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  1. Abahlali baseMjondolo
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
  2. An Action a Day
    Keeps Global Capitalism Away

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
  3. Action Will Be Taken
    Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern—it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
  4. Activism Under Attack
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    What does it say about democracy in Canada when people can be singled out, arrested, jailed, and kept out of a public place at the arbitrary whim of political organizers or police?
  5. The Activist Cookbook
    A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
  6. The Activist's Handbook: A Primer
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    A guide to activism and campaigning strategies.
  7. Activist's Handbook
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles for activists on organizing.
  8. Addresbuch Alternativer Projekte
    Resource Type: Book
    Over 500 pages (5" x 7 1/2), written mostly in German. An extensive European resource guide to alternative projects. Contains several indices including an index of the alternative press.
  9. Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
    Towards a New Practice

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
  10. Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  11. The Age of Outrage
    Values-based Action and the positive power of public protest

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Based on direct experience and extensive research including law enforcement reports, public opinion surveys, and ongoing scanning and anaylysis of news and Internet sources, this book reveals the six key values-symbols that trigger public fear and create political and corporate change.
  12. Agnes Macphail
    Champion of the Underdog

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  13. Agrarian Socialism
    The Co-operative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology

    Resource Type: Book
  14. Alliance for Non-Violent Action
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  15. Alliance For Non-Violent Action (ANVA)
    Organization profile published 1986

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  16. Allow the Water
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
  17. Alternative America
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    12,150 organizations, mainly American, listed geographically by zip code, and again alphabetically. A subject keyword index referring to group numbers only.
  18. Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  19. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  20. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  21. Alternative Press Center
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
  22. Alternative Press Center's Directory of Alternative & Radical Publications 1989-90 edition
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  23. Alternative Press Index 
    An index to alternative and radical periodicals

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1996
    An index to alternative and radical publications, published quarterly in print and also available on CD-ROM.
  24. Alternatives Vorlesungsverzeichnis Nr. 5
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  25. American Communism and Soviet Russia
    The Formative Period

    Resource Type: Book
  26. Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
  27. The Anarchist Papers 3
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  28. 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.
  29. Anti-globalization movement
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Critical of the globalization of capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization.
  30. Anti-fascism isn’t working
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    What all the current anti-fascist approaches have in common is that they miss the real danger. This doesn’t lie in the BNP taking power, in the possibility of concentration camps or any of the other scare stories we’ve been hearing recently. It lies more immediately in the far right colonising the anti-mainstream vote and developing party loyalty, thereby blocking the development of an independent working-class politics capable of defending our conditions and challenging neoliberalism.
  31. The Art of Activism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    The unique style of 'protest as performance' pioneered by the queer rights group OutRage!
  32. The Art of the Possible
    A Handbook for Political Activism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  33. Asian American Incorporation or Insurgency?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
  34. At the Lenin Shipyards
    Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union

    Resource Type: Book
  35. Autonomous Media
    Activating Resistance & Dissent

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
  36. 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.
  37. Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
  38. Bakunin on Anarchy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  39. Ballad of the Peace Pushers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1991
    Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
  40. The Barefoot Channel
    Community Television as a Tool for Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
  41. Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
  42. Beyond Social Democracy
    The City and Urban Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
  43. Billboard Liberation Front Manual
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Tactics for improving outdoor advertising.
  44. Blocking Progress 
    Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
    Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
  45. The Bomb won't go away on its own
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1982
    Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals.
  46. Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
  47. Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946
  48. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  49. Canada's Fighting Seniors
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  50. Canadian Activism Archives
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006
    Site which is attempting to build a historical archives of, and useful guides for, social justice and environmental activism in Canada.
  51. Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
  52. Centre for Social Justice
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Research and education for the movement for social justice.
  53. Challenging McWorld
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  54. 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.
  55. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  56. Choices
    A Family Global Action Handbook

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
  57. Chomsky for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
  58. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  59. Citizens on the Web Events Calendar
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
  60. The City and Radical Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
  61. Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
  62. The C. L. R. James Reader
    Resource Type: Book
  63. The collective decides...
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    The obsession with ‘process politics’ leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
  64. Color of Violence
    The INCITE! Anthology

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  65. 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.
  66. The Communist Party in Canada
    A History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  67. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1875   Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  68. Community Dreams 
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
  69. Comrade's Socialist Songbook
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Revolutionary and trade union songs, mostly from the The Socialist Songbook.
  70. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  71. 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.
  72. Consciousness and Action Among the Western Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
  73. Corruption: Can the rot be stopped?
    New Internationalist December 2006

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look at the people standing up to challenge corruption and make a difference.
  74. Counterpunch 
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  75. CreateHope.org
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An online site through which charities can solicit donations.
  76. Critique of Nonviolent Politics 
    From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 2002
    Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
  77. 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.
  78. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  79. Didn't See The Same Movie
    Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
  80. Directory of Alternative & Radical Publications
    1989-90 - Periodical profile published 1990

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
  81. Directory of Progressive Organizations
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A list of activist organizations which are members of IGC.
  82. Do It
    Scenarioes of the Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  83. Dorothy Day
    Champion of the Poor

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
  84. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  85. Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985
    What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
  86. Ecodefense
    A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1987
  87. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
  88. The Emma Goldman Papers
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Emma Goldman Papers Project has collected, organized, and edited tens of thousands of documents from around the world by and about Emma Goldman (1869-1940), a leading figure in American anarchism, feminism, and radicalism. In the spirit of Emma Goldman, the EGPP has extended its scholarly research to serve the community-to educate the public about the complexity of engagement in social and political transformation. It has published a microfilm edition of the papers (1991-1993) and A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources (1995).
  89. Entraide
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Networking site for French-language organizations, with a directory of 200 organizations.
  90. Europe Against the Current
    Catalogue of Alternative, Independent and Radical Information Carriers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  91. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
  92. The Extraordinary Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1988
    Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
  93. 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.
  94. Facing Down the Machine
    Mike Roselle Draws a Line

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Federal and state governments have long targeted the civil rights of environmentalists. In the mid-1980s swaths of new laws were passed that targeted the acts of direct action oriented environmental protests.
  95. Facing Reality 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1974
    Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
  96. Farm Gate Defence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Describes how farmers have been driven to come together to defend their farms in the face of high interest rates,mounting production costs and low prices.
  97. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  98. Fighting Back on the Job
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  99. Fighting for Hope 
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
  100. Food Not Bombs
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others.
  101. For Ourselves
    Forgotten Goals of the Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
  102. Free Ourselves
    Forgotten Goals of the Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  103. Freedom ride
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
  104. Freedom Riders
    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  105. French Revolution 1968
    Resource Type: Book
  106. From ACT UP to the WTO
    Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
  107. From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
  108. From Prince to Rebel
    Peter Kropotkin

    Resource Type: Book
  109. The Future in the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
  110. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
  111. Get Active
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A guide to organizing and carrying out campaigns on social and environmental issues, prepared by Greenpeace Australia.
  112. Global Justice Movement
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Is the broad globalized social movement opposing what is often known as “corporate globalization” and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.
  113. Global Labour Calendar
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    Calendar of trade union and labour-related events.
  114. Global Thoughts, Local Actions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
  115. Global Visions
    Beyond the News World Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
  116. Grassroots media relations
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
  117. Hamburg at the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
  118. Hard Core Green
    How to Kick Corporate Butt

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Two uncompromised green activists and writers completely focused on winning, and utterly void of bullshit.
  119. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
  120. History of the Canadian peace movement until 1969
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969
  121. A history of the peace movement in Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1982
  122. The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression - Review
    A report on Britain's Government Machine

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1989
    Organizational tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
  123. The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  124. How to Light a Prairie Fire
    The Spell Can be Broken

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    If there's one thing I think many people need to understand, it is this: sustained mass movements rarely happen unless many of the participants believe they might win.
  125. I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
    Resource Type: Book
  126. Idealist
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    International directory, organized by country, of thousands of non-profit activist organizations, designed to help people "think globally and act locally". Features an events calendar of mostly US events.
  127. 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.
  128. If I Can't Dance ....
    Why is the Left So Boring?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
  129. The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  130. Institute for Global Communications
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Internet provider for social justice organizations; groups five online communities: PeaceNet, WomensNet, EcoNet, LabourNet, and ConflictNet. News, articles, features, links to progressive issues.
  131. Insurgency Online
    Web Activism and Global Conflict

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
    Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
  132. International Blacklist 1983
    An Anti-Authoritarian Directory

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    An International directory of anti-authoritarian groups and publications. P. 123 has a list of documentation centres on anarchism. P. 139 has publishing houses and disributors.
  133. Israeli Left Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006
    An evolving data base of the Israeli Radical Left. The long range vision of this project is to continue to digitalize thousands of items (leaflets, internal documents, newspaper articles and press clippings, movement periodicals, photographs, protocols and other materials). The origins of the current developing data base are in the private archive of Dafna and Reuven Kaminer. In general, the data base is devoted mainly to the radical left and the women's peace movement during the sixties, seventies and the eighties.
  134. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
  135. Landless Peoples Movement
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An independent social movement made up of the poor and landless in South Africa formed in 2001.
  136. The Left Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Unger writes a manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? In his analysis, Unger examines the major debates in the world today and he rallies for alternative forms of change.
  137. The Legacy of the New Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
  138. Let the People Decide: Neighbourhood Organizing in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    A history of neighbourhood-based community organizing in the United States.
  139. Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A biography of Saul Alinsky and the evolution of his ideas on organizing.
  140. Letters from Young Activists
    Today's Rebels Speak Out

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  141. Letters of Insurgents 
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A fictional exchange of letters between people grappling with the question of what the struggle for freedom means in the West and in thecountries of the Soviet bloc. A gripping discussion of the issues of social change and liberation as they affect real
  142. Libcom.org 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for all people who wish to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions. We want to discuss with one another, learn from experiences of the past and develop strategies to increase the power that we, as ordinary people, have over our own lives.
  143. The Library of the Turtle
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A home for much-loved texts in the history of struggle. The Library provides a space for the the valuable work of the conservation, the recuperation, and the recirculation of the Old, and even, on occasion, the Fairly Recent.
  144. Literature as Pulpit
    The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  145. The Long Haul
    An autobiography

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for over sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
  146. Long March, Short Spring 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  147. Long Way From Home
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
  148. Looking for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
  149. The Making of a Counter Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  150. 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.
  151. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
    Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  152. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
    Connexipedia Article

    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.
  153. Marginal Distribution
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Book distributor.
  154. Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
  155. Marx et Makhno à la rencontre de McDonald’s
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    À Paris, les travailleurs précaires qui sont sortis vaniqueurs de plusieurs grèves en ont perud d’autres avec les honneurs à cause des méthodes à la fois légales et illégales des syndicats et des ultra-syndicalistes.
  156. Marxism as Action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1915
    Now is the time to bring to the fore the other part of Marxism which has been so neglected; now, when the workers movement must find a new direction, in order to overcome the narrow views and the passivity of the old era, if it wants to overcome the crisis. Men must themselves make history, or else history will be made by others for them. Of course, they cannot build without taking the circumstances into account, but they build nonetheless.
  157. 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.
  158. 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.
  159. Media for Social Change
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
  160. The Modern Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
  161. The Monkey Wrench Gang
    Resource Type: Book
  162. The Movement and the Sixties
    Resource Type: Book
    Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
  163. Movements and Messages
    Media and Radical Politics on Quebec

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A study of the attempt by social and political movements in Quebec to shape their own communication strategies in oppostion to the power of the state and the mainstream media.
  164. Moving Toward A New Society.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  165. 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.
  166. 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?
  167. Narmada Bachao Andolan
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An organisation that has mobilised tribal people, adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river, Gujarat, India.
  168. Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
    The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956

    Resource Type: Book
  169. The Need for a New Socialist Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984
    It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
  170. Networks: The Ecology of the Movements
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
  171. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  172. The New Left
    A Collection of Essays

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  173. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  174. The New Left Reader
    Resource Type: Book
  175. The New Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
  176. The New Sexual Radicalism
    Socialist Feminist Questions About Queer Activism

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision — whether implicit or explicit — of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projects as feminism, antiracism, global justice and socialism?
  177. The New Student Left
    Resource Type: Book
  178. A New Weave
    Popular Education in Canada and Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
  179. A New Weave
    Popular Education in Canada and Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central American and other solidarity networks.
  180. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  181. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
  182. No Border network
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Loose associations of autonomous organisations, groups, and individuals in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and beyond. They support freedom of movement and resist human migration control by coordinating international border camps, demonstrations, direct actions, and anti-deportation campaigns.
  183. Northwest Activism
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web site of a small group of citizen activists living throughout the Pacific Northwest.
  184. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
  185. Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right now, simultaneously building the foundation—technically and socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.
  186. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
  187. On Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  188. On Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
  189. On the First International
    Resource Type: Book
  190. On the Poverty of Student Life
    Resource Type: Book
  191. One Vote for Democracy 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
  192. Organize! Organizing for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2001
    A guide to community organizing with attention to specific tasks such as hosting meetings, public speaking and making partnerships with other activist groups.
  193. Our Little Victory
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    It took an issue like Litton to get us working together, and in our little victory we can take a great deal of pride. We were lied to, threatened, denied information and harassed, all in an unsuccessful effort to discredit us as "ignorant" and "of the enemy." American-inspired militarism has mastered the means by which its opposition in this way becomes popularly misinterpreted. It is worthwhile to look at some aspects of the work of The Island Way which enabled the groups to be a credible opposition.
  194. Peace Mom
    A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An American mother loses her 24-year-old soldier son, killed in action in Iraq, and leads her to become a prominent US anti-war activist.
  195. Pedagogy of the Oppressed 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that provided with the proper tools for such an encounter, can gradually perceive his personal and social reality and deal critically with it.
  196. People - & Planet-Friendly Events & Information
    Bringing people together over ideas that matter

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Event calendar, job listings and other resources related to sustainable living, environment, and peace.
  197. People Power
    Applying Nonviolence Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    Explores the theory of power on which all successful nonviolent action is based, the blocks which keep people from acting when confronted with injustice, and the roles played in any nonviolent campaign by allies, neutrals, and opponents. Numerous case histories illustrate the dynamics of nonviolent action.
  198. The People vs. Global Capital
    The G-7, NTCs, SAPs, and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This book includes testimony presented to the Tribunal, the text of the Tribunal's indictment, and proposals for follow-up to the event.
  199. Piecing It Together
    Feminism and Non-Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  200. Planet.net
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  201. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
  202. Political Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  203. 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.
  204. The Port Huron Statement 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
  205. Power: Building it Without Taking it
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
  206. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  207. Protest.net
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An international calendar of protests, events, meetings and conferences.
  208. Provos and Kabouters
    Resource Type: Book
  209. Putting Power in its Place
    Create Community Control!

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
  210. Putting Technology to Work for Palestine Activism
    Palestine Activism Handbook Module

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
  211. rabble.ca
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  212. 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.
  213. Radical Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
  214. Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  215. Radical Priorities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    A broad range of subjects is covered with a view to alerting people about the problems humanity is facing, and possible solutions we can undertake. What is particularly significant about this collection is that C.P. Otero lucidly presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky’s social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky’s politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
  216. The Raging Grannies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    We sing satire. We aren't very good at singing, but the medium being the message, as grannies in bright colourful clothes fashionable a couple of generations ago, and wearing smiles, outrageous hats and pink running shoes, we seem to have an appeal.
  217. Rainforest Action Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    RAN seeks to protect the Earth's rainforests through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action. They do so using campaigns to expose the wrongdoings of governments and corporations and mobilize the international environmental and human rights community to join in the action.
  218. Raising Hell
    A Citizen's Guide to the Fine Art of Investigation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  219. Rank and File 
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
  220. The Rebel in the House
    Resource Type: Book
  221. 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.
  222. Red Pepper
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Independent magazine of the green and radical left.
  223. Remember the '80s
    Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
  224. Resist
    A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    A dynamic collection of personal accounts, creative works, reflections, images and analyses about the protests against the FTAA summit that took place in April 2001 in Quebec City.
  225. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution 
    A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1985
    A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effet for change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
  226. Resources For Radicals
    An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  227. Rethinking Columbus
    Teaching About the 500th Anniversary of Columbus's Arrival in America

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  228. Reveille for Radicals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
  229. Revolution for the Hell of It
    Resource Type: Book
  230. The Revolution Game
    The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  231. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  232. Revolution of the Deaf
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  233. The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    A history of California's prison movement from 1950 to 1980, highlighting the role prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology.
  234. Rules for Radicals
    A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
  235. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
  236. Selfish Activism or Equal Rights for All?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1993
    The separatist agendas of women, gays, black and disabled activists are divisive, and undermine the campaign for equality.
  237. 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".
  238. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  239. '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.
  240. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists

    Resource Type: Book
  241. Solidarity
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A democratic revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization which publishes Against the Current magazine.
  242. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    The left’s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
  243. Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
  244. Speed Up Rush to nowhere How turbo-capitalism eats time
    New Internationalist March 2002

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    A look into the act of speeding up time and rushing to accomplish tasks and its consequences.
  245. Spunk Library
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Collects and distributes literature in electronic format, with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues.
  246. Spying 101
    The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities 1917 - 1997

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were there is the subject of this book.
  247. The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Aguilar-San Juan offers a complex understanding of race and racial identity, and a critique of the narrow identity politics -- defined as "ethnic consciousness". She writes, "Identity politics -- while they have created occasional possibilities for dark-skinned individuals to move up the socioeconomic ladder -- unfortunately have seduced many people into putting their identity issues at the center of the debate, while shunning the more substantive issues of racism and class oppression.... Reducing race to a matter of identity, rather than expanding our experience of racism into a critique of U.S. society, is detrimental to our movement. In the Asian American community, we often make the dangerous mistake of equating the process of acquainting ourselves with our ethnic, linguistic, religious, or historic roots with activism against racism. If in our desire to claim our identity, we overlook, for example, the ways that race is connected to imperialism . . . then we hover perilously close to the trap of defining race as a biological rather than a social construct."
  248. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  249. The Straight Goods
    Canadians Informing Canadians

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1999
    A daily Internet news and feature publication featuring investigative reports, columns, and a variety of features.
  250. Strategies for Urban Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  251. Street Fighting Years 
    An Autobiography of the Sixties

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Tariq Ali takes readers through the fortunes of the British anti-war movement and the other political movements of the Sixties.
  252. 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.
  253. 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.
  254. Student Power
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  255. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  256. SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
    Connexipedia article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
  257. Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group’s path to success with director Ben Fine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
  258. Take Back the Nation
    Revised Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1993
    A passionate and thoughtful assessment of Canada in crisis. Analyses the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada's economy and independence. Proposes economic, political and cultural solutions to Canada's problems.
  259. Talking Back to the Right
    A guide for community activists

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
  260. TAO Events Calendar
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
  261. The TAZ - Anarchy on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Links to anarchist resources.
  262. Techsoup
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A technology resource centre for non-profits.
  263. The Temporary Autonomous Zone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1991
  264. Ten Thousand Roses
    The Making of a Feminist Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  265. They're Recharging Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
  266. The Third Camp
    Against U.S. militarism and Islamic terrorism

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    We must stand up with all our power to the US government’s and its allies’ bullying. We must put an end to the crimes of the opposite pole, i.e. Islamic terrorism. We must help the people of Islam-stricken countries to get rid of the menace of Islamic terrorist states and forces. American militarism and Islamic terrorism have brutalised the world. Neither of them has a solution to the present crisis and its resulting problems. Rather, they are themselves the cause of this crisis and its aggravation. Civilised humanity must rise up against both these poles and the suffering that they have imposed on the world.
  267. This Week in Peace History
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    This Week in History is a collection designed to help us appreciate the fact that we are part of a rich history advocating peace and social justice. While the entries often focus on large and dramatic events there are so many smaller things done everyday to promote peace and justice.
  268. Toronto Video Activist Collective
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Founded to counter-balance the mostly anti-activist media and to shamelessly promote social and environmental justice issues through the production and distribution of activist videos under no mask of journalistic objectivity.
  269. Traces of Magma
    An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    An annotated bibliography of left wing novels which deal with the lives of working people during the twentieth century.
  270. Transforming Apathy and Denial
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
  271. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
  272. Tree Spiker
    From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Roselle — cofounder of the Rainforest Action Network and Earth First! — offers a memoir of his career in radical activism — from teenage Yippie to career environmentalist.
  273. 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.
  274. 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1993
  275. The Tyranny of Structurelessness 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1970
    Unstructured groups may be very effective in getting women to talk about their lives; they aren’t very good for getting things done. It is when people get tired of “just talking” and want to do something more that the groups flounder, unless they change the nature of their operation.
  276. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
  277. 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.
  278. 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.
  279. Up Against the Ivy Wall
    Resource Type: Book
  280. The Urban Question and Organizing
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  281. The Veritable Split in the International
    Resource Type: Book
  282. Walking: We Ask Questions 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    An essay from the book We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere Collective.
  283. Ways and Means
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
    Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
  284. We Are Everywhere
    Resource Type: Book
  285. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
  286. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
  287. Web Networks
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web Networks is the online home of many non-profit and social change groups in Canada.
  288. WebActive
    What's New in Activism Online

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    A weekly online publication devoted to online activism.
  289. Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa, formed in 2000.
  290. What a Way to Run a Railroad
    An Analysis of Radical Failure

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  291. 'What can I Do?'
    Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  292. 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.
  293. What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
  294. What's Left: Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche
    Resource Type: Book
  295. When Freedom Was Lost
    The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State

    Resource Type: Book
    The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
  296. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
  297. When in Doubt, Do Both
    The Times of My Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
  298. Why Do Communities Fail?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.
  299. A winning formula
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Intelligent community-based campaigning exposes the BNP for what it is, as well as providing a defence of civil society.
  300. Women Unite
    An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  301. Working for Peace
    A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  302. Working together for peace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Although English and French-speaking Canadians are sometimes at odds, the call for peace is universal. It is a language that all can agree on.
  303. Worthington provokes election controversy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984
    The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.
  304. You Got to Move
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    A documentary that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social change.
  305. ZNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Extensive collection of articles and links compiled by the publishers of Z Magazine.

Experts on Activism/Radicalism in the Sources Directory

  1. Michael Riordon



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