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- U.S. Firms Accused of Enabling Surveillance in Despotic Central Asian Regimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
U.S. and Israeli companies have been selling surveillance systems to Central Asian countries with records of political repression and human rights abuse, according to a new report by Privacy International. The U.K.-based watchdog charges that the American firms Verint and Netronome enable surveillance in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
- The U.S. Will Invade West Africa in 2023 After an Attack in New York - According to Pentagon War Game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
By 2021, according to the war game's scenario, AQIM boasts an estimated 38,000 members spread throughout Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, and a network of training camps in Mauritania, as well as outright bases in Western Sahara.
- The UAW Contract's Downhill Spiral
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
On September 19, 2003, the New York Times said the United Auto Workers (UAW) had concluded negotiations, “granting its most significant concessions in two decades.” Of the many concessions -- including those implicitly “in progress” -- in the Big 3 auto contracts, we'll focus primarily on health care.
- UAW Pioneer and Fighter for Social Justice: Victor G. Reuther
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Victor Reuther's death June 3, at age 92, was a personal loss-breaking one of the last connections to my parent's socialist movement of the 1930s. Victor was also the connection to the courageous and honorable men and women who made great sacrifices over 60 years ago to win union recognition and the contract gains that my United Auto Workers brothers and sisters now take for granted.
- The UAW vs. Indian Casinos
Which Side Are You On Boys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The issues raised by Indian gambling casinos and their opposition to labour unions.
- Über die Einführung von Veränderungen: Wenn das Kollektiv entscheidet...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
- Uber Has Always Been a Criminal Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Uber's whole business model was premised on criminality -- the willful, systematic flouting of local taxi regulations, based on a wager that the company could retroactively absolve itself by getting the laws changed via big-money lobbying. With that kind of mission, it's not surprising its executives had blood on their hands long before they started taking Saudi blood money.
- Uber and the Luddites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The fight against the sharing economy, and Uber in particular, can be disorienting. Opposition is often painted as techno-phobia. The good guys in this story are Uber and progress; on the other side are opponents afraid of flexibility and smartphones, kicking and screaming against a future already here. In many ways, this is like the fight of the Luddites (machine smashers) 200 years ago at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. While the Luddites were fighting the way technology was used to further exploit rather than liberate workers, they were and are misrepresented as simply afraid of and opposed to technology.
- Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A formal complaint has been filed against Uber, the car ride company, by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-profit advocacy group. The NGO says Uber plans to use their smart phone app to access user's locations at all times, and to send advertisements to user's contact lists.
- Uber? Taxis? Or Plan C? How to Get Ride Hailing Right
BC could show the world a non-profit model that beats oligopolies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at 'ride-hailing' and why it should be run on a non-profit basis as a co-op or other non-profit model.
- Uber Used Clandestine Technology Tool To Thwart Police Raids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Uber uses a number of technological tools for tax evasion, undermining competition and monitoring customers and drivers.
- Ubu Saved From Drowning
Class Struggle and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The end of the Salazar and Franco regimes on the Iberian peninsula was, in fact, a key moment in the beginning of a period in which literally dozens of dictatorships disappeared, a period in which the soft cop took over from the tough cop, and democracy, world-wide, sold austerity.
- UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: The Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Audio
The UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project is a partnership between the UC Berkeley Library, the Pacifica Foundation, and other private and institutional sources. The intent of the project is to gather, catalog, and make accessible primary source media resources related to social activism and activist movements in California in the 1960's and 1970's.
- UE Facts and Comment
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
- UEP - Union des Étudiants pour la Paix
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
- UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Uganda: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Carbon trading schemes are causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.
- The Ugly Side of Antifa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
When you criticize Antifa members or their defenders for the tactic of mob violence, the reflexive response is usually something like, "There are literal Nazis marching in the streets, and you're attacking us over your precious little non-violence principles?" But Antifa doesn't have a monopoly over concern for what's happening in this country.
- UI benefits to be cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- UI premiums up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- UK after the rain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Shabbir Lakha looks beyond the media blizzard surrounding last week's referendum result and identifies anti-racist work as a campaigning imperative.
- UK 'aid' is financing a corporate scramble for Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The corporate power-grab will be disastrous for the small-scale farmers who feed at least 70% of Africa's people.
- UK and France: far right’s opposing fortunes
Le Pen stands for president, Griffin can’t get elected
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
France’s Front National is pushing to become part of the political mainstream, while the UK’s British National Party has returned to the fringes.
- UK exporting 67% of plastic waste amid 'illegal practices' warnings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.
- The UK Is Among the World's Largest Suppliers of Weapons -- and Is Making Arms Boycotts Illegal
Despite human rights abuses, the UK continues to sell arms to Israel and crack down on dissent.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Through 'open' trade conventions such as the Security & Policing (S&P) exhibition and closed events such as the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair, the UK allows local and international companies to showcase some of the world's most lethal weapons.
- UK and Israel: Has the fightback against weaponised antisemitism begun?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Jews in the Labour party and academics are finally exposing the UK establishment’s smear campaign to silence criticism of Israel and destroy the left.
- UK Media Regulator Again Threatens RT for "Bias": This Time, Airing "Anti-Western Views"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The U.K. Government loves to lecture the world about infringements of liberty generally and press freedom specifically. It does so as it threatens to revoke the broadcasting license of a media outlet for broadcasting "anti-western" views and other perspectives at odds with the U.K. Government, all while shielding (and venerating) the equally virulent biases from pro-state television in the U.K.
- UK Ordered Destruction Of 'Embarrassing' Colonial Papers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Britain systematically destroyed documents in colonies that were about to gain independence, declassified Foreign Office files reveal. Operation Legacy saw sensitive documents secretly burnt or dumped to cover up traces of British activities.
- UK Tax Dodgers PLC - Google outrage is the tip of an iceberg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Why are we so surprised at the Google tax heist? It's not because there's anything new about it. It's because our own political class have long had their noses in the trough, and the tax-dodging billionaires that own our mainstream media are anxious to hide the swindle that's keeping them rich, and us poor.
- UK: Walking a tightrope: Between the pro-Islamist Left and the far-Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Opposing Sharia and Islamism in the west is like walking on a tight rope most of the time -- thwarting attacks from the Left, refuting cultural relativism, preventing alliances with the far-Right, explaining the issues ignored by government and the media, mobilising support for secularism and citizenship whilst opposing racism and xenophobia, and making linkages with the many fighting Islamism on the ground in countries across the world.
- Ukraine, a Fascist Coup?
A Photo Essay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The 2014 Ukraine coup and aftermath, in photos.
- Ukraine and the Great Asian Enclosure
Russia Crosses an Important Rubicon in the Crimea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Cornerstones of Eurasia - When Pravy Sektor’s Dmitry Yarosh called on the Chechen liberation fighters to join Ukrainian nationalists in global struggle, he accented the North Atlantic’s energy politics better than anyone before him.
- Ukraine and Yugoslavia
When Will Americans Come to Their Senses?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Much of public opinion seems to accept the notion that the villain of the Russia-Ukraine story is the Russian president, who is accused of engaging in unprovoked aggression against Crimea – even though he was responding to one of the most blatant provocations in history. Johnstone outlines why this is not the case.
- Ukraine Between 'Popular Uprising for Democracy' (Canadian Government) and 'Fascist Putsch' (Russian Government)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
That movement is characteristic of the present period which has seen a series of similar popular uprisings – in the Arab countries, but also in the former Soviet territory – (Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004, and Kirgizstan 2005). An atomized population is fed up with the political regime. It mobilizes through the social media, but without a clear programme. The fruits of the mass mobilization are then reaped by forces that are organized and that have a clear programme. The lack of a clear analysis and programme explains the role that fascist forces were able to play in the events. These forces rejected any compromise with the contested government, presenting themselves as unyielding adversaries, not only of the current leaders, but of the ‘system’ itself. And they call for a ‘national revolution.’ This intransigent position attracted demonstrators who were aware of the bitter fruits of the Orange Revolution and who did not understand the real meaning of the proposed ‘national revolution.’
- Ukraine: Cost of War in Africa & Global South
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
As the West is busy dealing with its own economic woes while cutting off Russian exports, little heed is being paid to those suffering the most.
- Ukraine: The Economic Fallout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the economic war against Russia and its boomerang effect on the West. Does it mean that globalization is over?
- Ukraine, Intervention, and America's Doublethink
High-Motor Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
With the deployment of Russian forces into Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the US-NATO propaganda machine has kicked into high gear. Putin has been portrayed as a tyrannical aggressor, while the Obama administration and its European allies have attempted to stake out the moral high ground, declaring that peace, respect for sovereignty and international law should be the guiding principles. Naturally, such rhetoric warrants closer analysis.
- Ukraine Is Banning 'Communist Symbols' and the Kremlin Is Peeved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Ukraine is pushing to erase all evidence the Soviet Union and its defeat of Nazi Germany from its history books.
- Ukraine Is Not a Brothel
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Ukraine Is Not a Brothel is a 2013 Australian film directed by Kitty Green. The film debuted at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, although was not part of the competition.The documentary concerns the FEMEN movement, a feminist protest group originating from Ukraine.
- Ukraine: Lies and Realities
Will the Government Listen?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Two beautiful Slavic sisters, Ukraine and Russia, pitched against each other: long hair flying in the wind, gray-blue eyes staring forward accusatively, but in the same time with anticipation and love
- Ukraine, the New Cold War and the Politics of Impeachment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The question not being asked is why it was politically, legally or morally justified for the U.S.-- the Obama administration, to 1) use NGOs and the CIA 2) to join with real and virulent Ukrainian Nazis to 3) oust the Democratically elected president of Ukraine 4) in order to install a puppet regime that answers to the national security state? Passionate assertions that Donald Trump is corrupt face the question back: what part of this entire operation isn't corrupt?
- Ukraine on Fire - The Real Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
A documentary film that provides historical perspective for the deep divisions in the Ukraine, and the violent events leading up to the overthrow of democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych. While covered by Western media as a revolution by the people, the film demonstrates that it was in fact a staged removal from power that was ulitimately crafted by the US government. Runtime: 95 min.
- Ukraine on Fire: The Real Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2019
- Ukraine and the Rebirth of Fascism
The Menace Across the European Continent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The violence on the streets of Ukraine is far more than an expression of popular anger against a government. Instead, it is merely the latest example of the rise of the most insidious form of fascism that Europe has seen since the fall of the Third Reich.
- Ukraine: the Ugly Truth
Kiev's War Against Freedom of Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The US State Department has given its support to the military operation undertaken by Kiev in Donbass.
- Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Without historical context, which has been buried by corporate media, it's impossible to understand Ukraine.
- Ukraine Turmoil
Capitalist Powers in Tug of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The ongoing aim of the Western imperialists is to establish a client state on the border of Russia, which under the rule of capitalist strongman Vladimir Putin has increasingly become a thorn in their sides. And Ukraine would be a big prize. Its industrial base supplies the Russian market, and its Black Sea and Crimean peninsula territories are of strategic importance to the Russian military.
- Ukraine War, Divided Left
'Social Patriots' and the 'Anti-Imperialism of Fools'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Since Russia's military operation commenced on February 24, 2022, the socialist left has been divided in its response to the armed conflict in Ukraine.
- Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Ukraine's parliamentarians have given themselves a 70% salary increase while soldiers fighting against Russia receive none of the humanitarian aid pouring in from the US and Europe.
- Ukraine: what's going on, and what does it mean?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Some thoughts on the protests happening in Ukraine. Things are not completely what they may seem.
- Ukraine's IMF Deal
Heading Toward a Greece-like Depression?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
On March 27, 2014, the IMF released the broad outlines of its terms and conditions for loans and other measures for the Ukrainian economy. What those terms and conditions mean is less a rescue of the Ukrainian economy than the onset of a Greece-like economic depression for the Ukrainian populace.
- Ukraine's Nazis: Who are they, why are they so influential — and why have media ignored them?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A recent festival in Kiev proudly displayed Nazi symbols and even advertised 'White Pride' – yet received almost no attention from Western media, who still steadfastly pretend there are no Nazis in Ukraine, neo- or otherwise.
- Ukraine's Protest Movement
Is a 'Left Sector' Possible?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A conversation about the necessity and possibility of a "Left Sector" and its struggle for hegemony in the 2013-2014 Ukrainian protests is important not only in the contemporary Ukrainian context, but also for the future.
- Ukraine's worst enemies are those who demand Russia's strategic defeat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
- Ukrainian Hangovers
Russia, Crimea and the Consequences of NATO Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Russia’s incursion (invasion if you prefer) into Crimea, with prospects for movement into Eastern Ukraine, is the culmination of US/NATO policy since 1991.
- Ukrainian neo-Nazis flock to the Hong Kong protest movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Neo-Nazis from Ukraine have flown to Hong Kong to participate in the anti-Chinese insurgency, which has been widely praised by Western corporate media and portrayed as a peaceful pro-democracy movement. Since March 2019, Hong Kong has been the site of often-violent protests and riots that have run the city’s economy into the ground.
- Ukrainian putsch creates economic and political turmoil in Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The intensifying conflict between Russia and the West over the US-backed, far-right coup in Ukraine is creating economic and political turmoil within Russia. The economy faces growing pressures as the Kremlin attempts to rally popular support and suppress opposition in its confrontation with the West.
- Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.
- The Ultimate Black Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Ultra-Zionists protest Muslim-Jewish wedding saying miscegenation is 'gravest threat to the Jewish people'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
As even mainstream Israeli politicians threaten the Palestinians of Gaza with ethnic cleansing and genocide, Israel's far-right figures take to the street to rile up racist supporters and to chase Palestinians out of public spaces and enforce racial-religious separation.
- Um Voto Para a Democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- The Umbrella of U.S. Power
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Chomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "Path to a Better World," while chronicling how far off the trail the United States is with respect to actual political practice and conduct. Analysing the contradictions of U.S. power while illustrating the real progress won by sustained popular struggle, Chomsky cuts through official political rhetoric to examine how the United States not only violates the UD, but at times uses it as a weapon to weild against designated enemies.
- UN aviation body blocks critics online
The UN’s aviation body is blocking climate critics on Twitter, accusing them of 'fake news' and 'spam'.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The International Civil Aviation Organization is blocking people who interact with them on Twitter. They claim their critics' arguments are not 'fact-based.'
- UN Battle to 'Shame' Israel Over Abuse of Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Palestinian solidarity groups have taken to social media to step up the pressure on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to include Israel for the first time on a "shame list" of serious violators of children's rights.
- Un Canadien errant
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1842
A Canadian folk song, lyrics written in 1842, about rebels who were deported, or forced to flee, after the rebellion of 1837-8 in Lower Canada. The song was also adopted by the descendants of Acadians who had been deported from Acadia in 1755-62, changed to 'Un Acadien errant.'
- The UN did NOT create Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan, was a recommendation that was to go to the Security Council. The resolution requested that the Security Council take it up. This never happened, and the partition plan has no force of law. Israeli propagandists, however, perpetrated the myth that the UN created Israel, and this interpretation was then been repeated by numerous others.
- Un Dossier Noir su la Police Politique, Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Un enunciado político de los Socialistas Libertarios
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- UN General Assembly in One Voice (Almost) Rejects U.S. Cuban Blockade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The United Nations General Assembly on October 27, 2015 voted on a Cuban resolution calling for "an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba." Approval was all but unanimous: 191 nations voted in favour and two voted against, the United States and Israel. There were no abstentions for the first time since the voting on the resolution began in 1992.
- The UN in Israel's Crosshairs
Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
History will record Israel's onslaught in Gaza as noteworthy not only for the wide destruction of institutions of state and civil society, but for the deliberate targeting of the United Nations and the refugees it aided and sheltered. And it certainly would not be the first time Israel has done so.
- Un Pays En Commun, La Solidarite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- U.N. Report Asserts Encryption as a Human Right in the Digital Age
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Encryption is not the refuge of scoundrels, as Obama administration law-enforcement officials loudly proclaim – it is an essential tool needed to protect the right of freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age, a new United Nations report concludes.
- UN Security Council Rejects Proposal for Investigation Into Syria Chemical Allegations
Russian envoy urges US, allies to refrain from attacking Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A UN Security Council resolution proposed by Russia has been voted down, with Western nations fighting against it. The resolution would've called for a formal investigation into the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack on Saturday.
- U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A four-member United Nations fact-finding mission, which has just concluded an investigation into last year's brutal conflict in Gaza, makes a strong case for war crimes charges against Israel for its unrelenting 22-day military attacks on Palestinians, largely civilians, including women and children.
- UN urged to recognize cultural significance of Palestine posters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
An interview with Palestine Poster Project founder Dan Walsh, recorded by the Institute for Palestine Studies, gives a in-depth look into the history and contents of this collection of 10,000 posters.
- Un vote pour la démocratie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Les groupes démocratiques sont mieux équipés pour traiter les problèmes de procédés. Ceci est parce que la démocratie permet un groupe pour procéder avec ce qu'il veut faire devant les gens qui sont peu coopératif, odieux ou insensible.
- Un Voto a favore della Democrazia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Un Voto por la Democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- The Unacknowledged Housing Form
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- Unarmed Victory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- An Unauthorized History of the RCMP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
A critical history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- The unbearable lightness of Greek democracy
Greeks have abandoned all hope that their political leaders have the skills to rescue the nations economy.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The only certain thing is that a government will be formed by a grand alliance whose only mission will be to implement the most painful, humiliating measures ever attempted by a democratically elected body. This, alas, is the unbearable lightness of Greek democracy.
- Unbecoming Men
A Men's Consciousness-Raising Groups Writes on Oppression and Themselves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Members of a men's group attempt to trace their experiences back to their roots, discovering how they learned to be male and sexist.
- The Unbelievable Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement And Punishment for as Little as Reading a Book
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The majority of those in solitary confinement were given the punishment for nonviolent, low-level offenses such as having unauthorized books or disobeying an order or growing their mustaches too long.
- The Un-Canadians
True Stores of the blacklist Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
- UNCED '92W
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Uncertainty shapes immigrant life in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Immigrants in the United States without legal residency or who were admitted on a temporary basis feel that their lives have become much more complicated in 2017 because of the current Republican administration's intention to expel thousands of Latin Americans even though they are successfully integrated into the local economy and have no criminal record.
- The Uncertified Human
Vol. 4, No. 8
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Monthly pro-life publication designed to keep subscribers up to date on genetic engineering, euthenasia, mandatory sterilisation, abortion, capital punishment, pro-life feminism and constructive solutions to world and human problems.
- The Uncertified Human
Vol. 4, No. 12
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
A pro-life newsletter that discusses various forms of legislation that are relavent to their movement.
- The Uncertified Human
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
- 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.
- The Unclaimed Dead
In Texas, the Bodies of Migrants Who Perished in the Desert Provide Clues to the Living
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Operation Identification, a program began in 2013 amid a swirl of grassroots organizing, lead the exhumation of more than 50 unidentified human remains from a rural graveyard named Sacred Heart.
- Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The white European "settlers" of North America wiped out millions of the continent's original inhabitants. They populated their southern colonies and states with Black slaves they mercilessly tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered in forced labour camps that provided the critical raw material for the rise of American capitalism long before Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler rose to power.
- Uncloaked: Canada's "Jekyll-and-Hyde" Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
- Uncloaked: Canada's Jekyll-and-Hyde Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
- The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity, the New Left, and the Hip counterculture in Toronto, 1965-1975
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011 Published: 2021
- Uncommon People
Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Essays on the history of working men and women from the late 18th to the late twentieth century discussing British working class traditions, political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, peasants and politics, revolution, sex and jazz.
- Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
- Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
- The Unconquerable World
Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Traces the history of non-violent social change.
- Uncovering Canadian Media's Devastating Pro-Israel Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The bias is enforced at every level of the media, from editorial boards all the way to ownership.
- Uncovering the history of the English Revolution
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of John Rees, The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650, Verso (2016).
- 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.
- The Undeclared War
Class Conflict in the Age of Cyber Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Under An African Sky
A Journey to Africa's Climate Frontline
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Author has been spending time in southern Mauritania for 20 years. This book is travel writing and commentary on how geo-politics and economics can affect individual lives.
- Under Attack at San Francisco State University
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Students, staff and faculty at San Francisco State University are under investigation by the university on trumped up charges of anti-Semitism brought forth by San Francisco Hillel. This is the latest in a long history of accusations made against Palestinians and Palestinian advocates at SFSU by the pro-Israel organization.
- Under Attack, Fighting Back
Women and Welfare in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Punctures the highly publicized claims that equate successful reform with shrunken rolls, showing that if the reformers set out to improve the lives of women and children, something went dangerously awry
- Under Fire: Documentary details attacks on journalists during Gaza offensive
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military operation on Gaza dubbed "Operation Protective Edge". By the time Israeli forces withdrew from the strip, 17 journalists were confirmed dead. No one has been held accountable for their deaths so far.
- Under Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli Buses
Never Equal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has officially banned Palestinians from traveling on Israeli-run public transportation in the West Bank. The new apartheid law dictates that Palestinians cannot take buses that go from central Israel to the West Bank.
- Under New Management?
The Fisher-Bendix Occupation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Solidarity's eyewitness account, with background information, of the ccupation of Fisher-Bendix factory and offices against closure in 1972. The workers also implemented certain new aspects of work policy.
- Under the Dome
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
A self-financed Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It is narrated by Chai, who presents the results of her year-long research mostly in the form of a lecture.
- Under the Influence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
For the few of us who reported East Timor long before it was finally declared news, the "disclosures" last weekend that Washington had trained Indonesia's death squads are bizarre. That the American, British and Australian governments have underwritten proportionally the greatest savagery since the Holocaust has been a matter of unambiguous record for a quarter of a century. All it needed was reporting.
- Under the Radar, Big Media Internet Giants Get Massive Access to Everything About You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Internet and digital media are becoming a pervasive and manipulative interactive surveillance system. U.S. online companies, while claiming to be supporters of a democratic Internet, are working to have an unlimited and unchecked power to "shadow" us online.
- Under the Red Star (Punatähden alla)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Under the Red Star (a.k.a. Big Finn Hall), is a feature length docu-drama, in Finnish and English, about the vibrant culture and politics at the heart of Canada’s most significant worker’s hall, in Thunder Bay.
- Under the Viaduct
Homeless in Beautiful B.C.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The author, through interviews, gives a collection of testimonials of Vancouver's homeless and strategies to combat this social problem.
- Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break Up Planned Protest
TransCanada and Department of Homeland Security Keep Close Eye on Activists, FOIA Documents Reveal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Law enforcement officials and TransCanad had been spying on a Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance training camp and were able to block some activists who had planned to block the gates at the company’s strategic oil reserves.
- Underdevelopment and Education: Selected Annotated Resources For Saskatchewan And Canadian Educators.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Underdevelopment and Education, a publication on underdevelopment, is intended for the use of "educators who recognize the needs to teach about oppression, to transform the economy, and to strive for a socially-just society."
- Underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
In this brief three-part study, John Watt examines some of the main issues concerning underdevelopment in the Atlantic provinces.
- Underdevelopment in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
A collection of articles analyzing underdevelopment in Canada in historical and economic terms.
- Underdevelopment in Canada Volume Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
20 articles discussing underdevelopment in Canada.
- Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
A collection of essays challenging conventional theories about underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada and presenting an alternative view of the origins and nature of regional disparity. The authors offer a persuasive and well-documented argument that underdevelopment is a consequence of capitalist development itself.
- Underexposure Exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
If you want people to think that a country resistant to US leadership is a festering doomscape, just underexpose the hell out of your photographs.
- The Underground Grammarian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Mark Rudd recalls his personal journey from idealistic freshman to student radical to the Weather Underground. He says: "It's about good organizing (Columbia), leading to worse (Weatherman), leading to horrible (the Weather Underground). I hope it's useful to contemporary organizers, as they contemplate how to build the coming mass movement(s)."
- Underground press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations.
- Underground Press Syndicate
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
- Underground Railroad
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.
- Underground--The London Alternative Press, 1966-74
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- Underground Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
- Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946 Published: 1978
Underground to Palestine was written in the spring of 1946 when Stone was the first newspaper reporter to accompany survivors of the Holocaust on their epic clendestine journey to Palestine.
- Underhanded History of the USA
Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
- The Underlying Threat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Undermining Democracy - Corporate Media Bias on Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Are we able to prove the existence of a corporate media campaign to undermine British democracy? Media analysis is not hard science, but in this alert we provide compelling evidence that such a campaign does indeed exist. Compare coverage of comments made on Syria by a spokesman for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in October 2016 and by UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson in January 2017.
- Undermining the Democratic Process: The Canadian Government Suppression of Palestinian Development Aid Projects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
This paper examines the government suppression of Canadian development sector organisations running Palestinian aid projects from 2001 to 2012; based on document analysis, policy analysis and original interviews with coordinators running aid projects, it describes how their work was almost universally undermined by the Canadian government.
- Undermining the watercycle
A critical appraisal of the mining industry's contributions to the global water crisis.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The mining industry is often overlooked as a cause of the global water crisis. This article examines recent history of mining disasters and how the industry PR greenwashes its image.
- Understand the Israeli – Palestinian Apartheid In 11 Images
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2014
All the graphics are from the site Visualizing Palestine, a site dedicated to creating informative and impactful graphics about the troubled region.
- Understanding and Fighting Sexism
Resource Type: Book
- Understanding Capitalism
Critical Analysis from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Essays by seven leading economists, including Robin Hahnel and John Bellamy Foster, that assess how economic theory has become capitalist ideology.
- Understanding the Cataclysm
Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Alexander Anievas' Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics.
- Understanding Class and Species
A Lesson From Thaddeus Russell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
University remains a rigidly class-based institution—not only in what it teaches but also in how it operates.
- Understanding France's General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Labor and capital are at loggerheads in France. As the open-ended strike launched on December 5th against a neoliberal overhaul of the pension system continues to expand, the Macron regime has dug in its heels to defend the advantages this so-called reform would have for the wealthy (even though it has recently been forced to present what it considers to be a "compromise" to the union leadership).
- Understanding Genocide
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
In 1944, a gifted young Jewish-American Marxist playwright, scenarist and fiction writer, Albert Maltz (1908-1985), published the novel that would become the most esteemed work of his professional life. The Cross and the Arrow, praised in the New York Times for “the scope of its vision of humanity” (September 22, 1944), adopted the form a fast-paced political mystery to reveal the events underlying an act of sabotage in Nazi Germany.
- Understanding Harper's Evangelical Mission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Signs mount that Canada's government is beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate.
- Understanding Idle No More
Special Topics in Aboriginal Community Learning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A selection of readings related to the Idle No More movement, and to aboriginal struggles in Canada generally.
- Understanding Imperialism: Old and New Dominion
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
It is a commonplace today that we have entered a “new age of imperialism.” The emergence of complex world money markets, increasingly integrated global production systems, aggressively neoliberal policies imposed by the likes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the belligerent militarism of the American state — all these are recognized as new modalities of capitalist empire.
- Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001 Published: 2002
In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
- Understanding the Bush Doctrine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
After exploring elements of Bush's strategy, Chomsky summarizes that anyone is seemingly subject too attack, because every country has the ability and intent is in the eye of the beholder. The key, it appears, is the ability to lie about intentions.
- Understanding the counter-revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
- Understanding the counter-revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
- Understanding the Egyptian Uprising For Democracy, Report from the Ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
After decades of autocratic rule, state propaganda, institutionalized government corruption, police brutality, and suppression of basic freedoms, frustrated Egyptians are taking to the streets seeking change and demanding democracy, dignity, and civic reforms.
- Understanding the News Business
A media kit for community groups
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
- Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
- Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution
Hugo Chavez Talks to Marta Harnecker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
The exchange between Harnecker and Chávez brings to light the process of thought and action behind the public pronouncements and policies of state.
- Undisputed Success
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
March 4th was an undisputed success in California. Students, workers, teachers, parents and UC faculty found a way to participate. The major demonstration in San Francisco of 10,000, and other demonstrations in Sacramento and Oakland and in Southern California brought people together from different sectors, K-12, community colleges, state universities and university of California campuses. The California Teachers Association, representing most of the K-12 teachers, initiated rallies and picket lines across the state involving their teachers and students. The California Federation of Teachers reported that events happened at all the state universities except Chico which travelled to join the Sacramento rally.
- Undocumented Labour: Changes to refugee health care put women and babies at risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
- Une Critique de l'avant-projet de loi des services de garde a l'enfance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
- Unearthing Justice
How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Brimming with case studies, anecdotes, resources, and illustrations, Unearthing Justice exposes the mining process and its externalized impacts on the environment, Indigenous Peoples, communities, workers, and governments. But, most importantly, the book shows how people are fighting back.
- Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
An account of the Highlander Folk School and its founder Myles Horton.
- Unemployed Workers Union of Halifax-Dartmouth
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
- Unemployment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
This broadsheet examines the crucial unemployment situation in Nova Scotia and outlines attempts by the unemployed in union with working people to confront this problem.
- Unemployment and Underemployment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Each year, Newfoundlanders head west to such provinces as Ontario and Alberta in search of work.
- Unemployment and Youth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
A group that dispells myths about youth and unemployment and promotes government cooperation in creating skilled jobs for youth.
- Unemployment Manifesto in Briar Patch
Vol, 6, No. 7, PP.23-27
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
An analysis of the unemployment manifesto in Briar Patch.
- Unemployment rise deliberate, CLC says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The Unemployment Survival Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Unequal Freedoms
The Global Market as an Ethical System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
- Unequal Risks
Accidents and Social Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Unequal Union
Confederation and the Roots of Conflict in the Canadas, 1815 - 1873
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Ryerson examines the connection between the social and the national in Canadian history.
- The Unfair Narrative on Global Warming and Development: Why it must be challenged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Industries that majorly contribute to climate change are being subsidized, while more marginalized industries receive vey little to mitigate the impact of climate change.
- Unfair Shares
Corporations and Taxation in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996 Published: 1998
A popular tax directory that documents corporations and taxation in Canada. Includes a list of over 300 companies that paid little or no corporate income tax, as well as tables on corporate deferred taxes, CEO compensation, and corporate tax loopholes.
- The Unfashionable Human Body
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
A discussion of apparel, in the broadest sense of the word, and how it has reflected and shaped attitudes to the human body.
- Unfinished Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The failure of Nicolás Maduro's government to maintain popular living standards has allowed the right-wing opposition to take control of Venezuela's National Assembly, resulting in a bitter standoff between executive and legislature that has yet to be resolved one way or another.
- An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A study of Marx's analysis of the American Civil War as a conflict about slavery, not tarrfifs. Marx saw the north as a bourgeois republic, and the south as expansionist.
- The Unfinished Revolution Russia 1917-1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1969
On the signficance of the Russian Revolution.
- The Unfolding Arab Uprisings
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Suzi Weissman interviews Mark LeVine.
- The Unfolding Epic Recession
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The Department of Labor’s June 4 release of May 2010 U.S. employment numbers sent shock waves through the business community, erasing all doubt that U.S. economic recovery — much touted by business press and government policymakers in recent months — may not actually occur.
- An Unfragmented Movement: The People are the City
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Joanna Dubinsky Interviews Shana Griffin. "I'm not interested in developing an action plan to rebuild/organize a people's agenda in New Orleans without a gender analysis and a demand for community accountability."
- Unfree Media – State Stenography And Shameful Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A recent viral clip of Jeremy Corbyn featured vital truths about the corporate media that ought to be at the forefront of public consciousness in the approach to the UK General Election on December 12, 2020.
- Unfriendly fire: The casualty of war Ottawa would rather forget
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
On this Remembrance Day, I am remembering one Canadian peacekeeper in particular — someone the Harper government probably prefers to forget. Major Paeta Hess von Kruedener was killed (along with three other UN observers) by the Israelis in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war
- Unfriendly skies - The air traffic controllers' sick-out, 1969
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Short article about the 1969 mass calling-in sick strike of air traffic controllers in the US over wages and conditions, and the new union of the workers, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.
- An Unholy Alliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Fleischmann looks at the reasons behind the unlikely alliance that has formed between Trump, the alt-right, and Israel, who have based their support for each other around shared enemies.
- Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to cope with climate change.
- Unintended Consequences
Beware the Hate Crimes Bill!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
It will prove difficult to separate speaking against members of protected classes, or criticizing their practices, from hate. The two things are easily conflated. Once enacted, hate crimes will become independent of specific violent acts. An eventual likely outcome will be that speaking against members of specially protected classes will itself become a violent act of inciting violence.
- Union Art Service
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
- Union busting
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A wide range of activities undertaken by employers, their proxies, and governments, which hinder workers from freely organizing, joining and maintaining trade unions.
- A Union Defeated at United Air Lines
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The April 1 certification of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was no April Fool’s joke for the 8600 eligible mechanic and related United Airlines (UAL) employees who voted in the March 31 representational election. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which served the members for nearly five years under very difficult circumstances in the aviation industry, lost the vote by 4,113 to 2,631.
- Union has right to be in mall
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The Union in Academia
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Cary Nelson is a distinguished professor of English and the president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a group that is part professional association and part union. This book is perhaps half about academic freedom and half about the AAUP, and Nelson’s struggles to have it become a less staff-dominated institution.
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1941
To prove that the particular state-monopoly capitalism existing in Russia did not come about through state trustification but by methods of social revolution explains its historic origin but does not prove that its economic law of motion differs from that analyzed by Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin. It is high time to evaluate "the economic law of motion of modem society" as it applies to the Soviet Union and not merely to retain for statified property the same "superstitious reverence" the opportunists entertained for the bourgeois state.
- Union of Unemployed Workers
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
- Union organizer
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A union organizer is a union representative who "organizes" or unionizes non-union companies or worksites.
- Union Power: Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Details how work has been transformed in Ontario's Niagara region since the early 1820s. At that time, workers laboured fourteen-to sixteen-hour days constructing the original Welland Canal that connected Lake Erie with Lake Ontario.
- Union Security
UAW Statement to Ontario Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
A statement by the United Auto Workers union to the Conservative government.
- Union Society of Cape Breton
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Unison Society of Cape Breton sponsors a program designed for women in conflict with the law and offers services in all phases of the criminal justice process.
- Union Studies Worker Buyout of CN
Resource Type: Article
- Union urges fish boycott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Union Woman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Organized Working Women (OWW) provides resources and information for women in the labour movement.
- Union Woman
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- Union Women
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
- Unionism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1907
The labor movement of modrn times is the product of past ages. It has come down to us for the impetus of our day, in pursuit of its world-wide mission of emancipation.
- Unions (a film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1980
- Unions Against Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Unions -- as well as employers -- stand in the way of workers' political freedom. Labour militants who become union leaders enforce industrial discipline just as Lenin and Stalin advocated. In the pamphlet's second essay, John Zerzan documents "The Revolt Against Work."
- Unions and Free Trade
Solidarity vs. Competition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This handbook details the effects of free trade on workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It argues that solidarity, not competition, is the only long-term strategy for unions. It includes case studies of unions that are creating cross-border ties.
- Unions Attack Quebec Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Unions Confront A Restructured Industry
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
As the strike/lockout of 70,000 grocery and food workers throughout Southern and Central California stretches into its third month, union workers in and out of the food industry understand how pivotal it is.
- Unions plan cross-border links
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Unions and the Road to Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The familiar model of union struggle has been ineffective in attempts to change capitalism. I will try to explain why unions have not shaken capitalism's foundations. The explanation will point to the failure to challenge inequalities in returns to labour and capital from production.
- Unions and the Road to Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A discussion of the labour movement's ineffectiveness against combatting capitalism.
- Unions Should Go Big on a Green New Deal for Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Canada's unions need to play a much larger leadership role on climate change, not just because it deals with economic policies directly affecting members but also because it will be difficult to get where we need to go without them.
- Unions vs. Workers in the Seventies
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
The tightly knit structures of the big industrial unions leave no room for maneuvering. There is no reasonable way in which young workers can use the union constitution to overturn and overhaul the union structure. The constitution is against them; the money and jobs available to union bureaucrats are against them. And if these fail, the forces of law and order of city, state and federal governments are against them. If that were not enough, the young workers in the factories today are expressing the instinctive knowledge that even if they gained control of the unions and reformed them completely, they would still end up with unions - organizations which owe their existence to capitalist relations of productions.
- Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons)
Resource Type: Article
Stan Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
- The uniqueness of Marxist-Humanism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1963
The uniqueness of Marxist-Humanism lies also in this: that despite all theoretic contributions and singleness of purpose in achieving total freedom, it asks to be "taken over" by the masses, to be subjected to the daily and long-range tests, so long only as the UNITY of theory and practice, worker and intellectual, technologically backward and technologically advanced economies, all merge in order never to stop short of "the ultimate": the new society, the new human dimension, the incorporation within the individual of all of his mental and manual talents.
- Unisphere
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Unisphere was formed in 1976 in Medicine Hat, Alberta to increase public awareness of links between Albertans and people of the Third World.
See also CX2621.
- Unit 731: How Leaders of Japan's WWII Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the post-war collaboration between the United States and members of Unit 731, a germ warfare branch of the Imperial Japanese Army that conducted horrific and lethal experiments on Chinese civilians and Allied prisoners.
- Unitary urbanism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Critique of status quo urbanism employed by the Lettrist International and then further developed by the Situationist International
- Unite and Fight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The flim Pride isn’t just excellent labour history. It’s a reminder of what real solidarity looks like.
- United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society (SUCCESS)
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
SUCCESS is a non-profit society which aims at encouraging individuals among the estimated 80,000 Chinese in British Columbia to overcome language and cultural barriers.
- United Church of Canada - Faith and Justice Project
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
In 1980, the United Church of Canada embarked on an educational program to interpret the relation between Christian teaching and the search for social justice.
- United Church Requests Rate Increase for all Categories of Social Assistance
Documentation Packet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- United Electrical News
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
The U.E. Newsletter reports union negotiations and contracts but also ranges widely over other issues.
- United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers Union (UE)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
- United Farmers of Alberta
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A farmers' organization established in 1909 as an amalgamation of the Canadian Society of Equity and the Alberta Farmers' Association. The UFA was interested in rural economic, social and political issues.
- United Farmworkers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- United in Anger
A History of ACT UP
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2012
Examines the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic.
- United Jewish Peoples Order (UJPO)
Connexipedia article to be written
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO) is a national, progressive, secular and independent organization that can trace its roots back to 1926.
- United Kingdom general strike of 1926
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners.
- UK miners' strike (1984 - 1985)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984 Published: 1985
A major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.
- United Kingdom: Students Fight the Fees
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article
Nick Limbeck interviews Ashok Kumar of the Student Union of the London School of Economics. Until recently, the LSE was under occupation in protest to the cuts.
- The UN & the Future of Palestine
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
“You can't make this stuff up,” the Prime Minister of Israel lectured the UN General Assembly. Binyamin Netanyahu was referring to the history of Libya under Qaddafi, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, chairing UN Commissions on Human Rights and Disarmament respectively.
- United Nations Association in Canada
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
- The United Nations at 60 Upside dowm
New Internationalist January/February 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A look into the United Nations system and its role in history.
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3092
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
- The United States and Gaza
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The courageous Israeli journalist Amira Hass, in her 1996 book Drinking the Sea at Gaza, tells us that in Israeli slang “go to Gaza” means “go to hell.”
- The United States and Torture
We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders and has led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance and encouragement by American instructors, particularly in Latin America.
- The U.S. Army Lost Track of 27 Ballistic Missiles
Military didn't know old Lance rockets were in storage igloos in Alabama
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
For 30 years starting in 1962, the U.S. Army deployed Lance ballistic missiles in Europe. Twenty feet long and weighing a ton and a half, an atomic-tipped Lance could zoom 75 miles at Mach 3 and explode with a force of up to 100 kilotons of TNT. The Army retired its last Lances in 1992 … and ultimately lost track of 27 of them at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
- The United States and the "Challenge of Relativity"
In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
In light of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Chomsky examines the relativity with which America uses human rights principles to exercise selectivity in policy-making.
- U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly turning its cutter ships into floating prisons.
- U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time. According to 1956 Plan, H-Bombs were to be Used Against Priority 'Air Power' Targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe. Major Cities in Soviet Bloc including East Berlin
- United States - DSA Two Years Later: Where Are We At? Where Are We Headed?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had had a massive surge in membership in the last two years. Here is a look at the history of socialism in the US and the DSA's current prospects for enacting real change.
- The U.S. Empire & Modern Day Christian Martyrs
80th Priest Killed in Colombia Since 1984
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
there has been almost no media coverage of the killings of the “two bishops, 79 priests, eight men and women religious, as well as three seminarians” killed in Colombia alone between 1984 and 2011.
- U.S. Has Only Acknowledged A Fifth of Its Lethal Strikes, New Study Finds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
While Obama took steps to improve transparency about drone strikes, reports show that the U.S. has only acknowledged approximately 20 percent of its reported drone strikes, and failed to claim responsibility or provide details in the vast majority of cases.
- United States History Archive
Resource Type: Article
- U.S. Imperialism Defeated, Capitalist Rule Smashed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975 Published: 2015
April 30, 2015 was the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, marking the defeat of U.S. imperialism and its South Vietnamese puppet forces. The heroic Vietnamese workers and peasants fought not just for national liberation but also for social revolution.
- U.S. Imperialists Deprive Cuba of Syringes That Are Needed Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Cuba, the first Latin America country to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines, presently is short of syringes for immunizing its population against the virus. It’s not feasible for Cuba to make its own syringes. The U.S. blockade prevents Cuba from importing them from abroad.
- The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
There is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one. This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves
- U.S. Journalists Who Instantly Exonerated Their Government of the Kunduz Hospital Attack, Declaring it an "Accident"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Shortly after the news broke of the U.S. attack on a Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, there was abundant evidence suggesting (not proving, but suggesting) that the attack was no accident.
- U.S. Labor - What's New, What's Not?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
An analysis of the changing and unchanging elements of the working-class in the contemporary U.S.
- U.S. Labor: What's New, What's Not?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
We all know that there's something different about today's working class. One obvious difference is that today's working class produces fewer things "you can drop on your toe," as The Economist famously put it, and more that you can't. What’s actually changing in capitalist production in the United States?
- U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless of Snowden Leaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Despite the intelligence community's attempts to blame NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the tragic attacks in Paris on Friday, the NSA's mass surveillance programs do not have a track record of identifying or thwarting actual large-scale terrorist plots.
- US Media Ignore -- and Applaud -- Economic War on Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
US reporting on Venezuela fails to mention the effect economic sanctions have in Venezuela defying the work of experts in the area.
- U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of "homegrown" terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to "radicalization," concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts.
- U.S. Newspapers Are More Than Twice As Likely to Cite Israeli Sources in Headlines Than Palestinian Ones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A study of 50 years of news headlines on the Israel-Palestine conflict from five major American publications shows that they are biased towards the Israeli side.
- The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.
- U.S. Senate's First Bill, in the Midst of the Shutdown, Is a Bipartisan Defense of the Israeli Government From Boycotts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
This Senate's first bill of 2019 considers giving state and local governments the power to punish companies that boycott Israel. These laws have been found to be unconstitutional but still have bipartisan support.
- U.S. Sponsored Low Intensity Conflict in the Philippines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- United States: The Ultra-Right Pot Boils Over
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The appearance of right-wing mobs at town meetings organized by Democratic Party representatives to discuss the proposed health-care reform has set off alarm bells, in particular because of the blind fanaticism of the right-wing protesters and their threats of violence, including armed violence. These outbursts show many features of historic fascist developments and on a scale as yet unseen in the United States.
- U.S., UK and France Denounce Nuclear Ban Treaty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The U.S., UK and France did not participate in the United Nations negotiations leading to the recent adoption of the nuclear ban treaty, and joined together in expressing their outright defiance of the newly-adopted treaty.
- United States Withdraws From Afghanistan? Not Really
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
No lessons have been learned from this history. The U.S. will “withdraw,” but will also leave behind its assets to checkmate China and Russia. These geopolitical considerations eclipse any concern for the Afghan people.
- U.S. Workers and Puerto Rico's Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Puerto Rico has been in the news lately, particularly the financial news. The possibility that its government may default on part of its $73 billion public debt has drawn the attention of Wall Street analysts.
- Unity
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Newspaper dedicated to promoting participation of all Christians in the Apostolate of the Church.
- Unity
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
- Unity Begins Somewhere
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Though the industrial workers can be as paralyzed as any group of workers in the face of restructuring, though they can lose any particular strike, and though genuine class consciousness is never automatic; whenever there is a major working class upheaval industrial workers play a leading role.
- Unity brings strength
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
- The Unity of Canada and the Rights of Minorities
L'Unite du Canada et les droits des minorities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
The Ontario bishops address the question of treatment of the francophone minority in Ontario in the brief.
- The Universal Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1920
That deafness and blindness concerning the coming dissolution of Capitalism is the historic fatality of the bourgeoisie. But the mass of workers are also blind and deaf to this dissolution. They regard the march of events without understanding, and without knowledge. To hope that the collapse of Capitalism will find a proletariat revolutionarily prepared and conscious of its mission is now shown to be utopian. The collapse proceeds too rapidly, events spring too suddenly before the eyes of men for them to be able to adopt their minds to the new realities. That, however, does not mean that they will do nothing.
- Universal Cure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Here's a simple means of transforming the UK's universities, schools and society.
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Resource Type: Article
- The Universal Lesson of East Timor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Filming undercover in East Timor in 1993 I followed a landscape of crosses: great black crosses etched against the sky, crosses on peaks, crosses marching down the hillsides, crosses beside the road. They littered the earth and crowded the eye.
- Universal Programs:
What we lose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The Universality of Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
The question of the status of universality, whether attacked by its opponents as "white male", or "Eurocentric", or a "master discourse", is today at the center of the current ideological debate, as one major manifestation of the broader world crisis
- Universities at Risk
How Politics, Special Interests and Corporatization Threaten Academic Integrity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
An anthology examining the relationship bewteen institutes of higher learning and powerful external sponsers, it's implications and threat to academic integrity and intellectual freedom.
- Universities for Sale
Resisting Corporate Control over Canadian Higher Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
A look at corporatism and commercialization at Universities, and the dangers of the private sector's increasing influence on institutes of higher learning.
- University for Counterinsurgency and Imperialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The United States has set aside one day in the year, Memorial Day, to remember those who died in military service. For the University of California-Irvine that is not enough. After reading the Chancellor's message of May 2015, a number of observations and questions came to mind.
- The University in Chains
Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Details how two decades of shifts in university funding brought increased intrusions by corporate and military forces onto university. After 9/11, the intelligence agencies pushed campuses to see the CIA and campus secrecy in a new light, and, as traditional funding sources for social science research declined, the intelligence community gained footholds on campuses.
- University of Minnesota: Dignity vs. Cutbacks
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
On October 21, 1800 clerical workers of AFSCME Local 3800 made statewide news by going on strike against the University of Minnesota. At the heart of the AFSCME clerical workers' struggle was a strong determination to stand up for their dignity and respect.
- The University of Nike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Nike is just a piece of the bigger puzzle of private donors in public universities, but it is a perfect example of why private money is helping to erode the positive goals of public education.
- University of Toronto Women's Newsmagazine
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- University of Winnipeg Environment and Human Rights Action Group (UWEH)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- University of Wisconsin's "Budget Crisis"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Over $300 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin system lead students and staff to speculate on the the future of the university.
- The University & the Security State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Gasser examines the implicit political agendas behind the offers of funding given to American universities by the Department of Homeland Security to research the "cognitive science of terrorisim."
- The UnJewish State
The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
- The Unjust Prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation Five
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Miko Peled, in "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five," his exhaustive study of the U.S. government's case against five defendants from a friendless minority, demonstrates how American justice has deviated so far from Blackstone that the courts can convict a hundred innocents for one who is guilty.
- The Unjust Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1999
Attacks Canada's governments for their treatment of Native People and calls for just solutions.
- The Unknown Dimension
European Marxism Since Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
- The Unknown Revolution 1917-1921
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947 Published: 1974
- The Unknown Slave Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Though the planters had no difficulty reconciling the wealth they enjoyed and the price the slaves paid, the region’s black laborers did. By aborting their own children, poisoning livestock, lighting fires, and escaping to the cypress swamps, the slaves struggled to dilute, deflect, and if possible demolish slaveholders’ authority. Even open revolt was not beyond question. While it was a card that slaves played only rarely — planters tended to take a dim and deadly view of armed rebellion — the German Coast teemed with violent possibilities. The planters’ world rested on a powder keg to be ignited by the smallest of sparks.
- Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
- Unless Union Workers Can Strike, They're Dead
Level the Playing Field
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The strike is workers' only viable weapon. Why? Because it, and it alone, immediately affects the company’s profits. Without labour, they're crippled.
- An Unlikely Alliance: Indigenous and Campesinos Build an Alliance for Self-Defense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
In Colombia, campesinos are mostly non-indigenous family farmers who have often been pitted against indigenous people by wealthy landowners and corporations. Yet despite being traditional rivals, the Barí and campesino communities have been driven to a partnership by common enemies, including multinational mining companies, complicit Colombian regulatory agencies, and the US government.
- Unlocking Uncle Sam's House of Horrors
Smashing Plato's Cave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The effects of Wikileaks in showing the public what is really happening.
- The Unmaking of Canada
The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
This book searches for the roots of the many-sided crisis faced by Canada in the 1990s, and finds them in the post-war history of the country. In the authors' view, the hidden theme in Canadian history in the post-World War II decades has been the "unmaking" of Canada.
- Unmanning the trenches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
- Unmasking The GMO Humanitarian Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Genetically modified (GM) crops are going to feed the world. Not only that, supporters of GM technology say it will produce better yields than non-GM crops, increase farmers' incomes, lead to less chemical inputs, be better suited to climatic changes, is safe for human consumption and will save the lives of millions. Sections of the pro-GMO lobby are modern-day evangelists who denounce, often with a hefty dose of bigoted zeal, anyone who questions their claims and self-proclaimed humanitarian motives.
- Unnatural Harvest
How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- The Unnatural History of the Sea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A history of the commercial fishery and an update on its precarious and untenable siituation. The age old delusion that the sea is an inexhaustible resource has resulted in a fishing arms race that could spell extinction for some species.
- Unnecessary Debts
Resource Type: Book
- Unorthodox Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
An attempt to go beyond what the authors describe as "orthodox Marxism."
- Unpacking for a Disaster
What You Need to Survive the Unexpected
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In crises, for some authorities, the media, and many outside observers, civilization tends to consist mainly of property relations, and so they pay more attention to whether someone’s taking crackers than whether a grandmother is dying in the wreckage (while law enforcement goes after the cracker-taker).
- The 'Unpeople' of South Korea
Idiocy and Violence of Immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Who are the ‘unpeople’ of South Korea? They are an majority of illegal migrants who lack basic rights and security and believed to deserve it according to the laws and principles under which Korean society operates.
- The Unpersuadables
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
- Unpopular Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1969
A collection of essays that argues against dogmatic beliefs in politics, philosophy and other related topics.
- Unprecedented Cruelty Against Immigrants and Their Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Recently White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly backed up the policy when he explained that, "the children will be put in foster care or whatever." This comes at the same time as a new report revealed that there are some 1,500 undocumented children, who have been placed by federal authorities in homes of "sponsors," and are now missing in the system.
No other country has a policy of separating families who intend to seek asylum.
- Unprovoked narratives
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2023
A series of films celebrating the beauty of Gaza, its people, its struggle and its survival. The program aims to resist the demonisation of this beautiful place.
- The Unraveling Middle East
Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Raja Shehadeh's and Penny Johnson's Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East.
- Unrecognized in the Negev
The Plight of Israel's Bedouin Citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
At the break of dawn on 27th July 2010, the unrecognized village of Al Araqib was surrounded by 1,500 police officers clad in riot gear. Helicopters circled overhead as bulldozers razed homes and animal pens to the ground. It took 4 hours to demolish a village that was home to around 300 people, hundreds of sheep, dozens of goose, hens, pigeons and horses.
- Unregulated oil fracking boom does permanent damage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
We know about the dangers of pollution from fracking. But its lethal, long-term byproducts and the ease with which they leak or are dumped may be causing worse problems in a state that can’t even question them.
- Unreliability, Spinelessness of the Western 'Left'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
For years and decades, the so-called 'left' in the West has been moderately critical of North American (and sometimes even of European) imperialism and neo-colonialism. But whenever some individual or country rose up and began openly challenging the Empire, most of the Western left-wing intellectuals simply closed their eyes, and refused to offer their full, unconditional support to those who were putting their lives (and often even the existence of their countries) on the line.
- Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
- An Unrepentant '68er's Life
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.
- Unruly Equality
U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Unruly Equality traces U.S. anarchism as it evolved from the creed of poor immigrants militantly opposed to capitalism early in the twentieth century to one that today sees resurgent appeal among middle-class youth.
- The Unruly Revolution
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Gary Nash's The Unknown American Revolution fully discloses its aims to propagate both historical and social lessons. Nash retells the story of the American Revolution, complicating and radicalizing its core narrative as "a people's revolution, an upheaval among the most heterogeneous people to be found anywhere along the Atlantic littoral in the eighteenth century."
- Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies.
- UNRWA Does not Perpetuate the Conflict, the Conflict Perpetuates UNRWA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
In January, without warning, Donald Trump refsued to pay $305 million of his country's $365 million commitment to UNRWA. UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, remains $200 million short of the funds it needs to provide humanitarian services for five million people, including 2/3 of the population of the Gaza Strip.This is not really a story about under-funding UNRWA. This is about the people who strenuously seek to eliminate it.
- UN's 1947 Partition Plan made Palestine a deal it had to refuse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Weinroth analyzes the reasons behind Palestinians' refusal of the Partition Plan, reasons that have been largely dismissed in favour of casting their actions in an unfavourable light and thereby justifying Israeli colonization.
- Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells BPA for products that might be used by children under three. France has a national ban on BPA food packaging. The EU has banned BPA from baby bottles. These bans and associated product withdrawals are the result of epic scientific research and some intensive environmental campaigning. But in truth these restrictions are not victories for human health. Nor are they even losses for the chemical industry.
- Unsafe Harbours
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
- Unsafe Practices
Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
- The Unsettling of America - book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A book review of The Unsettling of America by Thomas Berry.
- The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
In this popular book, author Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual development, and modern agribusiness takes farming out of its cultural context, away from families and their connection to the land.
- Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
American "mainstream" journalists who want to keep their paychecks flowing and their status afloat know they must report current events in a way that respects the taboo status of the nation's underlying inequality and oppression structures and its savage and relentless imperial criminality.
- Unspeakable Love
Gay amd Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- The unspun Jeremy Corbyn
Nobody expected a veteran, rebel leftwing MP to be elected to lead the UK labour Party. It's going to be hard for him to manage his own
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A look at the rise in popularity of Jermey Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, and the challenges he faces from the broader British public and from within his own party.
- Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Nader discusses areas of convergence where liberals and conservatives can start working together for the public good.
- Until the Rulers Obey
Voices from Latin American Social Movements
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Collection of Interviews dealing with the wave of social movements throughout Latin America at the turn of the 21st century.
- Untold History of the United States
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
A 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. The ten-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book, The Untold History of the United States, also written by Stone and Kuznick, released on Oct 30, 2012.
- The Untold Story of the Black Radical Tradition in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Looking back on the development of Black radical organizations in Canada.
- Untouchable!
Voices of a Liberation Movement
Resource Type: Book
Over 100 million Indians today are Dalits ("Untouchables"). This volume comprises a unique collection of writings by Dalit authors - political activists, social scientists, journalists, and others. They demonstrate that Untouchability is an everyday social reality in India, and that Dalits are not passively accepting their fate: a large and diverse movement of resistance is taking shape.
- Untouchable - The Uses And Misuses Of 'Genocide Denial'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
One of the wonders of contemporary propaganda is the extent to which corporate commentators are in denial about their use of the term 'genocide denial'. Clearly, they believe they are using a neutral, objective term to describe indisputable facts of genocidal killing and ugly refusals to recognise those facts. The delusion is quickly exposed when we ask a few simple questions. For example: how often do we see 'mainstream' commentators describing US-UK sanctions on Iraq from 1990-2003 as 'genocidal', as affirmed by senior UN diplomats? How often do journalists describe supporters of the devastating Bush-Blair war on Iraq, the Obama-Cameron war on Libya, or May's war on Yemen as 'genocide deniers'? Can we imagine someone who supported the war on Libya being called an 'Obama apologist'? Like 'terror' and 'terrorism', 'genocide' and 'genocide denial' are simply not terms that are applied to Western actions. This really awesome level of bias points to the reality that 'genocide denial' is a propaganda term overwhelmingly used to portray Official Enemies as morally and intellectually despicable, in fact untouchable. As used in the 'mainstream', the term is antirational, an attack on honest debate.
- Untying the Knot
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
- Untying the Knots
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
While right-wingers are coordinated in their assault on queers, people of color, women, low-income people and immigrants, many of us under attack are divided, in part because we have learned and internalized the prejudice, mistrust and hatred that the right wing preaches.
- Unveiled
Art and Censorship in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
- Unveiling the Chilly Climate
The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Independant Jewish Voices (Canada) conducted a study on the Canadian "chilling effect" in which academics, students and Palestine solidarity activists face repression in discussing Israel's crimes against Palestinians.
- Unwanted Advances
Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis. Anyone who thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress is deranged.
- Up Against City Hall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
John Sewell describes his early life and explains how he accidentally got involved in politics. He tells of his experiences in Trefann Court, and how this opened his eyes to the realities of civic politics, and gives behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the major battles at City Hall.
- Up against the clock: Climate, social movements and Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The time frame is incredibly short. The problem is not one for future generations but for our generation, those of us who are alive now. If we continue to produce greenhouse gas emissions at the rate we have been we will have used up the carbon needed to take us to 2°C warming in the next 30 years.
- Up Against the Ivy Wall
Resource Type: Book
- Up Against the Ivy Wall: the Columbia Insurrection at 50
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
"My plan was to major in English and become a professor," she writes in an essay titled "Stopping the Machine" that's collected in A Time to Stir: Columbia '68, a new 438-page book (Columbia, $35) which is edited by filmmaker Paul Cronin. Rosahn explains that at the start of the protests, she was a "leftish Democrat" and that in the course of the rebellion she became "a devoted student radical."
- Up and Doing
Canadian Women and Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Up From The Ashes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
A journal for the Self-Education of Revolutionary Activists.
- Up from the ashes
Vol.1, No 1
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
A Journal for the Self-Education for the Revolutionary Activists
- Up from the ashes
Vol 1, No.2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
A Journal for the Self-Education of Revolutionary Activists
- Up from the ashes
No 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
A Journal for the Self-Education of Revolutionary Activists
- Up From The Ashes - Number 3
The Social Ecology Issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Up From The Ashes - Volume 1, Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
A journal for the self-education of revolutionary activists.
- Up From The Ashes - Volume 1, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Up Ghost River
A Chief's Journey Through The Turbulent Waters Of Native History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting trauma, and the spirit he rediscovered within himself and his community through traditional spirituality and knowledge.
- Update: Chicago's School War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Chicago Public Schools took a hit on May 22, 2013 as the appointed Board of Education of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) voted to close 50 schools, of the 54 originally targeted for shutdown -- in the largest closing of public schools in U.S. history. This was done despite an outpouring of opposition, expressed by thousands of parents in more than 100 meetings mandated by state law to allow parental and community input into the process.
- Update on Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Feeley provides an update on the economic situation in Detroit as the city declares bankruptcy and is suffering from foreclosures, evictions, pension and funding cuts.
- An Update on Indonesian Political Prisoners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
AS INDONESIAN POLITICAL prisoners are released, evidence continues to surface that the United States CIA knew about the "disappearances" and tortures. In response to the mass protests that forced Suharto to step down, Indonesian trade union leader Muchtar Pakpahan and former Member of Parliament Sri Bintang were released from prison May 25. The new president Habibie has promised to review the anti-subversion law under which many of the political prisoners-including the Peoples Democratic...
- Update on Pakistan: After the "Emergency"
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
General Pervez Musharraf has “taken off the uniform” and lifted the emergency as of December 15th. But Labour Party Pakistan rejects the Musharraf’s claim that the emergency is lifted. It is “lifted” with the Constitution amended, and with all the repressive measures protected by a decree.
- Update on the Status of Women in British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- An Updated and Improved Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An article that criticizes the stubborn immersion in the past by current Marxists and left wing intellectuals, and to comprehend activism and set goals in the twenty-first century requires a revision of the Marxian conception of revolution.
- Updating Some U.S. Political Prisoners January 2019
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
An update on political prisoners in the United States.
- Upgrade Your IBM Compatible and Save a Bundle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- UPM: La Voix De L'Union Des Pecheurs Des Maritimes
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Ce numéro de cette revue bilingue trace l'histoire des pêcheurs côtiers dans leur lutte d'obtenir le droit de syndiquer.
- Upper Big Branch Mine and the Race to the Bottom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Without union representation, workers are afraid to report unsafe conditions because they will be fired. Without union representation to pressure coal companies, politicians, and federal regulators, the American coal industry is in a race to the bottom as it enforces third world labor standards and economic and safety conditions on its workers.
- Upper Great Lakes Connecting Channels Study, Work Plan of Activities
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
- The Uprising in Turkey
Conservative-Neoliberal Alliance and Popular Resistance in Turkey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Thousands are taking to the streets to oppose the current regime of old Islamic, anti-secularist values sitting comfortably with large scale US based Neoliberal capitalism.
- Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A widespread uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic government.
- Uproar in India: And You Thought It Was Only About Farmers?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Surely the 'mainstream' media (a strange term for platforms whose content excludes over 70 per cent of the population) cannot be unaware of these implications of the new farm laws for Indian democracy. But the pursuit of profit drives them far more than any notion of public interest or democratic principles. Shed any delusions about the conflicts of interests (in plural) involved. These media are also corporations. The Big Boss of the largest Indian corporation is also the richest and biggest media owner in the country.
- Upside Down
A primer for the looking-glass world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions.
- Upstairs in the Crazy House
The Life of a Psychiatric Survivor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- 'Upstanding Citizens' Escape Justice in Tory 'In-and-Out' Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The "In-and-Out" Scandal: Case should have proceeded against 'Upstanding citizens'.
This is a story about illegal activities, deceit and lying involving an overzealous group of Canadians who seemed prepared to do just about anything to accomplish their mission – win a federal election.
- Upstream
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Upstream is a monthly newsmagazine published by Feminist Publications of Ottawa. Topics covered in the paper include female unemployment, female political prisoners in Indonesia, Law for Women, the Berger Report, book reviews, and a section on poetry. One feature article is on the female alcoholic.
- Upstream
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
- Upstream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Upstream: A Canadian Women's Publication
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
- Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Radiation and health experts across the world charge that toxic materials and radioactivity released by the mining and processing operations are causing widespread infertility, birth defects and cancers.
- URANIUM: Correspondence with the Premier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
This book is a collection of letters between Bill Harding, former director of programme policy of the United Nations Development Program (New York), and the Office of Premier Allan Blakeney, Saskatchewan. Its aim is a critique of the N.D.P. Government's decision for uranium mining.
- Uranium Mine and Mill Workers are Dying, and Nobody Will Take Responsibility
In the Southwest, poisoned uranium workers are still seeking justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
To talk to former uranium miners and their families is to talk about the dead and the dying. Brothers and sisters, coworkers and friends: a litany of names and diseases. Many were, as one worker put it, "ate up with cancer," while others died from various lung and kidney diseases.
- Uranium Traffic In Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- Urban Alliance on Race Relations
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
- Urban amenities; erotic anxieties
Baths, lavatories, and the YMCA: The politics of bodies in civic space
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
A history of public baths, in particular public baths and similar spaces in Toronto in the last century, and the changing perceptions and uses of such spaces by the public, in particular the treatment of private acts within public spaces.
- Urban Cavemen (Living Life out Of Balance)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Pediatricians nowadays see fewer kids with broken bones from climbing trees and more children with longer-lasting repetitive-stress injuries, which are related to playing video games and typing at keyboards. Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, calls this "nature deficit disorder."
- Urban Citizen Movements
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Community groups that are often organized around concerns about land use and the way planning decisions are made in local government.
- Urban Core Support Network - An Overview
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
There are people who, for all intents and purposes, are disenfranchised from much of Canadian Society - "people displaced from economic life, from family supports and often from the means of living a tolerable life".
- The Urban Cycling Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
- Urban Devastation
The Planning of Incarceration
Resource Type: Article
This pamphlet describes and analyses "the breakdown of the fabric of present-day cities in the light of the development of capitalism from the 19th century till now", and "looks at the economic influences, the crisis of authority, breakdown of social order and the conflict of class forces as they affect the structure of the urban community."
- The Urban Green Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Struggling for working-class control of cities is crucial to bringing down carbon emissions.
- An Urban Guide To Pesticides
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Urban Honey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
In the winter of 2003, three Chicago beekeepers joined forces to create a bee farm on the former Sears-Roebuck property right in the heart of our city. We abut an old railroad embankment wall with both prairie remnant and concrete in equal amounts.
- Urban Indians, THe Strangers in Canadian Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Native People are migrating from the reserves to urban areas in increasingly large numbers.
- The Urban Question and Organizing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
- An Urban Teacher Union Epic
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Swerdlow reviews A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike. She suggests that the 2012 Chicago teachers strike can be used as a model to persuade the public that public employees and their labour organizations benefit society and lead to effetive change.
- Urbanization Without Cities
The Rise and Decline of Citizenship
Resource Type: Book
The author argues that there should be participatory democracy so there could be balance ecologically between city and country.
- The Urge to Surge
War is a Drug
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Englehardt describes the effects of the US surge addiction with the military issue as an example.
- Urgent Action Centre
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
- Urgent Action Network
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Amnesty International is working to establish an Urgent Action Network of Churches, temples and other groups' members who can spare a few minutes of their time to write a letter on behalf of an Urgent Action case.
- Urgent Appeal from the Philippines: End Violence in the Movement
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Dear Friends, recently, our executive director Walden Bello was named by the key organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines as a "counterrevolutionary" in a list that included both living and dead activists. After consultation with a number of people, we have reasons to believe that this represents a real threat to Walden's security.
- Uri Avnery Is Dead Wrong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
In order to move forward and overcome the arguments people like him will hurl against us, we will need to get outside the reformist box and adopt a frankly revolutionary outlook, one that clearly sees the class conflict that rages all around us, that speaks to people about it directly, that asks people to evaluate ideas and events in light of their own insights into the world based on their personal experience of the class war, and that aims not merely to act as a cheerleader for this or that "lesser evil" scheme of our capitalist rulers but to win the class war so that ordinary people can shape society by their positive values.
- Urine tests protested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The Ursula Franklin Reader
Pacifism as a Map
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
- Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.
- Uruguay 1964-1970
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
- Uruguay's legalization of marijuana leads the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Next year Uruguay will create a state marijuana monopoly. Supplying high quality product in limited per person quantities, and at controlled prices that undercut the black market, the initiative will safeguard public health, cut off funds from criminals, and finance social programs. So why don't we all do it?
- US accuses China of 'using sea to hide its submarines'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The U.S. Navy is demanding billions of dollars in extra funding to counter the latest Chinese technical innovation. China, it seems, has come up with the devious idea of hiding its submaries under the sea. Darn, why didn't we think of doing that?
- The U.S. Aggression in Vietnam
Protocol
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
- US and Colombia Escalate Attacks on Liberation Church
In the Lion's Den
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The war on liberation theology.
- U.S. & Israel: Dog Wags Tail Wags Dog
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A tremendous amount of ink and energy has been expended interpreting the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel. The debate over Israel’s influence on U.S. Middle East policy has engaged critics across the political and ideological spectrum. While some have long questioned the reasons for the unparalleled U.S. military and economic support bestowed on the “Jewish state,” the debates over Israel’s influence on U.S. foreign policy have increased dramatically in the wake of Bush administration military responses to September 11th.
- US and Israeli Intelligence
Practice of Torture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Torture by US and Israeli intelligence agencies.
- Us and Them
Building a just workplace community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Us and Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
To move beyond wishing and hoping, our self organization has to overcome and overwhelm the limits, the divisions, the separations of workers and poor by categories of “organized,” “unorganized,” “immigrant,” “native,” “legal,” “illegal. No one’s illegal. Nobody’s organized until everybody’s organized.
- US Approach to Ukraine and Russia Has Left the Domain of Rational Discourse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- The US arming of Ukraine and the danger of World War III
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Obama administration wants to arm the right-wing regime in Ukraine with billions of dollars in advanced weaponry, which may spark a direct conflict between the US and Russia, two nuclear-armed powers, and ignite a Third World War.
- U.S. Bombing: Murder as Usual
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Voices in the Wilderness decries today's bombardment of Iraq which hit sites just south of Baghdad. However, we find it instructive to recall the digest of bombings that occurred in the past week and to note that on December 22, 2000 the Gulf News from Dubai quoted figures of civilians killed and injured as a result of US/UK air raids since December 1998 as 311 killed and 927 wounded.
- US bombs continue to kill in Laos 50 years after Vietnam War
US dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the problem of unexploded US bombs in Laos which have killed tens of thousands of people since the end of the war, and continue to kill and maim dozens annually.
- US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on "US locations" in Iraq, another nation the US invaded and is illegally occupying. This attack is justified on the basis that the Iraqi fighters were "Iranian-linked", a claim that is both entirely without evidence and irrelevant to the justification of deadly military force. And this is somehow being framed in mainstream news publications as a defensive operation. This is Defense Department stenography. The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor.
- US and British officials told us that at least 100,000 were murdered in Kosovo. A year later, fewer than 3,000
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
After more than a year, the silence of those who wrote and broadcast the propaganda for Nato's "humanitarian war" over Kosovo remains unbroken: they who answered the Prime Minister's call to join "a great moral crusade" against a regime that was "set on a Hitler-style genocide equivalent to the extermination of the Jews during World War Two".
- The US Bubble of Pretend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.
- US Can't Deal with Defeat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability -- and ease -- of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror.
- US Capitalism Was Born in the Destruction of the Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Interview with Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about Federici's book Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.
- US-China Relations in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
On the current relationship between the United States and China.
- US Civil Rights-Era Leader Mary King Says Successful Social Movements Expand Space for Other Struggles
Paper Penned by King Helped to Spark Modern Women's Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Mary King played an important role in helping to advance the struggle for women's rights.
- U.S. claims jurisdictions abroad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- US Consulate Killings - Spontaneous Religious or Planned Political?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
On September 11, four Americans, including the US ambassador, were killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The following day, the BBC's Lunchtime News reported that the killings were part of 'disturbances' which were 'linked to an anti-Islamic video'. The BBC's News at Six explained that the US ambassador was killed 'in a protest'. This was mild language indeed given that the consulate had been attacked with assault rifles, hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.
- The US coup in Venezuela: New attempt to eradicate the Chavista Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The coup in Venezuela is the latest in a long history of US attempts to undermine and overthrow progressive governments in Latin America. American progressives must do more to stop this aggression.
- US Cyber Attack on Russia's Power Grid is an 'Act of War' (According to the US)
What about Venezuela's hacked power grid?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The New York Times reports that the US has hacked Russia's power grid. Reporting on the issue has failed to mention any call for consequences or the fact that the US has already been accused of doing the same to Venezuela.
- US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of Isis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
There is something profoundly deceitful in the Democratic Party and corporate media's framing of Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to like Trump or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the sudden departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
- "U.S. Discovers Soft Energy Salvation" in Probe Post
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Jan Marmorek suggests that the proposal of the American and Canadian governments to use renewable energy sources to supply a percentage of energy demands are feasible and would bring positive effects to the economy in this article in Probe Post.
- US Dispatched a Murderous AC-130 Airborne Gunship to Attack a Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Evidence continues to mount that the US committed a monstrous war crime in attacking and destroying a fully operational hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on the night of Oct. 3, 2015, killing at least 22 people including at least 12 members of the volunteer medical staff of Medicine Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the French based international aid organization that operated the hospital.
- US drone strikes kill 28 unknown people for every intended target
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed as many as 1,147 unknown people in failed attempts to kill 41 named individuals, a report by human rights charity Reprieve has found.
- The US Economy Has Not Recovered and Will Not Recover
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted Wall Street, corporate executives, and shareholders, because lower labour and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital gains and to executives in the form of "performance bonuses." Wall Street benefitted from the bull market generated by higher profits.
- The U.S. Embargo against Venezuela
The State Department's Mock Indignation Gives a Bad Name to U.S. Diplomacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
A discussion of the 2006 U.S. arms embargo against Venezuela.
- The US/EU Manufactured Egyptian Nightmare has Arrived
The Ogre of Egypt Now Wants a Mandate for Wholesale Slaughter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Article on the internationally-financed regime of Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt.
- US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': former NATO adviser
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbour.
- US-EU sanctions against Russia: A barely veiled threat of war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In his speech on March 17, 2014 announcing sanctions against Kremlin officials in retaliation for the Russian-backed referendum in Crimea supporting secession from Ukraine and affiliation with Russia, US President Barack Obama made clear that the United States and its European Union (EU) allies would use all means necessary, not excluding military action, to humiliate and crush Russia.
- US farm fatalities: An unpublicized epidemic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Hundreds of agricultural workers, including many child labourers, die in farming accidents across the US each year. With an official workplace fatality rate of more than 21 per 100,000, farming is the most dangerous occupation in America. It is also among the lowest paid and least regulated.
- US Foists 'Humanitarian Aid' on Venezuela, Helps Create a Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The US-backed Saudi Arabia war on Yemen is causing the worst humanitarian crisis of the modern era. The lack of concern from politicians should belie this justification for U.S. intervention in other countries.
- US food industry: labelling laws are 'unconstitutional'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A leaked document reveals plans by the US's Grocery Manufacturers Association to sue the first state that passes a GMO labeling law.
- The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II
In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A brief history of the internment of the Aleut people of Alaska during WWII.
- US Foreign Policy Exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Some recent events and information leaks have forced even the mainstream media to break the usual veneer over US foreign policy.
- US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- US Foreign Trade Zones: Connecting Labor Exploitation in a Global Race to the Bottom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As the debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement continues, many Americans are unaware that hundreds of foreign trade zones are already entrenched within the US, and most likely in their own part of the country.
- US-Funded NGO in Syria Uses Old Photo to Claim Civilian Death in Russian Airstrikes
Group Lashes Russian Official on Twitter for Noting Picture Wasn't Real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The "White Helmets" organization, heavily funded by the US State Department, has claimed that Russia killed 33 civilians in its attacks. The NGO attached a photo to the story which was pointed out to be from an incident five days prior and not related to Russia.
- U.S. Funds False Sex Lessons
Resource Type: Article
Facts about sex you never knew.
- U.S. Government Assassination Plots
An appendiex to Killing Hope, by William Blum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.
- U.S. Government Buys Surveillance Technology To Track Drivers in Real Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Local government officials have the ability to track individual drivers in the U.S. in real time and take pictures of the occupants of their vehicles, with new "truly Orwellian" technology purchased from companies like Vigilant Solutions, according to new documents uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
- US Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, National Petroleum Council Documents Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Newly discovered documents show that the fossil fuel industry has know since the 1970s the effect that CO2 emissions would have on the environment.
- US Government Systematically Spying on Citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The US government has been systematically violating the privacy rights of U.S. citizens.
- The U.S. Government Thinks Thousands of Russian Hackers May Be Reading My Blog. They Aren't.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
After the U.S. government published a report on Russia's cyber attacks against the U.S. election system, and included a list of computers that were allegedly used by Russian hackers, I became curious if any of these hackers had visited my personal blog.
- The US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom
Hillary the Identity Thief
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The leaked Wikileaks documents show that the last thing the US government wants anywhere is a government that is accountable to its own citizens instead of to the US government.
- The U.S. Government's Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Throughout the last year, the U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that it does not engage in economic and industrial espionage, in an effort to distinguish its own spying from China's infiltrations of Google, Nortel, and other corporate targets. Turns out that isn't true.
- US Grain Firms in Canada
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A discussion of the movement of Cargill & Continental Grain Inc. into Canada.
- US-Haiti
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
By examining the role of the USA in the tragedy of Haiti, Chomsky highlights the democracy deficit and failure of the American state. He calls for those concerned to take on the task at home of paying reparations and restoring the substance of democracy.
- U.S. hate groups attacked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. ``The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out''. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses ``trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whisteblowers'', the report recommends ``The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistlblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site''.
- US Intimidated by Its Own Mercenaries
A Silence on Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
So much for transparency, civil liberties, and prosecuting the crimes of a predecessor (the cardinal rule of presidents, at least this one, cover-up WAR CRIMES past and present, a solemn command of the National Security State). Silence and deniability, in all matters large and small, characterize the responses of United States government and private principals.
- US Isn't Leaving Syria -- but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The US military exists to fight wars. It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world. Saying that it should continue to occupy Syria, and most of the mainstream media do, is a way of saying that the war in that country should continue. In fact, it’s a call for escalation of that war.
- US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'
The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.
- US Justice on Trial
Why Cameron Should Tell Obama to Get Stuffed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The US justice system and extradition treaty.
- U.S. Labor in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
There is today a rare open debate going on within the U.S. Labor Movement over its future. Rarer still is the fact that much of it appears on competing internet blogs. The current debate, provoked by some within Labor’s national leadership, has been almost exclusively focused on “restructuring” and resource reallocation. But the leader-led debate has failed to discuss the more fundamental question of the “culture” of unionism in America today.
- U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
- U.S. Law: Religious or Secular?
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
“The Founding Fathers,” my fundamentalist Christian friend once declared to me in the midst of a rather heated argument, “were Christians and created a Christian country.” “No, you’ve got it all wrong,” I sputtered and hastened to explain, “Jefferson was a Deist.”
- US Lies and Excuses for Bombing Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patients and hospital staff.
- US Lost Track of Nearly a Million Guns in Iraq, Afghanistan
Officials: Records Remain for Only 48% of the Guns Sent to Warzones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Early in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the go-to policy for the US in trying to prop up new allied security forces was to dump weapons, en masse, into the countries. It's only now that people are really starting to ask what happened to the 1.45 million guns shipped into those countries.
- US man's bank payment denied because of his dog's 'terrorist' name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Sometimes terrorists move on all fours. That's what Chase Bank apparently decided when it wouldn't clear a payment for a disabled man's dog walker. It was the dog's name that led to the payment being bounced and the Treasury Department being involved.
- U.S. May Be Salvaging Victory For Jihadists In Syria: How & Why
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
According to Britain's Telegraph, in a recent report, the U.S. Tow antitank missiles that U.S. President Barack Obama sent in October to the Islamic Sunni fighters in Syria to use against the forces of the non-sectarian Shiite ruler there, Bashar al-Assad, have been so effective against Russia's forces that Assad had invited in, that Russia-- defending (upon Syria's legal request) President Assad's forces, and attacking the jihadists imported into Syria by the Saudis and the rest of the West -- is now being forced to send into the battle Russia's costly T-90 tanks, which are less vulnerable to America's missiles.
- US Media Keep Saying Iran is "In Violation" of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
US Media portray Iran as having violated the US-Iran nuclear agreement. That's because the Trump administration, acting on its own, foolishlypulled out unilaterally from that agreement, and has been imposing sanctions on Iran, all of which has been in violation of the agreement, and which, by violating its terms, effectively terminates the agreement.
- US Media's Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Discusses the media's suspicion of Russia over the destruction of the Nord 2 pipeline, although Washington has an established history of opposition to the pipeline.
- U.S.-Mexico free trade talks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- US Military Brands Assange, WikiLeaks As "The Enemy"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Secret US Air Force documents reveal that the American military has branded WikiLeaks and its editor Julian Assange as "the enemy", placing them on a legal par with Al Qaeda and threatening them with the same treatment: indefinite detention without trial, and death.
- US Military Globalization
Interlocking Spheres of Influence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Americans are implicated in deceit and denial, purchasing their comforts and self-righteousness at the expense of the collective human privation their military and paramilitary forces, their CIA operatives and private contractors, their support of repressive regimes and death squads have brought to much of the world’s population.
- The U.S. Military Under Stress
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
John Kerry's campaign tome should dispel any illusion that he has any significant differences with George Bush on the aggressive use of the U.S. military to defend the empire.
- US must stop playing with nuclear hellfire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The chances of nuclear destruction are higher than in the Cold War due to recent US foreign policy actions, including the positioning of armed forces positioned on Russia's borders.
- US Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
On June 8, 1967, while sailing in international waters, the US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked by air and naval forces of the state of Israel. Of the Liberty's crew of 294, more than half were killed or wounded. More than 40 years later, survivors are still seeking justice.
- US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A summary of several US attempts at diplomacy that have failed due to their unwillingness to make any concessions to the other party.
- US: Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Illegal... Unless We Do It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The US government declares that cyberwarfare directed against the US would be an act of war -- and, oh, by the way, that it is agressively engaged in cyberwarfare against foreign countries.
- US 'Outrage' Over Slaying of US Residents Depends on the Nation Responsible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
This article takes a look at the reasons why the US media managed to be outraged at the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia's government, yet there was no such reaction when Israel killed Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old American citizen.
- The U.S.-Pakistan Co-dependency
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
After a cross-border NATO air strike in November resulted in the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan responded forcefully, closing the Af-Pak border to NATO traffic, expelling the U.S. military from an air base inside Pakistan, and boycotting the International Conference on Afghanistan.
- US Party Elites Hemorrhage at the Edges
Editorial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
American party politics have been dominated for so long by the "same old, same old" that with months to go until November, 2016 already stands out as an exception. Most clearly in the case of the Republicans, but palpable as well with the Democrats, the "center-right" and "center-left" elites, who have graciously taken turns administering year-in, year-out misery for more than forty years, have lost control. It appears that Washington and Wall Street are loathed by a majority of people across the spectrum.
- U.S. peace activism
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- US plastic waste is causing global environmental crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A recent ban in China, which normally takes in the largest proportion of US plastic waste, has left the US dumping plastic in other over-burdened countries, while waste still continues to pile up in the States. US plastic scrap exports dropped by almost a third in the first six months of 2018, as waste firms struggled to find a home for their plastic scrap.
- U.S. Poetry and the Politics of Form
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Laura Bush's 2003 “Poetry and the American Voice” symposium is infamous because it never happened. Intended to be a White House celebration of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes, the event was cancelled when several poet-invitees (including former laureates) declined the invitation and, instead, composed poems protesting U.S. involvement in Iraq. When the symposium was called off, the First Lady’s spokesperson explained that a celebration of poets was in danger of being turned into a political event.
- The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era
A New Awakening or Political Theater?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Obama administration’s is expanding its use of executive powers to intimidate and crush dissent had turned its focus on the U.S. press.
- US pressured Norway to arrest & extradite Snowden, seize all devices - documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The US repeatedly asked Norway to detain and deport whistleblower Edward Snowden if he tried to enter its territory in the aftermath of his leaks on mass US global surveillance, Norwegian media revealed citing formal requests.
- U.S. Progressive Periodicals Directory
First Edition - 1982-1983 Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
A listing of 380 social justice magazines, newspapers, and newsletters with a national (U.S.) focus.
- US Propaganda Campaign to Demonize Russia in Full Gear over One-Sided Dutch/Aussie Report on Flight 17 Downing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
If the danger of the anti-Putin, anti-Russian disinformation propaganda campaign out of the Pentagon and promoted by the US corporate media weren’t so serious, the effort itself might be laughable.
- US Prosecutors Turned a Blind Eye to Drone Code Piracy
They Chose Instead to Strap Digital Visionary Aaron Swartz to Their Buzzsaw
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet activist and the co-developer of popular web tools like RSS feeds and Reddit, ended his life earlier this year at the end of a long battle with federal prosecutors in Boston — who had accused him of engaging in digital piracy.
- US Provides Israel Weapons Used on Gaza
Blood on American's Hands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The United States exported to Israel a substantial amount of the same types of weapons Israel is using to kill Gazans. For example, in 2013, the United States sent Israel at least $196 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters, a category that includes F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, both of which Israel is currently using to attack Gazan homes, offices and farmland. Between January and May 2014, the United States had already exported $92 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters.
- US and Puppet Guaido Implicated in Terrorism Plot Against Venezuela PLOT
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
New evidence has been uncovered regarding terror campaign planned by the US and the Venezuelan opposition.
- US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A 2010 memo from Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) seems to be playing out as planned in 2019.
- U.S. siphons Canadian taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- The U.S. Social Forum in Detroit
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Under the threefold heading “Another World is Possible/ Another U.S. is Necessary/ Another Detroit is Happening,” the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF) convened in Detroit June 22-26 for a celebration of resistance and strategic thinking to advance our struggles for justice globally and at home.
- U.S. Social Forum in Detroit
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
2010 is a year of one, two, many Social Forums around the world, including the second U.S. Social Forum. The first USSF, attended by more than 12,000, was held three years ago in Atlanta. It featured an opening march that wove through the city streets, stopping for rallies at important sites of social struggle, including Grady Hospital, where activists from AFSCME Local 1644, explained their opposition to the privatization of the city’s largest public hospital. The Forum, the result of two years of planning by a National Planning Committee, included plenaries each evening and 800 workshops.
- U.S. Socialists and the Mexican Revolution
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Eugene Victor Debs was America’s most impressive Socialist figure: founder of the American Railway Union and of the Industrial Workers of the World, a founder of the Socialist Party and its repeated candidate for president. He was jailed for his role in the Pullman strike in 1894 and for his opposition to World War I in 1918, and he strongly defended the Russian Soviet Revolution. If any person would stand for revolutionary socialism in the United States, surely it would be Debs.
- US-Sponsored Drug-Plane Operation Had Global Reach
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The ongoing investigation into the Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico in the fall of 2007 with a cargo of 3.7 tons of cocaine onboard points to a corruption problem within the US bureaucracy and US intelligence agency complicity in the drug trade.
- US Spy Chief Presents Third-Party Debates as Proof RT Is Anti-US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s latest report on the alleged "election hacking" by Russia includes a substantial section focused around the idea that Russian government-funded channel RT is overtly anti-American.
- U.S. State Department accusation of China 'genocide' relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Both President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute accusation of "genocide" against the Muslim Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang province. But an investigation of published work by the researcher Pompeo relied on to level his genocide allegation reveals a pattern of data abuse and fraudulent assertions that substantially undermines the incendiary charge.
- US State Department Publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A fact sheet put out by the US State Department listing its "accomplishments" in Venezuela reads more like a confession of atrocities. The document was later withdrawn.
- US Still Fighting "Threat" of Liberation Theology
The Wikileaks Revelations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The assault on the Church in Colombia is both state policy of Colombia as well as the United States which is propping up that military with billions of dollars of assistance, and which views organized movements for social justice in Latin America as a threat to its economic domination of the region.
- US Still Seeks Jail for 'Fighter' Captured at 15 in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The good news is that a judge in Canada has had the courage and good sense to uphold the release from jail on bail of Omar Khadr, a native of Canada who was captured as a child soldier at the age of 15 in Afghanistan by US forces back in 2002.The bad news is that Khadr, who spent 13 years in captivity, most of them in America's Guantanamo hellhole, should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
- U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
- US sued over tax-exempt donations for illegal Israeli settlements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A group of American citizens is suing the US Treasury because they say the agency is allowing billions of dollars of tax-exempt charitable donations to flow to the Israeli army and support the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
- US tax-exempt donations fund Israeli settlements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Millions of tax-exempt dollars from the US are being funneled towards Israel's illegal settlement building in the occupied Palestinian West Bank in flagrant violation of international law.
- US Teaching "Counterinsurgency" Courses To Mexican Military in Drug War
State Department Report Details Special Forces "Mobile Training Teams" South of the Border
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
To fight the drug war in Mexico the US military conducted specialized trainings both inside and outside of the country with a focus on combating "narco-terrorism" and "counterinsurgency" conflicts.
- US: The State Murder of an Activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The murder of Sandra Bland, an activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, exposes the impunity of U.S. police.
- US Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence
Left Opposition in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
The first in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1928 to 1940, surveying labour struggles, contributions to the study of history and Marxist theory, and confrontations and convergences among left currents.
- US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part II: Endurance
The Coming American Revolution. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
The second in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1941 to 1956, surveying the Second World War, the post-war strike wave, ongoing struggles against racism, and more.
- US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part III: Resurgence
Uneven and Combined Development.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
The third in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1954 to 1965, surveying the Cold War era, the Black liberation struggle, the "third wave" of feminism, and more.
- US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Amnesty International reports that air and artillery strikes by the US and allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa. It is a report that contradicts claims by the US, Britain and France, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during the four month siege.
- US-UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking'
Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act between a prostitute and her client to exchange money for sex.
- U.S. Unions & the War
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
In the buildup to the Iraqi war three members of the United Auto Workers Executive Board — Bob King, Elizabeth Bunn and Richard Shoemaker — spoke out against the pending invasion. Yet since the war began the UAW has not taken a position on the war, or even used the pages of its magazine Solidarity to open a dialogue about how it affects UAW members.
- US Uses Past Crimes to Legalize Future Ones
Justifying the Unjustifiable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The liberal warhawks are groping around for a pretext they can call “legal” for waging war against Syria, and have come up with the 1999 “Kosovo war”.
- The US v. Trayvon Martin
How the System Worked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, teenage pedestrian died and George Zimmerman walked because our entire political and legal foundations were built on an ideology of settler colonialism.
- U.S.: We Will Break Your Legs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The US has threatened to deny visas to any ICC personnel investigating possible war crimes by U.S. forces. This should make clear the hypocrisy when the the US cites human rights violations as an excuse to invade other countries.
- US Workers Starved Into Military Service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Humanity has passed the tipping point - economically, culturally and environmentally. The "consuming and killing" model embraced by Americans as cultural norm is, in reality, a cultural aberration. It is destroying everything and everyone in its wake - including those who are fighting and dying to preserve it.
- U.S.A : How Federal Workers Could Fight the Shutdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they'll have to organize.
- USA: Stop arms transfers to Israel amid growing evidence of war crimes in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The US government must immediately end its ongoing deliveries of large quantities of arms to Israel, which are providing the tools to commit further serious violations of international law in Gaza, said Amnesty International, as it called for a total arms embargo on all parties to the conflict.
- USAS Makes Kathie Lee Cry Again
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Kathie Lee Gifford cried for the first time in 1996, bawling with teary eyes and pledging that young girls would no longer produce her WalMart apparel line. She promised to clean up the factories, and even initiated the Apparel Industry Partnership (AIP), a code of conduct meant to silence activists and cover up her sweatshop abuses.
- The Use and Misuse of Antisemitism Statistics in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2021
Sheryl Nestel of IJV-Toronto has published a detailed analysis B’nai Brith’s audit, and found that their interpretation of the state of antisemitism in Canada is misleading at best, perhaps deliberately so.
- The Useful Altruists: How NGOs Serve Capitalism and Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
NGOs are far from revolutionary organizations, but many of us would think that their work still seems more helpful than not. Political differences with them aside, it seems dogmatic to denounce free health care and anti-poverty programs. Short of more radical measures, NGOs seem to serve an important interim function. In fact, though, it can be argued that many NGOs are destructive, both in their current work and in their preclusion of an alternative future beyond the capitalist present. They undermine, divert, and replace autonomous organizing and erase working class struggle and organizing.
- A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors.
- Useful Work versus Useless Toil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1883
Morris proposes that while work is essential for our survival, nevertheless "there is some labour which is so far from being a blessing that it is a curse; that it would be better for the community and for the worker if the latter were to fold his hands and refuse to work."
- User Charges, Snares and Delusions
Another Look at the Literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- User Error
Resisting Computer Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- A User's Guide to Détournement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Détournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose.
- Review: The Uses and Abuses of History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Review of "The Uses and Abuses of History" by Margaret Macmillan.
- The Uses of an Earthquake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987 Published: 1988
The people of Tepito have proven themselves far more capable than the government both of responding to the dangers and of seizing the opportunities created by the earthquake. The earthquake crisis has brought into view a long existent but rarely recognized alternative: the ability and willingness of the people of Tepito, as well as those in many other barrios, to assert a different set of values: those of autonomy, self-activity, and the subordination of work to social needs. It is also embodied in their ability, as against governmental paralysis, to design and implement their own projects, thus elaborating those values in concrete practice.
- The Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.
- The Uses of Literacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
- Using a Black Icon to Sell Apartheid
Israel's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Apologists for Israel are now using fabricated 'quotes' from Martin Luther King to make it seem that King supported Israeli apartheid.
- Using Children for Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Engler brings to light Canadian schools' practices that indoctrinate students with problematic colonial, Zionist views.
- Using diversity to eviscerate diversity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
On a controversy over an image depicting Muhammad.
- Using History to Write Powerful Leads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Using history in writing marketing and PR communications.
- Using the Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The crowd of world leaders visiting the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem attests to the strength of Israel’s position in the West. Israel is often criticized in the home countries of these leaders, but many Israelis and Jews will, as usual, attribute such criticism to anti-Semitism.
- The U.S.’s Terrorism Double Standard
The Vicious Campaign Against Cuba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
During the last 50 years, the United States has suffered from a constant stream of vicious terrorist acts.
- The UTLA Victory in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.
- The Utne Reader Field Guide To The Alternative Press, Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- Utopia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1516
- Utopia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An ideal community or society.
- Utopia
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Drawing on John Pilger's long association with the first people of his homeland Australia, Utopia is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.
Utopia tells a universal story of power and resistance in the media age driven by old imperatives and presented as liberalism.
- Utopia: A confronting but politically flawed documentary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Utopia, the latest documentary by veteran journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has shown at selected venues across Australia with a television screening on SBS. The feature-length work, which exposes shocking social conditions in Australia’s remote indigenous communities, opened last November in Britain to mostly praiseworthy reviews.
- Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In response to the recent popularity of dystopian series "The Hunger Games," by Suzanne Collins, Hubler examines the genre of dystopian and utopian fiction.
- Utopia in the Catskills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Proyect talks about "Utopia in the Catskills," an article published on July 20, 1947, which is about refugees who wanted to be farmers and made Woodridge, N.Y., into a prosperous farm-resort town with five co-ops.
- Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
In 1968 various student movements had risen up in post-war Europe. The movement in Germany, however, had the long shadow of their parents' roles in Nazism and World War Two.
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951 Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- Utopian Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Links to the writings and biographies of Utopians and Marxist commentaries on them, and material on 20th century utopian movements and the use of utopian and dystopian visions in literature and political polemics.
- Utopistics
Or, historical choices of the twenty-first century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The twentieth century has witnessed both the triumphs and failures of the dreams that have informed the modern world. In Utopistics, Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the global order that nourished those dreams is on the brink of disintegration.
- The Utopists: Owen, Saint Simon, and Fourier
Chapter 13 of Socialism From The Root Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1888
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