1. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
2. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
3. The Canso Strait Fisherman's Strike, 1970-71
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   An account of the 1970-71 strike of Nova Scotia fishermen, after two large fisheries refused to recognize their newly formed union.
4. Harlan County USA
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 1976
   A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
   
5. LabourStart
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
6. 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.
7. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1906
   
8. News and Letters
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
9. The Newsletter
   Periodical profile
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1974
   Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of indepedent leftists based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published.
   
10. Pain on Their Faces
    Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    
11. Palestine Strike
    Arabs and Jews Unite
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1946
    The biggest strikes in the history of Palestine far surpassing any other which have taken place, broke out last month (April 1946). 32,000 workers came out, of which 26,000 were Arabs and 6,000 Jews.
    
12. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    
13. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
14. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
15. STRIKE Support News
    Periodical profile published 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
16. Tax Facts, Nos. 1-9
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
17. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
18. U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    
19. Who Advocates Spontaneity?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    Brecher argues that "the 'consciousness' necessary for socialist revolution consists in workers' shared understanding that they can collectively initiate and control their own action to meet their own needs. Such an understanding does not flow directly and automatically from the position of workers in production, although that position is what makes workers potentially powerful. Nor does it arise primarily from the speeches, manifestos, and other "consciousness raising" activities of the Left, though they may make some contribution to it. The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting."
    He also states that "The working class is potentially revolutionary, and socialism would be the natural result if one tendency of its development were carried to its logical conclusion. But if this were the only tendency in effect, the workers would all be revolutionaries and socialism would have been achieved long ago. To ignore the factors which currently lead workers to adapt to existing society instead of trying to abolish it is to give up the ability to understand "the real, existing American working class with all its limitations." To ignore those limitations is to lose the power to grasp the process that will be necessary to overcome them."
    
20. Why Strikes Fail
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1943
    Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.
21. Winnipeg 1919
    The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    

Experts on Strikes in the Sources Directory

1. The Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence