1. Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1865
   The speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration at the start of his second term as president.
2. The Accumulation of Capital 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1913
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
3. American Anti-Slavery Society
   Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   An abolitionist society (1833-1870) founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
4. The American Crucible
   Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Robin Blackburn, an acclaimed historian of slavery, discusses the emergence of anti-slavery ideas and the important events that paved the way for abolitionist movements.
5. American Power and the New Mandarins
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   
6. American Primitive in Red, Black and White: Race and Class in the U.S.
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1989
   The centrality of race in the formation of the American working class, its inseparability from the question of class, can be stated very succinctly: in 1848 and 1968, when working-class upsurges exploded in Europe under the slogans of "socialism" and "communism", American working-class containment in the Democratic Party was exploded by the race question. This is the key to the Americanization of Marxism.
7. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1952
   
8. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
9. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1987
   
10. Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1996
    An album of songs written and recorded by Woody Guthrie about the notorious case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and anarchists in the 1920s who were charged and eventually executed after a highly dubious trial for their supposed involvement in a robbery.
    
11. Black Liberation and the Fight for a Socialist America
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    From slavery to convict labour, from the chain gang to the assembly line, American capitalism has been built upon the lash-scarred backs of black labour. Any organization that claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the special oppression of black people—their forced segregation at the bottom of capitalist society and the poisonous racism that divides the working class and cripples its struggles.
12. Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
13. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences
    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
14. Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
15. Brown, John
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    American abolitionist and folk hero who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. (1800-1859).
16. 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.
17. Chicago 68
    Resource Type: Book
    A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
18. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
19. Class Conflict, Slavery and the United States Constitution
    Ten essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 2009
    One of the first studies to identify the importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic.
20. COINTELPRO
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
21. Colorado Labor Wars
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Colorado's most significant battles between labor and capital which occurred primarily between miners and mine operators.
22. The Comintern, CPUSA & Activities of Rank-and-File CPers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    CP members, including worker and African-American militants capable of leading heroic mass struggles, were unable to develop their own revolutionary socialist viewpoint independent of the leadership. While a certain policy or tactic might run counter to their experience and traditions, the local activists were assured that their leaders alone had the "the big picture."
23. Common Sense 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1776
    Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
24. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1875   Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
25. Connexions Library: USA Focus
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
26. Convict Labor in America
    Book review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    Convict labour, like antebellum slavery, was an American way of life, a cultural practice that tied northern capitalists, plantation owners, university-trained social reformers, federal officials and advocates of "good roads" together in a powerful alliance.
27. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
28. Dakota War of 1862
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux or Dakota.
29. Darrow, Clarence
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).
30. Debs, Eugene V.
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    American socialist politician and union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1855-1926).
31. 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.
32. Democracy is in the Streets 
    From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
    
33. Detroiters Remember the 1967 Rebellion
    Kim D. Hunter interviews Ed Vaughn
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    An interview with Ed Vaughn, an eyewitness observer of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, on the event, its causes and its impact on history.
34. Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.
35. Early American Marxism
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A History of Marxism in the United States As Explained by the Participants Themselves.
36. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movements: A Radical Democratic Vision
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An insightful biography on one of the leading organizers of the American civil rights movement.
37. Facing West: the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    From John Endicott's war on the Niantics and Pequots, to the horrors of the My Lai massacre, Drinnon illustrates how Indian-hating in the Americas became a national pastime, and how that same hate was turned against the native populations of the Phillipines and Southeast Asia.
38. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
39. The Fight for Canada 
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
40. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
41. Fire in the Streets
    America in the 1960s
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    
42. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
43. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    
44. 1491
    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
45. The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1965
    It is, of course, true that it was contact with the Negro people that inspired the Berkeley revolt. It is, however, also true that the Berkeley revolt, followed by the teach-ins, in turn, changed the climate for free speech on the pivotal question of war and peace for the whole country.
46. Free Speech Movement Archives
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
    
47. Freedom ride
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
48. Freedom Riders
    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
49. Freedom Summer
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    An analysis of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the myths surrounding the campaign and 60s activism in general.
50. Freedom Summer
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters.
51. Friend and Lover
    The Life of Louise Bryant
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
52. From Yalta To VietNam
    American Foreign Policy In The Cold War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
53. The Fusion of Anabaptist, Indian and African as the American Radical Tradition
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1987
    The native American radical tradition, originating ultimately in the radical religious currents who "lost" at the very dawn of capitalism, and their meeting with the non-Western peoples--Indian and African--who shaped early American culture as much as white people, might have something very unique to contribute to the current and still completely unresolved crisis of the international revolutionary left.
54. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A history of the sanitation worker strike in Memphis.
55. Harlan County USA
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1976
    A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
    
56. Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A prominent figure in the American labor movement. (1869-1928).
57. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    
58. History of union busting in the United States
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Union Busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, organizing, and strike actions.
59. History's Mad Hatters
    The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Tea Party anger reaches far beyond the ranks of the modest Tea Party movement. It resonates with other Americans who understandably feel that political and economic elites, serving themselves at the expense of everyone else, have failed Americans. The big question is just exactly how (or even if) that private and personal rage gets transformed into moral and political outrage.
60. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
61. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
62. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    
63. Inventing the People
    The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
    Resource Type: Book
    
64. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A study and history of the legacy of community organizing in Mississippi.
65. Jim Crow laws
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
66. Jim Crutchfield's I.W.W. Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Historic documents on the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies).
67. Journey of Reconciliation
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An attempt in 1947 to challenge segregation laws on interstate buses in the Southern United States, through non-violent direct action.
68. 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.
69. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
70. Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
71. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
72. Little Rock Central High School
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement.
73. LIVING IN THE U.X.A.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn’t working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history.
74. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
75. Malcolm X Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
76. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 at which Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial.
77. MarxistHistory.org
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Website dealing with the history of the early American Marxist movement. A repository of source material 1864 - 1946.
    
78. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
79. Max Eastman: One American Radical’s View of the “Bolshevization” of the American Revolutionary Movement and a Forgotten, and Unforgettable, Portrait of Trotsky
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    
80. May Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Class consciousness is the knowledge that emancipation is ours. Class struggle is the fight for it, the fight to be a class, and then the fight to abolish the class system. It is not economistic; it is historical. It was concrete not abstract. It was expressed in real voices, voices of the past and voices of the present. The skill is in the listening.
81. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Robinson recounts the origins and sustaining force of the famous boycott led by Montgomery's African American women.
82. Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
83. The Most Dangerous Man in America
    Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    
84. Murdered by Capitalism
    A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
85. 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.
86. Negroes in the Civil War
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1943
    The struggle of the Negro masses derives its peculiar intensity from the simple fact that what they are struggling for is not abstract but is always perfectly visible around them. In their instinctive revolutionary efforts for freedom, the escaping slaves had helped powerfully to begin and now those who remained behind had helped powerfully to conclude, the self-destructive course of the slave power.
    
87. The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967
    
88. The New Refugees
    American Voices in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    
89. New World Order
    A postwar analysis
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
90. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    
91. Of National Lies and Racial America
    Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
92. On the CP-USA and the Unions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Trade union officialdom, especially its top layers, not only defends the rights of the employer against those demands of the members that can't be met at a given time; it also, and at the same time, defends the gains won by previous struggles. The inability to see this duality accounts for the instability of radicals in the trade unions.
93. On The Non-Formation of a Working-Class Political Party in the U.S., 1900-1945
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983   Published: 2002
    Thus the basic thesis presented here is that no major working-class political party developed in the U.S. in the 20th century because in the U.S., in contrast to all other major capitalist countries, capitalism made the transition to the intensive (“Taylorist” or “Fordist”) phase of accumulation without requiring the participation of a working-class political party in the state.
94. The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
95. Paine, Thomas
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
96. Panama invasion protest
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
97. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    
98. Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
99. The Politics of History
    Resource Type: Book
    A series of case studies and essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role.
100. Politics Past
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1958   Published: 1970
     A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
101. The Popular Front: Rethinking CPUSA History
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1996
     Very simply, the legacy of the Communist movement in the United States points to the need for revolutionaries today to develop rank-and-file worker organizations independent of and opposed to the labor officialdom; to organize independently of the Democratic party and promote independent political action.
102. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1978
     Goodwyn explores the agrarian revolt and the nature of democratic movements.
103. The Port Huron Statement 
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1962
     A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
104. Powers and Prospects
     Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1996
     
105. Profit over People
     Neoliberalism and Global Order
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1999
     
106. Pullman Strike
     Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     A nationwide conflict between labour unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.
107. Race and Class in Civil War Mississippi
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2009
     The poor whites of Mississippi who fought the Confederacy alongside slaves did so because of working class values that they shared with slaves. The fact that poor whites may have believed some racist lies about blacks that constituted the dominant ideas of the day is not nearly as important or significant as the fact that their working class values led them to ally with slaves to fight the racist ruling class. Racism came from the upper class, and anti-racism came from the working class--black and white.
108. The Real Terror Network
     Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1982
     Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
109. Rethinking Camelot
     JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
     
110. Review of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman
     by Alonzo L Hamby
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1996
     Chomsky criticizes Hamby's biographical attempt claiming that Truman - regardless of how his achievements are regarded - deserves a better account.
111. The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1939
     
112. The Romance of American Communism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1978
     Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
113. SDS 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
     
114. The Seattle General Strike of 1919
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1919   Published: 1972
     From February 6 to February 11, 1919, nearly 100,000 Seattle workers participated in a general strike. This pamphlet is a history of the strike, written by the History Committee of the General Strike Committee shortly after the end of the strike.
115. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
     Nineteenth-Century America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
116. Sexual revolution in 1960s America
     Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Attitudes to a variety of issues changed, sometimes radically, throughout the decade. The urge to 'find oneself' the activsm of the 1960's and the quest for autonomy were characterised by the changes towards sexual attitudes at the time.
117. Shays' Rebellion
     Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     An armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787.
118. Sisterhood, Interrupted
     From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
     
119. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
     
120. The Slave Trade
     The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1997
     A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
     
121. Slavery by Another Name
     The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     An account of how African Americans were forcibly enslaved by a corrupt legal system in the southern States, from the end of the Civil War through WWII.
122. SNCC
     The New Abolitionists
     Resource Type: Book
     
123. SNCC at 50
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2010
     The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is vitally important not just for learning and understanding the past but, more importantly, for imagining and working for a more righteous future.
124. SNCC: Same Lesson, 50 Years On
     Power Yields Nothing Without Demand
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2010
     The SNCC lesson is that power yields nothing without demand and the guts to back it up.
125. The Soft Cage
     Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     Parenti explores the history of American surveillance from colonial times to the present. What this historical evidence clearly reveals is a continuum of the culture of surveillance. The weakest, most disenfranchised and most alienated groups are subjected first, and then the surveillance regime slowly spreads toward the mainstream.
126. Sojourner Truth
     A Life, a Symbol
     Resource Type: Book
     A biography of Sojourner Truth, a famous northern slave, born in the 1790's. A devout Christian, she came to symbolize the shame of slavery and the promise of women's emancipation.
127. The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, Vol. 1
     Resource Type: Book
     Argues that the Cuban nation was a central protagonist in the conflict — rather than a passive victim of a conflict between great powers.
     
128. The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, Vol. 2
     Resource Type: Book
     Covers the imposition of the U.S. domination over Cuba through the Platt Amendment, which marks the beginning of U.S. neocolonialism.
     
129. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1973
     A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
     
130. Stolen Continents 
     The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1992
     The history of the Americas through Native eyes.
131. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1966
     Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
132. 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.
133. The Student Movement of the Thirties
     A Political History
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1965
     Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if “the thirties” represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
     
134. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
     Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
135. Targeting Iran
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
136. Towards a New Cold War
     Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1982
     A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
137. Towards a New Past
     Dissenting Essays in American History
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1969
     
138. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1952   Published: 1962
     
139. The Truth About Kent State
     A Challenge to the American Conscience
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     
140. 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.
141. Underhanded History of the USA
     Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     
142. United States History Archive
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     
143. US Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli Attack
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2010
     On June 8, 1967, while sailing in international waters, the US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked by air and naval forces of the state of Israel. Of the Liberty's crew of 294, more than half were killed or wounded. More than 40 years later, survivors are still seeking justice.
144. The Virigina Declaration of Rights
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1776
     Drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent natural rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. The Declaration was adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776.
     
145. War Crimes in Vietnam
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1967
     
146. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
     The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1979
     
147. Watergate
     A sceptical view
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1973
     Noam Chomsky asserts that in light of the other telling symptoms of an unhealthy democracy - such as Kissinger's murderous war ambitions - the Watergate scandal should not have come as a shock to even the least cynical. He illustrates why Nixon's small-scale coup attempt and the revelations which followed should not be the focus of skepticism, noting that there are other issues which deserve more attention.
148. We Own the World
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
     The whole debate about the Iranian “interference” in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
     
149. Weather Underground Organization
     Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     An American radical left organization.
150. Weatherman
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     A history of the Weatherman organization.
151. Western Federation of Miners
     Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.
152. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
153. Why There Is No Socialism in the United States
     Resource Type: Book
     
154. Working Class Communism
     A Review of the Literature
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     
155. World Orders Old and New
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1994
     
156. The World Without Us
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
     
157. 'Worse than Slavery': Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1997
     After the abolition of slavery the white rulers of Mississippi developed a new system for keeping the ex-slaves in line: laws were passed to maintain white supremacy, including the system of convict leasing, a system whereby people could "hire" prisoners for physical labour outside the walls of prison.
158. The Writings of David Roediger
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1997
     Roediger criticizes Marxists for too often reducing racial discrimination to conflicts over resources, such as jobs or housing, that are manipulated by a society's upper classes in order to divert attention from the real sources of inequality. Such a focus, he argues, ignores the manner in which race and racial consciousness is integrally tied to class formation and working-class consciousness.
159. Year 501 
     The Conquest Continues
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
160. Zinn, Howard
     Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).

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