1. An Account from Madison
   Against The Current vol. 152
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2011
   Among the first publicized actions in opposition to the union-busting Budget Repair Bill was the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) February 14th delivery of valentines to Governor Walker’s office. Colin, an adjunct professor of English and a new member of Solidarity, recalls: “We marched on the sidewalk, not the street…People would look at each other to make sure others were chanting. Some clearly felt embarrassed and most didn’t know the chants.”
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. Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL)
   Resource Type: Organization
   First Published: 1978
   
4. Alberta Labour
   Vol.2. No. 2
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   This tabloid consists mainly of columns and stories from Co-operative Press Associates related to labour issues of interest to Alberta workers.
5. All That Our Hands Have Done
   A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1981
   The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
6. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1952
   A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
7. Anarcho-syndicalism
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   
8. Die "andere" Arbeiterbewegung und die Entwicklung der kapitalistischen Repression von 1880 bis zur Gegenwart
   Ein Beitrag zum Neuverständnis d. Klassengeschichte in Deutschland. Mit ausführl. Dokumentation zu Aufstandsbekämpfung, Werkschutz u.a.
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1976
   
9. Argentina: From Anarchism to Peronism
   Workers, Unions and Politics 1855-1985
   Resource Type: Book
   This book by three Argentinian authors traces the history of what is Latin America's oldest and largest working class. Its mid-19th century origins in migration from overseas and internal proletarianization are traced. The authors relate the history of Argentinian workers' clashes with both the state and employers and the preponderant influence that anarchists and syndicalists had over the labour movement in the early 20th century.
10. Austerity vs. the Planet:The Future of Labour Environmentalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Last December members of the International Trade Union Confederation joined other civil society activists in a mass sit-in at the COP21 talks in Paris. Unionists and their allies, some 400 strong, filled the social space adjacent to the negotiating rooms for several hours, in defiance of a French ban on protests that remained in effect in the wake of the November 13 terrorist attacks. The ITUC delegation demanded the negotiators go back to the table and make a serious effort to incorporate labour's demands for a just transition – which, at its heart, is concerned with making sure workers in environmentally unsustainable industries are retrained and put to work building a new, sustainable economy.
11. The Battle for Puerto Rico's Labor Movement
    Against The Current vol. 139
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The teachers' union Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (FMPR) is the island’s largest labor union. Its evolution has considerable impact on Puerto Rico’s labor movement as a whole. In fact, recent events surrounding the FMPR reflect many of the debates and tensions that have shaped the island’s largest labor struggles over the past decade. These include:
12. Beating Back the Corporate Attack 
    Socialism and the struggle for global justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
13. The Birth of a Holiday
    The late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the origins of International Workers' Day.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The history of the fight, by the working class, for a holiday for the working class.
14. The Blackest Streets
    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    
15. Bleeding Wisconsin
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    
16. Bulletin de liaison, Vol.1, No.1
    Periodical profile published 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
17. Cambodia: Labor and the Coup
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    IN THE FACE of a repressive and dangerous environment, workers are on the move in Cambodia. Though Americans heard little about it, the emergence of an independent labor movement was one of the most promising developments in Cambodia since the UN imposed democratic institutions “from above” on a society with no prior democratic experience.
18. Canada: Activists Face the Future
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Electoral politics present challenging problems for labor movements all over the world. In the absence of strong working class parties, labor activists are often compelled to support parties that implement anti-worker legislation simply because they represent a lesser evil. While reforms are certainly necessary, the investment of activist energy and resources into the electoral process can often distract union and social justice organizations, preventing them from undertaking the important task of generating solidarity within more impoverished segments of the working class.
19. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
    A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
20. 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.
21. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
22. Canadian Labour
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    Canadian Labour is a bi-weekly magazine published in both English and French by the Canadian Labour Congress.
    
23. Canadian Labour
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
24. Canadian Labour Comment
    Periodical profile published 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    The Canadian Labour Comment is a bilingual newsletter which includes reports on various labour issues in Canada.
25. Canadian Labour Congress
    Organization profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1981
    
26. Canadian Labour in Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    A historical study of the relationship between the labour movement and the social democratic party in Canada, as that relationship developed since the birth of modern industrial unionism.
27. The Canadian Labour Movement
    A Short History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
28. Catalyst
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    A campaigning think tank for the labour movement and the left, committed to developing and promoting practical policies for the redistribution wealth, power, and opportunity.
29. A Chinese Alternative? Interpreting the Chinese New Left Politically
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In China, the terms 'left' and 'right' or 'radical' and 'conservative' produce somewhat different associations in the popular mind than what we are used to in the West. While in most capitalist countries 'left' and 'right' are understood largely in economic terms, in China these concepts tend to be deeply entangled within a framework defined by the state, the Communist Party, and nationalism. As a result, Chinese political debates have tended to presume a rigid dichotomy between 'left-wing' state socialism and 'right-wing' capitalist liberal democracy.
30. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
31. Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
    
32. The Communist Party in Canada
    A History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    A history of the Communist Party in Canada from its beginnings to the 1970s.
33. Comrade's Socialist Songbook
    Resource Type: Website
    Revolutionary and trade union songs, mostly from the The Socialist Songbook.
34. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
35. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
36. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
37. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
38. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
39. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
40. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
41. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
    
42. Connexions Library: China Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on China.
43. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
44. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
45. Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
    
46. A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Compilation and updates of many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews. The author offers perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state, the tensions that sometimes exist between a culture of rights and the idea of solidarity, and the rise of conservatism in politics, law, and intellectual life.
47. Death in the Haymarket
    A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The story of the anarchosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers' rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
48. Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926).
49. The Demise of Andy Stern and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A meaningful advance of workers’ struggles means bringing into existence class-wide organizations. Where those with such a perspective find themselves, by hook or by crook, in trade unions, the issue is to broaden struggles to include the unemployed wherever possible.
50. Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2010-2011 
    Capital devours lives, labor, land; masses seek paths to freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, "inside" and "outside."
51. Egyptian Labor Erupting
    Against The Current vol. 142
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    In April 2009, a familiar scenario was repeated, as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s police apparatus assaulted planned demonstrations and a Mahalla textile workers’ strike. A year earlier, many activists and ordinary people from Mahalla received sentences in politically charged criminal trials for “planning the April 6th strike in 2008.”
52. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    
53. 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.
54. False Promises 
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
55. 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.
56. For Workers' Climate Action
    Climate Change and Working-Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A new collection of articles and reviews on the fight against dangerous climate change, capitalism and workers' organisation and struggle. Urges the left to reach out to climate activists to make the case that being "anti-capitalist" is important but not enough.
57. The Free Trade Game
    New Internationalist December 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at free trade and and the effects of NAFTA. Discussion of the opposition to free trade and alternatives.
58. From Cairo to Madison, The Old Mole Comes Up For An Early Spring
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Individual sectors, even as large as public employees in the U.S., have to reach out to all those who have been ground down over the past forty years. Any working-class movement worthy of the name embraces the interests of the most oppressed, and that today includes the 15-20% of the U.S. population currently unemployed and increasingly foreclosed into homelessness, the casuals and temps, the harassed immigrant workers both legal and illegal, the millions of marginalized youth, white black and Latino, and the three million people in prison. We know very well that not every struggle that erupts can immediately enlist all such people, but a “climate” must be created in which that universal outreach—what we might call a “class for itself” orientation– is understood as a necessity.
59. Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
    Papers, 1939-2001
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
60. Globalizing the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
61. The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37
    How Industrial Unionism was Won
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1967
    A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937).
62. The Guangdong Six and the rule of law (of value): Preliminary theses on the December 3 crackdown
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Information about the December 3, 2014 crackdown on Chinese labour activists is now widely available in English and several other languages, but there has been little satisfactory analysis of its significance -- in relation to business as usual in China, to comparable situations in other countries, or to workers' struggles as such.
63. Having the Hard Conversations 
    Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
64. Heaps, Abraham Albert
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
65. Higgins, Jim - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Jim Higgins (1930 – 2002).
66. History is a Weapon
    Lockdown America in 22 Minutes
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 2001
    A talk by Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police And Prisons in the Age of Crisis, about the thirty year explosion in prisons in the United States, at the Stop The ACA(American Correctional Association) conference.
67. Hitting the Maternal Wall
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The “Maternal Wall” is not a new method of contraception, and it’s not the look mom gives when the kids miss curfew. In this slim and accessible book The Motherhood Manifesto, Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner update the two-dimensional “glass ceiling” to describe the maternal wall as “employment discrimination against a woman who has, or will have, children.”
68. How Greens and Labor can Win ... Together
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activists and the New South Wales Labourers Federation by Meredith and Verity Burgmann (UNSW Press, 1998).
69. How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era.
70. How Labor Loses When it "Wins"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    It is time for unions to stop looking for someone else to save them. They need to find ways to save themselves. Mass picket lines, sit-ins, solidarity strikes, secondary boycotts and refusing to handle struck work are weapons that we need to put back in labor's arsenal. Unions must learn to broadly mobilize workers as a class, even if it means violating court orders and injunctions, to regain the initiative for workers' rights.
71. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
72. India's Autoworkers Behaving Like the Old UAW
    The Real Deal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    While it's true that international banks and corporations have their slimy tentacles in everything from foreign governments to foreign armies, the world's workers have two weapons of their own. One is the crippling, paralyzing effect of no-go dockworkers. The other is the logistical potential of the Internet.
73. An Interview with Patricia Campbell
    Against The Current vol. 123
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Patricia Campbell is President of the Irish Independent Workers Union (IWU), an independent trade union and social movement in both the north and south of Ireland. She is a deputy editor of the journal Fourthwrite, founded by a group of Irish Republicans most of whom are former political prisoners from the Republican movement.
74. 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.
75. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
76. It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    First-hand accounts of the largest pro-labour mass mobilization in modern American history. In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labour demonstrations in modern American history.
77. The Junk Food Economy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
78. Justice for All: the Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt
    A Report by the Solidarity Center
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    A report on recent workers' struggles in Egypt, against falling wages, oppressive working conditions, and violations of workers' rights, in the face of an authoritarian and repressive government.
79. Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
80. Kicking Ass for the Working Class
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    There it was, staring at me from the AFL-CIO’s very own blog: a black sign with bold red letters saying “KICKING ASS FOR THE WORKING CLASS,” signed AFL-CIO. Surely they meant to say “working for,” or in SEIU-speak “uniting” “working families” or “working people” or some other euphemisms for struggle and class. Had the decline and split of organized labor pushed our otherwise moderate business union leaders to new extremes?
81. LaborNet
    Resource Type: Website
    Exists to build a democratic communication network for the labor movement.
82. The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative in their politics than lower paid workers. They point to the example of mostly white New York City construction workers ("hardhats") attacking antiwar demonstrators in the Spring of 1970; and contrast them with the militancy and progressive politics of some of the recent "Justice for Janitors" campaigns.
83. Labor Film Archive
    Films, videos and film festivals that focus on work, workers and worker’s issues
    Resource Type: Website
    The Labor Film Archive's goal is to present films and documentaries from around the world depicting aspects of work marginalized or absent in most commercial theatres. The Labor Film Database is an excellent resource for searching for union and labor related movies. The site also features a "Streaming Online" category which includes titles like Union Maids, America's Victory: The 1997 UPS Strike, and Real Union Busting. Cost: Free streaming (no registration required). Over 1,700 films and videos are listed here, searchable by title, director, actors and/or keywords.
84. Labour in an Affluent Society
    Resource Type: Article
    Put together by the Radical Education Project, this paper includes the following articles: "WILDCAT: anatomy of a work stoppage" by Steve Fox; "THE BRUNS STRIKE: a case study of student participation in labor" by C. Clark Kissinger; and "BLUE RIDGE: The History of the Levi Strike" by Brenda Mull.
85. Labour in Newfoundland
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
86. Labor in the Age of Climate Change 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Climate change must be stopped. But who will do the stopping? Who, in other words, could be the political subject of an anticapitalist climate revolution? Stefania Barca argues that this social agent could be, and indeed must be, the global working class. Yet to play this role, the working class must develop an emancipatory ecological class consciousness.
87. Labour movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour relations.
88. The Labour Movement and Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1908
    Unions and political organizations each have their role in the struggle against capitalism.
89. Labor on the Ropes
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition, Kim Moody focuses on why the organized labor movement went into decline and points to potential signs of revival. The author’s explanation begins with the worsening economic situation in the 1970s and a harsher anti-union climate, both politically and in the workplace, as “business refined its ability to act as a class.”
90. The Labor Party in the Big Picture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    THE LABOR PARTY convention was inspiring. At the Detroit chapter's report-back meeting, locked-out newspaper workers talked about how good it felt to be in a convention hall where everyone would support you, "unlike the Democrats and Republicans."
    Authorizing the possibility of electoral campaigns means that, in the places where those happen, we have the potential to attract a whole different layer of members.
    
91. Labor Politics in Action, 1901-1911: The Union Labor Party of San Francisco
    Against The Current vol. 81
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    In 1900 San Francisco had an organized labor movement that reflected the unique development of this metropolis of the West. San Francisco did not experience the slow and steady growth of Chicago and other cities of the plains, but became a city overnight in 1850 when thousands of gold seekers poured in from the East and every part of Europe, and beyond.
92. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
93. Labour's lost leader
    The legacy of Tony Benn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    From an interview to Tony Benn - sometime in the mid-1990s - his point of view about how broad and profound was the defeat of both trade unionism and the democratic socialist left over the previous decade.
94. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Website
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
95. "Left-Wing" Communism
    An Infantile Disorder
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918
    Lenin's repsonse to ultraleftists who advocate 'no compromises' and refuse to work in 'reactionary' trade unions and parliamentary elections.
96. Let's Get to Work
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left.
97. Libcom.org 
    Resource Type: Website
    Resource for all people who wish to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions. We want to discuss with one another, learn from experiences of the past and develop strategies to increase the power that we, as ordinary people, have over our own lives.
98. Life After Death for Labor?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
99. Life Support for Labor?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Debate Over how to save the labour movement suffers from a serious deficit of books written by organizers. Rarely do we get an entire book by someone who has been organizing for four decades, and is still actively engaged with union members, staff and leaders.
100. Live Working or Die Fighting 
     How the Working Class Went Global
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2010
     Mason relates a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
101. Los Angeles: Assessing D2K Protests
     Against The Current vol. 89
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     More than 10,000 activists gathered in LA for the Democratic convention protests August 5-18. The main protest held Monday, August 12 drew around 10,000 activists. Three thousand had gathered for the Mumia march held the previous day.
102. Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
     Resource Type: Article
     Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
103. The Making of Jericho Road
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
104. 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.
105. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 13
     Marx and Engels 1854 - 1855
     Resource Type: Book
     Includes Revolutionary Spain
106. Marx et Makhno a la rencontre de McDonald's
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     A Paris, les travailleurs précaires qui sont sortis vaniqueurs de plusieurs grèves en ont perud d'autres avec les honneurs à cause des méthodes à la fois légales et illégales des syndicats et des ultra-syndicalistes.
107. Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
108. Marxism and the Trade Unions
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1970
     Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
     
109. A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
110. Marxists Internet Archive 
     Resource Type: Website
     Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
111. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1906
     Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
112. A Massive Crisis in Auto: Delphi, GM, the UAW, and Soldiers of Solidarity
     Against The Current vol. 120
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     On December 19, facing a strike threat and pressure from GM, Delphi Corporation backed away from its "final offer" to the United Auto Workers, pushing the deadline back to the end of February. With the demand for a 63% wage cut off the table, complicated horse trading will ensue—but what's clear is that rank-and-file anger and mobilization makes a big difference.
113. Mexico in Labor's Crucible
     Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
114. Mining History Written in Blood
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
115. The Missing Piece
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     A strong, independent labour movement could lead the struggle for democracy and justice in the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte's revolution, at least so far, looks like nothing more than a reshuffling of the country's political elite. The election seems to mark a period of continuity, not progressive change, in Philippine politics.
116. More Unequal
     Aspects of Class in the United States
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
117. The Need for a New Socialist Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1984
     It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
118. New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class-Struggle Unionism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2014
     A book that compiles workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
119. A New Labor Movement for a New Century
     Resource Type: Book
     Charts the possibilities for a more vibrant, inclusive, and democratic labor movement.
120. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
121. The Nine-Hour Movement
     How civil disobedience made unions legal
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     From today’s strike-first strategy of fast food workers in America, to the 1965 postal workers wildcat which ushered in public sector collective bargaining, civil disobedience has long been essential to breaking through legal barriers imposed on workers. The birth of Canada's labour movement was during a movement of mass civil disobedience in attempt to secure the nine hour workday.
122. Not Automatic
     Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union
     Resource Type: Book
     This story of the birth and infancy of the United Auto Workers, told by two participants, shows how the gains workers made were neither easy nor inevitable - not automatic - but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action.
123. On the Labor Bureaucracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1997
     The job of socialists today, as in the past, is to help organize a rank-and-file movement within the unions that is critical of the methods of bureaucratic business unionism and promotes militancy, solidarity and union democracy. While today the main job of such a reform movement "from below" would be to educate and organize a "militant minority," rank-and-file groupings can promote an alternative vision of "class struggle unionism" and prepare for large scale struggles in the future.
124. Organizing "The Organized"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize of the unorganized” to offset, and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying membership. In union circles, a distinction was often made between that "external organizing" – to recruit workers who currently lack collective bargaining rights – and "internal organizing," which involves engaging more members in contract fights and other forms of collective action aimed at strengthening existing bargaining units.
125. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
     Working class organizing
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
126. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
     Destabilization and Regime Change
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
127. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
     Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2017
     Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
128. Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1935
     
129. Pannekoek, Anton - Writings - Index
     Resource Type: Article
     Writings of Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960).
130. Parent, Madeleine
     Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
     Resource Type: Article
     Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
131. Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
     All About Unions in Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1987
     A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
132. Picketing
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     A form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in ("crossing the picket line"), but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause.
133. The Pittsburgh Reds, 1911-1914: Revolutionary Socialists in Allegheny County
     Against The Current vol. 81
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1999
     The Socialist Party of America reached the peak of its strength and influence in 1912. In that year, the party could claim 118,000 members, and 879,000 American voters (about 6% of the total) cast their votes for Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs. There were some 1,200 Socialist elected officials throughout the United States in 1912, and over 300 Socialist periodicals.
134. 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.
135. 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.
136. A Program Of Action for the Labour Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1978
     
137. Programme du Centre de Pastorale en Milieu Ouvrier 1977-78
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1978
     
138. A Proposal to American Labor
     'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2002
     The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
139. Puerto Rico's La Huelga del Pueblo
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1998
     AFTER FORTY DAYS on strike, several paros (one-day stoppages) in various government agencies and a two-day general strike, Puerto Rico's telephone workers have returned to work without attaining their objective: forcing the government to break its agreement to sell the state-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) to a group of investors led by GTE.
140. Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Smith's review of a book published on the history of LGBT activisim within the labour movement.
141. Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     In the 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation private while organizing textile workers at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina. When the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) offered her an organizing position in a small town in Virginia, Rankin, turned down the opportunity fearing isolation due to her sexual orientation.
142. Radical America - Volume 6, No. 3 - May - June 1972
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1972
     
143. Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2014
     Today, fewer than 7% of American private-sector workers belong to a union and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This book argues that labour can be revived with social movement unionism that involves raising worker's expectations.
144. Raising the Workers' Flag
     The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2012
     A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
145. 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.
146. Red and Green
     The New Politics of the Environment
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1986
     In order for green politics to work, we need to develop a total policy for the environment, a social policy which views capitalist industry as the destroyer of the world we live in.
147. Red Clydeside
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     A term used to describe the era of political radicalism that characterised the city of Glasgow in Scotland, and urban areas around the city on the banks of the River Clyde such as Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley.
148. 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.
     
149. Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
150. 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.
151. Renewal through Strike
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Strikes are a major means of trade union self-assertion. A closer look at strikes in Germany reveals interesting trends and developments, indicating new approaches to trade union strategies and practices.
152. A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
153. Resistance in China Today
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
154. The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.
155. Review Essay: Reutherism Redux
     Against The Current vol. 112
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     Despite stepped-up union recruitment, farm workers and poultry processors still haven't taken over the AFL-CIO. But the old guard's fear of being swamped by low-wage workers—expressed by this AFT delegate seven years ago—has materialized in other ways (even while organizing among "strawberry pickers and chicken pluckers" generally flopped).
156. Roads to the Arab Uprisings
     Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
157. Rosa Luxemburg 
     Selected Political Writings
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1972
     A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
158. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
159. Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997): Journalist, Communist, Intellectual
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     This thesis explores aspects of the life, times, and career of Australian journalist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997). During the Cold War, Lockwood was one of the best known members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), variously journalist, commentator, author, editor, orator, pamphleteer, broadcaster.
160. Seeds of Fire 
     A People's Chronology
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012   Published: 2017
     Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
161. A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
     Challenging the Two Parties of Capital
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful labor party in United States history. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Association, a grouping of associated unions and farmers, provided the organic connection between labor and the party.
162. 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.
163. 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.
164. Socialism and Revolution 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
     Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
165. Socialism and the New Life
     The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977
     
166. The Socialist Register 1967
     Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1967
     
167. The Socialist Register 1976
     Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1976
     
168. The Socialist Register 1977
     Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1977
     
169. The Socialist Register 1980
     Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1980
     
170. The Socialist Register 1982
     Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1982
     
171. The Socialist Register 1983
     Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1983
     
172. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
     Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1986
     
173. Socialist Register 1991
     Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1991
     
174. Solidaire No. 7
     April 1975
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1975
     Issue focuinsg on the beginnings of a socialist movement in Montreal.
175. Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     Polish trade union.
176. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
177. Spanish Dock Workers Build Union Without Bureaucrats
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1989
     Containerization has devastated port labor throughout the world. Spanish struggles over containerization have been unique becausea "socialist" government has spearheaded port reorganization and it has met stiff resistance from the revolutionary union of longshoremen, La Coordinadora.
178. The Strike and Its Enemies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission.
179. The Struggle at Peugeot in France
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     When the management of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group announced, in early July 2012, that it was eliminating 8,000 jobs and closing the Aulnay plant near Paris (3,000 employees) in 2014, it caused a shock wave, well beyond the workers in the automotive sector.
180. Three Ways Labor Can Fight Back
     Time to Declare War
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     Unions need to streamline their message, make it less cerebral and more visceral.
181. Tony Mazzocchi Lives: Blue-Green Organizer Takes Up 'Just Transition' Mantle
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Union and environmental activist Alex Lotorto believes environmentalists should be working more closely with organized labour and following the advice of some of labour's more enlightened leaders.
182. Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
183. Toronto's Poor
     A Rebellious History
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2016   Published: 2916
     Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
184. Towards Workers' Climate Action
     Book review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     A review of a book and a pamphlet by Paul Hampton, both on the urgent need for workers' action on climate change.
185. Trade Unionism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1936
     The narrow field of trade union struggle widens into the broad field of class struggle. But now the workers themselves must change. They have to take a wider view of the world. From their trade, from their work within the factory walls, their mind must widen to encompass society as a whole. Their spirit must rise above the petty things around them. They have to face the state; they enter the realm of politics. The problems of revolution must be dealt with.
186. Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
     New Internationalist December 2001
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2001
     A look at some of the facts and issues regarding trade unions and what they have done for people in various parts of the world.
187. Transforming Power
     From the Personal to the Political
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
188. Travails of U.S. Labor
     Against The Current vol. 84
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     A Short History of the U.S. Working Class is an excellent introduction for the “workers and students” whom Paul Le Blanc commendably defines as its principal audience. The language is clear and accessible, the text enlivened by illustrations, and perhaps most distinctive and useful are the many pages of reference at the back of the book. These include a bibliographical essay which cites movies as well as books (135-157), a nineteen-page glossary, a timeline of the period from 1775 to 1990, a U.S. labor history chronology, and an unusually comprehensive index.
189. 25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
     Against The Current vol. 121
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
190. The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1907
     To be sure, revolutions and revolutionary struggles cannot be transplanted artificially, by means of ‘good intentions’, into a country. But the examples and lessons of a neighbouring revolutionary country can at least shake the belief that treading softly is the only method of achieving bliss. And well they should.
191. Unionism and Socialism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1907
     The labor movement of modrn times is the product of past ages. It has come down to us for the impetus of our day, in pursuit of its world-wide mission of emancipation.
192. Unions and the Road to Socialism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The familiar model of union struggle has been ineffective in attempts to change capitalism. I will try to explain why unions have not shaken capitalism's foundations. The explanation will point to the failure to challenge inequalities in returns to labour and capital from production.
193. Unless Union Workers Can Strike, They're Dead
     Level the Playing Field
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The strike is workers' only viable weapon. Why? Because it, and it alone, immediately affects the company’s profits. Without labour, they're crippled.
194. U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
195. U.S.A : How Federal Workers Could Fight the Shutdown
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they'll have to organize.
196. We Make the Road By Walking 
     Conversations on education and social change
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     Horton, the founder of the Highlander Folk School, and Freire, a Brazilian education leader, are from two different backgrounds, but their shared views on the use of participatory education in bringing about social change are the basis for this thought-provoking book.
197. We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2000
     A history of the militant labour organization founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World.
198. We The Workers: A limited documentary about labour rights groups in China
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     A review of a documentary on labour conditions in China. The docementary was filmed at great risk but the motiviations and the end product are questionable.
199. When the UAW Was Young
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
200. Which Path for Labour in the Fight for Jobs and an Independent Canadian Economy
     ...Collaboration or a Militant Class-Struggle Fightback?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1979
     This research and position paper is the United Electrical Workers' (U.E.) response to the report of the Second Tier Committee published in mid-July 1978 after meetings between business, corporations heading the industrial sectors and labour representatives from these sectors.
201. Who Advocates Spontaneity? 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1973
     The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
     
202. Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
203. Why Strikes Fail
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1943
     Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.
204. Wisconsin Uprising
     Labor Fights Back
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2012
     A collection of essays describing the working class uprising that occurred in Wisconsin, in February and early March of 2011.
205. Women's Trade Union League
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
206. Workers Solidarity - Volume 1, Number 1 - New Series
     February - April 2004
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2004
     A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
207. Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity
     Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2015
     Paul Hampton, a Marxist trade union researcher in Britain, addresses the role of workers in the climate justice movement, as well as the tasks of revolutionaries.
208. Working Class Hero
     A New Strategy for Labor
     Resource Type: Book
     
209. A Working-Class Hero Is Something To Be
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     As a 35-year veteran of union activity in America, I can personally attest that Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers (OCAW) was a rare bird, perhaps the last of his kind.
210. Working Lives
     Vancouver 1886-1986
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1986
     

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