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  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. Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  3. Africa in Crisis
    The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy

    Resource Type: Book
  4. After the Revolution, What?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    A revolution to politically defeat a social class can take place relatively quickly compared to the task of re-shaping an entire society and economy by very different values. A fundamentally new kind of economy must therefore be able to arise somewhat gradually from the old, or it probably can never arise at all.
  5. Against All Odds
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985
    The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
  6. The Age of Permanent Revolution
    A Trotsky Anthology

    Resource Type: Book
  7. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  8. American Civil War
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Also known as the War Between the States and several other names, this was a civil war in the United States of America in which eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States.
  9. American Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The American Revolution is the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen of Britain's colonies in North America at first rejected the governance of the Parliament of Great Britain, and later the British monarchy itself, to become the sovereign United States of America.
  10. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952
  11. Anarchism
    A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas

    Resource Type: Book
  12. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
  13. The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
    Documents of revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  14. Beyond a Boundary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963   Published: 1983
    Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, politics, and the realities of colonial oppression.
  15. The Blackest Streets
    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  16. The Bolsheviks in Power
    The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  17. Break Their Haughty Power 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  18. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  19. Das Capital, Volume 1 
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
  20. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1893   Published: 1956
  21. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1894   Published: 1971
  22. Central American Women Speak for Themselves
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  23. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  24. The Civil War in France 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1871
    Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Paris Communards of 1871 and their historical experience to learn from.
  25. Common Sense 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1776
    Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
  26. The Communist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1848
    Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
  27. The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  28. Cuban Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An armed revolt that led to the overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro.
  29. The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
  30. Declaration of Independence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1776
    The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
  31. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1789
    Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
  32. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  33. Do It
    Scenarioes of the Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  34. Donghak Peasant Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Was an anti-government, anti-yangban and anti-foreign uprising in 1894.
  35. The Enemy
    Notes on Imperliasm and Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  36. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy u. Capitalism and its by-rpoducts -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing apart in the destruction of our ecosystem.
  37. The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  38. The English Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period 1640-1660, in which Parliament challenged King Charles I's authority, engaged in civil conflict against his forces, and executed him in 1649.
  39. Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1928   Published: 1972
    A discussion of the concepts at the root of Marxism: the theory of value and commodity fetishism.
  40. Everyday Life in the Modern World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
  41. February Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
  42. Fire in the Minds of Men
    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980   Published: 1999
  43. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
  44. The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists
    Resource Type: Book
  45. France Spring 1968
    Masses in motion Ideas in free flow

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  46. Free Association
    Revolutionary Committees as a Method of Organization

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The revolutionary committee "More to Come" elucidates its vision of collective uprising and revolution. While abhoring the use of violence, the group acknowledges the need for defense against reactionary government that would see to overturn the revolution.
  47. French Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
  48. French Revolution of 1848
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    One of a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe.
  49. From Bolshevism to the Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1962
  50. From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1924   Published: 1974
    Parliaments are becoming increasingly empty trappings: the parties are collapsing, destroying one another, and losing their political credibility: the trade unions are changing into ruins. The breakdown of this organisational and political system all along the line is inevitable.
  51. The Future in the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
  52. German Revolution of 1918–19
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The politically-driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I.
  53. Greek War of Independence
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    War of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1829.
  54. Haitian Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The only successful slave revolt in history which established Haiti as the first republic ruled by blacks.
  55. Hamburg at the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
  56. Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    12 volumes
  57. History and Revolution
    A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1971
    Paul Cardan's critique of Marxism'.
  58. History and Revolution
    A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1971
  59. Hungarian Revolution of 1848
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    One of many revolutions that year and closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
  60. Hungarian Revolution of 1956
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Stalinist government of the People's Republic of Hungary.
  61. Hungary 1956
    Resource Type: Book
  62. Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
  63. Hungary 56
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1968
    The Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.
  64. 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."
  65. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
  66. Inventing the People
    The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America

    Resource Type: Book
  67. The Joy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997   Published: 2007
    Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I’m afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
  68. The June Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1848
    The defeated plebeians are tormented by hunger, abused by the press, forsaken by the physicians, called thieves, incendiaries and galley-slaves by the respectabilities; their wives and children are plunged into still greater misery and the best of those who have survived are sent overseas.
  69. Karl and Rosa
    November 1918: A German Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
  70. Karl Marx: Essential Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
  71. Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
    Resource Type: Book
  72. 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.
  73. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes

    Resource Type: Book
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
  74. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
  75. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms

    Resource Type: Book
  76. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume 5: War & Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    The subject of this volume is Marx and Engels’ views on the relation between war and revolution. Its thesis is that, over the course of decades, their views on this question changed—evolved is a better word—although, in this case as in others, they wrote no definitive statement of their views. Instead, we have a considerable corpus of ad hoc responses to the events of the hour, many of them politically explosive, from which we have to reconstruct, not a line, but an approach. To complicate things further, many of these crises, while they were the news of the day at the time, have since faded from memory.
  77. Latin America Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  78. Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1936 - 1939
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1953   Published: 1972
  79. Rosa Luxemburg 
    A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
  80. Manifesto of the Paris Commune
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1871
    Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
  81. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
  82. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1968
  83. Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
    Toward a Permanent Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  84. Marx, theoretician of anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.
  85. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  86. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961   Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
  87. Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
  88. Mexican War of Independence
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  89. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  90. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
  91. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
  92. Nicaraguan Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Encompasses the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.
  93. 1905
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1922   Published: 1972
    For a number of years, when the reaction was triumphant, the year 1905 appeared to us as a completed whole, as the Russian revolution.
  94. Nonviolence
    Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  95. October Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The October Revolution, also known as the Soviet Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution.
  96. 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.
  97. Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1926
    In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
  98. 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.
  99. The Paris Commune of 1871 
    The View from the Left

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    For the Left, the Paris Commune of 1871 stands as the first example of the exercise of political power by a working class. Socialists, Communists and Anarchists have all looked to this 72-day revolution for lessons - often conflicting - in the development of approaches to state power, democratic processes and a vanguard party in socialist revolutions. This volume gives the English reader direct access to a substantial collection of documents from the time of the Commune - most of which have remained unpublished even in France. These are writings in which some Communards themselves express the view that the Commune was an egalitarian social revolution committed to the ultimate abolition of classes.
  100. The Paris Commune told in pictures
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1934
    An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
  101. 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.
  102. The Philippines under fire
    New Internationalist March 1990

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    An investigation into the political and cultural life of the Philippines, told in the form of a travelogue. The stories of ordinary people are interspersed with historical detail and analysis of the current climate.
  103. Philosophy and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1989
  104. 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.
  105. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution (review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Book offers a clear analysis of events in Portugal 1974-1975.
  106. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  107. Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1920   Published: 1962
  108. The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
    For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, “there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above.”
    Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
  109. Radical Digressions 1
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1979
  110. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
  111. Reason and Revolution
    Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1941   Published: 1968
  112. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  113. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  114. Redefining Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  115. Reform or Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    The reformists had no principles to “betray.” They remained what they had been all along, but they were now obliged first of all to safeguard the system in which their cherished practice could continue. The revolution had to be reduced to a mere reform, so as to satisfy their deepest convictions and, incidentally, secure their political existence.
  116. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution 
    A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1985
    A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effet for change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
  117. Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  118. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1852   Published: 1896
  119. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1851   Published: 1896
  120. Revolution and other Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906
  121. Revolution in Paris
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1848
    The bourgeoisie has made its revolution, it has toppled Guizot and with him the exclusive rule of the Stock Exchange grandees. Now, however, in the second act of the struggle, it is no longer one section of the bourgeoisie confronting another, now the proletariat confronts the bourgeoisie.
  122. The Revolution in Russia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1905
  123. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  124. The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1920
    The revolution is not a party affair. The three social-democratic parties (SPD, USPD, KPD) are so foolish as to consider the revolution as their own party affair and to proclaim the victory of the revolution as their party goal. The revolution is the political and economic affair of the totality of the proletarian class. Only the proletariat as a class can lead the revolution to victory. Everything else is superstition, demagogy and political chicanery.
  125. Revolution Re-Assessed 
    Politics of Human Liberation

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
  126. List of revolutions and rebellions
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    This is a list of revolutions and rebellions
  127. Revolutions of 1848
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A series of political upheavals throughout the European continent. Described by some historians as a revolutionary wave, the period of unrest began in France and then, further propelled by the French Revolution of 1848, soon spread to the rest of Europe.
  128. Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    "Germany" at the time of the Revolutions of 1848 was a collection of 39 states loosely bound together in the German Confederation. As nationalist sentiment crystallized into resistance to the traditional political structure, repeated calls for freedom, democracy and national unity came to threaten the status quo.
  129. Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  130. The Rights of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1792
    Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
  131. Romanian Revolution of 1989
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the Government of Nicolae Ceausescu.
  132. 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.
  133. 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."
  134. Russian Revolution of 1905
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
  135. Saddam's Iraq
    Revolution or Reaction?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  136. Selections from the Prison Notebooks 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
  137. Sex-Pol 
    Essays 1929-1934

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1934   Published: 1972
    Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
  138. Social Reform or Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1900   Published: 1908
    Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
  139. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
  140. Socialist Humanism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1966
    An international symposium whose contributors explore the humanist essence of socialism. Among the contributors are Herbert Marcuse, Maximilien Rubel, Norman Thomas, T.B. Bottomore, Raya Dunayevskaya, Ernst Bloch, and Bertrand Russell.
  141. The Socialist Register 1974
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  142. Spanish Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A workers' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
  143. The State and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1917
  144. State-Capitalism and Marx's Humanism or Philosophy and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  145. State Capitalism and World Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1950   Published: 1986
  146. States of Change
    A Central European Diary, Autumn 1989

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A first hand and day to day account of Jones' travels through the GDR, Cxechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland in 1989.
  147. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  148. Studies in Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  149. Sweeter than Honey
    Ethiopian Women and Revolution: Testimonies of Tigrayan Women

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Through the voices of Tigrayan women-farmers, famine survivors and military commanders this book allows the reader to see what is happening in Tigray. Women have been working with the People's Liberation Front to transform their society through a gradual process of revolution to democracy. Their stories and testaments show how integral their participation is to this struggle. It is truly a revolution that is "sweeter than honey".
  150. Ten Days That Shook The World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1919   Published: 1960
  151. Thank God for the Revolution
    A Journey through Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Coxsedge compares daily life in Nicaragua after the revolution with El Salvador at that time, warning of the dangers to the region of US policies.
  152. Theses on the Paris Commune
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1962
  153. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  154. Velvet Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government in 1989.
  155. Venceremos
    The Speeches and Writings of Che Guevara

    Resource Type: Book
  156. The Venezuelan Revolution
    New Internationalist June 2006

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look inside the Venezuelan Revolution and facts and history of the country.
  157. A Very Ordinary Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  158. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
  159. What is Libertarian Socialism? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
  160. What Kind of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  161. When in Doubt, Do Both
    The Times of My Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
  162. Women, Resistance and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1974
  163. Writings on the Paris Commune 
    Resource Type: Book
    Hal Draper's compilation of all the writings by Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune of 1871, when a working-class-led revolution took power and established a new type of state for the first time in the history of the world - temporarily, in one city.
  164. Year One of the Russian Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1930   Published: 1972
    The purpose of Year One of the Russian Revolution is essentially one of reconstructing the chain of events, in the Russia of revolution and counter-revolution, which has led from the ‘Commune-State’ of 1917 to the party dictatorship of late 1918. The terms of the narrative are fixed by Serge’s basic convictions, firstly, that the October Revolution of 1917 was a genuine expression of mass feeling by workers and peasants in their overwhelming majority, and secondly that the revolutionary wave had very quickly exhausted itself, or rather bled itself dry, through the military depredation and economic ruin which wrought havoc in an already enfeebled Russia during the early months following the Bolshevik seizure of power.
  165. You Don't Play With Revolution
    The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A collection of never-before-published lectures by the Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered in Canada in 1967-68, at the height of James's political maturity.

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