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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 freed