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Australia's rebel heritage of poetry and song
Gregory, Mark
Article
2016
Ballads like the one published in Borough, London, by the famous printer HP Such, had been sold on the streets of the towns and cities from which convicts were transported to Australia from the First ...
A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems
Serge, Victor
Book
2017
Like Serge's extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written...
Communication for and Against Democracy
Raboy, Marc and Bruck, Peter A. (ed.)
Book
1989
This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview: Against The Current vol. 163
Brenner, Johanna
Article
2013
Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
Grace Paley (1922-2007): Against The Current vol. 131
Huber-Humes, Sonya
Article
2007
Grace Paley described herself as a “somewhat combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist,” and saw the role of the artist as that of “listener” who would relay stories of those made invisible by so...
Kicked a Cadillac (Dented a Daimler)
Faiers, Chris
Article
Poem.
Know Thy Enemy
Logue, Christopher
Article
1976
A poem.
Money and Rain: Tom Wayman Live!
Wayman, Tom
Book
1975
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Only Poetry Can Address Grief: Moving Forward after 911
Starhawk
Article
2001
A guide for global justice activism in the face of increased repression and potential public opposition.
Our Generation: Volume 1 Number 2
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1962
Special Supplement on the Berlin & German Question
Our Generation: Volume 2 Number 4
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1963
Our Generation: Volume 2 Number 3
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1963
Our Generation: Volume 3 Number 1
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1964
Our Generation: Volume 3 Number 2
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1964
Our Generation: Volume 5 Number 1
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1967
Our Generation: Volume 7 Number 3
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1970
Our Generation: Volume 10 Number 1
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1974
Our Generation: Volume 10 Number 2
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1974
Our Generation: Volume 10 Number 4
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1975
The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse
Bold, Alan (ed.)
Book
1970
An anthology of poems, some by socialists, other by poets who do not identify themselves as socialist but who have written poetry reflecting a socialist sensibility.
A Poet for Our Planet: Book Review of Friedman's "A Turnpike Utopia"
Azure, Alice M.
Article
2013
Azure provides a review of Friedman's poems within the collection "A Turnpike Utopia" dealing with issues of AIDS, workers' rights, racism, and the mistreatment of immigrants.
Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee
Himmelstein, David U.
Article
2009
A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, admini...
Traces of Magma: An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature
Knight, Rolf
Book
1983
An annotated bibliography of left wing novels which deal with the lives of working people during the twentieth century.
A truly fragile identify
Said, Edward
Article
2002
Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
U.S. Poetry and the Politics of Form: Against The Current vol. 140
Ehlers, Sarah
Article
2009
Laura Bush's 2003 “Poetry and the American Voice” symposium is infamous because it never happened. Intended to be a White House celebration of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes, the ev...
William Morris: From Romantic to Revolutionary
Thompson, E. P.
Book
1955
A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.

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The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
Kröller, Eva-Marie
2004
Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fi...
Francis Daniel Pastorius
2017
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651-1720) was a German born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official, who is particularly known for his anti-slavery advocacy.
George Orwell: A Life
Crick, Bernard
1980
A biography of George Orwell.
The Lives of Amiri Baraka
Hunter, Kim D.
2014
A tribute to the life of author and poet Amiri Baraka who was active in the American Black Arts movement.
Lost Percy Bysshe Shelley poem Poetical Essay on The Existing State of Things
Poem lost for two centuries finally made public
A radical poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley when he was just 18 years old can now be read in full after having been kept under lock and key for the last 204 years.
Under a Soprano Sky
Sanchez, Sonia
1989
Sanchez's poetry combines her pristine lyricism with her strong voice and black female themes to challenge not only the effete definition of poetry, but also the very intellectual hyprocrisy which und...
The Universe Ends at Sherbourne & Queen
Poems & Prose
Plantos, Ted; Kyba, Angeline (photos)
1977
A literary and photographic look at the area known as Cabbagetown. It describes the myths and legends of the area as well as the lives of the people who live there.
The Woman's Page
Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada
Fiamengo, Janice
2008
A detailed study of these six women and their respective works: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeanette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blake Coleman, Flora MacDonald Denison and Nellie L. McClung. Dem...

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