1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The Chatto Book of Dissent
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1991
   
4. Chronicles of Dissent
   Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993
   
5. COINTELPRO Papers
   Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   Once-secret COINTELPRO documents (the acronym for Counter Intelligence Programs) tell of the FBI's tactics to discredit any organization that they percieved to be a threat to the status quo. Operations both offical and unoffical were launched against various groups and individuals including Martin Luther King, The Black Panthers, The American Indain Movement and many more.
6. The Common Good
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1998
   Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
7. Dismantling Democracy
   Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
8. Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
9. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
   
10. The Future Belongs to the Blasphemers
    A message from ex-Muslims to mark International Blasphemy Day
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Some people believe that disagreeing with deeply held beliefs is hate. It is not. I want to remind you that many of the most powerful ideas, ideas that changed our world were once heretical. I want to remind you that many of the most radical thinkers and reformists in past eras were blasphemers against the established order of their day.
11. Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
12. Germany East
    Dissent and Opposition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    An overview of oppositional movements in East Germany, ranging from the 1953 insurrection to the oppositional movements of the 1908s.
13. 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.
14. #KMFace photos mock Kinder Morgan claim that facial expressions are a form of "assault"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Anti-pipeline protestors took to social media to post their best #KMFace, following Kinder Morgan's court case against residents this week, where the company's lawyer stated that the protestors' angry snarls are "not just intimidation," but "actually assault."
15. Libel Law is dangerous
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
16. A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
17. News and Dissent
    The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Hackett digs deep into several issues that affect how we hear, read, and see what is reported to us, as well as who and what decide exactly what is it that we hear, read and see.
18. The Origin of America's Intellectual Vacuum
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A profile of Chandler Davis, a blacklisted mathematician who served six months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
19. The Other Israel
    Voices of Refusal and Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
20. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
21. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
22. Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A collection of interviews, meditations and reflections on the current American prison system from the perspectives of past and current inmates. Berrigan, a political prisoner in Connecticut, shares thoughts about his radical activities, the inadequacy of the legal system, the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate, the meaning of true church reform, and the future of the radical movement in the US.
23. Profiles in Dissent
    The Shaping of Radical Thought in the West
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
24. Re-Framing Dissent As Criminal Subversion
    Paradigm Shift and Political Repression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    When our national security interests are perceived as threatened, secrecy becomes sacred, and the ends justify the means. Since the end of World War II, the techniques of political repression recur, banal and predictive, like the musical theme that signals stalking in a grade-B thriller. Those organizations and individuals targetted for repression are portrayed as enemies of democracy; those investigating and attacking then assume the mantle of democracy's guardians. Because of the covert nature of campaigns and the enormous difference in resources between government agencies and dissident/reform movements, it is often impossible to document or prove the existence of an organized campaign of political repression in its earlier stages. In case after case, however, later investigation has revealed illegal government surveillance, harassment and public opinon manipulation, as well as media complicity.
25. The Right to Offend
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
26. The Silencing of Political Dissent
    How post-September 11 anti-terrorism measures threaten our civil liberties
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2002
    The author examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power.
27. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
28. 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.
29. Speaking the truth to Jews
    Resource Type: Article
    Many perfectly legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy are blanketed as attacks on Israel's right to self-defense and therefore as attacks on Israel's right to exist and, therefore themselves as anti-Semitic.
30. Spying 101
    The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities 1917 - 1997
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were there is the subject of this book.
31. This Is What Complicity Looks Like: Palestine and the Silencing Campaign on Campus
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The campaign to silence Palestine solidarity reaches its annual crescendo during Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
32. Tony Karon on Growing Dissent among American Jews
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    
33. Unlawful Dissent
    New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
34. The Verso Book of Dissent
    From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Bagdad
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    An anthology presenting voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos.
35. Writing in an Age of Silence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2009
    Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparallelled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.

Experts on Dissidence in the Sources Directory

1. Article 19
2. Marxists Internet Archive