2009

1. The ABCs of the Economic Crisis 
   What Working People Need to Know
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
2. Abettors of war crimes will be held accountable
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Taking action to bring perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to justice.
3. An Abortion Doctor's Jailhouse Journal
   Against The Current vol. 141
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
4. Academic Freedom Threatened in Ontario Universities
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
5. Academics Urge Government Climate Action
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
6. Addiction and Control
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
7. Afro-Asian Collaborations
   Against The Current vol. 138
   Resource Type: Article
   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.”
8. After the Destruction
   Against The Current vol. 139
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
9. After the Party
   Corruption and the ANC
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Andrew Feinstein is a former member of the African National Congress, and a critic of corruption within the congress. In his analysis, Feinstein discusses things such as the repression of debate within the party, lack of investigations into arms deals, and a failure to criticize Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe.
10. Against the Politics of Tolerance: Islam, Sexuality and Belonging in the Netherlands
    Against The Current vol. 141
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
11. Agenda for a New Economy
    From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth - Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Korten offers in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on locally owned, community oriented “living enterprises” whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet.
12. The American Crucible 
    Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Robin Blackburn, an acclaimed historian of slavery, discusses the emergence of anti-slavery ideas and the important events that paved the way for abolitionist movements.
13. America's Kingdom
    Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    An account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order. America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as "the deal": oil for security.
14. And Then They Came For Me
    Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
15. Anti-Zionist legacy of Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighter Marek Edelman
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
16. Anti-fascism isn't working
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
17. Are there too many people? 
    Population, hunger, and environmental degradation
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
18. Are you paying too much to send out your news releases?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
19. Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
20. Bailing Out Banks, Smashing Unions
    Against The Current vol. 138
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
21. The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A partical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more health, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society.
22. The Battle for Puerto Rico's Labor Movement
    Against The Current vol. 139
    Resource Type: Article
    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:
23. BBC High Court defence against Trafigura libel suit
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
24. Beautiful Ruination
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
25. Between Nation and Empire
    The Fair Play for Cuba Committees and the Making of Canada-Cuba Solidarity in the Early 1960s
    Resource Type: Article
    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
26. Beyond Radical
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    What conservatives could bring to the climate conversation.
27. Black Bloc Provocateurs Set Strasbourg Hotel on Fire
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
28. Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers in Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Egyptian bloggers use the Internet to expose police abuse and torture.
29. Bloody Oil
    Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
30. The Bolsheviks Come to Power
    The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    An account of how the Bolshevik revolution triumphed.
31. Boycott Derails Jerusalem Rail Line
    Rail Firm Pays Price for Link to Settlements
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
32. Boycott Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    It is clear to me that the only way to counter the apartheid trend in Israel is through massive international pressure.
33. Brazil: Changing Lives Through the Power of Dance
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
34. A Brief History of Loyal Opposition to War
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
35. Bright-sided
    How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Ehrenreich traces the strange career of Americans' sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude.
36. Broonland
    The Last Days of Gordon Brown
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Broonland is a scathing and witty indictment of the architect of New Labour, Gordon Brown. Chris Harvie shows how Gordon Brown came to preside over a bankrupt country on the brink of economic and political breakdown.
37. Budrus
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    A documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier.
38. Bus Driver
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    Follows Karnel Basi, a public transit driver in South Vancouver, along his regular route through the downtown east side to the heart of the city and back again. Along the way he picks up a variety of passengers, struggles to stay on schedule and keep his bus safe.
39. Peter Camejo: A Red-Green Life
    Against The Current vol. 139
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
40. Peter Camejo at Berkeley
    Against The Current vol. 139
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
41. Camejo's Early Political Years
    Against The Current vol. 139
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
42. Jim Campbell, Remembered
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
43. Can Journalism Schools Be Relevant In A World On The Brink?
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
44. Can We Build Socialist-Anarchist Alliances?
    Against The Current vol. 141
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
45. Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
46. The Canadian Student Movement in the Sixties: Three case studies
    PhD Thesis, University of Alberta, 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
47. The Candy Machine
    How Cocaine Took Over the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Feiling is interested in the hows and whys of the trade. Everything cocaine touches turns to lead. How it came to this is the question he explores in this extensively researched, passionately argued book.
48. Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
49. Capitalism and Social Rights
    Against The Current vol. 140
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
50. Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint
    Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
51. The Caracas Commitment
    Declaration from World Meeting of Left Parties, November 19-21, 2009, Caracas, Venezuela
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2009
    We have gathered with the aim of unifying criteria and giving concrete answers that allow us to defend our sovereignty, our social victories, and the freedom of our peoples in the face of the generalized crisis of the world capitalist system and the new threats spreading over our region and the whole world.
52. Carbon trading: privatising the world's forests 
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
53. A Carbon-Free Future
    An Interview with Arjun Makhijani
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
54. Ron Carey, Militant Union Reformer
    Against The Current vol. 138
    Resource Type: Article
    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.”
55. The Case for Academic Boycott
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
56. Changing for Real
    Against The Current vol. 138
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. It will undoubtedly change even more during the next four years — although just how remains to be determined. There has never been such a convergence of yawning crises facing an incoming U.S. government, including a collapsing credit system and the near-death spiral of the North American auto industry. It’s an entirely open question whether the sheer scale of the objective emergency might impose serious structural changes on the way capitalism is administered in this country.
57. Chavez calls for new international organisation of left parties
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
58. Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
    Against The Current vol. 142
    Resource Type: Article
    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.”
59. Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
    Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
60. Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
61. Chilcot Inquiry - The Establishment Goes to Work
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
62. A Child in Palestine
    The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Presents the work of Naji Al-Ali, a leading Palestinian political cartoonist, and is introduced by Joe Sacco, author of Palestine.
63. China's Disposable Labor
    Against The Current vol. 140
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
64. Chomsky in Mexico
    La Jornada at 25
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
65. Chronicles from the Front
    Against The Current vol. 143
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
66. Chronicling Labor's Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 143
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
67. Citizens Protest Lack of Consultation about Canadian Mine in San Jose del Progresso
    Popular Forces Occupy City Hall and Threaten to Incinerate Hostages
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
68. Civility
    A Cultural History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Through a historical, social, and psychological discussion of the civility practices in 3 nations - England, France and the United States, Davetian addresses major topics in public discourse today regarding the ideas and practices of civility and the possibility of a future civility ethic capable of inspiring cooperation across cultural and national boundaries.
69. The Civility Solution
    What to Do When People Are Rude
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
70. A Classic Study Revisited
    Against The Current vol. 143
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
71. Climate change: the eco-socialist solution
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
72. Climate Cover-Up 
    The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tracks their execution, naming names and exposing tactics in what has become a full-blown attack on the integrity of the public conversation.
73. The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
74. "Climate Justice" and the Left: The Necessity of a Mass Movement
    Against The Current vol. 141
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
75. A climate of fear endangers press freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
76. Code Pink's Gaza Delegation
    Against The Current vol. 140
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
77. Coming out in Kenya
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Rape has always been used to intimidate assertive women in Kenya, like feminists and female politicians.
78. Company Secretary To Replace Inspector
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
79. A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak 
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
80. Comparison of military strength of Israel and the Palestinians
    Resource Type: Article
    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).
81. A Comrade and Friend
    Against The Current vol. 139
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
82. Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2009
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
83. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Urdu text
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2017
84. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Chinese text
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
85. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
86. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
87. Connexions Library: Canada Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Canada.
88. Connexions Library: Central America and the Caribbean Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Central America and the Caribbean.
89. Connexions Library: Central and South Asia Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on central and southern Asia.
90. Connexions Library: China Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on China.
91. Connexions Library: East and Southeast Asia Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on east and southeast Asia.
92. Connexions Library: Europe Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Europe.
93. Connexions Library: Food Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on food.
94. Connexions Library: History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
    Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
95. Connexions Library: Imperialism and Colonialism Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
96. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
97. Connexions Library: Men Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on men.
98. Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
99. Connexions Library: Nature Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on nature.
100. Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus 
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
101. Connexions Library: Oral History Focus Page
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history.
102. Connexions Library: Pacific Region Focus
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Pacific region.
103. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
104. Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
105. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
106. Connexions Library: The Right Focus Page
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Right.
107. Connexions Library: Rural Issues Focus
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on rural issues.
108. Connexions Library: Russia Focus
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Russia.
109. Connexions Library: Science Focus
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on science.
110. Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
111. Connexions Library: South America Focus
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on South America.
112. Connexions Library Spotlight
     Featured Resources in the Connexions Library
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
113. Connexions Library: Transportation Focus
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on transportation.
114. Connexions Library: USA Focus
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
115. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
116. Conspiracy, Inc.
     Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Increasingly, reactionary media pundits and much of the rank-and-file of the Republican Party are taking the American right down a dangerous path, marked most ominously by the abundance of conspiracy theories directed against the Democratic Party and mainstream liberals.
117. Coral Reefs
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     All around the world, much of the world's marine biodiversity face threats from human and activities as well as natural. It is feared that very soon, many reefs could die off.
118. The Corporate Stranglehold on Education 
     Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Rather than challenge the economic irresponsibility, ecological damage, and human suffering, and culture of cruelty unleashed by free market fundamentalism, higher education appears to be one of its staunchest defenders, uncritically embracing a view of itself based on a market model of the academy.
119. A Cosmetic Cover for Occupation
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October of 2001, the Bush administration belatedly latched on to the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban as a rationale for military action. As part of their ideological arsenal, they deployed the heretofore retiring First Lady to present a humanitarian face to military intervention. Addressing the nation by radio on November 17, 2001, Laura Bush connected misogyny to terrorism, noting, “The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.”
120. A Country Of Sacred Cows And Ten Commandments
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It's high time that Israel must understand that criticizing Israeli government's foreign policy for assassinating people or for shooting children, is by no way Anti-Semitic, it's just being humane.
121. The court does not sympathize
     The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The blood of Palestinians is cheap in this country. No one has ever been punished for killing Palestinians' children, adults, newborns, old people. The murderers are all walking among us, free and happy.
122. Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
     The End of Free Speech?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. The Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.
123. Crisis from Pakistan to Motown
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Interview with Tariq Ali. Tariq Ali is the author of numerous political books and essays, as well as a filmmaker and novelist.
124. Crisis And Hope: Theirs And Ours 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Overcoming the multiple crises means tearing down an enormous edifice of delusions about markets, free trade, and democracy that has been assiduously constructed over many years and overcoming the marginalization and atomization of the public so that they can become participants, not mere spectators of action.
125. The Crisis of Revolutionary Power
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Alexander Rabinowitch has long stood as a major figure in the field of revolutionary history, his reputation forged by his series of books tackling the revolution in Petrograd. The book under review, his latest addition to this canon, is a meticulous and painstaking history, showing us the gaps and exploring the confusions of a tightly defined period.
126. A Critical Defense of Charter '08
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Last November, dozens of well-known Chinese intellectuals launched the Charter '08 to call on Chinese government to respect basic civil and democratic rights. Soon afterwards the core leader of the appeal, Liu Xiaobo, was arrested and remains in custody until now.
127. Critical Resistance at 10
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On the weekend of September 26-28, 3,500 people gathered in Oakland, California to hasten the death of the prison system.
128. Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Investigation of oil as major driver in the power dynamics of the world, and of the 'oil curse', which seems to make the countries that export it poorer, not richer.
129. Cuba in Search of Renovation
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On January 1, 1959, the rebel Army entered Havana and brought down the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Fifty years later, Fidel Castro has given up power, but his brother Raúl has relieved him. Far from being characterized by paralysis, this transition period has witnessed the emergence of an intense debate about the future of socialism, both among opponents as well as those who defend it with the desire to see it evolve.
130. Cuba Today
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Cuban revolution's 50th anniversary has sparked academic conferences, debates and articles assessing its past and future. How and why has the revolution survived? What does the future hold for Cuba? Or, as it is often put, more crudely, what will happen when Fidel/Raul dies?
131. The Cuban Five--Injustice Prolonged
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the final appeal of the “Cuban Five,” who were convicted in 2001 and are serving prison terms ranging from 15 years to life for “espionage conspiracy” and acting as illegal agents for the Cuban government.
132. The Cultural Turn
     Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of capitalism.
133. Cutural Warriors of the Freedom Struggle: Miriam Makeba and Odetta
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It felt like the end of an era to realize that South Africa’s Miriam Makeba and our own Odetta died within weeks of one another, having been born only months apart, these twin pillars of the struggle for justice on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
134. Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Local people protest a project that attacks the region's biodiversity and communities.
135. Dancing with Death: "Waltz with Bashir"
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It took Ari Folman 25 years to make “Waltz With Bashir,” his animated film about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. First, he had to remember the war.
136. Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     An analysis on the formation of Charles Darwins' views on slavery and the impact of those views on his theories and publications.
137. Dead Palestinian Babies And Bombed Mosques - IDF Fashion 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills."
138. Dear John
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     Chronicles the closure of the Welland Canal, Ontario's oldest and leading industrial employer: John Deere Welland Works. The film explores what Welland has in store for its future, while helping those that worked at the plant tell their story.
139. The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.
140. Debating how to change the world
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A review of Wobblies and Zapatistas, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
141. Deconstructing The Israeli Narrative
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israel has revealed its nature; a nation built on actions normally termed war crimes by world institutions; a nation that does not follow international law; and a nation that does not heed United Nations Resolutions. Distracting and deceiving the world community with contrived and fallacious narratives permits Israel to continue its illegal maneuvers. Setting the record straight will straighten the road to Middle East peace.
142. Defamation
     Resource Type: Film
     First Published: 2009
     A critical look at modern anti-semitisim by way of an expose of the New
     York-based Anti-Defamation League.
143. Defending the right to offend, shock or disturb
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Insult laws are designed to protect politicians, government leaders and officials and state institutions, arming the state with access to resources and legal doctrines that no other citizen has.
144. Desert Winds Stir New Hope
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     With oil and gas reserves running dry, Egypt is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
145. Leon Despres, Chicago Rebel
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Iconic Chicago alderman Leon Despres died at the age of 101 on May 6, 2009 in the city he lived and loved. A little frail in stature, Len had a broad intellect that was fully intact to the very end. He fought much of his adult life for a progressive vision of Chicago that “Machine” politics was never ready to accept. After his 1955 election as alderman, and in the first decade of his two-decade term, many city council votes were recorded 49-1. Despres was the lone dissenter.
146. Diario de Oaxaca
     A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     The memoir of Peter Kuper living in Oaxaca, Mexico during a social and political upheaval that ended in more than 20 people dead.
147. Diary of Bergen-Belsen
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations, recorded in her own incomparable voice, shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Lévy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
148. Did Leviev's Empire Succumb to Boycott?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The brave people who took to the streets to demand boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and Israeli companies have received a clear message that their efforts are not in vain. Private companies that seek to make easy profits in Palestine while ignoring the injustices and illegality of Israel's crimes there, will have to think twice about their investments. They may be required to pay a price in actual money for the moral deficit in their accounts.
149. The Difference Between Judaism and Zionism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Argues that "Judaism and Zionism are by no means the same. Indeed they are incompatible and irreconcilable: If one is a good Jew, one cannot be a Zionist; if one is a Zionist, one cannot be a good Jew."
150. A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
151. Disasters You Can Believe In
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The year 2009 coincidentally marks the 100th anniversary of the United States Marines’ invasion of Nicaragua. They stayed for a quarter century, and after assassinating the country’s resistance leader, Augusto Cesar Sandino, left the place in incomparably worse shape than they found it.
152. Dissecting Congo's Modern Holocaust
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A primary aim of Gerard Prunier’s work is to detangle and lay bare the complexities of interests, alliances and deep-seeded antagonisms that have made the Congo crisis so brutal. He does this well, without simplifying the narrative for easy comprehension.
153. Dissidents Looking Beyond Zionism
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In 1968 — 1968! — a book appeared with the astonishing title Israel Without Zionists. A Plea for Peace in the Middle East. The timing was even more surprising, in Israel’s flush of euphoria in the wake of the 1967 war. This was also the moment when the mainstream American Jewish community and the U.S. intelligentsia in general had just discovered the State of Israel as the great inspiration and center of Jewish redemption — after two decades during which Israel had not been viewed with any such great enthusiasm, as chronicled by historian Peter Novick in The Holocaust In American Life.
154. Doctors Under Attack
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On May 31, 2009, while handing out church bulletins, Dr. George Tiller was shot to death by an anti-abortion activist. The Women’s Health Care Services clinic Dr. Tiller operated in Wichita, Kansas was one of three in the United States that performed late-term abortions. His clinic, his home and the homes of his staff have been picketed for years.
155. Doom and Gloom 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Jermey Brecher says that the social roots of doom are part of a common pattern that we can observe repeatedly in history. People live their lives and pursue their goals by means of strategies that have been developed over time. But sometimes they discover their established strategies aren't working. No matter how hard they try, their problems remain intractable. The natural result is despair. But the awareness that other people are experiencing the same despair changes the context in which it is experienced. It opens up new possibilities. Perhaps the problems that we despair of solving as individuals can be addressed through some kind of collective action. When people begin to explore that possibility, the result may be a social movement.
156. Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Whether you're a climate change denier or doomsayer, an avid recycler or rabid consumer of plastic bottles, there is one very good but little-known reason to oppose carbon offsets: their immediate and dire human costs.
157. Düstere Aussichten
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Ist es schon zu spät? Wir wissen, dass bereits vieles verloren ist. Aber wir können nicht wissen, ob bereits alles verloren ist. Man kann im voraus nicht wissen, was eine gemeinsame Aktion alles bewirken kann. Wir befinden uns in der Lage von Eltern, die bereits ein Kind verloren haben, und die sich jetzt überlegen müssen, ob sie für ihre anderen Kinder kämpfen wollen, die in Gefahr aber noch am Leben sind.
158. Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
159. Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
160. Echo Platoon 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Echo and other platoons like it are grim yardsticks for measuring the desperation in which a military under immense strain is now operating. Looking up at that military from Echo's airless limbo, from a world of soldiers who have fallen through the cracks of a system under great stress, you can see just how devastating America's two ongoing wars have been for the military itself. The walking wounded, the troubled, and the broken are now being pressured to reenter the fray.
161. Economic crisis and the responsibility of socialists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Henryk Grossman is particularly relevant today and not only because of his explanation of economic and financial crises
162. The Economics of Global Turbulence
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Brenner presents a survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present. He charts the post-war history of the global system and is critical of the results which include over-production and over-competition. He is then able to examine the systematic factors behind wage repression, high unemployment and unequal development.
163. The Economy After A Half Century
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The object here is to evaluate the current state of the Cuban economy, but for this no insightful perspective is possible without considering its performance historically, especially over the last sixty years and most especially over the half century since the triumph of the Revolution.
164. The Economy in a World of Trouble
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     interview with Robert Brenner.
165. Ecuador: Left Turn?
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On April 26, 2009, Rafael Correa won re-election to the Ecuadorian presidency with an absolute majority of the vote. He gained broad popular appeal through a combination of nationalist rhetoric and increased social spending on education and health care. The victory cemented Correa’s control over the country as the old political establishment appeared to be in complete collapse.
166. Ecuador's Indigenous Socialism
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     For several decades now, national elites in Latin America have accused the left of acting as a ventriloquist for indigenous movements: allowing Native leaders to speak, but pulling the strings behind them.
167. J. David Edelstein
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     J. David Edelstein, an ardent socialist all his life, died July 20, 2009 in Syracuse, NY at age 90. Dave was an at-large member of Solidarity and supporter of the Socialist Party USA; his life in the socialist movement dated back to the Workers Party and Independent Socialist League of the 1940s and 1950s.
168. Educate, agitate, occupy!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     An account of the occupation Visteon factory in Enfield, London.
169. Education gap divides Jerusalem
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A recent report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 5,000 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem will not be able to attend classes this year because there are not enough classrooms.
170. Egyptian Labor Erupting
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In April 2009, a familiar scenario was repeated, as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s police apparatus assaulted planned demonstrations and a Mahalla textile workers’ strike. A year earlier, many activists and ordinary people from Mahalla received sentences in politically charged criminal trials for “planning the April 6th strike in 2008.”
171. Egypt's Long Labor History
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Egyptian working class is one of the oldest in the region, with a long history of internationalist solidarity. Egyptian loading and longshoremen workers in 1947, for example, boycotted the Dutch ship in Canal Suez in solidarity with the Indonesian people’s independence struggle. The union of the workers issued a statement against colonialism in general. They did not allow the ship to service or go through the Canal despite the resistance and efforts made by English and French administrators.
172. Electoral Reform: Do the right thing
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Chartist goal of a representative parliament and majority govermment is still sadly unrealised.
173. Emma Goldman: Voice of a Rebel
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Emma Goldman's name for many is synonymous with Anarchism. Indeed, as we can see in the first two volumes of the Documentary History of the American Years from the Emma Goldman Papers Project, now out in a welcome paperback edition, she did much to define anarchism to Americans.
174. The End of the Revolution 
     China and the Limits of Modernity
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Wang Hui is a leading member of China's "New Left". He challenges both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm. He calls for alternatives to both China's capitalist transformation and its repressive and authoritarian past.
175. Endless War: The Suicide Of The United States
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Soldiers are returning from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan destroyed mentally, spiritually, and psychologically, to a general population that is, mostly, willfully ignorant of the occupations and the soldiers participating in them. Troops face a Department of Veterans Affairs that is either unwilling or unable to help them with their physical and psychological wounds, and they are left to fend for themselves.
176. The Enemy of Nature
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Images of the rapidly melting polar icecaps, the receding snows of Mount Kilimanjaro and human suffering at the hands of ever more violent storms all over the world occupy central places in our present-day collective culture.
177. Ethnic Cleansing: Palestine Reality
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     While the term “ethnic cleansing” has come into use only very recently, the act that it describes, namely the forcible expulsion of one or more ethnic groups from a region, has been practiced for millennia.
178. Exploring the Roots of the Crisis
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On several points there is general agreement among most, if not all, radical and revolutionary anti-capitalists and socialists regarding the current economic crisis.
179. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
180. Facing Down the Machine
     Mike Roselle Draws a Line
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Federal and state governments have long targeted the civil rights of environmentalists. In the mid-1980s swaths of new laws were passed that targeted the acts of direct action oriented environmental protests.
181. The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
     Seeing Through the Lies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The record shows that Hamas wanted to continue the ceasefire, but only on condition that Israel eases the blockade. Long before Hamas began the retaliatory rocket attacks on Israel, Palestinians were facing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza because of the blockade.
182. Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions - and are fighting to export them
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes - even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce - and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
183. Farmers vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     As India faces its worst drought in four decades, a dispute over water resources between farmers in the Kala Dera area of western Rajasthan state and a Coca-Cola bottling plant located there has sharpened.
184. Fearsome Words?
     Nationalism and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     We are so bemused by the lovely vision of peoples determining themselves, we cannot see that ethnic self-determination is, in the real world, a quest for racial sovereignty, not a bid to enter some international folk dancing festival.
185. Feedlots and E. Coli
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Improving processing plant inspections is a good idea, but it is only part of the solution. The real solution is minimizing the potential contaminant. Secondly, slow down the processing line so the workers can do their jobs. CDC tells people to wash their hands, their cutting boards and to cook meat thoroughly. Good sound suggestions, but why is the burden of safety inordinately placed on the consumer? Why are the processors allowed to hide behind the 'safe handling instructions' and maximize their profits with impunity?
186. Feeling Racism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     I have found that when a person has faced racism and discrimination, he can never forget it, it stays with him always. Seeing my mother treated with such disrespect and rudeness, only because of her race, was worse than being discriminated against myself. It burned into my soul, and it will never go away.
187. Feminism, The Global Struggle
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Coming to feminist consciousness in the early 1980s, I belong to a generation of U.S. feminists caught between the second and third “waves” of the movement. The activist energy of second-wave feminism was inspiring indeed. It challenged the ideological presuppositions of heteronormative patriarchy, established some legal protection against discrimination in the workplace and educational institutions, and enabled a significant percentage of women to enter the ranks of the professional-managerial class.
188. 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A collection of essays from international figures in fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who explain why they are atheists.
189. A Fifty-year Old Process
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     To go beyond the debate concerning whether to characterise Cuba as socialist, state capitalist or simply an anti-imperialist state framed by Cold War logic, I propose that instead of defining socialism as a state or a place, we regard it as a process. In today’s Cuba, internal contradictions can no longer be hidden, nor can those who believe in radically transforming our world ignore the resilience of the Cuban people; there is something still going on there.
190. Fighting Lynch Laws in America
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Rebecca Hill’s ambitious book highlights a major theme of American radical history. It brings together the history of labor defense campaigns with the concurrent movement to prevent the lynching of African Americans. In six individual studies from John Brown to the Black Panther Party, Hill achieves two notable goals: a substantive reinterpretation of these cases and a heightened recognition of their commonalities.
191. 5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
192. Five years of illegality
     Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Oxfam International presents testimonies of Palestinian men and women who recount their daily problems, arising from the construction of Israel's illegal Wall and its associated regime of land confiscation and permits, and settlement construction.
193. The FMLN's Historic Victory
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     For the first time, the left will govern El Salvador. In the March 15, 2009 presidential elections, Mauricio Funes of the former guerrilla movement the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) defeated former police director Rodrigo Ávila of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) by a thin margin of less than three percentage points.
194. Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
195. Food Among the Ruins 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.
196. The Food Wars
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Walden Bello presents an analysis of the various causes of hikes in global food prices and their effects on poverty in the countries of the global South.
197. Football, Class and Sexuality in America
     A Review of "Big Fan"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Big Fan is an incredibly tender, painful, and tragic look at the state of masculine identity, social pressures of masculinity, and how masculinity relates to homophobia and class in America via the seemingly heteronormative industry of pro football.
198. Footnotes in Gaza
     A Graphic Novel
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A graphic depiction of an incident in Gaza in 1956, when Israeli soldiers massacred 111 Palestinians.
199. For a Workers Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
200. For Free Expression on Palestine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
201. For the Reconstitution of the Movements from Below: Autonomy and Independence
     A Reflection almost Ten Years After the Water War
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Within the grassroots there are mixed feelings of dissatisfaction, sadness and anger. The demand of re-appropriating the commons and natural resources like gas, petrol, minerals and water has fundamentally not been met. Transnational corporations continue to exploit and extract these resources, and the government manages them in a private, sectarian, inefficient and in many cases corrupt manner.
202. Foremothers and Fathers
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Socialist feminism is usually said to have begun in the 1960s and ‘70s, but in fact it was a significant radical current 100-150 years ago.
203. Forget Shorter Showers 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Why personal change does not equal political change.
204. Frames of War
     When Is Life Grievable?
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Butler explores the media's portrayal of war and its effect on audiences' understandings of human life. Such portrayals, Butler argues lead to the rationalization of modern warfare and state violence.
205. John Hope Franklin's Message
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Three years ago the acclaimed historian, John Hope Franklin, who died in March at the age of 94, discussed his lifelong battle for equality and against racism. Franklin personally knew most of the major African American figures of the 20th Century — W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X -- and lived long enough to see Barack Obama be elected president.
206. Joe Frantz, 1950-2009
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Joe Gelders Frantz died unexpectedly on February 4, 2009.
207. Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In a sense, Bilin is the Soweto, the Derry and the Chiapas of the beginning of the 21st century, with two specificities: it is a civic non-violent mobilization and it is based on a strong alliance between the local Palestinian population, the Israeli anti-colonialist movement and active international solidarity.
208. Free Speech
     A Very Short Introduction
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Covers a wide-range of controversial free-speech issues, from Holocaust denial and pornography to the status of modern copyright law. Offers a concise quide to many of the vexing issues concerning our right to speak freely.
209. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression: they are for it - in principle - but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e. who gets to censor who.
210. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
211. From Fatwa to Jihad 
     The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
212. From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Capitalism is built on various forms of oppression and structural inequality. But the subordination and exploitation of the working class remains at the heart of the system. A liberatory program and strategy for a remake of society needs to explain how workers can escape the class cage.
213. From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from below, as opposed to the top down model that encrusted around them and doomed the previous version of their careers. Truth is, there is a direct correlation between the space in the media sphere that gets freed up every time a daily newspaper loses circ or dies and the increased reach that we and others have as we replace them with a better more people-powered model. So don't mourn the American daily newspaper. Anything you liked about it will continue but from a different set of new media. The time will come when one or more of those publications, or a new one yet to come in the US, will turn to the models that work for the daily Por Esto! or El Libertador or others South of the border, kissing their slavish dependence on advertisers goodbye and throwing their lot in, instead, with the larger multitudes of society.
214. From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The "liberalization" and 'corporatization' of agriculture under the World Trade Organisation would put at risk the livelihoods of more than 2/3 of India's 1 billion people.
215. Fugitive Days
     Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
216. Gaza 2009: De-Osloizing the Palestinian Mind
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The lesson we learn from Gaza 2009 is to harness all effort to fight the outcome of the Oslo Accords, and to form a United Front on a platform of resistance and reforms. This cannot be achieved without dismantling the PA and realizing that ministries, premierships, and presidencies in Gaza and Ramalah are a façade not unlike the South African Independent Homelands with their tribal chiefs. The classical national program, created and adopted by the Palestinian bourgeoisie has reached its end unsuccessfully.
217. Gaza Peace Protester Is Prisoner In Own Home
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Nine months after he helped to organise protests against Israel's attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, an electronic bracelet around his ankle to alert the police should he step outside his front door.
218. Gaza's Kite Runners
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Gazan children's kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
219. Gender Equality (Real Utopias Series)
     Transforming Family Divisions of Labor
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers propose a set of policies - paid family leave provisions, working time regulations, and early childhood education and care - designed to foster more egalitarian family divisions of labour by strengthening men's ties at home and women's attachment to paid work.
220. General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A discussion regarding the rise of the leftist movement in East Asia.
221. Getting the Balance Right
     Gender Equality in Journalism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Gender equality in journalism.
222. Global Climate Change Lobby
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Inside the battle to influence the most important environmental treaty of our time.
223. The Global Fight for Climate Justice
     Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009   Published: 2010
     A guide to the debate on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global warming.
224. Global Leveraged Buyout or the "Longest Boom in Capitalist History"?
     A Reply to Robert Fitch
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Fitch's recent article, while making some good points about the unraveling of the world financial system, is seriously flawed.
225. Globalization
     A Systemic Marxian Account
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Smith examines the issue of globalization using a systemic dialetics approach. This two-part novel first examines the models of globalization and in the second part, reconstructs a Marxian model of socialist globalization.
226. The Globalization of Garbage: Following the Trail of Toxic Trash 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Despite a near universal international ban on exporting toxic or hazardous material, most of electronic waste from the United States ends up in China, India, Vietnam, or in African countries like Ghana, and Nigeria.
227. The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but on the symbolic battlefield of legitimacy that has become global in scope.
228. Goodbye "Norma Rae"
     Eulogy for Crystal Lee Sutton, Labor Hero
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Crystal Lee Sutton was a genuine hero. She will forever be remembered as one of the champions of organized labor, right up there with the Joe Hills, Bill Haywoods and Emma Goldmans.
229. Grassroots activist and human rights defender Jamal Juma' arrested
     Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Jamal Juma's is the most high profile arrest within an intensifying campaign of repression of grassroots mobilization against the wall and the settlements. Initially only arresting local activists from the villages affected by the wall, the Israeli authorities have recently begun to shift their attention to the detention of internationally-known human rights defenders such as Mohammad Othman and Abdallah Abu Rahmeh.
230. Grassroots Power and Non-Market Economies 
     An Interview with Beverly Bell
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     People are organized across many sectors that have never chosen to step out into the popular movement before. For example, indigenous peoples in the last 10 years or so have made a determination that they could no longer organize just as indigenous but had to become part of the so-called anti-globalization movement.
231. The Great Fear of Israel's Leaders
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The great fear of Israel's Zionist leaders is that ordinary people in all of historic Palestine, no matter what their religion, will define the struggle against Zionism not as Jew versus non-Jew but as a struggle by those who seek equality under the law for all people, no matter what their religion, versus those who oppose that goal.
232. The Great Financial Crisis
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Foster and Magdoff are able to examine the complex interconnections associated with rising debt, weakening production and investment, stagnant wages, burgeoning unemployment, rapidly growing class inequality, spiraling global economic instability, and spreading militarism and imperialism.
233. The great 'success' of a carbon trading failure
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The right to pollute has never been more affordable. Energy companies and market speculators can buy a tonne of carbon for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The low cost gives an incentive for companies to pollute more in the short-term and prices renewable energy alternatives out of the market.
234. The Green Zone
     The Environmental Costs of Militarism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Environmentalism - it's the word on everyone's tongue. Reusable shopping bags, hybrid cars, and green home energy solutions allow us to reduce our carbon footprint, but it's only the tip of the quickly melting iceberg. The Green Zone presents a sobering revelation: until we address the attack that the US military is waging on the global environment, the things we do at home won't change a thing.
235. Grinding Down the U.S. Army
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Prolonging a stalemated war will only mean more hurt for both Afghans and Americans. The hurt to Afghans will undoubtedly be worse, for their homes are the battlefield, but our own hurt shouldn't be underestimated. More broken bodies and shattered minds. More echoes of the horrifying violence that accompanies war.
236. Growing Poverty And Despair In America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Increasing homelessness and hunger highlight the growing problem as, in the face of deteriorating economic conditions and growing human needs, administration policies are indifferent, counterproductive, uncaring and hostile.
237. Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guatemala, where 527 women were killed last year alone.
238. Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of Children
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The keynote speaker at the launch of the exhibition Gaza's childrens' paintings, referred to the paintings as 'a toxic cargo of beautiful but unwelcome images which it is necessary that we see and acknowledge.' Toxic because the blockade and assault on Gaza was, and is, toxic. Toxic because the paintings mirror back to our adult world the poisonous environment we have watched develop for these children. The paintings describe aerial bombardment of apartment blocks, mosques, schools, hospitals, ambulances. They portray phosphorous, helicopter and drone attacks on civilians. Gunboats fire inland from the sea. Bulldozers demolish homes. Everything happens in an enclosed space from which there is no escape.
239. Guidelines for exiled journalists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.
240. Guinea Pigs Spell Independence for Women
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Raising guinea pigs has become an important means for Peruvian women to earn money to support their families, as well as to learn how to defend their rights.
241. Half the Sky
     Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Describes the health and situation of women worldwide by investigating issues such as rampant gendercide in the developing world and gender discrimation in the labour force. The authors aim to bring attention to the plight of women in developing countries.
242. The Hate Crimes Bill: How Not to Remember Matthew Shepard
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The problem with the Hate Crimes Prevention Act is that it creates a thought crime and also categories of crime victims for disparate treatment. Goodbye to equality under the law.
243. Health and environmental victories for South African activists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In South Africa, major advances in health and the environment during the 2000s were only won by social activists by removing the profit motive.
244. Health Care Around the World
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Overview of the various ways health services are provided around the world, as well as accompanying issues and challenges. Topics include health as a human right, universal health care, and primary health care.
245. Health Care Unions at War
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its former section United Health Care Workers-West (UHW) are at war after SEIU’s leadership ordered the seizure of UHW’s headquarters. UHW’s elected officers, deposed in the SEIU takeover, are forming a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
246. The Height of Kitsch
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The attitude of the German government towards Israel is a Sonderbehandlung. It too says the Jews are something special. The "Jewish state" must be treated differently than all other states. That is to say, the Jews are different from all other peoples, their state is different from all other states, their morals are different from those of others.
247. Helping you reach the media
     How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
248. HERstory: Jeritan
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     A story of Indonesian female migrant workers who left their homes to work as domestic helpers in Macao, China, a community consisting of mainly Chinese as well as a city of casinos and entertainment parlours.
249. Hold the Line
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     A restrained story-telling of the 2009 CUPE strike in Windsor, Ontario. Excellent shots of Windsor backed by a moody soundtrack, this film tells the story of the Windsor CUPE strike from the workers' point of view.
250. Hope for Animals and Their World
     How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of endangered species.
251. Hopes and Prospects
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Chomsky shows how new social struggles, from Bolivia to Venezuela, are challenging the Washington Consensus and posing democratic alternatives for the continent, and explores the potential for change - as well as continuity - under the new Obama administration.
252. The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Arab scholars were exploring and extending the great works of the Persian, Hindu, and Greek civilizations. There were striking advances in the sciences and mathematics, but more fundamentally, the Arabs taught the importance of experimentation and rational thought. Eventually, through the efforts of men like Adelard, the accomplishments of the Arabs got through to the West, and shaped it.
253. How Dare You Clean Up Our Mess?
     Tweedle Destruction and Tweedle Disaster
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On the nauseating hypocrisy of our good friends on the regressive right. You know the rules. One set of sexual standards for us, another for them behind closed doors. Big thumping militarist patriotism when our kids go off to war, rather less when it's their turn. Itsy-bitsy small government ideology for the lil' folk, Washington as a great big candy-covered sugar teat for them. Etc., etc.
254. How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry and hundreds are feared to be victims.
255. How Israel Bought Off UN's War Crimes Probe
     Report's Fate Sealed by Threats to Palestinian Economy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Palestinian officials faced threats that Israel would retaliate by inflicting enormous damage on the beleaguered Palestinian economy, unless the Palestinian authority agreed to stop pursuing international action against Israel for war crimes.
256. How Israel Created Its Monster
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     How and why Israel helped Hamas to power.
257. How Israel Silenced its Gaza War Protesters
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead.
258. How low will Israel stoop to win the propaganda war?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Israel Project's training manual is an unpleasant piece of work. It recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry. And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world's civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
259. How Many Divisions?
     Israel is losing this war
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. The disparity between the forces, between the Israeli army - with its airplanes, gunships, drones, warships, artillery and tanks - and the few thousand lightly armed Hamas fighters, is one to a thousand, perhaps one to a million. In the political arena the gap between them is even wider. But in the propaganda war, the gap is almost infinite.
260. How not to understand Islamist politics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
261. How the World Depression Hits Orissa 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The recession in the West is having a profound impact on the deep rural interior of Orissa.
262. How to really fight anti-Semitism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
263. How US Tax Breaks Fund Israeli Settlers
     Peace Group Targets Settlement's Charitable Status
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
264. Human Nature
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Dowie sympathizes with the view that 'wildenress' is a human creation.
265. The Humble Tuna
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The humble tuna, "the chicken of the sea", is an unfortunate metaphor for all that is dysfunctional about our contemporary, western, capitalist world. The story of the Tuna is the story of our triumphant world, and provides a unified theory of its runaway excess
266. Hypocrisy over Cuba's 'political prisoners' 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
267. I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
     The Denial of My Parole
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
268. I Was Born There, I Was Born Here (Wulidtu hunak, wulidtu huna)
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009   Published: 2001
269. "Illegals" of the World Unite?
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     An interview with David Bacon.
270. Imperialism and Global Political Economy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Callinicos critically assesses the classical theories of imperialism developed in the era of the First World War by Marxists such as Lenin, Luxemburg, and Bukharin and by the Liberal economist J.A. Hobson. He then outlines a theory of the relationship between capitalism as an economic system and the international state system. He also traces the history of capitalist imperialism from the Dutch East India Company to the specific patterns of economic and geopolitical competition in the contemporary era of American decline and Chinese expansion. Imperialism, he concludes, is far from dead.
271. Impossibleism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Impossibleists want unrestrained sustainable growth in the face of its inevitable impossibility. It is a mystery how they think this way, knowing as they surely do that eventually the bill will come due, and the engine will run out of gas - literally. Think about it - growth that never stops, ever. Even with limitless resources, it is simple intuition that eventually, somewhere, sometime....
272. In Memory of Tim Costello
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Remembering Tim Costello.
273. In Support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence.
274. In Uganda, Rioters Strip Women Wearing Trousers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Rioters attacked and stripped about 20 Ugandan women who were wearing trousers last week during deadly riots in Kampala. The humiliations were part of a major confrontation between a traditional kingdom and President Yoweri Museveni's government.
275. Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
276. India's UID And The Fantasy Of Dataveillance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The perils of establishing nationwide identity systems have always been a hot topic of debate in countries that attach great value to privacy and human rights of its citizens. In India, there is not even a whimper of protest from politicians and civil society groups.
277. Interior Ministry protection programme for journalists also used for "close-quarters spying"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, has been harassed and intimidated by Colombia's intelligence services, who obtained information about her from her alleged protectors.
278. Intersectionality Coming Alive
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It's hard to choose just one thing to recommend for a socialist feminist “must-read,” as there are so many writers that influenced my thinking, from Audre Lorde to Meredith Tax. However, when I think about the works that have had the greatest impact on my thinking, I’d have to focus on fiction. While I appreciate reading history and theory, I’ve found that novels give me the opportunity to visualize other worlds in a much deeper and lasting way.
279. Introduction to Marx's Capital
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     This book is aimed to guide the first time reader through a difficult and intricate text. Harvey makes CAPITAL relevant to the understanding of contemporary capitalism.
280. Introduction to Spain's Revolution & Tragedy
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The year 2009 marks a tragic 70th anniversary, not only globally – the beginning of the Second World War, which would claim the lives of tens of millions and give rise to a whole new lexicon that includes “genocide” and “nuclear weapons” — but also the final defeat of the Spanish Revolution and the onset of 26 years of fascist rule under Francisco Franco.
281. Introduction to the POUM's Seven Decades
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     We present this leading participant’s account of the Party Of Marxist Unity (POUM) as an historical document. The POUM was the most important organization of the revolutionary left in the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39. Its historic role is twofold: as a critical political and military force in the struggle against fascism, and as a target of the murderous Stalinist campaign that ultimately destroyed the revolution from within. Wilebaldo Solano was General Secretary of the Iberian Communist Youth — Juventud Comunista Ibérica (JCI) in 1936, member of the Executive Committee of the POUM, imprisoned until 1944 and later elected as General Secretary of the POUM (while in exile). He is the author of El POUM in la Historia. Andreu Nin y la revolución española, and founder of the Fundacion Andreu Nin.
282. Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to Canada's eastern Arctic islands, a circle of more than 300,000 indigenous people.
283. The Invention of the Jewish People 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     In this new book, Shlomo Sand shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times - when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation.
284. Iran and Leftist Confusion
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Why are some leftists siding with the Iranian rulers rather than the popular demonstrations against the regime?
285. Iran in Christian Zionist crosshairs
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations has stirred up two leading Christian Zionists, Mike Evans and Joel Rosenberg, to once again open fire on Iran.
286. Iran - The War Dance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
287. Iran: Which side are you on?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Why are some U.S. leftists siding with the repressive Iranian regime against pro-democracy protesters?
288. Is Anti-Capitalism Enough? The New Crisis & the Left
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Whether or not the current economic crisis and a historic presidential election open up hidden potentials for renewed popular protest and collective action, it is obvious that the radical Left has lost a great deal of its size, visibility, élan and influence since the 1970s.
289. Is It Realistic to Demand the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
290. Is Socialism Really Dead in Europe?
     After the German Elections
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     With over 12 percent of the vote, the Left Party became Germany's fourth strongest, just ahead of the Greens. This was a promising score, considering the way the mildly left Left Party has been ostracized by media and the political class as though it were a reincarnation of the Bolsheviks. For the media, a party calling for a minimum wage and a pullout from Afghanistan is the "hard left" not fit to be associated with. The SPD and the Greens stressed that they would never consider a coalition with such disreputable folk.
291. Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
292. The Israel Advocacy Push to 'Reclaim' York University
     Putting Current Events in Context
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     York is a longstanding hub for "Israel advocacy" organizations (as they designate themselves). This reality expresses itself in various ways. At the grassroots level, far-right Zionist organizing has been common at York since at least the early 1980s, and seems to have even included direct recruitment for armed settler movements in the West Bank (and more commonly for the Israeli military itself). At the level of university fundraising, York has thoroughly integrated some of Canada's leading Israel advocacy figures into its main administrative bodies. And at the level of university governance, York has earned a reputation for deep association with the Israeli state and for heavy-handed regulation of campus politics in favor of Israel advocates.
293. Israel and Palestine
     Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Reflections on the causes and consequences of the Israel Palestine conflict, by the author of The Iron Wall.
294. Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
     The 'democracy' that can do no wrong
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Paul J. Balles considers the, "...lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel's apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
295. Israel: Boycott, divest, sanction 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
296. Israel in Gaza: A Critical Reframing 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The critical reframing we offer, that of Israelis committed to human rights, international law and a just peace as the only way out of this interminable and bloody conflict, argues that security cannot be achieved unilaterally while one side oppresses the other and that Israel's attack on Gaza is merely another attempt to render its Occupation permanent by destroying any source of effective resistance.
297. The Israel Lobby's Power Comes from The American Ruling Class
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     By ensuring that the American mass media refrain from telling Americans the true reason (Israel's ethnic cleansing) why Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims take up arms against Israel, the American ruling class ensures that Americans will believe the lie that Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims are hateful, irrational, anti-semitic terrorists who kill decent Israelis "just like us" and would likewise kill Americans if we fail to obey our upper class rulers who protect us from terrorism.
298. Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
299. Israel: Obama's "Bibiyahu" Problem
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Is this the government of Biberman [Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud Party, and foreign minister Avigdor Liberman of the ultra-right Israel Beitenu], or perhaps of Bibarak [Bibi and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak]?
300. Israel Seeks Ways To Silence Human Rights Groups
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel's winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.
301. Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
     "Lost" American Youth Urged to Come to Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
302. Israeli agents to screen judges before appointment
     Fury as security service gets veto over judiciary
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israel's internal security service has been given a de facto veto over the appointment of judges.
303. Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
304. Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israeli human rights groups charge that Israel's watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture.
305. Israeli guards 'humiliated inmates'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A group of female former Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails have accused prison guards of subjecting them to intrusive and degrading treatment.
306. Israeli Military Resisters' Tour Hits New York City
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A 19-year-old Israeli military resister explains why she refused to join the Israel Defense Forces.
307. Israeli Rabbis Ban Marriage For Jewish 'Untouchables'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     New immigrants to Israel from Russia with inadequate documentation have found themselves on a collision course with Israel's Orthodox rabbis, who regard themselves as guarding the Jewish people's ethnic and religious purity.
308. Israeli refusers follow South African footsteps in the struggle against apartheid
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Shministim are conscientious objectors. We are Israeli high-school graduates who refuse conscription into the military, and are repeatedly imprisoned as a result. We will not take part of the occupation of another people, the Palestinians, particularly when doing so goes against human values and cannot be explained on grounds of security.
309. Israeli Spying in the United States
     Full-Spectrum Penetration
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage networks targeting the U.S.
310. Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating nonviolent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community. They see non-violent activists as a major threat because they undermine the legitimacy of Israel's occupation and apartheid policies.
311. Israel's Arab Women Workers Need Not Apply
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israel's private sector is almost entirely closed to Arab women because of discriminatory practices by employers.
312. Israel's Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
313. Israel's Crimes, America's Silence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     To date, too little mention has been made of investigations that show there is sufficient evidence to bring charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israel's political and military leadership for their actions in Gaza. Recently, two comprehensive independent reports have been published on Gaza, and earlier this month a mission mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, and chaired by South African Richard Goldstone, visited Gaza to conduct a further investigation into Israel's offensive....
314. Israel's School Apartheid Highlighted By Court Case
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Instances of Arab children being denied places at kindergartens and junior schools have become more common in recent years. Now, an Arab couple whose daughter was expelled from an Israeli daycare centre on her first day because she was Arab is taking the case to court.
315. It's Never Been Easy
     Essays on Modern Labor
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Most of the labor essays included here were written over the last seven years and appeared originally in various publications, including CounterPunch, The Exception Magazine, Liberalati, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, State of Nature, and Synthesis/Regeneration. This book is dedicated to working men and women everywhere, but particularly to the members of America's labor unions' those individuals who carry out the work, solve the problems, make it happen, but who, alas, rarely share in the treasure or glory.
316. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
317. Jewish dissenters speak out over Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On Wednesday, a dozen Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto, demanding an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza. The women expressed "outrage at Ottawa's refusal to condemn the massacres," said spokesperson Miriam Garfinkle. They urged the media to report that "many Jewish-Canadians do not support Israel's violence and apartheid policies."
318. Jewish Peace Activists Defend German Critic of Israel Calling for a Boycott of Israel for its Treatment of Palestinians is not Anti-Semitic
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     More than 370 Jewish peace activists from around the world signed a statement defending German politician Hermann Dierkes against charges of anti-Semitism.
319. Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
     See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
320. Jews Are Not an Equity-Seeking Group
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Anti-Semitism, pervasive and deadly only a couple generations ago, is no longer a form of oppression. Jews are not currently oppressed on the basis of Jewish identity alone. Measured in terms of social power, a white Jewish male is just another white male, his Jewishness of no more relevance than if he were Dutch or Irish.
321. Jews of All Colors
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, a long-time feminist activist, disabuses the Jewish left of its most common assumptions: that Jewish culture is Ashkenazi culture and that Jews are white people.
322. Journalists Killed since 1992
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
323. The Journey of James Neugass
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     At the age of 32, Isidore James Newman Neugass (1905-49), a lesser poet of the Lost Generation crowd who published as “James Neugass,” departed New York City to spend six months mostly on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. In late 1937 and early 1938, Neugass, serving as a volunteer ambulance driver as part of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, was present at Teruel, one of the conflict’s bloodiest battles, claiming over 100,000 casualties.
324. Just Another Cog in the Machine
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     Using wordplay & a photocopier to promote starting a union.
325. Just say no to Sharia law
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism.
326. Justice for All?
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     An informative short on how Legal Aid fails low-income workers in BC.
327. Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
328. Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
329. Keeping Books Safe
     A Bad Law Threatens Our Past
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Imagine a dystopian horror tale in which virtually all books from the past were destroyed...Books that did not meet the ideologies of the publishers, the demands of the mass market, the trends of the day would be destroyed...That incredible scenario is actually playing out in terms of children's books under a law meant to protect toddlers from lead contaminant in toys. Called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), the law was passed in August 2008 -- quickly, without scrutiny and nearly unanimously.
330. Keeping Independent Politics Alive
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It's important for us on the left at least to salute the most courageous candidacy of 2008: Cynthia McKinney (former Georgia congresswoman) and Rosa Clemente (Puerto Rican hip-hop cultural activist), the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Green Party.
331. The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     There's just one pathway to happiness in which this deep, human need for power is given pride of place: democracy. By this I mean democracy as a living practice that enables us to have a real say in every dimension of our public lives, from school to workplace and beyond.
332. Killing America's Kids 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Why is the Secretary of Defense so angry at having the war photographed? Easy: Spin control. Spin is so very important in war these days. While America is only barely a democracy, still, if the public, the great sleeping, acquiescent, ignorant beast, ever gets really upset, the war ends. The Pentagon is acutely aware of this.
333. Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     While it is often the case that the majority of Americans do see the light "about the need for healthcare reform, a new energy policy or affordable, high-quality day care." The dominant journalistic practices, especially in broadcast and cable news, dim the light in favor of noise. Far-right Republicans understand, almost instinctively, this preference for noise. And they appreciate "and know how to cultivate" the greatest bias in electronic journalism right now: the laziness bias. The laziness bias means you feature sensation over substance, provocative sound bites over investigative reporting, misinformation over fact.
334. Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
335. LA Teachers Face the Crisis
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Interview with UTLA activist. Against the Current interviewed a longtime activist and current leader in the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) about the impact of California’s devastating budget crisis on public services and on education in particular.
336. Land, Food, Freedom
     Struggles for the Gendered Commons in Kenya
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
337. The Last Bundist
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Marek Edelman died last week [2009]. He was 90. He was buried on Friday. Marek Edeleman was the last surviving member of the Warsaw Ghetto. He was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and its last commander - after Mordechai Anelewicz was killed.
338. Last Frontier
     Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Afro-descendant communities in Colombia are fighting to retain control of their ancestral goldmines in the face of pressure from private interests.
339. The Last Refuge
     Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
340. Latin America: Women in History - More than Just Heroines
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Women in Latin American struggles.
341. Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Lawyers in a number of European countries are collecting information on Israeli soldiers who are implicated in war crimes.
342. Lazy Journalists are the Darlings of the Corporations
     Indian Country and the Lessons of McCarthyism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Lazy journalists are great friends of the corporations. They are known as "armchair journalists" because they sit in comfort and rewrite press releases from politicians and corporations. To spice it up a bit, they dial a few numbers, get a few comments and call it a news story. They are the "darlings of the energy companies," as Buffy Sainte Marie says.
343. The Left Alternative 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Unger writes a manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? In his analysis, Unger examines the major debates in the world today and he rallies for alternative forms of change.
344. Left Needs Soul Searching
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The left fears that the people it is trying to persuade and mobilize aren't capable of imagining or accepting a truly radical vision of the future.
345. The Left-Wing Media Fallacy
     Jeremy Bowen, The BBC, And Other National Treasures
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The issue is not complex, not esoteric: in a world dominated by corporate power we rely on media corporations for news about that world. Future generations will surely be aghast that so few people today are able to perceive the perfectly obvious problem, the very clear source of mass control, that this implies.
346. Legalize It!
     Why Decriminalization of Drugs Won't Get the 10,000 Ton Monkey Off of Mexico's Back
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Decriminalization is turning into a bonanza for Mexico City cops who have taken to carrying scales to weigh confiscated drugs and shaking down those "criminals" who exceed the decreed limits. Shaking down small-time users and dealers is nothing new in this the most corrupt, crime-ridden, and conflictive city in the western hemisphere. Indeed, crooked cops have been planting drugs on unwary citizens as long as cops have patrolled these mean streets.
347. The Lessons of Gaza 2009
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     First the numbers: "1285 Palestinians killed, mostly civilians, including 167 civil police officers. 4336 Palestinians wounded, mostly civilians. Two political leaders of Hamas assassinated, Nizar Rayan and Said Siam, in bombs that flattened their home and also killed many of their family members and neighbors. Tens of thousands of people forced to abandon their homes: 2400 houses completely destroyed, and 17,000 semi-destroyed or damaged. Tens of mosques, public civilian facilities, police stations, and media, health, and educational institutions either completely or partially destroyed. 121 industrial and commercial workshops destroyed and at least 200 others damaged."
348. Lessons of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes
     Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A depiction of the Trotskyist union militants' organization of mass strikes in Minneapolis during 1934.
349. Let's Not Be Cremated Equal
     The combined Universites Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1959 - 1967
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Published in The Sixties in Canada: A Turbulent and Creative Decade, M. Athena Palaeologu ed. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2009
350. A Letter to the ATC Editors
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A brief letter doesn’t allow much space to speak on markets and planning under socialism, but perhaps these few notes will help clarify the issues.
351. Letters to the Editors: What Are You For? Democracy Vs. Politics
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     I’ve been reading Against the Current for a long time. I agree with 99% of it, because we’re against the same things. But what are you for?
352. "Liberté de parole" - aussi longtemps que cela n'offense personne
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
353. Life as Politics
     How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Asef Bayat reveals how under the shadow of the authoritarian rule, religious moral authorities, and economic elites, ordinary people can make meaningful change through the practices of everyday life.
354. The Life You Can Save
     Acting Now to End World Poverty
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     This is the right time to ask yourself: "What should I be doing to help?" For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the world's population, we must become part of the solution.
355. The limits of anti-racism 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of 'racism' -- over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither 'overcoming racism' nor 'rejecting whiteness' qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the 'revolution' or urging God's heavenly intervention.
356. LIVING IN THE U.X.A.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn't working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history.
357. "Local" Goes Loco
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Buying "local" has become a popular movement in American agriculture and commerce. Some corporations, however, are taking "local" a step farther.
358. Long Before "Boondocks"
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s Black newspapers presented a picture of African-American life rendered invisible by the white media. Like white newspapers, they carried a funnies page where Black readers faithfully followed the foibles of cartoon characters like Ollie Harrington’s “Brother Bootsie,” Samuel Milai’s “Bucky” and Wilbert Holloway’s “Sunny Boy Sam.”
359. Long March to Revolution
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Revolutions at first appearance may seem sudden or spontaneous events. But they are also built over the long-haul, through generations of resistance and the preservation in collective memory of traditions of struggle and solidarity.
360. Looking at Che Guevara
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     That Che Guevara's silhouette has found its way onto walls and T-shirts around the world is nothing new. A traveler through Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s would have seen Che’s face spray-painted onto walls in working-class neighborhoods. In revolutionary Nicaragua Che graffiti was officially sanctioned, as was the massive outpouring of pro-Sandinista, anti-contra wall art. As a fallen martyr Che symbolized commitment and hope for anti-imperialist guerilla organizations throughout the Americas.
361. Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
362. The lying silence of those who know
     Holocaust Denied
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
363. A Magical Moment
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Penelope Rosemont, poet, artist and essayist, is the well known author of Surrealist Women. An International Anthology. Her new book is a lively and fascinating document, based on her personal notes from the 1960s, a time when a window to the impossible seemed to open. The story begins in Chicago, and takes us to Paris, London, and back to the United States; the author did not make it to the Seven Cities of Cibola, because they exist only in an Uncle Scrooge comic strip…
364. Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
365. Making a Killing
     The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
366. Malawi: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Combatting traditional practices that harm women.
367. Manchester's Radical History
     Exploring Greater Manchester's Grassroots History
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Manchester Radical History Collective is a small group of politically active people living in Manchester. We share an interest in the city’s radical and grassroots history – the local struggles and campaigns that have shaped the city of Manchester and the towns that make up Greater Manchester, and the people that live in them. And we’re inspired by the way that Manchester’s people have maintained a spirit of independence and resistance which has endured down the years.
368. A Mandel for All Seasons
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The German New Left activist Rudi Dutshcke declared just prior to his death in 1979 that his friend Ernest Mandel “continues to surprise and yet remains the same.” Dutshcke’s appraisal draws attention to the appeal of Ernest (born Ezra) Mandel (1923-95), the Belgian Marxist economist and revolutionary activist, for a generation of young people impelled toward Leftist politics in the 1960s era of decolonization, civil rights activism, and the student revolt.
369. Manituana
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     1775. The conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Meanwhile, in the secluded Mohawk Valley, a utopian community thrives: white Irish, Scots and Native Americans live harmoniously together in "Iroquireland."
370. Manual teaches intelligence agency employees how to spy on problem journalists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The weekly Semana has revealed the existence of an instruction manual for employees of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia's leading intelligence agency, that explains how they should spy on, threaten, intimidate and discredit NGOs, judges and journalists who create problems for the government.
371. The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
372. The Many Faces of Bank Nationalization
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Calls for nationalization of the banking industry have been bubbling since at least September 2008, when the current banking panic began in the wake of the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the initial AIG bailout, and the quick absorption of Merrill Lynch-Wachovia-Washington Mutual banks by their larger competitors, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase.
373. Marek Edelman: A True Mensch
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
374. Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
     An interview with Robert McChesney
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
375. Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Iran's crime is its independence. Having thrown out the US's favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control. As only Israel has a 'right to exist' in the Middle East, the US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic. This will allow Israel to divide and dominate the region on Washington's behalf, undeterred by a confident neighbour.
376. The Medical Cannabis Victory: A Textbook Case of Organizing and Resistance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Shifting from mere activism and advocacy to a referendum strategy also forced significant swathes of drug policy reform movements to enter a new phase: that of community organizing. Referenda in most states require the collection of signatures, which means advocates had to get out of the circle jerk cycle of endless meetings and internal debate and go out there, door to door, to recruit from the general public. Once they got the proposed laws on the ballot that meant campaigning for votes. This marked a paradigm shift in what had been a self-marginalized reform movement: a wake up call.
377. Meet the Real Death Panels 
     44,000 Americans a Year Die From Lack of Health Insurance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
378. Meeting Alexandra Kollontai
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     My first encounter with Wikipedia was several years ago when I was looking up some female Bolsheviks — there was very little about them by way of normal Googling, and I had never tried this collective online encyclopedia before.
379. Meltdown
     The End of the Age of Greed
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Paul Mason, the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, discusses the current economic recession and how it has caused for the neo-liberal orthodoxy to be undermined. He explores the roots of the crisis , and envisions a new era of hyper-regulated capitalism.
380. Los Mexicanos: The Struggle for Justice of Patricia Perez
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico, labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick our vegetables. In the summer of 2006, Patricia Perez a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms south of Montreal.
381. Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
382. Mexico's PATCO Moment?
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), made up of approximately 43,000 active and 22,000 retired workers in Mexico City and surrounding states, is fighting for its life. The union’s struggle has rallied allies in the labor movement and on the left in Mexico and solidarity from throughout the country and around the world, but if it is to survive the union and its supporters have to take stronger actions than they have so far, and time is not on their side.
383. Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing Politicians
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.
384. Militarizing Latin America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Establishing US military bases in Colombia is only one part of a much broader effort to restore Washington's capacity for military intervention. There has been a sharp increase in US military aid and training of Latin American officers, focusing on light infantry tactics to combat "radical populism" -- a concept that sends shivers up the spine in the Latin American context.
385. Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools
     Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The battle to keep the public in control of the public schools.
386. Mirrors 
     Stories of Almost Everyone
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Open any history book and you'll learn about revolutionary leaders, decorated generals, genius scientists and passionate artists. What about the leaders’ assistants? The loyal soldiers? The helpful lab assistants and the inspirations for great art? History books are so filled with greatness that the stories of the people are often neglected. Mirrors resolves this issue. Mirrors is a mosaic of humanity.
387. The misbegotten 'war against cancer'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
388. Mobile Schools Help Nomadic Somalis Fight Drought
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Mobile schools - secular pre-schools which follow these groups as they move to find pasture and water for livestock - are an attempt to help nomadic communities develop more options as the climate becomes increasingly hostile.
389. Mondragon Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business - a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
390. Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
391. Movement Pachamama: Indigenous Movements in Latin America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It is no accident that most of the remaining natural resources are on indigenous land. First the white world destroys their own environment, then they come asking for the last pieces of land they have put us on, the earth we have protected.
392. My Studs Terkel, and Yours
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     When Against The Current asked me to write a piece on Studs Terkel, I wondered why me? But after I pondered the idea, I thought, of course me. And you. All readers of his books, Against the Current and other magazines, large and small that serve as a mouthpiece for those with the desire for a better world and anger against the hypocrisy of our times.
393. The Myths of Liberal Zionism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Yitzhak Laor, one of Israel's most independent writers and prominent dissidents, demystifies the "peace camp" liberals.
394. The NAACP at 100
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) marks its 100th anniversary this year. It plans a full celebration at its centennial national convention July 11-16 in New York City.
395. Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law.
396. Nature and Animal Conservation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Conservation of ecosystems and the species within them would help to maintain the natural balances disrupted by recent human activity. Unfortunately, despite the effort put into conservation by organizations and activists, their work can easily be undermined by those who have other interests. This occurs, for example, from habitat destruction, illegal poaching, to influencing or manipulating laws designed to protect species.
397. The new language of diversity
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Racial talk today is as likely to come out of the mouths of liberal anti-racists as of reactionary racial scientists.
398. The New-Old World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Perry Anderson presents an analysis of Europe's development since the end of the Cold War. In his analysis, Anderson cuts through some myths about continental Europe and the European Union.
399. New World Coming
     The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
400. Newspeak in the 21st Century 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
401. NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     This week, two respected human rights organisations - one Palestinian, one Israeli - each came out with very full reports into the extent of the damage caused by the assault Israel waged against Gaza last winter.
402. 9500 Liberty
     Resource Type: Film
     First Published: 2009
     Prince William County, Virginia becomes ground zero in America's explosive battle over immigration policy when elected officials adopt a law requiring police officers to question people they have "probable cause" to suspect are undocumented immigrants.
403. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     An incisive introduction to global finance – where money comes from, the current mechanisms and the need for control and reform.
404. No, Not All Bi Women Love Threesomes
     Silly Myths About Women and Bisexuality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Being bisexual means that you are attracted to members of both sexes, even if you're not sleeping with them. Here are some things bisexuality doesn't mean.
405. No One Else Will Stop The Killing
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Because we personally understand what war truly means, we have written, called and demonstrated repeatedly for an end to the killing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
406. No Platform Won't Work
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything 'establishment' is viewed as a conspiracy. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
407. Norwegian Pension Fund Divests from Israeli Military Giant Elbit
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has excluded the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. from the Government Pension Fund - Global, on the basis of the Council on Ethics' recommendation. The Council on Ethics has found that investment in Elbit constitutes an unacceptable risk of contribution to serious violations of fundamental ethical norms as a result of the company's integral involvement in Israel's construction of a separation barrier on occupied territory.
408. The not-so-hidden persuaders
     The Israel lobby's global propaganda manual
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
409. Notes from the class struggle: small group workplace organising 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     This pamphlet aims to show what small groups and unions can achieve in workplace disputes. These examples and analyses of successful small-scale actions should prove instructive to workers in a variety of fields from a variety of backgrounds, whether they are in the transport or manufacturing sector, students or illegal immigrants, or are employed in another branch of industry.
410. The NUHW Revolt
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The largest battle within the U.S. union movement in decades is happening right now. It is an organizing campaign to leave the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for the newly formed National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
411. Obama on Israel-Palestine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Noam Chomsky criticizes Barack Obama's vague stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict and warns that there is much importance in what he is not expressing.
412. Obama's Afghanistan War: Morally Wrong, or Incompetently Waged?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     For our rulers, the point of a war is to make us Americans feel the way only a war can--determined to prevail over a dangerous foreign enemy by supporting our leaders when we would otherwise oppose them over domestic issues. Wars are waged for domestic social control and to justify enormous arms expenditures and contracts. Our leaders need wars to drag on so the enemy can be deemed sufficiently dangerous and implacable and thus the war made to seem important or necessary.
413. Obama's "We Got No Money" Rap
     Why It Augurs a Sinister Banksters' End Game
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Obama is deliberately precipitating another crisis on the advise of his chief lieutenants. Summers and Geithner are steering the economy back into recession so they can implement the same austerity measures and "structural adjustment" programs which have been used throughout the developing world. It's "starve the beast" all over again. As the stimulus dries up, revenue-depleted states will be forced to auction off public lands, resources, parks and other assets to the highest bidder. The banksters and robber barons will feast on the country's treasures while the middle class is crushed by the freefalling dollar, lost home equity, and persistent high unemployment.
414. Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
     A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
415. Occupation Industries: The Israeli Industrial Zones
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In a climate in which the call for a consumer boycott of Israeli goods is finally gaining strength, one area of Israel's economy is, as yet, surprisingly under-researched. Most of Israel's industrial zones in the West Bank are connected to illegal residential settlements and provide an indispensable economic backbone to the local settler economy. Business areas like the industrial zones are at the forefront of Israel's brutal occupation of Palestine, facilitating ethnic cleansing and acting hand-in-hand with the Israeli state in their quest for territorial dominance.
416. Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
417. Of Sowing and Harvests
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don't know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
418. Olive oil, opposition and Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Rick Salutin writes about increasingly widespread Jewish opposition to Israel's actions.
419. On Darwin's 200th Anniversary
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of his celebrated book On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Darwin left an indelible mark on our understanding of the world we live in and our place in history.
420. On Islam And Gender Equality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A review essay on Salbiah Ahmad's book Critical Thoughts on Islam, Rights and Freedom in Malaysia.
421. On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people's movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and there will be many more in the near future.
422. On Palestinian Civil Disobedience 
     The Google Matrix
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Human rights organizations have documented the forms of repression Israel deploys against villages that resist the annexation of their land. Once a village decides to struggle against the annexation barrier the entire community is punished. In addition to home demolitions, curfews and other forms of movement restriction, the Israeli occupation forces consistently use violence against the protestors - and most often targets the youth -- beating, tear-gassing, as well as deploying both lethal and 'non-lethal' ammunition against them.
423. On Richard Wright's Centennial: The Great Outsider
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In the spring of 1940, Richard Wright’s Native Son was published to such acclaim that Black Marxist C.L.R. James decreed the novel “not only a literary but also a political event.” By means of a riveting naturalist fictional technique, depicting the world through the eyes and ears of a 20-year-old unemployed African American named Bigger Thomas, Wright evokes the volatile brutality of poverty and segregation on Chicago’s South Side during the latter part of the Great Depression.
424. On Rumours
     How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Describes the social and pyschological forces that make the spread of misinformation inevitable. Its argument runs like this: whether or not we choose to believe something, and whether we feel inclined to pass it on, depends largely on what we already believe.
425. On the Question of Revolutionary Organization: the Case of the NPA in France
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The challenge of creating an anti-bureaucratic, democratic revolutionary socialist party.
426. The Only House Left Standing
     The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A journey through the life and thoughts of the late Tom Hurndall, a British photojournalist fatally wounded in Gaza in April 2003.
427. An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
428. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
429. Ordeal of Australia's child migrants
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect.
430. Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     David Harvey says that there is a lot of work to be done to coalesce various tendencies around the underlying question: can the world change materially, socially, mentally, and politically in such a way as to confront not only the dire state of social and natural relations in so many parts of the world, but also the perpetuation of endless compound growth? This is the question that the alienated and discontented must insist upon asking, again and again, even as they learn from those who experience the pain directly and who are so adept at organizing resistances to the dire consequences of compound growth on the ground.
431. The Other
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     The Other is made up of a series of lectures that Kapuscinski delivered in Austria and in Poland, eloquent speeches in which he considers the history, the present and the future of our relationship with the Other, a term he employs to distinguish Europeans from "non-Europeans, or non-whites -- while fully aware for the latter, the former are just as much 'Others'."
432. Our exclusive right to self-defense
     Rattling the Cage
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism. And there are no limits on our right to self-defense. There is no such thing as "disproportionate."
433. Outcry Over Israel's War Crimes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Jonathan Cook describes legal actions underway to hold Israel accountable for war crimes.
434. Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn't Racist
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Christians.
435. Tom Paine, restless democrat
     Profile of a radical
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that "my country is the world and my religion is to do good."
436. Painting Red Square
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     7000 kilometres from Moscow, there's another Red Square. Witness the struggle of the labour-left in Whitehorse, Yukon to find a friendly watering hole where they can share a glass with their comrades and debate which shade of red is best.
437. Palestine/Israel: A single state, with liberty and justice for all
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The notion of religious-ethnocentric entitlement and exclusivity for one people at the expense of another has been rejected the world over. Palestinians reject it and we assert that we are human beings worthy of the same human rights accorded to the rest of humanity; that we are worthy of our homes and farms, our heritage, our churches and mosques, and our history; and that we should not be expected to negotiate with our oppressors for such basic dignities. The two-state solution was and remains an instrument to circumvent the basic human rights of Palestinians in order to accommodate Israel's desire to be Jewish. Polls show that Palestinians refuse to be the enemies of our Jewish brothers and sisters anywhere, just as we refuse to be oppressed by them.
438. The Palestinian Struggle and the Anarchist Dilemma
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A review of the discussion of the relationship between anarchism and the Palestinian/Israeli struggle by Uri Gordon, an Israeli anarchist, in his book "Anarchy Alive!".
439. Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
440. The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
     Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6- November 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A growing army of self-styled “sustainable developers” argues that there is no contradiction between the unlimited accumulation of capital and the preservation of the earth. The system can continue to expand by creating a new “sustainable capitalism,” bringing the efficiency of the market to bear on nature and its reproduction. In reality, these visions amount to little more than a renewed strategy for profiting on planetary destruction.
441. The Path to Human Development
     Capitalism or Socialism?
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     If we believe in people, if we believe that the goal of a human society must be that of "ensuring overall human development," our choice is clear: socialism or barbarism.
442. Pay-to-Print
     "News" Stories for Cash Scandal Rocks India
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On "paid news".
443. Peace Prospects in the Middle East?
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The primacy of economic concerns notwithstanding, the interplay between peace and the Obama Administration’s policies toward the Middle East can be considered a defining measure of the new administration’s success. It was only natural and also telling that President Obama decided to cut the ribbons on his foreign policy making journey by initiating phone calls to leaders in the region.
444. The Penal State in an Age of Crisis
     Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 2 - June 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     We may be approaching a moment where it will be possible to open up a debate on the obscenity and absurdity of the present order and its punitive social control mechanisms. Smashing the penal state is job one for socialist politics as we put the neoliberal hell in our rearview mirrors.
445. The Perils of Obamamania
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Reed discusses the Left's support for Obama as a phenomenon in which the "lesser evil" is supported at any cost. Reed examines the implications of this support seeing as Obama's policies are shifting toward the center ground. In his analysis, he suggests that progressive support for Obama may permanently shift American politics to the Right.
446. Utah Phillips 1935-2008
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Bruce “Utah" Phillips, who died in May 2008, was a living, singing museum of radical working-class culture. Through his songs and stories he connected three generations to the living memory of class struggle martyrs, hobo lore and life, and the pacifists and anarchists of the early 20th century. In addition to being a world beloved folksinger and performer, Phillips spent time as a peace campaigner, a freight train hopper, and a union organizer. Phillips will be best remembered for his countless renditions of the songs of Joe Hill and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Wobblies.
447. Pinkney Fight Continues
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Reverend Edward Pinkney was ordered released from prison last Christmas Eve while his conviction and 3-10 year prison term — for quoting Deuteronomy in regard to divine punishment of a racist judge — is on appeal. He remains under house arrest and is prohibited from speaking out on racism and corporate abuses in Berrien County, Michigan.
448. Pirates of the Mediterranean
     Israel Kidnaps Peace Boat Crew
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On June 30, 2009, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the "Spirit of Humanity" and kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries.
449. Playing the 'Anti-Semitism' Card Against Venezuela
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Even after the attack on a Caracas synagogue was shown to be an inside job, a robbery perpetrated by employees of the synagogue's security firm, the international media has continued to portray the incident as an anti-Semitic attack, while suggesting that the Chavez government is somehow to blame.
450. Political Controls from Above
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     When in 1961 Fidel Castro proclaimed “inside the revolution everything; outside the revolution, nothing,” he left out the key question of who decided what was and who qualified as being “inside the revolution.” The slogan was immediately followed by repressive measures directed not against right-wing counterrevolutionaries but against non-Communist leftists.
451. The Politics of Surrealism
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In the first notebook of his Grundrisse, composed in 1857, Marx predicted that the “romantic viewpoint” would “accompany [capitalism] as its legitimate antithesis up to its blessed end.” He believed that romanticism, with its celebration of the richness — real or imagined — of pre-capitalist life, would remain a perennial reaction to the reification of social life under capitalism.
452. Poor No More
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     In the present economic crisis, many Canadians are destititute and many others are on the brink. Against this climate, a couple of Canadians go on a road trip to Ireland and Sweden, with comedian Mary Walsh as their guide, and get a chance to see how other countries have helped people like themselves.
453. The POUM's Seven Decades
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista (The Workers Party of Marxist Unification, POUM) was founded in Barcelona on September 30, 1935 in a small house in the Horta district. That was 70 years ago. The event was not public, since we were still in a phase of relative clandestinity imposed on the movement after October 1934, so we felt it prudent to limit the number of delegates.
454. Power, illusion and America's last taboo
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Since 1945, the United States has overthrown fifty governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 liberation movements, and supported tyrannies and set up torture chambers from Egypt to Guatemala. Countless men, women and children have been bombed to death. Bombing is apple pie. And yet, here is the 44th President of the United States, having stacked his government with warmongers and corporate fraudsters and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, teasing us while promising more of the same.
455. Press for Conversion #64
     November 2009
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2009
     This 50-page issue on Canadian government and corporate complicity in the lucrative business of war, includes articles, tables and charts.
456. The Price of A Bargain
     The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Describes a world where the economy's collateral damage includes oil spills and the poisoning of developing nations' working poor; the low wages and illegal labour practices of corporations leading to the ultimate collapse of a system based on minimizing costs, high volume sales and low profit margins; and a world where debt is the cornerstone of the economy.
457. Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     An IPS investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organisations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
458. Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
459. Property and Progress
     The Historical Origins and Social Foundations of Self-Sustaining Growth
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A collection of texts on the origins of capitalism with substantive material on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
460. The Property Waiver Regime: Nicaragua's Continued Punishment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
461. Provocateur Cops Caught Disguised As Anarchists At G20
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     At every single major summit over the past few years, authorities have inserted agent provocateurs into protest groups in order to spy on them and if necessary, provoke violence to justify oppressive police brutality in the eyes of the watching world.
     We have documented numerous different occasions where the leadership of the black bloc anarchists were actually working with the authorities to provide a pretext for a police state crackdown.
     During the previous G20 protest in London, black bloc anarchists were allowed by police to smash up bank buildings while being accompanied by more press photographers than other protesters in what was obviously a stage-managed spectacle for mass consumption
462. Queer theories and militant practices
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A critical look at queer theories.
463. Rabbis Take on Settlers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Away from the media spotlight that focuses on the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians, a group of Israeli humanists is quietly working to break down barriers with their Palestinian neighbours.
464. Race and Class: African Americans in a Sick System
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The critical lack of quality and affordable health care is devastating for African Americans. Twice as likely as whites to go without insurance, African Americans suffer chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes at an escalating rate.
465. Race and Class: Downturn Undermines Black "Middle Class"
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Although the historic election of president Barack Obama has led to big cheers in the Black community and society in general, the reality for the vast majority of African Americans is growing uncertainty if not joblessness and poverty. Cities like Detroit, and the Rust Belt in the Midwest, are reeling under the blows of the recession and structural changes, including overseas outsourcing and shifting work to nonunion companies in “right to work” states.
466. Race and Class in Civil War Mississippi
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The poor whites of Mississippi who fought the Confederacy alongside slaves did so because of working class values that they shared with slaves. The fact that poor whites may have believed some racist lies about blacks that constituted the dominant ideas of the day is not nearly as important or significant as the fact that their working class values led them to ally with slaves to fight the racist ruling class. Racism came from the upper class, and anti-racism came from the working class -- black and white.
467. Race and Class: The Agenda of Pure Racism
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     There is a sinister aspect of the attacks by the far right against President Barack Obama that does not sit well with me, and with a vast majority of African Americans and other ethnic minorities, no matter our political or ideological point of view.
468. Race Obsession harms those it is meant to help
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Ethnic monitoring does not just produce misleading data. The process of classification often creates the very problems it is supposed to solve. Local authorities have used ethnic categories not only as a means of collecting data but also as a way of distributing political power - by promoting certain 'community leaders' - and of disbursing public funds through ethnically-based projects. Once the allocation of power, resources and opportunities becomes linked to membership of particular groups, then people inevitably begin to identify themselves in terms of those ethnicities, and only those ethnicities.
469. Race, Politics and Christianity in America
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     11:00AM on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in American life, and the implications of this stubborn fact have been known to unexpectedly erupt into our national political culture. In the invocation at the presidential inaugural, Pastor Rick Warren reminded us that we are not a nation united by race, or blood or religion — but he left our divisions on these grounds unarticulated, despite the role he has played in helping to generate them.
470. Rachel Corrie Presente!
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The following is an excerpt from a statement from the family of Rachel Corrie.
471. 'Rachel' screening in San Francisco shows a growing movement tired of being censored about Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A wide spectrum of individuals and organizations attempt to enforce the axiom: there shall be no public criticism of Israel. This platitude ironically goes hand in hand with the view that "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East." Over the past several decades, self-appointed watch dogs of appropriate Israel discourse have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and poured out enormous doses of vitriol upon any individual or organization that dares to expresses even a drop of sympathy with the plight of Palestinians.
472. Radical Digressions 6
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
473. The 'Radical trip' of the the Canadian Union of Students, 1963-69
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     MA Thesis, Trent University, 2009
474. Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
475. The Rape of Irish Children
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A State which had genuine concern for its children would have responded to the report by taking decisive action to remove the Catholic bishops as patrons of primary schools. Three thousand of 3,200 primaries in the Republic have bishops as patrons - with the power to hire and fire and complete control over the school's 'ethos'. No less appropriate category of men could be imagined to have such power over the moral formation of children.
476. Reading, Writing and Union Building
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. It will undoubtedly change even more during the next four years — although just how remains to be determined. There has never been such a convergence of yawning crises facing an incoming U.S. government, including a collapsing credit system and the near-death spiral of the North American auto industry. It’s an entirely open question whether the sheer scale of the objective emergency might impose serious structural changes on the way capitalism is administered in this country.
477. The Real Expenses Scandal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry's two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
478. Reclaiming a Continent: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     An in-depth and accessible introduction to Latin American politics. Avoiding superficial analysis and simplistic leftist cheerleading, this book addresses the complexity and diversity of the new Latin American left.
479. Reclaiming Utopia: The Legacy of Ernst Bloch
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Bloch's Marxism was from the start unorthodox as the result of his abiding interest in the notion of utopia. This notion was held in disdain by many orthodox Marxists.
480. The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History - Volume 1
     Projectiles For the People
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     An in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction (RAF) which, in resistance to imperialism and state repression, was devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany.
481. Reform Is Not A Tea Party
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Nobel peace price notwithstanding, Barack Obama’s presidency, contrary to the hopes of many, has not produced a big political space for the left, let alone “a seat at the table.” Most visibly, it has been the right wing that succeeded in seizing the initiative, in some truly grotesque ways that have thrown a spotlight on the deep paranoia — and straight-up old-style white racism — that persists in this society, and on the ways it can be opportunistically pandered to and manipulated. The tea-party mob phenomenon, however, cannot be dismissed as merely a freak show created by rightwing talk media and massive covert corporate funding, although that is certainly part of the story.
482. Refuge from Militarism? The Canadian Movement to Support Vietnam Era War Resisters, and Government Responses,1965 - 1973
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     PhD Thesis, Carleton University, 2009
483. Regroupment & Refoundation of a U.S. Left 
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     Perspectives for socialist renewal in the 21st century.
484. The Reification of Desire
     Toward a Queer Marxism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A new theoretical approach to the relationship between Marxism and queer studies.
485. Remembering Spain's Revolution
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On the second page of Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell's memoir of the Spanish Revolution, he writes, “I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do. The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing….it was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.”
486. Reporting Gender Based Violence
     A Handbook for Journalists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
487. Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says "Nazi"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The cause du jour for the Republican Party is to make as many rapid-fire comparisons between the Democrats and the Nazis as humanly possible.
488. The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax
     Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The modern supermax regime is an aberration in American corrections. Based upon a penitentiary model that was dismissed as unsound more than 150 years ago, it was resurrected in the late 1970s and ’80s during the greatest period of growth of the penal state, and at a time of government anxiety about the rise of radical political movements, both in and out of prison. However, the enormous expense of supermax-style solitary confinement and its evident failure to decrease prison violence or recidivism, combined with lawsuits alleging abuse and a rising tide of public anger at U.S. complicity in torture, predicts its eventual demise.
489. Resistance in Gaza: Young Palestinians Find Their Voice Through Hip-Hop
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Making music is a form of resistance to war and occupation, and also a tool to communicate the reality of life in Palestine.
490. Resisting the Gutting of CUNY
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     New York state is experiencing its worst fiscal crisis since the 1970s, with profound impacts on the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest urban public university system. CUNY has been under public scrutiny since its founding in 1847 as The Free Academy, an institution dedicated to the experiment of providing education to “the children of the whole people” at a school “controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few.”
491. Reviewing Red: Love and Revolution
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     At the dawn of the 1960s, the modest tradition of novels depicting men and women active in Marxist movements morphed abruptly from a comparatively marginal to a mainstream phenomenon.
492. Revolt On Goose Island
     The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     The story of a workers' takeover.
493. Revolutionary Suicide
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     An illustrated memoir by founding Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton.
494. Revolutionary Traveller
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     John S. Saul draws on a series of his own occasional articles written over a span of forty years which, together with a linking narrative, serve to trace not only his own career as an anti-apartheid and liberation support movement activist in both Canada and southern Africa but also help recount the history of the various struggles in both venues in which he has been directly involved.
495. Richmond, CA vs. Chevron
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     There was no shortage of attention-getting politics in the fall of 2008. Yet even in the context of the history-making national election, the local city council campaign and vote on business license fees in Richmond, California should be of interest to readers of a national magazine.
496. Right-Wing Assault, Liberal Retreat
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The heat is on the Obama administration. The energized conservative base has taken over town hall meetings on health care. There are “birthers,” “deathers” and just pure haters. President Obama has been personally attacked as a racist, socialist, communist, Stalinist, fascist, Nazi, Pol Potist, foreigner and every other name the right finds in its vocabulary.
497. Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo
     'Yell,' 'Stand Up And Shout Out,' 'Rattle Him'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
498. Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
499. Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The right is never truly defeated; its leaders are patient, and they learn from their errors. When they're out of power, they stay busy, building institutions and mailing lists, all the while waiting for their moment to strike.
500. The Right's Fringe Festival
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Milling around the crowd, it was impossible to miss the references to issues as disparate as blocking investigations of CIA torture, promoting assault weapons and God "judging" America for homosexuality. Confederate flags were flown, Obama was told to "go back to Kenya," and so forth and so on. The crowd itself was almost exclusively white--and its members had come to get their country back.
501. Rights on Condition: Association for Civil Rights in Israel State of Human Rights Report 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In Israel, the entire spectrum of rights is dependent on what we say or believe, what ethnic group we belong to, how much money we have, and more.
502. Rockets from Gaza
     Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups' Rocket Attacks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Documents rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by armed groups in Gaza.
503. Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009)
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Poet, artist, historian, editor, labor militant, musician, amateur ornithologist and surrealist activist Franklin Rosemont, who died on April 12 at age 65 refused the limitations that civilization, especially under capitalism, attempts to imposes on us all. Not a “one dimensional man,” he was inspired by Charles Fourier’s ideas of what humanity could aspire to. He wrote, “All I know defiance and dream, the rest just comes naturally. A ‘Success in Life’? Don’t make me laugh! If you’re looking for me there, you’ll have to look elsewhere.”
504. Ruling the Void
     The Hollowing of Western Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Analyzes democratic trends over the last few decades in Europe and America.
505. Saving Corporations, Sacrificing Workers
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     President Obama’s March 30th report on what General Motors and Chrysler must do to obtain further government loans demands that all “stakeholders” make additional sacrifices.
506. Saviours and Survivors
     Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Mamadani examines the Darfur crisis within a context that considers Sudan's history. He illuminates the deeply rooted causes of the current conflict by examining its colonial and Cold War origins as well as its escalation during the 1990's. In his analysis, Mamadani is also critical of the world's response to the crisis.
507. Say It Loud, Say It Proud: There is No God
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
508. Season of Travesties
     Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Noam Chomsky criticizes the elections in Lebanon and Iran as being inherently flawed - unlike the "free and fair" election held in Palestine in 2006 for which the people were punished for voting the "wrong way". He tries to illustrate a general picture of the health of democracy and freedom in those areas which are of most concern to the US.
509. Seeds of Peace
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     Jawdat Talousy worked in a Jewish Settlement located on the West Bank. He was fired because he established a labour committee in order to get equal labour rights as Israeli co-workers.
510. Segregation and Black Labor Before the CIO:
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     C.L.R. James urged listeners at a 1971 Institute of the Black World event in Atlanta to study W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction as a way to understand the meaning of Marxism, the Civil War, and emancipation. James implored his audience to grapple with Du Bois’s statement that Reconstruction was “the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution.”
511. Selective Vision: Iran, Israel and Nuclear Arms
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     For many years, the corporate media has been amplifying supposed "fear" in the West about Iran becoming a nuclear-armed nation alongside the US, the UK, France, Russia - and Israel.
512. Self-Defense Against Peace
     Israel's Unjust War on Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Legally and morally, an aggressor cannot rely upon self-defence to justify violence against resistance to its own aggression. The most plausible reason Israel is fighting Hamas (and the PLO before it) is 'self-defence', not against rockets and mortars, but against having to make peace with the Palestinians on the basis of the pre-1967 borders as required by international law.
513. Self-Liberation
     A guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
514. Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense 
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course - some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.
515. Seven Reasons Why I Advocate Parecon
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     As economies all around us gasp and constrict, more and more people are willing to seriously recognize what has always been evident - that even at its best and certainly at its worst capitalism is a decrepit monstrosity of a system. As a proposed replacement for capitalism, Parecon rejects: Private ownership, Authoritarian decision-making, Remuneration for property, power, or output, Corporate divisions of labor, and, Markets and central planning.
516. Sex Scandals America
     Politics and the Ritual of Public Shaming
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A comprehensive history of sexual scandals in America from colonial times, including Pocahontas and the Puritans, to today which exposes the scandals of national political figures and celebrities and ties these scandals to the deeper changes in sexual culture. It assesses the role of political scandals as a form of public shaming and shows how, scandals have changed, evolving from a morality tale to an entertainment distraction.
517. Sex Workers' Rights in Kenya: "It's Better to Be a Thief Than Gay in Kenya"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     "It's better to be a thief than gay in Kenya," says a gay sex worker. Both are often punished by death, but being the latter means never revealing yourself to the public and remaining perpetually closeted. It means dealing with homophobes at day and pleasuring them at night.
518. Sexuality and Socialism
     History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     An accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all. Sherry Wolf analyzes different theories about oppression — including those of Marxism, postmodernism, identity politics, and queer theory — and challenges myths about genes, gender, and sexuality.
519. Shadow Boxing
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Multiculturalists and clash of civilization warriors both start with the question: "Can Europe be the same with different people in it?." They give different answers. But the question itself is the problem. It assumes that minority communities are homogenous wholes whose members will forever be attached to the cultures, faiths, beliefs and values of their forebears.
520. The Shape of the Suburbs
     Understanding Toronto's Sprawl
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water, and sewage systems, highways and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the city. Also demonstrates the ways in which suburban political, economic, and cultural influences have impacted the older, central city, culminating in the forced Megacity amalgamation of 1998.
521. Side with the Living
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A note to those who would demonize nature.
522. 6 Ideas For Those Needing Defensive Technology to Protect Free Speech from Authoritarian Regimes
     4 Ways the Rest of Us Can Help
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009   Published: 2010
     The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those who speak out despite censorship and surveillance.
523. 'Smooth Operator?'
     The Propaganda Model and Moments of Crisis
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     An article by Des Freedman on Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model for the mass media and moments of crisis (disagreements within the ruling class), focusing particularly on the Daily Mirror and its anti-war coverage in the build up to the Iraq war.
524. Snake Oil Science 
     The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Illustrates how the placebo effect conspires to make medical therapies appear to be effective - not just to consumers, but to therapists and poorly trained scientists as well. Explores this phenomenom and explains why research on any therapy does not factor in the placebo effect will inevitably produce false results.
525. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
     A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
526. 'Socialism in One Country' Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary 'Anti-Imperialism'
     The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     Today's climate of "anti-imperialism" compels us to turn back to the history of such a profoundly reactionary ideology, deeply anti-working class both in the advanced and underdeveloped countries, by which any force, no matter how retrograde, that turns a gun against a Western power becomes progressive and worthy of critical or military support, or for the less subtle, simply support.
527. Socialist Register 2009
     Volume 45: Violence Today
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2009
528. Socialists and the Capitalist Recession
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Anyone seeking to understand the ABCs of the meltdown would benefit greatly from reading this collection.
529. Sources Calendar
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009   Published: 2013
     Listings of events of interest to journalists, editors, researchers, publishers and others working in the media and in publishing, covering Canadian and international events, press conferences, meetings, festivals and holidays, as well as award deadlines.
530. Sources Directory Main Category Index
     Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
531. Sources media training
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Media training to ensure that you are ready to handle media interviews. Topics include Message making, Staying newsworthy, Safe spokesperson techniques, Preparation and relaxation techniques, Media ethics and expectations. Simulations of all media venues including talk shows, double enders, stand-up interviews and scrums, print columnists, videographers, and editorial boards.
532. Sources News Release Archive 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     News releases from 2009.
533. Sources (Portal für Journalisten and Autoren) - Wikipedia Artikel
     Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Sources ist ein Informationsportal für Journalisten, Redakteure, Autoren und Forscher mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Personen als Quellen: Fachleute und Repräsentanten, die bereit sind Fragen von Reportern zu beantworten oder sich für Live-Interviews zur Verfügung stellen.
534. Sources Select Speakers
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     Speakers available to take media calls about their area of expertise, and available for speaking engagements.
535. South Africa: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Maternal health has been under the spotlight in South Africa after an analysis of maternal deaths was released in July showing an increase in the country's maternal mortality rate. Researchers found that nearly four out of every 10 deaths (38.4 percent) were avoidable. They identified non-attendance and delayed attendance as common problems, together with poor transport facilities, lack of health care facilities and lack of appropriately trained staff.
536. South African Workers Tackle Neoliberalism
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Can the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) be credited with a sudden high-profile career change — from central banker to academic — by Tito Mboweni? The Reserve Bank Governor made a mistake in May when he refused to take a petition from thousands of Numsa members marching to the Banks’ Church St. headquarters. In July Governor Mboweni was rewarded with early retirement.
537. Spain Excludes Settlement University from Academic Competition
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The "University Center of Ariel in Samaria" (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and corporations involved in or profiting from Israel's illegal Wall and colonial settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.
538. Spot The Difference
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     When I first brought up the similarity between Prussia and Israel (in a chapter dedicated to this theme in the Hebrew and German editions of my 1967 book, "Israel Without Zionists") it might have looked like a baseless comparison. Today, the picture is clearer. Not only does the senior officers corps occupy a central place in all the spheres of our life, and not only is the huge military budget beyond any discussion, but our daily news is full of typically 'Prussian' items.
539. The Squeeze: Oil Money and Greed in the 21st Century
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A review the big business of the oil industry across the globe, and the lengths (depths) to which they will go to maximise profits.
540. Sri Lanka: Behind the Massacre
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     An interview with Ashok Kumar.
541. Ssangyong Motors Strike in South Korea Ends in Defeat and Heavy Repression
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The hard-right Korean government is signaling with these measures -- its latest and most dramatic "take no prisoners" victory over popular protest in the past year and a half -- its intention to steamroller any potential future resistance to its unabashed rule on behalf of big capital.
542. Staatlichkeit & Anarchie in der Spanischen Revolution
     Proletarische Revolution statt Staatsverneinung
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
543. Statement of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain Regarding Boycott of Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     To increase the pressure for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, and the removal of the separation wall and the illegal settlements, we will support a boycott (where trade union members should not put their own jobs at risk by refusing to deal with such products) of those goods and agricultural products that originate in illegal settlements -through developing an effective, targeted consumer-led boycott campaign working closely with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign -and campaign for disinvestment by companies associated with the occupation.
544. Stayin' Alive
     The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A social and cultural history of the 1970s in the United States.
545. Steel walls cannot contain the struggle for freedom
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     If siege is an act of aggression and war, then breaking out of it by any means is an act of self-defense and resistance.
546. Stirring Up Racism
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In an attempt to discredit the progressive candidates, the Richmond Police Officers Association (RPOA) put out a flyer which claimed the Latino community and particularly undocumented immigrants were the source of Richmond’s drug and violence problem and that the progressive candidates opposed police efforts to control it.
547. The Struggle for Tibet
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya debate Tibet's history under Communist rule. While both are critical of China's crackdown on resistance movements, Wang, a Chinese intellectual draws a picture of a struggle that is bureaucratic, religious and is opposed to Communism. Shakya, a Tibetan national historian, on the other hand, describes a struggle that is nationalistic and anti-colonial.
548. A Struggle in Solidarity with Others: Lessons from a Student Campaign Battling a Giant Corporation
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     I am a graduate student from India, studying at a university in Michigan. Some time ago, I became involved in a campaign to kick the Coca Cola company off the campus because of their treatment of workers and the surrounding community at their plants in India and Colombia.
549. Support the Iranian people, oppose Tehran's clerical fascism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Tragically, the leadership of the UK and US anti-war movements have been sleep-walking into making the same mistakes over Iran as they made over Iraq. They are silent about the regime's despotism and oppression. Mirroring the neo con indifference to human rights abuses in Iran, they refuse to show solidarity with the Iranian peoples' struggle for secularism, democracy, social justice, human rights and self-determination for national minorities. There is nothing remotely left-wing about this is sad and cruel betrayal. Put bluntly: it is collusion with tyranny.
550. "Sure, Stick It In"
     Who Will Organize the Organizers?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     One has to recognize when the movement is all there, ready to go, and just needs a little impetus.
551. Tácticas desesperadas: Acusaciones falsas de "antisemitismo" para silenciar reproches a la conducta de Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
552. Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-Semitism' - Arabic text
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
553. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
554. La tactique du désespoir : Utilisant de fausses accusations de l'antisémitisme comme arme pour faire taire toute critique sur le comportement d'Israël.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
555. Take Back the Land
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It is immoral for human beings to be forced to live on the streets while perfectly good structures stand vacant, sometimes just blocks away.
556. 'Take me to your leader'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
557. Taktyki Desperacji: Uzywanie falszywych oskarzen antysemityzmu jako broni uciszajacej krytyke zachowania Izraela
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
558. Targeting Earth First!
     Dave Foreman and the First Greenscare Case
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The war on environmentalism.
559. Taser Company Uses Facebook, Blogs to Improve Image Amidst Lawsuits
     Stun-gun maker Taser blogs to beat bad buz
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The company, whose main product is a lightning rod for criticism, is increasingly using blogs and social networks to promote new products and dispel anxieties about them.
560. Tax Havens; Undermining Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
561. Tearing Down the Gates?
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Peter Sacks describes Tearing Down the Gates as a work about the staggering injustices in the American educational system. Sacks utilizes a seldom-employed tool to analyze the educational system in the United States: the role of class. Importantly, Sacks understands class in a multi-faceted way, discussing not only the money a family has but its income-producing capital and its educational background and what he describes as its “cultural capital.”
562. Terror Takeover
     The monstrous march of the security state
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2009
     Has our panic over terrorism given permission for unchecked abuse? The fear of terrorism has been used to curtail our liberties and violate human rights.
563. Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. In other words, if we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we'd save nearly $400 billion annually - more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans.
564. Théories et militantismes queer : réflexion à partir de l'exemple français
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
565. Theories of Stalinism
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Karl Marx and his comrades deemed their own approach “scientific,” as compared to “utopian” intellectual efforts on behalf of socialism, because they believed that practical efforts to challenge and ultimately replace capitalism with something better must be grounded in a serious study of economic, political, social, historical realities and dynamics.
566. Thirty years on, the holocaust in Cambodia and its aftermath is remembered
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his epic dispatches and documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, and that Cambodia was again "punished" when its liberators came from the wrong side of the cold war and the Thatcher government send special forces to train the Khmer Rouge in exile.
567. This Is About Us
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
568. This Little Kiddy Went to Market
     The Corporate Capture of Childhood
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Analyses how people and planet are being systematically subordinated to profit.
569. Three Decades of Iranian Women's Activism
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Before the June elections and the protests that ensued, 2009 was hailed as a milestone in Iran for another reason: it marked the 30th anniversary of the 1979 revolution.
570. Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
571. Time for a New Divestment Campaign
     From South Africa to Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years - as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
572. Timeline of the Congo Conflict
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
573. Too Damn Old!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age -- sometimes as early as 40 -- and it can make the victim feel unwanted, unneeded and oppressed.
574. Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
575. Top 50 US War Criminals
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Brief profiles of men and women who planned wars of agression and other war crimes.
576. Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival's decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.
577. The Torture Memos
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Chomsky comments on the revelations of and reactions to the White House report. He examines the proposed justifications and reasserts that despite the idea of "American exceptionalism", allowing instances of torture to be forgotten lays the foundation for future crime.
578. Toward A New Socialism
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Richard Schmitt and Anatole Anton correctly insist in the introduction to their anthology Toward a New Socialism that we are in need of a new socialism for the 21st century. This claim has little currency in contemporary academic or even activist cultures. “To speak of ‘socialism’ in today’s academy in the U.S.,” says Anton, “is to betray a lack of academic breeding.”
579. Towards a 'Israeli War Criminals Watch'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It is upon us, every woman and man, in Israel and abroad, who fear for international public hygiene and international law, to unite forces in order to place before those war criminals the dilemma: risk being tried if they are found in countries in which the law permits this or remain locked in Israel.
580. Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     Between Marx's broad historically-inspired vision of revolution/transformation and his detailed critique of political economy, there was an analytical and strategic gap - unbridgeable without addressing the problematic of working class capacities - which later Marxists sometimes addressed, but never overcame. Every progressive social movement must, sooner or later, confront the inescapable fact that capitalism cripples our capacities, stunts our dreams, and incorporates our politics.
581. Transforming Power
     From the Personal to the Political
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
582. The Transition Initiative 
     Changing the scale of change
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     People never need communities more than when there are threats to security, food, and lives. The Transition Initiative recognizes how much we need this scale now, because of peak oil and climate change. But beyond this concrete need, the lack of a sense of community has negative psychological impacts on individuals across the 'developed' world, as people report persistent and widespread feelings of loneliness, isolation, dispossession, alienation, and depression.
583. Transition Initiatives Primer
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A comprehensive document about embarking on a transition journey. A Transition Initiative is a community (lots of examples here) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
584. The Transition to Socialism
     Against The Current vol. 141
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In his January, 2009 speech commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, President Raúl Castro, known popularly as Raúl, repeated Fidel’s oft-quoted 2005 speech to University of Havana students: “This nation can self-destruct… those who can’t destroy it are them [the U.S. imperialists]; we, yes, we can destroy it and it would be our fault.”
585. Transitional demands
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Transition movement aims to move us from oil dependency to local resilience, using the power of community.
586. Treading the Borders Between Life and Death
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     During Israel's Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 - January 2009, Israeli forces killed 16 emergency medical staff and injured 57. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), perhaps hundreds of those killed could have survived if emergency services had been able to access them promptly - the access denied to them can be defined as a deliberate violation of the Geneva Conventions and therefore a war crime.
587. Tree Spiker
     From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Roselle - cofounder of the Rainforest Action Network and Earth First! - offers a memoir of his career in radical activism: from teenage Yippie to career environmentalist.
588. Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
589. Turning Children Into Consumers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into lifelong consumers with brand loyalties and that can be profitable for decades to come.
590. Turning Point?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Chomsky examines if Obama's speech in Cairo can reasonably be understood as an indication of a turning point in US Middle East policy. He expresses doubt in consideration of the intricate relationship between America and Israel.
591. A turning point for the US solidarity movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     We have learned that change will not come from above. It will and must come from the grassroots, the people, those who have nothing to lose but their prison walls, the daily humiliation of life as a refugee, a second- or third-class citizen, or a non-citizen.
592. Twenty Million Jobless by the End of 2009
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Throughout the past year, U.S. government statistics have consistently underestimated and underreported the extent of joblessness. The techniques by which this has been done were described in prior articles on the subject by this author. With November 2008’s Department of Labor report of 530,000 additional workers losing their jobs, it would appear that the government was finally reporting the true extent of rising unemployment in the United States.
593. Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israel's foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government's line on the Middle East conflict.
594. The Twitterest Pill
     Policing Dissent in the Information Age
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Who judges the legitimate and illegitimate uses of communications technology in social movements? Which networked alliances have State-sponsorship, and which ones face criminalization and State-crackdown? Social media are relying on open network access, but this openness too easily sugarcoats itself in democratic notions (participation, interactivity, freedom). At the same historic moment, we are also witnessing an expansion, integration, and refinement of sovereign police power. When the two converge we begin to see an increase in repressive intervention into, and pre-emption of, information use.
595. The Two Main Trends in Anarchism
     Alternate Tendencies of Anarchism
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2009
     The broad anarchist tradition of class struggle anarchism overlaps with libertarian interpretations of Marx.
596. "Two State Solution" Equals Racism
     Palestinians and Jews CAN Live Peacefully as Equals in One Democratic State
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The mutual fear and distrust between Jews and non-Jews in Palestine today is no more innate to these people than the belief in anti-black stereotypes so widely accepted by white Americans in the past was innate to white people. The animosity between Palestinians and Israeli Jews was deliberately fomented by Israeli Zionist leaders with the help of British and American leaders for decades. It was not the presence of Jews in Palestine, per se, that angered the native Palestinians; rather it was the intention (and then the reality) of Zionists removing non-Jews from their homeland to turn most of it into an exclusively Jewish state.
597. 2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The support provided by Israel's primary media to the security and political moves of the government - any government - is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of the "public's right to know," in numerous cases even against strong currents that demand the silencing and concealment of information, serves more as a title for academic conferences and less as a rule that guides the media establishment in Israel. Not only this, but the journalists' association adopted the official governmental approach in relation to international forums concerned with human rights. This approach places obstacles of suspicion and hostility before anyone who does not follow the official line of Israeli patriotism. Legitimate criticism of unprofessional and unethical conduct of media that volunteers for national or military service is countered with the contention that the source of criticism is anti-Semitic.
598. Uganda: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Carbon trading schemes are causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.
599. The UN in Israel's Crosshairs
     Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     History will record Israel's onslaught in Gaza as noteworthy not only for the wide destruction of institutions of state and civil society, but for the deliberate targeting of the United Nations and the refugees it aided and sheltered. And it certainly would not be the first time Israel has done so.
600. U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A four-member United Nations fact-finding mission, which has just concluded an investigation into last year's brutal conflict in Gaza, makes a strong case for war crimes charges against Israel for its unrelenting 22-day military attacks on Palestinians, largely civilians, including women and children.
601. Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Mark Rudd recalls his personal journey from idealistic freshman to student radical to the Weather Underground. He says: "It's about good organizing (Columbia), leading to worse (Weatherman), leading to horrible (the Weather Underground). I hope it's useful to contemporary organizers, as they contemplate how to build the coming mass movement(s)."
602. Unintended Consequences 
     Beware the Hate Crimes Bill!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It will prove difficult to separate speaking against members of protected classes, or criticizing their practices, from hate. The two things are easily conflated. Once enacted, hate crimes will become independent of specific violent acts. An eventual likely outcome will be that speaking against members of specially protected classes will itself become a violent act of inciting violence.
603. The United States and Gaza
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The courageous Israeli journalist Amira Hass, in her 1996 book Drinking the Sea at Gaza, tells us that in Israeli slang “go to Gaza” means “go to hell.”
604. United States: The Ultra-Right Pot Boils Over
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The appearance of right-wing mobs at town meetings organized by Democratic Party representatives to discuss the proposed health-care reform has set off alarm bells, in particular because of the blind fanaticism of the right-wing protesters and their threats of violence, including armed violence. These outbursts show many features of historic fascist developments and on a scale as yet unseen in the United States.
605. An Unlikely Alliance: Indigenous and Campesinos Build an Alliance for Self-Defense
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In Colombia, campesinos are mostly non-indigenous family farmers who have often been pitted against indigenous people by wealthy landowners and corporations. Yet despite being traditional rivals, the Barí and campesino communities have been driven to a partnership by common enemies, including multinational mining companies, complicit Colombian regulatory agencies, and the US government.
606. Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Radiation and health experts across the world charge that toxic materials and radioactivity released by the mining and processing operations are causing widespread infertility, birth defects and cancers.
607. Urban Cavemen (Living Life out Of Balance)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Pediatricians nowadays see fewer kids with broken bones from climbing trees and more children with longer-lasting repetitive-stress injuries, which are related to playing video games and typing at keyboards. Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, calls this "nature deficit disorder."
608. Urban Honey
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In the winter of 2003, three Chicago beekeepers joined forces to create a bee farm on the former Sears-Roebuck property right in the heart of our city. We abut an old railroad embankment wall with both prairie remnant and concrete in equal amounts.
609. U.S. & Israel: Dog Wags Tail Wags Dog
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A tremendous amount of ink and energy has been expended interpreting the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel. The debate over Israel’s influence on U.S. Middle East policy has engaged critics across the political and ideological spectrum. While some have long questioned the reasons for the unparalleled U.S. military and economic support bestowed on the “Jewish state,” the debates over Israel’s influence on U.S. foreign policy have increased dramatically in the wake of Bush administration military responses to September 11th.
610. U.S. Poetry and the Politics of Form
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Laura Bush's 2003 “Poetry and the American Voice” symposium is infamous because it never happened. Intended to be a White House celebration of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes, the event was cancelled when several poet-invitees (including former laureates) declined the invitation and, instead, composed poems protesting U.S. involvement in Iraq. When the symposium was called off, the First Lady’s spokesperson explained that a celebration of poets was in danger of being turned into a political event.
611. US Workers Starved Into Military Service
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Humanity has passed the tipping point - economically, culturally and environmentally. The "consuming and killing" model embraced by Americans as cultural norm is, in reality, a cultural aberration. It is destroying everything and everyone in its wake - including those who are fighting and dying to preserve it.
612. Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     In 1968 various student movements had risen up in post-war Europe. The movement in Germany, however, had the long shadow of their parents' roles in Nazism and World War Two.
613. Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Agricultural sustainability consists of long-term productivity, not short-term increase of yield. Ecological agriculture, which seeks to understand and apply ecological principles to farm ecosystems, is the future of modern agriculture.
614. Veolia tries to bail out of one apartheid project, two to go!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In 2005, just after the publication of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, Palestinians began calling for an international boycott campaign against Veolia, a company involved in the Citypass Consortium, a scheme to build a tramline on occupied territory in the West Bank. Veolia is a huge multinational, that arguably has the biggest financial commitment of any international company to Israel's colonisation of the West Bank.
615. Victors's Justice
     From Nuremberg to Baghdad
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Victors' Justice is an articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law as an instrument of Western power. Zolo's key thesis is that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other.
616. Victory in Chicago: Republic Workers' Occupation
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     “For once in our lives we had the perfect storm. Usually we don’t get any support from politicians or any coverage from the mass media...but this time, everything came together,” said Tim Curtin, International Representative for United Electrical workers (UE).
617. Vincenzo Pietropaolo: Witness to the Harvest Pilgrims
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     Vincenzo Pietropaolo has documented the story of Mexican migrant workers over a number of years. This is a brief look into that story.
618. Voices of the World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Voices of the World is a collection of life stories from activists in the global justice movement.
619. Walter Benjamin
     Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Eagleton's goal here is to to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art and to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism.
620. Waltz with Bashir
     A Lebanon War Story
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A graphic novel depicting an Israeli soldier's experience during Israel's war in Lebanon. See also the film with the same name.
621. The War in the Country 
     How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Chronicles the gradual disappearance of Canada's family farms.
622. War Is Peace 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it's hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States is a war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere at any moment.
623. The War Isn't Over, But Israel Has Lost
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Israelis - and their backers in the American political establishment - appear incapable of grasping that which is empirically obvious: Hamas and its ilk grow stronger every time Israel seeks to eliminate them by force.
624. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
625. Welcome to Orwell's World 2010
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and diffuse enemies". He called this "global security" and invited our gratitude.
626. West Bank land belongs to Jews says Israeli judge
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Major Adrian Agassi is a senior Israeli judge who first served in the legal department that oversaw the confiscation of land in the West Bank to build Jewish settlements and was then appointed to the military court that decides -- and almost always denies -- Palestinian appeals against the seizure of their property, and that also rules on legal disputes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians. Judge Agassi maintains that people like himself, a Jew born in Britain, have more right to live in Palestine than people who were born there. He denies, however, that his beliefs affect his ability to make fair and impartial rulings.
627. What It Takes to Build a Movement 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Activism = self-expression; organizing = movement-building.
628. What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View
     Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     What is worth fighting for? Perhaps this severe recession offers us an opportunity to ask this question. This crisis has revealed the rotten foundation of our economy and called into question the neoliberal policies and ideology that have deepened the rot.
629. What Obama's Victory Means About Race and Class
     Against The Current vol. 138
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     There was euphoria in every Black community household November 4. High fives and tears of joy. No one could believe it. It didn’t matter Obama’s politics. A Black man had won! The election of the first Black president of the United States has a dual meaning: social and political.
630. What Should Be Done in Palestine
     Israel Shamir's Talk at the Ankara Conference
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Indeed, the whole story of Palestine is a story of immigrants taking over a country. Such things happen: immigrants from Britain took over North America and Australia. This is a sad thing, but it happened. Now it is not realistic to hope that they will sail back to England - they won't. It is wrong to try and create an 'independent state' for the native Americans - such independent states are called 'reservations'. The right answer is equality for native and immigrant alike. Some Jews would complain that they want a state of their own. We shall answer them: you have built on sand, and a house built on sand can't stand forever. If you want a state of your own without anybody else, find yourself a lonely uninhabited island. Palestine was, and is, populated; the best you can wish is to be equal citizens in Palestine with everybody else.
631. What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Clueless desk editors like those at the New York Times titled these conflicts "Riots in Honduras." But you don't need to be able to understand Spanish to see and hear that, distinct from rioters, the young people of the neighborhood that came out and violated the military curfew to defend their neighborhood from this police invasion know and have memorized complicated political slogans and rhymes which they chanted in unison. "Riots" are disorganized explosions. This neighborhood, and others like it, however, have been forced by the realities of the coup to organize themselves to a greater extent than ever before.
632. What the Left Should be Learning From Iran 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     There are those on the left who mirror neocon thought: They argue that since Washington is in opposition to it, Iran must therefore be considered a 'good' government, worthy of solidarity. Others argue that if the Iranian state offers social programs and even if it only somewhat resists global capitalism then therefore its violent and authoritarian actions can somehow be justified, forgiven or denied.
633. What's at stake in Copenhagen
     The crucial debates at Copenhagen
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoliberal economics.
634. What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush's push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.
635. Which side are you on? 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The women's question has haunted the Islamic regime from the start. The Islamic Republic has been in continuous conflict with the women's liberation movement, which has grown considerably in the past decade in opposition to the misogyny and gender apartheid of the Islamists. Despite brutal assaults on this movement, the regime has not succeeded in silencing it.
636. While We Were Sleeping
     Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Public health has made our lives safer--but it often works behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, "while we are sleeping."
637. The White Cop and the Black Professor
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Police are trained to act as authoritarian thugs when they are dealing with people who are not obviously of, or loyal to, the very wealthy elite who rule the nation. The police are trained to enforce law and order in an unjust and unequal society, and a big part of doing this requires that they make ordinary people obey them out of fear.
638. White Flag Deaths
     Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Documents incidents where Israeli soldiers fired on civilians with small arms during Israel's military operations in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. These attacks killed 11 civilians, including five women and four children, and wounded at least another eight.
639. Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Whose interests do the violent actions of the black bloc benefit? The interests of the general public in using free speech as a means of political change? Or the interests of the authorities in providing the perfect pretext with which to crush and outlaw that free speech? You can't overthrow the entire system by smashing one bank and starting a bonfire. Real political change takes generations of struggle, decades of building respected educational platforms, and a gargantuan grass-roots movement focused on taking power on the local level and expanding upwards. Throwing a brick through a window isn't going to achieve anything other than making the vast majority of the general public despise you even more, and support the very systems of power that you are supposedly opposing. The black bloc sect exist to provide the media with violent footage with which to demonize legitimate protesters.
640. Who Killed Chea Vichea?
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     Chea Vichea served as president of Cambodia's garment workers' union until he was gunned down on the street in 2004. Filmed over four years, this film explores motives for Vichea's assassination and unravels a police plot that framed two men, who were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
641. Whom Should We Support in Iran?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The people we should support in Iran are those who are trying to make Iran more equal, more democratic and more friendly to the principle of solidarity--concern for one another. Since we want the world to move in this direction, we should support those who are pushing it in that direction. The people doing this are working class Iranians.
642. Who's afraid of the BNP?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     How should a liberal democratic society respond to an organization such as the BNP? Should the political mainstream ostracise the BNP or engage with it? And if engage, how?
643. Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
644. Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
645. Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
646. Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
     Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
647. Why Israel Won't Survive
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
648. Why Israeli Leaders Love Qassam Rockets
     A Reply to Michael Neumann
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Israeli leaders want Jews to believe that they are surrounded by violent anti-Semites. This is how the billionaires and generals and politicians who rule over the Israeli population get away with what they are doing: getting richer and more powerful while driving the rest of the population down economically. They need the Israeli population to believe that the rulers of Israel are protecting Jews from the "real enemy"--violent anti-Semitic Arabs. To make sure the "real enemy" remains credible, non-combatant Jews must die at the hands of apparent anti-Semites.
649. Why Not Sanctions for Israel?
     Gross Violations of Human Rights
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The US led the imposition of sanctions against South Africa because of South Africa's apartheid practices. The sanctions forced the white government to hand over political power to the black population. Israel practices a worse form of apartheid than did the white South African government. Yet, Israel maintains that it is 'anti-semitic' to criticize Israel for a practice that the world regards as abhorrent.
650. Why Not Socialism? 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, a political philosopher presents a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.
651. Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
     An article decoding the important differences in terminology, underlying philosophy, and value systems between two similar categories of software.
652. Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
653. Why The U.S. Government Hates Venezuela 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Having lost in the realm of ideas, those supporting capitalism must compensate by other means.
654. Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
     Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something that the farmers did not create. Instead, it is the polluters who caused the emissions who destroy the natural cycles. So, we small scale farmers came here to say that we will not pay for their mistakes. And we are asking the emitters to face up to their responsibilities.
655. Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Environmentalism can most simply be defined as the extension of the Golden Rule to include other species. Wildlife must be given top priority, because they can't protect themselves from us.
656. A winning formula
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Intelligent community-based campaigning exposes the BNP for what it is, as well as providing a defence of civil society.
657. Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The fight against the world's biggest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, is being waged from a tiny tea stall in Ranchi, eastern India.
658. Women Are Not Wallpaper
     Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli interview filmmaker Erik Gandini
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.
659. Women of the revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Thirty years after the toppling of the Shah in Iran, Azar Sheibani looks at how Iranian women have defied the reign of misogynist terror.
660. Women Recycle for Income and Environment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
661. Women Soldiers' Testimonies
     Breaking the Silence
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A collection of testimonies selected from interviews with more than forty Israeli women soldiers breaking their silence, and is an additional example of the ethical and societal cost of the missions with which the Israeli Security Forces have been charged.
662. Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
663. World at Gunpoint
     Or, what's wrong with the simplicity movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Global warming (or global climate catastrophe, as some rightly call it), as terrifying as it is, isn't first and foremost a threat. It's a consequence. we'll have a better chance of succeeding if we recognize it as a predictable (at this point) result of burning oil and gas, of deforestation, of dam construction, of industrial agriculture, and so on. The real threat is all of these.
664. Worst Companies for Union Organizing Highlighted for International Human Rights Day
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) has released "Working for Scrooge: Worst Companies of 2009 for the Right to Associate," a list of the four worst multinational corporations for union organizing.
665. Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel
     An Answer to Uri Avnery
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The BDS campaign was initiated by a broad coalition of Palestinian political and social movements. No Israeli who claims to support the national rights of the Palestinian people can, decently, turns his or her back to that campaign: after having claimed for years that "armed struggle is not the way," it will be outrageous that this BDS strategy will too be disqualified by those Israeli activists. On the contrary, we must all together join to "Boycott from Within" in order to provide Israeli support to this Palestinian initiative. It is the minimum we can do, and it is the minimum we should do.
666. You Don't Play With Revolution 
     The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A collection of never-before-published lectures by the Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered in Canada in 1967-68, at the height of James's political maturity.
667. You, Me & the SPP: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2009
     What do secrecy, police provocateurs, an assault on democracy and infringements on citizens' rights have in common? The Security and Prosperity Partnership.
668. The Young Lords' Legacy of Puerto Rican Activism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A short history of the Young Lords, a group that used confrontational tactics to bring services and attention to the residents of East Harlem, or El Barrio, and beyond.
669. Your Money, Or Your Life
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Single Payer will save lives, but it also will save money. The exorbitant salaries of Insurance Company CEOs will be eliminated. The profit motive for investors will be eliminated. Administrative costs will be reduced because one single payer will replace a large number of insurance companies - all with different forms, different standards, and different requirements for an endless stream of mind-numbing paper work.
670. Zionism Boycotts the Funeral of Marek Edelman
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A sad farewell to Marek Edelman - the last surviving Commander of the Bund. The article describes his funeral in Warsaw, where he was buried, although he lived in Poland's second city, Lodz.
671. Zionism - tried and failed: Interview with Akiva Orr
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     In the end, the Zionist thing is basically, from a Jewish point of view, a failure. It's not safe and it doesn't preserve the Jewish identity.
672. Zionism vs. Zionism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Mainstream and right-wing Zionism has always been tangled up in this catch 22: wanting to be normal, yet at the same time wanting to be seen as totally unique, singled out, attacked more unfairly than any other nation and, thus, quite abnormal. The more Israelis have tried to become normal by naming and defeating their enemies, the deeper they've entrenched themselves in their myth of being the uniquely persecuted people.

2008

1. The Absurdity of "Independent" Kosovo
   A Saga of Injustice and Hypocrisy
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
2. Access Denied
   The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information -- often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion -- that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries.
3. Adding Insult to Injury
   Debating Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   This volume collects the responses of leading American social theorists to issues dealing with the rise of identity politics. Nancy Fraser's widely-cited work looks at ways to combine multiculturalism with a commitment to egalitarianism.
4. After Pakistan's Election
   Against The Current vol. 133
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
5. An Agenda for Change
   The Right to the Freedom of Expression in Nepal
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   Publication on the Agenda for Change: The Right to Freedom of Expression in Nepal.
6. Agrarian-Industrial Revolt
   Against The Current vol. 137
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
7. Algonquins vs. Frontenac Ventures
   Against The Current vol. 134
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
8. All options on the table?
   Resource Type: Article
   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).
9. Allan Bérubé, 1946-2007
   Against The Current vol. 135
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
10. Anti-Semitism and Socialism
    A Reply to Gorelick
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
11. Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Defense of Palestinian Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
12. Appreciating Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
13. Arab Sexualities
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
14. At the Nuclear Precipice
    Catastrophe or Transformation?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    This book explores the present nuclear predicament, and how to step away from the precipice. It examines the intersections between international law and national policies; and between nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism and nuclear disarmament.
15. Australia's 'stolen' children get apology but no cash
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
16. Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
17. Bill Banta, 1941-2008
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
18. Becoming a Revolutionary
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    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?
19. Behind the Dirty Cleansing of New Orleans
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
20. Beyond Homelessness
    Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Beyond Homelessness looks at the socioeconomic, ecological and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. Going further than seeing housing as being bricks and mortar the authors see it as a search for belonging, identity and security. They argue that if we see the world as holy instead of earth as home and we understand the Gospels, faith will heal the disharmony in which we have mired ourselves.
21. Beyond the Hoax 
    Science, Philosphy and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Exposes the faulty thinking and outright nonsense of the postmodernist critique of science, which asserts that facts, truth, evidence, even reality itself are all merely social constructs.
22. The Biggest 'October Surprise' Of All: A World Capitalist Crash 
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
23. A Biological Walk Down Wall Street
    Economics, Symbiosis and Parasitoids
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2008
    Wall Street today, with the collapse of Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae, AIG, Lehmann Brothers, Washington Mutual and the rest as to come, is highly reminiscent of that scene in "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979) where the parasite begins to burst out. The host is the free market. Feeding the parasitoid more, in sense of allowing it to nourish on public funds as new host, will have the same denouement, only this time the host will not just be a particular market, but the whole market, and the society reliant upon it.
24. Bitterly Divided 
    The South's Inner Civil War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Historian David Williams lays bare the myth of a united confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars — an external one that we know so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness.
25. B.J. Widick, 1910-2008
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
26. B.J. Widick and the UAW
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
27. The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A look at the darker side of Canada's foreign policy record.
28. Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
29. The Blackest Streets
    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
30. Blue Gold: World Water Wars 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2008
    A documentary, based on the book Blue Gold, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, which examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water. The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world and makes a strong case for community action.
31. Bolivia After the Referendum
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
32. Bolivia's Autonomist Right -- A Dangerous Threat
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
33. Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2008
    An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
34. Burma: Ripe for change
    New Internationalist May 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at Burma's attempts to speak out against political injustice.
35. Bush's bankrupt vision
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
36. Bottomfeeder
    How the Fish on Our Plates is Killing the Planet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
37. Can a Democrat change US Middle East policy?
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
38. Can Soldiers Resist?
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interviews with Tod Ensign and Phil Aliff.
39. Canada's 1960s 
    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A history of social movements of the 1960s, including student and anti-war movements, the rise of women's liberation, labour struggles, and Quebec nationalism.
40. The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
    Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
41. Chasing a Mirage
    The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
42. Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
43. Coming Home to the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
44. Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South
    What's Not in The Great Debaters
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
45. Confronting the Climate Change Crisis
    An Ecosocialist Perspective
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2008
46. Confronting the -isms
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
47. Congo's War, Women's Holocaust
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Which current war has taken more lives than the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur put together?
48. Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2008
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2008
49. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Dutch text
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
    Connexions (volledige naam Connexions Information Sharing Services) is de voornaamste online bibliotheek en het archief voor Canadese organisaties voor sociale verandering. Dit project dat geen winstoogmerk heeft, beheert ook een uitgebreide gids van Canadese en niet-Canadese verenigingen en niet-gouvernementele organisaties.
50. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Arabic text
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
51. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - English text
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Connexions (full name Connexions Information Sharing Services) is the central online library and archive for Canada's movements for social change. The non-profit project also maintains a comprehensive directory of Canadian associations and NGOs.
52. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Farsi text
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
53. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Korean text
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2011
54. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Artikel - Deutscher text
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
    Connexions ist die Zentrale Online Bücherei und Archiv für Kanada's Bewegung für gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
55. Connexions - Services de partage d'information Connexions - Wikipedia Article - French text
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
    Connexions -- dont le nom complet est Services de partage d'information Connexions [Connexions Information Sharing Services] -- est la bibliothèque et l'archive en ligne centrale pour les mouvements canadiens partisans du changement social. Le projet à but non lucratif entretient également un vaste répertoire d'associations canadiennes et d'organisations non gouvernementales.
56. Connexions Servicos de Compartilhamento de Informacoes - Wikipedia Article - Portuguese text
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
    Connexions (Connexions Serviços de Compartilhamento de Informaçoes) é a biblioteca central e arquivos eletrônicos do movimentos do Canadá para mudanças sociais. O projeto sem fins lucrativos também mantém uma lista completa de associaçoes e ONG's canadenses.
57. Connexions Servis Udostepniania Informacji - Wikipedia Article - Polish text
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
    Connexions Information Sharing Services (pe?na nazwa Connexions Serwis Udostepniania Informacji) jest to internetowa bibliteka i archiwum dla kanadyjskich organizacji zajmuja;cych sie; przemianami spo?ecznymi. Ten bezprofitowy projekt zajmuje sie; prowadzeniem i uaktualnianiem obszernej ksija;z'ki adresowej kanadyjskich zwija;zków i organizacji pozarzadowych.
58. Conquest
    How Societies Overwhelm Others
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Tells the gripping history of conquest, illuminating the ways in which invaders have justified their conquests, highlighting a bloody and often prolonged process that can last centuries. He argues that while each individual conquest in ultimately unique, they nevertheless often share a number of qualities.
59. Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The current listeria outbreak has the feel of deja vu all over again. Once again, we are hearing about companies and industry associations lobbying for fewer inspections and less 'interference', and about a compliant right-wing government only too eager to give them what they want.
60. Costos y riesgos socializados vs. Ganancias privatizadas
    La crisis en los Estados Unidos
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
61. Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double Standards
    An Exchange With The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The priorities of the news media mean that the more Palestinians are killed, the less importance their deaths have to news organisations. Conversely, the fewer Israelis killed the more seriousness their deaths are accorded.
62. Creative Destruction: The Madness of the Global Economy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The current system of economics, particularly the latest stage of 'turbo-capitalism', known inoffensively as 'neoliberalism', is built upon painful boom-and-bust cycles fuelled by corporate greed and maintained by cynical deception of the public. The costs to the planet - in terms of human suffering and environmental collapse - are staggering.
63. 'Creative Destruction' - The Madness of the Global Economy - Part 2
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism has been the refusal to analyse this; or even to report that real growth rates in the developed world have been declining since the 1970s.
64. The Crisis Beneath the Bailout
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In early September, 2008 the Department of Labor reported that the U.S. economy in August had lost another 84,000 jobs. This was followed on October 2 with an announcement that officially recorded September job losses accelerated to 159,000. That made nine consecutive months of increasing unemployment, adding up to well over one million jobs lost over the past year.
65. Criticism not disloyal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Support for Palestinian rights thus need not come at the expense of concern for Israelis - in fact, advocating changes to Israeli policies that perpetuate war, anger, and resistance is the truest promotion of Israelis' well-being.
66. Crossing Hitler
    The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Explores the first full-length biography of Litten, the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic and the terror of Nazi rule in Germany after 1933.
67. Dark Days
    The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    An exposé of Canadian national security investigations, Kerry Pither's Dark Days exposes a disturbing record of human-rights abuses, both at home and abroad, and ultimately questions our notion of the "Just Society".
68. The Death of Retirement?
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us, Robin Blackburn’s followup masterpiece to Banking on Death (2002), is another sobering and insightful examination of retirement security. In Age Shock, Blackburn delves into the realities of an ageing demographic in the midst of the disintegration, from both a monetary and social obligation perspective, of sound financial conditions for the elderly.
69. Decolonization and Empire
    Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
70. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A methodical deconstruction of Edward Said's Orientalism.
71. Defiant Publics
    The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Drache says that the new communications technologies of the contemporary information revolution are permitting new forms of transnational communication that are creating global consciousness and global citizenship.
72. Democracy Against Politics
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    “¡Que se vayan todos!” shouted rebellious crowds during the Argentine economic crisis of 2001, “Out with them all!” The call soon spread throughout Latin America: for a new politics without politicians and a new society without social elites. Many radicals have been inspired by the movements that seemed to rise with so much energy and idealism from this foundational fire. Others have been quick to criticize the inadequacy of movements which seem to have forgotten that economic exploitation is more fundamental than political oppression, and that exploitation is held up by political power which must be seized rather than ignored.
73. Detroit Politics Embroiled
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Detroit is a city entangled in a chain of interlocking crises, all the way from the world economic crisis, to deindustrialization in America, down to the regional and local levels of the housing market hemorrhage and a tidal wave of utility cutoffs in poor people’s homes. Some 40,000 Detroiters now are without water — the most shocking example, perhaps, of daily life in a city on the brink.
74. Devastating Crisis Unfolds
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system is what’s made the downward slide so intractable for policymakers and its potential for disaster so serious. The plague of foreclosures and abandoned homes — often broken into and stripped clean of everything, including copper wiring — stalks Detroit in particular, and other Midwest cities.
75. A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Contains over 8500 entries on all aspects of the environment and conservation. Embraces a broad spectrum of environmental areas including sustainable development, biodiversity, conservation, environmental ethics, philosophy, and history, resource management, sociology, and policy on the environment.
76. Direct Action
    An ethnography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent years-against the Summit of the Americas in Québec City.
77. Dirty Wars
    Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Historian Mark Curtis, presents the history of the British government's sponsorship of radical Islamic terrorism, from Iran, Afghanistan and Libya to the July 7 bombings.
78. The Dismal Science
    How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
79. Domestic Work and Rights in China
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    When China adopted the “open door” policy in 1978, south China, especially the Pearl River Delta area, was the first industrial area created to attract foreign investment, particularly from Hong Kong. In the late 1990s, China accelerated this policy, opening consumer markets to foreign investment. Since 1999, the average annual gross domestic product grew 10%, far ahead of other developing countries.
80. Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing! 
    Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2008
    A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions- banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds - become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
81. Doubt is their Product
    How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitious tactics spawned a multimillion-dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Offers concrete, workable suggestions for how it can be restored by taking the politics out of science and ensuring that concern for public safety, rather than private profits, guides our regulatory policy.
82. Dropping the bomb: How to ban nukes and save the planet
    New Internationalist June 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at nuclear weapons and their transportation in Britain.
83. Dubai Labor Fighting Back Vs. Indentured Globalization
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    October, 2007 saw the government of the United Arab Emirates halfway through a "humane" immigration amnesty which, in turn, paved the way for a clampdown on labour. In November a huge strike wave erupted, culminating in pitched battles between militant laborers and Dubai police.
84. Economics for Everyone
    A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
85. Edible Action
    Food Activism and Alternative Economics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
86. The Election, Economy, War, and Peace
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky points out that the Democratic triumph in the 2008 election was indeed historic, but also relatively slight. He explores the factors that played a role in preventing a landslide victory for President Obama.
87. The Elephant in the Room
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Much of the world is fascinated by the U.S. presidential election. The main reason is that the country may be ready to do something that most developed countries wouldn’t consider: electing a representative from an oppressed minority as head of government or state. (Try to imagine an Arab citizen of Israel or France as either country’s prime minister or president; or a British prime minister of South Asian descent.)
88. Elissa Karg Chacker, 1951-2008
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Elissa Karg Chacker, a longtime member of Solidarity and previously the International Socialists (IS) in Detroit, died Sunday, May 11 from injuries suffered in an accident a week earlier. Riding her bicycle home after a Solidarity meeting, she was struck by a car and never regained consciousness. Her daughters Sasha and Nina stayed with her in the hospital, where many comrades and friends maintained a vigil throughout the week.
89. Empire, Religion and Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    “At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Sunday by Israeli fire,” today’s New York Times reports as I write this review, “bringing the number of Palestinians killed since Wednesday… to more than 100.” One Palestinian in Gaza laments, “There is an attack every five or ten minutes. It keeps our nerves on edge and our senses strained. There is so much rage at what is happening; especially the scenes of murdered children and babies.” According to the Israeli human-rights group, B’Tselem, approximately half of the dead were unarmed civilians, and a quarter were children.
90. The End of Poverty?
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2008
    Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries.
91. Environmentalists Do Not Support Nuclear Power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
92. Everything's on the Line at AAM
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The strike of 3,600 UAW-represented workers at American Axle and Manufacturing plants in Michigan and New York has forced the idling of more than 40,000 workers in 30 GM plants and shut down a number of parts plants throughout North America. Eighty percent of AAM’s axles, chassis components and forged products are shipped to General Motors, but AAM also produces parts for other automakers, including Chrysler and Toyota.
93. The Evil of the Lesser Evil
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Lesser-evilism as a progressive strategy has succeeded -- succeeded in making American politics progressively more and more right-wing.
94. Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Salon has uncovered new evidence of post-9/11 spying on Americans. Obtained documents point to a potential investigation of the White House that could rival Watergate.
95. Facebook Facts
    Finding Friends and Foes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Unions and workers are making much use of the latest web fad: social networking sites. But are sites like Facebook really adding anything to our ability to organize? If yes, how, exactly? And where are the pitfalls in using online commercial sites for organizing?
96. The First Legal Russian Strike in a Decade
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The almsot month-long strike at the Ford-Vsevolozhsk assembly plant, a small plant near St. Petersburg, ended December 16 with an agreement that negotiations would resume. The strike began on November 17, 2007, after four months of talks failed to produce any result. In fact, Ford management had initially refused to hold negotiations “during or under the threat of strike.”
97. FLOW 
    For Love of Water
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2008
    A critical expose of the privatization of water infrastructure. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
98. Forty Years of Defying the Odds
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    My work area is a shambles. Projects I’ve been meaning to get to for forty years tumble from wherever I’ve shoved them.
99. France: A Sea Change on the Left
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In contrast with the United States, where the political arena has been dominated by two entrenched parties for a century, France has gone through major changes since the end of World War II. Back then, workers' demands were mostly put forward by the French Communist Party (PCF) which had over 30% of the vote, and the fear of a revolution forced the ruling class to concede to demands such as universal healthcare (called Sécurité sociale).
100. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
     Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
101. Free speech for me - you shut up
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
102. From Resistance to Power!
     Manifestos of the Fight for Indigenous Rights in Central and South America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
103. Funding Revolutions?
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Nearly every person I have encountered who is seeking liberation from the various oppressive-isms of this world has asked the fundamental question, “How do I free myself (and others) from such an insidious system?”
104. The Future of Israel/Palestine
     Against The Current vol. 139
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
     Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address to both houses of the U.S. Congress in May, 2006 was the clearest, most explicit presentation of Israel’s conception of where it is going vis-à-vis the Palestinians. It is perhaps the most skilled use of Newspeak since George Orwell invented the term in his novel 1984.
105. Gaza: Health System in Collapse
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military's destruction of Gaza's basic infrastructure and Israel's closure of all Gaza's borders.
106. Gaza, The World's Largest Outdoor Prison
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Sara Roy couldn't have predicted the deterioration of Gaza since the 2005 unilateral pullout of Israeli occupation forces and settlers any more effectively than in her book Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. For those seeking a thorough understanding of the failure for peace to spontaneously erupt upon the exit of the settlers from Gaza, Failing Peace is a valuable resource.
107. Gaza's Shocking Devastation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     A Canadian Jew's visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw.
108. The Global Battle Against Noise Pollution 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Studies done in several European countries have demonstrated that noise can be a major killer. Awake or even asleep your brain and body react to sounds that increase the levels of stress hormones.
109. Global Crisis and Opportunity
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis. Mike Davis is a veteran writer and activist who cut his progressive teeth in the 1960s civil rights and antiwar movements. He has worked as a meat cutter, long-distance trucker, and currently teaches history at UC Irvine.
110. The Global Gang Thang
     A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
111. Globalization and Feminism
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In the concluding chapter of this innovative and insightful anthology, Torry Dickinson and Robert Schaeffer argue that “A key development for both theory and politics has been that the intersection of different global hierarchies has led to the rise of global, intersecting social movements. Many of the movements that have emerged are feminist-inspired and women-centered because women have been targeted by male-dominated institutions as new sources of accumulation, profit, and greed.”
112. Globalization in the Academy
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     With the social movements of the 1960s, it was a good thing that Marxists pushed their way into the academy after being excluded for so long. Generations of college students were exposed to and benefited from Marxism’s challenge to mainstream social science.
113. The God Question
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Why is everyone talking about God? From the English scientist Richard Dawkins to the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, from the leading French thinker Alain Badiou to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, the Almighty is suddenly back on the agenda, summoned back on to the public stage at just the moment when he must have been looking forward to a well-deserved retirement from such a demanding career.
114. The God That Failed
     The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Perhaps the most striking fact revealed by the global financial crash -- or rather, by the reaction to it -- is the staggering, astonishing, gargantuan amount of money that the governments of the world have at their command. In just a matter of days, we have seen literally trillions of dollars offered to the financial services sector by national treasuries and central banks across the globe.
115. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     A history of the sanitation worker strike in Memphis.
116. "Good News," Iraq and Beyond
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Chomsky explores why the issue of Iraq seems to have fallen to the wayside following the 2006 mid-term election. He cites the necessity for diversion of the masses away from (lacking) political options to PR-created "character" and "good news". But he insists that the question of "the clash of civilizations" must indeed remain prominent in the minds of voters.
117. Great Game II
     From Tallinn to Seoul and Tokyo, by Way of Kiev, the Declining American Superpower Lashes Out on the Borders of Russia and China
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The US is playing the Great Game II from Estonia to Korea as a strategy to keep the Eurasian powers off balance and to preserve the ever-growing mass of nomad dollars from deflation and displacement.
118. Great Peacemakers
     True Stories from Around the World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Profiles 20 world's most effective activists in this five-part book. Each part highlights different types of peacemakers. Part One recognizes activists who stand out for their efforts of choosing non-violence for change. Part Two covers those who spent their lives living peace. Part Three showcases people who have made their life’s work honouring diversity. Part Four highlights those who value all life. Part Five deals with those who have dedicated their lives to the health of the planet.
119. Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World
     True Stories from Around the World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
120. Guantanamo North
     Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
121. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
     themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
     in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of
     private corporations.
122. HAMAS Under the Spotlight
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In a seemingly dramatic move in mid-2004, Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement which hitherto refused to participate in the Palestinian political system, expressed its willingness to be a part of that system.
123. Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularly in Egypt and Burma.
124. A Hard Rain Fell
     SDS and Why it failed
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
125. Health Care Professionals In Canada Join with PHR-Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Canadian health care professionals are linking with Physicians for Human Rights - Isreal to support their work in struggling and advocating for human rights, in particular the right to health, for people both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
126. History on the Printed Page
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     A small volume could be produced listing the books dealing with the times I have written about here. I will offer only a couple dozen.
127. Hitting the Maternal Wall
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The “Maternal Wall” is not a new method of contraception, and it’s not the look mom gives when the kids miss curfew. In this slim and accessible book The Motherhood Manifesto, Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner update the two-dimensional “glass ceiling” to describe the maternal wall as “employment discrimination against a woman who has, or will have, children.”
128. Honoring Mahmoud Darwish
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Mahmoud Darwish lived through every major event in recent Palestinian history, and his experiences and his art made him a hero to his people and a companion of every Palestinian. Beloved and revered, he will continue to move every generation of Palestinians. As Nathalie Handal put it, "no other poet captures the Palestinian consciousness and collective memory the way he does… His work speaks of his internal exile and uprootedness, his meditations on his historical, collective, and personal past."
129. The 'Honor' Killing of Aqsa Parvez
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Feminists and reformist left have for the most part met the spate of 'honour' killings within Canada with disgraceful silence.
130. The Housing Mess
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Despite recent CNBC and MSNBC media hosts suggesting we may be at the ‘bottom’ of the housing market crisis, and Market Watch June 3rd commentary headlines like “Housing market may turn more quickly than you expect,” statistics continue to say otherwise, in sobering fashion.
131. How to Avoid Action on Climate Change
     The fine art of greenwash in Canadian politics
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
132. Human Rights: in a time of terror
     New Internationalist January/February 2008
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2008
     A look at human rights in various countries including women's and sex rights.
133. Humanitarian Imperialism
     The New Doctrine of Imperial Right
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Chomsky considers "humanitarian intervention" and "the responsibility to protect" as new norms in international affairs by examining the institutional structures which produced the policies responsible for such developments.
134. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
135. Identity is that which is given 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In this age of globalisation many people fret about Western culture taking over the world. But the greatest Western export is not Disney or McDonalds or Tom Cruise. It is the very idea of culture.
136. If I Am Not For Myself 
     Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     In a journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
137. If I Can't Dance ....
     Why is the Left So Boring?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
138. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Gabor Mate looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and outlines what he thinks is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.
139. Inclusao ou Exclusao?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Enqanto isso acontece, nós vamos preferir acreditar que as "comunidades étnicas" nao tem interesse nenhum em tais assuntos e nenhuma posiçao na luta que está sendo travada em volta deles?
140. Inclusión o exclusion?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
141. Inclusion or exclusion 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
142. Inclusion or Exclusion - Arabic text
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
143. Inclusion or Exclusion - Chinese Text
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
144. Inclusion or Exclusion? - Farsi
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
145. Inclusion or Exclusion - Japanese text
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
146. Inclusione o Esclusione?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
147. Indianapolis' Extortion Dome
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The Indianapolis Colts’ new Lucas Oil Dome portends to be exorbitant for the taxpayers of Marion County, where Indianapolis is situated. But the cost is genteelly hidden, so the taxpayers are liable to overlook what this new Dome is going to cost them. This is the new Dome the Colts’ owning Irsay family insisted had to be built for them by public funds, or else they’d leave as they formerly abandoned Baltimore.
148. Inhuman Bondage
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Looks at slavery in the American South, desribing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive slave trade, the sexual exploitation of slaves, the emergence of an African-American culture, and much more.
149. Insurrection & Organisation
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008
     An attempt to analyze the role of insurrection in the class struggle, in relation to the problem of revolutionary organization.
150. Integracja czy wykluczenie?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
151. Integration oder Ausgrenzung?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
152. Intégration ou Marginalisation?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
153. Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Keeping the media safe for big business.
154. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 2
     Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Most ambitious journalists start out on a daily local newspaper owned by one of a handful of large media groups. There one quickly feels all sorts of institutional constraints on one's reporting. As a young journalist, if you know no better, you simply come to accept that journalism is done in a certain kind of way, that certain stories are suitable and others unsuitable.
155. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The tendency to self-deception appears to be greatly increased when we join as part of a group. Groups create a sense of belonging, a "we-feeling", which can provide even greater incentives to reject painful truths.
156. "Intersectionality" in Real Life
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Interview with Loretta Ross. Loretta Ross is National Coordinator of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a network of 80 organizations.
157. Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the US Experience
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Recently, countries from China and Brazil to Malaysia and South Africa have passed laws promoting the patenting of publicly funded research, and a similar proposal is under legislative consideration in India. These initiatives are modeled in part on the United States Bayh-Dole Act of 1980.
158. Israel and the Clash of Civilisations
     Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Cook examines Israel’s key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel’s own.
159. Israeli Deaths Matter More
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The reality is that by devoting disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths over Palestinian deaths, the BBC's claims to 'impartial' reporting are simply demolished. With great consistency, lives in the 'Third World' are presented as being of far less importance than those who are 'like us'.
160. An Israeli in Palestine
     Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Jeff Halper's book is, in part, the story of the evolution of a "white moderate" peace campaigner from Hibbing, Minnesota, to a radical Israeli campaigner for justice for the Palestinians.
161. Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
162. It makes economic sense to kill people
     Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in consumption that would result from death and disease in the third world. Monbiot challenges the ethics of this economic model.
163. It's Fantasy Economy!
     Some Expert Views on What Should Happen Next
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     What happens next should be up to the public. It's striking to note that this is not even an option here.
164. It's the Oil, stupid!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Noam Chomsky questions why the USA is in Iraq. He determines that the suspicion of oil-induced motivation is indeed an understatement.
165. Jealousy, Friendship, and Bisexual Chopped Liver
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     According to this theory, bisexuals could never, ever have any friends at all. We couldn't be friends with gay men, straight men, straight women, lesbians. And we definitely couldn't be friends with other bisexuals. According to this theory, the fact that we're attracted to both women and men makes us ineligible to be friends with anybody, of any gender, ever.
166. Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain's 'leftwing' media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the 'character' of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking - when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
167. A Journey from Satire to Legal Suite to Defense of Democratic Rights
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     An account of CanWest's lawsuit arising out of a parody satirizing the Vancouver Sun's biased reporting on Israel and Palestine.
168. "Just Say No!" to the Robin Hood-in-Reverse Bailout
     And What to Do Instead
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008
     The reverse Robin Hood deal to bail out the rich cannot be allowed to stand. It's time to take to the streets.
169. Kenya's Opposition Party
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     That the elections in Kenya were rigged is no longer in question. And for most people that the culprit is the sitting president, sworn in so quickly that the ceremony has been jokingly likened to a lightning wedding, is no longer a question.
170. Kicking Ass for the Working Class
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     There it was, staring at me from the AFL-CIO’s very own blog: a black sign with bold red letters saying “KICKING ASS FOR THE WORKING CLASS,” signed AFL-CIO. Surely they meant to say “working for,” or in SEIU-speak “uniting” “working families” or “working people” or some other euphemisms for struggle and class. Had the decline and split of organized labor pushed our otherwise moderate business union leaders to new extremes?
171. Killer Coke Exposed
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In their September-October 2006 Against the Current (ATC 124) article “The Real Life Side of Coke,” Camilo Romero and Leslie Gill documented the growing movement of students and labor organizations that developed as a response to calls for international solidarity by victims of torture and intimidation at Coke bottling plants in Colombia starting in the 1990s. Joe Zacune wrote in the same issue about a movement of communities in India fighting to preserve their water and their health from a series of infractions on Coke’s part.
172. Killing Hope 
     U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
173. The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
174. Labor on the Ropes
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition, Kim Moody focuses on why the organized labor movement went into decline and points to potential signs of revival. The author’s explanation begins with the worsening economic situation in the 1970s and a harsher anti-union climate, both politically and in the workplace, as “business refined its ability to act as a class.”
175. Labor's Disaster at American Axle
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The 87-day strike earlier this year at American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) ended in a rout that has devastating implications for the organized U.S. labor movement. Begun on a snowy morning early February 26, the strike ended on May 22, a late spring day just before the Memorial Day weekend.
176. Law and the wives of others
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008
     How does a modern, plural democratic society deal with the desire of some minority groups to observe cultural norms at odds with the law of the land?
177. Leader and Vassal
     Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
178. The Legacy of 1968
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In 1989, the world systems theorists Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein wrote the following five short sentences: “There have only been two world revolutions. One took place in 1848. The second took place in 1968. Both were historical failures. Both transformed the world.”
179. Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage: What is at Stake?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     There are good people on either side of the same-sex marriage debate. Unfortunately, however, it has been one of the most divisive issues in society. Opponents of same-sex marriage perceive the other side as part of a cabal of gay activists and social-engineering judges and politicians, intent on making a mockery of important social values. Proponents of same-sex marriage often perceive the other side as "homophobic" bigots or religious fundamentalists who want to deprive gay or lesbian couples of a right enjoyed by others because they hate homosexuals. The debate over same-sex marriage has divided people who share common values and beliefs on many fundamental questions--war and peace, economic security, democracy versus the increasingly anti-democratic and repressive nature of American society. This divisive debate cripples the ability of ordinary Americans to unite around the things that we agree on.
180. Lenin Rediscovered
     What is to Be Done? in Context
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
181. Letters from the Edge
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     A powerful collection in which women home in on nuances of life in far-flung countries.
182. Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
183. The Liberal Defence of Murder
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     A searching examination of the influence of the "pro-war Left" on US foreign policy.
184. La "libertad de expresión", siempre y cuando no ofenda a nadie
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
185. The Lion and the Gazelle
     On Jewish History
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
186. Looking Back -- and Ahead
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and appalling visual images — street rioting over the Vietnam War and the Martin Luther King assassination; the murder of Robert Kennedy; the debacle of the Democratic convention in Chicago, with police beating heads while Hubert Humphrey proclaimed “the politics of joy” in his nomination acceptance speech.
187. Loosing Another Round
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The strike at American Axle, which we reported on in ATC 134, ended when workers voted to go back under a concessionary agreement. The 25% who voted no didn’t feel they were close to winning but they said they couldn’t look themselves in the mirror if they voted yes. Yet the strike idled nearly three dozen assembly plants and put enormous pressure on GM. The UAW did not develop a longterm relationship with the union at the AAM plant in Mexico. All during the strike that plant produced 6,000 axles a day, thus enabling GM to keep some production going.
188. Loser Take All
     Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     The U.S. election system is a shambles, run by private corporations with a partisan agenda, and largely based on a technology that anyone can rig.
189. Machismo and Its Discontents
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
190. The Magna Carta Manifesto 
     Liberties and Commons for All
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Linebaugh shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny -- and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture -- are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize a state.
191. The Making of Jericho Road
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
192. Merkel in the Knesset
     Israel, Israel Above Everything!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     We are still confronted with the phenomenon that critics of the Jewish State are labeled as anti-Semites or as self-hating Jews, respectively.
193. Mexico at War
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Mexico is at war. The drug war has become all the news this fall: Real war. Bloody war. With bombings, massacres and body counts.
194. Michel Foucault: friend or foe of the left
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Examines why a man who was a technocrat working for the state came to appeal to people both on the left and the right of the political spectrum.
195. Mining Town Crisis
     Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
196. Mistaken Identity
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008
     Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
197. Model scientists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In contrast to the plethora of day-to-day conversations on how to fit into the
     administrators directives, this essay provides a historical context, particularly though its extensive bibliography, to encourage today's biologists to question authority and question nature.
198. Models of Coming U.S. Interventions: Iraq or Haiti?
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis.
199. The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them.
     Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
200. The Most Wanted List, International Terrorism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Revealing the difference between America's use of the term "the world" and the conception which would actually include the entire globe, Chomsky demonstrates that if the "world's" voice were heeded, other terrorist concerns would likely top the agenda.
201. 'The movement is ours!': Lesbian activist critique
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     We have recently claimed a right to reciprocity in the support of our struggles, but how many in the Queer rights movement have actively worked for the liberation of those groups whose endorsement we demand?
202. My 1968 in the Heartland
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     “Ezekiel's brother got arrested. He’s a Communist!”
203. My Year of Transition
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
204. Myths of Cultural Dysfunction
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     This is another “blame the victim” book faulting Latino immigrants for not being as prosperous as other ethnic and racial groups, such as the Asians, in the United States. According to the author, the cause is Latino culture, particularly its “counterproductive” values such as living for the moment, valuing and having large families, and, most important of all, resisting and not wanting to learn English.
205. The Nakba
     Why Israel's birth was Palestine's catastrophe and what's the solution?
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008
206. The necessary revolution
     Working together to create a sustainable world
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
     Originally published in 2008 as: The necessary revolution: how individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.
207. The New Chinese Nationalism
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Corporate globalization has been remarkably successful in driving down wages and the welfare of working people across the world. Resistance to this is necessary and inevitable, hence the birth of the anti-globalization movement. The movement is vastly heterogeneous, but internationalist aspirations are strongly visible.
208. A New Phase of Economic Crisis
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In early AprilL 2008 the general consensus was that the U.S. economy had clearly fallen into recession. A long list of key economic indicators from November 2007 through March 2008 were all flashing red — from retail sales, job loss, business and consumer confidence and spending to industrial production and other prime indicators.
209. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Political and moral analysis of the causes and contexts of terrorism the world over.
210. The No-Nonsense Guide to The United Nations
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Conveys the complexity of the UN, assesses its record, and considers options for reform.
211. The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     A world tour of food—from industrialized production and consumption to community food security.
212. No Outside Saviors!
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Against The Current spoke with Gwendolyn M. Patton as part of our retrospective on the events of 1968 and the surrounding years.
213. Noam Chomsky on 1968
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Chomsky explores the milestones achieved in this monumental year, including human and ethnic rights, global solidarity, environmental concern, etc. Despite simultaneously tragic realities of 1968, the results have been long-lasting and positive.
214. Notes from a Revolution Dying
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
215. Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right now, simultaneously building the foundation, technically and socially, for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.
216. The Oaxaca Commune
     The Other Indigenous Rebellion in Mexico
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
217. Obama and "I Have a Dream" in 2008
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     As we enter the 2008 presidential election, it is noteworthy that Illinois Senator Barack Obama is still a serious contender for the Democratic Party nomination. I say “noteworthy” because his campaign has been marked throughout with ambivalence among many African Americans.
218. Obama and the Empire
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     As Barack Obama’s campaign shifted focus to battle John McCain following his victory over Hillary Clinton, various observers began to suggest that Obama had begun to “move to the center” in order to get elected. Supporters explained that shift as a necessary pragmatic step; others, airing varied degrees of disappointment, went so far as to suggest that he had somehow “lurched to the right.”
219. The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end. The dispossession of the Palestinians must be fully acknowledged and Israel must reach out to embrace the full rights of Palestinians to nationhood and viability. Only then will the nightmare end that is the reality of the Palestinian people living in the Occupied Territories and the refugee camps. And only with that can there be any hope for a real peace.
220. Of National Lies and Racial America
     Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
221. The OIC does not speak for Muslims
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
222. On Hunger and Capitalism
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     On September 11, 2001, approximately 35,000 of our brothers and sisters died from what is perhaps the worst possible cause of death — starvation. A decade after the 1996 World Food Summit set the goal of cutting the rate of hunger in the world by half, today approximately 854 million people are still starving, which is a great increase in comparison to the 842 million in the year 2000.
223. On Kindness
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
224. On May '68
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Interview with Michael Löwy. Michael Löwy is the author of numerous works on socialist thought from Marx to the present as well as on liberation theology in Latin America.
225. Opa Nobody
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In Opa Nobody, Sonya Huber — an activist struggling to reconcile her politics with the demands of human relationships and the realities of contemporary U.S. life — undertakes an ambitious task: the political nonfiction novel.
226. Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships — from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory.
227. Ossetia-Russia-Georgia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Chomsky points out the hypocrisy of threatening Russia with exclusion from international society due to the violation of the international principle of respecting other nations' sovereignty. He further explores how to integrate and handle Russia in the context of the modern world order and the threat of a Cold War II.
228. Our History Recovered
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     For thirty-six years since its apogee in the late 1960s during the worldwide movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam, the global Left, including the Left in the United States, has been in decline. Globally, perhaps the most significant causal factor accelerating decline at the beginning of the 1990s was the collapse of the Soviet Union as a perceived alternative to dominant capitalist economic and governmental modes.
229. Our Spirits Don't Speak English
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2008
     A documentary film about the Native American boarding schools.
230. A Parable of Women's Liberation
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Interview with Meredith Tax.
231. Paradise Lost at Sea
     Rethinking Cruise Vacations
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Klein's book looks at the hidden realities of cruise ships. The cruise lines prefers to keep some of the ugly truths from media scrutiny: cruise ship safety, sexual assaults, onboard crime and injury and death from accidents at sea. He also questions their claims of environmental protection and its impact on local communities to protect their marine nature. Further exposed are the health risks and medical care and the dark side of life below deck. He concludes by summarizing the issues and challenges that must be faced by all who use curise ships.
232. Participatory Democracy
     Prospects for Democratizing Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Twenty or more arguments for participatory democracy written contributors including Goerge Woodcock, Murray Bookchin, Gerry Hunnius, Colin Ward, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Don Calhoun.
233. Patricia Isasa's Quest for Justice
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Patricia Isasa turned 16 on April 24, 1976 in her home town of Santa Fe, Argentina. She was an honor student, a delegate of her school and a member of a Catholic group in support of the poor - all completely open and legal activities.
234. Peace
     A History of Movements and Ideas
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Cortright shows that it is possible to prevent the scourge of war and create a more just and peaceful future, if we are prepared to learn the lessons of history and apply proven peacemaking knowledge.
235. Peace Beyond Annapolis
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     What are the prospects for progress toward Israeli-Palestinian and regional peace coming out of the one-day conference called by president George W. Bush? One leading Arab-American organization offering a positive vision “hopes to see a just, comprehensive and lasting peace result out of the initial Middle East peace discussions taking place in Annapolis, Maryland.”
236. People First Economics
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Toxic debt, rising job losses, collapsing commodity prices and expanding poverty. How can we rein in these beasts unleashed by the free market economy?
237. People's struggles in Latin Asia & Philippines, colonial protests during the Spanish era
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     At the end of the nineteenth century, the Philippines was the first country in Asia to be liberated from colonial power. The first anti-colonial revolt against Spanish rule occurred from 1896 to 1898.
238. Perché tante storie per l'omicidio di una ragazza musulmana dalla pelle scura?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
239. Picture This
     Posters of social movements in Québec (1966 - 2007)
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     A collection of posters which offer a veritable journey through Quebec’s social history and political imagination of the past four decades.
240. Plowshares into Swords
     From Zionism to Israel
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     An authoritative history of Zionism and Israel.
241. The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The first student uprising in 1968, year of millennial hopes and young insurrections, took place in Warsaw. But the west's media commemorations of 1968 - selective, supercilious about such idealism, and yet faintly nervous in case a new generation feels tempted into imitation - overlook Poland entirely.
242. Por que fazer um alarido sobre o assassinato de uma garota muçulmana morena?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
243. Por qué protestar por el asesinato de una chica musulmana de piel oscura?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
244. Porn can be good for you
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     While pornography can be dehumanising and exploitative, it can also be educative, liberating, empowering, fulfilling and immensely socially beneficial. It all depends on how it is made, who makes it, what it depicts and why it is being used.
245. Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008
     A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract objects -- "language", "power", "justice", "state", "culture", "government", "the polity", "the economy" and a host of others, which are viewed "theoretically" from somewhere way "outside" or "above" them. But it is just this way of looking at things -- from "on high" -- that makes it so difficult to see how people in the landscape are able to create and re-create the world in which they live, and are not simply trapped or formed by it. In fashionable postmodernist treatments of identity or subjectivity, language, as the ultimately hollow and imprisoning object, is put together with the notion that anybody who uses words must be committed to the standard definition of those words, to produce the conclusion that "language" determines the meaning of "identity" words such as man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, natural, normal -- and thus "constructs" (as it is said) human identity or subjectivity itself.
246. Pourquoi faire toute une histoire a propos du meurtre d'une musulmane a peau mate?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     L'Histoire donne de nombreux exemples de mouvements sociaux qui avec le temps adoptent des positions directement opposées aux principes sur lesquels ils ont été fondés.
247. The Power of Women United
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Interview with Kipp Dawson.
248. Power to the (Palestinian) People!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I am not a Palestinian; I am not one of the oppressed. I only hope I can use my privilege in an effective way in order to redeem the gift the people of Gaza have given all of us: the realization that the people do have power and can prevail even in the face of overwhelming power. We may each express our responsibility towards the people of Gaza in whatever way most suits us, but as the privileged we must do something.
249. Press for Conversion #62
     May 2008
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2008
     The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) helped overthrow the democratically-elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. In the years prior to this US-led regime change, although Aristide and his Lavalas government were extremely popular among the country's poor citizens, CIDA drastically cut bilateral aid. CIDA then poured millions into extremely partisan Haitian groups that represented the interests of Haiti's corporate elite.
250. Press for Conversion #63
     November 2008
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2008
     CIDA-funded "NGOs" in Canada rationalized the destabilization and overthrow of Haitian democracy and then covered up the atrocities of the Canadian-backed dictatorship after the coup. This issue examines major themes in the propaganda war against Aristide's popularly-elected Lavalas government.
251. A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
252. Profit motives behind sexualization of 'tween girls
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The sexualization of 'tween girls - those between the ages of 8 and 12 -- in pop culture and advertising is a growing problem fueled by marketers' efforts to create cradle-to-grave consumers.
253. Public Universities in Peril
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     It's hare to imagine that only a year ago the privatization of a public university would emerge as a major political issue in Bloomington, Indiana. That is not to say the topic took the community by surprise. As early as 1994, the Indiana University’s Board of Trustees formed various tasks forces to evaluate the university’s potential for privatization.
254. Puerto Rico, The Oldest U.S. Colony
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     When I was a high school senior, my history teacher promised the class that the Americans “would land” in Puerto Rico by the New Year. What he meant to tell us was that, different from most Puerto Rican history courses, our class would spend considerable time studying more recent historical events, and therefore the most controversial period of Puerto Rican history — the American Century. He kept his promise and many of us, including me, left the class with a deep sense of uneasiness against Puerto Rico’s colonial condition under the United States.
255. Putting Technology to Work for Palestine Activism
     Palestine Activism Handbook Module
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
256. Race, Incarceration, and American Values 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Glenn Loury argues that the extraordinary mass incarceration rate in the USA is not a response to rising crime rates. Instead, it is the product of a decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchies.
257. Racism and Responsibility
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Malik Miah writes in Against the Current 131, “[Orlando] Patterson, and others in Black academia and middle-class civil rights organizations, are right to point to internal problems within the Black community. But the ‘take personal responsibility’ critique targets only a secondary factor. It has little to do with addressing racist attitudes still prevalent among many whites, even as a large majority of whites and society oppose blatant racial discrimination.”
258. Racism and Structural Solutions
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     When Barack Obama raised the specter of race in a March 18 speech that went far beyond what one would expect from the Democratic Party, some of us on the left were hopeful. Since the 1970s, race-speech in presidential campaigns has been increasingly buried in coded language like, “welfare moms,” “inner-city,” “street crime,” “states’ rights” and so on. We all welcomed a shift away from such discourse. By dealing a bit more squarely with the issue, the speech had the potential to ignite a national debate that could grapple with the “racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years,” as Obama put it.
259. Radical Digressions 5
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2008
260. Raymond Williams, and Why Culture Matters
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     This year sees the 20th anniversary of the death of Raymond Williams, one of the towering socialist thinkers of the 20th century. A superb biography of him, Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Life, has just been published by Dai Smith, who ranks among the finest scholars of Welsh culture and history of our time. Smith charts Williams's passage from the Welsh border country, where his father was a railway signalman, to Cambridge and then into adult education, a vocation he chose for political motives along with his New Left colleagues Richard Hoggart and E.P. Thompson.
261. Reading Orientalism
     Said and the unsaid
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     An extensive discussion of Edward Said's influential 1978 polemic 'Orientalism'. Varisco mounts a sustained critique on Said's flawed methodology, his skewed and selective handling of literary evidence, his inadequate historical knowledge, and his distorted and tendentious conclusions.
262. Real Utopia 
     Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
263. The Realities of China Today
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Interest in the post-1978 Chinese market reform experience remains high and for an obvious reason: China is widely considered to be one of the most successful developing countries in modern times. The Chinese economy has recorded record rates of growth over an extended time period, in concert with a massive industrial transformation. Adding to the interest is the Chinese government's claim that this success demonstrates both the workability and superiority of "market socialism."
264. Reasoning Otherwise
     Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada 1890 - 1920
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Examines the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920, and highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
265. Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     On the organizational and intellectual history of national anarchism.
266. Recovering Forgotten Voices
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     A lover of American literature will come away from reading Alan Wald’s Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade excited about the prospect of investigating a long list of currently unheralded writers who collectively constitute a voice that deserves to be recognized as major.
267. Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Marik attempts to re-examine the "common sense" claim that Marxism had been an authoritarian political theory and practice.
268. A Rejoinder to Joel Kovel
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Joel Kovel is to be congratulated on the successful struggle to overturn the outrageous University of Michigan Press decision to halt distribution of Overcoming Zionism. To whatever extent the controversy has boosted the book’s sales and stimulated discussion of the issues it raised, so much the better.
269. Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Historians and other scholars have given Detroit plentiful attention, including some very important books, yet in this vital new study Angela Dillard manages to approach the Motor City’s past in several crucial yet previously neglected ways. What’s most valuable about the book is her attempt to encompass such subjects as race, labor radicalism, Black religion and the civil rights movement all in one narrative.
270. A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
271. Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I think it was in 1963 that I first became aware of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). My older sister Patty had married a very nice guy named Earl Brecher, with whom she went to Liberia as one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, in a program, sending idealistic college graduates to “help” downtrodden areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, launched by the Kennedy administration.
272. Remember the '80s
     Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
273. Remembering Jim Campbell
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Canadian anarchist.
274. Renewing Socialism 
     Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
275. A Reply on Overcoming Zionism
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     David Finkel and I see eye to eye on most basics where Israel is concerned, and he is generous in praising my recently published Overcoming Zionism. For years I have known him to be a stalwart anti-Zionist and one of the best-informed people on the socialist left concerning this most vexing and intractable of conflicts.
276. Report from Winter Soldier
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     On Friday, Day 2, testimony began at 9 AM with a panel about the "Rules of Engagement". Speakers from the Army and Marine Corps recounted the atrocities that they not only witnessed but participated in. The stories they were telling about the rules of engagement they learned while training at boot camp, or on a military base "back home," were the same as what I had heard from my son. I broke down sobbing. The photographs they were showing on the five viewing screens of bloodied bodies torn apart by close gunfire, 50-calibre Machine guns, rocket launchers, and every other damn weapon our great military industrial complex has created, were all too familiar to me.
277. Resistance
     One Woman's Defiance in Occupied France
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
     The memoir of a French resistance fighter and museum worker who chronicles the undergroud network of resistance in Paris during the occupation. She then chronicles her imprisonment and the slave labour she endured in Germany. The final section of her memoir recounts her release by the Americans and the time she spent helping them hunt Nazis after the war.
278. Response to George Fish
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     George Fish raises an important point about the “taking personal responsibility” debate taking place within the Black community, especially at the academic and leadership level. But his criticism of my argument that it is a “secondary factor” to prevalent institutional racism is way off.
279. Responsible Polyamory
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
280. The Returns of Zionism
     Myths, Politics and Scholarship
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature.
281. Rev. Edward Pinkney Imprisoned
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The corruption and deceitfulness continues in the Berrien County, Michigan courthouse. My husband, Reverend Edward Pinkney, leader of Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) was convicted in March 2007 by an all-white jury motivated by something other than the truth. He has now been thrown in prison for writing an article about the case and the injustices in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
282. Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The groundswell of broad support for Barack Obama (both among Blacks and whites) is a phenomenon that deserves a serious analysis and understanding. It cannot be down played by passing it through the lens of pure-and-simple lesser-evilism.
283. Review: Riding the Bus to Freedom
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The 1961 Freedom Rides challenged a racially segregated society by openly defying its customs, riding in interracial groups on interstate buses going South and desegregating the stations’ facilities. Asserting their constitutional right to travel, participants employed direct action in the face of intimidation, violence and police complicity with the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens’ Councils.
284. Revolution of the Snails
     Encounters with the Zapatistas
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Give the Zapatistas time -- the slow, unfolding time of the spiral and the journey of the snail -- to keep making their world, the one that illuminates what else our lives and societies could be. Our revolution must be as different as our temperate-zone, post-industrial society is to their subtropical agrarianism, but also guided by the slow forces of dignity, imagination, and hope, as well as the playfulness they display in their imagery and language.
285. Rhetoric for Radicals
     A Handbook for Twenty-first Century Activists
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Activists often suffer from a credibility gap because of their lack of coherent message and strategic delivery. Rhetoric for Radicals addresses and helps solve these problems. It provides the tools to develop the all-important communication skills necessary to be effectively heard.
286. Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
     The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
287. The Russian-Georgian Clash
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny.
288. The Russian Revolution in Retreat
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The relationship between “Leninism” and Stalinism has been a highly controversial topic between the political left and right as well as within the left itself. The “totalitarian” school of thought, historically associated with the political right and with many liberals, has held that there are no qualitative differences between the two regimes and that the main source of Stalinism was the Bolshevik ideology and politics that existed before the October Revolution.
289. Edward Said's shadowy legacy 
     Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
290. School Zone
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2008
     Humourous video that explores the benefits and protection the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation has gained for members through advocacy and collective bargaining.
291. Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexions
     Connexipedia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Connexions (nome intero Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexion [Connexions Information Sharing Services]) è la biblioteca centrale online e l'archivio dei movimenti per i cambiamenti sociali del Canada.
292. The Seventh Decade
     The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     The Seventh Decade reveals many things. Amongst them is the history of global nuclear politics and the Bush government's policies that endanger the security of Americans and the world. Schell asserts that the Bush/ Cheney administration has forsaken traditional diplomacy and treaties that restrain nuclear proliferation preferring a first-strike military option. In so doing they have attacked Iraq using the excuse that they had WMD's, and have threatened North Korea and Iran with no results-North Korea now has the bomb and Iran is on the way. The administration has also encouraged the development of new generations of such weapons. He contends that the policies of the American government has intensified the trafficking of nuclear weapons which pose a renewed threat to humanity.
293. The single-state solution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Bringing about a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians have equal rights will not be easy, but ultimately it is the only solution to the conflict. A state based on respect for the human rights of all its citizens is a better safeguard against anti-Semitism and racism than one based on ethnic nationalism and inequality.
294. 6 Floors to Hell
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2008
     On the outskirts of Tel Aviv, in an underground world, live hundreds of Palestinian workers sleep in this hell in order to find a day's work in Israel and bring money home to their families in the West Bank.
295. Slavery by Another Name
     The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     An account of how African Americans were forcibly enslaved by a corrupt legal system in the southern States, from the end of the Civil War through WWII.
296. Social Reproduction for Beginners: Bringing the Real World Back In
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     We can grasp the social reproductive dimension of the post-1973 crisis in various phenomena in the U.S., but none stands out more sharply than the disappearance of the one-paycheck working-class family.
297. Socialist Register 2008
     Volume 44: Global Flashpoints
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2008
298. Soldiers' Testimonies from Hebron 2005-2007
     Breaking the Silence
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     A booklet of testimonies from combatants who served in Hebron between 2005-2007, describing how IDF soldiers were required to exert absolute, daily and almost limitless control over the Palestinian residents of the city.
299. Sources News Release Archive 2008
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     News releases from 2008.
300. Sources (portal for journalister og skribenter)
     Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
     Sources er en informationsportal for journalister, freelance skribenter, redaktorer, forfattere og forskere som især fokuserer på menneskelige kilder: eksperter og talsmænd som er parate til at svare på journalisters sporgsmål eller som er disponible til live interviews.
301. Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     An information portal for journalists, freelance writers, editors, authors, and researchers, focusing especially on human sources: experts and spokespersons who are prepared to answer reporters' questions or make themselves available for on-air interviews.
302. Sources (portal para jornalistas e escritores)
     Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
303. Sources Wikipedia Article - Arabic
     Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
304. Sources Wikipedia Article - Chinese
     Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
305. Sources Wikipedia article - Korean
     Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008   Published: 2011
306. The spectre of socialism for the 21st century
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Building socialism is the only alternative to barbarism.
307. Spies for Hire
     The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
     According to investigative journalist Tim Shorrock, the CIA and other American intelligence agencies now have more contractors working for them than they do spies of their own. Often former staff hired back at double or triple their former government salaries, these private contractors do everything from fighting in Afghanistan to interrogating prisoners, aiming spy satellites and supervising secret agents. Shorrock gives a comprehensive rundown of the players in the industry.
308. Steps in the RIGHTS direction
     365 Human Rights Celebrations & Tragedies that Inspired Canada and the World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Stephen Hammond has researched one human rights fact for each day of the year.
309. Storming Heaven
     1968 Revisted
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
310. Strange Fruit 
     Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
311. Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     The History of SDS as You've Never Seen It Before. Captures the idealism and activism that drove a generation of young Americans to try to transform the world.
312. Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2008
     The Subprime mortgage crisis explained. John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview.
313. The Survival of Education
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I remember reading Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities as a student activist, when becoming a teacher was an abstract and somewhat romanticized idea floating around my head. I was moved by the politically sharp but also deeply humanizing way in which Kozol documented how institutional racism and class inequality shape the experiences of students in American schools, a reality that all of us who have been educated in this country have experienced first-hand in one way or another.
314. Survivors
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The enormous role played by Jews in the events of May 1968 in Paris and their aftermath is striking. All currents of the far left, anarchist, Trotskyist, Maoist had Jews among their primary leaders. Though they did not act as Jews, that they were Jews, and occupied a particular place in post-war French society because of this, cannot but have weighed in their participation.
315. Talk on Anarchism and Capitalism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
316. Tanaka-san will not do Calisthenics
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2008
     Filmed in Japan, this film follows Tanaka-san who was let go from his job at Oki Electric Manufacturing Company 25 years ago when he refused to conform to militaristic working expectations. Tanaka-san sings in front of his old office each day.
317. "The struggle of memory against forgetting"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     This excellent address by filmmaker and journalist John Pilger reminds us all of an uncomfortable truth - that all the great breakthroughs in history, like the end of apartheid in South Africa, happened because ordinary people fought for it.
318. The Thin Blue Line
     How Humanitarianism Went to War
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     An account of the failure of humanitarian intervention in places like Iraq and Somalia. Conor Foley explores how the doctrine of humanitarian intervention has been used to allow states to invade other nations in the name of human rights.
319. This Land Is Their Land
     Reports from a Divided Nation
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     A look at the effects of corporate Americ on the general populace, pointing out the tactic of side-tracking those who would protest onto more superficial issues.
320. The Throes of Democracy
     Brazil since 1989
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
321. A Time for Learning
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I don't recall being aware of the events in France in May-June 1968. I was in college, beginning to get radicalized on several fronts, notably the war. Something called the “Free University” was started in Washington, D.C., and I signed up for a class on communes. I remember well a presentation that spring, in which the speaker kept referring to “the Establishment.”
322. A Time to Speak Out
     Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     A collection of strong Jewish voices, drawing on an established tradition of Jewish dissidence, come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspora Jews, notably in relation to the ongoing conflict in Israel-Palestine.
323. Toolkit for a New Canada
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008
     A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
324. Trick or Treatment?
     Alternative Medicine on Trial (North American title: Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine)
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Evaluates the scientific evidence for acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine, and chiropractic, and briefly covers 36 other treatments. It finds that the scientific evidence for these alternative treatments is generally lacking. Homeopathy is concluded to be completely ineffective: "It's nothing but a placebo, despite what homeopaths say"
     Although the book presents evidence that acupuncture, chiropractic and herbal remedies have limited efficacy for certain ailments, the authors conclude that the dangers of these treatments outweigh any potential benefits. Such potential risks outlined by the authors are contamination or unexpected interactions between components in the case of herbal medicine, risk of infection in the case of acupuncture and the potential for chiropractic manipulation of the neck to cause delayed stroke.
325. Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
326. The Trouble with Theory
     The Educational Costs of Postmodernism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Yet Kitching writes: "At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused, and misbegotten philosophy. As a result even the very best students who fall under its sway produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, truth, and reality."
327. Tug-of-War: The working Class and Political Change in British Colombia, 1948-1972
     PhD Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2008
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
328. 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Climate Change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Capitalism's glorification of competition and thirst for limitless profit are destroying the planet.
329. Two Years Later in Oaxaca
     Commentary from Oaxaca
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     A sketch of what has changed since the brutal repression of the 2006 social movement’s five month control of the city of Oaxaca.
330. A Union Defeated at United Air Lines
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The April 1 certification of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was no April Fool’s joke for the 8600 eligible mechanic and related United Airlines (UAL) employees who voted in the March 31 representational election. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which served the members for nearly five years under very difficult circumstances in the aviation industry, lost the vote by 4,113 to 2,631.
331. Universities at Risk
     How Politics, Special Interests and Corporatization Threaten Academic Integrity
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     An anthology examining the relationship bewteen institutes of higher learning and powerful external sponsers, it's implications and threat to academic integrity and intellectual freedom.
332. Update on Pakistan: After the "Emergency"
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     General Pervez Musharraf has “taken off the uniform” and lifted the emergency as of December 15th. But Labour Party Pakistan rejects the Musharraf’s claim that the emergency is lifted. It is “lifted” with the Constitution amended, and with all the repressive measures protected by a decree.
333. Victor Serge: For Our Time
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
334. Viewpoints
     Where now for capitalism?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Noam Chomsky discusses the failure of financial institutions to calculate costs to those who do not participate in transactions and the effects of this in the wider context.
335. The Violence of Incarceration
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Argues that the revelations of extreme brutality perpetrated by allied soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo represent the inevitable end-product of domestic incarceration predicated on the use of extreme violence including lethal force.
336. Violence Today
     Actually Existing Barbarism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today's actually-existing barbarism.
337. Visualizing Justice for Labor
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
338. Viva Yasuni! Life vs Big Oil
     New Internationalist July 2008
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2008
     A look at the Yasuni rainforest in Ecuador and its imminent destruction by oil companies.
339. Voices of Asian Americans
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Asian Americas: The Movement and the Moment is an anthology of some 30 entries written by Asian Americans who initiated or participated in social and community movements in the late 1960s and 1970s. It is about how they perceived the world, how they became involved in the movements, what they think they accomplished and learned through their involvement, and how their experiences and lessons shaped their own lives and can be linked to present-day struggles for social justice.
340. Voter ID Laws, Voter Fraud
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The close primary election inside the Democratic Party between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shows that every vote counts. The fiasco in the 2000 presidential election because of “hanging chads” also proves that every vote “not counted” does matter. And voter suppression under any circumstances — not just when elections are close — is a crime, a violation of basic rights and an attack on democracy.
341. War Crimes Airbrushed from History
     Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     A report written by a respected Israeli human rights organisation, one representing the country's Arab minority not its Jewish majority, has unearthed evidence showing that during the 2006 Lenanon war Israel committed war crimes not only against Lebanese civilians -- as was already known -- but also against its own Arab citizens.
342. The war everyone forgot
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Chomsky probes what prompted the issue of Iraq to disappear from the agenda following the 2006 mid-term election.
343. A War Plan Scuttled?
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     As the Bush era draws to a close, there been increasing speculation on whether or not the United States will attack Iran. Spurred by the posturing and rhetoric coming from the White House and a subservient media, much of that discussion has narrowly focused on Iran potential nuclear threat and the character of the current administrations in Washington and Tehran.
344. War(s) With No Exit
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The raging debate on “war policy” between the corporate presidential campaigns has come down to this:
345. The Water Cure
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     A look back at the use of the torture method known as the 'water cure', which was employed by the United States on citizens of the Philippines during its occupation at the turn of the century. The article specifically examines the subsequent investigation, trial and testimonies, as well as the moral and political implications during this period.
346. We need to think about Toilets
     New Internationalist August 2008 - #414
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2008
     A look at the history and facts about toilets. A look at sanitation and employment opportunities surrounding toilets.
347. We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.
348. What Indy Media Heroes Can Teach Us
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008
     Independent journalists should not go silent or soft because of an election result or a change of parties in power.
349. What Is a Liberal to Do?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Seventy percent of African-American voters in California voted for Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage. Liberals, however, say that opposing same-sex marriage is a form of bigotry no better than the racism of those who wanted inter-racial marriage to be illegal and Jim Crow laws to remain. How, liberals wonder, can African-Americans--the victims of racism-- switch from being champions of equality to champions of bigotry? It is a true paradox. Liberals, by definition, support the victims of racism. But how can they do that when those very same victims are bigoted against gays? Oh dear! What is a liberal to do?
350. What Is America?
     A Short History of the New World Order
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     "All who delve into American history must contend with a language of misnomer and condescension," Wright states in his author's foreword. "Whites are soldiers, Indians are warriors; whites live in towns, Indians in villages; whites have states, Indians have tribes."
351. What We Mean By Social Determinants of Health
     International Journal of Health Services, Volume 39, Number 3, Pages 423-441
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
     Analyzes the changes in health conditions and quality of life in the populations of developed and developing countries over the past 30 years, resulting from neoliberal policies developed by many governments and promoted by international agencies. Critiquing a WHO report on social determinants of health, Navarro argues that it is not inequalities that kill people; it is those who are responsible for these inequalities that kill people.
352. What's the Matter with the System?
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
353. When Human Beings Are Illegal
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Once the government assumes the task of separating citizens from "impossible subjects," historian Mae Ngai points out, "the border" is everywhere, not just between countries. Thus, the border has come to the Midwest. In the two years since the immigrant rights marches of spring 2006, there have been federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids of workplaces, especially meatpacking plants, in Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska.
354. When the Prisoners Ran Walpole 
     A true story in the movement for prison abolition
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     In the months before they took over running the Walople maximum-security facility in 1973, prisoners and outside advocates created programs that sent more prisoners home for good. This account reveals what can happen when there is public will for change and trust that the incarcerated can achieve it.
355. Where has all the rage gone?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
356. Where's the Iraqi voice?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Despite the "shared beliefs" identified amongst Iraqis, for example the belief that the presence of foreign troops is a main cause of the escalation in violence, only the conquerors - in this case America - can decide when troops should be withdrawn.
357. White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     White Cargo is the story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies.
358. The Whole World Stopped Watching
     "Diversity of Tactics", Repression, and the RNC protests in St. Paul, Minnesota (Part I)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I must engage those of my activist friends who believe in the "Diversity of Tactics" framework, the now established modus operandi of summit and convention protests. I have come to believe a sorry record of repeated protest failures must be laid squarely at the foot of this ideologically tainted utopia.
359. Whose Wipeout? Whose Bailout?
     Against The Current vol. 137
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Is this what 1931 looks like? Years ago, we recall, two themes for popular cinema were people trapped in burning skyscrapers ("Towering Inferno") and market sharks engaged in financial manipulations ("Wall Street"). After September 11, 2001 the former disaster movie genre suddenly seemed much less fun, and we suspect that after September 2008 the spectacle of stock market crashes on the big screen may not be so entertaining either.
360. Why both sides are wrong in the race debate 
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2008
     For all the talk about culture as fluid and changing, multiculturalism, no less than old-fashioned racism, invariably leads people to think of human groups in fixed terms.
361. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Arabic text
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
362. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Chinese version
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
363. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Japanese text
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
364. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Korean version
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
365. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
366. Why the US has really gone broke
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     There is an enormous anomaly in the U.S. economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation's economic life.
367. Why They Voted For Obama But Against Same-Sex Marriage
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     People who think that it is wrong to make same-sex marriage legal because it would give social approval to the practice of using sperm or egg donors to conceive children who will, by design, not know their biological mother or biological father are, according to liberals, "hateful and bigoted." In the world of these liberals, placing the welfare of children before the desires of adults is "hateful and bigoted."
368. William Godwin
     A Biographical Study
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     A biography of the influential writer and thinker described by Woodcock as the first prophet of libertarian socialism.
369. Winter Soldier 2008
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
370. The Wisdom of Whores 
     Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Pisani's book The Wisdom of Whores is a scathing attack on the bureaucratic international aid communities that deal with HIV/AIDS. Topics include: injection of drugs and the idea of harm reduction by the use of clean needles and methadone to prevent the spread of HIV, the question of economic resources and how and where they are spent, the concept of abstinence and how the U.S. administration views has undermined the use of condoms.
371. Wobblies & Zapatistas 
     Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
372. Women Stand Up, Fight Back
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     What would it mean to truly end gender-and-race-based violence? How can radicals acknowledge the totalizing violence of white supremacy while also accounting for the very diverse, and sometimes conflicting, experiences and survival strategies of Arab, Asian, Native, Latina and Black women?
373. A Working-Class Hero Is Something To Be
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     As a 35-year veteran of union activity in America, I can personally attest that Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers (OCAW) was a rare bird, perhaps the last of his kind.
374. The World According to Monsanto
     Resource Type: Film
     First Published: 2008
     An investigation into the United States multinational corporation, Monsanto, uncovers controversial findings.
375. World Cup 2010: Showcase South Africa
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     September 15, 2007, marked the beginning of a 1,000-day countdown to the 2010 International Federation of Football Associations World Cup hosted by South Africa, the first African nation ever to host the event. President Thabo Mbeki calls the premier soccer tournament “a golden opportunity to showcase Africa to the world” and adds that the South African government is determined to “show that the African renaissance is upon us and Africa’s time has come.”
376. The world food crisis: what is behind it and what we can do
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The World Food Program's description of the global food crisis raises the spectre of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.
377. The Wrecking Crew
     How Conservatives Rule
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     How Republican conservatives govern in Washington and how they enrich others through their methods.
378. The Year of Awakening
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     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?
379. Yiddish Language and Song: A Collision with Zionism and the Birth of Israel
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2008
     Interview with Yiddish culture archivist, Frank Krasnowsky.

2007

1. The Abolition of the State
   Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
2. Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace 
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
3. Affirmative Action or Class Solidarity?
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
4. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
5. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
6. Alternatives to the Death Penalty
   The Problem with Life Imprisonment
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2007
7. Anarchy and Art
   From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
8. Another view: The South takes the pictures
   New Internationalist August 2007 - #403
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2007
   A look at the states of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, and South Africa and their experience of change presented in pictures.
9. The Art of the Possible
   A Handbook for Political Activism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
10. Azmi Bishara and Muslims Worldwide Say No to Attacks on Non-Combatants
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
11. The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    The story of how C.P. Ellis, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and Ann Atwater, an African American civil rights activist, overcame racial divisions to forge a strong friendship.
12. Between the Lines
    Readings on Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S. "War on Terror"
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A collection of essays that addresses the situation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the need for changes. It provides the background of the conflict and an analysis of the resistance and repression that have intensified due to post 9/11.
13. The Bolsheviks in Power
    The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
14. Bottling peace in a jar
    Buying Palestinian olive oil is a tasty way to protest the tree uprootings of the occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
15. The Brain That Changes Itself
    Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
16. Broken Promises, Broken Dreams
    Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma & Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Rothschild recounts her experiences in grappling with the reality of life in Israel, the complexity of Jewish Israeli attitudes and the hardhips of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.
17. Buda's Wagon
    A Brief History of the Car Bomb
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
18. Calling All Radicals 
    How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
19. Can We Live and Eat Too?
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
20. Canada's Deadly Secret
    Saskatchewan uranium and the global nuclear system
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    The struggle over Saskatchewan's uranium mining, and the negative impacts on Aboriginal rights and environmental health, and the effect of free trade. Nuclear energy cannot address global warming and there is no such thing as a "peaceful atom."
21. Canada's Young Activists
    A Generation Stands Up for Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Twenty five personal accounts of the important work of some of Canada's most prominent young activists championing causes from child labour to environmentalism.
22. Carol L. McAllister (1947-2007)
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
23. Carter's Inconvenient Truths
    An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
24. Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
    Resource Type: Article
    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).
25. Challenging Kim Moody
    Against The Current vol. 130
    Resource Type: Article
    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...”
26. Changing Venezuela By Taking Power
    The History and Policies of the Chavez Government
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Explores the historical and socioeconomic roots of the Venezuelan initiatives of recent years, the conflicts they have engendered, the achievements and pitfalls, the animating ideals of a genuinely participatory society, and the prospects for realizing them.
27. ChestDoc in Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
28. The CIA and Questions of Torture
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
29. Cliffites Deal in Religious Opiate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    All religions and all religious organizations serve to mystify and obscure the class basis of oppression in capitalist society.
30. Cold War II
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
31. Constituent Imagination
    Militant investigation, collective theorization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
32. Cotton: The peril and the promise
    New Internationalist April 2007
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    A look at the cotton industry in India and how it is affecting the workers. Discusses alternatives to cotton and sustainability.
33. Crisis en Gaza: el sistema de salud y los niños en peligro
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
34. Criticizing Israel is Not an Act of Bigotry
    Jewish Opposition to Israeli Human Rights Crimes is Growing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    A grassroots revolt is underway in Jewish communities throughout the world, a revolt that has panicked the elite organizations that have long functioned as official mouthpieces for the community.
35. Debunking Columbus
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    “I knew it couldn’t be true!” exclaimed my then eleven-year-old daughter when I explained the premise of Restall’s book. “The Ancients knew that the earth was round,” she continued, “so Columbus could not have been the only one.”
36. Democracy in the Unites States? Fugetaboutit!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    We who want a more equal and democratic society are the vast majority. There is no reason for us to feel hesitant about speaking our minds and talking revolution to our friends and neighbors, our co-workers, and even people we meet in the course of shopping and so forth. When millions of Americans feel that they are not alone in wanting a revolution, that's when things will start to change. That's when people will start to think creatively and concretely about how to make it happen. Until then, we'll remain on a treadmill to nowhere, with everybody feeling that they are just one lonely person who "can't fight city hall."
37. Depleted Uranium
    New Internationalist November 2007 - #406
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    This is a special edition with 7 different articles devoted to the subject." Toxic souvenirs"-DU ammunition; Dont' look dont find-Iraqi doctors; We were expendable-US army veterans; The Facts; Who's the real criminal-largest DU manufacturer in the U.S.; Action-building the ban with Belgian activists
38. Don't Incite Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
39. Dr. Makdisi on a One State Solution
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    A video clip featuring Dr. Saree Makdisi presenting the case for a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine - a democratic secular state.
40. The Economics of Happiness
    Building Genuine Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Anielski's premise is quite simple: how can we go beyond mere material wealth to achieve veritable wealth-good health, meaningful relationships, spirituality, a clean environment, peace, justice and happiness. He believes that economic systems should orient us to what we really want.
41. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Engelhardt explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the administration of younger George Bush brought "victory culture" roaring back as part of its Global War on Terror and its rush to invade Saddam Husseins's Iraq. Further, he analyzes how, from its "Mission Accomplished" moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.
42. Envisioning Economic Justice
    Against The Current vol. 130
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The organizers of the U.S. Social Forum must be commended for making possible this political happening with its 900 workshops. The USSF has succeeded in bringing together activists from many diverse sectors working for global justice — thereby contributing to the strengthening of the entire movement.
43. The Essential Chomsky 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
    For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time.The Essential Chomsky assembles the core of his most important writings, including excerpts from his most influential texts over the past forty years.
44. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Israeli historian Ilan Pappe recounts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
45. Evaluating the virtual picket line
    Italian union's Second Life information picket tests worth of a potentially valuable tool
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The organizers of the Second Life online action see it as a tool, a tactic as part of a larger campaign -- not necessarily a campaign-wining strategy.
46. Everything Must Change
    Jesus, Global Crises and a Revolution of Hope
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    McLaren poses the question "How do the life and teachings of Jesus address the most critical global problems in our world today?" McLaren believes that we live in a world based on a wrong assumption of what is important in our lives, what is worth fighting for and what is the purpose of humanity's existence. He believes it is important to look at the teachings of Jesus to move to a positive view of humanity to overcome the dysfuntionality-economic, political and social of the world.
47. Facing the Toyota "Pattern"
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Highly praised as a “breakthrough” in the mainstream and business press, the new United Auto Workers contract at General Motors is a stunning retreat for the union, threatening the existence of most high-paying production jobs throughout the U.S. auto industry. (Skilled trades face drastic downsizing through outsourcing and combining of the trades.)
48. Fare-Free Public Transit Could Be Headed to a City Near You
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    It's time to give people a free ride on public transit. And here's proof it works.
49. A Festival of Radical Energy
    Against The Current vol. 130
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The culmination of years of discussion and thousands of hours of planning, the 1st United States Social Forum brought together over 12,000 activists to sweltering Atlanta June 27-31 for a week of conferencing, networking and marching. With lead organizing initiated by nonprofits, especially Project South, with ties to the Grassroots Global Justice network, the USSF resulted from two years’ work by a National Planning Committee (NPC) composed of several dozen nonprofits, left “thinktanks” and social movement organizations.
50. Fictitious Capital for Beginners 
    Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2007
    Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
51. Finding Workers Power
    Against The Current vol. 130
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Socialists identify the working class as a potentially powerful agent of change. Working people have that potential because we keep the economy running. We therefore have the power to stop production through a general strike, create bottlenecks through which a relatively small number of strikers can significantly disrupt the economy, or we can stay on the job and work to rule, slowing down production.
52. Five Challenges for Ecosocialists in 2008
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Ecosocialism is not separate from the existing left and green movements, and it is not a structured movement on its own. Rather, it is a current of thought within existing socialist and green-left movements, seeking to win ecology activists to socialism and to convince socialists of the vital importance of ecological issues and struggles.
53. Flight from the land and food riots
    Excellent article by Wildcat Germany analysing the food crisis and the global agricultural industry under capitalism.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Article discuss about reasons behind the exploding food prices.
54. Fooled Again
    The Real Case fo Electoral Reform
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    For Republicans, the 2004 presidential election was little short of miraculous: Behind in the Electoral College tally in the days leading up to the election, behind even on the very afternoon of the vote, the Bush ticket staged a stunning comeback. The exit polls, usually so reliable, turned out to be wrong by an unprecedented 5 percent in the swing states. Conservatives argued-and the media agreed-that "moral values" had made the difference. Critic and political commentator Mark Crispin Miller argues that it wasn't moral values that swung the election - it was theft.
55. Footage from the field
    B'Tselem Camera distribution project
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 2007
    In January 2007, B'Tselem launched its camera distribution project, a video advocacy project focusing on the Occupied Territories. We provide Palestinians living in high-conflict areas with video cameras, with the goal of bringing the reality of their lives under occupation to the attention of the Israeli and international public, exposing and seeking redress for violations of human rights.
56. For Political Equality 
    All citizens vote on all policies: 20th Century Power Politics and their 21st Century electronic alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    This book aims to motivate people to set up post-parliamentary direct democracy (DD) enabling all citizens to propose-debate-vote on all issues of society. Every citizen - one vote - on every issue of society. This political equality abolishes Power - the role of deciding on behalf of others - the main cause of violence and corruption in society. "To be" is not merely "to exist" but to decide all issues of one's life. Denying citizens' right to decide all issues of society reduces them to mere political pawns. All citizens have the right to decide all policies.
57. Fragments of a Reformist Anarchism
    A review of David Graeber (2004), Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    A collection of scattered thoughts about anarchism, anthropology, and academic studies. David Graeber argues against the need for a revolutionary confrontation with the state or its eventual overthrow. Instead, he favors a gradualist approach which leaves the state alone.
58. Free Speech in Fearful Times
    After 9/11 in Canada, the U.S, Australia & Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    How post-9/11 anti-terror laws have limited free speech in Canada and abroad.
59. Gaza: cuidados de saúde e crianças em risco
    As crianças de Gaza estão em risco
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
60. The Gentle Subversive 
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision.
61. Grace Paley (1922-2007)
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Grace Paley described herself as a “somewhat combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist,” and saw the role of the artist as that of “listener” who would relay stories of those made invisible by society. And she told it plain.
62. GreenTOpia 
    Towards A Sustainable Toronto, uTOpia Volume Three
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    The third volume of the uTOpia series features a collection of essays that look at innovative and imaginative ways to promote sustainability in Toronto. Also included is a directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs in and around the GTA.
63. Guillotining Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Noam Chomsky briefly depicts the many factors which prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and promote ongoing conflict in the region.
64. Hatred of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2009
    Rancière defends the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression. He argues that the West can no longer simply extol the virtues of democracy by contrasting it with the horrors of totalitarianism.
65. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
66. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza - Arabic text
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
67. The Hollow Land
    Israel's Architecture of Occupation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Groundbreaking exposé of Israel's terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond.
68. Homes in illegal Israeli settlements for sale at London expo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
69. Hope in Troubled Times
    A New Vision for Confronting Global Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
70. How Can We End the U.S. Government's Pro-Israel Foreign Policy?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    We need to start thinking about building a revolutionary movement and not a reform movement focused just on one issue.
71. How green are your ethics?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
72. How Nonviolence Protects the State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.
73. How the Left Should Frame Issues
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The art and science of strategic frame analysis -- issue framing -- is relatively new in Canada, though the concept of framing is not. The right has been framing its issues carefully for years while the left has been oddly complacent about re-framing issues from their perspective.
74. How to Re-Imagine the World
    A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    A conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change.
75. How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
76. How we learned to stop having fun
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    We used to know how to get together and really let our hair down. Then, in the early 1600s, a mass epidemic of depression broke out - and we've been living with it ever since. Something went wrong, but what?
77. Immigrant Workers in the United States (Part 1)
    Against The Current vol. 127
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The rise of mass immigration in much of the developed world began its acceleration with the global economic crisis of the 1970s. A deepening crisis of profitability; the collapse of the Bretton Woods currency system; and the recession of 1974-75 encouraged an acceleration of foreign direct investment, the rise of multinational corporations, and the subsequent increase in trade.
78. Impeach the President
    The Case Against Bush and Cheney
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
79. In Defense of Atheism
    The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
80. In Defense of Leninism: Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists.
81. Infidel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
82. Inside Iran
    New Internationalist March 2007
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    A look at Iran from history to present. Discussion of women's rights and the youth of Iran.
83. Inside Israel-Palestine The Conflict Explained
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    An ideal guide, in question and answer format, to this most complex of conflicts.
84. Inside Lebanon
    Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Documents Noam and Carol Chomsky's journey and situates it within the tragically altered context of Lebanon and Palestine before and after the war of 2006.
85. Interventions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, it's a responsibility. Concise and fiercely argued, Interventions covers the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency, Israel and Palestine, national security, the escalating threat of nuclear warfare, and more.
86. Introduction to When the UAW Was Young
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
87. Invisible Force: Women Workers in Pakistan
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    Millions of women workers in Pakistan remain unaccounted for in official figures. Even those who are in the formal workforce face problems like lower wages for the same work as men and sexual harrasment.
88. Irene Morgan, Max Roach: Two Soldiers of Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 130
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Two pioneers of the freedom struggle died in August, leaving legacies for the ages.
89. The Iron Cage
    The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Rashid examines the history of the Nakba and the circumstances and context that surrounded it.
90. The Israel Lobby and the "National Interest"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Israel's ethnic cleansing does, in fact, serve the elite's interest. It is a classic example of divide-and-rule applied to the population of the Middle East: foment an ethnic war of Arab versus Jew. Israel plays the same role in the Middle East that the Klu Klux Klan played in the American South for the benefit of the South's upper class: keep the working class population fighting each other along racial lines.
91. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest.
92. Israel/Palestine: "It's Complicated" ... Or Is It?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    We often hear it said that the Israel/Palestine conflict is complicated. But is it really?
93. 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private.
94. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A study and history of the legacy of community organizing in Mississippi.
95. The John A. Livingston Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
96. Justice denied: Latimer case exposes flaws in legal system
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Robert Latimer believes it was his moral duty to save his daughter from a life of unbearable pain. Many Canadians agree with him.
97. Karen J. Kassirer: Artist, Friend and Comrade
    Against The Current vol. 130
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Karen was my oldest and dearest friend. We were young women together in Detroit, working for the newspaper of the International Socialists beginning in the early ‘70s. She had moved to Detroit along with IS members from other cities, mostly on the West or East coasts, to help establish our political center and an infrastructure to support our factory and trade union activism.
98. Latin America after Neoliberalism
    Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America. The region is an epicentre of dissent from neoliberal ideas and resistance to U.S. economic and political dominance.
99. Left Communism and Trotskyism: A Roundtable
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
100. A Left Voice in Pakistan
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Following the October 18 attack on the massive procession into Karachi welcoming Benazir Bhutto back from an eight-year exile, Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, expressed his solidarity with the families of the more than 135 killed and 540 injured.
101. Das Leiden der Kinder im Gazastreifen
     Katastrophale Lage im Gazastreifen - Unzureichende Gesundheitsversorgung
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
102. Less Than 2 Dollars a Day
     A Christian View of World Poverty and Free Markets
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
103. Let's Knock Off the Fare Box
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Olsen supports the argument in favour of fare-free transit by investigating the costs surrounding fare collection that are left largely unexamined by officials and unannounced to the public in various North American cities.
104. Lies The Media Tell us
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
105. The Makhno Myth
     Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Starting in the 1970s, a new consensus emerged among serious scholars of the Russian Revolution. Instead of seeing the rise of Stalinism as the predetermined outcome of Leninism or workers' power, "revisionist" historians looked instead to the devastating effects of civil war and international isolation. They discovered that the early years of the workers' state were far more complicated and rich than the standard right-wing inevitable-march-to-totalitarianism version. In its broad outlines, their work confirmed that material conditions, rather than Bolshevik original sin, transformed a mass, popular revolution into its opposite, Stalinism.
106. Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto, 1960-1970
     PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2007
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
107. Many Minds, One Heart
     SNCC's dream for a new America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2009
     Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time.
108. Married to Another Man 
     Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
109. Maze of Injustice: The failutre to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     More than one in three Native American or Alaska Native women will be raped at some point in their lives. Most do not seek justice because they know they will be met with inaction or indifference. Index Number: AMR 51/035/2007.
110. The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     The news media played a crucial role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Local media fueled the killings, while international media either ignored or seriously misunderstood what was happening. This is the first book to explore both sides of the media equation. Examining how local radio was used as a tool of hate, encouraging neighbors to turn against each other, the book also presents a critique of international media coverage.
111. Media Censorship in the Middle East
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Examines Middle-Eastern media censorship and shows how the censorial culture grew as the media developed in this region. It also illustrates the illusionary and deceptive arguments presented by the authorities citing articles and stipulations from the constitution that speaks for the freedom of the press and free speech.
112. Militant as Hell on the Waterfront
     The Political Thought of Stan Weir
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
113. Military Inc
     Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Ayesha Siddiqa probes into the Pakistani military's long and troubling relationship with corporate giants, and its disastrous effects on the development of a healthy democracy and civil society.
114. Miss Calculatsia: Danger of War That No One Wants
     Against The Current vol. 130
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Introducing Miss Calculatsia, that fashionable foreigner, the new star in Israeli discourse.
115. More Unequal
     Aspects of Class in the United States
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
116. Move into the light?
     Postscript to a turbulent 2007
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Can the left movement move into the light and become visible?
117. The Movement Comes to Jena
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The humid air felt electric as the sun ascended over the hundreds of buses idling a 20-mile stretch of Louisiana Route 49, the gateway to the rural hometown of the Jena 6. It was 6 AM, September 20, 2007 — the day Mychal Bell was initially scheduled to be sentenced for his role in the beating of a white classmate — and northeast central Louisiana, on the border of Mississippi, was looking anything but sleepy.
118. Nakba One, Two, Three?
     Against The Current vol. 128
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     In sheer magnitude, the Palestine partition of 1947 wasn’t even that year’s most disastrous division of a former British colonial possession. The partition of the Indian subcontinent — between India and the new Muslim state Pakistan — produced roughly as many deaths, in horrific communal violence between Muslims and Hindus, as the numbers of Palestinian Arabs expelled from their homeland and robbed of their lands in the 1947-49 Catastrophe — al-Nakba — accompanying the establishment of the state of Israel.
119. The New Left at 40
     Legacy and Continuity
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A collection of memoirs and commentaries.
120. New Red-Green Politics
     Against The Current vol. 130
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     In their preface to the 43rd volume of the Socialist Register, Coming to Terms with Nature, editors Leo Panitch and Colin Leys admit that this edition “has been one of the most challenging to put together.”
121. News and Comment
     Allan Nairn's blog
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2007
     News and comments in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, and Danish.
122. Next Door to BC, the Bus Is Free
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Olsen writes about his experience with fare-free transit on Whidbey Island, debunking myths about the inefficiency, impracticality, and unsustainability of such a system.
123. No Fares!
     Time for a free ride on public transit
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     This series of articles in The Tyee takes a hard look at fare hikes and spending priorities by B.C.'s transit planners, as well as rising greenhouse emissions and pollution by the private automobile, and asks: Why are we creating barriers for people who might take public transit?
124. No Hassle Transit? Try Hasselt
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     A consideration of Belgium's transit infrastructure and fare-free system implementation as a model for BC to draw upon.
125. Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth, urbanization, and the associated growth in the use of increasingly powerful, varied, and highly mobile sources of noise. It will also continue to grow because of sustained growth in highway, rail, and air traffic, which remain major sources of environmental noise. The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant.
126. Northland
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2007
     A touching look back at the director's father, Albert Steiner, and his life as a miner. Detailing his death, caused by working in the mine and the reality of getting compensation from mining companies at that time.
127. Nothing personal, just business
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     "A street entrepreneur or a life-destroying psychopath?" asks a review of the film American Gangster, which portrays the life of drug kingpin Frank Lucas.
     How is that an either-or choice?
128. Occupation 101
     Voices of the Silenced Majority
     Resource Type: Film
     First Published: 2007
     A thorough examination on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
129. An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     This appeal from Russian intellectuals and artists on the 90th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution comes to us from veteran leftists, social democrats, artists and even children of Left Oppositionists, most of them politically active at least since the Gorbachev years of glasnost and perestroika. It has been abridged here for space reasons.
130. On Hal Draper's Zionism
     Against The Current vol. 130
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     I would like to add some more information on the book by Hal Draper, Zionism, Israel and the Arabs, which is the source of the excerpt from his 1948 essay “How to Defend Israel” printed in the May/June 2007 issue of ATC.
131. On Immigration and Wages
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
132. On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Capitalism has always been a shock doctrine of selfish predation, as one can discover from Hobbes and Locke, Marx and Weber, none of them saluted by Klein. However there are huge third world economies that have been ravaged by neoliberalism that haven't endured "the shock doctrine" as defined by Klein. Ultimately Klen's analysis is limited and she is too gloomy and pessimistic about the power of capitalism.
133. One Country
     A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     One Country proposes a radical alternative to the impasse in Israel/Palestine: to revive the neglected idea of one state shared by two peoples. Ali Abunimah shows how the two are by now so intertwined -- geographically and economically -- that separation cannot lead to the security Israelis need or the rights Palestinians must have. Taking on the objections and taboos that stand in the way of a binational solution, he demonstrates that sharing the territory will bring benefits for all.
134. One State is Not Snake Oil: A Reply to Michael Neumann
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The income of the 18 wealthiest families in Israel is equivalent to 77 percent of Israel's national budget, which is NIS 256 billion a year. This means that in less than 4.4 years the 18 wealthiest families in Israel could pay the entire debt owed by Israeli Jews living in homes and land stolen from Palestinians. It means that in 4.5 years a fund set up by these 18 wealthiest families could offer every Jewish Israeli who lives on stolen land a million U.S. dollars which they would use either to buy their home from the rightful Palestinian owner or buy another home (probably it would have to be newly constructed) so they could return the stolen one but not end up homeless.
135. Opieka zdrowotna i dzieci Gazy w kryzysie
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
136. Our Life, Work, Struggles
     Against The Current vol. 130
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     At the time I joined Solidarity about a year and a half ago, I had been involved with activist and organizing work for about five years, which comprised most of my post-college life. Specifically, I was active in an organization called Jews Against The Occupation (a Palestine solidarity organization) and working as staff organizer for a housing group. I wanted a way to understand what I was doing in a bigger context, and to be around people who were thinking about how their current work fit in to a much longer term struggle.
137. Outside the Box
     Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
138. Overcoming Zionism 
     Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel draws on his detailed knowledge of the Middle East to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, in which lie the roots of continued conflict.
139. Paying for 'Free' Transit
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Olsen discusses the politics surrounding funding options for transit systems outside of passenger fare to support a fare-free system and proposes shifting spending costs towards avenues that favour riders and transit needs rather than corporate needs, in order to improve service.
140. Peace Parks
     Conservation and Conflict Resolution
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
141. A Persistent Peace
     One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
     Jesuit priest John Dear ministers to the needy at the margins of society. He is a pacifist and anti-war activist who has spoken out against the Pentagon and the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. His views about Christ's teachings on nonviolence have also made him a rebel in the Catholic Church.
142. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2007
143. The Politics of Immigration
     Questions and Answers
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Tackles questions and concerns about immigration with compelling arguments and hard facts, laid out in straightforward language and an accessible question-and-answer format.
144. The Politics of Servility
     Congress and the Israel Lobby
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Our legislators, fearing their own potential loss of their House or Senate seat, continue to support the desires of the Neo-cons and AIPAC and its fellows despite the condemnation of the world's communities that see nothing but hypocrisy in their behaviour.
145. Poverty and Policy in Canada
     Implications for Health and Qualityof Life
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Raphael writes with authority on the problem of inequality and poverty in Canada. Income variability has increased while social assistance and minimum wages have not kept people up.
146. The Power of Persuasion
     The Politics of the New Right in Ontario
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Kozolanka looks at how the Mike Harris's new right conservative government came to power in Ontario Premier Mike Harris by using successful strategies from other countries to gain public accquiescence for its neo-conservative policies. Relying on evidence drawn from literature, interviews and content analysis, she argues that this trajectory was "neither haphazard nor narrowly constructed."
147. The Power of the Israel Lobby
     Two knights and a dragon
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
148. The Press and the Class Struggle
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Early on the morning of August 19, 1997, the U.S. labor movement experienced something it had rarely known in recent years: a victory on a national scale. After two weeks out on strike, over 185,000 members of the Teamsters Union had reached a contract settlement with shipping giant United Parcel Service. It was hard to paint it as anything other than a win for the union. On almost every major issue, the Teamsters were able to force UPS to agree to their demands.
149. Press for Conversion #60
     March 2007
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2007
     This issue of the magazine exposes ten ways in which Canada's Liberal government was complicit in aiding and abetting the 2004 coup d'état that ousted President Aristide's democratically-elected government and supporting the illegal, coup-installed regime that was responsible for two-year human rights catastrophe that followed.
150. Press for Conversion #61
     September 2007
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2007
     The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) helped overthrow the democratically-elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. In the years prior to this US-led regime change, although Aristide and his Lavalas government were extremely popular among the country's poor citizens, CIDA drastically cut bilateral aid. CIDA then poured millions into extremely partisan Haitian groups that represented the interests of Haiti's corporate elite.
151. The Professor of Torture
     Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Whitney exposes the hypocrisy of Alan Dershowitz, who claims to support civil liberties while advocating the use of torture. Dershowitz seems to believe that he should be considered a liberal because he says that prisoners should only be tortured by "nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain wthout endangering life." Whitney characterizes this as "barbarism".
152. Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
153. Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Some 50,000 people converged on the small Louisiana town of Jena on September 20. The protest shook up not only the two-stoplight town but sent a loud siren across the country. The 85% white population had never seen anything like this — a Black-led protest against modern-day racism.
154. Rebuilding the Left
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Beginning with an overview of the Left in Latin America, from the Cuban Revolution to the present, Harnecker goes on to analyze developments now taking place and stresses the necessity of developing an alternative to present forms of globalization.
155. Remembering Tomorrow
     from SDS to Life After Capitalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality.
156. Report from Dubai
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Dubai — This gulf emirate is shaping up into a key tourist destination. For golf, luxury hotels and high-end shopping, it is firmly established as a key player in the Middle East region. Dubai’s geographical location means it can position itself as a meeting point between east and west, a global business hub for the 21st century.
157. Resistance Stirring Again
     Against The Current vol. 130
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     In 1968 the worldwide explosion of struggle, from the battlefields of Vietnam to the streets and factories of France and Czechoslovakia, opened a new opportunity to challenge the capitalist system. In the United States, the Civil Rights struggle against racism sparked a wave of radicalization and struggle to challenge a whole host of American capitalism’s inequities — from its war in Vietnam to its sexism, homophobia, and class exploitation.
158. Review: Political War Over Palestine
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     It has become impossible to review titles like these, or discuss the issues they raise, without reference to the rise of an exceptionally vicious campaign against critical activist voices and academic scholarship on Palestine and Israel.
159. Revisiting the partition of Palestine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
160. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
     Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
161. Road from ar Ramadi
     The private rebellion of staff sergeant Camilo Mejía - An Iraq war memoir
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, Mejía was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. Now released after serving almost his sentence of nine months for desertion, the celebrated soldier-turned-pacifist tells his own story.
162. Roots of Empathy 
     Changing the World Child by Child
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
163. The roots of gay oppression
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. The history of same-sex relations suggests that the most basic human activities, including sexuality, are collectively constructed in human society.
164. The Russian Revolution Ninety Years After
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia was the most influential political event of the 20th century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had strong echoes in colonial countries. Between 1918 and 1921 union membership and days lost in strikes everywhere reached new heights, while the ranks of the revolutionary wing of the socialist movement swelled.
165. Safe streets
     Not pedaling can kill you
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Not pedaling can kill you.
166. The St. Petersburg Declaration
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
167. Salute e bambini in crisi a Gaza
     I bambini di Gaza sono in crisi
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
168. Seeds of Destruction
     The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Focuses on how a small American elite seeks to establish its control over the very basis of human survival, the provision of our daily bread. The author reveals a world where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food production.
169. 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Olsen outlines a proposal for how to implement a fare-free transit system using already existing examples from around the world that are supported by their level of success and positive effects on their societies, environment, and customer satisfaction.
170. 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
     The case for Fare-Free Transit
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The time has come to stop making people pay to take public transit. Why do we have any barriers to using buses, trolleys, SkyTrain? The threat of global warming is no longer in doubt. The hue and cry of the traffic jammed driver grows louder every commute.
171. The Shock Doctrine
     The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
172. "SiCKO," Are We Sick, Or What?
     Against The Current vol. 130
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Years ago, when I worked the sports unit of a commercial TV station, I spent many hours in a van traveling to various games with a lot of folks who were all smarter than I (pilots in their spare time, people who repaired and operated sophisticated video equipment), which didn’t keep me from getting into political arguments because I was younger, dumber, angrier and relatively new to the finer points of Marxism.
173. Sisterhood, Interrupted
     From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
174. The Situation of Left Communism Today
     Interview with the Korean Socialist Workers Newspaper Group (SaNoShin), November-December 2007
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
175. The Slave Ship
     A human history
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Rediker draws on thirty years of research in maritime archives to create an unprecedented history of the slave ships which carted millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas.
176. Slums, 21st Century Wars
     Against The Current vol. 130
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     How have homo sapiens managed to achieve a highly technological, seemingly advanced “civilization,” while producing the horrors described by Mike Davis in Planet of Slums?
177. Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2007
     Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.
178. Socialist Register 2007
     Volume 43: Coming to Terms with Nature
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2007
179. Les soins de santé et les enfants en perturbation à Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
180. Sources Calendar Simple HTML version
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2010
     Event calendar in non-java-script format.
181. South America: Toward an Alternative Future
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     With the death of Chilean dictator, Pinochet, and talks about a continent-wide union resembling the EU, Chomsky discusses the potential of South America to move in a new direction.
182. SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders.
183. Starving the Poor
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Chomsky demonstrates how deficits in the international order and its policy-making can lead to negative effects, especially for the poor. One such example is the promotion of biofuels.
184. State of the World's Oceans
     New Internationalist January/February 2007
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2007
     A look at the how the world's ocean is being destroyed and its effects on the earth.
185. Stephen Harper opens door to prison privatization
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Whatever Harper has in mind for the prison system, one thing is for sure: There's little chance he'll unveil any plans for privatizing prisons before the next federal election. Unless Harper wins a majority, it seems suicidal for him to take a chance on such a controversial idea.
186. The Story of Stuff
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2007
     The Story of Stuff, originally released in December 2007, is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the Stuff in your life forever.
187. The story of the GI coffeehouses
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Examining the rise of the GI coffeehouse movement--during the Vietnam War and again today in protest of the war on Iraq.
188. Strip-Searching Children
     Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
189. The Study of a Russian Factory
     Against The Current vol. 130
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     This book is a study of the Moscow Hammer and Sickle metallurgical factory between 1905 to 1932, based largely on four factory-specific archives that became available to Western historians after the fall of the Soviet Union. Its main focus, covering two-thirds of the book, is the post-revolutionary, post-civil war period.
190. Stuffed and Starved
     Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2010
     This investigation into the global food market postulates that the current state of population health, where one billion people are overweight and one billion people are starving exemplifies the disequilibrium resulting from the liberalization of agriculture in the developing world by the forces of globalization and the policies of the IMF and World Bank.
191. Stupid to the Last Drop
     How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
     As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
192. Sub-merge: Living Deep in a Shallow World
     Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
193. The Sub-Prime Market Crisis
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     It wasn't until I flew to the United Kingdom on Saturday, September 15th, that the globalized nature of the sub-prime contagion really hit home, as it were, for me. On my flight over, I grabbed a copy of the UK Telegraph newspaper, the front page of which looked like something shot at a Great Depression bread line.
194. Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Jennifer Gordon discusses her years spent working with the organization she founded, the Long Island-based Workplace Project.
195. Surviving America's Depression Epidemic
     How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     The rate of depression in the United States has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years, and American mental health institutions have become part of the problem rather than the solution. The good news is that age-old wisdom and legitimate science -- uncorrupted by the profit-margin pressures of pharmaceutical and insurance companies -- have much to inform us about revitalizing depressed people and a depressing culture.
196. The Tactic of Calling People Anti-Semitic
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Instead of calling people who criticize Israel and US policy towards it anti-Semitic, a morally committed response would be to face up to the reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine and do our best to remedy it.
197. Targeted
     Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
198. Targeting Iran
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
199. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism 
     Manifesto 2007
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity of capital. Its methods are universally known: transformation of all relations into commodity relations, freedom of action for businesses and investors and expansion of the hunting area for transnational corporations over the whole planet.
200. "The Backdrop Against Which Everything Happened"
     English-Canadian Student Movements and Off-Campus Movements for Change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Examines the relationship between the 1960s' student movements at English-Canadian universities and provincial, national, and international movements for change.
201. Their Multiculturalism and Ours
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Reactionary interpretations of multiculturalism ignore, tolerate or excuse prejudice and abuse in the name of pluralism and diversity. They foster social division, moral confusion and double-standards - often to the detriment of the most vulnerable: minorities within minority communities. Progressive multiculturalism is about respecting and celebrating difference, but within a framework of universal equality and human rights. It is premised on welcoming and embracing cultural diversity, providing it does not involve the oppression of other people.
202. Thinking Outside the Box
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or faith and creating conflicts by institutionalising such differences in public policy.
203. Tide Turning in Latin America?
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
204. Tim Flannery: "It's Over to You"
     Against The Current vol. 130
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The twenty-first century will be either the century of a “sustainability revolution” — extending the industrial and scientific revolutions of the 18th through 20th centuries, bringing their benefits to all humanity while eliminating massive global poverty and inequality, and in the process beginning to repair the massive damage wreaked on the environment by blind industrial expansion and capital accumulation — or else the century in which the progress of human civilization goes into reverse and faces the real possibility of collapse.
205. Tony Karon on Growing Dissent among American Jews
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
206. Trafficked: For sexual exploitation
     New Internationalist September 2007
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2007
     A look at slavery and sexual exploitation of women. Discussion of anti-trafficking measures.
207. 24 Days in Brooks
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2007
     Centred on the 24-day Lakeside Packers strike, this film is a nuanced portrait of people working together for change. They are people like Peter Jany Khwai, who escaped war in Sudan and Edil Hassan, a devout Muslim born in Somalia.
208. The University in Chains
     Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Details how two decades of shifts in university funding brought increased intrusions by corporate and military forces onto university. After 9/11, the intelligence agencies pushed campuses to see the CIA and campus secrecy in a new light, and, as traditional funding sources for social science research declined, the intelligence community gained footholds on campuses.
209. Uri Avnery Is Dead Wrong
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     In order to move forward and overcome the arguments people like him will hurl against us, we will need to get outside the reformist box and adopt a frankly revolutionary outlook, one that clearly sees the class conflict that rages all around us, that speaks to people about it directly, that asks people to evaluate ideas and events in light of their own insights into the world based on their personal experience of the class war, and that aims not merely to act as a cheerleader for this or that "lesser evil" scheme of our capitalist rulers but to win the class war so that ordinary people can shape society by their positive values.
210. U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
211. The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
212. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
     Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
213. The War on Democracy 
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2007
     This film by John Pilger explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
214. The Water Front
     Resource Type: Film
     First Published: 2007
     Follows the heated struggle between residents, water workers and corporate managers in Highland Park, Michigan to spotlight what many of us take for granted - the right to affordable water.
215. We Own the World
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
     The whole debate about the Iranian 'interference' in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
216. Were Marx's principles only skin deep?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     A British dermatologist has managed to get himself worldwide publicity with an article suggesting that Karl Marx’s painful skin condition may have caused him to say all those mean things about capitalism.
217. What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
218. What We Say Goes
     Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World: Interviews with David Barsamian
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     In this new collection of conversations with David Barsamian, conducted in 2006 and 2007, Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America.
219. What's all the fuss about the veil?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
220. When the UAW Was Young
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
221. Whither Diversity?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     We love race - we love identity - because we don't love class. That is, the upper income groups in society, including many liberals, prefer to believe that a fair and just society can be realized primarily by celebrating and embracing diversity -- but excluding class considerations.
222. Who owns knowledge?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
223. Who Should Bomb Iran First?
     The Myth Of Left-Leaning Media Bias
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Mainstream media discussions of media balance are limited to a single question: Is the media too critical of powerful interests?
224. Why do we still believe in race?
     Resource Type: Pamphlet
     First Published: 2007
     Races are difficult to define and there are no objective rules for deciding what constitutes a race or to what race a person belongs. People can belong to many races at the same time.
225. Why has the left gone soft on human rights?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     A perverse interpretation of multiculturalism has resulted in race and religion ruling the roost in a tainted hierarchy of oppression. In the name of "unity" against Islamophobia and racism, much of the left tolerates misogyny and homophobia in minority communities. It rejects common standards of rights and responsibilities; demanding that we "make allowances" and show "sensitivity" with regard to the prejudices of ethnic and faith communities. This attitude is patronising, even racist. It judges minority peoples by different standards.
226. Why Israel? 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     A routine strategy of Israel's defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of 'humanitarian interventions' that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council -- sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
227. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state' 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
228. Why Our Government Supports Israel's Government, and Why We Shouldn't
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Israel's Leaders Harm Both Jews & Palestinians.
229. Wobblies on the Waterfront
     Interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Peter Cole outlines the factors that were instrumental in Local 8's success, both ideological (the IWW's commitment to working-class solidarity) and pragmatic (racial divisions helped solidify employer dominance). He also shows how race was central not only to the rise but also to the decline of Local 8, as increasing racial tensions were manipulated by employers and federal agents bent on the union's destruction.
230. The workers' government
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The biggest far left organisations in Italy to emerge from the great wave of struggle from 1968 to 1975 changed their strategy to one of focussing on the formation of a ‘left’ government within the existing parliamentary set-up.
231. Workers Solidarity Issue 3
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2007
232. World Social Forum
     Challenging Empires
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     This comprehensive volume provides a glimpse into the wide-ranging discussions, debates and arguments which have gone into making the World Social Forum (WSF) one of the more prominent platforms of alternative ideas and practices in the present world.
233. The World Without Us 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
234. Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century
     A User's Guide for the 21st Century
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A User's Guide to the 21st Century is a compendium of everything a generation of environmental activists has to offer.
235. Writing in an Age of Silence
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2009
     Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparallelled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.
236. The Writing on the Wall
     China and the West in the 21st Century
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     The increasing global fear of the rise of China's economic power is misplaced and reflects the parallel rise of protectionist sentiment in a western world that has lost its moral authority to act as a legitimate international trade advocate.
237. Zimbabwean feminist speaks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     If one looks at the experience of women in Zimbabwe and one looks at the role of the state in relation to women's lives, the state has never had the interests of women at heart. Women are only considered citizens when the state has something to gain.