1. An Action a Day
   Keeps Global Capitalism Away
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   
2. Action Will Be Taken 
   Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2004
   Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
3. The Activists' Handbook
   A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2012
   A guide to grassroots activism.
4. All the World's A Rage?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000
   In today's political vocabulary, "direct action" is interpreted to mean any form of action short of marking an 'X' on a ballot. Throwing a brick through a Starbucks window is certainly a direct action and the thrower of the projectile is making a direct statement against the glass window of the coffee chain; it may even provide the thrower with a flush of adrenaline, but as a strategy it will fail.
5. An analysis of the G20 protest and the black bloc
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   It should be clear that the actions of the black bloc reflect their politics. The actions in Toronto mirror those tactics used elsewhere. The tactics and politics regardless of their intent are inherently elitist and counter-productive. In fact they mirror the critique of reformism many on the left have. The NDP says vote for us and we’ll do it for you, the black bloc says in essence the same thing – we will make the revolution for you. At best the tactics of the black bloc are based on a mistaken idea that the attacks on property and the police will create a spark to encourage others to resist capitalism, at worst they are based on a rampant individualistic sense of rage and entitlement to express that rage regardless of the consequences to others. The anti-authoritarian politic they follow is imposed on others. Very rarely will you see a black bloc call its own rally, instead the tactic is to play hide and seek with the police under the cover of larger mobilisations.
6. Another World is Possible 
   Globalization and Anti-capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
   A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
7. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2003
   An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
8. Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered People
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. The Art of Activism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1997
   The unique style of 'protest as performance' pioneered by the queer rights group OutRage!
10. As Trudeau cracks down, the left drives protesters into the right's arms again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution.
11. Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An organization that came together in response to the political situation in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, first meeting in June 2006.
12. Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The Popular Assembly at Syntagma has been able to go beyond democratic discussion to democratic decisions but the construction of real workers democracy is still under way. While thousands take part in the assembly, there are five million living in Athens and millions more in the rest of Greece. To democratically include all these millions requires a system of delegation, in which delegates from neighborhoods and workplaces attend city-wide assemblies and delegates from these attend a nationwide assembly.
13. Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
    Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
14. The black bloc and the Battle of Seattle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    
15. Bolivia After the Referendum
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The month following Bolivia's recall referendum on August 10, 2008 tragically confirmed the class polarization of that country. The right-wing autonomists of the Santa Cruz, Pando, Beni, Tarija and Sucre departments (states or provinces) escalated their destabilization campaign against the Morales government, while the latter singularly failed to assert its rightful democratic control over all Bolivian territory. A small, racist and virulently right-wing minority has been able to shut down large parts of the country and spill indigenous peasant blood with impunity.
16. Burdened with Debt Reloaded: The Politics ofr Devaluation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A series of defensive and sectional struggles at workplaces in the private sector reveal that the Greek industrial capital has already taken advantage of the new institutional framework of the “state of emergency” now ruling in Greece to prop up its profitability or just transfer its own debts and losses onto the workers.
17. Catalonia 'separatists' bad, HK 'pro-democracy protesters' good: Orwell's 1984 becomes user's manual for Western 'free media'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over 'separatists' causing chaos. When the same tactic is used in Hong Kong, it's a 'pro-democracy' protest. In George Orwell’s 1984, The War Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Peace. Truth was Lies, Hate was Love. But author Lewis Carroll got there first.
18. China's Worker Protests: A Second Wave of Labor Unrest?
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    There has been a 30% rise in collective riots in China in recent years. Whereas in 1993, there were 10,000 reported cases with 700,000 participants, in 2003 it jumped to 60,000 with 3 million participants. Among these examples, labor unrest has been quite outstanding, though it is difficult to get official statistics.
19. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
20. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
21. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
22. Coxey's Army
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A protest march by unemployed workers from the United States.
23. Cryptome Protest Photos Series
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2012
    
24. Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Document accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011.
25. Defiance with Freedom in Mind
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
    The case for civil disobedience.
26. Direct Action for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
27. Diversity of Tactics and Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    To me, a strategy isn't democratic if it intrinsically alienates the majority of oppressed people and shuts the door to their participation. A strategy isn't democratic if it drives away the working class when they have every reason to participate and want to.
28. 'Diversity of tactics' as a justification for violent tactics - a debate, part 1
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    
29. Do or Die: The people versus development in the Narmada Valley
    New Internationalist July 2001 - #336
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    A look at the case the Supreme Court of India against The People regarding the Narmada Dam.
30. Do the Greeks get it?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A word has to be said about the somewhat depressing character of the clash between reformism and ultraleftism in Greece. Radical youth might have a natural prejudice against the KKE and PAME because it is so compromised with class-collaborationist coalition building. But instead of trying to figure out a way to win the ranks of the CP to the revolutionary cause, it sees its membership as part of the problem and not part of the solution.
31. Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    
32. The Domestic War on Protesters
    It's Not Just Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    While the US claims to uphold right to demonstrate around the world, there have been countless examples throughout the history of this country of protests being shut down by an overwhelming police presence. In recent years, it has become routine for police departments to use a host of tactics to limit and prevent mass demonstrations. These tactics have included mass arrests of demonstrators, preemptive arrests and trumped up charges against protest organizers.
33. Dorothy Day Refuses To Duck-And-Cover
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. These drills were to prepare the citizenry in the event of a nuclear attack, and involved evacuations of city centers, taking shelter in subway tunnels, and, for schoolchildren, "duck-and-cover" to hide under their school desks. Such actions would be futile if a nuclear attack were underway, but the drills were part of a government propaganda program to convince Americans that nuclear weapons were a necessary part of the US arsenal, and that it would be possible to survive a nuclear war.
34. A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
35. 84-year-old ex-librarian arrested protesting Kinder Morgan, calls NEB a "sham"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Barbara Grant criticized the NEB hearings of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion as a "sham" and spoke out about the danger before crossing the police line to be arrested. At 84, she's the oldest person arrested on Burnaby Mountain so far.
36. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
37. Faces of global resistance
    New Internationalist September 2001 - #338
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    Discussion of corporate globalization and how some are organizing themselves to resists.
38. Failure To Quit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2016
    Zinn argues that pessimism over the so-called 'me generation' apparent apathy was unfounded, and that activist ideals do consistently carry over across generations.
39. Fight the Power! 
    A Visual History of Protest Among the English-Speaking Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Throughout history, ordinary people have risen up against oppression and injustice. Fight the Power visualizes 14 key moments in the last 200 years when people across the English-speaking world stood up and fought for a better life for all.
40. Fighting Subpoenas and Gag Orders in Iowa
    Against The Current vol. 110
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    More than two months have passed since federal officials withdrew the grand jury subpoenas against four peace activists and Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The withdrawal of the subpoenas and the gag order against Drake came amidst a firestorm of protest, not only from progressive and civil liberties lawyers and peace and justice activists from around the state and the country, but also from mainstream news media and elected politicians from both parties.
41. Five Days in Seattle: A View from the Ground
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    About the 1999 protests in Seattle.
42. Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
    Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled.
43. Fuel For Occupy Wall Street's Fire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Ultimately, the Occupy Wall Street protests have already succeeded. The movement has successfully re-focused the nation's debate on who ruined the economy and who should be targeted, shifting blame away from immigrants, unions, and other groups of working people, like public employees. The protests have also re-fueled working people's energy after the post-Wisconsin letdown, activating the energies of many who want to collectively organize for progressive change in the interests of working people.
44. The futility of activism using violence as catharsis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The anarchist practitioners of violence are fundamentally elitist. They do violence because it makes them feel good, and they don't care about the fact that it undermines the real work for social change that movement activists are doing.
45. Get Up, Stand Up 
    Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy.
46. The Great Strike at UNAM
    Against The Current vol. 88
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The Great Strike of the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM), which for more than nine months was occupied by students organized in the Strike General Committee (CGH), started on April 20, 1999 and lasted until February 6, 2000. On that date 2500 federal police, following orders given by President Zedillo, evicted hundreds of students from the campus and arrested them.
47. Herman's House
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
48. How Israel Silenced its Gaza War Protesters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead.
49. 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.
50. How the 'black bloc' protected the G20
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The black-clad mob in Toronto has left a lot of people not only in the general public but in the wider nonviolent social/global justice movements in Canada feeling disgusted, demoralized and dispirited. Just the result you want if your goal is to marginalize and stifle dissent. The blocistes, in other words, are the most effective tool on the ground for silencing the valid concerns of the broad social movements.
51. How the Left betrayed the Truckers
    The convoy is despised by those who should support it
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Ottawa's truckers are a symptom of the massive class divide that is opening up across the West. Marxists are sticking their heads in the sand about this generational moment, or papering it over with absurd topsy-turvy leaps.
52. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    Learning to fight in a world on fire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2021
    
53. How Ultraleftism Divided UNAM Strike
    Against The Current vol. 88
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    MEXICO CITY -- Commandeered buses flying red and black flags and Che Guevara portraits sped through the city on October 2, ferrying students to a demonstration commemorating the 1968 student massacre at the Plaza of the Three Cultures. Led by veterans of the 1968 movement, 60,000 students and their supporters slogged the fifteen kilometers from the university campus up Insurgentes and Reforma, the world's longest urban avenues, to a torchlight ceremony in the plaza. Just five weeks before, on August 28, 30,000 students had marched in support of the electricity workers' struggle against privatization.
54. If I Can't Dance ....
    Why is the Left So Boring?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
55. Immigrant Students and Workers Take to the Streets: Outpouring in Chicago
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In late February, word began to spread around Chicago about a protest against HR 4437, a bill passed by the House of Representatives to criminalize undocumented immigration, as well as aid given to undocumented immigrants (for more information on HR 4437, see http://www.ilrc.org/HR4437.html). A humble-looking activist website announced, in English and Spanish, "Unite!.March against HR 4437 General Strike!"
56. In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
57. In the Aftermath of the G20: Reflections on Strategy, Tactics and Militancy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The tactics of the Black Bloc make it clear that, for them, it is more important to smash windows than to try and march with thousands of workers and engage them in arguments about how to move struggles forward or that the problem is capitalism. How radical is it to trash a few windows? For us, radical is about workers gaining confidence and consciousness to fight back, not just at work, but in solidarity with others. Radical is about developing a sense of mass power, organising based on moving others into struggle, winning others to challenge the power in their workplace or community collectively, beyond the individualization of our society. Radical is about going to the roots of the system - not trashing its symbols.
58. Inside 15M: 48h with the indignants
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    
59. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
60. Iraq's Torture by Sanctions
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    An interview with Kathy Kelly. Kathy Kelly, organizer for Voices in the Wilderness, has been involved in the struggle around ending sanctions against Iraq for the past decade. David Finkel interviewed her for Against the Current in January 2001.
61. 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.
62. Kavita Krishnan: 'Women's Liberation, Everyone's Liberation'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Kavita Krishnan, a socialist organizer and a well-known international spokesperson for the movement against sexual violence in India, speaks on sexual violence, everyday sexism, protest, solidarity, and public space in India.
63. Keystone Cops
    TransCanada Cultivates Close Ties With Nebraska Police Agencies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Since August 2011, the Nebraska Information Analysis Center (NIAC) – one of more than 70 Department of Homeland Security “fusion centers” – and TransCanada Corporation, the company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline, have shared information about anti-pipeline protesters, Nebraska landowners, and opposition to the project.
64. The Labadie Collection
    Resource Type: Website
    The Labadie Collection was established in 1911 when Joseph Labadie, a prominent Detroit anarchist, donated his library to the University of Michigan. Although the Collection was originally concerned mainly with anarchist materials (the field in which it remains strongest), its scope was later widened considerably to include a great variety of social protest literature together with political views from both the extreme left and the extreme right. Materials are now collected from all parts of the world. In addition to anarchism, the Collection's strengths include: civil liberties (with an emphases on racial minorities), socialism, communism, colonialism and imperialism, American labor history through the 1930s, the IWW, the Spanish Civil War, sexual freedom, women's liberation, gay liberation, the underground press, and student protest.
    
65. Labour's Day of Protest -- The Issues and the Press
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    An issue sheet examining the biases of the Canadian Press in its coverage of the Oct 14th national Day of Protest against wage and price control policies.
66. Lakota vow: dead or in prison before we allow the KXL pipeline
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    On February 2,7 2014 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists joined in a four-directions walk to commemorate Liberation Day, an event to mark the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. As they do each year, four groups gather to the north, south, east and west and then walk eight miles until converging on top of Wounded Knee, where they honour the fallen warriors and the tribe’s rich history of resistance.
67. The language of the unheard
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A book review of "A People's History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) by author Matt Clement.
68. 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.
69. Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Discontent and rage have always been there, but while Social Democracy was in power, the supporters of the regime -- well placed in the open spaces for action and thought in high schools, universities and companies -- were able to use them to channel protests into directions that did not endanger the political credibility of the ruling parties.
70. 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.
71. A Marxist History of the World part 100: 1968-1975: the workers' revolt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere.
72. 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.
73. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
74. Militant Hope in the Age of Trump
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?
75. Morality Policing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power.
76. Morrison, Norman
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. (1933-1965).
77. The Myth of Peaceful Protest
    The Patronizing Intransigence of Power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Johnson discusses how peaceful protest is depicted as the way to speak out, and any kind of disorder or defiance of authority is presented not only unacceptable, but unnecessary.
78. 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.
79. A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
80. No Heroes in Montreal -- Why Endless Protest Does Not a Movement Make
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    No matter what you've taken to the streets to oppose - no matter how just your cause - your message gets lost when you don’t engage the community, you don't exercise discipline, or you just start acting like assholes.
81. NSW protesters: 'We will break these laws'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    "This is a law to protect the rich. We will need to break these laws to protect our democratic rights," Aboriginal activist and lead NSW Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance team in the federal elections Ken Canning, said on March 15, 2016. Canning was addressing protesters who had occupied the road outside State Parliament following a rally, called by Greens MLC David Shoebridge, against the state government's new laws attacking the right to protest.
82. Oaxaca protests 2006
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
83. 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.
84. Occupation of Anicinabe park
    The Occupation of Anicinabe Park 1974; Two Interviews
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    These interviews with Lyle Ironstand and Louis Cameron have been reprinted from Paper Tomahawks: From Red Tape to Red Power by James Burke, published in 1976 by Queenston House Publishing.
85. Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An unofficial record of the New York branch of the Occupy movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections.
86. Occupy Wall Street vs. Kingian Methods
    Where are the Demands?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The students, the labour unions, the working poor, the immigrants, the activists all over the country should come up with the solutions and make the demands. There can be dangerous consequences in organizing efforts when there is no clarity. It’s often a matter of life and death.
87. Occupy Wall Street - Wikipedia article
    Connexpedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    About the demonstrations in New York City, 2011.
88. Occupy Wall Street! Observations from a New York Public Sector Worker
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A lot remains to be seen, but if Madison is any indication, upping the ante in this struggle and achieving real results will require more than crowds ... it will require the focused activity of significant layers of the organized working classes, that have the roots and the experience to help leverage the power that is being built against the establishment here and nationally. Even if we don't get concrete wins, this will have been a hugely important protest but there is a potential for it to be concretely effective as well.
89. On to Ottawa Trek
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    In 1935, 1500 residents of federal unemployment relief camps in BC went on strike and moved by train and truck to Vancouver, spurred by angry concern for improved conditions and benefits in the camps. They then began a trek to Ottawa, but were stopped by police in Regina.
90. On-to-Ottawa Trek
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A 1935 social movement of unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.
91. One Fine Day
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    The documentary One Fine Day, shows six people from different cultures and religions who all, through a small nonviolent act, have had a significant and positive influence on society. Director Klaas Bense investigates how frustration can be turned into positive actions. He looks at what one single individual can achieve, and the often severe, personal consequences.
92. Organizing that Changed Mississippi
    Book Review of Salter Jr.'s "Jackson Mississippi" and Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A review of two books about the Mississippi's civil rights movement in 1965 from the perspectives of an African-American female student and a Native American male professor.
93. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
    Spying, terrorism, and protest
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the insidious power of propaganda; how to spot and defeat disruption on the Internet, and steps to sustainable livestock production. Topic of the week is War Crimes; book for the week is Berkeley: The New Student Revolt, and website of the week is LabourStart.
94. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
    A Healthier Planet
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
95. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
    Conflict of interest
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
96. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
    Sports and Politics
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
97. Our Generation
    Volume 1 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1962
    
98. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    
99. Our Generation
    Volume 19 Number 1
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
    
100. Paris and London in the 18th Century
     Studies in Popular Protest
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1952   Published: 1970
     Articles relating to popular protests and revolts breaking out in Paris and London during the eighteenth century.
101. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
     Resource Type: Website
     Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
102. Please Stop Chanting That 'We' Won the Popular Vote!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     "We" didn’t win the popular vote, because we weren't on the ballot. We are the ninety-nine percent.
103. Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
     Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
104. Political Protest
     Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     Political protest is the kind of political activity, eg, demonstrations, strikes and even violence, usually but not always undertaken by those who lack access to the resources of organized pressure groups, or by those whose values conflict sharply with those of the dominant elite.
105. The Politics (and Anti-Politics) of Occupy Wall Street
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     At present, the occupation reveals a lot about where people's politicization begins in the United States.
106. The Politics of Nonviolent Action 
     Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
107. Prisoners of the Good Fight
     The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
     Resource Type: Book
     This book tells of the hope young Americans had to stop Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, how they were captured, and what happened to them after their capture. It reveals the amazing breaks which allowed some to survive, and how the survivors organized in the concentration camps and prisons to resist fascist brutality and indoctrinization and to maintain their morale and health.
108. Protest song
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     A song which is associated with a movement for social change.
109. 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.
110. Push Comes to Shove
     The Escalation of Student Protest
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1970
     Diary of Kelman's undergraduate years at Harvard during times of SDS-led student protest.
111. Que se vayan todos! Krise und Widerstand in Argentinien
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2003
     A collection of essays studying noncapitalist collectivism.
112. Quebecers' right to protest restricted after 2012 "Maple Spring" in Canada
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     In 2012, a massive student strike over tuition fee increases rocked Quebec and thousands took to the streets, marching in protest. In the aftermath, Montreal residents find that their ability to protest has been restricted, as the police employ increased powers to arrest and fine demonstrators.
113. Quotes about Activism
     Resource Type: Unclassified
     
114. Reclaim the Power! Climate protestors rout security with UK-wide fossil fuel strikes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
115. 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.
     
116. Reflections for the US Occupy Movement
     From Barcelona's Neighborhood Assemblies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     The deeper a struggle’s historical roots, the greater its collective knowledge.
117. Reflections on DC: Promises and Pitfalls in the Anti-Trump Uprising
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     The first mass protests of President Donald Trump represent a historic moment – one worth reflecting on so we can understand where we are and where we're going as a nation.
118. Remembering the Earth Day Wall Street Action
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     In 1989 the Greens held their national gathering in Eugene, Oregon. That was before they had entered national electoral politics, when they still focused on grassroots organizing, and what we now call 'movement from below.'
119. Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
120. The Repression Strengthened Us!
     Letter From Bolivia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     
121. Resist
     A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2001
     A dynamic collection of personal accounts, creative works, reflections, images and analyses about the protests against the FTAA summit that took place in April 2001 in Quebec City.
122. 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.
123. Rise of the naked female warriors
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
124. Second Nature
     The Animal-Rights Controversy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984
     Animal-rights advocates argue that humans have no right to kill any animal, whether by hunting or farming or for medical research. Is this a cure for our ecological ills or is it a symptom of the disease? What is irrefutably logical
125. 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.
126. Selma to Montgomery marches
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     Three marches in 1965 that marked the culmination of the voting rights movement of the American civil rights movement.
127. Should You March Against Trump?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Yasmin Nair addresses the issue of whether or not to march against Donald Trump this week, or in the months and years following.
128. Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2022
     Canadians as a whole, and especially centre-left voters, have come to believe that the legitimacy of a movement inheres not in its size or the diversity of people and views it represents, but rather in its ability to discipline and control its supporters.
129. State Department Condemns Attacks on Russian Peaceful Protests, Ignores Those in America
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     On March 26, the State Department tweeted, "U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values."
130. The State of the World Atlas
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1981
     
131. Stop the War
     The Story of Britain's Biggest Mass Movement
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     
132. Strategic Thinking and Organizing Resistance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Argues the need for strategy and vision, and effective organizing, in forming a resistance movement to the Trump presidency, and provides several suggestions for organizers.
133. Strike Wave Sweeps Brazil
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     Workers in Brazil—in heavy industry, services, the public sector, and agriculture—are involved in a series of strikes and mass protests such as the country hasn’t seen in decades.
134. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1969
     A collection of articles about student activism in Canada in the lates 1960s.
135. Student Protest
     The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1968
     
136. Summit Protests Are Obsolete
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     I can understand why a lot of folks went to the G20 protests, sincerely wanting to stand up and be counted against savage global capitalism and its consequences. The problem is, almost nobody who didn't participate, especially those who only heard of the protests through the media, has any idea what the protests were about, or why the protesters were there.
137. The Sussex University Occupation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Interview with Maia Pal during and immediately following the campus occupation against outsoursing at Sussex, England, which was broken up by the police on April 2, 2013.
138. Ten Points for the Occupied Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     Against Wall Street’s culture of economic exploitation, environmental degradation and human oppression we stand together to testify that another world is possible, a decent and humane world, a democratic world of liberty, dignity and solidarity.
139. Time for Civil Disobedience
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1990
     The lesbian and gay movement should be committed to a strategy of non-violent civil disobedience to force the repeal of Britain's discriminatory anti-homosexual laws.
140. Touching a Nerve
     No apology for fighting homophobia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1993
     Defending OutRage!'s decision to campaign against the homophobia of Lord Jakobovits.
141. Toyi-toyi
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     A dance that became famous for its use in political protests in the apartheid-era South Africa.
142. 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.
143. Tree sitting
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     A form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down.
144. The Truth About Kent State
     A Challenge to the American Conscience
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
145. 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     Marches, rallies, performances, demonstrations, exhibits, and acts of civil disobedience in New York City to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention and the nomination of President George W. Bush for the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
146. Ukraine's Protest Movement
     Is a 'Left Sector' Possible?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     A conversation about the necessity and possibility of a "Left Sector" and its struggle for hegemony in the 2013-2014 Ukrainian protests is important not only in the contemporary Ukrainian context, but also for the future.
147. US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'
     The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.
148. A View of the Occupy Wall Street Movement from the Inside
     A Participant's Critique of the Occupation of Wall Street
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     The Occupy Wall Street movement was supposed to be a revolt against a hierarchal, dehumanizing oligopoly. In reality, all that was created was a microcosm of the same system, but with new leaders. Like our nation's leaders, Occupy Wall Street’s leaders listened to everyone’s grievances, then decided upon a pre-determined plan of action that cleverly borrowed the language of their constituency.
149. Wall Street occupation ignites mass movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     The simple, horizontal structure originally created around a GA using modified consensus has become a barrier to practical and political work by the occupiers and those involved through working groups.
150. Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested. But, perhaps, the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
151. What Makes a Protest Violent?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The conversation about protest violence has changed but the essential reality remains: the State and its enforcers (public and private) determine what acceptable violence is and what isn’t. This determination is not arrived at according to the nature or degree of the violent acts; it is arrived at according to who is perpetrating said act.
152. What Would it Mean to Win?
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2010
     Where is the movement today? Where is it going? Are we winning? The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions.
153. The Whole World is Watching
     Chinese Diggers?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     Thousands of villagers at Wukan, in China’s Guangdong province, are protesting the theft of their communal land by a corrupt local government in collusion with developers.
154. The Whole World Stopped Watching
     "Diversity of Tactics", Repression, and the RNC protests in St. Paul, Minnesota (Part I)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I must engage those of my activist friends who believe in the "Diversity of Tactics" framework, the now established modus operandi of summit and convention protests. I have come to believe a sorry record of repeated protest failures must be laid squarely at the foot of this ideologically tainted utopia.
155. Why is the New York Times promoting the "black bloc"?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     A New York Times article, which ran across four columns of the newspaper's front page under a huge photo of a black-masked individual preparing to break an office building window with an iron bar during Wednesday night's protests at the University of California, Berkeley, amounted to free publicity and promotion of the violent protests organized by elements identifying themselves as the "black bloc," anti-fascists and anarchists.
156. Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
     The New Global Revolutions
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2012
     From London to Cairo, Wisconsin to Tehran, Paul Mason charts new forms of collective action: fluid networks of agile, Twitter- and Facebook-savvy networks of youthful protesters. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new ways of thinking about political alternatives, elite rule and global poverty.
157. Why we walked out
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Students across the US are protesting a public relations campaign that brings soldiers from the Israeli army to speak on campuses. These tours are an attempt to justify recent war crimes committed by the army.
158. The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Despite what pundits said, the Women’s March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him?

Experts on Contestation in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive