1. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
2. 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.
3. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1972
   Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
4. Class Consciousness
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1920
   
5. Class consciousness
   Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Consciousness of one's social class or economic rank in society.
6. Common Sense for Hard Times 
   The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1976
   Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
   
7. 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.
8. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1983
   
9. Down To Earth People 
   Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1999
   Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
   
10. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    
11. The Hidden Injuries of Class
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1972
    Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
12. History and Class Consciousness
    Studies in Marxist Dialectics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
    
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Know Thy Enemy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A poem.
16. 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.
17. Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotksyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
    
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. Myles Horton
    Insights from organizer Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
21. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
22. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
    
23. Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism — working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
24. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
    
25. 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.
26. Red City, Blue Period
    Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
    Resource Type: Book
    
27. 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.
    
28. 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."
    
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 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.
    
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. The Unknown Dimension 
    European Marxism Since Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
35. Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
    A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
    
36. The War after the War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1973
    
37. 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.
38. What is Class Consciousness?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1934   Published: 1971
    Critical of what he saw as Marxism's overly materialistic explanations, Reich proposes the perspectives of psychology and psychotherapy could revitalise radical political thought and the socialist movement.
    
39. "What is Class Consciousness?" -- A Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
    
40. What Is Important?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    It is necessary to demolish the monstrously false idea that the problems that workers see are not important, that there are more important ones which only "theorists" and politicians can speak about.
41. Who Advocates Spontaneity? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
    
42. Workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    I think self-activity is the response of working people to the nature of their lives and work. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, sometimes it’s quiet. Part of the reality is that we’re going through a considerable technological revolution, which means that experiences, even jobs, that people depended on and know about, begin to disappear. To expect workers to say, “Yesterday, they automated my factory; today, I know exactly what to do about it,” is Utopian. It takes a while. It takes a generation. Workers will learn.
43. Working Class Experience 
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
44. 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.

Experts on Class Consciousness in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive