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  1. La Botz, Dan: Mexico: Insurrection and Disintegration
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    While Mexico boils at the bottom, it is also cracking up at the top.
  2. La Botz, Dan: A Troublemaker's Handbook 
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    An organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
  3. Laabi, Abdellatif: The Arab Choice
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The Arabs are many peoples, cultures, religions, and realities. I cannot put an Arab tyrant, whoever he is, in the same category as a martyr for democracy like Mehdi Ben Barka.
  4. Labatt, Lori ; Littlejohn, Bruce: Islands of Hope
    Ontario's Parks and Wilderness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  5. Labovitz, John: John Labovitz's e-zine list
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Extensive list describing several hundred 'zines and where to find them.
  6. Lafargue, Paul: The Right To Be Lazy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1883
    Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.
  7. Laidlaw, Alex Dr.; Baum, Gregory Dr.: The Coady - Tomkins Experience: The Relevance of the Antigonish Movement Today
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
  8. Laidlaw, Danelle: Resources are Important
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
  9. Laing, R.D.: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  10. Laing, R.D.: The Politics of the Family
    Resource Type: Book
  11. Laird, Gordon: The Price of A Bargain
    The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Describes a world where the economy's collateral damage includes oil spills and the poisoning of developing nations' working poor; the low wages and illegal labour practices of corporations leading to the ultimate collapse of a system based on minimizing costs, high volume sales and low profit margins; and a world where debt is the cornerstone of the economy.
  12. Laird, Gordon: Slumming It At the Rodeo
    The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
  13. Lakey, Berit: Meeting Facilitation: the No Magic Method
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  14. Lamb, Robert: World Without Trees
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
  15. Lammert, Mark (Director): Dear John
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    Chronicles the closure of the Welland Canal, Ontario's oldest and leading industrial employer: John Deere Welland Works. The film explores what Welland has in store for its future, while helping those that worked at the plant tell their story.
  16. LaMothe, Arthur: Le Mepris N'Aura Qu'un Temps (Hell no Longer)
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1969
    A documentary of a construction worker's home life, life on the job, and unemployed.
  17. Landor, R.; Marx, Karl: Interview with Karl Marx Head of L'Internationale
    Revolt of Labour Against Capital – the Two Faces of L'Internationale – Transformation of Society – Its Progress in the United States
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1871
  18. Landry, Charles: What a Way to Run a Railroad
    An Analysis of Radical Failure
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  19. Landry, Charles; Morley, David; Southwood, Russell; Wright, Patrick: The collective decides...
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
  20. Landy, Laurie: Women in the Chinese Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  21. Lang, Tim; Hines, Colin; Hightower, Jim: The New Protectionism
    Protecting the Future Against Free Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This book analyses the powers behind the free trade argument to present an outline of what a viable and more just future could be.
  22. Langdon, Steven: The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  23. Lange, David: Nuclear Free-The New Zealand Way
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  24. Langer, Julia: What a Way to Treat Your Mother: Women and the State of the Planet
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Our planet is in crisis.
  25. Langlois, Andrea; Dubois, Frederic: Autonomous Media
    Activating Resistance & Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
  26. Lant, Dr. Jeffrey: How To Make A Whole Lot More Than $1,000,000 Writing, Commisioning, Publishing and Selling "How To: Information
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Lant makes the point that if you know something or have something to say, them you ought to be doing everything you possibly can to get that out to as many people as possible. This book is full of advice about how to do it.
  27. Lant, Dr. Jeffrey: Money Making Marketing
    Finding the People Who Need What You're Selling and Making Sure They Buy It
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  28. Lant, Jeffrey: Cash Copy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  29. Lant, Jeffrey: Development Today
    A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980   Published: 1986
    A practical guide for non-profit organizations engaged in fundraising.
  30. Laor, Yitzhak: The Myths of Liberal Zionism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Yitzhak Laor, one of Israel's most independent writers and prominent dissidents, demystifies the "peace camp" liberals.
  31. Lapham, Lewis H.: Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
  32. Lapham, Lewis H.: Pretensions to Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
  33. Lapierre, Laurier: Essays on the Left
    Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  34. Lappe, Frances Moore: The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    There's just one pathway to happiness in which this deep, human need for power is given pride of place: democracy. By this I mean democracy as a living practice that enables us to have a real say in every dimension of our public lives, from school to workplace and beyond.
  35. Lappe, Frances Moore: Diet for a Small Planet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
  36. Larkin, Florence; Torres, Sara: Making Their Voices Heard
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
  37. Larkin, Lori: Productivity
    The Employers' attack and How To Fight It
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  38. Larsson, Rose-Marie: The alienation of radical theatre
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
  39. Larsson, Rose-Marie: Children's Play and Official Playgrounds
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
  40. Larsson, Rose-Marie: Playgrounds are only one aspect of the struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
  41. Larsson, Rose-Marie: Silencing the Workers
    Censorship in the National Film Board
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
  42. Lary, Diana: China's Republic
    Resource Type: Book
    An introductory text for students and general readers offering an unbiased look at the rise of Maoist communism and the decline of Chiang Kai Shek's Guomintang.
  43. Lasch, Christopher: The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967
  44. Lasker, John: Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
  45. Laslettt, John H. M.; Lipset, Seymour Martin: Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
  46. Latin American Working Group: Christians for Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
  47. Latour, Charles (Director): Los Mexicanos: The Struggle for Justice of Patricia Perez
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico, labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick our vegetables. In the summer of 2006, Patricia Perez a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms south of Montreal.
  48. Lauritsen, John; Thorstad, David: The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974   Published: 1995
  49. Lavender, Harold: Tories to Negotiate with Mexico/U.S.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Free trade is on the agenda when the Canadian government meets Mexico and the U.S. in 1992.
  50. LaVigne, Mark: Don't be a Time Bandit
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Don't waste journalists' time.
  51. LaVigne, Mark: The Follow-Up Telephone Call
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
  52. LaVigne, Mark: How Media Relations Helps the Marketing Plan
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Using media relations to support your marketing strategy.
  53. LaVigne, Mark: How to Build a Media List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Often your desired target audiences are diverse so this should be clearly defined before beginning to build your media list.
  54. LaVigne, Mark: How to Make Your B-roll Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Getting a videographer or camera assigned to your story is a challenge to say the least. If you're lucky, you may get one or two cameras out to your news event. That leaves another three or four stations, not including the networks that will not cover your story because they are not there with a camera. PR practitioners can maximize their TV impact by investing in B-roll and hiring a news videography service.
  55. LaVigne, Mark: How to Make Your PR Photos Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    There is a real art and science to the news photo.
  56. LaVigne, Mark: The Intangible Benefits of Media Training
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    One of the greatest frustrations of media relations specialists, and news media, is the slow response to interview or information requests. Many times I've noticed that executives don't understand the rapid timelines that the news media operate under - they don't understand how quickly something ceases to be "news" or how quickly the media may lose interest in a proactive media relations venture.
  57. LaVigne, Mark: It's the Law
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    The laws of media relations.
  58. LaVigne, Mark: Media Events - Maximizing Your Attendance & News Pick-up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Maximizing your attendance and news pick-up at media events.
  59. LaVigne, Mark: New Legal Landscape Affecting PR
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    New laws affecting public relations.
  60. LaVigne, Mark: The State of the News Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
  61. LaVigne, Mark: Tips for Making the Call
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Tips for making follow-up calls to the media.
  62. LaVigne, Mark: What is Public Relations?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    PR should be the guardian of an organization’s brand, and that concept of brand is not just reserved for a private sector, product-oriented company. The concept of brand, what an organization is, what is it about, what it wants to say, is the organization’s being, and PR is often its protector.
  63. LaVigne, Mark; Hetherington, Leslie: Public Relations Strategy a Valuable Fundraising Tool
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    A case study of using public relations to enhance a charity's fundraising activities.
  64. Law, Larry: The Spectacle
    A Skeleton Key
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1981
    An anarchistic meditation on the bankruptcy of contemporary life. Specifically the role of "spectacle" in representing reality has led to a complete dearth of presence in everyday human interaction.
  65. Lawrence, James: The Harrowsmith Reader
    An Anthology from Canada's National Award Winning Magazine of Country Life and Alternatives to Bigness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  66. Lawrence, Ken: The History of Working People in the South
    A Draft Study Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  67. Lawrence, Ken: The Roots of Class Struggle in the South
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  68. Lawrence, R. D.: The Green Trees Beyond
    A Memoir
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  69. Lawrence, R.D.: A Natural History of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  70. Laxer, Gordon: Open For Business
    The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
  71. Laxer, James: The Energy Poker Game
    The Politics of the Continental Resources Deal
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  72. Laxer, James: False God
    How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Laxer argues that the neoconservative economic agenda is folly, and that the United States is caught in a downward spiral of limited government power and widening social divisions. He demonstrates that continued free trade with the United States will doom Canada economically, socially, and poolitically.
  73. Laxer, James: Red Diaper Baby
    A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism
    Resource Type: Book
  74. Laxer, James: The Undeclared War
    Class Conflict in the Age of Cyber Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  75. Laycock, David: Populism
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Populism mixes elements of core political ideologies, like socialism, liberalism and neo-conservatism, opposition to powerful elites in public life, and advocacy of more real power for "the people." All populisms explain the distribution of power and operation of basic social institutions in terms of a fundamental antagonism between "the people" and "power elites."
  76. Lazare, Lucien: Rescue as Resistance
    How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  77. Lazarus,Morden: Years of Hard Labour
    Trade Unions and the Workingman in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  78. Le Blanc, Paul: From Marx to Gramsci
    A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics Historical Overview and Selection
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Le Blanc's purpose in making this book is simple. He is out to reconstruct the tradition of revolutionary Marxism. Astonishingly if tellingly, From Marx to Gramsci is the first reader in English whose criteriology is rooted in Marxism's political purpose, in Marxism's strategic perspective and tactical orientation.
  79. Le Blanc, Paul: The Marxism of C.L.R. James
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    James is generally acknowledged to have been one of the most original Marxist thinkers to emerge from the Western hemisphere, yet essential aspects of his identity came from the other side of the Atlantic, from Europe and Africa. He offered penetrating analyses on the interrelationships of class, race and gender, and his discussions of colonialism and anti-colonialism could be brilliant. C.L.R. James also embraced the heritage of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and the working-class and socialist movements of Europe and North America.
  80. Le Comite de lutte pour l'avortement libre et gratuit: C'est a Nous de Decider
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    See also CX1099.
  81. Le Fracois, Bev; Helga Martens Enns: Story of a Women's Centre
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
  82. Leadbeater, David ed: Mining Town Crisis
    Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  83. Leahy, Stephen: Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
  84. Leahy, Stephen: Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
  85. Leaning, Johnathan: Cuia Popular de Fotografia
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  86. Lebowitz, Michael: Build It Now
    Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
  87. Lee, Bill: Pragmatics Of Community Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization
  88. Lee, Martin A.; Solomon, Norman: Unreliable Sources
    A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
  89. Lee, Min Sook (Director): Hold the Line
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    A restrained story-telling of the 2009 CUPE strike in Windsor, Ontario. Excellent shots of Windsor backed by a moody soundtrack, this film tells the story of the Windsor CUPE strike from the workers' point of view.
  90. Lefebvre, Henri: Everyday Life in the Modern World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
  91. Lefebvre, Henri: The Sociology of Marx
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
  92. Leff, Enrique: Green Production 
    Toward an Environmental Rationality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Explores the environment and sustainability development with a Marxist approach and provides an alternative vision for ecotechnology.
  93. Leggett, Jeremy: Global Warming
    The Greenpeace Report
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  94. Lehmann, Heinz; translated, edited and introduced by Gerhard P. Bassler: The German Canadians 1750-1937:
    Immigration, Settlement, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  95. Leibovitz, Clement; Finkel, Alvin: In Our Time
    The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion
    Resource Type: Book
    Documents the steps taken under diplomatic cover by the West to strike a bargain with Hitler based upon shared anti-Soviet premises.
  96. Leiss, William: The Domination of Nature
    Resource Type: Book
  97. Lekachman, Robert and Borin Van Loon: Capitalism for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
  98. Lemisch, Jesse: On Active Service in War and Peace
    Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  99. Lemon, James T.: Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
  100. Lendman, Stephen: Growing Poverty And Despair In America
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Increasing homelessness and hunger highlight the growing problem as, in the face of deteriorating economic conditions and growing human needs, administration policies are indifferent, counterproductive, uncaring and hostile.
  101. Lenin, V. I.: The State and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1917
  102. Lenin, V.I.: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1917
  103. Lenin, V.I.: The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1965
  104. Lens, Sidney: The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
  105. Lens, Sidney: Radicalism in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  106. Leon, Abram: The Jewish Question
    A Marxist Interpretation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1970
  107. LeonVest, Sandy: US Workers Starved Into Military Service
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Humanity has passed the tipping point – economically, culturally and environmentally. The ‘consuming and killing’ model embraced by Americans as cultural norm is, in reality, a cultural aberration. It is destroying everything and everyone in its wake - including those who are fighting and dying to preserve it.
  108. Lerner, Eric: Don’t socialize the losses—take the whole thing!
    Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions—banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds—become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
  109. Lerner, Eric: For a Worker’s Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the “experts” have no idea what they are doing.
  110. Lett, James: A field guide to critical thinking
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  111. Leval, Gaston: Collectives in Spain
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1938   Published: 1945
    A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
  112. Leval, Gaston: Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
  113. Levant, Victor: Quiet Complicity
    Canadian Involvement in the Vietnam War
    Resource Type: Book
  114. Levi Strauss, David; Ehrenreich, Barbara; Danner, Mark et al.: Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A series of essays on the Abu Ghraib prison and the political climate surrounding the Bush Administration's intervention into Iraq.
  115. Levi, Primo: Beyond Judgment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  116. Levi, Primo: The Drowned and the Saved
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1989
    In an effort to confront the question of whether Auschwitz could ever happen again Primo Levi has brought to a new generation the facts of the Holocaust and the reasons we should not be complacent that it can never happen again. In a series of essays he talks of why some survived and most did not and our unwillingness to know about the crimes being committed.
  117. Levin, Murray: Teach Me! Kids Will Learn When Oppression is the Lesson
    Resource Type: Book
    Provides an imaginative and workable way of reaching the students that our educational system is failing.Teach Me! is a book that will change the way teachers think.
  118. Levine, Yasha: What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush’s push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.
  119. Levine, Carol: The Power of public relations
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    An overview of the role of public relations practitioners.
  120. Levine, Michael: Michael Levine's Ten commandments for Dealing with the Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Rules for dealing with the media.
  121. Levison, Andrew: The Working-Class Majority
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974   Published: 1975
  122. Levitt, Cyril H.; Shaffir, William: The Riot at Christie Pits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  123. Levitt, Karl: Silent Surrender
    The multinational corporation in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  124. Levy, Andrea: Reflections on the Occasion of Dimitri Roussopoulos’ 70th Birthday and Public Intellectuals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
  125. Levy, Gideon: The Last Refuge
    Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
  126. Levy, Gideon: With A Little Help From Outside
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
  127. Lewin, Moshe: Lenin's Last Struggle
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1968
  128. Lewington, Peter: No Right-of-Way
    How democracy came to the oil patch
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  129. Lewis, David: Louder Voices
    The Corporate Welfare Bums
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  130. Lewis, Debra J.; Rudland, Lorri: Free Trade for British Columbia
    Is It A Bargain at the Price?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1987
  131. Lewis, Gordon: Puerto Rico
    Freedom and Power in the Caribbean
    Resource Type: Book
    Details the history of modern Puerto Rico, advancing independence and socialism as the answer to the Puerto Rican tragedy.
  132. Lewis, S.P.: Grace
    The Life of Grace MacInnis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  133. Lewis, Stephen: Race Against Time
    Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
    This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
  134. Lexchin, Joel: Deception By Design
    Pharmaceutical Promotion in the Third World
    Resource Type: Book
    The author discusses the workings of the pharmaceutical industry by exposing the unethical marketing practices, double standards and weak marketing codes.
  135. Lexchin, Joel: The Real Pushers
    A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Drug Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  136. Leys, Simon: Broken Images
    Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
  137. Leys, Simon: The Chairman's New Clothes
    Mao and the Cultural Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  138. Leys, Simon: Chinese Shadows
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1978
  139. Leyton, Elliot: Dying Hard
    The Ravages of Industrial Carnage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    A shocking and indignant challenge to the conscience and humanity not just of Canada but of all nations, an outraged cry of protest and concern of workers victimized alike throughout the modern world.
  140. Li, Minqi: The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    With the decline of the economic power of the United States, its current hegemonic role will deteriorate and the growth of China will so erode the foundations of capital accumulation — by pushing wages and environmental costs up, for example — that the entire capitalist system will be shaken to its core.
  141. Libarle, Marc; Seligson, Tom (eds.): The High School Revolutionaries
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Two young teachers travel across America gathering the views of young high school radicals.
  142. Libertarian Socialist Collective: A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
  143. Libertarian Socialist Collective: What is The Red Menace?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    About The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist publication.
  144. Library and Archives Canada: Aboriginal Newspapers List
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Lists aboriginal publications (past and present) held in print or microform in the collection of Library and Archives Canada.
  145. Libretti, Tim: Asian American Incorporation or Insurgency?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
  146. Lichtenstein, Alex: Twice the Work of Free Labor
    The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  147. Lichtenstein, Nelson: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit
    Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor
    Resource Type: Book
    Lichtenstein shows us the origins of some of the union movement's current weaknesses--little organization at the workplace level, no capacity to act independently in the political sphere, viewed by many non-union workers as a "special interest group."
  148. Lichtenstein, Nelson: Politics and Memory in the Flit Sitdown Strikes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    The General Motors strike of 1936-37 was the most important union victory of the 20th century, but the very meaning of its success was ambiguous indeed.
  149. Lieberman, Dan: Deconstructing The Israeli Narrative
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel has revealed its nature; a nation built on actions normally termed war crimes by world institutions; a nation that does not follow international law; and a nation that does not heed United Nations Resolutions. Distracting and deceiving the world community with contrived and fallacious narratives permits Israel to continue its illegal maneuvers. Setting the record straight will straighten the road to Middle East peace.
  150. Lien, Jon ; Katona, Steven: A Guide to the Photographic Indentification of Individual Whales
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  151. Lieven, Anatol: The Baltic Revolution
    Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    A history of Estonian, Latvia and Lithuania, from their "creation" in the 19th century, to their successful runs for independence in 1990.
  152. Lievesley, Geraldine; Ludlam, Steve (eds.): Reclaiming a Continent: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    An in-depth and accessible introduction to Latin American politics. Avoiding superficial analysis and simplistic leftist cheerleading, this book addresses the complexity and diversity of the new Latin American left.
  153. Light, Beth & Pierson, Ruth Roach (Eds): No Easy Road
    Women in Canada 1920's to 1960's
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  154. Liienfield, Scott, Lynn, Steven & Lohr, Jeffrey: Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
    Resource Type: Book
    Written by psychologists this book examines the differences between science and pseudoscience within the field of clinical psychology .Throughout the book they present an analysis of the rising number of alternate therapies (Emotional Freedom Technique, Thought Field Technique, self-help books, Dr. Phil etc..) that offer immediate relief of mental health issues whether it be depression, anxiety or post-trumatic stress disorder. They conclude with recommendations for combatting the current state of pseudoscience and discuss the therapies that are scientifically supported, safe and effective.
  155. Lilburne, John; Walwyn, William; Prince, Thomas; Overton, Richard: An Agreement of the Free People of England
    Manifesto of the Levellers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1649
    The Levellers were an informal alliance of agitators and pamphleteers who came together during the English Civil War (1642-1648) to demand constitutional reform and equal rights under the law. Levellers believed all men were born free and equal and possessed natural rights that resided in the individual, not the government. They believed that each man should have freedom limited only by regard for the freedom of others. They believed the law should equally protect the poor and the wealthy.
  156. Lind, Christopher & Mihevc, Joe: Coalitions for Justice
    The Story of Canada's Interchurch Coalitions
    Resource Type: Book
  157. Lindqvist, Sven: Exterminate All The Brutes
    One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Lindqvist explores European imperialism and explains how and why racism, exploitation and extermination were policies of European colonial administrations.
  158. Lindsay, Robert (Rev.): The Development of a Guaranteed Annual Income in Canada and the Involvement of Canadian Churches
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A paper designed to educate church people about the concept of a guaranteed income as an effective "weapon against poverty".
  159. Lindsay, Robert (Rev.): The Economics of Alcohol in Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A paper written in response to the growing concern about the increasing abuse of alcohol in Canada shows the direct relation between consumption and advertising.
  160. Lindsey, Robert (Rev.): Report and Recommendations for Government Action and Statement of Concern:
    Housing for Low Income Canadians
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    The report identifies maldistribution of income as the prime factor in the housing problem.
  161. Linebaugh; Rediker: The Many-Headed Hydra
    The hidden history of the revolutionary atlantic
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    With the expansion of trade and colonization around the Atlantic in the seventeenth century, sailors, indentured servants, market women, prostitutes, and slaves came to inhabit European cities, American colonies and trade ships. Linebaugh and Rediker show how this motley crew had their own versions of democracy.
  162. Linhart, Viriginie: Survivors
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The enormous role played by Jews in the events of May 1968 in Paris and their aftermath is striking. All currents of the far left, anarchist, Trotskyist, Maoist had Jews among their primary leaders. Though they did not act as Jews, that they were Jews, and occupied a particular place in post-war French society because of this, cannot but have weighed in their participation.
  163. Linnille, Ron: Letter to the Red Menace- Unpublished letter (Linnille)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Inquiring letter.
  164. Lipnack, Jessica, Stamps, Jeffrey: Networking
    The First Report and Directory
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    Directory and description/analysis of networking.
  165. Lipset, Seymour Martin: Agrarian Socialism
    The Co-operative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology
    Resource Type: Book
  166. Lipset, Seymour Martin; Wolin, Sheldon S. (ed.): The Berkeley Student Revolt
    Facts and Interpretations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
  167. Lipton, Charles: The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1968
  168. Literacy Ontario, Ontario Ministry of Skills Development: A Directory of Literacy and Adult Basic Education Programs in Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  169. Litewka, Jack: Socialized Penis, The
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  170. Littleton, Jim: We Just Won't Take It
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1976
    Film expressing the opposition of the U.A.W. to wage controls.
  171. Littlewood, Stuart: How low will Israel stoop to win the propaganda war?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israel Project’s training manual is an unpleasant piece of work. It recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry. And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world’s civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
  172. Litvinoff, Miles: The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  173. Livesay, Dorothy: Ballad of the Peace Pushers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1991
    Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
  174. Livesay, Dorothy: The Documentaries
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  175. Livingston, John A.: The Fallacy of Wildlike Conservation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  176. Livingston, John A.: Rogue Primate
    An Exploration of Human Domestication
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    The first domesticated animal, according to Livingston, was neither dog nor goat, but human. Humans cut themselves adrift from the rest of the world by becoming entirely dependent on ideas. Technical ideas gave them the power to manipulate nature as well as a rationalization for their destructiveness. Now humans have drawn other animals, and even the natural world itself, into the service of their belief systems. Even our understanding of nature is informed by an ideological insistence that domination is somehow 'natural'.
  177. Livingston, John; Fitzharris, Tim: Canada: A Natural History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  178. Livingstone, David ; Mangan, J. Marshall (Editors): Recast Dreams
    Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown
    Resource Type: Book
  179. Lixiong,Wang; Shakya,Tsering: The Struggle for Tibet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya debate Tibet's history under Communist rule. While both are critical of China's crackdown on resistance movements, Wang, a Chinese intellectual draws a picture of a struggle that is bureaucratic, religious and is opposed to Communism. Shakya, a Tibetan national historian, on the other hand, describes a struggle that is nationalistic and anti-colonial.
  180. Lockman, Zachary & Beinin, Joel: Intifada:
    The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  181. Loehr, Philip J.: Inland Terminals threaten Small Towns
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    The threat of American multinationals to Canadian farming system.
  182. Loftus, Elizabeth: Elizabeth F. Loftus
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web site of Elizabeth Loftus, memory researcher and psychologist.
  183. Loftus, Elizabeth: Remembering Dangerously
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy.
  184. Loftus, Elizabeth; Keecham, Katherine: Myth of a Repressed Memory
    False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    An expose of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy. Good experimental evidence shows that false memories can easily be implanted.
  185. Logue, Christopher: Know Thy Enemy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A poem.
  186. Lomax, Bill: Hungary 1956
    Resource Type: Book
  187. Lombardi, Chris: A Brief History of Loyal Opposition to War
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    As Afghanistan erupts with redoubled violence, the author recounts the clutch of soldiers who have refused to serve or repented their service in every American war since the War of 1812.
  188. London, Jack: The Iron Heel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1907   Published: 1971
  189. London, Jack: Revolution and other Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906
  190. Long, Priscilla (ed.), Introduction by Staughton Lynd: The New Left
    A Collection of Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  191. Loo, Dennis; Phillips, Peter (eds.): Impeach the President
    The Case Against Bush and Cheney
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  192. Looby, Robert: Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    An interview with Julia Buxton about Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, and target of concerted criticism in the western media.
  193. Looker, Robert (ed.): Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
  194. Loomis, Mildred J.: Alternative Americas
    An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  195. Lorimer, James: A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  196. Lorimer, James: The Developers
    Resource Type: Book
  197. Lorimer, James: The Real World of City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  198. Lorimer, James: Working People
    Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  199. Lotz, Jim: The Lichen Factor
    The Quest for Community Development in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  200. Lotz, Jim and Welton, Micchael: Father Jimmy
    The Life and Times of JImmy Tompkings
    Resource Type: Book
  201. Love, Maryann Cusimano: Beyond Sovereignty
    Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
  202. Lowe, Mick: One Woman Army
    The Life of Claire Culhane
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A biogrpahy of Claire Culhane, a member of the Canadian Communist Party and a peace activist opposed to the Vietnam war.
  203. Lowes, Warren: Indian Giver
    A Legacy of North American Native Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  204. Lowi, Henry: Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
  205. Lowi, Henry: The lessons we have learned
    Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
  206. Lowi, Henry: Revisiting the partition of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
  207. Lowi, Henry: Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT “recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state” 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
  208. Lozoff, Bo: We're All Doing Time
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  209. Lucas, Anthony: The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  210. Lucas, Rex: Minetown, Milltown, Railtown
    Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry
    Resource Type: Book
  211. Lukacs, Georg: Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1920
  212. Lukacs, Georg: History and Class Consciousness
    Studies in Marxist Dialectics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
  213. Lummis, C. Douglas: Radical Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
  214. Lumsden, Ian: Close the 49th Parallel Etc
    The Americanization of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  215. Luna, Jonathan: Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Local people protest a project that attacks the region’s biodiversity and communities.
  216. Lundberg, Ferdinand: The Rich and the Super-Rich
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
  217. Lupton, Deborah: Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
    AIDS in the News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    "The mass media have played a key role in constructing public understandings of the epidemic. In the majority of instances, HIV-related disease has been presented as a condition affecting social and/or demographic minorities -- groups whose exceptional behaviour has put them at special risk. Yet at the same time, HIV and AIDS are said to threaten us all: be we heterosexual, lesbian or gay, be we young or somewhat older; be we of minority or majority ethnic status."
  218. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Accumulation of Capital 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1913
    Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
  219. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique
    The Accumulation of Capital, or What the Epigones Have Made of Marx's Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1921
  220. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Acheron in Motion
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    The healthy class instinct of the proletariat rebels against the schema of parliamentary cretinism. 'The liberation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself,' says the Communist Manifesto. And the'working class' is not a few hundred elected representatives who control society's destiny with speeches and rebuttals.
  221. Luxemburg, Rosa: An anti-clerical policy of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1903
  222. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Beginning
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    Revolutions do not stand still. Their vital law is to advance rapidly, to outgrow themselves.
  223. Luxemburg, Rosa: Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946
  224. Luxemburg, Rosa: Concerning Morocco
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1911
    The duty of Social Democracy is not to reassure public opinion, but to do the very reverse, to rouse it and warn it against the dangers lying dormant in it such adventures in international politics today. It is not enough for us to rely on the pacific intentions of some capitalist clique as a factor in achieving peace; we can only count on the resistance of the enlightened masses. By obeying the order to keep our peace, incidentally, we would be seen to be falling in with the wishes of the rulers of the Moroccan policy.
  225. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1899
    For in the Dreyfus case four social factors make themselves felt which give it the stamp of a question directly related to the class struggle. They are: militarism, chauvinism-nationalism, anti-Semitism, and clericalism. In our written and spoken agitation we always combat these direct enemies of the socialist proletariat by virtue of our general tendencies. It would thus be totally incomprehensible to not enter into a struggle with these enemies exactly when it is a question of unmasking them, not as abstract clichés, but through the use of living current events.
  226. Luxemburg, Rosa: A Duty of Honour
    Against Capital Punishment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
  227. Luxemburg, Rosa: Eight-Hour Day at the Party Congress
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1899
  228. Luxemburg, Rosa: Either Or
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1916
    It is a question of either-or! Either we nakedly and shamelessly betray the International or we take the International in deadly seriousness and attempt to extend it into a firm stronghold, a bulwark, of the international socialist proletariat and of world peace.
  229. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Elections to the National Assembly
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    The great confrontation between capital and labour will determine the course of future history and, in its final result, admits of no other decision than the destruction of capitalist rule and the triumph of socialism.
  230. Luxemburg, Rosa: Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1905
  231. Luxemburg, Rosa: House of Cards
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1919
    Again and again the revolution will bring to the fore the basic question: the general reckoning between labour and capital. And this reckoning is a world historical conflict between two mortal enemies which can be fought out only in a long power struggle, eye to eye, hand to hand.
  232. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Idea of May Day on the March
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1913
    The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
  233. Luxemburg, Rosa: In Memory of the Proletariat Party
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1903
  234. Luxemburg, Rosa: In the Storm
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1904
    The war destroys the appearance which leads us to believe in peaceful social evolution; in the omnipotence and the untouchability of bourgeois legality; in national exclusivism; in the stability of political conditions; in the conscious direction of politics by these statesmen or parties.
  235. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Industrial Development of Poland
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1898
  236. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Junius Pamphlet 
    The Crisis of Social Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1916
    The voting of war credits in August 1914 was a shattering moment in the life of individual socialists and of the socialist movement in Europe. Those who had worked for and wholly believed in the ability of organized labour to stand against war now saw the major social democratic parties of Germany, France, and England rush to the defense of their fatherlands. Worker solidarity had proved an impotent myth. Rosa Luxemburg had for years warned against the stultifying effects of the overly bureaucratized German Social Democratic Party and the anti-revolutionary tendencies of the trade unions that played such a large role in the party's policy decisions. She spent much of the war in jail, where she wrote and then smuggled this pamphlet. Published under the name "Junius," the pamphlet became the guiding statement for the International Group, which became the Spartacus League.
  237. Luxemburg, Rosa: Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
  238. Luxemburg, Rosa: Life of Korolenko
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
  239. Luxemburg, Rosa: Martinique
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1902
    Written after the volanic eruption in May, 1902 at the port of St. Pierre.
  240. Luxemburg, Rosa: Marxist Theory and the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1903
  241. Luxemburg, Rosa: Mass Action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1911
    No party executive in the world can replace the mass of the party's own energy, and an organisation of a million which, at a great time and in the face of great tasks, would want to complain that it did not have the right leaders would prove its own shortcomings, because it would prove it has not understood the historical essence itself of the proletarian class struggle that consists in the proletarian masses not needing "leaders" in a bourgeois sense, that they are themselves leaders.
  242. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906
    Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
  243. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Militia and Militarism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1899
    In militarism, the power and rule of both the capitalist state and the bourgeois class are crystallized; just as Social Democracy is the only party which opposes them in principle, so too, inversely, is the opposition in principle to militarism part of the nature of Social Democracy. To abandon the struggle against the military system amounts in fact to the same thing as renouncing the struggle against the present social order in general.
  244. Luxemburg, Rosa: The National Assembly
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    Today it is not a question of democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has placed on the agenda is: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy?
  245. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Next Step
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1910
    A decision must be made as to whether German Social Democracy, which is supported by the strongest trade-union organization and the greatest army of voters in the world, can bring about a mass action (which has been done at various times with great success in little Belgium, in Italy, in Austria-Hungary, in Sweden - not to mention Russia), or whether in Germany a trade-union organization numbering two million members and a powerful, well-disciplined party is just as incapable of giving birth to an effective mass action at the crucial moment as were the French trade unions, which had been crippled by anarchist confusion, and the French Socialist party, which had been weakened by internal disputes.
  246. Luxemburg, Rosa: Oh! How--German is this Revolution!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
  247. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Old Mole
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1917
    The question of peace is in reality bound up with the unimpeded, radical development of the Russian Revolution. But the latter is in turn bound up with the parallel revolutionary struggles for peace on the part of the French, English, Italian and, especially, the German proletariat.
  248. Luxemburg, Rosa: On the Spartacus Programme 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize.
  249. Luxemburg, Rosa: Opportunism and the art of the possible
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1898
    Opportunism is a political game which can be lost in two ways: not only basic principles but also practical success may be forfeited.
  250. Luxemburg, Rosa: Order Prevails in Berlin
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1919
    Rosa Luxemburg's last article, written just before she was murdered.
    She concludes with the words: "You foolish lackeys! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
    I was, I am, I shall be!"
  251. Luxemburg, Rosa: Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1904
    Rosa Luxemburg’s contribution to the debate within the Russian Social Democratic movement on party organization and democratic centralism. Luxemburg joins Trotsky in warning of the dangers inherent in centralism and argues against the concentration of power in a Central Committee. From a Socialist Revolutionary perspective Luxemburg puts forward compelling arguments against Lenin’s conception of the revolutionary Party.
  252. Luxemburg, Rosa: Our Program and the Political Situation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
  253. Luxemburg, Rosa: Peace Utopias
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1911
    What is our task in the question of peace? It does not consist merely in vigorously demonstrating at all times the love of peace of the Social Democrats; but first and foremost our task is to make clear to the masses of people the nature of militarism and sharply and clearly to bring out the differences in principle between the standpoint of the Social Democrats and that of the bourgeois peace enthusiasts.
  254. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1896
  255. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Political Mass Strike 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1913
    If we want to prove ourselves worthy of the great coming events then we must not begin at the wrong end by attempting to make technical preparations for the mass strike. When the situation is ripe, the tactic of the mass strike will present itself. Let us not rack our brains about supporting it at the right time. What is necessary is that you watch the party press to ensure that it is your instrument and expresses your opinion and your mood. You must also see to it that our parliamentarians feel a mass pressing them from behind.
  256. Luxemburg, Rosa: Rebuilding the International
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1915
    The only real safeguard for peace depends on the resolution of the proletariat to remain faithful to its class politics and its international solidarity through all the storm of imperialism.
  257. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Revolution in Russia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1905
  258. Luxemburg, Rosa: Riot and Revolution
    Speech by Rosa Luxemburg on Trial for Inciting to Riot
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1906
  259. Luxemburg, Rosa: Rosa Luxemburg: Prison Letters
    Resource Type: Book
  260. Luxemburg, Rosa: Rosa Luxemburg: Speech to the Hanover Congress
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1899
  261. Luxemburg, Rosa: Rosa Luxemburg: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1898
    Luxenburg criticizes Eduard Bernstein's comment: "The final goal, whatever it may be, is nothing to me: the movement is everything!" with the reply "Anyone who says that does not stand for the necessity of seizing political power. You see that some comrades in the Party do not stand for the final goals of our movement, and that it is necessary to express that fact unambiguously."
  262. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism? 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1961
    The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him .
  263. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Russian tragedy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
  264. Luxemburg, Rosa: Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  265. Luxemburg, Rosa: Social Democracy and Parliamentarism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1904
  266. Luxemburg, Rosa: Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1896
  267. Luxemburg, Rosa: Social Reform or Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1900   Published: 1908
    Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
  268. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Socialisation of Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    A socialist society needs human beings from whom each one in his place, is full of passion and enthusiasm for the general well-being, full of self-sacrifice and sympathy for his fellow human beings, full of courage and tenacity in order to dare to attempt the most difficult.
  269. Luxemburg, Rosa: Socialism and The Churches
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1905
    Social-Democracy in no way fights against religious beliefs. On the contrary, it demands complete freedom of conscience for every individual and the widest possible toleration for every faith and every opinion. But, from the moment when the priests use the pulpit as a means of political struggle against the working classes, the workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their liberation. For he who defends the exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of misery, he is the mortal enemy of the proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the police.
  270. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Socialist Crisis in France
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1901
    "The Republic is in danger! That is why it was necessary for a socialist to become the bourgeois Minister of Commerce. The Republic is in danger! That is why the socialist had to remain in the cabinet even after the massacre of the striking workers on the Island of Martinique and in Chalon. The Republic is in danger! As a result, inquiries into the massacres had to be blocked, the parliamentary investigations of the horrors perpetrated in the colonies had to be discarded, and the amnesty law accepted."
  271. Luxemburg, Rosa: Spartacus
    Resource Type: Book
  272. Luxemburg, Rosa: Stagnation and Progress of Marxism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1903
    Only in proportion as our movement progresses, and demands the solution of new practical problems do we dip once more into the treasury of Marx's thought, in order to extract therefrom and to utilize new fragments of his doctrine. But since our movement, like all the campaigns of practical life, inclines to go on working in old ruts of thought, and to cling to principles after they have ceased to be valid, the theoretical utilization of the Marxist system proceed very slowly.
  273. Luxemburg, Rosa: Theory & Practice 
    [A polemic against Comrade Kautsky's theory of the Mass Strike]
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1910
    Rosa Luxemburg confronts Karl Kautsky on the crucial questions of the General Mass Strike and on the relationship of spontaneity to organization, as well as on the unity of theory and practice. This crucial 1910 debate in German Social Democracy led to Luxemburg's revolutionary break with Karl Kautsky and foreshadowed the collapse of the Second International at the outbreak of World War I.
  274. Luxemburg, Rosa: The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1907
  275. Luxemburg, Rosa: What are the Leaders Doing?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1919
    It is a revolution with all its externally chaotic development, with its alternating ebb and flow, with momentary surges towards the seizure of power and equally momentary recessions of the revolutionary breakers. And the revolution is making its way step by step through all these apparent zig-zag movements and is marching forward.
  276. Luxemburg, Rosa: What Are the Origins of May Day?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1894
  277. Luxemburg, Rosa: What Does the Spartacus League Want?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    The proletarian revolution requires no terror for its aims; it hates and despises killing. It does not need these weapons because it does not combat individuals but institutions, because it does not enter the arena with naive illusions whose disappointment it would seek to revenge. It is not the desperate attempt of a minority to mold the world forcibly according to its ideal, but the action of the great massive millions of the people, destined to fulfill a historic mission and to transform historical necessity into reality.
  278. Luxemburg, Rosa: What is Economics?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1916   Published: 1968
  279. Luxemburg, Rosa: What Now?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1912
    We must now give battle on all fronts in the Reichstag to the nationalistic clap-trap that dogged our every step in the election campaign and that lurks in militarism, naval policy, colonialism, threats of war and personal rule.
  280. Luxemburg, Rosa: Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1912
    In any society, the degree of female emancipation is the natural measure of the general emancipation.
  281. Luxemburg, Rosa (edited by Davis, Horace B.): The National Question 
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula, “the right of nations to self-determination,” is essentially not a political and problematic guideline in the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
  282. Luxemburg, Rosa; Bukharin, Nikolai: The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique and Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1924   Published: 1972
    Rosa Luxemburg's response to the criticisms of her book 'The Accumulation of Capital'. This volume also includes Nikolai Bukharin's reply to Luxemburg, 'Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital'.
  283. Luxemburg, Rosa; Liebknecht, Karl; Zetkin, Klara; Mehring, Franz: A Call to the Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
    Humanity is facing the alternative: Dissolution and downfall in capitalist anarchy, or regeneration through the social revolution.
  284. Luyendijk, Joris: Agreement on terms
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
  285. Lynch, Mary Jo: Libraries in an Information Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  286. Lynch, Michael: Aids Activist
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  287. Lynd, Alice; Lynd, Staughton (eds.): Rank and File 
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
  288. Lynd, Staughton: Class Conflict, Slavery and the United States Constitution
    Ten essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 2009
    One of the first studies to identify the importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic.
  289. Lynd, Staughton: Edward Thompson's Warrens
    On the transition to socialism and its relation to current left mobilizations
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2002
  290. Lynd, Staughton: The Fight Against Shutdowns
    Youngstown's steel mill closings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  291. Lynd, Staughton: History, Culture and the Communist Manifesto--Part 1
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    History and experience have convinced me that class analysis remains the best way of understanding social change.
  292. Lynd, Staughton: Living Inside Our Hope
    A steadfast radical's thoughts on rebuilding the movement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Staughton Lynd here reaffirms ideas central to the New Left of the sixties: nonviolence, participatory democracy, an experiential approach to education, and anti-capitalism.
  293. Lynd, Staughton: We Are All Leaders
    The alternative unionism of the early 1930s
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Contributors to this volume draw on interviews with participants in the events described, first-person narratives, trade union documents, and other primary sources to tell what workers of the 1930s did. The alternative unionism of the 1930s was democratic, deeply rooted in mutual aid among workers in different crafts and work sites, and politically independent.
  294. Lynd, Staughton; Grubacic, Andrej: Wobblies & Zapatistas 
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
  295. Lynd, Staughton; Lynd, Alice; Bahour, Sam (eds.): Homeland
    Oral histories of Palestine and Palestinians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    The editors travelled throughout Israel and the occupied territories to find the multi-generational families living in towns, villages and refugee camps whose voices resonate in Homeland. This account links the people to the land, the attachment to which has created and sustained Palestinian national identity around the world.
  296. Lynd, Straughton: Lucasville
    The untold story of a prison uprising
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    In 1993 prisoners took control of the maximum-security prison in Lucasville, Ohio. Their 11-day ordeal started with a dispute between the warden and Muslim prisoners and ended with a negotiated settlement, but only after nine prisoners and one hostage had been killed.This offers the inside story of the uprising, the subsequent trial and sentencing.
  297. Lyne, Finn: Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered People
    Resource Type: Book
  298. Lynfield, Ben: Israeli agents to screen judges before appointment
    Fury as security service gets veto over judiciary
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel's internal security service has been given a de facto veto over the appointment of judges.
  299. Lyons, Jonathan: The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Arab scholars were exploring and extending the great works of the Persian, Hindu, and Greek civilizations. There were striking advances in the sciences and mathematics, but more fundamentally, the Arabs taught the importance of experimentation and rational thought. Eventually, through the efforts of men like Adelard, the accomplishments of the Arabs got through to the West, and shaped it.
  300. Löwy, Michael: Socialist Reformism and "Evolutionary" Debate
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    While Pittenger does not provide us with an explanation for the evolutionist degradation of socialism--which is of course not an exclusively American phenomena--his book is a most insightful rediscovery of a forgotten chapter of U.S. socialism.
  301. L’Ouverture, Toussaint: Memoir of General Toussaint L’Ouverture
    Written by Himself
    Resource Type: Book


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