1. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1969
   A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war – not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
   
2. Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1983
   The long exile is over; the persecuted refugee at long last returns to Zion, but so badly scarred he’s unrecognizable, he has completely lost his self; he returns as anti-Semite, as Pogromist, as mass murderer; the ages of exile and suffering are still included in his makeup, but only as self-justifications.
3. Anti-patriotism
   Speech to the jury at his trial in 1905 for “anti-militarist” activities
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1905
   Our war-cry against war is “Insurrection Rather Than War!”
4. At Twilight in the Country
   Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   
5. Austro-Marxism and the National Question
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1935
   The mistake made by those who, starting from the fact that revolutionary Marxism upholds the right of all peoples to independence, argue that the practical consequence of that should be the creation of independent national parties or a federation of organisations with extensive political and administrative autonomy, cannot be sufficiently emphasised. Solidarity between workers of the diverse nations within the same State should be paramount. Class solidarity is better than national solidarity.
6. The Best of The Nation
   Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   An anthology of articles from The Nation.
7. Blood and Belonging
   Journey into the New Nationalism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993   Published: 1994
   
8. Blood on Their Banner
   Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   An expose of the political policies of France, Indonesia and the United States and how they pose the greatest threat to the stability of the region.
9. Canada Remapped
   How the Partition of Quebec Will Reshape the Nation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993
   Explores what might happen in the event of a decision by Quebec to separate from Canada.
10. Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
11. Class Struggle and Nation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1912
    Does the bourgeoisie really have an interest in putting an end to national struggles? Not at all, it has the greatest interest in not putting an end to them, especially since the class struggle has reached a high point. Just like religious antagonisms, national antagonisms constitute excellent means to divide the proletariat, to divert its attention from the class struggle with the aid of ideological slogans and to prevent its class unity.
12. Close the 49th Parallel Etc
    The Americanization of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
13. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
14. Consider the Nation and other sacred cows of the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1993
    Groups of people who share whatever it is that makes a nation don't always live in neat spatial clusters, with a given territory containing all those people who are alike and none who are different. Cultures are rarely if ever stable enough to become pure and coterminous with geographical territories.
15. The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    
16. Council of Canadians
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Promoting economic justicem safeguarding social programs, renewing democratization, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving the environment.
17. Counter-Rhetoric 
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security’ argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantra’s and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
    
18. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
19. Decline of the English Murder
    And Other Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1950   Published: 1981
    A collection of essays by George Orwell.
20. Devolutionary Notes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    
21. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
22. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
23. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
    New Internationalist April 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
24. Fearsome Words?
    Nationalism and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We are so bemused by the lovely vision of peoples determining themselves, we cannot see that ethnic self-determination is, in the real world, a quest for racial sovereignty, not a bid to enter some international folk dancing festival.
25. Federalism and the French Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Trudeau argues that nationalism is not a legitimate basis for a state. Nationalist states are undemocratic because they are "by nature intolerant, discriminatory and… totalitarian."
26. Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1905
    
27. Greenpeace
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    
28. If I Am Not For Myselt 
    Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    In A journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
    
29. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
30. Introduction to Social Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
31. Ireland and the Irish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
32. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
33. Left Nationalism and Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Iranian Experience
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1987
    No amount of theoretical and political radicalisation can in itself change the social character of present-day communism and bridge the gulf that separates it from the working class. What is needed, if the proletarian communism of the Communist Manifesto is to become a reality, is a real social shift. Communism must be taken back from all those who employed it throughout the twentieth century to reform capitalism, and returned to the working class to be used against capital, for real human emancipation. A worker-communist movement must be shaped; one in which communism is once again an expression of class protest and class activity.
34. Letters to a Quebecois Friend
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
35. The Lion and the Gazelle
    On Jewish History
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
    
36. The Marxists and the Jewish Question
    The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Covers the difficult history of European Marxists' efforts to comprehend what "The Jewish Question" was about. The assumption that Jewish life and religion were a historical anachronism, something that would naturally disappear with the end of their specific economic function in the development of capitalism, also implied that the medieval legacy of Jew-hatred would vanish as well.The possibility of a new and even more virulent, racialist revival of Jew-hatred -- anti-Semitism -- was overlooked by thinkers and parties who envisioned an inevitable evolution toward socialism.
    
37. 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.
38. Nationalism and Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1959
    Nations, whether “knitted together” by ideology, by objective conditions, or by the usual combination of both, are products of social development. There is no more point in cherishing or damning nationalism in principle than in cherishing or damning tribalism or, for that matter, an ideal cosmopolitanism. The nation is a fact to be suffered or enjoyed, to be fought for or against according to historical circumstances and the implications of those circumstances for various populations and different classes within these populations.
39. Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
    The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956
    Resource Type: Book
    
40. The Nationalization of the Masses
    Resource Type: Book
    
41. Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
    Requiem for a Divided Country
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
42. The Other
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    The Other is made up of a series of lectures that Kapuscinski delivered in Austria and in Poland, eloquent speeches in which he considers the history, the present and the future of our relationship with the Other, a term he employs to distinguish Europeans from "non-Europeans, or non-whites -- while fully aware for the latter, the former are just as much 'Others'."
43. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
44. The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1896
    
45. Preface to the French Edition of “Anti-Patriotism”
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1906
    In case of mobilization, regardless of who the aggressor appears to be (for, after all, when a war breaks out, one can never tell who the real aggressor is), the proletariat of the belligerent countries should respond to the call to arms, by an insurrection against their rulers, each within his own boundaries, to establish the Socialist or Communist regime.
46. Quebec's two solitudes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Quebec's hopes to chart a smooth course to sovereignty may founder on claims to Quebec's territory by its original inhabitants - claims that could involve as much as 80 per cent of its land mass.
47. Radical America - Volume 6 Number 5
    Special Issue: Quebec
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1972
    An analysis of the Quebec general strike of 1972 and its roots in Quebec history.
48. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
49. Red City, Blue Period
    Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
    Resource Type: Book
    
50. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx—From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
    
51. The Secularization Yet to be Done
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1887
    The secularization of primary instruction, which our bourgeois republic doesn’t want, is nothing but the substitution of one religion for another. It’s a matter of placing the capitalist faith instead of the Christian faith in the brain in process of formation of working class France, for the greater security and profit of the economic and political exploiters.
52. Self-Determination for Whom?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
    Pierre Bourgault could set us an example by speaking out himself in support of the right of self-determination for all the people of Quebec, including those who don't want to be part of an independent Quebec.
53. Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1896
    
54. “Socialism in One Country” Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary “Anti-Imperialism”
    The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Today's climate of "anti-imperialism" compels us to turn back to the history of such a profoundly reactionary ideology, deeply anti-working class both in the “advanced” and “underdeveloped” countries, by which any force, no matter how retrograde, that turns a gun against a Western power becomes “progressive” and worthy of “critical” or “military” support, or for the less subtle, simply “support”.
55. Thinking About Self-Determination 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
    Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
56. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
57. Why There Are No ‘Israelis’ in the Jewish State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as “Israelis”, a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country’s self-declared status as a Jewish state.
58. World Minorities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
    

Experts on Nationalism in the Sources Directory

1. Brock University
2. Connexions Library