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Below are resources (books, articles, etc.) in the Connexions Library related to this topic. Clicking on an item's title takes you to its bibliographic page, which typically contains author, publisher, and cataloguing details, an abstract where available, and a link to the full text if available online, as well as links to related topics in the subject index. You can also search for materials through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
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  1. The Absurdity of "Independent" Kosovo
    A Saga of Injustice and Hypocrisy

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The West's entire approach to Kosovo has been marked by sordid dishonesty and bad faith, supporting national self-determination and the right to secession in one place and territorial integrity in another, cheering on ethnic cleansing by one ethnic group and demanding war crimes trials for another, trumpeting the virtues of majority rule when it's convenient to do so and threatening to impose sanctions and penalties on majorities when that's convenient. For the Americans, Kosovo is nothing more than the hinterland of a giant military base.
  2. 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.
  3. The Case Against Israel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Cree Agenda Becomes Part of Federal Election
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    The politicians of all parties are acting as if Aboriginal rights are irrelevant to this question of Quebec secession. Not only is it relevant: it is, in fact, central to the whole question. And if the politicians would only admit this frankly, the terms of the whole debate would be changed overnight.
  7. Declaration of Support for Quebec's Right to Self-Determination
    Signatories: Professors at University of Toronto and York University

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
  8. 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.
  9. Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1905
  10. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
  11. Matthew Coon Come Speech, September 19, 1994
    Speaking Notes for Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come Centre for Strategic and Iinternational Studies

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
    The status and rights of the James Bay Crees in the context of Quebec secession from Canada.
  12. Myles Horton
    Insights from organizer Myles Horton

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
  13. 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.
  14. The Partition Principle
    Remapping Quebec after Separation

    Resource Type: Book
    Considers the question: if Canada is divisible, then why not Quebec? McAlpine argues that Quebec cannot separate from Canada and expect to retain its present borders. He maps out the specifics of how Quebec might be partitioned in the event of separation, and devotes special attention to aboriginal land claims and the status of Montreal.
  15. The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1896
  16. Quebec Agrees to Negotiate, Kidnap Crees First But "Negotiate" 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Canadians as a whole seem to be unaware of the depth of the double standards advocated by the separatist leaders. We Crees are only too grimly aware of them, however, since we will be the first and most deeply affected community if the separatists ever get a chance to put their current secessionist policies into practice.
  17. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
  18. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  19. The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1939
  20. 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."
  21. 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.
  22. 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?
  23. 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 Self-Determination in the Sources Directory

  1. Connexions Library
  2. Organization of the Islamic Conference
  3. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
  4. Radical Digressions
  5. Michael Riordon



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