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  1. Another world is possible if... 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
  2. Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
  3. Autonomy & Solidarity
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An on-line network for anti-capitalists who believe that revolutionary transformation will come from workers and oppressed people self-organizing from below and not from the top down organizing of any state, party or union bureaucracy.
  4. B.C. - Nicaragua Solidarity Project
    Organization profile published 1982

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  5. Beating Back the Corporate Attack 
    Socialism and the struggle for global justice

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
  6. Central American Women Speak for Themselves
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  7. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  8. 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.
  9. Defend the Ties That Bind
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    Revolution is a conservative act as well as a radical one. It is the only way to defend those precious relationships which are the bases of human life and society, and which form the core of human values.
  10. Dossier Homme Seul Itinerant
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    Theoretical base for organising and educative effort with single itinerant men in Montreal.
  11. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
  12. Europe solidaire sans frontiéres
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    ESSF is an association for international solidarity. Covering a wide range of topics, our website offers militant information on many struggles and campaigns, as well as in-depth articles, elements of debates, documents of varied types. We would like it to become a useful tool for all those who are fighting for a world of solidarity.
  13. Faces of global resistance
    New Internationalist September 2001 - #338

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    Discussion of corporate globalization and how some are organizing themselves to resists.
  14. For Israel, A Reckoning
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with universal human rights, and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess with impunity.
  15. Globalizing the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
  16. Harlan County USA
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1976
    A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
  17. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
  18. International Solidarity Movement
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.
  19. Iran and Leftist Confusion
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Why are some leftists siding with the Iranian rulers rather than the popular demonstrations against the regime?
  20. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  21. 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."
  22. Latin America Solidarity Committee
    Organization profile published 1982

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
  23. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
  24. The Life of Death: An Exchange 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985
    The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
  25. Locked Out! One Wife's Story of the Staley Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
  26. Making Their Voices Heard
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
  30. Nelson Mandela
    The Struggle Is My Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    This is an updated account of Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from both his days as leader of the African Congress Youth League in 1944 to his release from prison in 1990. The excerpts from his trial are riveting and revealing of the governments mind-set on apertheid. Mandela emerges as a man with patience, thoughtfulness and character. The text is enhanced with an index and new photographs.
  31. Networks: The Ecology of the Movements
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
  32. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
  33. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  34. 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.
  35. Of Sowing and Harvests
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don’t know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
  36. Olive oil, opposition and Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Rick Salutin writes about increasingly widespread Jewish opposition to Israel’s actions.
  37. The Politics of Nonviolent Action
    Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence.
  38. Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
  39. Promoting Unity and Solidarity
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    I think that the current situation calls instead for a strategy that emphasizes working-class solidarity among a plurality of working-class organizations. This solidarity must bridge the divide between industrial and other workers, union and non-union workers, white and non-white workers, public and private sector workers, and so on.
  40. 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.
  41. Refuser Solidarity Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports Israelis who refuse to serve in the Occupation.
  42. Renewing Socialism
    Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  43. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. Saskatoon Solidarity Committee
    Organization profile published 1982

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
  47. 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.
  48. Solidarity
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A democratic revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization which publishes Against the Current magazine.
  49. Solidarity As We See It 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1967
    Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
  50. Solidarity Committee on Latin America
    Organization profile published 1982

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  51. Solidarity For Ever! Can These Bones Live?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    A newsletter that looks at the agricultural Labour meovment.
  52. Solidarity Forever
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia

    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 1915
    Union song.
  53. "Solidarity, Not Charity" - Revolution in the Ninth Ward
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    In New Orleans, the people have stopped being patient with false choices. They have stopped trusting in politicians who represent only themselves and their contributors. They have chosen the common good, and they have bypassed the system that failed them in order to reclaim their lives through direct and positive action.
  54. Solidarity (UK)
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom.
  55. Solidarity (US) Founding Statement 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    Adopted at the founding national convention of SOLIDARITY in the Spring of 1986.
  56. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
  57. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
  58. States of Denial
    Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  59. Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  60. TCL'd pink: 20 years of solidarity
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1993
  61. 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.
  62. A turning point for the US solidarity movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We have learned that change will not come from above. It will and must come from the grassroots, the people, those who have nothing to lose but their prison walls, the daily humiliation of life as a refugee, a second- or third-class citizen, or a non-citizen.
  63. Unity Begins Somewhere
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    Though the industrial workers can be as paralyzed as any group of workers in the face of restructuring, though they can lose any particular strike, and though genuine class consciousness is never automatic; whenever there is a major working class upheaval industrial workers play a leading role.
  64. Unity brings strength
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
  65. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
  66. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
  67. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
  68. What Kind of Society Do We Want?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    In a society based on solidarity and trust, the economics of producing and distributing things would be like sharing within a family, rather than buying and selling for profit in a marketplace.
  69. What Should I Do?
    Selfishness, Happiness And Benefiting Others

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Motivation is not a problem for anyone who accepts the extraordinary truth contained in Yeshe Aro's ncient prescription for happiness: "On this depends my liberation: to assist others -- nothing else."
  70. What Will It Take To Win?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Our current strategy engages people in an arena – history and events in Palestine/Israel – far from their direct experience. We are the experts on a topic they know little about. We ask people to learn from us about something far away, and to take some local action (like voting for divestment) to express their agreement with us about it. There is a limit to how many people will be interested in doing this. A revolutionary strategy, in contrast, engages people in the arena which they know a lot about, and into which they have tremendous insights from direct personal experience.
  71. 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.
  72. 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'.

Experts on Solidarity in the Sources Directory

  1. African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
  2. African Union
  3. Confederation of Canadian Unions
  4. Connexions Library
  5. Electronic Intifada
  6. Independent Jewish Voices
  7. Marxists Internet Archive
  8. Organization of the Islamic Conference
  9. Women Living Under Muslim Law



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