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  1. The ABC of Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1920
    Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
  2. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
  3. Age of Extremes 
    The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994   Published: 1997
    A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
  4. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
  5. Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
    Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
  6. Anti-patriotism
    Speech to the jury at his trial in 1905 for 'anti-militarist' activities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1905
    Our war-cry against war is "Insurrection Rather Than War!"
  7. At Twilight in the Country
    Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  8. Austro-Marxism and the National Question
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1935
    The mistake made by those who, starting from the fact that revolutionary Marxism upholds the right of all peoples to independence, argue that the practical consequence of that should be the creation of independent national parties or a federation of organisations with extensive political and administrative autonomy, cannot be sufficiently emphasised. Solidarity between workers of the diverse nations within the same State should be paramount. Class solidarity is better than national solidarity.
  9. The Best of The Nation
    Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    An anthology of articles from The Nation.
  10. Blood and Belonging
    Journey into the New Nationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 1994
    Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
  11. Blood on Their Banner
    Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    An expose of the political policies of France, Indonesia and the United States and how they pose the greatest threat to the stability of the region.
  12. Brexit and the EU implosion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The article looks into the construction of the European Union, Britaint's Brexit choice and Germany's hegemony, particularly in the euro zone.The author talks about a range of ways that financialised monopolies of the imperalist triad (Inited States, Europe, Japan) implement to dominate over the nations of the peripheries and force developing counties into the plunder of their national resources.
  13. Buddhist Pogropms and Religious Conflicts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Most observers would, rightly, reject the idea that there is something inherent in Buddhism that has led to the violence. Rather, most would recognize that the anti-Muslim violence in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka has its roots in the political struggles that have engulfed the two nations. The importance of Buddhism in the conflicts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka is not that the tenets of faith are responsible for the pogroms, but that those bent on confrontation have adopted the garb of religion as a means of gaining a constituency and justifying their actions.
  14. Canada Remapped
    How the Partition of Quebec Will Reshape the Nation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Explores what might happen in the event of a decision by Quebec to separate from Canada.
  15. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
    A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
  16. 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.
  17. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  18. Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Essays examining a variety of questions about Canada's past, from a Marxist perspective.
  19. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1983
    A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
  20. Class Struggle and Nation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1912
    Does the bourgeoisie really have an interest in putting an end to national struggles? Not at all, it has the greatest interest in not putting an end to them, especially since the class struggle has reached a high point. Just like religious antagonisms, national antagonisms constitute excellent means to divide the proletariat, to divert its attention from the class struggle with the aid of ideological slogans and to prevent its class unity.
  21. Close the 49th Parallel Etc
    The Americanization of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    The increasing Americanization of Canada is now evident to all, and it is also becoming evident that the elites in Canada have been anxious to avoid any confrontation of this fact or any examination of its consequences. This collection of essays attempts to display some of the effects of US corporate imperialism and the permissive policy of its Canadian supporters, to analyse the the ideologies involved, to explain the social, economic and political costs of the process, and to suggest how it might be reversed.
  22. Colonialism and Nationalism in the Building of Liberation Movements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    This is an excerpt from It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment.
  23. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  24. 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.
  25. Connolly, James - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of James Connolly.
  26. Consider the Nation and other sacred cows of the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    Groups of people who share whatever it is that makes a nation don't always live in neat spatial clusters, with a given territory containing all those people who are alike and none who are different. Cultures are rarely if ever stable enough to become pure and coterminous with geographical territories.
  27. The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  28. Council of Canadians
    Resource Type: Website
    Promoting economic justicem safeguarding social programs, renewing democratization, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving the environment.
  29. Counter-Rhetoric 
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
  30. The Cross and the Sword: The Making of a Christian Taliban in Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The recruitment point for volunteers in Dmytro Korchynsky's holy war is located in the basement of a building in central Kiev, on Chapaev Street, in what used to be a billiard club. Anyone can sign up, and the location isn't secret -- its address and phone number is on the Internet.
  31. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Jewish studies, Maxime Rodinson says in this book, has been a field in which ideological delirium has long had virtually free rein. In this collection of essays, he tries to redress the balance, bringing his expertise to bear on Jewish problems past and present.
  32. Decline of the English Murder
    And Other Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1950   Published: 1981
    A collection of essays by George Orwell.
  33. Devolutionary Notes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  34. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  35. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
  36. The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1899
    For in the Dreyfus case four social factors make themselves felt which give it the stamp of a question directly related to the class struggle. They are: militarism, chauvinism-nationalism, anti-Semitism, and clericalism. In our written and spoken agitation we always combat these direct enemies of the socialist proletariat by virtue of our general tendencies. It would thus be totally incomprehensible to not enter into a struggle with these enemies exactly when it is a question of unmasking them, not as abstract clichés, but through the use of living current events.
  37. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
  38. Eritrea
    Struggle for Independence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    One of the longest and most bitter nationalist struggles in Africa is being fought in Eritrea. The Horn of Africa has been the scene of tremendous levels of political upheaval, famine and intermittent war. At the centre of these regional problems is the question of the rights of self-determination of various submerged nationalities. The Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict is perhaps the most costly human tragedy to afflict the region in the last quarter century.
  39. Ethnic Nationalism Versus Common Sense
    Response to a Zionist Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Picture this. On the one hand, you have a bunch of people living in Palestine. Their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers most likely lived there too. They make their living there; they make their lives there. From far away appear some Europeans -- European Jews. They declare their intention to establish a state controlled by those who are, on some definition or other, ethnically Jewish. This will be a sovereign state, holding the power of life and death over all non-Jews within its borders, and those borders are intended eventually to comprise all of Palestine.
  40. European Unification Divides Europeans: How Forcing People Together Tears Them Apart
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Unification of Europe has brought about radical new divisions within Europe. The most significant split is between the people and their political leaders.
  41. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
    New Internationalist April 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
  42. 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.
  43. Federalism and the French Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    An essay that discusses nationalism and the Quebec seperatist movement.
  44. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    This book reconstructs the little-known history of those political struggles women launched in Asia and the Middle East from the late 19th century onwards. The author challenges the view that feminism is a foreign ideology currently being imposed on Third World countries. She also brings back into the mainstream of history those women who played a part in the national liberation and revolutionary movements of their countries.
  45. Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1905
    Luxemburg argues that "the proletariat the Poland can and must fight for the defense of national identity as a cultural legacy, that has its own right to exist and flourish." But she maintains that "our national identity cannot be defended by national separatism; it can only be secured through the struggle to overthrow despotism" throughout the entire country [i.e. Russia, of which Poland was a part].
  46. Free To Hate
    The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  47. Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Myths of a pagan past in harmony with nature have been a feature of green nationalism, from its beginnings through to the Anastasia ecovillages in contemporary Russia where - unlike their equivalent hippy communes found in the West - sustainable living is combined with a 'reactionary eco-nationalism'. Could it happen here too?
  48. Greenpeace
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  49. The Greens: Nationalism or Anti-Nationalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
    The object of this article is to provide a better understanding of the Greens by attempting to describe them according to their own particular social contex, with the goal of allowing alternative movements in other countries to learn from the experience in West Germany.
  50. 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.
  51. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
  52. Hollowing out democracy and law
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.
  53. Hugo Chávez and the Crisis of the Dependent Countries: Nationalism, Populism & Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    THE SMASHING ELECTORAL triumph of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez, previously imprisoned because of his participation in a failed military coup against the government of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez provoked diverse reactions and much confusion.
  54. 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.
  55. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
  56. Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    Argues that the accepted theories of imperialism are profoundly flawed.
  57. Introduction to Social Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
  58. Ireland and the Irish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
  59. The Junius Pamphlet 
    The Crisis of Social Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1916
    The voting of war credits in August 1914 was a shattering moment in the life of individual socialists and of the socialist movement in Europe. Those who had worked for, and wholly believed in the ability of, organized labour to stand against war now saw the major social democratic parties of Germany, France, and England rush to the defense of their fatherlands. Worker solidarity had proved an impotent myth. Rosa Luxemburg had for years warned against the stultifying effects of the overly bureaucratized German Social Democratic Party and the anti-revolutionary tendencies of the trade unions that played such a large role in the party's policy decisions. She spent much of the war in jail, where she wrote and then smuggled this pamphlet. Published under the name "Junius," the pamphlet became the guiding statement for the International Group, which became the Spartacus League.
  60. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  61. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
  62. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume 5: War & Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    The subject of this volume is Marx and Engels' views on the relation between war and revolution. Its thesis is that, over the course of decades, their views on this question changed -- evolved is a better word -- although, in this case as in others, they wrote no definitive statement of their views. Instead, we have a considerable corpus of ad hoc responses to the events of the hour, many of them politically explosive, from which we have to reconstruct, not a line, but an approach. To complicate things further, many of these crises, while they were the news of the day at the time, have since faded from memory.
  63. Left Nationalism and Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Iranian Experience
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
    No amount of theoretical and political radicalisation can in itself change the social character of present-day communism and bridge the gulf that separates it from the working class. What is needed, if the proletarian communism of the Communist Manifesto is to become a reality, is a real social shift. Communism must be taken back from all those who employed it throughout the twentieth century to reform capitalism, and returned to the working class to be used against capital, for real human emancipation. A worker-communist movement must be shaped; one in which communism is once again an expression of class protest and class activity.
  64. Letters to a Quebecois Friend
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Philip Resnick, a political scientist and long-time radical, formerly from Quebec, but now teaching at the University of British Columbia, wrote the "letters" in this volume to an imaginary Quebecois friend in the aftermath of the 1988 Free Trade election, when Quebec's votes gave the Mulroney government a majority of seats in the House of Commons even though a strong majority of Canadians voted against Free Trade and against the Conservatives.
  65. 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.
  66. Main Currents of Marxism
    Volume 1: The Founders
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Kolakowski gives his interpretation of the origins of Marxism, and analyses the development of Marx's thought and its divergence from other forms of socialism.
  67. Marx at the Margins 
    On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2016
    Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
  68. Marx, Engels and the National Question
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A historical look at the role of class and nation-states in socialism.
  69. A Marxist History of the World part 75: The German Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded?
  70. A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In 1927, the Chinese nationalists smashed the country's first working-class revolutionary movement – a defeat that would shape the whole subsequent history of China.Counterfire
  71. A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism.
  72. A Marxist History of the World part 96:1956: Hungary and Suez
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    1956 was a year of war, revolution, and disillusionment – a year after which nothing could ever be quite the same again.
  73. The Marxists and the Jewish Question
    The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Covers the difficult history of European Marxists' efforts to comprehend what "The Jewish Question" was about. The assumption that Jewish life and religion were a historical anachronism, something that would naturally disappear with the end of their specific economic function in the development of capitalism, also implied that the medieval legacy of Jew-hatred would vanish as well.The possibility of a new and even more virulent, racialist revival of Jew-hatred -- anti-Semitism -- was overlooked by thinkers and parties who envisioned an inevitable evolution toward socialism.
  74. The Mass Psychology of Fascism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1933   Published: 1970
    Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
  75. Meet Europe's Left Nationalists -'A momentous turn against free movement in Europe'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe-at the expense of immigrants.
  76. Migration
    Changing the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    The author discusses the increasing trend of migration in the modern world, its causes and effects, and peoples and governments responses.
  77. Nation to Nation
    Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  78. National liberation and Bolshevism reexamined: A view from the borderlands - An analysis of the socialist debates on the national question up through 1914
    A view from the Czarist empire's borderlands obliges us to rethink assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The following paper analyzes the socialist debates on the national question up through 1914. I argue that an effective strategy of anti-colonial Marxism was first put forward by the borderland socialists, not the Bolsheviks. Lenin and his comrades lagged behind the non-Russian Marxists on this crucial issue well into the Civil War.
  79. National Liberation and Bolshevism Reexamined
    A View from the Borderlands
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A view from the Czarist empire's borderlands obliges us to rethink many long-held assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as the development of Marxist approaches to national liberation, peasant struggle, permanent revolution, and the emancipation of women.
  80. The National Question 
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
  81. The National Question in South Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    The national question in South Africa is a complex and controversial one. Who comprises the nation? Are there not, in fact, two nations? Does South Africa constitue a special form of colonialism? What place in a future South Africa ruled by the majority Africans would there be for the other minority groups? A new generation of South African scholars and activists re-open the debate.
  82. Nationalism and Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1959
    Nations, whether "knitted together" by ideology, by objective conditions, or by the usual combination of both, are products of social development. There is no more point in cherishing or damning nationalism in principle than in cherishing or damning tribalism or, for that matter, an ideal cosmopolitanism. The nation is a fact to be suffered or enjoyed, to be fought for or against according to historical circumstances and the implications of those circumstances for various populations and different classes within these populations.
  83. Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
    The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A history of the Canadian Congress of Labour and of the CIO in Canada from the 1930s to the 1950s. The author raises many significant questions concerning the presence of American unions in Canada and the crucial role played by the Communist party in the history of the Canadian labour movement.
  84. Nationalism, Patriotism, Hate Crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A look at the (mis)use of the word "nationalism" to describe Trump and white supremacists.
  85. The Nationalization of the Masses
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  86. 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.
  87. The New Face of the Radical Right? 
    Amerika's Would-be Pravy Sektor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Political Research Associates agreed that Anarchist Nationalism "could become the new face of the radical right" in the USA. Attempting to mix subcultural anarchist mores with a cross-cutting class analysis that hinges on racial separatism and ancestral traditions, such as tribalism, Anarchist Nationalism demonstrate a worrying tendency of reactionaries to co-opt radical language in attempts to gain control over large popular fronts.
  88. Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
    Requiem for a Divided Country
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  89. On Catalonia: Debates in the Greek Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Without the burden of self-censorship or "political correctness" on our backs, let us examine what the possible secession of Catalonia actually means and where it could potentially lead.
  90. On Lenin and the Right to National Self-Determination
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    I’d suggest that the Leninist formulations of policy on the national question do not deserve to be taken seriously as poles of debate on the matter. More precisely, they should be viewed as all but completely hypocritical.
  91. 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'."
  92. Our Generation
    Volume 2 number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1962
  93. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1965
    Special Issue on Unilateralism
  94. Our Generation
    Volume 4 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1966
  95. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  96. The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1896
  97. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
  98. Preface to the French Edition of 'Anti-Patriotism'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1906
    In case of mobilization, regardless of who the aggressor appears to be (for, after all, when a war breaks out, one can never tell who the real aggressor is), the proletariat of the belligerent countries should respond to the call to arms, by an insurrection against their rulers, each within his own boundaries, to establish the Socialist or Communist regime.
  99. The Problem of Nationality and Autonomy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1908
    Rosa Luxemburg on the national question, federalism, autonomy, and the right of nations to self-determination.
  100. The Protectionist Trap
    Against The Current vol. 88
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    In July, the United Nations and some fifty large corporations came to an agreement that the companies would all respect workers' rights and protect the environment in their investments around the world. Anyone who believes that this will actually happen is maybe in the market for a certain bridge as well.
  101. The Quebec National Question and the Case for Socialism
    A debate between the International Bolshevik Tendency and the Trotskyist League
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
  102. Quebec's two solitudes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Quebec's hopes to chart a smooth course to sovereignty may founder on claims to Quebec's territory by its original inhabitants - claims that could involve as much as 80 per cent of its land mass.
  103. Quotes about Nationalism and Self Determination
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  104. Radical America - Volume 6 Number 5
    Special Issue: Quebec
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1972
    An analysis of the Quebec general strike of 1972 and its roots in Quebec history.
  105. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  106. Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 2)
    Against The Current vol. 89
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Our electoral dilemma today derives from a political realignment a hundred years ago, when a faction of populists joined in fusion with William Jennings Bryan and the “Free Silver” Democratic Party. After 1896 the two major parties evolved into what they have remained, electoral machines organized from the top down, from elites to ward heelers and courthouse gangs, as vote-catching operations for factions of big business.
  107. Rebels, Reds, Radicals 
    Rethinking Canada's Left History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
  108. Recovering Nonviolent History
    Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
  109. Red City, Blue Period
    Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
    Resource Type: Book
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. Right-Wing Populism in America
    Too Close for Comfort
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
  113. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  114. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
  115. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
  116. Roy, M.N. - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of M.N. Roy (1887-1954).
  117. The Russian Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1961
    The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
  118. The Russian Social Democrats and the National Question
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1917
  119. The Secularization Yet to be Done
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1887
    The secularization of primary instruction, which our bourgeois republic doesn't want, is nothing but the substitution of one religion for another. It's a matter of placing the capitalist faith instead of the Christian faith in the brain in process of formation of working class France, for the greater security and profit of the economic and political exploiters.
  120. Self-Determination for Whom?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
    Pierre Bourgault could set us an example by speaking out himself in support of the right of self-determination for all the people of Quebec, including those who don't want to be part of an independent Quebec.
  121. Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1896
    In foreign policy as in domestic politics, Social Democracy can adopt its own position, which in both spheres must be determined by the same standpoints, namely by the internal social conditions of the phenomenon in question, and by our general principles.
  122. Social Democracy Without Illusions
    Renewal of the Canadian Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  123. 'Socialism in One Country' Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary 'Anti-Imperialism'
    The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  124. The Socialist Register 1965
    Volume 2: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1965
  125. The Socialist Register 1967
    Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1967
  126. The Socialist Register 1969
    Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
  127. The Socialist Register 1970
    Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  128. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  129. The Socialist Register 1989
    Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  130. Socialist Register 1993
    Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1993
  131. Socialist Register 1994
    Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
  132. Socialist Register 2003
    Volume 39: Fighting Identities
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
  133. Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
  134. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  135. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy 
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
  136. Theses on the Right of Nations to Self-Determination
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1915
  137. Thinking About Self-Determination 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
    Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
  138. What Comes Next: Towards a bi-national end-game in Palestine/Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Jeff Halper suggests that the best political system to express both the desires of the two national communities of Palestine/Israel for self-determination and of its individual citizens for democracy would seem to be a consociational democracy.
  139. Why Marx Was Right 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
  140. Why There Are No 'Israelis' in the Jewish State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as 'Israelis,' a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country's self-declared status as a Jewish state.
  141. World Minorities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
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