1. Activist archiving in Toronto
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
2. Against Post-Modernism 
   A Marxist Critique
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   Callinocos argues that the relativism preached by post-modernists leaves us with no objective criteria by which to reject those who would falsify the past.
3. Anarchism
   A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
   Resource Type: Book
   
4. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
5. Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
   
6. Germany 1921: The March Action
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1964
   The debacle represented by the ‘March Action’ in Germany in 1921 was a crucial turning point in the development of the Communist International. The defeat led to a crisis in the German Communist Party (KPD), which had repercussions for the entire International.
7. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
8. Marxists Internet Archive 
   Resource Type: Website
   Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
9. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
   Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
10. 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.
11. People's History, Memory & Archives 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
15. Seeds of Fire 
    A People's Chronology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012   Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.

Experts on Geschichte des Politischen Denkens in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive