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  1. Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  2. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
    The Experience of Modernity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  3. The Berkeley Student Revolt
    Facts and Interpretations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    An anthology of writings on the Berkely student revolt of 1964.
  4. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  5. 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.
  6. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  7. Cointelpro
    The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    The first in-depth look at the covert and illegal FBI counterintelligence program - code-name COINTELPRO.
  8. COINTELPRO
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
  9. 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.
  10. Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962 - 1968
    The Great Refusal
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  12. Democracy is in the Streets 
    From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
  13. Didn't See The Same Movie
    Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
  14. Do It
    Scenarios of the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  15. Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    We would rather fight for what we want (even if we don#t get it in our lifetime) than fight for what we don't want ... and get it.
  16. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
  17. Fire in the Streets
    America in the 1960s
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    A political and cultural history of each year of the 1960's, focusing on one person to exemplify the year. Activist John Lewis is used to emphasize the Civil Rights movements heating up in 1960; Clark Kerr and the Berkeley "free speech movement" characterize 1964.
  18. From 1960s New Left to Trotskyism
    Recollections of a Participant
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    What I am going to do today is talk about the 1960s—the last time there was serious social struggle in the U.S.—and why some of us concluded that struggle, even quite militant struggle, is not enough.
  19. The Imagination of the New Left
    A Global Analysis of 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Brings to life the social movements and events of the 1960s that made it a period of world-historical importance: the Prague Spring; the student movements in Mexico, Japan, Sri Lanka, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Spain; the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and guerrilla movements in Latin America; the Democratic Convention in Chicago; the assassination of Martin Luther King; and the near-revolution in France of May 1968.
  20. Imagine Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
  21. An Interracial Movement of the Poor
    Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
  22. Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Kneen describes his book as his “political theological autobiography.” The book is a personal life-story with a focus on the 1950s and '60s, coming from someone who was active in the peace and social justice movements in the USA and Canada over the past 5 decades or so. It starts with an inside story of the New Left and the peace and Civil Rights movements in North America, and the Prague-based Christian Peace Conference, and continues with his life as a farmer and writer in Canada.
  23. The Legacy of the New Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
  24. Letter to the New Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1960
  25. Long March, Short Spring 
    The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An examination of the world student rebellions of the late 1960s.
  26. Long Way From Home 
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
  27. The Mandate of Heaven
    Marx and Mao in Modern China
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    China’s transformation from a poor country devastated by war into a major world power is a modern legend. But how did this change come about? What are the real living conditions of the peasants and workers? Why, when apparently united in their beliefs, are Russia and China enemies? And why, if Mao is right, must Marx be wrong? Using publications from the People’s Republic and his own extensive research, Nigel Harris has written a serious critique of the history, aims and actions of the communist Party in China.
  28. Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
    Toward a Permanent Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Brown argues, must encompass the subjective, psychological dimensions of the revolutionary process.
  29. Marxist Humanism and the 'New Left'
    Resource Type: Website
    An index to the writings and biographies of Marxist-Humanist writers.
  30. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
  31. The New Left
    A Collection of Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Essays from participants in the American New Left of the 1960s.
  32. New Left
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    The New Left was a loose international political movement of the 1960s
  33. New Left
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s .
  34. The New Left at 40
    Legacy and Continuity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A collection of memoirs and commentaries.
  35. New Left Caucus (Toronto Student Movement)
    A Draft Manifesto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    Puts forward an alternative to Leninst factions which emerged in the Toronto Student Movement in 1968-1969. The authors state that "We consider ourselves, therefore, Marxists but not Leninists, though we are prepared to work with various shades of Leninists in struggling against the common enemy, capitalism and imperialism. At the same time, however, we will not be cowed over by those who seek to resurrect Comrade Stalin as a hero, or justify the suppression of the Kronstadt Revolut, or the invasion of Czechoslovakia, etc. Our conceprt of socialism is different, and though we have no worked out program as yet, we will not allow the vanguard formations to close our options for us.
  36. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book of essays on the 1960s New Left in Canada, by members of the New Left.
  37. The New Left in New Zealand
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Published in In On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand, edited by Pat Moloney and Kerry Taylor Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2002.
  38. New Left, not New Liberal
    1960s Movements in English Canada and Quebec
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Published in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 41 (February, 2004)
  39. The New Left Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An anthology of writings from the 1960s New Left.
  40. The New Radicals
    A Report with Documents
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966
    An analytical portrait of the young radical activists who have repudiated traditional liberalsim and who seek a new vision of American through civil rights, university reform, and anti-war and anti-poverty activities.
  41. The New Student Left
    An Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1967
    A collection of essays by active participants in the 1960s student movement on American college campuses.
  42. Old Left, New Left, What's Left?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movements at the end of the 1960s.
  43. Our Generation
    Volume 7 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
  44. Our Generation
    Volume 7 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  45. Our Generation
    Volume 9 number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
  46. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
  47. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
  48. Our Generation
    Volume 24 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
  49. Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto.
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. The book is generous in its treatment of most of them, though it offers, as it should, analysis of why some groups achieved more in the short term than others while still others left a lasting legacy, for example, in preserving natural areas or working-class neighbourhoods that corporate interests wanted to bulldoze.
  50. The Port Huron Statement 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
  51. Protests of 1968
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Protests of 1968 consisted of a worldwide series of protests, largely led by students and workers.
  52. Push Comes to Shove
    The Escalation of Student Protest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Diary of Kelman's undergraduate years at Harvard during times of SDS-led student protest.
  53. The 'Radical trip' of the the Canadian Union of Students, 1963-69
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    MA Thesis, Trent University, 2009
  54. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
  55. Rebel Youth
    1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
  56. 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.
  57. A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
  58. Renewing Socialism 
    Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  59. The Revolution Game
    The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A historical overview of the Company of Young Canadians.
  60. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  61. 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.
  62. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  63. '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.
  64. The Socialist Register 1967
    Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1967
  65. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  66. The Socialist Register 1979
    Volume 16: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
  67. The Socialist Register 1980
    Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  68. The Socialist Register 1982
    Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  69. The Socialist Register 1983
    Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  70. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  71. Socialist Register 1995
    Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1995
  72. Student Power
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An anthology of essays.
  73. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A collection of articles about student activism in Canada in the lates 1960s.
  74. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  75. Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A study of the role of the FBI in the postwar Red Scare, focusing especially on Ronald Reagan's long and creepy relationship with the FBI. It is also a fascinating account of the origins and development the New Left, and a powerful examination of how the FBI corroded due process and democracy.
  76. The Targeting of Walter Rodney
    Against The Current vol. 120
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On October 15, 1968 the government of Jamaica barred Walter Rodney from returning to the island. A lecturer at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Rodney had been out of the country attending a Black Power conference in Canada. The Guyanese-born Rodney was no stranger to Jamaica, having graduated from UWI in 1963. He returned to his alma mater as a faculty member at the beginning of 1968, after doing graduate studies in England and working briefly in Tanzania.
  77. "The Backdrop Against Which Everything Happened"
    English-Canadian Student Movements and Off-Campus Movements for Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Examines the relationship between the 1960s' student movements at English-Canadian universities and provincial, national, and international movements for change.
  78. Thompson, E.P. - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of E.P. Thompson (1924-1993).
  79. Towards a Method for the Revolutionary Reconstruction of Everyday Life
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    On the critique and transformation of everyday life as a key part of the struggle for revolutionary transformation. Published in Liberation magazine April 1972.
  80. The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity, the New Left, and the Hip counterculture in Toronto, 1965-1975
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011   Published: 2021
  81. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  82. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
  83. 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.
  84. Who Would Believe It? Annals of the New Left Era
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A review of "You Say You Want a Revolution" a collection of memoirs of the Progressive Labor Party.
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