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Celebrating the Past -- the Legacy of the Free Speech Movement: Against The Current vol. 145
Lipow, Gretchen
Article
2010
A commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement took place at the University of California at Berkeley last December 2nd. As the years fly by anniversaries become more significant ...
In Defense of the Student Movement
Chomsky, Noam
Article
1971
In 1971, Chomsky proclaims the student movement to be the one organized segment of the intellectual community that is genuinely and actively committed to the kind of social change needed. However, he ...
"It's Killing the Student Movement": Canary Mission's Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll
Kane, Alex
Article
2018
Canary Mission, a website that compiles dossiers on Palestinian rights advocates and labels them racists, anti-Semites, and supporters of terrorism has taken a toll on activists' mental health and the...
Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
Yates, Michael D
Article
2017
A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agr...
No Grades in Higher Education Now!: Is the Revolution any closer?
Rancourt, Denis
Article
2015
Author and social scientist Stuart Tannock has recently published a historical and critical overview of the practice of grading in education.
Old Left, New Left, What's Left?
Mattick, Paul Jr.
Article
1970
Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movements at the end of the 1960s.
An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
Article
2017
This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
Our Generation: Volume 1 Number 3
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1962
Our Generation: Volume 1 Number 4
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1962
Our Generation: Volume 2 Number 4
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1963
Our Generation: Volume 2 number 1
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1962
Our Generation: Volume 2 Number 3
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1963
Our Generation: Volume 4 Number 3
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1966
Our Generation: Volume 5 Number 1
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1967
Our Generation: Volume 5 Number 3
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1967
Our Generation: Volume 6 Number 3
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1969
Our Generation: Volume 6 Number 4
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1969
Our Generation: Volume 7 Number 1
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Our Generation: Volume 8 number 3 part 2
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Our Generation: Volume 8 Number 4
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1972
Our Generation: Volume 9 Number 3
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1973
Our Generation: Volume 9 Number 4
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1973
Our Generation: Volume 11 Number 4
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Our Generation: Volume 17 Number 1
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
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1985
Our Generation: Volume 24 Number 1
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1992
Resources from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and related groups and activities
Website
a listing of the major memoirs written about Students for a Democratic Society, and a link to one major collection of the documents written at the time in PDF format.
The Socialist Register 1970: Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1970
The triumph of green hearts over sere: Reflections on student radicalism at Sydney University in the 1910s and the 1960s
Irving, Terry
Article
2013
In April 1910, thirty graduates and undergraduates met on the eve of the federal elections with the intention of establishing the University Socialist Society. The conservatives downtown were shocked....

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The Canadian Student Movement in the Sixties: Three case studies
PhD Thesis, University of Alberta, 2009
Lexier, Roberta Sharon
Article
2009
Labour in an Affluent Society
Fox, Steve; Kissinger, C. Clark; Mull, Brenda
Article
Put together by the Radical Education Project, this paper includes the following articles: "WILDCAT: anatomy of a work stoppage" by Steve Fox; "THE BRUNS STRIKE: a case study of student participation ...