks the real history of progress. Its heroes are not the Napoleons and the Bismarcks, not the generals and politicians. Its path is lined with the unmarked graves of the Saccos and Vanzettis of humanity, dotted with the auto-da-fé, the torture chambers, the gallows and the electric chair. To those martyrs of justice and liberty we owe what little of real progress and civilization we have today.
  11475. Sacred Roots of A People's Music
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2011
    The goal of Timothy Brennan’s Secular Devotion is an ambitious one, to create an historical map of African culture’s influence on the social politics of the Americas in general and the United States in particular.
  11476. Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy 
    First Published: 2018
    The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home.” They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israel’s use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state’s unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that’s befogged Western liberals’ eyes for 70 years.
  11477. The sad, sad world of Israel's big-time liars
    First Published: 2011
    Stuart Littlewood views Israel’s propaganda minister, the self-confessed racist and squatter Yuli Edelstein, and takes a close look at the manual to which Edelstein and other Zionist propagandists work, the “Global Language Dictionary”.
  11478. Saddam's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
    First Published: 2003
    If Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destruction, he would certainly use them now with the U.S. poised to invade.
  11479. Safe streets
    Not pedaling can kill you
    First Published: 2007
    Not pedaling can kill you.
  11480. Safer Parks
    First Published: 1990
  11481. The Saga of a City Rising
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Positive review of a collection of essays about Black organizing in Mississippi. The review focuses on two of the essays with two "key takeaways."
  11482. A Saga of Revolution
    Book Review of Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo"
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Tom Reiss' biography of Alexandre Dumas, a largely underemphasized figure in the French Revolution and the slave trade during the 18th century.
  11483. The Saga of Stella D'oro, Inspiration and Lessons
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    The powerful labor struggle at the Bronx-based Stella D’oro Biscuit Co. recently came to an abrupt end after 14 long, hard months. The 136 workers at the plant, all members of Local 50 of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers (BCTGM) International Union, withstood 11 months on the picket line before winning a court order in July that returned them to work under the terms of their previous contract. But the workers and their supporters were unable to prevent the factory’s closure.
  11484. Saga of the Neptune Jade
    First Published: 1998
    ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1997, a container-ship sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay and tied up at the Yusen Terminal in the port of Oakland. This precipitated an international drama that ranges from Liverpool, England, Vancouver, Canada, and on across the Pacific to Japan. The battle involves British, American, Canadian and Japanese longshoremen, college students, labor supporters, and the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).
  11485. Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
    First Published: 2005
    Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
  11486. Edward Said's shadowy legacy 
    Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
    First Published: 2008
    So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
  11487. St. George's Night Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    A series of rebellions in 1343-1345 by the indigenous Estonian-speaking population of Northern and Western Estonia against rulers of foreign (mainly German) origin.
  11488. St. James Town
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Bounded by Wellesley, Howard, Sherbourne and Parliament Streets. Originally comprised of houses, the area was demolished in the 1960s and filled with highrise apartment buildings.
  11489. Saint John, Vincent
    Connexipedia Article
    American labour leader and prominent Wobbly. (1876-1929).
  11490. Saint Louis general strike 1877
    Connexipedia Article
    Generally accepted as the first general strike in America, the 1877 Saint Louis general strike grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The general strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.
  11491. Saint Max
    Chapter 3 of The German Ideology
    First Published: 1845   Published: 1846
  11492. The St. Petersburg Declaration
    First Published: 2007
    We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
  11493. Saint-Simon, Henri de
    Connexipedia Article
    French utopian socialist thinker. (1760-1825).
  11494. The Saints Go Marching Out as the Face of Islam Hardens in Pakistan
    First Published: 2014
    The Sufi-influenced tradition of Barelvism, with its shrines, music and meditation, is reeling under an ideological assault from severe, Saudi-funded Wahhabism, religious leaders warn.
  11495. The Salaita Affair
    Lessons Heard and Lessons Learned
    First Published: 2014
    Professor Steven Salaita was to begin his new faculty appointment in Fall 2014 as a tenured Associate Professor in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His appointment was vetted through the multi-layer levels that are a mainstay of North American universities faculty appointment process. However, on August 1, 2014, the chancellor of UIUC Phyllis Wise informed Salaita that he did not have a faculty job at UIUC. The storm this di-hiring created amongst North American academics was unprecedented.
  11496. Salute e bambini in crisi a Gaza
    I bambini di Gaza sono in crisi
    First Published: 2007
  11497. Salvadoran Women Combatants
    Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Jocelyn Viterna's Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador.
  11498. Salvadoran Women Respond to Violence with Community Service, Music, and Individual Efforts 
    First Published: 2016
    Outside of the peace negotiations that resound in the media and governmental organizations, one of the strongest solutions to the scourge of gang violence in El Salvador has come from individual initiatives and groups dedicated to women. This work with female youth and ex-gang members, both in and outside of prison, is part of a movement that seeks to collaborate with peace processes in which women have rarely been taken into account. At the same time, it addresses the social structure that intensifies violence against women.
  11499. Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
    First Published: 2015
    In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
  11500. The Same Media That Opposed Democracy in South Africa Now Warn Against It in Israel/Palestine
    First Published: 2019
    Coverage of South African apartheid in US news in the 1980s compared with coverage of Israel/Palestine today reveals similar racist bias.
  11501. Samizdat
    Connexipedia Article
    A key form of dissident activity across the Soviet-bloc; individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader, thus building a foundation for the successful resistance of the 1980s.
  11502. Samois
    First Published: 2004
    A history of Samois, the first public organization devoted to lesbian sadomasochism and a key player in the early phases of the feminist "sex wars".
  11503. Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza
    First Published: 2015
    The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014.
  11504. Samuelson's 'Transformation' of Marxism
    First Published: 1972
    Somehow, and for reasons known only to himself, Paul A. Samuelson cannot leave Marx alone.
  11505. San Francisco Transit Fight
    First Published: 2005
  11506. Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It's Time
    First Published: 2005
    A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
  11507. Sanctions & the Dollar
    First Published: 2014
    The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. While in the short run American actions against Russia’s oil and gas industry will inflict economic pain on Moscow, in the long run the U.S. may lose some of its control over international finance.
  11508. Sanctions on Israel: If not now, when?
    First Published: 2006
    How much longer are we prepared to watch Lebanon and Palestine burn, before we act?
  11509. Sanders' Campaign & the Democratic Party
    First Published: 2017
    Despite his many flaws, the Sanders campaign had a working-class, implicitly anti-capitalist flavor that garnered considerable support among those who might otherwise have voted for Trump, as many perhaps did.
  11510. Sandino, Augusto César
    Connexipedia Article
    Nicaraguan revolutionary. (1895-1934).
  11511. Sanitized Radicals: Whitewashing 20th Century Socialists
    First Published: 2018
    A look at some of the 20th century's most inspiring leaders, whose socialist views have been conveniently ignored by the Right and the mainstream American media.
  11512. Santas, Apostolos
    Connexipedia Article
    Greek veteran of the Resistance against the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II. (Born 1922).
  11513. Sard's Permanent War Economy
    First Published: 2019
    A long biographical essay on Edward Sard who founded the theory of "permanent war economy."
  11514. Saro-Wiwa, Ken
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Nigerian human rights activist. (1941-1995).
  11515. Sartre, Jean-Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    French philosopher. (1905-1980).
  11516. Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A strike against the introduction of medicare by Saskatchewan doctors in 1962.
  11517. Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
    First Published: 1978
    A paper on government spending, wealth distribution, inflation and a variety of other related topics.
  11518. Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, CLC Brief to the Federal Cabinet
    First Published: 1978
  11519. Saskatchewan's Stake in the Politics of Separatism
    First Published: 1977
    This edition reports on discussions and workshops held in connection with a seminar on the possible separation of Quebec from Canada, and its implications for Saskatchewan.
  11520. Satan, the State and Anti-Sex Hysteria
    Unholy Alliance of Feminists and Christian Right
    First Published: 1996
    A lengthy review of two books about the anti-sex witchhunts in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
  11521. Satyagraha
    Connexipedia Article
    A campaign of nonviolent protest against the British in colonial India in 1930.
  11522. Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants
    First Published: 2013
    Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work.
  11523. Saudi Arabia's Yemen Strategy: Divide and Destroy
    First Published: 2015
    While eleven weeks of airstrikes and a punitive naval blockade have laid waste to much of Yemen, most people remain resolute and what is a distinctly Yemeni sense of humour is intact. This is despite the fact that more than 2000 people have been killed, over half of whom are civilians, and billions of dollars of infrastructure have been destroyed since the Saudi led "Operation Decisive Storm" began on March 25, 2015.
  11524. Saudi Royal Family: Protecting VIPs, While Letting Ordinary Pilgrims Die
    First Published: 2015
    In the wake of a stampede in Mecca which killed close to 1,000 Haj pilgrims, it is being reported that the columns of pilgrims ran into each other because Saudi police had closed off key roads in the vicinity so as to accommodate VIPs who are whisked through without having to mingle with the masses.
  11525. Saudi Star To Restart Rice Project on Disputed Anuak Lands in Ethiopia
    First Published: 2014
    Saudi Star Agricultural Development plans to spend $100 million in a rice export project in Gambella region of Ethiopia despite allegations of human rights violations surrounding the "villagization" program.
  11526. Saugeen Ojibway Nation Has Saved Lake Huron From a Nuclear Waste Dump
    First Published: 2020
    A major victory for Canada's First Nations has just been won in Ontario. On January 31, 2020, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) overwhelmingly voted down the proposed deep geological repository (DGR) for storage of low- and intermediate-level radioactive nuclear waste next to Lake Huron.
  11527. John S. Saul
    Connexipedia article
    John S. Saul (born 1938) is a Canadian political economist and activist whose work has focused on the liberation struggles of southern Africa, from the 1960s to the present.
  11528. The Save Public Education Fightback
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    The Coalition of University Employees (CUE) represents workers on ten University of California campuses and one national laboratory. We have been involved in bargaining statewide for the last two years, with no end in sight. For several years our members had not received raises. Additionally there had been hundreds of layoffs on campuses and at the Office of the President.
  11529. Save the Carmanah Valley
    First Published: 1989
  11530. Save the Fat Cats
    First Published: 2014
    Very few charities are in any sense independent any more. Save the Children Fund gets 176 million pounds – over half its income - in grants from various governments, including over 80 million from the British government. That compares to 106 million in donations from the public. In 2012 over 70 million pounds was spent by Save the Children UK on its own staff costs.
  11531. Save the Tiger, Keep the People
    First Published: 2016
    On the fate of India’s forest-dwelling peoples: and how many will be aware that so many of them are being illegally evicted as part of the drive to conserve flora and fauna? Despite having co-existed with tigers and other animals for centuries, many of India's tribal peoples are currently being persecuted in the name of conservation.
  11532. Save Tomorrow - stop and think
    This brochure offers a brief historical sketch of the anti-pollution organization, Save Tomorrow - Oppose Pollution (S.T.O.P.), its concerns, and past, present and future activities.
  11533. SAVE tour
    First Published: 1990
  11534. Saving Corporations, Sacrificing Workers
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    President Obama’s March 30th report on what General Motors and Chrysler must do to obtain further government loans demands that all “stakeholders” make additional sacrifices.
  11535. Saving the CBC
    First Published: 1989
  11536. Saving the Nile
    First Published: 2020
    For the 280 million people from 11 countries who live along the banks of the Nile, it symbolises life. For Ethiopia, a new dam holds the promise of much-needed electricity; for Egypt, the fear of a devastating water crisis.
  11537. Saving the Whale, Again
    The catastrophic incompetence of Citigroup
    First Published: 2015
    Cockburn discusses the financial recklessness of Citigroup bank and the repercussions.
  11538. Savio, Mario
    Connexipedia Article
    American activist. (1942-1996).
  11539. Say "No" to Uranium Mining
    First Published: 1978
    This statement, endoresed by thirty-seven anti-nuclear and public interest groups in Saskatchewan, outlines the dangerous effects of the expasion of the uranium industry in Saskatchewan and calls for an immediate halt to the opening of new mines.
  11540. Say 'I Love You'
    First Published: 2018
    A commentary on the issue of gun violence in schools in the United States, and the current lack of leadership which narrowly places blame on the shooter rather than tackle the more complex issues and policies which could make a difference.
  11541. Say It Loud, Say It Proud: There is No God
    First Published: 2009
  11542. Say No to 'Hardening' the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
    First Published: 2018
    The last thing the school system needs is harsher penalties and armed guards which turn students into 'inmates'. Schools in the Unites States are already heavily policed, with School Resource Officers (SRO) funded by the Deptartment of Justice, and harsh penalties for kids as young as 4-5 years old.
  11543. Scaffold tripods guide
    Detail about setting up scaffolds which can be used to effectively block roads or small throughways
    First Published: 2003
  11544. Scaling the wall: what to do if you get stuck while reading Marx’s Capital
    First Published: 2013
    Lots of people who start Karl Marx's Capital get stuck somewhere in the early chapters of Volume 1. Here are some suggestions are made about how to get unstuck and read the whole book.
  11545. Scamming Social Security
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    Susan Weissman interviews Michael Hudson. Susan Weissman, an editor of Against the Current, interviewed author Michael Hudson this past April on her program “Beneath the Surface” on radio station KPFK, Pacifica in Los Angeles. Many thanks to Walter Tanner for transcribing. The following is an abridged and edited text of the interview.
  11546. Scandal! Exxon knew about climate change, boosted denialism, misled shareholders, went carbon heavy
    First Published: 2016
    One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
  11547. Scapegoating by the Political Right: A Mask for Privilege
    First Published: 2016
    A historical context for the role of scapegoating of minorities in the 2016 US election examining similar practices by privileged groups to maintain power in modern history.
  11548. Scapegoating Politics: How Fascism Deploys Race, and How Antiracism Takes the Bait
    First Published: 2023
    Race-reductionist explanations and simplistic historical analogies are counterproductive as a politics because they fail to provide a basis for challenging the looming authoritarian threat.
  11549. Scapegoating Russia
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of "The Plot to Scapegoat Russia" authored by labour and human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik.
  11550. Scargill, Arthur
    Connexipedia Article
    British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
  11551. Scenes From a Wonderful Parade Against the TPP
    First Published: 2015
    A quarter of a million people protested against the "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership", TTIP, and its equally spurned Canadian sister, CETA.
  11552. Scenes from the Uprising
    First Published: 1988
    Noam Chomsky calls upon his visits to Israel and Nicaragua to explore the nature of popular struggle in regions under occupation.
  11553. Margaret Schirmer Remembered
    Against The Current vol. 114
    First Published: 2005
    Progressive Pilipinos lost a steadfast friend in Margaret (Peggy) Schirmer when she died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 8 at the age of 89.
  11554. Schmeiser, Percy and Louise
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winners
    Canadian farmers and opponents of GMO crops.
  11555. Scholarly method
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
  11556. Scholl, Hans
    Connexipedia Article
    A member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. (1918-1943).
  11557. Scholl, Sophie
    Connexipedia Article
    A member of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. (1921-1943).
  11558. School Drop-Outs
    First Published: 1974
    A list of proposals for reducing the school drop-out rate.
  11559. School of New Economics
    First Published: 1977
    The above brochure outlines the goals and courses of the School of New Economics in Peace River, Alberta. This school challenges the assumptions of the traditional study of economics and argues that "fundamental changes in economic theory and practice are essential for the truly human society.
  11560. The School Of The Americas Is Still Exporting Death Squads
    First Published: 2015
    Although rebranded as WHINSEC, the School of the Americas uses the same brutal tactics to destabilize governments in Latin America.
  11561. School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks
    First Published: 2018
    Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the prevailing cynicism and hopelessnes among young people in the United States -- about their country and their future. In particular the article focuses on troubled young people who have lost any connection with adults and view the world as an uncaring place, and are commonly prescribed medication such as anti-depressants.
  11562. School Vouchers Scam Goes Down
    Against The Current vol. 90
    First Published: 2001
    A key achievement in the November elections was the defeat of school voucher schemes in California and Michigan. California's Proposition 38 would have offered every child in California a $4,000 voucher to use at a private school of their choice; a more modest proposal in Michigan would have provided vouchers worth $3,300 to public school students in school districts with the highest drop-out rates. The fact that both were defeated so resoundingly (with seventy percent voting against) may sound the death knell for other voucher schemes around the country, as well as other efforts designed to pave the way for privatization of our public schools.
  11563. Schweitzer, Albert
    Connexipedia Article
    German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. (1875-1965).
  11564. Science and its enemies - Farsi text
    First Published: 2016
  11565. Science and its enemies - Vietnamese text
    First Published: 2017
  11566. La science et ses ennemis
    First Published: 2016
  11567. Science fiction is more than just Buck Rogers
    First Published: 1979
    Like most modern literature, science fiction is concerned with the alienated human condition, yet it articulates this concern in a distinct manner, as a form of literature concerned with the implications of the problems engendered by industrial society.
  11568. Science for the People with the EZLN
    First Published: 2017
    The Zapatistas have been extremely clever in responding to the continual challenges (not without serious setbacks), both militarily and politically. They have not only survived over the past 23 years but prospered, in their own terms, and gained considerable popular appeal.
  11569. Science and its enemies
    Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
    First Published: 2016
    Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
  11570. Science and its enemies - Chinese text
    First Published: 2016
  11571. Science and liberation
    Science as human curiosity, as authority, and as business
    First Published: 2014
    The conservative movement’s attack on science has several prongs. Where they can attain government office, as in Canada, they use the highly effective tools of funding and de-funding, and regulation and de-regulation, to control government scientists and embolden private interests. The goal is to transfer power and resources from public services and public science to private institutions, while often appealing to moral and religious doctrines in the process.
  11572. Science, Myth, and History
    First Published: 2012
    The story of ‘Kennewick Man’ - the debate around a 9000-year old skeleton and what it reveals about current ideas of culture, race and science.
  11573. Science spending eroding
    First Published: 1992
  11574. Scientific journal retracts study exposing GM cancer risk
    First Published: 2013
    The Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology appears to have violated scientific standards by withdrawing a study which found that rats fed on a Monsanto GM corn were more likely to develop cancer than controls.
  11575. Scientific method
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning
  11576. Scientific method: Timeline of the history of scientific method - Wikipedia
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Shows an overview of the cultural inventions that have contributed to the development of the scientific method
  11577. Scientific skepticism
    Connexipedia Article
    A practical, epistemological position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.
  11578. Scientists pledge to boycott Elsevier
    First Published: 2013
    Following the retraction of the Seralini et al scientific paper which found health damage to rats fed on GM corn, over 100 scientists have pledged in this Open Letter to boycott Elsevier, publisher of the journal responsible.
  11579. Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster'
    A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under
    First Published: 2017
    The peatland in Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in northeast Peru - discovered in 2009 by Finnish scientist Outi Lähteenoja - is said to contain 3.14 gigatons of carbon, roughly equivalent to two years of CO2 emissions from the United States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem.
  11580. Scientists Protest Canada's War on Science
    First Published: 2014
    The Harper government is closing libraries, trashing documents and firing thousands of scientists — while handing out billions in subsidies to oil companies.
  11581. Scientists Write: EPA, Ban 'Agent Orange' Herbicide Mix and GMO Crops!
    First Published: 2014
    Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
  11582. Scott, Francis Reginald (Frank)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Founding member of the social-democratic movement in Canada. (1899-1985).
  11583. The Scottish Gestapo
    First Published: 2023
    If you are on the 'wrong' side in the culture wars, you will get prosecuted for an innocuous tweet or a remark in the street. If you are on the 'right' side, you can punch women in the face or parade a sign calling for the decapitation of those who disagree with you, and face no legal jeopardy.
  11584. Scottish Insurrection of 1820
    Connexipedia Article
    A week of strikes and unrest, a culmination of Radical demands for reform in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  11585. Scottish Workers in History
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    So much has happened to the world’s working class in the last 30 years that we oldtimers may, perhaps, be forgiven for losing focus on the deeper histories of industrial life and struggle. Thanks to the publish-or-perish academic reality, ever more studies in social history actually appear, but fewer treat the labor movement as an important part of that history. Working people are more often seen as victims, too often self-victimized in myriad ways.
  11586. The Scourge of Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
    First Published: 2020
    Questionable science is being used to pursue policies that are essentially 'unscientific' - governments, the policy and the corporate media have become the arbiters of 'truth'.
  11587. The Scourge of Youth Detention
    The Northern Territory, Torture, and Australia’s Detention Disease
    First Published: 2016
    Australia tolerates gulags that house intrepid asylum seekers, and other similarly deemed undesirables.
  11588. Scrambling birds' brains: Could this toxic algae offer clues to human diseases?
    First Published: 2014
    In humans, researchers suspect that a neurotoxin may be linked to Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a lethal neurodegenerative disease that destroys parts of the brain. No one knows whether any human neurological diseases are related to the bird disease, but new clues about the poisoned birds are emerging.
  11589. Screening the Working Class
    Movies We Love About Workers, Work and the Workplace
    First Published: 2013
    List of movies featuring workers, work, and the workplace.
  11590. A search for roots and connections
    First Published: 2018
    The post-third-way Labour Party is trying to encourage its many new activist members, especially among the young, to turn the party into a social movement.
  11591. Searching
    Research In Small Countries
    First Published: 1988
  11592. Searching for Sustainability
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    Review of "State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?" by the WorldWatch Institute.
  11593. Searching:
    Research in Small Countries
    First Published: 1988
  11594. Season of Travesties
    Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009
    First Published: 2009
    Noam Chomsky criticizes the elections in Lebanon and Iran as being inherently flawed - unlike the "free and fair" election held in Palestine in 2006 for which the people were punished for voting the "wrong way". He tries to illustrate a general picture of the health of democracy and freedom in those areas which are of most concern to the US.
  11595. Seattle Diary: It's a Gas, Gas, Gas
    Five Days That Shook the World: 15 Years On…
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2014
    On this week Seattle was so tightly wound that it primed to crack. The city, which practiced drills to prepare itself against possible biological or chemical warfare by WTO opponents, was about to witness its own police department gas its streets and neighborhoods. By the end of the week, much of Seattle’s shiny veneer had been scratched off, the WTO talks had collapsed in futility and acrimony and a new multinational popular resistance had blackened the eyes of global capitalism and its shock troops, if only for a few raucous days and nights.
  11596. Seattle General Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    A general work stoppage by over 65,000 workers in the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington in 1919.
  11597. The Seattle General Strike of 1919
    First Published: 1919   Published: 1972
    From February 6 to February 11, 1919, nearly 100,000 Seattle workers participated in a general strike. This pamphlet is a history of the strike, written by the History Committee of the General Strike Committee shortly after the end of the strike.
  11598. Seattle: The First US Riot Against "Globalization"?
    First Published: 2000
    The brief, ephemeral opening of the sense that "nothing will ever be the same" experienced by some in Seattle and in the wake of Seattle will close again quickly without a strategy for a real internationalism, an internationalism in which criticisms of slave labor in China or child labor in India are joined to, e.g. a practical critique of the mushroom-like proliferation of sweatshops and prison labor in the U.S.
  11599. Seattle: "What Democracy Looks Like"
    Against The Current vol. 84
    First Published: 2000
    Susan Weissman interviews Dana Frank, Leone Hankey and Lisa Fithian. The explosive significance of the mobilization against the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle has altered the terms of the "free trade" debate. We present here brief edited excerpts from a discussion broadcast on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles, on the program "Beneath the Surface" hosted by Suzi Weissman, December 13, 1999.
  11600. SEC Admits It’s Not Monitoring Stock Buybacks to Prevent Market Manipulation
    First Published: 2015
  11601. Second Birth
    St. Andrew's Place
    First Published: 1977
    This is a study that tells the story of St. Andrew's Place, a church property that has been redeveloped into a senior citizens' residence and a place for alternate community services.
  11602. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    First Published: 2006
    A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
  11603. The second coming of the radical left
    Crunch-time for the eurozone?
    First Published: 2012
    Nearly five years after it started, the global economic and financial crisis shows no signs of resolving itself. On the contrary, in Europe it is taking a more virulent form, as the eurozone inches towards some kind of moment of truth. The slow motion catastrophe in Europe threatens to kill off the chronically weak recovery in the US.
  11604. The Second Fall of Aristide
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    Many observers in the progressive community have argued that the forced departure into exile of Haiti’s former President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, had little to do with his own policy failures or the country’s domestic class structure. Instead they blame the international community and especially American imperialism. While there is some truth to this argument, it is ultimately flawed; it ignores Haitian agency and exaggerates the omnipotence of U.S. hegemony.
  11605. Second International
    Connexipedia Article
    Organization of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889.
  11606. Second Intifada
    Connexipedia Article
    A period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000.
  11607. Second Nakba; Same Israeli Lies; Same Western Narrative
    First Published: 2023
    Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza and yet, just as during the first 'Nakba,' Israel's lies and deceptions dominate the West's media and political narrative.
  11608. Second-wave Feminism (USA)
    Connexipedia Article
    Period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted throughout the late 1970s.
  11609. Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
    First Published: 2013
    Big players are taking unprecedented steps to stop offshore abuses, but financial crime fighters worry reforms don’t go far enough.
  11610. Secrecy and Revolution
    First Published: 1938
  11611. Secrecy and Revolution
    A Reply to Trotsky
    First Published: 1938   Published: 1963
    Whether Trotsky wills it or not, no limit has been set to the analysis of the Russian revolution, which he has served so outstandingly, so tremendously - despite the measure of responsibility which must be laid to his name for certain tragic errors.
  11612. Secret Armies, Shadow Wars, Silent Unaccountability
    First Published: 2016
    We live today in an era of postmodern war. It's a two-front war -- the first being the virtual front of threats, posturing, and arms buildups we persist in waging, Cold War-style, against state-based mirror-images of ourselves (Russia and China); the second being the dirty front we wage in the shadows against irregular, non-state thugs and pygmy tyrants who use their weaknesses as strengths, asymmetrically, to turn our strengths into weaknesses.
  11613. Secret 'BADASS' Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones
    First Published: 2015
    British and Canadian spy agencies accumulated sensitive data on smartphone users, by piggybacking on ubiquitous software from advertising and analytics companies, according to a document obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The document outlines a secret program run by the intelligence agencies called BADASS.
  11614. The Secret Behind Donald Trump's Popularity
    First Published: 2015
    What if I told you about a nativist rally in which a charismatic white man drew a massive crowd of avid followers, using hate speech to whip them into a racist frenzy before pledging to cleanse America of a foreign threat -- all while 1,300 local policemen stood guard outside the building?
  11615. The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed - And Why We Should Lift the Ban
    First Published: 2015
    Mangla narrates the origins of jaywalking and the reason why it was made illegal.
  11616. Secret, Invisible Evidence Of Russian Hacking Is Not Actually Evidence
    First Published: 2020
  11617. The Secret Lives of Terrorists
    Struggles that Change Little in the Real World
    First Published: 2011
    European groups who took part in violence in the 1970s and 80s did not gain the wide popular support they had hoped for. Interest in terrorism has grown since 9/11, but the motivations for it are not well understood: the transition from radicalisation to violence is neither systematic nor inevitable.
  11618. Secret Memo Casts Doubt on Feds' Claims for Science Library Closures
    Goal stated is 'culling' research, not preserving and sharing through digitization
    First Published: 2013
    A federal document marked "secret" obtained by Postmedia News indicates the closure or destruction of more than half a dozen world famous science libraries has little if anything to do with digitizing books as claimed by the Harper government.
  11619. Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad
    First Published: 2015
  11620. The Secret Secret
    Of Wikileaks and Literacy
    First Published: 2010
    Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret prisons, air strikes, etc.), our collective behavior towards other nations and peoples (foreign policy discussions) and more are often obscured by state secrecy. Like the medieval clergy, those holding classified clearances are the sole legitimate interpreters of the 'really important' knowledge. In effect, they are a caste that guides our political and technological cosmologies.
  11621. Secret Sexual Fantasies
    The Erotic Theater of the Mind
    First Published: 2013
    Your fantasies are always with you, playing hide-and-seek with your perceived realities, whispering wild ideas into your inner ear, showing movies in your mind, stirring your passions mysteriously, yet so powerfully. If you are imprisoned in any way–by your work, your family, your education, your religion, your government–your fantasies become your freedom. Sometimes your ability to fantasize is the only freedom you have.
  11622. The Secret Struggle Against Apartheid
    First Published: 2016
    In the 1960s, a group of leftists risked everything to revive the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
  11623. A Secret War in 135 Countries
    First Published: 2015
    Turse discusses the U.S. global engagement strategy of covert operations conducted on every continent but Antarctica.
  11624. The Secrets in Israel's Archives
    Evidence of Ethnic Cleansing Kept Under Lock and Key
    First Published: 2010
    Israel has extended the time limit for releasing documents in its archives to 70 years, to prevent disclosure of evidence of widespread ethnic cleansing. The state's chief archivist says many of the documents "are not fit for public viewing" and raise doubts about Israel's "adherence to international law," while the government warns that greater transparency will "damage foreign relations."
  11625. Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
    First Published: 1998
    Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
  11626. The secrets of Nineteen Eighty-Four
    First Published: 2019
    Close analysis of 1984, including biographical details of Orwell, defending it as a work of leftist literature.
  11627. Secrets of the UK Nuclear Bomb Tests Revealed
    The "Forgotten" Uranium Isotope
    First Published: 2014
    Secret documents released reveal valuable evidence about uranium in fallout.The documents show that fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing contains enormous amounts of uranium. This should be no surprise as nuclear bombs contain a lot of uranium, and most of it remains unfissioned after a nuclear explosion.
  11628. Section 60 advice guide
    Some information and tips on the law, your rights, and how to react when police have enforced a "Section 60" order on a demonstration
    First Published: 2006
    At some recent demonstrations, police have cordoned off the demonstration, corralling large numbers of people into an increasing confined area before taking their names, addresses and photographs, eventually releasing them one by one.
  11629. Section 6 legal notice for squats
    A legal warning notice on Section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 which protects the rights of occupiers of properties
    First Published: 2006
    If you are squatting it is strongly advised you display this notice to inform people of your rights - and let them know that you are aware of your rights.
  11630. A secular-democratic state
    First Published: 1996
    What is needed is a secular Arab-Jewish state based on socialism and democracy in all of Palestine.
  11631. Secularism
    Connexipedia Article
    The concept that government or other entities should exist separately from religion and/or religious beliefs.
  11632. The Secularization Yet to be Done
    First Published: 1887
    The secularization of primary instruction, which our bourgeois republic doesn't want, is nothing but the substitution of one religion for another. It's a matter of placing the capitalist faith instead of the Christian faith in the brain in process of formation of working class France, for the greater security and profit of the economic and political exploiters.
  11633. Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples
    First Published: 2016
    Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership.
  11634. Securing the Future
    First Published: 1990
  11635. The security - digital complex
    First Published: 2016
    With the rise of the Internet and the globalisation of electronic data, there has been a shift in the university-military-industrial complex to a new security-digital complex -- a public-private hybrid that is both narrower and more far-reaching.
  11636. Security Is Ruining the Internet
    First Published: 2017
    How the need for cybersecurity has made the internet less convenient for users.
  11637. Security service probes Innu
    First Published: 1989
  11638. Secwepemc Tribes Fight New Mines and Old Laws in British Columbia
    First Published: 2014
    Indigenous activists burned down a bridge in British Columbia, Canada, to prevent Imperial Metals from starting a lead and zinc mine on the lands of the Secwepemc peoples. Local tribes say that the mine may severely impact the one of the largest remaining sockeye salmon populations in the world.
  11639. See You at the Barricades! Three Books That Revive the Memory of the Paris Commune
    First Published: 2016
    For socialists and communists of over a century, the Paris Commune was a defining event. From March 18 to May 28 in 1871, following the collapse of the French Republic and the Prussian siege of the capital, the Communards swore to defend Paris until they were overwhelmed by the French army itself. Karl Marx himself called the temporary self-government of the population the "dictatorship of the proletariat."
  11640. Seed freedom!
    A last chance to thwart the great African seed grab
    First Published: 2015
    Nineteen African nations meet this week (July 2015) in Arusha, Tanzania, to finalise a 'plant protection' protocol that would open up the continent's seeds to corporate interests, taking away farmers' rights to grow, improve, sell and exchange their traditional seeds, while allowing commercial breeders to make free use of the biodiversity in traditional seeds to sell them back to farmers in 'improved' form.
  11641. Seed Monopoliies, GMOs and Farmers Suicides in India
    A response to Nature
    First Published: 2013
  11642. The seed saving rebellion is growing - and banging at the Commission's door
    First Published: 2015
    A year ago today, Europe-wide protests defeated an EU regulation that would have outlawed many seed saving activities. Now growers are taking matters into their own hands, saving and developing open-pollinated seeds - and campaigning for a seed regulation that supports them, not the monopolist seed corporations.
  11643. The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
    First Published: 2017
    With platitudes about 'feeding the world', the corporate agribusiness/agritech industry is destroying the commons and democracy and displacing existing localised systems of food production. In fact the increasingly globalised industrial food system is responsible for some of the most pressing political, social and environmental crises we are facing.
  11644. The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
    First Published: 2017
    A political-economical critique of modern agriculture and the urgent need to establish societies run for the benefit of the mass of the population, as well as a system of food and agriculture that is more democratically owned and controlled.
  11645. Seeds of Fire 
    A People's Chronology
    First Published: 2012   Published: 2022
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
  11646. The Seeds of Spin: Decoding Pro-GMO Lies and Falsehoods
    First Published: 2016
    If you are in some way critical of genetically modified food and agriculture or have some concerns that remain unaddressed, here is a brief interpretive (satirical) guide for navigating the seedy world of pro-GMO spin.
  11647. Seeger, Pete
    Connexipedia Article
    American folk singer. (Born 1919).
  11648. Seeing red: the wisdom of John Berger
    First Published: 2017
    A reflection on the life and work of critic John Berger.
  11649. The Seemingly Endless Indignities of Air Travel: Report from the Losing Side of Class Warfare
    First Published: 2016
    For most of my alleged adult life I have wanted to live in a third world country, and now that my native United States has kindly accommodated this wish, all I do is bitch. It's bad enough that our income and wealth disparity rivals that of Guatemala, now our tax dollars are actively promoting this ever-deepening caste system.
  11650. Segregation and Black Labor Before the CIO:
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    C.L.R. James urged listeners at a 1971 Institute of the Black World event in Atlanta to study W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction as a way to understand the meaning of Marxism, the Civil War, and emancipation. James implored his audience to grapple with Du Bois’s statement that Reconstruction was “the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution.”
  11651. Segregation is here, just look at Israel's legal system
    First Published: 2015
    Although segregated buses provide a clear and obvious picture of discrimination, applying different laws to individuals living side by side may prove to have far greater legal, ethical and strategic consequences for Israel.
  11652. A Seismic Shift Toward Socialism in the U.K. Labour Party
    First Published: 2016
    Jeremy Corban's unexpected 2015 rise to the leadership of the U.K. Labour Party and his recent resounding victory over the right-wing forces within the party that tried to dislodge him are sending shockwaves throughout Europe - waves that could reach the shores of the U.S. if events continue to unfold in the same direction.
  11653. The SEIU as Case Study
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    About 40 years ago I had a job in a rubber molding factory in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where the union in the shop was the IUE (International Union of Electrical Workers). We all knew that there were negotiations going on between the Company and the Union, but we were never told what was happening.
  11654. The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions
    First Published: 2019
    Sanctions against Syria are having a disastrous effect on the population. Comparisons to Iraq during the 1990s by someone who was there show the historic failure and potential further consequences of sanctions.
  11655. Selected Archive Projects
    First Published: 2012
    A list of some archive projects concerned with grassroots movements for social justice.
  11656. The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment
    Ignoring the Victims of State Crimes
    First Published: 2012
    “Human rights” doctrine has devolved into a mere tool used by the U.S. to carry out its imperial aims, and many times by means (such as war) which cause many more human rights violations than they purport to solve.
  11657. Selective indignation on the streets of Israel
    Who are 'the people' and what is social justice?
    First Published: 2011
    Middle-class Israelis, aware they have lost social security and affordable housing, are protesting by pitching tents and demonstrating in city streets. But will they demand equality for all? For now, they seem intent only on their own lost privileges.
  11658. Selective Memory and a Dishonest Doctrine
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky highlights the fact that the crimes for which Saddam Hussein should have been held accountable in international court took place in the period of US-UK support. He criticizes the adopted doctrine which claims ignorance and handles the past as something irrelevant.
  11659. Selective Outrage - Iran And Libya
    First Published: 2012
  11660. Selective strikes
    Rather than an all-out strike, rapid random stoppages can be highly effective
    First Published: 2006
    Unpredictability is a great weapon in the hands of the workers. In the US, Pennsylvania teachers used the Selective Strike to great effect in 1991, when they walked a picket line on Monday and Tuesday, reported for work on Wednesday, struck again on Thursday, and reported for work on Friday and Monday.
  11661. Selective Sympathy
    War's Mayhem and Murder is Somehow Less Hard to Bear than the Humane Termination of an Injured Animal
    First Published: 2011
    How strange that we as human beings can be so sensitive and warm-hearted about an animal, and yet can be so detached from reality and so compartmentalized in our emotions and our moral sense that we can simply dismiss as "collateral damage" the lives of tens, hundreds or even thousands of innocent men, women and children who, for cold, calculating geopolitical reasons of dubious merit, will be killed by our or our allies' actions.
  11662. Selective Vision: Iran, Israel and Nuclear Arms
    First Published: 2009
    For many years, the corporate media has been amplifying supposed "fear" in the West about Iran becoming a nuclear-armed nation alongside the US, the UK, France, Russia - and Israel.
  11663. Self-Censored Questions by Career Questioners
    First Published: 2017
    I've always been intrigued by the major questions not asked by reporters at press conferences, not asked by legislators at public hearings or even the questions citizens at town meetings don't ask public officials. It's not that they do not know about or could not easily become informed enough about a given issue and ask substantive questions. It's just that so many taboos are packed into these questioners' ideological mindset, career goals or concern with what other people over them might think. Maybe it is a culturally-rooted fear of challenging entrenched power brokers.
  11664. Self-Defense Against Peace
    Israel's Unjust War on Gaza
    First Published: 2009
    Legally and morally, an aggressor cannot rely upon self-defence to justify violence against resistance to its own aggression. The most plausible reason Israel is fighting Hamas (and the PLO before it) is 'self-defence', not against rockets and mortars, but against having to make peace with the Palestinians on the basis of the pre-1967 borders as required by international law.
  11665. Self-Determination for Whom?
    First Published: 1994
    Pierre Bourgault could set us an example by speaking out himself in support of the right of self-determination for all the people of Quebec, including those who don't want to be part of an independent Quebec.
  11666. Self-Liberation
    A guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship
    First Published: 2009
  11667. Self-Reliant Defense without Bankruptcy or War
    First Published: 1992
    In this booklet, Sharp discusses the potential of civilian-based defense for the Baltics, East Central Europe, and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
  11668. A Self-management Approach to Housing
    First Published: 2002
    Community land trusts (CLTs) have been formed in a number of communities in the USA in response to either disinvestment or gentrification. The CLT acquires land to take it permanently off the market and make it available for the use of the community. As a democratic organization, the CLT is intended to empower the community in determining what is done with land in that area. The CLT may rehab existing buildings, build new houses or apartment buildings, or do other types of development work.
  11669. Selfish Activism or Equal Rights for All?
    First Published: 1993
    The separatist agendas of women, gays, black and disabled activists are divisive, and undermine the campaign for equality.
  11670. Selling Earth Day
    First Published: 1992
  11671. Selling Modernity: How Global Greenwashing is Destroying Tribal People
    First Published: 2015
    The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) in Casiguran, the Philippines, is a 12,923 hectare area currently being developed into a self-sufficient commercial hub and special economic zone.If completed, APECO will strip 3,000 small farms and indigenous Agta households of their land.
  11672. Selling Sexual Services: A Socialist Feminist Perspective
    First Published: 2015
    The current debate about sex work among feminists generates more heat than light. Accusations of bad faith fly back and forth across the two sides, research findings are mobilized to undercut the other side even when the research itself is limited by its methods and scope, different sex worker voices are authorized by each side as either genuine or manipulated, depending on whose position those voices seem to support.
  11673. Selling the Silver
    The Enclosure of the UK's Fisheries
    First Published: 2014
    Fishing quotas were meant to conserve stocks and support fishing communities. But they have achieved the reverse - rewarding the most rapacious fishing enterprises and leaving small scale fisherfolk with nothing.
  11674. Selling your Secrets
    The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
    First Published: 2014
    The documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the world of NSA mass surveillance involves close partnerships with a series of companies most of us have never heard of that design or probe the software we all take for granted to help keep our digital lives humming along.
  11675. Selma to Montgomery marches
    Connexipedia Article
    Three marches in 1965 that marked the culmination of the voting rights movement of the American civil rights movement.
  11676. Semantic Warfare: Words as Guided Missiles
    First Published: 2015
    Over half a century ago, the South Korean government banned the word "labour" from the Korean language. This is the back story.
  11677. The Semantics of Terrorism
    First Published: 2010
    A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant. Whether they are school children, passing through checkpoints, or citizens from other countries bringing medicine and food to Gaza, Israel will garner an astonishing degree of unconditional national and international support for harming them if they call them terrorists.
  11678. The Seminole-African Alliance
    World News Trust
    First Published: 2014
    The Native American Indian people that comprised the Seminole Nation grew out of the Creek Nation in Florida. Multilingual and diverse, the Seminoles (from a word meaning “runaway”) became infamous for intermingling with runaway slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas… slaves that built prosperous, free, self-governing communities since 1738.
  11679. Senators 'Stunned' to Learn US Has 1,000 Troops in Niger
    First Published: 2017
    U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee members recently confirmed they were "stunned" by the revelation that the US had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside the country of Niger, sparking new questions about war authorization.
  11680. Sending encrypted emails using Thunderbird and PGP
    First Published: 2013
    There are easy ways to ensure your Internet activities remain confidential.
  11681. Senegal Fears Its Fish May Be Off the Menu for Local Consumption
    First Published: 2014
    Foreign fish processing factories are competing with traditional communities for a dwindling catch.
  11682. The Sense of Art: In memoriam John Berger
    First Published: 2017
    In memoriam of the British writer and lecturer John Berger.
  11683. The Senseless Death of Tobeka Daki
    Auctioning Health and Life to the Highest Bidders
    First Published: 2016
    Details the circumstances of the death of Tobeka Daki of South Africa, implicating the exorbitant drug prices of pharmaceutical corporations.
  11684. Separating Migrant Families Is Barbaric. It's Also What the U.S. Has Been Doing to People of Color for Hundreds of Years.
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the root of the current human rights crisis at the southern border, a crisis based primarily on racism and bigotry which has driven many American policies throughout the nation's history.
  11685. Separation and Divorce Have Been a Boon to the Economy
    Stable marriages and families are considered harmful to economic growth.
  11686. Separatism
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
  11687. September 11, 1973: The Coup in Chile
    First Published: 1973
    How the reasonable men of capitalism orchestrated horror in Chile.
  11688. The September 11 X-Files
    First Published: 2002
    One problem with conspiracy theorizing is that it can distract from the true and (sometimes mundane) misdeeds and mistakes of government.
  11689. 9/11 and the Clash of Atrocities
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    Responding to the terrorist attacks of September 2001, Against the Current’s “Letter from the Editors” made an impassioned plea that the alternative to war was a political movement for social justice. Like many on the left, the editors pointed out that only an agenda for social justice could save the people of Afghanistan and Iraq from America’s military wrath and help curb the attraction of individual terrorist solutions.
  11690. Serfdom in a Free Society
    First Published: 1946
  11691. Serge, Victor
    Connexipedia Article
    Writer and revolutionary. (1890-1947).
  11692. Serge, Viktor - Writings - Index
    Writings of Victor Serge (1890-1947).
  11693. Serious Guns and White Terrorism
    Two Unasked Questions in Tucson Mass Murder
    First Published: 2011
  11694. A serious newspaper should not confuse Jews and Zionists
    First Published: 2010
    On the eve of the 62th anniversary of Israel, it is important to remember that it was the Zionist minority of Palestine's inhabitants that issued the unilateral declaration of independence. Israel is a Zionist state, not a Jewish one, another important distinction to make in future articles on this burning subject.
  11695. The Serious Price of the Hyperconvenient Economy
    First Published: 2017
    The rapid "progress" towards greater convenience will induce dependency, ignorance of the product and service and more loss of voice, self-determination and self-reliance.
  11696. Servant of the Corrupt
    First Published: 2022
    Pedro Gonzalez details the connections among Zelensky, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and Washington, D.C.
  11697. Service Accessibility and the Multiracial Community
    in Canadian Welfare
    First Published: 1977
  11698. Services for Immigrant Women
    Report and Evaluation of four Workshops
    First Published: 1977
    This report 1) describes how the above workshops were planned and put together; 2) gives an account of the content of each workshop including texts from all presentations; and, finally, 3) gives the results of the evaluation of the workshops. Also included are the newsletters, work sheets, agendas, and resource materials prepared for the workshops.
  11699. The Servility of the Satellites
    The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe
    First Published: 2013
    Recent revelations confirm the completion of the transformation of the "Western democracies" into something else, an entity that as yet has no recognized name. The outrage against the Bolivian President confirmed that this trans-Atlantic entity has absolutely no respect for international law, even though its leaders will make use of it when it suits them. But respect it, allow it to impede their actions in any way? Certainly not. And this disrespect for the law is linked to a more basic institutional change: the destruction of effective democracy at the national level.
  11700. Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexions
    Connexipedia
    First Published: 2008
    Connexions (nome intero Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexion [Connexions Information Sharing Services]) è la biblioteca centrale online e l'archivio dei movimenti per i cambiamenti sociali del Canada.
  11701. Sesana, Roy
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    A spokesman of the Gana, Gwi and Bakgalagadi "Bushmen."
  11702. Seth Farber's Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    My grandparents came to America from Hungary in 1912. My family who stayed there and the Hungarian Jewish population were mostly killed by the fascists in the bitter winter of 1944, some 800,000. Twenty thousand alone died of the cold and disease, huddled in the great unheated synagogue, the largest in the world, on Dohany Street in Budapest.
  11703. Seth Rich, Craig Murray and the Sinister Stewards of the National Security State
    First Published: 2017
    Security leaks and the murder of a Democratic National Committee staff member.
  11704. Setting the Record Straight
    Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Critics
    First Published: 2005
    There is a hope a bi-national soluation will be brought about through political discussion and agitation within both left and liberal circles, especially within the United States, a much less timid Israeli peace movement, and a Left within Israel and among US pro-peace Jewish activists, that courageously embraces the possibility of bi-nationalism and, of course, a Palestinian resistance that works to overcome the nationalism within its own ranks and forges a democratic alternative to the Arafat fraud.
  11705. Setting up a newsletter - technical guide
    First Published: 2006
    A guide covering technical, design and layout issues with producing your own newsletters and publications.
  11706. Setting Up a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
    First Published: 1987
    How to mobilize a community to declare itself a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone.
  11707. Setting up housing co-operatives guide
    Some tips on how to set up a housing co-operativ
    First Published: 2006
    Many housing co-ops are state funded; the Housing Corporation puts up much of the funding, and therefore can, on the whole, call the tune. However; it is possible to set up a housing co-op which is totally independent.
  11708. Settlement Model, Document#4, July 14, 1977
    First Published: 1977
    This paper discusses the settlement model that is intended to provide a basis from which an agreement in principle (expected early 1978) is developed with respect to Yukon Indian Land Claims.
  11709. Settlement workers conference
    First Published: 1991
  11710. The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical
    First Published: 2005
    The settlers' retreat from Gaza was the theatre of the cynical.
  11711. 7 easy steps to outlawing marches that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza
    First Published: 2024
    The BBC and other media are willing co-conspirators in promoting the pro-genocide playbook of groups like the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
  11712. Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of Censorship
    First Published: 2018
    In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the agency's departments listing seven words that were not to be used in budget preparation.
  11713. Seven golden rules for more effective speaking
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2001
    Tips to be a more powerful, memorable and successful speaker.
  11714. Seven News: Principles & Purposes
    First Published: 1978
    Statement of principles of Seven News, a community newspaper.
  11715. Seven News: The Story of a Community Newspaper
    First Published: 1984
    An essay about the Toronto community newspaper Seven News, written in 1984 by Lisa Horrocks, who was part of Seven News as a staff or board member for a number of years.
  11716. Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda – What Is There to Celebrate?
    First Published: 2015
    As media experts plan to establish an 'Arab Media Day', Baroud criticizes in seven points the censorship and repression of Arab journalism and media.
  11717. Seven Public Sector Myths
    First Published: 1991
    Fact and fiction about the public sector.
  11718. Seven Reasons Police Brutality is Systemic
    First Published: 2014
    Darrin Manning's unprovoked "stop and frisk" encounter with the Philadelphia police left him hospitalized with a ruptured testicle. Neykeyia Parker was violently dragged out of her car and aggressively arrested in front of her young child for "trespassing" at her own apartment complex in Houston. A Georgia toddler was burned when police threw a flash grenade into his playpen during a raid, and the manager of a Chicago tanning salon was confronted by a raiding police officer bellowing that he would kill her and her family, captured on the salon's surveillance. An elderly man in Ohio was left in need of facial reconstructive surgery after police entered his home without a warrant to sort out a dispute about a trailer. These stories are a small selection of recent police brutality reports, as police misconduct has become a fixture of the news cycle.
  11719. Seven Reasons Why Capitalism Can't Recover Anytime Soon
    First Published: 2010
    There is a larger disease in the international economic system, a disease that cannot be cured by politicians who swear allegiance to this deteriorating system and to the wealthy elite who benefit from it.
  11720. Seven Things Nonprofits Can Learn from Profits
    Lessons for non-profits from the for-profit sector.
  11721. 7 Tips for Effective Speeches
    First Published: 1996
    How to make your speeches more effective.
  11722. 7 Ways Social Justice Language Can Become Abusive in Intimate Relationships
    First Published: 2017
    A list of signs that social justice language is being used abusively in a relationship
  11723. 7 Ways to Get More Mileage from a Case Study
    First Published: 2004
    Case studies are a valuable addition to your public relations' arsenal. They not only explain the success of your product or service in action, they also tend to have high editorial acceptance and readership rates.
  11724. Book Review: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
    First Published: 2014
    David Harvey has three aims in Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (SCEC). First and mainly he wants to schematically analyze the contradictions of capital, the 'economic engine' driving the particular social formation capitalism. Second, he seeks to draw-out that analysis's implications for anti-capitalist politics dedicated to creating a world substantially more democratic, egalitarian, and emancipatory than that which capital affords. Third, he aims to address what might cause the end of capitalism and, specifically, whether capital's internal contradictions progressively undermine its conditions of existence.
  11725. 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
    The case for Fare-Free Transit
    First Published: 2007
    The time has come to stop making people pay to take public transit. Why do we have any barriers to using buses, trolleys, SkyTrain? The threat of global warming is no longer in doubt. The hue and cry of the traffic jammed driver grows louder every commute.
  11726. 70,000 Kalashnikovs: Cameron's "Moderate" Rebels
    First Published: 2015
    Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his non-existent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron did last week. Telling the House of Commons about the 70,000 "moderate" fighters deployed in Syria was not just lying in the sense that Tony Blair lied - because Blair persuaded himself to believe in his own dishonesty - but something approaching burlesque. It was whimsy - ridiculous, comic, grotesque, ludicrous. It came close to a unique form of tragic pantomime.
  11727. 72 Minutes
    First Published: 2024
    Our future is held hostage by a madman in Kiev, backed by lunatics in Europe. The question is -- what are we going to do about it?
  11728. 72,000 jobs said lost
    First Published: 1990
  11729. Severe Handscaps Alliance
    First Published: 1990
  11730. Sewell, John
    Connexipedia Article
    Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
  11731. Sex & Iran's Upstoppable Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    Since Iran's presidential “election” in June 2009 and the protests that followed, the world has caught a partial, albeit highly mediated, glimpse inside that country and its politically active citizenry. The state, frequently misrepresented as a monolith and in neoconservative circles tarred as “Islamo-fascist,” is now more accurately understood as a diverse and fractured set of actors. The reform movement that had ushered in President Khatami suffered defeat by the hardliners with Ahmadenijad’s 2005 election, and hailed by many as dead, has come back to life. To many, it appears unstoppable.
  11732. Sex and Consent on Campus
    "Yes Means Yes" Law: Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
    First Published: 2014
    Amid an ongoing debate over sex and consent on college campuses, in September California passed "affirmative consent" legislation, which was followed by a slew of similar initiatives nationwide. The pretext is to curb a purported epidemic of sexual violence and have college administrations come clean on reporting sexual assault complaints. But legislating one form of consent as the only acceptable variant and branding all else as assault -- as these new policies do -- means that these administrations now have even greater power to enforce what is acceptable sexual activity among students.
  11733. Sex and Ethics
    First Published: 1963
    In America, as it is at present, most behavior -- and this is not only in sexual matters -- has nothing to do with what one is or would normally desire or naturally desire, but what is pected of one or in order to provide something which has got nothing to do with the functioning of it.
  11734. The Sex Industry and Its Workers
    First Published: 1983
    An article discussing the various components of the sex industry and the various forms of sexual services that have evolved from prostitution.
  11735. The Sex Offender: the 21st Century Witch
    First Published: 2017
    Looks at the status of a "sexual offender" in America, including sexual offender registries, as well as groups working against false accusations.
  11736. Sex and the Russian Revolution
    First Published: 2018
    The philosophy of the October Revolution contained radical ideas around sexual politics which have been forgotten today. Drawing parallels to today's issues on gender and sexuality could help a new generation get into radical labour politics.
  11737. Sex, Scandals and Power
    #MeToo Mania and the Democrats' "Resistance"
    First Published: 2018
    A wide range of behavior -- including flirtation and innuendo, a vulgar text or a crude joke, not to mention unpleasant sex -- is being lumped together with real crimes of coercion and assault. Those called out for sexual impropriety, no matter how trivial, how unproven or how long ago, run the media gantlet, are declared guilty and their careers ruined.
  11738. Sex segregation in UK universities - a step forward for the Muslim religious right
    First Published: 2013
    The authorities of universities in the UK have made public their policy of bending to religious fundamentalists by condoning sex segregation on university premises. The education system is especially targeted, as controlling the minds of the youth is critical.
  11739. The sex work debate - a response to Jess Edwards
    First Published: 2010
    Contribution to the debate on sex work which has been taking place in the International Socialism journal.
  11740. Sex work: Solidarity not salvation
    First Published: 2012
    An ongoing debate is taking place in anarchist and feminist circles on the legitimacy of sex work and the rights of sex workers. The two main schools of thought are almost at polar opposites of each other. On the one side you have the abolitionist approach led by feminists, such as Melissa Farley who maintains that sex work is a form of violence against women. Farley has said that "If we view prostitution as violence against women, it makes no sense to legalize or decriminalize prostitution." On the other side you have sex worker rights activists who view sex work as being much closer to work in general than most realize, who believe that the best way forward for sex workers is in the fight for workers' rights and social acceptance and for activists to listen to what sex workers have to say. In this article I will discuss why the abolitionist approach discriminates against sex workers and takes advantage of their marginalized status, while the rights approach offer the opportunity to make solid differences in the labour rights and human rights of sex workers.
  11741. Sex Workers in Nicaragua Break the Silence and Gain Rights
    First Published: 2015
    After living in the shadows, thousands of Nicaraguan sex workers have broken their silence, won support from state institutions and gained new respect for their rights.
  11742. Sex Workers' Rights in Kenya: "It's Better to Be a Thief Than Gay in Kenya"
    First Published: 2009
    "It's better to be a thief than gay in Kenya," says a gay sex worker. Both are often punished by death, but being the latter means never revealing yourself to the public and remaining perpetually closeted. It means dealing with homophobes at day and pleasuring them at night.
  11743. Sex-role portrayals
    First Published: 1991
  11744. Sexing Susan Sontag
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    The death of Susan Sontag, one of the most acclaimed intellectuals of her time, on December 28, 2004 immediately inspired controversies about her sexuality. Many writers rightfully questioned major newspapers’ studied silence in their obituaries on her relationships with women.
  11745. Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle
    Lorena's Tale
    First Published: 2011
    The working conditions of many domestics, which include 18-22 hour days and violent beatings, cannot but be described except as virtual slavery. Apparently among the items of the "job description" of a domestic slave in Saudi is being forced to minister to the sexual needs of the master of the household.
  11746. Sexual revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    Encompasses the changes in social thought and codes of behaviour related to sexuality throughout the Western world.
  11747. Sexual revolution in 1960s America
    Connexipedia Article
    Attitudes to a variety of issues changed, sometimes radically, throughout the decade. The urge to 'find oneself' the activsm of the 1960's and the quest for autonomy were characterised by the changes towards sexual attitudes at the time.
  11748. Sexuality and capitalism
    The Italian Renaissance
    First Published: 2014
    Revolutionary struggles against capitalism have raised, time and again, the issue of sexual liberation. Right at the start of capitalism, the English revolution of the 1640s and 1650s involved what historian Christopher Hill has called a “sexual revolution” against the old order.
  11749. 'Sexy tricks': How journalists demonize Venezuela's socialist government, in their own words
    First Published: 2019
    The United States has labeled Venezuela's government a "dictatorship" and part of a "troika of tyranny," and has sponsored multiple coup attempts there, including one in November. The corporate media has dutifully ignored the US role in the country's economic woes, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Maduro, omitting crucial political context on Venezuela's economic crisis while keeping up a constant flow of content presenting the country as a socialist hellhole.
  11750. Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
    First Published: 2017
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.
  11751. Shadd, Mary Ann
    Connexipedia Article
    A key figure in the Underground Railroad and a subscription agent for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. (1823-1893).
  11752. Shades of Grey -- A Left Chapter look at strategy, tactics and endorsements in the 2015 election
    First Published: 2015
    With just under two weeks to go until election day, anti-capitalist leftists are in something of a quandary.
  11753. Shadow Boxing
    First Published: 2009
    Multiculturalists and clash of civilization warriors both start with the question: "Can Europe be the same with different people in it?." They give different answers. But the question itself is the problem. It assumes that minority communities are homogenous wholes whose members will forever be attached to the cultures, faiths, beliefs and values of their forebears.
  11754. Shadow boxing in the drug ring
    The "war on drugs" and its simplistic nature.
  11755. Shadow Facts About Shadow Government
    The Era of "Tiny Wars"
    First Published: 2014
    Tom Engelhardt keeps churning out great books by collecting his posts from TomDispatch.com. His latest book, Shadow Government, is essential reading.
  11756. Shadows of Algeria: the Lost Context of the Paris Attacks
    First Published: 2015
    It wasn't just one of the attackers who vanished after the Paris massacre. Three nations whose history, action - and inaction - help to explain the slaughter by Isis have largely escaped attention in the near-hysterical response to the crimes against humanity in Paris: Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
  11757. Shahak, Israel
    Connexipedia Article
    Polish-born Israeli chemist, professor, radical political thinker and author and activist for the defense of the human and civil rights. (1933-2001).
  11758. Shakers
    Connexipedia Article
    The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, was a Protestant religious sect.
  11759. Shakespeare belongs to us
    First Published: 2016
    We don’t know a great deal about William Shakespeare’s life. The records are scant and, in the absence of personal testimony, we know nothing of his intimate feelings or thoughts.
  11760. Shame on you, Mr. Harper
    First Published: 2006
    Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group.
  11761. A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?
    First Published: 2017
    The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the outrage expressed worldwide over the bombardment of east Aleppo by Syrian government and Russian forces at the end of 2016.
  11762. A Shameful Situation
    Millions of Soldiers and Veterans in Serious Trouble
    First Published: 2014
    Millions of US soldiers and veterans are in serious trouble, in the areas of suicide, homelessness, unemployment, poverty, disability, medical care, and mental health.
  11763. Shamelessness, Thy Name is Blinken
    First Published: 2021
    It was only eight years ago that it was the US that was forcing down a plane, only in that case it was not just any plane but rather one carrying a head of state, Bolivian President Evo Morales. But as with this latest incident the goal was harassing an "independent media' and nabbing a critic. In that 2013 incident the real target was Edward Snowden, source for one of the biggest stories of the century: the disclosure thousands of documents from a global spying program by the top secret US National Security Agency where he had been employed as a private contractor.
  11764. Shaping 20th Century America
    First Published: 2015
    Stating that "The world must be made safe for democracy,” president Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany on April 2, 1917. The United States formally entered World War I four days later.
  11765. Shaping 20th Century America
    First Published: 2015
    Part of an ongoing series on the centennial of World War I.
  11766. Shaping Histories
    First Published: 2013
    During the last few years, a number of researchers have interviewed the authors regarding their politics and practice in relation to 'history'. In reflecting upon their individual 'historiographies', they have put the following together.
  11767. A Shared Experience: Bridging Cultures, Resources For Cross-Cultural Training
    First Published: 1983
    A manual about immigrants and their adjustments to a new environment, addressed primarily to community workers who respond to the needs of immigrants.
  11768. Shari Belafonte's Eating Tips
    Cut the Fat
    First Published: 1991
  11769. Sharia 'Courts': Why Regulation is Not the Answer
    'Sharia' and other religious systems of arbitration are back in the news once again. There appears to be growing recognition of the profoundly discriminatory nature of religious arbitration systems which relegate Muslim and other minority women to second rate systems of justice. But is regulation the answer?
  11770. The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
    First Published: 2016
    Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
  11771. Sharia Law in Britain -- A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights
    First Published: 2010
    One Law for All says that Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals are in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights.
  11772. Sharia "Socialists"
    I.S. Upholds Anti-Woman Religious Courts
    First Published: 2006
    It is mind-boggling that self-styled leftists would champion a campaign by the most reactionary, anti-woman forces in the Muslim community to have their religious law backed by the authority of the capitalist state.
  11773. The Sharia socialists
    First Published: 2006
  11774. 'Shariafication by stealth' in the UK
    First Published: 2014
    Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider political community as citizens rather than subjects.
  11775. Sharing as our common cause
    First Published: 2014
    A call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
  11776. Shatila: Remembering the Massacre
    First Published: 2015
    Shatila is probably the most well-known of all the Palestinian refugee camps. In September of 1982, a local Christian militia, known as the Phalange, aided by its Israeli allies, entered Shatila and bordering Sabra, engaging in an orgy of torturing and killing that lasted several days.
  11777. The Shaving Kit - Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt
    First Published: 2019
    A survey of mainstream media coverage of Assange's arrest that makes him an object of ridicule. Much attention is given to the beard he had at the time.
  11778. Shays' Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    An armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787.
  11779. Walt Sheasby: An Activist Life
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    During the late 1960s Walt Sheasby not only organized for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in California, but also helped the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, worked against the Vietnam War, and advocated for and became a volunteer organizer of the Peace and Freedom Party.
  11780. Shedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin America
    First Published: 2019   Published: 2018
    Research and campaigns by women's rights advocates are beginning to focus on the problem of Latin American girls who are forced to bear the children of their rapists, with the lifelong implications that entails and without the protection of public policies guaranteeing their human rights.
  11781. Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, is Responsible for the War in Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
    It is necessary to understand not only what Russia is doing with its intervention in Ukraine but also what alternative existed to stop Ukrainian aggression against Donbas and to assure Russia's national security.
  11782. Glenn Shelton
    First Published: 2016
    Glenn Shelton, a retired president of Michigan Mailhandlers Local 307 who never stopped fighting for the rights of working people, and a member of Solidarity, died March 24, 2016, after a battle with cancer.
  11783. Sherpur: big sacrifice, short memory
    First Published: 2015
    Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
  11784. She's Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
    How Jessie Housty feeds the growth of her Heiltsuk culture and community
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the efforts of Jessie Housty, an Indigenous woman from British Columbia, who is helping to change the diet of her community that is overwhelmingly dominated by industrial food products.
  11785. Shifting the Balance: Ten Tips for Consumer Campaigning
    Advice for consumer advocates.
  11786. Shimabara Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    An uprising largely involving Japanese peasants, most of them Catholic Christians, in 1637-1638.
  11787. Shining a light on the black bloc, part 1: Italian autonomism
    First Published: 2011
    The combination of autonomist thuggery and Red Brigade terror had a lot to do with the implosion of the Italian left. While the Italian bourgeoisie was ready to carry out a repression even if the left had been far more intelligently organized, this was no excuse for carrying out tactics calculated to drive the average working class person into the arms of the government in the name of “security”. Revolutionary politics is really a project that is designed to win people to a cause. This involves patient explanation. Once someone develops a revolutionary consciousness, there is little that the state can do to vanquish it. A broken window can easily be replaced, but a revolutionary mind is permanent.
  11788. Shirkers and Conchies
    How Governments Tried to Silence WWI Resisters
    First Published: 2014
    Peace activists faced enemy treatment but left a legacy of perserverance, writes Tim Gee.
  11789. Pauline Shirt
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2024
    Elder Pauline (Nimikiiquay) Shirt (July 13, 1943 - May 7, 2024) was an Indigenous activist and educator who cultivated space for Indigenous approaches to education and provided guidance and mentorship to the Toronto Indigenous community.
  11790. Shiva, Vandana
    Connexipedia Article
    Philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author. (Born 1952).
  11791. Shiva, Vandana
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Environmental and women's activist. (Born 1952).
  11792. Shliapnikov, Alexander - Writings - Index
    Writings by Alexander Shliapnikov (1885-1937).
  11793. Shock and Awe: Then and Now
    First Published: 2022
    In the two U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world has seen two decades of wholesale death and destruction at the hands of the U.S. military, at a cost of trillions and countless deaths estimated between one and two million.
  11794. Shock, outrage as Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to death
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2015
    PEN International, English PEN and PEN American Center strongly condemn the Saudi Arabian authorities' decision to sentence Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy, and call for his immediate release.
  11795. Shock, outrage as Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to death
    First Published: 2015
    PEN International, English PEN and PEN American Center strongly condemn the Saudi Arabian authorities' decision to sentence Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy.
  11796. Shocked by Donald Trump's 'travel ban'? Israel has had a similar policy for decades
    First Published: 2017
    Describing how President Trump's stances and policies on immigration, borders and torture draws heavily from existing policies and tactics of the Israeli state.
  11797. Shocker: US state propaganda outlets censor Black Lives Matter protests
    First Published: 2020
    On the history of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty of promoting the interests of the American Empire, and downplaying issues related to police brutality and racism.
  11798. The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History
    Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation's Dark Ages
    First Published: 2013
    A discussion with reknowned historian Bernard Bailyn whose recent book "The Barbarous Years" examines a particularly violent period of America's early history which has since been almost erased.
  11799. The shocking story of Israel's disappeared babies
    First Published: 2016
    New information has come to light about thousands of mostly Yemeni children believed to have been abducted in the 1950s.
  11800. The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
    First Published: 2011
    The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative way to cash in on the incarceration surplus: private for-profit prisons.
  11801. The Shoot First Mentality of American Police
    Ferguson, Reconsidered
    First Published: 2014
    The US justice system is no longer concerned with justice, but with the careers of prosecutors, punishing the powerless, and protecting the powerful. As justice has largely departed the justice system, it is hardly surprising that police lack any concept of justice.
  11802. Shoot the Messenger
    WikiLeaks: Journalism or Espionage?
    First Published: 2011
    In setting up WikiLeaks, Julian Assange wanted to bring to light secret agreements between countries. That he succeeded is clear from the number of companies and governments who have tried to shut him down.
  11803. Shooting Back
    Young Palestinians With Cameras
    First Published: 2010
    For the past three years, Btselem, the Israeli human rights NGO, has provided cameras and training to young Palestinians as part of its camera distribution project, to collect video evidence of abuses and misconduct by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
  11804. Shooting Down Man the Hunter
    First Published: 2015
    Sooner or later in conversations about who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, someone will tell a story about Man the Hunter. It's a story not just about Man but about Woman and Child too.There are countless variants. In every version, women are baggage that breeds.
  11805. Shooting the Hippo - Book Review
    Review of Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths.
  11806. Shooting to Kill Immigrants on the Mexican Border
    A Border Agent Fired First at Immigrant Smugglers?
    First Published: 2012
    Sometimes it takes a small tragedy to call attention to expose a much bigger one.
    The small tragedy happened when Nicholas Ivie, a US Border Patrol agent, was shot dead on a dark night in rough terrain along the border with Mexico in Arizona, a state that has been obsessing about illegal border crossers coming into the US from Mexico seeking jobs.
  11807. 'Shooting to Kill:' Operation Get Corbyn
    First Published: 2015
    As David Cameron talks tough on shooting terrorists on Britain's streets, bombing Syria, shooting off nuclear weapons at unnamed enemies, over half of the Labour Party's MPs in the House of Commons gaze in admiration, open mouthed, wondering why their leader couldn't be more like that.
  11808. Short Circuit: Towards an Anarchist Approach to Gentrification
    First Published: 2013
    Gentrification, etymologically speaking, is a relatively new word, coined in 1964 by the English Marxist sociologist Ruth Glass.
  11809. A Short History of Big Brother
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Interview with Christian Parenti.
  11810. A Short History of Bio-Chemical Weapons
    The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
    First Published: 2013
    Chronology between 400 BC and 2013 of bio-chemical weaponry and foreign policy.
  11811. A Short History of Black Voter Suppression
    First Published: 2012
    The Right's organized movement to suppress the votes of African Americans and Latin Americans, and the urban and rural poor by means of the passing of voter ID (Poll Tax) laws in states receives no mention in the dominant media.
  11812. A Short History of Liberal Myths and Anti-Labor Politics
    First Published: 2017
    A history of how labour and working-class groups have been alienated or disserviced by the major US political parties, particularly by liberal policies which are primarily aligned with business interests.
  11813. A Short History of Primitive Accumulation
    From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel
    First Published: 2013
    In Capital, Smith’s concept of “original accumulation” appeared as a word that could mean either original or primitive. Then in the English translation of the English translation of Capital “primitive accumulation” first appears.
  11814. A Short History of Spam
    Coming to an Inbox Near You
    First Published: 2014
    Objects can talk in cartoons and fairy tales: toys tell their stories. Now our domestic appliances have begun to speak, and they would like to sell us pills and porn, and for us to give them our bank details.
  11815. A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
    Challenging the Two Parties of Capital
    First Published: 2014
    Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful labor party in United States history. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Association, a grouping of associated unions and farmers, provided the organic connection between labor and the party.
  11816. Short History of the World Working-Class Movement from Lassalle to Neo-Liberalism
    The Distorting Hegemony of the Unproductive Middle Classes
    First Published: 1988
    This essay is a kind of "thought experiment", attempting to trace the career and impact of the "man of negation", ultimately theorized by Hegel as the "Prussian monarch" who "universally labors" in the realm of the state (and hence art, philosophy and religion) but whose "labor" does not transform nature, does not engage in what the Theses on Feuerbach call "sensuous transformative activity".
  11817. A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities
    First Published: 2015
    The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past. This is a sampling of such incidents since the 1991 Gulf War.
  11818. Shorter Hours Now!
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    The bumper stickers say, "Unions: the folks who brought you the weekend." For almost a century, the success of workers' drive to shorten working hours and increase leisure time was considered a sign of progress and humanity. After all, "we work to live," not "live to work."
  11819. Shot at Dawn Memorial
    Connexipedia Article
    A British Monument in memory of the 306 British and Commonwealth soldiers executed for cowardice and desertion during World War I.
  11820. Shot and gassed: Thousands of protected birds killed annually
    First Published: 2015
    Reveal has obtained never-before-released data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showing more than 300 species of migratory birds -- from red-tailed hawks to American kestrels, turkey vultures to mallard ducks -- have been killed legally across the United States since 2011 to protect a wide range of business activities and public facilities under what’s called the "depredation permit" program.
  11821. Shot in the Back
    Did the IDF Execute Mavi Marmara Victims?
    First Published: 2010
    In the Israeli commando assault on the Gaza aid flotilla, if victims were shot in the back or in the back of the head, then one is left really with only two possible conclusions: either the shooters, who were the Israeli commandos (according to Israel, no Israeli soldiers were themselves shot, plus all the recovered bullets were 9 mm, the type of shells in the Israeli weapons, making it clear who had the guns), fired at people who were fleeing from them, or alternatively they shot people from the front, and later executed them with shots to the back of the head, which is maybe even worse (certainly a war crime).
  11822. Shot in the Head
    Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestinian Children
    First Published: 2011
    In the past 10 years Israeli forces have killed at least 255 Palestinian minors by fire to the head, and the number may actually be greater, since in many instances the specific bodily location of the lethal trauma is unlisted. In addition, this statistic does not include the many more Palestinian youngsters shot in the head by Israeli soldiers who survived, in one form or another.
  11823. Shots All Around: How Four Roses Bourbon Workers Won Their Strike
    First Published: 2019
    Four Roses Bourbon Worked successfully striked over a two-tier contract proposal that would have given worse benefits to new hires.
  11824. Should Communists ally with revolutionary nationalism? The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 2)
    First Published: 2018
    But how would the proposed alliance of workers' and national uprisings be effected? This strategic issue was addressed in the Comintern’s Second Congress, held in Moscow 9 July-7 August 1920.
  11825. Should People Opposed to Bigotry and Anti-Semitism Support Israel?
    First Published: 2005
    That the Zionist project is bad for Jews as well as for non-Jews is an idea which, for many decades, has been suppressed. It is time good people -- of all faiths -- rediscovered it.
  11826. Should Russia Attack Colombia?
    Another Case for Military Action
    First Published: 2013
    Debating the case on whether Putin should or should not attack Columbia. Will Russia follow the example of the US?
  11827. Should There Be A Jewish State?
    First Published: 2002
    The very concept of ethnically pure states is divisive and destined to stoke conflict. The so-called "two state solution" in the Middle East - establishing a Palestinian state to counter the Jewish state - is a conceptual and political trap that prevents Arab and Jewish working people from uniting around their common interests and values. The situation in the Middle East cannot be solved within this framework; it leads nowhere except to more destruction and hate and more elite control.
  11828. Should Uranium Stay in the Ground?
    First Published: 1978
  11829. Should we 'take down' the banks or try to save the best of capitalism?
    First Published: 2011
    If Canada is to rid itself of the destructive neoliberal Conservatives, perhaps the best that we can do, given present conditions, is to push the New Democrats and Liberals to embrace some aspects of traditional liberalism and combine those policies with some tough, new measures to protect the public.
  11830. Should You March Against Trump?
    First Published: 2017
    Yasmin Nair addresses the issue of whether or not to march against Donald Trump this week, or in the months and years following.
  11831. "Show Me Your Papers!" Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card
    First Published: 2018
    With the government empowered to carry out transportation checks to question people about their immigration status within a 100-mile border zone that wraps around the country, you're going to see a rise in these "show your papers" incidents. That's a problem.
  11832. Showdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon
    First Published: 2016
    During the spring of 1995, shortly after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, James Ridgeway and I spent a couple of weeks traveling across the West for a series of stories in the Village Voice that chronicled the rise of militant new rightwing movements of militias, white supremacists, Christian Identity sects and anti-government groups, including a profile of central Oregon rancher Dwight Hammond, now at the centre of the armed seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters near Burns.
  11833. Shunpiking
    Connexipedia Article
    The term shunpiking comes from the word shun, meaning "to avoid", and pike, a term referring to turnpikes, which were roads which required payment of a toll to travel on them. People who often avoid toll roads sometimes call themselves shunpikers. Shunpiking has also come to mean an avoidance of major highways (regardless of tolls) in preference for bucolic and scenic interludes along lightly traveled country roads. For some, practice of shunpiking involved a form of boycott of tolls (rather than just avoidance of them for financial reasons) by taking another route, perhaps slower, longer, or under poorer road conditions.
  11834. Siberia's Heavenly Lake and 'small peoples' of the High North at risk from oil drilling
    First Published: 2016
    A vital nature preserve in western Siberia, and the indigenous peoples that inhabit it, are at risk from oil development. Oil giant Surgutneftegas is already active in the Numto Park, but now they want to extend operations into its fragile wetlands, putting at risk snow cranes, the Heavenly Lake, and the survival of the Nenet and Khanty peoples.
  11835. Sick Sophistry: BBC News On Afghan Hospital "Mistakenly" Bombed by United States
    First Published: 2015
    One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, 2015, is an archetypal example.
  11836. "SiCKO," Are We Sick, Or What?
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    Years ago, when I worked the sports unit of a commercial TV station, I spent many hours in a van traveling to various games with a lot of folks who were all smarter than I (pilots in their spare time, people who repaired and operated sophisticated video equipment), which didn’t keep me from getting into political arguments because I was younger, dumber, angrier and relatively new to the finer points of Marxism.
  11837. Side with the Living
    First Published: 2009
    A note to those who would demonize nature.
  11838. The siege of Julian Assange is a farce - a special investigation
    First Published: 2014
    Article on Julian Assange's ongoing persecution by the US government.
  11839. Siege and resistance in Gaza – For more than 10 weeks...
    First Published: 2018
    Toufic Haddad, an activist, academic and author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory, spoke to Omar Hassan about the meaning of the protests – and what next in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
  11840. Silence in NGO Discourse
    First Published: 2017
    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) maintain a ubiquitous presence in most peoples lives (whether they realize it or not). It therefore should be a commonsense act that we scrutinize NGO activities to ascertain their exact political function within the "our" neoliberal world order.
  11841. The Silence of the Left: Brexit, Euro-Austerity and the T-TIP
    First Published: 2016
    The media in the United States have treated the British vote against remaining in the European Union (EU) as if it is populist “Trumpism,” an inarticulate right-wing vote out of ignorance at being left behind by the neoliberal economic growth policy. What is left out of this picture is that there is a sound logic to oppose membership in the EU.
  11842. Silence on police carding of White working-class
    First Published: 2015
    a majority of the people who are carded are Whites. The cops in the city of Hamilton and other municipalities have pointed to this fact to make the incorrect claim that carding is not racist. Why haven’t we universally raised class profiling to a similar level as racial profiling?
  11843. Silences on the Suppression of Workers Self-Emancipation: Historical Problems with CLR James's Interpretation of V.I. Lenin
    First Published: 2012
    CLR James believed one of his major intellectual legacies was the clarification of the wisdom of V.I. Lenin. However, James's readings fail in making Lenin's role in history and politics transparent. James's Leninism attempts to reconcile the validity of workers self-management and the aspirations of a political party to seize state power. This is in conflict with James's own genuine and original political legacy: clarifying the direct democratic gathering forces which will create the new society.
  11844. The Silencing Act and Mumia Abu-Jamal
    First Published: 2015
    The Revictimization Relief Act, which my lawyers at the Pennsylvania ACLU have appropriately dubbed the "Silencing Act," allows victims of personal injury crimes (and family members or prosecutors acting on their behalf) to petition a judge to stop criminal offenders from speaking or acting if their speech or action "perpetuates the continuing effect of" that crime, including by causing "mental anguish."
  11845. Silencing America as It Prepares for War
    First Published: 2016
    The 2016 election campaign is remarkable not only for the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders but also for the resilience of an enduring silence about a murderous self-bestowed divinity. A third of the members of the United Nations have felt Washington’s boot, overturning governments, subverting democracy, imposing blockades and boycotts.
  11846. Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works 
    In my lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, mostly democracies. It has interfered in democratic elections in 30 countries. It has dropped bombs on the people of 30 countries, most of them poor and defenceless. It has attempted to murder the leaders of 50 countries. It has fought to suppress liberation movements in 20 countries. The extent and scale of this carnage is largely unreported, unrecognized; and those responsible continue to dominate Anglo-American political life.
  11847. Silencing the past: reflections on remembering and forgetting
    First Published: 2020
    Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Haitian writer Michel-Rolph Trouillot was first published in 1995. Twenty-five years on, its weaving of personal narrative with stories of slave rebellion, black Jacobins in the Haitian Revolution and the 'discovery' of the Americas still resonate.
  11848. Silencing the Workers
    Censorship in the National Film Board
    First Published: 1972
  11849. Silent Coup
    How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses
    First Published: 2010
  11850. Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
    First Published: 2018
    Judith Deutch takes a look at the human side of the climate disaster and the constricted way of thinking about it, as even those who do recognize anthropogenic climate change still do not examine a range of critical interactions.
  11851. Silvia Baraldini Wins Return Home
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    On June 11 the U.S. government agreed to a longstanding Italian request to allow political prisoner Silvia Baraldini to serve the rest of her term in her native country. The move, announced by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Thomas Foglietta, appeared to be an attempt to appease Italian public opinion about the U.S. army plane that sliced a gondola cable when flying too low and too fast in the Italian Alps on February 3, 1998, killing twenty people. The pilot, Marine Captain Richard Asby, was recently acquitted by a U.S. military tribunal. In that case Italy returned the pilots involved in the Cermis tragedy and allowed them to be tried in their country of origin.
  11852. Simple living
    Connexipedia Article
    A lifestyle characterized by minimizing the "more is better" pursuit of wealth and consumption.
  11853. Simple Truths, Hard Problems
    Some thoughts on terror, justice, and self-defence
    First Published: 2005
    Chomsky discusses the truth behind commonly rejected moral truisms. This rejection, according to Chomsky, has serious human consequences.
  11854. The Simulation of Democracy
    First Published: 2018
    The global capitalist ruling classes have been stuck with "democracy" ever since, or, more accurately, with the simulation of democracy.
  11855. Sinclair, Upton
    Connexipedia Article
    American author and muckraker. (1978-1968).
  11856. Singer, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
    Socialist writer and journalist. (1926-2000).
  11857. Single Displaced Persons Project
    First Published: 1976
    Outline of the efforts of individuals from various church related institutions to change the system of services that is seen to perpetuate skid row.
  11858. The Single Parent News
    First Published: 1978
  11859. The Single Party French State ... as the Majority of Voters Abstain
    First Published: 2017
    The victory of Macron's personal party, la République En Marche (REM), with an absolute majority of 350 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, has bled the two traditional governing parties, the Republicans and the Socialists.
  11860. Single Payer: What Will It Take to Pass It?
    First Published: 2018
    Single payer healthcare needs to be implemented in a universal, sweeping move. Incremental changes will only impede progress.
  11861. Single-Payer Health Care and the Case Against Clicktivism
    First Published: 2015
    What’s the next step in the campaign for single-payer universal health care in the United States? Single Payer Now's Don Bechler says we have to hit the streets.
  11862. The single-state solution
    First Published: 2008
    Bringing about a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians have equal rights will not be easy, but ultimately it is the only solution to the conflict. A state based on respect for the human rights of all its citizens is a better safeguard against anti-Semitism and racism than one based on ethnic nationalism and inequality.
  11863. The Singularity and Socialism
    First Published: 2013
    By definition, a singularity is something utterly peculiar unto itself, a species of being unmatched for its “this-ness.”
  11864. The Sinicization Of Tibet
    First Published: 2013
    In 1950s, China incorporated Tibet into its territory and since then, it has began a major reform of all aspects of Tibetan life - social, religious, political and economic. The Tibetans had organised an armed resistance but it could not challenge the Chinese army. As a result of this, thousands of Tibetans fled from Tibet and seek asylum in nearby countries like India, Nepal and Bhutan where they have created refugee or exile communities. But other forms of resistance had been continued and is still continued by Tibetans in Tibet and in exile.
  11865. Sit-ins
    Connexipedia Article
    A form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest.
  11866. Sitdown strike or occupation guide
    A guide to taking sit-down strike action or occupations, in which by suddenly refusing to work gains can be won rapidly
    First Published: 2006
    A strike doesn't have to be long to be effective. Timed and executed right, a strike can be won in minutes. Such strikes are "sitdowns" or "occupations" when everyone just stops work and sits tight, or "mass grievances" when everybody leaves work to go to the boss's office to discuss some matter of importance. This can have many advantages over a conventional strike.
  11867. Sitting On the Bookshelf
    First Published: 1969
    Bob Minden attended an open house for teachers and other interested persons organized by Herbert Kohl, and describes the experience as extraordinary.
  11868. The Situation in Russia and Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
  11869. The Situation of Left Communism Today
    Interview with the Korean Socialist Workers Newspaper Group (SaNoShin), November-December 2007
    First Published: 2007
  11870. Situation Reversed
  11871. Situationist International
    Connexipedia Article
    A group of revolutionaries, founded in 1957, which developed a radical Marxist critque of life under advanced capitalism. They suggested and experimented with the construction of situations: the setting up of environments favourable to the fulfillment of human desires outside and against the economy of markets and wage labour. The SI analyzed the modern world from the point of view of everyday life and attacked the capitalist degradation of life and the fake models advertised by the mass media and proposed a revolutionary alternative which integrated politics, art, critical thinking, desire, and play.
  11872. The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art
    First Published: 1967
    Our task is to link up the theoretical critique of modern society with the critique of it in acts. By detourning the very propositions of the spectacle, we can directly reveal the implications of present and future revolts.
  11873. The Situationists and the Occupation Movements (1968/2011)
    First Published: 2011
    In what ways does the Occupy movement of 2011 resemble the French Situationists of the 1960s?
  11874. The Situationists and the Occupation Movements: 1968/2011
    First Published: 2011
  11875. SIU's Community of Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    A solidarity rally to prepare for a joint strike.
  11876. Sivaraksa, Sulak
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Thai democracy activist. (Born 1933).
  11877. Six Banks Pay $5.6 Billion in Fines for Foreign Exchange Manipulation
    First Published: 2015
    Six major international banks – Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Union Bank of Switerland (UBS) – have agreed to pay $5.6 billion in fines for rigging global foreign exchange markets.
  11878. Six Facts from Sudden Justice, A New History of the Drone War
    First Published: 2015
    Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolved on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the covert U.S. targeted killing campaign.
  11879. 6 Ideas For Those Needing Defensive Technology to Protect Free Speech from Authoritarian Regimes
    4 Ways the Rest of Us Can Help
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2010
    The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those who speak out despite censorship and surveillance.
  11880. Six Media Companies Control 90% of What We Read, Watch and Listen to
    First Published: 2012
  11881. The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century
    First Published: 2015
    On October 2, 2015, President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia's decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted "from the perspective they're all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it's one that I reject."
  11882. Six Nations and Dundalk Fight Corporate Crap
    Why We Should All Support Their Struggle
    First Published: 2012
    Dundalk is situated at the highest elevation in Ontario, the headwaters of both the Grand and Saugeen rivers, and sits on land deeded to the Six Nations through the Haldimand Proclamation of 1763. Despite the ecological importance of the region and the outstanding land claim, the municipal council and a corporation are attempting to force through a plan to build a “bio-solids” processing facility just a stone’s throw from the town.
  11883. Six Questions for Augustus Richard Norton on Lebanon
    First Published: 2006
    Questions concerning the 2006 abduction of Israelis to trade for Lebanese prisoners being held in Israeli prisons.
  11884. Six steps back to the land: an agricultural revolution for people and countryside
    First Published: 2016
    What's the point of farming? To produce an abundance of wholesome food, writes Colin Tudge, while supporting a flourishing rural economy and a sustainable, biodiverse countryside. Yet the powers that be, determined to advance industrial agriculture at all costs, are achieving the precise opposite. It's time for a revolution in our food and farming culture, led by the people at large.
  11885. 6 Tips for Writing a Successful VNR
    First Published: 2003
    A video news release(VNR) is essentially a press release on video. The key difference is how it is planned and written.
  11886. Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy
    First Published: 2006
    Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm.
  11887. Six True Things Politicians Can’t Say
    First Published: 2011
  11888. 6 underrated Marxists who don't get enough love
    First Published: 2017
    A look at six less celebrated Marxists: Gavril Miasnikov, Ngo Van Xuyet, Clara Zetkin, Martin Glaberman, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, and Ambalavaner Sivanandan; who participated in working class movements such as the 1918 German revolution, the 1945 Saigon Commune and the strikes in the car factories of Detroit.
  11889. 6 underrated Marxists who don't get enough love 
    First Published: 2017
    It's a sad fact that many of the most radical Marxists, whose participation in working class struggle and ideas challenged not only capitalist society but also the social democratic and Leninist tendencies in the workers' movement tend to get ignored by anarchists and Marxists alike.
  11890. Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
    How One-Sided Reporting is Facilitating Escalation
    First Published: 2012
    The Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.
  11891. The 16 Biggest Lies the U.S. Government Tells America About the Ukraine War
    First Published: 2022
    In any war, the first casualty is truth. Here, according to Richard Ochs, are the biggest lies.
  11892. The Sixteenth Puerto Rican Political Prisoner: The Case of José Solís
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    On Friday, March 12, 1999, a new name was added to the list of fifteen Puerto Rican political prisoners currently held in American jails: José Solís Jordán. That day, a federal jury in Chicago found Solís, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and father of five, guilty of bombing a U.S. Army recruitment office in that city in 1992. No one was killed or hurt in the bombing.
  11893. The 60-Year Unemployment Scandal
    First Published: 2011
    Since the 1940s, the jobless rate for blacks in America has held remarkably, if grimly, steady at twice the rate for whites.
  11894. Skaggs, Joey
    Connexipedia Article
    American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. He is considered one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. (Born 1945).
  11895. Thomas Skidmore
    Wikipedia article
    Thomas Skidmore (August 13, 1790 – August 7, 1832) was an American politician and radical political philosopher. Skidmore is best remembered as the co-founder and leader of the Working Men's Party in New York when it first emerged in the fall of 1829.
  11896. The Skies Are Emptying Out
    First Published: 2020
  11897. The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin
    First Published: 2018
    Pinning the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter by a nerve agent on the Russian state makes little sense, and is an attempt by the West to futher villify Putin who actually had little to gain by ordering such an action.
  11898. The Sky is Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn
    Class Struggle in the US from the 2008 Crash to the Eve of the Occopations Movement
    First Published: 2012
    We can safely assert that for most working people, the "recession" has never ended, and is about to get worse.
  11899. Slamming the World Bank and IMF
    Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
  11900. Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
    First Published: 1986
  11901. "The Slave-Holding Republic"
    Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Gerald Horne's Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.
  11902. Slave rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    An armed uprising by slaves.
  11903. Slave Wages Paid To Working Psychiatric Patients
    First Published: 1981
    This article claims that the mentally ill are working for as little as fifty cents an hour in sheltered workshops, provincial psychiatric hospitals and some private businesses in the Toronto area.
  11904. Slavery and the American Revolution
    The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Gerald Horne's The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
  11905. Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
    First Published: 2019
    In its insistence that race -- which has no basis in science -- is the determinative category of both the present and past, the 1619 Project shares the most basic premise of the white supremacists and fascists that are being set into motion by the Trump administration.
  11906. Slavery and Capitalism
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    A review of a collection of essays about the economics of American slavery.
  11907. Slavery, Cotton and Imperialism
    When Slave-Owners, Tied to a Globalized Economy, Turned to Empire
    First Published: 2014
    Whitney reviews River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson, on cotton production and slave ownership in the Mississippi River Valley prior to the U.S. Civil War.
  11908. Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'
    First Published: 2015
    From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
  11909. Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Book Review
    Edward E. Baptist’s "The Half Has Never Been Told"
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Edward E. Baptist’s examination of slavery, presented in an entirely new way, extensively through the voices of the slaves themselves.
  11910. Slavery Now: Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia
    First Published: 2017
    Slavery still exists today. And it exists in the Gulf states and in Saudi Arabia.
  11911. Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America
    First Published: 1990
    Two years ago, a sports announcer in the United States lost his job because
    he enlarged indiscreetly -- that is, before a television audience -- upon his
    views about 'racial' differences. Asked why there are so few black coaches in
    basketball, Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder remarked that black athletes already
    hold an advantage as basketball players because they have longer thighs than
    white athletes, their ancestors having been deliberately bred that way during
    slavery.
  11912. Slavery still shackles Mauritania, 31 years after its abolition
    First Published: 2012
    Rigid caste system and ruling elite have enabled a centuries-old practice to continue into the 21st century.
  11913. Slavery's Harrowing Reality
    First Published: 2014
    A review of the film "12 Years as a Slave" in the context of the literary genre of slave narratives.
  11914. 'Slaves of the sea'
    The long-forgotten Jaladas community and their need for policy inclusion
    First Published: 2019
    Due to socio-econimical, political, and geographical reasons, the Jaladas community has been negelected and they are vulnerable. Relevant sectoral policies enacted by the government of Bangladesh would address these issues.
  11915. Slavoj Zizek: Apologist for the social democratic turn of SYRIZA
    First Published: 2013
    The authors argue that Zizek's radical posturing is at odds with his reformist political stance.
  11916. The Sledgehammer Worldview
    First Published: 2014
    The U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq was a textbook example of aggression. Apologists invoke noble intentions, which would be irrelevant even if the pleas were sustainable. The destructive consequences of such aggression are clear, as evidenced in numerous historical examples of violent imperialism.
  11917. The Sleeping Giant Awakes
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Los Angeles—Pressure is building. Times are getting nastier. The stakes are incredibly high. And on the streets, during this time of unseasonable cold for this city, the "sleeping giant" of Latino and immigrant communities has begun to awake.
  11918. The Sleepwalkers Are Revolting
    The Right to Sleep, or...
    First Published: 2013
    The Center for Disease Control’s finding that sleep deprivation has reached epidemic proportions has failed to generate significant public outcry.
  11919. A Slice of Death in Rafah
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    from an International Solidarity Movement report. Tel Es-Sultan, Gaza Strip--Death has become something usual in Rafah. The invasion would not be successful if the occupation army didn't kill dozens of Palestinians. At least 20 Palestinians were killed up to now, and more than 60 injured in the past 12 hours. Last week 16 were killed during the invasion of Block O.
  11920. A Slice of Socialist History
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    The following correspondence sheds light on a lesser-known period in U.S. socialist history during the 1950s. Frank Fried was a member of the Socialist Union, led by Bert Cochran, following the “Cochran Faction” expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1953. He wrote this letter in response to a query from Hal Smith, a student engaged in research in the history of the Trotskyist movement. The subsequent comment by Lester Rodney, the longtime journalist who waged a long campaign in the 1930s and ’40s to break the “color line” in Major League Baseball, offers further perspective on the politics of the Communist Party in the period. Both are retired and living in California.
  11921. Slime, Shorebirds, and a Scientific Mystery
    First Published: 2016
    Examining the impact of large developments near the Fraser River estuary in British Columbia on migrating populations of shorebirds, which have been found to depend on a biofilm in the area to sustain their long flights.
  11922. The Slippery Slope: Rolling Downward, No Brakes, Nuclear War
    First Published: 2016
    Policy is not a discrete entity; indeed, instead, it is a cumulative force, broadening in scope and direction, as it -- in this case -- plunges toward self- and global-annihilation. Destruction is in the very air we breathe, as though Thanatos looming overhead, because exceptionalism is reaching a point of satiety and feelings of emptiness and alienation make other than war and dominance meaningless.
  11923. The Slow Exodus of Palestinian Christians
    First Published: 2020
    Israel has exploited the steady decline in the numbers of Palestinian Christians to advance its claim that they are being hounded from the region by Muslim extremists. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches.
  11924. The 'slow genocide' of Brazil's Guarani people must stop
    First Published: 2016
    Land theft, agribusiness and violence pose an existential threat to Brazil's Guarani people. They maintain a powerful resolve to regain their historic lands, and even have the law on their side - but the tribe will need international support to prevail against murderous ranchers and farmers, corrupt politicians and a paralysed legal system.
  11925. Slucaj za arhivsku osnovu
    First Published: 2012
    Ovaj dokument ocrtava razlog za Connexions-ovu arhivu i knjižnicu, projekt baziran u Torontu koji cuva i dijeli informacije i dokumente vezano za osnovne pokrete za društvene promjene. Connexions sadržava fizicku arhivu materijala, kao i opsežnu online knjižnicu na www.connexions.org.
  11926. Slums, 21st Century Wars
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    How have homo sapiens managed to achieve a highly technological, seemingly advanced “civilization,” while producing the horrors described by Mike Davis in Planet of Slums?
  11927. Small Claims Court
    Is it Really a People's Court?
    First Published: 1977
    A small selection of documents aimed at educating the public about the Ontario small claims court system.
  11928. Small country, big struggle
    First Published: 2010
    Swaziland suffers a repressive and corrupt regime.
  11929. Small Is Not Beautiful: Life at the Bay Guardian
    First Published: 1987
  11930. Small is the New Big
    First Published: 2014
    Vandana Shiva reminds us that the very future of food security in India (and indeed worldwide) lies in protecting and promoting the country's small farmers.
  11931. "Small really is beautiful", claims new report on England's farming
    First Published: 2016
    A report on the benefits of small-scale farming practices in England, arguing that land size should not be used to exclude farms from receiving subsidies.
  11932. Smartphone Game Data Targeted by NSA
    Angry Birds Cited
    First Published: 2014
    Millennial Media, a Baltimore based ad company, creates “intrusive” profiles of users of smartphone applications and games like Angry Birds, according to documents leaked to the media by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Such profiles have been exploited by intelligence authorities like the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), say investigative journalists.
  11933. Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists
    First Published: 2022
    Canadians as a whole, and especially centre-left voters, have come to believe that the legitimacy of a movement inheres not in its size or the diversity of people and views it represents, but rather in its ability to discipline and control its supporters.
  11934. Smearing Noam Chomsky
    First Published: 1996
    The deliberate use of outrageous lies to smear others is a favourite tactic of hate propagandists.
  11935. The Smile of Policeman Agadi
    First Published: 2002
    An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.
  11936. Smooth Talking! Explore the Paid Speaking Market
    First Published: 2005
    Becoming a professional speaker.
  11937. The smug style in American liberalism
    First Published: 2016
    The smug style in American liberalism has been growing these past decades and in 2016 it has even found expression in media and in policy, in the attitudes of liberals both visible and private.
  11938. Snake Oil in a Computer: The Pseudo-science of Transportation Modeling
    First Published: 1991
    Planners, politicians, and other decision-makers want to know what effect their projects will have on the environment. In many cases they don't really want to know, but want to convince their constituents that the results will be beneficial, or at least neutral. In both cases, computer modeling is being used to "answer" the questions.
  11939. Snapshots of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    This summer I traveled to Venezuela with my family and these are some impressions. Thanks to my friend Fred Rosen for correcting some errors of fact and offering some useful information. My colleague Susan Paulson was also kind enough to read and comment, as was Deborah James of Global Exchange. I alone am responsible for the views presented here.
  11940. SNCC at 50
    First Published: 2010
    The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is vitally important not just for learning and understanding the past but, more importantly, for imagining and working for a more righteous future.
  11941. SNCC Movement Worker Reflects
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    Gloria House reflects on how SNCC saw the struggle of African Americans as linked to the struggles of colonialized people, and identified with liberation movements domestically and internationally.
  11942. SNCC: Same Lesson, 50 Years On
    Power Yields Nothing Without Demand
    First Published: 2010
    The SNCC lesson is that power yields nothing without demand and the guts to back it up.
  11943. SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
    First Published: 2010
    Celebrating SNCC's legacy.
  11944. SNCC's Think Tank
    First Published: 2017
    How SNCC's research department helped civil rights organizers fight Jim Crow.
  11945. Snoops in the Reading Room
    F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of William J. Maxwell's F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature.
  11946. Snowden document confirms US-backed mass surveillance in Australia
    First Published: 2013
    The document obtained by the former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor confirms that the electronic surveillance agency, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), monitors the domestic population, as well as the people and governments of many Asian countries.
  11947. Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower
    First Published: 2015
    American whistleblowers hailed the release of a collection of classified documents about US drone warfare as a blow on behalf of transparency and human rights. The documents anchored a multi-part report by the Intercept on the Defense Department assassination program in Yemen and Somalia.
  11948. The "Snowden is Ready to Come Home!" Story: a Case Study in Typical Media Deceit
    First Published: 2015
    Most sentient people rationally accept that the U.S. media routinely disseminates misleading stories and outright falsehoods in the most authoritative tones. But it's nonetheless valuable to examine particularly egregious case studies to see how that works.
  11949. Snowden leak: MI5 has gathered so much data it may actually be missing 'life-saving intelligence'
    First Published: 2016
    British spies may have missed potentially "life-saving intelligence" because their surveillance systems were sweeping up more data than could be analyzed, a leaked classified report reveals. The document, given to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was sent to top British government officials, outlining methods being developed by the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, to covertly monitor internet communications.
  11950. Snowden says 'I told you so'
    First Published: 2022
    Former CIA and National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed vindication after a media report exposed how surveillance tools deployed to fight Covid-19 are now being abused by law enforcement and other authorities – as he predicted over two years ago.
  11951. Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State
    First Published: 2013
    There is plenty to be said about living under a giant system of government surveillance. Just don't expect the corporate media to explore the full extent of what it really all means.
  11952. Snowden and Texeira: Ten Years of Disaster
    First Published: 2023
    The idea that the legacy media in any way serves the truth or the public interest is now completely buried. The legacy media serves the state, and the state serves the billionaires. It is a shame the Washington Post, New York Times, Guardian and Bellingcat each had no interest whatsoever in the journalistic pursuit of the truth behind this extraordinary episode. We live entirely in security states: there is no doubt about it.
  11953. Snowden's NSA Leaks Catalogued In First Searchable Database Of The Surveillance Documents
    First Published: 2015
    Canadian journalists and researchers have teamed up to create the world's first fully-searchable index of the classified documents revealing NSA surveillance leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
  11954. So be it
    First Published: 1980
    Rejoinder from Sam Dolgoff.
  11955. The So-Called Scientific "Consensus": Why the Debate on GMO Safety is Not Over
    First Published: 2014
    Biotechnology seed companies, aided by advocates from academia and the blogopsphere, are using their substantial resources to broadcast the myth of a "scientific consensus" on the safety of GMOs, asserting that the data is in and the debate is over. The public relations campaign, helped along by industry groups, has caught the attention of some of the most visible news outlets in the country, with biotech advocates portraying GMO critics as akin to climate change deniers, out of step with science.
  11956. So Different Yet So Familiar
    Book Review by William Bowles
    First Published: 2010
    A fascinating and extremely readable account of a life now vanished, destroyed by the insatiable appetite of capital and told with acid wit and great style making it enjoyable to relish the language but not too much, it's not a travelog but a rare account of life that most of us are barely aware exists.
  11957. The Sochi Games, Homophobia and Western Media Hypocrisy
    First Published: 2014
    Alastair Stephens looks at the hypocritical response of the Western media to the Sochi Games.
  11958. Social Anarchism
    Connexipedia Article
    Social anarchism sees individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid.
  11959. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
    A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
    First Published: 2009
    I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
  11960. Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism an Unbridgeable Chasm
    First Published: 1995
    For some two centuries, anarchism -- a very ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas -- developed in the tension between two basically contradictory tendencies: a personalistic commitment to individual autonomy and a collectivist commitment to social freedom. These tendencies have by no means been reconciled in the history of libertarian thought. Indeed, for much of the last century, they simply coexisted within anarchism as a minimalist credo of opposition tothe State rather than as a maximalist credo that articulated the kind of new society that had to becreated in its place.
  11961. Social centre
    Connexipedia Article
    Community spaces are used for a range of disparate activities.
  11962. The Social Cost of GMOs
    First Published: 2014
    Ecological economists such as Herman Daly write that the more full the world becomes, the higher are the social or external costs of production. Social or external costs are costs of production that are not captured in the price of the products. For example, dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico that result from chemicals used in agriculture are not included as costs in agricultural production. The price of food does not include the damage to the Gulf.
    Food production is a source of large social costs. Indeed, it seems that the more food producers are able to lower the measured cost of food production, the higher the social costs imposed on society.
  11963. Social Democracy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Social democracy could be defined by its opposition not only to capitalism but also to communism. Social democrats are resolute in their defence of individual rights and constitutional methods, and in their repudiation of the Marxist concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
  11964. Social Democracy and Communism
    First Published: 1919   Published: 1927
    Once again, as in the time of Marx, communism as a revolutionary and proletarian movement confronts socialism as a reformist and bourgeois movement. And the new communism is not just a new edition of the theory of radical social democracy. As a result of the world crisis, it has gained new depth, which totally differentiates it from the old theory.
  11965. Social Democracy and Parliamentarism
    First Published: 1904
    Parliamentarism is far from being an absolute product of democratic development, of the progress of the human species, and of such nice things. It is, rather, the historically determined form of the class rule of the bourgeoisie and – what is only the reverse of this rule – of its struggle against feudalism.
  11966. Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey
    First Published: 1896
    In foreign policy as in domestic politics, Social Democracy can adopt its own position, which in both spheres must be determined by the same standpoints, namely by the internal social conditions of the phenomenon in question, and by our general principles.
  11967. Social Democracy and the Paradox of the Vanguard: Rudolf Hilferding's Odyssey
    First Published: 1998
    THE NAZI SEIZURE of power in the winter of 1933 marked the total failure of the reformist project of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and brought about the party's virtual destruction. From exile in Prague and Paris, the defeated socialist leadership now had to grapple with the implications of this catastrophe for the party's strategy and form of organization. In the face of nazi barbarism, it was clear that the old legal methods would no longer suffice and that new ideas were needed to...
  11968. Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
    Connexipedia Article
    A Marxist political party founded in 1893.
  11969. Social Democracy or Revolutionary Democracy: Syriza and Us
    First Published: 2015
    Lebowitz discusses the construction of Syriza, its Thessaloniki Programme, and the potential for revolutionary democracy in Greece.
  11970. Social Development
    Vol. 6, No. 2.
    First Published: 1977
    This pamphlet reports on the various issues which were of current concern to the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD).
  11971. Social Ecology
    Connexipedia Article
  11972. Social Gospel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    The Social Gospel was an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1890s through the 1930s.
  11973. Social Gospel
    Connexipedia article
    The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labour, inadequate labour unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
  11974. A Social History of Wiretaps
    Memory's Half-Life
    First Published: 2013
    American’s century-long distrust of electronic surveillance is shifting to Americans accepting and internalizing new levels of state surveillance.
  11975. The social impacts of computerisation
    First Published: 1983
  11976. Social justice is the only solution to global warming
    The Climate is Ripe for Social Change
    First Published: 2015
    South African activist says only an alliance between unions and social justice movements can stop capital from destroying planetary life.
  11977. Social media giants repress Palestinian content
    First Published: 2022
    Silicon Valley is solidly entrenching itself as a devoted enemy of political dissent. As the West implements draconian sanctions against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, including the banning of the Russian news outlets RT and Sputnik from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok as well as search engine results, social media censorship of political messaging about the Palestinian liberation struggle continues.
  11978. Social Media Regulation: Speak of the Devil and in Walks Zuck
    First Published: 2019
    Social media giants such as Facebook support government regulation as a means to secure their monopolies.
  11979. Social media's erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future
    First Published: 2020
    Nowhere are ties between tech and state officials more evident than in their dealings with Israel. This has led to starkly different treatment of digital rights for Israelis and Palestinians.
  11980. Social Movements in South Africa
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    Investigation into the current political movements in South Africa.
  11981. Social Movements and the Left
    Book Review
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of 'Social Movements and Leftist Government in Latin America: Confrontation or Cooptation,' edited by Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva Campos, Harry E. Vanden.
  11982. Social Networking and the Death of the Internet 
    How Do You "Like" That?
    First Published: 2013
    Social Networking is, by its nature, a capture environment. The companies that offer the services, particularly Facebook, host your site and control all the information on it. Facebook — a group of linked pages on a giant website — is constraining and not very powerful. In order to use it, you have to use it the way they want you to and that’s not a whole lot of “using”. But there is a comfort in having one’s options limited, being able to use something without learning anything about it or making many choices about how you use it. That alluring convenience is a poisoned apple, however.
  11983. Social objectives for the 90's
  11984. The Social Organization of Family Violence
    An Ethnography of Immigrant Experience in Vancouver
    First Published: 1978
    This study examines the social organization of wife battering among immigrant families in Vancouver. The focus is immigrant women's experience of being battered, and how this experience is located within the Canadian social and economic context.
  11985. Social Reproduction for Beginners: Bringing the Real World Back In
    First Published: 2008
    We can grasp the social reproductive dimension of the post-1973 crisis in various phenomena in the U.S., but none stands out more sharply than the disappearance of the one-paycheck working-class family.
  11986. The Social Security Non-Crisis
    First Published: 2005
    Chomsky reveals the conception of Social Security trying to be sold by Bush administration. He claims such reformers encourage people to think solely of their own interests rather than caring for the community.
  11987. Social Security--Why It's Under Attack
    First Published: 1998
    A CHILD BORN in a middle-class family in Europe or America today has a fair chance of living to 85. In one way his/her life will be divided into three periods: First, twenty to twenty-four years growing up and getting educated. Second, about forty years making a living. Third, after 65, come twenty years of retirement.
  11988. The social significance of Toronto's June 15 homeless "riot"
    First Published: 2000
    What happened on June 15 bears close attention for what it says about the trajectory of politics in Ontario and the country as a whole. The police ran amok, attacking not only anyone participating in the demonstration, but even medical personnel tending the wounded. Moreover, the police were acting at the behest of a Tory provincial government that has done real violence to the poor, by slashing welfare benefits by 21.5 percent, eliminating social housing and abolishing rent controls.
  11989. Social Teaching Incarnate at ICI
    First Published: 1992
    From economic grassroots organizations, Latin Americans of every creed, race and colour gather under the one ICI roof for three month periods of intensive sharing and learning. Community and society problems are examined and their causes analyzed from a Latin American perspective.
  11990. The Socialisation of Society
    First Published: 1918
    A socialist society needs human beings from whom each one in his place, is full of passion and enthusiasm for the general well-being, full of self-sacrifice and sympathy for his fellow human beings, full of courage and tenacity in order to dare to attempt the most difficult.
  11991. Socialisation (Part I)
    First Published: 1920
    Marx never spoke of socialisation: he spoke of the expropriation of the expropriators.
  11992. Socialisation (Part II)
    First Published: 1920
    Socialism cannot be achieved by avoiding the class struggle. Socialisation which is devised to spare the profits of the capitalist class cannot be a path to Socialism.
  11993. Socialism and Anarchism
    First Published: 1889
    Morris repudiates the anarchist view that freedom from authority means the individual doing what he pleases under all circumstances. This, he says is "an absolute negation of society".
  11994. Socialism and Religion
    First Published: 1907
    In declaring that religion is a private matter, we do not mean to say that it is immaterial to us, what general conceptions our members hold. We prefer a thorough scientific understanding to an unscientific religious faith. But we are convinced, that the new conditions will of themselves alter the religious conceptions, and that religious or anti-religious propaganda is unable to accomplish or prevent this.
  11995. Socialism and The Churches
    First Published: 1905
    Social-Democracy in no way fights against religious beliefs. On the contrary, it demands complete freedom of conscience for every individual and the widest possible toleration for every faith and every opinion. But, from the moment when the priests use the pulpit as a means of political struggle against the working classes, the workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their liberation. For he who defends the exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of misery, he is the mortal enemy of the proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the police.
  11996. The Socialism of the Black Panthers
    A new documentary on the Black Panther Party overlooks the group's socialist core.
    First Published: 2016
    An analysis on the documentary on the Black Panther Party, "Up From Liberalism".
  11997. Socialism Reaffirmed 
    First Published: 1960
    "The emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves". The working class cannot entrust its historical task to anyone else. No "saviours from on high" will free it. The class will never achieve power, its power, if it entrusts the revolutionary struggle to others. Mass socialist consciousness and mass participation are essential. The revolutionary organization must assist in their development and must ruthlessly expose all illusions that the problem can be solved in any other way. Moreover the working class will never hold power unless it is prepared consciously and permanently to mobilize itself to this end.
  11998. Socialism Taken Seriously
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt's book "Taking Socialism Seriously".
  11999. Socialism: The Ends and the Means
    First Published: 1886
    Shall we waste our wealth or use it? Why do we waste it now? Because we are cowards and therefore unjust. The wealth was made by all and should be used for the benefit of all; but we in our fear have forgotten what is meant by all.
  12000. Socialism, the Family and Sexuality
    Chapter 13 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
  12001. Socialisme ou Barbarie
    Connexipedia Article
    A French-based radical libertarian socialist group of the post-World War II period which existed from 1948 until 1965. Socialisme ou Barbarie was critical of Leninism, rejecting the idea of a revolutionary party, and placing an emphasis on the importance of workers' councils, and saw the daily struggles of working people as creating the true content of socialism.
  12002. Socialismo libertario
    El socialismo libertario es una forma de socialismo que apunta a crear una sociedad basada en la descentralización política sin clases sociales. El socialismo libertario posee un concepto colectivista e igualitarista de la sociedad y aboga por la socialización de los medios de producción, mediante la abolición de las instituciones tales como el capitalismo o la propiedad privada, con el fin de que el control directo de los medios de producción y los recursos sean compartidos por la sociedad en su conjunto.
  12003. Socialist anarchism
    Connexipedia Article
    Social anarchism sees "individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid
  12004. The Socialist Crisis in France
    First Published: 1901
    "The Republic is in danger! That is why it was necessary for a socialist to become the bourgeois Minister of Commerce. The Republic is in danger! That is why the socialist had to remain in the cabinet even after the massacre of the striking workers on the Island of Martinique and in Chalon. The Republic is in danger! As a result, inquiries into the massacres had to be blocked, the parliamentary investigations of the horrors perpetrated in the colonies had to be discarded, and the amnesty law accepted."
  12005. Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement 
    First Published: 1972
    Our movement's strategy must grow from an understanding of the dynamics of power, with the realization that those who have power have a vested interest in preserving it and the institutional forms which maintain it. Wresting control of the institutions which now oppress us must be our central effort if women's liberation is to achieve its goals. To reach out to most women we must address their real needs and self-interests.
  12006. Socialist Feminism bibliography
  12007. Socialist Feminism in the 21st Century
    First Published: 2014
    In the 21st century, women of the working classes -- employed in the formal economy, the informal economy, working in the countryside or doing unwaged labour -- have entered the global political stage in an astonishing array of movements.
  12008. Socialist Feminism in the 21st Century
    First Published: 2014
    Brenner analyzes socialism in the 21st century, with a new discourse of gender equality that focuses on transnational feminism, community alliances, the mobilization of members, and overcome the divisions between social classes.
  12009. Socialist International
    Connexipedia Article
    A worldwide organisation of democratic socialist, social democratic, socialist, and labour political parties. It was formed in 1951.
  12010. Socialist Labor Party of America
    Connexipedia Article
    Party advocating "socialist industrial unionism" - a belief in a fundamental transformation of society through the combined political and industrial action of the working class organized in industrial unions.
  12011. The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller
    Helen Keller became a member of the Socialist Pary in 1909 and by 1912, she had become a national voice for socialism and working class solidarity.
  12012. The Socialist Party's Appeal
    Candidate of the Socialist Party for the Presidency of the United States
    First Published: 1912
    The Socialist party challenges the right of capitalism to longer exist, and proclaims the program of socialism as the legitimate successor of the present order.
  12013. Socialist Reconstruction of Society
    First Published: 1905
    Without political organization, the labor movement cannot triumph; without economic organization, the day of its political triumph would be the day of its defeat.
  12014. Socialist Reformism and "Evolutionary" Debate
    First Published: 1997
    While Pittenger does not provide us with an explanation for the evolutionist degradation of socialism--which is of course not an exclusively American phenomena--his book is a most insightful rediscovery of a forgotten chapter of U.S. socialism.
  12015. Socialist Studies Conference
    First Published: 1991
  12016. Socialist Workers' Sport International
    Wikipedia article
    Socialist Workers' Sport International (German: Sozialistische Arbeitersport Internationale, SASI) was an international socialist sporting organisation, based in Lucerne. It was founded in 1920, and consisted of six national federations (with a combined membership of about one million) at the time of its founding.
  12017. Socialists Discuss During the DNC
    First Published: 2016
    On the steamy evening of July 27, 2016 in Philadelphia a raucous audience of close to 800 gathered to discuss electoral politics and movement-building. This was day three of Socialist Convergence, organized by a coalition of left organizations to create a socialist presence during the Democratic National Convention.
  12018. The Socialists of the Prairies
    First Published: 2018
    Proyect talks about the arrival of the Prairie Trilogy at the Metrograph Theater on Friday, July 27th. The trilogy consists of three documentaries made in 1978 by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson about the radical movement in North Dakota during the heyday of the IWW, the Socialist Party, and the Nonpartisan League (NPL).
  12019. Socialization 
    First Published: 1919   Published: 1920
    Socialization according to Bauer's recipe is legal expropriation without economic expropriation, it is what any bourgeois government might propose. The capitalist value of enterprises will be paid to the employers in compensation and henceforth they will receive in interest on bonds what they formerly received in profit. This socialization replaces private capitalism with State capitalism; the State takes on the task of sweating profits from the workers and giving it to capitalists.
  12020. The Socialized Penis
    First Published: 1974
    On the sexual socialization of men in the United States.
  12021. Socially Polarised, Politically Paralysed
    First Published: 2019
    An essay on the peculiar character of contemporary social polarisation illstrated through the discussion of Brexit.
  12022. Society and Mind in Marxian Philosophy
    First Published: 1937
  12023. A Society to Be Transformed, 1977 Pastoral Statement on Social Justice.
    First Published: 1977
  12024. Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
    Part I: Class conflict in the workplace
    First Published: 1971
  12025. Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
    Part II: Class conflict outside the workplace
    First Published: 1972
  12026. The Sociology of Political Sects
    Four sects in Toronto in 1968-1969
    First Published: 1972
    PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1972
  12027. The Sociopath as Hero
    Clint Eastwood's War Prayer
    First Published: 2015
    American movie audiences have long loved violent heroes. Edwards discusses the box office hit of the moment, 'American Sniper', and the implications of the Hollywood War Porn industry.
  12028. Sofri, Adriano
    Connexipedia Article
    Italian radical intellectual, a journalist and a writer. (Born 1942).
  12029. Soft Power and the Case of Iraq
    First Published: 2015
    Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, pundits have touted the desirability of pursuing "soft power" as a supplement to military action in Iraq and other parts of the Muslim world.
  12030. Soft-Powering Cuba
    Regime-Change in a Box
    First Published: 2011
    How the U.S. uses "soft power" to undermine governments abroad and democracy at home.
  12031. The Software Freedom Movement
    First Published: 2013
    Nicolson-Owens thinks that Alfredo Lopez’s article, "Stallman, FOSS and the Adobe Nightmare," gets some of Richard Stallman’s message wrong and ends up giving the open source movement credit for a freedom-based philosophy the open source movement disagrees with.
  12032. Soil removal a possibility
    First Published: 1984
    The soil in the South Riverdale area is so contaminated with lead that it may be necessary to remove it.
  12033. Les soins de santé et les enfants en perturbation à Gaza
    First Published: 2007
  12034. Wilebaldo Solano, 1916-2010
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    Wilebaldo Solano, the last member of the original leadership of the Partit Obrer d’Unificació Marxista (POUM — Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification), died in Barcelona on September 7, 2010, at 94. As an anti-Stalinist communist party, the POUM helped lead the Spanish Revolution of 1936.
  12035. Solar heat - transforming rural enterprises around the tropics
    First Published: 2015
    Solar energy is not just about electricity. It's also about heat - and three innovative projects highlighted by the Ashden Awards are showing how solar heat can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of food processing and farming, while helping agricultural businesses increase profits.
  12036. Solid Waste Management
    First Published: 1990
  12037. Solidarite
    First Published: 1980
  12038. Solidarity against sexism on the shop floor
    IWW member Angel Gardner goes over some ways of fighting sexism in the workplace through direct action.
    First Published: 2001
    If there is anything that I have learned from working in the restaurant and retail industry for over 14 years, it is that sexual harassment and sexism in the workplace is an issue that has not gone away. Perhaps you have become more tolerant of being sexually objectified. Maybe you are afraid that being uncomfortable with sexual advances or comments means that you are a prude or hopelessly outdated. The reality is that sexual harassment and sexism are all about power. We feel uncomfortable about standing up for ourselves in these situations because to do so questions power relations; not only in the workplace, but in society in general.
  12039. Solidarity Alliance: A Call to Action
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    A historic alliance was born at UC Berkeley on August 28, 2009. Lyn Hejinian, Professor of English and a member of SAVE, a newly formed faculty group, had issued an invitation to student groups and the union coalition to come together and share our plans to fight the cuts.
  12040. "Solidarity" Beats Austerity
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    The tumultuous month of November 2011 marked the emergence of a powerful and widespread movement on public university campuses throughout California. Brutal police repression of Occupy encampments at UC Berkeley and UC Davis gained national media attention and sparked massive solidarity actions among social justice movements around the nation and the world.
  12041. Solidarity Economies: A Guerrilla War against Capitalism
    An Interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo
    First Published: 2014
    Capitalism is based on the philosophy that man is inherently evil and selfish. But solidarity economies suggest something different: that we are human, we cooperate with one another, we love, we struggle for the love of humanity, and that the future of our planet, our life, is based on our having a culture of brotherhood, sisterhood, collaboration, cooperation. It is an economy of love.
  12042. Solidarity For Ever! Can These Bones Live?
    First Published: 1975
    A newsletter that looks at the agricultural labour movement.
  12043. Solidarity fund
    First Published: 1990
  12044. Solidarity in a New Key
    The reflections of a bespectacled solidarity supporter
    First Published: 1992
    What does liberation mean? By what actions should we pursue it? In what kinds of alliances should activists for liberation join? This article intends to address these questions in a South African context. Changing words reflect changing times, so what does solidarity now mean?
  12045. "Solidarity, Not Charity" - Revolution in the Ninth Ward
    First Published: 2006
    In New Orleans, the people have stopped being patient with false choices. They have stopped trusting in politicians who represent only themselves and their contributors. They have chosen the common good, and they have bypassed the system that failed them in order to reclaim their lives through direct and positive action.
  12046. Solidarity (Polish trade union)
    Connexipedia Article
    A Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980, the first non-communist party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country.
  12047. Solidarity, Survival and Sabotage: Reconstructing the History of the Blackouts Tormenting Venezuela
    First Published: 2019
    A detailed timeline of events during the recent blackout in Venezuela.
  12048. Solidarity (UK)
    Connexipedia Article
    Libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom.
  12049. Solidarity with Iraqi Labor
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    The first delegation of Iraqi labor leaders to visit the United States—and one of the few Iraqi groups of any sort not sponsored by the U.S. government—addressed more than 70 meetings across the country this June. The group included representatives from the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) and General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE).
  12050. Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
    Connexipedia Article
    Polish trade union.
  12051. Solitary Confinement FAQ
    First Published: 2012
    Solitary confinement is the practice of isolating inmates in closed cells for 22-24 hours a day, virtually free of human contact, for periods of time ranging from days to decades.
  12052. A Solution for Kashmir
    First Published: 2016
    What would justice for those suffering under Indian occupation in Kashmir look like?
  12053. Solution in Sight
    First Published: 2006
    Chomsky presents the steps that must be taken in order to obliterate the threat of a potential nuclear apocalypse. Naturally, they do not include military solutions.
  12054. The Solution to the Country's Debt and Deficit Problem
    First Published: 2019
    For most people, the country's national debt and annual deficit are not major concerns. However, for a substantial portion of the policy types who make, write, and talk about economic and budget policy, debt and deficits are really big deals. And, the fact that our budget deficit and debt are both large by historic standards, and growing rapidly, is an especially big deal.
  12055. Some Basic Propositions about Sex, Gender, and Patriarchy
    New Books Highlight the Debate between Radical Feminism and Transgender Movement
    First Published: 2014
    Within feminism there has been for decades an often divisive debate about transgenderism. With increasing mainstream news media and pop culture attention focused on the issue, understanding that feminist debate is more important than ever.
  12056. Some Big Things Ha-Joon Chang Doesn't Tell You About Capitalism
    First Published: 2011
    Chang exposes deadly falsehoods in many of the prevalent neoliberalism's supposedly self-evident "free market" truths. But Chang's book is plagued by key difficulties that belie its claim to iconoclasm, suggesting Chang's own conservative adherence to dominant Western power structures and doctrines.
  12057. Some Communities in Toronto.
    First Published: 1976
    Listing of selected communities in Toronto, Canada, North America and Europe.
  12058. Some Deaths Really Matter
    The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
  12059. Some deaths really matter - The disproportionate coverage of Israeli and Palestinian Killings
    First Published: 2014
    Documening that the deaths of Israelis is far more heavily weighted than those of Palestinian deaths, garnering more media coverage.
  12060. Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression 
    First Published: 1980
    It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
  12061. Some Facts About BRIC
    First Published: 1977
    A pamphlet that gives an overview of the effort undertaken to provide Media, Legal and Leadership Training Services to the Black community in Ontario by the Black Resources Information Centre.
  12062. Some ideas about organizing from Citizens for Local Democracy
    First Published: 1997
    Suggestions about starting a local group which will focus on issues of local democracy.
  12063. Some Israeli Leaders Do Sometimes Tell The Truth
    First Published: 2015
    Still today, 48 years on, there are relatively few people who know the whole truth about how Israel set the stage for war in June 1967 to grab more Arab land. The single most decisive event that made war inevitable happened on Thursday 1 June, four days before Israel launched its attacks. What was it?
  12064. Some Lessons of the Toledo Strike
    First Published: 1935
    There will be no unions worth the name unless the militants build and maintain them. Without fighting unions the workers will presently be made the object of an attack which will make 1929-35 seem like 'the good old times.'
  12065. Some Native Issues
    First Published: 1981
    The Development Committee (DAC) of La Ronge, Saskatchewan is concerned with education - in particular, education for Northern Native People.
  12066. Some of my best comrades are friends
    First Published: 1979
    The left's sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
  12067. Some Perceptions of the Ethics of Generating Electricity by Nuclear Fuel
    National Conference on Nuclear Issues in the Canadian Energy Context
    First Published: 1979
    The topic was treated by a four-member Panel.
  12068. Some popular fallacies about Islamism
    First Published: 2015
    Al-Qaeda and its most recent clone, the so-called "Islamic State" group, did not come about as a result of the invasion of Iraq or the civil war in Syria. It was born out of the unholy alliance between America and the Wahhabi zealots of Saudi Arabia to defeat communism and bring down the Soviet Union.
  12069. Some Pundits Think the Solution to Right-Wing Populism Is Less Democracy
    First Published: 2016
    The core orthodoxies of neoliberalism are under attack by populist forces, and commentators are scrambling for a response. Some are suggesting more left-wing red meat. Others, a moment of self-reflection. But a number of pundits are doing that most noxious of political commentary pastimes -- equating right and left responses to the failures of globalization and advocating that "elites" should fight back against the forces of inconvenient democracy.
  12070. Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
    Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
  12071. Some realities to remember
    An exchange on Adventure Playgrounds
    First Published: 1972
  12072. Some Reflections on the Evolution of Canada's Political Economy
    and its Implications on its Families and Communities
    First Published: 1979
    This position statement by the Vanier Institute is originally published in the January 1979 issue of their newsletter Transition.
  12073. Some Reflections on the Recent New York City Struggles
    First Published: 2015
    Moving from specific events toward a larger understanding of the recent national wave of struggles, several questions remain: are the recent mobilizations in NYC part of the movement signified by #blacklivesmatter and its vague tactical imperative (#shutitdown)?
  12074. Some Remarks on War Spirit
    First Published: 1962
    How under modern conditions can we wage peace instead of war? We need a vast increase in the opportunities for initiative and making important decisions. This involves considerable decentralization of management, in industry, in government, in urban affairs like housing and schooling. It involves the use of our productivity to insure minimum subsistence, but otherwise the encouragement of individual enterprises. We must forthrightly carry through the sexual revolution, encourage the sexuality of children and adolescents, get rid of the sex laws and other moral laws.
  12075. Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post
    First Published: 2021
    Imperial cynics and propagandists can only see the world through the lens of cynicism and propaganda, which they project on to others.
  12076. Some Thoughts on Organization
    First Published: 1978
    What type of organization should anarchists, libertarian socialists and libertarian Marxists be working towards?
  12077. Some Thoughts on the Re-organization of the Revolutionary Left
    It is not true that without revolutionary theory there is no revolutionary practice. It is not true that certain opinions and ideas, that a certain quantity of consciousness are the absolute precondition to struggle. It is the other way round! Many times, it has been stated that the "theory becomes a material force as soon as it takes possession of the masses." However, a theory is never more than a recapitulation of the experiences of the past and of its consequences. Not because of a certain theory does one have new experiences of the struggle, but new experiences that arise from the struggle give birth to new theory. This is a continuous process.
  12078. Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
    First Published: 2011
  12079. Somebody Else's Atrocities
    First Published: 2012
    Atrocities commited by official enemies are routinely condemned, but atrocities for which our own country is responsible are rarely mentioned.
  12080. Somebody Needs to Tell The NY Times: Israel Has The Bomb
    First Published: 2015
    The NY Times has talked about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's coming speech at which he will raise the alarm about Iran producing a bomb. Nevertheless, Israel has had the bomb since 1967 and it is counted as the world's 6th nuclear state.
  12081. Somebody's Going to Suffer: Greece's New Austerity Measures
    First Published: 2017
    The European Commission announced on May 2, 2017, that an agreement on Greek pension and income tax reforms would pave the way for further discussions on debt release for Greece. The European Commission described this as good news for Greece. The Greek government described the situation in similar terms. It isn't.
  12082. Something has to give
    Emotional issues are potent
    First Published: 1980
    One of the things that the recent civic election made clear is that left-leaning and reform candidates can be very vulnerable if right-wing groups are able to seize on emotional questions and make them issues during the an election campaign.
  12083. Something to Offer
    First Published: 2015
    Eugene V. Debs was one of the country's most prominent socialists when the socialist movement was a major force in American politics. Unlike many in his party, Eugene V. Debs believed the struggle for black equality was critical to realizing the promise of socialism.
  12084. Something's Fishy: Public Policy and Private Corporations in the Newfoundland Fishey
    First Published: 1983
  12085. Son of Stuxnet: The Digital Hunt for Duqu, a Dangerous and Cunning U.S.-Israeli Spy Virus
    First Published: 2014
  12086. Sonakhan: When Veer Narayan died twice
    First Published: 2015
    In Chhattisgarh, Veer Narayan Singh sought no charity, but gave his life fighting for justice
  12087. Song of the Free
    Connexipedia Article
    A song written in 1860 about a man fleeing slavery in Tennessee by escaping to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
  12088. Songbirds dying from DDT in Michigan yards; Superfund site blamed
    First Published: 2014
    The neighbourhood's songbirds are being poisoned by DDT, a pesticide that was banned in the United States more than 40 years ago. Lethal concentrations were found in the birds' brains, as well as in the worms they eat.
  12089. Sons and mothers vs. sacred cows
    First Published: 2001
    A growing movement to refuse to serve in the Israeli military and especially in the occupied territories.
  12090. Soon, the Battle for Venezuela
    Open Letter to President of Venezuela
    First Published: 2014
    They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests – Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, Bahrain, and almost the entire Eastern Europe. There are so many places like that – it is impossible to list them all.
  12091. Soros & the £400k Question: What constitutes 'foreign interference' in democracy?
    First Published: 2018
    The news that US billionaire Soros donated £400k to an anti-Brexit group came on the day that YouTube said they found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.
  12092. Sorry, Not Sorry: Neither the Media Nor Their Owners are Going to Change
    First Published: 2016
    Detailing the failures of the corporate media in coverage of the 2016 US election, and how these problems are systemic due to the corporate ownership structure.
  12093. SOS Alternatives to Capitalism: A discussion with Richard Swift
    First Published: 2014
    Montreal Serai had the opportunity to discuss SOS: Alternatives to Capitalism – a handy, slim compendium of vital, essential thoughts and discussions on the concept of an alternative economy and society – with Richard Swift.
  12094. Souchy, Augustin
    Connexipedia Article
    German anarchist, antimilitarist, and journalist. (1892-1984).
  12095. The Soul of Man under Socialism
    First Published: 1891
    Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
  12096. Sound & Fury
    Just What Does Brexit Signify?
    First Published: 2016
    Not since Y2K thretened to plunge the planet into chaos has a story provoked overwrought handwringing comparable to that triggered by Britons voting to withdraw from the European Union. By common assessment, Brexit signifies something profound. History itself has seemingly gone off the rails. Darkness threatens to cover the earth.
  12097. Soundbitten
    The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism
    First Published: 2011
    Sobieraj argues that activist groups' efforts to get media attention for themselves and their concerns often ends up undermining their capacity to communicate with ordinary people.
  12098. The soundcloud city
    First Published: 2013
    Cities are increasingly saturated with visual information -- advertising, instructions, prohibitions -- so smart marketing is shifting its attention to a new battleground in its quest for your attention -- your ears. Sounds are used to attract and repel, to inform and sell. Private companies and public services try to seduce customers through their ears, or to discourage non-target groups.
  12099. Sources Archived News Releases 1977 - 2008
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2008
    News releases from 2008 and before.
  12100. Sources Calendar RSS Feed page
    First Published: 2016
    RSS news feed for the Sources Calendar, which lists items of interest to journalists and the media.
  12101. Sources Index des Sujets
    First Published: 2010
  12102. Sources media training
    First Published: 2009
    Media training to ensure that you are ready to handle media interviews. Topics include Message making, Staying newsworthy, Safe spokesperson techniques, Preparation and relaxation techniques, Media ethics and expectations. Simulations of all media venues including talk shows, double enders, stand-up interviews and scrums, print columnists, videographers, and editorial boards.
  12103. Sources News Release Archive 2008
    First Published: 2008
    News releases from 2008.
  12104. Sources News Release Archive 2009
    First Published: 2009
    News releases from 2009.
  12105. Sources of Inspiration for Revolutionary Terrorism: The Bakunun- Nechayev Alliance
    First Published: 1988
  12106. Sources (portail pour journalistes et ecrivains)
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Sources est un portail d'information pour des journalistes, écrivains indépendants, rédacteurs, auteurs, et chercheurs.
  12107. Sources (portal for journalister og skribenter)
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
    Sources er en informationsportal for journalister, freelance skribenter, redaktorer, forfattere og forskere som især fokuserer på menneskelige kilder: eksperter og talsmænd som er parate til at svare på journalisters sporgsmål eller som er disponible til live interviews.
  12108. Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2008
    An information portal for journalists, freelance writers, editors, authors, and researchers, focusing especially on human sources: experts and spokespersons who are prepared to answer reporters' questions or make themselves available for on-air interviews.
  12109. Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article - Russian
    First Published: 2011
  12110. Sources (Portal für Journalisten and Autoren) - Wikipedia Artikel
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    First Published: 2009
    Sources ist ein Informationsportal für Journalisten, Redakteure, Autoren und Forscher mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Personen als Quellen: Fachleute und Repräsentanten, die bereit sind Fragen von Reportern zu beantworten oder sich für Live-Interviews zur Verfügung stellen.
  12111. Sources (portal för journalister och författare)
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Sources är en informationsportal för journalister, frilansskribenter, redaktörer, författare och forskare som fokuserar främst på mänskliga källor: experter och talesmän som är redo att svara på reportrars frågor och vara tillgängliga för radiointervjuer.
  12112. Sources (portal para jornalistas e escritores)
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
  12113. Sources - Portal para Periodistas y Escritores
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    First Published: 2010
    Sources es un portal de información para periodistas, escritores independientes, editores, autores e investigadores, especialmente si están enfocados en recursos humanos: expertos y portavoces quienes están preparados para responder preguntas de los reporteros, o se disponen a ser entrevistados en los medios de comunicación.
  12114. Sources (portál pre novinárov a spisovatelov)
  12115. Sources (portál pro žurnalisty a dopisovatele)
  12116. Sources (portal za novinare i pisce)
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Sources (Izvori) je informacijski portal za novinare, freelance pisce, urednike, autore i istraživace, fokusirajuci se osobito na ljudske izvore: strucnjake i govornike koji su spremni da odgovaraju na pitanja reportera ili da budu dostupni za televizijske ili radijske intevjue.
  12117. Sources (portale per giornalisti e scrittori)
    Sources e’ un portale informativo per giornalisti, scrittori, editori, autori e ricercatori che si concentra soprattutto sulle risorse umane: esperti e portavoce, pronti a rispondere alle domande dei giornalisti o a rendersi disponibili a delle interviste in diretta.
  12118. Sources (Red Menace #2)
    First Published: 1977
  12119. Sources (Red Menace #3)
    First Published: 1978
    Resources for anti-authoritarians.
  12120. The SOURCES SELECT Online Story
    A history and overview of SOURCES SELECT ONLINE, the online information resource for journalists, editors, and writers.
  12121. Sources Wikipedia article - Esperanto
    Connexipedia article
    Sources estas vestiblo de informo por j^urnalistoj, sendependaj verkistoj, eldonistoj, au(toroj kaj investigadores, speciale se estas enfokusigitaj en homaj rimedoj: spertaj kaj proparolantinoj kiuj estas pretaj por respondi demandojn de la raportistoj, au( ili disponas al esti intervjuitaj en la amaskomunikiloj.
  12122. Sources Wikipedia Article - Arabic
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    First Published: 2008
  12123. Sources Wikipedia Article - Chinese
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    First Published: 2008
  12124. Sources Wikipedia Article - Farsi
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
  12125. Sources Wikipedia Article - Japanese
    Connexipedia
  12126. Sources Wikipedia article - Korean
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2011
  12127. Sousa Mendes, Aristides de
    Connexipedia Article
    Portuguese diplomat who ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II. (1885-1954).
  12128. South Africa: A Time to Act
    First Published: 1978
    This action kit is meant to be a contribution to an understanding of the South African situation. In addition to its five sections, the kit's cover poster contains a map of the ten "Bantu Homelands" and the names of the groups of Africans in those areas.
  12129. South Africa After Marikana - Interview
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    Suzi Weissman interviews Leonard Gentle.
  12130. South Africa: Early Years of the Communist Party
    First Published: 2011
    A brief history of the beginnings of the Community Party of South Africa.
  12131. South Africa: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
    First Published: 2009
    Maternal health has been under the spotlight in South Africa after an analysis of maternal deaths was released in July showing an increase in the country's maternal mortality rate. Researchers found that nearly four out of every 10 deaths (38.4 percent) were avoidable. They identified non-attendance and delayed attendance as common problems, together with poor transport facilities, lack of health care facilities and lack of appropriately trained staff.
  12132. South Africa Windows on Washington
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    The World Bank! Haai! Is the Devil! Haai haai! This was the chant -- accompanied by that South African activist war-dance, the toyi-toyi -- that my comrades Trevor Ngwane and Molly Dhlamini introduced to A-16/17 week gatherings in Washington, D.C., ranging from Direct Action Network spokescouncil meetings to activist sessions, as well as the street protests and on stage at the main rally.
  12133. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
    First Published: 2006
    South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
  12134. South African Workers Tackle Neoliberalism
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    Can the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) be credited with a sudden high-profile career change — from central banker to academic — by Tito Mboweni? The Reserve Bank Governor made a mistake in May when he refused to take a petition from thousands of Numsa members marching to the Banks’ Church St. headquarters. In July Governor Mboweni was rewarded with early retirement.
  12135. South Africa's conservation success story: the 'Black Mambas' mean business!
    First Published: 2016
    A unique, all female anti-poaching unit has transformed the conservation picture in South Africa's Kruger National Park. In just three years the Black Mambas have cut poaching by more than 75%, removed over 1,000 snares, and become role models for local youth. And this weekend they arrive in the UK to collect Helping Rhinos' 'Innovation in Conservation' Award.
  12136. South Africa's Deadly Decade of HIV Denial
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    The African National Congress has returned to power with an overwhelming majority in South Africa's third post apartheid democratic election. With millions of South Africans dying early because of AIDS, however, the question posed in the header of this article remains.
  12137. South Africa's Political Change
    Against The Current vol. 90
    First Published: 2001
    On December 5, slightly less than half of South Africa's registered electorate went to the polls, and Thabo Mbeki's ruling African National Congress (ANC) emerged with just under sixty percent support -- down from the two-thirds received in the 1994 and 1999 national elections -- and control of all major cities aside from Cape Town.
  12138. South Africa's short memory
    First Published: 2015
    The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
  12139. South America: How ‘Anti-Extractivism’ Misses The Forest ForThe Trees
    First Published: 2014
    A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America. Understanding their nature and significance is crucial to grasping the complexities involved in bringing about social change and how best to build solidarity with peoples’ struggles.
  12140. South America: Toward an Alternative Future
    First Published: 2007
    With the death of Chilean dictator, Pinochet, and talks about a continent-wide union resembling the EU, Chomsky discusses the potential of South America to move in a new direction.
  12141. South Asia: Murderous majorities
    First Published: 2017
    Drawing from essays and recent literature the author discusses the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Burma/Myanmar, and the broader historical context of majoritarian nationalism in South Asia where majoritarian violence has been a shortcut to power.
  12142. South Korea: How candlelight protests impeached a president and created spaces for direct democracy
    First Published: 2017
    At 9 am on March 10, 2017, people gathered in front of the Constitutional Court to await the court's ruling on whether to impeach South Korean president Park Geun-hye. Two hours before the verdict was read, those gathered chanted: "The Constitutional Court should uphold Park’s impeachment!"
  12143. South Korean Activists' Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island
    First Published: 2015
    South Korea's Jeju Island is a popular tourist destination full of spas, resorts, golf courses, sandy beaches, waterfalls and hiking trails. But if you really want to get rejuvenated, skip the tourist hotspots and go directly to the village of Gangjeong to support the extraordinary community that has been opposing the building of a naval base since 2007.
  12144. South of Carlton Community Action Committee (SOCCA)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The South of Carlton Community Action Committee was formed by a group of residents in the South of Carlton neighbourhood in 1970.
  12145. South of St. James Town
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The area just to the South of the St. James Town apartments, roughly bordered by Wellesley, Sherbourne, Carlton and Parliament Streets.
  12146. The South's Inner Civil War
    First Published: 2014
    The best kept secret in US history is the resistance of southerners, and especially southern non-slaveholding whites, to the slaveholders during the Civil War. W.E.B. Du Bois, in Black Reconstruction in America, told the story of black resistance.
  12147. South Sudan archivists fear loss of historical texts
    First Published: 2018
    South Sudan doesn't have a museum, so thousands of archival documents are sitting in a small building in the capital, Juba, waiting for a national archives to be built. The project will also need the help of international donors to get off the ground, and the ongoing conflict has made it difficult to secure funding.
  12148. South Sudan: Volunteers Gather Names of South Sudan's Uncounted War Dead
    First Published: 2017
    The names of 5,000 victims of violence appear in the "Remembering the Ones We Lost" project, a memorial to people who have died in seven decades of conflict.The project invites witnesses to submit details of killings or disappearances through an online form or by text message, the information is then collated by volunteers.
  12149. Southern Africa News Clippings
    First Published: 1978
  12150. Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class (Book Review)
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Immanuel Ness's book Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class.
  12151. "Sovereign" Deportations: The Dominican Republic deportations cannot occur without US blessing
    First Published: 2015
    People born to undocumented Haitian parents in the Dominican Republic have left under threat of violence. "Voluntary" deportations have had a strong US influence given the political and economic power that the North American country exerts on the island.
  12152. The Soviet Threat: Big Lie of the Arms Race
    First Published: 1983
  12153. The Soviet Union Versus Socialism
    First Published: 1986
    Noam Chomsky explores the relationship between the two great systems of propaganda - socialism and the society created by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. In response to a certain doctrine assuming a relationship between the two, Chomsky argues that if this is indeed true, it is the relationship of contradiction.
  12154. The Soviets and Tsarist Debt
    First Published: 2018
    A history of the Soviet's refusal to honor Tsarist debt afterthe 1971 revolution. Looks at the effect on Russia up to and after the end of the USSR.
  12155. Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha
    First Published: 2019
    In Rayagada, Bt cotton acreage has risen by 5,200 per cent in 16 years. The result: this biodiversity hotspot, rich in indigenous millets, rice varieties and forest foods, is seeing an alarming ecological shift.
  12156. Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund
    Connexipedia Article
    German socialist students' organization.
  12157. Spadina's Life Blood --- A Picture of its garment industry
    First Published: 1983
  12158. Spain Excludes Settlement University from Academic Competition
    First Published: 2009
    The "University Center of Ariel in Samaria" (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and corporations involved in or profiting from Israel's illegal Wall and colonial settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.
  12159. Spain: Madrid and Barcelona show -- the greater the unity on the left, the bigger the win
    First Published: 2015
    Once the results of Spain’s May 24, 2015, local and regional elections became known the main lesson for the anti-austerity and anti-capitalist left was simply and starkly obvious: the more united and more involving of ordinary people its election campaigns were, the greater its gains and the greater the losses for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) -- its main rival for the popular and working-class vote -- and for the ruling conservative People's Party (PP).
  12160. Spain on Edge
    First Published: 2015
    An interview with Podemos spokesperson Pablo Iglesias.
  12161. Spain Through Orwell's Eyes
    First Published: 2017
    Eighty years ago, Barcelona's calamitous May Days sealed the fate of a worker-led social revolution. George Orwell was there to bear witness.
  12162. SPAIN: Women's Crises
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    Over the past three years there have been numerous debates within the Spanish political and social left about the impact of the current economic crisis on working people, and the (in)efficacy of the measures the government adopted to ameliorate them. There has not been much talk, however, about the specific consequences that both the crisis and governmental response have had on women.
  12163. Spain's communist model village
    First Published: 2013
    Marinaleda, in impoverished Andalusia, used to suffer terrible hardships. Led by a charismatic mayor, the village declared itself a communist utopia and took farmland to provide for everyone. Could it be the answer to modern capitalism's failings?
  12164. Spanish Dock Workers Build Union Without Bureaucrats
    First Published: 1989
    Containerization has devastated port labor throughout the world. Spanish struggles over containerization have been unique becausea "socialist" government has spearheaded port reorganization and it has met stiff resistance from the revolutionary union of longshoremen, La Coordinadora.
  12165. Spanish Peacekeeper Is the Latest Example of Israel Killing United Nations Personnel
    First Published: 2015
    On January 28th a barrage of Israeli artillery fire struck near the South Lebanese village of Ghajar, killing United Nations peacekeeper Francisco Javier Soria. Soria, 36, was a Spanish citizen deployed with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a peacekeeping mission tasked with maintaining the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon in the occupied Golan Heights.
  12166. Spanish Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    A workers' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
  12167. Spanish Revolution 1934 - 1939 - History
    Documents on the history of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War.
  12168. Spartacist uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    A general strike (and the armed battles accompanying it) in Germany from January 5 to January 12, 1919.
  12169. Spartacus
    Connexipedia Article
    Leader of major slave revolt against the Roman Empire. (c. 109 BC-71 BC).
  12170. Spartacus League (Spartakusbund)
    Connexipedia Article
    German revolutionary movement.
  12171. Speak no evil
    First Published: 1992
  12172. Speaking the truth to Jews
    Many perfectly legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy are blanketed as attacks on Israel's right to self-defense and therefore as attacks on Israel's right to exist and, therefore themselves as anti-Semitic.
  12173. Spearheading the Neo-liberal Plunder of African Agriculture
    First Published: 2016
    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a new report by the campaign group Global Justice Now. With assets of $43.5 billion, the BMGF is the largest charitable foundation in the world. It actually distributes more aid for global health than any government. As a result, it has a major influence on issues of global health and agriculture.
  12174. SPEC
    Canadian Scientific and Environmental Control Society
    First Published: 1977
    A brochure that describes the objectives and activities of SPEC.
  12175. Special Focus: Israeli Occupying Forces Assault Journalists in the OPT
    First Published: 2015
    As Israeli violations escalate against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), journalists and media professionals have also been the subjects of Israeli attacks.
  12176. A Special Obscenity
    First Published: 2017
    Picasso painted Guernica eighty years ago this spring. It still stands as a searing protest against the brutality of war and fascism.
  12177. Special Report: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
    First Published: 2014
    An examination of how countries around the world affected by civil war or internal conflict have approached justice.
  12178. The specter of geoengineering haunts the Paris climate agreement
    First Published: 2016
    in a capitalist framework negative emissions technologies appear to offer the only possible way out. Geoengineering is the specter that haunts the text adopted in Paris and gives it meaning. The fact that the Agreement does not mention "energy transition" is not a regrettable lapse in generally good text, but proof by omission that the negotiators have chosen to bet on geoengineering instead of confronting fossil capital.
  12179. The spectre of socialism for the 21st century
    First Published: 2008
    Building socialism is the only alternative to barbarism.
  12180. Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper
    First Published: 1856
    The so-called revolutions of 1848 were but poor incidents - small fractures and fissures in the dry crust of European society. However, they denounced the abyss. Beneath the apparently solid surface, they betrayed oceans of liquid matter, only needing expansion to rend into fragments continents of hard rock.
  12181. Speech at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
    First Published: 1905
    I realize that I stand in the presence of those who in the past have fought, are fighting, and will continue to fight the battles of the working class economically and politically, until the capitalist class is overthrown and the working class are emancipated from all of the degrading thralldom of the ages. In this great struggle the working class are often defeated, but never vanquished.
  12182. Speech by Aubrey Golden to the N.F.U. Convention
    First Published: 1977
    A speech given to the National Farmer's Union regarding the differences between a police force and a security service and the importance of keeping the two seperate.
  12183. Speed-up at Boeing
    First Published: 1989
  12184. The Spider and the Fly
    First Published: 1977
    A description of the relationship between family farms and corporate agri-business.
  12185. Spies for Peace
    Connexipedia Article
    A group of anti-war activists associated with CND and the Committee of 100 who publicized government preparations for rule after a nuclear war.
  12186. Spies Hacked Computers Thanks to Sweeping Secret Warrants, Aggressively Stretching U.K. Law
    First Published: 2015
    British spies have received government permission to intensively study software programs for ways to infiltrate and take control of computers. The GCHQ spy agency was vulnerable to legal action for the hacking efforts, known as "reverse engineering," since such activity could have violated copyright law. But GCHQ sought and obtained a legally questionable warrant from the Foreign Secretary in an attempt to immunize itself from legal liability.
  12187. Spies and shadowy allies lurk in secret, thanks to firm’s bag of tricks
    First Published: 2016
    Panama Papers reveal how spies and CIA gun-runners use offshore companies to stay hidden. Offshore world blurs the line between legitimate business and the world of espionage.
  12188. The Spirit of Late Capitalism
    First Published: 2017
    A look at Pentecostalism, one of the world's fastest growing religious movements, which preaches a seductive message to the marginalized: that religious prayer, not political action, is a solution to their earthly woes.
  12189. The Spirit of Revolution
    First Published: 1998
    REVOLUTION, AS ALL readers of the liberal and intellectual press know, is irrelevant now, an outdated dream long abandoned by its former practitioners who have moved on to more mature projects. Take 1968: Isn't Daniel Cohn-Bendit, "Danny the Red" of the French student uprising, now a prominent proponent of the unified European currency?
  12190. Spithead and Nore mutinies
    Connexipedia Article
    Major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797.
  12191. Splendors and Miseries of the Antiracist 'Left' 
    First Published: 2016
  12192. Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
    First Published: 2019
    Amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown, the Border Patrol has stepped up raids on Greyhound buses nationwide, combatting what the agency claims is a "growing threat" of "alien smuggling and drug trafficking organizations to move people, narcotics, and contraband to interior destinations."
  12193. Spokes on the Anti-Austerity Wheel: Building Movements That Can Move Beyond Reform
    First Published: 2014
    When it comes to fighting the crisis of austerity cuts and financial recession, we need to focus on how to build fighting communities rather than simply reacting to the attacks.
  12194. Spontaneity and Organisation 
    First Published: 1949
    How revolutionaries have viewed the relationship between organized planned action and spontaneous action.
  12195. Spontaneity and Organisation
    From 'Anti-Bolshevik Communism'
    First Published: 1977
    Although Lenin counted on, he simultaneously feared, spontaneous movements. He justified the need for conscious interferences in spontaneously-arising revolutions by citing the backwardness of the masses and saw in spontaneity an important destructive but not constructive element. In Lenin's view, the more forceful the spontaneous movement, the greater would be the need to supplement and direct it with organised, planned party-activity. The workers had to be guarded against themselves, so to speak, or they might defeat their own cause through ignorance, and, by dissipating their powers, open the way for counter-revolution.
  12196. Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2013
    Giant corporations are employing highly unethical or illegal tools of espionage against nonprofit organizations with near impunity, according to a new report by Essential Information.
  12197. Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations
    First Published: 2013
    This report is an effort to document something about corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations. Law enforcement should prioritize investigating and prosecuting corporate espionage against nonprofits.
  12198. Sporting Boycott of South Africa
    Connexipedia Article
  12199. Sports & Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    The two most famous fists in American history belong to Tommie Smith and John Carlos. In 1968, Smith and Carlos finished gold and bronze, respectively, in the 200-meter dash competition in the Olympic Games in Mexico City. Just months before, the two African-American men, both members of the Olympic Committee to Protect Human Rights (OPHR), had been considering a boycott of the games with their fellow OPHR members.
  12200. Spot The Difference
    First Published: 2009
    When I first brought up the similarity between Prussia and Israel (in a chapter dedicated to this theme in the Hebrew and German editions of my 1967 book, "Israel Without Zionists") it might have looked like a baseless comparison. Today, the picture is clearer. Not only does the senior officers corps occupy a central place in all the spheres of our life, and not only is the huge military budget beyond any discussion, but our daily news is full of typically 'Prussian' items.
  12201. Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation
    First Published: 2022
    Multiple American podcasters who speak critically of the political status quo in their country are reporting that their channels have been shut down as the censorship campaign against Russia-backed media continues to escalate.
  12202. Spotlighting Inequality and Injustice
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    Swerdlow reviews Naison's "Badass Teachers Unite!", Heckman's "Giving Kids a Fair Chance", and Marsh's "Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality" in order to discuss whether more education is the solution to income inquality in the United States.
  12203. SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence
    First Published: 2007
    Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders.
  12204. Spring peace action
    First Published: 1991
  12205. Springboard
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Springboard was a volunteer organization run out of the Christian Resource Centre during the 1970s. The purpose of the program was to facilitate regular contact between incarcerated men and their families during their time in prison.
  12206. Spry, Graham
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Journalist, diplomat, international business executive, political organizer, advocate of public broadcasting. (1900-1983).
  12207. The SP's Roots and Legacy: In the American Grain - Book Review
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    Book review of 'American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W.E.B. Du Bois' by Mark W. Van Wienen.
  12208. Spurr, Richard
    Connexipedia Article
    English cabinet maker and lay preacher who was imprisoned for his part in leading the political movement Chartism. (1800-1855).
  12209. The Spy Who Fired Me
    The human costs of workplace monitoring
    First Published: 2015
    Kaplan discusses the growing practice of employers monitoring the internet use of their employees.
  12210. Spying by the Numbers
    Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection
    First Published: 2013
    Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
  12211. Squatters' 60-Year War Against Private Property
    How propertied classes team up with the state to forcibly evict urban squatters.
    First Published: 2017
    Over the past 60 years, whenever squatters claimed homes in Western European and U.S. cities, even buildings long abandoned, the state used force to protect private property.
  12212. Squatting
    Connexipedia Article
    The act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential.
  12213. Squatting guide
    This is a brief guide to the completely legal activity of squatting - occupying an empty property and making it your home.
    First Published: 2006
    It helps avoid homelessness, since renting or buying a house can be prohibitively expensive for many people.
  12214. Sri Lanka: Behind the Massacre
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    An interview with Ashok Kumar.
  12215. Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Massacre: Reflection Of Long Time Silence
    First Published: 2019
    A personal story about extreme ideologies that infiltrated Islamic societies.
  12216. Sri Lanka: Fifty Years On
    Censorship, Conflict and Media Reform
    First Published: 1998
    Report examining the impact of the conflict on freedom of expression and in particular media freedom in Sri Lanka.
  12217. SS Columbia Eagle incident
    Connexipedia Article
    A mutiny that occurred aboard the American merchant vessel Columbia Eagle in March 1970 when crew members seized the vessel and sailed to Cambodia.
  12218. Ssangyong Motors Strike in South Korea Ends in Defeat and Heavy Repression
    First Published: 2009
    The hard-right Korean government is signaling with these measures -- its latest and most dramatic "take no prisoners" victory over popular protest in the past year and a half -- its intention to steamroller any potential future resistance to its unabashed rule on behalf of big capital.
  12219. Staatlichkeit & Anarchie in der Spanischen Revolution
    Proletarische Revolution statt Staatsverneinung
    First Published: 2009
  12220. 'Stable' NE Greenland ice sheet is melting away
    First Published: 2014
    A new study has found that the NE section of the Greenland ice sheet - thought to be stable due to the extreme cold - has been losing ice since 2006 with increasing speed. And that has huge implications for global sea level rise.
  12221. Staff at 'Grinch' KPMG well looked after while advocating 'workers' comp' cuts
    First Published: 2011
    KPMG – which operates across Canada and internationally – performs “hatchet jobs” for governments – often governments that don’t have the nerve to take the lead themselves when they want cutbacks.
  12222. Stage Writers
    First Published: 1989
  12223. Stagnation and Progress of Marxism
    First Published: 1903
    Only in proportion as our movement progresses, and demands the solution of new practical problems do we dip once more into the treasury of Marx's thought, in order to extract therefrom and to utilize new fragments of his doctrine. But since our movement, like all the campaigns of practical life, inclines to go on working in old ruts of thought, and to cling to principles after they have ceased to be valid, the theoretical utilization of the Marxist system proceed very slowly.
  12224. The stagnation of the Dutch Socialist Party
    First Published: 2016
    The Socialist Party (SP) is one of the parties that emerged to the left of traditional social democracy in the last decade of the 20th century. In electoral terms, it is one of the most successful. At its peak in 2006, the SP got 25 out of 150 seats (16.6 percent of the vote), becoming the third party in the House of Representatives. With the European Parliament (2014) and provincial (2015) elections it eclipsed the Labour Party (PvdA) for the first time, becoming the biggest party of the left in the Netherlands. Until Syriza's election victory in 2015 the Dutch SP was the only left reformist party in Europe to win a bigger share of the vote than the traditional social democratic party.
  12225. Stairway to Tax Heaven
    First Published: 2016
    A news role-play game featuring three fictitious characters: Juan Penalti (Soccer Player), Polly Tissien (Politician) and Edmund von Kronen (Business Executive). Welcome to the secret world of offshore. Your goal is to navigate this parallel universe and hide your cash away. Don’t worry! Lawyers, wealth managers and bankers are there to help you. Pick a character and don't get caught.
  12226. Staley's Legacy of Struggle, Lessons of Defeat
    First Published: 1996
    Local 7837 should be proud to have chipped away at racism and sexism, setting an example for other locals to do the same. It takes an openness to risk criticism and allow the fight to be for everyone. Local 7837 should be proud of those who gave of their lives for thirty long, grueling months and left workers and labor history forever changed.
  12227. Stalin and German Communism
    First Published: 1949
  12228. Stalin and Trotsky (World Revolution for Beginners Part II) 
    First Published: 2017
    Last week, we were talking about Lenin and Luxemburg, and I was trying to work up some notes for today; I just realize that the topic of Stalin and Trotsky is far more complicated. Why? First of all, because it was in this period that Bolshevism became an international phenomenon.
  12229. The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange
  12230. Stalinists and Artists in the U.S. "Red Decade"
    First Published: 2015
    New York University's recent art show, "The Left Front: Radical Art in the 'Red Decade,' 1929-1940," was a bittersweet experience. In the present period, with successful workers struggles few and far between, the pro-working-class images -- photos, movies of mass May Day parades in New York City, pictures of Great Depression misery, protests, strikes, the fight against Jim Crow segregation -- were, of course, moving. But there was something wrong with this picture. It wasn’t the individual artworks themselves, but the sentimental, prettifying view of and narrow focus on the U.S. Communist Party (CP).
  12231. Stalin's Frame-Up System and the Moscow Trials (Review)
    First Published: 1951
    Trotsky's own indignation over the Moscow Trials, although understandable since they were directed against his followers and fellow-oppositionists, was nevertheless inconsistent with his own political outlook and conception of dictatorship. The terroristic system he came to bewail was after all originally headed by Lenin and Trotsky, and was proudly defended by the latter in his book Terrorism and Communism.
  12232. Stallman, FOSS and the Adobe Nightmare 
    Don't Say Stallman Didn't Warn You!
    First Published: 2013
    If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. Free Open Source Software gives control to users, whereas proprietary software gives control to the corporations that own the software.
  12233. Standing Against Counterrevolution
    The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalinism: The Fate of the Russian Revolution, Volume 2
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Sean Matgamna's The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalinism: The Fate of the Russian Revolution, Volume 2.
  12234. Standing Rock and Imperialism Itself
    First Published: 2016
    An article about the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  12235. Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels
    First Published: 2019
    A study in the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environmental Science, concludes that carbon capture technologies are inefficient at pulling out carbon, from a climate perspective, and often increase local air pollution from the power required to run them, which exacerbates public health issues. Replacing a coal plant with wind turbines, on the other hand, always decreases local air pollution and doesn't come with the associated cost of running a carbon capture system, says Jacobson.
  12236. Stanley Crouch, Neocon or Ellisonian?
    First Published: 1997
    Crouch clearly feels isolated within progressive circles, but it is the Left that most desperately needs to retain the message about building a cohesive democratic society. With that instinct for improvisation and bricolage which Crouch and his gurus most admire about Americans, we must read Crouch closely and adapt whatever points in his work we find correct and useful.
  12237. Stansted 15: British Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terrorism Charge
    First Published: 2018
    A look at a group of fifteen activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport in the UK by securing themselves around the aeroplane, and were subsequently found guilty of a terrorist offence.
  12238. Star-Phoenix Special Report on Literacy
    First Published: 1988
  12239. Starhawk
    Connexipedia Article
    American writer, anarchist activist. (Born 1951).
  12240. The Star's biased reporting
    First Published: 1997
    The Star's Orwellian journalism.
  12241. The Start Chart
    First Published: 1979
    The Start Chart is a 17" by 23" guide to organizing for community action.
  12242. Starting college when there are no colleges left
    First Published: 2024
    How do you study in the rubble of destroyed buildings? How do you concentrate when classmates are killed?
  12243. Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
    First Published: 2018
    While the world was gripped by media coverage of trapped Thai boys in a flooded cave, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and suffering in other parts of the world -- yet received little or no attention. This article examines what this tells us about ourselves and geopolitics.
  12244. Starving the Poor
    First Published: 2007
    Chomsky demonstrates how deficits in the international order and its policy-making can lead to negative effects, especially for the poor. One such example is the promotion of biofuels.
  12245. The State and the Social Movements
    First Published: 2012
    The article deals with the systematic, pervasive web of containment of social struggles and class conflict developed by the Brazilian Workers' Party (Partido do Trabalho, or PT) over decades, beginning in the 1980s, and culminating in its ten years in state power since 2002, first under Lula (2002–2010) and now under Dilma Rousseff (2010–).
  12246. State Banks Would Mean Jobs, Credit and Investment
    Why Don't We?
    First Published: 2014
    One of the many problems with the current banking system is that your tax money helps fuel speculation. Unless there is a public bank that your local government can place deposits into, revenues are the playthings of big banks.
  12247. State Capitalism and Dictatorship
    First Published: 1936
    One can raise the question : is not state capitalism the only 'way out' for the bourgeoisie ? Obviously state capitalism would be feasible, if only the whole productive process could be managed and planned centrally from above in order to meet the needs of the population and eliminate crises. If such conditions were brought about, the bourgeoisie would then cease being a real bourgeoisie.
  12248. State Department Condemns Attacks on Russian Peaceful Protests, Ignores Those in America
    First Published: 2017
    On March 26, the State Department tweeted, "U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values."
  12249. The State in Revolutionary Periods
    First Published: 1985
    The subject of the present discussion is "state in revolutionary periods." Under this heading we are going to deal with an aspect of the Marxist theory of the state, or, in other words, the methodology of Marxism in dealing with the phenomenon of the state -- an issue often overshadowed by stereotyped statements about the state, and therefore neglected.
  12250. State Law Breakers
    Violating the Law While Enforcing the Law
    First Published: 2013
    Police routinely break the law under the pretext of enforcing the law.
  12251. State Lawlessness on the Rampage
    The Menu for 2011
    First Published: 2010
    As 2011 dawns, public discourse in America has the country primed for a fascist dictatorship.The situation will be worse by 2012. The most uncomfortable truth that emerges from the WikiLeaks saga is that American public discourse consists of cries for revenge against those who tell us truths.
  12252. State of Emergency in Crimea
    First Published: 2015
    Late on November 21, 2015, right-wing extremists in Ukraine severed the four electricity lines which transmit electricity from Ukraine to Crimea. The terrorist attacks, using explosives, cut domestic electricity service to much of Crimea's population of 2.3 million.
  12253. State of emergency in US city after water poisoned
    First Published: 2016
    Flint has faced a lead-saturated drinking water disaster affecting almost 100,000 residents over the past 18 months.
  12254. The State of Germany
    First Published: 1845   Published: 1846
  12255. State of Power 2014
    First Published: 2014
    A report with iinfographics and essays that expose and analyse the principal power-brokers that have caused financial, economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.
  12256. The State of the Left: Many Movements, Too Many Goals?
    First Published: 2016
    The Sanders campaign has proven a couple of important things about today's political reality in the United States.
    1) A substantial number of Americans are interested in redistributing wealth and making government work for the 99 percent
    2) That is impossible within the current electoral system in the United States.
  12257. The State of the News Media
    First Published: 2003
    Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
  12258. State of the "Recovery"
    First Published: 2014
    The editors provide an overview of current issues in American politics, such as the debate over minimum wage, Wall Street, immigration reform, the Trans Pacific Partnership and the need for economic recovery.
  12259. State of the UAW
    First Published: 2018
    Since the 1979-1981 economic crisis, when the UAW convinced its members to make concessions to the Big-Three, auto-workers have been losing benefits, wages and programs. Feeley discusses the current state of UAW focusing on its leadership.
  12260. State, power and bureaucracy
    First Published: 2016
    The theory of bureaucratic state capitalism in Russia and elsewhere characterises the International Socialist Tendency and distinguishes us from most other Marxist parties worldwide. So a study of the development of Leon Trotsky's ideas on the Russian bureaucracy is of particular interest. This book reveals one of the greatest Marxists struggling to come to terms with a wholly new ­phenomenon, the Stalinist bureaucracy.
  12261. State-Sponsored Violence Against Women
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    The words of Latin American women continue to have no value to those who legislate, govern and administer justice. The permissiveness and omissions of state laws, institutions and functionaries in response to the violation of women’s rights are part of gender violence. The advances have been minimal and the need to dismantle this theater of illusions is urgent.
  12262. Statement: A New Beginning
    First Published: 1974
    Canadian Dimension emerged as an important voice of dissent during a time when political discourse and philosophizing in Canada was dead. However, now Canadian Dimension must address itself to a new context, that of helping Canadian socialists close the gap between job consciousness and class consciousness.
  12263. Statement by Jewish Activists and Organizations active in BDS against Israel
    First Published: 2011
    A Jewish response to the February 2011 Statement of Jewish Zionist Organizations on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
  12264. Statement Condemning US Removal of Democratically-Elected Evo Morales
    First Published: 2019
    Following months of destabilization, on November 10, 2019, the legitimate, constitutional, democratically-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was driven at gunpoint out of office and the country by the US and its allies, among them Bolivian fascists and several members of the Organization of American States (OAS), including Canada. This latest aggression follows centuries of colonial, imperialist, and neo-colonial conquest and plunder of the Indigenous-majority population of Bolivia.
  12265. Statement of Christian Clergy and Religious Concerned for the Extension of the Protection of the Ontario Human
    Rights Code to Homosexual Women and Men
    First Published: 1980
  12266. Statement of Claire Culhane, Provincial Court, New Westminster, B.C.
    First Published: 1977
    This is a statement by Claire Culhane in provincial court where she pleaded not guilty to a charge of trespassing on penitentiary land.
  12267. A Statement of Goals Respecting the Yukon Indian Claim: Document#2, March 8, 1977
    First Published: 1977
    The basic goal of the Yukon Indians is that of self-determination or a greater degree of control over their destiny.
  12268. Statement of Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society
    First Published: 1890
    Advocates "an essential change in the basis of society: the present basis is privilege for the few and consequent servitude for the many; the further basis will be equality of condition for all, which we firmly believe to be the essence of true society."
  12269. Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
    First Published: 1964
    Our view of socialism is both democratic and revolutionary, both humanist and working class; and it is only as a revolutionary-democratic movement of opposition to the Establishments that socialism can present a third choice for the world, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security.
  12270. Statement of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain Regarding Boycott of Israel
    First Published: 2009
    To increase the pressure for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, and the removal of the separation wall and the illegal settlements, we will support a boycott (where trade union members should not put their own jobs at risk by refusing to deal with such products) of those goods and agricultural products that originate in illegal settlements -through developing an effective, targeted consumer-led boycott campaign working closely with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign -and campaign for disinvestment by companies associated with the occupation.
  12271. Statement on Another Attack by the Far Right on Christians and Democracy in Pakistan
    First Published: 2016
    More than 72 people including children were killed, and more than 200 injured, in a suicide bombing in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Bagh.
  12272. Statement on Government Defense Cutbacks
    First Published: 1978
  12273. Statement To Shareholders of Noranda Mines Limited
    First Published: 1977
    This pamphlet outlines the role of the Canadian churches since the rise of the Chilean junta in 1973 and focuses particularly on the churches' opposition to the investment plans of Noranda Mines Limited in the Chilean copper industry.
  12274. Statement to the Court
    First Published: 1996
    I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations which I and those who believe with me may encounter on our journey. Nor imprisonment or death can stop our ultimate victory.
  12275. Statistics in the Information War
    An Instructive Example from Hama, 1982
    First Published: 2016
    Examines the manipulation of information in the case of the 'Hama massacre' of 1982 to advance the US's regime change policies regarding Syria.
  12276. The Statutes of Revolutionary Unionism (IWA)
  12277. Steady Hands for Freedom
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    Book Review of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC" by Faith S. Holsaert, et. al
  12278. Steel strike of 1952
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike by the United Steelworkers of America against U.S. Steel and nine other steelmakers.
  12279. Steel walls cannot contain the struggle for freedom
    First Published: 2009
    If siege is an act of aggression and war, then breaking out of it by any means is an act of self-defense and resistance.
  12280. Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
    First Published: 2015
    We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
  12281. Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-Yield Nukes on Submarines in Response to Made-up Russian 'Escalate to Deescalate' Strategy
    First Published: 2020
    The US has deployed “low-yield” nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it’s to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a “Russian strategy” made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer.
  12282. A Step Toward Justice in the Long "War on Terror": Uruguay Offers to Welcome Guantanamo Detainees
    First Published: 2014
    Under the Presidency of José “Pepe” Mujica, Uruguay has made a number of international headlines in recent years for progressive moves such as legalizing same sex marriage, abortion and marijuana cultivation and trade, as well as withdrawing its troops from Haiti.
  12283. Stephen Harper opens door to prison privatization
    First Published: 2007
    Whatever Harper has in mind for the prison system, one thing is for sure: There's little chance he'll unveil any plans for privatizing prisons before the next federal election. Unless Harper wins a majority, it seems suicidal for him to take a chance on such a controversial idea.
  12284. Stephen Harper's Covert Evangelicalism
    First Published: 2015
    How an apocalyptic strain of Christianity guides Stephen Harper's policies and campaigning.
  12285. Stephen Jay Gould: Dialectical Biologist
    First Published: 2002
    Gould, the world’s leading expert on the evolution of Bahamian land snails, and one of the most influential evolutionary theorists of his generation, shared Engels’ enthusiasm for understanding the natural world dialectically – in other words, seeing it as made up of complex and dynamic interactive processes.
  12286. The Steven Truscott Case: I am a Canadian . . . hero?
    First Published: 2000
  12287. Sticks and Stones: Free Speech and Punching Politics
    First Published: 2017
    The author explains why he does not agree with those who believe that right wing 'facist' groups should be denied the right to express their views, either by physical means or force of law.
  12288. Stieg Larsson in the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    Stieg Larsson came to support the Vietnamese liberation struggle in 1968, when he was only 14 years old. He joined the Kommunistiska Arbetarförbundet — (The Communist Workers League), the Swedish section of the Fourth International –– around 1974 in the northern town of Umeå. There he distributed the party’s paper for soldiers –Röd Soldat (Red Soldier) — among the conscripts in his infantry regiment.
  12289. Still Got the News
    Against The Current vol. 84
    First Published: 2000
    As a student activist at the University of Michigan in the middle and late 1980s, I was part of a coalition of activists who planned and carried out a democratic takeover of our school's newspaper, The Michigan Daily.
  12290. Still Lonely on the Right
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    A review of 3 books about Black Republicans.
  12291. Still OK to use "Green"
    First Published: 1992
  12292. Still Surviving: Reconciliation Through Everyday Rebellion
    First Published: 2015
    Residential school survivors rebuild through small acts of hope and resistance.
  12293. Still Wavy After All These Years: Flower Geezer Turns 80
    First Published: 2016
  12294. Still, William
    Connexipedia Article
    An African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist. (1819-1902).
  12295. The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist
    First Published: 2015
    Informant-led sting operations are central to the FBI’s counterterrorism program. Of 508 defendants prosecuted in federal terrorism-related cases in the decade after 9/11, 243 were involved with an FBI informant, while 158 were the targets of sting operations.
  12296. Stirring Up Racism
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    In an attempt to discredit the progressive candidates, the Richmond Police Officers Association (RPOA) put out a flyer which claimed the Latino community and particularly undocumented immigrants were the source of Richmond’s drug and violence problem and that the progressive candidates opposed police efforts to control it.
  12297. Stoking the False War Between Generations
    First Published: 2012
    The world seemed to change dramatically in 2011. On the global stage the democracy movement that started in Tunisia spread throughout the Middle East and beyond, eventually settling into tiny Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, just blocks from Wall Street. From there, Occupy Wall Street rippled out to become a global protest movement.
  12298. STOL lands again
    First Published: 1980
    The proposal for a major commerical airport on the Toronto Islands appears to be back on the agenda.
  12299. The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Argrochemical Oligopoly
    First Published: 2017
    Companies like Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta, which make up the oligopoly that controls an increasingly globalised system of modern food and agriculture, have successfully instituted the notion that the mass application of biocides, monocropping and industrial agriculture are necessary and desirable.
  12300. Stone, I. F.
    Connexipedia Article
    American investigative journalist. (1907-1989).
  12301. Stones Aimed at Us
    An Overview of the Discourse and Strategies of the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign
    First Published: 2010
    This report provides an overview of the discourses around stoning in Iran, and the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign.
  12302. The Stones Cry Out: The Power of the Occupation in the City Square
    First Published: 2011
    Gathering in the city, taking strength from its history, remembering its past and our past, we stand firm.
  12303. Stonewall riots
    Connexipedia Article
    A series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
  12304. Stoning in Muslim Contexts: A Mapping Report
    First Published: 2012
    This report locates where the punishment of stoning still exists, either through judicial or extrajudicial methods.
  12305. Stop-and-Frisk as a Policy of State Control Over Blacks and Latinos
    Hobbes on Trial in New York City
    First Published: 2013
    Nicholas Peart is one of the plaintiffs in the federal class action lawsuit against the New York Police Department’s policy of stop-and-frisk, where officers use their power to roam the streets and stop, search and question people they believe may be connected to crime. Their allegation is that the application of this method is racially biased and unconstitutional.
  12306. Stop and search guide to your rights
    A page of information about police stop and search powers in the UK and your rights when you are stopped and searched.
    First Published: 2006
    What is a ‘Stop and Search’? Police officers can stop and talk to you at any time. But they should only search you if they suspect you are carrying: Drugs, Weapons, Stolen property, Tools which could be used to commit a crime.
  12307. Stop Calling Harmful Bigotry "Religious Freedom"
    First Published: 2020
    The Supreme Court is considering a case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, that once again pits LGBTQ rights against so-called religious liberty. In this case, one of the plaintiffs, Catholic Social Services, is arguing that it has the right to discriminate against same sex couples when placing children in foster care.
  12308. Stop Deep-Sea Mining
    First Published: 2021
    Advocates for the end of exploitation of mineral resources through deep-sea mining until sufficent scientific information has been obtained on if deep-sea mining can be done without damage to the marine environment.
  12309. Stop Exploiting LGBT Issues to Demonize Islam and Justify Anti-Muslim Policies
    First Published: 2016
    In the late 1990s, Eric Rudolph -- raised Catholic and affiliated for a time with a Christian Identity sect -- bombed abortion clinics and a gay bar, insisting they were venues of immorality and evil. Last July, an Orthodox Jewish Israeli attacked the marchers in the Jerusalem LGBT pride parade, stabbing six of them, and one of them, a teenager, died of her wounds; justifying his attacks by appealing to Talmudic punishments for homosexuality, he had just been released from a 10-year prison term for doing the same in 2005. Yesterday, a Christian pastor from Arizona, Steven Anderson, praised the slaughter of 49 people in an Orlando LGBT club on the ground that "homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts" and are "pedophiles."
  12310. Stop hate rape!
    First Published: 2014
    Hate crimes, homophobia and discrimination against queer people are global phenomena that are common practice. This situation is especially experienced in Africa and the Middle East where harsh and punitive legislation and policies are authorised and endorsed. The lack of democracy, or the protection thereof, also perpetuates extreme human rights abuses, which often takes the form of physical assault.
  12311. Stop & search app will 'hold police to account'
    First Published: 2015
    Individuals who are stopped and searched by police will now be able to record and report their experience using a new app designed to hold officers to account.
  12312. Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    History of the Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC), which was formed to oppose the proposed Spadina Expressway that was supposed to be bulldozed through the middle of downtown Toronto.
  12313. Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC) - Korean text
  12314. Stop Sweatshops-Linking Workers' Struggles
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    Nike made a mistake when it aggressively entered the college market through lucrative licensing contracts and exclusive promotions deals. In hindsight, it amazes me that the company never considered the potential for scandal when it linked itself to institutions that purport to be moral leaders.
  12315. Stop Terror & War!
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    The wave of terrorist attacks across Russia, culminating in the bloody tragedy at Beslan, has reminded us all that there is a war taking place in this country. Russia’s rulers depict this as the “intervention of international terrorism” and compare it with the events of 11 September 2001.
  12316. Stop That Shit
    First Published: 2006
    Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  12317. Stop the Destruction of Chechnya!
    Against The Current vol. 86
    First Published: 2000
    As we enter the 21st century, Russian society is confronted with the shameful fact of the bloody colonial war in the north Caucasus. The whole might of the "democratic" Russian state has been thrown into subjugating a small people that volunteered to join neither the tsarist or Stalinist empires nor Yeltsin's "federation." Tens of thousands killed or physically or spiritually maimed; masses impoverished or turned into refugees with no rights; towns and villages reduced to ruins-this is the price paid to satisfy the political ambitions of a Russian ruling class bent on reinforcing and redoubling its dominance.
  12318. Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline!
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    The Keystone XL is a proposed 1700-mile pipeline that would transport tar sands oil (also called oil sands) from Alberta, Canada into the United States, crossing six states from Montana to Texas and Louisiana. The proposed pipeline, which has a price tag of $7 billion, would add to the extensive existing network of oil pipelines, carrying tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
  12319. Stop the Sale of Canadian Uranium to the Philipines:
    A Statement of Unity
    First Published: 1978
  12320. Stop Whining and Start Organizing
    First Published: 2018
    A commentary on the state of the labour movment in the United States, which has been in a marked decline since the 1950's. Lindorff discusses why unions are vanishing, loss of membership, disassociation with the Democratic party, and the changes needed to reorganize and enforce workers' rights.
  12321. Stories of Mr. Keuner (exceprts)
  12322. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
  12323. A Story About Making a Sex Movie
    First Published: 2005
    Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
  12324. A Story from El Salvador: Julio Molina, Saving Historic Memory
    First Published: 2016
    Julio Molina dedicates himself to preserving the "historic memory" of the generation that was involved in the 12-year civil war that took place in El Salvador from 1980 to 1992 between the rightwing government of the oligarchy and the revolutionaries of the FMLN. "We have many tasks today," he says, "but one of them is the preservation of the historic memory."
  12325. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
  12326. The Story of Profit
    The Coalition for Energy Price Control
    First Published: 1977
    A report of the actions of 17 groups in Quebec fighting unfair energy price increases.
  12327. The story of symphysiotomy in Ireland
    First Published: 2013
    Symphysiotomy is a childbirth operation that effectively unhinges the pelvis. Ireland was the only country in the world to do these childbirth operations in preference to Caesarean section. Religious ideology and medical ambition drove the surgery. An estimated 1,500 women and girls, some as young as 14, had their pelvises severed, gratuitously, by senior doctors who believed in childbearing without limitation. Life long disability, chronic pain, mental suffering and family breakdown followed.
  12328. The Story of the Christmas Truce
    On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World War I, German, British and French soldiers disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front. German troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas." "You no shoot, we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across no-man's land strewn with rotting corpses. Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. A shudder ran through the high command on either side. Here was disaster in the making: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight.
  12329. The story of the GI coffeehouses
    First Published: 2007
    Examining the rise of the GI coffeehouse movement--during the Vietnam War and again today in protest of the war on Iraq.
  12330. The Strange Career of the Second Amendment -- Part I
    First Published: 2019
    Detailed analysis of the Second Amendment and different perceptions of gun rights in US history.
  12331. The Strange Career of the Second Amendment, Part II
    First Published: 2019
    A further look at the history of the Second Amendment. Focuses on late 19th and 20th c and disparity of the laws in regard to race.
  12332. The Strange Death of Hugo Chavez: an Interview with Eva Golinger
    First Published: 2016
    I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and documented assassination attempts against him throughout his presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d'etat, during which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48 hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts against Chavez.
  12333. The strange death of the antiwar movement
    First Published: 2015
    After over 14 years of unending US wars of aggression waged in the name of fighting terrorism, humanitarian intervention and promoting "democracy," the threat posed to mankind by the eruption of American militarism has never been so acute.
  12334. The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'
    First Published: 2017
    Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics – tendencies in fact more dangerous than the rhetoric of Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Shapiro. Beneath its ultra-leftism is a modus operandi riddled with the worst of identity politics. And since its violent tactics are not aligned with any popular movement, its opposition to fascism (such as it is) turns hollow, empty. The irony is that while the FSM and its heirs did everything possible to expand the realm of free speech, new social forces – extreme identity groups, Antifa – want to restrict or deny freedoms.
  12335. The Strange Workings of Identity and Adolph Reed Jr.'s Thought
    First Published: 2019
    One of the cornerstones of the socialist approach to identity is the insistence that identities are not naturally occurring but are, rather, the products of history. The controversy surrounding Reed’s work offers an opportunity to try to clarify our understanding of identity.
  12336. Strata in the Working Class
    First Published: 1947
    Many of the lowest union officials have been separated from the ranks to some extent and try to keep their jobs to keep the protection and favors which the job gives them. The lowest layers of the union leadership also develop a legitimate organizational loyalty to their union. They are the conscious union propagandists. But while this is a necessity in the building and maintenance of any organization, in times of crisis this loyalty can temporarily retard good union militants from striking out on a new road.
  12337. The strategic defeat of Recep Tayyib Erdogan
    First Published: 2015
    The author examines the causes of historic electoral defeat of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party AKP. The author emphasises the two recent events: The Gezi rebellion in Istanbul and the Kobane defence in Western Kurdistan. The author asks and attempts to answer "the reason why was that this defeat had taken so long to be registered in action even permitting Erdogan to climb to the presidency of the republic in August 2014."
  12338. "Strategic Extremism": How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule
    First Published: 2019
    Since morality is easy to use as a tool to manipulate voters, Republican's wooing of the alt-right is an effective strategy in a close election. To counter this the left must focus on real issues that challenge corporate power.
  12339. Strategic Thinking and Organizing Resistance
    First Published: 2017
    Argues the need for strategy and vision, and effective organizing, in forming a resistance movement to the Trump presidency, and provides several suggestions for organizers.
  12340. Strategies of Resistance: Challenging the Cultural Disempowerment of Women
    First Published: 2011
    The article deals with the strategies used to advance women’s rights in the face of culturally justified disempowerment.
  12341. A Strategy for Antiwar Organizing 
    First Published: 2011
    There is a paradox here: The organized antiwar movement’s effectiveness has declined, even while public opinion polls showed that antiwar sentiment among the public as a whole has grown steadily. A movement which declines while opportunities for growth are becoming more favourable is a peculiar one indeed.
  12342. Strategy for Labrador Straits: Aiming for Development
    First Published: 1977
    This report outlines a framework for economic development of the Labrador Straits area. Input was requested from community councils, fisheries committees, high school students, private citizens and members of the two sponsoring bodies.
  12343. Strategy of Development for the Canadian Housing Co-operative Movement
    First Published: 1977
    An analysis of trends and outcomes of four strategies employed in developing co-operative housing.
  12344. The Strategy of the Venezuelan Opposition
    First Published: 2014
    The strategy and tactics of the Venezuelan opposition is a replay of events that took place leading up to the coup against Hugo Chávez on April 11, 2002 and is similar (although in some ways quite different) from the script that has been used in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
  12345. The Strategy and Organizing Behind the Successful DREAM Act Movement
    First Published: 2012
    Undocumented youth have shown that ordinary people build extraordinary people power, even in the United States.
  12346. Strategy, Hegemony and the Long March
    Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement
  12347. The Strengthening of Palestinian Civil Society Activism
    Palestinians in Jerusalem, in Israel within the Green Line, and the territories occupied in the 1967 War have learned over time - and from each other - how to deal with Israel's evolving methods of targeting activists and institutions for shutdowns.
  12348. Strictly Legal
    The Caronia Decision and a Culture of Mercantile Nihilism
    First Published: 2013
    The Caronia decision reveals an injustice system whose function is to provide legal cover for the excesses of the corporate elite. Caronia is a wake-up moment, announcing that the institutions and the philosophy that sustains it are broken, maybe beyond repair, and must be replaced now, while we’re still standing, by new social forms imbued with sane and humane values.
  12349. The Strike and Its Enemies
    First Published: 2012
    Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission.
  12350. Strike Friday at Amazon.it
    First Published: 2017
    Amazon workers at the Castel San Giovanni hub launched their first strike on Black Friday 2017. The facility is Amazon's largest in Italy, where the retail giant employs up to four thousand workers, less than half of whom have a permanent contract.
  12351. Strike Lessons from the Last Twenty-Five Years: Walking Out and Winning
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    Labor's strike effectiveness and organizational strength have long been connected. Throughout history, work stoppages have been used for economic and political purposes, to alter the balance of power between labor and capital within single workplaces, entire industries, or nationwide. Strikes have won shorter hours and safer conditions, through legislation or contract negotiation.(1) They've fostered new forms of worker organization -- such as industrial unions -- that were badly needed because of corporate restructuring and the reorganization of production. Strikes have acted as incubators for class consciousness, rank-and-file leadership development, and political activism.(2) In other countries, strikers have challenged -- and changed -- governments that were dictatorial and oppressive (plus union leadership no longer accountable to the membership).
  12352. Strike!: A Review
    First Published: 1973
    Jeremy Brecher's Strike!, reviewed by Steven Sapolsky in Root & Branch No. 4.
  12353. Strike strategy today
    First Published: 2016
    Why has the use of the strike in the US become so scarce? While subjective factors are more difficult to quantify, certain basic reasons seem more readily evident. Union membership, particularly in the private sector, is at an all-time low. Most of the unions are heavily bureaucratized, and central labor councils ossified. "Sympathy strikes," long ago outlawed by Taft-Hartley, militate against the sort of broad-based solidarity so essential to an industrial victory. Moreover, many unions have accepted no-strike clauses for the duration of their contracts, effectively tying one hand behind their backs.
  12354. The Strike That Didn't Change New York
    First Published: 2013
    The Chicago teachers' strike was a victory for workers around the country. But how do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement?
    New York City's 1.1 million public school children were stranded without a ride, when eight thousand bus drivers walked off the job, sparking a month-long standoff between Local Amalgamated Transit Union 1181 and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
  12355. The strike that led to Tahir Square
    An act of courage that launched a revolution
    First Published: 2012
    Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
  12356. Strike Wave Sweeps Brazil
    First Published: 2011
    Workers in Brazil—in heavy industry, services, the public sector, and agriculture—are involved in a series of strikes and mass protests such as the country hasn’t seen in decades.
  12357. Strike Wave and Worker Victories in Cambodia
    First Published: 2016
    In Cambodia the class struggle has resulted in the enactment of a major anti-union labour law this year. Yet more is reported in the media on the long-gone Khmer Rouge than the frequent strikes that occur in the country. Still, the strikes are happening. And more often than not, they are winning.
  12358. Strikebreaker
    Connexipedia Article
    A strikebreaker or scab is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers are usually individuals who are not employed by the company prior to the trade union dispute, but rather hired prior to or during the strike to keep production or services going. "Strikebreakers" may also refer to workers (union members or not) who cross picket lines to work.
  12359. The Strikebreakers Go on Strike... Police Militancy vs. Labor
    First Published: 1971
    The article excerpted here explains the reactionary and anti-labor nature of the 1971 New York City patrolmen's strike and of the police themselves. The article is reprinted from Workers’ Action (No. 8, April-May 1971), precursor of Workers Vanguard.
  12360. Strikes
    First Published: 1948
    State power acquires now an important function in organizing business life. In the devastated Europe it takes the supreme lead; its officials become the directors of a planned economy, regulating production and consumption. Its special function is to keep the workers down, and stifle all discontent by physical or spiritual means. In America, where it is subjected to big business, this is its chief function. The workers have now over against them the united front of State power and capitalist class, which usually is joined by union leaders and party leaders, who aspire to sit in conference with the managers and bosses and having a vote in fixing wages and working conditions. And, by this capitalist mechanism of increasing prices, the standard of life of the workers goes rapidly downward.
  12361. Strikes
    Connexipedia Article
    A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work.
  12362. Strikes and Lockouts
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A strike is the withholding of labour by workers in order to obtain better working conditions; such withholding of labour is generally accompanied by demonstrations, such as picketing, parades, meetings. A lockout is the opposite, being the temporary shutdown of a business by an employer to compel employees to accept certain conditions.
  12363. Strikes in South Korea 1996-1997
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 1996   Published: 1997
    In December 1996 and January 1997, South Korea experienced the largest organized strike in its history, when workers in the automotive and shipbuilding industries refused to work in protest against a law which was to make firing employees easier for employers and curtail labor organizing rights.
  12364. Strikes, List of
    Connexipedia Article
    The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).
  12365. Striking a Blow for Disarmament in Maine Shipyard
    Fury Punches Out Early
    First Published: 2014
    Hundreds of thousands of Americans have protested America’s bloated, out-of-control military, and millions more are outraged that the US spends upwards of $1 trillion a year on war and preparing for war.
  12366. Striking back in the "world's factory"
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers' Resistance, which gives a history of labour struggles of Chinese migrant workers.
  12367. Striking Fear in Paris
    Waving in the First Row
    First Published: 2015
    By committing two attacks, the three Islamic radicals managed to spread panic throughout France.
  12368. Strip-Searching Children
    Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
    First Published: 2007
    Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
  12369. Striving to make sense of the Ukraine war
    First Published: 2022
  12370. Strong Meat
    First Published: 2010
    The meat-producing system Simon Fairlie advocates differs sharply from the one now practised in the rich world: low energy, low waste, just, diverse, small-scale. But if we were to adopt it, we could eat meat, milk and eggs (albeit much less) with a clean conscience.
  12371. Strong voter registration campaign could mean the end for Harper
    First Published: 2015
    The primary objective of Stephen Harper's absurdly-named Fair Elections Act is to prevent hundreds-of-thousands of Canadians from voting for the NDP, Liberals, Greens, etc. But efforts to help people to register to vote are not as strong as they could be. There needs to be close co-operation among groups to make sure that as many people as possible - particularly people in some 70 ridings where the Conservatives are vulnerable - have the identification they need to vote.
  12372. Strong Words: Ten Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching
    First Published: 1999
  12373. Stronger Locks, Better Security
    First Published: 2015
    What if, in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, or cybersecurity attacks on companies and government agencies, the FBI had come to the American people and said: In order to keep you safe, we need you to remove all the locks on your doors and windows and replace them with weaker ones. It's because, if you were a terrorist and we needed to get to your house, your locks might slow us down or block us entirely. So Americans, remove your locks! And American companies: stop making good locks!
  12374. Structural Adjustment
    The economics of structural adjustment in Canada.
  12375. Structuralism as Defense of the Bureaucratic Status Quo 
    A Dialectical Critique of Althusserian Theory
    First Published: 1974
    Althusserian theory is deeply conservative and puts obstacles in the way of seeing the truly revolutionary currents that exist in the modern world.
  12376. The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism
    First Published: 1939
    Russia must be placed first among the new totalitarian states. It was the first to adopt the new state principle. It went furthest in its application. It was the first to establish a constitutional dictatorship, together with the political and administrative terror system which goes with it. Adopting all the features of the total state, it thus became the model for those other countries which were forced to do away with the democratic state system and to change to dictatorial rule. Russia was the example for fascism. There is an unbridgeable opposition between bolshevism and socialism. Nationalism, authoritarianism, centralism, leader dictatorship, power policies, terror-rule, mechanistic dynamics, inability to socialize-all these essential characteristics of fascism were and are existing in bolshevism.
  12377. The Struggle Against Rape and Sexual Assault
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    Soma Marik discusses how to advance the struggle against sexual assault in the wake of the bus gang rape of last December, which led to massive demonstrations throughout India.
  12378. The Struggle at Peugeot in France
    First Published: 2013
    When the management of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group announced, in early July 2012, that it was eliminating 8,000 jobs and closing the Aulnay plant near Paris (3,000 employees) in 2014, it caused a shock wave, well beyond the workers in the automotive sector.
  12379. Struggle for equal rights for Palestinians is 'right choice,' and will lead to 'significant exodus of Jews' - Henry Siegman 
    First Published: 2018
    Everyone should read Henry Siegman's long piece in the National Interest on the "Implications of President Trump's Jerusalem Ploy." Siegman is a great leader because he has bucked the American and Jewish establishment, of which he is a member, to declare that the two-state solution is dead and buried. He is also a prophet inasmuch as he is counseling American Jewry to give up its attachment to Zionism as a dead letter, no different from a Christian state here, and so prepare itself for a future in which Israel is isolated as a pariah state and there is a "significant exodus of Israel’s Jews." His words are astounding because Siegman, a Holocaust survivor now in his late 80s, was himself a Zionist, and head of the World Jewish Congress. His bravery in renouncing the animating political faiths of his life-- it's inspiring.
  12380. The Struggle in Balochistan
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    The complicated situation that is modern Pakistan.
  12381. A Struggle in Solidarity with Others: Lessons from a Student Campaign Battling a Giant Corporation
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    I am a graduate student from India, studying at a university in Michigan. Some time ago, I became involved in a campaign to kick the Coca Cola company off the campus because of their treatment of workers and the surrounding community at their plants in India and Colombia.
  12382. The Struggle of the 'Mill Girls'
    Class Consciousness in Early 19th Century New England
    First Published: 2014
    This article traces the development of class consciousness of and the antagonism between capitalists and the Lowell and Lawrence "Mill Girls" in the earlier half of the 19th Century in New England.
  12383. The struggle of Venezuela against 'a common enemy' 
    First Published: 2015
    John Pilger discusses the reasons that the United States continues to work continuously to overthrow Venezuela's left-learning government. The U.S. government makes absurd claims that Venezuela poses a grave 'threat' to the United States, but the truth is the opposite: the U.S. government poses a grave threat to Venezuela and its people.
  12384. The Struggle to Stop Female Genital Mutilation
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    In January, 1999 the Senegalese parliament joined several other African nations imposing a ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At the time of the ban over 700,000 women -- approximately twenty percent of the female population -- were estimated to have undergone some form of FGM in Senegal.
  12385. Struggles in Logistics in Italy
    First Published: 2015
    A sketch based on conversations in October 2015 with militants in and around the small Italian union SI Cobas (Sindicato Interprofessionale/Comites di Base), which has carried out and won militant strikes over the past few years with mainly immigrant logistics and warehouse workers.
  12386. Struggling for Justice
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Mainly postive review Keith Gilyard’s biography of organizer, educator, cultural worker and Black Left feminist Louise Thompson Patterson.
  12387. Student-Labor Activism Advances
    Against The Current vol. 83
    First Published: 1999
    University campuses displayed an impressive mobilization around labor issues last year, from United Farm Worker (UFW) strawberry campaigns to living wage movements to the anti-sweatshop sit-ins.
  12388. The Student Movement of the Thirties
    A Political History
    First Published: 1965
    Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if 'the thirties' represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
  12389. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
    Connexipedia Article
    One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
  12390. Students and Labor Together
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    On behalf of my fellow campus organizers I would like to thank the AFL-CIO leadership and all of you for this opportunity to speak with you. I have a new slogan for you: "Whose University? Our University!!!" That's what we were chanting three weeks ago when I and hundreds other University of Wisconsin students and workers took over our administration building.
  12391. Students Are Pulling a Kaepernick All Over America -- and Being Threatened for It
    First Published: 2016
    Students are being threatened with punishment for not participating in rituals surrounding the national anthem or Pledge of Allegiance -- and they are fighting back. Since NFL 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem in August to protest oppression of people of colour, many Americans, particularly professional athletes and students, have followed suit. But their constitutional right to engage in such gestures of dissent is not always being respected.
  12392. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
    Connexipedia Article
    Student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.
  12393. Students, Labor Getting Together
    First Published: 1997
    The idea that students demanding their rights at work and at school might have a place not just allied with the labor movement, but in the labor movement, is a powerful one that undergraduate activists should examine closely.
  12394. Studies About Workplace Violence
    First Published: 2014
    A few published studies about workplace violence.
  12395. Studies on the Left
    Connexipedia Article
    Journal of New Left radicalism in the United States published between 1959 and 1967.
  12396. Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada
    First Published: 2016
    A groundbreaking study published in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for oil and gas and earthquakes.
  12397. Study: NSA Surveillance Has Chilling Effort on Internet Browsing
    Users Feared Reading About 'Sensitive' Topics
    First Published: 2016
    A new study in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal found that traffic on Wikipedia articles considered "sensitive" or terror-related plummeted drastically in the immediate wake of revelations about broad NSA surveillance of Internet use.
  12398. The Study of a Russian Factory
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    This book is a study of the Moscow Hammer and Sickle metallurgical factory between 1905 to 1932, based largely on four factory-specific archives that became available to Western historians after the fall of the Soviet Union. Its main focus, covering two-thirds of the book, is the post-revolutionary, post-civil war period.
  12399. A Study of the Feminine Mystique
    First Published: 1964
    A review of Betty Friedan's book "The Feminine Mystique." The review was originally published in the International Socialist Review in 1964.
  12400. A study of urban communes and co-ops inToronto
    MA Thesis, University of Toronto, 1973
    First Published: 1973
  12401. Study on Housing Needs of Single Women in the Downtown Eastside
    First Published: 1980
    After a 1979 meeting of the Vancouver Urban Core Community Workers, a group of women workers decided to form a non-profit society - the "Society for Women's Residences".
  12402. Study Reveals Corporate Media's Refusal to Acknowledge Civilian Victims of US Wars
    First Published: 2015
    Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in "legitimating the environmental injustices of war," a harrowing new scholarly report concludes.
  12403. Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
    New research from Matt Kennard has shown how the British intelligence establishment works with the UK media to smear Jeremy Corbyn.
    First Published: 2019
    Academic studies of the Corbyn coverage have also shown that corporate media have shown a profound hostility to him and his project. One report from the London School of Economics included an entire section called "Delegitimization through Ridicule, Scorn, and Personal Attacks."
  12404. Studying Marx
    First Published: 2018
    Buhle discusses how often participants in "The Movement" were not formally educated in Marxism but rather held self-studies conducted individually and in groups.
  12405. Studying State & Capitalist Development
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    Given the dominant neoliberal ideology of our times, it is assumed in most quarters that state intervention in the economies of the post-World War II era was an utter fiasco. This argument is taken as even more self-evident in the case of the countries of the capitalist periphery or “Third World.”
  12406. Stupid Opinion #1: All Opinions are Equal
    First Published: 2006
    People say, "Don't be judgmental" - as if we shouldn't evaluate behaviour, from amazingly loving to atrocious. Many intone, "No one has the right to judge opinions" - as if racist opinions, say, had the same validity as anti-racist opinions.
  12407. The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
    First Published: 2019
    Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising such terms implies false authority), do not exist in that sense, whatever their cheer squad emissaries in High Tech land claim. They are merely a masterfully daft celebration of tactically deployed cults: there is a fad, a trend, and therefore, it must be smart, a model option to pursue.
  12408. Stuxnet on the Loose
    Security for the One Percent
    First Published: 2012
    Suspicions that the Stuxnet computer worm was indeed developed by the United States and Israel has once again exposed American exceptionalism. Espionage and sabotage are presented as intolerable criminal transgressions, normally causing our elected officials and military leaders to erupt in fits of righteous indignation. That is, unless the United States is doing the spying and the sabotaging.
  12409. Stuxnet-Like Digital Attack on Iran Nuclear Talks May Have Come from Israel, Security Researchers Say
    First Published: 2015
    Moscow-based technical security company Kaspersky Lab last week revealed evidence of a new cyber attack on both its own network and those of several European hotels that hosted nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) last year.
  12410. Submission by Inuit Tapirisat of Canada to the National Energy Board
    First Published: 1978
    The Submission by the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada to the National Energy Board makes the request that the entire question of gas supply and demand be reviewed.
  12411. Submission by the National Farmers Union to the Comprehensive Development Plan for Prince Edward Island
    First Published: 1981
    The National Farmers Union (NFU) evaluates, criticizes and makes recommendations on the Comprehensive Development Plan for P.E.I. in this submission.
  12412. Submission of the Farmland Defence League of B.C. Select Standing Committee on Agriculture
    First Published: 1978
  12413. A Submission to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Task Force on Sex-role stereotyping
    First Published: 1983
  12414. Submission to the Government of Canada on the Subject of A Food Strategy for Canada
    First Published: 1978
    This submission proposes some radical changes in the marketing and pricing structure for Canadian agricultural products in response to the federal government's food strategy outlined in the white paper entitled "A Food Strategy for Canada."
  12415. Submission to the Government of Canada Proposing Economic Recovery through a Full Employment Program
    Proposing Economic Recovery through a Full Employment Program
    First Published: 1977
    An article discussing the possibility of a "great depression" occuring in the 1970s.
  12416. A Submission to the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan
    First Published: 1978
  12417. Submission to the Hon. Dr. Bette Stephenson, Minister of Labour, Concerning Proposed Occupational Safety and Health
    Legislation for the Province of Ontario.
    First Published: 1977
    A letter regarding workplace safety in Canada. The letter discusses Canada's relative lack of legilsation that promote preventative safety measures in the workplace.
  12418. Submission to the MacDonald Commissionon the R.C.M.P
    The authors of this submission are concerned with the presence of the RCMP Security Services at events such as trade union meetings.
  12419. Submission to the Ontario Government on the Employment and Housing Crisis
    First Published: 1975
    A brief arguing that housing should become a regulated public utility.
  12420. Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada
    First Published: 1978
    A discussion of what direction the efforts of the United Church should take in the fight against poverty in Canada.
  12421. Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada
    How Social and Economc Justice Can be Improved in Canada
    First Published: 1978
    A submission to the United Church clergy on Canada's strategies for developing technology and economy.
  12422. A Submission to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning
    First Published: 1979
    In March 1979 a submission from Ontario was made to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning by the Concerned Farmers of the United Townships (Turnberry, Howick, Wallace, Maryborough, Peel, Woolwich and Pilkington).
  12423. Submission to the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary Systems In Canada Hearings
    First Published: 1977
    A list of recommendations on how to fix certain issues in the prison system.
  12424. Submission to the SW Need Hearings of the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning
    First Published: 1979
    The Food Land Steering Committee is a large umbrella group organized in 1975 to coordinate agricultural concerns in connection with the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning.
  12425. Submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs
    Sub-Commitee on the Penitentiary System in Canada
    First Published: 1977
    A review of oppresion in the Canadian penitentiary system as a wholem with a closer look at the Millhaven Institution.
  12426. The Sub-Prime Market Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    It wasn't until I flew to the United Kingdom on Saturday, September 15th, that the globalized nature of the sub-prime contagion really hit home, as it were, for me. On my flight over, I grabbed a copy of the UK Telegraph newspaper, the front page of which looked like something shot at a Great Depression bread line.
  12427. Subsidizing Contractor Misconduct: Alma's Story
    First Published: 2015
    Story of Alma Aranda, employee at the customer call center operated by Verizon Communications, where she works an eight-hour shift fielding questions about billing statements or complaints about Internet service from the company.
  12428. The Subterfuge of Syrian Chemical Weapons
    Investigating a Forgone Conclusion
    First Published: 2013
    UN independent commission is investigating whether or not chemical weapons were used in Syria.
  12429. Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace
    First Published: 2013
    83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
  12430. Subvertising billboards
    A guide to subvertising - altering commercial outdoor poster and billboard advertisements to get your message across
    First Published: 2003
    The Art & Science of Billboard Improvement: a comprehensive guide to the alteration of outdoor advertising.
  12431. Success, sex, and morality in the tar sands
    First Published: 2013
    A glimpse of what life is like for a certified electrician who is one of three women among 500 employees working on a site in the tar sands.
  12432. Successful Event Marketing Strategies
    First Published: 1997
    Tips for marketing your events.
  12433. Successful news releases: 7 must-know tips
    First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
    Make it short, make it make, make sure it's important.
  12434. A successful rent strike in 1930s Peckham
    First Published: 2017
    Historical account of a successful rent strike in Peckham, London, where tenants lived in appalling conditions.
  12435. Such, Such Were The Joys
    First Published: 1952
    George Orwell describes his experiences at an English boarding school which he attended from the age of eight to thirteen. According to Orwell, the school experience involved continual bullying, violence and sexual sadism, malnutrition, and hypocritical profession of moral principles which were contradicted by practice.
  12436. Suck It Up: Using Our Pride Against Us
    First Published: 2011
  12437. The suffering of surrogacy: A veteran feminist spells it out
    First Published: 2018
    In Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation Dr Renate Klein takes on the surrogacy industry with plenty of sass and hard evidence. A dogged feminist academic and publisher for over thirty years, her critique of neoliberal capitalism is always underpinned by an authentic concern for women’s wellbeing and a focus on patriarchal structures. She never fails to point out the power differentials. She completely rejects surrogacy in all its forms.
  12438. Suffrage (Voting Rights)
    Connexipedia Article
    The civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right.
  12439. The Suffragettes, Black Friday and two types of window smashing
    First Published: 2010
    Article on 'Black Friday' with refections on why the Suffragettes attacked property back in 1910 and whether the tactic helped the movement.
  12440. Sugar 'N Spice
    First Published: 1969
    Sarah Spinks explores how little girls grow up and learn what is expected of them as girls and as women.
  12441. Sugar and Sugarworkers: A Popular Report of the International Sugarworkers Conference
    First Published: 1978
  12442. Sugar World
    First Published: 1978
    This publication gives an overview of the concerns relating to those countries, mostly third-world, which are involved in the production of sugar.
  12443. Sugihara, Chiune
    Connexipedia Article
    A Japanese diplomat who helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. (1900-1986).
  12444. Suicide Watch on Planet Earth
    First Published: 2019
    The burning of Notre Dame cathedral, while tragic, is nothing compared to the damage to our planet brought by climate change.
  12445. Suited Vandals Pillage Detroit
    First Published: 2013
    On the pillaging of Detroit.
  12446. A Summary Of Actions
    Access To Health and Social Services For Members of Diverse Cultural And Racial Groups in Metropolitan Toronto
    First Published: 1987
  12447. Summary of Presentation to the Mayor and City Council of Edmonton, Alberta
    First Published: 1977
    This call for action presented to the city of Edmonton describes a growing crisis in the Boyle Street area and proposes changes in policy and services to respond to the crisis. During the past year, there has been a growth in the number of men and women in the inner city core of Edmonton. At the same time, the report states, there has been a decrease in housing, increasing violence and an overburdening of the services.
  12448. Summary--Cluff Lake Board of Inquiry Local Hearings in Northern Sask
    First Published: 1979
    A report on some discrepancies in the Bayda Report.
  12449. Summer of Love
    Connexipedia Article
    The summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
  12450. Summit Protests Are Obsolete
    First Published: 2010
    I can understand why a lot of folks went to the G20 protests, sincerely wanting to stand up and be counted against savage global capitalism and its consequences. The problem is, almost nobody who didn't participate, especially those who only heard of the protests through the media, has any idea what the protests were about, or why the protesters were there.
  12451. The Sun Behind The Clouds Gives A Voice To Tibetan Dissidents
    First Published: 2010
    Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam's The Sun Behind the Clouds is the latest offering in a long line of documentaries about Tibet. The distinctiveness of this edition derives from its willingness to portray the internal debates of the Tibetan movement and in the movie's attempts to give voice to Tibetans living in Tibet. These features moved the film from a typical propaganda piece about the oppression faced under the brutal grip of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to a serious examination of resistance strategies in Tibet and in its influential Diaspora.
  12452. Sundarbans: 'Not a blade of grass grew...'
    First Published: 2019
    People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, for long living on the edge, are now facing climate change – recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more.
  12453. Sunday shopping conflict
    First Published: 1990
  12454. The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst - and Filled with Falsehoods
    First Published: 2015
    Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it's hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they've learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major U.S. and British media outlets "report," especially in the national security area.
  12455. SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 2010
    A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
  12456. Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire with economist Michael Hudson
    First Published: 2021
    Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire" and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia.
  12457. The 'Superficial, Arrogant Smugness' of BBC News - Peter Oborne Delivers Some Home Truths On BBC Radio 4 Today
    First Published: 2017
    In a recent media alert, we noted the occasional tell-tale signs of uncomfortable truths that slip through cracks in the propaganda façade of BBC News. Very occasionally, the propaganda nature is clearly highlighted and can be enjoyed for its directness and the flustered BBC response it provokes.
  12458. Superheroes for the Empire
    First Published: 2014
    Estébanez examines the parallels between pop culture superhero fiction and contemporary politics as writers are inspired to make implicit statements about current ideologies.
  12459. "Superman Is Not Coming": Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water
    First Published: 2017
    Come take a ride on America's toxic water slide: First stop: Flint, Michigan, where two years later, people are still contending with lead-laced water, which was finally detected by the EPA in February 2015 with the help of resident Lee Anne Walters. Next stop: California, where hundreds of wells have been contaminated with 1,2,3-TCP, a Big Oil-manufactured chemical present in pesticides.
  12460. The Supermarket Tour: A handbook for education and action
    First Published: 1978
    The Supermarket Tour manual is an attempt to provide the first step in the development of an understanding of the food problem.
  12461. Superpower and Failed States
    First Published: 2006
    Noam Chomsky explores the characteristics of "failed states" and recognizes several within the US system. He suggests several options to improve democratic quality in America, citing that the failure to act would result in ominous repercussions.
  12462. Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
    First Published: 2018
    Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
  12463. Support CUPE-Ontario's Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
  12464. Support for Farmers
    First Published: 1977
    The Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society was founded in June 1976 by a group of individuals concerned about the future of Canada's agricultural self-sufficiency.
  12465. Support the Iranian people, oppose Tehran's clerical fascism
    First Published: 2009
    Tragically, the leadership of the UK and US anti-war movements have been sleep-walking into making the same mistakes over Iran as they made over Iraq. They are silent about the regime's despotism and oppression. Mirroring the neo con indifference to human rights abuses in Iran, they refuse to show solidarity with the Iranian peoples' struggle for secularism, democracy, social justice, human rights and self-determination for national minorities. There is nothing remotely left-wing about this is sad and cruel betrayal. Put bluntly: it is collusion with tyranny.
  12466. Support the New Freedom Riders
    End US Support for Israeli Apartheid
    First Published: 2011
    Palestinian Freedom Riders are seeking their rights to be treated as equal human beings free to move about in their own land.
  12467. Supremacy, oppression, and power
    First Published: 2015
    It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create slavery and the slave trade; racism was created to justify slavery. US/NATO aggression against the Middle East and the Islamic-majority countries aren't a result of Islamophobia; Islamophobia was born out of the need to justify imperialist aggression.
  12468. Supreme Toxicity -- Confirmed
    First Published: 2018
    Editorial about Brett Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court and the hopefulness of grassroots movements like #metoo and BLM spur people to take action.
  12469. "Sure, Stick It In"
    Who Will Organize the Organizers?
    First Published: 2009
    One has to recognize when the movement is all there, ready to go, and just needs a little impetus.
  12470. Surprise: U.S. Drug War In Afghanistan Not Going Well
    First Published: 2014
    A new report has found the war on drugs in Afghanistan remains colossally expensive, largely ineffective and likely to get worse. This is particularly true in the case of opium production, says the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
  12471. Surrealism
    Connexipedia Article
    A cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.
  12472. Surrogacy: Human right, or just wrong?
    First Published: 2023
    Whether it is altruistic or for-profit, surrogacy is exploitation -- it turns the female body into a commodity for hire. Those gushing about the joy surrogacy brings to the lives of commissioning parents, and claiming it is a 'human right' to have a biological child, should take some time to consider the many wrongs being done to the women used as surrogates.
  12473. Surveillance and the Corporate State
    Spying, Control and Murder Under the Imperial Presidency
    First Published: 2013
    With all of the fear mongering the subject has received in recent decades, Americans have in fact had remarkably little to fear directly from ‘terrorism.’
  12474. Surveillance Capitalism 
    Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age
    First Published: 2014
    A massive corporate sales effort and military-industrial complex constituted the two main surplus-absorption mechanisms in the U.S. economy in the first quarter-century after the Second World War, followed by financialization after the crisis of the 1970s. Each of these means of surplus absorption were to add impetus in different ways to the communications revolution, and each necessitated new forms of surveillance and control. The result was a universalization of surveillance, associated with all three areas.
  12475. Surveillance Self-Defense
    First Published: 2018
    A guide on how online surveillance works and the various tools and techniques the public can use to help protect themselves from spying.
  12476. Surveillance USA
    NSA and the PRISM Project
    First Published: 2013
    The government is merrily going about its business of keeping tabs on you in virtually every conceivable way.
  12477. A Survey On Development Education In Canada
    First Published: 1987
  12478. Survival is the Question
    Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Ian Angus' Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System.
  12479. The Survival of Education
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    I remember reading Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities as a student activist, when becoming a teacher was an abstract and somewhat romanticized idea floating around my head. I was moved by the politically sharp but also deeply humanizing way in which Kozol documented how institutional racism and class inequality shape the experiences of students in American schools, a reality that all of us who have been educated in this country have experienced first-hand in one way or another.
  12480. Survival? Symptoms of Breakdown
    First Published: 2017
    Government policies are driven primarily by short-term political gain and corporate power, so there needs to be a massive public demand for control of the economy towards sustainability. The alternative is no human future.
  12481. Surviving and Thriving in a Crisis
    First Published: 2001
    Surviving and thriving in a crisis means joining hands for support and sharing information clearly, effectively and with respect for the human condition. Remember, you're never alone in a crisis - it just feels that way.
  12482. Surviving When the State Disappeared: Community vs. Katrina
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    Suzi Weissman interviews Mike Davis. Suzi Weissman interviewed author Mike Davis for her "Beneath the Surface" program on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. The discussion was transcribed by Alice Taylor and edited for publication.
  12483. Survivors
    First Published: 2008
    The enormous role played by Jews in the events of May 1968 in Paris and their aftermath is striking. All currents of the far left, anarchist, Trotskyist, Maoist had Jews among their primary leaders. Though they did not act as Jews, that they were Jews, and occupied a particular place in post-war French society because of this, cannot but have weighed in their participation.
  12484. Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Book review)
    First Published: 2013
    The current global crisis has once again brought the questions of global struggle and world revolution into a position of importance. The basic questions posed are whether it is possible to build a “global Left” and how to rethink the idea of universal human liberation, which was the utopia once central to the left, and which has perhaps re-emerged once again.
  12485. Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
    First Published: 2018
    A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
  12486. Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
    A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
    First Published: 2018
    Christians and other minorities, who make up about two percent of Pakistan's 207 million population, are disproportionately targeted by blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death penalty for anyone found guilty of "defiling the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad". There is increasing violence associated with the laws, with at least 74 people killed in attacks motivated by blasphemy accusations since 1990.
  12487. The Sussex University Occupation
    First Published: 2013
    Interview with Maia Pal during and immediately following the campus occupation against outsoursing at Sussex, England, which was broken up by the police on April 2, 2013.
  12488. Sustainability as if we mean it
    First Published: 1990
  12489. Sustainable development conference
    First Published: 1990
  12490. Sustainable development conference
    First Published: 1990
  12491. Suzuki, David
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. (Born 1936).
  12492. Svyazhsk
    First Published: 1922   Published: 1943
    Larissa Reissner's vivid description of the 1918 battle for Svyazhsk during the Russian Civil War.
  12493. Sweden's Potato Revolution
    First Published: 2017
    Together with the other Nordic countries Sweden was spared from the First World War but suffered food shortages and other hardships due to the surrounding conflicts.
  12494. Swedish Sex Pistol Aimed at Assange
    First Published: 2019
    By asserting the extraterritorial jurisdiction of American law to demand the extradition of another country’s (Australia) citizen from a third country (Great Britain) for activities that took place entirely outside the US, the present indictment is, as Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, points out: “a direct threat to journalists everywhere in the world….Under this rubric, anyone anywhere in the world who publishes information that the U.S. government deems to be classified could be prosecuted for espionage.”
  12495. Swimming in Shit
    Against the Current
    First Published: 2014
    Why is it the case that in a city that is almost entirely built on islands – a city literally surrounded by water – are there so few places to swim and cool off?
  12496. The Swing of That Truncheon Thing
    The Nature of the Beast Revealed
    First Published: 2011
    Historically, police violence is a fact of life in every society. In a society based on a capitalist economy, the police serve those that have the most money and property. When the authorities and their policies are under attack, the police will always be called in to protect them. No one should be shocked when the police act brutally. There is a reason the most thuggish of the uniforms are often the ones called to disperse angry crowds.
  12497. Swing of the Pendulum?
    Against The Current vol. 159
    First Published: 2012
    The defeat of the Wisconsin recall of anti-labor Governor Scott Walker, along with the Republican jubilation that followed, demands a close examination of the state of U.S. politics. In the post-Citizens United era, it’s certainly true that unlimited Super-PAC funds from the likes of the Koch Brothers and other dark corners of “the one percent” lubricate the political machinery of the right wing’s “ground game,” savage media wars, lying attack ads and voter suppression campaigns.
  12498. Swing Riots
    Connexipedia Article
    A widespread uprising by the rural workers of the arable south and east of England in 1830. The rioters, largely impoverished and landless agricultural labourers, sought to halt reductions in their wages and to put a stop to the introduction of the new threshing machines that threatened their livelihoods.
  12499. Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy
    First Published: 2015
    HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) offered services to clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations, in court documents and in the media as connected to arms trafficking, blood diamonds and bribery. HSBC served those close to discredited regimes such as that of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian president Ben Ali and current Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. The bank repeatedly reassured clients that it would not disclose details of accounts to national authorities, even if evidence suggested that the accounts were undeclared to tax authorities in the client’s home country.
  12500. SWP: Long March to Oblivion - Book Review
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    Book review of 'The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988. A Political Memoir. Volume 2: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988' by Barry Sheppard.
  12501. Sy Hersh & The Way We Live Now
    First Published: 2023
    Coverage of the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines helped Murray realize something important about how the Big Lie works.
  12502. SYC Defends Marxism at Finkelstein Talk
    First Published: 2015
  12503. Sylvia Pankhurst: War and Imperialism
    First Published: 2013
    Katherine Connelly's Sylvia Pankhurst’s activism during the First World War demonstrated her unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism - a thread running through all her activity for the rest of her life.
  12504. A Sympathetic Critical Study
    Book Review
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2019
    Detailed review of a controversial history of Soviet democracy. Lengthy quotes of the book and arguments from its original publication are included.
  12505. SYMPOSIUM: Truth and Revolution
    First Published: 2012
    Insurgent Notes invited members of Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) that we were able to contact and individuals of organization that we knew had been influenced by one or more of the aspects of STO's theory or practice to respond to a series of questions.
  12506. Syndicalism
    Connexipedia Article
  12507. Synopsis of Capital
    First Published: 1868
    This is a synopsis of Capital, Volume I, written by Engels in 1868. Upon Capital's release, Engels began constructing a comprehensive summation. Engels' synopsis serves two useful contributions: First, Engels was a far more rapid writer than Marx, and more readable. Second, Engels could distance himself from the massive web of ideas without "losing his place in it", and identify primary points to be made. This text was published in Fortnightly Review. Engels only summarized the first four chapters of Volume I of Capital.
  12508. Syria, 'Experts' and George Monbiot
    First Published: 2017
    Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has published two exclusives whose import is far greater than may be immediately apparent. They concern Israel’s bombing in 2007 of a supposed nuclear plant secretly built, according to a self-serving US and Israeli narrative, by Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
  12509. Syria: Arab Solution Needed
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    Of all the Arab regimes that have been toppled since the start of the Arab Spring last year, Syria’s Assad regime is the most dangerous. While it is impossible to quantify oppression and repression, the Assad regime has certainly surpassed its Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan and Yemeni counterparts in its assault on the rights of its people and other Arabs over the years.
  12510. Syria: The Assad regime - a response to Marcel Cartier
    First Published: 2018
    A response to Marcel Cartier's article "Vanguards of Humanity: Why I support Afrin & the Rojava Revolution", which denounces the Turkish invasion of Afrin and calls for solidarity with Rojava. While author Slee agrees with the call for solidarity, there is disagreement with some fundamental points in Cartier's article.
  12511. Syria chemical warfare claims aim to provoke Western intervention
    First Published: 2013
    The unsubstantiated charges that the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical weapons attack outside Damascus killing large numbers of civilians have all the hallmarks of a staged provocation aimed at provoking Western intervention.
  12512. Syria, "Credibility" and Historical Amnesia
    Grandpa Made Mustard Gas
    First Published: 2013
    The first casualty of war is truth. Comparison between WWII and the Syria situation.
  12513. Syria in the Crosshairs
    The Kosovo Precedent
    First Published: 2013
    Some high officials in the Obama Administration consider the 1999 war in Kosovo to be a precedent for justifying cruise missile strikes in Syria.
  12514. Syria and the Left: Time to Break the Silence
    First Published: 2016
    The cold, hard reality of the war in Syria is that the violence, bloodshed, and chaos continues unabated while the Left, such as it is, continues on in a state of schizophrenic madness. Different points of view, conflicting ideological tendencies, and a misunderstanding of the reality of the conflict are all relevant issues to be interrogated, with civility and reasoned debate in short supply. The Left does need to seriously self-reflect though about just how it responds to crises of imperialism and issues of war and peace.
  12515. 1953 - 2002 - 2016: Syria and the Reemergence of McCarthyism
    First Published: 2016
    A history of McCarthyism, or red-baiting, in US politics to justify or bolster foreign war efforts, and how the recent Syrian involvement has brought about a revival of McCarthyist discourse and tactics in the political and social realms.
  12516. The Syrian Observatory: Funded By The Foreign Office
    First Published: 2018
    The UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' with communications equipment and cameras.
  12517. The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking?
    First Published: 2012
    The media have been too passive when it comes to Syrian opposition sources, without scrutinising their backgrounds and their political connections. A nightmare is unfolding across Syria, in the homes of al-Heffa and the streets of Houla. And we all know how the story ends: with thousands of soldiers and civilians killed, towns and families destroyed, and President Assad beaten to death in a ditch.
  12518. "Syrian people are asking for our solidarity. The local civilian councils are a good place for us to start"
    Reporting From the Inside
    First Published: 2013
    In 2013 Syria is on the verge of collapse. What began as a grassroots protest movement, inspired by revolutionary action in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere in the Middle East, is now a bloody civil war. As media headlines focus on the armed aspects of the battle against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, there is a sustained popular resistance being waged in Syria that is not being fully reported.
  12519. The Syrian Target
    Why Only an All-Out War Can Depose Assad
    First Published: 2013
    Syria is close to becoming the target of a major Western military intervention
  12520. The Syrianisation of Turkey
    First Published: 2015
    On 10 October 2015 hundreds of thousands people marching in the streets of Ankara in solidarity with Kurdish people and to stop the civil war were struck with two bombs, which exploded and killed a hundred people and hundreds wounded. In this article the author questions Erdogan's policies over Syria such as finding an excuse to send the Turkish military into Syria, setting up home-grown Islamist militia forces to keep Erdogan in power, to help warring Sunni militia groups in Syria always bear a risk of Syrianisation of Turkey.
  12521. Syria's Disaster, and What's Next
    First Published: 2018
    Detailed description of Syrian crisis as of July 2018.
  12522. Syriza and the crisis
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Garganas Panos about the election victory of Syriza (the Coalition of the Radical Left) in Greece.
  12523. The Syriza Dilemma
    What would constructive pressure on the Syriza government look like?
    First Published: 2015
    The radical Syriza government was elected in January 2015 based on its promise to try to bargain a better deal than the severe neoliberal austerity imposed through the memoranda signed by previous governments. At the same time, it promised to remain in the eurozone monetary system, in which Greece’s financial system is embedded, as well as within the framework of the European Union, into which its economy has been integrated.
  12524. Syriza and Sanders: "Just Say 'No'" to Neo-liberalism
    First Published: 2015
    Hopes for Syriza's negotiations with the banking troika in the EU simmered and even boiled over among elements of the left, especially after the vaunted "No" referendum vote suggested that the Greeks would not succumb to another wave of austerity measures but would instead stand firm, even if this meant potentially leaving the EU. We have seen these hopes dashed by the subsequent "negotiations," in which Tsipras seemed to have negotiated backwards, arriving at an agreement that was worse than the one rejected by the Greek voters in the referendum vote.
  12525. The Syriza Wave: The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist Review
    The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist Review
    First Published: 2017
    The article is review of Helena Sheehan's book "The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left". Her book is an account of her polital activity and personal reflections during the surge of Syrzia from 2012 through 2015.
  12526. The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left - Book review 
    First Published: 2017
    A book review of The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left by author Helena Sheehan.
  12527. SYRIZA's Betrayal of Greece is a Spectre haunting the Left
    First Published: 2020
    Regardless of whether he beats the odds, no one can deny the significance of Sanders's movement in taking the relatively progressive first step of returning "socialism" from exile to everyday U.S. politics which was once an inconceivable prospect. Unfortunately, a consequence is that now his idea of an 'alternative' to capitalism has been made synonymous with the word in the minds of Americans, regardless of its qualifications.
  12528. SYRIZA's 40-point program
    First Published: 2015
    Here is the official program of the Greek coalition of the radical left, SYRIZA, which won the elections of January 2015.
  12529. System change means dismantling patriarchy
    First Published: 2018
    A look at patriarchy and the sexual division of labour, and why gender justice is fundamental for meaningful environmental justice, and moreover how grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism is key to system change.
  12530. System Change Not Climate Change
    First Published: 2014
    Stopping climate catastrophe and winning a world of climate justice is a critical task of our generation -- and it will require a radical transformation of society and of our relationship with nature. This pamphlet examines the climate crisis, Canada's contributio, and the development of colonialism and capitalism that led us here.
  12531. System of a Down
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Michael Roberts 'The Long Depression'.
  12532. A System That Makes You Breakable
    Between the World and Me
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me.
  12533. Le système électoral faux du Canada
    First Published: 2000
  12534. Systemic Cruelty
    First Published: 2020
    When bailiffs broke down his door on the 20th June 2018 they found Errol Graham emaciated and dead. He weighed just four and a half stone (28.5kg). There was no food in the flat except for two tins of fish that were four years out of date, no gas or electricity supply.
  12535. Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle
    First Published: 2018
    Coates represents the neoliberal wing of the black freedom struggle that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible. This wing reaps the benefits of the neoliberal establishment that rewards silences on issues such as Wall Street greed or Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people. The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: any analysis or vision of our world that omits the centrality of Wall Street power, US military policies, and the complex dynamics of class, gender, and sexuality in black America is too narrow and dangerously misleading. So it is with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ worldview.
  12536. Tabloids do not represent the working class
    First Published: 2017
    It should come as little surprise that media owned and run by unscrupulous billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond should be more concerned with protecting the party of big business than it is with the wellbeing or interests of working class people. We need to call out the tabloid media for what it is – run by and for the elites.
  12537. Les Taches Liees Au Soin Des Enfants
    First Published: 1987
  12538. The Tactic of Calling People Anti-Semitic
    First Published: 2007
    Instead of calling people who criticize Israel and US policy towards it anti-Semitic, a morally committed response would be to face up to the reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine and do our best to remedy it.
  12539. The Tactical Utility of Violence
    First Published: 2010
    What place does violence have in the struggle to overthrow the capitalist system? What place does it have in any struggle? Is the current definition of violence as accepted by the ruling regime and the loyal opposition relevant or realistic?
  12540. Tácticas desesperadas: Acusaciones falsas de "antisemitismo" para silenciar reproches a la conducta de Israel
    First Published: 2009
  12541. Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-Semitism' - Arabic text
    First Published: 2009
  12542. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour 
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
  12543. La tactique du désespoir : Utilisant de fausses accusations de l'antisémitisme comme arme pour faire taire toute critique sur le comportement d'Israël.
    First Published: 2009
  12544. Tailoring to Needs: Garment Worker Struggles in Bangladesh
    First Published: 2010
    The class struggle in Bangladesh is fought at a consistently high level and concentrated in the ready made garment (RMG) sector, the country’s dominant industry. Mainly unmediated by trade unions, struggles frequently assume an explosive character.
  12545. Tails: The amnesic Incognito Live System
    First Published: 2013
    Tails is an operating system like Windows or Mac OS, but one specially designed to preserve your anonymity and privacy.
  12546. Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group's path to success with director Ben Fine
    First Published: 2006
    An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
  12547. Take Back the Land
    First Published: 2009
    It is immoral for human beings to be forced to live on the streets while perfectly good structures stand vacant, sometimes just blocks away.
  12548. Take Back The Land, Give Root To Democracy
    Book Review by Alex Knight
    First Published: 2010
    In many ways, Take Back the Land is a direct heir of the bottom-up, Black self-empowerment, civil disobedient, movement-building tradition, and is one of the most inspiring examples of a group renewing and developing that tradition today.
  12549. Take Care! Human Rights In The Eighties
    First Published: 1986
  12550. Take Israel To International Criminal Court
    First Published: 2010
    It is imperative that the international community view the Israeli response to the Goldstone report as a blatant attempt to whitewash its crimes in Gaza, and refer the matter to the ICC without further delay. To do otherwise will only continue to encourage Israeli intransigence.
  12551. 'Take me to your leader'
    First Published: 2009
  12552. Take This Job and Shove it
    Authentic Journalism Draws a Line in the Sand in the Alamo City
    First Published: 2014
    On May 1, International Workers’ Day, I walked into my publisher’s office mid-afternoon, after he finally came into work that day, and resigned as editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Business Journal, a position I had held for 20 years.
    The Alamo, located in the heart of downtown San Antonio, is an old, rather small former Spanish mission that has been around for some 300 years. The San Antonio Business Journal, by contrast, was launched a little more than 25 years ago — with Bill Conroy serving as editor-in-chief for 20 of those years.
    During that period, the newspaper was always profitable and I never had to fire a single person. Consequently, I had a kickass veteran reporting staff, most of them there at least 10 years — a rarity in the news business today. Ironically, then, I was the first person I ever fired, and it was due to two primary reasons.
    The first is as old as the newspaper industry itself, and baseball for that matter. When a coach of even a winning baseball team has a philosophical disagreement with a new general manager, over players or strategy, the coach almost invariably loses, and is out of a job. The same scenario holds true in the newspaper industry.
  12553. "Take This Test and Shove It!"
    First Published: 1999
    Open resistance to high stakes tests is an important development: it can be the first step in a movement uniting students, teachers, parents, and others against the corporate assault on public education and for a democratic society.
  12554. Take your partners
    Monogamy is not necessarily the best policy.
  12555. The Takeover of Motor City
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    In early April the Detroit City Council and Mayor Dave Bing signed a “consent agreement” with Michigan Governor Rick Snyder that essentially turns over the city’s financial management to an appointed board.
  12556. Taking Back Homes From The Banks: Exercising The Human Right To Housing 
    First Published: 2010
    Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right
    to housing. With the millions of homeless living in our communities and the millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to put them together. Organizations across the US are engaging in 'housing liberation' and 'housing defense' to exercise their human rights to housing.
  12557. 'Taking back the media', effective campaigning required to empower Progressive Movement
    First Published: 2011
  12558. Taking Back What's Ours
    The Struggle of the Townspeople of Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas
    First Published: 2014
    The morning sun was just above the horizon when San Cristóbal’s cobblestone streets and colonial houses gave way to crumbling pavement and deep green cornfields. Our combi, a small minibus bursting with passengers, wound its way downwards out of the highlands of Chiapas, down into the warmer climate of the lowland valleys.
  12559. Taking Control of Our Future
    Clerical Workers and the New Technology
    First Published: 1987
  12560. Taking liberties: When elite representatives define 'national security'
    First Published: 2011
    Most reporters assigned to the national security beat are not physically embedded within the RCMP and CSIS in the way those covering the occupation of Afghanistan seem to become stenographers for the Canadian military. But they tend to write as if they were, buying the assumptions created and sustained by those who benefit most from them while generally ignoring the fact that these agencies have a historical profile that reads "pathological liar."
  12561. Taking on the Far-Right Menace
    An Interview with Mark Bray
    First Published: 2018
    Diana Feeley and David Finkel interview Mark Bray, author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook and professor at Darmouth College. Bray answers questions about his book, facism, tracking the racist right and tactical issues.
  12562. Taking on the Religious Right
    A review of God and His Demons
    First Published: 2010
    Michael Parenti confronts the dangers of religious fundamentalism.
  12563. Taking Sides
    First Published: 1990
    To many of us it is pretty obvious that there are some conflicts in which we ought to take sides. But what about the Christian belief in reconciliation, forgiveness and peace? How can you take sides if you love everybody, including your enemies? And how do we account for the widespread belief that in any conflict a Christian should be a peacemaker who avoids taking sides and tries to bring about reconciliation between the opposing forces?
  12564. Taking the Scents out of Sensitive
    Many people are adversely affected by the chemicals in scented products.
  12565. Taking the World to the Brink of Annihilation
    First Published: 2018
    Western neoconservatives and hawks are driving the international situation to increasing tension and danger. Not content with the destruction of Iraq and Libya based on false claims, they are now pressing for a direct US attack on Syria.
  12566. Taking What's Ours - everywoman's guide to welfare and student aid
    First Published: 1978
    This booklet is intended to be a guide for sorting out the most common problems encountered by women when trying to obtain welfare, mother's allowance or when returning to school.
  12567. Taksim is not Tahrir—yet
    First Published: 2011
    Much of the talk of “neoliberalism” coming from such leftist organizations is often a call for a return to state-administered enterprises under “workers’ control”, which is nothing more than bureaucratic state capitalism. It should be remembered that even under the most intense periods of nationalization in Turkey, often glorified among the social democrats and the like, was fought against by the working class.
  12568. Taktyki Desperacji: Uzywanie falszywych oskarzen antysemityzmu jako broni uciszajacej krytyke zachowania Izraela
    First Published: 2009
  12569. A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and Gaza
    First Published: 2018
    Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
  12570. A Tale of Two Citations: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Michael Harrington's "The Other America"
    Contrasting Lessons for Activists
    First Published: 2019
    Looking at the forgotten, more radical aspects of Carson's "Silent Spring." Compares it with other, less radical works that were more easily co-opted by governments looking to appease new social and environmental movements.
  12571. A tale of two farming conferences: the future is 'real' and organic
    First Published: 2015
    Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
  12572. A Tale of Two Islands 
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.
  12573. A Tale of Two Offices
    First Published: 1977
    Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
  12574. A Tale of Two Social Forums
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    From June 22-26, 2010, fifteen thousand social movement activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan for the second United States Social Forum (USSF). Less than two months later, about half that number met at the other end of the continent in Asunción, Paraguay for the 4th Americas Social Forum (ASF).
  12575. A Tale of Two Toilets: Profiting from Necessity?
    First Published: 2019
    As indoor plumbing arrived in the U.S. in the 1840s and Dr. John Snow’s treatise on sewage-contaminated water causing cholera came out in 1855, the current global toilet situation cannot be attributed to lack of knowledge, technology, or resources.
  12576. A Tale of Two Utopias
    The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
    First Published: 1997
  12577. Tales of Tyrants: Ben Ali, Mubarak & Suleiman
    First Published: 2011
    On the overthrow of Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Mubarak.
  12578. Talk on Anarchism and Capitalism
    First Published: 2008
  12579. Talking About Organizing
    A Series
    First Published: 2014
    This is an active online archive of commentaries and stories, first published in Our Times, about the experience of union organizing: what works and what doesn't. It's also the place where you'll find Our Times' columnist Derek Blackadder's WebWork series archived -- articles about online resources for union activists.
  12580. Talking about radicalization
    First Published: 2016
    One of the problems with discussing the concept of radicalization is that it can mean all things to all people. In one sense it simply means 'the process by which terrorists become terrorists'. But, radicalization, particularly as it is discussed in political and popular discourse, has also come to embody certain ideas about how that process takes place: For instance, that the acceptance of extremist religious ideas is the first step in leading people to violence; that there are certain stages through which people move from belief to terror; that there are certain tell tale signatures of radicalization; and so on.
  12581. Talking Back to the Right 
    A guide for community activists
    First Published: 1996
    The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
  12582. Talking Trash: Unfortunate Truths About Recycling
    First Published: 2019
    A deep dive into the mechanics of recycling and why it isn't a panacea for our environmental problems.
  12583. Talks in the city of light generate more heat
    First Published: 2015
    Rather than relying on far-off negative-emissions technologies, Paris needed to deliver a low-carbon road map for today.
  12584. Tamil Nadu's seaweed harvesters in rough seas
    First Published: 2019
    An unusual activity of the fisherwomen of Bharathinagar in Tamil Nadu keeps them more in the water than on boats. But climate change and overexploitation of marine resources are eroding their livelihoods.
  12585. Taniec z Wina: Jak mezczyzni patrza na przemoc
    First Published: 1991
  12586. 'Tantura' Exposes the Lie at the Heart of Israel's Founding Myth
    First Published: 2022
    A new documentary challenges Israel's narrative about 1948 and the forced displacement of Palestinians.
  12587. Taplok Press, A New Flame
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    Reading Left books has become somewhat of a trend in Indonesia. Although the struggle for democracy is far from won, overthrowing the dictator Suharto in 1998 has brought a lot of positive changes for people. One of the most important changes is the ability to openly explore political ideas and the access to information.
  12588. Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists'
    First Published: 2015
    Canada's Harper government has targeted as a new crime being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism.
  12589. Target Africa
    The U.S. military's expanding footprint in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
    First Published: 2015
    The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend across Africa with a network of low-profile camps. These facilities allow U.S. forces to surveil and operate on large areas of the continent and to strike targets with drones and manned aircraft.
  12590. A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
    Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1989
    Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
  12591. Targeting Disability
    First Published: 2005
    In addition to old-age benefits, it is often forgotten that Social Security provides survivor and disability insurance protections as well. The privatization debate has overlooked the fate of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) as a part of the program's family of benefits.
  12592. Targeting Earth First!
    Dave Foreman and the First Greenscare Case
    First Published: 2009
    The war on environmentalism.
  12593. The Targeting of Walter Rodney
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    On October 15, 1968 the government of Jamaica barred Walter Rodney from returning to the island. A lecturer at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Rodney had been out of the country attending a Black Power conference in Canada. The Guyanese-born Rodney was no stranger to Jamaica, having graduated from UWI in 1963. He returned to his alma mater as a faculty member at the beginning of 1968, after doing graduate studies in England and working briefly in Tanzania.
  12594. Taser Company Uses Facebook, Blogs to Improve Image Amidst Lawsuits
    Stun-gun maker Taser blogs to beat bad buz
    First Published: 2009
    The company, whose main product is a lightning rod for criticism, is increasingly using blogs and social networks to promote new products and dispel anxieties about them.
  12595. The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution
    a.k.a. The April Theses
    First Published: 1917
    This article contains Lenin’s famous April Theses read by him at two meetings of the All-Russia Conference of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, on April 4, 1917.
  12596. Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember
    First Published: 2017
    Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact. At stake was nothing less than control of the country, and the survival of a people.
  12597. Tatchell's reply: "A new left-wing McCarthyism"
    First Published: 2016
    The future of progressive politics is under threat, again. But this time from the left. Historically, socialists and greens have made gains by building broad alliances around a common goal, such as the campaigns against the poll tax and the bombing of Syria. We united together diverse people who often disagreed on other issues. Through this unity and solidarity, we won. Nowadays, we are witnessing a revival of far 'left' sectarian politics and it is infecting the Green Party too. Zealous activists, seemingly motivated by a desire to be more 'left' and pure than rivals, are putting huge energy into fighting and dragging down other campaigners.
  12598. Tauschkreise
    Connexipedia
    Tauschkreise (auch Tauschring oder Local Exchange Trading Systems, kurz LETS) sind lokal initiierte, demokratisch organisierte, gemeinnützige Gemeinschaftsunternehmen, die als Informationsdienst für die Gemeinschaften agieren und Transaktionen aufzeichnen, wenn Kunden Güter und Dienstleistungen austauschen (mit Hilfe der eigens kreierten LETS Krediten).
  12599. Tax breaks only for free traders
    First Published: 1989
  12600. Tax Facts
    First Published: 1989
  12601. Tax Havens and the Other Paris Agreement
    First Published: 2018
    Paradise & Panama papers, Canada & red herrings, and the international agreement on tax havens with "enough loopholes to drive a fleet of Ferraris through"
  12602. Tax havens face crisis in wake of Offshore Leaks, report says
    First Published: 2013
    ICIJ’s “Offshore Leaks” investigation has created a “crisis of confidence” for tax havens, damaging the offshore industry’s bottom line and its prospects for growth, a new report by a leading offshore services firm says.
  12603. Tax Havens; Undermining Democracy
    First Published: 2009
  12604. Tax housing speculators?
    First Published: 1989
  12605. Tax reform makes poor poorer
    First Published: 1992
  12606. Tax resistance
    Connexipedia Article
    The refusal to willingly pay a tax because of opposition to the institution that is imposing the tax, or to some of that institution's policies.
  12607. Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
    The costs of speaking out online are rising rapidly
    First Published: 2019
    Many governments in Africa, threatened by the democracy of internet communication, are stifling it by imposing taxes and fees, throttling internet service itself and even arresting bloggers.
  12608. Taxes a rotten deal for working people
    First Published: 1977
    A business is allowed deductions based on the actual situation, whereas for working people allowances are not realistic, but more in the nature of a gesture or a token.
  12609. Taxes for Peace, Not War.
    First Published: 1980
  12610. Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
    First Published: 2019
  12611. A Taxonomy of Racism from Alvarado to Zimmerman
    Thoughts on Hearing About the Jordan Davis Verdict from Guatemala City
    First Published: 2014
    Last week our delegation from School of the Americas Watch made a visit to the Casa de la Memoria, or House of Memory, a new museum here in Guatemala City. What first caught my eye was a poster of early Spanish classifications of racial castes. It is the museum’s answer to the racist notion taught in schools here, that after the Spaniards arrival there was a ”mixing of cultures”, kind of like peanut meets chocolate, or hip-hop meets jazz, to produce something new and beautiful – Guatemalan, or at least Ladino, culture.
  12612. TCL'd Pink: 20 Years of Solidarity
    First Published: 1993
    Swift talks about his memories of TCLPAC, the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Portugual's African Colonies, dating back to the 1970s, a different time when clarity about the causes and cures for the world's ills seemed a lot easier to achieve.
  12613. TCLSAC MATERIALS
    First Published: 1977
    These two papers deal with Canada's relationship to South Africa. They are published in 1977 by the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa (TCLSAC), a Canadian group supporting the national liberation movements in Africa.
  12614. Tea Party Oddsmaker Has Best Campaign Finance Reform Idea Yet (Really)
    First Published: 2015
    Liberals always say we need to get money out of politics. But there are three big problems with that: (1) the Supreme Court has made it near-impossible without amending the Constitution; (2) no matter what barriers you erect, money will always find ways to influence politics; and (3) maybe most importantly, politics costs money.
  12615. Tea Party's fake protestors for Big Sugar against Florida Everglades
    First Published: 2015
    The Tea Party of Miami put up a convincing demo last week to oppose a 'land grab' that would see 46,000 acres of sugar farm land restored for Everglades conservation. Just one problem - the 'protestors' were actors each being paid $75 for the two-hour shift.
  12616. The Teabagger Anti-Socialist Purity Pledge
    First Published: 2010
  12617. Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders
    First Published: 2012
    Teach for America, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher’s unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end-in-itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.
  12618. Teach-in
    Connexipedia Article
    Educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs.
  12619. Teachers as Change Agents
    Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Howard Ryan's Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut.
  12620. Teachers in the Crosshairs
    The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession.
  12621. Teachers, Parents, Community Together
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    interview with Joshua Pechthalt. ATC interviewed Joshua Pechthalt, an activist who is Vice President of the United Teachers Los Angeles/American Federation of Teachers and President of AFT Local 1021. He also sits on the Executive Boards of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and the California State Federation of Labor.
  12622. Teaching adults to read
    First Published: 1984
    Becoming literate is an important way for people to gain more control and power over their lives.
  12623. Teaching Underdevelopment
    Development studies is outlined here as one basic approach to education. This article arises out of the 1970 Third World Project at the Ontario Institue for Studies in Educaiton.
  12624. Teaching Workers
    Education in the Name of Social Transformation
    First Published: 2014
    Karl Marx’s famous dictum sums up my teaching philosophy: “The philosophers of the world have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” As I came to see it, Marx had uncovered the inner workings of our society, showing both how it functioned and why it had to be transcended if human beings were to gain control over their lives and labour.
  12625. Teamsters and Cops
    First Published: 2016
    Minneapolis teamsters in 1934 knew something we should remember -- police enforce the ruling class's unjust order.
  12626. Tear Down the Dam; Restore the Commons
    Temacapulin Fights for Its Survival
    First Published: 2010
    Over 47,000 large dams around the world have displaced some 40,000,000 people. The World Bank has invested more than $60 billion in 600 dams.
  12627. Tear Down These Walls - Book Review
    First Published: 2013
    Review of "Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel" by Reece Jones.
  12628. Tearing Away the Veils: The Communist Manifesto 
    First Published: 2011
    At the dawn of the twentieth century, there were workers who were ready to die with the Communist Manifesto. At the dawn of the twenty-first, there may be even more who are ready to live with it.
  12629. Tearing Down the Gates?
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    Peter Sacks describes Tearing Down the Gates as a work about the staggering injustices in the American educational system. Sacks utilizes a seldom-employed tool to analyze the educational system in the United States: the role of class. Importantly, Sacks understands class in a multi-faceted way, discussing not only the money a family has but its income-producing capital and its educational background and what he describes as its “cultural capital.”
  12630. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism 
    Manifesto 2007
    First Published: 2007
    With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity of capital. Its methods are universally known: transformation of all relations into commodity relations, freedom of action for businesses and investors and expansion of the hunting area for transnational corporations over the whole planet.
  12631. Tears of Solidarity
    First Published: 2017
    The story of Ann Atwater and Claiborne Paul (C. P.) Ellis is beautifully told in Osha Gray Davidson's book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South. Atwater, a domestic worker whose parents were sharecroppers, was a civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. Ellis, the son of a millhand, was a janitor at Duke University and a local Klan leader. In 1971, after battling each other for years, Atwater and Ellis ended up co-chairing a ten-day public forum -- a "charrette," as it was called -- that brought together black and white community members to address problems in Durham's public schools. It was a fraught process.
  12632. Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanons anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah
    First Published: 2019
    The movement was spurred by the levying of regressive taxes and the persistence of a corrupt neoliberal order that has mismanaged the economy and hollowed out the public sector while enriching a handful of elites amid a looming economic collapse. Though the protests remain focused on class issues and corruption, the US is increasingly determined to co-opt the movement for its own goals.
  12633. The Techno-Fantasies of Evo Morales
    The Consequences of Modernization
    First Published: 2010
    There are two different Evo Morales: the one who makes international eco-proclamations and the one, at home, who is pushing dams, uranium excavation, cell towers, and mega-highways.
  12634. Technological Change and Working Women
    First Published: 1983
  12635. Technozealots, Indians and Information Technology
    First Published: 1983
  12636. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  12637. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia Article
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  12638. Telefilm Canada frozen
    First Published: 1992
  12639. The Telegenic Dead
    A poem
    First Published: 2014
  12640. Tell your story
    First Published: 1989
  12641. Telling it like it is
    First Published: 1983
  12642. Telling it like it isn't
    First Published: 2005
    Let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall.
  12643. Temagami ruling dangerous precedent
    First Published: 1989
  12644. Temping Down Labor Rights: The Manpowerization of Mexico
    First Published: 2010
    The continuing erosion of labour rights and labour standards in Mexico.
  12645. Temple, William Horace
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian politician, trade union activist, businessman and temperance crusader. (1899-1988).
  12646. The Temporary Autonomous Zone
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1991
    I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only possible in our time but also existent. All my research and speculation has crystallized around the concept of the TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE (hereafter abbreviated TAZ).
  12647. Ten Best Censored Stories of 1988
    Documenting the failure of the mass media to provide Americans with all the information they need to make informed decisions.
  12648. Ten Days for World Development 1977/Leader Kit
    First Published: 1977
    A kit designed for those who plan activites for the Ten Days for World Development programme.
  12649. Ten Days for World Development, Study Issue, 1976
    First Published: 1976
    "Lifestyle" issue points out global realities call for a less consumer-oriented lifestyle.
  12650. Ten demonstrations that changed the world
    First Published: 2015
    It's worth remembering that mass marches have been crucial to all the most important struggles.
  12651. The 10 Dumbest, Most Offensive Political Ads in Recent Memory
    First Published: 2011
    Not a single election cycle goes by without some attempt to use fear of the "other" to win votes. Sadly, the results are sometimes successful.
  12652. Ten Examples of Direct Resistance to Stop Government Raids
    First Published: 2017
    Resistance to unjust government action is the duty of all people who care about human rights. As Dr. King reminded us in his letter from a Birmingham jail, "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
  12653. 10 Health Care Myths - Chinese Text
    First Published: 1995
  12654. 10 Health Care Myths - Vietnamese text
    First Published: 1995
  12655. Ten Illegal Police Actions to Watch for in Ferguson
    Crackdown on the Constitution
    First Published: 2014
    When the Michael Brown verdict is announced, people can expect the police to take at least ten different illegal actions to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights. The Ferguson police have been on TV more than others so people can see how awful they have been acting. But their illegal police tactics are quite commonly used by other law enforcement in big protests across the US.
  12656. Ten Points for the Occupied Movement
    First Published: 2011
    Against Wall Street’s culture of economic exploitation, environmental degradation and human oppression we stand together to testify that another world is possible, a decent and humane world, a democratic world of liberty, dignity and solidarity.
  12657. Ten Principles to Guide the Young Activist
    Finding Happiness in Helping Others
    First Published: 2014
    Tips for young activists. They say people who live for a higher cause are happier than those who don’t. May you always find your happiness in alleviating the pain of others by standing up for what is right and honorable.
  12658. 10 Questions for William Blum
    First Published: 2017
    "God forbid we should not have a Revolution every 20 years," Jefferson wrote. "The world belongs to the living," he believed, and each generation holds the world in "usufruct." In the United States in 2017, in this whirling age of instantaneous communication, gratification and frustration, TJ would probably Twitter something like: "Make that every 10 years!"
  12659. Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
    First Published: 2015
    During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining silent about worse abuses by US ally Saudi Arabia. Not only is the Saudi regime repressive at home and abroad, but US weapons and US support for the regime make Americans complicit. So let's look at the regime the US government counts as its close friend.
  12660. 10 Shocking Incidents of Police Brutality Caught on Tape
    Finally, a Reason to Like CCTV
    First Published: 2012
    The internet is full of videos exposing police officers’ use of excessive physical force when trying to apprehend or detain “potential criminals”. Every year in fact there seems to be an increase in YouTube video uploads, video views, and news stories depicting this type of injustice.
  12661. Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
    First Published: 2013
    One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. With a few small steps, you can make that kind of surveillance a lot more difficult and expensive, both against you individually, and more generally against everyone.
  12662. Ten Theses on Farming and Disease 
    First Published: 2017
    There’s a growing understanding of the functional relationships health, food justice, and the environment share. They’re not just ticks on a checklist of good things capitalism shits on.
  12663. 10 Ways Monopoly Airlines Use 'Calculated Misery' to Make Flying an Increasingly Overpriced Nightmare
    First Published: 2015
    In the three months of last quarter, America's commercial airlines collectively made $5.5 billion, up 53 percent over the same period a year before and the highest tally since the pre-Recessionary days of 2007. And yet, customers have never been more unhappy.
    The airline industry profits by having you pay extra to be treated like a human being.
  12664. 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
    First Published: 2019
    The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health. One area intimately linked to the climate crisis that gets little attention, however, is militarism.
  12665. Ten Years Later: We're Less Free
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    The abuse of government/police power in this country is not a new or recent phenomenon — as evidenced by the government’s court-sanctioned internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during WWII, the red scare of the 1940s-1950s to repress the labor movement and other progressive causes, the use of grand juries and COINTELPRO during the ’60s to repress the civil rights and anti-war movements.
  12666. Tenant Handbook
    First Published: 1978
    This fifth edition of the Tenants' Handbook is issued by Communitas Incorporated "to outline those rights which tenants have under the existing law, and to explain how to obtain these rights.
  12667. Tenant Research Guide
    First Published: 1978
    The author intends the above publication to be an aid in laying open to view the operations of the owners of rental housing which accommodate 50 per cent of Toronto's citizens.
  12668. Tennessee: Another Battle Front
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    As attacks on public sector workers heat up around the nation, Tennessee has experienced its own battles over collective bargaining — even though few segments of the public sector workforce belong to unions.
  12669. Tensions in the Arctic
    The Big Chill
    First Published: 2014
    Tensions in the region arise from two sources: squabbles among the border states -- Norway, Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark (representing Greenland), Finland, Iceland, and Sweden -- over who owns what, and efforts by non-polar countries-- China, India, the European Union and Japan -- that want access. The conflicts range from serious to somewhat silly.
  12670. The Tent Intifada
    First Published: 2011
    The bug that had spread from Tahrir Square in Cairo to Del Sol in Madrid now landed in Tel Aviv. The slogan coined in Cairo, "Social Justice!" became the main slogan in Israel.
  12671. Terkel, Studs
    Connexipedia Article
    American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. (1912-2008).
  12672. "The Term has Become Meaningless to Me": on Violence, Social Change, and Nonviolent Communication
    First Published: 2016
    Violence means different things to different people. While some people find it important to show their opposition to acts like touching someone against their will or supporting an oppressive regime, others mill about in confusion around the middle of the space when facing supposedly unambiguous statements such as "murder is violent." Participants from the same family or the same activist group disagree on the classification of certain acts as violent. In our context, two important questions arise out of this apparent incoherence of the term: what are the implications for Nonviolent Communication? And, what does this mean about nonviolence as a political strategy for social change?
  12673. A Terrible Beauty: Remembering Ireland's Easter Rebellion
    First Published: 2016
    It's a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized key locations in downtown Dublin. They would be joined by maybe 1,000 more. In six days it would be over, the post office in flames, the streets blackened by shell fire, and the rebellion's leaders on their way to face firing squads against the walls of Kilmainham Jail. And yet the failure of the Easter Rebellion would eventually become one of the most important events in Irish history - a 'failure' that would reverberate worldwide and be mirrored by colonial uprisings almost half a century later.
  12674. The terrible legacy of Agent Orange and dioxin
    First Published: 2013
    Agent Orange was manufactured by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemicals to use as a herbicide and defoliant in the Vietnam War.
  12675. A Terribly Human Challenge
    Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing"
    First Published: 2013
    To make the movie, Joshua Oppenheimer approached the regime’s henchmen and spent eight years interviewing some of these killers.
  12676. Terrifying Prospects
    This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Moustafa Bayoumi's This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror.
  12677. Terrifying tweets of pre-Army Israeli teens
    First Published: 2014
    On Thursday, July 10, 2014, I entered the Hebrew word for "Arabs", ARAVIM, into Twitter and searched for uses of the word over the previous few hours. What I found was young Israelis proclaiming their desire for all Arabs to die and in some cases be tortured to death.
  12678. The Terrifying World of Electronic Monitoring
    From Drone Strikes to Martha Stewart
    First Published: 2013
    Electronic monitoring is about tracking and marking. The GPS technology that is trending in electronic monitors tracks people’s every movement with the purpose of marking them for punishment if they deviate from the program
  12679. Terror As It Was and Is
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    Despite the centrality today of “terrorism” as a political phenomenon, justifying a re-ordering of global power relations as well as the suppression of dissent and civil liberties domestically, it is in fact a far older phenomenon, as Nivedita Majumdar’s wonderful anthology of writing on the subject reminds us. The work excerpted in The Other Side of Terror includes fiction, poetry, and essays on the subject of terrorism by South Asians over the course of more than a century.
  12680. Terror in a Christmas Tree
    Israel Tries to Ban Non-Jewish Celebrations
    First Published: 2012
    Who would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?
  12681. Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know?
    First Published: 2017
    Why did the Manchester bombing occur? How does it relate to British relations with Middle Eastern countries?
  12682. Terror in Italy
    First Published: 1980
    I have known Toni Negri since 1964, when we met at the University of Padua. I have many disagreements with his theories and his formulations. But I am certain that he is innocent of any complicity with the Moro assassination and/or the Red Brigades. And I am also certain that he deserves a trial that is fairer than the Italian government seems to be willing to give him.
  12683. Terror and Just Response
    First Published: 2002
    Chomsky explores different interpretations of the question regarding the proper response to terrorist crimes and of the broader problem of determining their nature.
  12684. The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
    First Published: 2015
    The barbarism we condemn is the barbarism we commit. The line that separates us from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.
  12685. Terrorism Act 2000 guide
    A quick guide and brief summary of the parts of the British Terrorism Act 2000 of relevance to radical workers
    First Published: 2006
    "Terrorism" is defined very widely and could include what people would normally think of as direct action. It gives the Police very wide powers to stop search and arrest, and limits people's rights - including on arrest. The Act has been (mis-)used extensively against workers.
  12686. Terrorism and Communism
    A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution
    First Published: 1919
    Kautsky's attack on the methods used by the Bolsheviks after their seizure of power in Russia.
  12687. Terrorism, COINTELPRO, And The Black Panther Party
    First Published: 2014
  12688. Terrorism: How the Israeli state was won
    First Published: 2017
    Transcript of a speech by the author on December 14, 2016 at the House of Lords, giving a history of the conflicts and terrorist tactics of Zionists in the formation of the state of Israel.
  12689. Terrorism in Palestine
    Are the Terrorists Anti-Imperialist?
    First Published: 1946
    Terrorist activity in Palestine has been revived on a larger scale than formerly, calling the attention of the entire press to the organisations of the Hagana, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Stern Gang and their activities. Socialist internationalists must answer the question: what is the character of these organisations? Are they an anti-imperialist factor in the liberatory struggles of the colonial peoples?
  12690. Terrorist Attacks in Paris: Can Tragedy Bring Change?
    First Published: 2015
    Paris has now suffered the sort of attacks that are familiar to Beirut or to Russia. The big question is: what next? Will this fear cause people to wake up to reality and think clearly?
  12691. The Terrorists that are and the Terrorists that Aren't
    First Published: 2012
    When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When, apparently, he is 'our' terrorist.
  12692. Terrorizing School Children in the American Police State
    First Published: 2015
    Americans live in an age, to rephrase, W.E.B. Dubois, in which violence has become the problem of the twenty-first century. As brutalism comes to shape every public encounter, democratic values and the ethical imagination wither under the weight of neoliberal capitalism and post-racial racism.
  12693. Terselic, Vesna
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Croatian peace activist. (Born 1962).
  12694. A Test of Our Courage
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Mike Davis was interviewed by Jon Wiener on KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, on March 29, 2006. The interview has been slightly abridged for publication.
  12695. Testimony of a Deportee
    First Published: 2013
    Manuel Sanchez, member of Mexicans United for Regularization (MUR) and Action LGBTQ for Immigrants and Refugees (AGIR), was deported to Mexico on July 26, 2012. With the courage that he is known for, Manuel delved into his memories of that stressful period to raise public awareness about the harshness and violence of the criminalization that he experienced as a migrant.
  12696. Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee
    First Published: 2009
    A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. In other words, if we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we'd save nearly $400 billion annually - more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans.
  12697. Texas Couple Exonerated 25 Years After Being Convicted of Lurid Crimes That Never Happened
    First Published: 2017
    Fran and Dan Keller's prosecution in 1992 was part of a wave of cases across the country amid an episode of mass hysteria known as the Satanic Panic.
  12698. Text crimes
    The very long & contentious career of "Men loving boy loving men"
    First Published: 2003
    Rick Bebout on journalism and freedom and the Body Politic newspaper.
  12699. Textbook Tempest in California: Who Speaks for Hinduism?
    Against The Current vol. 122
    First Published: 2006
    Decades after their arrival in the United States in significant numbers following the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, Indian Americans are entering the political fray. Like other ethnic communities, Indian Americans are not a monolithic group. Yet the most conservative Hindu elements have had some success in claiming to represent the whole community in recent debates regarding the certification of sixth grade history textbooks in California.
  12700. The Textile and Clothing INdustries in Canada: A Profile
    First Published: 1980
  12701. Textile workers strike (1934)
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states.
  12702. Thailand: Junta orders pro-democracy leaders charged with inciting rebellion
    First Published: 2018
    The junta has ordered seven of the most prominent pro-democracy activists charged with crimes including sedition after they launched a protest campaign calling for general elections to be held in November.
  12703. Thank Russia for Winning World War II
    First Published: 2019
    Our Soviet allies barely held on alone for three years against Hitler, yet conventional wisdom is that we won the war because we equipped Soviets to die for us. This is propaganda – the USSR bore more than 90% of its own wartime industrial burden.
  12704. Thank Russia for Winning World War II
    First Published: 2019
  12705. Thankstaking in the Trumpfederacy: Terminate the Tribe That Aided the Pilgrims
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the hostile climate that exists under the Trump Administration for America's first peoples. The article looks at the further erosion treaties and protective laws, and the belief among indigenous communities that the administration's policy is a return to 'termination'.
  12706. Tharparkar: Pakistan's ongoing catastrophe
    First Published: 2016
    More than 1,500 children under the age of five have died in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan's Sindh province since 2011. Each year, as the death toll climbs, reports are sought, commissions created and emergency plans announced by the provincial government. But none of these seem able to stop the recurring problems plaguing this vast 20,000sq km district.
  12707. That Couldn't Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
    First Published: 2019
    To achieve reconciliation with Indigenous people Canada must let go of the myth of itself as a benevolent force in the world.
  12708. Thatcherism for kids
    First Published: 1992
  12709. That's militainment! Big Hollywood succumbs to the Pentagon Borg
    First Published: 2024
  12710. "The Backdrop Against Which Everything Happened"
    English-Canadian Student Movements and Off-Campus Movements for Change
    First Published: 2007
    Examines the relationship between the 1960s' student movements at English-Canadian universities and provincial, national, and international movements for change.
  12711. The Right to Choose
    First Published: 1985
    Article written by Carolyn Egan, Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics. Places the struggle for abortion rights within the broader context of reproductive freedom.
  12712. "The struggle of memory against forgetting"
    First Published: 2008
    This excellent address by filmmaker and journalist John Pilger reminds us all of an uncomfortable truth - that all the great breakthroughs in history, like the end of apartheid in South Africa, happened because ordinary people fought for it.
  12713. The Venezuelan Opposition does not want Democracy or Elections
    First Published: 2017
    Interview with Jorge Martin, secretary of the "Hands Off Venezuela" solidarity campaign. The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela is facing its most challenging times. The right-wing opposition, backed by the United States, is engaged in a full-blown regime change campaign, with violent protests occurring daily and resulting in over 50 casualties. The chavista supporters of the government have also taken to the streets in defence of the Bolivarian Revolution, and President Maduro surprised everyone by calling for a Constituent Assembly. Jorge Martín, the secretary of the "Hands Off Venezuela" solidarity campaign, give his understanding of the sitution and where it might lead. He discusses how western media are distorting the reality and presenting a one-sided picture, the role of international solidarity, the lack of progress made by the opposition and where things might go from here.
  12714. A Theater for the Poor
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    Each phase in the nine-year-history of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) now reads like a chapter from a cautionary tale for future generations of young radicals.
  12715. Their Internet or Ours? - Chinese text
    First Published: 2018
  12716. Their Internet or Ours?
    Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices
    First Published: 2018
    What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
  12717. Their Methodology and Ours
    First Published: 1977
    Self-introduction of the sole issue of the journal Strategy, which appeared, and disappeared, in the spring of 1977.
  12718. Their Multiculturalism and Ours
    First Published: 2007
    Reactionary interpretations of multiculturalism ignore, tolerate or excuse prejudice and abuse in the name of pluralism and diversity. They foster social division, moral confusion and double-standards - often to the detriment of the most vulnerable: minorities within minority communities. Progressive multiculturalism is about respecting and celebrating difference, but within a framework of universal equality and human rights. It is premised on welcoming and embracing cultural diversity, providing it does not involve the oppression of other people.
  12719. Their "Recovery" and Ours - Review
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    A review of 'Obama’s Economy: Recovery for the Few' by Jack Rasmus.
  12720. Then and Now
    1934 Strikes, Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference (Part One)
    First Published: 2014
    Today, six years after the onset of the biggest economic crisis since the Depression, what remains of organized labour in the U.S. continues to be a one-sided class war while strike action is at a historic low. What accounts for the difference between then and now?
  12721. Then and Now
    1934 Strikes, Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference (Part Two)
    First Published: 2014
    Second part of an analysis on the differences between strike action today and that of six years ago during the onset of the economic crisis.
  12722. Then and Now Part One
    1934 Strikes- Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference
    First Published: 2014
    In 1934, four years into the Great Depression, the victory of three city-wide strikes -- centered on the Teamsters in Minneapolis, auto parts workers in Toledo and longshoremen in San Francisco -- would open the door to a mass upsurge of working-class struggle and the organization of powerful industrial unions.
  12723. Then and Now Part Two
    1934 Strikes -- Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference
    First Published: 2014
    In 1934, four years into the Great Depression, the victory of three citywide strikes -- centered on the Teamsters in Minneapolis, auto parts workers in Toledo and longshoremen in San Francisco -- would open the door to a mass upsurge of working-class struggle and the organization of powerful industrial unions.
  12724. Theodore W. Allen's Legacy
    First Published: 2017
    Theodore W. "Ted" Allen (1919-2005) was an anti-white supremacist, working-class intellectual and activist, whose work on the centrality of struggle against white supremacy is growing in importance and influene 98 years after his birth.
  12725. Theodore W. Allen: Working-Class Scholar
    First Published: 2017
    Theodore W. Allen was an independent, anti-white supremacist, working-class scholar when he pioneered his "white skin privilege" analysis in the mid-1960s and when he wrote The Invention of the White Race in the 1990s.
  12726. Theological Reflection Re: Skid Row
    First Published: 1976
    Reflection on the conditions that foster the existence of Skid Rows in Canada.
  12727. Theological Reflections on the P.Q. Victory
    First Published: 1978
  12728. The Theology of Consensus 
    First Published: 2015
    Consensus decision-making has dominated social movements for forty years. Let’s try something different. Outside of small-group settings, consensus process is unwieldy, off-putting, tiresome, and ineffective. Many inclusive, accountable alternative methods are available for making decisions democratically. If we want to change the world, let's pick ones that work.
  12729. The Theology of Respect
    First Published: 2006
    What the new theology demands is, in fact, not respect but obedience. 'You will only say or do what we think is acceptable' has become the credo of the multiculturalist censor. It is an attitude that turns the notion of respect on its head.
  12730. Théories et militantismes queer : réflexion à partir de l'exemple français
    First Published: 2009
  12731. Theories of History
    First Published: 2006
    Conventional history tends to make ordinary people invisible. The motive forces of history are treated as some combination of "great men" (very occasionally women, almost always hetero and white regardless of gender) and impersonal forces like "economics" (treated in ways that reify them and give them agency outside of the local, everyday human activities that actually produce them).
  12732. Theories of Patriarchy
    First Published: 2006
    The most persistent and widespread theory around the women’s movement today is that of patriarchy. This is justified by pointing to the existence of women’s oppression in societies other than those of western capitalism.
  12733. Theories of Stalinism
    Against The Current vol. 143
    First Published: 2009
    Karl Marx and his comrades deemed their own approach “scientific,” as compared to “utopian” intellectual efforts on behalf of socialism, because they believed that practical efforts to challenge and ultimately replace capitalism with something better must be grounded in a serious study of economic, political, social, historical realities and dynamics.
  12734. Theorizing the Soviet Bureaucracy
    Review of Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy
    First Published: 2018
    A review of the book: Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas M. Twiss.
  12735. Theory & Practice 
    A polemic against Comrade Kautsky's theory of the Mass Strike
    First Published: 1910
    Rosa Luxemburg confronts Karl Kautsky on the crucial questions of the General Mass Strike and on the relationship of spontaneity to organization, as well as on the unity of theory and practice. This crucial 1910 debate in German Social Democracy led to Luxemburg's revolutionary break with Karl Kautsky and foreshadowed the collapse of the Second International at the outbreak of World War I.
  12736. The Theory of Alienation: Marx's Debt to Hegel
    First Published: 1965
    One hundred years before Hiroshima, Marx wrote, "To have one basis for science and other for life is a priori, a lie." We have lived this lie for so long that the fate of civilization, not merely rhetorically, but literally, is within orbit of a nuclear ICBM. Since the very survival of mankind hangs in the balance between the East's and the West's nuclear terror, we must, this time, under the penalty of death, unite theory and practice in the struggle for freedom, thereby abolishing the division between philosophy and reality and giving ear to the urgency of "realizing" philosophy, i.e., of making freedom a reality.
  12737. Theory of Knowledge
    First Published: 1926
  12738. The theory of the collapse of capitalism
    First Published: 1934
    Struggle is never simple or convenient.
  12739. Theory and practice: an introduction to Marxian theory 
    First Published: 1973
    1979 article by Root and Branch, introducing Marxist theory.
  12740. Theory and Practice of Idealism in Trotskyism and the ISO
    First Published: 2013
    We have come to conclusions there is a theoretical underpinning to the problems we (and others) experienced in the ISO, such as continually erroneous perspectives which rarely were assessed, a leadership method that emphasized cheerleading and exhortation over sober assessment of the challenges we are facing, a tendency to tail the liberals both politically and organizationally (opportunism), a growing separation between our Marxist theory and our practice (a hallmark of opportunism), a sectarian attitude towards the revolutionary left (other socialists and anarchists alike) and an intolerance toward ongoing political disagreement within the organization.
  12741. There Are Realistic Alternatives
    First Published: 2003
    Developing realistic alternatives to war and other violence.
  12742. There are Reforms and There are Reforms 
    Or, Two Sorts of Reforms
    First Published: 1908
    Those who believe that we will manage to gradually realize socialism by social reform within the current regime misunderstand the class antagonisms that determine reforms. Current social reform, having as a goal the preservation of the capitalist system, finds itself in opposition to the proletarian reform of tomorrow, which will have the contrary goal: the suppression of the system. The organic connection that exists today between reform and revolution is completely different. In fighting for reform the working class develops and makes itself strong. It ends by conquering political power. This is the unity of reform and revolution.
  12743. There Is a Coordinated Campaign to Suppress Criticism of Israel
    First Published: 2018
    Israel's human rights violations are accompanied by U.S. efforts to stifle dissent.
  12744. There Is a War on Ordinary People, and Feminists Are Needed at the Front
    First Published: 2013
    The problem with media-run "conversations" on gender is not merely the almost total absence of male participants, but the suppression of class. The bourgeois media club relegates and distracts from the fact that a full-blooded class war is under way.
  12745. There is no Alternative Unless We Build One: Reinventing Socialist Politics
    First Published: 2015
    Social democratic parties surrendered the countervailing power they had acquired during the long post-war boom to the imperatives of international competitiveness. New parties of the left that originally positioned themselves somewhere between social democracy and communism lost their points of reference and have proven, thus far at least, unable to invent a socialism for a world after Soviet communism and social democratic welfare-states.
  12746. There is No Such Thing as International Terrorism
    First Published: 2015
    To declare war on "international terrorism" is nonsense. Politicians who do so are either fools or cynics, and probably both.
  12747. There is something missing from tech worker organizing
    First Published: 2020
  12748. There's Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food Labeling
    First Published: 2017
    A criticism of the notion that the issue of labelling GMO foods is too narrow in focus, detailing the complexities of the issue and arguing for the broader importance of labelling.
  12749. There’s Always a Class War Going On
    An Interview with Chris Steele
    First Published: 2013
    An excerpt from the second edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity published by Zuccotti Park Press.
  12750. There's No Good Reason for Your Boss to Make 347 Times What You Do
    First Published: 2017
    CEO pay at America's 500 largest companies averaged $13.1 million in 2016. That's 347 times what the average employee makes.
  12751. There's No Place for Clean Water Under 'Free Trade'
    First Published: 2016
    Yet another standoff between clean drinking water and mining profits has taken shape in Colombia, where two corporations insist their right to pollute trumps human health and the environment. As is customary in these cases, it is clean water that is the underdog here.
  12752. There's no such thing as a slow news day
    First Published: 2003
    The news media are always looking for news.
  12753. Theresa May's Katrina
    First Published: 2017
    The unlikely reality of a bearded, unashamedly socialist (of sorts) MP winning the affection of working class voters countrywide calls out for further investigation.
  12754. These Activists Blocked Migrant Deportations. Now They Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.
    First Published: 2018
    Fifteen activists who blocked a plane deporting migrants are being charged with laws intended for terrorists. The use of charter flights for deportations is one of the issues they raise.
  12755. These are the Israeli leaders who want to destroy al-Aqsa
    First Published: 2017
    The recent violence at the al-Aqsa temple and subsequent response by Israeli leadership underscores the belief that the intent is to replace the Muslim holy site as part of the broader agenda of Israeli sovereignty.
  12756. These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy
    First Published: 2010
    As I see in threads on my articles, the online sabotaging of intelligent debate seems organised. We must fight to save this precious gift.
  12757. These Quakers Are Asking Tougher Questions Than Many in the Press 
    First Published: 2016
    American Presidential candidates these days are accustomed to mainstream reporters quizzing them on process and politics, with a typical media scrum filled with questions about the latest polls, repeated demands for a response to the most recent attack from rival campaigns, and sometimes even vapid inquiries about workout routines or favorite foods. A group of Quakers has been trying to fill the substance vacuum - by training hundreds of activists to stalk the candidates in early primary states and ask them tough questions on issues ranging from immigrant detention to nuclear weapons to the role of money in politics.
  12758. These Salvadoran Women Went to Prison for Suffering Miscarriages
    First Published: 2015
    For many expectant mothers in El Salvador, a largely Catholic Central American country of around 6 million, pregnancy losses -- unexpected, frightening, and tragic -- have been declared intentional and criminal. Some of these mothers are doing hard time.
  12759. These Senior Citizens Are Destined to Die in Prison -- For Marijuana
    First Published: 2016
    There are drug war excesses remaining to be rectified. Here are some of the most outrageous.
  12760. These Weapons of Mass Destruction Cannot be Displayed
    Finally, the evidence!
  12761. Theses for Discussion - Korean text
    First Published: 2011
  12762. Theses of the Workers Opposition
    First Published: 1921
    Advocated the role of unionized workers in directing the economy at a time when Soviet government organs were running industry by dictate and trying to exclude trade unions from a participatory role.
  12763. Theses On Feuerbach
    First Published: 1845   Published: 1924
  12764. Theses on Libertarian Municipalism
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    These theses advance the view that a libertarian municipalism is possible and a new civic politics is definable as a dual power that can counterpose assembly and confederal forms to the centralized State.
  12765. Theses On The Fight Of The Working Class Against Capitalism
    First Published: 1947
    Extension of the strike to ever larger masses, the only tactics appropriate to wrench concessions from capital, is fundamentally opposed to the Trade Union tactics to restrict the fight and to put an end to it as soon as possible. Such wild strikes in the present times are the only real class fights of the workers against capital. Here they assert their freedom, themselves choosing and directing their actions, not directed by other powers for other interests.
  12766. Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
    First Published: 1920
    Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
  12767. Theses on the Paris Commune
    First Published: 1962
  12768. Theses on the Right of Nations to Self-Determination
    First Published: 1915
  12769. They Are Rolling Out The Architecture of Oppression Now Because They Fear The People
    First Published: 2020
    "As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world," NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said in a recent interview.
  12770. They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
    Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
    First Published: 2012
    Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
  12771. They Came for the Children: Truth Commission Sheds Light on Canada's Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples
    First Published: 2016
    Imagine a village with all its children gone. For aboriginal peoples all across Canada, this was their lived reality, not the stuff of imagination. The story of what happened to the children -- who were forcibly removed from their families and sent to military-style camps that were euphemistically called "schools" -- has at last been told, compiled in the monumental six-volume Truth and Reconciliation Report on residential schools for aboriginal children released in 2015.
  12772. They Came to Take a County: Land Seizure Agitators, Propagandists, Politicians
    First Published: 2016
    Thanks to the Bundy Gang, public lands advocates became aware of elements of the Land Seizure movement that had been operating in the shadows. The curtain was drawn back on networks of agitators and propagandists: Constitutional "experts" and sheriffs, "patriot" legislators and self-centered sovereign citizens.
  12773. "They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless:" The Life and Legacy of Berta Cáceres
    First Published: 2016
    I began writing a eulogy for Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores years ago, though she died only last week. Berta was assassinated by Honduran government-backed death squads on March 3, 2016.
  12774. They forgot the bicycle
    First Published: 1991
  12775. They Found Nothing. Nothing.
    The IAEA, Iran And ‘Fantasy Land’
    First Published: 2011
    What is so breathtaking is that the apparent consensus on Iran, like the case against Iraq, is a fraud.
  12776. 'They Had Already Decided They Wanted to Invade Iraq'
    CounterSpin interviews with Robert Dreyfuss and Diana Duarte on media and the Iraq War
    First Published: 2019
    MP3s and transcripts of two interviews about justifications for the Iraq war. One focused on intelligence on WMDs and the other on women's rights.
  12777. They Lied About Afghanistan & Iraq; Now They're Lying About Ukraine
    First Published: 2023
    The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.
  12778. They poisoned the river for a 'clean coal' lie
    First Published: 2014
    Thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical used to produce “clean coal”, spilled into Elk River, leaving 300,000 with no water supply.
  12779. They Showed the Way to Labor Emancipation
    On Karl Marx and the 75th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
    First Published: 1946
    Marx drew a great theoretical conclusions from the experience of the Commune. He showed that the capitalist army, the capitalist state, the capitalist bureaucracy, cannot be seized by the revolutionary proletariat and used for its own purposes. It had to be smashed completely and a new state organized, based upon the organization of the working class.
  12780. They Sow the Cyclone - We Reap the Blowback
    How Uncle Sam Seeded Global Jihad & Cultivates It to This Day
    First Published: 2015
    It may be surprising to hear, but it is a plain historical fact that modern international jihad originated as an instrument of US foreign policy. The "great menace of our era" was built up by the CIA to wage a proxy war against the Soviets.
  12781. 'They stole the beach' - the major mafia that almost nobody wants to talk about
    The building boom in China and worldwide demand for consumer goods containing ilmenite has enriched criminals who specialise in stealing san
    First Published: 2018
    Increasing demand for sand has led to targeting of sandy beaches by organised crime. Community members who speak out or protest the destruction of beaches are often victims of intimidation, harrassment and violence.
  12782. They Stripped Us of Our Clothes and Assigned Us a Number
    First Published: 2020
    How can one begin to excavate the horrors of a radical resocialization project (from roughly 1876 to 1986) to transform "savages" into "civilized" citizens? In turning First Nations societies upside down, the government and the churches ended up turning themselves upside down, evident in the spiritual and moral degradation of themselves and students under their care.
  12783. They Throw Us Out of Our Homes But We Get Ice Cream
    First Published: 2016
    If there were any doubt that gentrification has come to my corner of Brooklyn, that was put to rest last weekend with the appearance of an ice cream truck. An ice cream truck painted with the logo and red color of The Economist. Yes, it was just as this reads. Free scoops of ice cream were being given out as a young woman with a clipboard was attempting to get people to sign up for subscriptions to The Economist.
  12784. They Want to Prohibit Us from Dreaming
    First Published: 2016
    A 2014 interview with renowned Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated last week.
  12785. They're Going to be Stuffing Our Kids
    First Published: 1991
    Will technology in the classroom be a boon to educators in the future, or a disaster waiting to happen?
  12786. They're Recharging Democracy
    First Published: 2010
  12787. The Thiaroye massacre, 1944
    First Published: 2016
    A short history of the mass killing of black soldiers in the Free French Forces who were protesting against non-payment of wages towards the end of World War II.
  12788. Thieving Sons of Bushes
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    “Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco. The D.C. protest was the largest one at a presidential inauguration since 1973 -- at President Nixon's second term.
  12789. Things My Students Don't Know
    First Published: 2016
    One of the discussion exercises I use in my course on corporate power begins with the bare text of the First Amendment projected on screen at the front of the room. I tell students that this is a recently proposed piece of federal legislation and invite their comments. I also say that if anyone has heard of the proposal, they should remain quiet for the time being and let others speak first.
  12790. Think California's drought is bad? Try Palestine's
    First Published: 2015
    While Israelis water their lawns, irrigate crops and swim in Olympic-sized pools, Palestinian communities a few kilometers away face drought and water scarcity issues. Their roughly equal proximity to water resources theoretically allows for equal consumption.
  12791. Think Rail
    First Published: 1989
  12792. Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
    First Published: 2015
    With the recent AshleyMadison leak and Gawker.com's notorious naming and shaming of an obscure, married publishing executive, deBoer questions who really won in this culture war.
  12793. Thinking About Equality
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    Back in 1937, as fascism seemed poised to seize power in much of Europe, George Orwell noted in A Road to Wigan Pier that a “genuinely revolutionary socialism” would have no chance of reversing the tide unless its supporters put aside their factionalism, ceased using jargon that few people could understand, and mobilized around propaganda stressing justice, liberty, and the plight of the unemployed.
  12794. Thinking About Self-Determination 
    First Published: 1994
    Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
  12795. Thinking About Suffragette
    First Published: 2016
    Alison Baldree responds to the 2015 flim Suffragette.
  12796. Thinking Clearly in a Time of Crisis
    First Published: 2020
    A crisis like this pandemic is not a time to stop thinking. It is a time when critical thinking and public discussion are more important than ever. A small number of officials and politicians are taking decisions with enormous and far-reaching implications for the lives of many people, not just for the duration of this pandemic, but far into the future. The time to have serious discussions about what they are doing, and the direction we are heading in, is now, not some day in the future when it will be difficult, or too late, to change course.
  12797. Thinking of Joining the ISO?
    First Published: 2013
    My goal in writing this is to encourage a fundamental re-thinking of “Leninist” party-building efforts in order to help end the unnecessary separation between the socialist movement and the working class that has blocked both movements from beginning to reverse the balance of class forces in America. I strongly believe such party-building efforts have helped perpetuate rather than undermine this crippling separation.
  12798. Thinking of Joining the ISO?
    First Published: 2013
    A critical examination of the ISO’s methods, practices, and structures compared to those of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) which the ISO holds up as its organizing model, as well as some suggestions for a better, more effective political practice.
  12799. Thinking Outside the Box
    First Published: 2007
    Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or faith and creating conflicts by institutionalising such differences in public policy.
  12800. Thinking The Right Thoughts
    First Published: 2014
    There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being 'the good guys' in world affairs. The authors provide examples from the British media.
  12801. Third International (Comintern)
    Connexipedia Article
    An international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919, and disbanded in 1943.
  12802. Third Position
    Connexipedia Article
    Third Position is a nationalist political strand that emphasises its opposition to both communism and capitalism. Advocates of third position views present themselves as neither left nor right, instead taking a more syncretic stance.
  12803. Third Servile War
    Connexipedia Article
    The last of a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic. (73-71 BC).
  12804. The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
    First Published: 1991
    Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
  12805. 13 protesters against copper plant in India killed after police open fire
    First Published: 2018
    Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and and hundreds injured.
  12806. 13 Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret From You
    Constitutional Black Out
    First Published: 2013
    The President and the Government are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance secret.
  12807. Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us
    First Published: 2012
    Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. Here are thirteen examples of how some of the biggest government agencies and programs track people.
  12808. Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea
    Following the trail of BP's oil in the Gulf of Mexico
    First Published: 2015
    One morning in March of last year, I set out from Gulfport, Mississippi, on a three-week mission aboard the U.S. Navy research vessel Atlantis.
  12809. 31 Years After the U.S. Invasion of Grenada
    A Lovely Piece of Real Estate
    First Published: 2014
    As I'm sure everyone knows, we're fast approaching the 31st anniversary of a truly momentous American victory — a crucial military operation that not only warmed Ronald Raygun's cold, cold heart but was also deemed film-worthy by the former mayor of Carmel, California.
  12810. 33rd Anniversary Of The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
    First Published: 2017
    The escape of about 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) – a highly toxic chemical – from a storage tank on the premises of the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal – the capital of the State of Madhya Pradesh – on the night of 02/03 December 1984 resulted in a horrendous disaster in the city, which was inhabited by about 900,000 persons then.
  12811. Thirty years on, the holocaust in Cambodia and its aftermath is remembered
    First Published: 2009
    John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his epic dispatches and documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, and that Cambodia was again "punished" when its liberators came from the wrong side of the cold war and the Thatcher government send special forces to train the Khmer Rouge in exile.
  12812. This book explains how things don't work
    First Published: 1977
    There a lots of guides explaining how things work. This one explains how they don't -- and why they don't.
  12813. "This Changes Everything..."
    Against The Current vol. 92
    First Published: 2001
    Remember those ads for the Viper, that hyped-up, super-computerized Dodge yuppiemobile that adjusted itself for road conditions, programmed its own itinerary, virtually drove itself and offered more luxury features than the average first-class airline trip? The slogan for that promotional campaign — "This Changes Everything" — fits perfectly the sudden economic downturn and fear of recession.
  12814. "This Deportation Business": 1920s and the Present
    First Published: 2016
    This article examines the growth of the deportation regime during the 1920s, and explores the enduring ramifications of early deportation practice and the renegotiation of the state's coercive power over migrants.
  12815. This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste - and it's leaking
    First Published: 2015
    The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean.
  12816. This Group Has Successfully Converted White Supremacists Using Compassion. Trump Defunded It. 
    First Published: 2017
    Life After Hate is a Chicago-based nonprofit that does path-breaking work. Founded by former white supremacist leaders in 2011, it studies the forces that draw people to hate and helps those who are willing to disengage from radical extremist movements. In June, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a grant to the nonprofit, telling The Huffington Post that it wants to focus on funding groups that work with law enforcement.
  12817. This is about systems – the food system, the capitalist system and the socialist system
    First Published: 2014
    This is about systems – the food system, the capitalist system and the socialist system.
  12818. This Is About Us
    First Published: 2009
    The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
  12819. 'This is apartheid': Rights group slams Israeli rule
    First Published: 2021
    On report from human rights group condemning Israeli government's policies towards Palestinans as apartheid.
  12820. This is Genocide
    On Israel/Palestine
    First Published: 2014
    To call what is going on in Israel and Palestine a “conflict” is to partake in the racist and blatantly false narrative that is being pushed by Israel. When one side fights with stones and homemade rockets, and the other side fights with a military backed by the full force of the United States military industrial complex, it is not a “conflict.” When civilian casualties – including hundreds of children – amass on only one side, it is not a “conflict.” When one side sets up with lawn chairs and popcorn to watch and cheer as their government bombs another country, it is not a “conflict.”
  12821. 'This is murder': French islanders want Paris to own up to poisoning their land with pesticide
    First Published: 2018
    The French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean want France to take responsibility for polluting their land with a toxic pesticide. This article looks at the effects of Kepone, also called chlordecone, on the people of the islands, who now suffer from alarmingly high cancer rates and fertility problems.
  12822. This is NOT Recognition
    First Published: 2014
    As the recognition by European countries of a so called "State of Palestine" continues, it is becoming obvious that this is nothing but an old colonial trick dusted and reused. In the triangular relations between the Europeans, the colonial regime in Palestine – Israel, and the Palestinians, all remains the same.
  12823. This Is What Complicity Looks Like: Palestine and the Silencing Campaign on Campus
    First Published: 2011
    The campaign to silence Palestine solidarity reaches its annual crescendo during Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
  12824. This is What Insurgency Looks Like
    First Published: 2016
    The call to Break Free from Fossil Fuels envisioned "tens of thousands of people around the world rising up" to take back control of their own destiny; "sitting down" to "block the business of government and industry that threaten our future"; conducting "peaceful defense of our right to clean energy." That's just what happened.
  12825. This is What Plutocracy Looks Like
    First Published: 2017
    Mr. Trump is the quintessential plutocrat-- a self-interested man of inherited means and limited life experience who stumbled upward through political economy engineered to benefit his class. It is this very public nature of his 'success' that attaches class culpability to his actions.
  12826. This Is What War Does
    First Published: 2015
    Modern war is mass killing of civilians, always and everywhere, a practice which evolved in World War II and has done nothing but progress in that direction since. Even when they aren’t the actual targets, as in America’s nightmarish assassination-by-drone project, large numbers of dead or mangled civilians are the unavoidable consequence.
  12827. This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
    First Published: 2018
    An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
  12828. This is why everything you’ve read about the wars in Syria and Iraq could be wrong
    First Published: 2016
    A description of how much of the coverage of the wars in Syria and Iraq is second-hand reporting, due to the dangers posed, and subject to political bias and propaganda.
  12829. This is Your Ocean on Acid
    The Big Picture
    First Published: 2014
    More than 40 percent of the world’s oceans are heavily impacted by human activities with few areas — if any — left unaffected by anthropogenic factors. This means we humans (and what we deem civilization) have played a primary role in the despoiling of the waters of the earth. The relentless quest for profit, however, has distracted us from the plight of the deep blue sea and how it impacts all forms of life.
  12830. This isn't a civil war, it is settler-colonial brutality 
    First Published: 2021
    We are not seeing a "civil war" inside Israel, but rather the Israeli settler state declaring a war on its colonized "citizens," and Palestinians fighting for their liberation.
  12831. This Israeli Presentation on How to Make Drone Strikes More "Efficient" Disturbed Its Audience
    First Published: 2017
    Research backed by the U.S. and Israeli military scandalized a conference near Tel Aviv earlier this year after a presentation showed how the findings would help drone operators more easily locate people -- including targets -- fleeing their strikes and better navigate areas rendered unrecognizable by prior destruction.
  12832. This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets - or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications
    First Published: 2019
    A London firm that helps the rich hide or steal money has had 15 years' worth of communications leaked. These are being made available to hopefully help return stolen money.
  12833. 'This Madman Must Be Stopped'
    Syrian Chemical Weapons
    First Published: 2013
    The White House claims that US intelligence assessed 'with varying degrees of confidence' that 'the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin'.
  12834. This March Forward to a Geniune People's Party?
    Rivalry and Deception in the Founding of the Ontario NDP, 1958-61
    First Published: 1993
    Published in Canadian Historical Review, 74.1 (March 1993)
  12835. This Must End
    First Published: 2021
    Our current living conditions under the siege are an affront to human dignity. Concrete political action is needed NOW to end not only the current deathly bombing raids, but also this illegal occupation and siege of Gaza by Israel, immediately.
  12836. This School District Threatened To Take Kids Away From Parents Over Lunch Debt. Then It Refused a Businessman's Offer to Pay Those Debts
    First Published: 2019
    A Pennsylvania school district sent letters to parents who owed lunch money informing them that they could lose custody of their children due to their lunch money debt.
  12837. This vacation do something meaningful
    First Published: 1989
  12838. This video and article are essential to understanding Israel
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli police shot 22-year-old Kheir Hamdan, and subsequently published a false statement about the details of the incident. Cameras that documented the incident reveal that their account was a lie.
  12839. This vote was about far more than immigration
    First Published: 2016
    The vote to leave the EU was fuelled by class divisions, argues Alastair Stephens.
  12840. Thomas More and his Utopia
    First Published: 1888
    More can only be understood in the light of his age, to comprehend which a knowledge of the beginnings of capitalism and the decline of feudalism, of the powerful part played by the Church on the one hand, and of world commerce on the other, is necessary.
  12841. Thompson, E. P.
    Connexipedia Article
    English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner (1924-1993).
  12842. Thompson, William
    Connexipedia Article
    Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the Cooperative, Trade Union and Chartist movements. (1775-1833).
  12843. Thompson, William
    Born with the proverbial silver-spoon in his mouth, William Thompson (1775-1833) devoted his life to ameliorating the condition of those less fortunate than himself.
  12844. Thompson, William Morris and Ecosocialist Tasks
    First Published: 2013
    Bernabe highlights E.P. Thompson's biography of William Morris and his theories regarding ecosocialism.
  12845. Thompson, E.P. - Writings - Index
    Writings of E.P. Thompson (1924-1993).
  12846. Thoreau at 200
    Don't Let Bill Gates Ban the Hoe
    First Published: 2017
    In support of the so-called 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,' Bill Gates is telling African women in remote villages to put down their hand-held hoes.
  12847. Thoreau, Henry David
    Connexipedia Article
    American author and poet. (1817-1862).
  12848. Those angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
    First Published: 2022
    The Satanic Verses novelist is championed by western liberals not because he has bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are.
  12849. Those Angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far greater threat to our freedom
    First Published: 2022
    Both Julian Assange and Salman Rushdie have been victims of violence, but sympathy was only given to Rushdie. Cook argues that although both men are prominent proponents for the freedom of speech, Rushie questions the authority of clerics and governments in far-off lands, and Assange speaks out against the crimes committed by Western governments.
  12850. Those Bush Two Blues
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    The imperial investiture of George W. Bush was celebrated with corporate-financed balls through the night. Half a world away in Iraq, the empire burned, and bodies from the Indian Ocean tsunami continued to be retrieved from the surf and the muck of shattered villages from Aceh to Sri Lanka to India to Somalia. The cost of the coronation, a few tens of millions of dollars (but who's counting?), could have paid for a warning system to save the lives of many of the 250-300,000 victims.
  12851. Those who violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo are free, while the man who helped expose their crimes languishes in prison
    First Published: 2022
  12852. Though Invisible to Us, Our Dead Are Not Absent
    First Published: 2018
    A reminder that the world is a beautiful place, and we must save it by listening to the voices of those who have passed, who instilled us with life, love and the spirit of resistance.
  12853. Thoughtcrimes and Stupidspeak: Our Assault Against Words
    First Published: 2016
    We are tortured with repetitions. How many bloggers do we have in cyberspace, opining in a Duckspeak that gets a Bellyfeel response because those who have an opposing Bellyfeel response listen only to their Duckspeak bloggers. 152 million bloggers as of 2013. 500 million tweets per day. 1.71 billion active users on Facebook. 4 billion YouTube views per day. A Pandora’s Box opened that cannot be closed, perhaps because what cybertech installs can neither be abjured nor rejected. "It's all good" apparently. Perhaps not.
  12854. Thoughtful Radicalism
    First Published: 1989
    If it lacks a sound ethical and biological basis, environmental radicalism can be a double-edged sword: a threat to the enemy, yes, but a danger to its wielder, too. In order to avoid self-defeating radicalism, Wolke suggests a commitment to what he simply calls "thoughtful radicalism," whose cornerstones are: 1) Thwart. 2) Protect. 3) Restore. 4) Educate.
  12855. Thoughts Of A Secular Sufi
    First Published: 2000
    Chomsky recalls the thoughts and words of the Pakistani antiwar-activist, Eqbal Ahmad, critic of "the twin curse of nationalism and religious fanaticism".
  12856. Thoughts on a Timely Narrative for the Left
    First Published: 2012
    "Without a story every battle is lost”, formulated the authors of the Wu Ming group, whose name demonstrators in Rome had on their shields which protected them from the police clubs. With the naming of great authors and narratives of world literature on their book shields they were indicating that power does not shy back from violently attacking even intellect and beauty.
  12857. Thousands imprisoned, some executed, based on false FBI lab reports
    First Published: 2014
    A major inquiry conducted by the US Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has found hundreds instances in which FBI forensic units charged with gathering data on cases involving violent crimes provided false information. The doctored FBI lab reports led to the imprisonment of thousands of innocent people, some of whom were executed, according to a report in the Washington Post.
  12858. Thousands Join Legal Fight Against UK Surveillance — And You Can, Too
    First Published: 2015
    Thousands of people are signing up to join an unprecedented legal campaign against the United Kingdom’s leading electronic surveillance agency.
  12859. Thousands march in Ukraine to mark Nazi collaborator Bandera's birthday
    First Published: 2018
    Some 6,500 people across Ukraine took part in marches on the first day of the year to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader considered a hero in the country despite his violent past and history of collaboration with the Nazis.
  12860. Thousands of Goldminers Invade Yanomami Territory
    First Published: 2019
    Goldminers have invaded Yanomami lands in northern Brazil, probably emboldened by Bolsonaro's war against Indigenous rights. They have brought disease to uncontacted peoples and are poisoning the environment.
  12861. Thousands Of Israelis Take To The Streets Calling For Palestinian Genocide
    First Published: 2016
    Massive rallies and Facebook campaigns calling for Palestinian genocide are ignored by Western mainstream media and Facebook despite concerns and collaborations aimed at stopping "calls to violence".
  12862. Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis Chant: 'No to the nation-state law, yes to equality'
    First Published: 2018
    Palestinian flags were seen held high during a demonstration in which tens of thousands of Arab Palestinians and Israeli Jews marched on Saturday, in Tel Aviv, to protest against the controversial Jewish Nation-State Law.
  12863. A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
    First Published: 2006
    Review of a book on Jewish Orthodox opposition to Zionism.
  12864. The Threat of Just-in-Time Scheduling
    First Published: 2014
    One of the most unnoticed labour trends in the past few decades has been the rise of "just-in-time scheduling," the practice of scheduling workers' shifts with little advance notice that are subject to cancelation hours before they are due to begin.
  12865. The Threat of the Tag
    Tracking anklets for convicts are not a good way to alleviate prison overcrowding.
  12866. Threat to Africa's parks
    First Published: 2021
    Powerful oil companies have set their sights on the huge potential reserves under Sub-Saharan Africa's wildlife sanctuaries, which will be far cheaper to exploit than deep ofshore desposits.
  12867. Threatened with Censorship and Ouster by PEN's Henchmen
    Sign the Petition to Remove Suazanne Nossel
    First Published: 2013
    Nossel's appointment may be seen as the most visible and overt symptom of Western subversion that goes back to the very founding of the "human rights" NGO’s
  12868. Three Big Lies of the Super-Rich
    Why Being in the Highest Class Doesn't Mean You're a High Class Person
    First Published: 2012
    The conservative spin of the media is designed to protect the rich from challenge.
  12869. Three Decades of Iranian Women's Activism
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
    Before the June elections and the protests that ensued, 2009 was hailed as a milestone in Iran for another reason: it marked the 30th anniversary of the 1979 revolution.
  12870. $300,000 for government video
    First Published: 1991
  12871. 3 Keys to Keeping Your Marketing and PR Writing on Strategy
    First Published: 2004
    How do you ensure that your marketing and PR piece isn't just pretty prose?
  12872. Three Leaks, Three Weeks, and What We've Learned About the US Government's Other Spying Authority: Executive Order 12333
    First Published: 2013
    The National Security Agency has been siphoning off data from the links between Yahoo and Google data centers, which include the fiber optic connections between company servers at various points around the world. While the user may have an encrypted connection to the website, the internal data flows were not encrypted and allowed the NSA to obtain millions of records each month, including both metadata and content like audio, video and text.
  12873. Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry 
    First Published: 2019
    Important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.
  12874. Three Myths About Clinton's Defeat in Election 2016 Debunked
    First Published: 2016
    A debunking of the explanations for Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 election commonly given by the Democratic party establishment and Clinton loyalists - in particular the role of racism, sexism, and the loss of key Obama-supporting counties.
  12875. Three phones go silent
    First Published: 2024
    When the Israeli genocide in Gaza began more than a year ago, the three elderly al-Ghalayini sisters — Maysoun, 80, Rofida, 65, and Arwa, 61, decided they would not leave their house in al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City. In January, Israeli soldiers surrounded their home and ordered them to move to southern Gaza. When they did not comply, the soldiers threw a firebomb.
  12876. Three Questions of Political Strategy
    First Published: 2019
    As I read contributions to The Call and Jacobin, and from Solidarity members, I wonder if that doesn't explain some of the disagreements about "reform or revolution" that have come up between some Solidarity members and some members of DSA’s Bread and Roses caucus. Framing these disagreements as a set of questions has helped me better understand the contending views.
  12877. Three Things Young People Should Know to Save the World
    Know Your Rights!
    First Published: 2013
    Old people should know these things too. Energy seems better invested in trying to teach them to young people who have less to unlearn in the process.
  12878. Three U.S. Lies About Israel and Palestine
    The Last Guest at the Table of Justice
    First Published: 2015
    For decades United States' spokespeople, from presidents to members of Congress, have, with a straight face, told the most far-fetched lies about Israel and Palestine. Such things as Israel having a moral army, despite its ongoing genocide of men, women and children, or proclaiming it the only democracy in the Middle East, regardless of the institutional racism so prevalent there, have been staples of U.S. proclamations and news conferences.
  12879. Three Ways Labor Can Fight Back
    Time to Declare War
    First Published: 2011
    Unions need to streamline their message, make it less cerebral and more visceral.
  12880. Three Years After "Yes We Can"
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    No, he didn't. That’s the epitaph on the tombstone of liberal and left-wing hopes that greeted the historic election of Barack Obama in November 2008. Did anyone imagine then that the election itself, more than anything he’d do in office, would be the high point of the Obama presidency? Or that three years later, the power of “Yes we can” would be the eruption of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) spreading to one city after another — essentially nothing to do with President Obama?
  12881. Three Years Since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
    First Published: 2017
    There is a place in the United States, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioactive waste leftover from the production of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs was to be held separate from all contact with humanity for 10,000 years, equivalent to the entire history of civilization. This separation of civilization from the byproduct of its folly had lasted one-tenth of one percent of that immense time when on Valentine's Day, three years ago, an explosion sent the deadly contamination back to the world of humans.
  12882. Through the Labyrinth of Steel Doors
    A Weekend in Texas
    First Published: 2012
    Visiting a friend in a Texas prison.
  12883. Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
    First Published: 2009
    Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
  12884. Throw it in the garbage myself
    First Published: 1992
    I will not have anyone tell me or my children what we can or cannot read.
  12885. Throw Sand in the Gears of Everything
    First Published: 2017
    A call for strategic and effective organizing against the Trump presidency, drawing on historical precedent of antiwar and other movements in the US.
  12886. Throwing Out the Master's Tools and Building a Better House 
    Thoughts on the Importance of Nonviolence in the Occupy Revolution
    First Published: 2011
    Diversity of tactics does not mean that anything goes and that democratic decision-making doesn't apply. If you want to be part of a movement, treat the others with respect; don't spring unwanted surprises on them, particularly surprises that sabotage their own tactics -- and chase away the real diversity of the movement.
  12887. The Thrust Toward Opacity
    Shh! It's a Secret!
    First Published: 2013
    Lately we’ve been bombarded by Secrets. We don’t know many of the details, but we do know of their existence, at least some of them. Let’s turn briefly to some specifics, first in the area of intelligence and surveillance, then in the terrain of military and paramilitary actions, and finally in the sphere of economic efforts.
  12888. Thunder on the Left
    First Published: 2014
    The paradox of the present situation is that capital is weak—but the radical left is much weaker. Alternatively, capital is economically weak, but much stronger politically, less because of mass ideological commitment to the system than because of the weakness of credible anti-capitalist alternatives.The present moment — a protracted crisis of the capitalist system — should offer a more favourable terrain for the anti-capitalist left to put forward alternative perspectives.
  12889. Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
    Connexipedia Article
    A series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the PRC beginning on 14 April. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world.
  12890. Tianjin, China: a village 'land grab' protest spells trouble for the Communist state
    First Published: 2015
    Rising anger by China's dispossessed (those displaced from their homes, villages and farms to make way for expanding cities and infrastructure) is posing a threat to the ruling regime. At the root of the problem is the state's inability to tackle endemic official corruption and deliver justice to its citizens.
  12891. Tide Turning in Latin America?
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
  12892. Tim Flannery: "It's Over to You"
    Against The Current vol. 130
    First Published: 2007
    The twenty-first century will be either the century of a “sustainability revolution” — extending the industrial and scientific revolutions of the 18th through 20th centuries, bringing their benefits to all humanity while eliminating massive global poverty and inequality, and in the process beginning to repair the massive damage wreaked on the environment by blind industrial expansion and capital accumulation — or else the century in which the progress of human civilization goes into reverse and faces the real possibility of collapse.
  12893. Time for a New Divestment Campaign
    From South Africa to Israel
    First Published: 2009
    We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years - as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
  12894. Time for an Independent Party
    First Published: 2016
    More than in most presidential cycles, there is reason to hope for a mass breakaway in 2016. Sanders' campaign has revealed that a mass base exists now for an independent party of the left.
  12895. Time for Civil Disobedience
    First Published: 1990
    The lesbian and gay movement should be committed to a strategy of non-violent civil disobedience to force the repeal of Britain's discriminatory anti-homosexual laws.
  12896. A Time for Learning
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    I don't recall being aware of the events in France in May-June 1968. I was in college, beginning to get radicalized on several fronts, notably the war. Something called the “Free University” was started in Washington, D.C., and I signed up for a class on communes. I remember well a presentation that spring, in which the speaker kept referring to “the Establishment.”
  12897. The time has come for France to own up to the massacre of its own troops in Senegal
    First Published: 2015
    The truth about a massacre of sub-Saharans who fought on the French side in World War II must be acknowledged.
  12898. 'Time is Running Out,' American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
    First Published: 2018
    In 1965 the president of the American Petroleum Institute discussed the effect of CO2 in the changing the atmosphere and the role specifically of the petroleum industry in causing climate change. More than 50 years later the science on this has become stronger but messaging from the industry has softened.
  12899. Time magazine honors journalists facing repression - but snubs Julian Assange
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' award for 2018, which did not list any journalist who exposed state secrets or government misconduct in the United States, nor whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries.
  12900. Time to Abandon Gay Rights
    First Published: 1999
    Thirty years after the Stonewall Riots, comprehensive human rights laws - not gay rights - are the way forward.
  12901. Time to acknowledge hateful leader of 'anti-hate' group
    First Published: 2022
    What do you call an 'antiracist' group led by an open ethnic/religious supremacist?
  12902. Time to Call US Aid to Africa by Its True Name: Bribery
    First Published: 2016
    Aid, what is it good for? While many Bono-loving, bleeding heart liberals would be appalled at the very thought of questioning the importance of giving money to charity or to the less fortunate, such a belief is rooted in pure fiction. In fact, the seemingly innocuous act of transferring money abroad in voluntary Robin Hood fashion is at the root of most political problems wreaking havoc across the developing world.
  12903. Time to celebrate real heroes, like the one just lost
    First Published: 2015
    If you want to meet the best Australians, meet Indigenous men and women who understand this extraordinary country and have fought for the rights of the world's oldest culture. Theirs is a struggle more selfless, heroic and enduring than any historical adventure non-Indigenous Australians are required incessantly to celebrate.
  12904. Time to Confront the Media's Anti-Corbyn Bias
    First Published: 2017
    Jeremy Corbyn has been subjected to unprecedented vilification by the British media. No one is surprised that the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times have been relentless in their hatchet jobs on Corbyn. But it has been disconcerting for the left that the Guardian and BBC never gave him a chance either. He was in their gun-sights from day one.
  12905. A Time To Disarm
    First Published: 1978
  12906. Time to End the 'Hasbara': Palestinian Media and the Search for a Common Story
    First Published: 2016
    Merely being in the company of hundreds of Palestinian journalists and other media professionals from all over the world has been an uplifting experience. For many years, Palestinian media has been on the defensive, unable to articulate a coherent message, torn between factions and desperately trying to fend off the Israeli media campaign, along with its falsifications and unending propaganda or 'hasbara'.
  12907. Time to Jail Auto Executives?
    Still Unsafe at Any Speed
    First Published: 2015
    Rather than allowing automobile industry debacles to float by without inspiring systemic change that will save lives, criminal prosecutions should become an integral part of -- even a priority for -- both federal and state governments.
  12908. Time to Stop and Think
    First Published: 1978
  12909. Time to Unfence our view of Migration
    First Published: 2014
    Instead of pretending that fence-building will solve anything, it is high time that we 'unfence' our views of migration. On the one hand, this means seeking other, more humane responses to human movement, including orderly refugee resettlement. On the other, it means not seeing migration as a self-contained 'problem' in need of a security response - but rather as an intrinsic part of a world inexorably on the move.
  12910. Timeline of labour issues and events
    Connexipedia Article
  12911. Timeline of the Congo Conflict
    Against The Current vol. 142
    First Published: 2009
  12912. Tim's + BK = $ for Canada right? Wrong! (in one table)
    First Published: 2014
    Big news today that Burger King, a US company, is planning to buy Tim Horton's, a Canadian one. This is another in a string of 'tax inversion' deals where US corporations move their corporate headquarters from the US to elsewhere to avoid US taxation. They don't actually change anything or move anyone outside of their accounting fairyland. Instead, they just check some different boxes on their income tax forms and 'poof' save millions in taxes.
  12913. Tin
    First Published: 1976
    An Analysis of the economics of tin from mining and production through marketing.
  12914. The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
    First Published: 2018
  12915. TIPP
    Advancing American Imperialism
    First Published: 2016
    Greenpeace has done that part of the world whose representatives are so corrupt or so stupid as to sign on to the Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic "partnerships" a great service. Greenpeace secured and leaked the secret documents that Washington and global corporations are pushing on Europe. The official documents prove that my description of these "partnerships" when they first appeared in the news is totally correct.
  12916. Tips for Getting the most from E-mail
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2000
    The E-mail I receive from journalists seeking assistance with their research and from organizations listed with Sources is often puzzling. Many messages are unaddressed, unsigned and written in haste. Some queries require detective work before I can send a proper response.
  12917. Tips for Making the Call
    First Published: 2004
    Tips for making follow-up calls to the media.
  12918. Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule
    First Published: 1996
    Dr. Kelsey has devised what she calls "A Manual for Counter-Technopols" -- suggestions and ideas for actions that challenge corporate rule.
  12919. TISA 'free trade' deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
    First Published: 2016
    A leaked text from the 'Trade In Services Agreement' negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards, and force the privatisation of state-run enterprises. So it's not just TTIP, CETA and TPP we have to fight - TISA could be the biggest corporate power grab of them all.
  12920. Title IX Witchhunts, Anti-Sex Frenzy and Bourgeois Feminism
    Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - A Review
    First Published: 2017
    Is the specter of sex haunting the campus? Under the pretense of targeting sexual harassment and assault, university administrations have been whipping up a climate of fear and imposing neo-Victorian values. As the recent book Unwanted Advances - Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (HarperCollins Publishers, April 2017) argues, "The new campus codes aren't preventing nonconsensual sex; they're producing it.” Written by Northwestern University professor and self-described left-wing feminist Laura Kipnis, the book exposes the vastly expanded definitions of sexual assault, which criminalize anything from drunken hook-ups to student-professor romance and even allow for consent to be withdrawn retroactively.
  12921. Tlatelolco massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    A government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968 in Mexico City.
  12922. To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough
    First Published: 2019
    As I've watched young people around the world take part in the climate actions of the last month, I've gotten the sense that I'm watching a spectacle which has been orchestrated to create the illusion that we're still in an earlier, more stable time for the planet's climate. Legitimate as the passion and commitment of this generation of teen climate activists is, their efforts are being packaged by the political and media establishment in a way that encourages denial about our true situation.
  12923. To be Intimidated is to be an Accomplice
    First Published: 2004
    The Nazi judeocide of should not be used as a cover to commit crimes against the Palestinian people.
  12924. To Be or Not to Be a Jewish State, That is the Question
    First Published: 2019
    Israel's champions owe us an explanation. First, they insist that Israel is and always must be a Jewish state, by which most of them mean not religiously Jewish but of the "Jewish People" everywhere, including Jews who are citizens of other states and not looking for a new country.
  12925. To conserve tropical forests and wildlife, protect the rights of people who rely on them
    First Published: 2017
    Who are the best guardians of forests and other wild places? Governments? Conservation NGOs? Corporations? No, writes Prakash Kashwan, it's the indigenous peoples who have lived in harmony with their environment for millennia. But to be able do so, they must first be accorded rights to their historic lands and resources, both in law and in practice.
  12926. To Defeat Fascism, We Must Win Over a Substantial Segment of the Social Strata that Make Up its Mass Base
    First Published: 2022
    It is not enough to counter fascism militarily, as Antifa does, though that is important. To truly defeat fascism, we must win over a substantial segment of the social strata that make up its mass base. That is a project that has not been undertaken since the 1960s and 1970s, when the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) challenged white radicals to organize in white communities against racism and for economic and social justice.
  12927. To discover the 'rights of a river', first think like a river
    First Published: 2017
    There is a growing global movement to recognise the rights of rivers. But rights alone are not enough. We must love and respect rivers, and even think like rivers to understand the vital functions they perform within landscapes and ecosystems, and so discover where their 'best interests' truly lie. And then we must be willing to act: protecting rivers and restoring them to health and wholeness.
  12928. To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
    First Published: 2010
    The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country's apartheid system. If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to and from Israeli banks offers an instrument to help bring about a peaceful resolution of an intractable conflict.
  12929. To end the occupation, dissolve the Palestinian Authority
    First Published: 2013
    Palestinians will not gain their freedom except through popular resistance, in which all segments of the Palestinian people are unified against the occupation, in an organized popular intifada. There will not be a popular intifada before the Palestinian Authority is dissolved, and a unified, principles-centered national leadership is formed.
  12930. To escape Trump's America, we need to bring the militant labor tactics of 1946 back to the future
    First Published: 2016
    Seventy years after the Oakland General Strike, we should talk about the relevance of the Oakland General Strike tactics for today. It seems do-able, and if it's presented right, could pull a lot of interest to prepare for the kind of labour movement we need - the kind that is ready to stand up to the state and the capitalists.
  12931. To Establish a Kingdom of Justice
    First Published: 1981
    Following and in response to the 1977 pastoral message of the Canadian Bishops, "A Society to Be Transformed," the Roman Catholic Bishops of the Atlantic provinces have issued this pastoral statement "to promote fundamental changes" in Canada's social structures and economic order.
  12932. To Interpret the World and To Change It
    Interview with David McNally
    First Published: 2011
    Published in Socialist Studies, 71/2 (Spring/Fall 2011)
  12933. To Live in a Plural Society
    First Published: 2021
    No one has a right not to be offended. All of us have a duty to challenge bigotry. These two claims are not just compatible, they are often interconnected. Today, though, many view these as conflicting perspectives. To give offence to other cultures or faiths, they argue, is to foment racism; to challenge racism, one should refrain from giving offence.
  12934. To Look and Communicate
    First Published: 2013
    We Zapatistas know that just as there are many worlds in this world that we inhabit, there are also many forms, modes, times, and places to struggle against the beast, without asking, nor hoping, for anything in exchange.
  12935. To My Less-Evilism Haters: A Rejoinder to Halle and Chomsky
    First Published: 2016
    John Halle has taken to calling my CounterPunch article, No Lesser Evil, Not This Time, "idiotic" and part of the "lunatic and sociopathic left". These pathetic and childlike insults are part of a left that spends more time giving itself a thousand cuts than one good jab at the common enemy. I was even more hurt to read that Chomsky, quoted by Halle, thinks my article represents "left…self-destruction" that is "adding new dimensions" through "contemporary irrationality and refusal to think".
  12936. To Name The Unnameable
    First Published: 2012
    Discussing Salman Rushdie's non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
  12937. To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system change
    First Published: 2018
    A look at how to break through the climate paralysis that has led to the environmental crisis that mankind is currently facing. Wallis indicates that by having identified who the enemy is, we know who our potential allies are- the other 99%.
  12938. To Readers, $X Billion Just Means 'a Whole Lot of Money'
    First Published: 2019
    A call for media to put numbers in context, e.g., food stamps cost of $70 billion a year is just 0.4 percent of the budget.
  12939. To Rebuild Teamster Power
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    An interview with Sandy Pope. Sandy Pope is the candidate for General President of the Teamsters Union in the election this coming October, running against incumbent James Hoffa Jr. She’s a longtime member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and president of Local 805 in New York City.
  12940. To Save Our Climate We Need Taller Trees Not Taller Wooden Buildings
    First Published: 2020
    To many of us working at the intersection of forest conservation and climate stability recent opinions and news coverage of proposals to fill our cities with tall wooden buildings presents not a stirring vision of sustainability but a nightmarish scenario of a land base increasingly scarred by clearcuts, logging roads and small diameter tree plantations at a time when climate science insists that reestablishing natural forests and letting them grow much bigger and older is one of humanity's last best hopes to keep climate change from accelerating out of control. To save our climate we need taller trees not taller wooden buildings.
  12941. To Sell Weapons, Defense Contractors Make War Seem Fun
    First Published: 2016
    At the Association of the United States Army's annual exposition at the new, cavernous Washington Convention Center, defense contractors are making their weapons seem fun where in order to score contracts with the Pentagon. AUSA features a who’s who of the military-industrial complex, and the extreme excess of money in the industry is evident everywhere.
  12942. To Silence a Poet, and a Nation: What Stella Nyanzi's Conviction Means for Uganda
    First Published: 2019
    Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been convicted under internet obscenity laws for criticizing Uganda's president. The style of her writing may be as much an issue as the criticism itself.
  12943. To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa's resources
    Europe should tackle migration not by deploying troops, but by curbing economic abuse and destablisation.
    First Published: 2018
    On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European countries are pursuing similar policies, including France, Germany, and Spain.
  12944. To The American Media: Time To Face The Reality Of Election Rigging
    First Published: 2011
    The gruesome truth is that American elections can be rigged and are being rigged because the American media treats election rigging as something that -- all evidence notwithstanding -- could never happen here. Period, end of story, move on.
  12945. To the family of the one thousandth victim of Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza
    First Published: 2014
    This is 2014 — the destruction of Gaza is well documented. This is not 1948 when Palestinians had to struggle hard to tell their story of horror; so many of the crimes Zionist committed then where hidden and never came to light, even until today. So my first and simple pledge is to record, inform and insist on the truth. But surely this is not enough. I pledge to continue the effort to boycott a state that commits such crimes.
  12946. To the Israeli Soldier Who Murdered Her
    First Published: 2024
    Shooting unarmed people is not bravery. It is not courage. It is not even war. It is a crime.
  12947. Tobacco Gun for Hire James Enstrom, Willie Soon and the Climate Deniers Attack on Merchants of Doubt
    First Published: 2015
    Climate denier Fred Singer, scientist working for tobacco companies, asks whether it would make sense to file a lawsuit to try and stop the release of the new documentary, Merchants of Doubt – a film tracing the tactics used by Big Tobacco to spread misinformation.
  12948. 'Today is one of the most tragic days in the history of the Jewish people: one American Jews response to the Gaza massacre
    First Published: 2018
    In this open letter to the Westchester Israel Action Committee by congregant Howard Horovitz, Horovitz asks "When will we stand up, as human beings, as a committee and as a Temple, to condemn the massacre of Palestinians on the Gaza border?"
  12949. The todayness of Selma, USA, 1965
    First Published: 1965   Published: 2015
    The arrest of over 3,500 Negroes in Selma, Ala., in three weeks just because they tried to vote, the sight of a Negro woman pinned to the ground by three fat deputies of Sheriff James Clark while Clark beat her face in with his billy club, the sight of a long line of Negro high school and grade school boys and girls who demonstrated in support of their parents' right to register and then were forced to run three miles with police billy clubs and electric cattle prods jabbed into their backs and ribs -- these things expose the great lie of President Johnson’s Great Society for all the world to see.
  12950. Today's Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx's Capital
    First Published: 1974
    Far from 'ownership' alone determining the class relationship, Marx, from his first break with bourgeois society in 1843, through his leadership in the Workingmen's (First) International Association in 1864, to his death in 1883, never varied from 'dead labor dominating living labor' as the determinant of capitalism.
  12951. Today's media language a little too much like 1984's Newspeak
    First Published: 2015
    Canada is not Orwell's imaginary society where peoples' every thoughts and ideas are controlled by The Party, but our own powerful elite has pushed our media closer to censorship and a propaganda-feeding machine than I ever imagined possible.
  12952. Today's Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us
    First Published: 2015
    "Trumbo," starring Bryan Cranston as Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, tells the sordid and tragic story of the anti-communist witch hunt commonly referred to as the "Red Scare," which involved the interrogation and prosecution of suspected communists. Its instrument in Congress was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created in 1938 and not officially disbanded until 1975, which subpoenaed individuals, put them on the stand, and demanded that they answer one key question, "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"
  12953. Toddler suffers severe burns from Atlanta, Georgia police raid
    A police raid on a home in Atlanta resulted in the serious injury of a 19-month-old child
    First Published: 2014
    A police raid on a home in Atlanta, Georgia early Wednesday morning has resulted in the serious injury of a 19-month-old child. Police entering the home threw a stun grenade that fell in the playpen of the sleeping child and exploded in his face.
  12954. Todmorden Mills
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Todmorden Mills were a series of mills built in the Don Valley, north of Bloor Street.
  12955. Tokyo Letter: After the Disaster
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    Just before 3pm on March 11th, I was standing in the intersection of two small streets in central Tokyo, saying goodbye to my partner before leaving for a work trip to the United States. Earthquakes are common in Japan, but we knew right away this one was different. The earth rumbled and rolled, shifting back and forth and around, the intensity rising and falling and rising again.
  12956. Toledo, Francisco
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Mexican community activist. (Born 1940).
  12957. Tolstoy, Leo
    Connexipedia Article
    Russian author. (1828-1910).
  12958. Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
    First Published: 2019
    Much of modern psychiatry is based on unscientific theories even many practitioners of its find problematic. Since Thomas Paine knew Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), considered the "father of American psychiatry," this article draws parallels between Paine's criticisms of religion with those of psychiatry today.
  12959. Tomorrow Belongs to the Corporatocracy
    First Published: 2017
    Virtually every major organ of the Western media apparatus (the most powerful propaganda machine in the annals of powerful propaganda machines) has been relentlessly churning out variations on a new official ideological narrative designed to generate and enforce conformity.
  12960. Tompkins Square Riot (1874)
    Connexipedia Article
    On January 13, 1874 police crushed a demonstration involving thousands of unemployed in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
  12961. Tony Cliff as a Socialist Leader
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of 'Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time.'
  12962. Tony Karon on Growing Dissent among American Jews
    First Published: 2007
  12963. Tony Mazzocchi Lives: Blue-Green Organizer Takes Up 'Just Transition' Mantle
    First Published: 2015
    Union and environmental activist Alex Lotorto believes environmentalists should be working more closely with organized labour and following the advice of some of labour's more enlightened leaders.
  12964. Too Big to Jail
    Not Too Big to Resist
    First Published: 2013
    US rich evade punishment while the poor are criminalized in the two-tier justice system.
  12965. Too Damn Old!
    First Published: 2009
    Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age -- sometimes as early as 40 -- and it can make the victim feel unwanted, unneeded and oppressed.
  12966. A Tool to Combat Washington's Middle East Wars
    Book review: "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran"
    First Published: 2018
    A Review of Dan Kovalik's book "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran", which provides a concise overview of US imperial conduct since WWII and the disturbing hypocrisy and deceit of the US Government and media.
  12967. Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
    First Published: 2013
    A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
  12968. Tools That Might Help Us
    First Published: 2012
    A list of ideas that different groups and social movements have suggested for inclusion in the Rio+20 Final Declaration. At the time of writing, only two -- Planetary Boundaries and the Ombudsperson for Future Generations -- appear to have much chance of getting into the official text.
  12969. Top 10 Civil-Rights Songs
    First Published: 2018
    Upon the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., some of the more popular civil-rights songs are remembered. The article includes online links to music videos.
  12970. Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
    First Published: 2009
    Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
  12971. Top 50 US War Criminals
    First Published: 2009
    Brief profiles of men and women who planned wars of agression and other war crimes.
  12972. Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military's School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs
    First Published: 2019
    The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country's elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10, 2019.
  12973. Top 5 Reasons Eaters should be Worried about Obama's New Trade Deal
    First Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a wide-ranging deal that would expand corporate rights across member states to the detriment of worker rights, the environment, and public health.
  12974. Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth 
    First Published: 2015
    A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than the bottom 99 percent combined. Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
  12975. Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won't Frack the Rich
    First Published: 2016
    Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the "big houses" of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country's most prominent shale drilling companies told a gathering of attorneys at a seminar on oil and gas environmental law.
  12976. Top Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich
    Making a Killing Off the Tax Code
    First Published: 2014
    Here are the top ten examples of corporate welfare and welfare for the rich. There are actually thousands of tax breaks and subsidies for the rich and corporations provided by federal, state and local governments but these ten will give a taste.
  12977. Top Ten List of Media Relations
    First Published: 2002
    Top ten recommendations for becoming (and remaining) media friendly:
  12978. Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis
    First Published: 2014
  12979. Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
    First Published: 2006
    When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
  12980. Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis
    First Published: 2010
  12981. Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
    First Published: 2006
    Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
  12982. Top Ten Things to do Before a Radio Talk Show
    First Published: 2006
    Be prepared when you go on a talk show.
  12983. Topfreedom
    Wikipedia article
    Topfreedom is a cultural and political movement seeking to advance gender equality by the recognition of the right of women and girls to be topless in public on the same basis that men and boys are permitted to be barechested. In addition, topfreedom advocates seek recognition of the right of nursing mothers to openly breastfeed in public, and of women to sun bathe topless.
  12984. Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers'
    First Published: 2013
    The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document. The document, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as "exemplars" of how "personal vulternabilities" can be learned through electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority.
  12985. Tories to Negotiate with Mexico/U.S.
    Free trade is on the agenda when the Canadian government meets Mexico and the U.S. in 1992.
  12986. Toronto Before the G20: A History of Violence
    First Published: 2010
    The notion that Toronto is “a city with little history of violent protests” is laughable. Newspapers across North America have spent more than a century reporting on eruptions of violence and protest in Toronto’s past.
  12987. Toronto Collective Statement
    Autonomy and Power Relations Within the Working Class
    First Published: 1976
    A statement written in June 1976 by some members of the former Struggle Against Work Collective.
  12988. Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) in Trefann Court
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2021
    The Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) was a small group of community organizers who came together in 1966 to help working-class residents facing "urban redevelopment" in a neighbourhood called Trefann Court.
  12989. Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
    First Published: 2009
    As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival's decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.
  12990. Toronto does not need to hire more police officers
    First Published: 2018
    As you contemplate the push by the Toronto Police Association to have more police officers hired, remember that the issue is not the need for more officers, but featherbedding.
  12991. Toronto Pride 1981 - setting the historical record queer
    First Published: 2006
    The Pride event in 1981 would not have taken place without the new political and social context created by the massive resistance that took place against the bath raids that year. Thousands of queer men, lesbians and our supporters took to the streets on a number of occasions.
  12992. Toronto Ravines - Ours to Preserve
    First Published: 1982
    Toronto's ravines are a treasure; it's up to us to preserve them.
  12993. Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in Ukraine
    Crazed Warmongers
    First Published: 2015
    Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
  12994. Toronto Student Movement (TSM)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The Toronto Student Movement was organized at the University of Toronto in the summer of 1968. Its founding coincided with student revolts in Quebec, France, Germany, Italy, and the U.S. While there were many issues (such as the Vietnam War) galvanizing student uprisings, the primary focus of the TSM was education itself. The university was seen as itself oppressive and intent on re-creating subservience to capitalist and imperialist projects.
  12995. Toronto Warrior Society
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    The Toronto Warrior Society (TWS) was affiliated with the American Indian Movement (AIM), which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s to defend First Nations activists and to promote Native pride. TWS was strongly committed to socialism, and to anti-capitalist endeavours.
  12996. Toronto Women's Liberation Movement (TWLM)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    As the 1960s progressed, Toronto activists embraced a wide range of issues, from racial justice to student rights. Hardly anyone was talking about the oppression of women, yet women were paid much less than their male co-workers on average, and they weren’t allowed to apply for many jobs, simply because they were women.
  12997. Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement (TWLM)
    First Published: 2020
    An article about the history and development of the Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement (TWLM).
  12998. Toronto's film industry grows, but at what cost?
    First Published: 2018
    While high profile film productions are increasing in Toronto, the article questions whether taxpayers are getting good value for the billions of dollars of public money being invested into the film industry's expansion in the city.
  12999. Toronto's Finest
    First Published: 1981
    Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
  13000. Toronto's Historic Cemeteries
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    A overview of Toronto's early cemeteries.
  13001. Toronto's Historic Cemeteries - Chinese text
  13002. Torture by Taser
    When police abuse their newest 'nonlethal' toy, people die.
    First Published: 2005
  13003. Torture, Democracy and Memory in Argentina
    No Sugarplums for Christmas
    First Published: 2014
  13004. Torture If You Must, But Do Not Under Any Circumstances Call the New York Times
    First Published: 2015
    Monday’s guilty verdict in the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling on espionage charges -- for talking to a newspaper reporter -- is the latest milepost on the dark and dismal path Barack Obama has traveled since his inaugural promises to usher in a "new era of openness."
  13005. The Torture Memos
    First Published: 2009
    Chomsky comments on the revelations of and reactions to the White House report. He examines the proposed justifications and reasserts that despite the idea of "American exceptionalism", allowing instances of torture to be forgotten lays the foundation for future crime.
  13006. Torture Report Reveals CIA's Manipulation of US Media
    Agency Used Classified Information As Currency For Deception
    First Published: 2014
    In essence, the CIA operated as a propaganda machine, utilizing classified information as part of a larger effort to deceive the American public about the shortcomings of its torture program.
  13007. Torture: Thou shalt not bear honest witness
    First Published: 2014
    To date, only one person has been jailed in connection to the US torture program - the man who blew the whistle. His sentence must now be quashed and this true American hero set free and compensated.
  13008. Torture and the Violence of Organized Forgetting
    A Form of Moral Paralysis
    First Published: 2014
    With the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture, it becomes clear that in the aftermath of the loathsome terrorist attack of 9/11, the United States entered into a new and barbarous stage in its history, one in which acts of violence and moral depravity were not only embraced but celebrated.
  13009. The Torturer as Feminist: From Abu Ghraib to Zero Dark Thirty
    First Published: 2013
    How “feminism” is used in service of the American empire.
  13010. Torturing Assange
    An Interview with Andrew Fowler
    First Published: 2020
    Andrew Fowler, Australian award-winning investigative journalist and author of 'The Most Dangerous Man in the World: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks' Fight for Freedom,' accounts the rise and political imprisonment of Assange. According to Fowler, Assange seemingly inevitably moved toward an adversarial positioning against American imperialism abroad. He was a tonic for the indifference expressed by so many ordinary Americans in the traumatic aftermath of 9/11 and the rise of the surveillance state.
  13011. Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children
    Nightmare in the Occupied Territories
    First Published: 2013
    About 500-700 children are arrested by the Israeli occupation every year, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine. These children face a policy designed to kill their spirit and shut them down. It targets them physically and psychologically.
  13012. Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama's Gitmo
    Obama Bravely Takes on a Tortured Child Soldier
    First Published: 2010
    Give our government credit for breaking new ground: no nation has tried a child soldier for war crimes since World War II, and the decision to prosecute Khadr has drawn protests from UNICEF, headed by a former U.S. national security adviser, as well as every major human-rights group.
  13013. "Total Capital" Rigor and International Liquidity: A Reply to Robert Brenner
    First Published: 1999
  13014. Total Self-Management
    Chapter 3 of Raoul Vaneigem's book From Wildcat Strike to Total Self-Management
    First Published: 1974
    Vaneigem's book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
  13015. Total terrorism solution
    First Published: 2016
    Hoax highlights failures of military, security approaches to terrorism.
  13016. Touching a Nerve
    No apology for fighting homophobia
    First Published: 1993
    Defending OutRage!'s decision to campaign against the homophobia of Lord Jakobovits.
  13017. Tourists of the Revolution
    First Published: 1973
  13018. Toward a global strategic framework: The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 1)
    First Published: 2018
    The revolutionary activists who founded the Communist International (Comintern) in 1919 had little contact with movements for national and colonial liberation outside Russia. Nonetheless, only a year later, in July 1920, the Comintern adopted a far-reaching strategy for national and social revolution in dependent countries, later termed the anti-imperialist united front.
  13019. Toward a Literacy of Rebellion
    Compañeros of the Word
    First Published: 2013
    The words dignity, dream, democracy, justice, struggle and liberty are among those central to the Zapatista vision, but perhaps it is the word compañero, the building block of the community and the organization, that holds and contains all of these other words in it.
  13020. Toward a Marxist Interpretation of the US Constitution
    First Published: 2017
    According to Bertell Ollman, what is in danger of being lost among all the patriotic non-sequiturs is the underside of criticism and protest that had accompanied the Constitution from its very inception.
  13021. Toward a New Beginning - On Another Road
    The Alternative to the Micro-Sect
    First Published: 1970
    To Marx, any organization was a sect if it set up any special set of view (including Marx's views) as its organizational boundary; if it made this special set of views the determinant of its organizational form.
    Neither Marx nor Engels ever formed or wanted to form a Marxist group of any kind - that is, a membership group based on an exclusively Marxist program. All of their organizational activity was pointed along a different road.
  13022. Toward a New Constitution?
    First Published: 1977
  13023. Toward a New Economy
    Introduction to the Summer 1983 issue of the Connexions Digest (Volume 8, Number 2)
    First Published: 1983
    The summaries in this issue reflect two basic responses to the status quo. The first is a critique of the current situation from the standpoint of those whose interests are not served by the dominant economic system. The other response is the creation of alternatives which seek to embody those values of community control, economic participation, and production for human need which are lost in the grab for profit.
  13024. Toward A New Socialism
    Against The Current vol. 139
    First Published: 2009
    Richard Schmitt and Anatole Anton correctly insist in the introduction to their anthology Toward a New Socialism that we are in need of a new socialism for the 21st century. This claim has little currency in contemporary academic or even activist cultures. “To speak of ‘socialism’ in today’s academy in the U.S.,” says Anton, “is to betray a lack of academic breeding.”
  13025. Toward A Queer Marxism?
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    Scholarly approaches to sexuality since the 1980s have become increasingly divorced from practical sexual politics, and both have largely given up on earlier attempts to engage with Marxism. Now this may be changing. A stimulating new book by Kevin Floyd maintains that people in queer studies are paying more attention to Marxism’s “explanatory power.” From the activist side, Sherry Wolf of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) has made an impressive effort to sum up LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) theory and practice from a Marxist perspective.
  13026. Toward a Revolutionary Socialist Party
    First Published: 2002
    Duncan Hallas, a now-retired leading member of the Socialist Workers' Party (Britain), wrote this article at the beginning of the 1970s with an eye toward a layer of radicalizing workers and student activists. Many in this period were attracted to revolutionary alternatives, but were wary of left organizations because of the betrayals of both social-democracy and Stalinism.
  13027. Toward a socialist future: Children's picture books after the Bolshevik Revolution
    First Published: 2016
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 was the defining event of the 20th century. Its influence extended across virtually every aspect of human society the world over. The scope for study of the revolution and of the social order that emerged from it is immense, though generally overlooked in contemporary art curation. It comes as a welcome exception to see the attempt by London's House of Illustration art gallery in its exhibition, A New Childhood: Picture Books from Soviet Russia, to bring to light the artistic impetus lent by the revolution to children's book illustrations in early Soviet society.
  13028. Toward Energy Democracy
    First Published: 2014
    As energy systems are beginning to transition towards greener alternatives to fossil fuels, a debate surrounding its production emerges.
  13029. Toward Preventing Alcoholism and Alcohol Misuse
    First Published: 1977
  13030. Toward Revolution and Collective Leadership - Interview
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    An interview with Andrés Antillano. Bolivia.
  13031. Toward the Agro-Police State 
    You'll Need an iPad if You Want to be a Farmer
    First Published: 2014
    The main problem with precision agriculture -- and the hype that surrounds it -- is the faulty assumptions that it rests on. The problems of agriculture are not caused by a lack of technology, or even by a lack of productivity (overproduction has as a matter of fact been a more frequent problem for farmers). The root problems are political and economic in nature.
  13032. Toward Tidal Power
    First Published: 1980
    Toward Tidal Power….? is the report of an education process developed to discuss the possible impacts of tidal power development in the Bay of Fundy area.
  13033. Towards a 'Israeli War Criminals Watch'
    First Published: 2009
    It is upon us, every woman and man, in Israel and abroad, who fear for international public hygiene and international law, to unite forces in order to place before those war criminals the dilemma: risk being tried if they are found in countries in which the law permits this or remain locked in Israel.
  13034. Towards a Marxist Critique of 'Privilege Theory'
    First Published: 2014
    A contribution by Tad Tietze to an ongoing debate on Marxism and 'privilege theory.'
  13035. Towards a Method for the Revolutionary Reconstruction of Everyday Life
    First Published: 1972
    On the critique and transformation of everyday life as a key part of the struggle for revolutionary transformation. Published in Liberation magazine April 1972.
  13036. Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy
    First Published: 2001
    A summary of four case studies dissecting the relationship between the health of an individual and that individual's social living circumstances.
  13037. Towards A Red Feminism
    First Published: 1996
    Red Feminism contests all forms of institutionalized feminism: from cultural feminism (which is making a comeback in the name of a commonsense fear of the "new," the "alien" and the technological) to postmodern feminisms with their bourgeois reifications of the pleasures and desires of commodity capitalism. Red Feminism challenges the effectivity of the new localist, "transnational" feminisms and calls for a renewed internationalism--with a historical and strategic use of the nation-state--to fight global capitalism. It insists on the priority of production and class struggle in the emancipation of women and reaffirms the solidarity of humanity on the basis of shared needs. Red Feminism thus moves away from individualistic desires and the limits of identity politics toward the collective struggle of international socialism.
  13038. Towards a Transformative Electoral Strategy
    First Published: 2017
    An essay on Electoral Strategy for the left in the United States.
  13039. Towards a two-tiered knowledge society
    First Published: 2015
    On the Conservative government's actions to reduce Internet access and library access to a large portion of the population.
  13040. Towards an Understanding of Sidney Hook
    First Published: 1997
    Precisely because he remained a communist and revolutionary Marxist, Hook was unable to submit to the authoritarian and monolithic form of discipline that had been demanded from him by the Communist Party.
  13041. Towards 21st Century Democracy
    Interview with a Proportional Representation Activist
    First Published: 1996
  13042. Towards Workers' Climate Action
    Book review
    First Published: 2016
    A review of a book and a pamphlet by Paul Hampton, both on the urgent need for workers' action on climate change.
  13043. Towards Workers' Climate Action
    Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity: Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Paul Hampton's Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity:
    Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World.
  13044. Towns take Post Office to court
    First Published: 1991
  13045. Toxic Curve Ball: Why Outdated Assumptions to Determine "Safe Levels" of Toxicants Forfeit the Game
    First Published: 2016
    By now, a large number of consumers are aware of the hazards of the synthetic compound bisphenol-A (BPA). Effective May 11, 2016, under California state law Proposition 65, products containing BPA must possess a warning label indicating that exposure could result in female reproductive impairment. Independent research on the endocrine disrupting effects of the chemical, commonly used in plastic bottles, the lining of metal cans, and customer receipts, among other applications, has consistently demonstrated toxic effects at low dose exposures. Two recent robust studies from Denmark concur, finding deleterious effects in rats exposed to BPA at doses lower than those considered safe for human ingestion, yet not at several higher doses. Nevertheless, regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) conclude that BPA is safe at the levels at which it is currently in use.
  13046. Toxic dumps in Quebec
    First Published: 1989
  13047. Toxic fuel scam
    First Published: 1989
  13048. Toxic gulls: Quebec's contaminated bird colony offers clues about flame retardants
    First Published: 2014
    Research on Deslauriers and in Canadian laboratories indicates that flame retardants are altering birds’ thyroid hormones, reducing their clutch sizes, damaging their eggs, changing their behavior, shifting their gender ratio toward males and weakening their bones.
  13049. Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
    First Published: 2010
    The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about the battle.
  13050. Toxic Range: the BLM's Growing Chemical Addiction
    First Published: 2016
    BLM is escalating herbicide use on public lands. A primary agency excuse for forsaking sage-grouse ESA protection is the pipe dream that new habitat will be created through radical deforestation, and that fuelbreaks will stop fires.
  13051. Toxic spills threaten marine ecosystem
    First Published: 2023
    The X-Press Pearl sank off Sri Lanka two years ago, releasing a toxic cocktail of chemicals and plastics into the sea, the biggest disaster. Only tough regulations can prevent a repeat.
  13052. Toxicity and Resistance
    First Published: 2017
    In a political moment that tends to inspire overwhelming anger, apprehension and fear rather than hope or energy, I suggest that we look towards those who have made resistance a daily part of their lives out of necessity and determination.
  13053. Toyi-toyi
    Connexipedia Article
    A dance that became famous for its use in political protests in the apartheid-era South Africa.
  13054. TPP a Gift to Plutocrats? Canada's Trade Minister Wrote the Book on Them
    First Published: 2015
    Canada's new trade minister has sitting on her desk the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal some say will accelerate the gap between rich and poor by protecting corporations' interests over those of workers and governments.
  13055. TPP: Big Pharma's Big Deal
    First Published: 2015
    We still don't know all the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal tentatively agreed to on Oct. 5 by negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries, but already critics are slamming it for many reasons, including its generous concessions to the pharmaceutical industry.
  13056. TPP is "Worst Trade Agreement" for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
    First Published: 2015
    The TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries, said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement following the signing of the TPP trade deal.
  13057. TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
    First Published: 2015
    Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week.
  13058. TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility
    First Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens all users' ability to access information and participate in culture and innovation online, but it's especially severe for those with disabilities or who otherwise depend on content in accessible formats. That's because it doubles down on broken policies that were heavily lobbied for by Hollywood and other major publishers that impede the distribution of accessible works.
  13059. TPTG's Conversation with George Caffentzis
    First Published: 2000
  13060. Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions
    First Published: 2015
    Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining.
  13061. Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
    First Published: 2016
    The world, it seems, cannot get enough of Sokal-type hoaxes. A French journal, Sociétés, has retracted an article allegedly penned by one Jean-Marc Tremblay but actually written by two sociologists, Manuel Quinon and Arnaud Saint-Martin, who spoofed the work of the journal's editor, Michel Maffesoli.
  13062. Tracking the News that Wasn't
    First Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
  13063. Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers
    First Published: 2019
    Past trade deals were about making it easier to trade manufactured goods, making it as easy as possible for corporations to take advantage of low-cost labor in the developing world. This has the predicted and actual effect of putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers.
  13064. Trade Union
    Connexipedia Article
  13065. Trade Unionism
    First Published: 1936
    The narrow field of trade union struggle widens into the broad field of class struggle. But now the workers themselves must change. They have to take a wider view of the world. From their trade, from their work within the factory walls, their mind must widen to encompass society as a whole. Their spirit must rise above the petty things around them. They have to face the state; they enter the realm of politics. The problems of revolution must be dealt with.
  13066. Trade unionism
    First Published: 1978
    Pannekoek's text first appeared under his pen name "J Harper" in the American journal International Council Correspondence, (Vol II No 2, Jan 1936). This edited version is taken from the American journal Root & Branch (No 6 1978).
  13067. Trade Unions: International Solidarity in Action
    First Published: 2012
    International solidarity can be understood as cooperation between trade-union organisations that, by their nature, share the same objectives because they represent the workers of their countries. It takes on a special importance when the workers are employed by the same multinational company or in the same worldwide type of industry.
  13068. Trade Unions: The Difficult Path to Solidarity in One's Own Interest
    First Published: 2013
    In both the ideals and the rhetoric of trade unions international solidarity plays a major role. Trade union practice, however, is first and foremost focused on the context of those nation-states, in which they were able to achieve their most important victories in the 20th century. It is those achievements within the national framework which are being undermined with the help of the EU and its institutions.
  13069. The Tradition of Scientific Marxism
    First Published: 2002
    John Holloway challenges the myth that Marx promoted a "scientific socialism" in the positivistic understanding of "science" and insists rather on the "negative" and critical aspects of science. For Holloway, the notion of fetishism is central to Marx's critical approach.
  13070. Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
    First Published: 1983
  13071. Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
    First Published: 1984
    Raises the issue of freedom of religion being denied to Native prison inmates who are not of Christian origin.
  13072. Tragedy, Absurdity and Joy in the Classroom
    First Published: 1968
    James Harding's critique of institutionalized eduction and its effects on the quality of human knowledge.
  13073. The tragedy of being a girl in India
    First Published: 2015
    India is the "most dangerous country in the world in which to be a girl". This is stated in a controversial United Nations finding based on a range of distressing social statistics rooted in gender and caste prejudice, much of which can be traced back to 18th century colonialism and the destructive 'divide and rule' methodology employed by the British.
  13074. The tragedy of liberal environmentalism
    First Published: 2017
    The tragedy of liberal environmentalism is that it occupies the political discourse as the most pragmatic, the most possible way to a better future, but implementing this watered down, technical environmental politics is not at all smooth, or easy. It is rather Sisyphean. This is the tragic political circumstance of our times: What is framed as easy, as the most compatible with the status quo, is actually so very, very hard.
  13075. The Tragedy of Norman Finkelstein -- Time to Say Goodbye
    First Published: 2012
    Norman Finkelstein seems to have moved from an anti-Zionist position to believing that the best we can do is create a Palestinian bantustan while Israeli remains as a state where Jews rule and Palestinians remain legally and economically oppressed.
  13076. Tragedy of the anticommons
    Connexipedia Article
    A coordination breakdown where the existence of numerous rights holders frustrates achieving a socially desirable outcome.
  13077. Tragedy of the commons
    Connexipedia Article
    A dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest will ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long term interest for this to happen.
  13078. The tragedy of the war in Ukraine: a reply to Kagarlitsky
    Mandel, David; Gindin, Sam
    First Published: 2023
    Even if Ukraine were in some sense to win the war, what sort of sovereignty would the Ukrainian people possess?
  13079. The Tragic Ironies of Breivik's Terror
    First Published: 2011
    We need to challenge neo-fascism and anti-Muslim bigotry, just as we need to challenge Islamism. But in both cases we also need to keep a sense of perspective about the nature of the threat.
  13080. Tragödie von Walkerton
    Connexipedia
    Die Tragödie von Walkerton ereignete sich im Mai 2000, als das Wasser im kanadischen Walkerton (Ontario) mit e. coli-Bakterien verseucht wurde.
  13081. Trail Damage Caused by Irresponsible Mountain Bikers
    The damage caused by each mountain biker is much greater than that caused by a hiker, firstly because of the extra weight of the bike, and secondly because the soil is impacted continuously along the trail, while a hiker's feet hit the soil only at intervals.
  13082. Training for Freedom in Senegal
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    Mark Brenner interviews Amsatou Sow Sidibe. Amsatou Sow Sidibe is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for the Study of Peace and Human Rights at University Cheikh Anta Diop at Dakar, Senegal. She is also a member of the National Elections Commission in Senegal and President of the West African Working Women's Network (RAFET).
  13083. Traite du Savoir-Vivre for the Occupy Wall Street Generations 
    First Published: 2011
    Once upon a time, twenty thousand people descended on Wall Street, the capitol of capital, occupied it nonviolently, and won exactly what they demanded. This is not a fairy tale. It really happened. This is the story of how it happened.
  13084. Trans-Canada sues US for $15 billion over KXL refusal
    First Published: 2015
    The US government is being sued for $15 billion for its cancellation of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline last year in order to combat climate change. The legal challenge under NAFTA sends a warning to all countries contemplating similar 'free trade' agreements.
  13085. The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX): Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Russians
    First Published: 2020
    There has long been fierce opposition to the TMX project (owned at the time by Texas-based Kinder Morgan), which will nearly triple the pipeline’s capacity to bring Alberta diluted bitumen (dilbit) to the West Coast.
  13086. The Trans Pacific Partnership Will Not Help Struggling Farmers
    First Published: 2016
    A recent Associated Press article claimed that Wisconsin dairy producers "see nothing but advantages" if the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) were passed during the final session of Congress. A more accurate statement would be that some dairy producers see nothing but advantages. I am at a loss to understand how dairy producers would see any advantages to yet another "free trade" agreement.
  13087. TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline
    First Published: 2014
    There are now multiple news articles that report Calgary-based TransCanada hired the controversial public relations firm Edelman in an attempt to derail growing public opposition to its proposed 1.1 million barrels per day Energy East tar sands pipeline.
  13088. TransCanada Keystone 1 Pipeline Suffered Major Corrosion Only Two Years In Operation, 95% Worn In One Spot
    First Published: 2015
    Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline's wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other places, leading TransCanada to immediately shut it down.
  13089. TransCanada Whistleblower Spurs New Probe of Pipeline Giant's Safety Record
    First Published: 2015
    Based on evidence provided by a whistleblower, Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) is investigating pipeline giant TransCanada for safety-code violations.
  13090. Transfer payments cut
    First Published: 1992
  13091. Transformation Volume 1, Number 2
    March - April 1971
    First Published: 1971
  13092. Transformation Problem Unraveled
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Review of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital
    and the End of the 'Transformation Problem'" by Fred Moseley. Burkett provides a summary of the details of Moseley's theory.
  13093. A Transformed Force
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    The following essay is a translated and edited version of a recent op-ed piece by Félix Córdova Iturregui, a veteran socialist activist, member of the Taller de Formación Política and the Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico, and ex-President of the Association of University Professors of the University of Puerto Rico. In this essay, he argues that the massive popular demonstrations after the assassination of Machetero (Popular Puerto Rican Army) leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, occurred in a context where U.S. institutions, particularly the FBI and the U.S. military, are in a rapid period of deterioration, which is being particularly felt in its colony, Puerto Rico.
  13094. Transforming Apathy and Denial
    First Published: 1990
    Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
  13095. A Transforming Influence - Native Peoples and Northern Development, Social Justice and the Church
    First Published: 1978
  13096. Transgender Activism After Falls City
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    The critical acclaim for Kimberly Peirce's film "Boys Don't Cry," and Hilary Swank's Academy Award-winning performance in it as Brandon Teena, have focused public attention on a real-life hate crime that both galvanized the nascent transgender activist movement in the mid-1990s and highlighted tensions between that movement and other parts of the queer community.
  13097. Transgender oppression and resistance
    First Published: 2014
    Miles discusses how socialists approach the question of fighting oppressions like transphobia is not an abstract matter. It goes to the heart of how we work with oppressed groups and individuals such as trans people and how we persuade them to become part of building a mass united working class movement to overthrow capitalism and create a socialist society.
  13098. Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
    First Published: 1996
    Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.
  13099. Transit Activism and the Urban Question in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    First Published: 2016
    The demand for free transit has been an important starting point of recent mobilizations in Brazil, notably those that shook the whole country in the summer of 2013. This interview with local activists and researchers João Tonucci and André Veloso zeroes in on transit organizing in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan area in Brazil.
  13100. Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
    First Published: 2014
    Transit ridership is at its highest since 1956, with 10.7 billion trips in 2013, according to the American Public Transportation Association. This is despite widespread cuts to bus and rail service -- and rising fares. The 2008 economic crisis started the pinch, but federal and local officials have continued to squeeze.
  13101. Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
    First Published: 2014
    Winslow discusses the transit situation in Pittsburgh, where officials are implementing a series of budget cuts and fare hikes without improving service to the large number of riders who depend on the service.
  13102. Transit Union Shuts NYC Down: Standing Up for Our Rights
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    What do you get when you mix 35,000 angry workers, an arrogant management, a union leadership under pressure from its membership, a decades-long drive to shrink the public sector, a racial divide between bosses and workers, and miscalculations?
  13103. Transition House-How to establish A Refuge for battered women
    First Published: 1982
  13104. Transition Initiatives Primer
    First Published: 2009
    A comprehensive document about embarking on a transition journey. A Transition Initiative is a community (lots of examples here) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
  13105. The Transition to Socialism
    Against The Current vol. 141
    First Published: 2009
    In his January, 2009 speech commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, President Raúl Castro, known popularly as Raúl, repeated Fidel’s oft-quoted 2005 speech to University of Havana students: “This nation can self-destruct… those who can’t destroy it are them [the U.S. imperialists]; we, yes, we can destroy it and it would be our fault.”
  13106. Transitional demands
    First Published: 2009
    The Transition movement aims to move us from oil dependency to local resilience, using the power of community.
  13107. Transnational Capital and the State in China: Partners in Exploitation
    First Published: 1998
    The destruction of job and income security, the sacking of tens of millions of workers, and the withdrawal of government subsidies and protection for local industry serves the interests of a ruling elite that is in partnership with transnational capital.
  13108. The Transnational Network That Nobody is Talking About
    IntelBrief
    First Published: 2019
    The Azov Battalion is emerging as a critical node in the transnational right-wing violent extremist (RWE) movement. Recruits from the U.S., Norway, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Sweden, and Australia, among others, have reportedly traveled to train with the Azov Battalion. The global nature of these groups is just one of several similarities between RWEs and Salafi-jihadists.
  13109. Transpacific Partnership and Monsanto
    First Published: 2013
    The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history, both in economic size and the ability to quietly add more countries in addition to those originally included.
  13110. Trauma is constant for Gaza's children
    First Published: 2021
    This article discusses the constant violence that children in Gaza are exposed to at the hands of Israel, and the long-term psychological effects that sustained trauma can have.
  13111. Travails of U.S. Labor
    Against The Current vol. 84
    First Published: 2000
    A Short History of the U.S. Working Class is an excellent introduction for the “workers and students” whom Paul Le Blanc commendably defines as its principal audience. The language is clear and accessible, the text enlivened by illustrations, and perhaps most distinctive and useful are the many pages of reference at the back of the book. These include a bibliographical essay which cites movies as well as books (135-157), a nineteen-page glossary, a timeline of the period from 1775 to 1990, a U.S. labor history chronology, and an unusually comprehensive index.
  13112. Traven, B.
    Connexipedia Article
    The nom de plume of an enigmatic twentieth century novelist.
  13113. A Travesty of Financial History: Bank Lobbyists will Applaud
    First Published: 2016
    Debt mounts up faster than the means to pay. Yet there is widespread lack of awareness regarding what this debt dynamic implies. From Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC to the modern world, the way in which society has dealt with the buildup of debt has been the main force transforming political relations.
  13114. A Travesty of Justice: Why Peltier Remains in Prison
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    “It's 1999. Why is Leonard Peltier still in prison?” These words were on the huge banner behind the speakers' table for last summer's gathering of forces at Haskell Indian Nations College & Institute at Lawrence, Kansas.
  13115. Treading the Borders Between Life and Death
    First Published: 2009
    During Israel's Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 - January 2009, Israeli forces killed 16 emergency medical staff and injured 57. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), perhaps hundreds of those killed could have survived if emergency services had been able to access them promptly - the access denied to them can be defined as a deliberate violation of the Geneva Conventions and therefore a war crime.
  13116. Treating Mental Health Patients as Criminals
    First Published: 2017
    The criminalisation of the mentally ill is one of the cruellest and most easily avoidable tragedies of our era.
  13117. Treatment Action Campaign
    Connexipedia Article
    A South African AIDS activist movement.
  13118. Treaty still valid
    First Published: 1990
  13119. Tree sitting
    Connexipedia Article
    A form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down.
  13120. Trefann Court
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, and River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for “urban renewal” by the City of Toronto in 1966. Residents fought back and eventually managed to stop the redevelopment plan.
  13121. Trefann Court Residents Associations
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for 'urban renewal' by the city in 1966. Home to 1,300, mostly working class, residents, the area was characterized by old houses and a dwindling population. Faced with the demolition of their neighbourhood and inspired by earlier resistance by residents in the Don Mount on the other side of the Don River, residents organized against the project and refused to accept the city's plans.
  13122. Trefann Short Term Community
    First Published: 1981
    Trefann Short Term Community grew out of the needs of some skid-row men leaving St. Michael's Detoxification Center.
  13123. The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa
    First Published: 2015
    A quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
  13124. Tresca, Carlo
    Connexipedia Article
    Anarchist, newspaper editor, and labour agitator. (1879-1943).
  13125. The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
    First Published: 2003
  13126. The Trial of Sacco and Venzetti
    First Published: 2017
    On May 5 both men were arrested for the Braintree murders. They were armed, Vanzetti with a .38 revolver, Sacco with a .32 Colt pistol.
  13127. The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
    First Published: 2018
    A look at some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s views beyond those emphasized by the mainstream media, where he pushed beyond 'liberal' America and his strong anti-war and global solidarity values were unapologetically linked to the fight against racism and poverty.
  13128. Trials of the Russian Revolution
    First Published: 2017
    Book reviews of The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution by Tariq Ali; The Russian Revolution: When Workers Took Power by Paul Vernadsky; The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin; and Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S. A. Smith.
  13129. Triangle Fire Remembered
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    March 25 is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 145 workers, mostly young women immigrants. The factory, located on the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of the Asch building near Washington Square in New York City, employed 500 workers.
  13130. The tribal left's a mirror image of the tribal right
    First Published: 2021
  13131. Tribal News
    First Published: 1976
    News pamphlet written primarily to raise the social and political awareness of native people in B.C.
  13132. Tribes, Rights and Justice in India
    Interview
    First Published: 2015
    Sara Ahrahms interviews Indian writer and commentator Shashank Kela, author of 'A Rogue and Peasant Slave: Adivasi Resistance, 1800-2000.'
  13133. Tribune of the People
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of "Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution" by Clifford D. Conner.
  13134. A Tribute To American People's Historian - Howard Zinn
    First Published: 2010
    With the death of Howard Zinn there is no doubt that the anti-war and peace movement in the USA has lost one of its best activists and an honest historian.
  13135. A Tribute to Mario Savio and the FSM
    First Published: 1997
    Mario Savio was a brilliant leader because he was careful to lay out the principles and choices before you. To follow Mario was to make your own choice, to know what you were doing and take responsibility for yourself.
  13136. The Trickledown Revolution
    First Published: 2010
    The first step towards re-imagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination - an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfillment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for the survival of those who may look like the keepers of our past, but who may really be the guides to our future.
  13137. Trident rally is Britain's biggest anti-nuclear march in a generation
    First Published: 2016
    Thousands of protesters including Jeremy Corbyn and other party leaders gather in London for CND march and rally.
  13138. Tripartism
    Special Issue of Labour's Side
    First Published: 1978
    A breif that warns of the potential downfalls of labour debate tripartism.
  13139. Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
  13140. The triumph of green hearts over sere
    Reflections on student radicalism at Sydney University in the 1910s and the 1960s
    First Published: 2013
    In April 1910, thirty graduates and undergraduates met on the eve of the federal elections with the intention of establishing the University Socialist Society. The conservatives downtown were shocked. The next day, while the voters shifted to the left, and Andrew Fisher looked forward to leading his second Labor government, the Sydney Morning Herald called the formation of a socialist club at the University, ‘The Last Straw’...
  13141. Triumph and Tragedy
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Le Blanc's sympathies with the Bolshevik project are clear, but this is no apologia. On the contrary, grounded in material and intellectual evidence, it is a work that helps us better understand the factors that shaped the choices the revolutionary leaders made and the alternatives paths that might have been open to them.
  13142. Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy
    The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization.
  13143. Trophy Photographs
    Against The Current vol. 111
    First Published: 2004
    Americans have a fascination with photographs! I remember the very first trophy photograph that I saw. It was a hunter who killed grizzly bear, and he stood there standing over his dead trophy with a proud simile on his face. This was when I was a child and didn't truly understand the human psychology behind such photographs.
  13144. A "Trot of the milder persuasion": Raymond Challinor's Marxism
    First Published: 2014
    This essay aims to give a sense of Challinor's creativity as a Marxist historian and political activist. It suggests that The Origins of British Bolshevism perhaps reveals some of the limitations of Challinor's own slightly abstract and propagandist model of what "Bolshevism" represented. But it also signifies his distinctive and outstanding contribution.
  13145. Trotsky, Guest of the Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    “Infamous and impotent handful of vile assassins and traitors!” “raging dogs that must be brought down with no pity!” These were some of the words that Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet Prosecutor General, pronounced on August 24 1936, against four founding members of the Bolshevik Party, among them Zinoviev and Kamenev.
  13146. Leon Trotsky
    First Published: 1940
    Trotsky's works, and most of all his History of the Russian Revolution, will immortalize his name as a writer and politician. But there is a real need to oppose the development of the Trotsky legend which will make out of this leader of the Russian state capitalist revolution a martyr of the international working class - a legend which must be rejected together with all other postulates and aspects of bolshevism.
  13147. Trotsky, Leon
    Connexipedia Article
    Russian revolutionary. (1879-1940).
  13148. Trotsky, Leon - Writings - Index
    Writings of Leon Trotsky (1879-1940).
  13149. Trotsky Reconsidered: Claude Lefort's Perspective
    First Published: 2013
    In spite of all the ink spilled that says the opposite, Trotsky may have been closer to Stalin than he was to Lenin. That’s the argument made by Claude Lefort (one of the leading members of Socialisme ou Barbarisme) in a 1948 essay, “The Contradiction of Trotsky.” He criticizes Trotsky for having over and over again pursued a conciliationist approach towards Stalin and failing to uphold what Lefort claims would have been Lenin’s positions if he had still been alive.
  13150. Trotskyism
    First Published: 2011
  13151. Trotskyism and Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War
    First Published: 2004
    A Trotskyist view of political currents in the Spanish Civil War.
  13152. Trotskyism and the vanguard party 
    First Published: 1974
    One of the most consistent achievements of the Trotskyists over the years has been to drive people away from radical politics. The number of burned-out and alienated ex-Trotskyists greatly exceeds the number of active Trotskyists. Their transparently manipulative tactics in the organizations they infiltrate tend to drive ordinary members away, forever wary of anyone identified as a Trotskyist.
  13153. Trouble Down in Texas (and Elsewhere)
    First Published: 2016
    The U.S. Supreme Court, on March 2nd, 2016, heard arguments in the case of Whole Women's Health vs. Hellerstedt. The judges will be deciding the constitutionality of a 2013 Texas bill (HB2) that places restrictions on clinics where abortions are performed - most within the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
  13154. The Trouble with Disparity
    First Published: 2020
    Racism is real and antiracism is both admirable and necessary, but extant racism isn’t what principally produces our inequality and antiracism won’t eliminate it. And because racism is not the principal source of inequality today, antiracism functions more as a misdirection that justifies inequality than a strategy for eliminating it.
  13155. The Trouble With Uplift 
    How black politics succumbed to the siren song of the racial voice
    First Published: 2018
    I've long suspected that, to a certain strain of race-conscious or antiracist discourse, historical exploration in popular culture was less important than the propagation of tales of inspiration and uplift. These fables typically feature singular black heroes who have overcome crushing racist adversity against all odds. In recent years, a steady stream of films and other narratives have openly embraced that preference.
  13156. The Troubled State of Labor
    Book review
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of The State of Working America
  13157. The Troubling Link Between Attacks on Immigrants and Repression of Labor
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the targeting of immigrants and its connection to attacks on labour movements, and how it leads to disturbing increases in violations of civil liberties.
  13158. Truckers Spend the Holidays Driving Too Much for Too Little Pay
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the diminishing compensation provided to truck drivers, and why the trucking corporations get away with paying so little.
  13159. Trudeau government gives dangerous new powers to Canada's political cops
    First Published: 2019
    The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has published a massive collection of documents that reveal that CSIS is gathering information on peaceful protest groups. This coincides with new legislation from the Trudeau government that gives CSIS increased powers to conduct surveillance.
  13160. The True Gaza Backstory
    It's About Land, Stupid
    First Published: 2014
    How come all those Palestinians – all 1.5 million – are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn’t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out – or fled for their lives – when the Israeli state was created.
  13161. The true Left is not woke
    First Published: 2023
    Progressive activists have forgotten their roots.
  13162. A truly fragile identify
    First Published: 2002
    Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
  13163. Trump appeals to the military against the press and the courts
    First Published: 2017
    Examining recent remarks by Donald Trump suggesting a presidential and military alliance in opposition to the press and the court system, and the broader impacts of this position.
  13164. Trump Attorney Sues Greenpeace Over Dakota Access in $300 Million Racketeering Case
    First Published: 2017
    Lawyers for Energy Transfer Partners, which include Donald Trump's go-to attorneys, have filed a $300 million lawsuit against Greenpeace and other environmental groups for their activism against the long-contested North Dakota-to-Illinois project.
  13165. President Trump: Big Liar Going to Washington or Tribune of the People?
    First Published: 2016
    An examination of Donald Trump's challenges to precepts of globalism, interventionist foreign policy, and special interests, how they resonated with public sentiment, and the challenges and potential outcomes of their implementation.
  13166. Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable
    First Published: 2016
    A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party's nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the "women's candidate" and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
  13167. Trump and Duterte
    First Published: 2017
    Philippines President Duterte presents himself as a nationalist who is especially opposed to the continuing strong influence of the former colonial power, the United States.
  13168. Trump, fake news and the war on dissidents
    First Published: 2017
    A rebuke to a recent Guardian article titled "If mainstream news wants to win back trust, it cannot silence dissident voices", where journalist Nick Robinson claims that the left and right are the peddlers of the same "fakery" in attacking the media.
  13169. Trump & the Fed: US Shadow Bankers About to Deepen Control of US Economy
    First Published: 2018
    What's sometime referred to as 'shadow bankers' have been running the economy and drafting US domestic economic policy since Trump took office. 'Shadow' banks include such financial institutions as investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, insurance companies, finance companies, asset management companies, etc. They are outside the traditional commercial banking system (e.g. Chase, Bank of America, Wells, etc.) and virtually unregulated. Shadow banks globally now also control more investible liquid assets than do the world's commercial banks.
  13170. Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
    First Published: 2016
    Noam Chomsky shares his thoughts on the aftermath of this election in an interview.
  13171. Trump Insults the Media, but Bush Bullied and Defanged It to Sell the Iraq War
    First Published: 2017
    Bush was anything but a friend of the press during his presidency. Maybe he didn’t demonize it as much as Trump does -- but he actively manipulated it and bullied it far worse and far more effectively than Trump has, much of it in the service of selling his marquee policy: the war in Iraq.
  13172. Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran Deal
    First Published: 2017
    While commentators across the world struggle to adequately convey their outrage over Trump's withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iran is calculating that nothing they do will be quite so damaging to US interests as Trump himself.
  13173. Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran Deal
    First Published: 2017
    As President Trump withdraws certification of the nuclear agreement with Iran, commentators across the world struggled for words to adequately convey their outrage and contempt. A favourite term to describe Trump is as "a wrecking ball", but the phrase suggests a sense of direction and capacity to strike a target which Trump does not possess.
  13174. Trump and the Liberal Intelligentsia: a View from Europe
    First Published: 2016
    A new specter haunts the American elites: the candidacy of Donald Trump in the US President election and his success so far in the Republican primaries. The Republican establishment itself hopes to block his rise, even as he is drawing huge crowds into the party. As for the Democrats, they are hoping that his repugnant image will make the election of Hillary Clinton that much easier.
  13175. Trump v. the Media: a Fight to the Death
    First Published: 2017
    At present, this is a golden era in American journalism, because established media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post find themselves under unprecedented and open attacks from the powers that be. Richard Nixon may have felt persecuted by press and television, but he never counter-attacked with the same vigour and venom as Trump.
  13176. Trump and the Middle East
    First Published: 2017
    Trump tweets about keeping refugees out of the United States, and zeroes out the grossly inadequate U.S. humanitarian aid budget. It all poses the question: Which is the real "failed state"?
  13177. Trump, Namazie, Islam, Free Speech and the Left 
    On the odd relationship that many on the left have with Islam. They view all Muslims as helpless victims, and regard any criticism of Islam as a form of bigotry.
  13178. The Trump-Netanyahu Circus: Now, No One Can Save Israel from Itself
    First Published: 2017
    The President of the United States can hardly be taken seriously, saying much but doing little. His words, often offensive, carry no substance, and it is impossible to summarize his complex political outlook about important issues. This is precisely the type of American presidency that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, prefers.
  13179. Trump not "Exceptional"
    Trump: A Graphic Biography
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Ted Rall's Trump: A Graphic Biography.
  13180. Trump, the NYPD and the People We Call 'Animals'
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the reckless use and dissemination of de-humanizing pejorative language, notably by President Donald Trump and some police agencies in the United States, which has consequences for the public who interact with police and for society as a whole.
  13181. The Trump Phenomenon, as Seen From Europe
    First Published: 2016
    Trump is berated as the latest incarnation of Evil (after Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, the Brexiters): racist, sexist, Islamophobe, a friend of dictators, etc., in short the embodiment of all that arouses the righteous indignation of the human rights defenders. I would like to suggest a different way of seeing Trump. He is above all a capitalist, almost a caricature of the sort of man capitalism produces, encourages and celebrates. He makes money and is proud of it. For him, the bottom line is cost-benefit. Everything comes down to that ratio. Defend the Baltic States? What does it cost, what do we gain? Defend Japan? What does it cost, what do we gain?
  13182. Trump and Science
    First Published: 2018
    Although Trump is called anti-science he simply continues a trend that started with Reagan. Calling him anti-science can mask how his policies and tactics are rational ideologies in the service of neoliberalism.
  13183. Trump the Gardener
    First Published: 2017
    In an interview defending his Presidential candidate, Silicon Valley billionaire and undisguised self-interested Randian fanboy Peter Thiel assured the public that when Donald Trump asserted that he would build a mighty wall along the US Mexican border, what he really meant was that he would impose a 'saner, more sensible immigration policy'.
  13184. Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
    First Published: 2018
    US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
  13185. The Trump Way
    First Published: 2017
    Arun Gupta spoke to Leo Panitch about Trump's economic agenda, his relationship to transnational elites, and how neoliberalism's crisis could mean revitalization for the Left.
  13186. Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
    First Published: 2018
    Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
  13187. Trump's Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
    First Published: 2019
    The US's ability to use finance as international leverage is weakening as American nationalism becomes more blatant and alienates allies.
  13188. Trump's Muslim Ban Will Only Spark More Terrorist Attacks
    First Published: 2017
    Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries entering the US makes a terrorist attack on Americans at home or abroad more rather than less likely. It does so because one of the main purposes of al-Qaeda and Isis in carrying out atrocities is to provoke an over-reaction directed against Muslim communities and states.
  13189. Trump's 'No Fly Zone' Escalates U.S. War Against Syria
    First Published: 2017
    The June 18th destruction of a Syrian government aircraft by a U.S. fighter jet underscores the fact that U.S. and its imperial allies in Syria will attack any and all forces that seek to interfere with U.S. imperialist objectives.
  13190. Trump's Protectionism: A Great Leap Backward
    First Published: 2018
    US Presidents, European leaders and their academic spokespeople have attributed China's growing market shares, trade surpluses and technological power to its "theft" of western technology, "unfair" or non-reciprocal trade and restrictive investment practices. President Trump has launched a 'trade war' – raising stiff tariffs, especially targeting Chinese exports – designed to pursue a protectionist economic regime.
  13191. Trump's Reviled Hotline for "Criminal Aliens" Flooded with Reports of UFOs
    First Published: 2017
    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has unveiled its controversial immigrant crime office, complete with a hotline for U.S. citizens to report alleged crimes committed by undocumented aliens. The hotline was promptly overwhelmed with calls about extraterrestrials and UFOs.
  13192. Trump's Road to Ruin
    First Published: 2017
    The editors address Trump's early assaults on democratic principles and institutions, from the snarling menace of his "America First" inaugural address, to his cabinet of multi-millionaire and billionaire reactionaries, to the pending removal of millions of people from health insurance, to assaulting women's reproductive rights and attempting to bar Muslim travelers, to attacking Black youth and every vulnerable population.
  13193. Trump's Trade Threats are Really Cold War 2.0
    First Published: 2019
    Trump's attempts to bully China economically may backfire and alienate the US from trade partners.
  13194. Trump's Transition Team Colluded With Israel. Why Isn't That News?
    First Published: 2017
    Hasan asks the question: why aren't more members of Congress or the media discussing the Trump transition team's pretty brazen collusion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to undermine both U.S. government policy and international law?
  13195. Trump's War on Children is an act of State Terrorism
    First Published: 2018
    State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children. The Trump administration has detained more than 2,000 children, and the numbers are expected to grow exponentially in light of Trump's refusal to change the cruel policy.
  13196. Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
    First Published: 2017
    Although precise numbers are difficult to obtain, there seems little question that the number of civilians being killed by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria -- already quite high under Obama -- has increased precipitously during the first two months of the Trump administration.
  13197. Trump's Worst Collusion Isn't With Russia -- It's With Corporations
    First Published: 2017
    Many leading liberals suspect that Trump worked with Russia to win his election, but we've long known that huge corporations and wealthy individuals threw their weight behind the billionaire.
  13198. Truscott, Steven
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian who was sentenced to death in 1959, when he was a 14-year old student, for the allegedly murdering a classmate. (Born 1945).
  13199. Trust Me
    A Handbook of Tory Contortions
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2011
    Satirical bites from Ontario’s past — 1995 to 2003. They expose the Common Sense Revolutionary backgrounds of some of Canada’s highest-ranking conservatives currently on the scene.
  13200. Trustworthy, loyal, obedient, clean and reverent...
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of 'The Hotel Tacloban' by Douglas Valentine.
  13201. Truth About Global Warming
    First Published: 1997
    Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
  13202. The Truth About the "9/11 Truth Movement"
    First Published: 2006
    A rebuttal of some of the claims made by 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
  13203. The Truth About the Drug Companies
    First Published: 2004
    The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion) [in 2002]. Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way.
  13204. The Truth About "Trailer Trash"
    First Published: 2018
    "Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.
  13205. The Truth About Venezuela's Opposition
    First Published: 2016
    Western journalists can't admit that Venezuela's opposition is neither democratic nor peaceful.
  13206. The Truth Behind The Israeli Propaganda
    First Published: 2010
    The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists - and I'm including the BBC's pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships - are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli journalists are writing about the killings with the courage that Western journalists should demonstrate.
  13207. The truth behind the Labour coup, when it really began and who manufactured it
    First Published: 2016
    An exclusive investigation by The Canary can reveal that the current Labour 'coup' being instigated against Jeremy Corbyn appears to have been orchestrated by a PR company where Tony Blair's arch spin-doctor, Alastair Campbell, is a senior advisor.
  13208. Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel"s "Night"
    First Published: 2016
    When in trouble, head for Auschwitz, preferably in the company of Elie Wiesel. It's as foolproof a character reference as is available today, at least within the Judeo-Christian sphere of moral influence.
  13209. Truth in Chains
    The Arrest of Julian Assange
    First Published: 2010
    Tell a truth that discomforts power, that challenges its domination over our lives, our discourse, our very thoughts, and you will be destroyed. No institution, public or private, will stand with you; the most powerful entities, public and private, will be arrayed against you, backed up by overwhelming violent force. This is where we are now. This is what we are now.
  13210. Truth is Our Weapon and Shield
    An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Billy X Jennings
    First Published: 2020
  13211. Truth is Our Weapon and Shield - An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Billy X Jennings
    First Published: 2020
    Interview with Billy X Jennings discussing legacy of BPP, role of education in revolutionary practice, and current uprising in the US.
  13212. Truth Is The First Casualty Of War: Nagorno-Karabakh And Media Misinformation
    First Published: 2016
    The Crimean War, in mid-19th century, introduced the world to the cardigan, the raglan jersey, and the balaclava headdress. It also introduced a new profession: the foreign correspondent. And almost immediately after the war the axiom "truth is the first casualty of war" was born because of the falsehoods spread by foreign correspondents on both sides.
  13213. Truth, Sojourner
    Connexipedia Article
    African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. (1797-1883).
  13214. The Truth Will Always Win
    First Published: 2010
    In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
  13215. Trying to Arrest Madeleine Albright
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    I used to cringe every time I'd be in a demo and hear the chant, "You can't run. You can't hide. We charge you with genocide!" But in the case of the sanctions against Iraq it really has become genocide: hundreds of thousands of civilians have been deliberately killed through the intentional crippling of Iraqi water treatment system and the sanctions that prevent Iraq from selling enough oil to cover essential civilian needs. Clinton, Albright, and Cohen are-in a very literal sense-war criminals.
  13216. Trying to change the world?
    We can help.
    First Published: 2012
    Getting your story across is an uphill battle when you’re challenging the status quo.
    SOURCES can help you get your message out.
  13217. TSA Drug-Running Scandal Betrays Drug War’s Pretense
    First Published: 2012
    The cost of bribing US border and airport security personnel is chump change in the narco-trafficking business.
  13218. TSA's Gestapo Empire
    A Greater Threat Than the Terrorists
    First Published: 2010
    The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is a far greater threat to the lives and freedom of Americans than the 'terrorists' it claims to be protecting them from.
  13219. The TSA's Role as Journalist Harasser and Media 'Watchdog'
    First Published: 2019
    An American journalist whose work opposes the US government is openly marked for extra screening and inspections when travelling.
  13220. Tsleil-Waututh First Nation rejects Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion
    First Published: 2015
    Kinder Morgan's pipeline project proposes almost 1,000 kilometres of new pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from Edmonton to Burnaby. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation announced that the project would not be allowed to proceed on the Nation's territory. It also released a scathing report on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion, outlining the project's risks to health and environment.
  13221. TTIP is on the rocks. Let's defeat these toxic trade deals!
    First Published: 2016
    The TTIP EU-US trade deal has finally hit the rocks with massive popular opposition on both sides of the Atlantic gaining serious political traction. There's now a good chance that TTIP will be defeated - but first we must make sure that CETA, the equally toxic EU-Canada 'Trojan Horse' deal, bites the dust.
  13222. TTIP: the Corporate Empowerment Act 
    First Published: 2015
    The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. "Free trade" is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
  13223. TTIP: The most dangerous weapon in the hands of the fossil fuel industry
    First Published: 2016
    Looks into the impact that the TTIP papers will have on the fossil fuel industry and Climate Action.
  13224. Tubman, Harriet
    Connexipedia Article
    An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. (1822-1913).
  13225. Tug-of-War: The working Class and Political Change in British Colombia, 1948-1972
    PhD Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2008
    First Published: 2008
  13226. A "Tunisia Moment" Coming?
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    A prominent commentator and a brother of the former president, Moeletsi Mbeki caused a major stir last year when he announced that South Africa is headed for a “Tunisia Moment.”
  13227. Tunisia, Then Egypt
    Why Now?
    First Published: 2011
    Under what circumstances does passivity turn into revolt?
  13228. The Tunisian Intifada
    "Yezzi Fock!" (It's Enough!)
    First Published: 2011
  13229. Túpac Amaru II
    Connexipedia Article
    The leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish occupation of Peru. (1742-1781).
  13230. Turbulent 1970s Revisited
    First Published: 2016
    Book reviews of Michael Simanga's Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory, and Aaron J. Leonard's and Conor A. Gallagher's Heavy Radicals:
    The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union/
    Revolutionary Communist Party, 1968-1980.
  13231. A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its Enemies
    First Published: 2017
    What critics claim is the openly fraudulent Turkish referendum ends parliamentary democracy in the country and gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dictatorial powers. The most unexpected aspect of the poll on Sunday was not the declared outcome, but that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) allegedly found it necessary to fix the vote quite so blatantly.
  13232. Turkey in 2019: An Assessment
    First Published: 2019
    A look at the current state of the Erdogan regime in Turkey as well as the hopes and challenges of what the left can accomplish.
  13233. Turkey and its Kurds at war: Recep Tayyip Erdogan's personal quest for survival
    First Published: 2015
    Examining the ongoing civil war between the Turkish government and Kurds, focusing especially on the recent plight of Cizre, a south eastern town with a massive Kurdish population. The author criticises the Turkish government which waged war against its own citizens in the Kurdish regions of the country.
  13234. Turkey: A War of Two Coups
    First Published: 2016
    On 15 July 2016 a huge section of the Turkish armed forces attempted to take power from the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP, came very close to its objective, but was ultimately defeated. This article examines the causes of the failed coup and its social and political effects on the Turkish society from a Marxist perpective.
  13235. Turkey's Double Game and the US's Double Standards
    What the bombings in Ankara tell us about Turkey's true motives in Syria.
    First Published: 2015
    On Saturday morning, in the Turkish capital of Ankara, two suicide bombers targeted a Kurdish-Turkish trade union peace march, killing over a hundred civilians and wounding hundreds more.
  13236. Turkey's Tiananmen in Context
    First Published: 2015
    At 9:30 Saturday morning Turkish citizens opposed to their government’s war policies gathered at the Ankara Train Station for a demonstration organized by a broad alliance of organizations.
  13237. Turkey's Urban Uprising
    The Struggle for Democracy against Inequality, Oligarchy, Oppression, and Tyranny
    First Published: 2013
    In Turkey, a wave of urban uprisings had spread across the country, involving hundreds of thousands of protesters, in dozens of cities, met with massive state repression and violence, resulting in a few deaths and thousands of injuries and arrests.
  13238. Turkish newspaper editor in court for 'espionage' after revealing weapon convoy to Syrian militants
    First Published: 2015
    The prosecution has asked to imprison Editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper pending trial for espionage and treason. In May, the outlet published photos of weapons it said were then transferred to Syria by Turkey's intelligence agency. Turkish national intelligence is smuggling weapons into Syria and has been caught in the past.
  13239. Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
    First Published: 2009
    If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
  13240. Turn on tune in - hippie photos unseen for decades
    First Published: 2016
    A recent visit to the Chronicle's basement archives to look for hippie-related photos paid off with some wonderful images that have not been seen in several decades. Many of them were taken in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
  13241. The Turn-Verizon Zombie Cookie
    First Published: 2015
    Discussion of Verizon's "supercookie," a header that tracks mobile subscribers, even if they have opted out, cleared their cookies, or entered private browsing mode.
  13242. Turner, John F. Charlewood
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Advocate for the rights of people to build, manage and sustain their own shelter and communities. (Born 1927).
  13243. Turner, Nat
    Connexipedia Article
    American slave who led a slave rebellion in 1831. (1800-1831).
  13244. Turning an issue into a campaign 
    First Published: 2015
    As an organizer, your goal is not just to help members solve their workplace problems but to help them build collective self-confidence and power. A campaign is just a series of steps that help people focus on a common issue, identify a solution, and build pressure on the person with the power to solve the problem.
  13245. Turning Blood into Money
    Profiting from Killing
    First Published: 2013
    Yotam Feldman’s documentary The Lab, released in August, is one of the most important exposés of the obscene rationale and execution of Israel’s hugely lucrative arms and security industries through the voices of some of its ex-military key operators: Amos Golan, Shimon Naveh, Leo Gleser, and Yoav Galant.
  13246. Turning Children Into Consumers
    First Published: 2009
    Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into lifelong consumers with brand loyalties and that can be profitable for decades to come.
  13247. Turning Estates into Villages
    First Published: 2010
    How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.
  13248. Turning innocence into resistance
    First Published: 2023
    With every murderous crime, new fuel is poured on the fire of resistance, which every traumatized child like Salma carries in their young heart. Resistance may be all she has in the end. When the suffering is endless, it binds one generation’s suffering to the next. This is why many Palestinians may die, but our children will never forget.
  13249. Turning Perpetrators into Healers
    First Published: 2017
    Innocent people -- or "innocently guilty" people, like the junior senator from Minnesota -- often get unfairly hung out to dry. Should he have to resign? Who among us (Roy? Donald?) hasn't committed worse transgressions? And shouldn't a person's positive achievements be factored into the severity of his punishment, at least when no permanent damage has occurred?
  13250. Turning Point?
    First Published: 2009
    Chomsky examines if Obama's speech in Cairo can reasonably be understood as an indication of a turning point in US Middle East policy. He expresses doubt in consideration of the intricate relationship between America and Israel.
  13251. A turning point for the US solidarity movement
    First Published: 2009
    We have learned that change will not come from above. It will and must come from the grassroots, the people, those who have nothing to lose but their prison walls, the daily humiliation of life as a refugee, a second- or third-class citizen, or a non-citizen.
  13252. 'A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead'
    First Published: 2018
    Various participants at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya discuss ways they can sustainably economically benefit from the local environment.
  13253. Tutu, Desmond
    Connexipedia Article
    South African cleric, activist and opponent of apartheid. (Born 1931).
  13254. TV News in the Age of the Super Anchor
    Why Brian Williams is Just the Tip of the Scandal
    First Published: 2015
    Super Anchor is often more actor than reporter. His or her role is to give the story a certain imprimatur, which it doesn’t always deserve. Much of the real work, digging, and investigation is done by others.
  13255. 12 most absurd laws used to stifle occupy movement
    First Published: 2011
    Here are 12 desperate and unsuccessful measures the authorities are using to discourage, deter and crack down on peaceful protests.
  13256. 12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement
    First Published: 2011
    As Occupy Wall Street protests spring up in cities across the country, authorities are thinking up creative ways to contain this peaceful and inspiring uprising. Although laws and municipal ordinances vary from city to city, there is a consistency in the tactics being used to stifle the movement.
  13257. Twelve Reasons to Oppose Rules on Digital Commerce in the WTO
    First Published: 2017
    US-based transnational companies in the fields of information, technology and media are working to create international rules that limit the ability of governments to put restrictions on how they make profits.
  13258. 12 Reasons You'll Be Hearing More About The Commons In 2012
    First Published: 2012
    "We Power" stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends.
  13259. Twelve Thoughts On Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
  13260. Twentieth convoy
    Connexipedia Article
    Transport 20 (XXth convoy) was a Jewish prisoner transport in Belgium organized by the Nazi Germany during World War II. Members of the Belgian Resistance freed Jewish and Gypsy civilians who were being transported by train from the Dossin Barracks.
  13261. 21st Century Trade Union Conspiracy Trial
    First Published: 2016
    It's fitting that the return of the trade union conspiracy trial would take place in Philadelphia, the city of the infamous Philadelphia Cordwainers Trial of 1805, the first known trade union conspiracy case in America. Beginning with the genesis of the first combinations of wage labourers in eighteenth-century England, trade unionism has been perceived and prosecuted as a conspiracy against private property -- and rightly so. What is a trade union but a permanent conspiracy against private property and the inviolable right to private property? Friedrich Engels designated trade unions as schools of war in The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1845, and the processes underlying workers' control and workers' power made manifest in trade unionism then remain in operation today.
  13262. 21st Century Trade Union Conspiracy Trial
    First Published: 2016
    It's fitting that the return of the trade union conspiracy trial would take place in Philadelphia, the city of the infamous Philadelphia Cordwainers Trial of 1805, the first known trade union conspiracy case in America.
  13263. 2,500 Years of Class Hatred
    First Published: 2016
    Class struggle never existed without hatred of the poor. And neither has racism. Boots Riley's recent article, posted in The Guardian, systematically dispels the myth of black-on-black crime advocated by Bill Clinton. Rather than pointing the image of failure at black people in the US, Riley insists, the mirror should be redirected to class war and the failure of liberal democracy. The condition of black people will advance with economic prosperity, not punitive drug laws.
  13264. 25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
  13265. Twenty five years of revolution
    First Published: 2012
    The period since 1987 has been, in one sense, extraordinary in the sheer number of revolutions that have occurred. If one thing seems certain, it is that revolution is alive and well across the globe, and is indeed a very “normal” part of the political process in the modern capitalist world.
  13266. The 24 hour day: women, work and class
    First Published: 2017
    Movements of women, as well as those involving large numbers of women, will increasingly be features of resistance to neoliberalism. The extent to which they succeed will be the extent to which they are able to challenge the class basis of neoliberalism, and its consequences.
  13267. Twenty Million Jobless by the End of 2009
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    Throughout the past year, U.S. government statistics have consistently underestimated and underreported the extent of joblessness. The techniques by which this has been done were described in prior articles on the subject by this author. With November 2008’s Department of Labor report of 530,000 additional workers losing their jobs, it would appear that the government was finally reporting the true extent of rising unemployment in the United States.
  13268. 21 States Will Take Away Your Driver's License If You Can't Pay Your College Loans, But Activists Are Fighting Back
    A grassroots project in Montana is a blueprint for activism across the country
    First Published: 2015
    Thanks to the work of local organizers pressuring lawmakers, Montana residents will no longer have their drivers licenses suspended if they fall behind on their student loan payments. This April, a Montana law that allowed the state to revoke licenses for that infraction was scrapped. However, in at least 21 states, similar laws remain on the books.
  13269. 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
    First Published: 1993
  13270. 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Climate Change
    First Published: 2008
    Capitalism's glorification of competition and thirst for limitless profit are destroying the planet.
  13271. 20 Years of Media Lens: Selection of Remarkable Replies from Journalists
    First Published: 2021
  13272. 20 Years Since the Chiapas Rebellion
    The Zapatistas, Their Politics and Impact
    First Published: 2014
    The Chiapas rebellion led by the Zapatistas took place 20 years ago this month. What was the importance of the rebellion and of the Zapatistas? What was the impact at the time? And what has been its political legacy? What is the role of the Zapatistas in Mexico today?
  13273. Twenty-First-Century Fascism: Private Military Companies in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Class
    First Published: 2015
    Globalization of trade and central banking have propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
  13274. Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs 
    Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession
    First Published: 2013
    Land grabs -- whether initiated by multinational corporations and private investment firms emanating from the capitalist core, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, or state entities such as China and India -- are now in the news constantly.
  13275. Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grab
    First Published: 2014
    On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful eviction from their lands, the Twiga Farm, and recognition of their right to return.
  13276. The Twilight of Freedom
    First Published: 2023
    Three British journalists I know personally - Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg - have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation. This is plainly an abuse of the power to detain at port of entry, because in each case they could have been questioned at any time in the UK were there legitimate cause, and the questioning was not focused on their travels. They were in fact detained and interrogated simply for holding and publishing dissident opinion on foreign policy, and in particular for supporting a more collaborative approach to Russia.
  13277. Twisted beaks: Scientists exploring mysterious deformities focus on new virus
    First Published: 2014
    Today, deformed beaks have been discovered in more than 2,500 of Alaska's chickadees, or 6.5 percent of captured adults, and in 29 other species in south central Alaska. For crows, the disfigured beaks are even more prevalent, at 17 percent, the "highest rate of gross deformity ever documented in a wild bird population," according to the USGS.
  13278. Twitter closes down my account for 'hateful conduct'
    First Published: 2018
    Several Twitter accounts with pro-Palestinian content have been suspended. At the same time those making explicit threats against them have been found not to violate Twitter's terms of service.
  13279. Twitter spreads paid US government propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
    First Published: 2020
    Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like Voice of America’s VOA Persian pay the social media corporation huge sums of money to spread disinformation against Iran and other foreign adversaries.
  13280. Twitter Wars: My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
    First Published: 2022
  13281. Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
    First Published: 2009
    Israel's foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government's line on the Middle East conflict.
  13282. The Twitterest Pill
    Policing Dissent in the Information Age
    First Published: 2009
    Who judges the legitimate and illegitimate uses of communications technology in social movements? Which networked alliances have State-sponsorship, and which ones face criminalization and State-crackdown? Social media are relying on open network access, but this openness too easily sugarcoats itself in democratic notions (participation, interactivity, freedom). At the same historic moment, we are also witnessing an expansion, integration, and refinement of sovereign police power. When the two converge we begin to see an increase in repressive intervention into, and pre-emption of, information use.
  13283. Two Acts of Terror, Only One Investigation
    The Real Terrorists are the Corporate Execs Who've Bought the Regulators
    First Published: 2013
    Two acts of terrorism in the US this week, the first took place at the end of the historic Boston Marathon, when two bombs went off near the finish line, killing three and seriously injuring dozens of runners and spectators; the second happened a couple days later in the town of West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant blew up, incinerating or otherwise killing at least 15, and injuring at least 150 people, and probably more as the search for the dead and the injured continues.
  13284. Two Americas -- Where Racism Lives
    First Published: 2013
    The George Zimmerman case and racism.
  13285. The Two Apartheids
    What are the similarities and differences between South African apartheid and the Israeli system?
    First Published: 2014   Published: 2015
  13286. Two Decades of Monsanto's Illegal Actions, Frauds and Crimes in India
    First Published: 2017
    Over the two decades since Monsanto entered India, it has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating India’s Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide.
  13287. The Two Faces of Class Struggle: The Motor Force for Historical Regression or Advance
    First Published: 2013
    One of the most important and yet most neglected determinants of the outcomes of the economic crisis and resultant deepening of social inequalities and immiseration is the ‘class struggle’. In one of his most pithy metaphors, Karl Marx referred to class struggle as ‘the motor force of history’.
  13288. Two faces of reformism
    First Published: 2015
    In our last issue we advised the radical left in Britain to be open to the sudden fissures that the crisis of the British state can…unexpectedly open up, perhaps making possible a qualitative advance. And the unexpected came very quickly, and in a particularly surprising form.
  13289. 205 Arguments and Observations in Support of Naturism
    First Published: 2001
    Arguments in favour of naturism backed up by research and writings from various sources.
  13290. 231 Palestinians were killed in 2022. These are their stories.
    First Published: 2022
    2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in decades. We kept a record of all those who were killed by Israeli state and settler violence. These are their names, faces, and stories.
  13291. Two in one?
    A review of Donny Gluckstein, A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire (Pluto, 2012)
    First Published: 2013
    The Second World War was and still is the example of the “good war”, a war that put an end to Auschwitz, a war fought not only by regular armies but also by mass movements of anti-fascist resistance.
  13292. The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
    First Published: 1907
    To be sure, revolutions and revolutionary struggles cannot be transplanted artificially, by means of ‘good intentions’, into a country. But the examples and lessons of a neighbouring revolutionary country can at least shake the belief that treading softly is the only method of achieving bliss. And well they should.
  13293. Two Miners
    First Published: 1971
    An interview with two miners, one in Sudbury, Canada, and one in Sweden.
  13294. Two Months in LA's Solidarity Park
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    Occupy Los Angeles was the largest of the “Occupy” encampments: In the space of two months, we grew from around 50 to nearly 500 tents. Our camp developed neighborhoods, tribes, collectives, a print shop, a library, a people’s university, a wellness center, a meditation tent, a kid’s village, and all sorts of fascinating community problems to go with them. This is the particular joy and struggle of being an occupation, and not a traditional group of community organizers; the internal conflict of a commune or a family was playing out simultaneously with our movement and message-building.
  13295. Two out of Three Investigative Journalists in US Believe They're Being Spied On
    First Published: 2015
    In the wake of the NSA mass surveillance scandal, a vast majority of investigative journalists believe that the U.S. government is spying on them, and large numbers say that this belief impacts the way they go about their reporting.
  13296. The Two-Party System, Part III
    First Published: 2015
    This perceived marriage of "progressive" change and the Democratic Party grew from conditions that prevailed from the 1930s through the 1960s. The next half century sustained this faith less through positive policies than by comforting images. Integral to this has been the rise of a warfare state with its own logic. The implications of both have made a two-party political order unchanged by the end of either World War II or the Cold War.
  13297. The Two-Party System, Part IV
    First Published: 2015
    "Progressive" institutions, organizations, and ideologues have clung tenaciously to the faith that the two-party system remains an eternal, ultimately unchallengeable reality.
  13298. Two Powerful Films on Indonesian Mass Terror
    Film Review
    First Published: 2018
    Short review of two films about Indonesian genocide.
  13299. Two Soviet Spies Who Deserve a Posthumous Nobel Peace Prize
    First Published: 2017
    Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, both scientists working on the Manhattan Project, should receive posthumous Nobel Peace Prizes for actions that almost certainly saved millions of innocent lives.
  13300. "Two State Solution" Equals Racism
    Palestinians and Jews CAN Live Peacefully as Equals in One Democratic State
    First Published: 2009
    The mutual fear and distrust between Jews and non-Jews in Palestine today is no more innate to these people than the belief in anti-black stereotypes so widely accepted by white Americans in the past was innate to white people. The animosity between Palestinians and Israeli Jews was deliberately fomented by Israeli Zionist leaders with the help of British and American leaders for decades. It was not the presence of Jews in Palestine, per se, that angered the native Palestinians; rather it was the intention (and then the reality) of Zionists removing non-Jews from their homeland to turn most of it into an exclusively Jewish state.
  13301. Two Struggles, One Story
    First Published: 2013
    Mkhuseli “Khusta” Jack and Oscar Olivera met face to face and shared their stories of strategic organizing with the scholars and professors of the School of Authentic Journalism.
  13302. Two Systems of Justice
    One for the Corporate Class; One for the Rest of Us
    First Published: 2011
    We have two systems of justice. One for the corporate class. And one for the rest of us.
  13303. 2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being Fiction
    First Published: 2018
    A commentary on The Guardian's news story "Revealed: UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance". Cook questions facts and the terminology used in the Guardian article, a form of 'journalistic fraud', which promotes the UK government's policy towards Russia.
  13304. 2004 Elections
    First Published: 2004
    Chomsky explores potential implications of the 2004 election results in America, concluding they are, in fact, of little significance. For insight, he points instead to those public opinions which were not included in the process.
  13305. 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity
    Connexipedia Article
    Marches, rallies, performances, demonstrations, exhibits, and acts of civil disobedience in New York City to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention and the nomination of President George W. Bush for the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
  13306. 2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News
    First Published: 2009
    The support provided by Israel's primary media to the security and political moves of the government - any government - is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of the "public's right to know," in numerous cases even against strong currents that demand the silencing and concealment of information, serves more as a title for academic conferences and less as a rule that guides the media establishment in Israel. Not only this, but the journalists' association adopted the official governmental approach in relation to international forums concerned with human rights. This approach places obstacles of suspicion and hostility before anyone who does not follow the official line of Israeli patriotism. Legitimate criticism of unprofessional and unethical conduct of media that volunteers for national or military service is countered with the contention that the source of criticism is anti-Semitic.
  13307. The 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba
    Trump's Washington Remains Cornered
    First Published: 2019
    On November 7, 2019, for the 28th year in a row, the entire United Nations General Assembly, gathered in one room, voted overwhelmingly against "the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed on Cuba by the United States." The final tally was 187 in favor, 3 opposed (Brazil, Israel, US), 2 abstentions (Colombia, Ukraine), 1 not voting (Moldova).
  13308. 2013 Unoccupied
    Sun Tzu's Messages to the Occupy Movement
    First Published: 2012
    The ”Occupy” movement has apparently receded into the long night. The structural challenges remain the same, and opposition is still needed. What has been exposed as fruitless, however, is the idea of occupying parks in chaotic sieges that signify nothing.
  13309. Two very different Jewish responses to bigotry
    One promoting solidarity, the other promoting insularity
    First Published: 2020
    In the last weeks of September 2020, anonymous adhesive stickers bearing possible messages of bigotry appeared on utility poles and other surfaces in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And the response from two Jewish organizations demonstrate two very different approaches to those messages.
  13310. Two Views on Marxist Ecology and Jason W. Moore
    First Published: 2016
    On June 6, 2016, Climate & Capitalism published an interview with John Bellamy Foster, in which he for the first time responded to nearly a decade of criticism from Jason W. Moore, who accuses Foster of "Cartesian dualism" and who promotes what he calls "world-ecology" as an alternative to the approach Foster is most associated with, metabolic rift theory and Ecological Marxism.
  13311. Two Years After the CTU Strike
    First Published: 2014
    In light of the Chicago Teachers Union's strike that changed the discourse on education in the United States, Bartlett analyzes the persisting problems with public education systems, such as school closings, privitization, and poor allocation of funding.
  13312. Two Years Later in Oaxaca
    Commentary from Oaxaca
    First Published: 2008
    A sketch of what has changed since the brutal repression of the 2006 social movement’s five month control of the city of Oaxaca.
  13313. Two years since Rabaa massacre, impunity still reigns in Egypt
    First Published: 2015
    On this day two years ago, the Egyptian army and riot police launched a deadly onslaught on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured.
  13314. The Two-Party System, Part II
    First Published: 2015
    The second part of an overview of the history and origins of the two-party system in the United States.
  13315. Typewriters Still Smoking? An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan
    First Published: 2018
    An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan, who is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, with degrees from Michigan State and Columbia, and the author of the best book about the underground press. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University Press)
  13316. La tyrannie d'une absence de structure
    First Published: 1970
  13317. The Tyranny of False Consciousness
    Know-Nothings of 2010, Part Two
    First Published: 2010
    Today's nativists are beset by the crisis of capitalist globalization and its accompanying waves of forced migration. Sadly, nativists refuse to acknowledge the relationship between capitalism and migration. Instead, they seek to resolve the mounting social crisis by returning the country to a fantasy way-of-life that never existed, a white Protestant homeland. Rightwing ideological hacks promote this fictitious solution, setting the stage for a far deeper neo-fascist, racist (and anti-Muslim) upsurge.
  13318. The Tyranny of Structurelessness - Japanese text
    First Published: 1970
  13319. Tyre Nichols: The bigotry of the 'anti-racists'
    First Published: 2023
    Those blaming his death on white supremacy seem to think black cops are just mindless thugs.
  13320. U.S. Firms Accused of Enabling Surveillance in Despotic Central Asian Regimes
    First Published: 2014
    U.S. and Israeli companies have been selling surveillance systems to Central Asian countries with records of political repression and human rights abuse, according to a new report by Privacy International. The U.K.-based watchdog charges that the American firms Verint and Netronome enable surveillance in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
  13321. The U.S. Will Invade West Africa in 2023 After an Attack in New York - According to Pentagon War Game
    First Published: 2017
    By 2021, according to the war game's scenario, AQIM boasts an estimated 38,000 members spread throughout Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, and a network of training camps in Mauritania, as well as outright bases in Western Sahara.
  13322. The UAW Contract's Downhill Spiral
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    On September 19, 2003, the New York Times said the United Auto Workers (UAW) had concluded negotiations, “granting its most significant concessions in two decades.” Of the many concessions -- including those implicitly “in progress” -- in the Big 3 auto contracts, we'll focus primarily on health care.
  13323. UAW Pioneer and Fighter for Social Justice: Victor G. Reuther
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    Victor Reuther's death June 3, at age 92, was a personal loss-breaking one of the last connections to my parent's socialist movement of the 1930s. Victor was also the connection to the courageous and honorable men and women who made great sacrifices over 60 years ago to win union recognition and the contract gains that my United Auto Workers brothers and sisters now take for granted.
  13324. The UAW vs. Indian Casinos
    Which Side Are You On Boys
    First Published: 2011
    The issues raised by Indian gambling casinos and their opposition to labour unions.
  13325. Über die Einführung von Veränderungen: Wenn das Kollektiv entscheidet...
    First Published: 1985
  13326. Uber Has Always Been a Criminal Organization
    First Published: 2019
    Uber's whole business model was premised on criminality -- the willful, systematic flouting of local taxi regulations, based on a wager that the company could retroactively absolve itself by getting the laws changed via big-money lobbying. With that kind of mission, it's not surprising its executives had blood on their hands long before they started taking Saudi blood money.
  13327. Uber and the Luddites
    First Published: 2015
    The fight against the sharing economy, and Uber in particular, can be disorienting. Opposition is often painted as techno-phobia. The good guys in this story are Uber and progress; on the other side are opponents afraid of flexibility and smartphones, kicking and screaming against a future already here. In many ways, this is like the fight of the Luddites (machine smashers) 200 years ago at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. While the Luddites were fighting the way technology was used to further exploit rather than liberate workers, they were and are misrepresented as simply afraid of and opposed to technology.
  13328. Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group
    First Published: 2015
    A formal complaint has been filed against Uber, the car ride company, by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-profit advocacy group. The NGO says Uber plans to use their smart phone app to access user's locations at all times, and to send advertisements to user's contact lists.
  13329. Uber? Taxis? Or Plan C? How to Get Ride Hailing Right
    BC could show the world a non-profit model that beats oligopolies
    First Published: 2018
    A look at 'ride-hailing' and why it should be run on a non-profit basis as a co-op or other non-profit model.
  13330. Uber Used Clandestine Technology Tool To Thwart Police Raids
    First Published: 2018
    Uber uses a number of technological tools for tax evasion, undermining competition and monitoring customers and drivers.
  13331. UEP - Union des Étudiants pour la Paix
    Connexipedia article
  13332. UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
    First Published: 1986
  13333. Uganda: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
    First Published: 2009
    Carbon trading schemes are causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.
  13334. The Ugly Side of Antifa
    First Published: 2017
    When you criticize Antifa members or their defenders for the tactic of mob violence, the reflexive response is usually something like, "There are literal Nazis marching in the streets, and you're attacking us over your precious little non-violence principles?" But Antifa doesn't have a monopoly over concern for what's happening in this country.
  13335. UI benefits to be cut
    First Published: 1989
  13336. UI premiums up
    First Published: 1992
  13337. UK after the rain
    First Published: 2016
    Shabbir Lakha looks beyond the media blizzard surrounding last week's referendum result and identifies anti-racist work as a campaigning imperative.
  13338. UK 'aid' is financing a corporate scramble for Africa
    First Published: 2014
    The corporate power-grab will be disastrous for the small-scale farmers who feed at least 70% of Africa's people.
  13339. UK and France: far right’s opposing fortunes
    Le Pen stands for president, Griffin can’t get elected
    First Published: 2011
    France’s Front National is pushing to become part of the political mainstream, while the UK’s British National Party has returned to the fringes.
  13340. UK exporting 67% of plastic waste amid 'illegal practices' warnings
    First Published: 2017
    Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.
  13341. The UK Is Among the World's Largest Suppliers of Weapons -- and Is Making Arms Boycotts Illegal
    Despite human rights abuses, the UK continues to sell arms to Israel and crack down on dissent.
    First Published: 2017
    Through 'open' trade conventions such as the Security & Policing (S&P) exhibition and closed events such as the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair, the UK allows local and international companies to showcase some of the world's most lethal weapons.
  13342. UK and Israel: Has the fightback against weaponised antisemitism begun?
    First Published: 2023
    Jews in the Labour party and academics are finally exposing the UK establishment’s smear campaign to silence criticism of Israel and destroy the left.
  13343. UK Media Regulator Again Threatens RT for "Bias": This Time, Airing "Anti-Western Views"
    First Published: 2015
    The U.K. Government loves to lecture the world about infringements of liberty generally and press freedom specifically. It does so as it threatens to revoke the broadcasting license of a media outlet for broadcasting "anti-western" views and other perspectives at odds with the U.K. Government, all while shielding (and venerating) the equally virulent biases from pro-state television in the U.K.
  13344. UK Ordered Destruction Of 'Embarrassing' Colonial Papers
    First Published: 2013
    Britain systematically destroyed documents in colonies that were about to gain independence, declassified Foreign Office files reveal. Operation Legacy saw sensitive documents secretly burnt or dumped to cover up traces of British activities.
  13345. UK Tax Dodgers PLC - Google outrage is the tip of an iceberg
    First Published: 2016
    Why are we so surprised at the Google tax heist? It's not because there's anything new about it. It's because our own political class have long had their noses in the trough, and the tax-dodging billionaires that own our mainstream media are anxious to hide the swindle that's keeping them rich, and us poor.
  13346. UK: Walking a tightrope: Between the pro-Islamist Left and the far-Right
    First Published: 2013
    Opposing Sharia and Islamism in the west is like walking on a tight rope most of the time -- thwarting attacks from the Left, refuting cultural relativism, preventing alliances with the far-Right, explaining the issues ignored by government and the media, mobilising support for secularism and citizenship whilst opposing racism and xenophobia, and making linkages with the many fighting Islamism on the ground in countries across the world.
  13347. Ukraine, a Fascist Coup?
    A Photo Essay
    First Published: 2014
    The 2014 Ukraine coup and aftermath, in photos.
  13348. Ukraine and the Great Asian Enclosure
    Russia Crosses an Important Rubicon in the Crimea
    First Published: 2014
    The Cornerstones of Eurasia - When Pravy Sektor’s Dmitry Yarosh called on the Chechen liberation fighters to join Ukrainian nationalists in global struggle, he accented the North Atlantic’s energy politics better than anyone before him.
  13349. Ukraine and Yugoslavia
    When Will Americans Come to Their Senses?
    First Published: 2014
    Much of public opinion seems to accept the notion that the villain of the Russia-Ukraine story is the Russian president, who is accused of engaging in unprovoked aggression against Crimea – even though he was responding to one of the most blatant provocations in history. Johnstone outlines why this is not the case.
  13350. Ukraine Between 'Popular Uprising for Democracy' (Canadian Government) and 'Fascist Putsch' (Russian Government)
    First Published: 2014
    That movement is characteristic of the present period which has seen a series of similar popular uprisings – in the Arab countries, but also in the former Soviet territory – (Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004, and Kirgizstan 2005). An atomized population is fed up with the political regime. It mobilizes through the social media, but without a clear programme. The fruits of the mass mobilization are then reaped by forces that are organized and that have a clear programme. The lack of a clear analysis and programme explains the role that fascist forces were able to play in the events. These forces rejected any compromise with the contested government, presenting themselves as unyielding adversaries, not only of the current leaders, but of the ‘system’ itself. And they call for a ‘national revolution.’ This intransigent position attracted demonstrators who were aware of the bitter fruits of the Orange Revolution and who did not understand the real meaning of the proposed ‘national revolution.’
  13351. Ukraine: Cost of War in Africa & Global South
    First Published: 2022
    As the West is busy dealing with its own economic woes while cutting off Russian exports, little heed is being paid to those suffering the most.
  13352. Ukraine: The Economic Fallout
    First Published: 2022
    Economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the economic war against Russia and its boomerang effect on the West. Does it mean that globalization is over?
  13353. Ukraine, Intervention, and America's Doublethink
    High-Motor Propaganda
    First Published: 2014
    With the deployment of Russian forces into Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the US-NATO propaganda machine has kicked into high gear. Putin has been portrayed as a tyrannical aggressor, while the Obama administration and its European allies have attempted to stake out the moral high ground, declaring that peace, respect for sovereignty and international law should be the guiding principles. Naturally, such rhetoric warrants closer analysis.
  13354. Ukraine Is Banning 'Communist Symbols' and the Kremlin Is Peeved
    First Published: 2015
    Ukraine is pushing to erase all evidence the Soviet Union and its defeat of Nazi Germany from its history books.
  13355. Ukraine: Lies and Realities
    Will the Government Listen?
    First Published: 2014
    Two beautiful Slavic sisters, Ukraine and Russia, pitched against each other: long hair flying in the wind, gray-blue eyes staring forward accusatively, but in the same time with anticipation and love
  13356. Ukraine, the New Cold War and the Politics of Impeachment
    First Published: 2019
    The question not being asked is why it was politically, legally or morally justified for the U.S.-- the Obama administration, to 1) use NGOs and the CIA 2) to join with real and virulent Ukrainian Nazis to 3) oust the Democratically elected president of Ukraine 4) in order to install a puppet regime that answers to the national security state? Passionate assertions that Donald Trump is corrupt face the question back: what part of this entire operation isn't corrupt?
  13357. Ukraine and the Rebirth of Fascism
    The Menace Across the European Continent
    First Published: 2014
    The violence on the streets of Ukraine is far more than an expression of popular anger against a government. Instead, it is merely the latest example of the rise of the most insidious form of fascism that Europe has seen since the fall of the Third Reich.
  13358. Ukraine: the Ugly Truth
    Kiev's War Against Freedom of Speech
    First Published: 2014
    The US State Department has given its support to the military operation undertaken by Kiev in Donbass.
  13359. Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story 
    First Published: 2023
    Without historical context, which has been buried by corporate media, it's impossible to understand Ukraine.
  13360. Ukraine Turmoil
    Capitalist Powers in Tug of War
    First Published: 2014
    The ongoing aim of the Western imperialists is to establish a client state on the border of Russia, which under the rule of capitalist strongman Vladimir Putin has increasingly become a thorn in their sides. And Ukraine would be a big prize. Its industrial base supplies the Russian market, and its Black Sea and Crimean peninsula territories are of strategic importance to the Russian military.
  13361. Ukraine War, Divided Left
    'Social Patriots' and the 'Anti-Imperialism of Fools'
    First Published: 2022
    Since Russia's military operation commenced on February 24, 2022, the socialist left has been divided in its response to the armed conflict in Ukraine.
  13362. Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war
    First Published: 2022
    Ukraine's parliamentarians have given themselves a 70% salary increase while soldiers fighting against Russia receive none of the humanitarian aid pouring in from the US and Europe.
  13363. Ukraine: what's going on, and what does it mean?
    First Published: 2013
    Some thoughts on the protests happening in Ukraine. Things are not completely what they may seem.
  13364. Ukraine's IMF Deal
    Heading Toward a Greece-like Depression?
    First Published: 2014
    On March 27, 2014, the IMF released the broad outlines of its terms and conditions for loans and other measures for the Ukrainian economy. What those terms and conditions mean is less a rescue of the Ukrainian economy than the onset of a Greece-like economic depression for the Ukrainian populace.
  13365. Ukraine's Nazis: Who are they, why are they so influential — and why have media ignored them?
    First Published: 2019
    A recent festival in Kiev proudly displayed Nazi symbols and even advertised 'White Pride' – yet received almost no attention from Western media, who still steadfastly pretend there are no Nazis in Ukraine, neo- or otherwise.
  13366. Ukraine's Protest Movement
    Is a 'Left Sector' Possible?
    First Published: 2014
    A conversation about the necessity and possibility of a "Left Sector" and its struggle for hegemony in the 2013-2014 Ukrainian protests is important not only in the contemporary Ukrainian context, but also for the future.
  13367. Ukraine's worst enemies are those who demand Russia's strategic defeat
    First Published: 2023
  13368. Ukrainian Hangovers
    Russia, Crimea and the Consequences of NATO Policy
    First Published: 2014
    Russia’s incursion (invasion if you prefer) into Crimea, with prospects for movement into Eastern Ukraine, is the culmination of US/NATO policy since 1991.
  13369. Ukrainian neo-Nazis flock to the Hong Kong protest movement
    First Published: 2019
    Neo-Nazis from Ukraine have flown to Hong Kong to participate in the anti-Chinese insurgency, which has been widely praised by Western corporate media and portrayed as a peaceful pro-democracy movement. Since March 2019, Hong Kong has been the site of often-violent protests and riots that have run the city’s economy into the ground.
  13370. Ukrainian putsch creates economic and political turmoil in Russia
    First Published: 2014
    The intensifying conflict between Russia and the West over the US-backed, far-right coup in Ukraine is creating economic and political turmoil within Russia. The economy faces growing pressures as the Kremlin attempts to rally popular support and suppress opposition in its confrontation with the West.
  13371. Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag
    First Published: 2023
    A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.
  13372. Ultra-Zionists protest Muslim-Jewish wedding saying miscegenation is 'gravest threat to the Jewish people'
    First Published: 2014
    As even mainstream Israeli politicians threaten the Palestinians of Gaza with ethnic cleansing and genocide, Israel's far-right figures take to the street to rile up racist supporters and to chase Palestinians out of public spaces and enforce racial-religious separation.
  13373. Um Voto Para a Democracia
    First Published: 1986
  13374. UN aviation body blocks critics online
    The UN’s aviation body is blocking climate critics on Twitter, accusing them of 'fake news' and 'spam'.
    First Published: 2019
    The International Civil Aviation Organization is blocking people who interact with them on Twitter. They claim their critics' arguments are not 'fact-based.'
  13375. UN Battle to 'Shame' Israel Over Abuse of Children
    First Published: 2015
    Palestinian solidarity groups have taken to social media to step up the pressure on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to include Israel for the first time on a "shame list" of serious violators of children's rights.
  13376. The UN did NOT create Israel
    First Published: 2013
    UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan, was a recommendation that was to go to the Security Council. The resolution requested that the Security Council take it up. This never happened, and the partition plan has no force of law. Israeli propagandists, however, perpetrated the myth that the UN created Israel, and this interpretation was then been repeated by numerous others.
  13377. Un Dossier Noir su la Police Politique, Operation Liberte
    First Published: 1978
  13378. Un enunciado político de los Socialistas Libertarios
    First Published: 1979
  13379. UN General Assembly in One Voice (Almost) Rejects U.S. Cuban Blockade
    First Published: 2015
    The United Nations General Assembly on October 27, 2015 voted on a Cuban resolution calling for "an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba." Approval was all but unanimous: 191 nations voted in favour and two voted against, the United States and Israel. There were no abstentions for the first time since the voting on the resolution began in 1992.
  13380. The UN in Israel's Crosshairs
    Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide
    First Published: 2009
    History will record Israel's onslaught in Gaza as noteworthy not only for the wide destruction of institutions of state and civil society, but for the deliberate targeting of the United Nations and the refugees it aided and sheltered. And it certainly would not be the first time Israel has done so.
  13381. Un Pays En Commun, La Solidarite
    First Published: 1979
  13382. U.N. Report Asserts Encryption as a Human Right in the Digital Age
    First Published: 2015
    Encryption is not the refuge of scoundrels, as Obama administration law-enforcement officials loudly proclaim – it is an essential tool needed to protect the right of freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age, a new United Nations report concludes.
  13383. UN Security Council Rejects Proposal for Investigation Into Syria Chemical Allegations
    Russian envoy urges US, allies to refrain from attacking Syria
    First Published: 2018
    A UN Security Council resolution proposed by Russia has been voted down, with Western nations fighting against it. The resolution would've called for a formal investigation into the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack on Saturday.
  13384. U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
    First Published: 2009
    A four-member United Nations fact-finding mission, which has just concluded an investigation into last year's brutal conflict in Gaza, makes a strong case for war crimes charges against Israel for its unrelenting 22-day military attacks on Palestinians, largely civilians, including women and children.
  13385. UN urged to recognize cultural significance of Palestine posters
    First Published: 2014
    An interview with Palestine Poster Project founder Dan Walsh, recorded by the Institute for Palestine Studies, gives a in-depth look into the history and contents of this collection of 10,000 posters.
  13386. Un vote pour la démocratie
    First Published: 1988
    Les groupes démocratiques sont mieux équipés pour traiter les problèmes de procédés. Ceci est parce que la démocratie permet un groupe pour procéder avec ce qu'il veut faire devant les gens qui sont peu coopératif, odieux ou insensible.
  13387. Un Voto a favore della Democrazia
    First Published: 1986
  13388. Un Voto por la Democracia
    First Published: 1986
  13389. Una diferente forma de democracia
    First Published: 2011
  13390. The Unacknowledged Housing Form
    First Published: 1982
  13391. The unbearable lightness of Greek democracy
    Greeks have abandoned all hope that their political leaders have the skills to rescue the nations economy.
    First Published: 2015
    The only certain thing is that a government will be formed by a grand alliance whose only mission will be to implement the most painful, humiliating measures ever attempted by a democratically elected body. This, alas, is the unbearable lightness of Greek democracy.
  13392. The Unbelievable Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement And Punishment for as Little as Reading a Book
    First Published: 2012
    The majority of those in solitary confinement were given the punishment for nonviolent, low-level offenses such as having unauthorized books or disobeying an order or growing their mustaches too long.
  13393. UNCED '92W
    First Published: 1992
  13394. Uncertainty shapes immigrant life in the United States
    First Published: 2017
    Immigrants in the United States without legal residency or who were admitted on a temporary basis feel that their lives have become much more complicated in 2017 because of the current Republican administration's intention to expel thousands of Latin Americans even though they are successfully integrated into the local economy and have no criminal record.
  13395. The Unclaimed Dead
    In Texas, the Bodies of Migrants Who Perished in the Desert Provide Clues to the Living
    First Published: 2017
    Operation Identification, a program began in 2013 amid a swirl of grassroots organizing, lead the exhumation of more than 50 unidentified human remains from a rural graveyard named Sacred Heart.
  13396. Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
    First Published: 2019
    The white European "settlers" of North America wiped out millions of the continent's original inhabitants. They populated their southern colonies and states with Black slaves they mercilessly tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered in forced labour camps that provided the critical raw material for the rise of American capitalism long before Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler rose to power.
  13397. Uncloaked: Canada's "Jekyll-and-Hyde" Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
    First Published: 2022
    How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
  13398. Uncloaked: Canada's Jekyll-and-Hyde Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
    First Published: 2022
    How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
  13399. Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
    First Published: 2019
    Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
  13400. Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
    First Published: 2019
    Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
  13401. Uncovering Canadian Media's Devastating Pro-Israel Bias
    First Published: 2020
    The bias is enforced at every level of the media, from editorial boards all the way to ownership.
  13402. Uncovering the history of the English Revolution
    Book review
    First Published: 2017
    A review of John Rees, The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650, Verso (2016).
  13403. Under Attack at San Francisco State University
    First Published: 2017
    Students, staff and faculty at San Francisco State University are under investigation by the university on trumped up charges of anti-Semitism brought forth by San Francisco Hillel. This is the latest in a long history of accusations made against Palestinians and Palestinian advocates at SFSU by the pro-Israel organization.
  13404. Under Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli Buses
    Never Equal
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has officially banned Palestinians from traveling on Israeli-run public transportation in the West Bank. The new apartheid law dictates that Palestinians cannot take buses that go from central Israel to the West Bank.
  13405. Under the Influence
    First Published: 1999
    For the few of us who reported East Timor long before it was finally declared news, the "disclosures" last weekend that Washington had trained Indonesia's death squads are bizarre. That the American, British and Australian governments have underwritten proportionally the greatest savagery since the Holocaust has been a matter of unambiguous record for a quarter of a century. All it needed was reporting.
  13406. Under the Radar, Big Media Internet Giants Get Massive Access to Everything About You
    First Published: 2015
    The Internet and digital media are becoming a pervasive and manipulative interactive surveillance system. U.S. online companies, while claiming to be supporters of a democratic Internet, are working to have an unlimited and unchecked power to "shadow" us online.
  13407. Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break Up Planned Protest
    TransCanada and Department of Homeland Security Keep Close Eye on Activists, FOIA Documents Reveal
    First Published: 2013
    Law enforcement officials and TransCanad had been spying on a Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance training camp and were able to block some activists who had planned to block the gates at the company’s strategic oil reserves.
  13408. Underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada
    First Published: 1981
    In this brief three-part study, John Watt examines some of the main issues concerning underdevelopment in the Atlantic provinces.
  13409. Underdevelopment in Canada Volume Two
    First Published: 1976
    20 articles discussing underdevelopment in Canada.
  13410. Underexposure Exposed
    First Published: 2023
    If you want people to think that a country resistant to US leadership is a festering doomscape, just underexpose the hell out of your photographs.
  13411. Underground press
    Connexipedia Article
    Independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations.
  13412. Underground Press Syndicate
    Connexipedia Article
    A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
  13413. Underground Railroad
    Connexipedia Article
    An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.
  13414. Undermining Democracy - Corporate Media Bias on Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Syria
    First Published: 2017
    Are we able to prove the existence of a corporate media campaign to undermine British democracy? Media analysis is not hard science, but in this alert we provide compelling evidence that such a campaign does indeed exist. Compare coverage of comments made on Syria by a spokesman for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in October 2016 and by UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson in January 2017.
  13415. Undermining the Democratic Process: The Canadian Government Suppression of Palestinian Development Aid Projects
    First Published: 2017
    This paper examines the government suppression of Canadian development sector organisations running Palestinian aid projects from 2001 to 2012; based on document analysis, policy analysis and original interviews with coordinators running aid projects, it describes how their work was almost universally undermined by the Canadian government.
  13416. Undermining the watercycle
    A critical appraisal of the mining industry's contributions to the global water crisis.
    First Published: 2019
    The mining industry is often overlooked as a cause of the global water crisis. This article examines recent history of mining disasters and how the industry PR greenwashes its image.
  13417. Understanding the Cataclysm
    Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Alexander Anievas' Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics.
  13418. Understanding Class and Species
    A Lesson From Thaddeus Russell
    First Published: 2011
    University remains a rigidly class-based institution—not only in what it teaches but also in how it operates.
  13419. Understanding France's General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare
    First Published: 2020
    Labor and capital are at loggerheads in France. As the open-ended strike launched on December 5th against a neoliberal overhaul of the pension system continues to expand, the Macron regime has dug in its heels to defend the advantages this so-called reform would have for the wealthy (even though it has recently been forced to present what it considers to be a "compromise" to the union leadership).
  13420. Understanding Genocide
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    In 1944, a gifted young Jewish-American Marxist playwright, scenarist and fiction writer, Albert Maltz (1908-1985), published the novel that would become the most esteemed work of his professional life. The Cross and the Arrow, praised in the New York Times for “the scope of its vision of humanity” (September 22, 1944), adopted the form a fast-paced political mystery to reveal the events underlying an act of sabotage in Nazi Germany.
  13421. Understanding Harper's Evangelical Mission
    First Published: 2012
    Signs mount that Canada's government is beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate.
  13422. Understanding Idle No More
    Special Topics in Aboriginal Community Learning
    First Published: 2013
    A selection of readings related to the Idle No More movement, and to aboriginal struggles in Canada generally.
  13423. Understanding Imperialism: Old and New Dominion
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    It is a commonplace today that we have entered a “new age of imperialism.” The emergence of complex world money markets, increasingly integrated global production systems, aggressively neoliberal policies imposed by the likes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the belligerent militarism of the American state — all these are recognized as new modalities of capitalist empire.
  13424. Understanding the Bush Doctrine
    First Published: 2004
    After exploring elements of Bush's strategy, Chomsky summarizes that anyone is seemingly subject too attack, because every country has the ability and intent is in the eye of the beholder. The key, it appears, is the ability to lie about intentions.
  13425. Understanding the counter-revolution
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
  13426. Understanding the counter-revolution
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
  13427. Understanding the Egyptian Uprising For Democracy, Report from the Ground
    First Published: 2011
    After decades of autocratic rule, state propaganda, institutionalized government corruption, police brutality, and suppression of basic freedoms, frustrated Egyptians are taking to the streets seeking change and demanding democracy, dignity, and civic reforms.
  13428. Undisputed Success
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    March 4th was an undisputed success in California. Students, workers, teachers, parents and UC faculty found a way to participate. The major demonstration in San Francisco of 10,000, and other demonstrations in Sacramento and Oakland and in Southern California brought people together from different sectors, K-12, community colleges, state universities and university of California campuses. The California Teachers Association, representing most of the K-12 teachers, initiated rallies and picket lines across the state involving their teachers and students. The California Federation of Teachers reported that events happened at all the state universities except Chico which travelled to join the Sacramento rally.
  13429. Undocumented Labour: Changes to refugee health care put women and babies at risk
    First Published: 2014
    Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
  13430. Unemployment
    First Published: 1977
    This broadsheet examines the crucial unemployment situation in Nova Scotia and outlines attempts by the unemployed in union with working people to confront this problem.
  13431. Unemployment and Underemployment
    First Published: 1981
    Each year, Newfoundlanders head west to such provinces as Ontario and Alberta in search of work.
  13432. Unemployment and Youth
    First Published: 1979
    A group that dispells myths about youth and unemployment and promotes government cooperation in creating skilled jobs for youth.
  13433. Unemployment Manifesto in Briar Patch
    Vol, 6, No. 7, PP.23-27
    First Published: 1977
    An analysis of the unemployment manifesto in Briar Patch.
  13434. Unemployment rise deliberate, CLC says
    First Published: 1990
  13435. The Unfair Narrative on Global Warming and Development: Why it must be challenged
    First Published: 2016
    Industries that majorly contribute to climate change are being subsidized, while more marginalized industries receive vey little to mitigate the impact of climate change.
  13436. Unfinished Business
    First Published: 2017
    The failure of Nicolás Maduro's government to maintain popular living standards has allowed the right-wing opposition to take control of Venezuela's National Assembly, resulting in a bitter standoff between executive and legislature that has yet to be resolved one way or another.
  13437. The Unfolding Arab Uprisings
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    Suzi Weissman interviews Mark LeVine.
  13438. The Unfolding Epic Recession
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    The Department of Labor’s June 4 release of May 2010 U.S. employment numbers sent shock waves through the business community, erasing all doubt that U.S. economic recovery — much touted by business press and government policymakers in recent months — may not actually occur.
  13439. An Unfragmented Movement: The People are the City
    Against The Current vol. 120
    First Published: 2006
    Joanna Dubinsky Interviews Shana Griffin. "I'm not interested in developing an action plan to rebuild/organize a people's agenda in New Orleans without a gender analysis and a demand for community accountability."
  13440. Unfree Media – State Stenography And Shameful Silence
    First Published: 2019
    A recent viral clip of Jeremy Corbyn featured vital truths about the corporate media that ought to be at the forefront of public consciousness in the approach to the UK General Election on December 12, 2020.
  13441. Unfriendly fire: The casualty of war Ottawa would rather forget
    First Published: 2014
    On this Remembrance Day, I am remembering one Canadian peacekeeper in particular — someone the Harper government probably prefers to forget. Major Paeta Hess von Kruedener was killed (along with three other UN observers) by the Israelis in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war
  13442. Unfriendly skies - The air traffic controllers' sick-out, 1969
    First Published: 1970
    Short article about the 1969 mass calling-in sick strike of air traffic controllers in the US over wages and conditions, and the new union of the workers, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.
  13443. An Unholy Alliance
    First Published: 2017
    Fleischmann looks at the reasons behind the unlikely alliance that has formed between Trump, the alt-right, and Israel, who have based their support for each other around shared enemies.
  13444. Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
    First Published: 2016
    Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to cope with climate change.
  13445. Unintended Consequences 
    Beware the Hate Crimes Bill!
    First Published: 2009
    It will prove difficult to separate speaking against members of protected classes, or criticizing their practices, from hate. The two things are easily conflated. Once enacted, hate crimes will become independent of specific violent acts. An eventual likely outcome will be that speaking against members of specially protected classes will itself become a violent act of inciting violence.
  13446. Union busting
    Connexipedia Article
    A wide range of activities undertaken by employers, their proxies, and governments, which hinder workers from freely organizing, joining and maintaining trade unions.
  13447. A Union Defeated at United Air Lines
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    The April 1 certification of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was no April Fool’s joke for the 8600 eligible mechanic and related United Airlines (UAL) employees who voted in the March 31 representational election. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which served the members for nearly five years under very difficult circumstances in the aviation industry, lost the vote by 4,113 to 2,631.
  13448. Union has right to be in mall
    First Published: 1990
  13449. The Union in Academia
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    Cary Nelson is a distinguished professor of English and the president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a group that is part professional association and part union. This book is perhaps half about academic freedom and half about the AAUP, and Nelson’s struggles to have it become a less staff-dominated institution.
  13450. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society
    First Published: 1941
    To prove that the particular state-monopoly capitalism existing in Russia did not come about through state trustification but by methods of social revolution explains its historic origin but does not prove that its economic law of motion differs from that analyzed by Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin. It is high time to evaluate "the economic law of motion of modem society" as it applies to the Soviet Union and not merely to retain for statified property the same "superstitious reverence" the opportunists entertained for the bourgeois state.
  13451. Union organizer
    Connexipedia Article
    A union organizer is a union representative who "organizes" or unionizes non-union companies or worksites.
  13452. Union Security
    UAW Statement to Ontario Government
    First Published: 1978
    A statement by the United Auto Workers union to the Conservative government.
  13453. Union Studies Worker Buyout of CN
  13454. Union urges fish boycott
    First Published: 1990
  13455. Union Woman
    First Published: 1979
    Organized Working Women (OWW) provides resources and information for women in the labour movement.
  13456. Unionism and Socialism
    First Published: 1907
    The labor movement of modrn times is the product of past ages. It has come down to us for the impetus of our day, in pursuit of its world-wide mission of emancipation.
  13457. Unions Attack Quebec Law
    First Published: 1989
  13458. Unions Confront A Restructured Industry
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    As the strike/lockout of 70,000 grocery and food workers throughout Southern and Central California stretches into its third month, union workers in and out of the food industry understand how pivotal it is.
  13459. Unions plan cross-border links
    First Published: 1990
  13460. Unions and the Road to Socialism
    First Published: 2015
    The familiar model of union struggle has been ineffective in attempts to change capitalism. I will try to explain why unions have not shaken capitalism's foundations. The explanation will point to the failure to challenge inequalities in returns to labour and capital from production.
  13461. Unions and the Road to Socialism
    First Published: 2015
    A discussion of the labour movement's ineffectiveness against combatting capitalism.
  13462. Unions Should Go Big on a Green New Deal for Canada
    First Published: 2018
    Canada's unions need to play a much larger leadership role on climate change, not just because it deals with economic policies directly affecting members but also because it will be difficult to get where we need to go without them.
  13463. Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons)
    Stan Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
  13464. The uniqueness of Marxist-Humanism
    First Published: 1963
    The uniqueness of Marxist-Humanism lies also in this: that despite all theoretic contributions and singleness of purpose in achieving total freedom, it asks to be "taken over" by the masses, to be subjected to the daily and long-range tests, so long only as the UNITY of theory and practice, worker and intellectual, technologically backward and technologically advanced economies, all merge in order never to stop short of "the ultimate": the new society, the new human dimension, the incorporation within the individual of all of his mental and manual talents.
  13465. Unit 731: How Leaders of Japan's WWII Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the post-war collaboration between the United States and members of Unit 731, a germ warfare branch of the Imperial Japanese Army that conducted horrific and lethal experiments on Chinese civilians and Allied prisoners.
  13466. Unitary urbanism
    Connexipedia Article
    Critique of status quo urbanism employed by the Lettrist International and then further developed by the Situationist International
  13467. Unite and Fight
    First Published: 2015
    The flim Pride isn’t just excellent labour history. It’s a reminder of what real solidarity looks like.
  13468. United Church Requests Rate Increase for all Categories of Social Assistance
    Documentation Packet
    First Published: 1978
  13469. United Farmers of Alberta
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A farmers' organization established in 1909 as an amalgamation of the Canadian Society of Equity and the Alberta Farmers' Association. The UFA was interested in rural economic, social and political issues.
  13470. United Farmworkers
    First Published: 1989
  13471. United Jewish Peoples Order (UJPO)
    Connexipedia article to be written
    First Published: 2020
    The United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO) is a national, progressive, secular and independent organization that can trace its roots back to 1926.
  13472. United Kingdom general strike of 1926
    Connexipedia Article
    The 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners.
  13473. UK miners' strike (1984 - 1985)
    Connexipedia Article
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    A major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.
  13474. United Kingdom: Students Fight the Fees
    Against The Current vol. 151
    Nick Limbeck interviews Ashok Kumar of the Student Union of the London School of Economics. Until recently, the LSE was under occupation in protest to the cuts.
  13475. The UN & the Future of Palestine
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    “You can't make this stuff up,” the Prime Minister of Israel lectured the UN General Assembly. Binyamin Netanyahu was referring to the history of Libya under Qaddafi, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, chairing UN Commissions on Human Rights and Disarmament respectively.
  13476. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3092
    First Published: 1973
  13477. United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
    First Published: 1967
  13478. The United States and Gaza
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    The courageous Israeli journalist Amira Hass, in her 1996 book Drinking the Sea at Gaza, tells us that in Israeli slang “go to Gaza” means “go to hell.”
  13479. The United States and Torture
    We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....
    First Published: 2014
    Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders and has led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance and encouragement by American instructors, particularly in Latin America.
  13480. The U.S. Army Lost Track of 27 Ballistic Missiles
    Military didn't know old Lance rockets were in storage igloos in Alabama
    First Published: 2015
    For 30 years starting in 1962, the U.S. Army deployed Lance ballistic missiles in Europe. Twenty feet long and weighing a ton and a half, an atomic-tipped Lance could zoom 75 miles at Mach 3 and explode with a force of up to 100 kilotons of TNT. The Army retired its last Lances in 1992 … and ultimately lost track of 27 of them at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
  13481. The United States and the "Challenge of Relativity"
    In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal
    First Published: 1998
    In light of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Chomsky examines the relativity with which America uses human rights principles to exercise selectivity in policy-making.
  13482. U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean
    First Published: 2017
    In the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly turning its cutter ships into floating prisons.
  13483. U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2015
    U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time. According to 1956 Plan, H-Bombs were to be Used Against Priority 'Air Power' Targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe. Major Cities in Soviet Bloc including East Berlin
  13484. United States - DSA Two Years Later: Where Are We At? Where Are We Headed?
    First Published: 2019
    The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had had a massive surge in membership in the last two years. Here is a look at the history of socialism in the US and the DSA's current prospects for enacting real change.
  13485. The U.S. Empire & Modern Day Christian Martyrs
    80th Priest Killed in Colombia Since 1984
    First Published: 2013
    there has been almost no media coverage of the killings of the “two bishops, 79 priests, eight men and women religious, as well as three seminarians” killed in Colombia alone between 1984 and 2011.
  13486. U.S. Has Only Acknowledged A Fifth of Its Lethal Strikes, New Study Finds
    First Published: 2017
    While Obama took steps to improve transparency about drone strikes, reports show that the U.S. has only acknowledged approximately 20 percent of its reported drone strikes, and failed to claim responsibility or provide details in the vast majority of cases.
  13487. United States History Archive
  13488. U.S. Imperialism Defeated, Capitalist Rule Smashed
    First Published: 1975   Published: 2015
    April 30, 2015 was the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, marking the defeat of U.S. imperialism and its South Vietnamese puppet forces. The heroic Vietnamese workers and peasants fought not just for national liberation but also for social revolution.
  13489. U.S. Imperialists Deprive Cuba of Syringes That Are Needed Now
    First Published: 2021
    Cuba, the first Latin America country to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines, presently is short of syringes for immunizing its population against the virus. It’s not feasible for Cuba to make its own syringes. The U.S. blockade prevents Cuba from importing them from abroad.
  13490. The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was
    First Published: 2017
    There is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one. This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves
  13491. U.S. Journalists Who Instantly Exonerated Their Government of the Kunduz Hospital Attack, Declaring it an "Accident"
    First Published: 2015
    Shortly after the news broke of the U.S. attack on a Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, there was abundant evidence suggesting (not proving, but suggesting) that the attack was no accident.
  13492. U.S. Labor - What's New, What's Not?
    First Published: 2016
    An analysis of the changing and unchanging elements of the working-class in the contemporary U.S.
  13493. U.S. Labor: What's New, What's Not?
    First Published: 2016
    We all know that there's something different about today's working class. One obvious difference is that today's working class produces fewer things "you can drop on your toe," as The Economist famously put it, and more that you can't. What’s actually changing in capitalist production in the United States?
  13494. U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless of Snowden Leaks
    First Published: 2015
    Despite the intelligence community's attempts to blame NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the tragic attacks in Paris on Friday, the NSA's mass surveillance programs do not have a track record of identifying or thwarting actual large-scale terrorist plots.
  13495. US Media Ignore -- and Applaud -- Economic War on Venezuela
    First Published: 2019
    US reporting on Venezuela fails to mention the effect economic sanctions have in Venezuela defying the work of experts in the area.
  13496. U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
    First Published: 2016
    A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of "homegrown" terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to "radicalization," concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts.
  13497. U.S. Newspapers Are More Than Twice As Likely to Cite Israeli Sources in Headlines Than Palestinian Ones
    First Published: 2019
    A study of 50 years of news headlines on the Israel-Palestine conflict from five major American publications shows that they are biased towards the Israeli side.
  13498. The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?
    First Published: 2017
    Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.
  13499. The United States sanctioned Europe, not Russia
    Dimitri Lascaris in Conversation with Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai
    First Published: 2024
    Geopolitical economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson contend that the true victim of Western sanctions on Russia is not Russia itself, but Europe.
  13500. U.S. Senate's First Bill, in the Midst of the Shutdown, Is a Bipartisan Defense of the Israeli Government From Boycotts
    First Published: 2019
    This Senate's first bill of 2019 considers giving state and local governments the power to punish companies that boycott Israel. These laws have been found to be unconstitutional but still have bipartisan support.
  13501. United States: The Ultra-Right Pot Boils Over
    First Published: 2009
    The appearance of right-wing mobs at town meetings organized by Democratic Party representatives to discuss the proposed health-care reform has set off alarm bells, in particular because of the blind fanaticism of the right-wing protesters and their threats of violence, including armed violence. These outbursts show many features of historic fascist developments and on a scale as yet unseen in the United States.
  13502. U.S., UK and France Denounce Nuclear Ban Treaty
    First Published: 2017
    The U.S., UK and France did not participate in the United Nations negotiations leading to the recent adoption of the nuclear ban treaty, and joined together in expressing their outright defiance of the newly-adopted treaty.
  13503. United States Withdraws From Afghanistan? Not Really
    First Published: 2021
    No lessons have been learned from this history. The U.S. will “withdraw,” but will also leave behind its assets to checkmate China and Russia. These geopolitical considerations eclipse any concern for the Afghan people.
  13504. U.S. Workers and Puerto Rico's Crisis
    First Published: 2015
    Puerto Rico has been in the news lately, particularly the financial news. The possibility that its government may default on part of its $73 billion public debt has drawn the attention of Wall Street analysts.
  13505. Unity Begins Somewhere
    First Published: 1996
    Though the industrial workers can be as paralyzed as any group of workers in the face of restructuring, though they can lose any particular strike, and though genuine class consciousness is never automatic; whenever there is a major working class upheaval industrial workers play a leading role.
  13506. Unity brings strength
    First Published: 1989
    The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
  13507. The Unity of Canada and the Rights of Minorities
    L'Unite du Canada et les droits des minorities
    First Published: 1979
    The Ontario bishops address the question of treatment of the francophone minority in Ontario in the brief.
  13508. The Universal Crisis
    First Published: 1920
    That deafness and blindness concerning the coming dissolution of Capitalism is the historic fatality of the bourgeoisie. But the mass of workers are also blind and deaf to this dissolution. They regard the march of events without understanding, and without knowledge. To hope that the collapse of Capitalism will find a proletariat revolutionarily prepared and conscious of its mission is now shown to be utopian. The collapse proceeds too rapidly, events spring too suddenly before the eyes of men for them to be able to adopt their minds to the new realities. That, however, does not mean that they will do nothing.
  13509. Universal Cure
    First Published: 2010
    Here's a simple means of transforming the UK's universities, schools and society.
  13510. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  13511. The Universal Lesson of East Timor
    First Published: 2017
    Filming undercover in East Timor in 1993 I followed a landscape of crosses: great black crosses etched against the sky, crosses on peaks, crosses marching down the hillsides, crosses beside the road. They littered the earth and crowded the eye.
  13512. Universal Programs:
    What we lose
    First Published: 1990
  13513. The Universality of Marx
    First Published: 1989
    The question of the status of universality, whether attacked by its opponents as "white male", or "Eurocentric", or a "master discourse", is today at the center of the current ideological debate, as one major manifestation of the broader world crisis
  13514. University for Counterinsurgency and Imperialism?
    First Published: 2015
    The United States has set aside one day in the year, Memorial Day, to remember those who died in military service. For the University of California-Irvine that is not enough. After reading the Chancellor's message of May 2015, a number of observations and questions came to mind.
  13515. University of Minnesota: Dignity vs. Cutbacks
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    On October 21, 1800 clerical workers of AFSCME Local 3800 made statewide news by going on strike against the University of Minnesota. At the heart of the AFSCME clerical workers' struggle was a strong determination to stand up for their dignity and respect.
  13516. The University of Nike
    First Published: 1997
    Nike is just a piece of the bigger puzzle of private donors in public universities, but it is a perfect example of why private money is helping to erode the positive goals of public education.
  13517. University of Wisconsin's "Budget Crisis"
    First Published: 2015
    Over $300 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin system lead students and staff to speculate on the the future of the university.
  13518. The University & the Security State
    First Published: 2014
    Gasser examines the implicit political agendas behind the offers of funding given to American universities by the Department of Homeland Security to research the "cognitive science of terrorisim."
  13519. The Unjust Prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation Five
    First Published: 2018
    Miko Peled, in "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five," his exhaustive study of the U.S. government's case against five defendants from a friendless minority, demonstrates how American justice has deviated so far from Blackstone that the courts can convict a hundred innocents for one who is guilty.
  13520. The Unknown Slave Rebellion
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    Though the planters had no difficulty reconciling the wealth they enjoyed and the price the slaves paid, the region’s black laborers did. By aborting their own children, poisoning livestock, lighting fires, and escaping to the cypress swamps, the slaves struggled to dilute, deflect, and if possible demolish slaveholders’ authority. Even open revolt was not beyond question. While it was a card that slaves played only rarely — planters tended to take a dim and deadly view of armed rebellion — the German Coast teemed with violent possibilities. The planters’ world rested on a powder keg to be ignited by the smallest of sparks.
  13521. Unlawful Dissent
    New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
    First Published: 2012
    The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
  13522. Unless Union Workers Can Strike, They're Dead
    Level the Playing Field
    First Published: 2013
    The strike is workers' only viable weapon. Why? Because it, and it alone, immediately affects the company’s profits. Without labour, they're crippled.
  13523. An Unlikely Alliance: Indigenous and Campesinos Build an Alliance for Self-Defense
    First Published: 2009
    In Colombia, campesinos are mostly non-indigenous family farmers who have often been pitted against indigenous people by wealthy landowners and corporations. Yet despite being traditional rivals, the Barí and campesino communities have been driven to a partnership by common enemies, including multinational mining companies, complicit Colombian regulatory agencies, and the US government.
  13524. Unlocking Uncle Sam's House of Horrors
    Smashing Plato's Cave
    First Published: 2011
    The effects of Wikileaks in showing the public what is really happening.
  13525. Unmanning the trenches
    First Published: 1983
  13526. Unmasking The GMO Humanitarian Narrative
    First Published: 2015
    Genetically modified (GM) crops are going to feed the world. Not only that, supporters of GM technology say it will produce better yields than non-GM crops, increase farmers' incomes, lead to less chemical inputs, be better suited to climatic changes, is safe for human consumption and will save the lives of millions. Sections of the pro-GMO lobby are modern-day evangelists who denounce, often with a hefty dose of bigoted zeal, anyone who questions their claims and self-proclaimed humanitarian motives.
  13527. Unpacking for a Disaster
    What You Need to Survive the Unexpected
    First Published: 2011
    In crises, for some authorities, the media, and many outside observers, civilization tends to consist mainly of property relations, and so they pay more attention to whether someone’s taking crackers than whether a grandmother is dying in the wreckage (while law enforcement goes after the cracker-taker).
  13528. The 'Unpeople' of South Korea
    Idiocy and Violence of Immigration
    First Published: 2019
    Who are the ‘unpeople’ of South Korea? They are an majority of illegal migrants who lack basic rights and security and believed to deserve it according to the laws and principles under which Korean society operates.
  13529. The Unpersuadables
    First Published: 2010
    In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
  13530. Unprecedented Cruelty Against Immigrants and Their Children
    First Published: 2018
    Recently White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly backed up the policy when he explained that, "the children will be put in foster care or whatever." This comes at the same time as a new report revealed that there are some 1,500 undocumented children, who have been placed by federal authorities in homes of "sponsors," and are now missing in the system.
    No other country has a policy of separating families who intend to seek asylum.
  13531. The Unraveling Middle East
    Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Raja Shehadeh's and Penny Johnson's Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East.
  13532. Unrecognized in the Negev
    The Plight of Israel's Bedouin Citizens
    First Published: 2014
    At the break of dawn on 27th July 2010, the unrecognized village of Al Araqib was surrounded by 1,500 police officers clad in riot gear. Helicopters circled overhead as bulldozers razed homes and animal pens to the ground. It took 4 hours to demolish a village that was home to around 300 people, hundreds of sheep, dozens of goose, hens, pigeons and horses.
  13533. Unregulated oil fracking boom does permanent damage
    First Published: 2013
    We know about the dangers of pollution from fracking. But its lethal, long-term byproducts and the ease with which they leak or are dumped may be causing worse problems in a state that can’t even question them.
  13534. Unreliability, Spinelessness of the Western 'Left'
    First Published: 2016
    For years and decades, the so-called 'left' in the West has been moderately critical of North American (and sometimes even of European) imperialism and neo-colonialism. But whenever some individual or country rose up and began openly challenging the Empire, most of the Western left-wing intellectuals simply closed their eyes, and refused to offer their full, unconditional support to those who were putting their lives (and often even the existence of their countries) on the line.
  13535. An Unrepentant '68er's Life
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.
  13536. The Unruly Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    Gary Nash's The Unknown American Revolution fully discloses its aims to propagate both historical and social lessons. Nash retells the story of the American Revolution, complicating and radicalizing its core narrative as "a people's revolution, an upheaval among the most heterogeneous people to be found anywhere along the Atlantic littoral in the eighteenth century."
  13537. UNRWA Does not Perpetuate the Conflict, the Conflict Perpetuates UNRWA
    First Published: 2018
    In January, without warning, Donald Trump refsued to pay $305 million of his country's $365 million commitment to UNRWA. UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, remains $200 million short of the funds it needs to provide humanitarian services for five million people, including 2/3 of the population of the Gaza Strip.This is not really a story about under-funding UNRWA. This is about the people who strenuously seek to eliminate it.
  13538. UN's 1947 Partition Plan made Palestine a deal it had to refuse
    First Published: 2017
    Weinroth analyzes the reasons behind Palestinians' refusal of the Partition Plan, reasons that have been largely dismissed in favour of casting their actions in an unfavourable light and thereby justifying Israeli colonization.
  13539. Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA
    First Published: 2016
    Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells BPA for products that might be used by children under three. France has a national ban on BPA food packaging. The EU has banned BPA from baby bottles. These bans and associated product withdrawals are the result of epic scientific research and some intensive environmental campaigning. But in truth these restrictions are not victories for human health. Nor are they even losses for the chemical industry.
  13540. The Unsettling of America - book review
    First Published: 2012
    A book review of The Unsettling of America by Thomas Berry.
  13541. Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
    First Published: 2017
    American "mainstream" journalists who want to keep their paychecks flowing and their status afloat know they must report current events in a way that respects the taboo status of the nation's underlying inequality and oppression structures and its savage and relentless imperial criminality.
  13542. The unspun Jeremy Corbyn
    Nobody expected a veteran, rebel leftwing MP to be elected to lead the UK labour Party. It's going to be hard for him to manage his own
    First Published: 2015
    A look at the rise in popularity of Jermey Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, and the challenges he faces from the broader British public and from within his own party.
  13543. The Untold Story of the Black Radical Tradition in Canada
    First Published: 2016
    Looking back on the development of Black radical organizations in Canada.
  13544. Untouchable - The Uses And Misuses Of 'Genocide Denial'
    First Published: 2017
    One of the wonders of contemporary propaganda is the extent to which corporate commentators are in denial about their use of the term 'genocide denial'. Clearly, they believe they are using a neutral, objective term to describe indisputable facts of genocidal killing and ugly refusals to recognise those facts. The delusion is quickly exposed when we ask a few simple questions. For example: how often do we see 'mainstream' commentators describing US-UK sanctions on Iraq from 1990-2003 as 'genocidal', as affirmed by senior UN diplomats? How often do journalists describe supporters of the devastating Bush-Blair war on Iraq, the Obama-Cameron war on Libya, or May's war on Yemen as 'genocide deniers'? Can we imagine someone who supported the war on Libya being called an 'Obama apologist'? Like 'terror' and 'terrorism', 'genocide' and 'genocide denial' are simply not terms that are applied to Western actions. This really awesome level of bias points to the reality that 'genocide denial' is a propaganda term overwhelmingly used to portray Official Enemies as morally and intellectually despicable, in fact untouchable. As used in the 'mainstream', the term is antirational, an attack on honest debate.
  13545. Untying the Knots
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    While right-wingers are coordinated in their assault on queers, people of color, women, low-income people and immigrants, many of us under attack are divided, in part because we have learned and internalized the prejudice, mistrust and hatred that the right wing preaches.
  13546. Unveiled
    Art and Censorship in Iran
    First Published: 2006
    This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
  13547. Unveiling the Chilly Climate
    The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada
    First Published: 2022
    Independant Jewish Voices (Canada) conducted a study on the Canadian "chilling effect" in which academics, students and Palestine solidarity activists face repression in discussing Israel's crimes against Palestinians.
  13548. Up against the clock: Climate, social movements and Marxism
    First Published: 2015
    The time frame is incredibly short. The problem is not one for future generations but for our generation, those of us who are alive now. If we continue to produce greenhouse gas emissions at the rate we have been we will have used up the carbon needed to take us to 2°C warming in the next 30 years.
  13549. Up Against the Ivy Wall: the Columbia Insurrection at 50
    First Published: 2018
    "My plan was to major in English and become a professor," she writes in an essay titled "Stopping the Machine" that's collected in A Time to Stir: Columbia '68, a new 438-page book (Columbia, $35) which is edited by filmmaker Paul Cronin. Rosahn explains that at the start of the protests, she was a "leftish Democrat" and that in the course of the rebellion she became "a devoted student radical."
  13550. Update: Chicago's School War
    First Published: 2013
    Chicago Public Schools took a hit on May 22, 2013 as the appointed Board of Education of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) voted to close 50 schools, of the 54 originally targeted for shutdown -- in the largest closing of public schools in U.S. history. This was done despite an outpouring of opposition, expressed by thousands of parents in more than 100 meetings mandated by state law to allow parental and community input into the process.
  13551. Update on Detroit
    First Published: 2014
    Feeley provides an update on the economic situation in Detroit as the city declares bankruptcy and is suffering from foreclosures, evictions, pension and funding cuts.
  13552. An Update on Indonesian Political Prisoners
    First Published: 1998
    AS INDONESIAN POLITICAL prisoners are released, evidence continues to surface that the United States CIA knew about the "disappearances" and tortures. In response to the mass protests that forced Suharto to step down, Indonesian trade union leader Muchtar Pakpahan and former Member of Parliament Sri Bintang were released from prison May 25. The new president Habibie has promised to review the anti-subversion law under which many of the political prisoners-including the Peoples Democratic...
  13553. Update on Pakistan: After the "Emergency"
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    General Pervez Musharraf has “taken off the uniform” and lifted the emergency as of December 15th. But Labour Party Pakistan rejects the Musharraf’s claim that the emergency is lifted. It is “lifted” with the Constitution amended, and with all the repressive measures protected by a decree.
  13554. Update on the Status of Women in British Columbia
    First Published: 1978
  13555. An Updated and Improved Marxism
    First Published: 2018
    An article that criticizes the stubborn immersion in the past by current Marxists and left wing intellectuals, and to comprehend activism and set goals in the twenty-first century requires a revision of the Marxian conception of revolution.
  13556. Updating Some U.S. Political Prisoners January 2019
    First Published: 2019
    An update on political prisoners in the United States.
  13557. Upper Big Branch Mine and the Race to the Bottom
    First Published: 2010
    Without union representation, workers are afraid to report unsafe conditions because they will be fired. Without union representation to pressure coal companies, politicians, and federal regulators, the American coal industry is in a race to the bottom as it enforces third world labor standards and economic and safety conditions on its workers.
  13558. The Uprising in Turkey
    Conservative-Neoliberal Alliance and Popular Resistance in Turkey
    First Published: 2013
    Thousands are taking to the streets to oppose the current regime of old Islamic, anti-secularist values sitting comfortably with large scale US based Neoliberal capitalism.
  13559. Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
    Connexipedia Article
    A widespread uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic government.
  13560. Uproar in India: And You Thought It Was Only About Farmers?
    First Published: 2020
    Surely the 'mainstream' media (a strange term for platforms whose content excludes over 70 per cent of the population) cannot be unaware of these implications of the new farm laws for Indian democracy. But the pursuit of profit drives them far more than any notion of public interest or democratic principles. Shed any delusions about the conflicts of interests (in plural) involved. These media are also corporations. The Big Boss of the largest Indian corporation is also the richest and biggest media owner in the country.
  13561. 'Upstanding Citizens' Escape Justice in Tory 'In-and-Out' Scandal
    First Published: 2011
    The "In-and-Out" Scandal: Case should have proceeded against 'Upstanding citizens'.
    This is a story about illegal activities, deceit and lying involving an overzealous group of Canadians who seemed prepared to do just about anything to accomplish their mission – win a federal election.
  13562. Upstream
    First Published: 1991
  13563. Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands
    First Published: 2009
    Radiation and health experts across the world charge that toxic materials and radioactivity released by the mining and processing operations are causing widespread infertility, birth defects and cancers.
  13564. Uranium Mine and Mill Workers are Dying, and Nobody Will Take Responsibility
    In the Southwest, poisoned uranium workers are still seeking justice
    First Published: 2016
    To talk to former uranium miners and their families is to talk about the dead and the dying. Brothers and sisters, coworkers and friends: a litany of names and diseases. Many were, as one worker put it, "ate up with cancer," while others died from various lung and kidney diseases.
  13565. Uranium Traffic In Saskatchewan
    First Published: 1982
  13566. Urban amenities; erotic anxieties
    Baths, lavatories, and the YMCA: The politics of bodies in civic space
    First Published: 2002
    A history of public baths, in particular public baths and similar spaces in Toronto in the last century, and the changing perceptions and uses of such spaces by the public, in particular the treatment of private acts within public spaces.
  13567. Urban Cavemen (Living Life out Of Balance)
    First Published: 2009
    Pediatricians nowadays see fewer kids with broken bones from climbing trees and more children with longer-lasting repetitive-stress injuries, which are related to playing video games and typing at keyboards. Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, calls this "nature deficit disorder."
  13568. Urban Citizen Movements
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Community groups that are often organized around concerns about land use and the way planning decisions are made in local government.
  13569. Urban Devastation
    The Planning of Incarceration
    This pamphlet describes and analyses "the breakdown of the fabric of present-day cities in the light of the development of capitalism from the 19th century till now", and "looks at the economic influences, the crisis of authority, breakdown of social order and the conflict of class forces as they affect the structure of the urban community."
  13570. The Urban Green Wars
    First Published: 2015
    Struggling for working-class control of cities is crucial to bringing down carbon emissions.
  13571. Urban Honey
    First Published: 2009
    In the winter of 2003, three Chicago beekeepers joined forces to create a bee farm on the former Sears-Roebuck property right in the heart of our city. We abut an old railroad embankment wall with both prairie remnant and concrete in equal amounts.
  13572. An Urban Teacher Union Epic
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Swerdlow reviews A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike. She suggests that the 2012 Chicago teachers strike can be used as a model to persuade the public that public employees and their labour organizations benefit society and lead to effetive change.
  13573. The Urge to Surge
    War is a Drug
    First Published: 2011
    Englehardt describes the effects of the US surge addiction with the military issue as an example.
  13574. Urgent Appeal from the Philippines: End Violence in the Movement
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    Dear Friends, recently, our executive director Walden Bello was named by the key organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines as a "counterrevolutionary" in a list that included both living and dead activists. After consultation with a number of people, we have reasons to believe that this represents a real threat to Walden's security.
  13575. Uri Avnery Is Dead Wrong
    First Published: 2007
    In order to move forward and overcome the arguments people like him will hurl against us, we will need to get outside the reformist box and adopt a frankly revolutionary outlook, one that clearly sees the class conflict that rages all around us, that speaks to people about it directly, that asks people to evaluate ideas and events in light of their own insights into the world based on their personal experience of the class war, and that aims not merely to act as a cheerleader for this or that "lesser evil" scheme of our capitalist rulers but to win the class war so that ordinary people can shape society by their positive values.
  13576. Urine tests protested
    First Published: 1990
  13577. Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.
  13578. Uruguay 1964-1970
    First Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
  13579. Uruguay's legalization of marijuana leads the world
    First Published: 2014
    Next year Uruguay will create a state marijuana monopoly. Supplying high quality product in limited per person quantities, and at controlled prices that undercut the black market, the initiative will safeguard public health, cut off funds from criminals, and finance social programs. So why don't we all do it?
  13580. US accuses China of 'using sea to hide its submarines'
    First Published: 2015
    The U.S. Navy is demanding billions of dollars in extra funding to counter the latest Chinese technical innovation. China, it seems, has come up with the devious idea of hiding its submaries under the sea. Darn, why didn't we think of doing that?
  13581. US and Colombia Escalate Attacks on Liberation Church
    In the Lion's Den
    First Published: 2011
    The war on liberation theology.
  13582. U.S. & Israel: Dog Wags Tail Wags Dog
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    A tremendous amount of ink and energy has been expended interpreting the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel. The debate over Israel’s influence on U.S. Middle East policy has engaged critics across the political and ideological spectrum. While some have long questioned the reasons for the unparalleled U.S. military and economic support bestowed on the “Jewish state,” the debates over Israel’s influence on U.S. foreign policy have increased dramatically in the wake of Bush administration military responses to September 11th.
  13583. US and Israeli Intelligence
    Practice of Torture
    First Published: 2013
    Torture by US and Israeli intelligence agencies.
  13584. Us and Them
    First Published: 2011
    To move beyond wishing and hoping, our self organization has to overcome and overwhelm the limits, the divisions, the separations of workers and poor by categories of “organized,” “unorganized,” “immigrant,” “native,” “legal,” “illegal. No one’s illegal. Nobody’s organized until everybody’s organized.
  13585. US Approach to Ukraine and Russia Has Left the Domain of Rational Discourse
    First Published: 2022
  13586. The US arming of Ukraine and the danger of World War III
    First Published: 2015
    The Obama administration wants to arm the right-wing regime in Ukraine with billions of dollars in advanced weaponry, which may spark a direct conflict between the US and Russia, two nuclear-armed powers, and ignite a Third World War.
  13587. U.S. Bombing: Murder as Usual
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    Voices in the Wilderness decries today's bombardment of Iraq which hit sites just south of Baghdad. However, we find it instructive to recall the digest of bombings that occurred in the past week and to note that on December 22, 2000 the Gulf News from Dubai quoted figures of civilians killed and injured as a result of US/UK air raids since December 1998 as 311 killed and 927 wounded.
  13588. US bombs continue to kill in Laos 50 years after Vietnam War
    US dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing?
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the problem of unexploded US bombs in Laos which have killed tens of thousands of people since the end of the war, and continue to kill and maim dozens annually.
  13589. US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
    First Published: 2021
    So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on "US locations" in Iraq, another nation the US invaded and is illegally occupying. This attack is justified on the basis that the Iraqi fighters were "Iranian-linked", a claim that is both entirely without evidence and irrelevant to the justification of deadly military force. And this is somehow being framed in mainstream news publications as a defensive operation. This is Defense Department stenography. The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor.
  13590. US and British officials told us that at least 100,000 were murdered in Kosovo. A year later, fewer than 3,000
    First Published: 2000
    After more than a year, the silence of those who wrote and broadcast the propaganda for Nato's "humanitarian war" over Kosovo remains unbroken: they who answered the Prime Minister's call to join "a great moral crusade" against a regime that was "set on a Hitler-style genocide equivalent to the extermination of the Jews during World War Two".
  13591. The US Bubble of Pretend
    First Published: 2022
    The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.
  13592. US Can't Deal with Defeat
    First Published: 2023
    In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability -- and ease -- of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror.
  13593. US Capitalism Was Born in the Destruction of the Commons
    First Published: 2019
    Interview with Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about Federici's book Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.
  13594. US-China Relations in the Age of Trump
    First Published: 2017
    On the current relationship between the United States and China.
  13595. US Civil Rights-Era Leader Mary King Says Successful Social Movements Expand Space for Other Struggles
    Paper Penned by King Helped to Spark Modern Women's Movement
    First Published: 2013
    Mary King played an important role in helping to advance the struggle for women's rights.
  13596. U.S. claims jurisdictions abroad
    First Published: 1990
  13597. US Consulate Killings - Spontaneous Religious or Planned Political?
    First Published: 2012
    On September 11, four Americans, including the US ambassador, were killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The following day, the BBC's Lunchtime News reported that the killings were part of 'disturbances' which were 'linked to an anti-Islamic video'. The BBC's News at Six explained that the US ambassador was killed 'in a protest'. This was mild language indeed given that the consulate had been attacked with assault rifles, hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.
  13598. The US coup in Venezuela: New attempt to eradicate the Chavista Revolution 
    First Published: 2019
    The coup in Venezuela is the latest in a long history of US attempts to undermine and overthrow progressive governments in Latin America. American progressives must do more to stop this aggression.
  13599. US Cyber Attack on Russia's Power Grid is an 'Act of War' (According to the US)
    What about Venezuela's hacked power grid?
    First Published: 2019
    The New York Times reports that the US has hacked Russia's power grid. Reporting on the issue has failed to mention any call for consequences or the fact that the US has already been accused of doing the same to Venezuela.
  13600. US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of Isis
    First Published: 2019
    There is something profoundly deceitful in the Democratic Party and corporate media's framing of Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to like Trump or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the sudden departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
  13601. "U.S. Discovers Soft Energy Salvation" in Probe Post
    First Published: 1979
    Jan Marmorek suggests that the proposal of the American and Canadian governments to use renewable energy sources to supply a percentage of energy demands are feasible and would bring positive effects to the economy in this article in Probe Post.
  13602. US Dispatched a Murderous AC-130 Airborne Gunship to Attack a Hospital
    First Published: 2015
    Evidence continues to mount that the US committed a monstrous war crime in attacking and destroying a fully operational hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on the night of Oct. 3, 2015, killing at least 22 people including at least 12 members of the volunteer medical staff of Medicine Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the French based international aid organization that operated the hospital.
  13603. US drone strikes kill 28 unknown people for every intended target
    First Published: 2014
    US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed as many as 1,147 unknown people in failed attempts to kill 41 named individuals, a report by human rights charity Reprieve has found.
  13604. The US Economy Has Not Recovered and Will Not Recover
    First Published: 2016
    The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted Wall Street, corporate executives, and shareholders, because lower labour and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital gains and to executives in the form of "performance bonuses." Wall Street benefitted from the bull market generated by higher profits.
  13605. The U.S. Embargo against Venezuela
    The State Department's Mock Indignation Gives a Bad Name to U.S. Diplomacy
    First Published: 2006
    A discussion of the 2006 U.S. arms embargo against Venezuela.
  13606. The US/EU Manufactured Egyptian Nightmare has Arrived
    The Ogre of Egypt Now Wants a Mandate for Wholesale Slaughter
    First Published: 2015
    Article on the internationally-financed regime of Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt.
  13607. US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': former NATO adviser
    First Published: 2022
    As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbour.
  13608. US-EU sanctions against Russia: A barely veiled threat of war
    First Published: 2014
    In his speech on March 17, 2014 announcing sanctions against Kremlin officials in retaliation for the Russian-backed referendum in Crimea supporting secession from Ukraine and affiliation with Russia, US President Barack Obama made clear that the United States and its European Union (EU) allies would use all means necessary, not excluding military action, to humiliate and crush Russia.
  13609. US farm fatalities: An unpublicized epidemic
    First Published: 2014
    Hundreds of agricultural workers, including many child labourers, die in farming accidents across the US each year. With an official workplace fatality rate of more than 21 per 100,000, farming is the most dangerous occupation in America. It is also among the lowest paid and least regulated.
  13610. US Foists 'Humanitarian Aid' on Venezuela, Helps Create a Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
    First Published: 2019
    The US-backed Saudi Arabia war on Yemen is causing the worst humanitarian crisis of the modern era. The lack of concern from politicians should belie this justification for U.S. intervention in other countries.
  13611. US food industry: labelling laws are 'unconstitutional'
    First Published: 2014
    A leaked document reveals plans by the US's Grocery Manufacturers Association to sue the first state that passes a GMO labeling law.
  13612. The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II
    In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps
    First Published: 2017
    A brief history of the internment of the Aleut people of Alaska during WWII.
  13613. US Foreign Policy Exposed
    First Published: 2019
    Some recent events and information leaks have forced even the mainstream media to break the usual veneer over US foreign policy.
  13614. US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
    First Published: 2022
  13615. US Foreign Trade Zones: Connecting Labor Exploitation in a Global Race to the Bottom
    First Published: 2016
    As the debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement continues, many Americans are unaware that hundreds of foreign trade zones are already entrenched within the US, and most likely in their own part of the country.
  13616. US-Funded NGO in Syria Uses Old Photo to Claim Civilian Death in Russian Airstrikes
    Group Lashes Russian Official on Twitter for Noting Picture Wasn't Real
    First Published: 2015
    The "White Helmets" organization, heavily funded by the US State Department, has claimed that Russia killed 33 civilians in its attacks. The NGO attached a photo to the story which was pointed out to be from an incident five days prior and not related to Russia.
  13617. U.S. Funds False Sex Lessons
    Facts about sex you never knew.
  13618. U.S. Government Assassination Plots
    An appendiex to Killing Hope, by William Blum
    First Published: 2011
    A list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.
  13619. U.S. Government Buys Surveillance Technology To Track Drivers in Real Time
    First Published: 2015
    Local government officials have the ability to track individual drivers in the U.S. in real time and take pictures of the occupants of their vehicles, with new "truly Orwellian" technology purchased from companies like Vigilant Solutions, according to new documents uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
  13620. US Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, National Petroleum Council Documents Show
    First Published: 2019
    Newly discovered documents show that the fossil fuel industry has know since the 1970s the effect that CO2 emissions would have on the environment.
  13621. US Government Systematically Spying on Citizens
    First Published: 2010
    The US government has been systematically violating the privacy rights of U.S. citizens.
  13622. The U.S. Government Thinks Thousands of Russian Hackers May Be Reading My Blog. They Aren't.
    First Published: 2017
    After the U.S. government published a report on Russia's cyber attacks against the U.S. election system, and included a list of computers that were allegedly used by Russian hackers, I became curious if any of these hackers had visited my personal blog.
  13623. The US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom
    Hillary the Identity Thief
    First Published: 2010
    The leaked Wikileaks documents show that the last thing the US government wants anywhere is a government that is accountable to its own citizens instead of to the US government.
  13624. The U.S. Government's Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
    First Published: 2014
    Throughout the last year, the U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that it does not engage in economic and industrial espionage, in an effort to distinguish its own spying from China's infiltrations of Google, Nortel, and other corporate targets. Turns out that isn't true.
  13625. US-Haiti
    First Published: 2004
    By examining the role of the USA in the tragedy of Haiti, Chomsky highlights the democracy deficit and failure of the American state. He calls for those concerned to take on the task at home of paying reparations and restoring the substance of democracy.
  13626. U.S. hate groups attacked
    First Published: 1989
  13627. U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy Wikileaks
    First Published: 2010
    This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. ``The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out''. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses ``trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whisteblowers'', the report recommends ``The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistlblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site''.
  13628. US Intimidated by Its Own Mercenaries
    A Silence on Atrocities
    First Published: 2014
    So much for transparency, civil liberties, and prosecuting the crimes of a predecessor (the cardinal rule of presidents, at least this one, cover-up WAR CRIMES past and present, a solemn command of the National Security State). Silence and deniability, in all matters large and small, characterize the responses of United States government and private principals.
  13629. US Isn't Leaving Syria -- but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
    First Published: 2018
    The US military exists to fight wars. It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world. Saying that it should continue to occupy Syria, and most of the mainstream media do, is a way of saying that the war in that country should continue. In fact, it’s a call for escalation of that war.
  13630. US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'
    The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial.
    First Published: 2018
    Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.
  13631. US Justice on Trial
    Why Cameron Should Tell Obama to Get Stuffed
    First Published: 2011
    The US justice system and extradition treaty.
  13632. U.S. Labor in Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    There is today a rare open debate going on within the U.S. Labor Movement over its future. Rarer still is the fact that much of it appears on competing internet blogs. The current debate, provoked by some within Labor’s national leadership, has been almost exclusively focused on “restructuring” and resource reallocation. But the leader-led debate has failed to discuss the more fundamental question of the “culture” of unionism in America today.
  13633. U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
  13634. U.S. Law: Religious or Secular?
    Against The Current vol. 118
    First Published: 2005
    “The Founding Fathers,” my fundamentalist Christian friend once declared to me in the midst of a rather heated argument, “were Christians and created a Christian country.” “No, you’ve got it all wrong,” I sputtered and hastened to explain, “Jefferson was a Deist.”
  13635. US Lies and Excuses for Bombing Hospital
    First Published: 2015
    Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patients and hospital staff.
  13636. US Lost Track of Nearly a Million Guns in Iraq, Afghanistan
    Officials: Records Remain for Only 48% of the Guns Sent to Warzones
    First Published: 2016
    Early in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the go-to policy for the US in trying to prop up new allied security forces was to dump weapons, en masse, into the countries. It's only now that people are really starting to ask what happened to the 1.45 million guns shipped into those countries.
  13637. US man's bank payment denied because of his dog's 'terrorist' name
    First Published: 2016
    Sometimes terrorists move on all fours. That's what Chase Bank apparently decided when it wouldn't clear a payment for a disabled man's dog walker. It was the dog's name that led to the payment being bounced and the Treasury Department being involved.
  13638. U.S. May Be Salvaging Victory For Jihadists In Syria: How & Why
    First Published: 2015
    According to Britain's Telegraph, in a recent report, the U.S. Tow antitank missiles that U.S. President Barack Obama sent in October to the Islamic Sunni fighters in Syria to use against the forces of the non-sectarian Shiite ruler there, Bashar al-Assad, have been so effective against Russia's forces that Assad had invited in, that Russia-- defending (upon Syria's legal request) President Assad's forces, and attacking the jihadists imported into Syria by the Saudis and the rest of the West -- is now being forced to send into the battle Russia's costly T-90 tanks, which are less vulnerable to America's missiles.
  13639. US Media Keep Saying Iran is "In Violation" of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
    First Published: 2019
    US Media portray Iran as having violated the US-Iran nuclear agreement. That's because the Trump administration, acting on its own, foolishlypulled out unilaterally from that agreement, and has been imposing sanctions on Iran, all of which has been in violation of the agreement, and which, by violating its terms, effectively terminates the agreement.
  13640. US Media's Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack
    First Published: 2022
    Discusses the media's suspicion of Russia over the destruction of the Nord 2 pipeline, although Washington has an established history of opposition to the pipeline.
  13641. U.S.-Mexico free trade talks
    First Published: 1990
  13642. US Military Brands Assange, WikiLeaks As "The Enemy"
    First Published: 2012
    Secret US Air Force documents reveal that the American military has branded WikiLeaks and its editor Julian Assange as "the enemy", placing them on a legal par with Al Qaeda and threatening them with the same treatment: indefinite detention without trial, and death.
  13643. US Military Globalization
    Interlocking Spheres of Influence
    First Published: 2014
    Americans are implicated in deceit and denial, purchasing their comforts and self-righteousness at the expense of the collective human privation their military and paramilitary forces, their CIA operatives and private contractors, their support of repressive regimes and death squads have brought to much of the world’s population.
  13644. The U.S. Military Under Stress
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    John Kerry's campaign tome should dispel any illusion that he has any significant differences with George Bush on the aggressive use of the U.S. military to defend the empire.
  13645. US must stop playing with nuclear hellfire
    First Published: 2016
    The chances of nuclear destruction are higher than in the Cold War due to recent US foreign policy actions, including the positioning of armed forces positioned on Russia's borders.
  13646. US Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli Attack
    First Published: 2010
    On June 8, 1967, while sailing in international waters, the US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked by air and naval forces of the state of Israel. Of the Liberty's crew of 294, more than half were killed or wounded. More than 40 years later, survivors are still seeking justice.
  13647. US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats
    First Published: 2019
    A summary of several US attempts at diplomacy that have failed due to their unwillingness to make any concessions to the other party.
  13648. US: Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Illegal... Unless We Do It
    First Published: 2013
    The US government declares that cyberwarfare directed against the US would be an act of war -- and, oh, by the way, that it is agressively engaged in cyberwarfare against foreign countries.
  13649. US 'Outrage' Over Slaying of US Residents Depends on the Nation Responsible
    First Published: 2018
    This article takes a look at the reasons why the US media managed to be outraged at the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia's government, yet there was no such reaction when Israel killed Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old American citizen.
  13650. The U.S.-Pakistan Co-dependency
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    After a cross-border NATO air strike in November resulted in the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan responded forcefully, closing the Af-Pak border to NATO traffic, expelling the U.S. military from an air base inside Pakistan, and boycotting the International Conference on Afghanistan.
  13651. US Party Elites Hemorrhage at the Edges
    Editorial
    First Published: 2016
    American party politics have been dominated for so long by the "same old, same old" that with months to go until November, 2016 already stands out as an exception. Most clearly in the case of the Republicans, but palpable as well with the Democrats, the "center-right" and "center-left" elites, who have graciously taken turns administering year-in, year-out misery for more than forty years, have lost control. It appears that Washington and Wall Street are loathed by a majority of people across the spectrum.
  13652. US plastic waste is causing global environmental crisis
    First Published: 2018
    A recent ban in China, which normally takes in the largest proportion of US plastic waste, has left the US dumping plastic in other over-burdened countries, while waste still continues to pile up in the States. US plastic scrap exports dropped by almost a third in the first six months of 2018, as waste firms struggled to find a home for their plastic scrap.
  13653. U.S. Poetry and the Politics of Form
    Against The Current vol. 140
    First Published: 2009
    Laura Bush's 2003 “Poetry and the American Voice” symposium is infamous because it never happened. Intended to be a White House celebration of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes, the event was cancelled when several poet-invitees (including former laureates) declined the invitation and, instead, composed poems protesting U.S. involvement in Iraq. When the symposium was called off, the First Lady’s spokesperson explained that a celebration of poets was in danger of being turned into a political event.
  13654. The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era
    A New Awakening or Political Theater?
    First Published: 2013
    The Obama administration’s is expanding its use of executive powers to intimidate and crush dissent had turned its focus on the U.S. press.
  13655. US pressured Norway to arrest & extradite Snowden, seize all devices - documents
    First Published: 2015
    The US repeatedly asked Norway to detain and deport whistleblower Edward Snowden if he tried to enter its territory in the aftermath of his leaks on mass US global surveillance, Norwegian media revealed citing formal requests.
  13656. U.S. Progressive Periodicals Directory
    First Edition - 1982-1983 Edition
    First Published: 1982
    A listing of 380 social justice magazines, newspapers, and newsletters with a national (U.S.) focus.
  13657. US Propaganda Campaign to Demonize Russia in Full Gear over One-Sided Dutch/Aussie Report on Flight 17 Downing
    First Published: 2016
    If the danger of the anti-Putin, anti-Russian disinformation propaganda campaign out of the Pentagon and promoted by the US corporate media weren’t so serious, the effort itself might be laughable.
  13658. US Prosecutors Turned a Blind Eye to Drone Code Piracy
    They Chose Instead to Strap Digital Visionary Aaron Swartz to Their Buzzsaw
    First Published: 2013
    Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet activist and the co-developer of popular web tools like RSS feeds and Reddit, ended his life earlier this year at the end of a long battle with federal prosecutors in Boston — who had accused him of engaging in digital piracy.
  13659. US Provides Israel Weapons Used on Gaza
    Blood on American's Hands
    First Published: 2014
    The United States exported to Israel a substantial amount of the same types of weapons Israel is using to kill Gazans. For example, in 2013, the United States sent Israel at least $196 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters, a category that includes F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, both of which Israel is currently using to attack Gazan homes, offices and farmland. Between January and May 2014, the United States had already exported $92 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters.
  13660. US and Puppet Guaido Implicated in Terrorism Plot Against Venezuela PLOT
    First Published: 2019
    New evidence has been uncovered regarding terror campaign planned by the US and the Venezuelan opposition.
  13661. US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
    First Published: 2019
    A 2010 memo from Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) seems to be playing out as planned in 2019.
  13662. U.S. siphons Canadian taxes
    First Published: 1992
  13663. The U.S. Social Forum in Detroit
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    Under the threefold heading “Another World is Possible/ Another U.S. is Necessary/ Another Detroit is Happening,” the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF) convened in Detroit June 22-26 for a celebration of resistance and strategic thinking to advance our struggles for justice globally and at home.
  13664. U.S. Social Forum in Detroit
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    2010 is a year of one, two, many Social Forums around the world, including the second U.S. Social Forum. The first USSF, attended by more than 12,000, was held three years ago in Atlanta. It featured an opening march that wove through the city streets, stopping for rallies at important sites of social struggle, including Grady Hospital, where activists from AFSCME Local 1644, explained their opposition to the privatization of the city’s largest public hospital. The Forum, the result of two years of planning by a National Planning Committee, included plenaries each evening and 800 workshops.
  13665. U.S. Socialists and the Mexican Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 149
    First Published: 2010
    Eugene Victor Debs was America’s most impressive Socialist figure: founder of the American Railway Union and of the Industrial Workers of the World, a founder of the Socialist Party and its repeated candidate for president. He was jailed for his role in the Pullman strike in 1894 and for his opposition to World War I in 1918, and he strongly defended the Russian Soviet Revolution. If any person would stand for revolutionary socialism in the United States, surely it would be Debs.
  13666. US-Sponsored Drug-Plane Operation Had Global Reach
    First Published: 2014
    The ongoing investigation into the Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico in the fall of 2007 with a cargo of 3.7 tons of cocaine onboard points to a corruption problem within the US bureaucracy and US intelligence agency complicity in the drug trade.
  13667. US Spy Chief Presents Third-Party Debates as Proof RT Is Anti-US
    First Published: 2017
    The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s latest report on the alleged "election hacking" by Russia includes a substantial section focused around the idea that Russian government-funded channel RT is overtly anti-American.
  13668. U.S. State Department accusation of China 'genocide' relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue
    First Published: 2021
    Both President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute accusation of "genocide" against the Muslim Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang province. But an investigation of published work by the researcher Pompeo relied on to level his genocide allegation reveals a pattern of data abuse and fraudulent assertions that substantially undermines the incendiary charge.
  13669. US State Department Publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin
    First Published: 2019
    A fact sheet put out by the US State Department listing its "accomplishments" in Venezuela reads more like a confession of atrocities. The document was later withdrawn.
  13670. US Still Fighting "Threat" of Liberation Theology
    The Wikileaks Revelations
    First Published: 2013
    The assault on the Church in Colombia is both state policy of Colombia as well as the United States which is propping up that military with billions of dollars of assistance, and which views organized movements for social justice in Latin America as a threat to its economic domination of the region.
  13671. US Still Seeks Jail for 'Fighter' Captured at 15 in Afghanistan
    First Published: 2015
    The good news is that a judge in Canada has had the courage and good sense to uphold the release from jail on bail of Omar Khadr, a native of Canada who was captured as a child soldier at the age of 15 in Afghanistan by US forces back in 2002.The bad news is that Khadr, who spent 13 years in captivity, most of them in America's Guantanamo hellhole, should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
  13672. U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
    First Published: 1992
    A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
  13673. US sued over tax-exempt donations for illegal Israeli settlements
    First Published: 2016
    A group of American citizens is suing the US Treasury because they say the agency is allowing billions of dollars of tax-exempt charitable donations to flow to the Israeli army and support the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
  13674. US tax-exempt donations fund Israeli settlements
    First Published: 2010
    Millions of tax-exempt dollars from the US are being funneled towards Israel's illegal settlement building in the occupied Palestinian West Bank in flagrant violation of international law.
  13675. US Teaching "Counterinsurgency" Courses To Mexican Military in Drug War
    State Department Report Details Special Forces "Mobile Training Teams" South of the Border
    First Published: 2011
    To fight the drug war in Mexico the US military conducted specialized trainings both inside and outside of the country with a focus on combating "narco-terrorism" and "counterinsurgency" conflicts.
  13676. US: The State Murder of an Activist
    First Published: 2015
    The murder of Sandra Bland, an activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, exposes the impunity of U.S. police.
  13677. US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'
    First Published: 2018
    Amnesty International reports that air and artillery strikes by the US and allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa. It is a report that contradicts claims by the US, Britain and France, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during the four month siege.
  13678. US-UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking'
    Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
    First Published: 2004
    Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act between a prostitute and her client to exchange money for sex.
  13679. U.S. Unions & the War
    Against The Current vol. 113
    First Published: 2004
    In the buildup to the Iraqi war three members of the United Auto Workers Executive Board — Bob King, Elizabeth Bunn and Richard Shoemaker — spoke out against the pending invasion. Yet since the war began the UAW has not taken a position on the war, or even used the pages of its magazine Solidarity to open a dialogue about how it affects UAW members.
  13680. US Uses Past Crimes to Legalize Future Ones
    Justifying the Unjustifiable
    First Published: 2013
    The liberal warhawks are groping around for a pretext they can call “legal” for waging war against Syria, and have come up with the 1999 “Kosovo war”.
  13681. The US v. Trayvon Martin
    How the System Worked
    First Published: 2013
    Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, teenage pedestrian died and George Zimmerman walked because our entire political and legal foundations were built on an ideology of settler colonialism.
  13682. U.S.: We Will Break Your Legs
    First Published: 2019
    The US has threatened to deny visas to any ICC personnel investigating possible war crimes by U.S. forces. This should make clear the hypocrisy when the the US cites human rights violations as an excuse to invade other countries.
  13683. US Workers Starved Into Military Service
    First Published: 2009
    Humanity has passed the tipping point - economically, culturally and environmentally. The "consuming and killing" model embraced by Americans as cultural norm is, in reality, a cultural aberration. It is destroying everything and everyone in its wake - including those who are fighting and dying to preserve it.
  13684. U.S.A : How Federal Workers Could Fight the Shutdown
    First Published: 2019
    Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they'll have to organize.
  13685. USA: Stop arms transfers to Israel amid growing evidence of war crimes in Gaza
    First Published: 2014
    The US government must immediately end its ongoing deliveries of large quantities of arms to Israel, which are providing the tools to commit further serious violations of international law in Gaza, said Amnesty International, as it called for a total arms embargo on all parties to the conflict.
  13686. USAS Makes Kathie Lee Cry Again
    Against The Current vol. 83
    First Published: 1999
    Kathie Lee Gifford cried for the first time in 1996, bawling with teary eyes and pledging that young girls would no longer produce her WalMart apparel line. She promised to clean up the factories, and even initiated the Apparel Industry Partnership (AIP), a code of conduct meant to silence activists and cover up her sweatshop abuses.
  13687. The Useful Altruists: How NGOs Serve Capitalism and Imperialism
    First Published: 2015
    NGOs are far from revolutionary organizations, but many of us would think that their work still seems more helpful than not. Political differences with them aside, it seems dogmatic to denounce free health care and anti-poverty programs. Short of more radical measures, NGOs seem to serve an important interim function. In fact, though, it can be argued that many NGOs are destructive, both in their current work and in their preclusion of an alternative future beyond the capitalist present. They undermine, divert, and replace autonomous organizing and erase working class struggle and organizing.
  13688. A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists
    First Published: 2015
    State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors.
  13689. Useful Work versus Useless Toil
    First Published: 1883
    Morris proposes that while work is essential for our survival, nevertheless "there is some labour which is so far from being a blessing that it is a curse; that it would be better for the community and for the worker if the latter were to fold his hands and refuse to work."
  13690. User Charges, Snares and Delusions
    Another Look at the Literature
    First Published: 1994
  13691. A User's Guide to Détournement
    First Published: 1956
    Détournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose.
  13692. Review: The Uses and Abuses of History
    First Published: 2013
    Review of "The Uses and Abuses of History" by Margaret Macmillan.
  13693. The Uses of an Earthquake
    First Published: 1987   Published: 1988
    The people of Tepito have proven themselves far more capable than the government both of responding to the dangers and of seizing the opportunities created by the earthquake. The earthquake crisis has brought into view a long existent but rarely recognized alternative: the ability and willingness of the people of Tepito, as well as those in many other barrios, to assert a different set of values: those of autonomy, self-activity, and the subordination of work to social needs. It is also embodied in their ability, as against governmental paralysis, to design and implement their own projects, thus elaborating those values in concrete practice.
  13694. Using a Black Icon to Sell Apartheid
    Israel's Chutzpah
    First Published: 2012
    Apologists for Israel are now using fabricated 'quotes' from Martin Luther King to make it seem that King supported Israeli apartheid.
  13695. Using Children for Israeli Propaganda
    First Published: 2017
    Engler brings to light Canadian schools' practices that indoctrinate students with problematic colonial, Zionist views.
  13696. Using diversity to eviscerate diversity
    First Published: 2023
    On a controversy over an image depicting Muhammad.
  13697. Using History to Write Powerful Leads
    First Published: 2004
    Using history in writing marketing and PR communications.
  13698. Using the Holocaust
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    The crowd of world leaders visiting the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem attests to the strength of Israel’s position in the West. Israel is often criticized in the home countries of these leaders, but many Israelis and Jews will, as usual, attribute such criticism to anti-Semitism.
  13699. The U.S.’s Terrorism Double Standard
    The Vicious Campaign Against Cuba
    First Published: 2014
    During the last 50 years, the United States has suffered from a constant stream of vicious terrorist acts.
  13700. The UTLA Victory in Context
    First Published: 2019
    A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.
  13701. Utopia
    Connexipedia Article
    An ideal community or society.
  13702. Utopia: A confronting but politically flawed documentary
    First Published: 2014
    Utopia, the latest documentary by veteran journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has shown at selected venues across Australia with a television screening on SBS. The feature-length work, which exposes shocking social conditions in Australia’s remote indigenous communities, opened last November in Britain to mostly praiseworthy reviews.
  13703. Utopia and Anti-Utopia
    First Published: 2014
    In response to the recent popularity of dystopian series "The Hunger Games," by Suzanne Collins, Hubler examines the genre of dystopian and utopian fiction.
  13704. Utopia in the Catskills
    First Published: 2013
    Proyect talks about "Utopia in the Catskills," an article published on July 20, 1947, which is about refugees who wanted to be farmers and made Woodridge, N.Y., into a prosperous farm-resort town with five co-ops.
  13705. Utopian Socialism
    Links to the writings and biographies of Utopians and Marxist commentaries on them, and material on 20th century utopian movements and the use of utopian and dystopian visions in literature and political polemics.
  13706. The Utopists: Owen, Saint Simon, and Fourier
    Chapter 13 of Socialism From The Root Up
    First Published: 1888
  13707. VA Care is for Data
    First Published: 2014
    Data production takes priority over concrete patient care itself in the new healthcare assembly line, as evidenced in the Veteran's Administration scandal.
  13708. Vain Hopes, False Dreams
    First Published: 1992
    In a time in which hopes and dreams seemed to be fading from American society, Chomsky systematically explores the theory that the reason for JFK's assassination was his intention to withdraw from Vietnam.
  13709. Valencia-Mondragon Study Tour
    First Published: 1989
  13710. Vallieres, Pierre
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Writer, radical. (1938-1998).
  13711. Valuable Clues to Finding What You Need to Know
    First Published: 1997
    Review of books about online research.
  13712. The Value of Capital
    First Published: 2017
    Roberts responds to David Harvey's review of his publication "Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital" by defending and opening up a discussion regarding the theories presented in Marx's "Capital," and how they connect with the rest of his oeuvre.
  13713. Values and Education
    A Study of the Spanish-Speaking Latin American Children in the Junior Schools of Metropolitan Toronto
    First Published: 1982
    One of the most significant factors in the life and experiences of children is the family context in which they live.
  13714. Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security
    First Published: 2009
    Agricultural sustainability consists of long-term productivity, not short-term increase of yield. Ecological agriculture, which seeks to understand and apply ecological principles to farm ecosystems, is the future of modern agriculture.
  13715. The Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements
    With introductory comment by Bernard M. Daly
    First Published: 1976
    Final text of the declaration, with comments on the parts the Canadian delegation opposed.
  13716. Vancouver general strike of 1918
    Connexipedia Article
    The first general strike in Canadian history, held 2 August 1918, organized as a one-day political protest against the killing of draft evader and labour activist Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, who had called for a general strike in the event that any worker was drafted against their will.
  13717. Vancouver Island Coal Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A strike that began in September 1912 when miners at declared a holiday to protest the firing of a worker.
  13718. Vancouver Status of Women
    First Published: 1976
    Brochure that describes the inner workings of the Vancouver Status of Women organization.
  13719. Vancouverites Stage Picket Against Israeli Shipping Company
    First Published: 2010
    Dozens of activists set up an information picket at Deltaport on August 24, designed to slow the transport of containers belonging to the Israeli shipping company Zim.
  13720. Vandana Shiva On Resisting GMOs: "Saving Seeds Is a Political Act"
    First Published: 2013
    Sarah van Gelder interviewed Vandana Shiva, renowned for her activism against GMOs, globalization, and patents on seeds and traditional foods.
  13721. Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates Empires 'Must Be Dismantled'
    First Published: 2021
    In an interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, Vandana Shiva says, "… if In the next decade, if we don’t protect what has to be protected … and take away the sainthood from this criminal, they will leave nothing much to be saved."
  13722. Vaneigem, Raoul
    Connexipedia Article
    Belgian writer and philosopher. (Born 1934).
  13723. Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal
    Connexipedia Article
    A monthly libertarian communist journal published in New York from 1932-1939.
  13724. The Vanishing of the Aral Sea
    From Lake to Wasteland
    First Published: 2014
    The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively. New satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, its largest basin has completely dried up.
  13725. Vanishing the People's Wealth to Make the Bosses Richer
    First Published: 2016
    Imagine you are a shareholder in a big company and the top executives are sitting on huge amounts of cash and are not interested in putting it to work through productive capital investments, research and development, reducing company debt or paying employees a higher wage. What would you want done about it? Since you and other shareholders are the owners of the company, you'd likely say "give us back our money in cash dividends."
  13726. Vanunu, Mordechai
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Israeli nuclear technician who publicly revealed the extent of Israel's illegal nuclear weapons program and was subsequently kidnapped and jailed by Israel. (Born 1963).
  13727. Varity pulls out with taxpayers' money
    First Published: 1991
  13728. VAWA Must Pass to Protect All Women, Regardless of Race
    The Fight Ahead
    First Published: 2013
    No woman deserves to be beaten, raped, or killed, regardless of her race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
  13729. Vegetarians, ranchers and conscious omnivores of the world, unite!
    First Published: 2015
    Thinking people of all stripes are agreed in their opposition to cruel, exploitative animal farming. Cummins suggests moving beyond sterile 'meat-eater versus vegetarian' debates, and unite in their opposition to the daily atrocities of industrial agriculture.
  13730. The Veggie Pride Talk I Didn't Give
    First Published: 2015
    For the first time in many years, I've declined an offer to be the lead speaker at the annual Veggie Pride Parade in NYC’s Union Square Park. I learned the hard way that although the cheers have been loud, the local vegan/animal rights scene wasn't actually hearing me. Since I've opted to no longer howl into an echo chamber, I'll share my thoughts here instead.
  13731. The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
    First Published: 2007
    The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
  13732. Veiled Values
    First Published: 2010
    It is important to defend liberal social values, the secular society and the heritage of the Enlightenment. But we cannot do so by promoting illiberal policies.
  13733. Velvet Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    A non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government in 1989.
  13734. Venezuela and the Imperial Script, 2004 Edition
    The Coup Last Time
    First Published: 2014
    The minute some halfway decent government in Latin America begins to reverse the order of things and give the have-nots a break from the grind of poverty and wretchedness, the usual suspects in El Norte rouse themselves from the slumber of indifference and start barking furiously about democratic norms. It happened in 1973 in Chile; we saw it again in Nicaragua in the 1980s; and here’s the same show on summer rerun in Venezuela, pending the August 15 recall referendum of President Hugo Chávez.
  13735. Venezuela Blitz - Part 1: Tyrants Don’t Have Free Elections
    First Published: 2019
    Thorough summary of support for the Venezuela coup in US and UK media with many excerpts.
  13736. Venezuela Blitz - Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
    First Published: 2019
    Analysis of corporate coverage of Venezuela reveals: reporting on the supposed lack of free press, and rarely mentioning the US's interest in their oil and effect of sanctions on the country.
  13737. Venezuela: the capitalist offensive - has socialism failed?
    First Published: 2017
    The current economic, social, and political crisis taking place in Venezuala has not been caused by a failure of socialism, but rather is the result of the country's inability to distance itself from capitalism, and introduce a democratic, socialist, and planned economy.
  13738. Venezuela Coup Leader's Oil Plans Revealed: Guaidó Hopes to Privatize State-Controlled Industry
    First Published: 2019
    Juan Guaidó and his economic advisers have a plan to privatize the country's petroleum industry. This privatization scheme will be difficult to implement, however, since he is not in power.
  13739. Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America
    First Published: 2019
    Corporate media has many stories about food and medicine shortages in Venezuela. These lies and others are debunked by someone who lives there.
  13740. Venezuela declares Craib Kowalik, Canada's Chargé d'Affaires in Caracas, persona non gratas
    First Published: 2017
    Last week Venezuela declared Canada's chargé d'affaires in Caracas persona non grata. In making the announcement the president of the National Constituent Assembly Delcy Rodriguez denounced Craib Kowalik's "permanent and insistent, rude and vulgar interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela."
  13741. Venezuela Elections: Resurgent Chavismo and 'Unrecognised' Democracy
    First Published: 2017
    After weeks of imperialist threats and opposition violence, the elections for the Constituent Assembly (ANC) in Venezuela took place on July 30th. The result was a massive turnout of over 8 million voters, around 41% of the electorate, which gave chavismo a much-needed shot in the arm. The western media reacted by trying to dispute the number and sticking even closer to the narrative being pushed by the opposition and the US State Department.
  13742. Venezuela from Below
    First Published: 2011
    A review of Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui
  13743. Venezuela in the Media: Double Standards and First Impressions
    First Published: 2017
    This article looks into the inconsistent ways that Venzuala has been portrayed in the media, and the effect of sensationalizing the recent crisis. It concludes that those who support the Venezuelan poor, workings classes must seek and spread honest information outside of the mainstream narrative.
  13744. Venezuela: Maduro survives assassination attempt -- but journalism doesn't
    First Published: 2018
    Venezuela was rocked on August 5, 2018 by an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro during a public event, using drones armed with explosives.But as more details of the attack became available, mainstream media coverage sought to sow doubt on the events, using words such as "apparent" or "alleged". It focused on the government using this "alleged" event to step up repression.
  13745. Venezuela on the Edge of Civil War
    First Published: 2017
    Venezuela is a step closer to civil war after the July 20, 2017 "fake referendum" held by the government opposition, which resulted in a vote of "no confidence" for President Nicolas Maduro.
  13746. Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare
    What the heck is really going on in Venezuela? A complex story lies behind the offical narrative.
    First Published: 2017
    The article examines elements of Venezuala's economic warfare, role as global provider of oil, and the country's relationship with the Trump administration, to provide a multi-faceted picture of the country's recent violent events.
  13747. Venezuela: The Political Economy of Inflation and Investment Strikes
    First Published: 2014
    This paper adopts a Marxian class analysis to dispute the orthodox critique of high inflation in contemporary Venezuela. It draws a parallel between the 2002-03 oil industry lock-out and the capital strike in the Venezuelan foodstuffs industry today. In each case, capital has suspended production to bid up the price of basic goods and create widespread shortages.
    Orthdox inflation-targeting conceals the class antagonism of capital strikes and highlights the class interests that underpin monetarism. The paper concludes that socialised production is a viable alternative to neoliberal austerity.
  13748. Venezuela Threatened by Far-right Violence
    First Published: 2014
    A statement by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network condemning the recent violent actions instigated by far-right sections of the opposition in various cities across Venezuela.
  13749. Venezuela Under Attack Again
    Economic Sabotage
    First Published: 2014
    A highly organized attack is once again being carried out against the democratic and popular government of Venezuela. It has involved monetary manipulations, economic sabotage, international media campaigns against the economy despite excellent economic indicators, defamation of the state run oil company, and deadly riots on the street.
  13750. Venezuela: US, elite launch new attacks on democracy
    First Published: 2015
    Venezuela is facing new attempts to subvert its democracy and roll-back the pro-poor process of social change known as the Bolivarian revolution.
  13751. Venezuela: US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats
    First Published: 2018
    First-hand report of a delegation to Venezuela from the US. They say the coup is weak and the Venezuelan people are strong and Maduro has their support.
  13752. Venezuela: The U.S.'s 68th Regime Change Disaster
    First Published: 2019
    The US's sanctions and political interference in Venezuela are part of a long history of foreign meddling that brings strife to the affected country.
  13753. Venezuela: Voices on the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    In mid-June 2010, we caught up with three revolutionary socialist activists, Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges, and Luis Primo in Caracas, Venezuela to discuss their views on the contradictions and prospects of the Bolivarian process.
  13754. Venezuela: Is President Maduro 'illegitimate'? 10 facts to counter the lies 
    First Published: 2019
    Concise rebuttal of talking points used by those trying to bring about a coup in Venezuela.
  13755. Venezuelan economist: 'Hyperinflation is a powerful imperialist weapon'
    First Published: 2019
    Interview with Venezuelan an economist about how hyperinflation is being used as a weapon against the country.
  13756. Venezuelan Opposition "Consultation"
    Playing Alone and Losing
    First Published: 2017
    The Venezuelan opposition "referendum", which in reality was nothing more than a non-binding 'consultation' without any legal status, was predicted as a major political earthquake that would instantly change the country's landscape.
  13757. Venezuela's Opposition: Attacking Its Own People
    First Published: 2016
    The corporate media would have you believe that Venezuela is a dictatorship on the verge of political and economic collapse; a country where human rights crusaders and anti-government, democracy-seeking activists are routinely rounded up and thrown in jail. Indeed, the picture from both private media in Venezuela, as well as the mainstream press in the US, is one of a corrupt and tyrannical government desperately trying to maintain its grip on power while the opposition seeks much-needed reforms. In fact, the opposite is true.
  13758. Ventra Capitalists
    First Published: 2013
    Zimmer discusses the problems arising with the recent implementation of the Ventra fare collection system for Chicago transit, a change that has been costly and inefficient for riders but profitable for corporations involved.
  13759. Veolia tries to bail out of one apartheid project, two to go!
    First Published: 2009
    In 2005, just after the publication of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, Palestinians began calling for an international boycott campaign against Veolia, a company involved in the Citypass Consortium, a scheme to build a tramline on occupied territory in the West Bank. Veolia is a huge multinational, that arguably has the biggest financial commitment of any international company to Israel's colonisation of the West Bank.
  13760. Veolia's dirty business: The Tovlan landfill
    First Published: 2010
    Ever since the first Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel in 2005, French multinational Veolia has been on campaigners' list of boycott targets. Corporate Watch has investigated the impact of Veolia's Tovlan landfill on occupied land.
  13761. Vergonha
    Connexipedia Article
    Vergonha is being made to reject and feel ashamed of one's (or one's parents') non-French language through official exclusion, humiliation at school and rejection from the media as organized and sanctioned by French political leaders.
  13762. Vermont Healthcare Justice
    First Published: 2015
    An overview of legislation in Vermont to publicly fund health care.
  13763. The Vertical Farming Scam
    Wrong on So Many Levels
    First Published: 2012
    Vertical farming would involve using the floorspace of tall urban buildings for growing food plants through largely hydroponic methods. This is envisioned as a way to integrate food production with dense human populations, increase production per unit of land area, protect crops against pests without the use of chemicals, and take vulnerable agricultural soils out of production by relocating crops to cities. It can, in fact, achieve none of these goals.
  13764. A Very Brazilian Coup
    First Published: 2016
    On one level, the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff seems like vintage commedia dell’arte. For instance, the lower house speaker who brought the charges, Eduardo Cunha, had to step down because he has $16 million stashed in secret Swiss and U.S. bank accounts. The man who replaced Cunha, Waldir Maranhao, is implicated in the corruption scandal around the huge state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
  13765. A very British coup: The spies who went out to the cold
    First Published: 2018
    Former British MP George Galloway comments on the revelation that subcontracted work from MI5 and MI6 targeted not only Russia but also smeared British politicians whom they perceived to be "pro-Russian"; those smeared include not only himself but Jeremy Corbyn and others in his party.
  13766. The Very Future of Third World Agriculture Is at Stake
    First Published: 2013
    Food security is simply a smokescreen to provide a cover-up for the global efforts being made to dismantle the very foundations of Third World agriculture. Putting more income into the hands of Third World farmers is not acceptable, as it makes developing country agriculture economically viable and therefore deals a blow to U.S. agribusiness trade interests.
  13767. A very great year?
    First Published: 1973
    Eve Smith discusses the aims and effectiveness of Nixon's economic policies on the working class in the America.
  13768. A Very Incomplete List of Sinister Things Vladimir Putin/Russia/'the Russians' Have Been Accused of Doing
    First Published: 2019
    A list as the title describes (with links).
  13769. Very Mention of Snowden's Name Makes Prosecutors Tremble
    First Published: 2015
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has become such a powerful symbol of government overreach that federal prosecutors in a terror case in Chicago are asking the judge to forbid defense attorneys from even mentioning his name during trial, for fear that it would lead the jury to disregard their evidence.
  13770. A Very Perfect Instrument
    The ferocity and failure of America's sanctions apparatus
    First Published: 2013
    Essay on the U.S. system of sanctions and its international negative repercussions.
  13771. Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
    First Published: 1990
  13772. Via Campesina Declaration of the Forum on Food Sovereignty, Territories of Peace for a Dignified Life 2017
    First Published: 2017
    The participants of the Forum on Food Sovereignty held in the city of Buenos Aires on December 12th and 13th [2017] want to express our agreements regarding the construction of territories of peace for the people: the peasants of the world and every community struggling to remain in our ancestral territories and to continue feeding humanity, as we have done for the last ten thousand years, while at the same time fighting for a worthy life in the cities with healthy, locally produced food.
  13773. Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996 
    The Right to Produce and Access Land
    First Published: 1996
    Food is a basic human right. This right can only be realized in a system where food sovereignty is guaranteed.
  13774. Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 2001
    Our World is Not for Sale. Priority to Peoples' Food Sovereignty
    First Published: 2001
  13775. VIA shutdown meets opposition
    First Published: 1989
  13776. Victimizing Domestic Workers
    The Last Post, vol. 6, no. 6
    First Published: 1978
    This article chronicles the struggle of domestic immigrant women to Montreal.
  13777. Victims of the European revolutions
    First Published: 1991
    European gypsy communities have historically been, and remain, the most marginalized social group.
  13778. Victor Serge: For Our Time
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
  13779. Victorian Class War -- Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square
    First Published: 2016
    Patrick Murfin recalls a part of UK history, Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square.
  13780. The Victors
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    An assumption was adopted in America that domestic issues were so close to being resolved that it was time to focus attention to sharing the nation's "basic spiritual principles" with the globe's underdeveloped regions. Chomsky critically evaluates regions where the benefits of American involvement should be obvious, revealing that such aid is usually motivated by self-interest and only incidentally reaps positive results for locals.
  13781. Victory Assured on the Military's Main Battlefield -- Washington
    First Published: 2016
    When it comes to Pentagon weapons systems, have you ever heard of cost "underruns? I think not. Cost overruns? They turn out to be the unbreachable norm, as they seem to have been from time immemorial. In 1982, for example, the Pentagon announced that the cumulative cost of its 44 major weapons programs had experienced a "record" increase of $114.5 billion. Three decades later, in the spring of 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the military’s major programs to develop new weapons systems -- by then 80 of them -- were a cumulative half-trillion dollars over their initial estimated price tags and on average more than two years delayed.
  13782. The Victory for Workers' Rights in Honduras
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    Progressive followers of politics in Honduras have had little to celebrate recently. The June 28, 2009 coup that toppled president Mel Zelaya — a democratically elected reformer, though never the radical populist depicted by the mainstream media — was a terrible blow to democracy, echoing the worst chapters of Central America’s dark history.
  13783. Victory in Chicago: Republic Workers' Occupation
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    “For once in our lives we had the perfect storm. Usually we don’t get any support from politicians or any coverage from the mass media...but this time, everything came together,” said Tim Curtin, International Representative for United Electrical workers (UE).
  13784. Victory in Shutting Down Oakland Coal Port
    First Published: 2016
    On July 19, 2016, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to turn down the application for export of coal to Asia through a bulk commodities terminal under construction at the city's port.
  13785. Victory in Stagnation? 
    First Published: 2017
    An analysis of the direction of the German left party, Die Linke, in the wake of the 2017 national elections.
  13786. Victory in Vietnam
    First Published: 2015
    Forty years ago on April 30, 1975, the Vietnamese peopl were finally victorious in the long just struggle for national independence and unification against the United States and its puppet regime in Saigon.
  13787. Victory Over the Sun
    First Published: 2017
    Postwar America's greatest environmentalist Tony Mazzocchi (who passed away in 2002) was a labour leader.
  13788. A Victory and Some Risks
    Statement from the Fourth International
    First Published: 2015
    It is necessary to create the conditions of democratic debate in all the popular organizations in Cuba.
  13789. Vidal, Gore
    Connexipedia Article
    American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, actor and politician. (Born 1925).
  13790. Video News Releases
    First Published: 2003
    Video News Releases (VNRs) are just that: broadcast-quality videos intended for release to television stations. They typically contain a "story" in television format, complete with reporter, just as a news release imitates a news story.
  13791. Video of Shooting Caught Police Propaganda Machine in Action
    First Published: 2015
    A video supplied to The New York Times, showing the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott at the hands of a South Carolina police officer, appears on first viewing to be the latest example of an unarmed black person killed unnecessarily by a white cop.
  13792. Video shows unprovoked, cold-blooded killing of Palestinian boys by Israeli forces
    First Published: 2014
    This shocking video shows the unprovoked, cold-blooded killings of two Palestinian teenagers, 17-year-old Nadim Siam Nuwara, and 16-year-old Muhammad Mahmoud Odeh Abu al-Thahir on 15 May near Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank city of Beitunia. Both boys were fatally shot with live ammunition.
  13793. Videos Challenge Israeli Police Account of Shootings
    First Published: 2015
    It has been called the "smartphone intifada". After a sharp escalation in violence between Palestinians and Israelis in recent weeks, shocking scenes captured on video have spread across social media.
  13794. Videos and Photos of the Odessan Massacre
    Why It Was Done
    First Published: 2014
    For the first time in history, an organized massacre of civilians has been filmed by many people from many different angles and perspectives while it was happening, and is documented in extraordinary detail in “real time,” the perpetrators having no fear of any negative consequences from their endeavor, and even cheering and celebrating the tortures and deaths as they were being imposed upon the helpless victims. The perpetrators were unconcerned, because what they were doing was what the government (which the U.S. had imposed upon their country and which U.S. taxpayers had spent more than 5 billion dollars to bring about there) had wanted them to do, and had helped to organize them to carry out. These people were just having fun, like a party to them, nothing really serious at all.
  13795. Viellir Chez Soi
    First Published: 1979
  13796. Vieques After A Year of Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    Thirteen peace encampments prevented the U.S. Navy for thirteen months from using the Puerto Rican island of Vieques for target practice, until they were forcibly cleared by FBI agents and federal marshals on May 4th, 2000. In the meantime, two Atlantic Fleets had to suspend maneuvers and the U.S.S. George Washington and the U.S.S. Eisenhower, two gigantic aircraft carriers headed for Vieques, had to turn around and go elsewhere.
  13797. Viet Peace will come with victory
    First Published: 1972
    The burning determination of the Vietnamese to control their own future deserves our full support.
  13798. Vietnam
    How the government became wolves
    First Published: 1972
    In note of the fact that the American administrations never deviated from the basic assumption that communism must be defeated, Noam Chomsky describes how the image of the USA as a noble and virtuous political leader that is "bewildered and victimized, but not responsible" had been concocted.
  13799. Vietnam
    First Published: 1973
    On the 1973 cease-fire called in the Vietnam war.
  13800. Vietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassalage 1975-2015
    First Published: 2015
    In 1975 the people of Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history – defeating the US, the world's biggest imperial power, after 20 years of struggle.
  13801. 'Vietnam: It's our war too'
    The Antiwar movement in Canada: 1963 - 1975
    First Published: 2011
    PhD Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2011
  13802. Vietnam Revisited During Trump's Bonkers Brinkmanship
    First Published: 2017
    I returned to Vietnam in April, having not been there since the war, nearly 50 years ago. I'd sailed there as a seaman in the National Maritime Union (NMU) on a cargo ship carrying war materiel from the naval ammo base in Port Chicago, California.
  13803. Vietnam Veterans Against the War
    Connexipedia Article
    A national veterans' organization.
  13804. The Vietnam War is Not History for Victims of Agent Orange
    First Published: 2017
    Nearly 58,000 Americans and 2 to 3 million Vietnamese, many of them civilians, were killed in the war. Untold numbers were wounded. Many US veterans of the war suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. More US Vietnam War vets have committed suicide than died in the war. However, those numbers do not begin to tell the complete story of the war.
  13805. The view from different planets
    Connecting wildfires and climate change proscribed only on Planet Alberta
    First Published: 2017
    The political discourse surrounding climate change and wildfires is almost nonexistent in Alberta.
  13806. A View from Gaza
    This Is a Brutal Attack, Not a "Military Operation"
    First Published: 2014
    In Gaza, recent Israeli military attacks by sea, air and via artillery shells are not part of a war or a military operation though it may look so. It is collective punishment and it is a brutal attack against all Palestinian people, and mainly civilians are paying the price.
  13807. A View from Israel
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    Michael Warschawski, a founder of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, spoke with The Real News Network on Israeli reactions to the Egyptian uprising.
  13808. A View from the Base
    First Published: 2013
    In Atlanta there was a very serious discussion both in meetings and on the Spanish-language talk radio station beginning a week ago over whether we should continue to call on the Senators to vote yes. And at least for the Senate, we stuck with calling for a yes vote.
  13809. The View from the Press Room
    First Published: 2001
    How charities can sell their stories to the media.
  13810. Viewpoint: Transnationals After Seattle
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    Mass politics in the streets disappeared in the United States between 1970 and 1973. In retrospect, it is clear that the years 1964 to 1970 were not a “pre-revolutionary situation,” but anyone who lived through those years as an activist can be forgiven for thinking it was. Any number of people in the ruling circles shared the same error of judgment.
  13811. Viewpoints
    Where now for capitalism?
    First Published: 2008
    Noam Chomsky discusses the failure of financial institutions to calculate costs to those who do not participate in transactions and the effects of this in the wider context.
  13812. Vigil for disarmament
    First Published: 1990
  13813. Vigilante Man, 2005 Style
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    The vigilantes are back. In the 1850s they lynched Irishmen in San Francisco; in the 1870s they terrorized the Chinese throughout the West; in the 1910s they murdered striking Wobblies in California, Washington and Montana; in the 1920s they organized “Bash a Jap” campaigns; and in the 1930s they greeted the Joads and other Dust Bowl refugees to California with teargas and buckshot.
  13814. Viktor Orban, Trump and the Populist Battle Over Public Space
    First Published: 2018
    The Hungarian legislation and the turmoil caused by Trump's moral equivalencies reveal how politicized space is not a distracting side effect of populist politics; rather, public space treated as a symbol of national identity is a defining characteristic of populism.
  13815. A village about to be demolished
    A glimpse into occupation
    First Published: 2012
    Susiya is a microcosm of life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Palestinians living in the little village of Susiya and elsewhere are under constant threat of demolition, expulsion and forced relocation.
  13816. Village demolition based on Israel's 'racist' plan
    First Published: 2017
    In the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, residents say the closing of an investigation into the killing of Yacoub Abu al-Qiyan is evidence of a wider strategy to drive residents out of the rural community.
  13817. Le Viol du Courier/Violation of the Mail
    The League on Human Rights presents arguments against the legality and acceptability of Bill C-26. This bill, introduced to Parliament in February 1978, aims to authorize the opening of first-class mail.
  13818. Violence Against Women: Why The UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
    First Published: 2017
    Burrowes argues that efforts to resolve violence aganist women are futile unless the focus shifts to preventing emotional and physical violence against children, with particular emphasis on boys.
  13819. Violence and the Newspaper Strike
    First Published: 1997
    To those who still allow their anti-union biases and their exposure to employer misinformation to cloud their perception of reality, I would pose the following question: If the employer and its supporters are really the victimized peace-loving martyrs that they pretend to be, why are the union members the ones who always end up in the hospital?
  13820. Violence Goes to College
    Are We Going to Hell?
    First Published: 2011
    The priorities of the campus are clear. An Assistant Professor earns an annual salary in the low $60,000 range; a Lieutenant in the campus safety department (the man who fired the pepper gas, for instance) brings home $110,000.
  13821. Violence in the Home
    First Published: 1979
    This study paper with a questionnaire is concerned that people recognize that violence does exist in the home, and that the Church has a role to play in dealing with it. The paper has three sections. The first two deal with violence in the home, and the third looks at the church's response.
  13822. Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?
    First Published: 2014
    Earlier this week the Times of Israel published a post, written by American Yochanan Gordon, titled "When Genocide is Permissible," which concludes with the following question:
    "If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?"
  13823. The Violent History of the Venezuelan Opposition
    First Published: 2019
    Mainstream media paint Venezuelan opposition as peaceful heroes and President Maduro as a villain. Details about opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez show this to be blatant propaganda.
  13824. Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
    First Published: 2018
    Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
  13825. Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot
    Connexipedia Article
    Servants' uprising over inadequate food.
  13826. The Virigina Declaration of Rights
    First Published: 1776
    Drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent natural rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. The Declaration was adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776.
  13827. Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud
    And More Fraud Is in the Works
    First Published: 2014
    Washington can't stop lying. Reports of job gains are more fiction than reality.
  13828. Virtual Private Network (VPN)
    First Published: 2013
    This technology allows the creation of an Internet tunnel (a virtual link) between two physical networks in different locations in a way that is transparent for users.
  13829. The Virtues of Mutiny and Desertion
    Two Christmas Anniversaries
    First Published: 2013
    Christmas Eve also marks the famous 1914 “Christmas truce” when British and German soldiers crossed No Man’s Land to shake hands, play soccer, exchange souvenirs and sing carols to each other. The High Commands and politicians on both sides swiftly put an end to that foolishness. The war went on killing many millions.
  13830. Vision Canada
    Unmet Needs of Blind Canadians
    First Published: 1977
    A study with four main objectives: 1) to determine the current needs of visually handicapped people, 2) to determine whether needs are being adequately met, 3) to suggest what changes are required to improve existing programs or develop new ones, 4) to collect informaiton on the special unmet needs of multi-handicapped people.
  13831. Vision Statement of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America
    Vision Statement of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America
  13832. A Visit to Laos
    First Published: 1970
    Chomsky shares an account of his 1970 visit to Laos, revealing the heavy atmosphere owing to foreign power presence. "The US has penetrated every phase of existence (as well as destruction)." He explores Laos' recent political history in the contexts of the Pathet Laos and American involvement, as well as the difference between the local and American understandings of where the source of conflict lies.
  13833. A Visual Glossary
    Decoding the language of covert warfare
    First Published: 2015
    Along with illustrations, Begley explains some of the terminology employed in the drone warfare.
  13834. Visualizing Justice for Labor
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
  13835. ¡Viva la Revolución!
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    The Mexican revolution, which began in 1910 and ended in 1940, transformed Mexico. During the course of those 30 years, tens of thousands of men and women fought in battles in many regions of the country to end the Porfirian dictatorship and to determine the course and goals of the revolution that had overthrown it. In a nation of 15 million, a shocking one million were killed while two million migrated to the United States to escape the violence (many of them subsequently returning), a movement which established the paths of future migrations.
  13836. ¡Viva la Revolución! Part 2
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    While the most violent stage of the Mexican Revolution was over by 1920, the country faced a series of new crises in the 1930s. The era opened in 1928 with the assassination of former President Álvaro Obregón, killed by a Catholic militant opposed to the secularizing Revolution in the formerly officially Catholic country.
  13837. Vladimir Putin Is the Only Leader the West Has
    First Published: 2016
    A Reuters news report under the names of presstitutes Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold shows how devoid the West is of honest, intelligent and responsible journalists and government officials.
  13838. Vlady: ¡Presente!
    First Published: 2005
    He belonged to a unique generation who saw clearly, fought tenaciously, but were defeated. Vlady was generous of spirit and intellect, an artist and a revolutionary to his core; he refused compromise yet socialized in wide circles of poets, politicians, writers, artists and dignitaries.
  13839. Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires that Allow State Surveillance
    First Published: 2014
    Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'.
  13840. The Vogeler Senate Campaign
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    With just four months until the general election, Green Party candidate Rae Vogeler has established herself as the main opposition to millionaire incumbent Senator Herb Kohl. Vogeler's campaign took off last September when the mother of two decided that Wisconsin needed a Senator to stand up for working people, end the war, and fund good jobs, quality education and affordable health care.
  13841. The voice of Hobsbawm
    First Published: 2018
    A look at how the work and ideas of influential British Historian Eric Hobsbawm made an entry into the Indian intellectual scene, as well as his involvement in two crucial political and intellectual debates in Brazil that cemented his reputation there.
  13842. A Voice of Our Own
    First Published: 1989
  13843. Voice of Women, Canada, to the Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence
    House of Commons
    First Published: 1980
    The Voice of Women is recognized as a significant national voluntary organization in Canada today.
  13844. Voice of Women/La Voix Des Femmes
    First Published: 1979
    A Calgary group that opposes nuclear energy.
  13845. Voices of Asian Americans
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    Asian Americas: The Movement and the Moment is an anthology of some 30 entries written by Asian Americans who initiated or participated in social and community movements in the late 1960s and 1970s. It is about how they perceived the world, how they became involved in the movements, what they think they accomplished and learned through their involvement, and how their experiences and lessons shaped their own lives and can be linked to present-day struggles for social justice.
  13846. Voices of Resistance to the Northern Gateway Pipeline
    First Published: 2013
    The National Energy Board's Joint Review Panel (JRP) has just published its recommendation that the Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway to transport Alberta's tar sands oil to the northwest coast of British Columbia should be approved.
  13847. Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden Code
    First Published: 2015
    After Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal, Blunden states that this company is not the only one engaging in the practice of secretly modifying technology. Rather, systematic hidden codes are embedded in society and promoted by both companies and governments.
  13848. The Volkswagen Scandal Wasn't Exposed by Regulators, but by Two Engineers Working at a Small Non-Profit Lab
    First Published: 2015
    German automaker Volkswagen was recently exposed for perpetrating a massive deception by installing a small device on as many as 11 million diesel-powered vehicles designed to cheat emissions tests.
  13849. Voluntary Organizations and their Businesses: Issues & Opportunities
    First Published: 1987
  13850. Voluntary Organizations and their Businesses: Factors Influencing Success
    First Published: 1988
  13851. Voluntary Simplicity
    If I could summarize in a few words what I've learned about voluntary simplicity during twenty years of globetrotting, it would all boil down to this: enough really is enough. Take the time to see how our neighbors on this planet live. Remember that old cliche: "Experience is the best teacher."
  13852. Voluntary Simplicity And The Steady-State Economy
    First Published: 2014
    Voluntary simplicity is most basically characterized by the practices of mindfulness and material sufficiency. Through bringing mindfulness to our daily lives, we seek the maximum of well-being achievable through the minimum of material consumption. Well-being applies to all life forms on Earth, not just people.
  13853. Vorkuta uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    A major uprising of the concentration camp inmates in Vorkuta, Russia in July-August 1953.
  13854. Vote as the Class You Are, Not the Race You Aren't
    Scott, Frank
    First Published: 2010
    Many upper middle-professional class members of society who truly wish for a more just nation are either helpless to, totally incapable of, or have little desire to confront real power or create social transformation beyond electing one or another member of their class to represent their interests on the board, the council, the congress or at the White House. And that class includes more multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-racial and gender fluid people than ever before. Hooray?
  13855. Voter ID Laws, Voter Fraud
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    The close primary election inside the Democratic Party between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shows that every vote counts. The fiasco in the 2000 presidential election because of “hanging chads” also proves that every vote “not counted” does matter. And voter suppression under any circumstances — not just when elections are close — is a crime, a violation of basic rights and an attack on democracy.
  13856. Voter Suppression Hits Mississippi
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    Concerns regarding the polarization of voting in Mississippi between classses and actions taken with the apparent goal of suppressing the non-white opposition.
  13857. Voter Suppression in Canada
    Harper's (Un)Fair Elections Act Could Spark Voter Surge
    First Published: 2014
    The Harper government seems intent on proving to its detractors that things can always get worse. They’ve one-upped themselves with the farce called the Fair Elections Act.
  13858. Voting Patterns and Abstentions
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky analyzes the phenomena of low voter participation and income correlation with election results as symptoms of an unhealthy democracy.
  13859. Voting Under Socialism
    It'll be more meaningful - but hopefully won't involve endless meetings.
    First Published: 2016
  13860. VOW meeting (and party)
    First Published: 1990
  13861. Voyage en Icarie
    (excerpt)
    First Published: 1842
  13862. VTR - Edmonton Chinatown...A Beginning...
    First Published: 1973
    Report on the use of video tape to facilitate Chinese community's role in shaping the direction of their community.
  13863. Vulnerable Akron: the first great sit-down
    First Published: 2013
    Akron, rubber manufacturing capital of the world. A drab Mid-Western industrial city of 255,000. A city with a hum, a throb, anodor all its own. It made the front pages in February, 1936. A strike had closed the largest tire factory on the globe, which had 14,000 employees.
  13864. Vulnerable get lost in 'secret' Chicago prisoner warehouse
    Mainly black detainees interrogated without access to attorneys
    First Published: 2015
    At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of those arrested as a secretive interrogation facility, records reveal.
  13865. VW, GM and Takata: the Case for Jailing Corporate Executives
    First Published: 2016
    Making the case that executives at VW, Takata and General Motors should be jailed for corporate crime. The crimes committed by the corporations they head are extremely serious, and have caused and will cause hundreds of deaths. Why are the perpetrators allowed to get off simply by writing a cheque to cover the fine, instead of going to jail the way other criminals do?
  13866. Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremism
    First Published: 2012
    The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was not just a crazed loner, but a vocal neo-Nazi – in fact, his white supremacist ideology reflected a growing form of extremism that expresses its strength through violence rather than at the ballot box.
  13867. Waffle
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A group established in 1969 as a left-wing caucus within the New Democratic Party.
  13868. The Waffle and the Women's Movements
    First Published: 1990
    Published in Studies in Political Economy, 33 (Autumn 1990)
  13869. Wag The Dog -- How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American Media
    Responsibility for the chemical event in Khan Sheikhoun is still very much in question.
    First Published: 2017
    Once upon a time, Donald J. Trump, the New York City businessman-turned-president, berated then-President Barack Obama, back in September 2013, about the fallacy of an American military strike against Syria. At that time, the United States was considering the use of force against Syria in response to allegations (since largely disproven) that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against civilians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Trump, via tweet, declared "to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the U.S. gets nothing!"
  13870. Wage Labour
    Connexipedia Article
  13871. Wage & Price Controls
    First Published: 1976
    Canadian working people have now joined the ranks of workers in other western capitalist countries who have been subjected to a statutory incomes policy.
  13872. Wages for Housework
    First Published: 1988
    'If women were paid for all they do, there'd be a lot of wages due', sang women campaigners in the 1970s. But demanding money for unpaid domestic work is a sad indictment of the Women's Movement, argues Zoë Fairbairns - because it demonstrates that feminists have lost the battle to force men to do their share of the cleaning.
  13873. Wages for Housework Committee Materials
    First Published: 1977
    A series of films on women's rights centred around the family allowance program.
  13874. Wages of Labour
    Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
    First Published: 1844
  13875. The Wages of Neoliberalism
    Poverty, Exile and Early Death
    First Published: 2016
    Economist Michael Hudson says neoliberal policy will pressure U.S. citizens to emigrate, just as it caused millions to leave Russia, the Baltic States, and now Greece in search of a better life. A research team from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York estimates 875,000 deaths in the United States in year 2000 could be attributed to social factors related to poverty and income inequality.
  13876. The Wages of Whiteness is Early Death
    First Published: 2015
    The white working class has never had it easy in American history. It's been viciously exploited, disrespected, deceived, divided, repressed, and otherwise and generally abused from the United States' colonial origins through the present day.
  13877. Waging the War on Slavery
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    The settlement of Lawrence in the territory of Kansas, summer of 1856: Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers are trying to colonize the territory. The former want a slave-soil, the latter a free-soil state. Armed pro-slavery gangs from Missouri are harassing and attacking the free-soil settlers. The U.S. government and U.S. Army are pro-slavery.
  13878. Waihi miners' strike
    Connexipedia Article
    A major strike action in 1912 by gold miners in the New Zealand town of Waihi.
  13879. Waiting to Inhale: Culture Wars or Unfinished Gratification?
    First Published: 1999
    With the end of the impeachment proceedings, it is surely time for the left to offer analyses of the crisis which press far beyond those on offer in the mainstream press, and which do considerably more than offer a hold-your-nose defense of the President's "privacy." Here is one such attempt.
  13880. Walkerton Tragedy
    Connexipedia Article
    Brief overview of the Walkerton water contamination incident.
  13881. A Walking Tour of New York's Massive Surveillance Network
    First Published: 2016
    So it felt a bit risky to be climbing up a street pole on Wall Street to closely inspect a microwave radar sensor, or to be lingering under a police camera, pointing and gesturing at the wires and antenna connected to it. Yet it was also entirely appropriate to be doing just that, especially in the company of Ingrid Burrington, author of the new book "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure," which points out that many of the city's communications and surveillance programs were conceived and funded in response to the attacks.
  13882. Walking: We Ask Questions 
    First Published: 2003
    An essay from the book We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere Collective.
  13883. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
    Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
    First Published: 2007
    During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
  13884. A Wall as a Weapon
    First Published: 2004
    Chomsky discusses the debate surrounding the Israeli motion to build a wall of security. He acknowledges that the process in the Hague will unlikely bring about any change, even if the wall is determined to be illegal.
  13885. Wall Street and the Greek Financial Crisis
    First Published: 2015
    Michael Hudson and Bill Black zero in on some of the key elements of the crisis. They point out that it is not really 'Greece', let alone the Greek people, who have contracted this debt and who have been bailed out until now.
  13886. Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en Territory
    First Published: 2020
    While protesters have rightly condemned the RCMP actions in arresting Wet’suwet’en First Nation land defenders, they (and the corporate media) have largely overlooked the role of a major player in this whole debacle: Wall Street titan Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., better known as KKR.
  13887. Wall Street occupation ignites mass movement
    First Published: 2011
    The simple, horizontal structure originally created around a GA using modified consensus has become a barrier to practical and political work by the occupiers and those involved through working groups.
  13888. Wall Street's Role in Narco-Trafficking
    "Business is Booming"
    First Published: 2011
    Every major bank in the US has served as an active financial partner of the murderous drug cartels.
  13889. Howard Wallace, 1936-2012
    First Published: 2013
  13890. Wallenberg, Raoul
    Connexipedia Article
    A Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. (1912-1947?)
  13891. The Walls the West Won’t Tear Down
    First Published: 2014
    Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall, lethal borders remain. We must dismantle them.
  13892. Walmart: Black Friday and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 162
    First Published: 2013
    The “Black Friday” strike at Walmart stores surprised and elated many on the left and activists throughout labour and allied movements.
  13893. Wal-Mart's Real Cost
    Against The Current vol. 121
    First Published: 2006
    The long-brewing struggle between retail giant Wal-Mart and those concerned with reforming its corporate practices burst onto the mainstream consciousness of the American public this past November. An unprecedented convergence of labor, small business owners, environmentalists, activists and communities of faith blossomed into a full-scale movement to change the world’s largest retail company.
  13894. Walter Reuther, 'Social Unionist'
    First Published: 1996
    The book is full of self-serving quotations from Reuther and others that are accepted at face value. There is a very superficial understanding of the auto industry, of life in the union and on the shop floor, and of the left. The huge number of quotations and citations tends to conceal a high degree of inaccuracy and misunderstanding.
  13895. Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
    First Published: 2022
    The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
  13896. Wangari Maathai was not a good woman. Kenya needs more of them.
    First Published: 2015
    25 September, 2015 marked four years since the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and feminist icon, Wangari Maathai. In Kenya, the celebrations were notably muted as her standing in the country has been ambiguous. Maathai challenged the notion of Kenyan women, who are forced to pretend to be "good" to satisfy societal expectations.
  13897. Want to Fix Foster Care? Ask Kids Who Have Been Through the System
    Innovative report co-researched by youth from care focuses on importance of relationships
    First Published: 2018
    A report called Relationships Matter for Youth "Aging Out" of Care, co-researched by youth from care, focuses on what truly matters to the young people who are in the system and notably on the importance of building relationships.
  13898. Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
    First Published: 2017
    On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested. But, perhaps, the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
  13899. The Wanted 18
    First Published: 2016
    A claymation comic that showcases the BDS movement through the establishment of a Palestinian dairy co-operative in Beit Sahour.
  13900. Wanted: A Hackers' Charter
  13901. Wanted a Leader for America
    First Published: 2005
    Chomsky depicts how the issues concerning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including the pre-determined risk of 9/11, went ignored under the Bush Administration which focused instead upon global domination ambitions.
  13902. Wanted: A new model of public ownership
    The challenge to the left is to develop an alternative model of ownership.
  13903. WANTED: A different attitude to science
    First Published: 2021
    In our materialist, neoliberal society in which money is the measure of all things science is construed, and taught, almost entirely as a materialist pursuit - as the source of high technologies that can “compete” in the world market and make us all rich. (Or at least make some of us rich - those who are deemed to matter. Who, broadly speaking, are the ones who are rich already).
  13904. Wapping dispute
    Connexipedia Article
    A significant turning point in the history of the trade union movement and of UK industrial relations.
  13905. The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us 
    First Published: 2018
    Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
  13906. War Against the Kurds Renewed
    First Published: 2016
    For show, Erdogan's airforce carried out a few symbolic raids against ISIS, but in reality the aerial offensive was against the Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.
  13907. The War against The Lancet
    First Published: 2015
    "An Open letter to the people of Gaza" triggered a furious reaction within Lancet, with complainants suggesting that the publication has sided with the forces of "anti-Jewish bigotry".
  13908. War and the Culture of Violence
    Against The Current vol. 125
    First Published: 2006
    Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
  13909. The War at Home
    First Published: 2017
    A question often arises whether Trump is a genuine representative of the aims of the capitalist ruling class in general and the Republican right wing in particular, or a self-centered rogue with serious and potentially dangerous personality disorders. The answer is that he's actually both.
  13910. War by media and the triumph of propaganda 
    First Published: 2014
    The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003. The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an "invisible government". It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
    Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information, but power?
  13911. War Colleges
    The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education
    First Published: 2011
    One consequence of the increasing militarization of American society can be seen in changes that have taken place in public and higher education. Schools have become the testing grounds for new modes of security and military-style authority.
  13912. War crime? Israel destroys Gaza crops with aerial herbicide spraying
    First Published: 2016
    Gaza farmers have lost 187 hectares of crops to aerial spraying of herbicides by Israel hundreds of meters within the territory's borders. The action, carried out in the name of 'security', further undermines Gaza's ability to feed itself and may permanently deprive farmers of their livelihoods. It may also represent a war crime under the 1977 Protocol to the Geneva Conventions.
  13913. War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure
    First Published: 2015
    The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya. Since then, the country's water infrastructure has only deteriorated further.
  13914. War Crimes
    Corporate media can't ignore photos the way they ignored protests. The real reign of terror we face is much closer to home than we dare to think.
  13915. War Crimes Airbrushed from History
    Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light
    First Published: 2008
    A report written by a respected Israeli human rights organisation, one representing the country's Arab minority not its Jewish majority, has unearthed evidence showing that during the 2006 Lenanon war Israel committed war crimes not only against Lebanese civilians -- as was already known -- but also against its own Arab citizens.
  13916. 'War crimes': Israeli bombs wiped out entire families in Gaza, Amnesty says
    First Published: 2014
    Israel used disproportionate military force during its summer operation in Gaza. Entire Palestinian families were killed when their homes were leveled by Israeli bombs falling with no warning and for little military gain, Amnesty International said.
  13917. The War Crimes of a Sergeant, the War Crimes of a Nation
    A Double Standard of Justice
    First Published: 2012
    It is alleged that on the evening of March 10-11, 2012, US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales left his base in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, fully armed and loaded, and murdered 16 civilians in a nearby village.
  13918. War criminal Israelis welcomed to Canada, Palestinians barred
    First Published: 2024
    The double standard is egregious. Holocaust victims face extreme security checks while genocidal Jewish supremacists enter Canada with ease.
  13919. The war everyone forgot
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky probes what prompted the issue of Iraq to disappear from the agenda following the 2006 mid-term election.
  13920. War from above, resistance from below
    First Published: 2016
    A review of Donny Gluckstein (ed), Fighting on all Fronts: Popular Resistance and the Second World War. As Donny Gluckstein points out in the introduction to this book, understanding the nature of the Second World War is fundamental to our understanding of the world today. Liberal and left wing opinion sees it as a war between democracy and fascism, or "progress and reaction" as Eric Hobsbawm described it. This leads some to see the Allies' victory as the straightforward triumph of democracy and ushering in American prosperity for all. For example, the Confederation of German Trade Unions has suggested, without any hint of irony, that workers today should get behind the idea of "a new Marshall plan" as the basis for a "progressive strategy" for the crisis-ridden European Union.
  13921. War, Globalisation and Reproduction
    First Published: 2005
  13922. The War In Afghanistan
    First Published: 2002
    Noam Chomsky examines the military action of the US in Afghanistan, exploring America's breach of international law through the refusal to obtain Security Council authorization.
  13923. The War in Eastern Ukraine May be Coming to an End but Do Any Americans Care?
    First Published: 2019
    The Ukraine War remains largely unknown to the American public even though the United States has had a great stake in it.
  13924. War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
    First Published: 2022
  13925. War in the Gulf
    First Published: 1991
    The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
  13926. The War in Ukraine Was Provoked
    First Published: 2023
    The Biden administration's insistence on NATO enlargement has made Ukraine a victim of misconceived and unachievable U.S. military aspirations.
  13927. The War is a Double Terror: Stop the New Stage of the Chechen War!
    Against The Current vol. 84
    First Published: 2000
    The recent barbaric explosions [at apartment buildings in major Russian cities], which caused hundreds of deaths amongst Russian citizens, were used by the authorities to resume a campaign of searching for "entire enemies" and, exploiting our grief, to hide the real perpetrators.
  13928. War is just f**king wrong
    First Published: 2018
    Jacobs explains the underlying capitalist imperative of waging war.
  13929. The War Is Over (song)
    Connexipedia Article
    An anti-war song by Phil Ochs.
  13930. War Is Peace 
    First Published: 2009
    Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it's hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States is a war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere at any moment.
  13931. War Is Realizing the Israelizing of the World
    Divide, Conquer, Colonize
    First Published: 2015
    As US-driven wars plummet the Muslim world ever deeper into jihadi-ridden failed state chaos, events seem to be careening toward a tipping point. Eventually, the region will become so profuse a font of terrorists and refugees, that Western popular resistance to "boots on the ground" will be overwhelmed by terror and rage. Then, the US-led empire will finally have the public mandate it needs to thoroughly and permanently colonize the Greater Middle East.
  13932. War is the Health of the State
    First Published: 1918
    Once the State has begun to function, and a large class finds its interest and its expression of power in maintaining the State, this ruling class may compel obedience from any uninterested minority. The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class.
  13933. The War Isn't Over, But Israel Has Lost
    First Published: 2009
    The Israelis - and their backers in the American political establishment - appear incapable of grasping that which is empirically obvious: Hamas and its ilk grow stronger every time Israel seeks to eliminate them by force.
  13934. War, lies and censorship
    First Published: 2018
    Damon cautions news consumers that there is precedent for dissemination of government propaganda in the Anglo-American mainstream media when leaders are preparing to take part in military action.
  13935. The War Machine Wants You to Condemn Hamas
    First Published: 2023
    The act of condemnation has been cynically weaponised, writes Jonathan Cook. The aim is not to show solidarity with Israelis. It's to fan the flames of hatred to rationalise crimes against Palestinians.
  13936. The War of Northern Aggression
    First Published: 2012
    A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
  13937. War of the Killer Robots
    Four Realities About Drones
    First Published: 2011
    Drones are "killer robots," they do make war easy and game-like, and therefore likelier, drone strikes do kill too many civilians and they do violate the International Law of Armed Conflict. I am puzzled and disturbed that some feel that the debate over the use of drones in warfare can be enhanced by denying these facts.
  13938. The War of the World
    Easy Chair
    First Published: 2015
    Solnit reflects on the environmental destruction that the world has been experiencing since the Second World War.
  13939. A War on Black Children?
    Against The Current vol. 84
    First Published: 2000
    Two montrous events have opened a window on a daily reality: In the name of safe streets and schools, an undeclared war has been opened on a generation of African-American children. In affluent suburban Oakland County, Michigan, a nearly all-white jury convicted a 13-year-old youth of second-degree murder, tried as an adult in a shooting that occurred when he was 11 years of age. In Decatur, Illinois, seven Black students were expelled from high school by a nearly all-white school board, against the opposition of the only Black member, for a brawl in the stands at a football game.
  13940. The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
    First Published: 2016
    Journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger granted this exclusive interview where he talks about the US war on democracy in Latin America. "Modern era imperialism is a war on democracy. Genuine democracy is a threat to unfettered power and cannot be tolerated", he says.
  13941. The 'war on drugs' is a war on culture and human diversity
    First Published: 2016
    The 'war on drugs' is presented as a necessary battle against social evils. But from the Andes to the Caribbean, prohibition has criminalised both religious and cultural expression. And it's a war that is strictly for the global poor: people in Colorado can grow pot - so why not Colombians?
  13942. The War on Memory Begins in Argentina
    First Published: 2016
    Within less than a month of the inauguration of the new Macri/Cambiemos government in Argentina, the new leadership, or gestión (management) as they prefer to be called, acted in a great sweeping hurry. Argentine congress, full of opposition parliamentarians from the Frente Para la Victoria Party that lost the presidential race by 2% of the vote, was closed for the summer holidays that take place in the ardent month of December, as much of the urban population of Argentina seeks to carelessly flock to the seaside.
  13943. The War on Savings: the Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
    First Published: 2016
    The bombshell publication of the "Panama Papers," leaked from a Panama law firm specializing in shell companies, has triggered both outrage and skepticism. In an April 3, 2016 article titled "Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak," UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests.
  13944. The War on Terrorism ... or Whatever
    First Published: 2013
    A brief survey of the War on Terrorism, a war that has become increasingly difficult to sell to the American public as one of pro-democracy "moderates" locked in a good-guy-versus-bad-guy struggle with an evil dictator, although in actuality the United States has fought on the same side as al Qaeda on repeated occasions before Syria.
  13945. The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies 
    First Published: 2019
    Maduro, like Chavez before him, is a fairly elected leader with support from the people. Talk of his 'illegitmacy' is propaganda in service of the coup.
  13946. A War on Wikileaks?
    Unhinged at the US State Department and Pentagon
    First Published: 2010
    If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
  13947. The War on Women--And Us All
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    The war on women’s reproductive rights is being fought in the U.S. Congress, in state legislatures and in the courts, and played out in the media. This war seeks to restrict women’s ability to control their reproductive lives — with each law more outrageous than the last — under the excuse that they are “protecting the unborn.”
  13948. The War Over Mangoes
    First Published: 2017
    Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.
  13949. War Photography at the Tate Modern
    Receding into Memory
    First Published: 2014
    If photography is a record of suspended death, a suggestion that the subject is both frozen in time and rendered lifeless in the broader sense of things, then the nature of war is, in many ways, a perfect medium to capture it. It delves into a grim subject more fitting of the dry morgue than the lively art studio.
  13950. A War Plan Scuttled?
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    As the Bush era draws to a close, there been increasing speculation on whether or not the United States will attack Iran. Spurred by the posturing and rhetoric coming from the White House and a subservient media, much of that discussion has narrowly focused on Iran potential nuclear threat and the character of the current administrations in Washington and Tehran.
  13951. The "War Scare" in the Kremlin, Revisited: Is History Repeating Itself?
    First Published: 2015
    The Washington Post on October 25, 2015 published an important story based on a recently-published U.S. intelligence review from 1990 that confirmed Soviet leaders in 1983 believed the Reagan administration was using a mobilization exercise to prepare a nuclear surprise attack.
  13952. The War That Never Ends
    First Published: 2019
    North Korean denuclearization is unlikely without concessions (such as sanctions relief) from the US side. How likely is the Trump administration to make such a deal?
  13953. War With Syria and its Repercussions
    A Smoldering Tinderbox
    First Published: 2013
    Obama seems intent on going to war with Syria. The U.S. will be leading Europe, Arab and Israeli allies while pushing an already unstable Middle East into full fledged regional chaos, which could instantly take on an international character.
  13954. War and Women's Rights
    What Does the Future Hold for Afghan Women?
    First Published: 2014
    A discussion of the history, current status, and future of women's rights in Afghanistan.
  13955. War, Conflict & Enemies of Truth
    First Published: 2022
    The frenzy engendered by the Ukraine conflict reinforces a herd mentality that cries out for critical thinking.
  13956. "A warm reminder of humanity's less barbaric traits"
    First Published: 2016
  13957. A Warning From the B.I.S.: the Calm Before the Storm?
    First Published: 2016
    The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is worried that recent ructions in the equities markets could be a sign that another financial crisis is brewing. In a sobering report titled "Uneasy calm gives way to turbulence" the BIS states grimly: "We may not be seeing isolated bolts from the blue but the signs of a gathering storm that has been building for a long time."
  13958. Warning: This May Injure Your Modesty
    First Published: 2016
    Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian novelist and journalist who, in February, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for "injuring public modesty". In August 2014, Akhbar al-Adab, a state-funded literary magazine, had published an excerpt from his third novel, Istikhdam al-Hayah (Using Life), which had been previously approved by Egypt's censorship authority. In the excerpt, the narrator smokes hashish, drinks alcohol with his friends, and enjoys a sexual relationship with a woman. Hani Saleh Tawfik, a 65-year-old Egyptian, filed a case against Naji, alleging that reading the excerpt had caused him to experience heart palpitations, sickness, and a drop in blood pressure.
  13959. Warning to Spanish (and Other) Whistleblowers: Anonymous Boxes which ARE NOT ANONYMOUS
    First Published: 2017
    Citizens' victories in the struggle against corruption, sometimes requiring information to be provided through safe anonymous channels like Xnet's Mailbox for reporting corruption, have catalysed a proliferation of similar initiatives within governments and institutions.
  13960. Warnings from First Americans: Insidious Changes Are Underway that Will Affect Us All
    First Published: 2017
    Rural America In These Times spoke to Native Americans--people whose survival requires being extremely well informed about what all branches of the federal government are up to. From their vantage point as sovereign entities with direct government-to-government relationships with the United States, the tribes have a unique perspective on issues including voting rights, the economy, the extractive industries' hold over this administration and more.
  13961. Warrant Canary Frequently Asked Questions
    First Published: 2014
    A warrant canary is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received. The following are some frequently asked questions about warrant canary.
  13962. Warrior Society criticized
    First Published: 1992
    An internal investigation by the Iroquois Confederacy says that the Mohawk Warrior Society undercut attempts to reach a peaceful solution at Oka in 1990 and instead deliberately chose to provoke a confrontation with the army.
  13963. The Wars of Rich Resources
    Book Review
    First Published: 2018
    Review of Bolivia's mid-20th century conflicts over resource extraction.
  13964. Wars of Terror
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky explores the nature of terrorism, focusing on four main questions posed by the 9/11 tragedy.
  13965. The Wars on Vietnam
    First Published: 2015
    In the past month, the Pentagon, PBS, and the for-profit press took a three pronged approach to the Vietnam Wars: (1) praise the returned troops and promote the notion of a home-country stab in the back; (2) highlight the evacuees and the US heroes of the April ‘75 evacuations; and (3) focus on the post-war babylift and the Vietnamese babies now grown up.
  13966. War(s) With No Exit
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    The raging debate on “war policy” between the corporate presidential campaigns has come down to this:
  13967. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  13968. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    The Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.
  13969. Warsaw Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    A struggle by the Polish Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi German occupation during World War II.
  13970. Warsaw-Rafah: Scurrying Cockroaches
    First Published: 2024
    The serial ethnic cleansings of the people of Gaza, to culminate with the expulsion of 1.4 million people trapped in Rafah (half of them children) to either al-Musawi, a forlorn desert area the size of Los Angeles Airport, or into the Egyptian Sinai, reminded me of something my late Mother once said about her experience during the Nazi holocaust: “It was not a war; it was an extermination. We were like cockroaches, scurrying this way or that whenever the light shone on us.”
  13971. Was Brexit a Working-Class Revolt?
    First Published: 2016
    The malevelant genius of the Leave campaign was that it managed to go one step further and direct the anger of many previous working-class targets of derision at the even more vulnerable immigrants.
  13972. Was the German Revolution defeated by January 1919?
    First Published: 2016
    John Rose argued in his talk at Marxism 2014 that the German Revolution had effectively suffered terminal defeat by January 1919. The National Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils voted in December 1918 to hand power to the National Assembly after elections to be held in January 1919.
  13973. Was the Bolshevik Revolution a Failure?
    First Published: 1938
    As soon as the Bolsheviks recognized that the proletariat was too weak to establish state capitalistic systems favorable to Russia in other countries, and also that the bourgeoisie was no longer willing to risk anything in a struggle against state capitalist Russia, that is, about 1920, the Bolsheviks ceased to support revolutionary movements in other countries and instead prepared for a peaceful side by side existence with the other capitalistic systems.
  13974. Was the "Russian Hack" an Inside Job?
    First Published: 2017
    Forensic studies of "Russian hacking" into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2017, data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to DNC computers, and then doctored to incriminate Russia.
  13975. Was There an Alternative?
    Looking Back on 9/11, a Decade Later
    First Published: 2011
    There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11. The “crime against humanity,” as it was rightly called, could have been approached as a crime, with an international operation to apprehend the likely suspects. That was recognized at the time, but no such idea was even considered.
  13976. Washington and Berlin on a Collision Course
    First Published: 2017
    The Russia sanctions bill that passed the US Senate on June 15, 2017 directly demonizes the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, under the Baltic Sea, which is bound to double Gazprom's energy capacity to supply gas to Europe.
  13977. Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS
    First Published: 2016
    Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.
  13978. Washington and the Oil Industry Know the Truth About Climate Change
    Short-Term Profits Trump Survival
    First Published: 2014
    Climate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant action in the US on reducing this country’s emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, but at the Pentagon, and in the executive suites of the oil industry giants, there is no doubt about the reality of climate change.
  13979. Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie
    One After Another After Another
    First Published: 2014
    The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery.
  13980. Washington Plays Russian Roulette
    Seeing Red
    First Published: 2014
    The propaganda attack against Putin equating him with Hitler is so extreme that you have to think that the Russians cannot believe their ears and cannot trust the United States anymore under any circumstances.
  13981. Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
    First Published: 2016
    The Washington Post on Thursday night promoted the claims of a new, shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news sites that are critical of U.S. foreign policy as being "routine peddlers of Russian propaganda."
  13982. Washington Seeks Regime Change in Venezuela
    Agents of Destabilization
    First Published: 2014
    Both the ongoing protests in Venezuela and the economic problems that the demonstrators are protesting against appear to have been orchestrated by the opposition in order to destabilize the country and bring down the government. Unable to gain power through the ballot box, the Venezuelan opposition has turned to unconstitutional means to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
  13983. Washington Threatens The World
    First Published: 2014
    The consequence of Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil. The various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group, ISIS, is in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq and Syria.
  13984. Washington using legal cover to conceal economic banditry
    First Published: 2018
    The arrest of a Chinese telecom executive in Canada on behalf of the US is an abuse of the legal process and international law to pursue American economic interests. China's anger resonates with similar grievances against the US felt by Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and even American allies in Europe.
  13985. Washington's Dr. Strangeloves: Is plunging Russia into darkness really a good idea
    First Published: 2019
    US cyber attacks on Russia's power grid, reportedly done without the president's knowledge, are part of a historic pattern of US/Russian relations being sabotaged US defense and intelligence agencies.
  13986. Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'
    First Published: 2019
    The idea that the truth will eventually be exposed may be comforting to people that think we live in a transparent democracy. But this investigative journalist discusses how hard it is to get information from the government.
  13987. Washington’s Frozen War Against Russia
    Frack the EU!
    First Published: 2014
    For over a year, the United States has played out a scenario designed to (1) reassert U.S. control over Europe by blocking E.U. trade with Russia, (2) bankrupt Russia, and (3) get rid of Vladimir Putin and replace him with an American puppet, like the late drunk, Boris Yeltsin.
  13988. Washington's Magical Realism
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    A coup becomes a coup — for U.S. magical realists — when Washington defines it as such. On March 10, 1952 Cuban General Fulgencio Batista grabbed power and sought to legitimize his coup by holding fake elections. Magically, the coup makers won; Washington recognized Batista.
  13989. Washington's Not-So-Invisible Hand: It's Not Economics, It's Empire
    First Published: 2016
    Scottish philosopher Adam Smith famously noted the "invisible hand" of the market that supposedly shaped the character of economies near and far. The rightwing neoliberal capitalist movement, dominant in the West since the early Seventies, has turned this phrase into the sacrosanct dictum of its secular religion. All human behaviour must be submitted to the "free market." (This is the notional credo, but in practice corporate elites are subsidized, bailout out, and given every possible taxpayer benefit to ensure higher private profits.) So now, when nations fail, it is typically said in the media to be the product of a) a crazed dictator threatening counterintuitive genocide on his own people; or b) foolish state interventions by deranged socialist ideologues.
  13990. Washington's Post-Cold War Coup
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    The pretext for removing Honduran President Manuel Zelaya — that holding a civic consultation to replace the Constitution of 1982 was his power grab, enabling him to run for a second term — doesn’t hold water. Such a document could only have come into effect well after his term of office ended.
  13991. Washington's Sanctions War
    A Futile Attempt To Control the World Economy
    First Published: 2022
    In essence, economic sanctions assume that the state is entitled to expropriate and destroy economic value owned by any business which had been doing good faith trading or financial transactions with sanctioned Russian entities.
  13992. Washington’s Secret Agendas
    Imperial Rot
    First Published: 2014
    One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive the people into supporting its hidden agendas.
  13993. WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived
    First Published: 2017
    In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of "fake news," the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false.
  13994. Wasting Our Future
    The Effects of Poverty on Child Development
    First Published: 1988
  13995. Watch: Al Jazeera’s "Massacre at Dawn" Gives Glimpse of Horror in Shujaiya
    First Published: 2014
    Thinking that the footage contained in Massacre at Dawn is just a fraction of the horror makes it even worse. No wonder Israel prevented media from covering the brutality that our people endured there.
  13996. Watch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
    First Published: 2017
    We have a perfect example of how this happens from the New York Times today, in a book review by Nicholas Lemann, the Pulitzer-Moore professor of journalism at Columbia University as well as a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. Lemann is reviewing a new book by Edward J. Epstein -- the longtime neocon, right-wing Cold Warrior, WSJ op-ed page writer, and Breitbart contributor -- which basically claims Snowden is a Russian spy.
  13997. Watch Your Back: Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
    First Published: 2016
    After Chicago police officers Shannon Spalding and Danny Echeverria filed a whistleblower lawsuit, retaliation against them only intensified.
  13998. Watchdog journalism
    Connexipedia Article
    A type of investigative journalism. It refers to forms of activist journalism aimed at holding accountable public personalities and institutions whose functions impact social and political life.
  13999. Watching the News
    First Published: 2000
    Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
  14000. Watching The News
    First Published: 2021
    Watching "The National" on CBC, as well as some local news programs, is proving to be an interesting experience. I haven't lived in a house with TV for more than 15 years, and hadn't watched TV news for many more years before that, so I come to this experience as a more-or-less naive outsider.
  14001. Watching the Pentagon Channel
    The New Socialist Realism
    First Published: 2010
    The oddest aspect of the Pentagon Channel is how completely they shield their audience - potential soldiers, current soldiers and former soldiers - from what they are defending, which is to say: capitalism.
  14002. Water Apartheid in Palestine
    A Crime Against Humanity
    First Published: 2014
    Ayman Rabi on the 2.1 million Palestinians who suffer an artificial water scarcity deliberately created and sustained by Israel’s military occupation and the private Israeli water company Mekorot.
  14003. Water as a Form of Social Control
    First Published: 2019
    Whether in Palestine or Detroit, restricting access to water is a tactic used to deprive populations of personal and social agency with dire consequences to health.
  14004. The Water Cure
    First Published: 2008
    A look back at the use of the torture method known as the 'water cure', which was employed by the United States on citizens of the Philippines during its occupation at the turn of the century. The article specifically examines the subsequent investigation, trial and testimonies, as well as the moral and political implications during this period.
  14005. Water Exports: The New Gold Rush?
    First Published: 1991
    Water shortages have become an top issue in the U.S., and it appears the nation will look north of the border for help. In Canada, opposition is growing.
  14006. Water in a World of Crisis
    The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Karen Piper's The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos.
  14007. Water is more than a common good
    First Published: 2023
    As the ready availability of fresh water is threatened around the world, attention has focused on minimising water use. But that obscures how deeply political the issue of universal access to water is.
  14008. 'Water man of India' makes rivers flow again
    First Published: 2015
    The revival of traditional rainwater harvesting has restored flow to rivers in India's driest state, Rajasthan - thanks to the tireless efforts of Rajendra Singh, recent winner of a Stockholm water prize.
  14009. Water Management conference
    First Published: 1992
  14010. Water resources - 'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters
    Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president.
    First Published: 2019
    Brazil's worst mining disaster in decades has prompted calls to create stronger regulations and enforce them with real consequences rather than small fines that often go unpaid.
  14011. Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
    First Published: 2016
    If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever. In April, 2014, the state-appointed emergency manager, in order to save money, ordered that the city's water source be changed from Lake Huron to the notoriously polluted Flint River.
  14012. Water War in Bolivia
    Against The Current vol. 117
    First Published: 2005
    ¡Cochabamba! is a window on the potential for liberation, and on the strategic challenges, of our times. Oscar Olivera, one of the key leaders of the struggle, and Tom Lewis, a member of the editorial board of International Socialist Review (U.S.), have done a tremendous service in writing this book. Although some basics of the Cochabamba story and considerations on strategy are recounted here, you can only get the Full Monty by reading the book.
  14013. Water Wars: El Salvador Social Movements Resist Water Privatization
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the efforts of Salvadoran social movements which have unified in an urgent effort to counter the right-wing's most recent push to privatize El Salvador's scarce water resources.
  14014. Waterfront Toronto: Google's de facto Development Arm in Canada
    First Published: 2020
    Big tech’s smart city initiatives aim at taking over governance and decision-making functions in cities around the world.
  14015. Watergate
    A sceptical view
    First Published: 1973
    Noam Chomsky asserts that in light of the other telling symptoms of an unhealthy democracy - such as Kissinger's murderous war ambitions - the Watergate scandal should not have come as a shock to even the least cynical. He illustrates why Nixon's small-scale coup attempt and the revelations which followed should not be the focus of skepticism, noting that there are other issues which deserve more attention.
  14016. Watershed management
    First Published: 1990
  14017. Watkins, Mel
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian political economist and activist. (Born 1932).
  14018. Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Inuit leader, activist.
  14019. Waving From the Rooftops
    First Published: 2017
    The drug Narcan (Naxalone) has skyrocketed in price due to the heroine and opioide crisis. Political response shows disregard for not only drug addicts, but the welfare and lives of all people under capitalism.
  14020. Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured Big Conservation?
    First Published: 2012
    The global organic food industry agrees to support international agribusiness in clearing as much tropical rainforest as they want for farming. In return, agribusiness agrees to farm the now-deforested land using organic methods, and the organic industry encourages its supporters to buy the resulting timber and food under the newly devised “Rainforest Plus” label.
  14021. Ways and Means
    First Published: 1983
    Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
  14022. We all like to save on our taxes
    First Published: 1989
  14023. We Are All Ayotzinapa
    First Published: 2015
    Report on the kidnapping and murder of students in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
  14024. We are All Complicit
    First Published: 2006
    Chomsky responds to Oliver Kamm's critique of his "crude and dishonest arguments". He illustrates that many people remain committed to complicity despite the crimes of the state for which we are all responsible.
  14025. We Are All Deplorables
    First Published: 2016
    Those cast aside by the neoliberal order have an economic identity that both the liberal class and the right wing are unwilling to acknowledge. This economic identity is one the white underclass shares with other discarded people, including the undocumented workers and the people of color demonized by the carnival barkers on cable news shows. This is an economic reality the power elites invest great energy in masking.
  14026. We Are All Deplorables
    First Published: 2016
    Chris Hedges on American life, politics and religion.
  14027. We Are All – Fill in the Blank
    First Published: 2015
    We should condemn violence and terror, and defend freedom of the press. We should do so on the basis of consistent principles -- in contrast to the mainstream media and politicians, who condemn acts directed at 'us' but condone or ignore crimes committed by 'our side'.
  14028. We're facing unprecedented horror. Why is Biden adding fuel to the fire?
    First Published: 2023
    With the climate in Israel-Palestine reviving the fears of May 2021, the U.S. should be preventing further massacres, not allowing Israel to take revenge.
  14029. 'We are not from another planet': Justice 4 Cleaners campaign and the struggle for recognition
    First Published: 2014
    The ongoing struggle of the SOAS Cleaners for acceptable working conditions and equality in the workplace.
  14030. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release
    First Published: 2009
    On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
  14031. We Are The Soil 
    The Asian Age
    First Published: 2014
    We are made up of the same five elements — earth, water, fire, air and space — that constitute the Universe. We are the soil. We are the earth. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. And it is no accident that the words “humus” and “humans” have the same roots. This ecological truth is forgotten in the dominant paradigm because it is based on eco-apartheid, the false idea that we are separate and independent of the earth and also because it defines soil as dead matter. If soil is dead to begin with, human action cannot destroy its life. It can only “improve” the soil with chemical fertilisers. And if we are the masters and conquerors of the soil, we determine the fate of the soil. Soil cannot determine our fate.
  14032. We are the Student Movement?
    Remembering the Rise and Fall of the Canadian Union of Students 1965-1969
    First Published: 2010
  14033. We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
    First Published: 2021
    as journalists seek to liberate themselves from the strictures of the old corporate media, that same corporate media is working very hard to characterise the new technology as a threat to media freedoms. This self-serving argument should be treated with a great deal of scepticism. I want to use my own experiences to argue that quite the reverse is true. And that the real danger is allowing the corporate media to reassert its monopoly over narrating the world to us.
  14034. We can dream, or we can organize 
    First Published: 2016
    The swift rise, and swift crumbling, of the Occupy movement brings to the surface the question of organization. Demonstrating our anger, and doing so with thousands of others in the streets, gives us energy and brings issues to wider audiences. Yes spontaneity, as necessary as it is, is far from sufficient in itself. For all the weeks and sometimes months that Occupy encampments lasted, little in the way of lasting organization was created and thus a correspondingly little ability to bring about any of the changes hoped for. Nor is social media a substitute for mass action.
  14035. We Can Get There From Here
    First Published: 1998
    We pose the following question: Is the capitalist system really meeting our needs or is it undermining our needs by giving us artificial motivators which actually result in feelings of inadequacy and isolation?
  14036. We can learn to live free (Clark)
    First Published: 1979
    Give the human race a little credit. We can surely learn to live free, neither dominant nor submissive.
  14037. We Can Save Social Programs 
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1992
    We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
  14038. We can't go on like this
    First Published: 2013
    The legitimacy of capitalism as a way of organising society has been undermined; its promises of prosperity, social mobility and democracy have lost credibility. But there has been no radical change. The system has repeatedly come under fire, but it has survived. What has happened? What can be done about it?
  14039. We Can't Let Britain Become a Vast ISIS Recruiting Station
    First Published: 2017
    The massacre in Manchester is a horrific event born out of the violence raging in a vast area stretching from Pakistan to Nigeria and Syria to South Sudan.
  14040. We Can't Save the Economy Unless We Fix Our Debt Addiction
    First Published: 2016
    Our economy has increasingly been financialized, and the result is a sluggish economy and stagnant wages. We need to decide whether to stop the cycle and save the economy at large, or to stay in thrall to our banks and bondholders by leaving the debt hangover from 2008 intact. Without a debt writedown the economy will continue to languish in debt deflation, and continue to polarize between creditors and debtors.
  14041. We demand real zero, not net zero! 
    First Published: 2021
    Net zero emissions and other false solutions allow polluters to continue polluting, says this statement adopted by the Oilwatch International Global Gathering in Nigeria in October 2021.
  14042. We Didn't Start the Fire
    Class conflict isn't something we choose to engage in. It's just how capitalism works.
    First Published: 2017
    Day urges the historically Liberal US Democratic party to turn to the left, embracing class conflict as an integral component of left-wing politics.
  14043. "We don't have films you can eat"
    Talking to the D.E.C. Films Collective
    First Published: 1983
    An interview with members of DEC Films, a distributor of progressive films in English-speaking Canada.
  14044. "We don't have films you can eat"
    First Published: 1983   Published: 2005
    An interview with the members of DEC Films, a project of the Development Education Centre. Originally published in Jump Cut, No. 28, April 1983, pp. 37-40.
  14045. We Don't Want Full Employment, We Want Full Lives!
    First Published: 1998
    If a household gets a washing machine, you never hear the family members who used to do the laundry by hand complain that this "puts them out of work." But strangely enough, if a similar development occurs on a broader social scale it is seen as a serious problem - 'unemployment' - which can only be solved by inventing more jobs for people to do.
  14046. ‘We Don’t Do Propaganda’
    First Published: 2019
    Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's (un-aired) appearance on Tucker Carlson sparked outrage in Carlson and an opportunity to highlight how money controls the narrative in mainstream news.
  14047. 'We Get There First or White Supremacists Do'
    How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives
    First Published: 2020
    The stew of punitive policies and racial demagoguery was precisely why progressive organizers deemed Alamance County a crucial battleground in the wake of the 2016 election. While the intertwined immigration and monument battles were playing out in Alamance, canvassers from Down Home North Carolina fanned out across the county, knocking on doors and holding conversations with residents about immigration and healthcare.
  14048. We hacked tube ads to call out the Home Office's hostile environment
    Our Future Now on how they helped the Home Office be a little more honest about its policies
    First Published: 2019
    Today our activist group, Our Future Now, have installed subverted adverts on London Underground trains calling out the Home Office's 'hostile environment' and its brutal and racist policies.
  14049. We Have Still Had It Up to Here: The Year a Movement Was Born
    Mexico's Struggle to End the Drug War Is Unlike Any in the World
    First Published: 2012
    The truth is that Mexican public opinion has never fully swallowed the fiction – believed by many in the United States – that the drug war is somehow about stopping drugs or their abuse. Almost everybody knows that it is primarily a means to enrich the pockets of corrupt politicians and police.
  14050. We Know What Inspired the Manchester Attack, We Just Won't Admit It
    First Published: 2017
    Not blaming Muslims in general but targeting "radicalisation" or simply "evil" may appear sensible and moderate, but in practice it makes the motivation of the killers in Manchester or the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015 appear vaguer and less identifiable than it really is.
  14051. We Must Act Now to Prevent Another Hiroshima -- or Worse
    First Published: 2005
    Noam Chomsky explains why society should be concerned about the threat of self-destruction, citing, for example, the failure of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
  14052. We Must Be Brave Enough to Admit the War on Terror Simply Not Working
    First Published: 2017
    Amid sorrow of Manchester bombing, UK Labour Party leader explains why actively building peace is requisite for ending such horrific and inexcusable carnage in the future.
  14053. We must keep the Arctic clean, wild and free!
    First Published: 2014
    The Arctic is a special place, teeming with life, but it is under threat like never before -- not just from climate change, but from oil drilling, industrial fishing and shipping, as receding ice creates now commercial opportunities. We must designate an Arctic Sanctuary where nature can reign undisturbed.
  14054. We must speak out 
    First Published: 2006
    Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
  14055. We must start 'shaming' those who lie to us, destroy our climate
    First Published: 2015
    Given how powerless ordinary folk and public interest groups have become, I would like to see people embarrass the hell out of those who take advantage of the public by lying to us, cheating us, or destroying our priceless environment.
  14056. We Must Support Detroit's Fight for the Right to Water
    First Published: 2014
    Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help.
  14057. We must win back democracy, even if it takes Hedges' revolution
    First Published: 2016
    While the banks, elites, and the super-rich have been scrambling to try to hold onto their billions following the UK's shocking vote to exit from the European Union, the anger expressed by the leave side was another emotional cry to end the control that corporations and the elite have over everyday people in many Western countries.
  14058. We Need a Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein's 'No Is Not Enough'
    Book review
    First Published: 2017
    There is much to admire in Naomi Klein's new book, but she underestimates the danger posed by Trumpism, and doesn't pose a real alternative. She calls for a Leap, but it isn't high enough or far enough.
  14059. We need popular participation, not populism
    First Published: 2017
    Wainright dissects the problems with liberal democracy and argues for real democratic self-government.
  14060. 'We Need to Ban Fracking': New Analysis of 1,500 Scientific Studies Details Threat to Health and Climate
    First Published: 2019
    The latest analysis of studies on the effects of fracking confirms that it poses an extreme threat to the environment and local people's healt.
  14061. We need to be told
    First Published: 2005
    When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates.
  14062. We Need to Talk about Women: The Problem with Western Liberal 'Feminists'
    First Published: 2017
    Western women have fought hard and bravely for rights and privileges that were denied to generations of women before them and have made vast strides towards greater equality and representation in society. For this, western women and traditional feminism should be applauded. At the same time, the version of feminism that presently functions in the west -- liberal, consumer, mainstream feminism -- has become problematic.
  14063. We Own the World
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
    The whole debate about the Iranian 'interference' in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
  14064. We Shall Overcome
    Connexipedia Article
    A protest song that became a key anthem of the US civil rights movement.
  14065. We shouldn't weep for broke but lying mainstream media
    First Published: 2017
    A report from the Public Policy Forum of Montreal released on January 26 says the Canadian news industry "is reaching a crisis point as the decline of traditional media, fragmentation of audiences and the rise of fake news pose a growing threat to the health of our democracy." Whereas the 1970 report was entitled "The Uncertain Mirror", the new appeal for support is called "The Shattered Mirror."
  14066. We stand on guard for whom?
    A study of Corporate Control over Resources in the Northwest Territories and Brazil
    First Published: 1976
    A study of corporate control over resources in the NorthWest Territories and Brazil.
  14067. We Stand with the Teachers of Oaxaca
    First Published: 2006
    The values and aspirations of teachers and families everywhere are the same: to see the healthy, secure, peaceful development of their students and children to the fullest of their abilities in an environment of mutual support and respect. Everywhere these values and aspirations are under attack: in Mexico, throughout Central and South America, in the United States and Canada, and across the globe.
  14068. We Want a Society Without Landlords
    First Published: 2021
    The popularity of Berlin’s campaign to expropriate corporate landlords shows just how few people trust capitalism to provide them with affordable, good-quality homes.
  14069. "We Went into the Mall and Began 'Looting'"
    First Published: 2005
    Peter Berkowitz is a long-time Monthly Review subscriber. He was in New Orleans bringing his son Ernesto to begin his freshman year at Loyola when they were caught in the hurricane. Peter and Ernesto spent five days on the street by the Convention Center.
  14070. We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
    First Published: 2014
    The black freedom movement is framed in popular memory as distinguished by nonviolent civil disobedience. Yet in multiple southern towns, black people used armed self-defense to protect their communities and lives.
  14071. We The Workers: A limited documentary about labour rights groups in China
    First Published: 2019
    A review of a documentary on labour conditions in China. The docementary was filmed at great risk but the motiviations and the end product are questionable.
  14072. We're Changing
    First Published: 1982
    Feedback from our readers leads to changes in Connexions.
  14073. 'We've got a real divide in the community:' Wet'suwet'en Nation in turmoil
    First Published: 2020
    The battle over the CGL pipeline in British Columbia both on social media and in the press is dividing the Wet'suwet'en Nation some members say. The two opposing sides have been in a very public dispute over Coastal GasLink's (CGL) 670 km pipeline that will carry fracked natural gas from Dawson Creek, B.C., in the northeast, to Kitimat on the coast.
  14074. We've got our eye on you
    US wants to control, and own, the world online
    First Published: 2014
    Edward Snowden not only told the world about US state surveillance of national and personal secrets, he reminded us that almost all the companies surveying us for commercial gain are American.
  14075. The Weaker Sex? Violence and the Suffragette Movement
    First Published: 2015
    Fern Riddell investigates the campaign of terror orchestrated by the Edwardian suffragette movement before the First World War and asks why it has been neglected by historians.
  14076. Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More
    First Published: 2015
    Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to create a policy environment that protects and enhances their interests further.
  14077. Wealth, Illth, And Net Welfare
    First Published: 2011
    Wellbeing should be counted in net terms -- that is to say we should consider not only the accumulated stock of wealth but also that of "illth;" and not only the annual flow of goods but also that of "bads." The fact that we have to stretch English usage to find words like illth and bads with which to name the negative consequences of production that should be subtracted from the positive consequences, is indicative of our having ignored the realities for which these words are the necessary names.
  14078. Wealth in America
    First Published: 2011
    The greatest wealth transfer in America history goes on – into the bank accounts of the nation's 2% upper crust from the increasingly threadbare pockets of the lower 85% - to the sounds of silence.
  14079. Wealth, Income, and Power 
    First Published: 2005
    This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we can use these two distributions as power indicators.
  14080. Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life
    First Published: 2019
    Review of the book "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian.
  14081. The Weapon of Theory
    First Published: 1956
    Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966.
  14082. The Weaponization of Social Media
    First Published: 2018
    How the online environment and social media is being used as a political weapon, notably through the use of 'Bots'.
  14083. Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism
    Social media platforms give governments, extremists, haters and propagandists the ability to excite and incite hate amplified by algorithms.
    First Published: 2019
    Describing how social media wages war on reality by spreading propaganda. With examples from ISIS to Alex Jones.
  14084. Weaponizing human rights: UN chief Bachelet's Venezuela report follows US regime change script
    First Published: 2019
    A report from the UN High Commissioner on the situation in Venezuela has been condemned by many sources as a political tool to justify the US's attempted regime change in that country.
  14085. Weather Underground Organization
    Connexipedia Article
    An American radical left organization.
  14086. The Weavers
    Connexipedia Article
    American folk music quartet.
  14087. Leonard Irving Weinglass
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    Len was not a ’60s radical. He was something more unusual, a ’50s radical. He developed his values, critical thinking and world view in a time when non-conforming was rare. He told a newspaper interviewer in Santa Barbara in 1980 that “I would classify myself as a radical American. I am anti-capitalist in this sense — I don’t believe capitalism is now compatible with democracy.”
  14088. Weinstein, James
    Connexipedia Article
    American historian and journalist. (1926-2005).
  14089. A Welcome Prison Victory at Youngstown
    Hunger Strike on Death Row
    First Published: 2010
    Three death-sentenced men were on hunger strike in Ohio State Penitentiary on January 3 to win the same rights as others on death row in the state.
  14090. Welcome to Arivaca: Where residents want anti-migrant militia out'
    Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
    First Published: 2018
    Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
  14091. Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
    First Published: 2016
    Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel's Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
  14092. Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
    First Published: 2016
    A small scene from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unfolded last week on a Greek airport runway. Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel’s Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
    Like a parable illustrating Europe's bottomless indulgence of Israel, Aegean staff caved in to the pressure and persuaded the two Palestinian men to disembark.
  14093. Welcome to Orwell's World 2010
    First Published: 2009
    Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and diffuse enemies". He called this "global security" and invited our gratitude.
  14094. Welcome to the Orwellian world of Wildrose, where keeping your promises makes you a liar
    First Published: 2015
    Notwithstanding the unexpected election of a New Democratic Party majority government in Alberta last May 5, 2015, it's pretty obvious a lot of Albertans -- especially the business crowd in Calgary -- still don’t really get this democracy thing.
  14095. Welcome to the Witchhunt
    or Would the Labour Party Expel Einstein for Antisemitism?
    First Published: 2017
  14096. Welcome to the World’s First Bunker State
    Room for Jews Only in Israel’s ‘Villa in the Jungle’
    First Published: 2012
    The bunker state is almost finished, and with it the dream of Israel’s founders is about to be realised.
  14097. Welfare Office
    Trying to get welfare.
  14098. Welfare Practices and Civil Liberties
    First Published: 1976
    Report, based on 2-year survey of welfare recipients and administrators, identifies a number of serious problems.
  14099. The Welfare State of America
    A manifesto on building social democracy in the age of austerity
    First Published: 2012
    A movement to expand the welfare state has the potential to foster a new majoritarian Left coalition. Republicans know this -- that’s why they manipulate the way welfare is perceived at every turn. The reality is that 96 percent of Americans have benefited from government programs, but the Right works hard to hide that fact.
  14100. The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business
    First Published: 2011
    It’s the definitive neoliberal triumph: the monetisation and marketisation of nature, its reduction to a tradeable asset. Once you have surrendered it to the realm of Pareto optimisation and Kaldor-Hicks compensation, everything is up for grabs. The well-intentioned dolts who produced the government’s assessment, have crushed the natural world into a column of figures. Now it can be swapped for money.
  14101. Ida B. Wells
    A Black Woman's Fight Against Lynch Terror
    First Published: 2014
    Born a slave in 1862 in the middle of the Civil War, Ida B. Wells was in the forefront of the fight for black rights in the post-Reconstruction era -- a time of widespread lynch-rope terror when black people, although not returned to slavery, were being solidified as a race-colour caste at the bottom of American society. She refused to accommodate racist reaction in any way and so was anathema to those like Booker T. Washington and his apologists who repudiated militant struggle against the racist status quo.
  14102. The Welsh Revolution
    First Published: 2010
    Why are radical politics electable in Wales but not in England?
  14103. Wendell Berry's Radical Skepticism
    The celebrated farmer and poet shares a message of love in a time of unrest
    First Published: 2016
    When the celebrated writer, farmer, and elder statesman of the local food movement sat down in front of a sold-out audience at Johns Hopkins University last week, the crowd seemed even more eager than usual to soak in Berry's wisdom in this particularly fraught national moment. The event was a public conversation between Berry and Eric Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of Fast Food Nation, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. And many in the audience -- made up of people who care about the work the Center does to study the intersections between food systems, the environment, and human health -- were likely feeling a great deal worried about the fate of the issues about which they care deeply.
  14104. We’re A’ Jock Tamson's Bairns*
    First Published: 2014
    A nation is not a natural community that existed before the state, but that it's the other way round: the state existed first and then proceeded to impose on those it ruled over the idea that they formed a “nation”.
  14105. We're facing a new Cold War
    First Published: 2015
    The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
  14106. Were Marx's principles only skin deep?
    First Published: 2007
    A British dermatologist has managed to get himself worldwide publicity with an article suggesting that Karl Marx’s painful skin condition may have caused him to say all those mean things about capitalism.
  14107. We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary
    First Published: 2008
    We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.
  14108. We're not having it! $15bn KXL lawsuit shows what's wrong with 'trade deals'
    First Published: 2016
    TransCanada has just made a big mistake by bringing its $15 billion lawsuit against the US government for refusing the Keystone XL pipeline, writes Sam Cossar-Gilbert. The move has exposed the real nature of 'trade deals' like TTIP and TPP - and why all democrats must rally to defeat them.
  14109. We're Winning -- Don't Ask Where!
    Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News!
    First Published: 1992
  14110. West Africa's Fine Line Between Cultural Norms and Child Trafficking
    First Published: 2019
    Human traficking in West Africa is difficult to deal with as it has become entrenched in the culture of people living in extreme poverty.
  14111. The West agonises over an 'atrocity upsurge' while backing Israel's genocide in Gaza
    First Published: 2024
    The problem isn't 'global inaction' to prevent mass atrocities, as the Guardian claims. It's intense US and UK support for atrocities so long as they bolster their global power
  14112. West Bank land belongs to Jews says Israeli judge
    First Published: 2009
    Major Adrian Agassi is a senior Israeli judge who first served in the legal department that oversaw the confiscation of land in the West Bank to build Jewish settlements and was then appointed to the military court that decides -- and almost always denies -- Palestinian appeals against the seizure of their property, and that also rules on legal disputes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians. Judge Agassi maintains that people like himself, a Jew born in Britain, have more right to live in Palestine than people who were born there. He denies, however, that his beliefs affect his ability to make fair and impartial rulings.
  14113. West Bengal Women Oppose Giant Dam
    Against The Current vol. 89
    First Published: 2000
    Maitree is a West Bengal-based network of forty-two women's organizations, NGOs and individual women activists concerned with women's rights. Maitree supports the struggle of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and of the people of the Narmada valley for their right to survive in a manner of their own choosing. Consequently, we express our grave concern at the recent Supreme Court judgment [to permit construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam to proceed], which ignores the problems of rehabilitation and environmental degradation.
  14114. The West Can't Stop Pillaging Other Countries' Bank Accounts
    First Published: 2022
    Leave your nation's money in a western bank, and it might not be yours for very long, especially if you in any way displease the U.S. and its client states.
  14115. West Coast Longshore Strikes, 1923 and 1935
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Strikes by members of the International Longshoremen's Association.
  14116. West Coast waterfront strike 1934
    Connexipedia Article
    The 1934 West Coast Longshoremen's Strike lasted eighty-three days, triggered by sailors and a four-day general strike in San Francisco, and led to the unionization of all of the West Coast ports of the United States.
  14117. Cornel West
    Wikipedia article
    American philosopher, political activist, social critic, author, and public intellectual.
  14118. The West Displays Its Insecurity Complex
    First Published: 2020
    "The West is winning!' U.S. leaders proclaimed at the high-level Annual Security Conference held in Munich last weekend. Not everybody was quite so sure.
  14119. The West Failed to Learn the Most Important Lessons From the Rise and Fall of ISIS
    First Published: 2019
    The attempted coup in Venezuela today is an example of imperial overreach western governments displayed in the Middle East.
  14120. West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
    First Published: 1979
    In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
  14121. The West Is Reduced To Looting Itself
    First Published: 2016
    Third World countries were and are looted by being enticed into development plans for electrification or some such purpose. The gullible and trusting governments are told that they can make their countries rich by taking out foreign loans to implement a Western-presented development plan, with the result being sufficient tax revenues from economic development to service the foreign loan.
  14122. West lets Israel get away with genocide
    First Published: 2023
    As the world stands aside, preparing to applaud genocide, the entire structure of the so-called post-World War II rules-based order is being reduced to rubble.
  14123. West Papua: the sago and the palm oil - The Yerisiam people fight
    First Published: 2017
    How Papua's Yerisiam people are fighting against palm oil expansion and protecting their last sacred sago forest.
  14124. West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913
    Connexipedia Article
    A confrontation between striking coal miners and coal operators in Southern West Virginia
  14125. Western "Political Correctness" does not make all people equal
    In the West, there is a new wave of political correctness at work: it is all about one’s sexual orientation; who has sex with whom, and how. This is a discussion which is clearly encouraged, even invented by, the Western regime: a safe discussion which is aimed at diverting dialogue from topics such as the fact that even in the West a great number of people are living in fear and misery, and that the majority of neo-colonies of North America and Europe are once again being totally, shamelessly exploited. Talking about poverty and exploitation, about military coups triggered by Washington are rarely spoken about. Such discussions are even being portrayed as old-fashioned if not regressive.
  14126. Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
    Connexipedia Article
    A popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa, formed in 2000.
  14127. Western Federation of Miners
    Connexipedia Article
    Radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.
  14128. Western hypocrisy over convictions in Russia of Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kol’chenko
    First Published: 2015
    Shapinov advocates against the Western disregard for hundreds of criminal cases against oppositionists in Ukraine.
  14129. Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt in Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
  14130. The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
    First Published: 2019
    An analysis of why western media has failed to practice any scepticism regarding claims that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons.
  14131. Western Media Responds to Latest Ukrainian Sabotage of Crimea
    First Published: 2016
    Western governments and media have a problem with the right-wing regime that is governing Ukraine. The country's economy is a shambles. Even the regime's own backers in the West acknowledge the country and its economy are hopelessly mired in corruption.
  14132. Western media's parroting of official lies is paving way to genocide in Gaza
    First Published: 2023
    Disinformation campaigns are one of the chief battlefields in any war - something any serious journalist is only too aware of. And western powers and their allies have an appalling track record of lying to their own medias.
  14133. The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now
    First Published: 2024
    It sure is an interesting coincidence how all this mass media demonizing and dehumanizing of Muslim populations is happening at the exact same time the western empire is raining military explosives upon nations full of Muslims.
  14134. Western Propaganda: So Simple But So Effective
    First Published: 2016
    Western propaganda is actually a perfect apparatus! It is effective and it is almost fully 'bulletproof'. It 'works'!
  14135. Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910 - 1911
    Connexipedia Article
    A strike by coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America, is also known as the "Slovak strike" because about 70 percent of the miners were Slovakian immigrants.
  14136. The Weston Group of Companies
    First Published: 1977
    A profile of the Canadian bakery and its extended holdings across North America and around the world.
  14137. West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre 
    First Published: 2018
    Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
  14138. The West's Hands in Ukraine as Bloody as Putin's
    First Published: 2022
    There is a discursive nervous tic all over social media at the moment, including from prominent journalists such as Guardian columnist George Monbiot. The demand is that everyone not only "condemn" Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but do so without qualification.
  14139. The West's Looting of Ukraine Has Begun
    Shackled by the IMF
    First Published: 2014
    It is now apparent that the "Maidan protests" in Kiev were in actuality a Washington organized coup against the elected democratic government. The purpose of the coup is to put NATO military bases on Ukraine's border with Russia and to impose an IMF austerity program that serves as cover for Western financial interests to loot the country. The sincere idealistic protesters who took to the streets without being paid were the gullible dupes of the plot to destroy their country.
  14140. The West's Support for Israel's Genocide Is Destroying the World as We Know It
    First Published: 2024
    The old world is dying once again, but the US-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster.
  14141. The Whack 'Em and Stack 'Em Mentality of American Cops
    Killers on the Road
    First Published: 2013
    Killings by police are not a negligible proportion of the United States' firearms death toll. The public apprehension that cops are often borderline psychotic, hair-trigger-ready to open fire on the slightest pretext, virtually immune from serious sanction, is growing apace, fueled by such incidents as the dog slaughter on an interstate.
  14142. What 'Democracy' Is Under Attack? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
    First Published: 2021
    Johnstone argues that threats to US "democracy" is "entirely fictional".
  14143. What a Fair Trial for Saddam Would Entail
    First Published: 2004
    Chomsky identifies the actors and issues that would have to be included in the Tribunal process if Saddam Hussein were to be given a fair trial in international court. These include key members of the Bush I administration who were active during the years of Hussein's most atrocious crimes.
  14144. What a Way to Treat Your Mother: Women and the State of the Planet
    First Published: 1991
    Our planet is in crisis.
  14145. What A.G.A.I.N.?
    First Published: 1975
    Adequate Guaranteed Annual Income and Skid Row.
  14146. What About a Right of Reply?
    First Published: 1998
    Concern about press intrusion is overshadowing the need for a 'right of reply' to redress inaccurate and inflammatory reporting.
  14147. What about the Greens?
    First Published: 1989
  14148. What Americans Have Learnt --and not Learnt-- Since 9/11
    First Published: 2002
    While the American people seemed to have been shocked into awareness as a result of 9/11, Chomsky still identififes a lack of focus on the relevant issues.
  14149. What are Journalists for?
    First Published: 1999
    Does the world you read about bear much resemblance to the one you actually live in?
    Who, or what, really writes the news?
    Are there any facts, or is there only spin?
    Is news inherently conflict-driven?
  14150. What are the Leaders Doing?
    First Published: 1919
    It is a revolution with all its externally chaotic development, with its alternating ebb and flow, with momentary surges towards the seizure of power and equally momentary recessions of the revolutionary breakers. And the revolution is making its way step by step through all these apparent zig-zag movements and is marching forward.
  14151. What Are the Origins of May Day?
    First Published: 1894
    As long as the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie and the ruling class continues, as long as all demands are not met, May Day will be the yearly expression of these demands. And, when better days dawn, when the working class of the world has won its deliverance then too humanity will probably celebrate May Day in honour of the bitter struggles and the many sufferings of the past.
  14152. What are we eating?
    Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018
    First Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
  14153. What are we eating? - Arabic text
    First Published: 2018
  14154. What austerity has done to Greek healthcare
    "What I witnessed appalled me - and brought tears to my eyes"
    First Published: 2015
    The shocking 'austerity'-imposed destruction of Greece's once proud healthcare system is a key reason Greeks have turned to Syriza, finds London GP Louise Irvine in an eye witness account.
  14155. What Bakunin said (Jewell)
    First Published: 1979
    Letter quoting Bakunin.
  14156. What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7 [2023]
    First Published: 2023
    It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military's account of that day.
  14157. What Bhopal Started
    From Union Carbide to Exxon to BP
    First Published: 2010
    Bhopal marked the horrific beginning of a new era. One that signalled the collapse of restraint on corporate power. The ongoing BP spill in the Mexican Gulf -- with estimates ranging from 30,000 to 80,000 barrels per day -- tops off a quarter of a century where corporations could (and have) done anything in the pursuit of profit, at any human cost.
  14158. What Black Life Actually Looks Like
    First Published: 2019
    In the age of Black Lives Matter protests, many activists and academics seem unable to see the complexity of black life beyond the barricades, or outside the frame of the latest viral video killing of a black civilian.
  14159. What Black Lives Matter means for Labor
    First Published: 2015
    An account and analysis of the centrality of the Black freedom struggle to the working class movement as a whole, arguing that the struggle for Black liberation is a precondition for human liberation generallyand recognizing the deep historical thread connecting the centuries-old struggle for Black freedom in the U.S. and the struggle to organize the working class to fight for workers' power.
  14160. What Bradley Manning Revealed
    The Wikileaks Files
    First Published: 2013
    PFC Bradley Manning is a US Army intelligence specialist who released classified information to WikiLeaks.
  14161. What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School: Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper
    First Published: 2018
    The accusations against Kavanaugh may be an open question but his behaviour in handling them proves he is unfit for the Supreme Court. This is reinforced by his previous evasiveness about his role in the Bush administrations torture policy which called his integrity into question long before Christine Blasey Ford made her accusations.
  14162. What Can I do Right Now?
    Notes from Point Blank School on the Canadian Dilemma
    First Published: 1969
    Martell is a teacher at Point Blank School, a small free school in the Cabbagetown area of downtown Toronto. Martell discusses the societal dilemma in Canada within the context of his work at the school.
  14163. What can the Corbynistas learn from Syriza? 
    First Published: 2017
    As a Corbyn government seems more and more likely, there are clear lessons to be drawn from the Greek experience.
  14164. What Choice in 2012?
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    The outcome of the November 2012 election is clear: It will be the most vicious and racist in modern U.S. history, and by far the most expensive of all time. Are critical issues at stake in this political year? Absolutely, yes — but not the questions we’ll get to vote on.
  14165. What Comes After Capitalism?
    First Published: 2015
    Naomi Klein's incisive critique of capitalism is blunted by her unwillingness to point to its replacement.
  14166. What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm 
    First Published: 2013
    "What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm" was initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace as an investigation into the current state of thinking about one state and two state solutions, and the collection has been further expanded by Mondoweiss to mark 20 years since the beginning of the Oslo peace process.
  14167. What Comes Next: Towards a bi-national end-game in Palestine/Israel
    First Published: 2013
    Jeff Halper suggests that the best political system to express both the desires of the two national communities of Palestine/Israel for self-determination and of its individual citizens for democracy would seem to be a consociational democracy.
  14168. What Corporate Media Never Tells You about North Korea
    First Published: 2017
    There is a great deal of propaganda and deliberate misinformation about North Korea, which the public should know. While neocons, a cheering corporate media, and Deep State, rush to war with North Korea, information is the ultimate weapon. For example, did you know that North Korea, China, and India, are the only three nations who have committed to a "no nuclear first" policy.
  14169. What 'Democracy' Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition
    First Published: 2014
    One of the most accidentally revealing media accounts highlighting the real meaning of "democracy" in U.S. discourse is a still-remarkable 2002 New York Times Editorial on the U.S.-backed military coup in Venezuela, which temporarily removed that country’s democratically elected (and very popular) president, Hugo Chávez.
  14170. What Did They Know...?
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    What did they know and when did we know it?
  14171. What Die Linke Should Do
    First Published: 2016
    The German right made stunning gains in this month's regional elections. The Left must rise to the challenge.
  14172. What do the Autonomen want?
    First Published: 1988
    Autonomen are not a faction in the spectrum of anti-capitalist struggle. They are also not the radical wing of the protest movement. Autonomen consider rather each movement an opportunity to gratify their need for self-realization in battle.
  14173. What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
    First Published: 2003
    Which is the more remarkable -- that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of any attack or threat of attack from the intended target? Or that for an entire year the world has been striving to figure out what the superpower's real intentions are?
  14174. What Does a Reporter Want?
    First Published: 2001
    What does a reporter what when they interview you?
  14175. What Does It Mean to Call Dylann Roof a 'Terrorist'?
    First Published: 2015
    It would have been unfathomable a year ago for the phrase "white terrorism" to be used by the mainstream media. This shift in discourse is just one effect of the post-Ferguson moment in which there is a halting national discussion of systemic racism. Terminology matters because changing ideological frames is part and parcel of changing policies, institutions, and structures.
  14176. What Does Science Tell Us About Race?
    First Published: 2015
    Six points about the complex relation between scientific research and the reality of human group differences.
  14177. What Does the Spartacus League Want?
    First Published: 1918
    The proletarian revolution requires no terror for its aims; it hates and despises killing. It does not need these weapons because it does not combat individuals but institutions, because it does not enter the arena with naive illusions whose disappointment it would seek to revenge. It is not the desperate attempt of a minority to mold the world forcibly according to its ideal, but the action of the great massive millions of the people, destined to fulfill a historic mission and to transform historical necessity into reality.
  14178. What everyone should know about repression
    First Published: 1926
  14179. What Fascism is, and Isn't
    First Published: 2018
    By examining historicial fascist movements, Oppenheimer delineates what is and isn't fascism and also explores the common themes between the alt-right and its fascist predecessors.
  14180. "What followed horrified us beyond our wildest imaginations": an eyewitness account of the Bangladesh student protests
    First Published: 2018
    Like other high school students, Abdul Karim Rajib, 18, and Dia Khanam Mim, 17 had many hopes and dreams for their lives. One had hoped to become an army officer, the other, a banker. On July 29, 2018, around noon, the two teenagers were killed in the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, by three buses speeding against each other for no reason other than to arrive first and cram as many passengers into their already overcrowded interiors, for maximum profit.
  14181. What Ford did to the Ramapough Mountain Indians
    Ford, the feds, the mob: Making a wasteland
    First Published: 2005
    Ford repeatedly dumped in poor communities and failed to clean up its mess. Documents reveal that Ford executives knew as early as 34 years ago that its waste had contaminated a stream that feeds the Wanaque Reservoir. They show that the company tried to evade responsibility by presenting tainted land as a “gift” to the state. Organized crime played a key role in a vast assault on the environment. An analysis of public records and interviews with truckers who hauled Ford’s waste shows mob-controlled contractors dumped anywhere they could get away with it. They bribed, threatened, even murdered to maintain control of Ford’s trash.
  14182. What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
    First Published: 2019
    In the old George Carlin joke, the TV sportscaster announces: "Here's a partial score from the West Coast – Los Angeles 6." For a brilliant comedian like Carlin -- who skewered corporate power, class structure and political/media propaganda – that's one of his more innocuous jokes. But it's sharply relevant today as corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it 'propaganda by omission.'
  14183. What Happened - and Didn't: Behind New York's Transit Strike
    Against The Current vol. 124
    First Published: 2006
    Early on December 20, 2005, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, representing some 33,000 of New York City's subway and bus workers, called a strike. When dawn broke, there was no public transportation in NYC and millions of people walked, hitched rides, rode their bikes, or stayed home.
  14184. What happened to the SWP (U.S.)?
    Recent memoirs stir discussion
    First Published: 2011
    The goal of socialist political cadres must be the development of a broad team leadership working together in a democratically functioning organization, practically united in strategic perspective and tactical projects, allowing multiple tendencies and pluralism, thus balancing out strengths and weaknesses over time and in different places.
  14185. What has happened to the Iranian revolution?
    Has it already run its course into its opposite, counter-revolution? Or can it be saved and deepened?
    First Published: 1981
    The Iranian Revolution has not yet run its course. The Iranian masses have not had their last word.
  14186. What have the working classes to do with Poland?
    First Published: 1866
    Engels wrote these articles after controversy developed at the 1865 London conference of the International concerning including a demand for Poland's independence in the upcoming Geneva Congress. In order to substantiate the position of the Central Committee on the "nationalities question," it was necessary to deal with 1) the Proudhonists who contended politics and national liberation movements have nothing to do with the working class, indeed, detracted from real working class issues, and 2) reveal the demagogic essence of the so-called "principle of nationalities" that helped the Bonapartists make use of national movements for their own political ends.
  14187. What If America's Leaders Actually Want Catastrophic Climate Change?
    Thinking the Unthinkable
    First Published: 2012
    Our leaders, political and corporate, may be puerile, egocentric greed-heads, but they are not stupid. They surely for the most part recognize that the Earth is heating up and heading at full speed towards ecological, social and political disaster. How else to explain, then, their astonishing unwillingness to take action?
  14188. What if Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook?
    First Published: 2018
    The work of Ida B. Wells, the crusading journalist who forced Americans to pay attention to lynchings and human rights abuses, is a reminder why we need a tax-dollars-funded, and journalism focused, commitment to public media.
  14189. What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
    First Published: 2007
    Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
  14190. What If ObamaCare was a Fighter Jet?
    Prospering Through Failure
    First Published: 2013
    Like the comically bad roll-out of the Affordable Care Act’s website, the long-delayed and often-rejiggered F-35 program is a costly disaster rife with technological snafus, software problems and repeated contractor incompetence.
  14191. What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
    They Made Them Do It....
    First Published: 2014
    Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Gaza strip. Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day.
  14192. What is a Coup? Analysing the Brazilian Impeachment Process
    First Published: 2016
    The debate over whether the regime change in Brazil constituted a coup hinges on whether the impeachment process used to depose President Dilma Rousseff had democratic legitimacy or was an illicit use of formal procedures to undermine the popular mandate granted to the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) by the Brazilian people in the last presidential election. Proponents of the view that the impeachment was legal and that this legality confers democratic legitimacy tend to abstract the impeachment process from its lived context. This abstraction leaves the politics behind the regime change opaque and even irrelevant.
  14193. What Is a Liberal to Do?
    First Published: 2008
    Seventy percent of African-American voters in California voted for Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage. Liberals, however, say that opposing same-sex marriage is a form of bigotry no better than the racism of those who wanted inter-racial marriage to be illegal and Jim Crow laws to remain. How, liberals wonder, can African-Americans--the victims of racism-- switch from being champions of equality to champions of bigotry? It is a true paradox. Liberals, by definition, support the victims of racism. But how can they do that when those very same victims are bigoted against gays? Oh dear! What is a liberal to do?
  14194. What is a Revolution?
    A Total Mess
    First Published: 2013
    Ever since the beginning of the Arab Spring there has been much talk of revolutions.
  14195. What is an organizer?
    First Published: 1993
    Discusses the organizer's role in democratic organizations.
  14196. What is anarcho-syndicalism?
    First Published: 2006
    Libertarian syndicalism interprets liberty as self-management or control over one's life, and believes that freedom for the working class requires the elimination of working class subordination to capitalist or state bosses.
  14197. What is Anti-Semitism?
    First Published: 2002
    Inflating the meaning of 'antisemitism' to include anything politically damaging to Israel is a double-edged sword. It may be handy for smiting your enemies, but the problem is that definitional inflation, like any inflation, cheapens the currency. The more things get to count as antisemitic, the less awful antisemitism is going to sound.
  14198. "What is Class Consciousness?" -- A Review
    First Published: 1972
  14199. What is Cohousing
  14200. What is Consensus?
    First Published: 1984
    Consensus evolved from the meeting process of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is a non-violent way for people to relate to each other as and in a group. Successful use of a consensus process depends on people understanding the idea and wanting to use it.
  14201. What is education for?
    First Published: 2010
    There is a fundamental difference between being a student and being a consumer. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process, a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual. When someone buys a car or a hamburger, he or she is purchasing a pre-packaged, readymade commodity to satisfy a specific need. Education is about creating critical thinkers whose skill is precisely the ability to challenge ideas that are pre-packaged or readymade or designed to satisfy such a need.
  14202. What is gentrification?
    First Published: 2004
    Both gentrification and disinvestment are processes made up of the activities of certain kinds of social agents or institutions. Landlords, developers, and banks all play key roles. To understand how both decay and gentrification of urban neighborhoods happen, we need to look at the dynamics of capital flows into and out of the built environment.
  14203. What is Going On in Spain?
    The End of an Era and the Beginning of Podemos
    First Published: 2015
    Something is happening in Spain. A party that did not exist one year ago, Podemos, with a clear left-wing program, would win a sufficient number of votes to gain a majority in Spanish Parliament if an election were held today.
  14204. What is Happening in Catalonia and Spain?
    First Published: 2017
    Vincente Navarro explains the historcal background to the Catalonian independence referendum results in 2017, and notes the political challenges this movement will face.
  14205. What is Happening in Spain?
    First Published: 2019
    Spain spends much less on public social expenditures that what it should spend according to its level of economic development. It is one of the countries of the European Union 15 (the more advanced economies of the European Union) that spends the least on public services such as health care, education, public housing and child care, and on transfers, such as pensions.
  14206. What is Libertarian Socialism? 
    First Published: 1977
    Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
  14207. What is Lost in Poles' Memories
    First Published: 2015
    Trukhachev reflects on Polish attempts to re-write the history of the Second World War.
  14208. What is Meant by 'Single-Payer' in the Current Discussion of Health Care Reforms During the Primaries?
    First Published: 2016
    Single-payer means that most of the funds used to pay for medical care are public, that is, they are paid with taxes. The government, through a public authority, is the most important payer for medical care services and uses this power to influence the organization of health care. The overwhelming majority of developed countries have one form or another of a single-payer system.
  14209. What Is Missing From the World?
    First Published: 1998
    The lack of a revolutionary alternative to capitalism has had a very negative effect on people's ability to organize a new movement for change. If there is no alternative to capitalism, then it seems we will forever have to give in to the companies' demands for jointness or pay cuts or two-tier systems and all the other claims made in the name of "competitiveness." With no alternative to capitalism, we cannot oppose its logic.
  14210. What is Neoliberalism?
    A Brief Definition for Activists
    First Published: 1996
    Neo-liberalism is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.
  14211. What is Nonviolence Anyhow?
    First Published: 2015
    What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it? A kindergarten teacher is nonviolent when she puts a vase of fresh flowers on her desk and smiles at her little students, right? A young man who publicly refuses to be drafted during an invasion of another country is nonviolent, certainly. How about an old man who writes a letter to the editor arguing for peace on Earth?
  14212. What is the "Nuit Debout"?
    First Published: 2016
    In late February the Michael Moore-style documentary "Merci Patron!" debuted in a few small cinemas in France. The sleeper hit caught a representative of Bernard Arnault, the CEO of the luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) forking over 35 thousand euros in hush money to a couple who were threatening to go public with their layoff from a garment factory.
  14213. What is Objective Journalism?
    First Published: 2017
    Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'
  14214. What is Organizing?
    First Published: 2018
    Morgan reviews the history of Organizing in the USA and provides advice to activists on how to organize in an inclusive, constructive, way.
  14215. What is Public Relations?
    First Published: 2003
    PR should be the guardian of an organization's brand, and that concept of brand is not just reserved for a private sector, product-oriented company. The concept of brand, what an organization is, what is it about, what it wants to say, is the organization's being, and PR is often its protector.
  14216. What Is Reproductive Justice?
    First Published: 2017
    Reproductive justice means having full control over all aspects of our sexual and reproductive lives, which means an end to all sexual violence.
  14217. What is socialism?
    First Published: 2016
    The word socialism is the English language's answer to Madonna: consistently topping the popular charts and maintaining its appeal across generations and among ever changing new audiences. It is, according to the Miriam Webster dictionary, the seventh most looked up English word of all time, and in 2015 had more people seeking out its meaning than any other word.
  14218. What is Socialist Feminism?
    First Published: 1976
  14219. What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
    First Published: 2015
    The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
  14220. What Is the Common Good? 
    First Published: 2014
    Humans are social beings, and the kind of creature that a person becomes depends crucially on the social, cultural and institutional circumstances of his life. We are therefore led to inquire into the social arrangements that are conducive to people's rights and welfare, and to fulfilling their just aspirations - in brief, the common good.
  14221. What Is the Difference Between Kosovo & Donbass?
    First Published: 2022
    When the corporate media push for war, one of their main weapons is propaganda by omission. In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as US support for the Maidan coup in 2014. A third and crucial case of propaganda by omission relates to the integration of neo-Nazis into the Ukrainian armed forces If the corporate media reported more critically about Western support for the neo-Nazi-infested Ukrainian security services, and how these forces function as a front-line proxy of US foreign policy, public support for war might be reduced and military budgets called into greater question.
    As recent coverage demonstrates, one way of resolving this issue is by not mentioning the inconvenient matter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis altogether.
  14222. What is the Left?
    Stephens argues that class struggle is central to overcoming oppression.
  14223. What is the New International Economic Order?
    First Published: 1975
    Overview and critique of the New International Economic Order.
  14224. What is the Next Left?
    First Published: 2016
    I think it is going to be very difficult to build national organizations that function under the control and as an expression of grassroots movements at this point; however, I think there is some real possibility for accomplishing this at the local level.
  14225. What is The Red Menace?
    First Published: 1977
    About The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist publication.
  14226. What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
    First Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational agreement that, among other things, threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement.
  14227. What Is the "Working Class"?
    Against The Current vol. 163
    First Published: 2013
    I used to hold up signs about “Workers Power” at demonstrations. I rarely do that any more. This is because almost no one understands what “workers power” might mean. They also do not know what “worker” means.
  14228. What is to be done with the banks? Radical proposals for radical changes
    First Published: 2016
    Nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis that continues to produce damaging social effects through the austerity policies imposed on victim populations, it's time to take another look at the commitments that were made at that time by bankers, financiers, politicians and regulatory bodies. Those four players have failed fundamentally in the promises they made in the wake of the crisis – to moralise the banking system, separate commercial banks from investment banks, end exorbitant salaries and bonuses, and finally finance the real economy. We didn't believe those promises at the time, and for good reason.
  14229. What Is Wrong With Multiculturalism? [Part 1]
    First Published: 2012
    Thoughts about iimmigration, identity, diversity and multiculturalism.
  14230. What isn't wrong with Sharia law?
    First Published: 2010
    To safeguard our rights there must be one law for all and no religious courts.
  14231. What It Takes to Build a Movement 
    First Published: 2009
    Activism = self-expression; organizing = movement-building.
  14232. What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders
    First Published: 2015
    Just after 2 a.m. on Monday, June 29, 2015 -- some seven hours before the U.S. Supreme Court would reject the latest challenge to the death penalty in Glossip v. Gross -- former death row prisoner Glenn Ford died in Louisiana. Ford, 65, left prison with stage four lung cancer in 2014, after spending almost 30 years facing execution for a crime he did not commit.
  14233. What Kind of Opposition?
    First Published: 2017
    To address the millions of Trump supporters whose lives are devastated by his government... requires building an independent - and yes, socialist - left with uncompromising loyalty to the working class and oppressed people of the United States and the world, not to the liberal wing of capital or the Democratic Party.
  14234. What kind of rebellion will save humanity from extinction?
    The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses o
    First Published: 2019
    Despite overwhelming evidence that the world has already passed certain tipping points, setting off large and unpredictable changes in the climate, why are governments still refusing to act on the scale and pace required?
  14235. What Kind of Society Do We Want?
    First Published: 1997
    In a society based on solidarity and trust, the economics of producing and distributing things would be like sharing within a family, rather than buying and selling for profit in a marketplace.
  14236. What Los Angeles Teachers Won
    First Published: 2019
    A Los Angeles teacher's take on the successful strike.
  14237. What Makes a Good Story?
    First Published: 2002
    What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
  14238. What Makes a Protest Violent?
    First Published: 2013
    The conversation about protest violence has changed but the essential reality remains: the State and its enforcers (public and private) determine what acceptable violence is and what isn’t. This determination is not arrived at according to the nature or degree of the violent acts; it is arrived at according to who is perpetrating said act.
  14239. What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?
    First Published: 1997
    Having avidly consumed and helped conceive and produce alternative media for decades, I
    am tired of how vague we are on these issues.
  14240. What Makes Americans Proud
    The Anti-Empire Report #152
    First Published: 2017
    Donald Trump thinks that everyone will be impressed that the American military has never been stronger. Lucky for the man … his seeming incapacity for moral or intellectual embarrassment.He’s twice blessed. His fans like the idea that their president is no smarter than they are. This may well serve to get the man re-elected, as it did with George W. Bush.
  14241. What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
    First Published: 1997
    Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
  14242. What Motivated the Boston Bombers
    Why It's Not a Chechen Thing, But All About the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
    First Published: 2013
    Two young men, brothers who emigrated from Kyrgyzstan twelve years ago with their parents and sisters — high-achieving, “well-assimilated” immigrant men — planted bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring well over 250.
  14243. What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View
    Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
    First Published: 2009
    What is worth fighting for? Perhaps this severe recession offers us an opportunity to ask this question. This crisis has revealed the rotten foundation of our economy and called into question the neoliberal policies and ideology that have deepened the rot.
  14244. What needs to happen to save and rebuild the CBC
    First Published: 2014
    Can the CBC be saved and restored? Probably. But it will take some time and some good luck, as well as some heavy duty political lobbying. It is important that CBC supporters, including those who have fallen by the wayside during the destructive Harper years, unite behind some common goals and pressure the two opposition leaders to commit themselves to restoring the Corporation to its proper role in the country.
  14245. What 'News' Media in U.S. And Allied Countries Never Report
    First Published: 2018
    Newsmedia effectively ban reporting corruptness of newsmedia -- even of media that stand on the opposite side of the political divide.
  14246. What Now?
    First Published: 1912
    We must now give battle on all fronts in the Reichstag to the nationalistic clap-trap that dogged our every step in the election campaign and that lurks in militarism, naval policy, colonialism, threats of war and personal rule.
  14247. What Obama's Victory Means About Race and Class
    Against The Current vol. 138
    First Published: 2009
    There was euphoria in every Black community household November 4. High fives and tears of joy. No one could believe it. It didn’t matter Obama’s politics. A Black man had won! The election of the first Black president of the United States has a dual meaning: social and political.
  14248. What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss
    First Published: 2017
    Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad – from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to the Afghans and Iraqis. The country has formally declared war 11 times and has often engaged in undeclared conflicts with some form of congressional authorization, as with the post-9/11 "wars" that rage on today.
  14249. What Principles Rule the World?
    First Published: 2016
    According to Chomsky, the Global War on Terror sledgehammer strategy has spread jihadi terror from a tiny corner of Afghanistan to much of the world, from Africa through the Levant and South Asia to Southeast Asia. It has also incited attacks in Europe and the United States.
  14250. What privilege analysis doesn't provide
    First Published: 2013
    Reading the ongoing debate on white skin privilege at SocialistWorker.org has author think about a recent fightback that took place where he works. It is a large, publicly funded hospital that cares for a patient population that is as racially and ethnically diverse as its workforce.
  14251. What progressive groups must do to defeat, or stymie, the Harper regime
    First Published: 2012
    Canada’s progressive community needs to make some significant changes if it hopes to slow down the assault being carried out on the country by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and their right-wing allies.
  14252. What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement - An Insider's View
    Taking a hard look at some of the self-sabotaging behaviors of the left
    First Published: 2015
    It's a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. Two months ago I had just moved into my parents' basement, feeling deflated after the end of Bloombergville (a two-week street occupation outside city hall to try to stop the massive budget cuts of that same year), convinced this country wasn't ready for movement. Now I'm in this living room with some of the most impressive people I've ever met, at the shaky helm of a movement that has become part of the mainstream's daily consciousness.
  14253. What Really Happened in Gaza
    Israel Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
    First Published: 2012
    The official storyline is that Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense on 14 November, 2012 because, in President Barack Obama’s words, it had 'every right to defend itself.' The facts, however, suggest otherwise.
  14254. What Really Happened to the Wobblies
    Macho Bravado, Disunity and Repression
    First Published: 2014
    Many young radicals find the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) the most congenial available platform on which to stand in trying to change the world.
  14255. What Religion is Your Nationalism?
    First Published: 2019
    On November 9, 2019, 27 years after mobs destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Supreme Court of India, despite stating that the demolition of the mosque was against the rule of law, pronounced the lawbreakers as victors. Those who had indulged in a bloodbath to build a temple where they claim Lord Ram was born have become the owners.
  14256. What Should American Workers Do About Illegal Immigration
  14257. What Should Be Done in Palestine
    Israel Shamir's Talk at the Ankara Conference
    First Published: 2009
    Indeed, the whole story of Palestine is a story of immigrants taking over a country. Such things happen: immigrants from Britain took over North America and Australia. This is a sad thing, but it happened. Now it is not realistic to hope that they will sail back to England - they won't. It is wrong to try and create an 'independent state' for the native Americans - such independent states are called 'reservations'. The right answer is equality for native and immigrant alike. Some Jews would complain that they want a state of their own. We shall answer them: you have built on sand, and a house built on sand can't stand forever. If you want a state of your own without anybody else, find yourself a lonely uninhabited island. Palestine was, and is, populated; the best you can wish is to be equal citizens in Palestine with everybody else.
  14258. What Should I Do?
    Selfishness, Happiness And Benefiting Others
    First Published: 2003
    Motivation is not a problem for anyone who accepts the extraordinary truth contained in Yeshe Aro's ncient prescription for happiness: "On this depends my liberation: to assist others -- nothing else."
  14259. What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis
    First Published: 2009
    Clueless desk editors like those at the New York Times titled these conflicts "Riots in Honduras." But you don't need to be able to understand Spanish to see and hear that, distinct from rioters, the young people of the neighborhood that came out and violated the military curfew to defend their neighborhood from this police invasion know and have memorized complicated political slogans and rhymes which they chanted in unison. "Riots" are disorganized explosions. This neighborhood, and others like it, however, have been forced by the realities of the coup to organize themselves to a greater extent than ever before.
  14260. What sort of 'caring' do Zionist medical faculty at U of T teach?
    First Published: 2023
    An exaggerated sense of self-importance and entitlement, hubris, chutzpah, racism while claiming victimhood and massively flawed thinking are the descriptors that come to mind when considering the 555 doctors at the U of T who signed an Open Statement to the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
  14261. What the 'White Irish Slaves' Meme Tells Us About Identity Politics
    First Published: 2019
    In setting out to rebut narratives of 'Irish Slaves' the left has often downplayed the history of Irish oppression.
  14262. What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel
    The savage punishment of Gaza traces back to decades ago.
    First Published: 2012
    An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
  14263. What the Attack on Marc Lamont Hill Tells Us
    First Published: 2018
    Destruction is the Zionists' strategic goal and the attack on Marc Lamont Hill and others like him is dictated by the tactics they have chosen to use toward that end.
  14264. What the Catastrophic Aliso Canyon Methane Leak Teaches Us About Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels
    First Published: 2016
    It’s early December, and I'm sitting in a mega-church packed with more than 500 people. They're here to listen to an update on the efforts to contain an enormous natural gas blowout that occurred more than a month before. Gas from the leak is being blown by prevailing winds right into their community of Porter Ranch, in Los Angeles County, CA.
    People are mad.
  14265. What the Grocery Defeat Means
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    Exhausted and broke after four-and-a-half months on the picket line, Southern California grocery workers voted overwhelmingly on February 28-29 to accept a two-tier wage and benefits system with a cap on employers' contributions to the health care benefits plan.
  14266. What the Left Should be Learning From Iran 
    First Published: 2009
    There are those on the left who mirror neocon thought: They argue that since Washington is in opposition to it, Iran must therefore be considered a 'good' government, worthy of solidarity. Others argue that if the Iranian state offers social programs and even if it only somewhat resists global capitalism then therefore its violent and authoritarian actions can somehow be justified, forgiven or denied.
  14267. What the Mainstream Misses: Observations on the Ukraine Crisis
    First Published: 2014
    Observations on the Ukraine events of February-March 2014 leading to the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych.
  14268. What the Media Does Not Say About the Anti-Iran Leaks
    First Published: 2010
    The media is interested in one and only one subject: advancing the anti-Iran narrative that is advocated by the neoconservatives, the War Party, and the Israel lobby.
  14269. What the media forgets to tell you about Israel and Gaza
    First Published: 2023
    Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
  14270. What the Media isn't Telling You About North Korea's Missile Tests
    First Published: 2017
    Here's what the media isn't telling you about North Korea's recent missile tests.
    Last Monday, the DPRK fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan's Hokkaido Island. The missile landed in the waters beyond the island harming neither people nor property.The media immediately condemned the test as a "bold and provocative act"
  14271. What the Media Won't Tell You About the Venezuelan Coup
    First Published: 2019
    Calling Venezuela's election illegitimate is false and is also a familiar tactic for US interference in a country's government.
  14272. What the Snowden Affair Reveals About US Journalism
    Corporate Media shown to be Rank Propaganda Arms
    First Published: 2013
    The national corporate media is little more than unofficial propaganda arms of the US government.
  14273. What the Tamiflu Saga tells us about Drug Trials and Big Pharma
    First Published: 2014
    We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take, says Ben Goldacre.
  14274. What the U.S. Government and The New York Times Have Quietly Agreed Not to Tell You About Ukraine
    First Published: 2022
    The narrative that portrays Ukraine as a democratic state - no matter how beloved by U.S. corporate media or endlessly repeated by the State Department - is a fantasy. History has shown us that the Ukrainian government's commitment to democracy is dubious or non-existent. Ukraine currently has more banned political parties than legal ones; political repression and imprisonment of dissidents has been commonplace ever since its independence; and both the government and its affiliated party militias routinely resort to violence to quell peaceful protests while turning a blind eye to violence inflicted on Jews and other racial and ethnic minorities.
  14275. What to do with a tin of beans? Food banks, the left and the movement
    First Published: 2013
    Acts of collective practical solidarity are a springboard to participation in campaigning against austerity and the Tory war on the poor.
  14276. What Was Missing From Coverage of Netanyahu's Speech
    First Published: 2015
    Reading the lead stories on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress about Iran in five prominent US papers – the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today (all 3/3/15) – what was most striking was what was left out of these articles.
  14277. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty
    First Published: 2017
    Gurly analyzes the institutional reasons behind widespread poverty, depopulation, and unemployment in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
  14278. What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us: Ignorance In The Information Age
    Canada Has Changed
    First Published: 2015
    The war on knowledge is a war on the health of Canadians. We need a government that will embrace the information age and use evidence to improve our lives. We need a government that has the health of Canadians as its greatest priority. Ten years in, it’s clear that that government is not Stephen Harper’s.
  14279. What We Got Away With
    Rochdale College and Canadian Art in the Sixties
    First Published: 2011
    MA Thesis, Concordia, 2011
  14280. What We Owe the Oak Ridge Three
    Memo to Judge: Really??
    First Published: 2014
    We’ve heard it from the bench in Oak Ridge city courtrooms and from state judges in Clinton, Tennessee. And on February 18 we heard it from a federal judge.
  14281. What We Say Goes
    The Middle East in the New World Order
    First Published: 1991
    In response the President Bush's actions in Kuwait, America was deemed by a Catholic weekly in Rome to be "the surly master of the world". Chomsky explores the meaning of this accusation as well as America's vision for the New World Order.
  14282. What We Talk About When We Talk About Class
    First Published: 2016
    Professor of sociology at North Carolina State, Michael Schwalbe, reflects on the intrinsic contradiction of teaching and researching about class in the United States while benefiting from his own class position.
  14283. What will Gaza's children remember?
    First Published: 2023
    Gaza children grow up thinking bombing is normal, creating shelter space is normal, having plans disrupted by war is normal.
  14284. What Will It Take To Win?
    First Published: 2005
    Our current strategy engages people in an arena - history and events in Palestine/Israel - far from their direct experience. We are the experts on a topic they know little about. We ask people to learn from us about something far away, and to take some local action (like voting for divestment) to express their agreement with us about it. There is a limit to how many people will be interested in doing this. A revolutionary strategy, in contrast, engages people in the arena which they know a lot about, and into which they have tremendous insights from direct personal experience.
  14285. What Will the World Inherit From GE Salmon?
    Uncharted Waters
    First Published: 2014
    It’s true; about 50 percent of the fish we eat are farmed. There is good reason for this as, one by one, the world’s commercial fisheries collapse through overfishing. According to FAO (2010), 70% of the world’s large commercial fisheries have either failed or are not far from it.
  14286. What would Rosa Parks do today?
    First Published: 2016
    If Rosa Parks was taking action against transit racism today, she likely wouldn’t talk about segregated seating. Instead, she would be calling attention to disappearing service and unaffordable fares in communities that need transit the most.
  14287. What would you do if soldiers dragged your son out of bed in the middle of the night?
    First Published: 2018
    After more than half a century of occupation, most Israelis can no longer imagine themselves in the place of the Palestinians. But if we cannot imagine what it is like to live under occupation, we must at least confront its brutal reality.
  14288. What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study
    First Published: 2018
    Manisha Sinha draws attention to the role of Black abolitionists in ending slavery in the USA in her book: The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
  14289. What's Canada Doing in Brazil?
    First Published: 1977
    This paper traces the historical relationship of Canadian based corporations in Brazil.
  14290. What's the Matter with the System?
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
  14291. What's Wrong With Multiculturalism?
    First Published: 2012
    My view is that both multiculturalists and their critics are wrong. And only by understanding why both sides are wrong will we be able to work our way through the mire in which we find ourselves.
  14292. Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
    All the News That's Fit to Slant
    First Published: 2012
    In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
  14293. Whatever Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
    First Published: 1986
    What would a future anthropologist make of the bizarre and seemingly contradictory assortment of information on sexuality available today?
  14294. What's all the fuss about the veil?
    First Published: 2007
    It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
  14295. What's at stake in Copenhagen
    The crucial debates at Copenhagen
    First Published: 2009
    Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoliberal economics.
  14296. What's Behind Detroit Happy Talk?
    First Published: 2015
    A critical analysis of Detroit's so-called recovery from bankruptcy.
  14297. What's Behind the Economic Upturn?
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    The Department of Commerce announced on October 30 that the U.S. economy had grown at a 7.2% annual rate in the third quarter of 2003. Since these statistics are constantly being revised, one wonders what they really mean.
  14298. What's Class Got to Do With It?
    First Published: 2016
    Unsettled by Donald Trump's bigotry and xenophobia, liberal pundits have struggled to understand his improbable anointment as the nominee of the Republican party. Many have sought answers in the experience and behaviour of the white-working class, the bedrock of Trump support.
  14299. What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries?
    Scientists reject Harper government claims vital material is being saved digitally
    First Published: 2013
    Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations has been lost forever. Many collections ended up in dumpsters while others such as Winnipeg's historic Freshwater Institute library were scavenged by citizens, scientists and local environmental consultants. Others were burned or went to landfills.
  14300. What's Driving Got to Do With It? How the DMV is Conscripted to Do the Dirty Work of the Criminal Justice System
    First Published: 2016
    In the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri protests of the death of Michael Brown in 2014, articles were written about the exorbitant fines assessed against residents of Ferguson, mostly minorities, and how these fines both led to and exacerbated a cycle of incarceration and poverty.
  14301. What's in a name? In a racist society, everything
    First Published: 2010
    In our society refusal to contemplate a relationship with a person from another ethnic or religious background is described and denounced as racism or bigotry. In Israel it is protected by law.
  14302. What's it like for a social movement to take control of a city?
    First Published: 2018
    Ada Colau surprised many when she won the election to become mayor of Barcelona. The housing rights activist was part of a deep social movement aiming for participatory democracy. But this latest article from the Symbiosis Research Collective examines how winning the election was just the first step
  14303. What's Kinder Morgan's Real End Game?
    First Published: 2018
    An ultimatum has been imposed by Texas based Energy Infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan,that they will cancel the Trans Mountain Pipeline Extension at the end of May 2018 unless clarity is provided by the government. Klein argues that Kinder Morgan knows that the pipeline is already doomed, due to external economic factors and Indigenous opposition.
  14304. What's left of Pakistan's left?
    For those in Pakistan who want to explore a non neo-liberal, non-right wing option, the Left is there in some form.
    First Published: 2017
    Menon recounts her discovery of the emerging political Left in Pakistan and reflects on its future. Awami Workers Party featured.
  14305. What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
    First Published: 2012
    We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our lives, our stories to the media and to provide comfort to ourselves. Those stories have to be challenged and reworked or we lose sight of the larger story of economic exploitation, at our peril.
  14306. What's Next for Cuba?
    Interview
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Janette Habel conducted by Jerome Latta and published online by the Left Front in France, December 26, 2014.
  14307. What's really at stake at the Paris climate conference now marches are banned
    First Published: 2015
    The decision to ban demonstrations at the Paris Climate Conference in the wake of the attacks will marginalize those who are most affected by climate change.
  14308. What's Really Happening in Venezuela?
    Shadows of the Weimar Republic
    First Published: 2014
    An analysis of the 2014 civil unrest in Venezuela.
  14309. What's Scarier: Terrorism, or Governments Blocking Websites in its Name?
    First Published: 2015
    The French Interior Ministry ordered that five websites be blocked on the grounds that they promote or advocate terrorism.
  14310. What's the alternative to factory farms?
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Mixed review of a collection of essays about industrial agriculture. Most of the papers point out the destructiveness of animal agriculture but neglect the wider issue of capitialism.
  14311. What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs
    First Published: 2009
    It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush's push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.
  14312. What's the Matter With That Union Boss?
    The Real Yes Men
    First Published: 2013
    Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term “union boss”? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a capitalist? Or the capitalist’s lackey?
  14313. What's the Sexual Health of the Nation?
    Sex, Lies and the Great Recession
    First Published: 2013
    What happens to pleasure during a period of social crisis? Sex may be the best way to determine the true pulse of the nation.
  14314. What's the True Unemployment Rate in the US?
    First Published: 2019
    The real unemployment rate is probably somewhere between 10%-12%. The 3.7% is the U-3 rate, per the labor dept. But that’s the rate only for full time employed. What the labour depatment calls the U-6 includes what it calls discouraged workers (those who haven’t looked for work in the past 4 weeks). Then there's what's called the 'missing labour force' - i.e. those who have'’t looked in the past year. They're not calculated in the 3.7% U-3 unemployment rate number either. Why? Because you have to be 'out of work and actively looking for work' to be counted as unemployed and therefore part of the 3.7% rate.
  14315. What's up with Bosnia?
    First Published: 2014
    Since the beginning of recent struggles in Bosnia, many questions came from Western comrades about their character and what is actually going on. A lot of comrades were dissatisfied with media coverage which didn’t provide enough information.
  14316. What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
    First Published: 1994
    The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
  14317. What's Wrong With Identity Politics (and Intersectionality Theory)? 
    A Response to Mark Fisher's "Exiting the Vampire Castle" (And Its Critics)
    First Published: 2013
    Identity, like an occupation, is a trap, because it curtails human potential and bars workers from participation in the social totality as fully developing individuals. Identities are reified social categories from which we should emerge, not within which we should be compelled to remain. The problem with identity politics, then, is that it is one-sided and undialectical. It treats identities as static entities, and its methods only serve to further reify those categories. It aims to liberate identity groups (or members thereof) qua identity groups (or individuals), rather than aiming to liberate them from identity itself.
  14318. What’s wrong with privilege theory?
    First Published: 2014
    This article takes a critical look at some of the theories of privilege and concepts of intersectionality (the interaction of multiple oppressions) that increasingly dominate battles for liberation. These ideas are not new, but have grown in influence in recent years.
  14319. The Wheel Has Come Full Circle
    What Went Wrong: The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Dan La Botz's What Went Wrong: The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis.
  14320. When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad
    First Published: 2002
    Aren't these conspiracy theories too silly to address? That should be the case. But, sadly, they do attract people.
  14321. When a Radio Host Interviews a War Criminal, Is It Churlish to Ask About His War Crimes?
    A letter to New York's popular WNYC-NPR radio host Brian Lehrer
    First Published: 2017
    An open letter to NPR radio host Brian Leher, critizing the host for not providing greater context and background for his guest Elliott Abrams, who was a go to-guy for U.S.-funded terrorism, and helped arrange the overthrow of democratically elected governments throughout Latin America and the Middle East.
  14322. When America Downed an Iranian Airliner and Celebrated It!
    First Published: 2018
    Every 3rd of July Iranians commemorate the killing of 299 innocent people, including 66 children, by the US Navy. Adding to the tragedy is the American attitude towards this catastrophic event.
  14323. When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
    First Published: 2000
    How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
  14324. When BBC Calls, Don’t Answer..
    First Published: 2014
    In any event, my advice to the media savvy, is that if you have caller ID, and you can tell that it is BBC calling, don’t bother answering. I hope I have the good sense to follow my own advice should the phone ever ring again!
  14325. When Canada Invaded Russia
    First Published: 2017
    The corporate media presents Russia as militaristic but ignores Canada’s invasion of that country.
  14326. When Chinese Labor Strikes
    China on Strike
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Hao Ren's edited volume China on Strike.
  14327. When Chomsky Wept 
    First Published: 2012
    A portrait of Noam Chomsky.
  14328. When claims of 'antisemitism' are racist and antisemitic
    First Published: 2023
    Claims that calling out someone who uses their vast wealth to support a military slaughtering thousands of Palestinian children is antisemitism are nonsense. Worse, they destroy the original meaning of the term antisemitism. Judge people by what they do, not who they are, has always been good advice and a longstanding principle of civil rights movements everywhere.
  14329. When Clearcuts Kill
    Logging and Landslides
    First Published: 2014
    Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn on the linkages between corporate logging and deadly landslides and the broader corporate mantra of privatizing profits and socializing the losses.
  14330. When Congress is a Verb
    Bioregionalism in action
    First Published: 1988
    Author believes that the bioregional movement is not about rebellion - merely responding to authority - but about resistance - being in it for the long haul, and talks about its achievement and potential to overcome contradictions which have plagued other social movements.
  14331. When Covering Up a Crime Takes Precedence Over Human Health: BP's Toxic Gulf Coast Legacy
    First Published: 2018
    On April 20, 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Over the next 87 days, it gushed at least 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst human-made environmental disaster in US history and afflicting the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
  14332. When Deep States Collide
    Turkey's Hesitancy Exposes Its Agenda
    First Published: 2014
    It's no secret that members of the so-called coalition against ISIS have been less than enthusiastic about substantive military action as the bulk of the airstrikes so far have been executed by the United States.
  14333. When Did We See You Hungry?
    First Published: 1977
    An educational leader kit designed to focus the theme of food.
  14334. When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?
    First Published: 2013
    Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and start thinking about how an obsession with both Islam and Islamophobia distorts our culture and our debates.
  14335. When Drones Come Home to Roost
    Monsters, Human and Mechanical
    First Published: 2010
    The use of remote-controlled killing machines by the United States guarantees that in the future these same technologies will be used to strike targets in the U.S.
  14336. When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence - The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
    First Published: 2015
    The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from 'mainstream' media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to 'free speech' in 'advanced' Western democracies.
  14337. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses
    First Published: 1986
    A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
  14338. When History Knocks
    First Published: 2015
    Naomi Klein is a longtime movement and media icon, a gifted synthesizer and popularizer who, over the past two decades, has been a leading chronicler of anti-corporate, anti-globalization, and anti-capitalist social movements.
  14339. When Home Became Away: American Expatriates and New Social Movements in Torornto, 1965-1977
    PhD Thesis, University of Chicago, 2001
    First Published: 2001
  14340. When & How to Hold a News Conference
    First Published: 2002
    So before you decide to call a news conference, make sure that the circumstances meet ALL of the criteria.
  14341. When Human Beings Are Illegal
    Against The Current vol. 136
    First Published: 2008
    Once the government assumes the task of separating citizens from "impossible subjects," historian Mae Ngai points out, "the border" is everywhere, not just between countries. Thus, the border has come to the Midwest. In the two years since the immigrant rights marches of spring 2006, there have been federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids of workplaces, especially meatpacking plants, in Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska.
  14342. 'When I Go to Work, I Expect to Be Killed:' The Terror of Being A Fisherman in Gaza
    Palestine Speaks: Voices from the West Bank and Gaza
    First Published: 2014
    Approximately 4,000 Gazan fishermen rely on access to the open waters of the Mediterranean to make a living. Because of punitive restrictions imposed by Israel, the Gazan fishery has virtually collapsed. Over 90 percent of Gazan fishermen are living in poverty and dependent on international aid for survival. To pursue fish beyond the permitted range means to risk arrest, the confiscation of fishing boats, or even shooting by the Israeli navy.
  14343. When Is Direct Military Intervention Not Direct Military Intervention?
    First Published: 2016
    Since 2014, according to official Pentagon figures, the US has carried out 5,337 airstrikes in Syria. Yet the New York Times continues to pretend that the U.S. has not intervened militarily in Syria.
  14344. When Israel's friends in Labour advocated genocide
    First Published: 2017
    Every so often Labour Friends of Israel pays tribute to Richard Crossman, an early activist with the British pressure group and one of the best known British politicians of the mid-20th century. The tributes to the late cabinet minister are not entirely informative.One detail that tends to be omitted is that, when it came to Palestine, Crossman advocated genocide.
  14345. When Joan Baez Listened
    Do Try This at Home
    First Published: 2014
    I have a bat in my belfry about reaching out to people who dislike us and with whom we disagree but without whom no serious “grass roots movement” is possible. That is, by talking to anti-choice zealots, Obamacare haters, Tea Party crazies, racists etc. The notion of our crossing over the ideological abyss seems odious to a lot of people I know who see The Other Side as a bunch of RedNeck Ignorant Morons. That rigid mindset will get us far, yes? On the other hand there’s the “Joan Baez tactic”.
  14346. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    First Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
  14347. When Madness Swept the Mediterranean
    A Review of “Smyrna: the Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City”
    First Published: 2013
    What was so unique about this Mediterranean port in the Ottoman Empire, which even today, 90 years after the Destruction is still linked to a joie de vivre during the good times and dirges for the Destruction that came so suddenly in September 1922?
  14348. When Marxism is Kids' Stuff
    Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Approaches to Children's Literature
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Angela Huber's Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Approaches to Children's Literature.
  14349. When Men Become Gods
    First Published: 1978
  14350. When oil is more important than life
    Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon
    First Published: 2014
    The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.
  14351. When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee
    First Published: 2014
    Amid all the tributes and accolades to Pete Seeger today, it’s easy to paper over the extent to which his career was almost destroyed by associations with communism and his refusal to testify to Congress about his time in the Communist Party.
  14352. When Phoenix Came to Thanh Phong
    Bob Kerrey and War Crimes as Policy in Vietnam
    First Published: 2016
    On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama heaped praise on Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. What Obama failed to mention is that Kerrey also supervised one of the most atrocious war crimes of that ghastly war.
  14353. When Plutocrats Blame the Poor
    Hard Times Redux
    First Published: 2012
    The image of the self-made man has always been a fiction concocted for the edification of the poor, not a concrete policy prescription, as should be clear by now from the behavior of our very own ‘self-made’ caste of plutocrats.
  14354. When Populism is Dangerous for Democracy
    First Published: 2012
    George Galloway’s stunning victory in last week’s Bradford West by-election afforded a rare opportunity to witness naked imbalance, establishment scorn of any challenges, and blatant anti-Muslim propaganda in the corporate British media.
  14355. When Progressives Start Abandoning Free Speech
    First Published: 2017
    In the wake of attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia there were a number of rallies in Canadian cities. The anti-racist counter-demonstrators hugely outnumbered their rally opponents, constituting phenomenal public solidarity against racism. There was much to be cheered in these events. One thing dampened this amazing response. It was how, for some, denouncing hate slid into denouncing speech rights and into dangerous calls for governments to prevent rallies.
  14356. When Push Comes to Shove 
    First Published: 2011
    When the police are ordered to move against the OWS demonstrators, we must move to counter the police. Our response should be that workers in all different kinds of jobs act immediately to interrupt business as usual-regardless of what union leaders say or do. For example, transit workers should refuse any request to assist in the transport of individuals who are arrested. Truck drivers should refuse all deliveries to city agencies-other than those providing health care or emergency services. The more interruptions, the better!
  14357. When Qaddafi Was Our Friend
    The CIA's Libyan Helpers
    First Published: 2011
    It was counterterrorism cooperation, together with Qaddafi’s abandonment of his nuclear ambitions, that cemented U.S./Libyan ties. Qaddafi’s intelligence services opened their files to the CIA, were given CIA training, and took in the CIA’s prisoners.
  14358. When Radicals Beat the Two-Party System
    First Published: 2015
    Today, you cannot vote for peace, justice, and environmental sanity within a system predicated on serving the war industry, the wage system sustained by the prison-industrial complex, and deliberate obliviousness to the natural world. Slavery presented the abolitionists with exactly the same problem.
  14359. When 'Salihan' took on the Raj
    First Published: 2015
    Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
  14360. When school shelters are targeted
    First Published: 2024
    A family took refuge in Kuwait School, then Israeli shelling destroyed nearly everything. Yet dreams survive.
  14361. When Soldiers Resist
    First Published: 2016
    Let's remember the courageous war resisters who said no to the slaughter in Vietnam.
  14362. When the Alt-Right Hits Campus
    First Published: 2017
    Under the auspices of the "Alt Right" and its wannabe hipster version of white nationalism, the University of Michigan community was subjected to a bombardment of racist hate that many of us thought relegated to the pre-Obama past.
  14363. When the IWW Took on the Copper Kings
    First Published: 2019
    Review of the movie "Bisbee ‘17" about a strike and subsequent deportation of the workers of an Arizona mining town.
  14364. When the UAW Was Young
    Against The Current vol. 131
    First Published: 2007
    An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
  14365. When the Unimaginable Happened
    Mandela: the Movie
    First Published: 2013
    Mandela: the Movie is a very accurate film, depicting what actually happened in South Africa, and one cannot help thinking about it again and again.
  14366. When They Lock Up the Truth: Khadija Ismayilova and the Latin America Connection
    First Published: 2016
    Azerbaijan, a former Soviet country with remarkable oil and gas reserves has been controlled for decades by the Aliyev family.
  14367. When they say jump
    First Published: 2020
    This article explores the failure of ATU Local 11, the union that represents the majority of TTC workers, to organize its members for "Transit Worker Assault Awareness Day" after a member was stabbed while working.
  14368. When Thoughtful People Think Illogically
    First Published: 2016
    This man with whom I corresponded believes Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon were staged and that those involved, even the children, are "crisis actors" -- employed by a government whose aim is seizing guns, passing gun control laws, and creating a climate of fear. I asked about hospital staff, those who treat the injured and the spokesperson that provides information about a patient's condition. His answer, "Crisis actors."
  14369. When to Contact the Media
    First Published: 2004
    Advice on when to contact the media.
  14370. When War Passes for Foreign Policy
    Who Will Pay the Price?
    First Published: 2012
    “Take the profit out of war,” said activist Kevin Zeese, “and you take out war.” His audience was made up mainly of U.S. war veterans gathered in New York to observe — and protest — the 11th anniversary of the conflict in Afghanistan.
  14371. When Water is a Commodity Instead of a Human Right
    The Agony of Detroit
    First Published: 2014
    The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system and the diversion of the system’s revenue to banks are possible because the most basic human requirement, water, is becoming nothing more than a commodity.
  14372. When We Fight, We Fuck Shit Up: Keystone XL and Delegitimizing Fossil Fuels
    First Published: 2015
    Keystone XL had become a household name when over 1200 people participated in two weeks of sit-ins at the White House demanding that Barack Obama reject the pipeline.
  14373. When Welfare Checks Turn Deadly
    First Published: 2019
    The disabled and mental ill encur growing risks and dangers when interacting with police as their actions are often interrupted as hostile or dangerous. Such misinterruption often result in a fatal encounter with law enforcement.
  14374. When White Supremacists March
    First Published: 2017
    The rally, featuring white nationalist groups such as the Nationalist Front and the League of the South as well as white supremacist "superstars" like Richard Spencer and David Duke projected violence from its first moments.
  14375. When Will Co-opted Figures and Board Members Be Hauled into Court?
    First Published: 2017
    They promote the message that their products are essential to our survival. They promote a fundamentally ecologically, socially and economically damaging model of agriculture facilitated by Washington, the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
  14376. When will Palestinians learn? Turning to international law isn't the answer - just ask America and Israel
    First Published: 2015
    Throw an old dog a bone and sure enough, he'll go chasing after it. So it is with "Palestine's" request to join the International Criminal Court.
  14377. When Will the Media Really Get Polyamory?
    First Published: 2015
    Why do the media so often miss the mark when they write articles or do a feature on polyamory? Why do so many approach the subject with a ready-made idea of what they are looking for?
  14378. When Will We See Tanks in Barcelona?
    Against The Current vol. 161
    First Published: 2012
    The current situation in Spain regarding an independent Catelonia.
  14379. When workers fight for our environment
  14380. When workers' own time begins
    First Published: 2015
    Marx took a long view of realizing freedom in a positive sense. Capitalism, in Marx’s day, used up three generations of workers in a single generation of working days without time limits. The struggle for the eight-hour day spread across the U.S. after the victory over slavery in the Civil War. Marx then traced the generations-long struggle for a normal working day.
  14381. When Worse is the Enemy of Bad
    First Published: 2018
    The claim that all that is wrong with America is due to the malignant machinations of Putin is the most blatantly false, potentially disastrous bucket of bullshit ever inflicted by the matrix on this ignorant, credulous, propagandized people.
  14382. When Your Boss Locks You Out for Nearly 6 Months and Cuts Off Your Healthcare
    First Published: 2019
    When energy company National Grid locked out its workers during contract negotiations, workers workers had to struggle with loss of income and health insurance. Workers as well as legislators see this as an unfair bargaining tactic.
  14383. Where Are They? The Disappeared: When Remembering is a Political Act of Resistance
    First Published: 2021
    Every day, people disappear in many parts of the world. Some of these disappearances are investigated by police and the family of the disappeared. But too often the perpetrator is not a criminal or a gang, but rather the police or other agents of a nation state or a government.
  14384. Where Did Britain's Racists Go?
    First Published: 2017
    A year ago Britain voted to exit the European Union. Anyone who wanted to leave the EU was deemed to be a racist, a caveman, an irrational nationalist and even a drunk fool. However today – exactly one year later, some are talking about a "soft" Brexit or even no Brexit. Has Britain changed so much in a year?
  14385. Where Did Our Red Love Go?
    Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Paula Rabinowitz's, Ruth Barraclough's, and Heather Bowen-Struyk's Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century.
  14386. Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go?
    War, Sunny Side Up, and the Summer of Slaughter (Vietnam and Today)
    First Published: 2015
    Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I'm not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed to come closer as time passed.
  14387. Where Do Postmodernists Come From?
    First Published: 1995
    Eagleton argues that left intellectuals have adopted postmodernism out of a sense of having been badly defeated, a belief that the left as a political tendency has little future. Culturalism, he argues, involves an extreme subjectivism combined with a deep pessimism, a sense that it isn't worth the effort to learn about the world, to analyze social systems, for instance, because they can't be changed anyway.
  14388. Where does ISIS come from?
    First Published: 2016
    A review of Abdel Bari Atwan, Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate.
    Rosa Luxemburg said that capitalism would end in either socialism or barbarism. Looking at the Middle East, as hopes of democracy and social justice have been dashed by counter-revolution and violence, and at the West’s depictions of Islamic State or ISIS, barbarism might seem to have triumphed. Abdel Bari Atwan, editor for 25 years of the Arabic daily AlQuds AlArabi and now running the news website Rai al-Youm, is well placed to give an informed account of the origins, ideology and spread of ISIS.
  14389. Where Does ISIS Get Those Wonderful Toys?
    First Published: 2015
    Indeed where do ISIS and al-Qaeda get those wonderful toys we so often see these days triumphantly bedecked with black flags? The ultimate source of virtually all of the jihadists' gear are the deep pockets of the United States government and its client states. Uncle Sam is the veritable Bruce Wayne of Jihad. This was basically admitted in a recently disclosed Defense Intelligence Agency report. But anyone who bothered looking into it could have known this long ago, even if restricting one's self to mainstream sources.
  14390. Where has all the rage gone?
    First Published: 2008
    In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
  14391. Where Have All the Nazis Gone?
    First Published: 2018
    Thousands of "anti-fascist" protestors converged on the streets of the nation's capitol to deny a platform to (or just beat the snot out of) twenty or thirty racist idiots who were trying to assemble in Lafayette Square and stand around shouting racist slogans at each other.
  14392. Where Have You Gone Abbie Hoffman?
    First Published: 2019
    A collection of excerpts of people writing about Abbie Hoffman on the 30th anniversary of his death.
  14393. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
    The Anti-Empire Report
    First Published: 2013
    The double edged sword of declaring war and fighting "terrorism".
  14394. Where Is Indonesia Going?
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    For both admirers and critics of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, the picture is disturbing: At the presidential palace in Jakarta there are signs of a new “royal court” in the making. Officials converse in Javanese, not the national language Bahasa Indonesia; Wahid himself borrows from mysticism and ancient tracts to plot political strategy; and family and friends are acting as gatekeepers and facilitators, in some cases for businessmen hoping to curry favor. Some analysts describe it as a form of “benign Suhartoism,” a throwback to the disastrous last decade of President's 32-year rule.
  14395. Where is Phil Ochs When We Really Need Him?
    There But For Fortune
    First Published: 2011
  14396. Where is politics?
    First Published: 2011
    This question might seem odd to some. To seasoned libertarian communists, the answer 'everyday life' trips off the tongue without a second thought. But it seems like a productive question to work through in light of recent events, from the parliamentary expenses scandal to the August riots to the #occupy movement. So, where is politics?
  14397. Where is the Alaska Highway Pipeline Taking Us?
    First Published: 1979
    This flyer on the Pipeline argues that the proposed project would not only harm the environment and threaten aboriginal rights, it would also mean FEWER jobs, less independence and lower incomes for Canadians.
  14398. Where is this Digital Watergate Propaganda Campaign Going?
    First Published: 2016
    Intelligence sources point out Russian interference in recent elections. However, WikiLeaks-related sources say the Democratic Party’s mail leak was the working of a whistleblower within that institution.
  14399. Where Is Venezuela Going?
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    Steve Ellner's latest book, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics, is an important contribution to our understanding of Venezuela under Hugo Chávez. It brings a deeply historical perspective to the topic, something almost universally lacking in the growing number of short-sighted texts on the country’s politics. It also offers the opportunity for a discussion of the complexities of the “Bolivarian process” as it unfolds.
  14400. Where It All Began: The Dawn of 'Fake News'
    First Published: 2018
    While today's political smear campaigns and propaganda have gotten more sophisticated and subtle, the underlying ethics remain as maggoty as ever.
  14401. Where the Anti-Russian Moral Panic is Leading Us
    First Published: 2017
    This is how the smear campaign scores points: you don't have to be on the Russian payroll -- you can be a "useful idiot" just because of your political views, which condemn you as an "unwitting" agent, as former CIA director Mike Morell described Trump. This is how the parameters of "respectable" opinion are policed: this is how the War Party criminalizes those who think that the cold war is over and shouldn't be revived.
  14402. Where the conspiracies are real
    First Published: 2015
    US expansionism in Latin America, sometimes violent, sometimes discreet, played such a large role in shaping the history of the continent that many still see the "black hand" of Washington behind every obstacle faced by progressive governments.
  14403. Where the world's appetite for fish matters most
    First Published: 2017
    Illegal over-fishing by Chinese and other foreign vessels is severely affecting the economy and food securty of West African nations.
  14404. Where to Begin?
    First Published: 2018
    The rise of socialist-identified candidates like Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez are a hopeful resistance against the politics that resulted in President Trump. But people must organize outside of electoral politics to bring real change.
  14405. Where to Occupy Next?
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
    I truly don't want to be another sob story. But when the rare opportunity comes along to tell my story and affect many, like a stone cast into the water, it is necessary to at least attempt to grab the hearts of people who will listen.
  14406. Where War Reporting Goes Wrong
    A Diary of Four Wars
    First Published: 2013
    The four recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been propaganda wars in which newspaper, television and radio journalists played a central role. In all wars there is a difference between reported news and what really happened, but during these four campaigns the outside world has been left with misconceptions even about the identity of the victors and the defeated.
  14407. Where Was God When Israel Deported African Refugees?
    First Published: 2014
    After 60,000 sub-Saharan Africans, Christian and Muslim, sought refuge in Israel from political persecution and ethnic cleansing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a multi-pronged campaign to expel them all.
  14408. 'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies
    The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.
    First Published: 2019
    Testimonies of several victims of slavery collected in the 1930s tell of separation from family, overwork, and abuse.
  14409. Where's the Beef Stroganoff? Eight Sacrilegious Reflections on Russiagate
    Street, Paul
    First Published: 2018
    Street expresses his frustration with the US political establishment in light of the 2017-2018 FBI investigation into alleged foreign intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
  14410. Where's the School?
    Everdale Goes to Milwaukee
    First Published: 1969
    Following the indictment of twelve people for burning thousands of Selective Service files, ten students and two staff from Everdale Place School attended the trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  14411. Wherein We Meet Genial Radicals by the Shores of Lake Champlain
    The New Secessionists
    First Published: 2010
    Secession is the next radical idea poised to enter mainstream discourse or at least the realm of the conceivable. You can't bloat a modest republic into a crapulent empire without sparking one hell of a centrifugal reaction. The prospect of breaking away from a union degenerating into imperial putrefaction will only grow in appeal as we go marching with our Patriot Acts and National Security Strategies through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and all the frightful signposts on our road to nowhere.
  14412. Where's the Body Count from Shootings by the Police?
    Protecting Killer Cops
    First Published: 2013
    It estimated that in the United States in 2011 police shot more than 1,100 people, killing 607. However, the government refuses to keep track of the killings, so the exact number is unknown, and may well be higher.
  14413. Where's the Evidence?
    The CIA-FBI-NSA report on the hacking of the 2016 election is pure baloney
    First Published: 2017
    We are told from the outset that the actual evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails as part of a wide-ranging campaign to put Donald Trump in the White House cannot be revealed: "source and methods" must be kept secret. This in spite of DNI director James Clapper's pledge that he would declassify as much of the evidence as possible in the interests of transparency: but then again, Clapper is an admitted liar.
  14414. Where's the Iraqi voice?
    First Published: 2008
    Despite the "shared beliefs" identified amongst Iraqis, for example the belief that the presence of foreign troops is a main cause of the escalation in violence, only the conquerors - in this case America - can decide when troops should be withdrawn.
  14415. Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?
    First Published: 2014
    Since US media are reporting the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza as though it is a defensive action, I thought I would set the record straight. Israeli forces shelled and invaded Gaza BEFORE the rockets began. Rockets were fired only after numerous Palestinians, including many children, had been killed.
  14416. Which Path for Labour in the Fight for Jobs and an Independent Canadian Economy
    ...Collaboration or a Militant Class-Struggle Fightback?
    First Published: 1979
    This research and position paper is the United Electrical Workers' (U.E.) response to the report of the Second Tier Committee published in mid-July 1978 after meetings between business, corporations heading the industrial sectors and labour representatives from these sectors.
  14417. Which Side Are You On?
    First Published: 2020
    I think of my friend whenever I hear some bullshit-bloated politician or commentator dismissing the humanity and dignity of criminals and prisoners.
  14418. Which side are you on? 
    First Published: 2009
    The women's question has haunted the Islamic regime from the start. The Islamic Republic has been in continuous conflict with the women's liberation movement, which has grown considerably in the past decade in opposition to the misogyny and gender apartheid of the Islamists. Despite brutal assaults on this movement, the regime has not succeeded in silencing it.
  14419. Which strategy for the left?
    First Published: 2013
    Ed Rooksby, a supporter of the Left Unity initiative, recently put forward his view that a left government can play a key role in the fight for radical change. Mark L. Thomas argues this ignores the role of the state.
  14420. Which Way Out for Detroit?
    First Published: 2013
    Feeley discusses the prevention of further home foreclosures in Detroit through a consideration of two of the most urgent issues: unemployment and evictions. These indicators reflect the poverty of the city -- where 35% live below the poverty line according to the 2009 U.S. Census.
  14421. Which Way the Wind Blows
    The Conditions of Power
    First Published: 2014
    Billions of tons of air, moving relentlessly over the ground at 10 to 30 miles an hour (and at times gusting to higher speeds) shapes the new growth twigs, the twigs grow into limbs, the limbs become the secondary trunks and all bend to the direction of the wind. Where does the wind come from – this universally shaping presence?
  14422. Which Way to the Barricades?
    First Published: 2017
    What was the mass strike and what would a successful one look like today?
  14423. A Whiff of Jim Crow
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    The Republican party and its rightwing base are on a concerted drive to suppress the vote in coming elections. The targets are African Americans, other ethnic minorities, the elderly and young.
  14424. While Everyone Else Went to College, I Went to Jail
    A Conversation With Saad Nabeel
    First Published: 2010
  14425. While the World Watches Trump, It’s Missing What’s Really Going On
    First Published: 2019
    The superficial antics of Trump and other world leaders are making front page news while investigative reporting on real issues is pushed to the margins.
  14426. While US, North Korea Both Make Threats, Only One Has Killed Millions of the Other's People
    First Published: 2017
    Despite bombastic threats from both the Unites States and North Korea, the mainstream media plays down the simple fact that it is North Korea that is isolated and facing overwhelming military superiority.
  14427. While you were distracted climate change warning arrived
    First Published: 2016
    With dire warnings of catastrophic sea level rise and superstorms capable of pitching 1,000 tonne mega-boulders onto shorelines, scientist James Hansen sounded an alarm over continued global warming.
  14428. The Whistle-Blower as Deep Mole 
    Spying on Malfeasance
    First Published: 2014
    There’s an intriguing idea based loosely on the turn-of-the-century union practice of "salting" a workplace. Salting consists of union activists secretly hiring into an anti-union shop in order to promote unionism from within.
  14429. Whistle-blowing guide
    Sometimes simply telling people the truth about what goes on at work can put a lot of pressure on the boss
    First Published: 2006
    Consumer industries like restaurants and packing plants are the most vulnerable. And again, as in the case of the good work strike, you'll be gaining the support of the public, whose patronage can make or break a business. Whistle blowing can be as simple as a face-to-face conversation with a customer, or it can be as dramatic as the P.G.&E. engineer who revealed that the blueprints to the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor had been reversed. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle blew the lid off the scandalous health standards and working conditions of the meatpacking industry when it was published earlier this century.
  14430. The Whistleblower's Tale
    How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — and Lost Everything
    A CIA officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for whistleblowing and filing lawsuits of racial discrimination against the CIA. This is a story of a man who was beaten down and stood back up just to be beaten down again.
  14431. The Whistleblower's Tale
    How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA-- and Lost Everything
    First Published: 2015
    This is how it ended for Jeffrey Sterling. A former covert officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, Sterling sat down in a federal courtroom with a lawyer on either side, looking up at a judge who would announce in a few moments whether he would go to prison for the next 20 years.
  14432. White, Bob
    Connexipedia Article
    Canadian trade unionist. (Born 1935).
  14433. White Collar Blues
    First Published: 1973
    An article about working in a Canadian government office (the Unemployment Insurance Commission).
  14434. The White Cop and the Black Professor
    First Published: 2009
    Police are trained to act as authoritarian thugs when they are dealing with people who are not obviously of, or loyal to, the very wealthy elite who rule the nation. The police are trained to enforce law and order in an unjust and unequal society, and a big part of doing this requires that they make ordinary people obey them out of fear.
  14435. White Flag Deaths
    Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead
    First Published: 2009
    Documents incidents where Israeli soldiers fired on civilians with small arms during Israel's military operations in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. These attacks killed 11 civilians, including five women and four children, and wounded at least another eight.
  14436. White and Guilty of the Crime of History?
    No. I'm Not Going to the Reeducation Camp
    First Published: 2015
    I don't think I’m White. I think I am a human being. I don’t know what it is like to be rich and in the top 20 percent of money makers in the USA. I know that I'm color-labeled as White and class-labeled as Middle by the identity and false consciousness hunters that roam the American landscape.
  14437. The 'White Helmets' and the Inherent Contradiction of America's Syria Policy
    First Published: 2016
    The danger faced by the White Helmets is not a fiction -- to date, 141 first responders affiliated with the Syrian Civil Defense have been killed while performing their duty. And although their claims of having saved more than 60,000 lives are unverifiable, there can be no doubt that many lives have, in fact, been saved as a result of their work. But let there be no doubt -- despite their oft-cited claims of being neutral and impartial, that the White Helmets are very partisan.
  14438. The White Man in That Photo
    First Published: 2015
    Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith's rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time.
  14439. White Nights: Before Charlottesville Was in the Spotlight, Police Arrested Their Most Prominent Critic in the Middle of the Night
    First Published: 2017
    Within two weeks of voters in Charlottesville going to the polls to decide on the city's next district attorney, the candidate vowing to rein in police abuse and roll back mass incarceration was arrested in the middle of the night and bound for a police station.
  14440. White privilege masquerades as anti-racism
    First Published: 2014
    Why does a demonstration of hundreds of people against "anti-Semitism" in Toronto seem more like a march for white supremacy than a rally against racism?
  14441. White Rose
    Connexipedia Article
    A non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor.
  14442. White Rose Begins Leaflet Campaigns June 1942
    First Published: 2016
    In June 1942, a pair of German university students formed The White Rose, a German resistance movement that used a series of leaflets to decry Nazi militarism and call for an end to the war. Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell wrote the first four leaflets between the end of June and beginning of July. In the fall, Hans' sister, Sophie Scholl, discovered that her brother was one of the authors of the pamphlets, and joined the group. Shortly after, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, and Kurt Huber became members.
  14443. White Supremacy/ Identity Politics
    First Published: 2017
    Can cop violence and anti-Black racism be permanently defeated so long as white supremacist ideology permeates the ruling class and society?
  14444. White Women and White Power
    Book Review
    First Published: 2019
    Review of two books about white supremacy. Especially focused on the role of white women in white power movements.
  14445. The White World and Black Reality
    First Published: 2018
    White people on the left must deal with racism to create true solidarity and resist Trump's politics.
  14446. Whiteness Again
    First Published: 2017
    Whiteness is a protection racket that used to provide material bonuses. It is a minimally advantageous deal that the ruling class continuously renegotiates with a part of the working class, and the first such deal happened before the founding of the United States.
  14447. Whither China?
    First Published: 1968
    A document written by militants called Sheng-wu-lien in Hunan province in China during the "Cultural Revolution." The Shengwulian activists were crushed by the bureaucracy.
  14448. Whither Diversity?
    First Published: 2007
    We love race - we love identity - because we don't love class. That is, the upper income groups in society, including many liberals, prefer to believe that a fair and just society can be realized primarily by celebrating and embracing diversity -- but excluding class considerations.
  14449. Whither the "Political Revolution"?
    First Published: 2016
    A new generation is forming its political identity - large numbers of youth, the majority of whom belong to the working class or a collapsing "middle class," have been shaped by the Sanders phenomenon in ways that will last long after this election. They are open to socialist ideas, and many have gained experience in organizing.
  14450. Who Are the "Alt-Right"? On the Rise of Reactionary Hatred and How to Fight it
    First Published: 2017
    With much of the public discussing strategies for how best to fight right-wing extremism, the need for constructive solutions is greater than ever. First and foremost, it’s important to point out that public support for far-right extremists is miniscule. The vast majority of Americans reject this movement's violence and hatred. According to a Marist survey from the summer of 2017, just 4 percent of Americans said they support "white supremacy movement" or "white nationalism." Similarly, just 6 percent embraced the term "alt-right" Still, there is a legitimate concern that support for right-wing bigotry may grow in the future if left unchecked.
  14451. Who Are the Control Rods?
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    After losing a war, one of the worst things that can happen to a society is for its people to be told it was a "victory." The inability or failure to learn the lessons of the United States’ defeat in Iraq enables the plunge into the next disastrous adventure: Can you say "Iran"?
  14452. Who are the Global Terrorists?
    in Booth & Tim Dunne (eds.), Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order
    First Published: 2002
    In light of President George Bush's declaration of "war against terrorism", Chomsky attempts to determine who the opponents are and what the appropriate response to their crimes would be.
  14453. Who Are the Zombie Masters and What Do They Want?
    First Published: 1994
  14454. Who Built the Panama Canal?
    First Published: 2017
    Donald Trump might not know it, but the United States didn't build the Panama Canal. Workers did.
  14455. Who Calls The Tune?
    First Published: 1977
    "Who Calls the Tune?" is a new publication by the Canadian Council on Social Development recounting the experiences of small community organizations with the media.
  14456. Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
    First Published: 2009
    Whose interests do the violent actions of the black bloc benefit? The interests of the general public in using free speech as a means of political change? Or the interests of the authorities in providing the perfect pretext with which to crush and outlaw that free speech? You can't overthrow the entire system by smashing one bank and starting a bonfire. Real political change takes generations of struggle, decades of building respected educational platforms, and a gargantuan grass-roots movement focused on taking power on the local level and expanding upwards. Throwing a brick through a window isn't going to achieve anything other than making the vast majority of the general public despise you even more, and support the very systems of power that you are supposedly opposing. The black bloc sect exist to provide the media with violent footage with which to demonize legitimate protesters.
  14457. Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration?
    First Published: 2017
    Although the Balfour Declaration itself has been parsed, de-semanticised, romanticised, decrypted, decried, cursed and adored for 100 years, its fraud is easy to detect: it made two promises which were fundamentally opposed to each other -- and thus one of them, to the Arabs (aka "the existing non-Jewish communities"), would be broken.
  14458. Who does that server really serve?
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2013
    On the Internet, proprietary software isn't the only way to lose your freedom. Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS, is another way to let someone else have power over your computing.
  14459. Who Gets The Work: A Test Of Racial Discrimination In Employment
    First Published: 1986
  14460. Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The U.S. Government and Its Police Force
    First Published: 2019
    Statistical analyses of gun violence in America consistently fail to account for the number of victimes of police killings. The militization of policiing has led to a greater number of victims, particularly among young black men and the mentally ill.
  14461. Who is Afraid of a Real Inquiry?
    First Published: 2010
    If a real Commission of Inquiry had been set up into the Free Gaza Flotilla attack (instead of the pathetic excuse for a commission), here are some of the questions it should have addressed.
  14462. Who is Afraid of Venezuelan Democracy?
    First Published: 2018
    We are witnessing before our eyes a scenario of subversion and disqualification of Venezuela’s democracy.
  14463. Who Is An Objective Journalist?
    Agents of the Status Quo
    First Published: 2013
    The false dichotomy between journalists and activists.
  14464. Who is appropriating what?
    First Published: 2016
    Last week the novelist Lionel Shriver gave the keynote address at the Brisbane Writers Festival. It did not go well. She addressed the question of 'Fiction and identity politics' (apparently the organizers had originally asked her to talk about 'community and belonging', but she had submitted to them a different topic), providing a robust critique of identity politics and of the idea of ‘cultural appropriation’.
  14465. Who is Polar Gas? - A Basic Data Sheet
    First Published: 1978
  14466. Who Is Responsible?
    First Published: 2019
    A short update on attempts to gain justice for Indigenous genocide in Guatemala in the 1980s.
  14467. Who is the biggest climate change villain?
    First Published: 2017
    Here is an exclusive the Guardian has held back from its readers for 26 years. It is finally published on its pages today.
  14468. Who Killed Ekaru Loruman?
    First Published: 2012
    Climate change arrives in a world primed for crisis. The current and impending dislocations of climate change intersect with the already existing crises of poverty and violence. By this “catastrophic convergence,” I do not merely mean that several disasters happen simultaneously, one problem atop another. Rather, I am arguing that problems compound and amplify each other, one expressing itself through another.
  14469. Who Killed Marielle?
    First Published: 2018
    Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, whose murder is still unsolved, was a thorn in the side of the right-wing, repressive government. The fight she fought continues through with people people she represented.
  14470. Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
    When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know
    First Published: 2015
    Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
  14471. Who owns knowledge?
    First Published: 2007
    The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
  14472. Who Pays? Who Profits? Food Production in Canada
    First Published: 1983
  14473. Who profits from keeping Gaza on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe?
    Keeping Gaza on the verge of collapse keeps international humanitarian aid money flowing to exactly where it benefits Israeli interests.
    First Published: 2018
    Economic researcher and journalist, Shir Hever shows that Israel benefits economically from its siege and oppression of Gaza.
  14474. Who Put Trump in the White House?
    First Published: 2017
    The media story in the days following the 2016 election was that a huge defection of angry, white, blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt from their traditional Democratic voting patterns put Donald J. Trump in the White House in a grand slap at the nation's "liberal" elite. But is that the real story?
  14475. Who Should Bomb Iran First?
    The Myth Of Left-Leaning Media Bias
    First Published: 2007
    Mainstream media discussions of media balance are limited to a single question: Is the media too critical of powerful interests?
  14476. Who Speaks for the 99%
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    The bitter truth about U.S. politics is that neither ruling-class party speaks for the working class or poor.
  14477. Who Supported the Khmer Rouge?
    How the US Backed a Regime of Unrivaled Barbarism
    First Published: 2014
    With the conviction of former Khmer Rouge officials Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea for crimes against humanity, the subject of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 received a small amount of attention in the Western mass media. What the media failed to mention was how the Khmer Rouge was maintained as a military and political force long after its fall from power.
  14478. Who the Hell is Supporting Donald Trump?
    First Published: 2016
    Somehow the Trump shell game has gained followers. So the question is now, who the hell are these people voting for Trump?
  14479. Who threatens us most -- peaceful campaigners or a private militia run by police chiefs?
    First Published: 2011
    The people challenging corporate power are often defamed as destructive anarchists. Yet they are seeking to defend the fabric of our lives from the anarchic destruction of market fundamentalism. The police, on the other hand, are fighting – often without obvious justification – to shield destructive companies from both unlawful and lawful challenges. They are defending neoliberalism’s atomising, kleptocratic projects from those who question them.
  14480. Who to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?
    Without Substantiation, Media Integrity Suffers
    First Published: 2017
    Imagine if justice were administered mainly on hearsay (ignoring the fact that justice is too often lacking in society). It is a cardinal rule of justice that rendering a decision of guilty must only be done when such guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt. Medical schools state they follow evidence-based practices. Nursing schools do the same. Science progresses through the scientific method which demands evidence. When observations and experimental results contravene theory, the theory is tossed. There is academia, and then there is politics and the corporate media. Politics and its corporate media has long since become risible within the sphere of serious contemplation.
  14481. Who Voted for Germany's New Nazis?
    First Published: 2017
    Klikauer examines the rise of the far-Right in Germany, with reference to unresolved inequalities post re-uinification, changing demographics and media interests.
  14482. Who was Nelson Mandela? 
    First Published: 2013
    We should treasure the memory of the Mandela our rulers hated: the lonely, courageous, unbowed political prisoner, condemned for his resistance to racial oppression.
  14483. Who Would Believe It? Annals of the New Left Era
    First Published: 2019
    A review of "You Say You Want a Revolution" a collection of memoirs of the Progressive Labor Party.
  14484. Who's in Control?
    Issue 14
    First Published: 1977
    An examination of the phenomenon of corporate power.
  14485. The Whole World is Watching
    Chinese Diggers?
    First Published: 2011
    Thousands of villagers at Wukan, in China’s Guangdong province, are protesting the theft of their communal land by a corrupt local government in collusion with developers.
  14486. The Whole World Stopped Watching
    "Diversity of Tactics", Repression, and the RNC protests in St. Paul, Minnesota (Part I)
    First Published: 2008
    I must engage those of my activist friends who believe in the "Diversity of Tactics" framework, the now established modus operandi of summit and convention protests. I have come to believe a sorry record of repeated protest failures must be laid squarely at the foot of this ideologically tainted utopia.
  14487. Whom Should We Support in Iran?
    First Published: 2009
    The people we should support in Iran are those who are trying to make Iran more equal, more democratic and more friendly to the principle of solidarity--concern for one another. Since we want the world to move in this direction, we should support those who are pushing it in that direction. The people doing this are working class Iranians.
  14488. Who’s Afraid of Corporate COINTELPRO?
    First Published: 2017
    On November 30, 2016, presumably right at the stroke of midnight, Google Inc. unpersoned CounterPunch. They didn't send out a press release or anything. They just quietly removed it from the Google News aggregator. Not very many people noticed.
  14489. Who's afraid of the BNP?
    First Published: 2009
    How should a liberal democratic society respond to an organization such as the BNP? Should the political mainstream ostracise the BNP or engage with it? And if engage, how?
  14490. Who's Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams's 'White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America'
    Book Review
    First Published: 2017
    A book review on White Working Class Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Written By Joan C. Williams).
  14491. Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
    In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website
    First Published: 2016
    Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.
  14492. Who's Dysfunctional Now?
    Against The Current vol. 146
    First Published: 2010
    The good news is that the Republicans and the Tea Party movement not only lost the health insurance reform vote, but made such a obscene spectacle of themselves that everyone now knows who and what they really are. The bad news is that the Democrats now take credit for passing “health care reform” when in fact they’ve gutted it — hiding who and what they really are.
  14493. Whose Detroit? A City's Upheaval
    Against The Current vol. 108
    First Published: 2004
    On July 15, 1970, James Johnson Jr., a Black autoworker at Chrysler Eldon Avenue Plant in Detroit, shot and killed two foremen and a fellow worker. Forty-five minutes into the shift he had been reassigned to the ovens, where the heat that day was more than 120 degrees.
  14494. Whose Health Care?
    Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System
    First Published: 2005
  14495. Whose history? Why the People's History Museum is vital
    In recent months, high-profile figures have claimed museums should be ‘neutral’ spaces. Thank goodness, then, for the People’s History Museu
    First Published: 2019
    Peoples History Museum also acts as a space for learning and offers a site for new debates to emerge, regularly allocating space for community exhibitions and contemporary political discussion. It also exhibits documents from recent events and contemporary unions, as it continues to build its collections.
  14496. Whose Lives Matter in America?
    First Published: 2015
    A discussion of Black Lives Matter and the murders of African Americans.
  14497. Whose National Security?
    Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies
    First Published: 2000
    Examines RCMP monitoring of trade unionists, Left-wing political groups, students, gays and lesbians, feminists, consumers' associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereignists.
  14498. Whose sarin?
    First Published: 2013
    Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. The Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin.
  14499. Whose "Security" -- and for What?
    First Published: 2019
    Editorial about how accepted "security" discourse obscures the real structural and systemic crises today.
  14500. Whose seeds are they anyway?
    Real Farming Report
    First Published: 2017
    The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored.
  14501. Whose side are you on? The mundane decline of labour history
    First Published: 2011
    The following polemical intervention by Humphrey McQueen is published as a contribution to understanding the nature, and practice, of radical history.
  14502. Whose Streets? Their Streets
    First Published: 2017
    If people don’t believe that the police in America are the greatest threat to civil society then they've been asleep for years, and comatose just this week. Or they're white, privileged and/or accepting of brutality against their own fellow citizens.
  14503. Whose Stupid War Was This?
    Against The Current vol. 81
    First Published: 1999
    The Rambouillet Accord was an ultimatum for a war against Serbia, and the terms of the ultimatum demonstrated that if the Serbian government accepted Rambouillet they would very likely face a crushing attack in the future from NATO forces on Yugoslav soil.
  14504. Whose Wipeout? Whose Bailout?
    Against The Current vol. 137
    First Published: 2008
    Is this what 1931 looks like? Years ago, we recall, two themes for popular cinema were people trapped in burning skyscrapers ("Towering Inferno") and market sharks engaged in financial manipulations ("Wall Street"). After September 11, 2001 the former disaster movie genre suddenly seemed much less fun, and we suspect that after September 2008 the spectacle of stock market crashes on the big screen may not be so entertaining either.
  14505. Why a Future Ride in a Self-Driving Car Could Be a Trip to Advertising Hell
    First Published: 2015
    There's nothing marketers love more than a captive audience. And people don't get any more captive than when they're sitting in a car. That's a powerful motivation for companies developing automated cars, beyond the technical innovation that has made such a vision possible.
  14506. Why a Killer Cop is Not Arrested
    First Published: 2014
    Miah analyzes the grand jury system and police conduct in the United States to explain why the large number of African Americans killed by police are considered justifiable homicides in court.
  14507. Why Activists Fail
    First Published: 2019
    Describes why activists have historically failed to make a real difference - they don't know how the world works. Describes how the world works and explains some components of nonviolent strategy for change.
  14508. Why aid projects in Palestine are doomed to fail
    First Published: 2012
    So long as aid in Palestine remains detached from the everyday realities of occupation and operates on the aggressor’s terms, it will continue to be ineffective.
  14509. Why Al Jazeera will not say Mediterranean 'migrants'
    First Published: 2015
    There is no "migrant" crisis in the Mediterranean. There is a very large number of refugees fleeing unimaginable misery and danger and a smaller number of people trying to escape the sort of poverty that drives some to desperation.
  14510. Why American Financial Markets Have No Relationship to Reality
    An Economic House of Cards
    First Published: 2014
    The bullion banks (primarily JP Morgan, HSBC, ScotiaMocatta, Barclays, UBS, and Deutsche Bank), most likely acting as agents for the Federal Reserve, have been systematically forcing down the price of gold since September 2011. Suppression of the gold price protects the US dollar against the extraordinary explosion in the growth of dollars and dollar-denominated debt.
  14511. Why Americans Should Care about East Timor
    First Published: 1999
    Noam Chomsky describes the situation in East Timor and the way in which America was directly involved. In turn, he calls for sufficient popular reaction in order to end the disaster for which the American Administration is significantly responsible.
  14512. Why America's Judges Should be Chosen by Citizen Juries
    First Published: 2016
    Judges should not be chosen by popular vote, nor by politicians. Both approaches are undemocratic and deeply flawed, perhaps even absurd, despite the fact that the former is in widespread use at the state level, and the latter has always been used at the federal level (in the form of appointment by the President and confirmation by the Senate). A far better option is for judges to be chosen by juries drawn from the public by random selection.
  14513. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified 
    First Published: 2006
    If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
  14514. Why Ann Coulter Has Power: U.S. Politics are Authoritarian by Design
    First Published: 2019
    A description of undemocratic processes in the US government - the Electoral College, gerrymandering, etc. - and how these allow a small minority to decide the leadership of the country.
  14515. Why the Anti-Trump Resistance Movement Should Not Initiate Violence
    First Published: 2017
    One hazard we must avoid in our struggle is to allow violence to be used in the movement. We can't afford to give our approval to this by green lighting the burning of limousines and the breaking of store windows, as happened in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2017, or by punching the Nazi Richard Spencer in the face, which is satisfying but unproductive.
  14516. Why Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
    First Published: 2017
    Past efforts, whatever personnel, resources and strategies have been devoted to them, have done nothing to address the underlying cause of racism and so their impact must be superficial and temporary. As the record demonstrates.
  14517. Why Are Families Under Attack?
    First Published: 2004
    The media are full of very sophisticated anti-family messages, which can come from both the right and the left. Liberals denigrate the value of families in which children are raised by their real mother and father, and they sometimes suggest that such families are often patriarchies with abusive fathers. Conservatives often call for "family values" in which women are subordinate to men and inequality prevails. Neither liberal nor conservative views reflect true family values of equality and commitment to each other.
  14518. Why are our environmental groups supporting weak climate targets?
    First Published: 2016
    The federal government's recently announced that all Canadian jurisdictions must adopt a carbon pricing scheme by 2018 with a minimum price of $10 per tonne. The price must rise to reach $50 per tonne by 2022. The goal of reducing emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 will not get Canada anywhere close to its promises to the United Nations. Canadians probably believe that our major environmental groups are busy lobbying and pushing the federal and provincial governments to do much more. But no, this is not the case.
  14519. Why Are Police In The USA So Terrified?
    First Published: 2017
    The routine killing of innocent civilians by the police has become a national crisis despite concerted attempts by political and legal authorities and the corporate media to obscure what is happening.
  14520. Why Are Progressives Stupid? It's Not Too Late to Get Smart
    First Published: 2017
    Many progressives are stupid. Unless they get smart soon, "The Resistance" to Donald Trump will fail, just like everything else the Left has tried to do for the last 40 years.
  14521. Why Are So Many People Out of Work?
    First Published: 1978
  14522. Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?
    First Published: 2019
    The author gives several examples of people refusing to change their beliefs even when confronted with facts.
  14523. Why are we afraid of naming and confronting capitalism?
    First Published: 2015
    Many critics of capitalism suggest that capitalism is not the main problem in the world. They do not want to appear, in the eyes of the people and the ruling elite, as too radical or 'ideological'. But the forces for social change must embrace revolutionary engagement with robust ideological clarity: Capitalism is the problem.
  14524. Why Are We The Good Guys? - Book Review
    First Published: 2012
    One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement. But the prevailing view is that 'the West' is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge to this false ideology.
  14525. Why aren't people voting?
    First Published: 2011
    There is much ado about "voter apathy", with a focus on young people, who in creative and desperate ways are urged and "mobbed" to vote. Unfortunately, much of this effort is barking up the wrong tree: unless we can guarantee that hundreds of thousands of Canadians who are eager to vote can actually do so, we are subjecting them to a nasty piece of Catch 22 where the victims of voter obstruction get the blame for being apathetic and not doing their civic duty.
  14526. Why Aren't the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research?
    First Published: 2019
    Presenting a case for replacing government-granted patent monopoly financing of pharmaceutical research to make drugs available at free market prices.
  14527. Why bananas are a parable for our times
    Amost unnoticed, bananas are dying
    The corporations that control the banana industry have created a giant monoculture. Disease is now destroying the fruit, and because natural genetic diversity has been eliminated, there is no remedy.
  14528. Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission
    First Published: 2017
    Six professors at an elite American college insist that students will suffer "damage" or "injury" if speakers they may disagree with are allowed to speak on campus.
  14529. Why big NGOs won't lead the fight on climate change
    First Published: 2015
    The cowardly response of prominent climate organizations like 350.org and Avaaz to the protest ban during COP21 demands accountability.
  14530. Why Black Lives Matter Can't be Co-opted
    First Published: 2021
    Black Lives Matter BLM never was and never had the potential to be what people like this fantasized that it was.
  14531. Why Black Lives Matter Is Game Change
    First Published: 2015
    The Cleveland Black Lives Matter Convening was a "game changer" because it made clear the Movement is long term. Whether its next step will add a call for a break with the two-party system, time and struggle will tell.
  14532. Why Black Lives Matters Is Taking on Police Unions
    First Published: 2016
    Black Lives Matter argues that the police associations have to be challenged head-on because of their power in preventing change.
  14533. Why Blacks Vote for "Pragmatism"
    First Published: 2016
    African Americans are probably the most pragmatic voting bloc in the country. African Americans more than any other ethnic group understand white supremacy, racism and class exploitation.
  14534. Why Bosses Hate Unions
    First Published: 2015
    Unions vastly improve the wages and working conditions of their members. No wonder they're still under attack.
  14535. Why Boycott Aroma?
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2011
    Our boycott call is part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
  14536. Why Brazil's Lula is Right -- Israel is Behaving like Nazis
    First Published: 2024
    I note the irony that YouTube allows unfettered access to view images of the Holocaust but tries to limit who can see similar images from Gaza. What is unfolding in Gaza is a war crime of gargantuan proportions. Israel, by its conduct, desecrates the legacy of those Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis and those who survived.
  14537. Why Can't Capitalism Go Green?
    First Published: 2015
    It is more than a quarter of a century since the ruling classes of the world began serious discussions on global warming, in preparation for the 1992 UN-sponsored ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio. Yet no meaningful steps have been taken to tackle the problem, even though the majority of the capitalist establishment has come to understand that something needs to be done. The Paris summit looks very unlikely to break from this pattern. So how can the lack of action be explained?
  14538. Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
    First Published: 2009
    Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
  14539. Why Can't the U.S. Left Get Venezuela Right?
    First Published: 2017
    As Venezuela's fascist-minded oligarchy conspires with U.S. imperialism to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro, few in the U.S. seem to care.
  14540. Why capitalism causes oppression
    First Published: 2016
    An examination of capitalism and how the aggressive competitive drive to accumulate wealth exploits and marginalizes individuals and social groups.
  14541. Why changing our diets won't save the Earth
    First Published: 2016
    Received wisdom says that to save the planet we have to change our eating habits. Elaine Graham-Leigh explains why the received wisdom isn't just wrong, it blames working people for a crisis they didn’t cause.
  14542. Why Chomsky and Zizek are wrong on the US Elections
    Chomsky and Zizek clashed on voting in the US elections, but the views of both are critically flawed.
    First Published: 2016
    Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek, while both critical of Hillary Clinton, are opposed on whom they declare to vote for in the 2016 US election. In opting for Clinton or Trump, Chomsky and Zizek both avoid the crucial question of actual voters and how and why they voted the way they did, and are fixated on the abstract illusion of being on the left or right side of a vacuous argument.
  14543. Why climate action is the antithesis of white supremacy
    Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation
    First Published: 2019
    Climate action and climate change denial are antithetical to each other as the former is based on interconnectivity and collective action while the latter seeks exclusion and separation.
  14544. Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous Farce
    Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years.
    First Published: 2018
    In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.
  14545. Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
    First Published: 2009
    Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
  14546. Why Cooperative Businesses Are Not the Answer
    First Published: 2013
    The problem with the worker-owned cooperative business economic model is that this model retains one of the most important defining characteristics of the capitalist model with which we are so familiar today: production of commodities to be sold for a profit in the market place.
  14547. Why Corbyn so terrifies the liberal elite
    First Published: 2016
    Most Labour MPs would rather destroy their own party than let Jeremy Corbyn and his backers make it fit for its 21st century purpose.
  14548. Why Cuba Is Different?
    Against The Current vol. 112
    First Published: 2004
    First, we have to address the United States’ stance toward Cuba for what it is since 1960: four and a half decades of state terrorism against a country and its people. Anyone who supports the right of self-determination is obliged to oppose and fight all forms of U.S. government intervention against Cuba, as if there were no issue of political repression inside Cuba.
  14549. Why Culture Matters
    First Published: 2017
    In order to engage in a meaningful dialogue about 'cultural appropriation' we have to reject the framing that critics like Bari Weiss give it -- where culture becomes just another market.
  14550. Why Detroit Needs Justice and CPR
    Against The Current vol. 88
    First Published: 2000
    If anyone doubts that the modern American City has become the center of all forms of oppression, consider the list of injustices that Detroit residents confront everyday in a city governed by African Americans. Although Brush Park residents were granted funds for renovation some five years ago, the city has taken the money from the senior citizens and transferred it to the big developers and city attorneys to help evict the seniors.
  14551. Why did Syriza fail?
    First Published: 2015
    How has Syriza ended up this way? This is a question that is tormenting a big part of the left and that all the forces that situate themselves on the left must answer.
  14552. (Why) Did the Sixties Fail?
    First Published: 1986
    A brief examination of the social movements of the 1906s, and the underlying contradictions which led them to be unsuccessful.
  14553. Why Did the US Use Depleted Uranium Weapons in Syria?
    First Published: 2017
    The recent confirmation by the US that DU ammunition was used in two attacks in Syria in late 2015 raises a number of troubling questions. Firstly, why was DU used? Has it been used again? Will it be used again?
  14554. Why Do Banks Really Want Our Deposits?
    Hint: It's Not to Finance Loans
    First Published: 2014
    Many authorities have said it: banks do not lend their deposits. They create the money they lend on their books.
  14555. Why Do Communities Fail?
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.
  14556. Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
    First Published: 2015
    The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced with such atrocities, we can often do little but reach for adjectives such as 'barbarous', 'depraved', or even 'evil'. But what is it that makes people act in such depraved, evil ways?
  14557. Why do Palestinian children throw stones?
    First Published: 2022
    Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about before going to bed. Unlike imaginary monsters in the closet or under the bed, Israeli soldiers are real, and they could show up any minute – at the door, on the roof or, as was often the case, right in the middle of the house.
  14558. Why Do Students Kill Their Class-Mates
    Detachment, Isolation, Dehumanization, and Emotional Estrangement from Human Relationships
    First Published: 2018
    A recently released phone video shot by 19-year-old Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, reveals a cold, callus young man who claims to "hate everyone and everything."
  14559. Why Do They Hate George Galloway So Much?
    First Published: 2012
    The ferocity of the attacks on George Galloway by the British commentariat is one of the most revealing outcomes of his victory in the Bradford West by-election.
  14560. Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
    First Published: 2016
    Among critics of technological surveillance, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell's Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon -- a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which captives cannot tell if or when they are being watched. Today, both of these touchstones are considered chillingly prophetic. But in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, Bernard Harcourt has another suggestion: Both of them are insufficient.
  14561. Why Does It Matter If Heidegger Was Anti-Semitic?
    First Published: 2014
    The publication of the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s “Schwarzen Hefte” (“Black Notebooks”), written between 1931 and the early nineteen-seventies, is likely to cause an uproar.
  14562. Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
    First Published: 1993
    Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least one American expert.
  14563. Why Does the FBI Have to Manufacture its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such Grave Threats?
    First Published: 2015
    Article talks about FBI's terrorism strategies and their manipulation of information.
  14564. Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?
    A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska.
    First Published: 2018
    A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.
  14565. Why environmentalists must support workers' struggles 
    Global Capitalism is the Real Enemy
    First Published: 2013
    This is to specifically address class struggle as it relates to the ecological crisis. It will not address all the other (many!) reasons that working class struggle must be waged and supported.
  14566. Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment
    First Published: 2015
    In a series of articles based on internal documents from Exxon Mobil going back to the 1970s and on interviews with former company scientists and employees, ICN shows that Exxon's "own research confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming decades ago." Yes, decades ago -- during the late 1970s to be precise.
  14567. Why German state racism is now directed at the Palestinians
    First Published: 2022
    The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows.
  14568. Why Greece Doesn't Matter
    We have to stop talking about Greece. What must emerge from the calamity of SYRIZA-ANEL is a renewed call for democracy
    First Published: 2015
    Change in Greece will not come from short-term strategies and tactics of seeking power, but from a long process of coordinated and planned immanent critiques. This political organization will not aim to represent itself in the machinery of parliament -- where the watchful eyes of the IMF and ECB will determine policy -- but will emerge from an organized movement comprising the disenfranchised, the working class, and the intellectual vanguard. It will not compromise. It will instead operate under an ideology for an emancipatory alliance of humanity removed from the spreadsheet, removed from the NATO, and removed from free-market directives. It will not seek to claim power in an election, it will be given it by the people themselves when the movement is ripe.
  14569. Why Green Capitalism Will Fail
    Staying in the Environmental Frying Pan Only Gets Us Hotter
    First Published: 2014
    Green capitalism is destined to fail: You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. We can’t shop our way out of global warming nor are there technological magic wands that will save us. There is no alternative to a dramatic change in the organization of the global economy and consumption patterns. Such a change will not come without costs — but the costs of doing nothing, of allowing global warming to precede is far greater.
  14570. Why has the left gone soft on human rights?
    First Published: 2007
    A perverse interpretation of multiculturalism has resulted in race and religion ruling the roost in a tainted hierarchy of oppression. In the name of "unity" against Islamophobia and racism, much of the left tolerates misogyny and homophobia in minority communities. It rejects common standards of rights and responsibilities; demanding that we "make allowances" and show "sensitivity" with regard to the prejudices of ethnic and faith communities. This attitude is patronising, even racist. It judges minority peoples by different standards.
  14571. Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even though She Didn't)
    First Published: 2015
    CNN and Facebook co-sponsored last week’s Democratic presidential frontrunners' "debate." After the event, CNN conducted a poll. "Who won the debate?" it asked. The result: 83% Bernie Sanders; 12% Hillary Clinton.
  14572. Why History Makes Us Important
    Back to Bachima
    First Published: 2014
    History has been important to me for as long as I can remember. As a child I loved hearing my relatives tell stories about the past. However, it was not until I was older that I realized that the stories meant something; they were key to understanding the present; and why we are what we are. As my awareness increased, I became serious about the past so serious that it often got me into trouble.
  14573. Why I am a Marxist 
    First Published: 1935
    For the Marxist, there is no such thing as 'Marxism' in general any more than there is a 'democracy' in general, a 'dictatorship' in general or a 'state' in general. There is only a bourgeois state, a proletarian dictatorship or a fascist dictatorship, etc. And even these exist only at determinate stages of historical development, with corresponding historical characteristics, mainly economic, but conditioned also in part by geographical, traditional, and other factors. With the deferent levels of historical development, with the different environments of geographical distribution, with the well-known differences of creed and tendency among the various Marxist schools, there exist, both nationally and internationally, very different theoretical systems and practical movements which go by the name of Marxism.
  14574. Why I Choose Optimism Over Despair
    An Interview With Noam Chomsky
    First Published: 2016
    Noam Chomsky explores the possibilities for a better human society.
  14575. Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on Islam
    First Published: 2016
    This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people across the world united to express their support for that essential liberty.
  14576. Why I Represent the New Orleans Immigrant Workers Who Committed Civil Disobedience
    An Honor to Defend Them
    First Published: 2013
    In the thirty six-years I have been a lawyer, I have seen many people take brave moral actions. I have represented hundreds in Louisiana and across our country who have been arrested for protesting for peace, civil rights, economic justice, and human rights for all. It is amazing to see people put their freedom on the line when they risk jail for justice.
  14577. Why I Stand with Occupy
    Against The Current vol. 156
    First Published: 2012
  14578. Why I Support the Palestinian Right of Return
    First Published: 2017
    The repatriation of Palestinian refugees is is a very real and practical concept for which there is ample historical precedent as well as practical means of implementation.
  14579. Why ICE Raids Imperil Us All
    First Published: 2017
    Millions of people who have been living and working in the U.S., contributing to their communities and to the economy, are now at risk simply for who they are: people "without papers."
  14580. Why I'm on the Picket Line
    First Published: 2014
    Teacher Tara Ehrcke talks about why she voted to strike in Greater Victoria, British Columbia: The "public" in public school shouldn't mean just providing a building, with some tired teachers to deliver a curriculum, the success of which is measured by standardized tests. A good public school system should provide high quality opportunities to every single child. While our public schools have many wonderful programs and many dedicated teachers, the sad truth is that there are also overcrowded classrooms, children falling behind, and a workforce exhausted from trying to fill in the gaps.
  14581. Why I'm Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft 
    I'm putting more trust in communities than corporations
    First Published: 2015
    Gillmor discusses how we are losing control over the technology tools that once promised equal opportunity in speech and innovation.
  14582. Why Imperial Washington Should Cool It On North Korea
    First Published: 2017
    The author argues that an enhanced package of sanctions, UN resolutions, diplomatic pressures and miltary threats against North Korea is futile; indeed Washington has been doing this for years and it hasn't worked yet, and a more robust version directed at North Korea won't work now.
  14583. Why Is Allergan Partnering with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe?
    Inside the bizarre world of patent law.
    First Published: 2018
    The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has invested in a portfolio of patents, their status as a sovereign-entity allows the holder to circumvent the "inter partes review" if a patent dispute is raised, increasing the value of their holdings.
  14584. Why Is BDS A Moral Duty Today?
    A Response To Bernard-Henri Levy
    First Published: 2011
    The reality of the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
  14585. Why Is Benjamin Netanyahu Trying To Whitewash Hitler?
    First Published: 2015
    Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly asserted that Adolf Hitler had no intention of exterminating Europe's Jews until a Palestinian persuaded him to do it.
  14586. Why is Canada Subsidizing Racist Property Restrictions?
    The JNF's Bigoted Land Use Policy
    First Published: 2013
    In Canada it is illegal to restrict the sale of property to certain ethnic or religious groups but many of our business people and politicians promote an organization that does exactly that in Israel.
  14587. Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?
    First Published: 2018
    Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they don’t usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable ‘divine’ laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.
  14588. Why is India so bad for women?
    First Published: 2012
    Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
  14589. Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
    First Published: 2009
  14590. Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
    Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
    First Published: 2009
    Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
  14591. Why is the New York Times promoting the "black bloc"?
    First Published: 2017
    A New York Times article, which ran across four columns of the newspaper's front page under a huge photo of a black-masked individual preparing to break an office building window with an iron bar during Wednesday night's protests at the University of California, Berkeley, amounted to free publicity and promotion of the violent protests organized by elements identifying themselves as the "black bloc," anti-fascists and anarchists.
  14592. Why is Surrogacy Illegal in Most of the World?
    Ethics and Risks
    First Published: 2020
    The infertility and surrogacy multi-billion-dollar industries, those who benefit from it, and others, too often attempt to out-shout any criticism of surrogacy by conflating surrogacy with LGBTQ+ rights and labeling all opposition to surrogacy as homophobic. Opposition to surrogacy has nothing to do with the sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender identification or marital status of those who use anonymous gamete and/or hire a surrogate. It is contractual anonymous conception and surrogacy which is at question, regardless of who contracts for such services.
  14593. Why is the Canadian Media Ignoring Evidence of 1948 Massacres?
    First Published: 2015
    The better part of a decade ago, I described the Toronto Star's Mitch Potter as "a canary in the mineshaft of liberal Canadian racism." A piece on 1948 Palestine published in a recent edition of the Toronto Star shows the canary very close to asphyxiating.
  14594. Why Is The Daily Beast's Russia Critic Silent About So Many Hideous Abuses?
    First Published: 2015
    A comprehensive review by The Intercept of the writings of Sam Charles Hamad - author of this Daily Beast article accusing the "global left" of remaining "silent" on abuses by Russia - reveals that he has been completely silent, shockingly and appallingly so, about the following wide array of severe global injustices, never once writing about, let alone condemning...
  14595. Why is the media promoting Antifa?
    First Published: 2017
    The promotion of Antifa serves several interrelated functions. First, the physical violence of a handful of protesters in any large demonstration is regularly used as a pretext for police provocation. This is true not only in the US, but in Europe and around the world. Police give the "anti-fascist" and anarchist groups a free hand to carry out provocations, which are then exploited to carry out a violent crackdown. The groups themselves are easily infiltrated by police provocateurs, who encourage violent acts for the desired end.
  14596. Why Is the Truth on Syria Difficult To Decipher?
    First Published: 2016
    According to Steven Kinzer, the American media's misinformation on Syria is leading to the kind of ignorance which is enabling the American government to pursue any policy, however imprudent, in the war-torn Arab country. The US government can "decree the death of nations" with “popular support because many Americans - and many journalists - are content with the official story," he wrote.
  14597. Why Is the U.S. Refusing an Independent Investigation If Its Hospital Airstrike Was an "Accident"?
    First Published: 2015
    In Geneva , Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war crime-investigating procedures established by the Geneva Conventions and conducted by The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.
  14598. Why is the West praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed?
    Is an empowered Palestinian girl not worthy of Western feminist admiration?
    First Published: 2017
    Khoja-Moolji examines the lack of media response to the plight of 16 year-old Ahed Tamimi, detained for allegedly assaulting an Israeli soldier during a confrontation at her home during which Israeli soldiers shot a fourteen-year-old child.
  14599. Why Is There No 'Saudi-Gate'?
    First Published: 2017
    For decades, the DC establishment has been on the payroll of a foreign terror state. But because it's Saudi Arabia, you won't hear a peep.
  14600. Why ISIS Fighters are Being Thrown Off Buildings in Mosul
    First Published: 2017
    The suspicion by Iraqi soldiers and militiamen that their own government is too corrupt to keep captured Isis fighters in detention is one reason why prisoners are being killed.
  14601. Why isn't cheering Israel's bombing of civilians a hate crime?
    First Published: 2023
    During its decade and a half siege, Israel's military has killed more than 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Over the past four days the nuclear armed state has killed over 2,500 Palestinians, including 260 children. Alongside its onslaught on Gaza, Israel has also bombed Lebanon, Syria and Egypt over the past 48 hours. Yet it's those who have been rallying against Canada's contribution to the racist, colonial enterprise who are being declared criminals by crazed politicians and supporters of the apartheid state.
  14602. Why Israel Desires to be Hated by Palestinians
    Gaza 2012: On the Use and Abuse of Hatred and Violence
    First Published: 2012
    Israel desires to be hated by Palestinians. By provoking violence Israel has not merely managed to divert the limelight from its apartheid nature. It has also managed to convince that, as Joseph Massad of Columbia University once captured, it has the right to occupy, to dispossess and to discriminate, namely the claim that the apartheid premise which founds it should be put up with and rationalized as reasonable.
  14603. Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth's survival
    First Published: 2016
    A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
    Nazareth was not only an anomaly; it was a mistake.
  14604. Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth’s survival
    First Published: 2016
    A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
  14605. Why Israel is blocking access to its archives
    First Published: 2016
    Israel is concealing vital records to prevent darkest periods in its history from coming to light, academics say.
  14606. Why Israel Needs Anti-Semitism
    First Published: 2014
    It would be ironic indeed if fear of Muslim neighbors in Paris suburbs should lead French Jews to move to a country totally surrounded by millions of hostile Muslim neighbours.
  14607. Why Israel Won't Survive
    First Published: 2009
    If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
  14608. Why Israel? 
    First Published: 2007
    A routine strategy of Israel's defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of 'humanitarian interventions' that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council -- sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
  14609. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state' 
    First Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
  14610. Why Israeli Leaders Love Qassam Rockets
    A Reply to Michael Neumann
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli leaders want Jews to believe that they are surrounded by violent anti-Semites. This is how the billionaires and generals and politicians who rule over the Israeli population get away with what they are doing: getting richer and more powerful while driving the rest of the population down economically. They need the Israeli population to believe that the rulers of Israel are protecting Jews from the "real enemy"--violent anti-Semitic Arabs. To make sure the "real enemy" remains credible, non-combatant Jews must die at the hands of apparent anti-Semites.
  14611. Why Israelis must disrupt the occupation
    First Published: 2017
    Even dedicated dedicated well-meaning Israelis do far too little and use far too little of their privilege to challenge and combat the injustice meted out against Palestinians.
  14612. Why Israel's Netanyahu Is So Desperate to Prevent Peace with Iran
    The distinguished professor lays bare Israel's motives
    First Published: 2015
    For both Prime Minister Netanyahu and the hawks in Congress, the primary goal is to undermine any potential negotiation that might settle whatever issue there is with Iran, says Noam Chomsky.
  14613. Why It Just Makes Sense for the U.S. to Withdraw from the UNHRC
    First Published: 2018
    Having withdrawn from the Paris Accord, and the Iran deal; having broken with the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital; having provoked allies and rivals with trade war-triggering tariffs and personal insults; having shocked the world with talk of a Great Wall to keep out Mexicans (paid for by Mexico).
  14614. Why it's time to realign the left
    First Published: 2013
    Ed Rooksby, one of the supporters of the call for a new radical left party to be formed in Britain, explains why he thinks the time is right to launch such a party and what its aims should be.
  14615. Why Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel
    First Published: 2017
    No country in the world recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with the exception of Russia.
  14616. Why Kosovo But Not Palestine?
    The Right to Exist
    First Published: 2011
    Barak Obama pretends that he is vetoing UN recognition of a Palestinian state because it did not come about as a result of negotations. But meanwhile the US has recognized Kosovo, which came into being without negotations, and in violation of international law.
  14617. Why Left Wing Populism Is Not Enough
    First Published: 2019
    Mainly a critique of Chantal Mouffe's book 'For a Left Populism,' discusses the shortcomings of a poplulism that downplays the role of class.
  14618. Why "Lesser Evilism" Is A Loser
    First Published: 2016
    Interview with Jill Stein, the 2016 presidential candidate of the Green Party.
  14619. Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
    First Published: 2015
    Bond exposes three prevailing falsehoods about logging that the U.S. Forest Service disseminates.
  14620. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Arabic text
    First Published: 2008
  14621. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Chinese version
    First Published: 2008
  14622. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Japanese text
    First Published: 2008
  14623. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Korean version
    First Published: 2008
  14624. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
    First Published: 2008
    History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
  14625. Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism
    First Published: 1911
    A strike, even of modest size, has social consequences: strengthening of the workers’ self-confidence, growth of the trade union, and not infrequently even an improvement in productive technology. The murder of a factory owner produces effects of a police nature only, or a change of proprietors devoid of any social significance. Whether a terrorist attempt, even a ‘successful’ one throws the ruling class into confusion depends on the concrete political circumstances. In any case the confusion can only be shortlived; the capitalist state does not base itself on government ministers and cannot be eliminated with them. The classes it serves will always find new people; the mechanism remains intact and continues to function.
  14626. Why Mass Movements Fail
    First Published: 2023
    The wave of global popular protests that erupted in 2010 and lasted a decade were extinguished, meaning new tactics and strategies are required, as Vincent Bevins explains in his book If We Burn.
  14627. Why (Mostly) Men Trophy Hunt: a Biocultural Explanation
    First Published: 2018
    A review of several studies offering insights into the biological basis of human behavior, specifically trophy hunting, and the biologically responsive strategies for changing it.
  14628. Why NGO Monitor is attacking The Electronic Intifada
    First Published: 2010
    NGO Monitor has launched a campaign targeting a Dutch foundation's financial support to The Electronic Intifada, accusing the publication among other things of "anti-Semitism." NGO Monitor is an extreme right-wing group with close ties to the Israeli government, military, and West Bank settlers,
  14629. Why NGOs and Leftish Nonprofits Suck (4 Reasons)
    First Published: 2015
    NGOs have proliferated like mushrooms all over the world. First deployed in social formations dominated by imperialism, they've now taken over the political scene in capital's base countries as well. They've become the hot new form of capital accumulation, with global reach and billions in revenue. So while ostensibly "non-profit," they serve as a pretty sweet income stream for those at the top, while fattening up large layers of the petite bourgeoisie and draping them like a warm wet blanket over the working class, muffling their demands.
  14630. Why No Reporters in Suez?
    The Real Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    First Published: 2011
    What is happening in Tahrir Square Cairo has been built on the backs of millions of Egyptian workers who waged 3,000 strikes over the past eight years.
  14631. Why Nonprofits can't lead the 99%
    First Published: 2015
    A seasoned movement elder examines what happens left organizations are led exclusively by college-educated professionals answerable to self-perpetuating boards and philanthropic funders, what happens when union leaderships free themselves from their memberships, and when community organizations become government contractors. Only membership supported and membership-driven organizations, he suggests, can actually lead the 99%.
  14632. Why Not Have Sex With People Who Aren't Your Partner?
    Infidelity is treated as selfish, while monogamy is celebrated. But what's so great about living in self-denial?
    First Published: 2015
    Although open relationships are not as shocking a concept today as they were 50 years ago, they’re still regarded with overwhelming skepticism and even disdain. The usual assumption is that polyamorous people are selfish, immature, incapable of commitment, and their primary relationship is therefore doomed to failure.
  14633. Why Not Jail for Corporate Criminals?
    When Regulation Fails to Restrain Corporate Villainy
    First Published: 2014
    It's time to focus on corporate criminal prosecution. Get rid of deferred and non prosecution agreements. Criminally charge corporations and their top executives.
  14634. Why Not Sanctions for Israel?
    Gross Violations of Human Rights
    First Published: 2009
    The US led the imposition of sanctions against South Africa because of South Africa's apartheid practices. The sanctions forced the white government to hand over political power to the black population. Israel practices a worse form of apartheid than did the white South African government. Yet, Israel maintains that it is 'anti-semitic' to criticize Israel for a practice that the world regards as abhorrent.
  14635. Why Ocasio-Cortez's Platform is So Great
    First Published: 2018
    By labeling her foreign policy platform "A Peace Economy," Ocasio-Cortez, using a phrase popular with the peace movement, makes the financial connection without shying away from the immoral and criminal and counter-productive character of war. The fact is that war endangers rather than protecting, erodes rights, militarizes police and society, destroys the natural environment, directly kills and injures and traumatizes and harms millions, and - on top of that - does the most damage through the diversion of resources from where they could do good.
  14636. Why Occupy Wall Street Must Include Deamdn for Honest, Observably Counted, Unrigged Elections
    First Published: 2016
    Too many critical parts of our electoral process are controlled by private partisan corporations. The counting of our votes is now controlled by these corporations' software inside computerized "black boxes" – entirely in secret.
  14637. Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
    The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
    First Published: 1997
    To most environmentalists, bicycles have always been the epitome of good. We are so used to comparing bikes to cars, that it never occurred to us that the bicycle would be ever used for anything bad. Indeed, replacing motor vehicles with bicycles deserves our adoration. But anything can be used for good or evil, and using bikes to expand human domination of wildlife habitat is clearly harmful.
  14638. Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
    An article decoding the important differences in terminology, underlying philosophy, and value systems between two similar categories of software.
  14639. Why Opposing Islamophobia is not a Defense of Extremism
    Standing Up Against Knee-Jerk Discrimination and Xenophobia
    First Published: 2012
    Recent events have generated a lot of debate about Islam, Muslims, free speech and Islamophobia. Unfortunately, much of that debate has fallen back upon rather tired arguments about not only what "Muslims are like" but also how those who oppose Islamophobia are somehow defending repression or appeasing extremists.
  14640. Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change
    First Published: 2014
    Is our inability to tackle climate change the fault of politicians? Corporations? Governments? Or is it because that's the way our brains have evolved, able to hold six contradictory ideas at once, and believe them all?
  14641. Why Our Government Supports Israel's Government, and Why We Shouldn't
    First Published: 2007
    Israel's Leaders Harm Both Jews & Palestinians.
  14642. Why Palestine is Still the Issue
    First Published: 2017
    The longest occupation and resistance in modern times is a crime that has been suppressed in the intellectual and political culture of the West.
  14643. Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed 
    First Published: 1940
    The working class is going into this war burdened with the capitalistic tradition of Party leadership and the phantom tradition of a revolution of the Russian kind.
  14644. Why Patrick Moore calls GMWatch "a bunch of murdering bastards"
    First Published: 2016
    According to Patrick Moore, GMWatch are "low-life" "murdering creeps", "profiteering on ignorance". Not to mention, "a bunch of murdering bastards" with an "anti-human, murderous agenda." How come?
  14645. Why Pay To Ride?
    The Modern Metropolis
    There is nothing revolutionary about providing "free" transportation. Why do we collect fares for some kinds of transporation but not others?
  14646. Why People Vote Against Themselves
    Wisconsin and the Collapse of Liberalism
    First Published: 2012
    The reasons people vote against their self-interest are numerous and varied but key to them is often a culture under great stress believing false promises being made to it by the powerful.
  14647. Why 'Pick On' Israel? Here's Why
    First Published: 2006
    There are a lot of excellent reasons for singling Israel out, and none of them have anything to do with anti-Semitism. Israel is the only nation that self-righteously accuses any critic of its ethnic cleansing of being a bigot (anti-Semite.) It is the only nation that insists that its racist policies are 'a light unto the nations.' If we let Israel get away with this we are contributing not only to its actual ethnic cleansing, but to its glorification of the principle of ethnic cleansing, which aids and abets this crime everywhere in the world.
  14648. Why Police Kill So Often
    First Published: 2015
    The FBI reports 404 civilians were killed by police in 2011. All were listed as "justifiable homicides." Under more intense questioning, it was then revealed that figures are not actually kept for "unjustified" police murders and, remarkably, their statistics rely exclusively on incidents self-reported by the cops.
  14649. Why Progressives Love the New Cold War
    The anti-Russian hysteria coming from the left isn't surprising
    First Published: 2016
    The Clinton campaign's effort to turn the 2016 US election into a referendum on Vladimir Putin is causing some liberals to question how the tactic appears contradictory to Clinton's other goals and beliefs. Examining support for US war efforts since WWI shows the current Cold War tactics of Clinton have many precedents from liberal politicians.
  14650. Why Pro-War Pundits Are Always Wrong
    Always Erasing the Victims
    First Published: 2014
    There is no shortage of men and women – but mostly men, typically white – willing to write 800- to 1,000-word editorials on the need for Decisive Action or Continued Resolve in Whereverthehellistan. Some of these people are historians, some are journalists, but all have attained material success in the field of arguing about war without ever once having to go through the trouble of being right.
  14651. Why Publicity Sometimes Fails
    First Published: 2004
    You've done everything you can think of to publicize your new product launch, event, or small business. But nothing seems to work. Barbara Florio Graham explains why.
  14652. Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism
    First Published: 2016
    What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
  14653. Why Race Matters in the 2012 Elections
    Against The Current vol. 160
    First Published: 2012
    We sometimes hear that the drive by the Republican Party and the far right to "suppress the vote" -- attempting to ensure the election of a Republican president and win control of the Congress -- is just hardball politics, not about race or racism. Yet the primary target is people of color.
  14654. Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works
    First Published: 2017
    Chief among the common misconceptions about the way official propaganda works is the notion that its goal is to deceive the public into believing things that are not "the truth" (that Trump is a Russian agent, for example, or that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, or that the terrorists hate us for our freedom, et cetera). However, while official propagandists are definitely pleased if anyone actually believes whatever lies they are selling, deception is not their primary aim.
  14655. Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
    First Published: 2009
    Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
  14656. Why Saying No to Toronto Airport Expansion Makes Sense
    First Published: 2013
    Saying no to the expansion of the Toronto Island Airport and introduction of jet aircrafts is the economical, ecological and socially responsible thing to do.
  14657. Why Scientists Are Amazed at Oilsands Smog Levels
    Air pollution report in Nature shocks even Canada's top researchers
    First Published: 2016
    On any hot day Shell and Syncrude tour guides used to call the gasoline-like vapours that wafted from Fort McMurray's huge open-pit bitumen mines "the smell of money." But a new study in Nature has another name for the stench: air pollution and megacity volumes of it.
  14658. Why Sharing is a Common Cause that Unites Us All
    The Common Cause
    First Published: 2014
    The demand for sharing wealth, power and resources is at the heart of visions for a better world. In fact, the principle of sharing is often central to efforts for progressive change in almost every field of endeavour. But this basic concern is generally understood and couched in tacit terms, without acknowledging the versatility and wide applicability of sharing as a solution to the world’s problems.
  14659. Why Sitting Bull was right about Washington's lack of integrity
    First Published: 2016
    That integrity is a foreign land where Washington is concerned is an inarguable fact. In the latest example, the failure to complete the construction of a nuclear disposal plant agreed with Russia once again leaves Washington's credibility in tatters.
  14660. Why socialism can be nothing else than 'real': Lessons from 'really existing socialism- - Part I
    First Published: 2013
    In this guest post, Sabina Stan from the Transnational Labour Project in Oslo critically questions this understanding and asks what the real lessons from 'really existing socialism' are for the understanding of today's capitalism.
  14661. Why Socialism?
    First Published: 1949
  14662. Why socialist Susan Neiman says 'woke-ism' is not leftist
    First Published: 2023
    All marginalized peoples or people who have been oppressed in the past need deep solidarity with other people.
  14663. Why States of Emergency and Extreme Security Measures Won't Stop ISIS
    First Published: 2015
    There is little sign that the G20 leaders gathered in Turkey have understood the nature of the conflict in which they are engaged. ISIS's military strategy is a unique combination of urban terrorism, guerrilla tactics and conventional warfare. In the past, many states have used terrorism against opponents, but, in the case of ISIS, suicide squads focusing on soft civilian targets at home and abroad are an integral part of its war-making strategy.
  14664. Why Strikes Fail
    First Published: 1943
    Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.
  14665. Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck
    First Published: 2011
    Excerpted from the book "Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit".
  14666. Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
    First Published: 2019
    Detailed look at the differences between cancellation of Germany's debt and that of developing countries today.
  14667. Why the Anthropocene is not 'climate change' - and why that matters
    First Published: 2019
    Reducing our current predicament to combatting climate change, or even narrower, reducing CO2 emissions fails to show the big picture of how humans have changed the planet. To contend with the Anthropocene we need to get rid of one-dimensional thinking of climate change.
  14668. Why the CIA Cares About Marxism
    First Published: 2017
    Abundant evidence of course exists of the CIA's complex cultural interventions into French intellectual affairs -- but it is critical to recognise that it was the political shortcomings of communist organizations themselves (i.e., Stalinists) that had the determinant impact on the obscurantist trajectory of left-wing academic ideas.
  14669. Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable
    First Published: 2016
    Even today, in more than a few countries, food is the organising principle behind the main challengers of existing power structures. In El Salvador, the National Coordinator of its Organic Agriculture Movement is Miguel Ramirez who recently explained: We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers’ social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers.
  14670. Why the food movement needs to understand capitalism
    First Published: 2018
    To fully appreciate the challenges we face in transforming our food system we need to explore the economic and political context in which food is grown, sold and consumed in the world today.
  14671. Why the Guardian axed Nafeez Ahmed's blog
    First Published: 2014
    Nafeez Ahmed’s account of the sudden termination of his short-lived contract to write an environment blog for the Guardian is depressingly instructive – and accords with my own experiences as a journalist at the paper.
  14672. Why The Language of the Commons Matters
    First Published: 2012
    Our very language for identifying problems and imagining solutions has been compromised. We may have many unattractive human traits fueled by individual fears and ego, but we are also creatures entirely capable of self-organization, cooperation, a concern for fairness and social justice, and sacrifice for the larger good and future generations.
  14673. Why the Left Isn't Talking About Rural American Poverty
    First Published: 2015
    Within the popular American conscience there are two favoured focal points for discussing the problem of poverty. The first is within the urban, inner city context and the second is the poverty of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the rest of the developing world. What seldom gets talked about -- and when it is, often with irreverent humor and contempt -- is the poverty of rural America, particularly rural white America: Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, the Dakotas, the Rio Grande Valley, the Cotton Belt. So why is the poverty of rural America largely unexamined, even avoided?
  14674. Why the Leninists will lose
    First Published: 1978
    The Leninist groups may still have the ability to disrupt the left, but they are long past the point of being able to achieve any kind of success in their own right.
  14675. Why the Leninists Will Win
    First Published: 1977
    Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
  14676. Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration
    First Published: 2016
    On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present to take down a verbatim transcript. That transcript reveals a startling fact: the meeting involved lengthy discussions of the law of the United States of America.
  14677. Why the New Silk Roads terrify Washington
    First Published: 2016
    Almost six years ago, President Putin proposed to Germany 'the creation of a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.' This idea represented an immense trade emporium uniting Russia and the EU, or, in Putin's words, "a unified continental market with a capacity worth trillions of dollars."

    In a nutshell: Eurasia integration.

    Washington panicked.
  14678. Why the Newberry Library Is Collecting Black Lives Matter Artifacts
    First Published: 2016
    Archivists hope to crowdsource historical documentation of today's civil-rights movements.
  14679. Why the news media's job is to groom us
    First Published: 2024
    Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media's differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media’s really there to do. As readers, we don't, as we imagine, 'consume' news. Rather, the news consumes us. Or put another way, the media uses the news to groom us, its audience. Properly understood, the relationship is one of abuser and abused.
  14680. Why The 'Ok Boomer' phenomenon is short-sighted
    Millennials and Generation Zers have more in common with struggling boomers than wealthy elites our own age
    First Published: 2019
    The "Ok Boomer" meme, which many young people are using online as a rebuttal against supposedly out-of-touch baby boomers, taps into frustrations disproportionately experienced by millennials and Generation Zers -- particularly in Canada's most unaffordable cities. Unfortunately, however, the meme also represents a discourse that ignores the many older people experiencing poverty, discrimination and hardship.
  14681. Why the Real Target in the Attack on Stop the War is Jeremy Corbyn
    First Published: 2015
    Stop the War, of which I am a founder member, was created to oppose the crude war of revenge against Afghanistan in 2001. I remember arguing at the time that the war would be a disaster for Afghans, it would destabilise neighbouring Pakistan and would end without solving anything.
  14682. Why the Revolt in Egypt?
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    Why has the Arab world suddenly erupted in revolution from Tunisia to Egypt, from Bahrain to Yemen? Above all, why Egypt, the largest and most important of the Arab nations?
  14683. Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics 
    First Published: 2015
    The Right deploys privilege politics to avoid class politics, obscuring where the real power lies in our society.
  14684. Why the rise of fascism is again the issue 
    First Published: 2015
    Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.
  14685. Why the Ruling Class is So Upset About Edward Snowden
    The Damage to Our Intelligence is Gut-Wrenching to See
    First Published: 2013
    Is Snowden a hero, or a villain? The tiny power elite that controls the mainstream press and cable channels, the corporations that dutifully hand over meta-data to the state, the twin political parties, are sick to their stomachs that they’ve been so exposed.
  14686. Why the Swedish Left Lost
    An Analysis of the Electoral Fiasco and Lessons for the Democrats
    First Published: 2010
    Analysts and political leaders on the left focus on how the right wing's lies go unfiltered by the establishment mass media. The media bias theory has some plausibility but the limit to the media-bias argument is that the extremist Sweden Democrats largely faced a media blackout but still managed to be one of the biggest winners in the electoral system.
  14687. Why The U.S. Government Hates Venezuela 
    First Published: 2009
    Having lost in the realm of ideas, those supporting capitalism must compensate by other means.
  14688. Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market
    First Published: 2015
    Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray.
  14689. Why the US has really gone broke
    First Published: 2008
    There is an enormous anomaly in the U.S. economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation's economic life.
  14690. Why the US is Persecuting Assange
    First Published: 2019
    Governments don't like it when reporters disclose secrets that impede their preferred narrative. This article draws parallels between Assange and the work of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry.
  14691. Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela is Toast
    First Published: 2019
    In the alternative universe of corporate media, which ignores the economic war being waged against Venezuela, Reuters bemoans that the “crackdown” on Guaidó’s agents has failed to receive “significant retaliation from the international community.” In reality, Venezuela has massively suffered from the US-orchestrated punishments for resisting reverting to the status of a client state.
  14692. Why the War on Terror Went Wrong
    Al Qaeda's Second Act
    First Published: 2014
    Al-Qa’ida-type organisations, with beliefs and methods of operating similar to those who carried out the 9/11 attacks, have become a lethally powerful force from the Tigris to the Mediterranean in the past three years.
  14693. Why the Washington Post Killed the Story of Murdoch’s Bid to Buy the US Presidency
    Carl Bernstein Caught in the Matrix
    First Published: 2012
  14694. Why the Western Media Pushes for War on Russia
    Operation Get Putin
    First Published: 2015
    Author discusses the reasons why the western 'mainstream' media have sharply increased their campaign against Russia and President Putin.
  14695. Why the Working Class? 
    First Published: 2016
    Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the centre of socialist politics.
  14696. Why the zoo shot its tigers
    A discussion of the practice of - and motivation behind - culling and conservation in the one of the worlds foremost science and conservation zoological facilities, the London Zoo.
  14697. Why There are Few Christians Left in the Holy Town of Bethlehem
    First Published: 2018
    This is the time of year when they have a chance to break out of an isolation enforced in concrete since Israel enclosed the town with a "separation wall" more than a decade ago.
  14698. Why There Are No 'Israelis' in the Jewish State
    First Published: 2010
    A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as 'Israelis,' a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country's self-declared status as a Jewish state.
  14699. Why They Call It King Coal
    A Killer Industry Continues to Call the Shots
    First Published: 2010
    Political corruption first puts coal workers at risk of death, trapped by circumstances: either work underground for King Coal and risk your life, go fight our wars in the US military and risk your life, or work for the government defending King Coal and its prerogatives. For working class West Virginians, that's the economy in a nutshell, accompanied by plaintive Civil War violins.
  14700. Why They Left
    Brexit wasn't the first time Europeans rejected the EU, and it won't be the last. Here's what the Left should do.
    First Published: 2016
    The Leave victory in the British referendum represents a moment of political confusion -- a hiatus in the opposition between social classes. No class appears capable of directing events. The ruling class has no clear plans for the future, and seems temporarily stunned.
  14701. Why They Voted For Obama But Against Same-Sex Marriage
    First Published: 2008
    People who think that it is wrong to make same-sex marriage legal because it would give social approval to the practice of using sperm or egg donors to conceive children who will, by design, not know their biological mother or biological father are, according to liberals, "hateful and bigoted." In the world of these liberals, placing the welfare of children before the desires of adults is "hateful and bigoted."
  14702. Why This Radical Leftist is Disillusioned by Leftist Culture
    First Published: 2016
    I will always believe in "The Revolution". But I am becoming very frustrated with modern "activist" culture.
  14703. Why truck driving is one of the deadliest jobs in America
    First Published: 2012
    What incredibly important profession combines horrible hours, bad pay, and a poor lifestyle? Truck driving. This is a job that destroys so many lives that it could soon become unsustainable.
  14704. Why Trump Won - And What's Next
    First Published: 2016
    The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shows that American voters wanted 'anything but the above' Obama policies of the previous eight years, policies which were just extensions of the neoliberal regime established in the 1980s in the US since Reagan. However, US Neoliberal policy may not change fundamentally in a Trump regime; just its appearance.
  14705. Why Trump?
    First Published: 2016
    Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning -- and winning handily, and even many Republicans don't see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don't know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don’t think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. But why? What are the details? And Why Trump?
  14706. Why the "Two State Solution" is Apartheid
    First Published: 2018
  14707. Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault
    The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin
    First Published: 2014
    The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too.
  14708. Why US Fracking Companies Are Licking Their Lips Over Ukraine
    From climate change to Crimea, the natural gas industry is supreme at exploiting crisis for private gain
    First Published: 2014
    The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so the industry would have us believe.
  14709. Why US Journalists Have Blood on Their Hands
    Turning Ukrainian Fascists into "Freedom Fighters"
    First Published: 2014
    Hey U.S. mass media journalists: A large number of you writing in outlets like CNN, Fox News, New York Times, and Washington Post have blood on your hands.
  14710. Why U.S.-Style Health Reform Does Not Work and What to Do about It
    First Published: 2015
    Ending the corporate domination of healthcare is part of breaking the domination of the corporate class over our government and our lives. The task is to organize a mass movement that refuses to treat healthcare as a commodity.
  14711. Why Vote for a Scottish State ?
    First Published: 2013
    Barry Biddulph takes a critical look at, The National Question-Some Basic Principles, by John Molyneux in the Irish Marxist Review and the application of these principles to Scotland by Keir Mckechnie.
  14712. Why Voters Aren't Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues 
    An introduction to cognitive policy – the values, frames, and arguments that make sense of the political process.
  14713. Why We Can Change the World
    First Published: 2000
    Many good people support the "diversity" concept, because they see it as a way of building unity and respect for each other across cultural divides. But diversity is about "celebrating and respecting our differences." Despite many people's best intentions, it's not really about finding what we have in common, but about focusing on differences as if these supposed differences are what define us as human beings. Diversity as a framework, as a way of thinking about each other, will always stand in the way of the goal that most of us share, of multi-racial, multi-ethnic unity. Diversity in fact is no different from the basic capitalist view that society consists of various groups competing for their own interests. Such a view does not present any threat to capitalism or to inequality but reinforces it.
  14714. Why We Can't Breathe
    First Published: 2015
    On police racism and violence against blacks.
  14715. Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
    Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum
    First Published: 2009
    Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something that the farmers did not create. Instead, it is the polluters who caused the emissions who destroy the natural cycles. So, we small scale farmers came here to say that we will not pay for their mistakes. And we are asking the emitters to face up to their responsibilities.
  14716. Why we must Never Forget
    First Published: 2014
    Lindsey German charts how the Nazis were able to perpetrate their crimes by eliminating all effective and organised opposition.
  14717. Why We Must Oppose the Kremlin-Baiting Against Trump
    The Russia-connected allegations have created an atmosphere of hysteria amounting to McCarthyism.
    First Published: 2017
    The bipartisan, nearly full-political-spectrum tsunami of factually unverified allegations that President Trump has been seditiously "compromised" by the Kremlin, with scarcely any nonpartisan pushback from influential political or media sources, is deeply alarming. Begun by the Clinton campaign in mid-2016, and exemplified now by New York Times columnists (who write of a “Trump-Putin regime” in Washington), strident MSNBC hosts, and unbalanced CNN commentators, the practice is growing into a latter-day McCarthyite hysteria. Such politically malignant practices should be deplored wherever they appear, whether on the part of conservatives, liberals, or progressives.
  14718. Why we must stop this gay witch-hunt now
    First Published: 2014
    President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised by his earlier pledge, the Ugandan leader turned around this week and signed into law the contentious Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed last December by a parliament his ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), controls.
  14719. Why We Need A "No Compromise" Climate Movement
    Between Empire And Its Subjects
    First Published: 2014
    Successful campaigns against strip mining in the Appalachians have included peaceful legal tactics like petitioning, letters to the editor, education, marches and protests, as well as civil disobedience, industrial sabotage, armed defense of Appalachians’ property and other tactics that are viewed as insurrectionary and violent by today’s mainstream environmentalists.
  14720. Why We Need "Free Software" Voting Machines
    First Published: 2004
    Argues that voting machines can’t be made more trustworthy by making source code to them available. The benefits for sharing and modifying voting machine source code lie elsewhere. Voting machine software should not be proprietary.
  14721. Why we need the Fourth Communist Workers' International
    First Published: 1921
    The language as well as the composition of the Third International can no longer be distinguished from that of Social Democracy. No longer will it set aside any manifestoes as opportunist; the call to participation in the reconstruction of Capitalism resounds ever more clearly as the official Moscow policy.
  14722. Why We Reject the "Constituent Assembly" Demand
    First Published: 2014
    Our rejection of the call for a constituent assembly reflects both the historical experience of the proletariat and the extension of the Marxist program over the years.
  14723. Why we should feel positive about Paris
    First Published: 2015
    As the final text of the Paris deal was being wrestled into shape, we were standing near the Arc de Triomphe, underneath a huge red line. This stretch of scarlet fabric was one of many held aloft by chanting and singing members of a 15,000-strong crowd. They - we - were there to demand climate justice; to condemn an international deal that we already knew would cross crucial red lines for the climate. Though the deal was a dud, this was no Copenhagen, argue Jess Worth and Danny Chivers.
  14724. Why We Should Not Forget Miriam Carey
    First Published: 2013
    The ignominious and unnecessary public killing of Miriam Carey should be a human marker that triggers our cultural meaning machine to honestly consider what’s wrong with the picture of a howling pack of cops shooting down a troubled young mother … like a dog.
  14725. Why we walked out
    First Published: 2010
    Students across the US are protesting a public relations campaign that brings soldiers from the Israeli army to speak on campuses. These tours are an attempt to justify recent war crimes committed by the army.
  14726. Why We've Been Targeted
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    Jose Maria Sison must take us for fools. He and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leadership compile a list of living and assassinated “counterrevolutionaries,” disseminate it among CPP members, then claim this is simply a harmless exercise in information dissemination!
  14727. Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
    White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.
    First Published: 2018
    Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.
  14728. Why White Working Class Americans Are Dying "Deaths of Despair"
    First Published: 2017
    Franklin examines the reasons behind the steadily growing mortality rates for working-class white Americans, which he attributes to both workplace hazards and mental illness resulting from joblessness, poverty, and despair.
  14729. Why Wikileaks is Good for Democracy
    First Published: 2010
    The US has been going in the wrong direction for years by classifying millions of documents as secrets. Wikileaks and other media which report these so called secrets will embarrass people yes. Wikileaks and other media will make leaders uncomfortable yes. But embarrassment and discomfort are small prices to pay for a healthier democracy. Wikileaks has the potential to make transparency and accountability more robust.
  14730. Why Wikileaks Matters
    The Lies of Diplomats
    First Published: 2011
    On the secret diplomatic cables disclosed by WikiLeaks.
  14731. Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?
    First Published: 2017
    Unlike Brazil and Argentina, Venezuela has been victimized by a number of factors outside of its control, but especially a precipitous drop in the price of oil, the country's main source of revenue.
  14732. Why the working-class, socialist history of International Women's Day matters today
    On International Women's Day, Katherine Connelly looks at its origins in the socialist and feminist movements led by working class women
    First Published: 2020
    The high-profile celebrations of a day founded by socialists to highlight the struggles of working-class women will not include any discussion of socialism, nor will they contain much about the specific problems and experiences of working-class women.
  14733. Why Workplace "Accidents" Happen
    Safety Costs Money
    First Published: 2013
    Many industrial and manufacturing companies resort to almost any means (some of them not entirely legal) to dissuade employees from joining a union because besides having to offer higher wages and improved benefits (and giving employees a voice in how they’re treated by management), they are required to provide a safe work environment. Safety costs money and every company is interested in saving money.
  14734. Why You Should Question Your Bank
    First Published: 1977
    A pamphlet urging Canadians to question their bank's involvment in loaning money to the racist South African government.
  14735. Why Zelensky Will NOT Take Back Crimea
    First Published: 2023
    The 2014 coup was the last straw. The Maidan violence, coup government decisions on language, and attacks on civilians made it imperative to quickly secede. Russia already had soldiers in Crimea at the leased naval base at Sebastapol. The referendum proceeded quickly and peacefully. Western hypocrisy and double standards are breathtaking. The West actively promoted the breakup of Yugoslavia, the secession of Kosovo from Serbia and South Sudan from Sudan. The right and popular will of Crimeans to secede from Ukraine and reunify with Russia is clear. Yet the West continues to falsely claim that Russia "occupies" Crimea.
  14736. Wiara, Nadzieja i Wytrwalosc
    Faith, Hope and Persistence - Polish translation
    First Published: 2019
  14737. Wicked Leakidence On Nord Stream Sabotages
    Part 1: How The Media Quarantined Evidence On Nord Stream Sabotage
    First Published: 2022
    On the British media's biased reporting of the Nord Stream sabotage.
  14738. Widerspruch gegen linkes Lavieren
    First Published: 2010
    Israelische Linke rufen in offenem Brief an die Linkspartei zu Dialog über Nahostkonflikt auf
    In einem Offenen Brief an die LINKE haben über 100 linke Israelis ihre Erwartungen an eine solidarische Politik der deutschen Linkspartei deutlich gemacht und Kritik an Teilen der Partei geäußert, die die israelische Politik im Nahen Osten unterstützen.
  14739. Wife Assault: The Silent Crime
    First Published: 1981
  14740. A Wikileak on the US and Al-Jazeera
    Blaming and (Killing) the Messenger
    First Published: 2011
    A Wikileaks-released cable from the U.S. embassy in Doha, Qatar, shows that U.S. officials were angry with Al Jazeera in the wake of Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza, because, alone of news networks the world over, al-Jazeera had actually shown what was happening on the ground to Gazan civilians besieged by an unrelenting Israeli air, artillery, and ground attack.
  14741. The Wikileaks Afghan War Diary
    Reason for Celebration, Cause for Concern
    First Published: 2010
    The release of Wikileaks acquired records from U.S. forces in Afghanistan is an event of major significance which in some ways deserves to be celebrated by those opposed to the war in Afghanistan, but there are also some serious problems with the records and with the way Wikileaks released them.
  14742. Wikileaks and the New Global Order
    America's Wake-Up Call
    First Published: 2010
    The impression of a world running out of American control has become a theme touching all our lives over the past decade. The US invented and exported financial deregulation, promising it to be the epitome of the new capitalism that was going to offer the world economic salvation. The result is a banking crisis that now threatens to topple the very governments in Europe who are Washington’s closest allies.
  14743. Wikileaks and the Truth of the Af-Pak War
    Against The Current vol. 148
    First Published: 2010
    In the aftermath of the much-discussed leak of the Afghan war documents, few aspects of the Af-Pak imbroglio have been as scrutinized as the supposed duplicity of the Pakistani security establishment. The New York Times editorial board, for example, promptly declared that of all of the revelations, the reports detailing the “cynical collusion between Pakistan’s military intelligence service and the Taliban” were the “most alarming.” (This, too, from a paper that had been privy to the leaked material for some time before the database went public).
  14744. WikiLeaks Begins Publishing 5 Million Emails From STRATFOR
    First Published: 2012
  14745. WikiLeaks Bombshell: Emails Show Citigroup Had Major Role in Shaping and Staffing Obama's First Term
    First Published: 2016
    According to emails released by WikiLeaks, which came from a hack of the email account of John Podesta, a co-chair of Obama's 2008 Transition Team, we learn that despite the obvious fact that Citigroup was both corrupt and derelict in handling its own financial affairs, Barack Obama gave executives of that bank an outsized role in shaping and staffing his first term.
  14746. WikiLeaks: Conspiracy of Governance to the Courage to Inspire
    The Moral Math of Our Time
    First Published: 2014
    WikiLeaks emerged into the limelight like a call to the conscience of humanity. They released secret documents revealing Kenyan government corruption, Iceland’s financial collapse, the criminality of US wars in the Middle East and more. Their very existence and what they revealed called into question the legitimacy of imperial power structures around the world.
  14747. WikiLeaks continues exposure of predatory US foreign policy
    First Published: 2010
    In the face of an unprecedented campaign of US harassment and intimidation, the Internet-based WikiLeaks group is continuing its efforts to expose the predatory role of American foreign policy around the world, releasing secret diplomatic documents every day.
  14748. WikiLeaks Copycat Reveals Indonesia's Bloody Secrets
    First Published: 2010
    On Friday, December 10th IndoLeaks, Indonesia’s very own version of WikiLeaks, went live. Over the following weeks the site has posted some sensitive documents including a conversation between former President Suharto and former US President Gerald Ford as well as four autopsy reports of the victims of the infamous 1965 coup attempt.
  14749. WikiLeaks, Corruption and the Super Injunction
    Suppression and Information
    First Published: 2014
    In Australia, whose institutions still pride themselves on an antiquated obsession with aspects of English gagging, suppression orders do retain a certain mystique. They certainly do in the Australian state of Victoria, which is said to throw “suppression orders around like confetti”.
  14750. Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press
    Documents Show NYT and Washington Post Shilling for US Government on Iran Missile "Threat"
    First Published: 2010
    A key Wikileaks document which should have resulted in stories calling into question the thrust of the Obama administration's ballistic missile defense policy in Europe based on an alleged Iranian missile threat has instead produced a spate of stories buttressing anti-Iran hysteria.
  14751. Wikileaks and the Free Press
    Exposing the Futility of US Foreign Policy
    First Published: 2010
    Wikileaks published documents from sources US journalists should have cultivated instead of behaving like White House stenographers. Exceptions like Seymour Hersh and Dana Priest only dramatize the point: the fourth estate has become an arm of national security policy.
  14752. Wikileaks is Good for America
    Get Over It!
    First Published: 2010
    Julian Assange and Bradley Manning did not create the mess we now find ourselves in. But what they have had the courage to do may just eventually let enough sunshine in for change to happen.
  14753. Wikileaks releases 'largest trove of docs exposing secret TiSA trade deal
    First Published: 2015
    WikiLeaks has published 17 secret documents related to a controversial trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors between the US, EU and over 20 WTO members.
  14754. WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria, Igniting a Bloodbath
    First Published: 2015
    In 2010, WikiLeaks became a household name by releasing 251,287 classified State Department cables. The essays that make up The WikiLeaks Files shed critical light on a once secret history.
  14755. Wikileaks - The Smear and the Denial
    First Published: 2010
    The Internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that journalists monopolised the means of mass communication. Dissent was restricted to a few lonely lines on the letter’s page, if that.
  14756. WikiLeaks: 10 Years of Pushing the Boundaries of Free Speech
    First Published: 2016
    We are now entering WikiLeaks 10 year anniversary. The organization registered their domain on October 4, 2006 and blazed into the public limelight in the spring of 2010 with the publication of Collateral Murder. This video footage depicted the cruel scenery of modern war seen from an Apache helicopter gun-sight. It became an international sensation, with the website temporarily crashing with the massive influx of visitors.
  14757. Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
    The Anti-Empire Report
    First Published: 2011
  14758. WikiLeaks, Ukraine and NATO
    A Relentless March to Russia's Doorstep
    First Published: 2014
    Is the Russian occupation of the Crimea a case of aggressive expansionism by Moscow or aimed at at blocking a scheme by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to roll right up to the Russia’s western border?
  14759. WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of Democracy
    First Published: 2017
    WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7”, the whistleblowing site began releasing the largest publication of confidential documents that have come from the top secret security network at the Cyber Intelligence Center.
  14760. Wikipedia formally censors the Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
    First Published: 2020
    On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia’s guidelines.
  14761. Wilberforce, William
    Connexipedia Article
    British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. (1759-1833).
  14762. The WILD conference
    First Published: 1990
  14763. Wild Socialism: All Power to the Councils! (Review)
    First Published: 2013
    Review of Wild Socialism: Workers Councils in Revolutionary Berlin, 1918-1921 by Martin Comack (2012) and All Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919 edited by Gabriel Kuhn (2012).
  14764. Wild West Journalism
    Outlaws, Cowpokes and a Eunuched Press
    First Published: 2010
    Journalism is not dead nor is anthropology. Both are undergoing seismic transformations while under attack from a neoliberal culture that devalues the public and disparages the truth.
  14765. Wildcat I
    From The Factory Songs of Mr. Toad
    First Published: 1994
  14766. Wildcat or official strike action?
    A discussion of the relative merits of official strike action or unsanctioned wildcat action
    First Published: 2006
    The best-known form of direct action is the strike, in which workers simply walk off their jobs and refuse to produce profits for the boss until they get what they want. This is the preferred tactic of bureaucratic unions but is one of the least effective ways of confronting the boss.
  14767. Wildcat Strikes in China
    First Published: 2010
  14768. Wildlife conference
    First Published: 1989
  14769. Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans!
    First Published: 2009
    Environmentalism can most simply be defined as the extension of the Golden Rule to include other species. Wildlife must be given top priority, because they can't protect themselves from us.
  14770. Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta's Dubious Climate Claims
    As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots.
    First Published: 2019
    The oilsand industry's own measurements of their carbon output fall far short of that reported by Environment Canada's and others' research. This could deal a blow to the industry's PR efforts.
  14771. Wilebaldo Solano As I Knew Him
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    I first met Wilebaldo Solano in Paris in 1997 after corresponding with him since the late 1980s. I had translated an article Wilebaldo wrote about Victor Serge and the POUM,(1) and finally meeting him was an inexplicably emotional occasion, a moment of warmth, solidarity and enthusiasm for us (Wilebaldo, his wife Maria Teresa and myself).
  14772. Wilfred Burchett's Retreat From Moscow
    First Published: 2013
    Between 1965-1968, journalist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) was the Moscow-based correspondent for the Communist Party of Australia’s (CPA) newspaper Tribune. A veteran journalist, Lockwood had become a leftist as the result of his front-line experiences covering the Spanish Civil War for the Melbourne Herald. A party member since 1939, his Moscow experiences contributed to him leaving the party in 1969. In these previously unpublished “Notes and Recollections”, drafted in the 1980s, Lockwood recalls his Moscow experiences, and his association with journalist Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983).
  14773. Wilkerson, Cathy
    Connexipedia Article
    American radical. (Born 1945).
  14774. Will ANC government ever prosecute South Africans in Israeli Army?
    First Published: 2015
    When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were. How come the same reaction is not applied to South African Zionist Jews serving in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)?
  14775. Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene? 
    First Published: 2015
    To judge by many accounts of climate change, the twenty-first century will gradually become a warmer, stormier, and less biodiverse version of the twentieth. There's an unspoken assumption that the Anthropocene will be less pleasant than the Holocene, but not fundamentally different, and that the transition will be smooth.
  14776. Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
    First Published: 2015
    The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.
  14777. Will GM Crops Collapse the Food System?
    First Published: 2014
    Often when a technology is introduced one never considers why it was introduced or what future events and connections may be put in motion. Clearly the trend to global crop production and marketing has changed the face of agriculture. Now we are left to decide if it was a good thing, this world changing shift in crop production brought about by GM crops.
  14778. The Will of the People Doesn’t Mean Jack Shit to the Drug Warriors
    Gangsters With Federal Pensions
    First Published: 2013
    The DEA vs. voter-approved marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado.
  14779. Will Shireen Abu Akleh's Murder Mark a Turning Point in the Liberation of Palestine?
    First Published: 2022
    As I write these words, the world is trying to make sense of the brutal assassination of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was targeted by Israeli forces while covering yet another Israeli assault on Jenin. Furthermore, Israeli forces have now attacked the funeral procession leading Shireen to her final resting place. One wonders why is anyone surprised.
  14780. Will the Candidate Please Explain
    First Published: 1979
    This is a set of reflections on the occasion of the current federal election with questions to be addressed to candidates in that election.
  14781. Will The Conspiracy Against Trump and American Democracy Go Unpunished?
    First Published: 2018
    The American people do not realize the seriousness of the Russiagate conspiracy against them and President Trump. Polls indicate that a large majority of the public do not believe that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the presidential election, and are tired of hearing the media prostitutes repeat the absurd story day after day. On its face the story makes no sense whatsoever.
  14782. Will the Greek elections strengthen the hands of the Global South?
    First Published: 2015
    The endorsement of a leftist party is a vote against global lenders imposing governance prescriptions on countries in crisis. If Greece successfully pushes back against its lenders, it will open the door to countries of the Global South to restructure their relationships with lenders such as the World Bank and IMF.
  14783. Will the Iran Deal Hold?
    First Published: 2014
    Finkel explores the underlying reasons behind Israel and Saudi Arabia's disapproval over the United States' nuclear weapon deal with Iran.
  14784. Will the Real Gwyn Morgan Please Stand Up
    First Published: 2013
  14785. Will the real Stephen Harper please stand up?
    A citizen's guide to comparing election campaign promises to deeply held beliefs.
  14786. Will Ukraine's Western Apologists Finally Admit the Truth?
    First Published: 2023
    Western political leaders and their media sycophants ignore mounting evidence about the corrupt, brutal, and authoritarian nature of Ukraine's government. Ukraine is now a 'democracy' in which the press is strictly censored, opposition media banned entirely, opposition political parties are outlawed, a longstanding major church is being harassed and silenced, and torture and assassinations have become routine.
  14787. Will We Ever See Al Jazeera's Investigation Into the Israel Lobby?
    First Published: 2018
    So when am I going to be able to watch Al Jazeera's hard-hitting investigation into Israel’s powerful lobby in the United States? Remember Al Jazeera? The tough, no-holds-barred Middle East satellite channel that transformed Qatar into a media empire whose reports frightened dictators and infuriated potentates and presidents alike? Why, George W Bush once wanted to bomb its headquarters in Doha – so it must have been doing something right. It even has an office in Jerusalem.
  14788. William ('Bill') Pelz:
    Againist the Current vol. 192
    First Published: 2018
    In memoriam, Patrick M. Quinn and Eric Schuster discuss the life and contributions of William ('Bill') Pelz, a well-known socialist activist and prolific scholar in the field of European and comparative Labour History.
  14789. William Blum: Anti-Imperial Advocate
    First Published: 2018
    The late William Blum, former computer programmer in the US State Department and initial enthusiast for US moral crusades, who died December 2018, gave us various exemplars of this counter-insurgent scholarship. His compilation of foreign policy ills in Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, was written with the US as sole surveyor of the land, all powerful and dangerously uncontained.
  14790. William Blum, Renowned U.S. Foreign Policy Critic, Dead at 85
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for William Blum with biographical information and links to his work.
  14791. William Godwin
    A Biographical Study
    First Published: 2008
    A biography of the influential writer and thinker described by Woodcock as the first prophet of libertarian socialism.
  14792. Williams, Jody
    Connexipedia Article
    Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1950).
  14793. Wilson, Edmund
    Connexipedia Article
    American writer and literary critic. (1895-1972).
  14794. Wilson opposes publishing safeguards
    First Published: 1992
  14795. Wilson's Open Door to World War I
    First Published: 2015
    Discussion of the underlying reasons for the United States' participation in World War I.
  14796. Wimps Can't Win
    The Sissy Left
    First Published: 2010
    When did we on the left forget how to fight back in dark alleys?
  14797. Wind offers a healthy way to generate power
    First Published: 2014
    To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions at a pace and scale that experts agree is necessary to avoid increasing catastrophic effects of global warming, we need a mix of renewable energy. Wind power will play a large role.
  14798. Wind power opponents may be blowing hot air
    First Published: 2013
    When it comes to wind power, we have to be careful to ensure that impacts on the environment and on animals such as birds and bats are minimized, and we should continue to study possible effects on health. But we must also be wary of false arguments against it.
  14799. A Window on Indigenous Life
    Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life (Book Review)
    First Published: 2015
    Book Review of Andrew Canessa's Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life.
  14800. A Window on Inhuman Detention
    First Published: 2018
    A first-hand account of the inhumane conditions of immigration detention by a Korean woman seeking asylum in the US.
  14801. A window to hell in Gaza
    First Published: 2015
    Spending the day of 17 August in Khuzaa was like peering through a window to hell. But what we witnessed in the landscape of apocalyptic oblivion paled in comparison to the experience described to me by two Palestine Red Crescent volunteers who had attempted to break through the Israeli military cordon during the siege of the town.
  14802. Winds of Change: The Daughters of Bilitis and Lesbian Organizing
    First Published: 2005
    A history of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first national lesbian organization in the United States.
  14803. Windsor Strike 1945
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Windsor Strike, 12 Sept-20 Dec 1945, at the WINDSOR, Ont, plant of Ford Motor Co. There was really only one strike issue at Ford: union recognition. The united automobile workers demanded it; the company refused to grant it.
  14804. Winged Warnings: Built for survival, birds in trouble from pole to pole
    First Published: 2014
    Globally, one in eight -- more than 1,300 species -- are threatened with extinction, and the status of most of those is deteriorating, according to BirdLife International.
  14805. Winner of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia: Prafulla Samantara
    First Published: 2017
    Prafulla Samantara, winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his relentless efforts, has made it his life's work to fight injustice by lending a voice to Indigenous communities and small scale farmers.
  14806. Winners and Losers in Our New Media Moment
    Donald Trump, Mass Shootings With an Islamic Terrorist Flavor, and the Rise of the "Spectaculection"
    First Published: 2015
    Sometimes what matters most takes up every inch of space in the room and somehow we still don’t see it. That’s how I feel about our present media moment.
  14807. A winning formula
    First Published: 2009
    Intelligent community-based campaigning exposes the BNP for what it is, as well as providing a defence of civil society.
  14808. Winning the Rank and File Soldiers in Egypt
    An Historical Drama Unfolds
    First Published: 2013
    The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will wield power during and immediately after the current transition of the toppling of Mohamed Morsi.
  14809. Winnipeg Declaration of Principles
    The principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
  14810. Winnipeg General Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labour reforms. In March 1919 labour delegates from across Western Canada convened in Calgary to form a branch of the "One Big Union", with the intention of earning rights for Canadian workers through a series of strikes.
  14811. Winnipeg General Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    In Winnipeg on May 15, when negotiations broke down between management and labour in the building and metal trades, the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council called a general strike.
  14812. Winnipeg Walkathon For El Salvador.
    First Published: 1982
  14813. Winstanley, Gerrard
    Connexipedia Article
    English Protestant religious reformer and political activist, a member of the True Levellers. (1609-1676).
  14814. Winstanley’s Ecology
    First Published: 2014
    Largely forgotten for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the communist thought of Winstanley was rediscovered by German and Russian Marxists in the late nineteenth century.
  14815. Winter cities
    First Published: 1991
  14816. Winter Cities
    First Published: 1992
  14817. Winter of Discontent
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Whole communities are being plunged into a poverty culture that is very difficult to escape.
  14818. Winter of Discontent
    Connexipedia Article
    A term used to describe the British winter of 1978-1979, during which there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay raises for their members.
  14819. Winter Soldier 2008
    Against The Current vol. 134
    First Published: 2008
    More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
  14820. A Winter's Tale Told in Memoirs
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    The Socialist Workers (SWP), now a curious sidebar in the history of radicalism, is a linear descendant of the political movement initiated in the United States by pro-Bolshevik followers of Leon Trotsky on the eve of the Great Depression. For 45 years, until the mid-1970s, the movement associated with the SWP was at the crossroads of the Far Left.
  14821. Wisconsin and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    As the last decade or more have demonstrated, unions don’t grow incrementally as a result of their patient, even persistence efforts to recruit. Rather, unions grow more or less rapidly in periods of intense conflict and labor upheaval. Such was the clear experience of the 1930s. In a somewhat more uneven fashion, the period from the mid-1960s through the 1970s saw rising numbers of strikes, increased rank and file rebellion, and the addition of four million members to the ranks of organized labor.
  14822. Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Have Been Duped into Producing Too Much Milk
    First Published: 2017
    Wisconsin farmers have been duped into producing too much milk, resulting in reduced profitability and at the expense of the environment.
  14823. A Wisconsin Idea Resurgent
    Against The Current vol. 158
    First Published: 2012
    More than a year has passed since the mass protests of February-March 2011, at Madison and elsewhere across Wisconsin, erupted in response to Republican Governor Scott Walker’s effort to bust the state’s public employee unions.
  14824. Wish you were born rich!!?? Now you can be!
    First Published: 1989
  14825. Witch Hunt vs. Academic Freedom
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    I appear before you today because of a campaign of intimidation to which I have been subjected for over three years. While this campaign was started by certain members of the Columbia faculty, and by outside forces using some of my students as conduits, it soon expanded to include members of the Columbia administration, the rightwing tabloid press, the Israeli press, and more locally the Columbia Spectator. Much of this preceded the David Project film “Columbia Unbecoming,” and the ensuing controversy.
  14826. The Witch-Hunters
    First Published: 2016
    Washington Post pushes campaign to censor alternative media.
  14827. With A Little Help From Outside
    First Published: 2006
    The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
  14828. With Corbyn gone, the Israel lobby is targeting Palestinians directly
    First Published: 2020
  14829. With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech 
    First Published: 2015
    Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online."
  14830. With the right-wing coup in Bolivia nearly complete, the junta is hunting down the last remaining dissidents
    First Published: 2019
    A brutal military junta that seized power from Bolivia's democratically elected President Evo Morales is violently repressing a working-class indigenous-led uprising, and the country is rapidly falling under its control. Soldiers in military fatigues prowl the streets, enforcing a series of choke points around the seat of power.
  14831. With Virtual Machines, Getting Hacked Doesn't Have To Be That Bad
    First Published: 2015
    Lee explains how to install and use a virtual machine, a fake computer running inside the real computer.
  14832. Within and Against the Market
    Radical initiatives which take subversive action from within the system.
  14833. Without a Popular Movement We Don't Stand a Chance: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
    First Published: 2018
    An interview with the author of "Fossil Capital and The Progress of This Storm", who says there are reasons to be hopeful but significant progress will require a global movement of unprecedented scale.
  14834. Without Fear, Without Favor
    The Future of Journalism
    First Published: 2013
    The Words “lifetime achievement” have a certain undertone. There is a hint that the work is finished.
  14835. Without Women, No Food Security
    Against The Current vol. 157
    First Published: 2012
    In the countries of the Global South, women are the primary producers of food: the ones in charge of working the earth, maintaining seed stores, harvesting fruit, obtaining water and safeguarding the harvest.
  14836. Witness to a War Crimes Trial: My Heart is Sepur Zarco
    First Published: 2016
    A frail, elderly woman, covered from head to toe in bright, colorful clothing approaches the witness chair. Her face is almost entirely covered. She is no more than five feet tall, and under all that clothing she can't weigh more than 100 pounds. She sits next to her translator. She speaks only Q’eqchi, one of Guatemala’s 24 officially recognized languages – no Spanish.
    The witness speaks quietly into a microphone, and her testimony is harrowing.
  14837. Witness to Betrayal: Scott Crow on the Exploits and Misadventures of FBI Informant Brandon Darby
    First Published: 2013
    Scott Crow tells the story of his friendship with Brandon Darby, an anarchist militant and FBI informer.
  14838. A Witness to Destroying Schools
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    Book Review of "Schoolhouse Shams: Myths and Misinformation in School Reform" by Peter Downs.
  14839. Witnesses Say IDF Troops 'Executed' Women and Children in Gaza School
    First Published: 2023
    Eyewitness testimony reported Wednesday by Al Jazeera accused Israeli troops of massacring forcibly displaced women and children sheltering at a school in northern Gaza. The reported massacre took place at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the al-Faluja area west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Video footage aired by the Qatar-based news network showed numerous covered bodies piled in one of the school’s classrooms.
  14840. Witnessing revolution in Rojava
    First Published: 2016
    In Rojava, who is the enemy is real simple: the Turkish government. Everyone knows that the Turkish government has supported Daesh [also called ISIS]. If the outside world wants to support Rojava, it's not money they primarily need, it's opening the border.
  14841. Wklad Rózy Luksemburg do marksizmu.
    First Published: 2000
  14842. The Wobblies Heritage
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    The cover of this Against the Current issue features something new that is also a century old: a Wobbly icon. This one is an image, on a banner (one of twelve made by labor muralist Mike Alewitz), foregrounding the old “Sabo-Tabby” of sabotage, backgounding the striking coal miners’ tactic of putting nails in the path of cars and trucks bringing scabs to work.
  14843. Wobblies on the Southern Home Front
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    Most readers of Against the Current know the Industrial Workers of the World by their imaginative and daring radical tactics and campaigns in the Northeast and the West — the Free Speech campaigns; the Lawrence, Massachusetts Bread and Roses textile strike, made colorful by its propaganda, and especially the pageants and children’s evacuation that brought the strike publicity; their organizing of itinerant workers and hoboes; and the Wobblies’ clarion calls for direct action and sabotage on the job, as well as loudmouthed boasts of violent action in response to the bosses’ violence.
  14844. Woke Imperialism
    First Published: 2023
    Diversity is important. But when it is devoid of a political agenda it recruits a tiny segment of those marginalized by society into unjust structures to help perpetuate them.
  14845. Wolfe Erlichman in conversation with Ulli Diemer
    October 26, 2016
    First Published: 2016
    An interview with Wolfe Erlichman, who worked as a community worker/organizer in Trefann Court in Toronto in the late 1960s. An audio recording of the interview, and a transcript, are held in the Connexions Archive.
  14846. Wollstonecraft, Mary
    Connexipedia Article
    British writer, philosopher, and feminist. (1759-1797).
  14847. Woman-Centered, Activist Agendas
    First Published: 1997
    Raising and politicitizing our demands for human rights, including the sexual and reproductive rights of women internationally, will contribute significantly toward improving women's health and respecting women's rights as human rights.
  14848. Woman fights for pollution information
    First Published: 1989
  14849. Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker
    First Published: 2009
    The fight against the world's biggest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, is being waged from a tiny tea stall in Ranchi, eastern India.
  14850. Women and Environmentalists
    First Published: 1990
  14851. Women and Environments
    First Published: 1989
  14852. Women and Global Capitalism
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    Women are affected in unique ways by current forms of global economic integration. Their experiences, concerns and needs must be a central part of the groundwork for understanding and transforming this global economy.
  14853. Women and Poverty: A Report by the National Council of Welfare
    First Published: 1979
  14854. Women and Power
    First Published: 1990
  14855. Women and Socialism - Accounting for our Experience
    First Published: 1979
  14856. Women and the Constitution: The Next Five Years
    First Published: 1983
  14857. Women and the Law in Newfoundland
    First Published: 1976   Published: 1977
    This booklet discusses some of the laws of Newfoundland as they apply to women.
  14858. Women and Unemployment
    First Published: 1980
  14859. Women Are Not Wallpaper
    Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli interview filmmaker Erik Gandini
    First Published: 2009
    Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.
  14860. 'Women are the strongest pillar'
    Meet the female fishmongers in Liberia fighting for healthy fisheries.
    First Published: 2020
    On the landing beaches of Liberia fishing canoes crowd the shallows, the bright colour schemes and fluttering flags showing the pride the fishermen take in their work. But although the men haul the nets this is an industry underpinned by women.
  14861. Women: Caste, Class or Oppressed Sex
    First Published: 1970
    The author traces the sources of women's oppression, and outlines her understanding of the Marxist approach to its origins. Originally published in International Socialist Review.
  14862. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    First Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
  14863. Women Enslaved by Islamic Reaction
    Taliban: Bitter Fruit of U.S. Imperialism's Anti-Soviet War
    First Published: 2001
    There is nothing progressive or "anti-imperialist" about being shrouded in the veil. Nor is it, as some liberals would maintain, a quaint cultural attribute. You wouldn't think you would have to be a communist to see that wrapping a woman in a veil and secluding her in the home is a hideous oppression crying out to be wiped from the face of the earth. The veil is a physical symbol of the submission of women to men and the imposed affirmation of their inferior status.
  14864. Women and the far right
    First Published: 2019
    Many of the past gains of human and civil rights with women are at risk of being rolled back as the far right assumes power in numerous countries. Such attacks on women's reproductive rights and their places and roles in society have historical precedents in fascist movements in the past.
  14865. Women in a Neoliberal Order
    Against The Current vol. 109
    First Published: 2004
    Feminists and historians of the Middle East were a bit surprised last year when Laura Bush made a radio address defending women's rights -- in Iraq. An unlikely champion of women's causes at home (The Economist of London, not a radical magazine, rates her “low” on feminism) from reproductive freedom, affirmative action or equality in employment to social services women need, Ms. Bush found in women's rights a convenient pretext for boosting her husband's imperial crusade in another country.
  14866. Women in the Black Panther Party
    First Published: 2018
    While much that has been written about the Black Panther Party (BPP) is focused on the role of certain prominent male leaders, lesser known is that during peak membership women made up nearly two-thirds of the party. Leela Yellessety spoke to three authors of recent books that highlight the contribution of women in the Black Panther Party.
  14867. Women in the Paris Commune
    Against The Current vol. 153
    First Published: 2011
    During the Seige of Paris, women organized their own Vigilance Committee in Montmartre, the political center of the working class. La Révolution politique et sociale devoted a major portion of its pages to reporting on the Vigilance Committee and a variety of women’s clubs and societies. This included the Union des Femmes, the women’s union that was a section of the First International.
  14868. Women in the Venezuelan Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 115
    First Published: 2005
    In the referendum of 15 August, 2004 Venezuelans reaffirmed Hugo Chávez as president by a vote of 59% to 41%. We know that the 59% was overwhelmingly the voice of the poorest, not only reaffirming Chávez in power but insisting that the program of change continue and increase.
  14869. Women-Led Radio Station Amplifies Voices of Indigenous Communities in Argentina
    First Published: 2018
    In the late 1990s several Indigenous women founded a radio station which continues to broadcast. It resists cultural subjugation and provides a voice to Indigenous people.
  14870. Women and Men
    Introduction to the Spring 1983 issue of Connexions (#37)
    First Published: 1983
    Spotlighting collective actions for a non-sexist society.
  14871. The Women of 1917
    First Published: 2017
    Women weren't just the Russian Revolution’s spark, but the motor that drove it forward.
  14872. The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest
    First Published: 2013
    Women in Greenham used their voice in order to advance the ordinary class, and their legacy lives on.
  14873. Women of the Dada and Their Timnes
    First Published: 2016
    Thinking about Dada today, it is astonishing that such a small, obscure group should have become such an influence. It was the laboratory for new ideas and unrestrained, uninhibited, playful activity and their works still find joyful resonance in our hearts.
  14874. Women of the revolution
    First Published: 2009
    Thirty years after the toppling of the Shah in Iran, Azar Sheibani looks at how Iranian women have defied the reign of misogynist terror.
  14875. Women on "Skid Row"
    A Proposal for a Shelter for Alcoholic and Homeless Women in Montreal
    First Published: 1976
    A proposal written to funding bodies requesting financial assistance in setting up a women's shelter in Montreal.
  14876. Women on the frontlines of Kurdish struggles: An interview with JI.NHA women's news agency
    First Published: 2016
    In 2015, Corporate Watch visited Bakur (meaning 'North' in Kurmanji), the Kurdish region within Turkey's borders. We interviewed two journalists from JI.NHA, an all-women news agency made up of mostly Kurdish women, based in Amed. Our meeting with JI.NHA took place just after the Turkish election in June 2015. Since our interviews, the Turkish state has begun a new war on its Kurdish population. Cities have been attacked by the police and military with mortars, tanks and helicopters and every day Kurdish citizens are being murdered. People in cities across Bakur have erected barricades in their neighbourhoods to defend themselves against the violence and are trying to organise autonomously from the state.
  14877. Women and the Pakistani Left: Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
    Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new and more concrete basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
    First Published: 2014
    We condemn the co-option of the question of women’s emancipation by neo-liberal forces through the de-contextualized celebration of Women’s Day as another opportunity to further the neo-liberal development agenda.
  14878. Women Recycle for Income and Environment
    First Published: 2009
    The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
  14879. Women, Revolution and the Future
    Against The Current vol. 151
    First Published: 2011
    Valentine Moghadam is director of the Women’s Studies Program and a professor of sociology at Purdue University. She responded to some questions from Against the Current early on February 11, 2011, shortly before the announcement of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation.
  14880. Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
    First Published: 2017
    Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings, a women's right activist, regarding the severity of sexual violence towards women and girls in Jamaica.
  14881. Women Rising, Then and Now
    First Published: 1999
    "In the black of the winter of nineteen-nine,
    When we froze and bled on the picket line,
    We showed the world that women could fight,
    And we rose and won with women's might."
  14882. Women Stand Up, Fight Back
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    What would it mean to truly end gender-and-race-based violence? How can radicals acknowledge the totalizing violence of white supremacy while also accounting for the very diverse, and sometimes conflicting, experiences and survival strategies of Arab, Asian, Native, Latina and Black women?
  14883. Women Take On the Orthodox
    First Published: 2010
    Increasing religious domination by the Orthodox is increasing conflict within Israeli and tension between American Jews and Israel.
  14884. Women and Trade Unions
    Chapter 12 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
  14885. Women Under the Gun, 2015
    First Published: 2015
    A discussion of violence against women.
  14886. Women up in Arms: Zapatistas and Rojava Kurds Embrace a New Gender Politics
    First Published: 2015
    Resistance and strength manifest like weeds through cracks in Chiapas, Mexico and transnational Kurdistan where the respective Zapatista and Kurdish resistance movements are creating new gender relations as a primary part of their struggle and process for building a better world. In both places, women's participation in the armed forces has been an entry-point for a new social construction of gender relations based on equity.
  14887. Women & War in Sierra Leone
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    While I was doing research in Guinea in the summer of 1999, a village woman informed me of a legend told throughout West Africa. “It is not good to send your children to America,” she said, “for in America, they bury Africans in shallow graves.”
  14888. The Women Who Gave Us Christmas
    Exposing America's Greatest Crime
    First Published: 2010
    In 1834, African American and white men and women members of William Lloyd Garrison’s newly formed Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society saw Christmas as an opportunity to expose a hypocritical republic that proclaimed liberty yet held millions of African men, women and children captive as slaves. Women assumed the lead, boldly defying a society that denied them a public voice or political opinions. To finance the abolition cause, these women organized Christmas bazaars that sold donated gifts, and trumpeted anti-slavery messages.
  14889. Women Working
    Issue #6
    First Published: 1976
    Examination of many of the issues facing women in the working world.
  14890. Women Working With Immigrant Women (WWIW)
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    Women Working With Immigrant Women (WWIW) developed as an umbrella organization for agencies and women working with immigrant women in Metro Toronto in 1974. Its main goals included information sharing and referral, acting as a support group, and initiating programmes and services to meet the needs of immigrant and refugee women and women of colour.
  14891. Women, Immigration and The Canadian Economy
    This article, written by the Women's Research Centre, questions the implementation of the new Immigration Bill.
  14892. Women's activism publications
    First Published: 1989
  14893. Women's centres temporarily reprieved
    First Published: 1990
  14894. 'Women's Day' February 1913
    First Published: 1913   Published: 1917
    The article by Alexandra Kollontai was first published in the newspaper Pravda one week before the first-ever celebration in Russia of the Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat on 23 February (8 March), 1913.
  14895. Women's Freedom League
    Connexipedia Article
    An organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigned for women's suffrage and sexual equality.
  14896. Women's History Prize
    First Published: 1991
  14897. Women's Humour
    First Published: 1989
  14898. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Founded 1915 in The Hague, the Netherlands, by women active in the women's suffrage movement in Europe and North America. They sought to end the war and seek ways to ensure that no more wars took place.
  14899. Women's Labour Leagues (Canada)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Women's Labour Leagues emerged in Canada prior to WWI. Their purpose was to defend the struggles of women workers and support the labour movement.
  14900. Women's Liberation Movement
    A synopsis
    A synopsis of the Women's Liberation Movement. From the Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Events (Marxists.org)
  14901. Women's liberation, then and now
    First Published: 1971
  14902. Women's liberation: theory and practice
    First Published: 2013
    Fundamental change for women means challenging the priorities of a system based on profit, and that requires connecting women’s movements to the wider fight for change.
  14903. The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
    First Published: 2017
    Despite what pundits said, the Women’s March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him?
  14904. Women's Monumental Struggle
    Suffragette
    First Published: 2016
    Barbara Winslow and Alison Baldree respond to Sarah Gavron's controversial 2015 film Suffragette.
  14905. Women's Movement records
    First Published: 1992
  14906. Women's Oppression and Liberation
    First Published: 2019
    On the role of Marxism in the feminist movement in India.
  14907. Women's Petition for Peace
    First Published: 1981
    The Women's Petition for Peace originated in Denmark in February, 1980 and is being distributed by Voice of Women Halifax.
  14908. Women's programs cut
    First Published: 1990
  14909. Women's Space, Contested Terrain
    First Published: 1997
    Lately I am struck by how easy, still, for men to behave however they desire. That in spite--indeed, sometimes because--of the women's movement, men still control so much of our public space with an arrogance that astounds me.
  14910. Women's stories from the frontline of Sudan's revolution must be told
    First Published: 2019
    Women are leading Sudan's revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash.
  14911. Women's Suffrage (Canada)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Suffrage campaign in the late 19th century which aimed to achieve votes for all women as a democratic right.
  14912. Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle
    First Published: 1912
    In any society, the degree of female emancipation is the natural measure of the general emancipation.
  14913. Women's suffrage: Timeline of women's suffrage - Wikipedia
    Connexipedia Article
    Timeline of women's suffrage activities around the world from the 18th to 21st century.
  14914. Women's Trade Union League
    Connexipedia Article
    A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
  14915. Women's work devalued
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1991
    An examination of the global failure to recognize the value of women's work.
  14916. Women's Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation
    A Marxist Analysis
    First Published: 2014
    Society's mores and culture-on questions of marriage, the family, the roles of men, women and children-are not preordained, but must be studied in their man-made historical context. Emancipation means putting an end to the economic system of capitalism. Thus, for Marxists, the liberation of women cannot be separated from the liberation of all the exploited and oppressed.
  14917. Wonder Woman is a hero only the military-industrial complex could create
    First Published: 2017
    The author peels back the layer of blockbuster comic book fun to reveal the film's disturbing and not-so-covert political and militaristic messages.
  14918. Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
    First Published: 2009
    With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
  14919. The wonderful world of bossnapping
    First Published: 2017
    A short introduction to and history of 'bossnapping', where workers detain their bosses in order to win demands.
  14920. Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat'
    First Published: 2012   Published: 2013
    Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives? Similar questions come to mind as the US and UK governments once again raise the spectre of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ to demonise a target for ‘regime change’, this time in Syria.
  14921. Wood, Ellen Meiksins
  14922. Wood, Ellen Meiksins
    Connexipedia Article
    Marxist scholar. (Born 1942).
  14923. Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016)
    First Published: 2016
    Remembering Marxist scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood.
  14924. Woodsworth, James Shaver
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Methodist minister, social worker, politician. (1874-1942).
  14925. Word for Word
    Negative effects of public waste reduction policies.
  14926. A Word Warrior for Freedom
    Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Sonja D. Williams' Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom.
  14927. Words and Deeds
    Canada, Portugal and Africa
    First Published: 1977
    These essays culminate three years of research by the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa (TCLSAC), an organization working in support of the liberation movement of Southern Africa and on issues which link the concerns of Canadians to these struggles.
  14928. Words have failed
    First Published: 2004
    The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
  14929. Words that Count Women In - Review
    First Published: 1993
    Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.
  14930. Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2010
    There are a number of words and phrases that GNU recommends avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. Some are ambiguous or misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that GNU disagrees with, and they hope you disagree with it too.
  14931. Words, words, words...
    Diemer, Ulli
    First Published: 1978
    The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.
  14932. Worede, Melaku
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Ethiopian seed conservationist, winner of the Right Livelihood Award. (Born 1936).
  14933. Work and Technical Change
    First Published: 1981
    Work and Technological Change examines the process of the introduction of new technologies to the workplace.
  14934. Work & Daily Life Intro
    First Published: 1977
    A forum through which people can communicate what they feel about their jobs and the others things that happen to them every day.
  14935. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    First Published: 1936
    Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
  14936. The work of authentic journalists is the most important thing for social movements
    How Mercedes Osuna became a rebel with a cause
    First Published: 2013
    Not an activist, social organizer nor a defender: Mercedes Osuna would rather define her work as human labor, something that she has dedicated an entire life to. She was born in a place were true words are heard with the heart and she lived out her convictions at a young age.
  14937. Work Overload: Time for a Union Strategy
    First Published: 2015
    Talk to workers in any sector, in any workplace and sooner or later they’ll get to their frustrations with their ever-increasing workloads: ‘I’m struggling’, they’ll lament to fellow workers or anyone ready to listen, ‘to just do the job, never mind do it well’. And yet even though few work-related issues seem to generate more passion, the relentless intensification of every-day work life rarely surfaces as a union priority. Why?
  14938. Work-to-rule: a guide
    Taking industrial action without losing pay by following your work's rules so strictly that nothing gets done
    First Published: 2006
    Instead of striking, workers with demands that the bosses are unwilling to meet can collectively decide to start a "work-to-rule". Almost every job is covered by a maze of rules, regulations, standing orders, and so on, many of them completely unworkable and generally ignored. Workers often violate orders, resort to their own techniques of doing things, and disregard lines of authority simply to meet the goals of the company. There is often a tacit understanding, even by the managers whose job it is to enforce the rules, that these shortcuts must be taken in order to meet targets on time.
  14939. Worker activism is now the new normal as strikes and protests erupt across China
    First Published: 2015
    China Labour Bulletin’s Strike Map logged record numbers of strikes and worker protests in the first quarter of 2015.
  14940. Worker Buyouts
    The Role of Trade Unions and Community Organizations
    First Published: 1983
  14941. Worker Co-operatives
    An Introduction
    First Published: 1985
  14942. Worker Resistance in Telecommunications
    First Published: 1998
    LABOR RESISTANCE SEEMS to be spreading, capturing public support, and even winning some gains here and there. Such diverse groups as New York cabbies and construction workers, California nurses and transit workers, UPS and GM workers have gone to the streets against the affects of work intensification and industry reorganization.
    Less and less are today's strikes characterized by tiny dispirited picket lines, and more and more by mass actions. Job security, work time, work loads and...
  14943. Workers and Environmentalists Unite!
    Obama Has Betrayed Both
    First Published: 2011
    When there are zero jobs available, any job will do. This fact has been exploited by corporations now re-labeling themselves ”job creators,” since being a job creator in a time of depression brings a religious status similar to a rain god during a drought. Democrats and Republicans have lavished eternal praise on the “job creators” and in consequence have created a political atmosphere that is rabidly pro-corporate “job creators” and anti-everything else. In practice this means that ANY new law or regulation that hinders the power or profits of “job creating” corporations is instantly attacked as a “job killer.”
  14944. Workers’ Assemblies: A Way to Regroup the Left?
    First Published: 2011
    Herman Rosenfeld is a member of the Canadian Socialist Project and the General Toronto Workers’ Assembly, a new initiative aiming to reinvigorate working class and radical politics in the city. He spoke to Tom Denning about the methods and activities of GTWA and the challenges it faces.
  14945. The Workers' Climate Plan & The Federal Climate Consultations
    First Published: 2016
    The Government of Canada is leading a process to create a National Climate Strategy, a result of signing the Paris Agreement to limit increasing global temperatures. Over the next 3 months, political leaders will be consulting the public and key stakeholders to propose a new federal climate strategy in October 2016.
  14946. Workers' Control
    First Published: 1967
  14947. Workers' Control is More than Just That
    First Published: 1971
    One perspective on workers control is that it will never be won while capitalism prevails and must be fought for precisely for that reason. Gorz shares this view and argues that, when we speak of workers' control, we speak of the capability of the workers' to take control of the process of production and to organize the working process as they think best.
  14948. Workers' Council
    Connexipedia Article
  14949. Workers Councils (1936 article)
    First Published: 1936
    Fighting for freedom is not letting your leaders think for you and decide, and following obediently behind them, or from time to time scolding them. Fighting for freedom is partaking to the full of ones capacity, thinking and deciding for oneself, taking all the responsibilities as a self-relying individual amidst equal comrades. It is true that to think for oneself, to think out what is true and right, with a head dulled by fatigue, is the hardest, the most difficult task; it is much harder than to pay and to obey. But it is the only way to freedom. To be liberated by others, whose leadership is the essential part of the liberation, means the getting of new masters instead of the old ones.
  14950. The Workers' Fight against Fascism
    First Published: 1941
    We do not propose to discuss the 'task' of the workers. The workers have already too long done other people's tasks, imposed on them under the high-sounding names of humanity, of human progress, of justice, and freedom, and what not. It is one of the redeeming features of a bad situation that some of the illusions, hitherto surviving among the working class from their past participation in the revolutionary fight of the bourgeoisie against feudal society, have finally been exploded. The only 'task' for the workers, as for every other class, is to look out for themselves.
  14951. Workers Film and Photo League
    Connexipedia Article
    A loosely knit alliance of local organizations that provided independent visual media to people in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world.
  14952. The workers' government
    First Published: 2007
    The biggest far left organisations in Italy to emerge from the great wave of struggle from 1968 to 1975 changed their strategy to one of focussing on the formation of a ‘left’ government within the existing parliamentary set-up.
  14953. Workers Guarantee the Egyptian Revolution
    First Published: 2011
    The middle class, which sacrificed much in this astonishing revolution, faces the task of choosing an ally at this critical juncture. If these young, educated people choose the army and the Muslim Brotherhood (who are also part of the middle class), the result will be the foreclosure of freedom. However, if they choose their natural ally, the working class, they will discover a powerful partner in protecting the achievements of the revolution and in building a new democracy.
  14954. Workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them
    First Published: 1997
    I think self-activity is the response of working people to the nature of their lives and work. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's quiet. Part of the reality is that we're going through a considerable technological revolution, which means that experiences, even jobs, that people depended on and know about, begin to disappear. To expect workers to say, "Yesterday, they automated my factory; today, I know exactly what to do about it," is Utopian. It takes a while. It takes a generation. Workers will learn.
  14955. Workers Hold the Keys
    First Published: 2017
    In a discussion of the history and practice of socialist ideas, Chibber and Farbman discuss precarity and the changing composition of the working class, how socialists should think about unions, and how the Left can get off the college campuses and into the workplaces and streets.
  14956. Workers Hold the Keys
    First Published: 2017
    An interview with Vivek Chibber.
  14957. Workers in a lean world: unions in the international economy
    First Published: 2016
    In a comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. A bracing riposte to the conventional wisdom concerning the irresistible power of globalization, Workers in a Lean World is a definitive account of contemporary labour relations on a global scale.
  14958. Workers Industry
    First Published: 1983
  14959. A Workers' Inquiry
    First Published: 1880
  14960. Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-management
    First Published: 2006
    Power can't be "abolished" any more than gravity can be. Rather, building a self-managing society means a shift from hierarchical structures that concentrate power at the top to new structures through which the mass of the people collectively exercise the power to control their work and the society as a whole.
  14961. Workers' Memorial Day: North Dakota deadliest state in US
    First Published: 2016
    Tyler Erickson was a floor hand with Heller Casing in Williston, North Dakota, from 2012 until 2014. He specialised in maintaining the casing, which would be lowered into drill holes in what back then were the state’s booming oil fields. Accidents, he says, were a regular occurrence.
  14962. Workers of America, Unite! Racism is a Trade Union Issue
    First Published: 2015
    The American working class is the most powerful in the world, is the most productive in the world and we operate the largest and most profitable economy in the world. American workers are also represented by national unions that have the most resources, the biggest staffs and the largest bank accounts, greater than any other trade unions in the world. Yet, without question, American labour is politically the weakest in the world among the large economies, largely because we remain so violently divided.
  14963. Workers of the World
    First Published: 2016
    Trade unionists in the 1920s didn't have much reason for optimism. Labour membership, which had shot upwards amid postwar unrest, crested and then plunged. A decade later, strikes were blocking production across the country, and union density was skyrocketing.
    After years of malaise in the labor movement, is a similar upsurge possible today?
  14964. Workers of the World Caress
    An interview with Gary Kinsman on gay and lesbian organizing in the 1970's Toronto Left
  14965. Workers' Opposition
    Connexipedia Article
    A group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled to achieve workers rights and trade union control over industry.
  14966. Workers' Opposition
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedaa of Marxism Glossary of Terms
    A group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled to achieve workers rights and trade union control over industry.
  14967. The Workers' Party and Political Crisis in Brazil: Lula at a Crossroads?
    Against The Current vol. 123
    First Published: 2006
    In June 2005, the first allegations of a rogue politician in a rightwing party in coalition with Brazil's governing Workers' Party (PT) seemed spurious enough. The politician himself, Roberto Jefferson, had a long history of allegations of corruption, and of narrowly escaping indictment in Brazil's last corruption crisis in 1993. According to celebrity magazines, he had had a makeover, including plastic surgery, before coming forward with the allegations of a "payment for votes" scheme in congress in which the ruling PT doled out a monthly allowance for sympathetic politicians in congress.
  14968. Workers Power and the Russian Revolution
    A review of Maurice Brinton's For Workers Power
    First Published: 2005
  14969. Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution
    First Published: 1987   Published: 2006
  14970. Workers Profiles: Below the Minimum Wage
    First Published: 2016
    An endless supply of alcohol, good music, pool tables, and friendly strangers -- these elements seem like a recipe for a fun time. For those of us who frequent bars and pubs, this kind of environment is exactly what we look forward to at the end of a long day or work week. Imagine working at a bar. It seems natural that bartenders would enjoy their upbeat surroundings at work as much as their customers. Now, imagine being the only worker at a bar. You alone are responsible for cleaning the bar, controlling drunk customers, serving food, buying supplies -- everything all alone during an overnight shift.
  14971. Workers' Revolts of the 1970s
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    In my world as a teenager becoming politically aware in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the issues that mattered most were the war in Vietnam and race relations at my school. The events that shaped my high school years included fights between Black and white students, watching the families of white friends leave the city for Ferndale and Oak Park, the racially charged mayoral race in 1969, the election of the city’s first Black mayor in 1973, and my own increasing involvement in the movement to end the war in Southeast Asia.
  14972. Workers' self-management
    Connexipedia Article
    A form of workplace in which workers themselves make the decisions.
  14973. The Workers United Are Not Always Defeated
    We Should All Learn From It
    First Published: 2014
    Working people around the world are in worse straits than they have been for decades. Unemployment is rampant and real wages are stagnant.
  14974. Workers Unity League
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    A national trade union federation that was formed in 1929 on the initiative of the Communist Party of Canada in line with the decision of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1928 that communists break with their previous policy of working inside existing labour parties and labour unions to push for more militant stances.
  14975. Working class cinema: a video guide 
    First Published: 2013
    Libcom.org's guide to working class films and TV shows, showing class struggles, revolutionary situations and everyday lives.
  14976. A Working-Class Hero Is Something To Be
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    As a 35-year veteran of union activity in America, I can personally attest that Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers (OCAW) was a rare bird, perhaps the last of his kind.
  14977. Working Class History
    First Published: 1990
  14978. Working-Class History
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    The story of the changing conditions and actions of all working people.
  14979. Working Class Movement Must Be Independent
    First Published: 2018
    A new chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21-22 July 2018, when representatives from over 147 South African working-class formations represented by 1000 delegates assembled to unite workplace and community struggles.
  14980. The Working Class, Reconsidered
    First Published: 2016
    The central narrative of post-election analysis asserts that Trump won the election by riding a wave of white working class resentment; a wave that he'd activated and steered in dangerous directions. The narrative is partly right, but it needs to be subject to critical analysis, specifically regarding how we think about "the working class" and the role that "it" played in this election.
  14981. The Working Class: Saskatchewan's Political Orphan
    First Published: 2016
    We all suffer from the absence of working class politics. We are smothered in the business-oriented, neoliberal 'consensus' instructing us to reconcile ourselves to 'the new reality' -- rollbacks in social welfare and universal publicly funded programs; huge tax cuts to business and the rich, driving up public debt and enriching finance capitalism; an end to secure employment and guaranteed benefits; surrendering our dreams of home ownership unless we are prepared to accept a lifetime of debt enslavement; a future of uncertainty and endless personal struggle to sustain ourselves and our children. Flippant commentators now tell us the proletariat has been replaced by 'the precariat', and this will define the future of this new capitalism.
  14982. The working class, trade unions and the left: the contours of resistance
    First Published: 2013
    Vernell talks about the attacks of the British government to stabilise capitalism, as well as the response of the working class.
  14983. Working for The Man
    First Published: 2014
    The author describes her brief experience at a now infamous language school in London, where she encountered blatant sexism.
  14984. Working For Wages
    The Roots of Insurgency
    First Published: 1999
    One of the crucial elements of our subject is contradiction. It is the element that is most difficult for traditional social science to comprehend and deal with. As a result, the conclusions and findings of academic research tend to be tentative and conservative.... The ordinary understanding of working-class activity is based on the idea that consciousness leads to, or causes, action. It would seem more valid to say that action leads to consciousness or, more precisely, that activity and consciousness interact in ways that are rarely predictable.
  14985. Working Girls: Prostitutes, Their Life and Social Control
    First Published: 1991
    An analysis of prostitution laws in Austrailia and a discussion of the need for decriminalisation.
  14986. Working Hard in America's Twilight Economy
    The Gleaners
    First Published: 2015
    Over in the west side of town, gleaners hustle toward the recycling center on Peralta which will pay them cash for their collected goods. They push and pull their rusty supermarket carts filled with bottles, cans and odd goods toward the building before the steel rollup door rumbles down and ends that day's possibility of cash transactions.
  14987. Working in a supermarket
    First Published: 1979
    Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
  14988. Working in an office -- for a while
    First Published: 1978
    The first thing that strikes one about working in this particular office is how little actual work ever gets done.
  14989. Working in Nonprofit Organizations
    First Published: 2010
    If people want to work in jobs that provide some satisfaction and flexibility, nonprofits jobs can be good for a while. They’re also a way to learn some skills. But don’t have illusions about nonprofit organizations. A job in a nonprofit organization is still a job. A nonprofit job is not a good way to make a contribution to revolutionary change and it’s often not a very good contribution even to smaller scale reformist change.
  14990. Working Paper on Technology and the Family Farm
    First Published: 1980
  14991. Working Paper on Technology and the Family Farm
    First Published: 1981
    This working paper was prepared for presentation at a workshop entitled "The Human Context for Science and Technology" which was held at Saint Mary's University, Halifax in May, 1980.
  14992. Working To Honour Nelson Mandela's Legacy
    First Published: 2013
    As the world mourns the passing of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, his close friend and political stalwart Tokoyo Sexwale says much needs to be done to honour his legacy.
  14993. Working Together
    First Published: 1978
    A report on the effects of unemployment.
  14994. Working together for peace
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Although English and French-speaking Canadians are sometimes at odds, the call for peace is universal. It is a language that all can agree on.
  14995. Working Towards Appropriate Development - Report of the Second Eastern Ontario Workshop on Rual Development
    First Published: 1979
    With the impending termination of their funding the Council on Rural Development Canada put together a second workshop for the people of the Eastern Ontario Planning Region in an attempt to consolidate contributions made by a previous workshop a year earlier.
  14996. The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the Twenty-First Century
    Low-Level Insurgencies
    First Published: 2014
    The start of the twenty-first century has seen a continuing decline in union membership and strikes. But it has also seen the emergence of unpredicted mini-revolts.
  14997. Workmates: direct action workplace organising on the London Underground
    First Published: 2011
    An online pamphlet detailing resistance in the late 1990s by London Underground employees to outsourcing via a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme. Workers organized outside the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) to form a new collective, dubbed the Workmates.
  14998. Workplace organising
    A set of tips and advice guides for organising in your workplace
    First Published: 2006
    A set of tips and advice guides for organising in your workplace. From basic principles and getting started, to making demands, taking action such as strikes, and winning them.
  14999. Workplace Violence: Silent Epidemic
    First Published: 2015
    Workplace violence ranges from threats and curses to murder. Spitting on bus drivers is so common in New York City that their union won them DNA kits last year, to collect saliva.
  15000. Workshop Talks: Do job, get fired
    First Published: 2016
    Under the Affordable Care Act, it’s standard HMO practice to offer patients the opportunity to fill out an advance directive as an exercise in considering one's quality of life, not just its prolongation. Frontline healthcare providers have a concrete reason for quality-of-life care concerns. But in the HMO business campaigns promoting quality of life over quantity, things are not really what they appear.
  15001. Workshop Talks: Reclaim our labor
    First Published: 2015
    Lin discusses the precarious conditions under which healthcare labourers work.
  15002. The World and Its Particulars
    The Ways of the World
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of David Harvey's The Ways of the World.
  15003. A World at Financial War
    Will Greece Let EU Central Bankers Destroy Democracy?
    First Published: 2011
    The crisis for Greece – as for Iceland, Ireland and debt-plagued economies capped by the United States – is occurring as bank lobbyists demand that “taxpayers” pay for the bailouts of bad speculations and government debts stemming largely from tax cuts for the rich and for real estate, shifting the fiscal burden as well as the debt burden onto labor and industry. The financial sector’s growing power to achieve this tax favoritism is crippling economies, driving them further into reliance on yet more debt financing to remain solvent.
  15004. World at Gunpoint
    Or, what's wrong with the simplicity movement
    First Published: 2009
    Global warming (or global climate catastrophe, as some rightly call it), as terrifying as it is, isn't first and foremost a threat. It's a consequence. we'll have a better chance of succeeding if we recognize it as a predictable (at this point) result of burning oil and gas, of deforestation, of dam construction, of industrial agriculture, and so on. The real threat is all of these.
  15005. World Bank claims 'sovereign immunity' to escape liability for its crimes against humanity
    First Published: 2017
    In arguing against the World Bank's attempt to declare itself a sovereign state that is above the law, Dolack brings attention to the large-scale crimes the World Bank has committed or been involved in over many decades.
  15006. The World Bank Group's Uncounted
    First Published: 2015
    The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.
  15007. World Bank: It's the Pits for the Poor
    Against The Current vol. 87
    First Published: 2000
    In early May, a National Reparations Conference opened by Njongonkulu Ndungane, the radical Archbishop of Cape Town who succeeded Desmond Tutu, resolved to demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund compensate South Africa for apartheid loans long ago repaid. What is the line of argument?
  15008. World Bank Orders Venezuela To Pay Crystallex $1.4 Billion For Gold Mine
    First Published: 2016
    The World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ordered the government of Venezuela to pay $1.386 billion to Crystallex, a bankrupt Canadian gold mining company, for canceling a 2002 permit to mine for gold in the Imataca Forest Reserve.
  15009. World Bank Projects Leave Trail of Misery Around Globe
    First Published: 2015
    In developing countries around the globe, forest dwellers, poor villagers and other vulnerable populations claim the World Bank -- the planet's oldest and most powerful development lender -- has left a trail of misery.
  15010. The World Center of Hacking is in Washington, Not Moscow or Beijing
    First Published: 2017
    Documents from the U.S. NSA (National Security Agency) unveiled by Edward Snowden show that whole countries, not just a number of sensitive computers, have been hacked by the NSA.
  15011. World Charter of Free Media
    First Published: 2015
    A charter for the democratization of communication.
  15012. World Council on Religion for Peace/Canada
    A Report and Statement to the Third Assembly of the World Council on Religion for Peace(WCRP) in Princeton, NJ 1979
    First Published: 1979
    The goal of the World Council on Religion for Peace (WCRP) is the promotion of dialogue between the various world faiths with a view to common action for peace.
  15013. World Cup 2010: Showcase South Africa
    Against The Current vol. 132
    First Published: 2008
    September 15, 2007, marked the beginning of a 1,000-day countdown to the 2010 International Federation of Football Associations World Cup hosted by South Africa, the first African nation ever to host the event. President Thabo Mbeki calls the premier soccer tournament “a golden opportunity to showcase Africa to the world” and adds that the South African government is determined to “show that the African renaissance is upon us and Africa’s time has come.”
  15014. The World Cup and the Corporatization of Soccer
    First Published: 2014
    Huge global sporting contests, their boosters promise, will transform the nature of the host country. The billions South Africa poured into hosting the World Cup were touted by some as a form of development. The result? The month-long euphoria of the contests was followed by the hangover of dealing with an expensive unused or underused stadium infrastructure scattered across that developing country. Host countries pay FIFA for the privilege of hosting the competition, then foot the bill for most of the tournament, while FIFA takes most of the revenues.
  15015. World Cup Woes for South Africa
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    The overspending, crony capitalism and increased poverty the majority of South Africans now suffer are taking the fun out of the beautiful game, soccer. According to leading researcher Udesh Pillay of the SA Human Sciences Research Council, in 2005 one in three South Africans hoped to personally benefit from the World Cup, but this fell to one in five in 2009, and 1 in 100 today.
  15016. World Development under Monopoly Capitalism
    First Published: 2021
    The recent period of globalization - following the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the reintegration of China into the world economy - is one where global value chains have become the dominant organizational form of capitalism. The big question is whether this global value chain world is contributing to, or detracting from, real human development. Is it establishing a more equal, less exploitative, less poverty-ridden world?
  15017. World evil with its roots in the North
    Good drugs and bad drugs: the evolution of drugs and government, and implications for those suffering as a result of unfair trade policy.
  15018. The world food crisis: what is behind it and what we can do
    First Published: 2008
    The World Food Program's description of the global food crisis raises the spectre of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.
  15019. The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism
    First Published: 2018
    Google's encroaching powers over our lives, to include the freedom of expression protected by most national laws, not to mention EU and UN Charters, around the planet today.
  15020. A World in Revolt
    First Published: 2019
    We are pleased to include in this issue of Insurgent Notes a series of very detailed accounts and analyses of the gilets jaunes or yellow vests movement in France prepared by activists associated with Temps critiques. The texts are informed by a distinctive theoretical perspective (regarding capitalist reproduction and the possibility of revolution) and their sustained involvement in the yellow vests movement from its inception.
  15021. World Military and Social Expenditures 1977
    First Published: 1977
  15022. The World Must End The US' Illegal Economic War
    First Published: 2020
    The United States is relying more heavily on illegal unilateral coercive measures (also known as economic sanctions) in place of war or as part of its build-up to war. In fact, economic sanctions are an act of war that kills tens of thousands of people each year through financial strangulation.
  15023. The World Must Learn From Cuba
    First Published: 2017
    On the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, why has the small Caribbean nation outperformed many capitalist democracies in key ways despite fifty years of attack?
  15024. World Naked Bike Ride
    Connexipedia Article
    International clothing-optional bike ride.
  15025. The World Needs a Water Treaty
    First Published: 2019
    Climate change is making water into as valuable a commodity as oil with similar national tensions resulting.
  15026. The World Needs a Water Treaty
    First Published: 2019
    During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India’s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water.
  15027. A world on workfare
    First Published: 2012
    The world's richest countries are coercing their citizens to 'donate' their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
  15028. The World Revolution
    First Published: 1923
    Russia is now a horrible picture with its revolutionary double nature. It lies there like a huge wreck on the shore, broken up by its revolution. There was a moment when a small lifeboat was sent out to save Soviet Russia. That boat was the KAPD, the best and largest part of the Spartacus Bund, with its new and really revolutionary policy for the world revolution. But Russia with its Bolshevik Government despised the KAPD and declined its help.
  15029. World Revolution and Communist Tactics
    First Published: 1920
    World war and rapid economic collapse now make revolution objectively necessary before the masses have grasped communism intellectually: and this contradiction is at the root of the contradictions, hesitations and setbacks which make the revolution a long and painful process.
  15030. World should intervene to end the Israeli Apartheid
    First Published: 2001
    Transcript of a speech given in South Africa addressing the circumstances of the Palestinians and the Israeli apartheid.
  15031. World Social Forum
    Connexipedia Article
    An annual meeting that defines itself as "an opened space - plural, diverse, non-governmental and non-partisan - that stimulates the decentralized debate, reflection, proposals building, experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidary, democratic and fair world....a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism".
  15032. The World Social Forum, 2004
    Against The Current vol. 110
    First Published: 2004
    The fourth annual World Social Forum (WSF), held January 16-21 in the Indian city of Mumbai (what used to be called Bombay), drew 100,000 activists from over 130 countries. For three previous years it had been in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, to which it returns in 2005.
  15033. World Socialist Movement
    Connexipedia Article
    An international organisation of socialist parties created in 1904 with the founding of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
  15034. The World Through African Eyes
    Securing the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Securing the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe.
  15035. A World War has Begun: Break the Silence
    First Published: 2016
    How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.
  15036. World War I and Afterward: Upheaval, Repression and Terror
    First Published: 2017
    Following the April 1917 U.S. entry into World War I, a massive months-long strike wave occurred as workers in those industries, booming with wartime orders demanded improved conditions and better wages that were rapidly being outstripped by war-bred price increases.
  15037. World War I and Its Century
    First Published: 2014
    Ruff anaylzes the effect that WWI had on the world's imperial powers, shifting the hold on dominance between countries and transforming economies into different forms of war state capitalism.
  15038. World War I: Crime and Punishment
    First Published: 2018
    Jacques Pauwels' The Great Class War is a contribution to the ideological front in the struggle for a world without wars, for in resetting the story of that war in the Marxist frame, he loosens our ties to idealist interpretations that obscure the class nature of wars, naturalize war as an inevitable part of life, and force us to assume and share a guilt that largely rests on the shoulders of a profiteering and exploitative class, which holds the power of decision making through its control of political, economic, military, police, and media powers and grants us a vote that is largely cosmetic.
  15039. World War II and Ethnic Conflict in LA
    Against The Current vol. 144
    First Published: 2010
    In The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, Scott Kurashige provides new insights into the struggle for racial equality in Los Angeles by focusing on collaboration, and competition, between African-American and Japanese American residents of the city.
  15040. A World War is Beckoning
    Break the Silence
    First Published: 2014
    Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”.
  15041. World War One and the rehabilitation of slaughter
    First Published: 2014
    Damaged by Iraq, ground down in Afghanistan, defeated over Syria, the jingoistic right are determined to rewrite the history of the First World War in an effort to rehabilitate imperialist war in the early 21st century.
  15042. Worlds Apart: Economic Relations and Human Rights - Canada - Chile
    Economic Relations and Human rights - Canada - Chile
    First Published: 1978
  15043. World's Best Economist Tells All!
    First Published: 2017
    If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson’s books. What you will learn is that neoliberal economics is an apology for the rentier class and the large banks that have succeeded in financializing the economy, shifting consumer spending power from the purchase of goods and services that drive the real economy to the payment of interest and fees to banks.
  15044. World's Most Tyrannical Regime Can't Stop Babbling About "Human Rights"
    First Published: 2021
    Like all US secretaries of state, Blinken's public statements overwhelmingly focus on the claim that other nations abuse human rights, and that it is America’s duty to defend those rights. Which is very silly, considering the fact that the US government is the single worst human rights abuser on planet Earth.
  15045. Worldwide "Moment of Madness"
    First Published: 2018
    A look at 1968 a legendary year in history. Analysis of how student- and worker-led revolts played out in different parts of Europe.
  15046. Worldwide Wobblies Remembered
    Book review
    First Published: 2018
    A review of the essay collection Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW.
  15047. Worse Than North Korea
    First Published: 2010
    The reality is that we are dealing with a pariah state, no better at this point in its respect for international law and basic human rights (where non-Israelis are concerned), than North Korea. And maybe worse. At least the North Koreans fired their weapon at a South Korean military vessel. The Israeli Defense Force attacked a vessel filled with civilian peace activists, including elderly Holocaust survivors, members of foreign parliaments, and young children.
  15048. Worse than Obsolete: NATO Creates Enemies
    First Published: 2018
    Twenty years' worth of "unintended" or "collateral" damage hasn't created friends in the war zones.
  15049. 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
    First Published: 2015
    On issues ranging from climate change to food safety, from open Internet to access to medicines, the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a disaster.
  15050. Worst Companies for Union Organizing Highlighted for International Human Rights Day
    First Published: 2009
    The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) has released "Working for Scrooge: Worst Companies of 2009 for the Right to Associate," a list of the four worst multinational corporations for union organizing.
  15051. The worst polluters in the U.S. for 1988
  15052. The worst thing for a journalist is being cut off from his audience
    First Published: 2015
    Slovenian investigative journalist, writes about his experiences of working under pressure while he was investigating irregularities in the organs of repression.
  15053. Worthington provokes election controversy
    First Published: 1984
    The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.
  15054. Worthy & Unworthy Victims
    First Published: 2022
    The life of a Palestinian or an Iraqi child is as precious as the life of a Ukrainian child. No one should live in fear and terror. No one should be sacrificed on the altar of Mars.
  15055. Worthy & Unworthy Victims: Navalny & Lira
    First Published: 2024
    While Alexey Navalny's death commanded 24-hour news coverage, Gonzalo Lira's death in Ukraine was virtually ignored.
  15056. Worthy vs. unworthy victims: Study reveals media's selective coverage of Navalny and Lira
    First Published: 2024
    A new MintPress News study of media coverage of the deaths of American journalist and commentator Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny has found that the establishment U.S. press overwhelmingly ignored the former and focussed on the latter.
  15057. Would as Many as 1 Million Be Alive if the Media Had Done Its Job
    First Published: 2014
    This is a transcript of John Pilger's contribution to a special edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' program, guest-edited by the artist and musician PJ Harvey.
  15058. Would Saul Alinsky Break His Own Rules?
    First Published: 2014
    In the wake of Occupy, some community organizers are interested in questioning the old divide between "movements" and "organizations" — and in harnessing the power of both. On the life and evolving legacy of the late Saul Alinsky, founding father of modern community organizing in the United States.
  15059. Would You Believe That the United States Tried to do Something That was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
    The Plan to Destabilize Venesuela
    First Published: 2013
    Wikileaks releases documents on U.S. efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
  15060. Wrestling with Ellison
    Against The Current vol. 155
    First Published: 2011
    Nathaniel Mill's review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling With the Left (ATC 152, May-June 2011) raises a number of very important issues for understanding the politics of Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece, and by extension 20th-century African-American literature as a whole. In particular, Mills’ criticisms of Foley’s neglect of potentially liberatory moments in the text foregrounds the crucial issue of how revolutionary critics should go about the task of investigating novelistic politics.
  15061. Wretched US Journalism on Ukraine
    First Published: 2015
    The most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.
  15062. The Write Stuff
    All you ever wanted to know about letter writing
    First Published: 1989
    The basics to effective letter writing lies in a little research on the writer's part and their ability to point out weakness in their targets.
  15063. Write to us
    First Published: 1978
    The Red Menace welcomes writers' and artists' contributions.
  15064. Writing a Successful Case Study
    First Published: 2003
    Readers love a good story. That's why these chronicles of success will often stand out on the editor's desk while press releases, media kits and other media communications fight a tough battle just to get noticed.
  15065. Writing for broadcast
    First Published: 1998
    Avoid the common pitfalls.
  15066. Writing while expecting to die
    First Published: 2023
    "Can you kindly publish the attached stories if I die?" This is what we have been hearing from the young writers we work with from Gaza in the We Are Not Numbers project.
  15067. Writings by Marx and Engels on the U.S. Civil War
    First Published: 1861   Published: 1862
  15068. The Writings of David Roediger
    First Published: 1997
    Roediger criticizes Marxists for too often reducing racial discrimination to conflicts over resources, such as jobs or housing, that are manipulated by a society's upper classes in order to divert attention from the real sources of inequality. Such a focus, he argues, ignores the manner in which race and racial consciousness is integrally tied to class formation and working-class consciousness.
  15069. The Wrong Solution To The Wrong Problem
    First Published: 2012
    What is it to have free press?
  15070. WSF Youth Camp
    Against The Current vol. 116
    First Published: 2005
    First, a picture of the World Social Forum’s Youth Camp in Porto Alegre, Brazil: Imagine an unending sea of tents and tarps, hammocks hanging from the trees-all of it baking under the sun. Dirt paths divide the camp and are lined by a colorful array of vendors hawking soap, food (“Refri, agua!” was the constant chant), marijuana plants, and jewelry.
  15071. WTO is back. And this time, no more Mr Nice Guy
    First Published: 2015
    Overtaken by massive regional trade agreements like TPP, TTIP, CETA and TINA, the World Trade Organisation has slipped into the background. But this week it's back with a vengeance, with its first big meeting in two years. The US's plan is to globalise the investment protection regime set out in the TTP, and open a new era of corporate rule and the eradication of democracy.
  15072. WTO Ruling on Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling Illustrates Supremacy of Trade Agreements
    First Published: 2015
    International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country's own laws.
  15073. The WTO's Nude World Order
    Against The Current vol. 85
    First Published: 2000
    It got intoxicating that Tuesday (Nov. 30, `99) in Seattle, without chemical assist. That capitalist machine that has looked so mighty and irresistible, for that day was stopped and defeated. Seattle marked the emergence of the next new left, a wildly diverse and creative bunch. And they will be operating on a changing terrain, where not just corporate misbehavior but capitalism appears the problem, and can be fought.
  15074. W.W.E. the People
    First Published: 2017
    An excerpt from Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need", published by Haymarket Books.
  15075. Malcolm X
    Connexipedia Article
    African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. (1925-1965).
  15076. XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications
    First Published: 2015
    The NSA's XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian, sweeps up countless people's Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world’s communication network, among other sources, for processing.
  15077. The X-Rated Free Market
    On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
    First Published: 2014
    Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the political shaping of markets.
  15078. Xulhaz Mannan: Murder of LGBTQ+ editor highlights danger facing all rational voices in Bangladesh
    First Published: 2017   Published: 17
    The murder of Xulhaz Mannan, the founder and editor of Bangladesh's first and only LGBTQ+ magazine, Roopban, has drawn the world's attention to the violence directed against the country's outspoken supporters of equal rights. His death at the hands of six assailants sent a wave of fear through the community, and has prompted others to go into hiding.
  15079. Ya'alon Bans "Breaking the Silence"
    First Published: 2015
    Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said, on Tuesday, that he had banned Israeli veteran group Breaking the Silence from participating in any official activities with Israeli forces, Israeli media reported.
  15080. Yahoo's Tumblr, Google's Makani and Noah Cross's Future
    Designing Software, Wings and Your Life
    First Published: 2013
    Corporations, in seeking to control markets, become the custodians and designers of our culture and our future. For them, the future is a communication limited to outbursts and pithy comments, a data-base that includes all our personal information available to governments who request it or advertisers who pay for it and lives that are, in large part, directed toward consumption.
  15081. Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 1 and 2
    First Published: 2017
    Part One: Proposals Doomed to Fail
    In his latest book, Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government's shameful capitulation in July 2015. It essentially analyses the period 2009-2015, though it makes incursions into earlier periods.
    With this voluminous work (550 pages), Yanis Varoufakis shows that he is a gifted narrator. At times he succeeds in moving the reader. His direct and vivid style makes it easy to follow events.
    This initial article will cover the first four chapters of a book that comprises 17 in all. It deals with the proposals Varoufakis made before he became a member of the government in January 2015.
  15082. Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 3 and 4
    First Published: 2018
    Yanis Varoufakis traces his collaboration with Alexis Tsípras and his alter ego, Nikos Pappas, back to 2011. That collaboration gradually broadened, starting with 2013, to include Yanis Dragasakis (who became vice-Prime Minister in 2015). There is a constant in the relations between Varoufakis and Tsípras: Yanis Varoufakis constantly argues for changes in the political programme that Syriza had adopted. Varoufakis tells us that Tsípras-Pappas-Dragasakis themselves clearly wanted to move toward an orientation that was different from, and significantly more moderate than, the one their party had adopted.
  15083. The Year America Dissolved
    First Published: 2010
    A vision of collapse.
  15084. The Year of Awakening
    Against The Current vol. 133
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
  15085. A Year of Banking Bailout
    Against The Current vol. 145
    First Published: 2010
    Welcome to what to what I call the Second Great Bank Depression. Why that name? Because this period of economic chaos, loss, and global financial destruction was manufactured by the men who shaped the banking sector.
  15086. Year of the Strike
    A Short Story
    First Published: 2012
    A short story about a boy's money-making scheme during the year his father and other workers go on strike at the town glass factory.
  15087. The Year One of Hoffa Junior
    Against The Current vol. 86
    First Published: 2000
    One of James Hoffa's first initiatives after assuming the office of Teamsters General President was-no giggling please-to announce that he was launching a "self-policing" anti-corruption effort called Project RISE (Respect, Integrity, Strength, Ethics). A few months later, to lend his effort sorely needed anti-corruption credentials, Junior Hoffa hired former U.S. prosecutor Ed Steir and ex-FBI official James Kossler to front for Project RISE as "advisors."
  15088. Years Before Charlottesville, Tribes Urged Yellowstone National Park to Change the Names of a War Criminal and a White Supremacist That Defile Sacred Land
    We're Still Waiting
    First Published: 2017
    Chief Stan Grier explains why historical figures who advocated genocide and white supremacy must be not continue to be commemorated at Yellowstone National Park, a sacred land to Indigenous communities for at least 10,000 years.
  15089. The Years of 9/11
    Against The Current vol. 154
    First Published: 2011
    The decade that opened with the attacks of September 11, 2011 may have symbolically closed with the elite U.S. death-squad assassination of Osama bin Laden. But the turmoil of these post-9/11 years, notably the self-inflicted wounds of U.S. capitalism, have exceeded the terrorist mastermind’s wildest dreams. There are the wars that George W. Bush, with the support of congressional Democrats, launched in Afghanistan and Iraq — wars that the government promised wouldn’t have to be paid for — leading to a major U.S. defeat in Iraq, a defeat all the more damaging because it is not acknowledged as such, and a quagmire in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  15090. Yellow fever
    Populist pangs in France
    First Published: 2019
    The 'gilets jaunes' are a complex movement that has grown from a distrust of France's elites towards demands for citizen-led democracy. Their invocation of the French Revolution has provided the movement with a powerful sense of popular legitimacy but, as Gabriel Bristow argues, contains contradictions of its own.
  15091. Yellow journalism
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
  15092. The Yellow Vests of France: Six Months of Struggle
    First Published: 2019
    A look at the Yellow Vest movement in France after six months. Although they avoid structures of formal organizations they are converging with several other groups.
  15093. Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power
    First Published: 2019
    Online reviews on Yelp have had a massive effect on the service industry but this should not be perceived as giving power to consumers. In the end it is only the platfrom that profits.
  15094. Yemen as Laboratory: Why is the West So Silent About This Savage War?
    First Published: 2015
    What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence? For six months there has been a blockade of food and fuel, and management of aid (even that through the UN) as part of war strategy, bombing of civilian, historical, educational, religious and medical targets, destruction of infrastructure from roads to electricity and water, and use of prohibited weapons.
  15095. Yemen Doctors: Hundreds Will Die Within a Week to Saudi Blockade
    Key Medicines Have Run Out in Yemeni Capital
    First Published: 2017
    In the past month, Saudi Arabia's naval blockade of Yemen, has tightened dramatically, and even vital medications and food are virtually impossible to import.
  15096. Yemen's Turn
    First Published: 2018
    The Arab Spring, numerically strong but politically weak, failed to break this destructive dynamic. With the corpse of Arab nationalism in a state of advanced decay and the principal opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, desperate for a deal with Washington, the 2011 uprisings were easily confiscated by the US to further its own aims in the region. Despite its many national peculiarities, the ruinous war in Yemen has to be viewed in this context.
  15097. Yemenis Have Moms Too
    Michelle Obama, Open Your Heart
    First Published: 2013
    Abdurahman al-Shubati disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from his family for the first time in life. Join us in calling on Michelle Obama to open her heart to the cries of Abdurahman’s mother and ask Barack to send those cleared home and to expedite the closing of Guantanamo.
  15098. Yes - Questions and Answers on Sovereignty-Association
    First Published: 1979
  15099. Yes, But What Are You For?
    Occupy Wall Street and its Evil Twin, the Tea Party
    First Published: 2013
    Reading all the accounts of Occupy Wall Street’s theorising in Zuccotti Park can send you to sleep: all academic prose and no real world action or demands. They also make explicit Occupy’s resemblance to its enemy, the Tea Party.
  15100. 'Yes, I Lied': Vindicating Villagers, Star Chevron Witness Busted for Perjury
    First Published: 2015
    Chevron has taken the people of Ecuador and the U.S. court system on a ride, full of lies, deliberate delay, and obstruction of justice, says Amazon Watch.
  15101. Yes, the Left Should Talk to Trump Supporters
    First Published: 2020
    If we're serious about defeating the dictatorship of capital and the horrors of U.S. empire, left-wing activists, writers, and organizers should be very clear: there is absolutely no way to avoid talking and organizing with Trump supporters. It's not easy, but in many contexts, it’s already happening.
  15102. Yes Means No? 
    First Published: 1992
    The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.
  15103. Yes Men punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake "Corporate Power Tool Award"
    First Published: 2012
    US Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk was in Dallas to kick off a corporate power-event to drum up support for the foundering, secretive Transpacific Partnership, a secret treaty that builds on the work of ACTA to establishing punishing copyright laws that include mandatory surveillance and censorship. The Yes Men crashed the gala, taking the podium to present Kirk with a "Corporate Power Tool Award."
  15104. Yes, There is an Alternative!
    A review of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, by Peter Hudis
    First Published: 2014
    Peter Hudis has written a valuable analysis of what Marx said on a critical issue. In this sense it reminds me of Hal Draper’s volumes on Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution. Hudis’s subject matter differs from Draper’s in that it deals with what comes after the revolution, rather than with how we get there. It also differs in method: While Draper was centrally concerned with Marx’s politics, Hudis, writing in what’s called the Marxist-Humanist tradition, sees engagement with Hegel’s dialectic as an essential part of creating a Marxism adequate to ever-changing times.
  15105. Yes, There is an Alternative! 
    Book Review
    First Published: 2014
    Review of "Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism" by Peter Hudis.
  15106. Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class
    First Published: 2015
    Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between.
  15107. Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel
    An Answer to Uri Avnery
    First Published: 2009
    The BDS campaign was initiated by a broad coalition of Palestinian political and social movements. No Israeli who claims to support the national rights of the Palestinian people can, decently, turns his or her back to that campaign: after having claimed for years that "armed struggle is not the way," it will be outrageous that this BDS strategy will too be disqualified by those Israeli activists. On the contrary, we must all together join to "Boycott from Within" in order to provide Israeli support to this Palestinian initiative. It is the minimum we can do, and it is the minimum we should do.
  15108. "Yes, We're Corrupt": A List of Politicians Admitting That Money Controls Politics
    First Published: 2015
    Schwarz gives a list of examples where politicians acknowledge that money has an impact on what they do.
  15109. Yet Another U.S. Coup Attempt to Eradicate the Bolivarian Revolution
    First Published: 2019
    History of the attempted coup in Venezuela as of January 2019.
  15110. Yetiskinlere okumayi ogretmek
    First Published: 1984
    Fakat Ontario nun bir gercegi bir milyonu askin fonksiyonel cahil insani olmasidir - Bunlar geri kalmis okuma becerieri oldugundan ciddi problemler yasamaktadirlar, ornegin gazette okuyamayan insanlar.
  15111. YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market "Solutions" to the Nation's Housing Crisis
    First Published: 2018
    Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them -- and shower them with cash.
  15112. Yorkville in the 1960s
    Connexipedia article
    First Published: 2020
    A section of urban Toronto that was the centre of the counterculture in the mid-1960s.
  15113. You are a threat to the security of Canada
    First Published: 1983
  15114. You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
    First Published: 2012
    A state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy.
  15115. You Are Not An Experience
    First Published: 2017
    A growing number of intellectuals are arguing that free speech needs to be subordinated to the goal of protecting the feelings of people who don't want to hear views that they find threatening. They are wrong.
  15116. You are Smeared by Right-Wing Demagogues
    Was it Glenn Beck? Or was it David Horowitz, or Ann Coulter, or Daniel Pipes, or any foot soldier in the army of right-wing smear artists? First…Congratulations! You are smeared by right-wing demagogues. Now some practical suggestions...
  15117. You Are What You Think
    Markos Moulitsas' "American Taliban"
    First Published: 2010
    America's main international enemy "Islamic radicalism" favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
  15118. You Can Run, Not Hide, From Great Gumshoe Greene
    Profile of an independent sleuth specializing in missing persons.
  15119. "You Can't Kill a Revolution"
    Book Review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party"
    First Published: 2014
    A book review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire" and a look at the interpersonal relationships between the members of the Black Panther Party that allowed the group to gain support.
  15120. You Can't Commit Genocide Without the Help of Local People
    First Published: 2018
    How do you organise a successful genocide – in Turkish Armenia a century ago, in Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1940s, or in the Middle East today? A remarkable investigation by a young Harvard scholar – focusing on the slaughter of Armenians in a single Turkish Ottoman city 103 years ago – suggests the answer is simple: a genocidal government must have the local support of every branch of respectable society: tax officials, judges, magistrates, junior police officers, clergymen, lawyers, bankers and, most painfully, the neighbours of the victims.
  15121. You Can’t Force-feed Occupation to those who Crave Freedom
    First Published: 2014
    Israel wants to believe that through force of will it can keep the tide of accountability at bay in the occupied territories. But belligerent occupations – especially ones where no hope or end is in sight – engender evermore creative and costly forms of resistance. A physical act of resistance can be temporarily foiled. But the spirit behind it cannot be so easily subdued.
  15122. You can't police offence
    Politicians shouldn't try to outlaw psychological distress
    First Published: 2022
    Delivering people from psychological distress is the business of therapists or priests, not lawmakers.
  15123. You can't win without a fight: Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy
    First Published: 2021
  15124. You either believe in freedom or you don't
    First Published: 1991
    Speak out for human rights by joining the European Community and the majority of the United Nations in calling for a free East Timor.
  15125. You Need Imagination in the Hole
    First Published: 1969
    An edited transcript of Clay Borris's interview with 18-year-old Charlie Macdougal on his experiences growing up in prison.
  15126. You Saved Julian Assange
    First Published: 2024
    After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen.
  15127. You Smoke, I Choke
    Landstreet says that anarchists should see the forcing of second hand smoke upon non-smokers as oppressive.
  15128. You, Sources, and Getting the Most Out of the Internet Including Six Internet Fictions to Consider
    The Internet is part of a communications strategy but it can't be the only part.
  15129. You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
    First Published: 2017
    The author explains why the dystopian future dreamed up by such authors as George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood has already arrived.
  15130. You'll Never Be Good Enough: Schooling and Social Control
    First Published: 1998
    The remarkable thing about the public schools isn't that some teachers become demoralized and "burned out," or that some students drop out or do poorly, but that so many teachers and students achieve so much in the face of a system designed to fail.
  15131. "You'll Be Hearing From Me as Long as I'm Here," Daniel Ellsberg Vows After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
    First Published: 2023
  15132. The Young Lords' Legacy of Puerto Rican Activism
    First Published: 2009
    A short history of the Young Lords, a group that used confrontational tactics to bring services and attention to the residents of East Harlem, or El Barrio, and beyond.
  15133. The Young Patriots, The Original Rainbow Coalition and Rising Up Angry
    First Published: 2017
    A look back at the social movements The Young Patriots and Rising Up Angry in the 1960's and 70's; the seventh article in the series 'Organize the White Working Class!'.
  15134. Young protesters are defying Israel's blockade with scraps of paper and plastic
    First Published: 2018
    Five years ago, the film Flying Paper documented the successful efforts of Gaza’s children to set a new world record for mass kite-flying. The children defied Israel’s blockade, which prevents entry of most goods, by making kites from sticks, newspapers and scraps of plastic.
  15135. Your Apps, Please? China Shows how Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship
    First Published: 2016
    Now China has taken the next step. In November, a select group of Xinjiang residents found their mobile phone service abruptly terminated. Their phone service providers told them to visit their local police station to have the service restored. When contacted, the police told them that they had been detected using a VPN, or downloading foreign messaging software. Remove the software, the police said, and you'll get your connection back.
  15136. Your EU vote is crucial because it won't count
    First Published: 2016
    Here is a prediction about the outcome of today’s UK referendum on leaving the European Union. Even in the unlikely event that the remain camp loses, the UK will still not Brexit. Europe's neoliberal elite will not agree to release its grip on a major western nation. A solution will be found to keep the UK in the union, whatever British voters decide. Which is one very good reason to vote Brexit.
  15137. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
    First Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.
  15138. Your Housing Options
    First Published: 1982
  15139. Your investment in Chevron will never be safe!
    Humberto Piaguaje traveled from Ecuador's rainforest to Texas to deliver this Open Letter from Texaco's victims to Chevron-Texaco shareholde
    First Published: 2014
    We are those who Chevron is constantly trying to silence. We come to you, the shareholders, looking for the most basic empathy and respect we deserve as human beings. We ask but a minute of your time to read this brief letter in its totality.
    You have been told - and will be told again and again - that the trial in Ecuador is but a fraud. However, no one has been able to deny the damage oil drilling has done to our land and lives. A great many of us are sick; others have already passed away.
  15140. Your Knife in my Life
    First Published: 1986
    A tale of toil.
  15141. Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 1
    First Published: 2022
  15142. Your Money, Or Your Life
    First Published: 2009
    Single Payer will save lives, but it also will save money. The exorbitant salaries of Insurance Company CEOs will be eliminated. The profit motive for investors will be eliminated. Administrative costs will be reduced because one single payer will replace a large number of insurance companies - all with different forms, different standards, and different requirements for an endless stream of mind-numbing paper work.
  15143. Your Personal Consumption Choices Can't Save the Planet: We Have to Confront Capitalism
    First Published: 2017
    Failing to do our part for climate change is a convenient narrative to the small minority of people who are actually responsible for fueling the crisis, and the answer to tackling the crisis is actually changing the economic system driving climate change.
  15144. Your Rights as a Tenant
    First Published: 1976
    A booklet providing information and simple explanations of the laws governing landlord and tenant relationships in Ontario.
  15145. Your virtual storefront: Your telephone
    First Published: 1998   Published: 1999
    Don't let a poorly thought out phone system interfere with your media relations.
  15146. Youth Confront California's Prop 21
    Against The Current vol. 86
    First Published: 2000
    When it became clear early on the evening of March 7 that California's Juvenile Crime Initiative (Proposition 21) had passed by a wide majority, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco, converging outside the Mission district police station. Earlier that day, more than 500 protesters shut down San Francisco's Hilton hotel, protesting at the hotel's support of the Initiative.
  15147. Youth Employment Lobby. Terms of Reference
    First Published: 1978
    The purpose of YEL is to mount a campaign for full youth employment by focussing in on the real causes of youth unemployment, the shortage of jobs and the myths which blame young people for their dilemma.
  15148. Youth International Party (Yippies)
    Connexipedia Article
    A youth-oriented radical and countercultural offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s.
  15149. Youth Subdued
    8 Ways Young Americans Have Been Dominated
    First Published: 2011
    Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. But now young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it.
  15150. Yugoslav Left Oppositionists
    First Published: 1990
  15151. Yugoslav Partisans
    Connexipedia Article
    A Communist-led World War II resistance movement engaged in the fight against Axis forces and their collaborators in Yugoslavia from 1941-1945.
  15152. Yugoslav Self-Management: Capitalism Under the Red Banner
    First Published: 2013
    Yugoslav self-management is a unique historical experiment. Furthermore, it is one of the most interesting formations of, so called, real-socialism up to today, as Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet Union and initiated its own specific economic, political and ideological way.
  15153. Yugoslavia Dismembered
    First Published: 1996
    All of the various international plans for Bosnia, from the ill-fated Vance-Owen arrangement to the current Dayton Accords, codify ethnic cleansing. In each scenario, Bosnia is to be partitioned along national lines. The logic of this is to continue the population transfer processes in order to carve out contiguous territories dominated by the right nationalities. How artificial are these new borders which carve up a mixed republic into ethnic cantons! Yet the enforcers of this round of ethnic cleansing are not the nationalist militias but the NATO peacekeepers.
  15154. Yugoslavia's Post-Milosevic Paradox
    Against The Current vol. 91
    First Published: 2001
    At first, the media described the fall of Milosevic as "a popular uprising against a tyrant." Then, mass mobilization was played down, and the movement to oust Milosevic was reduced to a staged drama with, behind the scenes, the puppet-master forces of the "West."
  15155. Zanj Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    A series of revolts by some 500,000 slaves against their Muslim owners and rulers, 869-883 AD.
  15156. Zapata, Emiliano
    Connexipedia Article
    A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910. (1879-1919).
  15157. Zapatista Communities: "Resistance and Rebellion Are Our Weapons"
    First Published: 2015
    From May 2nd to May 9th the Zapatistas hosted a tribute to fallen comrades, a celebration of resistance, and a seminar to "provoke thought, reflection, critique." This article presents some of the words of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés in the event.
  15158. Zapatista March
    The Deafening Silence of Resurgence
    First Published: 2012
    The voiceless and the faceless are saying listen up! There is a forgotten Mexico here, a Mexico that is starving and disparate and the march, a silent march is an emblematic message in and of itself.
  15159. A Zapatista 'Seminar' in Chiapas
    First Published: 2015
    On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a weeklong seminar "Critical Thinking Confronting the Capitalist Hydra." It was conceived and organized by the Zapatistas, the Chiapas-based armed insurgency.
  15160. Zapatista women explain things
    A review of Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories by Hilary Klein (Seven Stories, 2015)
    First Published: 2015
  15161. Zapatistas
    Connexipedia Article
    Revolutionary group based in Chiapas, the southernmost, and one of the poorest, states of Mexico.
  15162. Zapatistas urge scientists to join in building a better world
    First Published: 2017
    With all the damage that the capitalists have done to the people through their misuse of science, can we create a science that is truly human? Can we work collectively to defend life and humanity?
  15163. Zasulich, Vera
    Connexipedia Article
    Russian Marxist and revolutionary 1849-1919.
  15164. Zatoun: Bridge-Builder at a Crucial Time
    What's a nice Jewish girl like me doing selling olive oil from Palestine?
    Working for Zatoun has been one of the most sustainable activisms that I have ever done.
  15165. Zebra mussels
    First Published: 1991
  15166. Zebra mussels
    First Published: 1992
  15167. Zehn Mythen über das Gesundheitssystem
    Hintergründe über die gesetzliche Krankenversicherung in Kanada
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2009
    Eine Übersicht über das kanadische Gesundheitssystem im Vergleich mit dem der USA.
  15168. Zeitenwende - Der Linksliberalismus und der Abschied von der liberalen Gesellschaft
    First Published: 2022
  15169. Zelensky's terror team: Why the West looks the other way when Ukraine's secret murder squad kills journalists and activists
    First Published: 2023
    Threats and tactics that would be instantly labeled unacceptable against any other country get a pass when applied to Russians.
  15170. Barbara Zeluck, 1923-2010
    Against The Current vol. 147
    First Published: 2010
    Our comrade Barbara Zeluck died at her home June 5, 2010 in New York City.
  15171. The Zero Garbage Lunch
    Preparing lunches that produce no garbage.
  15172. The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War
    Why the Deep State Always Wins
    First Published: 2014
    Readers with a morbid sense of curiosity can visit a web site called NukeMap that allows visitors to witness the devastation caused by nuclear weapons of varying yields on a city of their choosing.
  15173. Zetkin, Clara
    Connexipedia Article
    German socialist. (1857-1933).
  15174. Zetkin, Clara
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    German socialist. (1857-1933).
  15175. Zetkin, Clara - Writings - Index
    Writings of Clara Zetkin (1857-1933).
  15176. Zimbabwe: Mbeki to Mugabe's Rescue
    Against The Current vol. 119
    First Published: 2005
    Consider these wise words from a leading African National Congress politician: "As we speak, the neoliberal orthodoxy sits as a tyrant on the throne of political-economic policymaking. The dominant social and economic forces are doing their utmost to hegemonize the discourse — both materially and in respect of how developmental processes are to be institutionalized and theorized. Among other things, they use such transnational governmental organizations as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization to shape the discourse within which policies are defined, the terms and concepts that circumscribe what can be thought and done."
  15177. Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
    The one-party system of Zimbabwe.
  15178. Zimbabwean feminist speaks
    First Published: 2007
    If one looks at the experience of women in Zimbabwe and one looks at the role of the state in relation to women's lives, the state has never had the interests of women at heart. Women are only considered citizens when the state has something to gain.
  15179. Zinn, Howard
    Connexipedia Article
    American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).
  15180. Zinoviev, Grigory
    Connexipedia Article
    Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Communist. (1883-1936).
  15181. Zionism and Anti-Semitism
    First Published: 2016
    What is the meaning of Zionism today, almost 70 years after the formation of Israel, and why is it such a buzzword? Are we talking here about a particular form of nationalism or is it something a little bit more complex? What is its agenda?
  15182. Zionism Boycotts the Funeral of Marek Edelman
    First Published: 2009
    A sad farewell to Marek Edelman - the last surviving Commander of the Bund. The article describes his funeral in Warsaw, where he was buried, although he lived in Poland's second city, Lodz.
  15183. Zionism doesn't define Jews: It divides us
    Zionist theory denied the legitimate presence of an emerging, indigenous nation in Palestine. Zionist practice ensured its dispossession and exile.
  15184. Zionism in the Light of Jerusalem
    First Published: 2017
  15185. 'Zionism is nationalism, not Judasim,' a former Hebrew school teacher explains
    First Published: 2016
    Former Hebrew school teacher, Tziva Thier clarifies the distinction between Zionism as a political movement and Judaism as a religion, and explains why Israel's acts cannot be condoned by the religion.
  15186. Zionism - tried and failed: Interview with Akiva Orr
    First Published: 2009
    In the end, the Zionist thing is basically, from a Jewish point of view, a failure. It's not safe and it doesn't preserve the Jewish identity.
  15187. Zionism vs. Zionism
    First Published: 2009
    Mainstream and right-wing Zionism has always been tangled up in this catch 22: wanting to be normal, yet at the same time wanting to be seen as totally unique, singled out, attacked more unfairly than any other nation and, thus, quite abnormal. The more Israelis have tried to become normal by naming and defeating their enemies, the deeper they've entrenched themselves in their myth of being the uniquely persecuted people.
  15188. Zionism's endgame has begun 
    First Published: 2021
    All around us today we hear these blows falling on the central creed of Israel: the supposed right of a Jewish collective to national self-determination in a land populated by others.
  15189. Zionism's Many "Returns"
    Against The Current vol. 152
    First Published: 2011
    Zionist historians — like their counterparts in Australia, South Africa, the United States and other settler societies — hold the dispossession of the Palestinian people to be extraneous to their general history, rather than the integral part that it is. Studying Israel’s foundational myths and historiography through the lens of comparative settler colonialism allows Gabriel Piterberg to keep the Palestinian half of the relational history ever present.
  15190. Zionist Colonization is Not 'Exceptional': A Marxist Viewpoint
    First Published: 2017
    This article aims to challenge the rather widely accepted claim that the nature of Zionist settler colonization is exceptional and even "defies appeal to any precedent that can usefully be invoked as to its evolution and eventual revolution."
  15191. Zionist Colonization is Not 'Exceptional': A Marxist Viewpoint
    First Published: 2017
    The author offers a contrasting position to Moshé Machover's 2016 article, "The decolonization of Palestine"- namely, that Zionist colonization is not unique and that features of Zionism are similar to those of other colonial projects, including apartheid South Africa.
  15192. The Zionist educator we should have listened to
    First Published: 2016
    At a time when Israel's education minister sees only Jews as moral, it is worth remembering a prominent Zionist educator who taught us that things could have turned out differently.
  15193. Zionist Power: Swindlers and Impunity, Traitors and Pardons
    First Published: 2015
    Over two decades ago, Harvard political science professor, Samuel Huntington, argued that global politics would be defined by a 'clash of civilizations'. His theories have found some of the most aggressive advocates among militant Zionists, inside Israel and abroad.
  15194. Zionist Theatre
    From Zundel to Topham
    First Published: 2015
    The trials of Arthur Topham, Canadian journalist and publisher of Radical Press, for "hate crime" (2007) and "hate propaganda" (2012) under new Criminal Code "Hate Propaganda" legislation, have resulted in exactly the opposite of what the prosecution and B'Nai Brith, wanted. Instead of quietly muzzling the gadfly critic, the result has been the highlighting of past Jewish hate crimes, and the increasing control by Zionist groups of Canadian politics to promote Israel and censor anti-Zionist criticism.
  15195. Zionists lead the charge to a more authoritarian Canada
    First Published: 2024
    Israel supporters have become a leading fascist force in Canada. They are pushing to restrict civil liberties, dismantle democratic organizations and increase policing.
  15196. Zionists travel further on path to fascist far right
    First Published: 2024
    Israel supporters have become a leading fascist force in Canada.
  15197. Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla
    Doing a Full Monty for Tel Aviv
    First Published: 2011
    As long as we misunderstand the importance of Palestine for the world’s future, we shall be trapped in an endless “Middle East Crisis”.
  15198. Zola, Émile
    Connexipedia Article
    French writer. (1840-1902).
  15199. Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill
    First Published: 2015
    An online ad company called Turn is using tracking cookies that come back to life after Verizon users have deleted them. The information retrieved contains customers' habits on their smartphones and tablets.
  15200. Zombie neoliberalism threatens Ecuador's 'citizen's revolution'
    First Published: 2015
    Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and social movements behind Ecuador's "Citizens' Revolution" are engaged in yet another battle against the South American country's elites.
  15201. Zombies R Us: the Walking Dead of the American Police State
    First Published: 2017
    The author examines zombies in American popular culture, and notably how zombies also embody the government's paranoia about citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored and controlled.
  15202. "Zone Defense:" a New Way To Stop ATV’s in Wilderness Areas
    First Published: 2019
    In 2002, a new method of organizing was used by 20 organizations in a rural area of southwest Oregon to successfully confront an ATV threat in an area where no national, regional or local group had enough members to do much by itself. The nature of the campaign required numbers of people to turn out on short notice to meetings in sparsely populated areas for which little advance notice could be expected.
  15203. Zuccotti Park's Burgeoning Micro-Neighborhoods May Indicate Deeper Divisions
    First Published: 2011
  15204. Zwiazek Organizacji Wojskowej
    Connexipedia Article
    An underground resistance organization formed by Witold Pilecki at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940.