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  1. After the Crash
    The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy

    Resource Type: Book
  2. Against the Current
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
  3. The Age of Outrage
    Values-based Action and the positive power of public protest

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Based on direct experience and extensive research including law enforcement reports, public opinion surveys, and ongoing scanning and anaylysis of news and Internet sources, this book reveals the six key values-symbols that trigger public fear and create political and corporate change.
  4. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do 
    The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  5. Alien Invasion
    How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
  6. Alternative Press Center
    Resource Type: Organization
    Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
  7. Anarchy and Art
    From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  8. The Anatomy of a Party
    The National CCF 1932-1961

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1961
    A history of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation focusing on the relationship between the CCF as a movement and as a political party.
  9. The Art of the Possible
    A Handbook for Political Activism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  10. Asian American Activism Stirring
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    For a brief but wonderful moment in 2000, the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Presidential campaign drew widespread public attention to its central theme of restoring democracy by challenging corporate power. Speaking to thousands of supporters at “super rallies” and millions of television viewers, Nader hammered home the three general points that corporate power has:
  11. Bad Subjects
    Political Education for Everyday Life

    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1992
    A magazine which seeks to revitalize a progressive politics in retreat. "We challenge progressive dogma by encouraging our readers to think hard about the political dimension to all aspects of everyday life."
  12. Beyond a Boundary - 50th anniversary
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This year marks the 50th anniversary of CLR James’ wonderful, groundbreaking work Beyond a Boundary. Beyond a Boundary blends politics and memoir, history and journalism, biography and reportage, in a manner that transcends literary, sporting and political boundaries.
  13. Bingo The big charity bonanza
    New Internationalist October 2005 - #383

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    A look at issues surrounding big international non-governmental organizations.
  14. The Blackest Streets
    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Boricua's Revolutionary Inspiration
    Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921 (Book Review)

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Kirwin R. Shaffer's Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921.
  18. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences

    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
  19. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Canada's Great Divide
    The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
  23. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  24. The Caribbean Left's Legacy
    Against The Current vol. 112

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Sara Abraham interviews Eusi Kwayana of The Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana. The WPA continued to organize and build its ranks through a democratic socialist multi racial agenda, but has continuously been marginalized by the two party system, wining only one or two seats in each election.
  25. Changing Charity 50 years of OXFAM
    New Internationalist February 1992

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    This issue uses the example of Oxfam to look at the role of development agencies in the Third World. Subjects discussed include the political agendas of charities, the importance of small-scale local aid and the choice of promotional imagery. Two articles focus on Oxfam in Canada.
  26. Chomsky for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
  27. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  28. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  29. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 1: An Age Like This
    Resource Type: Book
  30. Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 2: My Country Right or Left
    Resource Type: Book
  31. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 3: As I Please
    Resource Type: Book
  32. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 4: 1945-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  33. The Color of Politics
    Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  34. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  35. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
  36. The Communist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1848
    Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
  37. 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.
  38. Compass Points
    Navigating the Twentieth Century

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
  39. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  40. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  41. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  42. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  43. Contested Truths
    Keywords in American Politics since Independence

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  44. Corporate influence Inside business How corporations make the rules
    New Internationalist July 2002

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    A look into how corporate democracy works and facts regarding corporate influence. Also looks into a short history of corporations.
  45. The Corporate Web
    Resource Type: Website
    Information about the corporations which make political contributions to, and benefit from, the Harris Conservative government in Ontario.
  46. Crisis and Coup in Ecuador
    Against The Current vol. 87

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    On January 21, 2000, for the first time since the Spanish conquest of Ecuador in A.D. 1533-34, indigenous people briefly -- very briefly -- ruled the country as part of a triumvirate. Frustrated by over a decade of economic problems, corruption and political stalemates over indigenous rights and land disputes, thousands of indigenous protesters and members of popular movements converged on Quito, the country's capital. On the 21st, hundreds of protesters occupied Congress and proclaimed a People's Parliament.
  47. The Crisis of Modern Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1967
    Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
  48. Critique of the Gotha Programme 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1875
    Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
  49. Democracy Against Capitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
  50. Democracy for the Few 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  51. Democracy in Alberta
    Social Credit and the Party System

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1953
    An examination of the development of the party system in Alberta.
  52. Devolutionary Notes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  53. The Dialectical Imagination
    A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research

    Resource Type: Book
  54. 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.
  55. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  56. Disability in the Majority World I've got a right!
    New Internationalist November 2005

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    Discussion of people with dissability and their fight for equal rights.
  57. Discurs Politic
    Tres Converencies a Catalunya

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 1998
  58. Dual Power or Populist Theater? Mexico's Two Governments
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Mexican Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés Manuel López Obrador to be the “legitimate president of Mexico.”He is now creating an alternative government, and says he will call a constituent assembly that will write a new constitution. What is happening here? Is this a radical fight for reforms? A potentially revolutionary movement? Or a spectacular piece of populist theater?
  59. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
  60. Elections in the Southern Cone
    Against The Current vol. 85

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    During the last three months of 1999, presidential elections took place in the three southernmost countries of the Latin American continent.
  61. 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.
  62. Essential Works of Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
  63. Ethical Shopping: A Magic Bullet to Save the World?
    New Internationalist November 2006

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look at shopping ethically and its limitations. Discussion of why consumerism is contributing to a negative impact on the planet.
  64. Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
    Resource Type: Book
  65. Fernwood Publishing
    Resource Type: Website
    Publishes books which address sociological, political and social work issues, with particular emphasis on issues of class, race, and gender.
  66. The Fight for Canada 
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
  67. Fighting for Union Autonomy: Mexican Miners On Strike
    Against The Current vol. 122

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On April 20 eight hundred state and federal police launched an assault on 500 striking workers who had been occupying a steel mill in Lázaro Cárdenas. Two were killed, five seriously injured and 40 wounded. A video released to the press shows Michoacán police taking aim at the strikers.
  68. Fire in the Minds of Men 
    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980   Published: 1999
  69. From PRI to Foxismo
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Mexico on July 2 experienced an alternation of parties in power at the national level. But the more fundamental shift away from the one-party state had begun already with the Salinas administration (1988-1994), when he tried to replace the ruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) with his own political and patronage apparatus, "Solidarity."
  70. The German Greens
    A Social and Political Profile

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    How the German Greens evolved from a grass roots movement to a political party.
  71. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  72. Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
    Into the Twenty-First Century

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  73. Gramsci's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Carl Boggs introduces Gramsci as one of the first marxist theorists to grapple with the problems of revolutionary change in advanced capitalist society and as the first to identify the importance of the ideological-cultural struggle against bourgeois values.
  74. Green on Red
    Evolving Ecological Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    Essays exploring alternative economic and political strategies within an ecological context.
  75. Green Political Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  76. Healing the Wounds
    The Promise of Ecofeminism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    An anthology of writings on ecofeminism.
  77. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
  78. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1969
    Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
  79. The Historical Moment That Produced Us 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg's remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: "The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!" We assert the ongoing reality of communism, "the real movement developing before our eyes," as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel's "knights of history," we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
  80. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  81. How a PR company manufactured the Labour coup - Part I
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    As the chaos surrounding Jeremy Corbyn continues at an unprecedented rate, The Canary can exclusively reveal more elements to the Labour coup that has been unfolding since the EU referendum result. In an overarching investigation, more links have come to light between Portland Communications, its subsidiaries and parent company, members of staff both there and at the Fabian Society and the Progress wing of the party.
  82. How Ultraleftism Divided UNAM Strike
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    MEXICO CITY -- Commandeered buses flying red and black flags and Che Guevara portraits sped through the city on October 2, ferrying students to a demonstration commemorating the 1968 student massacre at the Plaza of the Three Cultures. Led by veterans of the 1968 movement, 60,000 students and their supporters slogged the fifteen kilometers from the university campus up Insurgentes and Reforma, the world's longest urban avenues, to a torchlight ceremony in the plaza. Just five weeks before, on August 28, 30,000 students had marched in support of the electricity workers' struggle against privatization.
  83. 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.
  84. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
  85. The Irrational in Politics 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1975
    The Irrational in Politics examines the way in which we have been programmed by social and sexual patterns of the dominant ideology. The result is mass produced individuals incapable of automous thought and perpetually craving authority and leadership. In this light he looks as well at the sexual revolution and the failure of the Russian Revolution. His aim is to allow the ordinary individual to aquire insight into their own phychic structure and in doing so become harmonised with their own deep aspirations and desires.
  86. 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.
  87. 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.
  88. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
  89. Keywords
    A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Williams examines more than 100 familiar words and explores how they are used.
  90. Killing Corbyn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The 'Brexit' referendum vote, split 52% to 48% in favour of leaving the European Union, has been exploited by the 'mainstream' media to launch yet another assault on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  91. Die Kunst findet nicht im Saale statt
    Politische Plakate

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  92. Language and Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    A series of previously unpublished interviews, spanning the twenty year period from 1968 to 1988, that looks at the connection between Chomsky's linguistic studies and his political analysis.For those who know Chomsky as media analyst and critic of foreign policy, this wide-ranging book offers glimpses of his studies on language, anarchist theory and critiques of radical politics.
  93. The Left and the Elections
    Against The Current vol. 110

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Two electoral paths will be taken by those left of center this year, and all the spilled ink in the world won't affect the choices.
  94. Letter to a Progressive Democrat
    Against The Current vol. 110

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Dear Progressive Democrat: I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and I'm proud of it. You voted for Nader and you regret it (or, you voted for Gore, even though you liked Nader better).
  95. Literature as Pulpit
    The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  96. Living in a Dark Age
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  97. Madness and Ruin
    Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Watkin's book, based on his monthly articles in This Magazine is a scathing attack on the Mulroney government's adoption of neo-conservative economics. With their adoption of Reaganite policies they have cut back on transfer payments to the provinces thus hitting secondary school funding and medicare. They have also linked Canada to the United States with the adoption of the Free Trade Agreement and launched a full scale attack on the welfare state. The NDP is not spared his criticism and is blasted for its "appalling" performance in the free- trade election. It is a poweful jounalistic book that stands up well despite the passage of years.
  98. Making Trouble
    Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  99. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs

    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2016
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
  100. Marxism, Feminism, the State
    Volume 1

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
  101. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  102. Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
  103. The Meaning of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 113

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    A feature of revolutions is that they keep coming around in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Who would have dared predict the eruption that was Seattle in November 1999, when the powers behind neoliberal globalization seemed completely incontestable?
  104. The MegaCity Saga
    Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  105. Montreal
    A Citizen's Guide to Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  106. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
  107. No laughing matter: Cartoonists take issue
    New Internationalist March 2006

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look at the strengths of comics and cartoons as an educational and development communication tool.
  108. The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
  109. On the degradation of political debate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Today, political debates have become vacuous and insipid because politicians have become contemptuous of the electorate. Voters, many believe, are ignorant, swayed more by emotion than by reason, happy to accept lies and drawn to politicians with easy answers.
  110. Our Generation
    Volume 1 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1962
  111. Our Generation
    Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  112. Our Path: Against Putschism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1921
    If a Communist Party is to be built up again in Germany, then the dead of central Germany, Hamburg, the Rhineland, Baden, Silesia and Berlin, not to mention the many thousands of prisoners who have fallen victim to this Bakuninist lunacy, all demand in the face of the events of the last week: “Never again!”
  113. Out In The World
    Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  114. Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial ministries, direct phone and fax numbers, E-mail addresses, World Wide Web addresses, all indexed by subject. Available in print and online at $75/year.
  115. Paul Levi: A Luxemburgist Alternative?
    A review of In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Among the adversaries of capitalism, some have argued that a revolution could have been achieved differently and better in the spirit of Rosa Luxemburg, who wrote a critique of the Bolsheviks’ undemocratic policies as early as 1918. Paul Levi, Luxemburg’s lawyer, briefly her lover, her follower, and from 1919 to 1921 her successor at the head of German Communism, was the first to defend a Luxemburgist alternative to Bolshevism.
  116. People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Goodman offers his analysis of what is wrong with American society, and what could be done about it.
  117. A People's History of Science
    Resource Type: Book
    Connor focuses on the contributions of ordinary people living in ordinary times and the social and political history in which they lived. Spanning the time from the hunter-gatherers to the information highway and pharmaceuticals it can be divided into 3 broad sections: the years before the "scientific revolution", the years of that actual revolution and its modern consequence. For Connor scientific progress is the synthesis between the empirical hands on knowledge of the craftmen, labourers and tradesman and the intellectual thinker-knowledge that is both wide and deep.
  118. The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
    Resistance in Practice

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  119. Political Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  120. Politics
    Essays on Political Criticism

    Resource Type: Book
  121. Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 1 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Marxists used to be attacked from the right as "reductionists." Today, that accusation has become a favorite of the (postmodernist) left. We've reached a point where any attempt at explanation, any tendency to think in terms of causality, is "reductionist."
  122. Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 3
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    The ongoing purpose of independent revolutionary organization must be to advance in every possible situation the self-organization and capacity for self-mobilization of the working class.
  123. Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 4
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    As Rosa Luxemburg contended, until a socialist revolution is successful, the most important result of any struggle is the building of working-class self-confidence and organization. This transforms the struggle for reforms in a more radical direction, and expresses an understanding of self-emancipation of the working class as both means and end of a socialist revolution.
  124. Politics and the English Language
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1946
    In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
  125. Politics of Illusion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
  126. The Politics of Nonviolent Action 
    Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
  127. The Politics of Obedience
    The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1550   Published: 1997
  128. Politics of the Communist Manifesto -- Part 2
    Brenner, Johanna; Resnick, Bill

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    In the end, when we engage in reform movements, we have to measure success not simply in terms of the good we've done. Although we do need to win real things for real people, we also have to measure success, win or lose, by the quality of the working relationships we've built and whether the alliances made within the reform movement self-consciously bridge existing divisions within the working class.
  129. Politics Past
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1970
    A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
  130. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
  131. Power
    Resource Type: Book
  132. 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."
  133. Power To Us All
    Constitution or Social Contract?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Woodcock calls for a true participatory democracy.
  134. Presenting Insurgent Notes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    We take our Marx and Engels seriously. Recent history, beginning perhaps (in the US) with the UPS strike of 1997 and the 'battle of Seattle' in 1999, now quickened by the abject financial and ideological meltdown (Fall 2008) of the three decades of the stifling 'neo-liberal' era, has favored a certain revival of the radical critique of capitalism, by which we understand first and foremost the work of Karl Marx.
    "Theory must seek its practice," Marx wrote long ago, but "practice must also seek its theory", and such theoretical ferment expresses the rising tide, in fits and starts reaching back to the 1990's, of an accelerating global reaction to the ravages of the 'neo-liberal', 'Washington consensus' phase of capitalism, after the rollback of what we might consider he last (l968-1977) offensive of the world working class.
  135. Pretensions to Empire
    Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
  136. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
  137. The Prophet Alarmed
    The Extreme Center: A Warning (Book Review)

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Review of Tariq Ali's The Extreme Center: A Warning. In The Extreme Center, Ali gives more than just a pungent and entertaining smack-down of corruption in British politics.
  138. Rae Days
    The Rise and Follies of the NDP

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    An account of Bob Rae's New Democratic Party government in Ontario.
  139. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
  140. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  141. Reimaging America
    The Arts of Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    More than 40 artist-contributors using video as their medium describe and analize how they create art as part or their struggle to alter mass culture and to reconnect with the communities which inspire their work.
  142. Reinventing power: People take control
    New Internationalist September 2003

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at democracy and power in countries including Mexico, South Africa and Thailand.
  143. The Rejection of Politics and other essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    "The rejection of politics" is a basic tenet of all anarchism. Woodcock however does not discuss anarchism as such but the path that his own political interests have taken: from international anarchist to Canadian patriot. Two recurrent themes in the book are his antipathy to Marxism and his ambivalent attitude toward Canadian nationalism. Woodcock believes that the "Left" is dead and that modern anarchists have to shed outdated concepts of the past.
  144. Rejoinder: The Dynamics of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    ONE COMMON ERROR socialists tend to make when discussing unfolding revolutions in other countries is to offer programmatic analysis that has little to do with the real situation on the ground. Comrade Steve Bloom makes that mistake in regards to “the relationship between the democratic and the socialist revolutions”in Indonesia.
  145. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  146. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
  147. Ruling Canada
    Corporate Cohesion and Democracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  148. Saddam's Iraq
    Revolution or Reaction?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  149. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
  150. Selections from the Prison Notebooks 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
  151. 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.
  152. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
  153. Six True Things Politicians Can’t Say
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  154. Social Democracy Without Illusions
    Renewal of the Canadian Left

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  155. Socialism Of The Future
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
    A European journal of socialist scholarship and political debate covering global problems such as the new industrial revolution and the upheavals in Eastern Europe.
  156. Something has to give
    Emotional issues are potent

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    One of the things that the recent civic election made clear is that left-leaning and reform candidates can be very vulnerable if right-wing groups are able to seize on emotional questions and make them issues during the an election campaign.
  157. Somoza's Last Stand
    Testimonies from Nicaragua

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    These are testimonies from the people who have survived the contra war against the poor of Nicaragua.
  158. Sounds of dissent The politics of music
    New Internationalist August 2003

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    The role of music in politics. Discusses how music has changed the world, and the pioneers in the world of political music.
  159. South Africa's Political Change
    Against The Current vol. 90

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    On December 5, slightly less than half of South Africa's registered electorate went to the polls, and Thabo Mbeki's ruling African National Congress (ANC) emerged with just under sixty percent support -- down from the two-thirds received in the 1994 and 1999 national elections -- and control of all major cities aside from Cape Town.
  160. The Spectre of Capitalism
    The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  161. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
  162. Squatter Town: The South's urban explosion
    New Internationalist January/February 2006

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look at squatter communities and the social injustices they face.
  163. Stop the War
    The Story of Britain's Biggest Mass Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  164. Strange Empire
    Louis Riel and the Metis People

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  165. SWP History: 1960-1988
    Resource Type: Website
    A website devoted to reviews and discussions related to Barry sheppart's two-volume history of the American Socialists Workers' Party (SWP).
  166. Thieving Sons of Bushes
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    “Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco. The D.C. protest was the largest one at a presidential inauguration since 1973 -- at President Nixon's second term.
  167. Towards a Decentralist Commonwealth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    Could the basic structural concept of common ownership of society's resources for the benefit of all ever be achieved, institutionally, in ways which fostered and sustained, rather than eroded and destroyed, a cooperative democratic society?
  168. The truth behind the Labour coup, when it really began and who manufactured it
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    An exclusive investigation by The Canary can reveal that the current Labour 'coup' being instigated against Jeremy Corbyn appears to have been orchestrated by a PR company where Tony Blair's arch spin-doctor, Alastair Campbell, is a senior advisor.
  169. The Unknown Dimension 
    European Marxism Since Lenin

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
  170. The Venezuelan Revolution
    New Internationalist June 2006

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look inside the Venezuelan Revolution and facts and history of the country.
  171. The Wealthy Banker's Wife 
    The Assault on Equality in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  172. Where Is Indonesia Going?
    Against The Current vol. 87

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    For both admirers and critics of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, the picture is disturbing: At the presidential palace in Jakarta there are signs of a new “royal court” in the making. Officials converse in Javanese, not the national language Bahasa Indonesia; Wahid himself borrows from mysticism and ancient tracts to plot political strategy; and family and friends are acting as gatekeepers and facilitators, in some cases for businessmen hoping to curry favor. Some analysts describe it as a form of “benign Suhartoism,” a throwback to the disastrous last decade of President's 32-year rule.
  173. Wimps Can't Win
    The Sissy Left

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    When did we on the left forget how to fight back in dark alleys?
  174. Women Organizing for Change
    Confronting the Crisis in Latin America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A series of articles which seek to examine the effects of recent profound economic, social and political crises of the part several years, particularly the effects of the crisis on the lives of women in the region.
  175. Women, Resistance and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1974
    A wide-ranging survey of the roots of inequality and of the long but sporadic struggles to covercome it. Her narrative extends from the seventeenth century to present-day (1970s) Vietnam, showing how certain women have struggled, in both revolutionary and repressive situations, to achieve liberation.
  176. Worker Cooperatives in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
  177. The Workers' Party and Political Crisis in Brazil: Lula at a Crossroads?
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In June 2005, the first allegations of a rogue politician in a rightwing party in coalition with Brazil's governing Workers' Party (PT) seemed spurious enough. The politician himself, Roberto Jefferson, had a long history of allegations of corruption, and of narrowly escaping indictment in Brazil's last corruption crisis in 1993. According to celebrity magazines, he had had a makeover, including plastic surgery, before coming forward with the allegations of a "payment for votes" scheme in congress in which the ruling PT doled out a monthly allowance for sympathetic politicians in congress.
  178. Working Class Experience 
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
  179. 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.

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  7. ibiblio.org
  8. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
  9. Marxists Internet Archive
  10. National Museum of American History
  11. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
  12. Pacific Islands Forum
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