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  1. The Abolition of the State
    Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
  2. Becoming a Revolutionary
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
  3. Beyond the Fragments 
    Feminism and the Making of Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1980
    A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
  4. 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.
  5. Coming Home to the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I became a political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my grade school. At the local YWCA girls club my sister and I were the only whites. The young Black women I became close to helped me overcome painful shyness. Later my father, a Methodist minister, was arrested trying to integrate churches in Jackson, Mississippi.
  6. Confronting the -isms
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I love the name Against the Current and would add that to be active in the Women’s Liberation Movement at the beginning of 1968 was to be “against the current.” And “the current” then was as much the Left and the Black Nationalist Movement as it was the society as a whole. We were mostly white women, mostly middle class in background. Who we were was used against us opportunistically by the Left and the Black Movement to keep from having to address the issues of sexism — a word we didn’t even have back then.
  7. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  8. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  9. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  10. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  11. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
  12. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  13. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  14. Consciousness raising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Form of political activism, pioneered by United States feminists in the late 1960s.
  15. The Contemporary Women's Movement
    From Gender & History, Chapter 1
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    The first chapter of "Gender & History" titled Contemporary Women's Movement, as weall as a chapter on Karl Marx are reproduced here.
  16. 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.
  17. A Different Location in the World: A Reconnaissance of Socialist Feminism in Canada, 1965-1990
    Unpublished paper, 2002
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
  18. E.P. Thompson: Feminism, Gender, Women and History
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Winslow reflects upon her experiences working with E.P. Thompson at the University of Warwick in 1969, especially in relation to his support for the women's liberation movement.
  19. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    The fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily focusing on Britain and the USA.
  20. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Machismo and Its Discontents
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
  24. Marxism and Women's Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Why are women more often to be found on the sticky floor of low pay than above the glass ceiling where the rich reside? Why is there an assault on the gains of the women's movement? As austerity bites and new debates about oppression rage, Judith Orr steers a path through the history and future of the fight for women's liberation.
  25. Marxist feminism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as the key to liberating women.
  26. Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women's movement, which was undoubtedly the most important one of its kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the memory hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
  27. My Year of Transition
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
  28. My Year of Transition
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
  29. No Outside Saviors!
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Against The Current spoke with Gwendolyn M. Patton as part of our retrospective on the events of 1968 and the surrounding years.
  30. Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1896
    We must, first of all, learn how we ought to do our work among women.
  31. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
    Refugees
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
  32. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
    International Women's Day
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
  33. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
    Back to School
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
  34. Out of the Driver's Seat
    Marxism in North America Today
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
  35. A Parable of Women's Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Meredith Tax.
  36. 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.
  37. Pioneers of Women's Liberation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Hal Draper's book "Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism."
  38. Pioneers of Women's Liberation
    Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Hal Draper (1914-1990) was both a master polemicist and an erudite scholar of Marxism and of socialist history, often combining these talents in withering critiques of alternative analyses. These qualities are fully manifested in Women and Class: Towards a Socialist Feminism, now released by the Center for Socialist History, a collection of essays some of which were written in connection with his multivolume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution.
  39. The Power of the People
    Active Nonviolence in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    A pictorial encyclopedia of the struggles of the U.S. women and men working for peace and justice through nonviolent action. Sections are included on the roots of American nonviolence, the women's rights movement, struggles against slavery, the labour movements, conscientious objection, nuclear pacifism, the Civil Rights movement, ecological struggles, peace encampments, and more.
  40. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
  41. Queer Progress
    From Homophobia to Homonationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
  42. The Radical Therapist
    Therapy means change not adjustment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    The contributors to this anthology proceed from the premise that therapy should be a means of liberation rather than a tool of social control.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. Red Menace #5
    Summer 1980
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  46. The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation:
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Dixon uses a Marxist analysis to try to explain the decline of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's.
  47. 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."
  48. 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.
  49. Sisterhood, Interrupted
    From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
  50. Sisterhood is Powerful 
    An Anthology of Writing From the Women's Liberation Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    The first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photographs, and manifestos.
  51. 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.
  52. '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.
  53. Social Movements/Social Change
    The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
  54. Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    Our movement's strategy must grow from an understanding of the dynamics of power, with the realization that those who have power have a vested interest in preserving it and the institutional forms which maintain it. Wresting control of the institutions which now oppress us must be our central effort if women's liberation is to achieve its goals. To reach out to most women we must address their real needs and self-interests.
  55. Socialist Feminism bibliography
    Resource Type: Article
  56. Socialist Feminism: The First Decade, 1966-76
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    The forging of the Freedom Socialist Party, which was the first Marxist feminist party in the United States.
  57. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
  58. Third World - Second Sex 2
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This sequal to Miranda Davies' successful book Third World, Second Sex, presents first-hand accounts from the 1980's of the concerns and activities of individual women and women's organizations in the Third World, covering fifteen more countries, plus new issues and experiences not previously featured. The final section highlights the value of international communications and solidarity - so often emphasized by Third World women struggling for change.
  59. Tide Turning in Latin America?
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
  60. Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement (TWLM)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    An article about the history and development of the Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement (TWLM).
  61. Toronto Women's Liberation Movement (TWLM)
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    As the 1960s progressed, Toronto activists embraced a wide range of issues, from racial justice to student rights. Hardly anyone was talking about the oppression of women, yet women were paid much less than their male co-workers on average, and they weren’t allowed to apply for many jobs, simply because they were women.
  62. Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
  63. 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.
  64. Untying the Knot
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  65. Voices from Women's Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
  66. What is Socialist Feminism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
  67. (Why) Did the Sixties Fail?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    A brief examination of the social movements of the 1906s, and the underlying contradictions which led them to be unsuccessful.
  68. Woman's Consciousness, Man's World 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    The cultural and economic liberation of women is inseparable from the creation of a society in which all people no longer have their lives stolen from them, and in which the conditions of their production and reproduction will no longer be distorted or held back by the subordination of sex, race, or class.
  69. Woman's Estate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1976
    Juliet Mitchell defines the specific areas of women's oppression and describes current attempts to break the pattern of repression imposed on all women.
  70. Women and Marxism
    Resource Type: Website
    Documents on Marxism and women.
  71. Women Unite
    An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology doucmenting the Canadian women's movement of the late 1906s and early 1970s.
  72. Women's Liberation Movement
    A synopsis
    Resource Type: Article
    A synopsis of the Women's Liberation Movement. From the Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Events (Marxists.org)
  73. Women's Liberation: Notes from the Third Year
    Resource Type: Article
  74. Women's liberation, then and now
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
  75. Women's liberation: theory and practice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Fundamental change for women means challenging the priorities of a system based on profit, and that requires connecting women’s movements to the wider fight for change.
  76. Women's Liberation: Notes from the Second Year
    Major Writings of the Radical Feminists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
  77. Women's movement archives
    Organization profile published 1991
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1991
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  78. Women's Movement records
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
  79. Women's Oppression and Liberation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    On the role of Marxism in the feminist movement in India.
  80. The Year of Awakening
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
  81. The Year of Awakening
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
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