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  1. Bacher, K.: 205 Arguments and Observations in Support of Naturism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  2. Backhouse, Constance: Colour Coded
    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  3. Bacon, Francis: The New Atlantis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1626
    Tells of a “lost civilisation” that lives in perfect harmony and peace. Their society is dedicated to the accumulation of knowledge and the study of science and nature.
  4. Badger, Emily: Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
  5. Badsha, Omar; Wilson, Francis; Tutu, Bishop Desmond: South Africa: The Cordoned Heart
    Essasy by Twenty South African Photographers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  6. Baehr, Ninia: Abortion Without Apology
    A Radical History for the 1990s

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  7. Bahron, Rudolph: Socialism and Survival
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  8. Baichwal, Jennifer (director): Manufactured Landscapes
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2006
    Massive projects of modern civilization that have devastating impacts on the surrounding environment.
  9. Baillargeon, Normand: Intellectual Self-Defense
    Find Your Inner Chomsky

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2008
    What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
  10. Bain, George: Gotcha!
    How the Media Distort the News

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Written by a mainstream journalist/commentator, this book reveals information withheld by media and describes biases and a lack of professionalism.
  11. Baird, Vanessa: Trigger Issues: T-Shirt
    One Small Item, One Giant Impact

    Resource Type: Book
  12. Baird, Vanesse: The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
    Resource Type: Book
    An examination of the ways in which tolerance and hostility have manifested themselves throughout history, and in current attitudes toward sexual diversity.
  13. Bakan, Joel: The Corporation
    The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
  14. Baker, Graham: Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  15. Baker, Harold R; Draper, James A; Fairbairn, Brett T (Edtors): Dignity and Growth
    Citizen Participation in Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Makes the case that rural communities cannot function without citizen participation in social change.
  16. Baker, Karin; Quinn, Patrick M.: A Lifetime for Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    An obituary of Milt Zaslow.
  17. Baker, Nicholson: Double Fold
    Libraries and the Assault on Paper

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of irreplacable bound originals including 19th-century illustrated dailies. He chronicles the attempts to find ways of preserving books from both the ravages of time and the librairies' lack of shelf space. He also explains how librairies use the spectre of disintegrating books as part of their fundraising stategy. Baker offers aternative solutions to these problems. His ultimate and pesuasive plea is for librairies to stop "executing" the originals.
  18. Baker, Richard H.: Computer Security Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  19. Bakunin, Michail: God and the State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1916   Published: 1970
  20. Bakunin, Mikhail: National Catechism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1866
    Bakunin sketches out his vision of a social and political revolution, stating that "in order to prepare for this revolution it will be necessary to conspire and to organize a strong secret association coordinated by an international nucleus."
  21. Bakunin, Mikhail: The Program of the International Brotherhood
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1869
    Bakunin maintains that his revolutionary visions "excludes any idea of dictatorship and of a controlling and directive power." but then goes on to say "It is, however, necessary for the establishment of this revolutionary alliance and for the triumph of the Revolution over reaction that the unity of ideas and of revolutionary action find an organ in the midst of the popular anarchy which will be the life and the energy of the Revolution. This organ should be the secret and universal association of the International Brothers.... a sort of revolutionary general staff, composed of dedicated, energetic, intelligent individuals, sincere friends of the people above all, men neither vain nor ambitious, but capable of serving as intermediaries between the revolutionary idea and the instincts of the people."
  22. Bakunin, Mikhail: Revolutionary Catechism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1866
    Despite the encouraging revival of the socialist and labor movements, Bakunin saw that the workers were still very far from attaining the necessary revolutionary consciousness. To imbue the masses with this consciousness and to prevent the deformation of the revolution, Bakunin felt that the only alternative was to organize the secret International Fraternity. Bakunin was convinced that this kind of vanguard movement was indispensable to the success of the Social Revolution.
  23. Balderston, Bill: How Oakland Teachers Fought Back
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    The record in recent years of public-sector union battles, especially strikes, has largely been one of defensive actions. This is not so much due to anti-union propaganda, which labels such job actions as an attack on the 'public interest,' but because of the overall austerity programs.
  24. Baldi, Guido: Theses on Mass Worker and Social Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  25. Ball, Olivia; Gready, Paul: The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights
    Resource Type: Book
  26. Ballard, Mike: Letter - Manchester calling
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    The Red Menace: very stimulating reading.
  27. Balles, Paul J.: Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
    The “democracy” that can do no wrong

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Paul J. Balles considers the “lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia” inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel’s apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
  28. Balles, Paul J.: The not-so-hidden persuaders
    The Israel lobby’s global propaganda manual

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
  29. Bamford, James: The Puzzle Palace
    A Report on America's Most Secret Agency

    Resource Type: Book
    About the Natiional Security Agency
  30. Bamford, James: The Shadow Factory
    The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

    Resource Type: Book
  31. Banford, James: Body of Secrets
    Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn

    Resource Type: Book
    The National Security Agency (NSA) is the largest intelligence gathering agency in the world. James Banford in his sequel to "The Puzzle Palace" draws on newly released government documents and interviews with past and present personel to give a detailed picture of the agency. Tracing its origins from the Truman admisnistration and using examples from modern day incidents (Gary Powers, the Pueblo, the Israeli attack on a U.S. surveillance ship and many more) he provides us with an overview of the murky and dangerous world of intelligence operations.
  32. Bangs, David H. Jr.: The Personnel Planning Guide
    Successful planning of your most important asset

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1988
  33. Banks, Arthur S (ed.): Political Handbook of the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  34. Baran, Paul A.: The Political Economy of Growth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  35. Baran, Paul A.; Sweezy, Paul M.: Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
  36. Barber, Kim: Childrens Liberation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
  37. Bardacke, Frank: Shadows of Tender Fury
    The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    The letters and communiqués from the man—military communiqués, stories for children, lists of demands, poems, descriptions of colonial exploitation, diplomatic notes, travelogues, history lessons, subtle jokes, and inspiring anecdotes.
  38. Barde, Jean-Philippe; Button, Kenneth: Transport Policy and the Environment
    Six Case Studies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  39. Barenboim, Daniel, and the East-West Divan Orchestra: The Ramallah Concert
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
    This concert by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra took place in August of 2005 in the Palestinian Territory in the city of Ramallah and includes repertoire that Daniel Barenboim is famous for, such as Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola and the ""Nimrod"" variation from Elgar's ""Enigma Variations."" Also includes a feature-length documentary: ""Knowledge is the Beginning"", which was filmed over a six-year period and tells the story of Barenboim's development of the orchestra through interviews, rehearsal and concert excerpts.
  40. Barghouti, Omar: Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
  41. Barker, Jonathan: The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
  42. Barker, Jonathan; Cwikowski, Christine; Gombay, Kathrine; Shettima, Kole; Sundar, Aparna: Street Level Democracy
    Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

    Resource Type: Book
  43. Barker, Jonathon: Street-Level Democracy
    Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  44. Barlow, Maude: The free trade disaster: round two
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
  45. Barlow, Maude; Campbell, Bruce: Take Back the Nation
    Revised Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1993
    A passionate and thoughtful assessment of Canada in crisis. Analyses the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada's economy and independence. Proposes economic, political and cultural solutions to Canada's problems.
  46. Barlow, Maude; Clarke, Tony: Blue Gold
    The battle against corporate theft of the world's water

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2003
    International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
  47. Barlow, Maude; Clarke, Tony: 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.
  48. Barlow, Maude; Robertson, Heather-Jane: Class Warfare
    The Assault on Canada's School

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
  49. Barna, Laszlo; White, Bob (Foreword): Working/Travailler
    Images of Canadian Labour

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    The author, a film and TV producer for programs about Canada's labour movement, chronicles the Canadian labour movement using black-and-white photographs.
  50. Barndt, Deborah: To Change This House
    Popular Education Under the Sandinistas

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  51. Barndt, Deborah, Freire, Carolos: Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
  52. Barndt, Deborah, Cristall, Ferne, Marino, Dian: Getting There
    Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture.
  53. Barnes, Simon: Flying in the Face of Nature
    A Year in the Minsmere Bird Reserve

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The author describes conservation efforts around the world, using the Minsmere bird reserve in Britain as a starting point.
  54. Barnet, Richard J.; Muller, Ronald E.: Global Reach
    The Power of the Multinational Corporations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    An examination of corporate power.
  55. Baroud, Ramzy: Gaza’s Kite Runners
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Gazan children’s kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
  56. Barrett, Stanley R.: Is God a Racist?
    The Right Wing in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
  57. Barrios de Chungara, Domitila; Viezzer, Moema: Let Me Speak!
    Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines

    Resource Type: Book
    The author is the wife of a Bolivian tin miner and a pro-marxists activist. This is a vivid account of her activities and imprisonment, accompanied by her observations on the clergy, military, and upper-class abandonment of Bolivia’s repressed poor.
  58. Barrot and Martin: Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
    Resource Type: Book
  59. Barry, Bernard: National Skid Row Coalition Conference, Vancouver May 12-15, 1975
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    Description of conference with replections on implications for Calgary.
  60. Barsamian, David: Chronicles of Dissent
    Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  61. Barsamian, David: Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
  62. Bathalon, Real ; Lemieux, Nathalie (Compiled by): Ethnocultural Directory of Canada 1990/Repertoire Ethnoculturel du Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  63. Bathalon, Real, Lemieux, Nathalie: Ethnocultural Directory of Canada 1990
    Repertoire Ethnoculturel du Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
    A listing of 240 Canadaina organizations (157 from Quebec) with descriptions, in English and French, of their objectives, services, activities and publications.
  64. Bauer, Jan: Essais sur les droits humains et le developpement democratique
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  65. Baumann, Bommi: Wie Alles Anfing
    How it All Began - The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerilla

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1977
    The original German edition of Wie Alles Anfing was seized by security police when it appeared in 1975. The resulting trial and publicity raised an international outrcy and the book has since been republished in German and translated into six languages.
  66. Baxandall, Lee: World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  67. Baxandall, Lee (ed.): Radical Perspectives in the Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  68. Baxandall, Rosalyn; Ewen, Elizabeth: Technology, the Labor Process, and the Working Class
    Monthly Review July-August 1976

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  69. Baxter, David: Electronic Ethics
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
  70. Baxter, David: Go to the People...Some THoughts on Surveying Community Needs
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
  71. Baxter, Sheila: Under the Viaduct
    Homeless in Beautiful B.C.

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  72. Beals, Melba: Expose Yourself
    Using the Power of Public Relations to Promote Your Business and Yourself

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  73. Bean, David: Critical distance (Bean)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Letter: anarchists must make a choice.
  74. Beardsley, Doug (ed.): Tribal News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    News pamphlet written primarily to raise the social and political awareness of native people in B.C.
  75. Beaud, Michel: A History of Capitalism
    1500–2000, New Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Beaud’s analysis provides a realistic and thorough examination of the developments of capitalism in the last twenty years, including globalization, the accelerating speed of capital transfer, and the collapse of the Soviet empire.
  76. Beauvoir, Simone de: Old Age
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1977
  77. Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1953   Published: 1970
  78. Bechmann, Henrik: A Guide to Co-op Alternatives
    Diverting Profits from the Banks, Food Middlemen, the Landlords

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
  79. Becker, Leslie: Entrepreneurs Convert Landfill Gas into an Alternative Source of Energy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    New technology is presenting alternatives for the generation of energy from landfill gases.
  80. Beder, Sharon: This Little Kiddy Went to Market
    The Corporate Capture of Childhood

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Analyses how people and planet are being systematically subordinated to profit.
  81. Beder, Sharon: Turning Children Into Consumers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into lifelong consumers with brand loyalties and that can be profitable for decades to come.
  82. Beeching, William; Clarke, Dr. Phyllis: Reminiscences of Tim Buck
    Yours in the Struggle

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  83. Beer, Jennifer E.: Peacemaking in Your Neighbourhood
    Reflections on an Experiment in Community Mediation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Describes ten years of work of the Community Dispute Settlement Program, an innovative program in a suburban area near Philadelphia, founded by the Society of Friends (Quakers). The program set out to try to help solve community disputes using the guidelines of nonviolence, alternatives, and empowerment.
  84. Beer, Jennifer E.; with Stief, Eileen: The Mediator's Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1997
  85. Begg, Alex: Empowering the Earth
    strategies for social change

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Alex Begg examines how power is the fibre of society, by studying the politics of power we see how to empower a movement for change. Distinguishing between patterns of power will facilitate strategic thinking among those working for change.
  86. Belden, Jack: China Shakes the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1949   Published: 1973
    Jack Belden's classic account of the Chinese civil war.
  87. Bell Laurie: Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
  88. Bellegarrigue, Anselme: Manifeste de l’Anarchie
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1850
    Le Manifeste est une intervention passionnante contre la folie politique que, sous le nom de démocratie, prétend que nous cédions nos droits à la liberté et à l’autonomie à des représentants élus pour qu’ils fassent ce qu’ils veulent.
  89. Bello, Walden; Elinson, Elaine: Development debacle
    The World Bank in the Philippines

    Resource Type: Book
    Reveals the bureaucratic blunders and misguided assumptions behind the World Bank's model for third world development, a model that serves the interests of the US and the multinational corporations.
  90. Bello, Warren: Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A clear and prophetic examination which reveals a not-too-distant future in which the American empire's hidden weaknesses will yield fatal challenges to American supremacy.
  91. Bello,Walden: The Food Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Walden Bello presents an analysis of the various causes of hikes in global food prices and their effects on poverty in the countries of the global South.
  92. Belz, Willi: Die Standhaften
    Über den Widerstand in Kassel 1933-1945

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1960
    Lokalhistorische Studie zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
  93. Ben-Menashe, Ari: Profits of War
    Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  94. Bender, Frederic L.: The Betrayal of Marx 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  95. Bender, Frederic L.: Karl Marx: Essential Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
  96. Bender, Peter Urs: Don't neglect your presentation skills
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    Do not wait until you are about to present. It's not worth the stress, or to risk looking like a fool. Take time to prepare.
  97. Bender, Peter Urs: Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
  98. Bender, Peter Urs: Seven golden rules for more effective speaking
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2001
    Tips to be a more powerful, memorable and successful speaker.
  99. Bender, Peter Urs: 7 Tips for Effective Speeches
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    How to make your speeches more effective.
  100. Benello, C. George; Swann, Robert; Turnbull, Shann; Morehouse, Ward (ed.): Building Sustainable Communities: 
    Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Presents the underlying ideas and essential institutions for building sustainable communities. The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking. Also included are a lexicon of social capitalism and a bibliography of key works on self-reliant economic change.
  101. Benjamin, Walter: Illuminations
    Resource Type: Book
  102. Benjamin, Walter: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1936
    Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
  103. Bennett, Claude: How to Gain Power Without Gaining Control
    Resource Type: Book
  104. Bennett, Steve: How Embarassing when your messages unravel
    The Emperor's New Speak

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
  105. Bennett, Steve: Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
  106. Bennett, Steve: When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
  107. Bennis, Phyllis: Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
  108. Bentley, Eric: The Jewish Wife & Other Short Plays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    A collection of six short plays.
  109. Benton, Ted (ed.): The Greening of Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An examination of the influence of green politics on Marxism.
  110. Bercuson, David J.; Cooper, Barry: Derailed
    The Betrayal of the National Dream

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  111. Berg, Peter; Magilavy, Beryl, Zuckerman, Seth: A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  112. Berger, John: About Looking
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics from photographs and media, to zoos and forests, grouped around the theme of how people look at things.
  113. Berger, John: A Seventh Man
    A book of images and work about the experience of migrant workers in Europe

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    Images, poetry, quotes and short written pieces that portray the experiences of male migrant workers in Europe.
  114. Berger, John: Ways of Seeing
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it.
  115. Berger, John: We must speak out 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
  116. Berger, John; Mohr, Jean: Another Way of Telling
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1995
    Everyone in the world is familiar with photographs. And yet what is a photograph? What do photographs mean? How can they be used?
  117. Berger, Thomas R.: A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
  118. Berger, Thomas; Rodinov, Alexi; Roche, Douglas et al: The Arctic
    Choice for Peace and Security

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  119. Berglund, Birgitta; Lindvall, Thomas: Community Noise
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Critically reviews the adverse effects of community noise, including interference with communication, noise-induced hearing loss, annoyance responses, and effects on sleep, the cardiovascular and psychophysiological systems, performance, productivity, and social behaviour.
  120. Berinstein, Paula: Finding Statistics Online
    How to Locate the Elusive Numbers You Need

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  121. Berkowitz, Bill: Community Dreams 
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
  122. Berkowitz, Bill: Iran in Christian Zionist crosshairs
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations has stirred up two leading Christian Zionists, Mike Evans and Joel Rosenberg, to once again open fire on Iran.
  123. Berlet, Chip: Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
  124. Berman, Marshall: Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  125. Berman, Marshall: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  126. Berman, Sanford & Danky, James P.: Alternative Library Literature 1986-1987
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    An anthology of writings about alternative literature and sources and producers of alternative literature, as well as about libraries themselves, and about what is happening within libraries to make them more relevant and activist in their orientation.
  127. Berman, Sanford, Danky, James: Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  128. Bern, D.H. von Dach: Total Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
  129. Bernarde, Melvin A.: Global Warning...Global Warming
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  130. Bernick, Thomas: Violence and the Newspaper Strike
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    To those who still allow their anti-union biases and their exposure to employer misinformation to cloud their perception of reality, I would pose the following question: If the employer and its supporters are really the victimized peace-loving martyrs that they pretend to be, why are the union members the ones who always end up in the hospital?
  131. Bernstein, Barton J.: Towards a New Past
    Dissenting Essays in American History

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  132. Bernstein, Dennis: The Destabilization of Haiti
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    A short summary of the illegal and suppressed details of American intervention in Haiti during the 1990's and early 2000's.
  133. Bernstein, Eduard: Evolutionary Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1899
  134. Berrigan, Philip: Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  135. Berry, David, Theobald, John eds: Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology

    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
  136. Berry, Joe: Reclaiming the Ivory Tower
    Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An organizing handbook for contingent faculty.It examines the situation of adjunct professors in U.S. higher education today and puts forward an agenda around which they can mobilize to transform their jobs — and their institutions.
  137. Berry, Wendell: Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  138. Berthold-Bond, Annie: Clean and Green
    The Complete Guide to Nontoxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    "485 ways to clean, polish, disinfect, deodorize, launder, remove stains, even wax your car, without harming yourself or the environment.
  139. Berton, Pierre: The Big Sell
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963
  140. Berton, Pierre: The Comfortable Pew
    A Critical Look at Christianity and the Religious Establishment in the New Age

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
  141. Berton, Pierre: Cuts, Canadian Culture and the CBC
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    Canadian drams gives us a sense of community.
  142. Berton, Pierre: Requiem for a Fourteen-Year-Old
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1959
    Pierre Berton's poem, Requiem for a fourteen-year-old, appeared in the Toronto Star on Oct. 5, 1959; six days after 14-year-old Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang.
  143. Berton, Pierre: The Smug Minority
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  144. Besancenot, Olivier; Löwy, Michael: Che Guevara
    His Revolutionary Legacy

    Resource Type: Book
    Besancenot and Löwy explore and situate Guevara’s ethical, revolutionary, and humanist legacy.
  145. Betcherman, Lita Rose: The Swastika and the Maple Leaf
    Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thirities

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  146. Betcherman, Lita-Rose: The Little Band
    The Clashes Between the Communists and the Political and Legal Establishment in Canada, 1928-1932

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  147. Bey, Hakim: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1991
  148. Bhaggiyadatta, Krisantha Sri: Welfare Office
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Trying to get welfare.
  149. Bhasin, Kamla; Agarwal, Bina: Women and Media
    Analysis, Alternatives and Action

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  150. Biebel, Belle M.: Small Business Reference Guide
    Information for the small business owner

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  151. Biehl, Janet: Finding our Way
    Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  152. Biehl, Janet: The Murray Bookchin Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    This collection offers an overview of Bookchin's political philosophy, known as libertarian municipalism, which draws on the best of both Marxism and anarchism for the emancipatory tools to build a democratic libertarian alternative. Consistent throughout his work is a search for ways in which to replace today's capitalist society with a more rational and humane alternative.
  153. Bigelow, William; Diamond, Norman: The Power in Our Hands
    A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    Provides entertaining, easy-to-use lesson plans for teaching labour history.
  154. Bilbao, Luis: Fifth Socialist International -- Time for definitions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Although in the past every international socialist organisation was founded amidst great debates and ideological confrontations, the motley crew of factions which all over the world today call themselves “left” shows an unprecedented degree of ideological confusion and political diversity. It will be a difficult job to bring them together, to give them structure and a route map.
  155. Billings, Deborah L.: Woman-Centered, Activist Agendas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Raising and politicitizing our demands for human rights, including the sexual and reproductive rights of women internationally, will contribute significantly toward improving women's health and respecting women's rights as human rights.
  156. Billington, James H.: Fire in the Minds of Men
    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980   Published: 1999
  157. Billinton, Steve; Avery, Cheryl: Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Comprehensive list of links to Canadian archives and associated resources on the Internet.
  158. Billson, Janet Mancini; Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn (eds.): Female Well-Being
    Toward a global theory of social change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  159. Bilton, Michael ; Sim, Kevin: Four Hours in My Lai
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  160. Birchall, Ian: Workers Against the Monolith
    Resource Type: Book
  161. Bird, Stewart; Robillota, Peter: The Wobblies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
  162. Bishop, Elaine: Criminal Justiice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  163. Bishop, Elaine; Harkins, Kathy (eds.): Bulletin of the Quaker Jails and Justice Committee
    Vol. 1 No. 5 - Periodical profile published 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Irregularly published newsletter outlining some of the current concerns and activities of the Quaker Committee.
  164. Bissonette, Jamie: When the Prisoners Ran Walpole
    A true story in the movement for prison abolition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    In the months before they took over running the Walople maximum-security facility in 1973, prisoners and outside advocates created programs that sent more prisoners home for good. This account reveals what can happen when there is public will for change and trust that the incarcerated can achieve it.
  165. Bissonnette, Sophie; Duckworth, Martin; Rock, Joyce: A Wives' Tale
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  166. Bissoondath, Neil: Selling Illusions
    The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994   Published: 2002
    Since he immigrated to Canada, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, encourages stereotyping and division.
  167. Black, Edwin: IBM and the Holocaust
    The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  168. Black, Maggie: The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development
    Resource Type: Book
  169. Black, Maggie: The No-Nonsense Guide to Water
    Resource Type: Book
  170. Blackburn, Robin: Age Shock
    How Finance is Failing Us

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Blackburn examines the realities of an aging demographic in the midst of the disintegration, from both a monetary and social obligation perspective, of sound financial conditions for the elderly.
  171. Blackburn, Robin: The American Crucible
    Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Robin Blackburn, an acclaimed historian of slavery, discusses the emergence of anti-slavery ideas and the important events that paved the way for abolitionist movements.
  172. Blackstock, Nelson: Cointelpro
    The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  173. Blanchard, Peter: People - & Planet-Friendly Events & Information
    Bringing people together over ideas that matter

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Event calendar, job listings and other resources related to sustainable living, environment, and peace.
  174. Blau, Uri: Dead Palestinian Babies And Bombed Mosques - IDF Fashion 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills."
  175. Blechman, Max: Drunken Boat
    Art, rebellion, anarchy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    A journal specifically devoted to anarchism and the arts. Novels, short stories, film, video, music, collage, dance, painting, poetry, theater, performance art, aesthetics and the idea of "art" itself—those are some of the subjects discussed in articles that have appeared in this journal.
  176. Blomberg, Les: Noise, Sovereignty, and Civility
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Noise is caused by people and businesses claiming rights, usually property rights, to emit noise into the air, and by people who do not possess the civility to be good neighbors. While its effects are an environmental health issue, its causes are tied to the issues of sovereignty (who owns the air?) and civility (how should we treat our neighbors?).
  177. Blood, Peter et al: Understanding and Fighting Sexism
    Resource Type: Book
  178. Blood, Peter; Tuttle, Alan; Lakey, George: Off Their Backs ...and on our own two feet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  179. Blood-Patterson, Peter: Rise Up Singing
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    There was a time when singing was a part of everyday life. Rise Up Singing was compiled to help bring song back into our lives, and especially to bring singing more strongly into the movement for social change.
  180. Bloom, Steve: The Jericho `98 March: Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    Pushing for justice and freedom for political prisoners in the United States.
  181. Bloy, Colin H.: A History of Printing Ink, Balls and Rollers
    1440-1850

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  182. Blum, William: Afghanistan 1979-1992
    America's Jihad

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
  183. Blum, William: Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
    Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
  184. Blum, William: The CIA
    A Forgotten History

    Resource Type: Book
    Describes the CIA's role in overthrowing governments, rigging elections, assassinating leaders, and manufacturing "news" in over 50 countries.
  185. Blum, William: Cuba 1959 to 1980s
    The Unforgivable Revolution

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
  186. Blum, William: Ecuador 1960-1963
    A Textbook of Dirty Tricks

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
  187. Blum, William: Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
  188. Blum, William: Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
  189. Blum, William: Iraq 1990-1991
    Desert Holocaust

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
  190. Blum, William: Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
  191. Blythman, Joanna: Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions – and are fighting to export them
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes – even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce – and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
  192. Bober, Ari (ed.): The Other Israel
    The Radical Case Against Zionism

    Resource Type: Book
  193. Bobo, Kim; Kendall, Jerry; Max, Steve: Organize! Organizing for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2001
    A guide on community organizing with with attention to specific tasks such as hosting meetings, public speaking and making partnerships with other activist groups.
  194. Bock, Alan W.: The ecological benefits of Marijuana
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The decriminalization of cannabis would not only have important medicinal implications, but also positive economic consequences and largescale environmental benefits
  195. Bocking, Richard C.: Canada's Water: For Sale
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Describes the pressures behind U.S. demand for Canadian water and the Canadian response and presents the case against grand engineering schemes, major dams, and large river diversions.
  196. Bodian, Nat G.: Bodian's Publishing Desk Reference
    A Comprehensive Dictionary of Practices and Techniques for Book and Journal Marketing and Bookselling

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  197. Boe, Beverly and Philcox,l Phil: How You Can Travel Free as a Group Tour Organizer
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  198. Boehlert, Eric: Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
  199. Boetie, Etienne de la: The Politics of Obedience
    The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1550   Published: 1997
  200. Boggs, Carl: Gramsci's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Carl Boggs introduces Gramsci as one of the first marxist theorists to grapple with the problems of revolutionary change in advanced capitalist society and as the first to identify the importance of the ideological-cultural struggle against bourgeois values.
  201. Bohuslawsky, Maria: End of the Line
    Inside Canada's Nursing Homes

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    An account of the grim reality of life in nursing homes. Sketches of nursing-home residents, their families, and nursing-home staff, reveal a generation suffering neglect and abuse, stripped of self-respect, confined to dangerous, dirty, depressing and de-personalized institutions.
  202. Bohuslawsky, Maria: End of the Line
    Inside Canada's Nursing Homes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  203. Bolan, Kim: Loss of Faith
    How the Air India Bombers Got Away with Murder

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An account of the Air India Bombing trial and investigations.
  204. Bold, Alan (ed.): The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 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.
  205. Boldt, Menno: Surviving As Indians
    The Challenge Of Self-Government

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  206. Bolivar, Simón: Manifiesto de Cartagena
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1812
  207. Bollier, David: Reclaiming the Commons
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment.
  208. Bollinger, Michelle: Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
    Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
  209. Bologna, Sergio: Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
    Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
  210. Bommel, Harry van: Dying for Care
    Hospice Care or Euthanasia

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  211. Bonacich, Edna: LA Sweatshops: Common Threads In Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    Seeing how power is exercised by those who have it in this society opens one's eyes to the profound need for power on our side. You recognize the need to build organizational strength and resources. You come to see the need to inflict damage in order to budge those who hold the power. You realize that their ruthlessness knows no bounds. You learn that soft, liberal notions of hoping you can sit down and work it out in a civilized manner are out of this world.
  212. Bonanno, Alfredo M.: Critique of Syndicalist Methods
    Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propogating capitalist control of industry and agriculture. With a short introduction by Andy McGowan.
  213. Bonanno, Alfredo M.: Critique of Syndicalist Methods
    Resource Type: Book
  214. Bonbnell, Kenneth H.: The Right to Offend
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
  215. Bond, Jack W: How EC and World Bank Policies Are Destroying Agriculture And The Environment
    A European and Third World Perspective

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Bond argues that bureaucrats, multinationals and banks lack the compassion and commitement to help farmers, consumers and the enviromment, and emerging nations of the South.
  216. Bond, Myrtle, Draper, Sylvia: The People's Classifieds
    The Alternative Directory for Metro Toronto

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    A directory of progressive/alternative businesses, professionals, services, groups, and individuals in Toronto.
  217. Bond, Patrick: Health and environmental victories for South African activists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In South Africa, major advances in health and the environment during the 2000s were only won by social activists by removing the profit motive.
  218. Bonnefoy, Angela: Welfare: The Fragmented Self
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Are welfare recipients treated as if they are part of a Canadian social experiment?
  219. Bonner, Allan: Keeping Current
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    With a blog, a piece in the Globe or an appearance on a cable show that only two percent of the population watches, you can get a bounce or multiplier effect. Mainstream networks and cable news shows are reading blogs on the air to viewers, thus giving them legs.
  220. Bonner, Allan: Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
  221. Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
  222. Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
  223. Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Things to do Before a Radio Talk Show
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Be prepared when you go on a talk show.
  224. Bookchin, Murray: The Ecology of Freedom 
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 2005
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
  225. Bookchin, Murray: The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
  226. Bookchin, Murray: Listen, Marxist!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1971
    Murray Bookchin takes on the 'Marxist-Leninists' destroying the New Left.
  227. Bookchin, Murray: The Modern Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
  228. Bookchin, Murray: On Spontaneity and Organisation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
    On the relationship of spontaneityand revolution.
  229. Bookchin, Murray: The Philosophy of Social Ecology
    Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  230. Bookchin, Murray: Post Scarcity Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  231. Bookchin, Murray: Remaking Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  232. Bookchin, Murray: The Spanish Anarchists
    The heroic years

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    The seminal history of Spanish anarchism: from its earliest inception to the organizations that claimed over two million members on the eve of the 1936 Revolution.
  233. Bookchin, Murray: Urbanization Without Cities
    The Rise and Decline of Citizenship

    Resource Type: Book
    The author argues that there should be participatory democracy so there could be balance ecologically between city and country.
  234. Booma-Prediger, Steven and Walsh, Brian: Beyond Homelessness
    Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Beyond Homelessness looks at the socioeconomic, ecological and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. Going further than seeing housing as being bricks and mortar the authors see it as a search for belonging, identity and security. They argue that if we see the world as holy instead of earth as home and we understand the Gospels, faith will heal the disharmony in which we have mired ourselves.
  235. Boorstein, Edward: The Economic Transformation of Cuba
    A First-Hand Account

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  236. Booth, David: Censorship Goes To School
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  237. Borjesson, Kristina; foreword by Gore Vidal: Into the Buzz Saw
    Resource Type: Book
    Accounts of journalists investigating stories which the power structure doesn't want investigated.
  238. Borovoy, A. Alan: The New Anti-Liberals
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  239. Borovoy, A. Alan: Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
  240. Borovoy, A. Alan: When Freedoms Collide
    The Case for Civil Liberties.

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Civil liberties are proclaimed as important in our society, but in reality they are under constant attack.
  241. Borsodi, Ralph: A Decentralist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1958
    No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
  242. Borsodi, Ralph: Major Universal Problems of Living
    A New Approach to Information

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1936
  243. Borwn, L. Susan: The Politics of Individualism
    Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the similarities and differences between liberalism, anarchism and feminism.
  244. Bosworth, Bill: A.G.A.I.N./Direct Services/Employment:
    Introduction to Employment Strategies & Note on the Consultation A.G.A.I.N.

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    Critiques of government employment strategies in the urban core/skid row areas.
  245. Bosworth, Bill: What A.G.A.I.N.?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    Adequate Guaranteed Annual Income and Skid Row.
  246. Bottomore, T. B.: Classes in Modern Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1970
  247. Bottomore, Tom: A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  248. Bottomore, Tom (Editor of English Edition): Socialism Of The Future
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
  249. Botts, Lee; Krushelnicki, Bruce: Great Lakes
    An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  250. Botttomore, T.B. and Rubel, Maximilien (ed.): Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
    Resource Type: Book
  251. Bouchard, Mary Alban: Peace is Possible
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  252. Boudin, Chesa; Farrow, Kenyon; Dohrn, Bernardin; Berger, Dan: Letters from Young Activists
    Today's Rebels Speak Out

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  253. Boudreau, Julie-Anne: The MegaCity Saga
    Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  254. Bougeault, Ron ; Broad, Dave; Brown, Lorne ; Foster, Lori (Editors): 1492-1992
    Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Relates the European invasion and conquest of the Americas and also tells of the struggles and resistance of the indigenous peoples.
  255. Boulder, Kamala Kempadoo (ed.): Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
    New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
  256. Bourgeault, Ron et. al.: Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Vol. 8: 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
  257. Bourgeault, Ron; Broad, Dave; Brown, Lorne; Foster, Lori: 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
  258. Bourne, Randolph: War is the Health of the State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    Once the State has begun to function, and a large class finds its interest and its expression of power in maintaining the State, this ruling class may compel obedience from any uninterested minority. The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class.
  259. Bowker, Marjorie Montgomery: On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  260. Boyd, Andrew: The Activist Cookbook
    A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
  261. Boyd, Neil: Big Sister
    How Extreme Feminism has Betrayed the Fight for Sexual Equality

    Resource Type: Book
    "Some man did this to you didn't he?" That is Neil Boyd's complaint with radical feminism-that it blames men for everything. In doing so he believes that this small group who are now in powerful positions as lawyers, politicians and policy makers has undermined judicial due process and free expression. His utlmate aim the in the book is to rescue feminism from those who have hijacked it and to promote a feminism that is more inclusive. Whith his sardonic wit this book makes for a very enjoyable read.
  262. Boyd, Neil: High Society
    Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  263. Boyens, Ingeborg: Unnatural Harvest
    How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  264. Boyle, Kevin et al.: Unveiled
    Art and Censorship in Iran

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
  265. Bradfield, M.; Dillon, J.; Gindin, Sam; Lockhart, A.: Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
    Alternative Paths to Jobs, Development, Equality and Peace

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  266. Bradley, Keith; Gelb, Alan: Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A guide to work co-operatives.
  267. Bradley, Mike; Danchik, Lonnie: Unbecoming Men
    A Men's Consciousness-Raising Groups Writes on Oppression and Themselves

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  268. Brame, G., Grame, W., Jacobs, J.: Different Loving
    An exploration of the world of sexual dominance and submission

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 1996
    Explores and demystifies the worlds of BDSM, sexual power relationships, and fetishism.
  269. Brandow, Karen; McDonnell, Jim;: No Bosses Here!
    A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
  270. Brandt, Barbara: Whole Life Economics
    Revaluing Daily Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  271. Bratich, Jack Z.: The Twitterest Pill
    Policing Dissent in the Information Age

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Who judges the legitimate and illegitimate uses of communications technology in social movements? Which networked alliances have State-sponsorship, and which ones face criminalization and State-crackdown? Social media are relying on open network access, but this openness too easily sugarcoats itself in democratic notions (participation, interactivity, freedom). At the same historic moment, we are also witnessing an expansion, integration, and refinement of sovereign police power. When the two converge we begin to see an increase in repressive intervention into, and pre-emption of, information use.
  272. Braudel, Fernand: The Perspective of the World
    Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  273. Braverman, Harry: Labor & Monopoly Capital
    The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, 25th Anniversary Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    This widely acclaimed work, first published in 1974, overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology and became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological inquiry.
  274. Braverman, Harry: Monthly Review - Volume 26 Number 3
    Labor and Monopoly Capital: The degradation of work in the twentieth century

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  275. Bray, Roberts: Spin Works! A Media Guidebook for Communicating Values and Shaping Opinion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    A guide to utilizing the media for social justice organizations and individual activists.
  276. Brazier, Chris: No-Nonsense Guide to World History
    Resource Type: Book
  277. Brazier, Chris: Trigger Issues: Football
    One Small Item, One Giant Impact

    Resource Type: Book
  278. Brecher, Jeremy: Doom and Gloom 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Jermey Brecher says that the social roots of doom are part of a common pattern that we can observe repeatedly in history. People live their lives and pursue their goals by means of strategies that have been developed over time. But sometimes they discover their established strategies aren't working. No matter how hard they try, their problems remain intractable. The natural result is despair. But the awareness that other people are experiencing the same despair changes the context in which it is experienced. It opens up new possibilities. Perhaps the problems that we despair of solving as individuals can be addressed through some kind of collective action. When people begin to explore that possibility, the result may be a social movement.
  279. Brecher, Jeremy: Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  280. Brecher, Jeremy: Who Advocates Spontaneity? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
  281. Brecher, Jeremy and Costello, Tim (ed.): Building Bridges
    The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  282. Brecher, Jeremy; Childs, John Brown; Cutler, Jill: Global Visions
    Beyond the News World Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
  283. Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim: Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
  284. Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim; Smith, Brendan: Globalization from Below
    The power of solidarity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    When tens of thousands of protestors brought the World Trade Organization in Seattle to a halt in November 1999, it marked the "coming out party" for a new global movement. Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidaritydraws on the history of past movements and their own experience as activists to propose strategies for building this powerful coalition into a successful movement for global democratization.
  285. Brecht, Bertold: Stories of Mr. Keuner (exceprts)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  286. Breitman, George: Malcolm X Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
  287. Brem, Maxwell: Connections, Vol.1, No.2
    Periodical profile published 1979

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  288. Brendel, Cajo: Council Communism & The Critique of Bolshevism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1999
    Council Communists don't see Stalinism as a sort of ‘counter-revolution' that deprived October of its fruits. Rather they see Stalinism just as a fruit of this revolution, one that opened the door for capitalism in Russia. Stalin was the heir of Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Revolution.
  289. Brendel, Cajo: Some Thoughts on the Re-organization of the Revolutionary Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    It is not true that without revolutionary theory there is no revolutionary practice. It is not true that certain opinions and ideas, that a certain quantity of consciousness are the absolute precondition to struggle. It is the other way round! Many times, it has been stated that the "theory becomes a material force as soon as it takes possession of the masses." However, a theory is never more than a recapitulation of the experiences of the past and of its consequences. Not because of a certain theory does one have new experiences of the struggle, but new experiences that arise from the struggle give birth to new theory. This is a continuous process.
  290. Brennan,M; Caffentzis,G; Colletrella,S; Coughlin,D.: New Enclosures
    Midnight Notes # 10 - Periodical profile published 1990

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  291. Brenner, Johanna: Women and the Politics of Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Engages many crucial contemporary feminist issues — abortion, reproductive technology, comparable worth, the impoverishment of women, the crisis in care-giving, and the shredding of the social safety net through welfare reform and budget cuts.
  292. Brenner, Robert: The Economics of Global Turbulence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Brenner presents a survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present. He charts the post-war history of the global system and is critical of the results which include over-production and over-competition. He is then able to examine the systematic factors behind wage repression, high unemployment and unequal development.
  293. Brenner, Robert: Property and Progress
    The Historical Origins and Social Foundations of Self-Sustaining Growth

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A collection of texts on the origins of capitalism with substantive material on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
  294. Breton, Andre: Manifesto of Surrealism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1924
    Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
  295. Brewin, Andrea; Duclos, Louis; MacDonald, David: One Gigantic Prison
    The Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    Three Canadian MPs report on human rights violations in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.
  296. Bricianer, Serge; Gadu, Anne: La Revolte des Etudiants Allemands
    Resource Type: Book
  297. Brick, Howard: History, Culture and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 3
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    Historical materialism will remain the overriding framework for any effort that is intended to assist revolutionary practice.
  298. Bricker, Kristin: Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
    Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
  299. Bricker, Kristin: Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
  300. Bricmont, Jean: How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
  301. Bricmont, Jean: Humanitarian Imperialism
    Using Human Rights to Sell War

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world’s leading economic and military powers — above all, the United States — in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks.
  302. Briemberg, Mordecai: A Journey from Satire to Legal Suite to Defense of Democratic Rights
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    An account of CanWest's lawsuit arising out of a parody satirizing the Vancouver Sun's biased reporting on Israel and Palestine.
  303. Brightwell, Betty: The Raging Grannies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  304. Brill, Alida: Nobody's Business
    The Paradoxes of Privacy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  305. Brimhall, James: How to combat boredom and formalistic thought
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  306. Brinton, Maurice: The Belgian General Strike
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961
    The strike of 1960-61 was the culmination of a growing movement of social protest that had been building up over many years. The economic situation of Belgium had been slowly deteriorating. The last and most drastic attempt to improve it, at the expense of the working class, was the introduction of the loi unique, which cut into workers' purchasing power and threatened their conditions of work. On December 14, 1960, a one-day demonstration was called by the Socialist Party and the trade unions to protest against this law. It met with tremendous success. On December 20, the day the debate on the law began in Parliament, the municipal workers came out on official, nationwide, strike. While most of the other unions were discussing what to do next, a spontaneous movement of unparalleled extent swept the country like a tidal wave.
  307. Brinton, Maurice: The Bolsheviks & Workers' Control 
    The State and Counter-Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization.
  308. Brinton, Maurice: Capitalism and Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1968
    The revolution must of course start with the overthrow of the exploiting class and with the institution of workers' management of production. But it will immediately have to tackle the reconstruction of social life in all its aspects. If it does not, it will surely die.
  309. Brinton, Maurice: Capitalism and Socialism: A Rejoinder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969
    Those who seem frightened of new ideas might at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while. But even this seems to be asking too much. In argument, they defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
  310. Brinton, Maurice: "Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis" -- A Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
  311. Brinton, Maurice: Factory Committees and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    It is a tragic fact, for which Leninists of all kinds (Stalinists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and the advocates of various theories of "state capitalism", i.e. International Socialists, Bordigists, "Marxist Humanists", etc.) must carry their full share of responsibility, that we know less today about the early weeks of Russian Revolution than we do, for instance, about the history of the Paris Commune.
  312. Brinton, Maurice: For Workers' Power
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1965
    The road to socialism - and socialism itself - means the conscious and independent action of workers. It means the end of the division between leaders and led. By their rigid, hierarchical structure most "revolutionary" organizations encourage precisely those divisions. A socialist society will be one in which decisions will be taken by workers' councils, composed of elected and revocable delegates, and where the workers themselves will manage production.
  313. Brinton, Maurice: The Irrational in Politics 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1975
    The Irrational in Politics examines the way in which we have been programmed by social and sexual patterns of the dominant ideology. The result is mass produced individuals incapable of automous thought and perpetually craving authority and leadership. In this light he looks as well at the sexual revolution and the failure of the Russian Revolution. His aim is to allow the ordinary individual to aquire insight into their own phychic structure and in doing so become harmonised with their own deep aspirations and desires.
  314. Brinton, Maurice: The Malaise on the Left 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    Let us take it for granted that meaningful activity needs to be collective, that social transformation needs emancipated individuals, and that the institutional framework of any new society will probably be based, in part at least, on those forms which the struggle itself has repeatedly thrown up at its moments of deepest insight and creativity. What we now need to think about - and to discuss widely throughout the libertarian left - is the political content of an activity that consciously seeks both to avoid recuperation and to be relevant to the conditions of today.
  315. Brinton, Maurice: Paris: May 1968
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1968
    This is an eyewitness account of two weeks spent in Paris during May 1968. It is what one person saw, heard or discovered during that short period.
  316. Brinton, Maurice: Revolutionary Organization 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961
    We here wish to examine one of the most fervently adhered to dogmas of the "Left": the need for a tightly centralized socialist party, controlled by a carefully selected leadership. The Labour Party describes this type of organization as an essential feature of British democracy in practice. The Bolsheviks describe it as a "democratic centralism". Let us forget the names and look below the surface. In both cases we find the complete domination of the party in all matters of organization and policy by a fairly small group of professional "leaders".
  317. Brinton, Maurice: Socialism Reaffirmed 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1960
    "The emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves". The working class cannot entrust its historical task to anyone else. No "saviours from on high" will free it. The class will never achieve power, its power, if it entrusts the revolutionary struggle to others. Mass socialist consciousness and mass participation are essential. The revolutionary organization must assist in their development and must ruthlessly expose all illusions that the problem can be solved in any other way. Moreover the working class will never hold power unless it is prepared consciously and permanently to mobilize itself to this end.
  318. Brinton, Maurice: "What is Class Consciousness?" -- A Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
  319. Brinton, Maurice; Guillaume, Philippe: The Commune, Paris 1871
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961
    The most significant aspect of the Paris Commune is that it created social forms which in a sense define socialism itself, social forms which serve as yardsticks for proletarian revolutions past, present and to come. These forms provide criteria for analyzing the social nature of any particular regime.
  320. Brinton, William M.: Publishing In A Global Village
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  321. Briskin, Linda; Eliason, Mona (eds.): Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden
    Resource Type: Book
    Essays exploring the similarities and differences of women organizing and changing public policy in two different national and regional contexts. It examines the strategies that women have used to organize themselves as a vocal and political community.
  322. British Columbia Taskforce on Racism: Racism and Cultural Discrimination in B.C.
    Resource Type: Slide Show
  323. Broadfoot, Barry: The Immigrant Years
    From Europe to Canada 1945-1967

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  324. Broadfoot, Barry: Ten Lost Years 1929 - 1939
    Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  325. Brock, Deborah; Kinsman, Gary: Workers of the World Caress
    An interview with Gary Kinsman on gay and lesbian organizing in the 1970's Toronto Left

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  326. Brock, Peter: Twentieth Century Pacifism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  327. Brodeur, Paul: The Great Power-Line Coverup
    How the Utilities and the Government are Trying to Hide the Cancer Hazrd Posed by Electromagnetic Fields

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  328. Brodie, Janine; Gavigan, Shelley A.M; and Jenson, Jane: The Politics Of Abortion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  329. Brodine, Karen: Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  330. Brodribb, Somer: Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    An explanation of the foundation of recent post-modern theory which also criticises the misogynist and patriarchal work of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
  331. Bromberg, Sarah: Feminist Issues In Prostitution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
  332. Bronner, Stephen Eric: A Revolutionary for our Times: Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
  333. Brook, Timothy: Quelling The People
    The Military Suppression of The Beijing Democracy Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
    The author examines what happened on June 3, 1989 when students protested in Tiananmen Square.
  334. Brooks, Neil: We Can Save Social Programs 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1992
    We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
  335. Brotchie, Jane ; Hills, Dione: Equal Shares in Caring
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
  336. Brown, Alison, K., Peers, Laura, with members of the Kainai Nation: Pictures Bring Us Messages
    Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
  337. Brown, Amanda; Stanford, Jim: Flying Without A Net
    The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
  338. Brown, Bruce: Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
    Toward a Permanent Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  339. Brown, Caroline and Lorne: An Unauthorized History of the RCMP
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  340. Brown, Dee: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
    An Indian History of the American West

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  341. Brown, Dennis: Salmon Wars
    The Battle for the West Coast Salmon Fishery

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  342. Brown, Harrison: The Human Future Revisited
    The World Predicament and Possible Solutions

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  343. Brown, Lester: Vital Signs
    The Trends that are Shaping Our Future

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Worldwatch Institute charts coming trends using a straightforward format. Areas addressed include military expenditures and cigarette consumption.
  344. Brown, Lester R.: State of the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  345. Brown, Lorne: When Freedom Was Lost
    The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State

    Resource Type: Book
    The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
  346. Brown, Michael Barratt: The Economics of Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Brown discusses different theories of the connection between capitalism and imperialism. His own position is derived from Rosa Luxemburg, holding that imperialism is a process of assimilation and transformation of economies into the sphere of competitive capital accumulation.
  347. Brown, Norman O.: Life Against Death
    Psychoanalytical meaning of history

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959
  348. Brown, Peter; Robinson, Bill: Unsafe Harbours
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  349. Brown, Tom: Why Strikes Fail
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1943
    Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.
  350. Browne, Paul Leduc: Unsafe Practices
    Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
  351. Brownlee, Jamie: Ruling Canada
    Corporate Cohesion and Democracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  352. Bryan, Kim: Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise – climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
  353. Bryant, Louise: Six Red Months in Russia
    An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918
    Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
  354. Buber, Martin: Paths in Utopia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    In this work, Buber expounds upon and defends the Zionist experiment - a federal system of communities on a co-operative basis. He looks to the anarchists Proudhon, Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer, but selects only that part of their doctrines appropriate to his case.
  355. Buck, Pem Davidson: Worked to the Bone
    Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky

    Resource Type: Book
    A provocative examination of race, class and the mechanics of inequality in the United States.
  356. Buck, Tim; edited by Beeching, William; Clarke, Phyllis: Yours in the Struggle
    Reminiscences of Tim Buck

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Tim Buck's reminiscences, taken from a series of interviews taped by John (Mac) Reynolds for the CBC.
  357. Buckman, Robert; Sabbagh, Karl: Magic or Medicine?
    An Investigation of Healing & Healers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  358. Budden, Sandra; Ernst, Joseph: The Movable Airport
    The politics of government planning

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An account of the manoeuvring and bureaucratic runaround that went into the planning of the Pickering airport, and of the resistance that it produced.
  359. Buhle, Paul: Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  360. Bukarin, Preobrazhensky; (edited by Carr, E. H.): The ABC of Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1920
  361. Bukharin, Nikolai: Imperialism and World Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Bukharin’s 1929 anticipation of the growth of the internationalization of capital.
  362. Bulhak, Andrew C.: Postmodernism Generator 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2000
    A computer program written by Andrew. C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text. Each time you click on the page, it generates a brand-new postmodernist essay, completely meaningless, but superficially plausible, just like 'real' postmodernist essays.
  363. Burch, Brian: Resources For Radicals
    An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  364. Burch, Brian: Resources for Radicals - Fourth Edition
    An annotated bibliography for those active in movements for social change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2002
  365. Burchett, Wilfred; Roebuck, Derek: The Whores of War
    Resource Type: Book
  366. Burenhult, Goran (ed.): Traditional Peoples Today
    Continuity and Change in the Modern World

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  367. Burger, Julian: The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
  368. Burke, Clifford: Type from the Desktop
    Designing with Type and Your Computer

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  369. Burke, Edmund; Paine, Thomas: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the Rights of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1961
  370. Burkholder, Susan: A Look at Skid Row 1976 - Where is it Going?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A final report to the Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate on trends in Skid-Row movement.
  371. Burnett, Patrick: South Africa: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Maternal health has been under the spotlight in South Africa after an analysis of maternal deaths was released in July showing an increase in the country’s maternal mortality rate. Researchers found that nearly four out of every 10 deaths (38.4 percent) were avoidable. They identified non-attendance and delayed attendance as common problems, together with poor transport facilities, lack of health care facilities and lack of appropriately trained staff.
  372. Burrill, Gary; McKay, Ian: People, Resources and Power
    Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region.

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  373. Burrows, Gideon: The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
  374. Burrows, Gideon: Trigger Issues: Kalashnikov AK47
    One Small Item, One Giant Impact

    Resource Type: Book
  375. Burrows, Sandra and Gaudet, Franceen National Library of Canada: Checklist of Indexes to Canadian Newspapers/Liste de Controle des Index de Journaux Canadiens
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  376. Burstyn, Varda: Women Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  377. Buss, Helen M.: Canadian Women's Autobiography in English
    An Introductory Guide for Researchers and Teachers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  378. Bussey, John: If This Story Needs Fixing, Don't Call Us - Just Call THEM
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The Department of Corrections.
  379. Butler, Jon: The Huguenots in America
    A Refugee People in New World Society

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The story of Huguenot exiles and their failure to maintain religious and social distinctiveness in the diaspora.
  380. Butler, Judith: Frames of War
    When Is Life Grievable?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Butler explores the media's portrayal of war and its effect on audiences' understandings of human life. Such portrayals, Butler argues lead to the rationalization of modern warfare and state violence.
  381. Butler, Simon: The great ‘success’ of a carbon trading failure
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The “right to pollute” has never been more affordable. Energy companies and market speculators can buy a tonne of carbon for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The low cost gives an incentive for companies to pollute more in the short-term and prices renewable energy alternatives out of the market.
  382. Byrnes, Brian: Saving the Countryside
    Conserving Rural Character in the Countryside of Southern Ontario

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    An overview of the issues and politics of preserving the rural nature of the countryside. Byrne outlines the problems facing rural communities: rapid pace of changge, not having access to the information necessary to cope with change and thirdly the failure to believe that individuals can make a difference. Includes has an extenisve list of resources including newsletters, government publications and academic papers to help promote community discussion.



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