1. The Accumulation of Capital 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1913
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
2. American Primitive in Red, Black and White: Race and Class in the U.S.
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1989
   The centrality of race in the formation of the American working class, its inseparability from the question of class, can be stated very succinctly: in 1848 and 1968, when working-class upsurges exploded in Europe under the slogans of "socialism" and "communism", American working-class containment in the Democratic Party was exploded by the race question. This is the key to the Americanization of Marxism.
3. Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
   A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1974
   
4. Break Their Haughty Power 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
   
5. Das Capital, Volume 1 
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
   Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
6. Das Capital, Volume 2
   The Process of Circulation of Capital
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1893   Published: 1956
   
7. Das Capital, Volume 3
   The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1894   Published: 1971
   
8. Class and the African-American Leadership Crisis
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1996
   This market economy can't solve the real problems of African Americans. Worse, the scapegoating of society's most vulnerable members (immigrants, people of color, women and gays) is on the rise.
9. 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.
10. The Class Nature of Israel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Israeli society is not merely a society of immigrants; it is one of settlers. The society, including its working class, was shaped through a process of colonization. The permanent conflict between the settlers' society and the indigenous, displaced Palestiniann has never stopped and has shaped the very strcuture of Israeli sociology, politics, and economics.
    
11. Classes in Modern Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1970
    
12. 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.
13. The Corporate Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Information about the corporations which make political contributions to, and benefit from, the Harris Conservative government in Ontario.
14. Democracy Against Capitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
    For a review, see http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2198.
15. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
16. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1852
    Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar — the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content.
17. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    
18. Falling Behind
    The State of Working Canada, 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
19. 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.
20. The Historical Moment That Produced Us
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg’s remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: “The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!” We assert the ongoing reality of communism, “the real movement developing before our eyes,” as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel’s “knights of history,” we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
21. An interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood - co-editor of Monthly Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    The strength of the Marxist project is that it does recognize difference, specificities, and grounds its project in a real social word, but that it has a unifying principle - class - based upon lived experience. Obviously class can't cover all emancipatory struggles, but it can provide some sort of unifying principle among emancipatory struggles that's completely lacking in the postmodernist perspective. It can bring together women and men, black and white, based on their common experience of work and exploitation and common interest in a classless society.
22. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. The National Question 
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula, “the right of nations to self-determination,” is essentially not a political and problematic guideline in the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
26. Natives in a class society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
    Same as CX2835.
    
27. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
28. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973   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.
    
29. 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.
    
30. 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.
31. Race, Class, Gender
    Bonds and Barriers
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    Takes a historical and theoretical approach to the themes of race, class and gender. Issues touched on include the role of the state in organizing gender and ethnic group formation; racism in the women's movement; patriarchy; colonial domination of Indian women; racism and sexism in trade unions.
    
32. 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.
    
33. The Retreat from Class 
    A New 'True' Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1999
    
34. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
    A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
35. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
36. The Wealthy Banker's Wife 
    The Assault on Equality in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
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. 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.
    
39. Women and the Politics of Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Engages many crucial contemporary feminist issues — abortion, reproductive technology, comparable worth, the impoverishment of women, the crisis in care-giving, and the shredding of the social safety net through welfare reform and budget cuts.

Experts on Class Analysis in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive