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  1. 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.
  2. Algonquins vs. Frontenac Ventures
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I recently returned from a little-publicized “political hotbed” ignited by Frontenac Ventures Corporation (FVC), a private mining company causing grave injustices against the Ardoch First Nation community in Ontario, Canada.
  3. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  4. An Analysis of 12F
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A discussion of the events, factors, and actors involved in the protests, deaths, injuries, and arrests in Caracas on Venezuela's annual 'Youth Day'.
  5. The Battle of Cable Street
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Eighty years ago this week, anti-fascists in East London confronted Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts as they tried to march though what was then a largely Jewish area. Mosley's British Union of Fascists was notorious for using marches and rallies as cover for vicious attacks on Jews. The confrontation has gone down in folklore as 'The Battle of Cable Street'.
  6. The Battle of Seattle
    The new challenge to capitalist globalization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
  7. Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
    A Toolbox for Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Ideas for organizers.
  8. Beer Riots in Bavaria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1844
  9. Behind the Dirty Cleansing of New Orleans
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Commentaries on the viciousness of Congressman Richard Baker’s (R-LA) oft-cited comment that “we couldn’t get rid of public housing, but God did” often miss the fact that it is, in many ways, an accurate assessment of the intentions of U.S. public housing policy.
  10. 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.
  11. Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its Job
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.
  12. 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.
  13. Bonus March, 1932
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1932   Published: 1982
    WFPL footage of the 1932 Bonus Army demanding early redemption of their service certificates in Washington D.C. through protest.
  14. 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.
  15. The Clouds Clear: Labor, Seattle and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    As the clouds of teargas lifted from the streets of Seattle two images emerged in public consciousness: The edifice of the WTO brought crashing to its knees, simultaneously revealing an odd Lilliputian army of labor, environmental, church and assorted activists that had appeared out of nowhere to assault what had been presumed to be an unassailable new world order.
  16. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  17. Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
  18. Crisis and Coup in Ecuador
    Against The Current vol. 87
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    On January 21, 2000, for the first time since the Spanish conquest of Ecuador in A.D. 1533-34, indigenous people briefly -- very briefly -- ruled the country as part of a triumvirate. Frustrated by over a decade of economic problems, corruption and political stalemates over indigenous rights and land disputes, thousands of indigenous protesters and members of popular movements converged on Quito, the country's capital. On the 21st, hundreds of protesters occupied Congress and proclaimed a People's Parliament.
  19. Cryptome Protest Photos Series
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2012
  20. The Day the Internet Died
    An Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    When Hosni Mubarak Shut Off Cell Phones and the Internet in January 2011 Was the Moment When More Egyptians than Ever Went Out into the Streets.
  21. The Deceptive Use of the Phrase "Peaceful Protests" in Venezuela
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The Venezuelan opposition and much of the media use the term "peaceful protests" to distinguish gatherings of protesting students and other young people from the more violent actions.
  22. Demonstration (people)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A form of nonviolent action by groups of people in favor of a political or other cause, normally consisting of walking in a march and a meeting (rally) to hear speakers.
  23. Dignity of the Nobodies 
    La dignidad de los nadies
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2005
    The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires' poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fighting multi-national banks that are shamelessly appropriating their farmlands.
  24. 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.
  25. Everything's on the Line at AAM
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The strike of 3,600 UAW-represented workers at American Axle and Manufacturing plants in Michigan and New York has forced the idling of more than 40,000 workers in 30 GM plants and shut down a number of parts plants throughout North America. Eighty percent of AAM’s axles, chassis components and forged products are shipped to General Motors, but AAM also produces parts for other automakers, including Chrysler and Toyota.
  26. 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.
  27. Ford Massacre
    Detroit Workers News Special, 1932
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1932   Published: 1982
    WFPL newsreel of the March 7th Detroit/Dearborn demonstration and hunger march of unemployed Ford workers.
  28. French Students Speak for Themselves What We Won - and Need
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The following collective interview was conducted for ATC by Patrick Silberstein of Editions Syllepse.
  29. Further Particulars of the Silesian Riots
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1844
    The causes of these affrays were the incredible sufferings of these poor weavers, produced by low wages, machinery, and the avarice and greediness of the manufacturers.
  30. 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.
  31. Global Showdown
    How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Documents the new forces of resistance and invitates readers to join the struggle for alternatives.
  32. A Gran Marcha and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    March, 2006 marked an eruption that hit the streets, showed its strength, and took everyone including its participants by surprise. Millions marched all over the country: 300,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in Denver, 10,000 in Detroit and Milwaukee, 10,000-20,000 in New York, 20,000 in Phoenix—and somewhere between 500,000 and a million in the Gran Marcha in Los Angeles on March 25. As the U.S. Congress and Senate hold their wretched deliberations on "immigration reform," the communities affected have shown they will not be passive objects, but active subjects, in this debate. As this issue goes to press, mass marches have continued and Congress has recessed in deadlock on the issue.
  33. The Great Depression
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1934
    WFPL docudrama with a silent narrative of one man's struggle and despair in search of a job in Depression-era Chicago.
  34. 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.
  35. Greenpeace Ottawa Action Against Tar Sands
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    More than 200 people risked arrest on Parliament Hill in the largest climate-related civil disobedience action in Canadian history. The rally and the civil disobedience remained peaceful through the day-long event on the Hill. The main message of the action was to urge Prime Minister Harper to turn away from a destructive tar sands industry and start building a green energy future that promotes climate justice, respects Indigenous rights and prioritizes the health of the environment and communities.
  36. Guide to public order situations
    A brief survival guide for when a demonstration turns into a riot
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Bear in mind that the police are probably much better equipped and trained for close combat than you or I. They have been psyching themselves up for hours, are likely to have plenty of reserves standing by and usually feel confident with the law behind them. Beating the police is about outwitting them, not necessarily hitting them over the head.
  37. 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.
  38. The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression - Review
    A report on Britain's Government Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1989
    Organizational tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
  39. The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  40. How the People's Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    I've never been to a protest march that advertised in the New York City subway. That spent $220,000 on posters inviting Wall Street bankers to join a march to save the planet, according to one source. That claims you can change world history in an afternoon after walking the dog and eating brunch.
  41. 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.
  42. IPPN Standing Strong in the Storm
    Against The Current vol. 88
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    If I were asked to name the one virtue that best describes the political left in America, I would say “perseverance.” As we know all too well, the long history of the left in our country is a history of frustration, betrayal and defeat, yet also of hope, vigor and determination despite many setbacks and our repeated failure to win any real political power.
  43. 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.
  44. It Started in Wisconsin
    Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A collection of accounts of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession in Wisconsin in the spring of 2011.
  45. Korea's New Revolutionaries
    Against The Current vol. 87
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Against the background of a rising militant working-class movement, revolutionary socialists in South Korea are undergoing a process of regroupment. An important force in this development are comrades of the Power of the Working Class (PWC) organization, formed in August of last year.
  46. Labor Scores at Verizon
    Against The Current vol. 89
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    On August 6 87,000 members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) struck Verizon Communications in twelve states from Maine to Virginia, and the District of Columbia. At the heart of the strike was the unions' attempt to maintain wall to wall unionization in an industry which is rapidly changing, to strengthen job security for workers in the wake of a national merger, and to fight the spread of lean production. The three-year contract we won represents a major victory on all of these issues.
  47. The Late Butchery at Leipzig. The German Working Men's Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1845
  48. Liberation, Then What?
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In a lucid contribution to our understanding of contemporary Africa, David Seddon and Leo Zeilig recently charted that continent's two waves of popular protest and class struggle over the last 40 years, as well as pointing to signs of a nascent third wave.
  49. Libya
    From Colony to Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Provides the background to the Libyan revolution by discussing its history from colonization up through the 2011 rebellion/foreign intervention that ousted Mu'ammar al-Qadafi.
  50. Like a Dull Knife: The People's Climate "Farce"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Even in a top-down format, one hopes the upcoming march could draw much-needed attention to the climate movement.
  51. Living Wage Campaigns: Part I
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    ROBERT KUTTNER WROTE in a recent Washington Post op-ed that living wage campaigns are “the most interesting (and under-reported) grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement.”1
  52. 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.
  53. Machismo and Its Discontents
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
  54. 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.
  55. Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
    Against The Current vol. 89
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Over 15 000 people from all corners of Australia and farther afield blockaded the Asia-Pacific summit of the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) in Melbourne between September 11 and 13 in the latest expression of the mood of anti-capitalist action around the world.
  56. Mothers of the Disappeared 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    This is the story of the mothers who risked their lives to demonstrate in the plazas by holding placards of the children they lost during the "guerra sucia" the dirty war fought in Argentina during the 1976-1983 repression by the Alfonsin junta. Through the Mother's own words we see the unfolding of Argentinian history, the growing polarization of society and how they coped with the effects not only on their family but the social structure of a country.
  57. The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1933   Published: 1982
    WFPL Documentary of the Second National Hunger March to Washington, D.C. 1932.
  58. National Hunger March, 1931
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1931
    WFPL footage of protesters marching to Washington demanding jobs, food, and clothing during the infancy of the Great Depression.
  59. The Nature of Mass Demonstrations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968   Published: 2017
    John Berger analyses the social dynamics and strengths of mass demonstrations.
  60. The Need for Clear Demands at the Peoples' Climate March
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In New York City on September 21st, a major climate march is planned. It will take place two days before UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's UN Climate Summit -- a one-day closed door session where the world's "leaders" will discuss "ambitions" for the upcoming climate conference (COP20) in Lima Peru.
  61. No Classes for Torture! Protests Escalate Against "School of the Americas"
    Against The Current vol. 82
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Spurred by an enormous and unexpected victory in Congress, thousands of protesters will gather later this year at the gates of Fort Benning, GA to demand the closure of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), a military facility that provides training for Latin American and Caribbean soldiers and officers.
  62. Notes from a Revolution Dying
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
  63. 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.
  64. Oil and Water
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  65. Oil-sands protesters descend on Parliament Hill
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The Council of Canadians and Greenpeace Canada hold a rally featuring a civil disobedience sit-in against the tar sands on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, September 26, 2011.
  66. Organising Things
    A Guide to Successful Political Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A comprehensive guide to practical political action, packed with information and handy checklists.
  67. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
  68. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
    Race and Class
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
  69. Over 200 arrested at Ottawa tar sands protest
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Over 200 protesters objecting to the federal government's enthusiastic support for Alberta's tar sands and the Keystone pipeline XL were arrested Monday morning as they attempted to stage a sit-in in the House of Commons. The protesters wanted the chance to air their grievances with the environmentally reckless policies of the Harper-led Conservatives inside Parliament but were blocked from entering by fenced barricades and over 50 RCMP officers. The protesters were encouraged by hundreds of boisterous supporters as they passed the media scrum and calmly hopped over police barricades.
  70. A Parable of Women's Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Meredith Tax.
  71. 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.
  72. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
  73. The Protectionist Trap
    Against The Current vol. 88
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    In July, the United Nations and some fifty large corporations came to an agreement that the companies would all respect workers' rights and protect the environment in their investments around the world. Anyone who believes that this will actually happen is maybe in the market for a certain bridge as well.
  74. Public Declaration: Solidarity against police repression in Montreal
    We will not submit to the municipal by-law P-6
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    With this public declaration, we assert our opposition to by-law P-6: we will continue to demonstrate without negotiating our demo routes with police, and we will systematically challenge all tickets that arise from this by-law.
  75. 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.
  76. 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.
  77. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
  78. Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Historians and other scholars have given Detroit plentiful attention, including some very important books, yet in this vital new study Angela Dillard manages to approach the Motor City’s past in several crucial yet previously neglected ways. What’s most valuable about the book is her attempt to encompass such subjects as race, labor radicalism, Black religion and the civil rights movement all in one narrative.
  79. 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.
  80. Report from the Pvt. Manning Contingent at SF Pride, June 2015
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Sunday, June 28th started out cloudy, as one might expect in San Francisco, but the sun eventually came out, making it a good day for the Gay Pride event -- and a good day to honor Whistleblower Chelsea Manning. There was to be a parade, and one of the units would be the Pvt. Manning Contingent.
  81. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
  82. Seattle Diary: It's a Gas, Gas, Gas
    Five Days That Shook the World: 15 Years On…
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2014
    On this week Seattle was so tightly wound that it primed to crack. The city, which practiced drills to prepare itself against possible biological or chemical warfare by WTO opponents, was about to witness its own police department gas its streets and neighborhoods. By the end of the week, much of Seattle’s shiny veneer had been scratched off, the WTO talks had collapsed in futility and acrimony and a new multinational popular resistance had blackened the eyes of global capitalism and its shock troops, if only for a few raucous days and nights.
  83. Section 60 advice guide
    Some information and tips on the law, your rights, and how to react when police have enforced a "Section 60" order on a demonstration
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    At some recent demonstrations, police have cordoned off the demonstration, corralling large numbers of people into an increasing confined area before taking their names, addresses and photographs, eventually releasing them one by one.
  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. The social significance of Toronto's June 15 homeless "riot"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    What happened on June 15 bears close attention for what it says about the trajectory of politics in Ontario and the country as a whole. The police ran amok, attacking not only anyone participating in the demonstration, but even medical personnel tending the wounded. Moreover, the police were acting at the behest of a Tory provincial government that has done real violence to the poor, by slashing welfare benefits by 21.5 percent, eliminating social housing and abolishing rent controls.
  86. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A guide to fighting government and corporations. The book is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!"
  87. The Strategy of the Venezuelan Opposition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The strategy and tactics of the Venezuelan opposition is a replay of events that took place leading up to the coup against Hugo Chávez on April 11, 2002 and is similar (although in some ways quite different) from the script that has been used in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
  88. The Targeting of Walter Rodney
    Against The Current vol. 120
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On October 15, 1968 the government of Jamaica barred Walter Rodney from returning to the island. A lecturer at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Rodney had been out of the country attending a Black Power conference in Canada. The Guyanese-born Rodney was no stranger to Jamaica, having graduated from UWI in 1963. He returned to his alma mater as a faculty member at the beginning of 1968, after doing graduate studies in England and working briefly in Tanzania.
  89. Ten demonstrations that changed the world
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It's worth remembering that mass marches have been crucial to all the most important struggles.
  90. These Activists Blocked Migrant Deportations. Now They Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Fifteen activists who blocked a plane deporting migrants are being charged with laws intended for terrorists. The use of charter flights for deportations is one of the issues they raise.
  91. Thieving Sons of Bushes
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    “Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco. The D.C. protest was the largest one at a presidential inauguration since 1973 -- at President Nixon's second term.
  92. Turkey's Urban Uprising
    The Struggle for Democracy against Inequality, Oligarchy, Oppression, and Tyranny
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In Turkey, a wave of urban uprisings had spread across the country, involving hundreds of thousands of protesters, in dozens of cities, met with massive state repression and violence, resulting in a few deaths and thousands of injuries and arrests.
  93. Unlawful Dissent
    New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
  94. Update on Pakistan: After the "Emergency"
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    General Pervez Musharraf has “taken off the uniform” and lifted the emergency as of December 15th. But Labour Party Pakistan rejects the Musharraf’s claim that the emergency is lifted. It is “lifted” with the Constitution amended, and with all the repressive measures protected by a decree.
  95. Viewpoint: Transnationals After Seattle
    Against The Current vol. 88
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Mass politics in the streets disappeared in the United States between 1970 and 1973. In retrospect, it is clear that the years 1964 to 1970 were not a “pre-revolutionary situation,” but anyone who lived through those years as an activist can be forgiven for thinking it was. Any number of people in the ruling circles shared the same error of judgment.
  96. We Are Wisconsin
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    When a Republican Governor’s bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
  97. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
  98. Where Is Indonesia Going?
    Against The Current vol. 87
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    For both admirers and critics of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, the picture is disturbing: At the presidential palace in Jakarta there are signs of a new “royal court” in the making. Officials converse in Javanese, not the national language Bahasa Indonesia; Wahid himself borrows from mysticism and ancient tracts to plot political strategy; and family and friends are acting as gatekeepers and facilitators, in some cases for businessmen hoping to curry favor. Some analysts describe it as a form of “benign Suhartoism,” a throwback to the disastrous last decade of President's 32-year rule.
  99. 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.
  100. Wisconsin Uprising
    Labor Fights Back
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A collection of accounts from the early stages of the Wisconsin uprising against the corporate world in the of spring 2011.
  101. Worker's Newsreel Unemployment Special, 1931
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1931   Published: 1982
    WFPL footage of the first mass demonstration against unemployment and hunger in Union Square, New York City on March 6, 1930.
  102. The World in Review and America Today, 1934
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1934   Published: 1982
    WFPL newsreel segments that exposed multiple social current event topics.
  103. The WTO's Nude World Order
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    It got intoxicating that Tuesday (Nov. 30, `99) in Seattle, without chemical assist. That capitalist machine that has looked so mighty and irresistible, for that day was stopped and defeated. Seattle marked the emergence of the next new left, a wildly diverse and creative bunch. And they will be operating on a changing terrain, where not just corporate misbehavior but capitalism appears the problem, and can be fought.
  104. Yes, But What Are You For?
    Occupy Wall Street and its Evil Twin, the Tea Party
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Reading all the accounts of Occupy Wall Street’s theorising in Zuccotti Park can send you to sleep: all academic prose and no real world action or demands. They also make explicit Occupy’s resemblance to its enemy, the Tea Party.
  105. You Got to Move
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1985
    Follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social change.
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