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  1. Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  2. The Beginning of an Era
    On the May 1968 revolt in France
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
  3. Bequests
    Leaving a social justice legacy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.
  4. Berkeley at War: The 1960s
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  5. The Berkeley Student Revolt
    Facts and Interpretations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    An anthology of writings on the Berkely student revolt of 1964.
  6. Break Their Haughty Power 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  7. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  8. 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.
  9. The Canadian Student Movement in the Sixties: Three case studies
    PhD Thesis, University of Alberta, 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
  10. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
  11. Chicago '68
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
  12. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  13. Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Political activist and politician, active in France and Germany. A student leader during the May 1968 revolt in France. (Born 1945).
  14. Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962 - 1968
    The Great Refusal
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  15. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  16. Counter-Culture
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    An article on the history of the 1960s Counter-Culture in Toronto.
  17. Counterculture
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
  18. Counterculture of the 1960s
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A cultural movement that mainly developed in the North America and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and the mid-1970s as a reaction against the political conservatism and social repression of the 1950s.
  19. 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.
  20. Didn't See The Same Movie
    Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
  21. European Communist Parties and '68
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    One effect of the May 1968 uprisings was to highlight and/or hasten the split between communist parties and social movements in Europe.
  22. Fire in the Streets
    America in the 1960s
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    A political and cultural history of each year of the 1960's, focusing on one person to exemplify the year. Activist John Lewis is used to emphasize the Civil Rights movements heating up in 1960; Clark Kerr and the Berkeley "free speech movement" characterize 1964.
  23. Framing the Sixties
    Corporate Media Shadows and the 1960s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    What Really Happened to the 1960s is a look at the role the media played in the presentation and interpretation of the struggles of the 1960s. Simultaneously, it is a consideration of the meaning of democracy in a society where the media is owned by corporations and elites who consider democracy antithetic to their hegemony.
  24. Free Speech Movement Archives
    Resource Type: Website
    Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
  25. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley after student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and solicited donations for civil rights causes, in violation of university policy.
  26. Freedom rides
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
  27. Freedom Summer
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    An analysis of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the myths surrounding the campaign and 60s activism in general.
  28. French Revolution 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Seale and McConville set out to relate what happened during the May 1968 revolt in France, to set the explosion in its context of French politics, and to single out what they take to be the original and creative features of the situation.
  29. Fugitive Days
    Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
  30. Harvey Richards Media Archive
    Movement Photographer of the 1960s
    Resource Type: Website
    The Harvey Richards Media Archive contains a treasure of images of the political and social upheavals of the 1960s on the west coast and of the devastating impact of capitalist resource exploitation in western forests, among other subjects.
  31. Hippies
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A subculture which was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world.
  32. Human Be-In
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A happening in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967
  33. I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
    Resource Type: Book
  34. The Imagination of the New Left
    A Global Analysis of 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Brings to life the social movements and events of the 1960s that made it a period of world-historical importance: the Prague Spring; the student movements in Mexico, Japan, Sri Lanka, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Spain; the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and guerrilla movements in Latin America; the Democratic Convention in Chicago; the assassination of Martin Luther King; and the near-revolution in France of May 1968.
  35. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  36. Introduction: Time, Age, Myth: Towards a History of the Sixties
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Published in Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties, Lara Campbell, Dominique Clement, and Greg Kealey, eds. Toornto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2012
  37. 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.
  38. The Italian Long ’68
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Taddeo describes how the charateristics of 1968 continued in Italy passed 1968 and his subsequent participation in various movements. He explains that with the struggles of 1977 and the repression that followed, one can say that the social ferment begun in Italy in 1968 had exhausted itself.
  39. The Joy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997   Published: 2007
    Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
  40. Long March, Short Spring 
    The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An examination of the world student rebellions of the late 1960s.
  41. 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.
  42. Looking for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
  43. The Mandate of Heaven
    Marx and Mao in Modern China
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    China’s transformation from a poor country devastated by war into a major world power is a modern legend. But how did this change come about? What are the real living conditions of the peasants and workers? Why, when apparently united in their beliefs, are Russia and China enemies? And why, if Mao is right, must Marx be wrong? Using publications from the People’s Republic and his own extensive research, Nigel Harris has written a serious critique of the history, aims and actions of the communist Party in China.
  44. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 at which Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial.
  45. Marx in 1968 in France
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In a personal essay, Coleman describes his personal experiences in France from 1966-1968.
    He highlights significant number of Marxists teaching in both high schools and secondary settings. Furthermore, he discusses how the working class perceived in the Marxist far left, Trotskyist and Maoist press before May 1968.
  46. Marx in 1968: Report on a Journey
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Harvey Goldman discusses his intellectual jounrey during the 1960s in relationship to Marism. As a member of SDS, Goldman was engaged actively in student activism.
  47. Marx and Marxism in Berkeley in 1968
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Setting context by describing the early twentieth century political landscape in Berkeley, Goldner continues to describe his experince as a student at UC Berkeley by discussing local, national and international contexts for my encounter with Marx in Berkeley, 1968.
  48. A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
  49. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
  50. May 1968 Graffiti
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
    "Don't consume Marx, live him."
  51. Merry Pranksters
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and who promoted the use of psychedelic drugs.
  52. Montreal revolutionaries, Canadian security and race: An interview with author David Austin
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Recently, Montreal writer David Austin published Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, a groundbreaking work that details the significant breadth and scope of Black Power activism in Montreal in the 1960s and 1970s.
  53. My Experiences in 1968 in Working-Class Turin
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Lepore recounts his experiences growing up in 1968 in working class Turin. He highlight the influence of the newspaper, Lotta Comunista, its developed Marxist approach and his subsequent involvement with, and then commitment to, that group.
  54. The New Left
    A Collection of Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Essays from participants in the American New Left of the 1960s.
  55. New Left
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s .
  56. The New Left at 40
    Legacy and Continuity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A collection of memoirs and commentaries.
  57. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book of essays on the 1960s New Left in Canada, by members of the New Left.
  58. The New Left Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An anthology of writings from the 1960s New Left.
  59. The New Radicals
    A Report with Documents
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966
    An analytical portrait of the young radical activists who have repudiated traditional liberalsim and who seek a new vision of American through civil rights, university reform, and anti-war and anti-poverty activities.
  60. The New Student Left
    An Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1967
    A collection of essays by active participants in the 1960s student movement on American college campuses.
  61. New World Coming
    The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
  62. The 1960 Sit-ins in Context
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The Civil Rights Movement that we associate with the 1960s was the culmination of a vast set of social and economic changes. The tradition of Black struggle itself, going back to the very beginnings of slavery in the New World, was also part of the context for the new movement.
  63. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
  64. On Being Watched in the 60s
    When Police Power was Embraced as a Form of Government
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    There would seem to be the notion that the Sixties were the product of immaculate conception. In fact, they were more an act of conversion, conversion of the isolated, unfocussed, dispersed and inarticulate alienation of the 1950s into a mass movement with common language, direction, and rules.
  65. Outlaws of America
    The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Based on interviews with former Weather Underground members, as well as with civil rights activists, Black Panthers, Young Lords, and others.
  66. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Website
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  67. Phil Ochs Lives!
    "There But For Fortune"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Phil Ochs and his influence.
  68. A post-affluence critique 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (Ramparts Press, 1971) reviewed by Jeremy Brecher Root & Branch No. 4 (1973), pp. 7-22.
  69. Protests of 1968
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Protests of 1968 consisted of a worldwide series of protests, largely led by students and workers.
  70. The 'Radical trip' of the the Canadian Union of Students, 1963-69
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    MA Thesis, Trent University, 2009
  71. Radical White Workers During the Last Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The long-lost story of anti-racist, radical white working class activism has been restored by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy in their invaluable book: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.
  72. Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
  73. Resources from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and related groups and activities
    Resource Type: Website
    a listing of the major memoirs written about Students for a Democratic Society, and a link to one major collection of the documents written at the time in PDF format.
  74. Response to May '68 Revisited
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    "May '68 was another step in the modernization of French capitalism." So was 1789, but it was a lot more too.
  75. Revolution for the Hell of It
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  76. The Revolution Game
    The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A historical overview of the Company of Young Canadians.
  77. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Essays by Dave Dellinger
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
    Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
  78. Rochdale
    The Runaway Collage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
  79. 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.
  80. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
  81. The Situationists and the Occupation Movements (1968/2011)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In what ways does the Occupy movement of 2011 resemble the French Situationists of the 1960s?
  82. The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  83. The 60s without Apology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  84. 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.
  85. '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.
  86. Smoking Typewriters
    The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Describes the emergence of an underground press in the 1960s. Writers and participants reflected the spirit of cultural and political protest and encouraged the development of the New Left's highly democratic "movement culture".
  87. 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.
  88. The Sociology of Political Sects
    Four sects in Toronto in 1968-1969
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1972
  89. 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.
  90. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
  91. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  92. Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    The History of SDS as You've Never Seen It Before. Captures the idealism and activism that drove a generation of young Americans to try to transform the world.
  93. Summer of Love
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
  94. Tlatelolco massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968 in Mexico City.
  95. Turn on tune in - hippie photos unseen for decades
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A recent visit to the Chronicle's basement archives to look for hippie-related photos paid off with some wonderful images that have not been seen in several decades. Many of them were taken in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
  96. 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.
  97. Underground press
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations.
  98. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
  99. An Unrepentant '68er's Life
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.
  100. Up Against the Ivy Wall
    Resource Type: Book
  101. The Way the Wind Blew
    A History of the Weather Underground
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  102. We Are Everywhere
    Resource Type: Book
  103. We are the Student Movement?
    Remembering the Rise and Fall of the Canadian Union of Students 1965-1969
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  104. What Really Happened to the 1960s
    How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    A historical overview, critical analysis, and appraisal of the 1960s. Drawing upon historical and media studies, theories of capitalism and democracy, and in-depth study of the era's social movements, Morgan provides an extremely comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the events and aftermath of the 1960s.
  105. (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.
  106. Wobblies & Zapatistas 
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
  107. Woodstock
    The Oral History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  108. Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
  109. Worldwide "Moment of Madness"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at 1968 a legendary year in history. Analysis of how student- and worker-led revolts played out in different parts of Europe.
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