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  1. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
  2. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  3. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1972
    Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
  4. Essays in Canadian Working Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  5. A Guide to Working Class History
    Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  6. Harlan County USA
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1976
    A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
  7. Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
  8. The Idea of May Day on the March
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1913
    The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
  9. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
  10. Marxism and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
  11. MarxistHistory.org
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Website dealing with the history of the early American Marxist movement. A repository of source material 1864 - 1946.
  12. 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.
  13. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  14. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  15. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  16. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
  17. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  18. Traces of Magma
    An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  19. The William Morris Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A subarchive of the Marxists Internet Archive, featuring the works of the English socialist, writer, and artist William Morris.
  20. Working Class Experience
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992

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