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  1. Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
    Towards a New Practice
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
  2. Against Sectarianism
    The Challenge of the Labor Party
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1974
    Members of the Socialist League argue that Trotskyist-socialists should continue to work within the NDP with the goal of winning the ranks of the NDP to a socialist program.
  3. Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  4. Bakunin vs. Marx
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
  5. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  6. Catalyst
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    A campaigning think tank for the labour movement and the left, committed to developing and promoting practical policies for the redistribution wealth, power, and opportunity. Catalyst is not aligned to any political party, but we are an organisation of the left, of democratic socialists, with a clear statement of purpose and an Editorial Board comprising individuals who have all made substantial contributions in the fields of politics, economic and social policy.
  7. The collective decides...
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
  8. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  9. The Communist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Book
  10. Critique of the Gotha Programme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1875
    Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
  11. Essays on the Left
    Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  12. Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    We would rather fight for what we want (even if we don’t get it in our lifetime) than fight for what we don’t want ... and get it.
  13. Fictitious Capital for Beginners
    Imperialism, “Anti-Imperialism”, and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society — barbarism, in her words, or the “mutual destruction of the contending classes” as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 — by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
  14. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
  15. The Freudian Left
    Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  16. Globalizing the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
  17. Green Municipalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
  18. If I Am Not For Myselt
    Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    In A journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
  19. If I Can't Dance ....
    Why is the Left So Boring?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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?
  20. Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1864
  21. Institute for Anarchist Studies
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Provides support to critical scholarship on social domination and the reconstructive vision of a free society.
  22. Israeli Left Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    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.
  23. John Gray web Site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    This site is intended to make communist, anti-capitalist and historical texts available on-line and to link to texts on other sites. The site has been organised to group some texts and links by author and subject.
  24. Keep raising the issue of democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
  25. Left History Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An attempt to gather together an archive of digital material of the history and political role of the Communist Party of Australia from its inception to the present day, and also a general archive of documents and articles that are relevant to national and international struggle.
  26. The Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    Published: 2005
    Socialism Now

    "The basis of socialism is the human being... Socialism is the movement to restore human beings' conscious will."
  27. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
  28. Looking at the Conference
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
  29. Marginal Distribution
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Book distributor.
  30. Marxism.ca
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A hub featuring links to selected resources about Marxism.
  31. 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.
  32. Murdered by Capitalism
    A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  33. The Need for a New Socialist Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  34. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
  35. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  36. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of indepedent leftists based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published.
  37. On Spontaneity and Organisation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    On the relationship of spontaneityand revolution.
  38. On Unions and the Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
  39. Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
    Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
  40. The Origins of the Modern Leftism
    Resource Type: Book
  41. Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  42. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
  43. Popular Education Conference - Overview
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A report on the Popluar Education Conference.
  44. The Port Huron Statement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
  45. Portugal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
  46. 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.
  47. Rebuilding the Left web site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2000
    Web site of activists working to rebuild the Canadian left; formed out of the Rebuilding the Left conference in October 2000.
  48. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
  49. Reform and Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1968
    An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
  50. The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  51. Remember the '80s
    Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  52. The Romance of American Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  53. Rosa Luxemburg
    A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
  54. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Die Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung wurde 1992 von der Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (PDS) - heute Die Linkspartei.PDS - als parteinahe, bundesweit t#tige Stiftung anerkannt. Sie kooperiert im Rahmen eines Stiftungsverbundes eng mit den der Linkspartei.PDS nahestehenden Landesstiftungen und Vereinen in allen Bundesl#ndern.
  55. Socialism or Barbarism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
  56. Socialism.ca
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A hub featuring links to selected resources about socialism, as well as other progressive sites of interest to socialists and activists.
  57. Socialist History Project
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The stated goal is documenting the revolutionary socialist tradition in Canada. Primarily oriented to Leninist parties.
  58. Socialist Party of Canada
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    Founded in 1905, the party's objective is the establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of society as a whole.
  59. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    The left’s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
  60. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
  61. Thinking About Self-Determination
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
  62. Traces of Magma
    An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  63. The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1938
  64. The Two Souls of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below.
  65. The Tyranny of Structurelessness
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
  66. The Un-Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
  67. Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  68. The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
  69. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  70. What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  71. Why the Leninists Will Win
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
  72. Words, words, words...
    Diemer, Ulli
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.
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