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- Qadir, Shaukat: Shaukat Qadir Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Qazi, Moin: Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
- Quamina, Odida T.: Mineworkers of Guyana
The Making of a Working Class
Resource Type: Book
Written by a former worker who himself grew up on Alcan's Plantation Mackenzie bauxite mine in Guyana, this is a readable account of the life and history of a Third World working class. It throws new light on the constantly recurring themes of company exploitation, trade union democracy, and the limits of nationalization in transforming management-worker relations.
- Quandt, Midge: The New "Politics from Below"
Book review of Raul Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance" centres on the practices in Latin American movements, such as the Zapatistas and the Landless Workers Movement, analysing their strengths and weaknesses over time vis-à-vis the central governments that they helped bring to power.
- Quandt, Midge: Social Movements and the Left
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Book review of 'Social Movements and Leftist Government in Latin America: Confrontation or Cooptation,' edited by Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva Campos, Harry E. Vanden.
- Quandt, Midge: Tide Turning in Latin America?
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
- Quarter, Jack: Canada's Social Economy
Co-Operatives, Non-Profits, and Other Community Enterprises
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Quarter, Jack: Crossing The Line
Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
This book studies the issue of employee ownership as the divide between management and labour blurs.
- Quarter, Jack (co-ordinator and editor): Starting a Worker Co-operative
An Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
- Quest, Matthew: Book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939,1969)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
What makes A History of Pan African Revolt enchanting is the thread of speculative philosophy that holds the assorted anecdotal historical commentaries on labor strikes, anti-racist rebellions, heroic personalities, and anti-colonial events together.
- Quest, Matthew: Book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939, 1969)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A small and dangerous volume, this republication of C.L.R. James’s A History of Pan-African Revolt is a concise survey of Black freedom struggles in the United States, the Caribbean, and on the African continent from 1739–1969.
- Quest, Matthew: C.L.R. James's "Critical Support" of Fidel Castro's Cuba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
C.L.R. James's "critical support" of Fidel Castro’s Cuba is little understood among scholars of his life and work. This essay explores James’s 1967–1968 visit to Cuba and reconstructs private debates and discussion on Cuba within his revolutionary organizations, based in Detroit, in the 1950s and 1960s, and among anti-imperialist movements. Many of James's commentaries and disputes were consistent with his attempts to reconcile anti-colonialism with direct democracy and workers self-management.
- Quest, Matthew: Christian Høgsbjerg, C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (2014)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Scholarship on CLR James, the Pan African and independent socialist, often takes the tone of a thin cultural studies where political insight is minimal and factual detail rooted in archival sources is negligible. Grasping James’s role in intellectual and social movement history requires resisting the tendency to group him narrowly in the fields of “Marxism” or the “Black radical tradition.” These are invented frameworks, shorthand which obscures a limited knowledge of James’s actual innovation and creativity, in contrast to other representative figures, but also mystification of the reality of elite party politics and the self-directed liberating activity by ordinary people in insurgent movements regardless of color.
- Quest, Matthew: C.L.R. James's Conflicted Intellectual Legacies on Mao Tse Tung's China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
On the evolution of C.L.R. James’s thoughts about Maoism.
- Quest, Matthew: The "Not so Bright" Protégés and the Comrades that "Never Quarreled"
C.L.R. James's Disputes on Labor's Self-Emancipation and the Political Economy of Colonial Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Surveying C.L.R. James's shifting and evolving views on the making of national liberation struggles, whether in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, Eric Williams’s Trinidad, or Toussaint L'Ouverture's Haiti, which he was associated as anti-colonial activist and independent socialist historian, may lead observers to conclude he was either inconsistent in defending his most cherished ideals or, alternatively, strategically minded in specific historical moments.
- Quest, Matthew: Silences on the Suppression of Workers Self-Emancipation: Historical Problems with CLR James's Interpretation of V.I. Lenin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
CLR James believed one of his major intellectual legacies was the clarification of the wisdom of V.I. Lenin. However, James's readings fail in making Lenin's role in history and politics transparent. James's Leninism attempts to reconcile the validity of workers self-management and the aspirations of a political party to seize state power. This is in conflict with James's own genuine and original political legacy: clarifying the direct democratic gathering forces which will create the new society.
- Quest, Matthew: We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The black freedom movement is framed in popular memory as distinguished by nonviolent civil disobedience. Yet in multiple southern towns, black people used armed self-defense to protect their communities and lives.
- Quick, Allison: Unequal Risks
Accidents and Social Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Quick, Allison ; Wilkinson, Richard: Income and Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Quiggin, John: John Locke Against Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
John Locke's classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom. It's a defense of expropriation and enslavement.
- Quigley, Bill: The Class War at Home
The Rich Getting Richer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
There is a class war – the war of the rich on the poor and the middle class – and the rich are winning.
- Quigley, Bill: 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
It's Not Just About Crime!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people.
- Quigley, Bill: Katrina, Climate Justice and Fish Dinners: Social Justice Lawyer Colette Pichon Battle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Colette Pichon Battle gave up a great job working as a corporate immigration lawyer in Washington DC to live in a tent in front of her flooded family home 50 miles from downtown New Orleans. She is now a much honored director of a small but powerful non-profit climate justice human rights firm advocating all along the Gulf Coast. Why the big change in her life? Katrina, climate justice and fish dinners.
- Quigley, Bill: The Katrina Pain Index, 2013
New Orleans Eight Years Later
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Eight years after Katrina, New Orleans has lost about 86,000 people, and the city remains incredibly poor.
- Quigley, Bill: Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
New Orleans is the nation's largest and most complete experiment in charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana took control of public schools in New Orleans and launched a nearly complete transformation of a public school system into a system of charter schools.
- Quigley, Bill: Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
- Quigley, Bill: Reverse Robin Hood: Six Billion Dollar Businesses Preying on Poor People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Many see families in poverty and seek to help. Others see families in poverty and see opportunities for profit. Here are six examples of billion dollar industries which are built on separating poor people, especially people of colour, from their money, the reverse Robin Hood.
- Quigley, Bill: Serious Guns and White Terrorism
Two Unasked Questions in Tucson Mass Murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Quigley, Bill: A Shameful Situation
Millions of Soldiers and Veterans in Serious Trouble
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Millions of US soldiers and veterans are in serious trouble, in the areas of suicide, homelessness, unemployment, poverty, disability, medical care, and mental health.
- Quigley, Bill: Spying by the Numbers
Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
- Quigley, Bill: Taking Back Homes From The Banks: Exercising The Human Right To Housing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right
to housing. With the millions of homeless living in our communities and the millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to put them together. Organizations across the US are engaging in 'housing liberation' and 'housing defense' to exercise their human rights to housing.
- Quigley, Bill: Ten Examples of Direct Resistance to Stop Government Raids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Resistance to unjust government action is the duty of all people who care about human rights. As Dr. King reminded us in his letter from a Birmingham jail, "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
- Quigley, Bill: Ten Illegal Police Actions to Watch for in Ferguson
Crackdown on the Constitution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
When the Michael Brown verdict is announced, people can expect the police to take at least ten different illegal actions to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights. The Ferguson police have been on TV more than others so people can see how awful they have been acting. But their illegal police tactics are quite commonly used by other law enforcement in big protests across the US.
- Quigley, Bill: 13 Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret From You
Constitutional Black Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The President and the Government are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance secret.
- Quigley, Bill: Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. Here are thirteen examples of how some of the biggest government agencies and programs track people.
- Quigley, Bill: Why I Represent the New Orleans Immigrant Workers Who Committed Civil Disobedience
An Honor to Defend Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
In the thirty six-years I have been a lawyer, I have seen many people take brave moral actions. I have represented hundreds in Louisiana and across our country who have been arrested for protesting for peace, civil rights, economic justice, and human rights for all. It is amazing to see people put their freedom on the line when they risk jail for justice.
- Quigley, Bill: Why Wikileaks is Good for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The US has been going in the wrong direction for years by classifying millions of documents as secrets. Wikileaks and other media which report these so called secrets will embarrass people yes. Wikileaks and other media will make leaders uncomfortable yes. But embarrassment and discomfort are small prices to pay for a healthier democracy. Wikileaks has the potential to make transparency and accountability more robust.
- Quigley, Bill; Warren, Vince: Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
- Quigley, Fran: How Human Rights Can Build Haiti
Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyers-activists on the ground should give us all hope.
- Quigley, Fran: The Senseless Death of Tobeka Daki
Auctioning Health and Life to the Highest Bidders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Details the circumstances of the death of Tobeka Daki of South Africa, implicating the exorbitant drug prices of pharmaceutical corporations.
- Quigley, John: The Case for Palestine
An International Law Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
- Quiley, Bill: Top Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich
Making a Killing Off the Tax Code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Here are the top ten examples of corporate welfare and welfare for the rich. There are actually thousands of tax breaks and subsidies for the rich and corporations provided by federal, state and local governments but these ten will give a taste.
- Quinn, Abra: Meeting Alexandra Kollontai
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
My first encounter with Wikipedia was several years ago when I was looking up some female Bolsheviks — there was very little about them by way of normal Googling, and I had never tried this collective online encyclopedia before.
- Quinn, Abra: Wobblies on the Southern Home Front
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Most readers of Against the Current know the Industrial Workers of the World by their imaginative and daring radical tactics and campaigns in the Northeast and the West — the Free Speech campaigns; the Lawrence, Massachusetts Bread and Roses textile strike, made colorful by its propaganda, and especially the pageants and children’s evacuation that brought the strike publicity; their organizing of itinerant workers and hoboes; and the Wobblies’ clarion calls for direct action and sabotage on the job, as well as loudmouthed boasts of violent action in response to the bosses’ violence.
- Quinn, Patrick M.: Bill Banta, 1941-2008
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Bill Banta, a member of the Chicago branch and founding member of Solidarity, died of pancreatic cancer in a Chicago hospice on August 20th. He was 67. Bill was a revolutionary socialist his entire adult life.
- Quinn, Patrick M.: Birth of the "Open Shop"
Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Chad Pearson's Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement.
- Quinn, Patrick M.: A Call to Action
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Positive review - with caveats - of a book about how we can transform society.
- Quinn, Patrick M.: Frank Fried (1927-2015)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Frank Fried, a revolutionary U.S. socialist, passed away on January 13, 2015.
- Quinn, Patrick M.: James Green's Death in the Haymarket
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
James Green's Death in the Haymarket tells the story of the anarcosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers’ rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886. They were subsequently framed, convicted, and four martyrs hanged by the judicial system of Cook County on “Black Friday,” November 11, 1887.
- Quinn, Patrick M.: Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
- Quinn, Patrick M.: Our History Recovered
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
For thirty-six years since its apogee in the late 1960s during the worldwide movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam, the global Left, including the Left in the United States, has been in decline. Globally, perhaps the most significant causal factor accelerating decline at the beginning of the 1990s was the collapse of the Soviet Union as a perceived alternative to dominant capitalist economic and governmental modes.
- Quinn, Patrick M.; Eric Schuster, Eric: William A. Pelz
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Obituary for labour history scholar and activist William A Pelz.
- Quinn, Patrick M.; Schuster, Eric: William ('Bill') Pelz:
Againist the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
In memoriam, Patrick M. Quinn and Eric Schuster discuss the life and contributions of William ('Bill') Pelz, a well-known socialist activist and prolific scholar in the field of European and comparative Labour History.
- Quinn, Rachel: After the "Special Period"
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
U.S. activists interview Cuban student. In July, Solidarity supporters Tim Marshall, Rachel Quinn and Sara Abraham had the opportunity to take classes at the University of Havana as a part of the Language and Culture program sponsored by Global Exchange. We met many people willing to share their opinions on the political and economic situation of the country. Everyone talked about how difficult the "special period" (early 1990s) was but felt that Cuba was emerging from this critical time.
- Quinn, Tristan: Agroecology leading the fight against India's Green Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
For the women farmers of Tamil Nadu life has long been a struggle, all the more so following the advent of 'Green Revolution' industrial agriculture. So now women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition, and a rekindling of native Tamil culture.
- Quraishi, Ibrahim: The Hijab as a Billboard for Islamist Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Let's not fool ourselves about what is actually happening in Iran now and for the last five weeks. These women are not just merely "celebrating" or marching for their freedom of expression in general political terms, no! They are fighting a piece of cloth that has come to symbolise an all-encompassing religious intolerance and zealotry as the core of a disintegrating Islamist ideology.
- Qureshi, Bilal: A Lavish Bollywood Musical Is Fueling A Culture War In India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Review of the controversial 2018 Bollywood film "Padmaavat". Qureshi summarises the politically charged campaign of misinformation and resulting sectarian violence that has dogged its release.
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