1. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1985
   The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
2. Arundhati Roy on Obama’s Wars, India and Why Democracy Is “The Biggest Scam in the World”
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2010
   Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy on President Obama, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, India and Kashmir and much more. Roy also talks about her journey deep into the forests of central India to report on the Maoist insurgency.
3. Beyond Judgment
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   
4. Big Pharma Making a killing
   New Internationalist November 2003
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2003
   A look at big pharmaceutical companies and issues surrounding their pursuit for profit at the expense of peoples' health.
5. Bolivian gas conflict
   Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   A social confrontation in Bolivia centering on the exploitation of the country's vast natural gas reserves.
6. A Brief History of Loyal Opposition to War
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   As Afghanistan erupts with redoubled violence, the author recounts the clutch of soldiers who have refused to serve or repented their service in every American war since the War of 1812.
7. Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Anders Østergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
8. Calling Bono
   Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Palestinians have been engaging in nonviolence for decades. The reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world.
9. Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2003
   
10. A Case For Non-violent Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    
11. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
12. Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    
13. 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.
    
14. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
15. Dropping the bomb: How to ban nukes and save the planet
    New Internationalist June 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at nuclear weapons and their transportation in Britain.
16. Dutch resistance
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II.
17. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
    
18. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
19. Eurocentrism
    Resource Type: Book
    Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
20. 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.
21. Falsifying History and Ourselves: Anti-Democratic Propaganda in the Classroom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Contrary to the views promoted by FHAO, the true facts about Germany during the Holocaust show that 1) working class Germans fought the Nazis; 2) anti-Semitism did not come from ordinary people; and 3) anti-Semitism was a weapon used by Germany's industrial and aristocratic elite to attack not only the Jewish minority but the entire working class.
22. February strike (The Netherlands)
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A general strike organized during World War II in The Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities by the Nazis.
23. 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
    Enough
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
24. Flying University
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland.
25. Fragging
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
26. "Fragging" and "Combat Refusals" in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The US Army itself does not know exactly how many...officers were murdered. But they know at least 600 were murdered, and then they have another 1400 that died mysteriously. Consequently by early 1970, the army was at war not with the enemy but with itself.
27. Gedenkstatte Deutscher Widerstand
    Exhbition Resistance to National Socialsim
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    A thorough and chronological account of the many forms of resistance to Nazism in Germany.
28. German resistance
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The opposition by individuals and groups in Nazi Germany to the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945.
29. Glezos, Manolis
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Greek left wing politician and writer, worldwide known especially for his participation in the World War II resistance. (Born 1922).
30. Greek Resistance
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941-1944 during the Second World War.
31. The Greeks Get It
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Here’s to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare—the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.
32. Green Corn Rebellion
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Popular uprising against military conscription by poor farmers in Oklahoma aligned with the Socialist Party of America.
33. Harand, Irene
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An early organiser of protests against Nazi Germany's persecutions of Jews 1900-1975.
34. The Heresy Of The Greeks Offers Hope
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war rarely reported as such.
35. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
36. I would like to dodge the draft-dodgers but
    Resource Type: Book
    
37. IMF World Bank More World Less Bank
    New Internationalist March 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and what they have done.
38. Is Capitalism Sustainable?
    Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
39. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
40. Israeli Military Resisters’ Tour Hits New York City
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A 19-year-old Israeli military resister explains why she refused to join the Israel Defense Forces.
41. Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating nonviolent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community. They see non-violent activists as a major threat because they undermine the legitimacy of Israel's occupation and apartheid policies.
42. Jewish Combat Organization
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A World War II resistance movement which was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
43. Jewish resistance under Nazi rule
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The resistance of the Jewish people against Nazi Germany leading up to and through World War II, including against the Holocaust.
44. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
    
45. The Life of Death: An Exchange 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985
    The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
46. Luxembourgian general strike 1942
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A pacific resistance movement organised within a short time period to protest against a directive that incorporated the Luxembourg youth into the Wehrmacht.
47. 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.
48. Mining Town Crisis
    Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    
49. Myles Horton
    Insights from organizer Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
50. Naomi Klein's "Courage"
    Ain't But One Way Out
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    In saying that we need to make Iraq safe for democracy, Klein is buying into the US agenda for Iraq.
51. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
52. 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.
    
53. No One Else Will Stop The Killing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Because we personally understand what war truly means, we have written, called and demonstrated repeatedly for an end to the killing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
54. No surrender in Greece
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A member of International Workers Left (DEA), reports from Athens on the May 20 general strike and workers’ growing radicalization.
55. Norwegian resistance movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.
56. Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
57. On Palestinian Civil Disobedience
    The Google Matrix
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Human rights organizations have documented the forms of repression Israel deploys against villages that resist the annexation of their land. Once a village decides to struggle against the annexation barrier the entire community is punished. In addition to home demolitions, curfews and other forms of movement restriction, the Israeli occupation forces consistently uses violence against the protestors — and most often targets the youth -- beating, tear-gassing, as well as deploying both lethal and “non-lethal” ammunition against them.
58. On Resistance
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1967
    Several weeks after the 1967 anti-war demonstrations in Washington, Chomsky shares his impressions of resistance - both its possibilities and limitations.
59. Our Way to Fight
    Peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people to action, and the escalating risks they face in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The title is borrowed from a young Palestinian who makes and teaches film in the Jenin refugee camp. "This is my way to fight," he said. Like other people featured in the book, he is a peace activist. Like them he is also, in his own way, a freedom fighter. If a just peace can grow in this beautiful, hard land, the seeds for it will have been planted by people like these.
60. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
61. The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
    Resistance in Practice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    
62. Pilecki, Witold
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A member of the Polish resistance and the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. (1901-1948).
63. Polish Righteous among the Nations
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Polish citizens have the world's highest count of individuals awarded medals of Righteous among the Nations, given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews from extermination during the Holocaust.
64. Polish underground press
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Underground newspaper with a long history of combatting censorship.
65. Power to the (Palestinian) People!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    I am not a Palestinian; I am not one of the oppressed. I only hope I can use my privilege in an effective way in order to redeem the gift the people of Gaza have given all of us: the realization that the people do have power and can prevail even in the face of overwhelming power. We may each express our responsibility towards the people of Gaza in whatever way most suits us, but as the privileged we must do something.
    
66. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
67. 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.
    
68. Rescue as Resistance
    How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
69. Rescue of the Danish Jews
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    When Hitler ordered that Danish Jews be arrested and deported on 1–2 October 1943, many Danes took part in a collective effort to evacuate the roughly 8,000 Jews of Denmark by sea to nearby neutral Sweden.
70. Resistance during World War II
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
71. Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1976
    Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
72. Righteous among the Nations
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A term used in Judaism to refer to non-Jews who abide by the Seven Laws of Noah and thus are assured of meriting paradise.
73. Rights and Freedoms State Fear The Global attack on rights
    New Internationalist March 2005
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    A look into rights and freedoms, the connection to occupation, and their state in different parts of the world.
74. Sabotage
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    In a workplace setting, sabotage is the conscious withdrawal of efficiency generally directed at causing some change in workplace conditions.
75. Samizdat
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A key form of dissident activity across the Soviet-bloc; individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader, thus building a foundation for the successful resistance of the 1980s.
76. Santas, Apostolos
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A Greek veteran of the Resistance against the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II. (Born 1922).
77. Scenes from the Uprising
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1988
    Noam Chomsky calls upon his visits to Israel and Nicaragua to explore the nature of popular struggle in regions under occupation.
78. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    
79. Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
80. '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.
    
81. Die Standhaften
    Über den Widerstand in Kassel 1933-1945
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1960
    Lokalhistorische Studie zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
82. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
83. tecNICA
    Organization profile published 1988
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1988
    
84. Total Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    
85. Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
    New Internationalist December 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    A look at some of the facts and issues regarding trade unions and what they have done for people in various parts of the world.
86. Twentieth convoy
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Transport 20 (XXth convoy) was a Jewish prisoner transport in Belgium organized by the Nazi Germany during World War II. Members of the Belgian Resistance freed Jewish and Gypsy civilians who were being transported by train from the Dossin Barracks.
87. Twin Terrors
    New Internationalist November 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    An in-depth look at the events of the 9/11 disaster.
88. 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.
89. Vietnam Veterans Against the War
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A national veterans' organization.
90. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
    Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
91. The War Isn’t Over, But Israel Has Lost
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israelis – and their backers in the American political establishment – appear incapable of grasping that which is empirically obvious: Hamas and its ilk grow stronger every time Israel seeks to eliminate them by force.
92. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    
93. White Rose
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor.
94. Why Israel Won't Survive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power – Western support and complicity – is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
95. Why Israeli Leaders Love Qassam Rockets
    A Reply to Michael Neumann
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli leaders want Jews to believe that they are surrounded by violent anti-Semites. This is how the billionaires and generals and politicians who rule over the Israeli population get away with what they are doing: getting richer and more powerful while driving the rest of the population down economically. They need the Israeli population to believe that the rulers of Israel are protecting Jews from the "real enemy"--violent anti-Semitic Arabs. To make sure the "real enemy" remains credible, non-combatant Jews must die at the hands of apparent anti-Semites.
96. Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The fight against the world's biggest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, is being waged from a tiny tea stall in Ranchi, eastern India.
97. Women, Resistance and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1974
    
98. Yugoslav Partisans
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A Communist-led World War II resistance movement engaged in the fight against Axis forces and their collaborators in Yugoslavia from 1941-1945.
99. Zwiazek Organizacji Wojskowej
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An underground resistance organization formed by Witold Pilecki at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940.

Experts on Resistance in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library
2. International Forum on Globalization
3. Marxists Internet Archive
4. Michael Riordon
5. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum