- A co teraz?
Kasa Oszczednosciowa nastepstwem Wolnego Handlu
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- A is for Anachronism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Experiences of a teacher.
- Abahlali baseMjondolo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
- Abandonando el Interés Público
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Las sociedades industriales aprendieron, en el curso de décadas, que los intereses privados no pueden ser usados para salvaguardar el interés público cuando entran en conflicto con sus propios intereses. Fue una lección dura, aprendida con el costo de muchas vidas, pero el resultado fue que gradualmente, pieza por pieza, país a país, una infraestructura pública de regulaciones y agencias y procedimientos fue obtenida para proteger la salud pública y la seguridad. Esa infraestructura está siendo minimizada ahora, no sólo por fuera, sino por dentro de las propias instituciones gubernamentales.
- Abandonando o interesse público
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
- Abandoning the Public Interest
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Simplified) Text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Traditional) Text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Farsi Text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Abandonner l'intérêt publique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Les sociétés industrielles ont appris au cour de décennies, que les intérêts privées ne peuvent être fait confiance de sauvegarder l'intérêt publique si il y à conflit avec leurs intérêts. C'étais une dure leçon apprie aux coûts de plusieurs vies, mais le résultat à été graduellement, pièce par pièce, pays par pays, une infrastructure de régulations publiques et d'agences et procédés mis sur pied pour protéger la santé publique et la sécurité. L'infrastructure est maintenant sapée pas seulement de l'extérieur, mais du gouvernement même.
- L'abbandono dell'interesse pubblico
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Abbey, Edward
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. (1927-1989).
- The ABC of National Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
- Abdi, Dekha Ibrahim
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A global peacemaker from rural Kenya who has engaged in peace work and conflict resolution in many of the world's most divided countries. Her comprehensive methodology combines grassroots activism, soft but uncompromising leadership, and spiritual motivation drawing on the teachings of Islam. (Born 1964).
- Abettors of war crimes will be held accountable
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Taking action to bring perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to justice.
- Abolition of Slavery Timeline
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Timelines tracing abolition in specific countries, abolition of the trade in slaves and abolition throughout empires.
- The Abolition of Work and Other Myths
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
- Abolitionism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A movement in Western Europe and the Americas to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves.
- An Abortion Doctor's Jailhouse Journal
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
With Dr. Tiller’s death, we are painfully reminded of how “abortion doctors” are subject to ongoing harassment and even death. The question of what motivates such doctors to continue to provide abortions is once again front and center.
- Abortion procedures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Abortion Stays Legal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Bill C-43 was defeated in 1991, keeping abortion legal in Canada.
- About Connexions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
- About Connexions - Farsi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
- About Connexions - Japanese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1865
The speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration at the start of his second term as president.
- Abraham Serfaty, communist, anti-Zionist, democracy activist, Moroccan Jew, dies aged 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Towering Moroccan activist Abraham Serfaty died Thursday aged 84, after a lifelong struggle for freedom, first against the French colonial rulers and then against King Hassan II's monarchy.
- Abridged Version of Judgement by Justice K Macay in the case involving Atlantic, Redpath and St. Lawrence Sugar Ref
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Abridged text of judgement to aid citizens to understand the issues involved.
- Abstract Labour and Value in Marx#s System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1927 Published: 1978
The lecture develops one of the main themes of Rubin#s Essays on Marx#s Theory of Value, thus providing a useful introduction to the latter work, while developing beyond it in important respects. The lecture aims to bring out more clearly than had the Essays the distinction between the social commensurability of labour that is characteristic of any society that is based on the division of labour, and the specific form in which this commensuration is achieved in capitalist society, the form of abstract labour.
- Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement’s protests and marches are not only exposed to police brutality but also to a sort of judicial lottery when detained. The situation varies from state to state, according to local laws, but the freedom to report news and information is being violated almost everywhere, not only for professional journalists but also for bloggers and for activists who want to cover the protests themselves.
- The Absurdity of Hi-Tech Servitude
What You Sacrifice to Hold a Job in the New Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In terms of "jobs," war is evidently a burgeoning growth-industry. Back in the "Homeland," the demands of "internal-security" offer new openings for countless other "surplus-persons" in need of some "employment"—as law-enforcement and anti-terrorism personnel, prison guards—or prison inmates.
- The Absurdity of "Independent" Kosovo
A Saga of Injustice and Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The West's entire approach to Kosovo has been marked by sordid dishonesty and bad faith, supporting national self-determination and the right to secession in one place and territorial integrity in another, cheering on ethnic cleansing by one ethnic group and demanding war crimes trials for another, trumpeting the virtues of majority rule when it's convenient to do so and threatening to impose sanctions and penalties on majorities when that's convenient. For the Americans, Kosovo is nothing more than the hinterland of a giant military base.
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. (Born 1954).
- Abusive Conditions as China Goes Capitalist
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The second meeting of the 10th National People’s Congress, held in March 2004, made some amendments to the Constitution. The clause “citizens’ legitimate private property will not be violated” has been added to further defend private property rights and inheritance rights.
- The Academic Boycott Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
- Academic Boycott of South Africa
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Academic Freedom Threatened in Ontario Universities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
While most academics would agree that a university should be a place where critical debate is fostered, what is academic freedom when the freedom to attend classes without being bombed isn't even assured? Academic freedom falters it seems when it comes to Palestine, whether in the Middle East or in North America. Not only is there no realizable academic freedom for Palestinians, but also, even in North America, students and faculty raising critical viewpoints about Israel find themselves muffled, accused of anti-Semitism, threatened with disciplinary action, or, in the case of former Depaul University professor, Norman Finkelstein, out of a job entirely.
- Academics Urge Government Climate Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
- Access Community - Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Proposal for funding for a community media resource unit.
- Access to Housing, A Regional Perspective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- An Account from Madison
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Among the first publicized actions in opposition to the union-busting Budget Repair Bill was the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) February 14th delivery of valentines to Governor Walker’s office. Colin, an adjunct professor of English and a new member of Solidarity, recalls: “We marched on the sidewalk, not the street…People would look at each other to make sure others were chanting. Some clearly felt embarrassed and most didn’t know the chants.”
- Accounts of Wrath
The Family Farm Under Siege
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Accumulation and Control of Labor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Bob Brenner has written a book that is clearly important and I respect him for tackling the issues and working on them so assiduously. His work is clear and I have found it very useful in clarifying my ideas but I find it hard to agree with it.
- Accumulation by Dispossession
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Accumulation, Imperialism, and Pre-Capitalist Formations
Luxemburg and Marx on the non-Western World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Acerca de Connexions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
Connexions es un proyecto canadiense creado para conectar a las personas que trabajan por la justicia social, con información, recursos y otras personas.
- The Acheron in Motion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The healthy class instinct of the proletariat rebels against the schema of parliamentary cretinism. 'The liberation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself,' says the Communist Manifesto. And the'working class' is not a few hundred elected representatives who control society's destiny with speeches and rebuttals.
- An Act Of State Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We have to appeal to the core of people who have already been active on one level or another around the Palestinian question, or those who are already convinced, to re-galvanize the movement, and go out and convince yet wider layers of people. We must argue the Palestinian case, and also push the case more generally to very wide layers of people.
- Action on Legal Aid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Brochure that describes several organizations dedicated to the delivery of legal service to individuals and groups.
- Action Proposals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Action Will Be Taken
Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
- Activist's Handbook
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Articles for activists on organizing.
- Les actualities televisees: le monde recree au service du pouvoir.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Adalen shootings
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of events in and around the sawmill district of Ådalen, Kramfors Municipality, Ångermanland, Sweden, in May 1931 during which five persons were killed by Swedish military troops called in as reinforcements by the police.
- Addiction and Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
- Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
It behoves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice. All of us need to do more in supporting the struggle of the people of Palestine for self-determination; in supporting the quest for peace, security and friendship in this region.
- Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1850
- Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1865
The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.
- Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In order for peace to set sail there should be some guiding principles. The most important is equality. This is not to say that the conflict is between two equals. Overwhelming Israeli power and unconditional United States support has no comparison on the Palestinian side, other than the tragic balance of terror that has been reached with Israel through suicide bombing. But neither side should be treated differently from the other.
- The Adequacy of Basic Income Assistance Benefits (Gain) in December 1980
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that claims to be a defender of civil rights, has engaged in a vast spying operation directed against American citizens opposed to Israel’s policies in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza and to the apartheid policies of the government of South Africa.
- Adorno, Theodor W.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German-born international intellectual, sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. (1903-1969).
- Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
- Adverse Health Effects of Noise
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
The effects of noise are widespread and impose long-term consequences on health.
- Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We are subjected to ever more pervasive messages to consume, encouraging dissatisfaction. Yet this column depends on it.
- Advice on Hiring a Media Trainer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Media training is highly recommended for any media spokesperson, whether a novice or a veteran.
- Advocacy Journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose.
- The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Principles of secular humanism.
- Affirmative Action or Class Solidarity?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Affirmative action continues the game of pitting people against each other. It distorts what people mean by racial justice, which would require decent jobs for all. Instead the government promotes unemployment while it encourages competition among racial groups. There is only one "group" that the powerful do not want us to identify with-the working class. The ruling elite know that they can keep groups based on race or gender fighting each other forever. The elite cannot control a united working class.
- Affirmative Distraction: Elimination of Affirmative Action at U-Massachusetts
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The west wind has blown east. The elimination of affirmative action in Texas, California, and Washington's public university systems seemed like a phenomenon isolated to highly competitive west-coast state universities—until February 1999, when the University of Massachusetts announced that it too would eliminate the use of race-based admissions policies and scholarship programs.
- Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1857 Published: 1858
An encyclopedia article by Engels.
- Afghanistan 1979-1992
America's Jihad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
- Africa in the 1990's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- African-American Socialist Pioneer
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America, Winston James singled out Hubert Henry Harrison for his “pioneering role in what became known as the New Negro radicalism of the 1920s.” Yet, James noted, Harrison remained an understudied figure who had not been the subject of a major biography.
- African-Americans and Black Oppressors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- African Americans' Forced Labor
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As Americans we are taught that slavery was abolished after the Civil War. A close reading of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution reveals, however, that this was not exactly the case. Although this amendment did outlaw slavery for the majority of American citizens, anyone convicted of a crime could still, quite legally, be kept in a state of bondage without claims on civil liberties and without remuneration for their forced labor.
- African Mine Workers' Strike of 1946
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike, by mine workers of Witwatersrand, which started on August 12, 1946 and lasted around 1 week. The strike was attacked by police and over the week, at least 1,248 workers were wounded and at least 9 killed.
- Afro-Asian Collaborations
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of “creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.”
- AFSCME 3299 Fights Back
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In February 2009, four months after the economy crashed, the members of AFSCME Local 3299 ratified a contract with the University of California that has rightfully been called “historic” for the relative gains won by the union on wages and the wage structure. The union represents service and patient-care technical workers, who struggled for more than 18 months to win this agreement.
- After 9/11: Whose Security?
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Since 9/11 the United States has been obsessed with "security" in a very particular sense—protection from intentional threats to our safety and well being, as in "Office of Homeland Security," "our national security," "the conflict between civil liberties and security considerations," "security was tightened," or, more mundanely, "security guards."
- After Katrina: A View from the Ground
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
interview with Isaac Steiner. Against The Current interviewed Isaac Steiner, a member of Solidarity in Atlanta, about his experiences in a grassroots reconstruction project in New Orleans.
- After Oaxaca's Popular Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
“Think about it,” a popular bumper sticker read, “6 more years would be 86.” On July 4, 2010, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca held statewide elections. Despite open vote-buying and other fraud perpetrated by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), it was not enough to ensure victory on this occasion, thereby ending 81 years of uninterrupted PRI rule in Oaxaca.
- After Obama's Health Care Law
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
How can the single-payer health care movement move ahead after Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? The right wing wants to repeal the law, which it sees as “intrusive big government.” Single-payer activists are rightly angry that the bill fails to produce the universal national health insurance that our society desperately needs, and instead provides massive subsidies to the private corporate insurance vampires.
- After Pakistan's Election
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Throughout Pakistan the massive anti-Musharraf vote on 18 February, 2008 spoke volumes: We do not like the military dictatorship; we want Musharraf out.
- After Pinkville
In Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Chomsky begins by expressing criticism of the peace movement protestors. He claims that their demands on the US government to "stop bombing and enter negotiations" in Vietnam were insufficient; they should have instead called for immediate withdrawal and adherence to international law. Chomsky then turns his criticism towards the American moral standing, citing one professors take on foreign policy: "To crush the people's war, we must eliminate the people". He parallels this to the moral level of Nazi Germany and questions the US's lack of moral considerations in the Vietnam War.
- After Shock & Gawk
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
November 3 began with a shock — the early morning newscast reporting the front page of The London Daily Mirror: “How Can 59,054,087 People be So Dumb?” Culminating what had seemed the longest and unceasingly miserable campaign in U.S. history — and in its wake, the most inconceivable of outcomes: The brazen robber was presented the reward!!
- After Stalinism: An Exchange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
I FOUND SUSAN Weissman's piece “The Russian Revolution Revisited” (ATC 75, July/August 1998) a refreshingly readable synopsis of a complex historical problem. While I agree with most of her analysis (with one exception noted), I do not think her conclusion follows from this analysis.
- After Ten Years
On Trotsky#s The Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
- After the Democrats' Debacle
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
How far have politics “moved to the right” in the United States — and for how long? Although we’re going to press before the November 2 midterm elections, you’re probably reading it after the anticipated Democratic debacle and the attendant speculation about the viability of the Obama presidency. Whether the Democrats have retained slim majority control of one or both houses of Congress obviously matters for some legislative purposes and power relations, but our view of the broad trends is pretty much the same either way.
- After the Destruction
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As Barack Obama mounted the Washington, DC inaugural stage on the euphoric morning of January 20, 2009, in Gaza the sounds of Israel’s invasion — the U.S.-supplied F-16s’ bombing runs, the artillery shells that accurately hit their targets of hospitals and clinics and refugee schools with children inside, the clearly-marked made-in-USA canisters of white phosphorus that burn people alive from the inside, the newly field-tested “DIME” bombs that efficiently tear multiple limbs off the victims — had gone at least temporarily silent.
- After the Floods, the IMF
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Pakistan in recent years has found itself in the headlights of the international press with increasingly regularity. As Obama’s surge into Af-Pak has taken shape over the last 12 months, the country and its people have been thrust to the forefront of political discussion for forces left, right and center.
- After the interview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
- After the Revolution, What?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A revolution to politically defeat a social class can take place relatively quickly compared to the task of re-shaping an entire society and economy by very different values. A fundamentally new kind of economy must therefore be able to arise somewhat gradually from the old, or it probably can never arise at all.
- After the "Special Period"
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
U.S. activists interview Cuban student. In July, Solidarity supporters Tim Marshall, Rachel Quinn and Sara Abraham had the opportunity to take classes at the University of Havana as a part of the Language and Culture program sponsored by Global Exchange. We met many people willing to share their opinions on the political and economic situation of the country. Everyone talked about how difficult the "special period" (early 1990s) was but felt that Cuba was emerging from this critical time.
- After the War Ends
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
When the soldiers return to their homes, new misery and new want are grinning at them. Awful as have been the sufferings that war has brought, in one respect the lot of the proletarians is still worse in times of peace. In war times the workers are needed; the bourgeoisie needs their enthusiasm, their willingness to sacrifice, their good will # the spirit of the army is an important factor in warfare. Money, therefore, becomes a secondary consideration, subservient to the aims of the war; aid and assistance are granted with unaccustomed liberality. The working class suffers, it is butchered, but those at home at least maintain a certain livelihood. That ceases with the coming of peace. The workers are not longer needed as soldiers; they are no longer comrades, defenders of the fatherland, heroes. Once more they become beasts of burden, objects of exploitation. Let them look for work, if they are hungry.
- After the Wheeler Occupation
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
One astute observer of the Wheeler occupation noted that the events of November 20 represented a synthesis of the twin strategies of the current student movement: “popular organizing” in the form of general assemblies on the one hand, and a “militant resistance” enamored of occupations on the other.
- Aftermath
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Chomsky discusses various consequences of the Gulf war, both the negative and those perceived as triumphs.
- A.G.A.I.N./Direct Services/Employment:
Introduction to Employment Strategies & Note on the Consultation A.G.A.I.N.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Critiques of government employment strategies in the urban core/skid row areas.
- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- Against Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
- Against multiculturalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Multiculturalism is an authoritarian, anti-human outlook. True political progress requires not recognition but action, not respect but questioning, not the invocation of the Thought Police but the forging of common bonds and collective struggles.
- Against School
How public education cripples our kids, and why
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
- Against Sectarianism
The Challenge of the Labor Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Members of the Socialist League argue that Trotskyist-socialists should continue to work within the NDP with the goal of winning the ranks of the NDP to a socialist program.
- Against the Holy Alliance
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
MIGHT IS RIGHT! On June 3rd, the 72nd day of this horrid though undeclared war, it looked like a deal had been struck or, rather, imposed. The Russians having been bullied or bribed to align themselves on the NATO positions, Belgrade stood alone and Milosevic had to surrender.
- Against the Politics of Tolerance: Islam, Sexuality and Belonging in the Netherlands
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
What could be wrong with tolerance? Would I perhaps prefer intolerance? Of course not -- but if we take a harder look at the concept and the way it was employed, we are able to see that “tolerance” has a paradoxical meaning in present day society. It is accompanied, in fact, by virulent forms of intolerance and exclusion. To illustrate, we may have a look at the debate about Islam in the Netherlands starting in 2001.
- The Age of Ingenuity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
- Ageism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Also called age discrimination, it is stereotyping of and discrimination against individuals or groups because of their age.
- An Agenda for Change
The Right to the Freedom of Expression in Nepal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Publication on the Agenda for Change: The Right to Freedom of Expression in Nepal.
- Agent provocateur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act.
- Aggett, Neil
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
South African physician and labour activist who was tortured and killed by the apartheid 'security forces'. (1953-1982).
- Aging: a process of discovery
A review of Look Me in the Eye: Old Woman, Aging and Ageism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
Review of a collection of essays by Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich, in which they speak with honesty and clarity about ageism, aging and the inevitability and imminence of death.
- Agrarian-Industrial Revolt
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Reformers and radicals in the post-reconstruction South faced a daunting set of circumstances. Many of these are well known: In the former confederacy, Black laborers were eventually shut out of the electoral process via disfranchisement, terrorized by legislation, a lien system not dissimilar to slavery, and rampant violence. The convict-lease system put the state, via farmers' prisoners (largely Black men), in conflict with free labor that might be organized. Prospects for organizing biracial resistance were slim as the color line was diligently policed by force and ideology.
- Agreement in Principle between: The Dene Nation and Her Majesty the Queen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- An Agreement of the Free People of England
Manifesto of the Levellers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1649
The Levellers were an informal alliance of agitators and pamphleteers who came together during the English Civil War (1642-1648) to demand constitutional reform and equal rights under the law. Levellers believed all men were born free and equal and possessed natural rights that resided in the individual, not the government. They believed that each man should have freedom limited only by regard for the freedom of others. They believed the law should equally protect the poor and the wealthy.
- An Agreement of the People for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1647
Having by our late labours and hazards made it appear to the world at how high a rate we value our just freedom, and God having so far owned our cause as to deliver the enemies thereof into our hands, we do now hold ourselves bound in mutual duty to each other to take the best care we can for the future to avoid both the danger of returning into a slavish condition.
- An Agreement of the People of England, and the places therewith incorporated, for a secure and present peace, upon grounds of common right, freedom and safety
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1647 Published: 1649
- Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
- Aid Cut
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Not only is our government incapable of appreciating the Nordic and EC point of view, it evens refuses to be honest about aid program: lying about aid cuts, saying one thing about development and doing something else in the field.
- AIPAC: Israel's U.S. Spy Den
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The socialist Left must remain clear in its avoidance of a conspiratorial view of history. The entire U.S. political spectrum in the aftermath of the 2000 election, and especially since 9/11, has been awash with conspiracy theories. With deep roots in our political culture, ahistorical conspiratorial views of the workings of the world, devoid of any class understanding or a structural and institutional analysis of what we live in, come bubbling to the surface, especially during times of "national crisis."
- Air Force Invades the Rocky Mountains
Sky Grab
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Communities throughout rural America are fighting to stop more Air Force flights overhead. In addition to New Mexico and Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine are some of the other states fighting intrusive low-level flights.
- Aircraft pollution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Akweks Funds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Akwesasne
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The history of the Mohawks of Akwesasne and the events and conditions that led up to the violence of 1989.
- Akwesasne Notes editor charged
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center
- Albert Einstein Quotations Opposing a Jewish State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Alberta rivers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- A Alegria da Revoluçao
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
- Alexandra Kollontai and Red Love
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
What is “Red Love”—and more specifically, what is a socialist, or more complexly, a communist theory of love and sexuality?
- Algerian War of Independence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A conflict between France and Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria gaining its independence from France.
- Algonquins vs. Frontenac Ventures
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I recently returned from a little-publicized “political hotbed” ignited by Frontenac Ventures Corporation (FVC), a private mining company causing grave injustices against the Ardoch First Nation community in Ontario, Canada.
- Ali, Tariq
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. (Born 1943).
- Alienation
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of Terms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The process whereby people become foreign to the world they are living in.
- Alienation, Marx's theory of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
As expressed in the writings of the young Karl Marx, refers to the separation of things that naturally belong together, or to put antagonism between things that are properly in harmony. In the concept's most important use, it refers to the social alienation of people from aspects of their "human nature". He believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism.
- The alienation of radical theatre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Alinsky, Saul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American community organizer and writer. (1909-1972).
- All cultures are not equal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A common thread binds contemporary Western radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. On the surface the two seem poles apart: fundamentalists loathe Western decadence, Western radicals fear Islamic presumptions of certainty. But what unites the two is that both are rooted in contemporary nihilistic multiculturalism; both express, at best, ambivalence about, at worst outright rejection of, the ideas of modernity, universality, and progress; and both see no real alternative to Western power.
- All in the Family
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A booklet explaining some of the legal consequences which flow from marriage, common law relationships, owning property, and having children.
- All options on the table?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky responds to the 2008 meetings of world powers which addressed the topic of nuclear proliferation. He highlights the numerous ways in which these talks failed to live up to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
- All-terrain vehicles kill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- All the World's A Rage?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In today's political vocabulary, "direct action" is interpreted to mean any form of action short of marking an #X' on a ballot. Throwing a brick through a Starbucks window is certainly a direct action and the thrower of the projectile is making a direct statement against the glass window of the coffee chain; it may even provide the thrower with a flush of adrenaline, but as a strategy it will fail.
- Allan Bérubé, 1946-2007
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
An inspiring and broad-ranging queer historian, Allan Bérubé died at the age of 61 on December 11, 2007. He left us with major contributions of exciting historical work, but also important unfinished work that needs to be continued.
- Allende, Salvador
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Democratically elected socialist president of Chile, overthrown and killed in a coup engineered by the CIA. (1908-1973).
- Almada, Martín
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Paraguayan human rights activist known for his outstanding courage in bringing torturers to justice, and promoting democracy, human rights and sustainable development. (Born 1937).
- Almanac Singers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Group of American folk musicians specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with union organizing.
- Along NATO's Road to War/Ruin
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The war taking place in the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia involves three sides: Serbia, Kosova, and the NATO alliance. War being an extension of politics, it is what the protagonists are trying to achieve that determines whether their war is just or not.
- Alpha '78: Recueil des textes, Seminaire sur l'alphetisation au Quebec.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Already in Hell: Labor After Communism
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Factory workers in the former Soviet Union have a saying: “Things can’t get any worse, we are already in hell.” David Mandel’s book Labour After Communism documents the realities of working-class life in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: factories with no central heating, where workers to maintain body heat build fires in metal drums or large metal toolboxes, the smoke of these fires rising up through holes in the roof.
- Alter-globalization
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A social movement that supports global cooperation and interaction, but which opposes the negative effects of economic globalization.
- An Alternate Investment Proposal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Alternate Societies
A brief survey on intentional community in European history
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
- Alternative Employment Agencies For Unorganized Workers (Single Displaced People) In Urban Core Areas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Alternative media
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
- Alternatives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A poster, brochure, and information on jail, chaplaincies and the corrections system.
- Alternatives to Poverty and Welfare in Alberta
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A basic accounting of the extent of poverty and of those on Welfare in Canada and Alberta.
- Alternatives to the Death Penalty
The Problem with Life Imprisonment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Amer Jubran: From Exile to Exile
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In January 2004, Palestinian activist Amer Jubran will leave the United States, where he has lived for most of the past 15 years. He will return to Jordan, where he grew up in a family already exiled once from their homeland.
- America in Decline
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- American Anti-Slavery Society
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An abolitionist society (1833-1870) founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
- American Autumn Part 2
Occupy Wall Street: Organizing the Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- American Cartoonists Rap on the Danish Flap
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
"It's really surreal," cartoonist Matt Wuerker observed. "It's like something out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel."
- American Civil War
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Also known as the War Between the States and several other names, this was a civil war in the United States of America in which eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States.
- American Decline in Perspective
Empire and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- The American Economy: Crisis and Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Since capitalist economic policy must make no mention of the exploitation relations underlying the capitalist mode of production, economists and politicians must seek #solutions# to economic problems in terms of market phenomena.
- American Indian Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Native American activist organization in the United States which has led protests advocating indigenous American rights, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities, and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the country.
- American Primitive in Red, Black and White: Race and Class in the U.S.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The centrality of race in the formation of the American working class, its inseparability from the question of class, can be stated very succinctly: in 1848 and 1968, when working-class upsurges exploded in Europe under the slogans of "socialism" and "communism", American working-class containment in the Democratic Party was exploded by the race question. This is the key to the Americanization of Marxism.
- American Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The American Revolution is the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen of Britain's colonies in North America at first rejected the governance of the Parliament of Great Britain, and later the British monarchy itself, to become the sovereign United States of America.
- The American Way of Torture
CounterPunch Diary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- America's Complicity in Evil
Barbarism on the High Seas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Once again the US government has permitted the Israeli state to murder good people known for their moral conscience. The Israeli state has declared that anyone with a moral conscience is an enemy of Israel.
- America’s Last Chance
One Against the Empire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The United States is rapidly being turned into a police state.
- America#s last taboo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
- America#s War in Indochina
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
There is no special reason for America#s intervention in Indochina, apart from her general policy of intervening anywhere in the world in order to prevent political and social changes that would be detrimental to the so-called #free world,# and particularly to the power which dominates it.
- Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
- Amnesty International Action Campaign focusses on Malyasian Prsioner Assigned to Toronto Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- An Analysis of the Decreasing Viability of Small and Medium sized Farms in Canada.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Describes the economic, physical, and political conditions that cause a rapid decrease in small and medium farms in Canada.
- An analysis of the G20 protest and the black bloc
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It should be clear that the actions of the black bloc reflect their politics. The actions in Toronto mirror those tactics used elsewhere. The tactics and politics regardless of their intent are inherently elitist and counter-productive. In fact they mirror the critique of reformism many on the left have. The NDP says vote for us and we’ll do it for you, the black bloc says in essence the same thing – we will make the revolution for you. At best the tactics of the black bloc are based on a mistaken idea that the attacks on property and the police will create a spark to encourage others to resist capitalism, at worst they are based on a rampant individualistic sense of rage and entitlement to express that rage regardless of the consequences to others. The anti-authoritarian politic they follow is imposed on others. Very rarely will you see a black bloc call its own rally, instead the tactic is to play hide and seek with the police under the cover of larger mobilisations.
- Analyzing the Crash
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The present economic crisis, which began in the United States late in 2007 and picked up speed early in 2008, may have caused production in the American economy to fall precipitously, but had the opposite effect on the production of books seeking to analyze the world economic crisis.
- Anarchism
Or the revolutionary movement of the 21st century
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2004
- Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
- Anarchism And The Platformist Tradition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Platformism is a current within libertarian communism putting forward specific suggestions on the nature which anarchist organzation should take.
- Anarchism: Ideology or Methodology?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1997
A discussion of whether anarchism is an ideology or a methodology. The social vs. lifestylism debate.
- Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1901
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future.
- Anarchism and Marxism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Political movements focused on achieving human liberation through political action.
- Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A critique of Marxism, with emphasis on its alleged obsession with economics.
- Anarchism, Representation, and Culture
Cohn, Jesse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
A discussion of the role of anarchism in the formation of modernist avant-garde aesthetics.
- Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
- Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1910
Anarchsim: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
- L’anarchisme par rapport au marxisme
Quelques notes sur un vieux thème
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Anarchist communism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct or consensus democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations, workers' councils, and a gift economy through which everyone will be free to satisfy their needs.
- Anarchist Periodicals: List of anarchist periodicals - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A chronoligical list of anarchist periodicals.
- Anarchist St. Imier International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An international anarchist organization formed in 1872.
- The "Anarcho-Liberal"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The diversity of the global justice movement is undeniable, but to the extent its prominent intellectual voices represented broader trends, we can see the crystallization of a new type of radical that would come to prominence on the Left. The reconfiguration of the Left at the end of the twentieth century created a void. The “anarcho-liberal” filled it.
- Anarcho-pacifism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A form of anarchism which completely rejects the use of violence in any form for any purpose.
- Anarcho-syndicalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Anarchy is struggle for life, freedom and dignity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A communique by the Circle of Fire anarchist collective and the Anarchist Bulletin BLACK FLAG on the events of May 5th, 2010 in Athens, when three bank workers were murdered by 'anarchist' arsonists. The murders came as an ultimate result of an irrational, meaningless and needless violence which is promoted by an autistic, un-political and anti-social concept that has become a parasite to the anarchist # antiauthoritarian movement, sucking its blood and disparaging it, leading it to criminalisation and social isolation.
- Anarquismo vs. Marxismo
Algunas notas sobre un tema antiguo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Un movimiento que desdeña la teoría y adora las acciones sin crítica, el anarquismo sigue siendo un edificio tambaleante consistente de varios pedazos de análisis marxista, reforzando unos preceptos tácticos inflexibles.
- The Anatomy of A Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The first time I traveled to Los Angeles with a comrade of mine in the labor movement, I had one of those sharp educational experiences that cannot be replicated in the classroom.
- Anatomy of Egypt's Revolution
Conditions and Consequences
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Like perfect storms, several factors have to simultaneously and collectively come together for popular uprisings or protests, even massive ones, to turn into a revolution. That is why only a few of them have been successful in world history.
- Anatomy of the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Is there an alternative to the sect mode of organization which dominates the whole history of American socialism, past and present?
- Ancestors of the Proletariat
Tercentenary of the English Revolution: 1649-1949
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
After Charles I had been executed, the Levellers aimed directly at the overthrow of the military government of Cromwell in the name of the people. The great political act of the abolition of the monarchy, dramatized in the execution of the King, was in their eyes entirely subordinate to the positive reorganization of society.
- And Then They Came For Me
Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
- ... and they were doing cartwheels.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Anderson, Doris
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
- Anderson, Doris
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
- Anecdotes Tell Dramatic Story of British Underground Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Review of Underground: The London Alternative Press, 1966-74, by Nigel Fountain. A frank look back at what made the British underground press tick.
- Anger, Sadness, Patience, Determination
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
During the fall of 2002 I had heard the personal stories of two Palestinians. One told me about her grandfather's ancient olive trees that had been confiscated and then chopped down by the Israeli government.
- Anglicans and Aboriginal Peoples
The EcoJustice Connection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Animal Crackers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
- Annual Legislature Presentation To The Government And People Of Manitoba
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Annual Report, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Annual Report, Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1975-76
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An account of the issues and corporations which are of current concern to the TCCR.
- Annual Report. Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility TCCR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- L'annuel Connexions: Introduction à l'environnement, l'utilisation agraire et la campagne
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction à la Santé
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction à l'Économie, la Pauvreté et le Travail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au chapitre de la Paix
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au chapitre des femmes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au Développement International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux Arts, Médias et Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux chapitre des Lesbiennes, Homosexuels et Bisexuels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux Droits Humains et aux Libertés Civiles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction la Communauté, l'Urbanisme et le Logis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction sur l'Éducation et les Enfants
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Another Immoral Adventure
US Troops to Uganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When we support brutal governments in foreign countries – be it through aid, training, or troops on the ground – there are real and lasting consequences for the people who live there. There are many reasons to oppose the US incursion into Uganda (the risk of blowback, the chance of escalation, the furtherance of the imperial presidency, the financial cost, the practical fact that we can’t intervene everywhere, and so on), but the most important argument is moral.
- Another view of the deficit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Another Way for Kosovo?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Chomsky considers the facts of the Kosovo crisis and aims to determine if other plausible courses of action were available.
- Another World Is Possible
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The period since George Bush Sr. declared a "new world order" has been marked by growing global inequality and war. The failures of neoliberalism mean that more than fifty countries have seen declining per capita income in recent years, while millions every year die from easily preventable diseases and lack of access to safe drinking water. The costs of the last fifteen years have been immense, whether for those cut off from electricity in Durban, sacked from factories in Mexico City, or bombed in Baghdad.
- An Answer to Charlie Post
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Charlie Post is an old friend of mine and I respect his views. But I beg to disagree… In our book, Olivier Besancenot and myself pointed to several limitations of Che Guevara concerning issues as workers’ democracy and the critique of Stalinism. But we tried to grasp his thought not as a monolithic body of theory, but as thinking in movement, a movement going towards a more democratic conception of socialism. Did he come to a full understanding that socialism is “the democratically organized power of the working class”? No, he didn’t, but that doesn’t mean that he “rejected” it.
- Answering Camille Paglia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
What is important about Paglia is that she expresses more forcefully than most academics, if not more eloquently, this year's most popular half-truths. By marshaling the prejudices of many elements of the working class she channels them into a direct line that leads to support for the bourgeoisie.
- Antarctic airfield
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Anthony, Susan B.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. (1820-1906).
- Anthroplogy and the Machine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The first Teach-In against the Vietnam war, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in March 1965, proved the ideal solution, an event that was at the same time an exercise in learning and a political protest. Its success was to spur a widespread series of similar events, bringing the anti-war message and the realities of U.S. "counter-insurgency" in Vietnam to other campuses. It was not entirely surprising that one of the most innovative and effective strategies for opposing U.S. crimes in Vietnam was initiated by anthropologists. In a discipline sensitive to the problems facing peasant populations due to colonialism and the spread of western market interests, it was particularly difficult to accept at face value the rhetoric of U.S. geopolitical posturing.
- Anti-abortion violence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion.
- Anti-capitalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Describes a wide variety of movements, ideas, and attitudes which oppose capitalism.
- Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Imperialism?
Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of A Reactionary Ideology: The Case of the Bolivian MNR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Recounts the evolution of the core pre-MNR intelligentsia and future leadership of the movement and its post-1952 government from anti-Semitic, pro-fascist, pro-Axis ideologues in the mid-1930?s to bourgeois nationalists receiving considerable US aid after 1952.
- Anti-Choice, Anti-Child
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Around the world, there's a general correlation between the availability of abortion and social concern for the well-being of children.
- Anti-Chomsky Fictions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
- Anti-Church Movement Demonstration in Hyde Park
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1855
- An anti-clerical policy of Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
According to Luxemburg, "the incessant guerrilla warfare waged for the last ten years against the priests is for French middle-class Republicans one of the best ways of turning away the attention of the working-class from social questions, and of weakening the class struggle."
- The Anti-Colonial Movement in Vietnam
Book Review: Ngo Van, Vietnam, 1920-1945
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- Anti-consumerism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The socio-political movement against consumerism, the equation of personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions.
- The Anti-Coup
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
As coups are one of the primary ways through which dictatorships are installed, this piece details measures that civilians, civil society, and governments can take to prevent and block coups d'état and executive usurpations. It also contains specific legislative steps and other measures that governments and non-governmental institutions can follow to prepare for anti-coup resistance.
- Anti-Globalisation: The Socialism of the Imbeciles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Who are the anti-globalists? They are all those who for the last few years, from the big social-democratic and Stalinist parties to various kinds of leftists, have taken up the new battle standard: anti-globalisation.
- Anti-globalization movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Critical of the globalization of capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization.
- Anti-Imperialist Struggle in India
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1923
- An Anti-Imperialist War Resister
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
ATC Interviews Carl Webb. Military resister Carl Webb, 39, is Absent Without Leave from the Texas National Guard, after his service was involuntarily extended in July, 2004 through the military Stop-Loss program. He tells his story on his website www.carlwebb.net and blogspot carlwebb.blogspot.com and has been speaking out at antiwar meetings. His explicit anti-imperialist views have made him a somewhat controversial figure within the peace movement.
- Anti-intellectualism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The hostility towards and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of education, philosophy, literature, art, and science.
- An anti-Jewish pogrom in London
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
Russians, Romanians, Armenians, peoples of all oppressed nationalities live here, Jews forming the majority, for Jews, the people who have no country, are always most cruelly oppressed by tyrannical Governments.
- Anti-nuclear movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A international movement against the use of nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
- Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Anyone who criticizes the actions of the Israeli government runs the risk of being labelled anti-Semitic by those who want to silence all criticism of Israel.
- Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
- Anti-Socialist Laws
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Were a series of acts, the first of which was passed on October 19, 1878 by the German Reichstag for a limited term, and the later ones regularly extending the term of its application.
- Anti-Bolshevist Communism in Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
Until the final collapse of the German labor movement, the retreat of the 'ultra-left' appeared to be a return to theoretical work. The organizations existed in the form of weekly and monthly publications, pamphlets and books. The publications secured the organizations, the organizations the publications. While mass-organizations served small capitalistic minorities, the mass of the workers were represented by individuals. The contradiction between the theories of the 'ultra-left' and the prevailing conditions became unbearable. The more one thought in collective terms the more isolated one became.
- Anti-nuclear campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- The Anti-Nuclear Movement in Review: Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
EVERY NOW AND then Time magazine comes out with front cover screaming something like: “Russian Nukes: Is Anyone in Control?” The idea of a fanatic blowing up New York City with a Russian nuclear weapon hidden in a suitcase fits neatly into the mental slot once reserved for nightmares of Soviet intercontinental missiles raining down on American citizens and the Red Army landing in Miami.
Just as the vision of hell played such an important role in medieval cosmology, the Russian...
- Anti-racist education
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Anti-Semitism and Socialism
A Reply to Gorelick
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Anti-Terrorism Begins at Home
Viva House refuses to sign United Way "loyalty oath"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A Baltimore is refusing to certify that it does not use United Way funds to support terrorism, saying the request smacks of McCarthyism.
- Anti-Vaccination Fever
The Shot Hurt Around the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that has almost been forgotten.
- Anti-War Movement's Strange Allies: Hard Line Islamists
Canada's progressive Muslims wonder why left would embrace theocrats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Canada's anti-war movement has become not only the primary vehicle for an obscure, formerly left-wing group that attacks anyone who opposes Shariah courts in Canada, it's also now the main source of public respectability for a Toronto think-tank that advocates for the establishment of theocracies that hang gay people.
- Anti-Apartheid Movement (British)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Anti-fascism isn't working
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
What all the current anti-fascist approaches have in common is that they miss the real danger. This doesn't lie in the BNP taking power, in the possibility of concentration camps or any of the other scare stories we've been hearing recently. It lies more immediately in the far right colonising the anti-mainstream vote and developing party loyalty, thereby blocking the development of an independent working-class politics capable of defending our conditions and challenging neoliberalism.
- Anti-Imperialism and the Iranian Revolution
Fetters of the past, potential for the future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Iranian Revolution, and the anti-imperialist ideology that corresponded to its rise and demise, was indeed a tragedy from the perspective of proletarian revolution; to hold such an ideology today is indeed farcical. It does nothing but bring workers, students, and women’s organizations into an illusory harmony with those who maintain their oppression and exploitation.
- Anti-patriotism
Speech to the jury at his trial in 1905 for #anti-militarist# activities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Our war-cry against war is #Insurrection Rather Than War!#
- Anti-Porn is the Theory, Repression is the Practice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987 Published: 1989
The campaign against pornography has been one of the most visible faces of feminism for more than a decade now. Few have wanted to know whether the 'clean up' they were promoting strengthened women's hand or the State's. Thus they have attracted supporters and allies among politicians from the New Right, which governs (among others) the US and the UK, from the old moralizing Left, and even from the trendy Left. Although this anti-porn lobby is not homogeneous, it is rare for any part of it to dissociate itself from the most powerful pro-censorship law-and-order identity.
- Anti-statism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Antithesis of Capital and Labour. Landed Property and Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The efforts of women to end the war in Vietnam have been subsumed into a paradigm that suggests that, some time in the late 1960s, women activists left the antiwar struggle for the new feminist cause, leaving behind the movement that had initially ignited their activist energies. This story of ideological abandonment overstates the case. The variety of organizational, theoretical, and personal lessons learned in the antiwar movement profoundly influenced the organized, theoretically nuanced, and personally impassioned movement of, by, and for women, whose diverse constituent groups shared the idea of liberation from male authority.
- Anton Pannekoek
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
Anton Pannekoek's life span coincided with what was almost the whole history of the modern labour movement; he experienced its rise as a movement of social protest, its transformation into a movement of social reform, and its eclipse as an independent class movement in the contemporary world. But Pannekoek also experienced its revolutionary potentialities in the spontaneous upheavals which, from time to time, interrupted the even flow of social evolution. He entered the labour movement a Marxist and he died a Marxist, still convinced that if there is a future, it will be a socialist future.
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a Comunidad, Urbano, Vivienda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a la Educación, Niños
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a la Salud
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a las Artes, Medios, Cultura
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a los Derechos Humanos y Libertades Civiles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Ambiente, Uso de Tierra, Rural
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de la Paz
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de las Mujeres
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de Personas Nativas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Desarrollo, Internacional
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Apartheid "Peace" Explodes
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The explosion in Jerusalem, occupied Palestine and the state of Israel is horrific to contemplate—but not at all difficult to understand. Underneath what appeared to begin as rioting over "holy places," the real issue is this: Tens of thousands of Palestinians are risking their lives in the face of live ammunition in defense of their basic human dignity. And in that act, they have posed the greatest challenge to the "stability" of imperialist control of the Middle East that we have witnessed since the 1973 war.
- Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Just because someone is able to purchase a machine that lets them ride off-road, that is no reason that the public should be required to provide them a place to use it.
- Appendix to Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Jose Peirats traces the story of the half million refugees who left Spain when Franco came to power in 1939. This text sterves as appendix to his carefully documented Anarchists in the Spanish Revoluiont. Clandestine activity and political organization of some of the Spanish anarchist militants is told in this pamphlet.
- Appreciating Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. passed away on April 11, 2007, from a head injury sustained from a recent fall. Despite his best efforts to do away with himself by smoking heavily for many years, cigarettes, he had joked, were unable to do the job they promised. “If the washing don’t get you, the rinsing will” as the blues song says. So it goes.
- Approaches To Foreign Rrepresentatives of Governments
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Guidelines useful in securing and attending interviews with ambassadors.
- Approaches to Skid Row: Rosewater? Rehabilitation? Radical Renewal?
Notes on the Conference of December 3, 4, 5, 1974
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Report of the first National Conference of the Skid Row National Coalition.
- Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet about inappropriate aid programs and our need to look at alternate forms of energy.
- The Arab Choice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Arabs are many peoples, cultures, religions, and realities. I cannot put an Arab tyrant, whoever he is, in the same category as a martyr for democracy like Mehdi Ben Barka.
- Arab Revolt (1916 - 1918)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was initiated by the Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen.
- The Arab Revolts and the Cage of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Though the Arab revolts of 2011 herald a new era where people have powerfully asserted their inalienable right to protest (and we hope they will continue doing so), the powerful cage of political economy has remained intact even after six intense months of protest. The intent of the imperial US power in the region, along with its allies Israel and the European Union (EU), remains unchanged.
- Arab Sexualities
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The issue of same-sex sexualities in the Arab world is a political and intellectual minefield, and more so since 9/11 than before. In a bizarre twist, neoconservatives and other rightists who were hostile for decades to the lesbian/gay movement have repackaged themselves as defenders of oppressed Arab women and gays. Responses from the left have been divided.
- The Arab Spring, the West and Political Islam
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The contemporary Arab political system, until the recent outbreak of Arab revolutions, is the byproduct of a number of domestic, regional and global arrangements and developments in the post-World War II international order.
- Arab Women Writers' Problems and Prospects
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Arab critics, particularly those situated in the Arab world, are viewed with suspicion, especially when they are men writing about women. If they don't write about Arab women writers, they are chastised for ignoring them. If they do, they are accused of attempting to "contain" and "marginalize" them.
- Arabs and the Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Palestinian tragedy, a late product of 19th-20th century colonialism and imperialism in general, must also be understood as a very specific aftershock of the greatest industrial genocide in history, the Nazi holocaust, which shook the ways in which we view human society and history.
- Arbeter Fraynd
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Meaning "Worker's Friend" in Yiddish, was a London-based weekly Yiddish radical paper founded in 1885 by socialist Morris Winchevsky.
- The Arbritary Enfranchisement of Indian Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brief arguing for the amendment of certain provisions of the Indian Act providing for the involuntary enfranchisement of Indian women.
- The Arch Conspirator- Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A review of Len Bracken's The Arch Conspirator.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
- The Archipelago of Horror
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Laupahoehoe in Hawaiian means “foot of lava.” Thousands of years ago, lava cascaded down a steep canyon on the side of mighty Mauna Kea and created a flat shelf between the towering cliffs of the Hamakua Coast on the eastern shore of the island of Hawaii. Laupahoehoe Point became a ceremonial center of great importance to native Hawaiians as well as the only canoe landing along fifty miles of rugged coast.
- Are We Having Sex Now or What?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Questions you may never have thought to ask about sex.
- Are you paying too much to send out your news releases?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If you have been using a corporate newswire service to send out your news releases you are likely paying $500 or more to send out a single release -- and that release may not even be reaching the people you want to reach.
- Argentina '76
A dossier on political repression and the violation of human rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A report that outlines the torture of political prisoners, censorship, and religious persecution that occurs in Argentina.
- Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Food sovereignty as defined by Via Campesina is the peoples# right to define their agricultural and food policy, and the right of farmers and peasants to produce food. Worldwide communities are seeking an alternative to a model controlled by Cargill, Monsanto, General Foods, Nestle and Kraft foods. Starved by industrialization and concentration, citizens are now hungry for traditional production methods and diversity in the food system.
- Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.
- Arizona's Racial Profiling Push
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is quick to blame the federal government for the economic and social ills of her state. Responding to a growing movement to boycott Arizona for its new “show me your papers” law as “thoughtless and harmful,” she complained that the outraged response “adds to the massive economic burden Arizonans have sustained for years due to the federal government’s failure to secure its borders.”
- The Armies of Europe
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1855
- Arms and the Woman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975 Published: 1980
The modern revolutionary movement must destroy this opposition of pleasure-activity, sensitivity-lucidity, conception-execution, habit-innovation.
- Arms Maker, Union Buster: Litton Industries - A Corporate Profile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- ARMX on the march
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Arrêtons de se faire des illusions
Le magazine Canadien Dimensions discute du Nouveau Parti Démocratique Canadien
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Si nous devons plus que jamais avancer, nous devons y faire face : Le NPD n'est pas un parti socialiste. Le NPD n'a jamais été un parti socialiste. Le NPD ne sera jamais un parti socialiste.
- The arrogance of the long distance Zionist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Immigration as part of a concerted plan that will take over the country, expropriating, expelling and exploiting the native masses, is less immigration and more a long drawn out and aggressive invasion.
- Arroyo on the Brink
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Phillipines president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has so far survived two attempts to oust her from office. The first constituted the so-called “opposition salvo” in July 2005. This was followed by the aborted “military uprising” in February.
- Art and Labour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1884
Says Morris: "By art, I do not mean only pictures and sculpture, nor only these and architecture, that is beautiful building properly ornamented; these are only a portion of art, which comprises, as I understand the word a great deal more; beauty produced by the labour of man both mental and bodily, the expression of the interest man takes in the life of man upon the earth with all its surroundings, in other words the human pleasure of life is what I mean by art."
- Art and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1884
Morris sees work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only socialism can restore work to its proper, central position.
- The Art of Activism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The unique style of 'protest as performance' pioneered by the queer rights group OutRage!
- Art, Politics, and the Imagination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The work of our best artists throws into sharp relief what is painfully missing from most activists' work: a fusion of living experience with political insight.
- Art, Religion and Hatred
Religious Intolerance in Russia and its Effects on Art
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Report on religious intolerance in Russia and its effects on artists and their freedom of expression.
- Art Under Plutocracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1883 Published: 1884
Morris asks "What kind of an account shall we be able to give to those who come after us of our dealings with the earth, which our forefathers handed down to us still beautiful, in spite of all the thousands of years of strife and carelessness and selfishness?"
- Art, Wealth, and Riches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1883
A lecture by William Morris, delivered in Manchester in 1883. Morris poses the question "Is art to be limited to a narrow class who only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure of the whole people?"
- Article by Marx and Engels in Deutsche-Brusseler-Zeitung April 1847 - February 1848
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847 Published: 1848
- Articles by Engels in the Labour Standard 1878-1881
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1883
- Articles by Engels on the Death of Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1883
- Articles by Friedrich Engels in La Reforme October 1847 - March 1848
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847 Published: 1848
- Articles by Friedrich Engels in New Moral World October 1843 - November 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843 Published: 1844
- Articles by Friedrich Engels in The Northern Star December 1843 - December 1849
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843 Published: 1849
- Articles by Karl Marx in the New York Daily Tribune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1852 Published: 1861
In the early 1850#s, Karl Marx (and Frederick Engels, though to a lesser extent) wrote a quantity of journalist news summaries about events in Europe for the New-York Daily Tribune. These articles were often reprinted in other papers: see Semi-Weekly Tribune, The Free Press, Das Volk, The People#s Paper, Die Reform and Others.
- Articles by Karl Marx on China 1853-1860
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
China was, at this time, in upheaval. It was the most populous region in the world (400 million people in 1834). The "Celestial Empire" had long operated with trade surpluses, but by the 1840s, serious trade deficits plagued China. The first European-Chinese conflict (The Opium War) began in 1839 and ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanking. During this period, famines wracked the land. It is estimated maybe 14 million people died in 1849, and another 20 million between 1854 and 1860.
At the same time, the Taiping rebellion broke out in 1850 and attacked the status quo Confucianist Manchu Dynasty -- which had ruled since 1644. The rebellion was based in social revolutionary ideas of equality and was popular among the masses. It abolished private property, established sexual equality, and banned drugs (from alcohol to opium). By 1853, it dominated much of SE China.
- Articles by Marx & Engels in Neue Rheinische Zeitung June 1848 - May 1849
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848 Published: 1849
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
- Articles by Marx & Engels in the Rheinische Zeitung April 1842 - March 1843
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842 Published: 1843
- Artists/Photographers wanted
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Arumer Zwarte Hoop
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An army of peasant rebels in Friesland fighting the Dutch authorities from 1515 to 1523.
- The Arusha Declaration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Tanganyika African National Union's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance.
- Arvida Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Began July 24, 1941 when some 700 workers in the Aluminium Co. of Canada (Alcan) in Arvida, Québec, spontaneously walked off the job.
- As If People Mattered - Resource Issues in Labrador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- As We Don't See It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A clarification of Solidarity London's 1968 pamphlet, "As We See It." Distinction is placed between real socialism and the "exploitative privileged minorities" who controll(ed) the USSR and China, as well as the importance of controlling the means of production.
- Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An organization that came together in response to the political situation in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, first meeting in June 2006.
- Asbestos Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Asbestos Strike of 1949, based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, was a four-month labour dispute by the asbestos miners.
- Asbestos Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Asbestos Strike of 1949, based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, was a four-month labour dispute by the asbestos miners.
- Asch, Moses
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. (1905-1986).
- Ashcroft? The Road to Theocracy?
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Many stories are told about John Ashcroft here in his home town of Springfield, Missouri. Some of them are no doubt true. My personal favorite concerns John after we went to the same high school, but before his actual political career began. He was then acting as attorney for Southwest Missouri State University, located here.
- Asia Inhales While the West Bans the Deadly Carcinogen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Asbestos, a known carcinogen banned in much of the world, is a common and dangerous building block in much of Asia#s development and construction boom. This white powder causes 100,000 occupational deaths per year, according to Medical News Today.
- Asia: Realities of "Recovery"
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Why are we still talking about the Asian crisis? In recent months we have heard government policy-makers, economists, business journalists, financial analysts, IMF technocrats, big business and even some unions announce that “the Asian financial crisis is over.”
- Asian American Activism Stirring
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
For a brief but wonderful moment in 2000, the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Presidential campaign drew widespread public attention to its central theme of restoring democracy by challenging corporate power. Speaking to thousands of supporters at “super rallies” and millions of television viewers, Nader hammered home the three general points that corporate power has:
- Asian American Incorporation or Insurgency?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
- Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System
Mixed Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Posada's case is a dramatic illustration of the fraudulence of the so-called "War on Terror" and highlights the U.S. refusal to abide by the rule of law. Assange's case shows well the U.S. establishment's fear of the free-flow of information that might interfere with foreign policy and reveal that there are many more Posadas whose service to the empire might be disclosed. And the media's cooperation in this protection of Posada and pursuit of Assange is clear. \
- The Assault on Israeli Legitimacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel has consciously orchestrated acute misery and poverty in the Palestinian territories over the past two decades in an effort to subdue and ethnically cleanse the captive population. Israel, despite warnings from many within the Israeli establishment, has embarked on a course that will see it, like the South African apartheid regime, become ever more isolated and reviled.
- Assaulting pro-Palestinian Activism: Smear Tactics at U-M
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In March, 2005 the student assembly at the University of Michigan held a campus- wide meeting to vote on a resolution calling for the university to form an advisory committee to review university investments in companies supporting the Israeli occupation. This was not a divestment resolution, but a small-scale resolution calling for an investigative committee to investigate university investments.
- Assaulting Public Education in Canada: Privatization Plague Spreads
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
For the past six years right-wing provincial governments across Canada have embraced the neoliberal agenda of “educational reform.” Four provinces in particular, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have led the charge in dismantling public education in favor of market-driven alternatives.
- Assignment 1: LGBT Equality
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
IN OUR IMMEDIATELY post-Don’t Ask Don’t Tell society, Stuart Biegel’s The Right to Be Out invites us to create a public education system where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) equality is a reality.
- At General Motors, "What Means This Strike?"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN HIS FAMOUS address to the striking New Bedford textile workers in 1898, Socialist Labor Party leader Daniel De Leon posed the question, "What Means This Strike?" De Leon told the workers their strike would be for naught if they didn't see it connected to the broader struggle of their class.
He praised them for their courage and affirmed the socialist belief in the strike weapon, but warned that this strike, the second in recent time, would simply become one of a series of lost struggles...
- Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Popular Assembly at Syntagma has been able to go beyond democratic discussion to democratic decisions but the construction of real workers democracy is still under way. While thousands take part in the assembly, there are five million living in Athens and millions more in the rest of Greece. To democratically include all these millions requires a system of delegation, in which delegates from neighborhoods and workplaces attend city-wide assemblies and delegates from these attend a nationwide assembly.
- The Atlantic Coast Of Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Atlantic Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Atlantic Provinces' Heritage and Environmental Groups.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Atomic Sludge Monster Devours Edmonton!!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The nuclear industry was facing tough times, so they needed to diversify.
- Atoms For War: The Saskatchewan Connection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Att överge allmänintresset
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- The Attack on American Muslims
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Flailing after Muslims is a convenient way for the right — extreme and mainstream — to prove their credentials as “genuine, God-loving Americans.” Islam, they charge, is not a religion of peace, of Western values; it’s an ideology of terror. “You can’t trust Muslims.”
- Attacks on the press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Attitudes at the Canadian Grassroots
Signs and Portents in the Seventies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A report on people's attitudes across Canada.
- Atwesasne Notes editor cleared
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Auditor raps waste dumping
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Ausserparlamentarische Opposition
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was a political protest movement active in West Germany during the latter half of the 1960s and early 1970s, forming a central part of the German student movement.
- Der außergewöhnliche Myles Horton
Interview geführt von Ellen Gould und Murray Dobin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Myles Horton ist der Gründer der Highlander Folk School, einem Ausbildungszentrum in Tennessee.
- Austerity and U.S. Decline
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The full frontal assault on public workers and their unions in one state after another — stripping collective bargaining rights and dues checkoff, slashing wages and pensions and health benefits, abolishing seniority and tenure for teachers, mandating yearly decertification votes, threatening jail terms for strikers — is as massive and instantaneous as it was unexpected by the labor bureaucracy and many union members. To say “the class war is back” is an understatement. It’s an authentic firestorm sucking the oxygen from labor rights, from Wisconsin to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and other states.
- Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship
A Little Justice for Al Manar TV
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Australia rejects politically motivated censorship attempts.
- Australian maritime dispute of 1890
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was the first of four great strikes that rocked Australasia in the 1890s, which caused political and social turmoil across all Australian colonies and in New Zealand, including the collapse of colonial governments in the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales.
- Australian shearers' strike of 1891
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
One of Australia's oldest and most important industrial disputes. Working conditions for sheep shearers in 19th century Australia were considered by those in the industry to be less than optimal. In 1891 wool was one of Australia's largest industries. But as the wool industry grew, so did the number and influence of shearers.
- Australian waterfront dispute of 1998
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Severe and protracted industrial relations dispute, primarily between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Patrick Corporation, a stevedoring and transportation company.
- Australia's Labor War on the Docks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE BATTLE BETWEEN the Australian "wharfies" and the Patrick Stevedore company, backed by the right-wing coalition government of Liberal Prime Minister John Howard, became a test of strength not only with the National Maritime Union (MUA) but with a wide section of the working class.
- Austro-Marxism and the National Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
The mistake made by those who, starting from the fact that revolutionary Marxism upholds the right of all peoples to independence, argue that the practical consequence of that should be the creation of independent national parties or a federation of organisations with extensive political and administrative autonomy, cannot be sufficiently emphasised. Solidarity between workers of the diverse nations within the same State should be paramount. Class solidarity is better than national solidarity.
- Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.
- Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Nick Hornby and other leading British authors accuse Tesco of mounting a "disproportionate" legal response to criticism over its operations in Thailand.
- Authors of Gaza youth manifesto speak to Electronic Intifada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We, the youth of Gaza, who make up sixty percent of Gaza's 1.6 million residents, have increasingly felt repressed in many aspects, starting from the long-standing Israeli occupation of our lands -- particularly the four-year-old Israeli blockade of Gaza -- through the injustice inflicted everywhere by the rulers of Gaza, who we elected four years ago.
- Auto Free Cities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Auto Industry Strikes in China
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Strikes in China are nothing new, but the recent strike wave was remarkable in at least three respects: the amount of concessions granted to workers; the degree of publicity it initially received in the Chinese media; and the prospects for showcase union reform that it has helped push onto the agenda.
- Auto-Lite strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to June 3, 1934.
- Auto-Determinación para Quién?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
- Les Autochones et nous: Vivre ensemble
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- L’autodétermination pour qui ?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
- The Automated Bread Factory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Autonomism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A set of left-wing political and social movements and theories close to the socialist movement. Autonomism (autonomia), as an identifiable theoretical system, first emerged in Italy in the 1960s from workerist (operaismo) communism.
- Autonomist Marxism Course Outline
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An outline of currents of thought and readings related to autonomist Marxism. The term autonomis" is used to designate a dominan characteristic of this particular tradition of radical political thought: the emphasis on the autonomy of the working class in its struggle against capital as well as on the autonomy of various groups of workers vis a vis others of their class.
- Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Autonomy vs. the Mexican Party-State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The development of autonomous local governments in Mexico.
- Autonomy zone on Wall Street?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Prefigurationists argue that they can create self-contained, self-governing societies as pockets of autonomy within the capitalist system. While the goal of creating a democratic decision-making process and remaining independent of the mainstream political system is necessary to create a movement that challenges the entrenched power of Wall Street and the corporate elite, the goal of constituting an autonomous authority within capitalism is impossible and can lead to some dangerous illusions.
- Avnery, Uri
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Israeli writer, human rights activist, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. (Born 1923).
- Avnery, Uri and Rachel
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Israeli human rights activists, founders of the Gush Shalom peace movement.
- The Awakening in America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The dynamic of social movements is far more important than their ostensible ideological positions. Revolutions arise out of complex processes of social debate and interaction that happen to reach a critical mass and trigger a chain reaction — processes very much like what we are seeing at this moment. The “99%” slogan may not be a very precise “class analysis,” but it’s a close enough approximation for starters, an excellent meme to cut through a lot of traditional sociological jargon and make the point that the vast majority of people are subordinate to a system run by and for a tiny ruling elite.
- Azmi Bishara and Muslims Worldwide Say No to Attacks on Non-Combatants
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We need the public to know that the choice is between supporting equality or supporting racism, not between opposing or supporting the killing of non-combatants, as the Zionists try to make the public believe. We should tell the public that, yes, we do disagree with the actions of some Palestinians, but that doesn't at all take away from the fact that Zionist ethnic cleansing is the root of the conflict and must be abolished.
- B.J. Widick, 1910-2008
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
On June 28, 2008, Branko J. Widick, known to everyone as “B.J.” or “Jack,” died at age 97 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Widick was a prominent figure in the history of U.S. Trotskyism and above all in the unorthodox political tendency known as the “Shachtmanites.” In the Great Depression, he was directly involved in the rise of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and was a participant in General Motors sitdown strike of automobile workers.
- Back in the USA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky explores American unwillingness to subject Israel to the principles of the Geneva Convention, citing this as a main cause for continued strife in the region.
- Back in the USSR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Impressions from a trip to the Soviet Union.
- Back to Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Maybe it's time for the left to see the universalization of capitalism not just as a defeat for us but also as an opportunity -- and that, of course, above all means a new opportunity for that unfashionable thing called class struggle.
- Back To The Future
The Continuing Relevance of Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Does anyone seriously believe that the Russian workers who invented soviets in 1905 or overthrew the Tsar in 1917 were free of bigotry, of anti-semitism, of sexism, of national chauvinism? Or the Hungarian workers of 1966? Or the French workers of 1968? (In France there had been considerable display of racism toward African immigrants, a racism that was significantly reduced for a while during the events of May 1968.) Were the Polish workers who created Solidarity in 1980 free of anti-semitism, sexism, the influence of the Catholic Church? What is missing in most of these empirical studies is the theory of Marx. They are based on the depths the working class has reached under capitalism, not the peaks. As a result, they are inherently conservative.
- Back-to-the-land movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Refers to a North American social phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s involving an attempted migration from cities to rural areas.
- Background paper on the Micmac occupation and hunger strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Background to Bush's Debacle: Iraq and the Empire
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The stated objective of the neoconservatives in control of United States foreign policy today is to carry out a war on terror by spreading freedom and democracy throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world, if necessary by American power alone, and if necessary by guided missiles, Humvees, and fighter jets.
- Backing it Up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
If you say something in a media interview, make sure you can back it up.
- Backlash as Google shores up great firewall of China
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Censoring the Internet.
- Backwards From Back-wards: The Unmet Needs of Recovering Psychiatric Patients in Edmonton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- Backyard Habitats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Bacon's Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An uprising in which poor whites and poor blacks united against Natives.
- Baez, Joan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Folk singer, songwriter and activist. (Born 1941).
- Bailando con la culpa: Los hombres hablando de la violencia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Bailing Out Banks, Smashing Unions
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
When General Motors and Chrysler received pre-Christmas bridge loans of $17.4 billion, President Bush specified that the unionized work force had to become “competitive” with non-unionized workers in wages, benefits and work rules. This blatant attempt to destroy an already weakened United Auto Workers (UAW) illustrates how, in the midst of an economic crisis, U.S. capital is bailed out as working people are fleeced.
- Bain Avenue controversy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Rent freeze organizers state their case.
- Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework#s insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
- Bain Co-op hit by rent strike
Rents up 18%
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Minority of residents launch rent strike while majority pursues co-op ownership.
- Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
A political thriller
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
- Bain Co-op OK's evictions
Eviction notices sent
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Bain residents refusing to pay their full rent are to be served eviction notices.
- BAKAUI
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Brochure that describes "bakaui", a way of life in which people work, in a community context, to develop an ecologically sound way of supporting human life.
- Baker, Ella
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).
- Bakounine contre Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Bakunin, Mikhail
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Russian anarchist and revolutionary. (1814-1876).
- Bakunin on Marx and Rothschild
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1871 Published: 1979
- Bakunin vs Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The debates between Bakunin and Marx transcend petty personal squabbles and embody two diametrically opposed tendencies in the theory and tactics of socialism, the authoritarian and libertarian schools respectively.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
El movimiento anarquista que apadrinó ha sido plagado por la misma polaridad, por la tensión entre el liberalismo real en un lado y algunas veces la irresistible atracción del anti-intelectualismo, terrorismo y conspiración en el otro.
- The Bakuninists at Work
An account of the Spanish revolt in the summer of 1873
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1873
This series of articles was written in the wake of the events in Spain during the summer of 1873, which were the culmination of the Spanish bourgeois revolution of 1868-74. Engels focused his attention on the involvement of the Spanish Bakuninists in the abortive cantonal revolts organised in the south and south-east of the country by the Intransigents, an extremist republican grouping that advocated the partition of Spain into independent cantons.
- Ballad of the Peace Pushers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984 Published: 1991
Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
- Ban on disposable diapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Ban on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843
The German press begins the New Year with apparently gloomy prospects. The ban that has just been imposed on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung in the states of Prussia is surely a sufficiently convincing refutation of all the complacent dreams of gullible people about big concessions in the future.
- Banamex v. Narco News Precedent Protects WikiLeaks, Too
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The story – one that defines the times we live in - has been going on for a while now: State power (and that includes private-sector “states” such as corporations and commercial media organizations) can no longer hide behind commercial (and State-owned) media to consolidate and centralize power when citizens deploy decentralized, small scale, and even temporary media resistances outside of those institutions in these ways that make big media irrelevant.
- Banana massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Matanza de las bananeras or Masacre de las bananeras was a massacre of workers for the United Fruit Company that occurred on December 6, 1928 in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta, Colombia.
- Bangladesh: Of Disasters and a Disastrous Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
- Bank imposes 'voluntary' drug tests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Banking on Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Package states the case against further Canadian bank loans to the government of South Africa. Suggests actions for persons wanting to resist further bank loans.
- Banning Cars from Manhattan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
By banning private cars and reducing traffic, we can, in most areas, close off nearly nine out of ten cross-town streets and every second north-south avenue. These closed roads plus the space now used for off-street parking will give us a handsome fund of land for neighborhood relocation. At present over 35 percent of the area of Manhattan is occupied by roads.
- Banning of Books Alarms Freedom Advocates
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The confiscation and banning of books by Malaysian authorities is sending alarm bells ringing among activists, who want the repeal of laws that the government is using to suppress freedom of expression.
- Bill Banta, 1941-2008
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Bill Banta, a member of the Chicago branch and founding member of Solidarity, died of pancreatic cancer in a Chicago hospice on August 20th. He was 67. Bill was a revolutionary socialist his entire adult life.
- Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1966
- Barlow, Maude
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens# advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
- Barlow, Maude
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens# advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
- Barred from Prison
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Barrie deaths investigated
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Barter
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Bartering is a medium in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services without a common unit of exchange (without the use of money).
- Barthel, Kurt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The father of the modern United States nudist movement.
- Barton awards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Barton awards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- A Basic Call to Consciousness
The Hau de no sau nee Address to the Western World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A message given by the Hau de no sau nee (or traditional Six Nations council at Onondaga) also called the Iroquois Confederacy to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in September, 1977.
- Basic Education Departments.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Basics and Tools
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Battered Women: How to Use the Law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Battle for Brooklyn
The Abuse of Eminent Domain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An article about the documentary Battle for Brooklyn, which chronicles the fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood facing demolition of their property to make way for the Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets.
- The Battle for Democracy in Mexico
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Mexican people won a battle for democracy this past spring when massive demonstrations — the largest in Mexico’s tumultuous history — prevented President Vicente Fox from making Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador ineligible to run for president in 2006. The defeat of Fox on this issue was a victory for the Mayor, but above all for the Mexican people, who defended their right to vote for a candidate of their choice in the coming national elections.
- The Battle for Puerto Rico's Labor Movement
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The teachers' union Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (FMPR) is the island’s largest labor union. Its evolution has considerable impact on Puerto Rico’s labor movement as a whole. In fact, recent events surrounding the FMPR reflect many of the debates and tensions that have shaped the island’s largest labor struggles over the past decade. These include:
- Battle in Nicaragua's Maquiladoras
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Nicaragua has only one major "free trade zone," Las Mercedes, and unlike the rest of Central America, half of the workers there have managed to build unions. Recently the zone management and the Labor Ministry are helping employers to implement a variety of union-busting actions:
- Battle of Ballantyne Pier
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A clash between city, provincial, and federal police and Communist-led protesters on 18 June 1935 in the East End of Vancouver.
- Battle of Blair Mountain
Connexipedia Article
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In 1921 between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted company-paid private detectives in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mine counties.
- Battle of Matewan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A shootout in the coal company town of Matewan, West Virginia on May 19, 1920.
- Battle of Orgreave
Connexipedia Article
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A confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strike.
- Battle of Valle Giulia
Connexipedia Article
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A clash between Italian left-wing militants and the Italian police at Valle Giulia, in Rome, on March 1, 1968.
- Battleship Potemkin
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Russian ship on which the crew rebelled against their oppressive officers in June 1905 (during the Russian Revolution of 1905).
- Bauxite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Baxandall, Lee
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American writer, translator, editor, and activist, first known for his New Left engagement with cultural topics and then as a leader of the naturist movement. (1935-2008).
- Bay View Massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A massacre of demonstrators by the Wisconsin National Guard.
- BBC High Court defence against Trafigura libel suit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009 Published: 2010
This document was submitted to the UK's High Court by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in September 2009, as a Defence against a libel claim brought against them by the oil company Trafigura. A May 2009 BBC Newsnight feature suggested that 16 deaths and many other injuries were caused by the dumping in the Ivory Coast of a large quantity of toxic waste originating with Trafigura. A September 2009 UN report into the matter stated that 108,000 people were driven to seek medical attention. This Defence, which has never been previously published online, outlines in detail the evidence which the BBC believed justified its coverage. In December 2009 the BBC settled out of court amid reports that fighting the case could have cost as much as 3 million pounds. The BBC removed its original Newsnight footage and associated articles from its on-line archives. The detailed claims contained in this document were never aired publicly, and never had a chance to be tested in court.
- BBC Joins Smear Campaign Against Assange and Wikileaks
Indicting the Messenger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The campaign by the establishment press against Julian Assange is intensifying.
- B.C. abortion clinic vandalized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- B.C. Ecologue
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A handbook for study and action on the ecological crisis.
- B.C. Gay Resources Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- 'Be his payment high or low'
The American Working Class in the Sixties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
Whether workers win a particular struggle or are forced to retreat or manage to hold their own varies considerably with time and place and the particular relationship of forces in each factory. What remains constant throughout, however, is the struggle itself and the search for new social forms.
- Bearing the Burden Sharing the Benefits
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Beat Generation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired.
- Beautiful Ruination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Iin the last half-century, even as the prophets of prosperity have spurred the U.S. on to ever more growth, ruins have become increasingly common features in the American landscape. Braddock, littered with decrepit hulks, is not alone.
- The beauty of wind farms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Windmills are beautiful. They harness the power of the wind to supply us with heat and light. They provide local jobs. They help clean our air and reduce climate change.
- Beauvoir, Simone de
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).
- Bebel, August
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German social democrat who was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. (1840-1913).
- Becoming a Revolutionary
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
- Beer Riots in Bavaria
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Before the White Race Was Invented
Review of The Invention of the White Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
With white racial oppression in place, the ruling class could promote poor and propertyless European-Americans into the "middle class," the same way the British promoted "mulattos" in the Caribbean, but they would have to do so strictly in token-name only, saving them countless billions of dollars, since the fantasy of social mobility was made conditional not on acquiring their own property, their own means of employment, or their own education, but on keeping African Americans poor and oppressed.
- Befreiungstheologie
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Begegnung mit dem Schuldbewusstsein
Eine Beobachtung von Männern, die sich mit Gewalt auseinandersetzen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Beginning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Revolutions do not stand still. Their vital law is to advance rapidly, to outgrow themselves.
- The Beginning of an Era
On the May 1968 revolt in France
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
- Behind Murder With Impunity
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
New York City and Los Angeles have become the model for life under capitalism in general, and in late-twentieth century urban America in particular. For the affluent are the booming stock and real estate markets; for the poor, a vista of injustice piled on injustice, atrocity on atrocity, serial police murder with impunity. After Amadou Diallo, Malcolm Ferguson; then Patrick Dorismond: If you are Black in New York you can be shot dead if you stand still, run away, or refuse an offer to sell drugs to undercover cops.
- Behind the Confederate Flag Controversy: The Unfinished Civil War
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Some 50,000 people, ninety percent African Americans, marched in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 17, the federal holiday honoring the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The march protest was organized by the NAACP demanding that South Carolina's government remove the Confederate flag from its statehouse. Until the state officials do so, the NAACP pledged to continue its economic boycott of the state.
- Behind the Death of Amadou Diallo
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Now that public outrage slowly diminishes regarding the Amadou Diallo case, this essay shares some of the immediate feeling and reaction that occurred at the time of the verdict. Furthermore, this essay tries to imagine salient possibilities for re-education in policing methods within communities of color.
- Behind the Dirty Cleansing of New Orleans
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Commentaries on the viciousness of Congressman Richard Baker’s (R-LA) oft-cited comment that “we couldn’t get rid of public housing, but God did” often miss the fact that it is, in many ways, an accurate assessment of the intentions of U.S. public housing policy.
- 'Beijing's bitch'
Beijind & Microsoft
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Putting profits ahead of human rights.
- The Belgian General Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
The strike of 1960-61 was the culmination of a growing movement of social protest that had been building up over many years. The economic situation of Belgium had been slowly deteriorating. The last and most drastic attempt to improve it, at the expense of the working class, was the introduction of the loi unique, which cut into workers' purchasing power and threatened their conditions of work. On December 14, 1960, a one-day demonstration was called by the Socialist Party and the trade unions to protest against this law. It met with tremendous success. On December 20, the day the debate on the law began in Parliament, the municipal workers came out on official, nationwide, strike. While most of the other unions were discussing what to do next, a spontaneous movement of unparalleled extent swept the country like a tidal wave.
- Bello, Walden
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. (Born 1945).
- Benefit to Canada no longer matters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Benjamin, Walter
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German-Jewish Marxist, literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. (1892-1940).
- Daniel Bensaïd: The Power of Indignation
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Daniel Bensaïd, the lively and inspired French Marxist thinker and activist, has left us. This is a great loss, not only for us, his friends, his comrades of struggle, but for revolutionary culture. With his irreverence, his humor, his generosity, his imagination, he was a rare example of a militant intellectual, in the meaning of these words.
- Berger, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English art critic, novelist, painter and author. (Born 1926).
- Berger Report in Brief
A Summary of Volume I of the Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Berkman, Alexander
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
- Berman, Marshall
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American philosopher and Marxist Humanist writer. (Born 1940).
- Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969 Published: 1972
An essay from the collection entitled From Rouseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, First published as Ideologia e Societá by Editori Laterza, Rome, Italy.
- Bernstein, Eduard
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the SPD, and the theorist of "evolutionary socialism" and revisionism. (1850-1932).
- Berra, Yogi
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
(Born 1925). American philosopher and former Major League Baseball player and manager.
- Berrigan, Daniel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American poet, peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. (Born 1921).
- Bertell, Rosalie
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian-American researcher who has worked in the field of environmental health. (Born 1929).
- Berton, Pierre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
- Berton, Pierre
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
- Bertrand Russell's Last Message
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
- Besant, Annie
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. (1847-1933).
- The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Exposing an issue that was otherwise overlooked or under-reported by national news media.
- The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Bethune, Norman
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
- Bethune, Norman
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
- A Better World: Programme of the Worker-communist Party of Iran
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The actual lives and actions of people themselves reveal a deep-seated belief in the possibility and even the certainty of a better future.
- Beyond Gay Identity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Gay emancipation will destroy gay identity. This is a good thing, because gay identity sustains gay conformism.
- Beyond Iraq: The Spreading Crisis
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The disaster and carnage of the Iraq occupation is the center of a crisis now spreading through the region—to Iran, to Afghanistan and the India-Pakistan subcontinent, and especially to Israel-Palestine—with implications far beyond.
- Beyond Judgment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Beyond Radical
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
What conservatives could bring to the climate conversation.
- Beyond Survival: Healing the incest wound
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Beyond the Ballot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Rather than focusing upon the establishment of elections in Iraq, Chomsky points out that popular will is the essential element of democracy. The vast majority of Iraqis were, however, opposed to coalition forces.
- Beyond the dross
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
- Beyond the Fields
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
- Beyond the Image: A guide to films about women and change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Beyond Voting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
By all means vote if you feel like it. But don#t stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
- Bhatt, Ela
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advocate for self-employed women. Winner of the Right Livelihood Award in 1984. (Born 1933).
- Bias in the Eye of the Beholder
“Liberal Media” Misperceptions in the American Mind
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In a time of economic instability, growing poverty, and chronic income and financial insecurity, Americans are increasingly critical of a governing system that they feel has failed in providing for their basic needs. This general distrust, however, can at times manifest itself in ignorant and destructive ways. So it is with the “liberal bias” claims, which misdirect public attention away from the very real bi-partisan, official source bias of the media, and toward some mythic media conspiracy to marginalize conservatives in favor of an “elite liberal agenda.” We should be careful to acknowledge this reality next time we hear friends, family, or acquaintances lamenting the “liberal media elite.”
- Bibb, Henry
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Author and abolitionist who was born a slave. (1815-1854).
- Big Bear
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisonedt. (1825-1888).
- Big Bear
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisonedt. (1825-1888).
- Big game hunters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Big increases for civil service managers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- The big robo-calling question: will anyone go to jail?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Good investigative journalism could break this affair wide open, but will the owners of the Harper-friendly corporate media allow their journalists to go beyond normal reporting and do the hard work necessary to get to the very bottom of this dark story?
- Big Three Auto Contracts: Lowlights of 2011
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
By the end of October, autoworkers at the Big Three will have approved their 2011-2015 contracts. Since Ford was the most profitable corporation, and one that had avoided bankruptcy, it was the logical corporation for the UAW to target. During the economic crisis Ford workers voted down a round of concessions that would have suspended their right to strike until 2015, so by bargaining first at Ford the union could have maximized its potential power to put an end to the concessions.
- Big Three Win A Modular Future: Contract Hype and Reality
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The 1999 contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three auto makers, plus General Motors' Delphi spin-off, offer one more demonstration of what the mainstream media like to call improved relations between the union and the company. Whatever the media mainliners think of this overused phrase, in practice it means greater consensus between top union leaders and company officials.
- Bigger Slicks, Sicker Society
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Corporate crime is strikingly analogous to the BP slick. The visible stuff is the slime on the surface that gets most of the attention. You can see it, taste it, smell it. The bigger part stays underwater where it poisons and kills silently, out of view, gets caught in the currents and escapes containment — just like those oil “plumes” poised to swirl around the Florida peninsula and head up the Eastern seaboard.
- The Biggest 'October Surprise' Of All: A World Capitalist Crash
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Today we see the Western bourgeoisie, disarmed by its own neo-liberal ideology, falling back in a flash on Keynesianism, injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the banking system to stave off collapse, and dusting off forgotten laws and powers from 70 years ago to push through their emergency measures.
- Bildering Club & Trilateral Commission. What are They? What Have They Done
Where are They Headed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Billboard Liberation Front Manual
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Tactics for improving outdoor advertising.
- Billionaires, Crime, and Corruption
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
What does it really mean when somebody claims to own hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars? What is a billionaire like David Rockefeller really telling us? He's saying that land he may never have set foot on, but which thousands of other people spend their lives farming, belongs to him alone. He's saying that buildings and machinery which he probably has never seen and certainly has never worked at, but which whole communities of people spend their lives working at to produce goods like clothing and automobiles, belong to him alone.
- Binge and Hangover
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
- Biodiversity
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth.
- Biography of Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1892
- A Biological Walk Down Wall Street
Economics, Symbiosis and Parasitoids
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Wall Street today, with the collapse of Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae, AIG, Lehmann Brothers, Washington Mutual and the rest as to come, is highly reminiscent of that scene in #Alien# where the parasite begins to burst out. The host is the free market. Feeding the parasitoid more, in sense of allowing it to nourish on public funds as new host, will have the same denouement, only this time the host will not just be a particular market, but the whole market, and the society reliant upon it.
- Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Bioregionalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political, cultural, and environmental system based on naturally-defined areas called bioregions, or ecoregions. Bioregions are defined through physical and environmental features, including watershed boundaries and soil and terrain characteristics. Bioregionalism stresses that the determination of a bioregion is also a cultural phenomenon, and emphasizes local populations, knowledge, and solutions.
- Bird, Diz and Max at Town Hall, 1945: Birth of a Revolution
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Hip-hop had a musical parallel in the 1940s. It was the music now called be-bop, although it wasn't called be-bop then. It was "the new thing" or "the revolution in music."
- Birney, Alfred Earle
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian poet, twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature. (1904-1995).
- Biró, András
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advcoate for Roma self-reliance and founder of the Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance (HFSR). (Born 1925).
- Birth Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Vatican condemns any form of birth control, yet they profit from a company which sells birth control pills.
- Bisexual community
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
People who are bisexual, pansexual or queer-identified and their allies.
- The Bisexual Identity
Changing Perspectives on Sexuality: Contributions of Kinsey and Anthropologists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Bisexuality
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sexual behavior with or physical attraction to both sexes (male and female), or a bisexual orientation.
- Bishop's Statement on Uranium Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
A 28-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America,
- B.J. Widick and the UAW
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Black Bloc
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
People who engage in protests wearing black clothing and masks and engaging in property damage. The tactic was developed in the 1980s by anti-nuclear activist autonomists, and was subsequently adopted by some anarchists, as well as some right-wing groups such as the autonomous nationalists of Europe. Black blocs lend themselves to infiltration by police and agents provocateurs, and it has often been alleged that their primary function, whether intentional or not, is to provide a pretext for police repression.
- The black bloc and the Battle of Seattle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- Black Bloc Provocateurs Set Strasbourg Hotel on Fire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Legitimate anti-NATO protesters are determined to use non-violent civil disobedience to block the summit. In order to provide an excuse to use batons and rubber bullets against them, agents provocateurs masquerading as Black Bloc anarchists have been dispatched with instructions to burn down hotels and vandalize churches.
- Black Cats, White Cats, Wildcats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Direct, shop-floor organization have emerged that are willing and able to call strikes in its own name and fight against both the union and the management in a struggle to assert the power of the working class in production.
- The Black Dwarf
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political and cultural newspaper published between May 1968 and 1972 by a collective of socialists in the United Kingdom.
- Black Grassroots Organizing, Black Resources and Information Centre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
- Black Liberation and the American Dream
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Race has always been the most visible source of division in the United States. Slavery, segregation, and the current ethnic profiling of the “Arab-looking” are just a few of examples of racism in American history.
- Black Liberation and the Fight for a Socialist America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
From slavery to convict labour, from the chain gang to the assembly line, American capitalism has been built upon the lash-scarred backs of black labour. Any organization that claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the special oppression of black people#their forced segregation at the bottom of capitalist society and the poisonous racism that divides the working class and cripples its struggles.
- Black Liberation, Working-Class Unity, and the Popular Front: A Reply to Mel Rothenberg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
MEL ROTHENBERG HAS written a generous review of my book The Color of Politics, (Against the Current 75, July/ August 1998), in which he praises and succinctly summarizes certain of my key arguments. For this I am, of course, grateful. On one issue, however, Rothenberg draws conclusions with which I wish to disassociate myself, conclusions that I believe do not flow from my writing or analysis. The issue concerns his assertion about the importance and salutary effect of popular front approaches...
- Black Panther Party
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African-American organization established to promote Black Power.
- The Black Panthers Reconsidered
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
To understand the Black Panther Party, we must place it in the context of the exhaustion of the Civil Rights movement by the mid-to-late sixties.
- Black Settles on Pensions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Black and White on the Inside
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In April 1993, Lucasville, Ohio, was the site of the longest prison siege in U.S. history during which lives were lost — longer even than the far more infamous 1971 Attica rebellion.
- Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
- Blackout in Gotham City
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Privatisation and deregulation are at the roots of both last Thursday's power meltdown and the 2001 California crisis, and both events have been lessons in the dangers of taking an exclusively private route into far from perfect markets.
- Blair, Elgin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Obituary of Connexions collective member Elgin Blair. (Died 1989).
- Blake, William
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English poet, painter, and printmaker. Considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. (1757-1827).
- Blame the victim instead
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Blaming the victims of sexual assault.
- Blanqui, Louis Auguste
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French political activist, founder of the revolutionary theory of Blanquism. (1805-1881).
- Blasted in a West Virginia Mine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Conditions in the mines are caused by capitalism. The 25 dead miners in the latest mine disaster in West Virginia are dead because union-busting and the disregard of safety precautions for the sake of speed-up and higher profits.
- Blau-Kamm case exposes the dark underbelly of Israel#s security state
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In a properly democratic country, Kamm would have an honorable defence against the charges, of being a whistle-blower rather than a spy, and Blau would be winning journalism prizes not huddling away in exile. But this is Israel. Here, despite a desperate last-stand for the principles of free speech and the rule of law in the pages of the Haaretz newspaper today, which is itself in the firing line over its role, there is almost no public sympathy for Kamm or even Blau. The pair are already being described, both by officials and in chat forums and talkback columns, as traitors who should be jailed, disappeared or executed for the crime of endangering the state.
- Bleeding the Patient: The Debt/Deficit Hoax Exposed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
An edited transcript of a four-hour discussion held by nine progressive political economists. Discusses the hysteria around the government debt-deficit issue and the difficulty in developing counter-arguments.
- Bleeding Wisconsin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Blinded by the Truth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Chomsky explores Israel's adoption of the American military doctrine in its conflict with the Palestinians.
- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
- Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers in Egypt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Egyptian bloggers use the Internet to expose police abuse and torture.
- Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Capital, Volume One: Chapter 28
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1867
Agricultural people: first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system.
- Bloody Oil
Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The extraction of oil from tar sands is perhaps the most ecologically insane idea on the planet. Four First Nations representatives from Canada travelled to Britain to participate in the London climate camp # the country#s biggest annual gathering of climate activists. Organized by the Indigenous Environmental Network and supported by the New Internationalist, the group#s aim was to internationalize the campaign for a complete tar sands moratorium.
- Bloomberg and NYC's Education Wars
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The New York City school system averted catastrophe on June 24, 2011 when mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew reached an accord to prevent more than 4000 teacher layoffs. Under the deal, the teachers’ union agreed to suspend sabbaticals for one year and to reorganize the way in which teachers without full programs are assigned.
- Blowing Your Own Horn!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Launching your own public relations campaign.
- Bob King and the "New" UAW
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Last June the 35th UAW Constitutional Convention in Detroit elected new national officers headed by Bob King. Even before his election, King had been heralded in the media as desirous of transforming the UAW into an activist union. He supported the US Social Forum, co-sponsored the August 28th Detroit march for “Jobs, Justice and Peace” and encouraged UAW participation in the October 2nd “One Nation Working Together” demonstration in Washington DC.
- Body Parts and Bio-Piracy
Tissue, Skin, Bone and Organ Harvesting at Israel's National Forensic Institute
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A report on the tissue, skin, bone and organ harvesting conducted for many years at Israel’s L. Greenberg National Institute of Forensic Medicine.
- Boff, Leonardo
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A theologian, philosopher and writer, known for his active support for the rights of the poor and excluded. One of the founders of liberation theology. (Born 1938).
- Boggs, Grace Lee
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Chinese-American author, anti-racist activist and feminist. (Born 1915).
- Bogus, Misdirected and Effective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.
- Bold Refugee Strategy Succeeds
Law Union News, February/March 1979
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Bolívar, Simón
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
South American political leader who played a key role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from Spain. (1783-1830).
- Bolivia After the Referendum
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The month following Bolivia's recall referendum on August 10, 2008 tragically confirmed the class polarization of that country. The right-wing autonomists of the Santa Cruz, Pando, Beni, Tarija and Sucre departments (states or provinces) escalated their destabilization campaign against the Morales government, while the latter singularly failed to assert its rightful democratic control over all Bolivian territory. A small, racist and virulently right-wing minority has been able to shut down large parts of the country and spill indigenous peasant blood with impunity.
- Bolivia: Evo Morales' First 100 Days
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On December 18, 2005 the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Toward Socialism, MAS) party won an historic 54% of the popular vote in the Bolivian general elections. MAS leader Evo Morales, an indigenous man of mixed Aymara-Quechua descent who came of age politically as a peasant union leader in the anti-imperialist cocalero (coca grower) movement of the Chapare region, became president. MAS assumed the governance of Bolivia on January 22, 2006.
- Bolivia: WikiLeaks Expose US Conspiracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Recently released United States embassy cables from Bolivia have provided additional insight to the events leading up to the September 2008 coup attempt against the Andean country’s first indigenous president.
- Bolivian gas conflict
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A social confrontation in Bolivia centering on the exploitation of the country's vast natural gas reserves.
- Bolivia's Autonomist Right -- A Dangerous Threat
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Autonomist right-wing forces in the Bolivian department (state) of Santa Cruz — acting through the offices of the prefecture (governorship) and Santa Cruz Civic Committee — held an illegal May 4 rerendum on departmental autonomy. According to the consulting agency Captura Consulting the “yes” side won 85% of the votes cast, with 15% against. However, many organizations within the left-indigenous bloc of the department had called for a boycott of the referendum, and were successful in obtaining an abstention rate of over 40%. Compare that to the remarkably low abstention rate of 15% in the December 2005 general elections that brought Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous president, to office at the national level. Nonetheless, the right declared results a triumphant victory.
- Bolivia's Growing Crisis
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A confrontation between the government of Bolivian president Evo Morales and a part of his indigenous social base is leading to a serious political crisis. A violent police assault on indigenous community protests against a road being built through their self-governed Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) have led to a growing confrontation.
- Bolivia's Uncertain Revolution
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Bolivia under the presidency of Evo Morales has become a favorite topic among progressives and social democrats, who have likened his ascendency to the nation’s highest post as nothing short of revolutionary. The buzz around Morales, a long time social movement figure and the first Indigenous president of the Andean nation has only lost a little luster since his election almost six years ago.
- Bolotnikov, Ivan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The leader of a popular uprising in Russia known as the Bolotnikov rebellion. (Died 1608).
- Bolshevik Party
Entry in the Marxists Internet Archive Glossary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Bolshevik party led the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- Bolshevism and Stalinism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
From any view that goes beyond the capitalist system of exploitation, Stalinism and Trotskyism are both relics of the past.
- Bolshevism, Gender & 21st Century Revolution
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
2017 will mark the Russian Revolution’s 100th anniversary. Socialists will again ask how the revolution was made and why it degenerated.
- Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
An in-depth analysis of the history of Bolshevism and the many programmatic, tactical and organisational lessons to be drawn from that history.
- The Bomb won't go away on its own
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals.
- Book on activism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Book on transformation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Book Review: "Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?" by Wayne Price
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Book Review: Kevin Anderson, Marx at the Margins (2010)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Anderson’s argument is based on a careful and comprehensive reading of the writings of Marx (and, to the extent necessary, Engels) on: (1) the history, economics and politics of societies and nations outside Western Europe (but including Ireland); (2) movements of national liberation, as in Ireland, Poland and India; and (3) the relationship between ‘race’ and class in countries such as England and the United States.
- Book seizures challenged
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Bookchin, Murray
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
- Bookchin on Technology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Murray Bookchin#s arguments for a liberatory technology.
- Books banned by governments, list of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
This article intends to list works, such as novels, nonfiction books, short stories, and essays that have banned by governments over time.
- Books of Interest - Sources 58
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
- Books on breast cancer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Boom and Bust... Literally
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The richest country in the world is faced with literal “boom”—in the form of exploding sections of electric, gas and steam systems—and “bust”—in the form of collapsing roads and bridges—on a widespread and regular basis.
- The Boomerang Is Almost Home
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It should never be forgotten that while colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West, and on the apparatuses, institutions, and techniques of power.
- Bordiga, Amadeo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Italian Marxist, contributor to Communist theory, founder of the Communist Party of Italy, leader of the Communist International and, after World War II, leading figure of the International Communist Party. (1889-1970).
- Born in Bradford
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Multiculturalism transformed the character of antiracism. By the mid-1980s the focus of antiracist protest in Bradford had shifted from political issues, such as policing and immigration, to religious and cultural issues: a demand for Muslim schools and for separate education for girls, a campaign for halal meat to be served at school, and, most explosively, the confrontation over the publication of The Satanic Verses. Political struggles unite across ethnic or cultural divisions; cultural struggles inevitably fragment.
- "Born into Brothels" Controversy
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
"Born into Brothels" won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary. Directed by British photojournalist Zana Briski and U.S. film editor Ross Kauffman, the film follows Briski’s project of teaching photography to a group of children who live in Sonagachi — Calcutta, India’s red-light district — as well as Briski’s efforts to get these children of sex workers admitted into boarding schools.
- The Borrower and the Billionaire
A Foreclosure Story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In this excerpt adapted from The Monster, Michael W. Hudson writes about the nation’s largest subprime lending empire through the fortunes of its owner and one of its customers.
- Borsodi, Ralph
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Economic theorist and practical experimenter interested in ways of living useful to the modern person or family desiring greater self-direction and self-reliance. (1886-1977).
- Boycott
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons.
- The Boycott
Lafargue, Paul
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1901
The boycott, which the bourgeoisie regards with sentimental tenderness when directed against the trade of its commercial rival, it considers as a crime when employed by the workers in defence of their livelihood. The mere blacklisting of a workshop by a trade union is an offence, in Europe as well as in America, punished by law and the infliction of civil damages, calculated to exhaust the treasury of the union and break down the power of resistance of the workers.
- Boycott America: Are You Ready to Take On a Lone-Gun Superpower?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Hit the superpower with a boycott the whole world can see, and that American power can really feel.
- Boycott Derails Jerusalem Rail Line
Rail Firm Pays Price for Link to Settlements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The very survival of the rail project is now in question after the boycott movement#s successful lobbying. A Dutch bank, ASN, pulled its investments from Veolia in 2006, and the company lost a large contract in Sweden this year.
- Boycott Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It is clear to me that the only way to counter the apartheid trend in Israel is through massive international pressure.
- Boycott the state, not just the settlements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
West Bank settlements would not be viable without government aid, so boycotts should target the Israeli state as well.
- Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Selective Outrage
What about the Others?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Calls attention to the widespread use of solitary confinement with Bradley Manning as a specific example.
- Bradley Manning's Torture Commonplace In U.S. Prisons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The corrosive, solitary confinement being inflicted upon PFC Bradley Manning in the Quantico, Va., brig is no exceptional torture devised exclusively for him. Across the length and breadth of the Great American Prison State, the world's largest, with its 2.4-million captives stuffed into 5,000 overcrowded lock-ups, some 25,000 other inmates are suffering a like fate of sadistic isolation in so-called supermax prisons.
- Brazil 1992
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Brazil: Changing Lives Through the Power of Dance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Founded in 1991 and directed by Dora Andrade, EDISCA is a non-governmental organisation that caters exclusively to children and adolescents from poor neighbourhoods.
- Bread and Roses
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The slogan "Bread and Roses" originated in a poem of that name by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to "the women in the West." It is commonly associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912, now often known as the "Bread and Roses strike".
- The Bread Index
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Health, social problems linked to bread.
- Break-ins against activist groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Breaking the Spell of Stupid Opinions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
When someone is outside the hold of a stupid opinion, its inanity is so apparent that one wonders how it could ever be held by anyone. But when people are caught believing something that isn't reality-based, most believe it far more rigidly than they believe facts.
- Brecht, Bertolt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German poet, playwright, theatre director, and radical. (1898-1956).
- Bridges, Harry
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Australian-American union leader in the ILWU, a longshore (dock) and warehouse workers' union on the West Coast, Hawai'i and Alaska. (1901-1990).
- Brief for Presentation to the Standing Committee on Labour, Manpower, and Immigration on Bill C27:
Proposed Amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Act.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- A Brief History of Connexions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- A Brief History of Loyal Opposition to War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As Afghanistan erupts with redoubled violence, the author recounts the clutch of soldiers who have refused to serve or repented their service in every American war since the War of 1812.
- A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
- A Brief Look at Public Alternative Schools in Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Brief on Energy Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- A Brief on the Effects of Inflation on Welfare Recipients
Presented to P.E.I. Cabinet Ministers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An exploration the situation of those Islanders most harshly affected by the effects of inflation and legislation governing wage and price controls.
- Brief on the Proposed Borrowers and Depositors Protection Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Brief on the Proposed Resolution for a Joint Address to Her Majesty the Queen
respecting the Constitution of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Brief Outline of the Labrador Inuit Association
President's Report for the 1979 Annual General Meeting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Brief Presented to the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Brief Presented to the Commission of Inquiry on Redundancies and Lay-Offs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Brief presented to the People and Parliament of Canadian Trade and Tariffs Committee
on the occassion of Multilateral Trade Negotiations under the Auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Brief Theory of the Present Crisis
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
This article is a summary and development of the argument that I have been writing in the journal Critique, both in the Critique Notes and a number of articles. I have left out two issues discussed in Critique, that of the case against the falling rate of profit as the only or fundamental cause and why the ruling class has opted for austerity.
- Brief to Federal Cabinet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Brief to NDP Caucus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Critique of the amendments to the Landlord and Tenants Act and recommendations for modifications to present legislation.
- A Brief to the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Brief to the Board of Directors, The Wellesley Hospital.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Brief to the National Assembly Committee on Natural Resources at Hearings on Energy Policy.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Brief to the National Unity Task Force
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Brief to the Renewable Resources Committee, the Select Committee of the New Brunswick Legislature.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Brief to the Select Committee on Renewable Resources, New Brunswick Legislature
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Brief to the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self-Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Briefs to the People's Commission on Unemployment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Bring In The Paper, Bring On The Torches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The ideologists of capitalism are paid handsomely to proclaim the rationality of the free market system, where all men are recreated equal by their commodities as buyers and sellers. Finance capital, however, recreates itself in the irrationality of the markets, in the divergence between prices; in the disparity between particular prices and particular values.
- Bring it Home
One Sky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet about the needs of grass roots, people-oriented health programs and awareness.
- Bringing Diversity Home
Lakey, George
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Diversity provides an opportunity for activist organizations to strengthen themselves. A lot depends on how it's done.
- Brinton, Maurice
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Libertarian socialist writer and neurologist. (1923-2005).
- Brisbane general strike of 1912
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The 1912 Brisbane General Strike in Queensland, Australia, began when members of the Australian Tramway Employees Association were dismissed when they wore union badges to work on 18 January 1912. They then marched to Brisbane Trades Hall where a meeting was held.
- Britain # Its contribution to Socialism, Marxism and Workers# Organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Links to writings from the history of the British Isles, relevant to the development of socialist ideas and Marxism.
- Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda
Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- The British Columbia Family Relations Act: The Complete Laywoman's Guide (1980).
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- British Columbia Woodworkers' Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
15 May - 20 June 1946. Twenty-seven thousand workers in both the coast and interior regions, led by district president Harold Pritchett, struck when demands for a 25-cent hourly increase, a 40-hour week, union shop and mandatory dues check-off were refused by Stuart Research Service, the bargaining agent for 145 coast operators.
- British Labour Today
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The glory days of the British Labour Party are long behind it. Labour won the 1945 General Election and used the next six years in office to nationalize the Bank of England, the railway network, electricity, the steel industry and road transport.
- British Policy in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
The three principal factors in the political arena in Palestine 1in 1938 are British imperialism, the Arab nationalist movement under its present leadership and the Zionist movement.
- The British Rule in India
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1853
England has broken down the entire framework of Indian society, without any symptoms of reconstitution yet appearing. This loss of his old world, with no gain of a new one, imparts a particular kind of melancholy to the present misery of the Hindoo, and separates Hindostan, ruled by Britain, from all its ancient traditions, and from the whole of its past history.
- British study has the goods on corporate execs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law tested 39 senior managers and chief executives from leading businesses and compared the results with the same tests on patients at Broadmoor hospital, where people who have been convicted of serious crimes are incarcerated. On certain indicators of psychopathy, the bosses' scores either matched or exceeded those of the patients; in fact, on these criteria, they beat even the subset of patients who had been diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorders.
- Broadcast Licenses for Religious Groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Religious freedom does not imply the right of any group to use the public airwaves to promulgate their own religious views while excluding all conflicting points of view.
- Broadside goes under
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
- Broken Spirit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned.
- Brown, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).
- Brown, Rosemary
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian politician, prominent member of the New Democratic Party. (1930-2003).
- Bruce, Lenny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. (1925-1966).
- Bruderhof Communities
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Christian religious communities with branches in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania in the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia.
- Dennis Brutus: Honored by the Enemies He Kept
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
So much has been said about the loving and nurturing characteristics of Dennis Brutus and his political and literary contributions. Those who knew him understood how much he wanted to encourage future generations of radicals and poets.
- Bryant, Louise
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American journalist and writer best known for her Marxist and anarchist beliefs and her essays on radical political and feminist themes. (1885-1936).
- Buber, Martin
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship. (1878-1965).
- Buck, Tim
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Machinist, trade unionists, and a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada. (1891-1973).
- The Buckeye Socialist Alternative
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Dna La Botz Socialist for Senate campaign in Ohio represents an important success in the recent context of leftist third party initiatives. Running the first Socialist Party campaign for national office in Ohio since 1936, La Botz garnered 25,368 votes statewide, one of the more successful socialist electoral bids in decades. This experience provides some important lessons for how the left can engage the electoral arena in this period.
- Budai Nagy Antal Revolt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Transylvanian peasant revolt, of 1437, which was the only significant popular revolt in the Kingdom of Hungary prior to the great peasant war of 1514.
- Budget hits veterans
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Budget spares banks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Budget Woes, Class Wars
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The full frontal assault on public workers and their unions in one state after another — stripping collective bargaining rights and dues checkoff, slashing wages and pensions and health benefits, abolishing seniority and tenure for teachers, mandating yearly decertification votes, threatening jail terms for strikers — is as massive and instantaneous as it was unexpected by the labor bureaucracy and many union members. To say “the class war is back” is an understatement. It’s an authentic firestorm sucking the oxygen from labor rights, from Wisconsin to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and other states.
- Budiardjo, Carmel
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British human rights activist, founder of the organisation Tapol and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award.
- Buffalo switchmen's strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike in August 1892 by railroad workers employed by three railroads in Buffalo, New York.
- Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
- Building Bridges to Central America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship?
The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
A review of Tony Cliff's book Trotsky, 1927-1940. In Cliff's view, the Trotskyist movement in the USSR was not so much destroyed by Stalin as much as it collapsed under the weight of its own fundamentally faulty assumptions regarding the nature of the enemy--indeed, just who the enemy was.
- Bukharin, Nikolai
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist theoretician, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. (1888-1938).
- Bukharin, Nikolai
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist theoretician, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. (1888-1938).
- Bukharin, Bunting and the #Native Republic Slogan#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
- Buller, Annie
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Union organizer and manager of various Communist Party of Canada (CPC) publications. (1895-1973).
- The Bund (General Jewish Labour Bund)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A secular Jewish socialist party in Central and Eastern Europe operating predominantly between the 1890s and the 1930s.
- Bunkhouse Men
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The term "bunkhouse men" is typically applied to some 50 000 workers who constituted a labour pool for the booming Canadian economy in the first 3 decades of the 20th century. They lived in frontier work camps and provided unskilled labour in logging, harvesting, mining and construction. Mainly single and "foreign," they experienced brutal exploitation.
- The bureaucracy remains
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The government may change, but the bureaucracy remains, continuing the same short-sighted policies.
- Burmese media combating censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- "Burn the Haystack!"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
This war is part of (the Israeli government's) plans to achieve total control over the Palestinian people -- plans which will inevitably lead to both peoples, Palestinians and Israelis alike, paying a terrible price in blood.
- Burning Truth
Invisible Truth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Make no mistake about this: Hoang Hung was killed as a warning to other journalists. Make too much noise and you will be roasted alive like this man.
- Margaret Burroughs
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Margaret Burroughs, longtime Chicago artist and activist, died on November 21, 2010 at age 93. Producing poetry, block prints, paintings, sculptures, and participating in theater, she was a modern day renaissance woman. She leaves behind two major institutions — the Du Sable Museum and the South Side Community Art Center — that are her legacy to a life dedicated to promoting African-American art and culture.
- Bury the Seventies and the Eighties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The perversity of Bush's agenda.
- Bush-Gore 2000: No Thanks!
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The Republican presidential candidate strongly advocates the Effective Death Penalty Act, the World Trade Organization and "free trade" with China; talks environmental protection while being heavily funded by Occidental Petroleum; supports deportations of non-citizens suspected of "terrorist links" based on secret evidence which the accused cannot hear or refute; and openly pandered to the right-wing lobby in Miami in the Elian Gonzalez affair.
- Bush, the Democrats & the Greens After 2004
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
One peculiar event around the 2004 elections received almost no analysis or discussion: The overwhelming majority of the supporters of John Kerry disagreed with their candidate on most major issues. This simple fact tells how deep the corruption of the American political system has become.
- Bush to New Orleans Survivors: "You're On Your Own"
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Like everyone who "got out" before Katrina hit, my exit was a private one. My partner and I took heed of the voluntary evacuation because we had the means to do so. We packed three changes of clothes and our passports, got in our trusty 1998 Ford Escort station wagon with some friends, and left our green-shuttered 100-year-old Victorian shotgun house in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
- Bush's bankrupt vision
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Looking at the stops during Bush's visit to the Middle East, Chomsky offers an explanation of the ambitions Bush aimed to establish as his legacy; namely, good relations with those regions rich in resources, especially Saudi Arabia and Israel.
- Bush's leadership praised
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
The GEO Group Cashes In
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut) is hardly a household name, they are a major player in the private corrections sector, combining a self righteous amorality in profiting from human misery with a ruthless sense of just how to make a buck in this business.
- The Butterfly and the Boiling Point
Charting the Wild Winds of Change in 2011
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
- The Buzz Hargrove election controversy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
We aren't obligated to vote NDP no matter what the circumstances.
- C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism --ed.), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heaviest responsibility for me,”(1) is a sententious political statement. It abounds with meanings, standing at once as an alluring paradox and a striking truism.
- Cabbagetown: A Working Class District
Hugh Garner's novel revisited
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Cabet, Étienne
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French philosopher and utopian socialist. He was the founder of the Icarian movement and led a group of emigrants to found a new society in the United States. (1788-1856).
- Cabral, Amílcar (Abel Djassi)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African agronomic engineer, writer, Marxist and nationalist guerrilla and politician. (1924-1973).
- Cade, Jack
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The leader of a popular revolt in the 1450 Kent rebellion. (Died 1450.)
- Calary's Eastern Downtown Core:
Social Perspectives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- California Greens Advance: The Camejo and Chretien Campaigns
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In California the Green Party is changing both in its social composition and in its political diversity. The party's support for immigrants' rights, especially around the issue of state driver's licenses, has won the party growing support among Latinos. Leading activists such as Nativo Lopez, Chair of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), and Miguel Araujo, from Centro Azteca, have come into the Green Party.
- California Home Care: Terminated!
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Question: What's the best health care plan in the U.S. Answer: Don't get sick!
- California Is Not Dreaming
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Discussion of March 4, 2010 Day of Action in California.
- A Call For a Moratorium
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brief submitter to the Berger Inquiry by PROJECT NORTH.
- The Call for Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment Against Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Boycott Factsheet.
- A Call to Community
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
A proposed community.
- A Call to Justice Today for Our Children Tomorrow: A Declaration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- A Call to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Humanity is facing the alternative: Dissolution and downfall in capitalist anarchy, or regeneration through the social revolution.
- Callenbach, Ernest
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American writer, known as an author of green books, namely as author of the ecological utopias Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981). (Born 1929).
- Calling Bono
Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Palestinians have been engaging in nonviolence for decades. The reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world.
- Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A call for sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.
- Callwood, June
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
- Callwood, June
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
- Cambodia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Chomsky discusses the invasion of Cambodia. He describes it in terms of the internationalization of the Vietnam war as well as explores the internal developments leading up to the event. Specifically, Chomsky focuses on the right-wing coup of Prince Sihanouk on March 18th 1970 as the turning point from neutrality to destabilization.
- Cambodia: Labor and the Coup
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN THE FACE of a repressive and dangerous environment, workers are on the move in Cambodia. Though Americans heard little about it, the emergence of an independent labor movement was one of the most promising developments in Cambodia since the UN imposed democratic institutions “from above” on a society with no prior democratic experience.
- Peter Camejo: A Red-Green Life
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Progressive movements lost a major advocate last September 13th when Peter Camejo died after a long battle with lymphoma at the age of 67. The broad, historical impact he had was obvious in the national media response and the hundreds of emails and blog entries following his death.
- Peter Camejo at Berkeley
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I met and worked with Peter Camejo in Berkeley during the latter half of the ’60s. He was a leader of the Socialist Workers Party and the Young Socialist Alliance there, while I was active in the Independent Socialist Clubs, which later became the International Socialists. Peter was always a hard-driving speaker who always knew what he wanted to say, and he could say it elegantly.
- Camejo's Early Political Years
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I first met Peter Camejo in 1958, when we were both students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He had joined the Young Socialist Alliance in New York, politically aligned with the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, the year before, and I was a member of the Young People’s Socialist League, politically aligned with the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation.
- Camisard
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French Protestants (Huguenots) of the Cevennes region of south-central France who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
- Campaign for Fair Taxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An organization that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain. It also campaigns for international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- Campaigning with Issues
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Ann Menasche. Ann Menasche, who ran for Secretary of State in California on the Green Party ticket, was interviewed by Dianne Feeley for ATC. Menasche is a longtime activist and an attorney concentrating on disability rights.
- Can a Democrat change US Middle East policy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In response to the Bush Administration's open disregard for public opinion polls, Chomsky considers the likeliness of a Democrat taking a new stance on the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. He asserts that the possibility is somewhat greater - even if only marginally.
- Can Free Schools Work?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
Before starting on another round of alternative education projects, it might be helpful to try to understand why few of the last round#s projects achieved long term success.
- Can Journalism Schools Be Relevant In A World On The Brink?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The best of our students are worried not just about whether they can find a job after graduation but also whether those jobs will allow them to contribute to shaping a decent future for a world on the brink.
- Can Soldiers Resist?
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Interviews with Tod Ensign and Phil Aliff.
- Can the Egyptians Come to Canada to Liberate Us?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
As I sat glued to Al Jazeera for two weeks watching the Egyptian revolution unfold from my home in Toronto, I must confess to having experienced feelings of jealousy. How nice it must be, I thought, to live a country where people want democracy.
- Can the NDP be Socialist?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Simon Rosenblum argues that the left should work to transform the NDP, not ignore it.
- Can We Build Socialist-Anarchist Alliances?
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Last summer I delivered a talk on primitivist anarchism at a conference devoted to Marxist literature and culture. The participants were mostly academics engaged with Marxist criticism, and most came out of university English departments. For many in this group of self-described Marxists, my attempt at bemused critical appreciation for this admittedly problematic group of anarchists was not welcome. Anarcho-primitivists, critics insisted, are not activists, and they certainly have no place among committed Marxists. Worse, they are misanthropic, individualistic terrorists — perhaps even genocidal in their overall aims to destroy civilization.
- Can We Live and Eat Too?
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In 1579, the fleet of British explorer Sir Francis Drake met the coast of what we now call California. Drake, who would dub his discovery “New Albion” (Albion being the Latin name for Britain), thought he had happened upon an island. Though the source of California’s present-day name is obscure, at least one etymological theory suggests that Drake was not alone in imagining the place as a world apart; the first literary reference to “California,” in a 1510 novel by Spanish writer García Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Esplandián, depicts an island in the Pacific inhabited by Amazonian women.
- Can You Pass The US Christian Right Quiz?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- Canada: Activists Face the Future
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Electoral politics present challenging problems for labor movements all over the world. In the absence of strong working class parties, labor activists are often compelled to support parties that implement anti-worker legislation simply because they represent a lesser evil. While reforms are certainly necessary, the investment of activist energy and resources into the electoral process can often distract union and social justice organizations, preventing them from undertaking the important task of generating solidarity within more impoverished segments of the working class.
- Canada and Strategic Nuclear Weapons Systems
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Canada and the Global Food System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Canada and the Rights of the Chilean People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Brief presented to the Canadian Government by the Coalition on Canadian Policy Toward Chile.
- Canada As a Conserver Society: An Agenda for Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Canada -- Beware! Look What's Happened to Peru
GATT-Flyer No. 3
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Parallels are drwan between the Canadian and Peruvian Oil Industries.
- Canada challenges bylaw
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
- The Canada Metals story: A chronology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
- Canada, Namibia and You
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet to aid letter writing campaign against S. Africa's occupation of Namibia.
- Canada, Politics and Direct Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Editorial regarding activities of group calling itself 'Direct Action'.
- Canada Post: Profits Before People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Canada Post raises prices to North
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Canada to allow new arms sales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Canada is expanding its exports of arms.
- Canada-U.S.-Mexico relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Canada World Youth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
- Canada's Imperialism Without Illusions
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Against The Current interviewed Canadian author and activist Todd Gordon on April 29, 2011, shortly before the May 2 national election in Canada. Gordon is the author of Imperialist Canada (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2010). We followed up with additional questions after the election.
- Canada's Indians: A Powerless Minority
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
Discusses several complicated issues bringing to light the troubling relationship between the Canadian government and Native communities.
- Canada's New Immigraion Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
See also: CX905.
- Canada's New Immigration Act: A Guide and Critical Commentary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Canada's Secret Constitution
NAFTA. WTO and the End of Sovereignty?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Adapted from Chapter 4 of Clarkson's book Uncle and Us: Globalization, Neoconservativism, and the Canadian State.
- Canada#s Water: Resource War #2
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Wars are usually fought over ideologies or natural resources. Canada should be concerned given its rich deposits of natural resources.
- Canadian Aid: Blessing or Burden?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Canadian airbase protested
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Canadian Alternatives in 1975: a movement maturing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Overview and analysis of the growing Canadian "Alternatives Movement".
- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Canadian Civil Liberties Bibliography (Indexed)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Canadian Environment Network
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Canadian Environment Network
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
A Guide to Selected Resources
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Canadian Environmental Network
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Canadian firms losing out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Canadian Forum
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canada's oldest continually published political periodical.
- The Canadian Grain Trade - An Introductory Outline.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Outline of the grain trade in Canada and parallels to the situation underlying the New International Economic Order.
- Canadian Human Rights Commissions Annual Report 1988
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- The Canadian Information Sharing Service
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Editorial explaining that the Canadian Information Sharing Service has changed the name of its publication to 'Connexions'.
- Canadian journalist called FBI informant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Canadian links with apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Canadian magazines worried
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Canadian Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
How so-called "business journalism" is often biased and tends to give readers a distorted picture of the news.
- Canadian Mining Corporation Receives Permits in Mexican Indigenous Territory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Canadian mining companies have found a way to expand their operations in Mexico. Recently the Mexican government awarded 22 permits to British Columbia-based First Majestic Silver to mine for silver in the western region of the country.
- Canadian Neocolonialism in Latin America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
Discusses the role of Canadian capital in foreign markets and the drive behind Canadian businesses to control valuable assets in Latin American countries.
- Canadian Peace Alliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Canadian Peace Ballott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa:
An Ecunemical Concensus Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Paper presented to government officials detailing position on racial oppression in S. Africa.
- The Canadian Student
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Canadian Textile Trade and Hong Kong
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Canadian Transport
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Ontario Region, Bulletin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Canadian Whole Earth Almanac
Profile of a project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Canadian Woman: Her Work, Her Church
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Cananea strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike took place in the Mexican mining town of Cananea, Sonora, in June 1906.
- The Cancer in Occupy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property — is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
- Cancer of economic growth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Cancer, weed-killers linked
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- CANDI: An Analysis of the Canadian Nuclear Program
Part I - Technical Handbook
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Handbook on the issues surrounding the nuclear program
- Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they#ve deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it#s not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
- Cape Breton Steel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Cape Breton Strikes, 1920s
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Cape Breton labour wars of the early 1920s represented an intense local episode of class conflict. In such conflicts militant unions, often led by radical leaders, were attempting to change the balance of power in Canadian industry by insisting on union recognition and improved living standards for the workers.
- The Capital Punishment Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
- The Capital Punishment Debate - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Capital Punishment: The most Deplorable form of Deliberate Murder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A society that legally permits the killing of human beings can never prevent its repetition by the general public. The abolition of capital punishment and declaring the value of human life is the first step in the struggle against a culture of murder in society.
- Capitalism and Social Rights
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We're talking here about rights and how to guarantee them in an unequal globalized society. I’m just going to take it for granted that all of us here believe in human rights in some sense of the term. Let’s start from the premise that all human beings, just by virtue of being human, are entitled to certain basic conditions of freedom and dignity which have to be respected by others, not just by other individuals but also, and especially, by people in power and by states.
- Capitalism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
The revolution must of course start with the overthrow of the exploiting class and with the institution of workers' management of production. But it will immediately have to tackle the reconstruction of social life in all its aspects. If it does not, it will surely die.
- Capitalism and Socialism: A Rejoinder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Those who seem frightened of new ideas might at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while. But even this seems to be asking too much. In argument, they defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
- Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint
Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The capture of ecological discourse by the political culture of the consensus (a necessary expression of the conception of capitalism as the end of history) is well advanced. In contrast, the expression of the demands of the socialist counterculture is fraught with difficulty—because socialist culture is not there in front of our eyes. It is part of a future to be invented, a project of civilization, open to the creativity of the imagination.
- Capitalism is a Waste of Time
Godwin, Malthus & the Ideology of #No Alternative#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The #no alternative# of permanent scarcity is both the all too familiar essence of our daily politics as well as the ideology at the heart of the discipline of economics, defined in the most widely used economics textbook of the 20th century as #the study of how men and society choose to employ scarce resources#
- The Capitalist City or the Self-Managed City?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The opposite of gentrification should not be decay and abandonment but the democratization of housing. Community land trusts may be a way of working towards this goal.
- Capital's Global Turbulence - Study Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
ROBERT BRENNER'S THE Economics of Global Turbulence, a book-length study published as issue 229 of the Journal New Left Review, has attracted unusual attention for at least two reasons. Not only is Brenner's factual and theoretical argument formidable in its own terms, but its publication coincided fortuitously with the stock and financial market upheavals triggered by the Asian collapse.
- Capital's War on the People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is time to change the parameters of the debate, from “when or by how much social spending should be cut?” to “why should the people pay for something they are not responsible for?”
- Capital's War on the People
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Instead of calling the recent G-20’s brutal austerity declaration (issued at the conclusion of its annual summit in Toronto) an orchestrated declaration of class war on the people, many progressive/Keynesian economists and other liberal commentators simply call it “bad policy.” While it is true that, as these commentators point out, the Hooverian message of the declaration is bound to worsen the recession, it is nonetheless not a matter of “bad” policy; it is a matter of class policy.
- The Captive Labour Force on Non-English Speaking Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Captive Nation - Egypt And The West
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What mainstream media consumers will find almost nowhere (perhaps literally nowhere) is a detailed analysis of how US-UK support for Mubarak fits with a pattern of US-UK support for dictators across the world over many decades, indeed centuries.
- The Caracas Commitment
Declaration from World Meeting of Left Parties, November 19-21, Caracas, Venezuela
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We have gathered with the aim of unifying criteria and giving concrete answers that allow us to defend our sovereignty, our social victories, and the freedom of our peoples in the face of the generalized crisis of the world capitalist system and the new threats spreading over our region and the whole world.
- Carbon trading: privatising the world's forests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The World Bank sponsored carbon offset program has faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions themselves.
- A Carbon-Free Future
An Interview with Arjun Makhijani
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
- Ron Carey, Militant Union Reformer
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
“Ron Carey was the nation’s most charismatic and successful labor leader as the twentieth century was coming to an end. He will be remembered as a major figure in American labor history on the basis of just two of his accomplishments: In 1991, running as a reformer with the backing of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), he was elected general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In 1997, he led the successful 15-day strike against the giant United Parcel Service, the biggest victory organized labor had experienced in at least three decades.”
- Cargill and Friends
The Grain Companies' Rollercoaster and Why We Should Get Off
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brochure that charts the growth of major multinational grain trading companies.
- Cargill Inc.: Making Profit From Hunger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- The Caribbean Left's Legacy
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Sara Abraham interviews Eusi Kwayana. The Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana is most commonly associated with one of its early members, Walter Rodney. A renowned Pan Africanist and historian, he was assassinated in 1980, at the height of the party's involvement in building a civil rebellion to the Forbes Burnham regime. The WPA continued to organize and build its ranks through a democratic socialist multi racial agenda, but has continuously been marginalized by the two party system, wining only one or two seats in each election.
- Caribbean Politics and the 1930s Revolt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
During the 1930s all Britain's major island and continental colonies in the Caribbean exploded in rebellion.
- Caring For Earth Mother
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A poem.
- Carl Oglesby: A Mentor & Leader
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In my lifetime I’ve heard two speakers whose unadorned eloquence and moral clarity pulled my heart right out of my chest. One was Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, speaking from the roof of the Busy Bee Market in Andersonstown in Belfast the apocalyptic day that hunger striker Bobby Sands died.
- Carmichael, Stokely
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Trinidadian-American black leader active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. (1941-1998).
- Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Carol L. McAllister (1947-2007)
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
I remember meeting Carol on a public transit bus, I believe in 1980 –- when, almost out of the blue, she approached me and started talking to me about Central America. She recognized me from some earlier meeting on repression and revolution in Central America and wanted to know if, by any chance, I had been in the audience viewing a documentary on women in El Salvador that she had just seen (I hadn’t) and if I would mind if she shared some thoughts about it.
- Caroline Lund-Sheppard, Sept. 24, 1944-Oct. 14, 2006: A Life Fully Lived
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
It's my favorite photograph of Caroline: She’s just a girl, standing straight up, hands neatly folded in front of her, wearing a long, white tunic, and an exuberantly silly grin.
- Carpenter, Edward
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher. (1844-1929).
- Carr, Shirley
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
- Carrefour International Catalogue
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Cars and Class
"A Reckless, Blood-Thirsty, Villainous Lot ... "
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Making life difficult for cars could be, in fact, described as a form of class war, but one that works in the long-term interests of the poor and working class.
- Carson, Rachel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings, especially 'Silent Spring', are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (1907-1964).
- Carter's Inconvenient Truths
An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
- Cascadia Rising to Save the Forest
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Protests in nine cities across California, Oregon and Washington took place February 23rd, coordinated by the Cascadia Rising Project, in response to the Bush Administration's removal of protections on federal lands for over 100 rare and uncommon species associated with the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
- The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
- The Case Against U.S. Adventurism in Iraq
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky depicts the Bush Administration's ambition to rule the world by force and the dangers of this intention.
- The Case for a Nuclear-Free Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Case for Academic Boycott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Academic boycott targets Israel's intellectual leadership, the educated elite whose record consists largely of misinforming Israelis about their history, distorting their understanding of current conflicts, normalizing the racism of their society, and providing to the Israeli military and government the legal, technological, and political tools it needs to facilitate the continued theft of Palestinian land and the containment of its restive population.
- The Case for an Alternative
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A statement by Solidarity: The strategy of “the lesser evil” hasn't worked, and less than ever will it work today. The loyalty of labor, racial minorities, women, LGBT people and other progressives — expressed in massive campaign contributions and large numbers of votes — comes at a very low cost for the “New Democrats,” who know perfectly well that no matter how far to the right they move, the advocates of “the lesser evil” remain their captives.
- The Case For Long-Term Supportive Housing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Book review.
- The Case For Revolutionary Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
In my view, the movement for another world is committed to four main values – justice, efficiency, democracy, and sustainability.
- The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of articles making the case for socialism.
- The Case for Staying in Iraq
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
I don't support an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, because I think it would probably make an already bad situation much worse. Of course, there's no guarantee that continuing the occupation will succeed in allowing some form of stability to take hold—particularly if our military forces simply "stay the course" of brutality evidenced in Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, and the training of Iraqi death squads. However, I believe it offers the best chance for the chaotic forces now at work in Iraq to settle, over time, into some type of a coherent nation.
- A Case of Decency Deficit
Eden's Photoshoot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
According to the Israeli human rights group Breaking the Silence, taking humiliating trophy pictures of Palestinian prisoners are such a "widespread phenomenon" that taking them constitutes "a norm." Why so? Because it is the "necessary result of a long term military control of a civilian population."
- The Case of Northwest Airlines: Workers' Rights & Wrongs
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Four years ago, when asked by an academic journal to write about whether the strike was still a viable weapon in labor’s “arsenal,” my title was blunt: “Is the Strike Dead?”(1) As is my style, I introduced some historical material and offered an analysis of the anti-labor bias of the past 25 years, during which the number of “large” strikes (involving 1,000 or more workers) had declined from more than 400 per year to less than 30.
- The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen’s Union
Who’s Speaking for Whom?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Occupy Oakland should not be pretending to speak on behalf of Oakland's dockworkers, and should not be telling the dockworkers when and how they should strike. Occupy Oakland's actions are the opposite of democratic, and an affront to the basic notiions of worker's self-activity, workers' empowerment, and workers' control.
- A Case Study on the Interaction of Immigrant-Canadians in Their Work
and the Influence of this Interaction on the Resocialization of the Immigrant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A sociological analysis done from the perspective of participant observation; theological reflections.
- Casgrain, Marie Thérèse (Forget)
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. (1896-1981).
- Cast out of Eden
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Castlegreen Co-operative - An Alternative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A booklet that describes what is meant by a "co-operative" and gives reasons why they are an appropriate alternative to individual home ownership.
- Castoriadis, Cornelius
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Greek-French philosopher, libertarian socialist, and psychoanalyst. Author of the The Imaginary Institution of Society, co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group and 'philosopher of autonomy'. (1922-1997).
- Catalogue of Resources - Social and Political Action Section - 1978-80
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- The Catherine Ferguson Struggle
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Catherine Ferguson Academy, a school for teen mothers, has been central in controversies surrounding the closures and charters of Detroit’s public schools. Although the cost of $19,000 per student each year is comparable to the cost of educating students at other similar schools, the operational costs, from an Emergency Manager’s perspective, were excessive.
- Catholic Worker Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A collection of autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933.
- The Catonsville Nine
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Nine Catholic activists who burned draft files in 1968 to protest the Vietnam War.
- Causes and Consequences: Inside The Asian Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
What is happening now is more than the collapse of several Asian economies, it is the unraveling of a development model that these two major capitalist institutions, the World Bank and the IMF, had widely touted as demonstrating the virtues of export-led, free-market capitalism.
- Caveat Surfer: Beware When Using Electronic Communication
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Points about electronic communication and online security.
- CAW get GST protection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Cayenne folds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- CBC ad policy criticized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- CBC advertising may go
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- CBC archives decaying
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- CBC budget cut again
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- CBC left-wing?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- CBC losing national unity mandate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Ce Matin, A L'Ecole, On Parle Des Mineurs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Although you wouldn't know it if you followed Jewish life simply through the activities of such major Jewish communal bodies as the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations and the Anti-Defamation League, the extent to which the eight million Jews of the Diaspora identify with Israel is increasingly open to question (much to the horror of the Zionist-oriented Jewish establishment).
- Celebrating the Past -- the Legacy of the Free Speech Movement
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement took place at the University of California at Berkeley last December 2nd. As the years fly by anniversaries become more significant as the students who participated exit the stage of life. The usual 10-year anniversary is now shortened to five years. Just recently the FSM gang that met for a potluck dinner decided to celebrate each year!
- Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
- Central America
The Next Phase
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Chomsky explores the nature of the Reagan Administration's initiatives and intents for Nicaragua and Central America. He reveals underlying problems such as the tendency of the US Government to adopt violent tactics due to its political weakness and military strength.
- Central America Raises Its Voice in Defence of Its Migrants
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Spiralling violence against Central American migrants in Mexico has prompted legal reforms, diplomatic actions, and the creation of new mechanisms to protect citizens in this region.
- Centralia Massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A violent and bloody incident that occurred in the town of Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919 during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
- A Century Later
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The year 1898 was a turning point for the American Republic in terms of boundary and economic establishment. Chomsky moves through the next 100 years during which America increasingly became involved in affairs outside of its borders.
- A Century's Feminist Journey
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
International feminism -- and feminist internationalism -- have existed since at least the early 20th century, but forms of women's organizing and mobilizing have varied over the past 100 years. Since the 1980s, a new transnational feminism -- encompassing Third World countries as well as the core countries -- has emerged which requires explanation.
- C'est a Nous de Decider
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
See also CX1099.
- C'est a Nous De Decider
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
See also CX864.
- Neil Chacker, 1942-2004
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
During the Vietnam war, one Colonel Reberry at Fort Lewis, Washington, posted a threatening notice forbidding the distribution of material that would promote "disloyalty and discontent." A response shortly appeared on the same bulletin board, written by GI Neil Chacker, an American Servicemen's Union organizer.
- A Challenge to Canada’s Wealthiest 0.1%
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Challenge, Choice, Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 2009
This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
- Challenged Books List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
- Challenging Kim Moody
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Two reports challenge Kim Moody’s assertion (“Immigrant Workers in the United States,”Part 1, ATC 127) that “[t]he claim is raised by some that the rapid growth of immigrant Latinos in the workforce has had a negative impact on wages. In any overall sense, the answer has to be no...”
- Chang, Helen Mack
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Guatemalan businesswoman and human rights activist. Active in the struggle against impunity of political murderers. (Born 1952).
- Change of the Century
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The heroes of Tahrir Square in Cairo and other Egyptian cities, and in Tunisia, have already changed the course of 21st century history. They have torn a huge hole in the fabric of imperialist dominion over the Middle East. They have begun to reverse what has been 35 years of almost continuous “permanent counterrevolution” in the region.
- Changes to marketing boards coming
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Changing for Real
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. It will undoubtedly change even more during the next four years — although just how remains to be determined. There has never been such a convergence of yawning crises facing an incoming U.S. government, including a collapsing credit system and the near-death spiral of the North American auto industry. It’s an entirely open question whether the sheer scale of the objective emergency might impose serious structural changes on the way capitalism is administered in this country.
- Chant, Donald Alfred
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Scientist, educator, environmental advocate. (Born 1928).
- Chaplin, Ralph
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Labour activist at the age of 7, after witnessing a worker shot dead diurng the Pullman strike in Chicago, Illinois. (1887-1961).
- Character and Social Process
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1942
The social character results from the dynamic adaptation of human nature to the structure of society. Changing social conditions result in changes of the social character, that is, in new needs and anxieties. These new needs give rise to new ideas and, as it were, make men susceptible to them; these new ideas in their turn tend to stabilise and intensify the new social character and to determine man#s actions. In other words, social conditions influence ideological phenomena through the medium of character; character, on the other hand, is not the result of passive adaptation to social conditions but of a dynamic adaptation on the basis of elements that either are biologically inherent in human nature or have become inherent as the result of historic evolution.
- Charging Peter to Pay Paul
Accounting for the Financial Effects of User Charges
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1994
- The Charter of Demands of the Indian National Fishworkers' Forum
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
- Chartism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century between 1838 and 1850 which takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838.
- Chartrand, Michel
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
- Chartrand, Michel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
- Chavez calls for new international organisation of left parties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez calls for the formation of a #Fifth International# of left parties and social movements to confront the challenge posed by the global crisis of capitalism.
- Chávez, César
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
- Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In an article published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy. It must be a heroic creation. We must inspire Indo-American socialism with our own reality, our own language. That is a mission worthy of a new generation.” His warning went unheard. In that same year the Latin American communist movement fell under the influence of the Stalinist paradigm, which for close to a half century imposed on it an imitation of the ideology of the Soviet bureaucracy and its so-called “actually existing socialism.”
- Cheap Clothing - At Whose Expense?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Cheddi Jagan's Politics and Legacy
An interview with Clive Y. Thomas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
An inteview with Clive Y. Thomas, an author, economist, and co-founder of the Working Peoples Alliance.
- Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
- ChestDoc in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Chester, Eric
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Author, socialist political activist, and economics professor. (Born 1943).
- Chevron's Crude Attacks
Court Sides With Big Oil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Yet another instance of the increasingly pro-business stance of the US legal system.
- Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
- Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
- The Chicago Anarchists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1887
The working-class are up in arms about this matter. Anarchist, Socialist, anti-Anarchist, anti-Socialist alike are astonished, indignant, thoroughly aroused. Everywhere, except in Chicago, meetings are being held, resolution condemnatory of this judicial murder are being passed.
- Chicago Seven
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Seven defendants charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- Chicago's Public Housing: Willful Neglect
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Just a few days before Christmas, the Chicago Tribune ran an article under the whimsical title, "Another Can of Worms for CHA." (CT 12/23/99) This report described how, in its rush to force a group of recalcitrant residents to move from one poorly maintained building in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing complex to another before the holidays, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) had cut off power to the building.
- Chilcot Inquiry - The Establishment Goes to Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
When public scepticism erupts in response to resultant extremes of state violence and criminality that even the media are powerless to deny, the illusion of democracy must be bolstered. Then Tweedledum-Tweedledee will choose from their own to rig an "inquiry", while their media allies present the process as something other than a farce.
- Child Victims
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Children's Play and Official Playgrounds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Childrens Liberation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Chile Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
- Chile Report
Enterprise and Repression Multinational Goes to Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Looks at Noranda Mines' copper mine investment in Chile.
- A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street
The Tangled Purse Strings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Undemocratic movements are vulnerable to being taken over by a vocal minority or a chraismatic individual.
- China admits torture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The China Syndrome ... Fantasy or Reality?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- China's Disposable Labor
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The global financial crisis has begun to take its toll in China, with a rapid decline in China’s exports. In Guangdong province where the export processing zones house 20 million workers, tens of thousands of migrant workers have been sacked. By comparing various estimates one can conclude that nationally by the beginning of 2009 between four and nine million migrant workers have returned home. Millions more will stay home after the Chinese New Year holiday.
- China's Worker Protests: A Second Wave of Labor Unrest?
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
There has been a 30% rise in collective riots in China in recent years. Whereas in 1993, there were 10,000 reported cases with 700,000 participants, in 2003 it jumped to 60,000 with 3 million participants. Among these examples, labor unrest has been quite outstanding, though it is difficult to get official statistics.
- A Chinese Alternative? Interpreting the Chinese New Left Politically
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In China, the terms #left# and #right# or #radical# and #conservative# produce somewhat different associations in the popular mind than what we are used to in the West. While in most capitalist countries #left# and #right# are understood largely in economic terms, in China these concepts tend to be deeply entangled within a framework defined by the state, the Communist Party, and nationalism. As a result, Chinese political debates have tended to presume a rigid dichotomy between #left-wing# state socialism and #right-wing# capitalist liberal democracy.
- Chinese Workers' Resistance
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle. Tim Pringle lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
- The Chinese Working Women's Network
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
There is no doubt that China is growing rapidly in importance in the global economy. China has now surpassed the United States as the largest destination in the world for foreign investment. While many U.S. businesses (and other multinationals) look eagerly to both the large Chinese market and the very low wages of Chinese workers, the U.S. labor movement has been focused on stopping the flow of U.S. production and jobs to China.
- Chipko movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
- Chipko Movement
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
- Chomsky in Mexico
La Jornada at 25
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
September has been a big month for La Jornada. To celebrate its 25th birthday, the National Lottery offered a commemorative ticket as did the Mexico City Metro subway system, rare mainstream honors for a lefty rag, and notorious U.S. rabble rouser Noam Chomsky came to town to help cut the cake - along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez (a founding investor) and the much-lauded Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. The Jornada was founded in 1984 by itinerant journalists who had bounced from one short-lived left periodical to the next.
- Chomsky, Noam
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. (Born 1928).
- Chomsky on Post-Modernism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
What I find in the writings of the post-modernists is extremely pretentious, but on examination, a lot of it is simply illiterate, based on extraordinary misreading of texts that I know well (sometimes, that I have written), argument that is appalling in its casual lack of elementary self-criticism, lots of statements that are trivial (though dressed up in complicated verbiage) or false; and a good deal of plain gibberish.
- Chris Hedges and the black bloc
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
From its inception back in the European autonomist movements of the 1980s, the black-clad activists refuse to answer anybody outside of their ranks. Within the “affinity group”, everything is cool. Outside of it, who gives a shit? Ironically, this kind of elitism is not that different from the “vanguard party” posture which puts the needs of the sect above that of the mass movement.
- Chris Hedges' Vision & Nightmare: Is There a Human Future?
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There are few writers today who can bring to vision the articulate passion that Chris Hedges directs against the present corporate system; its vile and self-satisfied destructiveness, and the symboitic collusion between this structure of perversion and the betrayal engaged in by “the liberal class.” I believe this aspect of Hedges’ perspective is vitally important and obvious to any reader who begins with the sense that our political culture is in a descending spiral of decay.
- Christian anarchism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Any of several traditions which combine anarchism with Christianity.
- Christian Farmers Federation Publications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Christian pacifism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The theological and ethical position that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith.
- Christians, Church and People Called the Poor...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Christiansbrunn
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The name of two religious communes in Pennsylvania, active between 1747 and 1796.
- Christmas in the Trenches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Lyrics to a song commemorating the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War I.
- Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Columbus seen as a conqueror.
- Chronicle of a Labor Victory
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Most union members see nothing but hugging and kissing between their leaders and their bosses on a daily basis. It takes a different kind of union to break with this culture, which has become second-nature to U.S. unions and is arguably the main reason for their current weakness. Leonard Riley’s longshore workers union in Charleston, South Carolina is a different kind of union, however, and On the Global Waterfront by Suzan Erem and Paul Durrenberger tells their gripping story.
- Chronicles from the Front
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
This volume consists of carefully edited contemporary texts from the two U.S. socialists Lois and Charles Orr, who joined the revolutionary events in Spain after the outbreak of the Civil War, from fall 1936 to spring 1937. Two newlywed activists from the left wing of the U.S. Socialist Party, they had been traveling through Europe on their honeymoon when the news of the military revolt under General Franco reached them. They rushed to Barcelona not only to take a look but to become an active part of the workers’ revolution, which had erupted as the answer to the pro-Fascist coup.
- Chronicling Labor's Crisis
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The State of Working America is the Bible of liberals, labor, and often of the left. Like the Bible, few people read it from cover to cover; like the Bible, it is often consulted to back up an argument. The latest, 2008/2009, edition contains a host of useful facts, statistics, analyses, and arguments, essentially all of it based on pre-crash information but with an awareness that some kind of crash was coming upon us.
- Chronology of the Nicaraguan Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- Church Presentation to the Annual Meetings of Three Canadian Banks
Re: Loans to South Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A statement questioning the morality of loaning money to a racist South African government.
- The Churches, The West and the Fight Against Racism
Could Our Assumptions be Racist? Transforming our Fight into a Quest for Values
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- The CIA and Questions of Torture
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Alfred W. McCoy's A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror is a chilling, eerily fascinating account of how the CIA used physical and psychological torture as a method of interrogation.
- The CIA and the "Peace Process" - Interview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
A controversial feature of the torturously negotiated and implemented "Wye Plantation Agreement" is the direct, overt role assigned to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in monitoring Palestinian Authority (PA) implementation of the "security provisions."
- The CIA and the Drones
How the Agency Became "One Hell of a Killing Machine"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- CIA Experiments in Torture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Over the last year there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA#s #enhanced interrogation# torture program, there was a related program experimenting with and researching the application of the torture.
- CIA set up Mandela
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The CIA's Death Machine at Work (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
In compelling detail, two leading civil rights attorneys — both leaders of the Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) — recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most popular revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara. Using internal U.S. governmental documentation, only recently released, the authors use their forensic skills to analyze the evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the execution of a war prisoner captured alive.
- CIDA programme for ENGOs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Ciompi Revolt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was a popular revolt in late medieval Florence by wool carders known as ciompi, who rose up in 1378 to demand a voice in the commune's ordering.
- Cité libre
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was an influential political journal published in Quebec, Canada, through the 1950s and 1960s.
- Cities for People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
How two experiments in participatory democracy have transformed the political culture in Brazil and Uruguay.
- Citizen Involvement in Housing and Community: An Action Research Design
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A proposal for funding a housing inventory network to deal with the housing crisis in Edmonton.
- Citizen journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- "Citizens Coalition" loses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Citizens Counter-Conference on Energy and Northern Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report on the proceedings of the '76 "Citizens Counter-Conference".
- Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
- Citizen's Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Citizens Plus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Citizens Protest Lack of Consultation about Canadian Mine in San Jose del Progresso
Popular Forces Occupy City Hall and Threaten to Incinerate Hostages
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Inhabitants of San José del Pro#greso, in the district of Ocotlán, affiliated with the Assembly of People United for the Valley of Ocotlán in Defense of Nature and Popular Autonomy, and opposed to the operation of the Canadian owned mine #La Trini#dad#, escalated their battle with the assistance of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca, the APPO.
- Citizenship Training and Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Le Citoyen -Journal du Rassemblement du Citoyens de Montreal-St Louis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Civic Journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Civic Movement in South Africa: Popular Politics, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The tradition of democracy within the progressive movement in South Africa remains alive and well, judging not only by the recent, high-profile contestation of ANC provincial elections, but also by grassroots democratic impulses within the civic movement.
- Civil disobedience
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence.
- Civil Disobedience
Originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1849
An essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849 which argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.
- Civil liberties body condemns sign law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1945
Fighting against an evil, like anti-Semitism or racial hatred, does not mean calling on the state to suppress the evil.
- Civil Liberties on Trial
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Lynne F. Stewart, 65, a lawyer noted for representing political defendants, was convicted on February 10th of five charges: two counts of conspiracy, a count of providing and concealing material support to terrorist activity and two counts of making false statements. Convicted of felony charges, Stewart was immediately disbarred. She is out on bail until her July sentencing date; her lawyers will file an appeal in early March.
- The Civil War in Switzerland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847
- 'Civilising' the 'Blacks'; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. Each movement will neglect the other at its peril.
- Claiming the Power to Resist
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Stories and storytelling have power. Stories can help us understand each other as subjects, narrators and protagonists of our own experiences, rather than as objects that are simply being acted upon by forces outside of our control.
- Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Clarke, Tony
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian social justice advocate. (Born 1944).
- La clase trabajadora y el cambio social
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
- Class and Race: Life and Death Situations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Looking at the impact of race and class as health determinants.
- Class and the African-American Leadership Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
This market economy can't solve the real problems of African Americans. Worse, the scapegoating of society's most vulnerable members (immigrants, people of color, women and gays) is on the rise.
- Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
- Class consciousness
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Consciousness of one's social class or economic rank in society.
- Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
- Class exists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Class Politics in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
Zionism is a factor that weakens the class struggle of the Jewish masses, and strengthens the reaction outside of Palestine as well as the reactionary forces in Palestine. Jewish immigration into Palestine, which is mainly an immigration of workers, strengthens, on the one side, the power and weight of the working class in the country, the power which, regarded historically, is the most extreme anti-imperialist factor and, cm the other hand, in so far as it is Zionist, it strengthens the exclusivist positions and the forces of imperialism in Palestine.
- Class & Race in A Modern Catastrophe: Lessons of Katrina
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophic disaster that resulted in over eighteen hundred fatalities, the displacement of at least 1.2 million people, and economic losses that are not yet finally accounted, but may approach $100 billion. Approximately 2.5 million residences were damaged by the category three storm that made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005.
- Class Struggle and Nation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
Does the bourgeoisie really have an interest in putting an end to national struggles? Not at all, it has the greatest interest in not putting an end to them, especially since the class struggle has reached a high point. Just like religious antagonisms, national antagonisms constitute excellent means to divide the proletariat, to divert its attention from the class struggle with the aid of ideological slogans and to prevent its class unity.
- Class Struggle Beyond Unionism: Boston-Area Public Workers' Ferment, 1981#82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
- Class Struggle in the Unemployment Capital of Europe: Lower Andalucia, 1995-96
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
- Class Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905 Published: 1909
- The Class War at Home
The Rich Getting Richer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
There is a class war – the war of the rich on the poor and the middle class – and the rich are winning.
- A Classic Study Revisited
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Pierre Broué (1926-2005) was one of the few Trotskyist historians who carved out a niche in academia, though this career choice had to overcome many obstacles. Coming of age at a time in France when the historical profession mostly consisted of either conservative anti-communists or historians closely linked to the milieu of the hard-line French Communist Party, Broué, a long-time member of the Lambertiste current within French Trotskyism (until his expulsion in 1989), from early on had to learn to fight on his own.
- Clausewitz on the Pampas: An Argentine Snapshot as Latin America Moves Leftward
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
- Client Rights in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A 48 page handbook of client rights and therapist responsibility. It has been developed by the Client Rights Project, a Toronto based non-profit community coalition between Feminist Advocates for Counselling Ethics (FACE), Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape (TRCC/MWAR), and Women's Counselling Referral and Education Centre (WCREC) for the prevention of client violation. An educational tool that assists both clients and therapists in understanding the ethical framework of the counselling relationship.
- Cliffites Deal in Religious Opiate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
All religions and all religious organizations serve to mystify and obscure the class basis of oppression in capitalist society.
- Climate change: the eco-socialist solution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Climate change reminds us, in a phrase attributed to Lao Tzu, that #if you don#t change direction you may end up where you are heading#. The road of capitalism is now lined with horrors and we must find a new direction home. After a long absence, sustainability must be restored to the relationship between society and nature.
- Climate Crisis Hits Pakistani Women
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Pakistan is among the countries that will be hit hardest in the near future by effects of climate change, even though it contributes only a fraction to global warming. The country is witnessing severe pressures on natural resources and environment. This warning has recently come from the mouth of Pakistan’s prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, who alarmed the countrymen by disclosing that Pakistan is the 12th most vulnerable country in the world to environmental degradation.
- Climate Crisis – The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We find that Britain and the US – the two countries responding most aggressively to alleged 'threats' to human security in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya – are also the two countries least interested in responding to the very real threat of climate change.
- The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
- "Climate Justice" and the Left: The Necessity of a Mass Movement
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The climate crisis -- a crisis not of civilization, as some commentators would have it, but of capitalist production -- requires a political response that is long overdue, and is finally stirring. Now that the movement against global warming is brewing, socialists must get involved.
- A climate of fear endangers press freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
- La cliniques des citoyens de St-Jacques
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Les Clochards et le systeme penal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Close the IMF, Abolish Debt and End Development
A Class Analysis of the International Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The struggle for repudiation of the debt must be organized internationally and demand not only the collective refusal of debt but cooperation in developing policies to cope with possible reprisals and to create space for the elaboration of creative alternatives to development. I am not talking about an international organization of governments, but rather of the international organization of popular struggle around the debt issue in order to limit state options and force actions in the interests of the working class.
- The Clouds Clear: Labor, Seattle and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
As the clouds of teargas lifted from the streets of Seattle two images emerged in public consciousness: The edifice of the WTO brought crashing to its knees, simultaneously revealing an odd Lilliputian army of labor, environmental, church and assorted activists that had appeared out of nowhere to assault what had been presumed to be an unassailable new world order.
- C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- C.L.R. James' Visionary Legacy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
In order to understand the connection between Black History Month and revolution, we must explode the stifling separation between art and everyday life that bourgeois society everywhere seeks to impose on us.
- Club War (Cudgel War)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A 1596 peasant uprising in the kingdom of Sweden against exploitation by nobility and military in what is today Finland.
- CNSP Review 1974-75; Canada in an International Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An analysis of developments in Canadian society based on newspaper coverage.
- Co-operative Co-ownership Corporations: Legislative Proposals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Coady - Tomkins Experience: The Relevance of the Antigonish Movement Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Coaker, William Ford
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union and the Fishermen's Union Trading Co. (1871-1938).
- A Coal Miner's Call for Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
I invite you to join with me in dedicating a portion of our lives to the task of bringing about political revolution. In the words of a great lady, Mother Jones: Let us pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living.
- Coal Strike of 1902
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
- Coalition Fights the Fighter Planes and
Ploughshares Asks for 4 Million Peace Fund
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Coalition of the Killing
War, media, propaganda and language#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
War, media, propaganda and language.
- Coal's Ruptured Landscape
Navigating the Ruins of Appalachia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is more apparent now than ever before that coal mining, especially mountain top removal, is unethical and inhumane. It displays stark irresponsibility in land stewardship as well as depraved practices within a diverse region. It#s time to shake off the flawed belief that we are reliant upon coal and other fossil fuels.
- Coastal Labrador: Incorporation, Exploitation and Underdevelopment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Cobequid Shore Opportunities Project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- COCOA
Commodity notes available from GATT-fly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Background analysis and current report on this key international commodity.
- Code Pink's Gaza Delegation
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I was part of a delegation of 62 people that entered Gaza on March 7, 2009. The purpose of our trip, organized by the women’s antiwar organization Code Pink, was to challenge the Israeli/Egyptian and U.S.-sanctioned blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, which has been in force since the Palestinian elections of 2006.
- Coffee
Gatt-Fly Commodity Profile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A look at coffee as a commodity and the reasons for its fluctuating cost.
- Coffeehouses
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An establishment which primarily serves prepared coffee or other hot beverages.
- Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Political activist and politician, active in France and Germany. A student leader during the May 1968 revolt in France. (Born 1945).
- Cohousing
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A type of intentional community composed of private homes with full kitchens, supplemented by extensive common facilities. A cohousing community is planned, owned and managed by the residents, groups of people who want more interaction with their neighbours.
- Cohousing and Sustainabliity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
- Cohousing Characteristics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The main characteristics of cohousing.
- Cohousing FAQs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Frequently asked questions about cohousing.
- COINTELPRO
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
- Cold War II
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Chomsky depicts the growing US-Israeli conflict with the Middle East as a potential precursor to the escalation of tensions to Cold War standards - except with nuclear technologies now threatening a very "hot" outcome.
- Coldwell, Major James William
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian social democratic politician, and leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party from 1942 to 1960. (1888-1974).
- The Collapse of Western Morality
The Indispensable People?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Moral degradation is reaching new lows.
- Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The mainstream media have distorted and deceived in their coverage of the Wikileaks story to manufacture, isolate and target a 'threat' for destruction.
- Collective Action - and Victory! France: CPE Goes Down
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Millions of young people in France have lived through the experience of collective action and of an important victory, young people who just a few weeks earlier had paid no attention to political organization. In the end the movement won: the "First Employment Contract" (CPE) has been annulled.
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
- Collectives in Spain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938 Published: 1945
A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
- Collectivist Anarchism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Colombia Against All Odds
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Despite historic ties to the inmost nexus of cocaine trafficking and aramilitarism, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez is Washington's leading exponent of the “war on drugs and terror” in the Western hemisphere.
- The Colombia Plan
April 2000
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In response to military assistance and "emergency" financial aid for Columbia,
Chomsky explores the negative consequences of US intervention.
- Colorado Labor Wars
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Colorado's most significant battles between labor and capital which occurred primarily between miners and mine operators.
- Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In a surprise move in the early morning of May 13th, Colombian President Álvaro Uríbe announced the extradition of fourteen top paramilitary leaders to the United States, where they are charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering. His move has provoked an outcry from victims’ and human rights groups, who fear that the extraditions will undercut efforts to hold the paramilitaries accountable for massacres, disappearances, torture, extra-judicial executions, and the displacement of thousands of people in Colombia.
- Columbine Mine massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A conflict in which police and mine guards attacked striking coal miners with machine guns.
- Comfort, Alex
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer. (1920-2000).
- Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
- Coming Home to the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I became a political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my grade school. At the local YWCA girls club my sister and I were the only whites. The young Black women I became close to helped me overcome painful shyness. Later my father, a Methodist minister, was arrested trying to integrate churches in Jackson, Mississippi.
- Coming out in Kenya
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Rape has always been used to intimidate assertive women in Kenya, like feminists and female politicians.
- The Coming Plague of Slums
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Mass death may be coming to a neighborhood near you, and the Department of Homeland Security will be helpless to prevent it. The terrorist in this case will be a mutant offspring of influenza A subtype H5N1: the explosively spreading avian virus that the World Health Organization (WHO) worries will be the progenitor of a deadly global plague.
- The Comintern, CPUSA & Activities of Rank-and-File CPers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
CP members, including worker and African-American militants capable of leading heroic mass struggles, were unable to develop their own revolutionary socialist viewpoint independent of the leadership. While a certain policy or tactic might run counter to their experience and traditions, the local activists were assured that their leaders alone had the "the big picture."
- A Comment on Antiwar Strategy
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The debate among antiwar activists on the necessity and movement-building effectiveness of mass demonstrations has been ongoing since the mid-1960s during the Vietnam War, and is not likely to be settled soon. I want to comment here on a related but different argument raised by David Grosser in his stimulating article on antiwar organizing strategy.
- Comment: The Rise and the Fall of the Isolated Communities Advisory Board
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Commentaires concernant la protection de la matermite a l'occasion de la
publication du projet d'ordonnance sur les conges de maternite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Commentary from Israel: Peace Camp - Dead or Alive?
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A few weeks ago my friend Ilan Pappé published an article under the title "There is no peace camp in Israel." These words were originally spoken in a lecture delivered by the intellectual activist—or the activist intellectual—at a conference that took place in Fribourg, in the framework of the Swiss Social Forum.
- Comments from our readers (Issue #1)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
- Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.
- Comments on Unemployment Insurance in the 1980's A Report of the Task Force on Unemployment Prepared For
The Minister Of Employment And Immigration.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Commericial shoot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- La Commission de l'Emploi et de l'Immigration reclame jusqu'a 6 semaines
de prestations a 6000 chomeurs quebecois et COMUNIQUE
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Committee for an Independent Canada
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A citizens' committee to promote Canadian economic and cultural independence.
- The Committee for the Defense of Democratic Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A British anti-war group set up in 1960.
- Commodity fetishism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In Marxist theory, commodity fetishism is a state of social relations in capitalist societies, in which social relationships are transformed into apparently objective relationships between commodities or money.
- Common Front Strikes
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Cartel of Québec public- and para-public-sector trade unions formed in 1972 to negotiate with the provincial government.
- Common Ground
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Common land
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights.
- Communalism and Socialism in Africa
The Misdirection of C.L.R . James
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The theoretical confusion of the left when confronted with class struggles in backward societies goes back to the polemics in Russia before the revolution of 1917: an issue resolved in practice but leaving a legacy of theoretical confusion. The struggles for colonial independence were denied the insights that Marxism should have offered, Instead, mysticism prevailed and populist theories replaced scientific analysis.
- Commune (intentional community)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, work and income.
- The Commune, Paris 1871
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
The most significant aspect of the Paris Commune is that it created social forms which in a sense define socialism itself, social forms which serve as yardsticks for proletarian revolutions past, present and to come. These forms provide criteria for analyzing the social nature of any particular regime.
- Commune (socialism)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Almost universally, communists, left-wing socialists, anarchists and others have seen the Commune as a model for the liberated society that will come after the masses are liberated from capitalism, a society based on participatory democracy from the grass roots up.
- Communicating Effectively Through Your Newsletter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Some pointers about how to produce a newsletter that communicates effectively with its readers
- Communique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Communism and the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
We are firmly convinced that it is not the practical Attempt, but rather the theoretical application of communist ideas, that constitutes the real danger; for practical attempts, even those on a large scale, can be answered with cannon as soon as they become dangerous, but ideas, which conquer our intelligence, which overcome the outlook that reason has riveted to our conscience, are chains from which we cannot tear ourselves away without tearing our hearts.
- Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Communist League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1836.
- The Communist League
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of Terms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
On the meeting of the Communist League in June 1847.
- Communist League (Canada)
Connexipedia: Entry in NationMaster Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Founded as the Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire in 1977 as the result of a merger of the League for Socialist Action, the Revolutionary Marxist Group and the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionaire.
- Communist Party of Canada
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political party in Canada.
- Communist Workers International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Founded around the Manifesto of the Fourth Communist International, published by the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) in 1921.
- Communists on Wall Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Eurocommunism in practice.
- Communities and Environment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Community
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
The time has come to start a community. The purpose of this article is to explain why and how.
- Community Congress for Economic Change: Credit Union
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A booklet describing the motives and aspirations of the CCEC Credit Union.
- Community development curriculum
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Community Economic Workshops
An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
- Community forestry conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Community Journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Community Land Trust
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Community Ministry Theological Statement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Community Noise
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Critically reviews the adverse effects of community noise, including interference with communication, noise-induced hearing loss, annoyance responses, and effects on sleep, the cardiovascular and psychophysiological systems, performance, productivity, and social behaviour.
- Community organizing
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A process by which people living in proximity to each other are brought together in an organization to act in their shared self-interest.
- A Community Release Centre for Whitehorse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Community Shared Agriculture / Community-supported agriculture
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation where the growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production. CSAs usually consist of a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables and fruit in a vegetable box scheme, sometimes including dairy products and meat. Community-supported agriculture began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland, and Japan as a response to concerns about food safety and the urbanization of agricultural land.
- Como Comunicarse De Manera Efectiva A Través De Un Boletín Informativo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Companies that Profit from the Occupation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Makes the case for action against companies that profit from the Israeli occupation, and identifies who those companies are.
- Company Secretary To Replace Inspector
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If all goes to plan, India Inc would no longer have to deal with labour inspectors turning up at their premises to check compliance with 43 central and myriad state labour legislations. Instead, firms can submit a certificate from a company secretary that validates their compliance with the numerous employment laws.
- A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
- Comparison of military strength of Israel and the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has once again flared up following Israel's ongoing air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip, the IMEU presents a comparison of Israeli and Palestinian military capabilities. (Jaunary 2009).
- The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The problems which working people have suffered in the last twenty-five years are not problems which the ruling elite are trying to solve but weapons they have devised to attack working people in a class war.
- Competition? or Co-operation?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Against capital#s slogan of competition, we can respond with that of cooperation -- in production, in overcoming capital#s destruction of the environment, in international relations, in learning, in building better human relations.
- The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1450
A manifesto issued by Jack Cade, a Kentish rebel in 1450, before his march on London.
- Complete testimony of George Galloway
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Testimony of British M.P George Galloway before the U.S. Senate.
- Complicating “White Privilege”
Class, Race and Images of Wilma
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Comprendre l'Assurance chomage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Computers for Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- A Comrade and Friend
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Steffie Brooks, a member of Solidarity in New York, died Monday evening, February 9, 2009 after a struggle with a cancer that had spread from her lungs into her spine. Steffie’s final few months were difficult and painful, but she remained committed to her political activism, which included giving a presentation at a summer school our organization co-sponsored with others last August.
- Concerning Morocco
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1911
The duty of Social Democracy is not to reassure public opinion, but to do the very reverse, to rouse it and warn it against the dangers lying dormant in it such adventures in international politics today. It is not enough for us to rely on the pacific intentions of some capitalist clique as a factor in achieving peace; we can only count on the resistance of the enlightened masses. By obeying the order to keep our peace, incidentally, we would be seen to be falling in with the wishes of the rulers of the Moroccan policy.
- Concerning the benefits of recycling municipal solid waste
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- A Concerted Effort From Europe Against Israeli Produce Exporter Agrexco
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant.
- The Condition of England
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Condorcet, Marquis de
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
(1743-1794).French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist.
- Confederacy Redux?
Why We Should Celebrate Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Reconstruction is the era that some have referred to as the United States' greatest moment of democracy.
- Confederation of Canadian Unions' (CCU) Brief to the Hall Commission
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Confessions of a Media Critic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
- The Conflict between Marx & Bakunin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Conflict Resolution in the Classroom
A Curriculum Project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1987
Peer Conflict Resolution Through Creative Negotiation is a curriculum for grades four through six.
- Confronting intimidation, working for justice in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
If once you do not cave in, you discover that as time goes by, the ability of Zionist lobbies of intimidation around the world to affect you gradually diminishes.
- Confronting the -isms
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I love the name Against the Current and would add that to be active in the Women’s Liberation Movement at the beginning of 1968 was to be “against the current.” And “the current” then was as much the Left and the Black Nationalist Movement as it was the society as a whole. We were mostly white women, mostly middle class in background. Who we were was used against us opportunistically by the Left and the Black Movement to keep from having to address the issues of sexism — a word we didn’t even have back then.
- Confronting the School of Assassins
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
More than 10,000 people assembled at the gates of the Fort Benning military base in Georgia on November 19th as part of an ongoing campaign to shut down the notorious U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA). Protestors have gathered at the base annually since a small group of founding activists of School of the Americas Watch staged an action there in 1989—shortly after the brutal killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter by members of the Salvadoran military trained at the SOA. This year, the protest was linked to a joint action in led by 300 members of Las Abejas from Chiapas, Mexico.
- Congo's War, Women's Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Which current war has taken more lives than the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur put together?
- Congress' Phony Health Care War
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
One hundred thousand people in the United States of America lose their health insurance every month. It seems unlikely, however, that this number included the president of Columbia/HCA, the industry leader in for-profit health care, who, as reported in the August 5 New England Journal of Medicine, "resigned in the face of federal fraud investigations ... with a $10 million severance package and $269 million in company stock."
- The Connexions Annual: An Introduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
The established wisdom has it that the media are neutral purveyors of news and entertainment, while the arts are about individual creativity and cultural values untainted by the vulgar concerns of politics and economics.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Community, Urban, Housing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Overview: Development, International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
the principle of `Thinking Globally, Acting Locally' can and must also be extended to acting locally on behalf of and in solidarity with those in other parts of this globe.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Education, Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Education is being seen as an essential element of grassroots development both in Canada and abroad. The guiding idea is that education is not merely concerned with imparting knowledge, but with helping people develop the skills and the confidence to analyse and solve problems and thus to act, both individually and collectively.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Environmental, Land Use, Rural
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
As we witness an apparently unending succession of environmental hazards and catastrophes, awareness is spreading that we are in the midst of a profound ecological crisis. There is still hope for reversing the trend toward environmental collapse, but only if we are able to work together worldwide to achieve profound changes.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Health
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
If we accept that anyone may be denied their rights, their freedom, then we undermine our own rights and freedoms even as we undermine social solidarity.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Lesbians & Gays
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Gays and lesbians have shown that while on one level -- rights, employment, etc. -- sexual orientation doesn't matter, on another level, sexual politics are profoundly important. They do matter, and no movement for change can ignore them.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Native Peoples
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Natives have been intensifying their resistance, and more militant forms of protest are becoming increasingly common. Canadians concerned with social justice can also be working in solidarity with the Native peoples in their struggle for justice.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
It must be remembered that soldiers themselves are often recruited from the ranks of the poor and the jobless, and that a movement for peace and social justice should be attempting to reach them too with its message. A movement for peace must in the end also include the soldiers if it is to prevail.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Archive Case Statement
In search of a new home for the Connexions Archive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Working together to secure a future for the past
- Connexions Archive Information Sheet
Working together to secure a future for the past
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Looking for new space for the Connexions Archive and those who work on it.
- Connexions Digest Collected News Briefs
Published in issues 50 - 54 December 1989 - February 1992
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Master Keyword Index
for #45 (Volume 11, No. 1) to #54 inclusive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Master Name Index (Author/Title/Contributor)
for #45 (Volume 11, No. 1) to #54 inclusive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Network News items
Issues 45 - 54
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1992
- Connexions Directory of Canadian Organizations for Social Justice 1987
Volume 10, Number 2-3 - Winter 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Connexions (pilns nosaukums: Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi - Connexions Information Sharing Services) ir centrala tiešsaistes biblioteka un arhivs, kas apkalpo Kanadas iniciativas par izmainam sabiedriba. Šis bezpelnas projekts uztur ari izsmelošu Kanadas asociaciju un NVS raditaju.
- Connexions Információ Megosztási Szolgáltató
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Bulgarian text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Dutch text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Connexions (volledige naam Connexions Information Sharing Services) is de voornaamste online bibliotheek en het archief voor Canadese organisaties voor sociale verandering. Dit project dat geen winstoogmerk heeft, beheert ook een uitgebreide gids van Canadese en niet-Canadese verenigingen en niet-gouvernementele organisaties.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Arabic text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Chinese text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Czech text
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Dansk
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Connexions Information Sharing Services er det centrale online bibliotek og arkiv for Canada#s bevægelser for social forandring.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - English text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Connexions (full name Connexions Information Sharing Services) is the central online library and archive for Canada's movements for social change. The non-profit project also maintains a comprehensive directory of Canadian associations and NGOs.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Farsi text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia article - Japanese text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Korean text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Artikel - Deutscher text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Connexions ist die Zentrale Online Bücherei und Archiv für Kanada#s Bewegung für gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
- Connexions Informationsförmedling - Wikipedia Article - Swedish text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Connexions är det centrala onlinebiblioteket och arkivet för Kanadas rörelse för social förändring.
- Connexions - Services de partage d'information Connexions - Wikipedia Article - French text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
Connexions -- dont le nom complet est Services de partage d'information Connexions [Connexions Information Sharing Services] -- est la bibliothèque et l'archive en ligne centrale pour les mouvements canadiens partisans du changement social. Le projet à but non lucratif entretient également un vaste répertoire d'associations canadiennes et d'organisations non gouvernementales.
- Connexions Servicios de Información Compartido
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Connexions Serviços de Compartilhamento de Informaçoes - Wikipedia Article - Portuguese text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
Connexions (Connexions Serviços de Compartilhamento de Informaçoes) é a biblioteca central e arquivos eletrônicos do movimentos do Canadá para mudanças sociais. O projeto sem fins lucrativos também mantém uma lista completa de associaçoes e ONG#s canadenses.
- Connexions Servis Udostepniania Informacji - Wikipedia Article - Polish text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services (pe?na nazwa Connexions Serwis Udostepniania Informacji) jest to internetowa bibliteka i archiwum dla kanadyjskich organizacji zajmuja;cych sie; przemianami spo?ecznymi. Ten bezprofitowy projekt zajmuje sie; prowadzeniem i uaktualnianiem obszernej ksija;z'ki adresowej kanadyjskich zwija;zków i organizacji pozarzadowych.
- Connexions - Služby pre zdielanie informácií - Wikipedia Article - Slovak text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Connexions Wikipedia article - Esperanto
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Connexions estas librejo kaj arkivo en linio, au( interreto, de la kanada movado por la socia s^ang^o.
- Connolly, James
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Irish and Scottish socialist leader, executed by the British. (1868-1916).
- The Conquest of Bread
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1906
A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
- Conscientious objector
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war.
- Consciousness raising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Form of political activism, pioneered by United States feminists in the late 1960s.
- Consensus decision-making
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
- Consensus decision-making - Arabic text
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
- Consensus decision-making - Japanese text
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
- Conservation movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future.
- Conservation Unravelling: Three Threats to Wildlife
Published in Probe Post, August 1986
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- Conservative Frank Luntz Has Set a Trap for Progressives -- Here's How to Outsmart Him and Boost the Occupy Movement
Progressives' basic morality needs to be talked about over and over again, in every corner of the country.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Luntz doesn't want progressives pointing out that corporations govern our lives far more than any government does - and for their profit, not ours. He doesn't want any discussion of corporate waste, or military waste, which is huge.
- Conservatives have perfected the trick of defending power by attacking it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The UK Cameron government is atempting to use a tried-and-proven trick: defending the elite by pretending to attack it.
- Consider the Nation and other sacred cows of the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Groups of people who share whatever it is that makes a nation don't always live in neat spatial clusters, with a given territory containing all those people who are alike and none who are different. Cultures are rarely if ever stable enough to become pure and coterminous with geographical territories.
- Conspectus of Bakunin#s Statism and Anarchy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1874 Published: 1875
Marx's notes on Bakunin's recent book Statism and Anarchy.
- Conspiracies Or Institutions: 9-11 and Beyond
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Why and how does much (but not all) conspiracy theorizing create a tendency for people to depart from rational analysis?
- Conspiracy, Inc.
Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Increasingly, reactionary media pundits and much of the rank-and-file of the Republican Party are taking the American right down a dangerous path, marked most ominously by the abundance of conspiracy theories directed against the Democratic Party and mainstream liberals.
- Constitution and By-Laws of Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life....
- The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law
GAYANASHAGOWA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Constitutional Proposals: Not Enough Guarantees For Acadians of P.E.I.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Constructive Action?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky questions to what extent American involvement and authority in the affairs of Israel's conflict with the Arabs can be considered constructive. He examines the effects of what he deems to be "colonial policing".
- Constructive Citizen Participation
A Resource Book
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Constructive criticism can be a good thing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
It#s counterproductive to say that for the sake of #unity# we shouldn#t criticize others in the environmental movement. Principled debate and critcism when it is called for helps us clarify issues and move forward.
- Consumer and Nuclear Energy: A Luxury We Can No Longer Afford
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An energy analysis with 28 recommendations presented to Pierre Trudeau and his cabinet.
- Consumer Hell
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The problem with gross domestic product is that there are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.
- Consumers Union Congrress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Consumers' Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Booklet designed to inform consumers about how the law affects people as buyers, borrowers, and householders.
- Contaminación: El envenenante legado de los recortes ambientales de Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The current listeria outbreak has the feel of deja vu all over again. Once again, we are hearing about companies and industry associations lobbying for fewer inspections and less #interference#, and about a compliant right-wing government only too eager to give them what they want.
- Contamination: L'Héritage Vénéneux des coupures écologiques de l'Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-way Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Contemporary anarchism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Contemporary anarchism has some important differences, but also a great deal of continuity, with historical anarchism. Where it focuses on building an alternative in the “interstices” of capitalism, it accommodates to, rather than challenges, capitalism; and where it fetishizes street tactics, it generates more press than tangible success in either building the struggle or in challenging the state.
- The Continuing Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
We should subject both Marxism and anarchism to a critical analysis, and thereby start to provide the basis for a libertarian revolutionary movement that relates adequately to the needs and problems of today.
- Contra Todos los Pronósticos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
La creencia que la sociedad oficial es tan abrumadora que no se puede hacer nada al respecto está muy cerca de la idea que no puede hacer nada. La idea que las cosas se volverán a hacer si la gente se une para hacerlo ellos mismos contiene la semilla de la idea que la gente tiene el poder para hacer todo.
- The Contract Struggle at an Auto Parts Plant
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A new t-shirt has appeared at the American Axle and Manufacturing (AAM) plant where I work, and it is selling like hotcakes. The hi-lo driver shuttling parts to my job was wearing it.
- Contradictions of the Iraqi Resistance: Guerilla War vs. Terrorism
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
One of the most complicated aspects of the war in Iraq is that the Iraqi resistance is divided into a multitude of different groups with a multitude of different goals.
- Contre vents et marées
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- La contribution de Rosa Luxembourg envers le Marxisme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Luxembourg était l'interprète principale du Marxisme dans l'esprit de Marx. Une indication de ceci, paradoxal à première vue, fut qu'elle était une des rares Marxiste principale qui ne traita pas les écritures de Marx comme assignation sainte.
- Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses
- Il contributo al marxismo di Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Vedo Rosa Luxemburg come la marxista che fece il massimo per progredire le teorie rivoluzionarie di Karl Marx nel periodo successivo alla morte di Marx ed Engels.
- O Contributo de Rosa Luxemburg ao Marxismo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Num momento em que o movimento socialista estava evoluindo em direçoes cada vez mais distantes das posiçoes de Marx # o reformismo social democrata, por um lado, e o centralismo burocrático Leninista, por outro # Luxemburg foi a principal representante do marxismo no espírito de Marx.
- The Control of the Canadian Economy and the Human Problem of Unemployment:
A Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- A Convergence of Realities
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
What's striking the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement and its popular slogan “We are the 99 percent” is how much the central demand of the movement resonates with the Black community. African Americans with few exceptions are in the bottom 20% of income and wealth. Double digit unemployment is the norm in “good” economic times.
- Conversation with an Anarchist
Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011 Published: 2012
- Converse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The role of church people in the correctional system.
- Convict Labor in America
Book review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Convict labour, like antebellum slavery, was an American way of life, a cultural practice that tied northern capitalists, plantation owners, university-trained social reformers, federal officials and advocates of "good roads" together in a powerful alliance.
- Convicted but not Convinced
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Co-op Du Possible Sherbrooke,
An experience in Co-operative Self Reliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Co-op Housing
Challenge for Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Booklet designed to answer initial questions on co-op housing laws and procedures in Canada.
- Co-op Housing - An Alternative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brochure describing non-profit co-op housing in Toronto.
- Co-op housing under attack
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Co-op programs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Student co-op programs can be useful and rewarding for both the non-profit group and the students.
- La Cooperativa Bain se enfrenta al Grupo de Remuneración por el Trabajo Doméstico
Una espeluznante historia sobre política.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political coalition of progressive, socialist and labour forces anxious to establish a political vehicle capable of bringing about economic reforms to improve the circumstances of those suffering the effects of the Great Depression.
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction. In 1944, it became the government of Saskatchewan under T.C. Douglas, and in 1961, it became the New Democratic Party.
- La coopérative de Bain rencontre ‘Salaires pour les travaux domestiques’
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Co-operative Movement on the Prairies, 1900-1955
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Co-operative Planning Towarrd a Settlement of the Yukon Indian Claim: Document #1, Janury 21, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Les Cooperatives d'habitation
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- Co-ops are People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Copperbelt strike of 1935
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike action which performed by African mineworkers in the Copperbelt (then in Northern Rhodesia, today called Zambia) to protest against unfair taxes imposed by the British colonial authorities.
- Copyleft
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.
- The Copyright Police
First They Came for the Hip Hop Sites ...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Understand this: the seizure of websites without due process, corporate interests lobbying and then writing laws that allow them to be the police and t personally enforce, the battle over net neutrality is all about concentrating power in the hands of a few. This is about controlling the flow of information and being a gate keeper in the communications arena. Its the first step in moving a democracy toward a dictatorship.
- Coral Reefs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
All around the world, much of the world#s marine biodiversity face threats from human and activities as well as natural. It is feared that very soon, many reefs could die off.
- Cornish Rebellion of 1497
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A popular uprising by the people of Cornwall in the far south west of Britain.
- Corporate Concentration and the Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Condensed version of the brief presented to the Bryce Commission on Corporate Concentration.
- The Corporate Consensus
A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
- Corporate Influence in the Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Some nations can influence and control their media greatly. In addition, powerful corporations are becoming major influences on mainstream media. In some places major multinational corporations own media stations and outlets. Moreover, even as numbers of media outlets increase, the ownership is becoming ever more concentrated as mega mergers take hold. At the same time, vertical integration gives the big players even more avenues to cross-sell and cross-market their products for even more amazing profits. An effect of this though is a reduction in diversity and depth of content that the public can get, while increasing the political and economic power of corporations and advertisers. An informed population is crucial element to a functioning democracy.
- Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
How freedom of expression is threatened because corporate-owned media in Canada censor and manipulate the news.
- The Corporate Stranglehold on Education
Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Rather than challenge the economic irresponsibility, ecological damage, and human suffering, and culture of cruelty unleashed by free market fundamentalism, higher education appears to be one of its staunchest defenders, uncritically embracing a view of itself based on a market model of the academy.
- Corporate volunteering
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Corporate volunteer programs.
- Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's Schools
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The corporate elite are a small minority and their values are the opposite of most peoples' values. Things that most people consider immoral, like deliberately increasing the number of students who fail to graduate, are ruthlessly pursued by the corporate elite in order to control people and to justify increasing inequality in society.
- Correcting Common Misconceptions About Nonviolent Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A handout sheet addressing common misconceptions about nonviolent action and answering some frequently asked questions. Excerpted from The Politics of Nonviolent Action.
- Correspondence Publishing Committee
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A radical left organization in the US led by C.L.R. James and Martin Glaberman from approximately 1951 until 1962.
- A Cosmetic Cover for Occupation
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October of 2001, the Bush administration belatedly latched on to the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban as a rationale for military action. As part of their ideological arsenal, they deployed the heretofore retiring First Lady to present a humanitarian face to military intervention. Addressing the nation by radio on November 17, 2001, Laura Bush connected misogyny to terrorism, noting, “The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.”
- The cost of software piracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The enormous dollar amounts the software industry throws around in its PR campaigns about software 'piracy' are purely imaginary.
- Costly postal strikes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Costos y riesgos socializados vs. Ganancias privatizadas
La crisis en los Estados Unidos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- The Costs of McCarthyism
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Many Are the Crimes is far more than just an incisive diagnosis of the interlocking components of the historical era known as “McCarthyism.” Yeshiva University historian Ellen Schrecker has also produced a unique anti-witch-hunt study acknowledging that the vast majority of the legal targets of repression were, as the McCarthyites claimed, variously associated with the Communist movement.
- Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
- Council Communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
There is no dearth of proposals as to how to revive the labour movement; however, the serious investigator cannot help noticing that all such proposals for a #new beginning# are in reality but the restatement and rediscovery of ideas and forms of activity developed with much greater clarity and consistency during the beginnings of the modern labour movement.
- Council communism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The central argument of council communism, in contrast to those of social democracy and Leninist Communism, is that democratic workers' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural form of working class organisation and governmental power.
- Council Communism & The Critique of Bolshevism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1999
Council Communists don't see Stalinism as a sort of #counter-revolution' that deprived October of its fruits. Rather they see Stalinism just as a fruit of this revolution, one that opened the door for capitalism in Russia. Stalin was the heir of Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Revolution.
- Council for Yukon Indians Information Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Council of all beings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
- Counterculture
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
- Counterculture of the 1960s
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A cultural movement that mainly developed in the North America and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and the mid-1970s as a reaction against the political conservatism and social repression of the 1950s.
- Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
- Counterpoint: An Underground Newspaper with a Rural Route
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- A Country Of Sacred Cows And Ten Commandments
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It's high time that Israel must understand that criticizing Israeli government's foreign policy for assassinating people or for shooting children, is by no way Anti-Semitic, it's just being humane.
- The court does not sympathize
The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The blood of Palestinians is cheap in this country. No one has ever been punished for killing Palestinians # children, adults, newborns, old people. The murderers are all walking among us, free and happy.
- Court rules Ottawa negligent, ignorant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Courts Back Detroit Scab Papers
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In July a federal court of appeals dealt a crushing blow to the Detroit newspaper strikers, holding management was bargaining in good faith at the time they walked out in 1995. This means replaced workers—of whom there are still several hundred—have no rights to displace scabs and over a thousand more will get no backpay.
- The Cover-Ups That Exploded
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double Standards
An Exchange With The BBC#s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The priorities of the news media mean that the more Palestinians are killed, the less importance their deaths have to news organisations. Conversely, the fewer Israelis killed the more seriousness their deaths are accorded.
- Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It appears irrelevant to many policymakers, journalists, and people in the US generally that Pakistan has, for example, peasants, unions, working-class politics, LGBTQ organizations, feminist groups—that, in short, the overriding ethic of Pakistani democracy and resistance movements is secular.
- Co-workers in a World Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Problems facing agriculture in Manitoba, similar to problems facing Japanese farmers.
- Coxey's Army
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A protest march by unemployed workers from the United States.
- The CPCCA should be reconfigured to combat racism against all peoples
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Confronted with evidence of a decline in anti-Semitism, Irwin Cotler creatively claims that it is anti-Semitic to accuse Israel of apartheid. Since this accusation seems to be growing and is being promoted by campaigns on Canadian campuses, Cotler then has "evidence" of anti-Semitism.
- CPE: Demystifying Economics--Interview with Elissa Braunstein
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
ELISSA BRAUNSTEIN IS a graduate student in economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and has been a staff economist at Center for Popular Economics (CPE) for the past six years. CPE was founded in 1978 by five faculty and graduate students—Sam Bowles, Jim Crotty, Diane Flaherty, David Kotz, and Juliet Schor—to teach basic economics to activists. The collective has published several book, including A Field Guide to the U.S. Economy, Mink Coats Don't Trickle Down, and...
- Craft Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
The old form of trade unionism no longer meets the demands of the working class. The old trade union has not only fulfilled its mission and outlived its usefulness, but that it is now positively reactionary.
- Creating A Giant Ghetto in Gaza
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
I is possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the United States, in close cooperation with Europe, are now engaged in a rigorous scientific experiment in order to obtain a definitive answer.
- Creating Knowledge: Breaking the Monoply
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Creating Your Own Alternatives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Alternatives and suggestons for creating independent media.
- Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
- Creative Destruction: The Madness of the Global Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The current system of economics, particularly the latest stage of #turbo-capitalism#, known inoffensively as #neoliberalism#, is built upon painful boom-and-bust cycles fuelled by corporate greed and maintained by cynical deception of the public. The costs to the planet # in terms of human suffering and environmental collapse # are staggering.
- 'Creative Destruction' - The Madness of the Global Economy - Part 2
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism has been the refusal to analyse this; or even to report that real growth rates in the developed world have been declining since the 1970s.
- ‘The creatures, too, must become free’: Marx and the Animal/Human Distinction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
It has been claimed that Marx lacked respect for animals, thinking of them as inferior beings. Lawrence Wilde argues that, on the contrary, Marx had a respectful attitude towards animals and non-human nature in general. Marx’s attitude to the non-human is intrinsic to his humanistic outlook, grounded in an understanding of the human essence, for which maltreatment of animals is contrary to a communistic vision. Wilde approaches the question of Marx’s attitude to animals and nature within the wider context of Marx’s ethics.
- Cree Agenda Becomes Part of Federal Election
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The politicians of all parties are acting as if Aboriginal rights are irrelevant to this question of Quebec secession. Not only is it relevant: it is, in fact, central to the whole question. And if the politicians would only admit this frankly, the terms of the whole debate would be changed overnight.
- Cree Chalenge Settement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Creeping contradictions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
News tidbits.
- Crees fine government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- CRIAW conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Crime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Crime and Criminals
Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1902
So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
- Crime and Punishment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
Let us have done with this savage idea of punishment, which is without wisdom. Let us work for the freedom of man from the oppressions which make criminals, and for the enlightened treatment of all the sick.
- Crime of Apartheid
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Crimes of 'Intcom'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky differentiates between the term "international community" and its other more technical usage referring to the partnering of the USA and several allies. Chomsky labels the latter as "Intcom" and identifies several of its criminal actions.
- The Crimewave That Shames The World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It's one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of 'honour'.
- Criminal Law: 25 Common Mistakes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An examination of common mistakes and impressions people have about criminal law, lawyers, police powers and procedures.
- Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
The End of Free Speech?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. The Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.
- Criminalizing First-Graders
Arrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian #zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
- Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA.
- La crise Iraquienne en context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Un état solitaire, lourdement armé avec des armes de destruction massives, ouvertement méprisant des lois internationales et des Nations Unies et avec une réputation menaçante d'invader d'autres pays et à plonger le monde dans une crise.
Comment le monde doit il réagir à cette menace? Que peut ont faire à propos des États Unies et leurs ambitions ouvertement impérialistiques?
- Crisis and Coup in Ecuador
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
On January 21, 2000, for the first time since the Spanish conquest of Ecuador in A.D. 1533-34, indigenous people briefly -- very briefly -- ruled the country as part of a triumvirate. Frustrated by over a decade of economic problems, corruption and political stalemates over indigenous rights and land disputes, thousands of indigenous protesters and members of popular movements converged on Quito, the country's capital. On the 21st, hundreds of protesters occupied Congress and proclaimed a People's Parliament.
- Crisis And Hope: Theirs And Ours
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Overcoming the multiple crises means tearing down an enormous edifice of delusions about markets, free trade, and democracy that has been assiduously constructed over many years and overcoming the marginalization and atomization of the public so that they can become participants, not mere spectators of action.
- The Crisis and the Potential
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A veritable civil [war] erupted in the past year among several of America’s leading unions. At a time when over eight million jobs were disappearing, unemployment reaching highs unseen for nearly three decades, home defaults and foreclosures hitting all-time records with no end in sight, and labor’s major legislative goals being cut to pieces, some of the country’s biggest, most aggressive unions went to war — not against capital or Congress, but against one another.
- The Crisis Beneath the Bailout
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In early September, 2008 the Department of Labor reported that the U.S. economy in August had lost another 84,000 jobs. This was followed on October 2 with an announcement that officially recorded September job losses accelerated to 159,000. That made nine consecutive months of increasing unemployment, adding up to well over one million jobs lost over the past year.
- A Crisis by Any Other Name
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The role of communications in a crisis.
- Crisis Communications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Being prepared for a crisis is second best only to avoiding one altogether.
- Crisis Communications Checklist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999 Published: 2000
Nothing impresses like real confidence, and only advance planning can bestow it.
- La crisis de Irak en contexto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Un estado sin control, pesadamente provisto con armas de destrucción masiva, abiertamente despectivo de la ley internacional y de las Naciones Unidas, y con un record de extensión en aterrorizar e invadir otros países, ha hundido el mundo en crisis.
Como debería el mundo responder a esta amenaza? Que podemos nosotros hacer respecto a los Estados Unidos y sus obvias ambiciones imperialistas?
- Crisis en Gaza: el sistema de salud y los niños en peligro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Crisis from Pakistan to Motown
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Interview with Tariq Ali. Tariq Ali is the author of numerous political books and essays, as well as a filmmaker and novelist.
- Crisis in the Balkans
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Chomsky illustrates the situation in Kosovo and considers NATO involvement in the context of the international order and its rules.
- Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The question now is whether the Occupy movement can survive as an effective force for political and social action. The decision made some time ago to set up permanent encampments is turning out to be a disaster and is taking attention away from other more productive activist events.
- Crisis in the EU: From the Periphery to the Center
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The crisis of 2007-2009, coming from the U.S. core of the globalized system, the crisis that threatens the weak links of the euro, and the third crisis that started to affect Eastern Europe in 2009 have a major common point. Whether we are talking about the United States, Greece or the Baltic States, these crises are the repercussions of profoundly unbalanced growth.
- Crisis in the US
Social and Economic Effects, Restructuring and Methods of Adapting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The cause of the crisis in the US must be found in the context of the world capitalist economy and not credited to internal causes. These internal causes of course exist but in fact only shape the way this crisis is expressed.
- A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
- The Crisis of Dialectical Materialism and Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Libertarian socialism is defined first and foremost by the negation of political authoritarianism and theoretical determinism.
- The Crisis of Modern Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
- The Crisis of Revolutionary Power
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Alexander Rabinowitch has long stood as a major figure in the field of revolutionary history, his reputation forged by his series of books tackling the revolution in Petrograd. The book under review, his latest addition to this canon, is a meticulous and painstaking history, showing us the gaps and exploring the confusions of a tightly defined period.
- Crisis of the Regime
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
"A government headed by right-wing extremists has been returned to power, to preside over a divided country and a potential for real catastrophe in Iraq!" That's what we wrote a year ago, in the immediate wake of the 2004 election (editorial statement, ATC 113). In other words, the Republicans were firmly installed as the country's ruling party, albeit with a razor-thin majority, unless and until they were to screw something up really, really badly—and have they ever, from Baghdad to New Orleans and back!
- A Critical Defense of Charter '08
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Last November, dozens of well-known Chinese intellectuals launched the Charter '08 to call on Chinese government to respect basic civil and democratic rights. Soon afterwards the core leader of the appeal, Liu Xiaobo, was arrested and remains in custody until now.
- Critical distance (Bean)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Letter: anarchists must make a choice.
- Critical Mass
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A bicycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month.
- Critical Mass, Conflicts involving
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Bicycling events resulting in arrests or requiring police presence. Critics claim that Critical Mass, a bicycling advocacy event held primarily in large metropolitan cities, is a deliberate attempt to obstruct automotive traffic and disrupt normal city functions, asserting that individuals taking part refuse to obey traffic laws.
- Critical pedagogy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
a teaching approach that attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate: in other words, a theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness
- Critical Resistance at 10
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On the weekend of September 26-28, 3,500 people gathered in Oakland, California to hasten the death of the prison system.
- Critical thinking
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The purposeful and reflective judgement about what to believe or what to do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments.
- Criticism not disloyal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Support for Palestinian rights thus need not come at the expense of concern for Israelis # in fact, advocating changes to Israeli policies that perpetuate war, anger, and resistance is the truest promotion of Israelis# well-being.
- Criticizing Israel is Not an Act of Bigotry
Jewish Opposition to Israeli Human Rights Crimes is Growing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
A grassroots revolt is underway in Jewish communities throughout the world, a revolt that has panicked the elite organizations that have long functioned as official mouthpieces for the community.
- A Critique of Anarchism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Like liberalism, of which it is merely a stronger version, anarchism in reality can only serve as a cloak behind which real goals and real desires can be hidden. Thus when a movement is unsure of itself, it hides behind bland calls for freedom of expression (democracy) and freedom of action (anarchy). This can be as much true for subversive movements as for reactionary movements.
- Critique of Canada's Family Allowances
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Critique of Hegel#s Philosophy in General
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- A Critique of Kim Moody's An Injury to All
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Moody's book is no academic study, but looks at the labor movement "from the bottom up"; the author has witnessed and to some extent participated in the many defeats and handful of victories of the past 15 years.
- Critique of Syndicalist Methods
Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975 Published: 1998
Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
- A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1891
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- Critique of Violent Rationales
A Review Article of Critique of Nonviolent Politics: From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Nonviolent activists and scholars will disagree with many of the arguments in the book but there is much that they can gain by examining them closely.
- Croatian-Slovenian peasant revolt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A large peasant revolt in today's Croatia and Slovenia in 1573.
- Cromwell and the Levellers
Tercentenary of English Revolution: 1649-1949
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
Levelers were a loose organisation of kindred political thinkers who from stage to stage expressed the rapidly developing political consciousness of a great social and political mass movement.
- Cross Cultural Social Work In Canada: An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Crow flying high
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Crowsnest Pass Strike, 1932
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike that began in January 1932 with demands that companies divide available work in the depressed coal-mining industry equally among miners rather than playing favourites. Coal companies refused to deal with the workers' union, the Mine Workers' Union of Canada.
- Cry for “Bread & Roses” Still Resonates
100 Years After the Lawrence Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
When worker solidarity prevailed over corporate power in the icy streets of Lawrence a century ago, it made the promise of a better life real for many. The Bread and Roses strike became a consciousness-raising experience, not only for textile workers and their families, but the nation as a whole.
- Cuba 1959 to 1980s
The Unforgivable Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
- Cuba in Search of Renovation
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On January 1, 1959, the rebel Army entered Havana and brought down the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Fifty years later, Fidel Castro has given up power, but his brother Raúl has relieved him. Far from being characterized by paralysis, this transition period has witnessed the emergence of an intense debate about the future of socialism, both among opponents as well as those who defend it with the desire to see it evolve.
- Cuba, the United States and the Left
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The nationalist anti-imperialist revolution of the long beards has lasted forty-one years. It was never a socialist revolution. The Moncada combatants were not socialists, neither were those in the Sierra Maestra (with few exceptions), nor the Cuban people who one morning woke up to hear the news through the radio and from the mouth of Fidel Castro, that in response to the imperialist attacks, the island had become "socialist."
- Cuba Today
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Cuban revolution's 50th anniversary has sparked academic conferences, debates and articles assessing its past and future. How and why has the revolution survived? What does the future hold for Cuba? Or, as it is often put, more crudely, what will happen when Fidel/Raul dies?
- The Cuban Five--Injustice Prolonged
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the final appeal of the “Cuban Five,” who were convicted in 2001 and are serving prison terms ranging from 15 years to life for “espionage conspiracy” and acting as illegal agents for the Cuban government.
- Cuban Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An armed revolt that led to the overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro.
- Cuban Revolution - History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Documents on the Cuban revolution 1959 -
- Cuba's Invasion Fears
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
There is nothing irrational about Cuba's fears of being invaded by the United States.
- Cuba's Prisoner Release
Surprise! Mainstream Media Omits Context and Key Facts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Double standards and hypocrisy abound in American media coverage of Cuba's recent prisoner release. For example, the U.S. government holds more political prisoners on Cuban soil than the Cuban government does.
- Culhane, Claire
Connexipedia: Article from PrisonJustice.ca
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
- Culhane, Claire - Spanish text
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
Abolicionista de las prisiones.
- The Culture of Fear
In Javier Giraldo, Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Chomsky looks the horrors of Columbia's "democra-tatorship" and its accessories, hailing Giraldo's work as an inspiration for bringing these terrors to an end.
- CUPE sues to stop CBC cuts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- CUPW 1981: Mother's Rights, Union Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- The Current Bombings
Behind the rhetoric
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Noam Chomsky discusses his observations on the NATO bombing in Kosovo in relation to the "rules of world order".
- Cutbacks to Training Allowances & Outreach Programs: Their Impact on Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Cutbacks: Wiping out our Gains.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Cuts and the Fightback
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The accelerated privatzation taking place at the University of California is transforming the institution. For faculty, students and workers the changes are devastating. Programs and services are cut, student fees are raised over and over again, workers face both furloughs and layoffs while the faculty’s shared governance shrinks.
- Cuts, Canadian Culture and the CBC
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Canadian drams gives us a sense of community.
- Cutural Warriors of the Freedom Struggle: Miriam Makeba and Odetta
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It felt like the end of an era to realize that South Africa’s Miriam Makeba and our own Odetta died within weeks of one another, having been born only months apart, these twin pillars of the struggle for justice on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
- Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An encyclopedia published by Ephraim Chambers in London in 1728.
- The Cynicism and the Slaughter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
IMPEACHMENT. BOMBING. ELECTION. Impeachment. Bombing. Perhaps by now, the scandal-witchhunt-Cruise missile cycle has become so predictable that it's hard to respond with appropriate outrage to the latest round. We all knew, after all, that it was going to happen. Yet outrage is absolutely necessary, even at a moment when atrocity follows atrocity and world-class crimes against humanity virtually crowd each other out of attention.
- Cynicism From Above: Cynicism From Below
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The state bureaucracies of Eastern Europe are unable to accept any challenge to their right to decide and control.
- Czym jest wolnosciowy socjalizm?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Dacke War
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A peasant uprising led by Nils Dacke in Småland, Sweden, in 1542 against the rule of Gustav Vasa.
- Dakota War of 1862
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux or Dakota.
- Daly, Herman
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American ecological economist and professor. (Born 1938).
- Damage Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
While Noam Chomsky has provided extensive documentation of Israeli crimes, his approach has also served to block serious efforts to halt those crimes and to build an effective movement on behalf of the Palestinian cause.
- Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Local people protest a project that attacks the region#s biodiversity and communities.
- Damu Smith: A Life of Giving
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
I was attending an event to honor the scholar and Detroit activist Charles Simmons, who is recovering from cancer, when Maureen Taylor, another activist, told Simmons he should begin to pay as much attention to his own well being as he did that of others. She said when the plane in flight loses cabin pressure, you're instructed to first put the oxygen mask over your own face before you help anyone else.
- Danbury: Anatomy of a Prison Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
- Danças com Culpa
Um olhar sobre os homens que olham para a violência
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Why are some men violent?
- Dancing with Death: "Waltz with Bashir"
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It took Ari Folman 25 years to make “Waltz With Bashir,” his animated film about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. First, he had to remember the war.
- The Danger in Lebanon
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The assasination [of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri] resulted in the intensification of the campaign by the USA and France against the Syrian presence and influence in Lebanon. This pressure was able to base itself on the mass mobilization inside Lebanon, which forced the withdrawal of Syrian troops.
- The Danger of SB1070
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The recent passage of SB 1070 in Arizona must be a wakeup call not only for those of us of Latino heritage, but for all progressives who cherish freedom and justice. A draconian law [partially blocked by a court injunction] that basically legalizes racial profiling, it compels the law enforcement officers in the state of Arizona to stop and question any person that they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally.
- Danger: Radiation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Leaflet that asks and answers some basic questions about nuclear energy.
- Danger: sticky yellow notes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
A Thought Police for the Internet Age
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Guardian includes some fine reporting and occasionally insightful commentary. Possibly because it is farther from the heart of empire, it is able to provide a partial antidote to the craven coverage of the corporate-owned media in the US. Nonetheless, it would be unwise to believe that the Guardian is therefore a free market in progressive or dissident ideas on the left. In fact, quite the contrary: the paper strictly polices what can be said and who can say it in its pages, for cynical reasons we shall come to.
- Dangerous drugs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- A Dangerous Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Noam Chomsky explores the relationship between the USA and South America. He reveals that due to numerous anti-social policies, America is becoming increasingly isolated - even from Canada.
- The Danish General Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES have constituted the foremost outposts on the reformist road to socialism. One of them, Denmark, a small country of five million people, has become a flashpoint in the continuing clash between the welfare state and the globalization of capital.
- Dann, Mary and Carrie
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Leaders in the struggle of the Western Shoshone to retain their ancestral lands.
- Darcy, Judy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian trade unionist and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees from 1991 until 2003. (Born 1950).
- DARE's Struggles in Rhode Island
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Let's start in a scene from last summer that will be familiar, not exactly but approximately, to many older readers: the labor awards banquet. The setting is a "casino"— in the 1880s sense of a banquet hall, used for wedding receptions and assorted fraternal functions for six generations — set in a venerable public park in a working-class neighborhood, long ago designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.
- The Dark Side of "The Light": Brascan in Brazil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report evaluates the impact of BRASCAN Ltd. in Brazil as well as that of the economic system the company promotes.
- Darrow, Clarence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).
- Databases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- David Roediger's Working Toward Whiteness
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A disturbing aftermath of the pro-immigrant demonstrations recently held in dozens of cities across the United States, besides the obvious anti-immigrant backlash, has been the increase in Black/Brown tensions. Particularly alarming has been the way in which Latinos are being accused, not only by conservatives but by Progressives as well, of being the latest permutation of a long history of immigrant groups arriving to this country and making it, to quote Toni Morrison, “on the backs of Blacks.”
- Davidson, Joe
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Trade unionist and self describe evolutionary socialist "with the proviso that evolution needed a shove at every opportunity." (1915-1985).
- The Day America Died
Assassinating Awlaki
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
As long as the President sanctions an illegal act, executive branch employees are no longer accountable to the law that prohibits the illegal act. On the president’s authority, the executive branch can violate US laws against spying on Americans without warrants, indefinite detention, and torture and suffer no consequences.
- Day, Dorothy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).
- Day of Mourning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- De Leon, Daniel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
- De Leon, Daniel
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
- The Dead End of Climate Justice
How NGO Bureaucrats and Greenwashed Corporations are Turning Nature Into Investment Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The notion of climate debt, highlighted as the principle avenue of struggle for the climate justice movement, poses some large problems. Contemporary demands for reparations justified by the notion of climate debt open a dangerous door to increased green capitalist investment in the Global South. Everything from energy to agriculture, from cleaning products to electronics, and especially everything within the biosphere, is being incorporated into this regime of climate markets. One can only imagine the immense possibilities for speculation and financialization in these markets as the green bubble continues to grow.
- Dead Palestinian Babies And Bombed Mosques - IDF Fashion 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills."
- The Deadly Connection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
Sunni v. Shia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A war of extraordinary brutality is being waged across the Muslim world which is largely ignored by the media. It is a war in which victims are assassinated or massacred with no chance to defend themselves. Most of those who die are poor people murdered in obscure places without the world paying any attention.
- Deaf Canadians march
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
The Invisible Web
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
- Death and Bereavement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Death and Bereavement Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.
- Death in a New York Food Sweatshop
The Killing of Juan Baten
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
For thousands of recent immigrants, the eastern section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is where you go to find work in food processing and distribution factories that service many of New York City's markets and restaurants. If you've ever eaten a meal in New York, you can be assured that you've consumed food that has been produced and distributed through one of these food companies and those in a few adjacent neighborhoods.
- Death in the Desert
Migrants Risk Everything to Cross the Border
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
This is a NAFTA border. Money moves freely, people with money do too, but the poor are pushed into a dangerous cycle of crossing the desert.
- Death of a Sacred Place
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Special places are disappearing faster than endangered species. Places that move the heart foster messy attachments. They're unwieldy. The global economy prefers its consumers to have portable affections for interchangeable environments.
- The Death of Democracy
Israel's Flood of Anti-Democratic Laws
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Democracy is dying in both Israel and the United States, and much of the world is turning away in revulsion.
- The Death of NUMMI
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
During the 1980-82 recession, U.S. automobile corporations were closing factories, reflecting growing international competition and overproduction. One of the plants closed was a large General Motors facility in the city of Fremont, California, part of the San Francisco Bay Area.
- The Death of Retirement?
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us, Robin Blackburn’s followup masterpiece to Banking on Death (2002), is another sobering and insightful examination of retirement security. In Age Shock, Blackburn delves into the realities of an ageing demographic in the midst of the disintegration, from both a monetary and social obligation perspective, of sound financial conditions for the elderly.
- The Death of the State in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society.
- Death of the university?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers. There is, however, a fundamental difference between being a student and being a consumer. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process. Once students become consumers, their whole relationship to education changes. They come to look upon ideas, not as ways of understanding the world, but as possessions that they can trade for a better job or greater social prestige.
- A Death Sentence For Africa
The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a global system of corporate-led capitalism that is bulldozing us to this disaster, the corporate media mouthed deceptive platitudes.
- The Debate Around Liu Xiaobo
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We do not entirely share the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s statement on its decision to award the Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, praising China for having “achieved economic advances to which history can hardly show any equal” but regretting that it is in breach of several international agreements on human rights and China’s own constitution concerning these rights.
- The Debate at Halle
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
There were two defining moments in the history of the international working-class movement in the first half of the 20th century. The first, by far the most discussed and written about for obvious reasons, was the revolution in Russia in October 1917 and its subsequent isolation and defeat. The second was the disaster in the German movement, which had been for half a century the model of a militant, socialist working-class movement, and the subsequent collapse of that movement in the face of Nazism.
- El Debate de la Pena Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Debate with the International Socialist Organization Continued
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
From a libertarian socialist point of view, the “self-emancipation of the working class” can’t happen unless the working class builds organized mass movements that they control, such as labor organizations. This is the fundamental basis of syndicalism as a revolutionary strategy.
- Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
A deputy from the knightly estate mentioned that in the neighbourhood of Cleve many wood thefts took place merely in order to secure arrest and prison fare. Does not this deputy from the knightly estate prove precisely what he wants to refute, namely, that people are driven to steal wood by the sheer necessity of saving themselves from starvation and homelessness? Is this terrible need an aggravating circumstance?
- Debating how to change the world
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A review of Wobblies and Zapatistas, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
- Debating the NDP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Activists seeking radical change need to understand that it is fruitless to base their strategies on the assumption that the NDP can be the vehicle for achieving their goals.
- Debord, Guy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. (1931-1994).
- Debs, Eugene V.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American socialist politician and union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1855-1926).
- Debunking Columbus
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
“I knew it couldn’t be true!” exclaimed my then eleven-year-old daughter when I explained the premise of Restall’s book. “The Ancients knew that the earth was round,” she continued, “so Columbus could not have been the only one.”
- A Decade of Gulf War Illness
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The demon is back: Ten years after the U.S. air war began over Kuwait and Iraq on January 17, 1991, tens of thousands of sick Gulf War vets await treatment and/or compensation for chronic health problems brought on by their military service.
- Decennial Revision of the Bank Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The “Decent Left” and the Libya Intervention
A Reply to Michael Bérubé
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Western elites were perfectly comfortable with Gaddafi’s oppressive rule, including his use of torture. These states only broke with Gaddafi when his hold on power tottered, in response to the Arab Spring, and he ceased to be useful. He was no longer viewed as a reliable protector of Western access to Libya’s oil resources.
- A Decentralist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1958
No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
- Decentralization
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people or citizen.
- Decisión por Consenso
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
La decisión por consenso es un proceso de toma de decisiones en grupo que no sólo busca obtener el acuerdo de la mayoría de los participantes sino también la resolución o mitigación de objeciones de la minoría.
- Declaration of Independence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1776
The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
- A Declaration of Nishnawbe - Aski (The People and the Land)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Declaration of Support for Quebec's Right to Self-Determination
Signatories: Professors at University of Toronto and York University
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Document accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1789
Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
- Une déclaration politique du collectif des socialistes libertaires
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Declarations of a New Canadian Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
- The Decline of the Democratic Ideal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Noam Chomsky contemplates the disappearance of democratic ideals by examining the American reactions to the outcome of the 1990 elections in Nicaragua.
- Deconstructing Derrida
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
There is little doubt that Derrida was an erudite and learned philosopher, but his erudition was bent towards a destructive aim. In him the unreason of the age found its cunning articulator.
- Deconstructing The Israeli Narrative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel has revealed its nature; a nation built on actions normally termed war crimes by world institutions; a nation that does not follow international law; and a nation that does not heed United Nations Resolutions. Distracting and deceiving the world community with contrived and fallacious narratives permits Israel to continue its illegal maneuvers. Setting the record straight will straighten the road to Middle East peace.
- Deep Concerns
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Despite apparent defeat by the ongoing war in Iraq, Chomsky outlines the tasks that remain for those concerned about justice and human rights.
- The Deep Crisis of Sandinismo
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The struggle we waged from the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship and bring about a revolution (in 1979) was also a struggle for human rights. It has always been very difficult for me to draw the line between being a Sandinista activist and a human rights activist, because I've always considered the struggle for human rights to be a revolution in itself.
- Deeply Re-examining Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
HAVING JUST READ Michael Lowy's “The Centrality of Self-emancipation for a Critical Marxism”(in the Against the Current translation, which I received via the Internet), I agree strongly with many of Lowy's remarks about the next steps for those who consider themselves to be followers of Karl Marx, now that the downfall of the Stalinist bureaucracy and its devotees has provided us with a wonderful opportunity for the re-birth of communist ideas.
- The Defeat of Post-USSR Labor
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The nascent Soviet labor movement played an important, perhaps crucial, role in shaking the foundations of the Soviet system, which proved remarkably fragile beneath its impressive totalitarian superstructure. But this movement failed to develop the organizational and ideological independence that would have allowed it to influence the subsequent course of events.
- Defence without armies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The word 'defence' is often associated with the word 'violence.' However, Social Defence represents a different perspective.
- Defend the Ties That Bind
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Revolution is a conservative act as well as a radical one. It is the only way to defend those precious relationships which are the bases of human life and society, and which form the core of human values.
- Defender of the Movement
Albert Goldman for the Defense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A profile of the radical lawyer.
- Defending Palestinian solidarity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Electronic Intifada, the online publication about Palestine, finds itself at the centre of a storm as a pro-Israel group applies pressure to have a grant from a Dutch foundation withdrawn. This assault is part of a well-coordinated, escalating Israeli government-endorsed effort to vilify individuals and cripple organisations that criticise Israel's human rights record and call for it to respect Palestinian rights and international law.
- Defending the right to offend, shock or disturb
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Insult laws are designed to protect politicians, government leaders and officials and state institutions, arming the state with access to resources and legal doctrines that no other citizen has.
- Defiance with Freedom in Mind
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
The case for civil disobedience.
- The Deficit is No Accident
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The deficit and national debt were created intentionally by politicians of both parties, to destroy social programs which give working people some protection against unrestrained corporate power
- Defining an American State of War
Nine War Words That Define Our World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Nine common terms associated with our present wars that probably don't mean what you think they mean.
- Defying Washington's Embargo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
In the face of strong government opposition and little U.S. media attention, a grassroots effort scored a victory on September 13, 1996. On that day U.S. and Canadian members of Pastors for Peace delivered 400 medical computers to Cuba, without applying for the license required by the U.S. trade embargo.
- Deganawida (The Great Peacemaker)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The founder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
- Dejemos de engañarnos a nosotros mismos sobre el NDP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Si alguna vez vamos a seguir adelante, tenemos que enfrentarlo: El NDP no es un partido socialista. El NDP nunca ha sido un partido socialista. Y el NDP nunca será un partido socialista.
- Delano grape strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike, boycott, and secondary boycott led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) against growers of table grapes in California.
- Dellinger, David
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American radical pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change. (1915-2004).
- The Demise of Andy Stern and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A meaningful advance of workers’ struggles means bringing into existence class-wide organizations. Where those with such a perspective find themselves, by hook or by crook, in trade unions, the issue is to broaden struggles to include the unemployed wherever possible.
- Democracy Against Politics
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
“¡Que se vayan todos!” shouted rebellious crowds during the Argentine economic crisis of 2001, “Out with them all!” The call soon spread throughout Latin America: for a new politics without politicians and a new society without social elites. Many radicals have been inspired by the movements that seemed to rise with so much energy and idealism from this foundational fire. Others have been quick to criticize the inadequacy of movements which seem to have forgotten that economic exploitation is more fundamental than political oppression, and that exploitation is held up by political power which must be seized rather than ignored.
- Democracy and Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1966
Gray maintains that liberal democracy places power in only a few hands and calls for a radical democratization of power within the framework of an economy owned, controlled, and responsible to the public.
- Democracy Enhancement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Chomsky explores the American goal of spreading democracy to other nations through intervention. His assertions are supported in the second part of the essay with a case study of Haiti.
- Democracy in the Unites States? Fugetaboutit!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We who want a more equal and democratic society are the vast majority. There is no reason for us to feel hesitant about speaking our minds and talking revolution to our friends and neighbors, our co-workers, and even people we meet in the course of shopping and so forth. When millions of Americans feel that they are not alone in wanting a revolution, that's when things will start to change. That's when people will start to think creatively and concretely about how to make it happen. Until then, we'll remain on a treadmill to nowhere, with everybody feeling that they are just one lonely person who "can't fight city hall."
- Democracy Is the Key
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Ann Menasche interviews Peter Camejo: Against the Current: What is the importance of Nader-Camejo campaign in 2004?
- Democracy loses out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The people can say what they want, they can vote how they want, but the bureaucrats make the decisions.
- Democracy Restored
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
In light of the third anniversary of the military coup that overthrew the elected government of Haiti in 1991, Chomsky exposes the grittier side of America's involvement in the restoration of democracy in Haiti.
- Democracy Seized -- and Lost
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Reconstruction was among the messiest, most complex periods in U.S. history, and certainly one of the most emotionally exhausting to revisit. Accounts of the period resonate with hope of almost millenarian proportions and are tainted by tragedy — not the kind of tragedy that brings release, but the kind that leaves one sick with incredulity.
- Democratic Revolution and Socialist Revolution: A Reply to Malik Miah
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN ATC 75 Malik Miah presents an analysis of events surrounding the fall of Indonesian President Suharto (“Indonesia's Democratic Revolution”). As a descriptive report of what has been happening in that country his effort is valuable to activists. However, as an analytical assessment of what is at stake the article falls short.
- Democratic Struggle: What Role for Marxism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 20032003
Exploring what Marxist approaches to democracy have offered to contemporary discussions.
- The Democrats' New Scapegoat
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In 2000, the Democratic Party establishment and much of the left blamed Ralph Nader for the election of George Bush. The “spoiler” label conveniently ignored the fact that Al Gore ran a weak campaign with no compelling message; that more registered Democrats voted for Bush than for Nader; and that the Democratic Party refused to challenge the removal of African Americans from the voter rolls in Florida.
- Demonstration (people)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A form of nonviolent action by groups of people in favor of a political or other cause, normally consisting of walking in a march and a meeting (rally) to hear speakers.
- The Demos Versus 'We, the People': from Ancient to Modern Conceptions of Citizenship
From Democracy Against Capitalism, Chapter 7
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
- The Dene - Land and Unity for the Native People of the Mackenzie Valley A Statement of Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Dene Learning For Self-Determination and The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry: (1974-1977), Working Paper #2
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Dene Nation: Apartheid?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Depleted Uranium: Scandal Update
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
In the first weeks of the new year, a new controversy has erupted among NATO allies over possible health effects of the Pentagon's use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons on their troops who served in Bosnia, Kosova and Serbia. The European Union and several individual states, Italy, Spain and Holland among them, have demanded an investigation into the use of DU weapons by American and NATO warplanes during air assaults on Serbia and Kosova in 1999 and Bosnia in 1995. The weapons are favored because their hardness and density make them highly effective against armored vehicles and tanks.
- Der Zor Diary: A Pilgrimage To The Killing Fields of the Armenian Genocide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Der Zor desert -- the most infamous of the killings fields in the premeditated extermination of the Armenian people carried out by the Turkish government beginning in 1915.
- Derechos y Libertades
Introduccion al Volumen 9, Número 2 del Sumario de Connexions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Dershowitz to the Rescue?
The Israeli Spin-Machine in Overdrive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
According to Israel's apologists, only Israelis have a right to defend themselves. Palestinians do not have this right, nor does anyone else who is attempting to assist the Palestinians.
- The Dershowitz Treatment
Slime Throwing as Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
An expose of Alan Dershowitz's record, showing that he has repeatedly resorted to lies, slander, fabrications, falsifications and plagiarism in public debate and in his published works.
- Description of Recently Founded Communist Colonies Still in Existence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844 Published: 1845
If the workers are united among themselves, hold together and pursue one purpose, they are infinitely stronger than the rich. And if, moreover, they have set their sights upon such a rational purpose, and one which desires the best for all mankind, as community of goods, it is self-evident that the better and more intelligent among the rich will declare themselves in agreement with the workers and support them.
- Desert Winds Stir New Hope
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
With oil and gas reserves running dry, Egypt is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
- Designing Pacifist Films
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
- Designs on equality
City planning is a mechanism of discrimination - it mainly serves the able-bodied
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The idea of “universal design” is to stop creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether it’s car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with sports injuries or with physical and mental limitations, and those who care for any of the above.
- Desintresse am Öffentlichen Intresse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2001
In den Industrienationen haben die Menschen über Jahrzehnte hinweg gelernt, dass man privaten Unternehmen nicht trauen kann, wenn es um Sachen der öffentlichen Sicherheit geht.
- ¿Desinvertir?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
- Leon Despres, Chicago Rebel
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Iconic Chicago alderman Leon Despres died at the age of 101 on May 6, 2009 in the city he lived and loved. A little frail in stature, Len had a broad intellect that was fully intact to the very end. He fought much of his adult life for a progressive vision of Chicago that “Machine” politics was never ready to accept. After his 1955 election as alderman, and in the first decade of his two-decade term, many city council votes were recorded 49-1. Despres was the lone dissenter.
- The Destabilization of Haiti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A short summary of the illegal and suppressed details of American intervention in Haiti during the 1990's and early 2000's.
- The Destiny of A Revolution
Review of Victor Serge, Russia Twenty Years After
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Victor Serge's more impassioned account based on his eyewitness observations of everyday life and the detailed realities of Stalinist political repression.
- Destroying Estonia
The One Per Cent’s New/Old Solution to Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Many economists and financial press writers mimic children on amusement park rides. They think their austerity policies are “steering” their vehicle rather than being guided by underlying structural forces.
- Destroying Libya’s Welfare State
NATO's Great Victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
For NATO, its corporate allies, and its media mouthpieces, such prosperity for workers simply will not do. We live in a world where austerity for the workers is the order of the day – for those in Libya, Greece, Italy, Spain, Great Britain and the U.S. as well. And those who stand in the way of such austerity measures, whether they be a nationalist government in Libya, Communists in Greece or Occupiers in the U.S., must be dealt with accordingly – by violent reaction.
- Destruction and Resistance at SUNY
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The state university of New York turned fifty in 1998, but its mission-to provide New Yorkers with quality education at low cost-is endangered. Earlier this spring, SUNY faculty finally responded by revolting and issuing an unprecedented demand for the removal of the state-appointed university trustees.
- The Destructive Urge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Marxism's greatest discovery is that it cannot prescribe any science of revolution, any fail-safe program. On the contrary what it provides is a new question, a new responsibility to make a choice..
- Detecting Prejudice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Detroit: Disappearing City?
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Forty percent of Detroit today is considered virtually “unoccupied.” The administration of Mayor Dave Bing is trying to figure out how to move the remaining residents of these areas out, in the name of “rightsizing” the city. Of course he hasn’t revealed any specifics — and the devil is in the details! Residents are wary: without the money to relocate people and the services needed, it’s just another round of displacing the urban poor.
- Detroit Politics Embroiled
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Detroit is a city entangled in a chain of interlocking crises, all the way from the world economic crisis, to deindustrialization in America, down to the regional and local levels of the housing market hemorrhage and a tidal wave of utility cutoffs in poor people’s homes. Some 40,000 Detroiters now are without water — the most shocking example, perhaps, of daily life in a city on the brink.
- Detroit Public Schools: Who's Failing?
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It's no scret that the Detroit Public Schools have been in a state of chaos for some time. When former Democratic governor Jennifer Granholm appointed Robert Bobb as Emergency Financial Manager in 2009, many hoped that he would make positive changes. The district was carrying a $219 million deficit, not to mention some of the country’s lowest graduation rates and standardized test scores.
- Detroit Symphony Musicians on Strike
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra have been on strike since October 4, 2010. Thirty-five concerts have been cancelled, while the musicians have organized nine magnificent performances with guest conductors in various churches and synagogues in the area. They charged $20 admission and got their friends to volunteer to be ushers and ticket sellers. At a concert of 1100 I attended in a Grosse Pointe Woods church, parishioners seated on either side of me were attending their first symphonic concert.
- Detroiters Remember the 1967 Rebellion
Kim D. Hunter interviews Ed Vaughn
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
An interview with Ed Vaughn, an eyewitness observer of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, on the event, its causes and its impact on history.
- Detroit's Crisis -- Coming to You?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
There are two realities to grasp about the current plight of Detroit. Reality one: Detroit is caught in a set of interlocking crises, from the level of the world economy and national political gridlock down to the viciously reactionary Michigan state government and the yawning divide between the city and suburban Detroit, that would severely challenge the most competent, the most visionary, the most energetic and most progressive city leadership.
- Deutscher, Isaac
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist historian, journalist and political activist. (1907-1967).
- Deux Poids, Deux Mesures, Les Francophones Hors Quebec Et Les Anglophones Au Quebec
Un Dossier Comparatif
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Devastating Crisis Unfolds
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system is what’s made the downward slide so intractable for policymakers and its potential for disaster so serious. The plague of foreclosures and abandoned homes — often broken into and stripped clean of everything, including copper wiring — stalks Detroit in particular, and other Midwest cities.
- Development and Canada's Last Frontiers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Development Education
How To Do It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980 Published: 1983
- Development Education Project - Canadian Complicity in South Africa and Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Development Education Viewpoints
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Educational tools focused on Worldwide Underdevelopment in a Canadian context.
- The Development of a Guaranteed Annual Income in Canada and the Involvement of Canadian Churches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A paper designed to educate church people about the concept of a guaranteed income as an effective "weapon against poverty".
- The Development of Utopian Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1880
The Utopians# mode of thought has for a long time governed the Socialist ideas of the 19th century, and still governs some of them. Until very recently, all French and English Socialists did homage to it. The earlier German Communism, including that of Weitling, was of the same school. To all these, Socialism is the expression of absolute truth, reason and justice, and has only to be discovered to conquer all the world by virtue of its own power. And as an absolute truth is independent of time, space, and of the historical development of man, it is a mere accident when and where it is discovered. With all this, absolute truth, reason, and justice are different with the founder of each different school.
- Development On Trial
Ten Days for World Development Education and Action Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Dewey, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
- Diagnosis, Goals and Methods of Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Outline of several diagnoses of the state of social systems and institutions.
- Dialectical Adventures Into the Unknown
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A Nihilist/Anarchist repudiation of 1970's-era British society. Aside from the fecklessness of mainstream capitalist culture, the Communist Party's re-iteration of the standard state/opponent relationship maintains a "dialectic" of civic conformity.
- "Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis" -- A Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
- Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
There is no philosophy of history without Marxism, and there can be no Marxism without the dialectic.
- Dialogue on Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
A discourse between a Third World citizen and a Canadian.
- The ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
What did the phrase 'dictatorship of the proletariat' mean to Marx and to his contemporaneous readers?
- Did Leviev's Empire Succumb to Boycott?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The brave people who took to the streets to demand boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and Israeli companies have received a clear message that their efforts are not in vain. Private companies that seek to make easy profits in Palestine while ignoring the injustices and illegality of Israel's crimes there, will have to think twice about their investments. They may be required to pay a price in actual money for the moral deficit in their accounts.
- Did Roosevelt know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor yet say nothing?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Examining another popular conspiracy theory.
- Didn't See The Same Movie
Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Dietzgen, Joseph
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Socialist philosopher and Marxist. (1828-1888).
- Diez Mitos del Cuidado de la Salud
Entendiendo el Debate del Servicio Medico en Canadá
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
- Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- The Difference Between Judaism and Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Argues that "Judaism and Zionism are by no means the same. Indeed they are incompatible and irreconcilable: If one is a good Jew, one cannot be a Zionist; if one is a Zionist, one cannot be a good Jew."
- A Different Sort of Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
We do not want to suggest that the democracy of ancient Greece was perfect or that it can be easily be copied in the modern world. Greece was burdened by the dual crimes of slavery and the inferior status of women, as were all ancient societies in the Mediterranean basin and in Asia. What distinguished ancient Athens was that, in that society, human beings began to break out to produce new forms of self-government. That they could not solve all the evils of that time should not be surprising.
- A Different Sort of Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- A Different Sort of Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- Diggers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An English group of agrarian communists in the 17th century.
- Dignity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Dignity Denied: Unemployment in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits
Six-part article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Inside the Financial World, Government Agencies and their Private Contractors Lies a Hidden System of Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking and Rigged Stock Market Riches.
- Direct action
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Politically motivated activity undertaken by individuals, groups, or governments to achieve political goals outside of normal social/political channels.
- Direct Action for Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
- Direct Action in Hard Times
Activist Strategies from Brazil to Wisconsin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Factory occupations, land occupations, and other tactics.
- Direct democracy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A form of democracy wherein sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate.
- A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
- Directory of Alcoholism Services
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Comprehensive list of all agencies serving Metropolitan Toronto.
- Directory of Libertarian Periodicals
5th Edition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Directory of Women and Global Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- The dirty d-word
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Diversity has become more than simply a way of describing the expansion of our experiences. It has also become a dogma about how we should live that has become as stultifying as old-fashioned racism - and often as divisive.
- Disability rights movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A movement aims to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.
- Disabled Activists Seek Freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
"I'd rather go to jail than to die in a nursing home".
- Disarm and Live
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Disaster and Mental Health
The Palestinian Experience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
- Disasters You Can Believe In
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The year 2009 coincidentally marks the 100th anniversary of the United States Marines’ invasion of Nicaragua. They stayed for a quarter century, and after assassinating the country’s resistance leader, Augusto Cesar Sandino, left the place in incomparably worse shape than they found it.
- The Disconnect in US Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Noam Chomsky describes how the American people are excluded from political participation, claiming that action must also come before and after elections and not only once every four years.
- Discrimination: How Human Rights Laws Protect You
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- A Discussion Concerning Nonviolence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The principle of nonviolence has terrible effects on people: it disarms them morally and politically by encouraging them to become "passive resisters," beseeching some more humane elite forces to come to their aid. It undermines the view of people which I consider to be the most needful both morally and politically to create a democratic movement#that is, for people to see and rely on themselves collectively as the conscious agents of change and the creators of a new society. However much we and other people desire a peaceful transformation of society, at some point there will come a contest of power. To win this contest, we will have to win a substantial part of the military forces to our side, or at least get them to be neutral. To succeed in this we need to build a movement that is so broad and deep that the great majority of people become mobilized as an unstoppable force.
- Discussion of Marx's Theory of Crisis (Part 1)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
- Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
- Disenfranchisement as Political Repression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the U.S., if you#re caught boosting cars, robbing liquor stores, or attempting to escape reality by injecting heroin into your veins, you not only go to jail, but you lose your right to vote. And you don#t just lose it for the time you#re incarcerated; it#s still gone when you get out.
- Disinvestment from South Africa
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Dissecting Congo's Modern Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A primary aim of Gerard Prunier’s work is to detangle and lay bare the complexities of interests, alliances and deep-seeded antagonisms that have made the Congo crisis so brutal. He does this well, without simplifying the narrative for easy comprehension.
- Dissidents Looking Beyond Zionism
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In 1968 — 1968! — a book appeared with the astonishing title Israel Without Zionists. A Plea for Peace in the Middle East. The timing was even more surprising, in Israel’s flush of euphoria in the wake of the 1967 war. This was also the moment when the mainstream American Jewish community and the U.S. intelligentsia in general had just discovered the State of Israel as the great inspiration and center of Jewish redemption — after two decades during which Israel had not been viewed with any such great enthusiasm, as chronicled by historian Peter Novick in The Holocaust In American Life.
- Distortions at Fourth Hand
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Chomsky addresses the issue of "freedom of the press". He points out that while publications that shun eyewitness accounts of the situation in post-war Vietnam have a daily circulation of approx. 250 000, smaller publications which rely on these firsthand testimonies reach a limited audience. In this fashion, Chomsky warns of the dangers of accepting only what filters through to the American public, as it is "a seriously distorted version of the evidence available".
- Diversity of Tactics and Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
To me, a strategy isn't democratic if it intrinsically alienates the majority of oppressed people and shuts the door to their participation. A strategy isn't democratic if it drives away the working class when they have every reason to participate and want to.
- 'Diversity of tactics' as a justification for violent tactics - a debate, part 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Dividing the Races to Benefit the Rich
Prison Populism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Race baiting broadcast agitators like Beck and Rush Limbaugh have their audiences believing the factually flawed foolishness that the reason they are falling behind economically is because the federal government is fawning over blacks lavishing them with unearned benefits. The reason for the loss of jobs, homes and dreams of comfortable futures driving white working class (and middle class) ire is not benefits to blacks but naked greed on Wall Street and in the suites of mega-corporations that triggered America's economic collapse.
- The Divorce Bill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
In regard to marriage, the legislator can only establish when it is permissible to dissolve it, that is to say, when in its essence it is already dissolved. Juridical dissolution of marriage can only be the registering of its internal dissolution.
- 10 mythes des soins de santé
Comprendre le débat de l'Assistance Médicale Canadienne
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant#.
- Do I Divest?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
- Do the Greeks get it?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A word has to be said about the somewhat depressing character of the clash between reformism and ultraleftism in Greece. Radical youth might have a natural prejudice against the KKE and PAME because it is so compromised with class-collaborationist coalition building. But instead of trying to figure out a way to win the ranks of the CP to the revolutionary cause, it sees its membership as part of the problem and not part of the solution.
- Do Workers Lose Their Rights?
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Gertrude Ezorsky's Freedom in the Workplace? is a unique and highly useful book. Unique, because it combines sophisticated philosophical analysis with compelling examples from the lives of low-wage workers and an Appendix on 20th century U.S. labor law — all in a text of 77 easy-to-read pages! — and highly useful, because it refutes a central myth about capitalism.
- Dobbin replies to Green Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Murray Dobbin replies to the Green party.
- Doctors Under Attack
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On May 31, 2009, while handing out church bulletins, Dr. George Tiller was shot to death by an anti-abortion activist. The Women’s Health Care Services clinic Dr. Tiller operated in Wichita, Kansas was one of three in the United States that performed late-term abortions. His clinic, his home and the homes of his staff have been picketed for years.
- Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
- Documents From the Bain Ave. Rent Freeze
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.
- The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
DRUM was formed in May 1968 during the course of a wildcat strike that protested against an increase in production without an increase in man-power. Most of the plant porkchoppers were off in Atlantic City at a union convention and the plant was shut down by a joint effort of older Polish women from the Trim Shop and young black workers.
- Does Revolution Make Sense?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Fighting for revolution allows and demands that we abandon petty concerns and narrow issues and think big. Revolution forces us to try to understand the whole world and to imagine a new one. As we explore the inter-relatedness of the problems which we face, we can begin to understand all the many human interconnections which will provide the solution. A truly revolutionary movement will touch people's deepest desires and encompass their highest dreams.
- Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Are the killings of journalists by the U.S. merely accidents, or are they deliberate?
- Dolgoff, Sam
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. (1902-1990).
- Dolgoff, Sam
Connexipedia article - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The 'Dollar' Crisis, and Us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A capitalist crisis like the current one resembles a poker game where the table is swept clean and all cards and chips must be redistributed for the game to continue at all. This could happen as an 'orderly bankruptcy proceeding' but it will most likely happen (as it has always happened in the past) chaotically, through economic blowout, class confrontation, and war.
- Dollarization, Democracy & Daily Life in Zimbabwe
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Satellite TV is big in Zimbabwe; owing to the limited and propagandistic programming on state-sponsored Z-TV, and the travails of night travel on a decaying road network, just about every house in Harare, from the poor/working class Mbare township to the luxury suburb of Burrowdale, sports a dish that brings South African soapies, Al Jazeera and, most importantly, the latest in reality TV to living rooms across the land.
- Domestic Constituencies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Chomsky, assuming the principle that governments are bound to act according to the will of their "domestic constituencies", considers the degree to which this is done as a measure of the health of democracy. In turn, he calls for the public to discover what is being planned for them.
- Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
- Domestic Terrorism
Notes on the State System of Oppression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Starting with the curious events in Detroit 1971 associated with the Socialist Worker's party, Chomsky investigates FBI disruption programs, their consequences and meaning. He defines this systematic contamination as a sort of domestic terrorism.
- The Domestic War on Protesters
It's Not Just Egypt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
While the US claims to uphold right to demonstrate around the world, there have been countless examples throughout the history of this country of protests being shut down by an overwhelming police presence. In recent years, it has become routine for police departments to use a host of tactics to limit and prevent mass demonstrations. These tactics have included mass arrests of demonstrators, preemptive arrests and trumped up charges against protest organizers.
- Domestic Work and Rights in China
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
When China adopted the “open door” policy in 1978, south China, especially the Pearl River Delta area, was the first industrial area created to attract foreign investment, particularly from Hong Kong. In the late 1990s, China accelerated this policy, opening consumer markets to foreign investment. Since 1999, the average annual gross domestic product grew 10%, far ahead of other developing countries.
- Dominance and its Dilemmas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky responds to the Bush Administration's announcement of the new National Security Strategy that asserts power through force. He discusses the accompanying implications of the strategy and warns against using violence as a means of control.
- The Dominion and The Intellectuals
Noam Chomsky interviewed by an anonymous interviewer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky says "one of the reasons why I am considered "public enemy number one" among a large sector of intellectuals in the U.S. is that I mention that the U.S. is one of the major terrorist states in the world and this assertion, though plainly true, is unacceptable for many intellectuals."
- Don't be a Time Bandit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Don't waste journalists' time.
- Don't buy these grapes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Don't neglect your presentation skills
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Do not wait until you are about to present. It's not worth the stress, or to risk looking like a fool. Take time to prepare.
- Don't play that game: Ending telephone tag
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The multitude of communications technologies have actually made it more difficult to get in touch.
- Donghak Peasant Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was an anti-government, anti-yangban and anti-foreign uprising in 1894.
- Donia, Pier Gerlofs
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel. (1480-1520).
- Don't Forget to Write
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
- Don't Incite Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
- Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing!
Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions- banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds - become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
- Doom and Gloom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Jermey Brecher says that the social roots of doom are part of a common pattern that we can observe repeatedly in history. People live their lives and pursue their goals by means of strategies that have been developed over time. But sometimes they discover their established strategies aren't working. No matter how hard they try, their problems remain intractable. The natural result is despair. But the awareness that other people are experiencing the same despair changes the context in which it is experienced. It opens up new possibilities. Perhaps the problems that we despair of solving as individuals can be addressed through some kind of collective action. When people begin to explore that possibility, the result may be a social movement.
- Door opened to U.S. wheat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Dossier Homme Seul Itinerant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Theoretical base for organising and educative effort with single itinerant men in Montreal.
- Dossier No. 2 on the Homeless Single Men of the Lower Downtown
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report on an organizing effort by two social workers with single homeless men in Montreal.
- Dossier No.2 Sur les Sans-Foyer ou Hommes Seule du pas de la Ville
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Suite a l'interet formule pour le dossier Homme Seul Itinerant.
- Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Whether you're a climate change denier or doomsayer, an avid recycler or rabid consumer of plastic bottles, there is one very good but little-known reason to oppose carbon offsets: their immediate and dire human costs.
- The double tragedy of Che Guevara
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
To prepare themselves for the uphill struggle on two fronts it becomes necessary to also have a clear head, that is to say, a revolutionary theory, fully integrated with the self-activity of the masses. It is for this reason that we must not blind ourselves to the double tragedy of Guevara's death. Bravely he lived and bravely he died, but he did not do in Bolivia what he had done in Cuba: relate himself to the masses. Guevara's isolation from the mass movement arose from a certain concept of guerrilla warfare as a substitute for social revolution.
- Doublespeak award for Wilson, Tory cabinet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Douglas, Tommy
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian social democratic politician, CCF premier of Saskatchean and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1904-1986).
- Douglass, Frederick
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. (1818-1895).
- Doukhobors
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada.
- Doukhobors
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada.
- Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Brief to the NDP Task Force on Older Women in British Columbia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Downtown Health and Social Development Centre, Inc. And Emergency Shleter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Downtown: The People Speak Out!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Dowson, Ross
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian Trotskyist. (1917-2002).
- Dózsa, György
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Leader of a peasants' revolt against the Hungarian landed nobility. (1470-1514).
- Dr. Snider's Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Issues facing senior citizens in Alberta.
- Draft dodger
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Term that refers to a person who avoids the conscription policies of the nation in which he or she is a citizen or resident by leaving the country, going into hiding, or other attempts at fraudulent means.
- Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2010-2011
Capital devours lives, labor, land; masses seek paths to freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, "inside" and "outside."
- Drain the Swamp and There Will Be No More Mosquitoes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky parallels the pursuit of American interests through intervention in foreign regions to the creation of swaps, and respectively, terrorists to mosquitoes.
- Draper, Hal
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American socialist activist, Marxist and author of a number of key works about Marxism. (1914-1990).
- Hal Draper, Introduction to
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Link to brief biography of Hal Draper, an American socialist activist, Marxist and author, and participant in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement. (1914-1990).
- Drawing from Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- DREAM Deferred, Fight Continues
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- A Dream That is Not for the Drowsy: A Working Theology for Presence and Future-Building
In the Metro Core Across our Country
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
What to wear when you're going to be interviewed on TV.
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advice for what to wear when you are going to be interviewed on television.
- The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1899
For in the Dreyfus case four social factors make themselves felt which give it the stamp of a question directly related to the class struggle. They are: militarism, chauvinism-nationalism, anti-Semitism, and clericalism. In our written and spoken agitation we always combat these direct enemies of the socialist proletariat by virtue of our general tendencies. It would thus be totally incomprehensible to not enter into a struggle with these enemies exactly when it is a question of unmasking them, not as abstract clichés, but through the use of living current events.
- Droits et Libertés
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Les libertés civiles et les droits de l'homme font partis clés dans presque chaque autre aspect de la justice et des changements sociaux.
- Drone Strikes? What’s To Feel Bad About?
Really Sorry We Burned the Korans
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- Drowning in Noise: Noise Costs of jet skis in America
A Report for the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
An analysis of the value of the lost enjoyment that jet ski noise introduces into beach environments.
- Drug testing case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Drug use, the labour market and class conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A social history and analysis of drug use and its relationship with class struggle.
- Drugs, Race & the Gulag Industry
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Across the country corrections department officials and captains of the incarceration industry are in crisis. Though the nation’s over bloated prison system is far from breaking, the halcyon days of proliferating maximum security units and juvenile detention centers appear nearly at an end. Prisons are bursting at the seams and states, reaping the backlash of years of neoliberal tax cuts, have no money to “fix” the problem with another round of construction.
- Drugs Won't Cure Common Colds and Flu
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A booklet (French or English) that simply and graphically describes what are, and how one contracts common colds and influenza.
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).
- Dual power
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A concept first articulated in an article by Lenin, "The Dual Power," (dvoevlastie) which described a situation in the wake of the February Revolution in which two powers, the workers councils (or Soviets, particularly the Petrograd Soviet) and the official state apparatus of the Provisional Government coexisted with each other and competed for legitimacy.
- Dual Power or Populist Theater? Mexico's Two Governments
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Mexican Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés Manuel López Obrador to be the “legitimate president of Mexico.”He is now creating an alternative government, and says he will call a constituent assembly that will write a new constitution. What is happening here? Is this a radical fight for reforms? A potentially revolutionary movement? Or a spectacular piece of populist theater?
- Dubai Labor Fighting Back Vs. Indentured Globalization
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
October, 2007 saw the government of the United Arab Emirates halfway through a “humane” immigration amnesty which, in turn, paved the way for a clampdown on labor. In November a huge strike wave erupted, culminating in pitched battles between militant laborers and Dubai police.
- Dubious Sentinel - Canada and the World Military Order
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Dublin Lockout
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers which took place in Ireland's capital city of Dublin from 26 August 1913 to 18 January 1914.
- Duckworth, Muriel
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
- Duckworth, Muriel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
- Duckworth, Muriel
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Dumont, Gabriel
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
- Dumont, Gabriel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
- Dunayevskaya, Raya
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism. (1910-1987).
- Dürr, Hans-Peter
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Physicist and peace activist. (Born 1929).
- Düstere Aussichten
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Ist es schon zu spät? Wir wissen, dass bereits vieles verloren ist. Aber wir können nicht wissen, ob bereits alles verloren ist. Man kann im voraus nicht wissen, was eine gemeinsame Aktion alles bewirken kann. Wir befinden uns in der Lage von Eltern, die bereits ein Kind verloren haben, und die sich jetzt überlegen müssen, ob sie für ihre anderen Kinder kämpfen wollen, die in Gefahr aber noch am Leben sind.
- Dutch resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II.
- Dutschke, Rudi
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s. (1940-1979).
- A Duty of Honour
Against Capital Punishment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.
- Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
- E=MC2 Disaster?/Citizens Bill of Rights and Consumer's Guide to Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Earth Day 1990
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- The Earth Grabbers
Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Climate justice means that the Minerals-Energy Complex will have to take the same course as apartheid.
- Earthcare Newsletter One
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
- The East India Company # Its History and Results
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1853
Thus the British Government has been fighting, under the Company#s name, for two centuries, till at last the natural limits of India were reached. We understand now, why during ail this time all parties in England have connived in silence, even those which had resolved to become the loudest with their hypocritical peace-cant, after the arrondissement of the one Indian Empire should have been completed. Firstly, of course, they had to get it, in order to subject it afterward to their sharp philanthropy.
- East Timor
Comments On the Occasion of the Forthcoming APEC Summit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In light of the atrocities of the situation in East Timor and the pending APEC conference, Chomsky calls attention to the need to address the issue and to use the conference as an immediate opportunity to do so.
- East Timor and Indonesia's Political Explosion
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
As we go to press at the end of October, the 700-member Peoples Consultative Assembly (MPR, the national parliament) meeting in Jakarta reached some historic decisions.
In a seventy-two-hour period (October 19-21), the assembly rejected an "accountability" speech by President Habibie (who immediately withdrew his name for president); formally endorsed the August 30 referendum in East Timor, thus relinquishing its national claim to the territory; elected Muslim leader and supporter of reform Abdurrahman Wahid (popularly known as "Gus Dur") as the country's new president; and elected popular leader of the poor and students Megawati Sukarnoputri as the new vice-president.
- East Timor Questions & Answers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In Q&A format, Noam Chomsky discusses some of the major issues surrounding the critical situation in East Timor.
- East Timor Restrospective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Noam Chomsky describes the developments of the East Timor crisis and how the international community could have put an end to it much earlier.
- Easter Rising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916.
- Eastern Exposure
Misrepresenting the Peace Process
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Noam Chomsky examines and praises Norman Finkelstein's study of the difference between the image and reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- Eat Pray Love Strike
The Law of the Bargaining Table
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We admire underdogs, yet we do not rejoice when underdogs go on strike against corporate fat cats. We admire hard-workers, yet we do not embrace those who are, arguably, the hardest-workers among us#the stoop laborers who pick our lettuce and strawberries.
- Echo Platoon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Echo and other platoons like it are grim yardsticks for measuring the desperation in which a military under immense strain is now operating. Looking up at that military from Echo's airless limbo, from a world of soldiers who have fallen through the cracks of a system under great stress, you can see just how devastating America's two ongoing wars have been for the military itself. The walking wounded, the troubled, and the broken are now being pressured to reenter the fray.
- Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
- Ecofeminism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A social and political movement which points to the existence of considerable common ground between environmentalism and feminism.
- The ecological benefits of Marijuana
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The decriminalization of cannabis would not only have important medicinal implications, but also positive economic consequences and largescale environmental benefits
- Ecology and Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Ecology Watch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Poverty has been identified as a major cause of environmental degradation
- Econet on Web: Computer networking for educators
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
- Economic Crisis & Fundamentalism
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Susan Weissman interviews John Daly.
- The Economic Crisis in Fact and Fiction
Paul Mattick Jr. with John Clegg and Aaron Benanav
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Paul Mattick Jr., the author of Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Future of Capitalism.
- Economic Power Struggle In The USSR
Soviet Workers Press For Self-Management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Economic reality and dialectics of liberation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
To work out a NEW relationship between theory and practice, a methodology is needed which is independent of existing state powers but rather flows from THE greatest "energizing principle" # the mass quest for universality, the Third World fight for freedom, TOTAL freedom, [which] refuses to subordinate the fight against class structure WITHIN a country to any "two camp theory" as if the struggle between the "East" and the "West" is the one that will liberate "The Wretched of the Earth."
- Economic Report: 36th U.E. Convention
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Economics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 2
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The relations of production have not been revolutionized by computers and lean production any more than they were overturned by the assembly line, the automobile, or the telephone: the owners still own, we still work for a wage.
- The Economics of Alcohol in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A paper written in response to the growing concern about the increasing abuse of alcohol in Canada shows the direct relation between consumption and advertising.
- The Economics of Injustice
Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Various aspects of poverty in Canada, the guaranteed income plan & social justice.
- Economics of the War Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1959
Ever since Lord Keynes# dictum that wars#like pyramid-building and earthquakes#may serve to increase wealth, it has been increasingly recognized that war and preparation for war are necessary aspects of the prevailing economy and a condition of its proper functioning.
- The Economics of War and Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Wars, like crises, are inherent in uncontrolled capital accumulation even though their actual occurrence in time is not predictable.
- The Economy After A Half Century
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The object here is to evaluate the current state of the Cuban economy, but for this no insightful perspective is possible without considering its performance historically, especially over the last sixty years and most especially over the half century since the triumph of the Revolution.
- The Economy in a World of Trouble
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
interview with Robert Brenner.
- Ecosystem research threatened
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Ecovillage
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Socially, economically and ecologically sustainable intentional communities.
- Ecuador 1960-1963
A Textbook of Dirty Tricks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
- Ecuador: Left Turn?
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On April 26, 2009, Rafael Correa won re-election to the Ecuadorian presidency with an absolute majority of the vote. He gained broad popular appeal through a combination of nationalist rhetoric and increased social spending on education and health care. The victory cemented Correa’s control over the country as the old political establishment appeared to be in complete collapse.
- Ecuador's Indigenous Socialism
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
For several decades now, national elites in Latin America have accused the left of acting as a ventriloquist for indigenous movements: allowing Native leaders to speak, but pulling the strings behind them.
- Ecumenical Consultation on the Problems of Quebec
Abstracted from Oecumenisme/Ecumenism No. 46
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Summary of a bilingual multi-denominational, and multi-cultural event sponsored by the Montreal Ecumenical Centre.
- Edelman, Marek
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. (1919-2009).
- J. David Edelstein
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
J. David Edelstein, an ardent socialist all his life, died July 20, 2009 in Syracuse, NY at age 90. Dave was an at-large member of Solidarity and supporter of the Socialist Party USA; his life in the socialist movement dated back to the Workers Party and Independent Socialist League of the 1940s and 1950s.
- Edmonton COmmunity - First Draft
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Edmonton Cross-Cultural Learner Centre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Educate, agitate, occupy!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
An account of the occupation Visteon factory in Enfield, London.
- Educating Kids for Jobs for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
We distribute jobs by social class. If we #qualify# all students with a college degree, then 100% of students will be competing for the 22% of jobs requiring college degrees. The answer here is not to push more kids in to college but pay better salaries to those jobs not requiring college.
- Education for Change: Henry Giroux and Transformative Critical Pedagogy
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
These are difficult times for teachers in U.S. public schools. The increasing size of schools, chronic underfunding of schools serving working-class students (especially students of color), work overload, school violence, professional isolation and the deskilling and devaluing of teachers' work have led to rising rates of teacher burnout in recent decades. The average career trajectory of a teacher in the United States is about five years.
- Education for the TurnAround Decade: The Environmentally Friendly School
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Education gap divides Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A recent report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 5,000 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem will not be able to attend classes this year because there are not enough classrooms.
- An Education in Occupy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Two months earlier, I had been sitting in class listening to an ILWU member talk about Export Grain Terminal’s (EGT) union-busting tactics in Longview, WA. “Great,” I thought, “but how can I help from the campus of a little college in Moraga, California?”
- The Education of Immigrant Children.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Education Over Incarceration
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In cities across America, young men from low-income communities are ending up in prison more than they are making it to college — at the rate of seven to one. And during the nation’s protracted economic slump and high rate of unemployment, especially among African Americans and Latino Americans, we can expect that ratio to grow.
- Edward Said, Orientalism
Reviewed by Malcolm Kerr
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The book contains many excellent sections and scores many telling points, but it is spoiled by overzealous prosecutorial argument in which Professor Said, in his eagerness to spin too large a web, leaps at conclusions and tries to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a preconceived frame of analysis. In charging the entire tradition of European and American Oriental studies with the sins of reductionism and caricature, he commits precisely the same error.
- Edward Thompson's Warrens
On the transition to socialism and its relation to current left mobilizations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
- Edwards, Henrietta Muir
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian women#s rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
- Effective Media Relations
Nurturing your relationships with reporters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Our relationships with journalists need to be maintained over time in order to be fruitful.
- Effective Media Relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Media relations is human relations. Journalism is about telling compelling stories about people and their lives.
- Effects of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Booms on Domestic Animals and Wildlife: A Literature Synthesis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
This report was produced as the result of a cooperative research project between the National Ecology Research Center, Ft. Collins, Colorado and the Air Force Engineering and Services Center, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, on the effects of aircraft noise and sonic booms on animals.
- Effects of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Booms on Domestic Animals and Wildlife: Bibliographic Abstracts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Abstracts of bibliographic resources.
- Egalitarian community
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Group of people who have chosen to live together, with egalitarianism as one of their core values.
- L'Eglise dans un Quebec en mutation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Egypt and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar, who grew up in Lebanon, is professor of development studies and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and author most recently of The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives.
- Egypt at the tipping point?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Fisk joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regime.
- Egypt Shakes the World
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Suzi Weissman interviewed Yoav Peled and Mark LeVine on her program “Beneath the Surface,” KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, on February 11, 2010. The following are edited excerpts from those discussions. Thanks to Meleiza Figueroa for transcribing.
- Egyptian Labor Erupting
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In April 2009, a familiar scenario was repeated, as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s police apparatus assaulted planned demonstrations and a Mahalla textile workers’ strike. A year earlier, many activists and ordinary people from Mahalla received sentences in politically charged criminal trials for “planning the April 6th strike in 2008.”
- The Egyptian Uprising in the American Media
Obscuring the Obvious
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It is no wonder that most Americans are hopelessly in the dark. Middle East “news” in the mainstream is constructed so that people remain in a perpetual state of confusion and fear.
- Egypt's Long Labor History
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Egyptian working class is one of the oldest in the region, with a long history of internationalist solidarity. Egyptian loading and longshoremen workers in 1947, for example, boycotted the Dutch ship in Canal Suez in solidarity with the Indonesian people’s independence struggle. The union of the workers issued a statement against colonialism in general. They did not allow the ship to service or go through the Canal despite the resistance and efforts made by English and French administrators.
- Egziabher, Tewolde Berhan Gebre
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Ethiopian advocate for genetic diversity and the rights of farmers and tradiational communities.
- The Eight Best Books for Publicity Seekers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
For those of you pursuing and perfecting the fine art of getting publicity, here's a list of books you can't live without.
- Eight-Hour Day at the Party Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1899
The legal eight-hour day is one of the demands on our minimal program. i.e., it is the very least minimum of social reform which we, as representatives of the workers’ interests, must demand and expect from the present state. The fragmentation of even these minimal demands into still smaller morsels goes against all our tactics.
- Eight Years Later
A Comparison of the National Strategy on Child Care with the Report of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- 1810, 1910, 2010 and Mexican Labor
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the midst of a deep depression, an ongoing crisis of legitimacy and a brutal internal war amongst the different fractions of the drug cartel/state complex, Mexico is celebrating its two great revolutions, the Revolution of Independence (1810) and the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).
- Eine andere Art von Demokratie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Wie können wir uns eine neue freie und kooperative Gesellschaft ausmalen, wenn wir doch in einer Welt gefangen sind, die von Gier und Engstirnigkeit geprägt ist?
- Eine Stimme für die Demokratie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
In vielen “Konsensgruppen“ findet man ein immer wiederkehrendes Muster: Einige wenige haben das Sagen, während der Rest schweigt. Diejenigen, die einen Job oder Kinder haben oder einfach keine “Meeting-Junkies“ sind, gehen frühzeitig. Die Gruppe fällt auseinander und die Übriggebliebenen zwingen ihr wunderbares Modell der nächsten Gruppe auf.
- Einstein's 1905 Revolution: New Physics, New Century
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Albert Einstein hardly needs an introduction. A popular culture icon, his name, his disheveled appearance in late life, his theory of relativity are synonymous with genius. It may be hard to imagine a physicist as a popular culture icon, Time's Person of the Century (for heaven's sake); yet no other figure of the 20th Century comes to my mind, with the possible exception of Picasso, whose legacy is so indisputable as to qualify for the position of something so improbable as Person of the Century.
- Either Or
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1916
It is a question of either-or! Either we nakedly and shamelessly betray the International or we take the International in deadly seriousness and attempt to extend it into a firm stronghold, a bulwark, of the international socialist proletariat and of world peace.
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a Economía, Pobreza, Trabajo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Salvador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- El Salvador
People in Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- El Salvador's New War: Lesbian/Gay Activism Confronts “Social Cleansing”
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Queer activism and visibility are on the rise in El Salvador and throughout Latin America, coupled with an alarming increase in repression against queers and queer activists. In May of this year, Karla, a seventeen-year-old transvestite active in El Salvadors gay rights movement, was abducted off the street and assassinated death-squad style.
- El Trotskismo y el Partido de Vanguardia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974 Published: 2010
- The Election, Economy, War, and Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky points out that the Democratic triumph in the 2008 election was indeed historic, but also relatively slight. He explores the factors that played a role in preventing a landslide victory for President Obama.
- Elections 2000
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky reviews the details of the 2000 elections and reveals the tendency of dysfunction in democratic electoral models.
- Elections and Regime Crisis
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Will the Democrats "regain control of Congress"? Will Joseph Lieberman change parties? Will Hillary Clinton be the Democratic frontrunner for 2008? How much does any of this matter?
- Elections & the Democrats
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Revolutionary socialist political strategy is based on the fundamental idea of working class self-emancipation. This means that working people and the oppressed can generate the power they need to change the world only through collective self-mobilization and class self-organization.
- Elections in the Southern Cone
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
During the last three months of 1999, presidential elections took place in the three southernmost countries of the Latin American continent.
- The Elections to the National Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The great confrontation between capital and labour will determine the course of future history and, in its final result, admits of no other decision than the destruction of capitalist rule and the triumph of socialism.
- Electoral Reform: Do the right thing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Chartist goal of a representative parliament and majority govermment is still sadly unrealised.
- Electoral reform will give us a voice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The democratic case for electoral reform is fundamental, and to attack it
as somehow a 'right wing' issue is a betrayal of the radical democratic tradition.
- Electronic Ethics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Elephant in the Room
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Much of the world is fascinated by the U.S. presidential election. The main reason is that the country may be ready to do something that most developed countries wouldn’t consider: electing a representative from an oppressed minority as head of government or state. (Try to imagine an Arab citizen of Israel or France as either country’s prime minister or president; or a British prime minister of South Asian descent.)
- Eligibility, Document#3, March 8, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
- Elissa Karg Chacker, 1951-2008
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Elissa Karg Chacker, a longtime member of Solidarity and previously the International Socialists (IS) in Detroit, died Sunday, May 11 from injuries suffered in an accident a week earlier. Riding her bicycle home after a Solidarity meeting, she was struck by a car and never regained consciousness. Her daughters Sasha and Nina stayed with her in the hospital, where many comrades and friends maintained a vigil throughout the week.
- Ellsberg, Daniel
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Peace campaigner. (Born 1931).
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- Emergency Shelter in Ottawa-Carleton
An Experimental View
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Emerging Co-operatives in Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Summary of information collected after visiting over 600 co-operative groups in Ontario.
- The Emerging Progressive Majority
Introduction to 'Framing the Future'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A large group of Americans favor both progressive policy and conservative philosophy. As a result, they may side with either progressives or conservatives, depending on how a political question is framed.
- Emma Goldman: Voice of a Rebel
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Emma Goldman's name for many is synonymous with Anarchism. Indeed, as we can see in the first two volumes of the Documentary History of the American Years from the Emma Goldman Papers Project, now out in a welcome paperback edition, she did much to define anarchism to Americans.
- Empire and Its Discontents
“Losing” the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- The Empire and Ourselves
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Chomsky begins by asking why America's interest in a nation occurs when it does: why discuss Central America now and not 10 years ago? And why the concern with Central America over Haiti? He continues by exploring several instances in which the reasons of US involvement seem to be rooted in self-interest as opposed to strictly regional needs.
- An Empire of Lies
Why Our Media Betray Us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Contrary to its avowed aim, mainstream journalism invariably diminishes the impact of new events when they threaten powerful elites.
- Empire of Lies and Torture
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The prohibition of torture in international conventions is absolute. There are no exceptions for so-called "ticking bombs," for "high-value terrorists" or "illegal enemy combatants" or similar improvised fictions—or for extraterritorial prison camps (Guantanamo) where the jailers exercise absolute power but somehow disclaim the legal responsibilities of "sovereignty."
- Empire, Religion and Liberation
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
“At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Sunday by Israeli fire,” today’s New York Times reports as I write this review, “bringing the number of Palestinians killed since Wednesday… to more than 100.” One Palestinian in Gaza laments, “There is an attack every five or ten minutes. It keeps our nerves on edge and our senses strained. There is so much rage at what is happening; especially the scenes of murdered children and babies.” According to the Israeli human-rights group, B’Tselem, approximately half of the dead were unarmed civilians, and a quarter were children.
- Employment and the Single Displaced Person
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- The Empty Press Room - How Corporate Journalism Happily Lost Interest in Climate Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In the media’s coverage of climate change, are we really still stuck on square one of some ghastly board game?
- Encyclopédie
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772
- The End of Capitalism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
For all those who wish to see a different world, this moment is dripping with opportunity because the old order is crumbling before our eyes.
- The End of Dialectical Materialism: An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists.
- The End of Gay?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Gay identity is destined for oblivion once homophobia is overturned.
- The End of Guzzlemainia
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
"The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil. If we manage somehow to overcome the shock by shifting the burden to coal and natural gas, the two other primary fossil fuels, life may go on more or less as it has been until we start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century. And by the time we have burned up all that fuel, we may well have rendered the planet unfit for human life. Even if human life does go on, civilization as we know it will not survive, unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels."
- The End of (Military) History?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it#s this: victory is a chimera. Counting on today#s enemy to yield in the face of superior force makes about as much sense as buying lottery tickets to pay the mortgage: you better be really lucky.
- The End of the Regime?
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Permanent Detention and Torture Enabling Act of 2006 was the final obscene gesture of a dying Congressional session. (Actually, make that next-to-last: They topped it off with the billion-dollar appropriation to double-fence the Mexican border, even though this means humiliating Bush’s own pals in Mexico, the right-wing politicians whom he helped steal the Mexican election. That’s another crisis we cover elsewhere in this issue.)
- L'endettemen: un probleme grave pour de nombreuses familles de notres region
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- L'endettement, nouvelle forme d'exploitation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Ending Poverty As We Know It
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The phenomenon of local living wage campaigns sweeping the country is one of the few causes for celebration in American politics. Led by unions, community organizations and religious groups, Americans are demanding that their local tax dollars fund jobs that pay a living wage.
- Endless War: The Suicide Of The United States
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Soldiers are returning from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan destroyed mentally, spiritually, and psychologically, to a general population that is, mostly, willfully ignorant of the occupations and the soldiers participating in them. Troops face a Department of Veterans Affairs that is either unwilling or unable to help them with their physical and psychological wounds, and they are left to fend for themselves.
- The Enemies of Anarchy: A Critical Summary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- The Enemy of Nature
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Images of the rapidly melting polar icecaps, the receding snows of Mount Kilimanjaro and human suffering at the hands of ever more violent storms all over the world occupy central places in our present-day collective culture.
- The Enemy That Barely Exists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Al-Qa’ida has proved so elusive and difficult to eliminate mainly because it has never existed in the form that governments and intelligence agencies pretend.
- Energy and Employment Alternatives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Energy Board OKs pipline subsidy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Energy Development on Farmland: Statement on target areas for well sites
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Energy Options for New Brunswick
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Energy Planning in a Conserver Society:
Parts I&II to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Energy Probe Material
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Energy: The Fleecing of California
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The root of the electrical power “crisis” in California lies in the 1996 deregulation of the industry by the state government, approved unanimously by both Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature and signed by Republican then-governor Pete Wilson.
- Engels, Friedrich
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. (1820-1895).
- Engendered Surgery: Women Surgeons Reveal their Experiences
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In her talk at Harvard in April 2005, the feminist scientist Evelyn Fox Keller pointed to a distinction she was and is careful to make between garden variety discrimination and what she sees as the larger underlying issue: the way society constructs ideas of masculinity, femininity and science, and how these ideas overlap—or don't.
- England#s 17th Century Revolution
A Review of Francois Guizot#s 1850 pamphlet Pourquoi la revolution d'Angleterre a-t-elle reussi?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1850
For Guizot, English history ends with the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy. For him, everything that follows is limited to a pleasant alternating game between Tories and Whigs. In reality, however, the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy is only the beginning of the magnificent development and transformation of bourgeois society in England. Where M. Guizot sees only gentle calm and idyllic peace, in reality the most violent conflicts and the most penetrating revolutions are taking place.
- English coffeehouses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Describes the origins, the popularity, and the decline of the English Coffeehouse.
- The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1870
On the treatment of Fenian prisoners.
- The English Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period 1640-1660, in which Parliament challenged King Charles I's authority, engaged in civil conflict against his forces, and executed him in 1649.
- The English Revolution 1640
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1940
- Enhance your image in novel ways
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Soft marketing supports and image enhancement strategies require as much consideration as any other portion of your marketing plan.
- The Enlightenment
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A term used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century.
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1772
- Enseñando a adultos a leer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Entrepreneurs Convert Landfill Gas into an Alternative Source of Energy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
New technology is presenting alternatives for the generation of energy from landfill gases.
- Entrevista con Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Entrevue avec Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- EnviroFair
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Enviromental Education Resources
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- L'ENVIRONMENT
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Environment 2000
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Environment network faces problems
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Environment video resource centre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Environmental and Occupational Health: A View from STOP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Environmental data lacking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Environmental Directory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Environmental Forum
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Environmental history - Timeline of environmental history - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The timeline lists geological, astronomical, and climatological events in relation to events in human history which they influenced.
- Environmental Infoline
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Environmental journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans necessarily interact.
- Environmental labels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Environmental movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Term that includes the conservation and green movements, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.
- Environmental Noise
The Invisible Pollutant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The invisible pollutant of environmental noise can be tamed.
- Environmental Noise
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
This booklet deals with environmental noise -- for example, noise from industrial sites, road and rail traffic, airports and fairgrounds.
- Environmental rights legislation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Environmental Values Education
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Environmental Youth Alliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Environmentalists Do Not Support Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Envisioning Economic Justice
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The organizers of the U.S. Social Forum must be commended for making possible this political happening with its 900 workshops. The USSF has succeeded in bringing together activists from many diverse sectors working for global justice — thereby contributing to the strengthening of the entire movement.
- Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946 Published: 1978
The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
- Equal Access to Our Parks for Bulldozer Racing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Tthere have been some problems, such as some people riding recklessly, going off the designated trails, and even secretly constructing illegal trails. But those are a small minority of bulldozer riders. You shouldn't allow a small minority to give the majority of us bulldozer racers, who ride responsibly, a bad name. Why should we be punished, just because of them, and be forced to walk, just like everybody else?
- Equal Partners for Change - Women and Unions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Equal Shares in Caring
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Equality for Women?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
David Irving's toxic views.
- Equality Program
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Equiano, Olaudah
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African former slave involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. (1745-1797).
- Erasmus, Georges
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian Aboriginal politician, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 1985 to 1991. (Born 1948).
- Erfurt Program
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Program was adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the SPD congress at Erfurt in 1891.
- The Erfurt Program
Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1891
Program of Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands.
- Ernest Mandel#s Late Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
- Es kommt nicht auf das Meeting an, sondern auf die Bewegung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Essay on the art of crawling, for the use of courtiers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1776
The courtier is, without contradiction, the most curious product of the human race. He#s an amphibian animal in which all contrasts are commonly assembled.
- Essential Publications on Women's Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Estevan Coal Miners' Strike, 1931
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike which led to the murder of three miner by the RCMP.
- Estimating Lung Cancers: Or Its Perfectly Safe, But Don't Breathe Too Deeply
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Estranged Labour
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Ethical Considerations - Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Ethical Mutual Funds, Screening the Screens
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Ethical Mutual Funds are important to the growth of social programs and services in Canada.
- Ethical Reflections on the economic crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- The ethical work of Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
If ethics is taken to be, on the one hand, the negation of bourgeois ideology and morality and, on the other, as the intellectual and practical anticipation of the humanist values which are to govern relations among individuals in a world community freed from today#s dominant alienating institutions (economic, political, ideological, etc.), then the work of Karl Marx may consequently be understood as an ethical act.
- Ethnic Cleansing of Invented People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Once we connect the dots it is not hard to see that the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is only a small part of the Israeli Palestinian issue. The greater issue is the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist state. The way forward for Israelis and Palestinians alike is to oppose the ethnic cleansing by opposing all its manifestations.
- Ethnic Cleansing: Palestine Reality
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
While the term “ethnic cleansing” has come into use only very recently, the act that it describes, namely the forcible expulsion of one or more ethnic groups from a region, has been practiced for millennia.
- Ethnic Conflicts in Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
WITH LITTLE INTERNATIONAL notice, the winds of war are picking up on the eastern seaboard of Nicaragua. This time, however, it will not be a clear class-warfare case with a popular revolution struggling against an imperial behemoth. Rather, the Croat-Serb-Muslim model may be a better metaphor. Over the past decade we have watched the situation change from the hopeful vision of a multiethnic autonomous society to today's mixture of ethnic typecasting and cynical manipulations by the neoliberal...
- Ethnic Nationalism Versus Common Sense
Response to a Zionist Book Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Picture this. On the one hand, you have a bunch of people living in Palestine. Their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers most likely lived there too. They make their living there; they make their lives there. From far away appear some Europeans -- European Jews. They declare their intention to establish a state controlled by those who are, on some definition or other, ethnically Jewish. This will be a sovereign state, holding the power of life and death over all non-Jews within its borders, and those borders are intended eventually to comprise all of Palestine.
- Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
What so puzzling about anti-Eurocentric histories, especially the histories of capitalism is that, without exception, they are based on the most Eurocentric -- not to mention bourgeois -- assumptions.
- European Social failure?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The sixth European Social Forum in Istanbul left something to be desired
- European Social Forum
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An annual conference held by members of the alter-globalization movement (also known as the Global Justice Movement) which aims to allow social movements, trade unions, NGOs, refugees, peace and anti-imperial groups, anti-racist movements, environmental movements, networks of the excluded and community campaigns from Europe and the world to come together and discuss themes linked to major European and global issues.
- Europe's New Road to Serfdom
Trichet Threatens Greece with Iron Heel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The conditios for Greece's new loan package is that Greece must initiate a class war by raising its taxes, lowering its social spending – and even private-sector pensions – and sell off public land, tourist sites, islands, ports, water and sewer facilities. This will raise the cost of living and doing business, eroding the nation’s already limited export competitiveness. The bankers sanctimoniously depict this as a “rescue” of Greek finances.
- The Evacuated Ones
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Evaluation, Participation and Community Health Care: Critique and Lessons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Evans, Arthur
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Socialist, trade unionist. (1890-1944).
- Evers, Medgar
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African American civil rights activist from Mississippi, murdered in 1963. (1925-1963).
- Every Crook Can Govern
Prison Rebellions as a Window to the New World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In their self-organization, the hunger strikers have begun to rupture structures of segregation.
- Every Woman for Herself
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Factory Girls shows the reader what it’s like to live inside the largest human migration in history. It feels, apparently, pretty lonely. Leslie Chang’s subjects are the young women who’ve left tiny farms throughout China for a chance at making money in the big city. Their lesson and mantra is that each person can depend only on herself. “The easiest thing in the world was to lose touch with someone,” Chang notes.
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Nuclear Power
(but were afraid to find out)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
We would rather fight for what we want (even if we don#t get it in our lifetime) than fight for what we don#t want ... and get it.
- Everything's on the Line at AAM
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The strike of 3,600 UAW-represented workers at American Axle and Manufacturing plants in Michigan and New York has forced the idling of more than 40,000 workers in 30 GM plants and shut down a number of parts plants throughout North America. Eighty percent of AAM’s axles, chassis components and forged products are shipped to General Motors, but AAM also produces parts for other automakers, including Chrysler and Toyota.
- Evidence and Evolution: A Controversial Theory
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The importance of evolutionary theory for biology can hardly be overstated. An oft-quoted remark by the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky captures this: "Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." The applications of genetics—the foundation of evolutionary theory—are widespread and profound in technology as well as basic biology.
- Evidence from the Archives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The Trotskyists' reformist course, their legalism, their "conscious refusal to seek support in the growing workers' movement" significantly "weakened the effectiveness of the 'bolshevik-leninists' and disoriented potential adherents."
- The Evil of the Lesser Evil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Lesser-evilism as a progressive strategy has succeeded -- succeeded in making American politics progressively more and more right-wing.
- Evolution not "Reinvention: Manning Marable's Malcolm X
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Manning Marable's final book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is a serious political biography of one of the most historic figures of the African-American community. Marable’s interpretation of papers provided by Malcolm’s family estate, along with files from the FBI, New York City Police Department and new interviews from those who knew Malcolm and the Nation of Islam (NOI), add to our understandings and debates about Malcolm’s views and evolution.
- Ex-POW's sue Japan over atrocities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2001
An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
- Excerpts from the #Notebooks#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938 Published: 1944
- Excess Packaging
Strategies for Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Excess Packaging Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Execution Day in Zhengzhou
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
- Executives salaries rising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Exhibitors can get more bang for their buck
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Trade shows are effective marketing vehicles when used well.
- Expand your knowledge by getting advice from the experts!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Public opinion plays a key role in government spending decisions, and one of the most effective ways to influence public opinion is through the media. A single appearance on television, for example, gets your message across to tens of thousand of people.
- Experts say: proliferation of meaningless prose may bring end of civilization as we know it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
- Explore Co-opertives and Credit Unions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Exploring Alternatives: Free Schools
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Since our schools and universities are unwilling to adopt basic, or even moderate, reform, the only way to achieve a worthwhile education is through free schools.
- Exploring Imperial Pathologies
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The historical analysis of imperialism as a system of domination and subordination, of colonizer and colonized, of the “developed world” or global North over the “underdeveloped” global South, maintained for the benefit of the “imperial center” or “metropol” continues to evolve. Several recent studies focusing on the distortions, indeed the social and political pathologies inherent in the system, help to deepen our grasp of U.S. imperialism as something far greater and more complex than a system of economic and political relations.
- Exploring the Roots of the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On several points there is general agreement among most, if not all, radical and revolutionary anti-capitalists and socialists regarding the current economic crisis.
- The Export of Philippine Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Principles of social justice are clearly not served by applauding a system that prides itself in an increased GNP at the same time that it farms out its women to be servants of the world.
- Exposing Israel's Most Dangerous Secret
What's Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Israel's preparations for biological and chemical warfare.
- An Expression of the Facts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
What the story of Darwin's long-forgotten masterpiece, and the continuing debate about its subject matter, tells us is that the scientific idea of the human is not simply an objective truth, but is shaped by wider issues such as the prevailing ideas of progress, notions of racial difference, and the understanding of the relationship between Man and Nature.
- Expulsion of Germans after World War II
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
By the end of World War II, most of the German population fled or was expelled from areas outside the territory of post-war Germany and post-war Austria,
- Expulsion of Poles by Germany
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Expulsion of the Germans
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
If the conscience of men ever again becomes sensitive, these expulsions will be remembered to the undying shame of all who committed or connived them... The Germans were expelled, not just with an absence of over-nice consideration, but with the very maximum of brutality.
- "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
- L'Extraordinaire Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Myles Horton est le fondateur de l'école Highlander Folk School, un centre pour la formation
en leadership au Tennessee. Highlander forme des organisateurs pour des
syndicats, des organismes de droits civiques et des groupes de citoyens locaux. Dans cet entretien, Ellen Gould et Murray Dobbin parlent avec Horton pour découvrir ce que son expérience lui a enseigné au sujet de l'organisation pour le changement social.
- The Extraordinary Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
- Eye of the Storm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Wind farms are provoking fierce opposition from an increasingly organised countryside lobby.
- Eyes With Legs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it#s Israel#s biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
- Eyewitness Chile: After 30 Years
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a week-long seminar called “Thirty Years -- Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America,” I found myself entering the chilling atmosphere of the world's first laboratory for militarily imposed economic neoliberalsm.
- Fabricating Terror
The Portland "Bomb" Plot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots? Could it be that the US government needs terrorist events in order to completely destroy the US Constitution?
- Facebook Facts
Finding Friends and Foes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Unions and workers are making much use of the latest web fad: social networking sites. But are sites like Facebook really adding anything to our ability to organize? If yes, how, exactly? And where are the pitfalls in using online commercial sites for organizing?
- Facing Down the Machine
Mike Roselle Draws a Line
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Federal and state governments have long targeted the civil rights of environmentalists. In the mid-1980s swaths of new laws were passed that targeted the acts of direct action oriented environmental protests.
- Facing Fascism in Europe
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, and the Nazis' rapid destruction of Germany's Social Democratic and Communist parties, shook the European left to its core. For many socialists and communists, the total defeat of two of the world's largest and best-organized workers' parties was grim evidence of the immediate need to set aside obstacles dividing them and to join together in the fight against fascism.
- Facing Reality
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A radical left group in the United States which existed from about 1962 until 1970.
- Facing Reality 45 Years Later
Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
According to Goldner, "In 1958, Facing Reality was an important book, uncannily anticipatory of the historical period which would unfold over the following 15 years. Its main assertions are still being debated.... What I find most interesting in Facing Reality is not so much the answers it offers as the questions it asks. Those questions revolve around the role of the revolutionary Marxist party today.
- Facing the Toyota "Pattern"
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Highly praised as a “breakthrough” in the mainstream and business press, the new United Auto Workers contract at General Motors is a stunning retreat for the union, threatening the existence of most high-paying production jobs throughout the U.S. auto industry. (Skilled trades face drastic downsizing through outsourcing and combining of the trades.)
- Factory Committees and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
It is a tragic fact, for which Leninists of all kinds (Stalinists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and the advocates of various theories of "state capitalism", i.e. International Socialists, Bordigists, "Marxist Humanists", etc.) must carry their full share of responsibility, that we know less today about the early weeks of Russian Revolution than we do, for instance, about the history of the Paris Commune.
- Facts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
Seeing Through the Lies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The record shows that Hamas wanted to continue the ceasefire, but only on condition that Israel eases the blockade. Long before Hamas began the retaliatory rocket attacks on Israel, Palestinians were facing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza because of the blockade.
- The Facts: Special Peace Issue
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- The Failure of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Capitalism cannot be annihilated by a change in the commanding persons; but only by the abolition of commanding. The real freedom of the workers consists in their direct mastery over the means of production. The essence of the future free world community is not that the working masses get enough food, but they direct their work themselves, collectively.
- Fair Deal For Public Employees
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Fair trade
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries and promote sustainability.
- The Fallacy of "Community Control"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
The idea of community control which proceeds from a geographic definition of community contains the serious fallacy of assuming that any neighbourhood is or can becomes a community (of equals). This fallacy leads to the consequent, easily documented failure to achieve any fundational -- or even minor, for that matter -- social changes. The community control advocates themselves recognize the failures, but they do not understand the cause: the lack of class analysis upon which an adequate theory can be built to guide one's practice.
- Falling out of the skies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- False consciousness
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Marxist thesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society are misleading to the proletariat, and to other classes.
- False Freedom
Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
- False Promises: A Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
False Promises is a strange book. Despite a certain carelessness of presentation, I recommend it to all concerned with the working class for its extensive documentation of the working-class experience, at work, in the larger society, and in the unions. It is imbued with the conception that freedom is the fundamental quality of revolutionary change and it rejects the strangling doctrines and structures of the union movement and of the vanguard parties. Yet it cannot overcome a conception of working-class consciousness which reduces workers to victims and consciousness to verbalizations.
- False Promises of Higher Education: More Graduates, Fewer Jobs
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Through a continual dose of propaganda from the establishment and its allies, the American people have been persuaded that obtaining at least a college education is not only necessary, but also provides working people with excellent opportunities to avoid low-wage work and chronic unemployment.
- Falsifying History and Ourselves: Anti-Democratic Propaganda in the Classroom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Contrary to the views promoted by FHAO, the true facts about Germany during the Holocaust show that 1) working class Germans fought the Nazis; 2) anti-Semitism did not come from ordinary people; and 3) anti-Semitism was a weapon used by Germany's industrial and aristocratic elite to attack not only the Jewish minority but the entire working class.
- A Familial Perspective on micro-computer communications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- A Family, A Tragedy, A Movement (book review)
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
This book is a gripping account of a fire and a shooting. Yet it is so much more. The lives of James and Annie Hickman, the tragic death of their four children, and James’ trial after shooting their landlord, form the center of Joe Allen’s book. But Allen constructs his narrative with the vivid stories of those who came together around the Hickman tragedy as his building blocks.
- The Family As It Really Is
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The result of the clash between denial and exaggeration is to divert attention from the constructive things we can do to build on the gains we've made in the expansion of personal options and minimize the losses associated with the decline in family stability, especially in the access of children to both parents.
- Family Service
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Family Violence Videos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Family Violence: Report on the Task on Family Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Fanon, Frantz
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. (1925-1961).
- Fantasy and the Counter-Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the usefulness of speculative fiction in our search for an alternative way of life.
- Farewell to Andres Nin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
Farewell, my friend. Your great courageous life is left to us, full of work and action. Your terrible death is left to us as well. Like you, we must hold out to the bitter end so that socialism be free.
- Farmers, Feds and Fries - Potato Farming in the St. John Valley
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions # and are fighting to export them
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes # even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce # and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
- Farmers resist foreclosures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Farmers vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As India faces its worst drought in four decades, a dispute over water resources between farmers in the Kala Dera area of western Rajasthan state and a Coca-Cola bottling plant located there has sharpened.
- Fascism and Big Business (excerpt)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
Events have demonstrated with tragic clearness that the moment the working class allows the fascist wave to sweep over it, a long period of slavery and impotence begins # a long period during which socialist, even democratic, ideas are not merely erased from the pediments of public monuments and libraries but, what is much more serious, are rooted out of human minds. Events have proved that fascism physically destroys everything opposing its dictatorship, no matter how mildly, and that it creates a vacuum around itself and leaves a vacuum behind it.
- Fascism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1945
Fascism is not a product that is specifically Italian or specifically German. It is the specific product only of decaying capitalism, of the crisis of the capitalist system which has become a permanent one. It has a double origin in the determination of big business to revive the profit mechanism by exceptional measures and in the revolt of the pauperized and despairing middle classes.
- Fascism Shall Not Pass
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
On all fronts communists, anarchists, socialists and republicans are fighting shoulder to shoulder. We have also been joined by non-party people from town and country, because they too have realized what a victory for fascism would mean to Spain.
- Fashion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Even though the fashion industry has made dress oppressive one should not discard it completely, or at least only an appropriate occasions. Do we really all want to walk around looking exactly alike in dull green pajamas and peak caps?
- FaSinPat (Zanon)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A worker-controlled ceramic tile factory in the southern Argentine province of Neuquén. The name is short for Fábrica Sin Patrones, which means "Factory Without Bosses" in Spanish.
- Fate of the forests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Fate of the Forests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Fate of Vietnam's First Revolution
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
This book opens with a vivid, gut-wrenching account of the arrest, detention and torture of two young Vietnamese revolutionaries in Saigon in June 1936 by the Sûreté, the political police who defended France’s colonial might. We are spared no details: the electric shock treatment; the kicking; the insertion of a wood plank in the prisoner’s mouth while his wrists are tied back to his ankles and he is beaten.
- Fathy, Hassan
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish the use of mud brick and traditional as opposed to western building designs and lay-outs. (1900-1989).
- FBI claims world-wide powers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- The FDA and Frankenfoods
Will the Agency Protect Consumers or the Profits of a Few Corporations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent enforcement letters warning food makers that they cannot label their products as free of genetically modified or genetically engineered ingredients.
- The Fear Factor
Stephen Harper’s “Tough on Crime” Agenda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
This study analyses the financial and human costs of the Harper government's tough on crime agenda and concludes it is wrong-headed, expensive, and counter-productive. In fact, it will likely lead to more crime and a bigger deficit.
- Fearsome Words?
Nationalism and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We are so bemused by the lovely vision of peoples determining themselves, we cannot see that ethnic self-determination is, in the real world, a quest for racial sovereignty, not a bid to enter some international folk dancing festival.
- February Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
- February strike (The Netherlands)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A general strike organized during World War II in The Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities by the Nazis.
- Federal budget
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Federal budget cuts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Federalists, Dismantle merge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of British Columbia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Feedlots and E. Coli
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Improving processing plant inspections is a good idea, but it is only part of the solution. The real solution is minimizing the potential contaminant. Secondly, slow down the processing line so the workers can do their jobs. CDC tells people to wash their hands, their cutting boards and to cook meat thoroughly. Good sound suggestions, but why is the burden of safety inordinately placed on the consumer? Why are the processors allowed to hide behind the #safe handling instructions# and maximize their profits with impunity?
- Feeling Racism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I have found that when a person has faced racism and discrimination, he can never forget it, it stays with him always. Seeing my mother treated with such disrespect and rudeness, only because of her race, was worse than being discriminated against myself. It burned into my soul, and it will never go away.
- Feminism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Used to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing more rights and legal protection for women.
- Feminism and Rescue Work
Chapter 10 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women#s Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Feminism and Sadomasochism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
- Feminism in Canada
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Last year, on International Women’s Day in Toronto, several hundred people — many veteran feminist activists — packed an auditorium in the city’s Ryerson University for the launch of Judy Rebick’s oral history of the women’s movement in Canada, Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution. The fact that the book had just been reviewed in the conservative Globe and Mail, Canada’s most influential newspaper, also widened the audience.
- Feminism in the Radical and Early Socialist Movement
Chapter 8 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women#s Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973 Published: 1975
There existed a strong minority tradition in radicalism which questioned the whole social and sexual position of women.
- Feminism, The Global Struggle
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Coming to feminist consciousness in the early 1980s, I belong to a generation of U.S. feminists caught between the second and third “waves” of the movement. The activist energy of second-wave feminism was inspiring indeed. It challenged the ideological presuppositions of heteronormative patriarchy, established some legal protection against discrimination in the workplace and educational institutions, and enabled a significant percentage of women to enter the ranks of the professional-managerial class.
- Feminism's Global Contradictions
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is clear that the most significant factor now shaping women’s lives and status worldwide is globalization. What isn’t clear, however, is whether globalization is affecting women positively or negatively.
- Feminist Issues In Prostitution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1997
The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
- A Feminist Reader for Today
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Each time I teach History of Feminist Thought at my university, in order to highlight the limitations of a gender-only feminism and to exemplify the strengths of socialist feminism, I show my students "Salt of the Earth" (1954), a deeply moving and inspiring film based on a successful "predominantly Mexican-American" miners' strike in which the miners' picketing was blocked by the Taft-Hartley injunction.
- Fernandez, Irene
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Malaysian advocate for the right of women, migrants, and poor workers. (Born 1946).
- Ferreira, Chico Whitaker
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Brazilian social-justice advocate. A Catholic activist, Whitaker is inspired by liberation theology and closely allied with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. (Born 1931).
- Fertilizing The Economy - The Potash Issue.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Festival of environmental films
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- A Festival of Radical Energy
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The culmination of years of discussion and thousands of hours of planning, the 1st United States Social Forum brought together over 12,000 activists to sweltering Atlanta June 27-31 for a week of conferencing, networking and marching. With lead organizing initiated by nonprofits, especially Project South, with ties to the Grassroots Global Justice network, the USSF resulted from two years’ work by a National Planning Committee (NPC) composed of several dozen nonprofits, left “thinktanks” and social movement organizations.
- Fictitious Capital for Beginners
Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
- Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Rarely in its history has capital been so explicit in affirming that people exist for the well-being of the economy rather than the opposite. What is prescribed today in a language synthesizing Orwell and Goebbels is #reform#, #flexibility#, #risk#, #perfect markets=perfect democracy# and above all the pulverization of anything smacking of the #social#, from job security to decent retirement to public housing to welfare to progressive taxation to health care to unemployment insurance to the Social Security system to state-owned enterprises.
- Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
To understand the weight of fictitious capital in the current context, it is necessary to look beyond the merely economic to the class struggle. Despite the colossal efforts of ideology to deny or trivialize social antagonism, everything today is shaped by class struggle, both the one-sided class struggle waged for 30 years by the capitalist class, and even more so the potential threat of a two-sided struggle to re-emerge into the open.
- Fictitious Splits in the International
Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
- A field guide to critical thinking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Fifth Socialist International -- Time for definitions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Although in the past every international socialist organisation was founded amidst great debates and ideological confrontations, the motley crew of factions which all over the world today call themselves #left# shows an unprecedented degree of ideological confusion and political diversity. It will be a difficult job to bring them together, to give them structure and a route map.
- Fifth World Social Forum
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The fifth World Social Forum convened this year from January 26th through 31st in Porto Alegre, Brazil in the wake of the Bush inauguration and intensifying violence in Iraq, but also some victories for progressive movements in the global south and particularly Latin America.
- A Fifty-year Old Process
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
To go beyond the debate concerning whether to characterise Cuba as socialist, state capitalist or simply an anti-imperialist state framed by Cold War logic, I propose that instead of defining socialism as a state or a place, we regard it as a process. In today’s Cuba, internal contradictions can no longer be hidden, nor can those who believe in radically transforming our world ignore the resilience of the Cuban people; there is something still going on there.
- The fight for a different world
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
For some, Genoa will become synonymous with violence # and this is certainly the line that many mainstream newspapers adopted. Unfortunately, so have some nongovernmental organizations. But there are two separate questions here. The first has to do with the violence of the state directed against the movement; the other is a question of how the movement deals with a small minority of self-selected individuals who choose to engage in a set of tactics that are detrimental to the movement as a whole. The presence of the black bloc (or of agent provocateurs posing as black bloc members) should not be allowed to hide the real purveyors of violence in Genoa.
- The Fight for Leonard Peltier
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
LEONARD PELTIER, A Native American class-war prisoner, has served twenty-three years in federal prisons for a crime he did not commit—and authorities admit they do not know who did it.
- Fighters with Disabilities
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
At least since the mid-20th century, writers in the United States have publicly debated the place of politics in fiction. Plenty of great authors, Flannery O’Connor among them, warned against saddling fiction with political intent. That some renowned writers have produced work that reveals human truths that belie their detestable politics — Jorge Luis Borges and Ezra Pound are two examples — might support O’Connor’s point.
- Fighting Back: Sotheby's and OWS
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Forty-two teamster art-handlers at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City have been locked-out of their jobs for more than four months. Against the Current interviewed Sotheby’s shop steward David Martinez about what’s at stake, and how they’ve built links with the Occupy movement to fight back.
- Fighting China or the WTO?
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The tension among groups which protested in Seattle would emerge in April when two marches would proceed within the same week, one [led by the AFL-CIO -ed.] targeting China's entry to the World Trade Organization, another [April 16-17] fighting against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, just as activists have fought against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the WTO.
- Fighting Fires & Breaking Barriers
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Having a young daughter and working in the building trades, I am always scanning cultural representations of construction and skilled trades work to see if there are women. Whether Sesame Street or Wendy on “Bob The Builder,” women — in cartoon form at least — are partially visible in the presence of tools and heavy machinery.
- Fighting for Union Autonomy: Mexican Miners On Strike
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On April 20 eight hundred state and federal police launched an assault on 500 striking workers who had been occupying a steel mill in Lázaro Cárdenas. Two were killed, five seriously injured and 40 wounded. A video released to the press shows Michoacán police taking aim at the strikers.
- Fighting Lynch Laws in America
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Rebecca Hill’s ambitious book highlights a major theme of American radical history. It brings together the history of labor defense campaigns with the concurrent movement to prevent the lynching of African Americans. In six individual studies from John Brown to the Black Panther Party, Hill achieves two notable goals: a substantive reinterpretation of these cases and a heightened recognition of their commonalities.
- Fighting Subpoenas and Gag Orders in Iowa
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
More than two months have passed since federal officials withdrew the grand jury subpoenas against four peace activists and Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The withdrawal of the subpoenas and the gag order against Drake came amidst a firestorm of protest, not only from progressive and civil liberties lawyers and peace and justice activists from around the state and the country, but also from mainstream news media and elected politicians from both parties.
- Fighting the Flexible Firm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2000
The shift towards the short term is a result of changes within the operation of capitalism. Let us be clear about this: it is not about technology, it is not about innovation, it is about capitalism and how capitalism operates to achieve profit. Capital is now driven by short-term return. This results in organisations having to quickly change what they are doing and where they are going, and adjust their personnel accordingly.
- Fighting the Wal-Mart Plague
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Liza Featherstone offers a devastating portrait of rampant sex discrimination at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Women working for the company at all levels — from cashier positions to the highest levels of corporate marketing — have been paid less than their male coworkers and offered far fewer raises and promotions.
- Films About Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Films, videos, AV materials sought
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Final Project Report: Greater Vancouver General Worker's Co-op
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Final Report of the Canadian Non-Governmental Participation Group (CNGPG) for Habitat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Review of the history and formation of the CNGPG for Habitat and its performance during the conference. Printed in both English and French.
- The Final Report of the ecumenical energy working group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Final Report on Sub-committee on Race Relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Final Victory for Geronimo
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
SINCE JUNE OF 1997 Geronimo Pratt has been free from prison, but not free from its threat. No longer!
- Financial Constraint and Assisted Housing Budgets
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A critical review of both Federal and Provincial Capital Investment in Assisted Housing Programs.
- Finding Hope After Seattle
Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Direct action, as many anarchists tend to define it, can be deeply exclusionary. While it undeniably empowers some — mainly white and middle-class — it disempowers others. Used as a central tactic of mass mobilizations, direct action can in fact implicitly assume a certain degree of privilege, with dire consequences.
- Finding Workers Power
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Socialists identify the working class as a potentially powerful agent of change. Working people have that potential because we keep the economy running. We therefore have the power to stop production through a general strike, create bottlenecks through which a relatively small number of strikers can significantly disrupt the economy, or we can stay on the job and work to rule, slowing down production.
- Findings on Uranium Tailings and Nuclear Waste Disposal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Finkelstein, Norman
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. (Born 1953).
- The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Some activists hold back from condemning tactics that are politically stupid and destructive, like the recent Ottawa arson attack by an anarchist group, because of a commitment to the doctrine of a 'diversity of tactics'. However, the original idea behind a diversity of tactics, that is, a variety of approaches to organizing for change, has been appropriated by activists devoted to property destruction as a media spectacle, who feel that they should be exempted from criticism by other activists, no matter how much their tactics serve to undermine the building of a broad-based movement against capitalism.
- A Fire to Suffocate: Canadian Industrial Produciton for the Nuclear Arms Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- First a Hand on Your Crotch, Next a Boot in Your Face
False Choices and Airport Security
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Since 9/11, we have given up many of our rights and our government has condoned practices like torture, legalized assassination, kidnapping, indefinite detention without access to council or trial – all in the name of keeping us 'safe' and 'free'. We have adopted practices and behaviors that we used to abhor in other nations and regimes. These practices, as demonstrated by the TSA, have nothing to do with keeping us safe or free – quite the opposite.
- First All Chiefs Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- First All Tribal Council/Groups & Indian Organizations Meeting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- First Choice: Essential Reading On Peace and Disarmamment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- First Draft of Letter To Vera Zasulich
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1881
- The First Duty of a Revolutionary is to Survive
An interview with Pat Califia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Pat Califia observes that the first stage in trying to politicize SM people is to make it possible for people to find each other. Within our own community, we need to educate ourselves about each other: "gay men need to educate themselves about feminism; lesbians need to educate themselves about AIDS and sodomy laws; straight people need to address their homophobia, and everybody needs to address biphobia and transphobia." This kind of interaction doesn't have to mean the loss of separate social spaces, which are appropriate. But it is the truth that we hang together or we hang separately.
- The First Freedom: Freedom of Conscience and Religion In Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- First Intifada
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Palestinian Uprising against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories.
- The First Legal Russian Strike in a Decade
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The almsot month-long strike at the Ford-Vsevolozhsk assembly plant, a small plant near St. Petersburg, ended December 16 with an agreement that negotiations would resume. The strike began on November 17, 2007, after four months of talks failed to produce any result. In fact, Ford management had initially refused to hold negotiations “during or under the threat of strike.”
- First Nations Under Surveillance
Harper Government Prepares for First Nations “Unrest”
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There needs to be unity on the ground with coordinated political actions between First Nations Peoples in order to protect, defend and advance First Nation pre-existing sovereignty, and First Nation Aboriginal and Treaty rights to lands and resources. Divide and conquer tactics can only be met with new strategies of alliance-building, and by bringing the leadership back down to the land.
- The First Trial of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1849
- Fish and Loaves Gathering
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Fish Missing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Fish or Cut Bait
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Fisherman sues pulp mills
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Fishing jobs threatened
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Five Days in Seattle: A View from the Ground
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
About the 1999 protests in Seattle.
- Five Reasons To Plant Trees Now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
To some people, planting a tree is the epitome of the environmental cliche. Planting a tree seems so simple, so easy, so... low-technology. In the midst of the economic upheaval we are experiencing now, in the face of massive challenges such as peak oil and climate change, why should we plant trees?
- Five Steps from D.C. to Jo'burg
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
1. Take Washington D.C. to Johannesburg. What the youth and other activists in the U.S.A. have done, must be repeated here in South Africa. Of course, it will not be parrot-like, it will have to take into account our specific situation and circumstances. We must target the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as agents of neoliberal economic policy in our country and our region. We must then find issues around which we can organize the people, for example, water, electricity, jobs, etc.
- 5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
- Five years of illegality
Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Oxfam International presents testimonies of Palestinian men and women who recount their daily problems, arising from the construction of Israel's illegal Wall and its associated regime of land confiscation and permits, and settlement construction.
- The Five-Legged Sheep; Michelin Tire in Nova Scotia (Round One, No.7)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Fix Is In: Washington's Planned Social Contract Destruction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
New audit figures show that Bernanke's Fed gave Wall Street and European banksters at least $16.1 trillion (called emergency loans) from December 1, 2007 - July 21, 2010, besides unknown amounts earlier and in the past year. Moreover, it's well known that trillions of dollars are stolen, handed to corporate interests and never returned, as well as gotten in other illegal ways. As a result, taxpayers get stuck with the bill, the nation with unsustainable mounting debt, heading it eventually for ruin.
- Flags of Convenience
Corporate Anarchy on the High Seas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Maritime lawlessness isn’t confined to pirates. Thanks to a system of ship registration called ‘flags of convenience,’ it is all too easy for unscrupulous ship owners to get away with criminal behaviour
- Flatly Outrageous
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
- Flint and the Rewriting of History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The 1937 sitdown strikes were a thunderbolt shattering minimal labor-management relations. The victory of the Flint auto workers heralded the most profound social changes in the United States since the Civil War.
- Flint Sit-Down Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major union and led to the unionization of the United States automobile industry.
- The Flint Sitdown for Beginners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The Sitdown Strike at GM's Flint, Michigan Fisher Body and Chevrolet plants (December 1936-February 1937) was a turning point in the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
- The Flotilla In The Israeli Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An analysis of Israeli media propaganda in the wake of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
- Flying High: 5 Sure Ways to Get Your Business Soaring
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Know your audience, know your message, be clear and consistent in that message, then develop a strategy and execute it.
- Flying Together
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Flying University
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland.
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
- The FMLN's Historic Victory
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
For the first time, the left will govern El Salvador. In the March 15, 2009 presidential elections, Mauricio Funes of the former guerrilla movement the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) defeated former police director Rodrigo Ávila of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) by a thin margin of less than three percentage points.
- Focus and determination required: A call to all progressive organizations to unite under one big umbrella
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We need a movement powerful enough to pressure corporate media owners into providing equal coverage, and with access to enough financing to support the development of alternative, independent media. If the progressive movement is to be successful in improving society, it is hugely important for it to be able to reach the general public with its information creating a balanced view of important issues in Canada.
- Focus on the Waterfront
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
- Foggy fireworks don't flop
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
A special evening watching fireworks in the fog.
- Folk high schools
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Institutions for adult education for working-class and poor people, typically based on a popular education model.
- Folkways Records
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A record label that documents folk and world music.
- Follies of the War
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Three years later, it is hard to believe that a gloating and triumphant Christopher Hitchens could write this (April 18, 2003):
- The Follow-Up Telephone Call
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
- Food Among the Ruins
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.
- Food Co-ops
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A brochure that educates people interested in cutting the supermarket connection.
- Food Fanatics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Ill-informed dogmatism has no place in a healthy lifestyle.
- Food First
Ten Days for World Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Tabloid that exposes the "food myths" that are obstacles to people feeding themselves, particularly in the Third World.
- Food Industry ---- Profits
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Food Not Bombs
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others.
- Football, Class and Sexuality in America
A Review of "Big Fan"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Big Fan is an incredibly tender, painful, and tragic look at the state of masculine identity, social pressures of masculinity, and how masculinity relates to homophobia and class in America via the seemingly heteronormative industry of pro football.
- For a Critical Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Löwy emphasizes the open quality of the Marxist world view, in contrast with the conventional caricature of a closed, dogmatic system that has become ossified and irrelevant. Such a caricature of Marx and Marxism, of course, is useful for all this ideologies and social scientists whose "secular religion" (as Löwy describes it) would have us believe that capitalism and its free market are the natural and inevitable end product of human history.
- For a Worker's Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
- For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
- For Free Expression on Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- For Generations Yet Unborn
Ontario Resources North of 50
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- For Israel, A Reckoning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with universal human rights, and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess with impunity.
- For Our Common Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
- For the Elimination of Poverty and Social Injustice: Report to the Anglican Church of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- For the Love of Country?
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Visited once again by the vultures of patriotism and gnawing anxieties about the nature of our republic, we are falling into a renewed debate about our peculiar brand of patriotism. Investing symbols and rituals with meaning others find puzzling, we adorn our automobiles with yellow decals, sport flag lapel pins, and require school children to daily swear allegiance to the state.
- For the Reconstitution of the Movements from Below: Autonomy and Independence
A Reflection almost Ten Years After the Water War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Within the grassroots there are mixed feelings of dissatisfaction, sadness and anger. The demand of re-appropriating the commons and natural resources like gas, petrol, minerals and water has fundamentally not been met. Transnational corporations continue to exploit and extract these resources, and the government manages them in a private, sectarian, inefficient and in many cases corrupt manner.
- For Workers' Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
The road to socialism - and socialism itself - means the conscious and independent action of workers. It means the end of the division between leaders and led. By their rigid, hierarchical structure most "revolutionary" organizations encourage precisely those divisions. A socialist society will be one in which decisions will be taken by workers' councils, composed of elected and revocable delegates, and where the workers themselves will manage production.
- Force-Feeding a Suffragette
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1915
- The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob
Bernanke's Double-Whammy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The US government is preparing to bail out the banks once again.
- Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
- Foreign Reminders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The foreign victims of criminal injustice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
How non-UK offenders are often denied truth, fairness and justice.
- Foremothers and Fathers
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Socialist feminism is usually said to have begun in the 1960s and ‘70s, but in fact it was a significant radical current 100-150 years ago.
- Forest Ecosystem conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Foreword to A.S. Neill: Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
A. S. Neill#s system is a radical approach to child rearing. His book Summerhill is of great importance because it represents the true principle of education without fear.
- Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Luxemburg argues that "the proletariat the Poland can and must fight for the defense of national identity as a cultural legacy, that has its own right to exist and flourish." But she maintains that "our national identity cannot be defended by national separatism; it can only be secured through the struggle to overthrow despotism" throughout the entire country [i.e. Russia, of which Poland was a part].
- Foreword to the War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
In Bertrand Russell's War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Chomsky introduces the themes to be explored in Russell's book on the Vietnam Tribunal. He points out the complacency in Europe and the USA and calls the Tribunal as a renouncement of the crime of silence. Although the Tribunal was not accurately reported, criticisms arose, two of which Chomsky highlights: 1) The bias of jurors, witnesses and participants; and 2) The superfluous nature of the Tribunal in light of the atrocity of the crime of barbarism.
- Forget Shorter Showers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Why personal change does not equal political change.
- Forging Change, Breaking Chains
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Remembering and forgetting are not only things that people do; they are things that are done to them. In our time, the Black freedom movement of the mid-20th century is now both well remembered and selectively forgotten.
- The Formation of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Fort William Freight Handlers Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike by 700 non-unionized immigrants in August 1909 that was defeated by the use of militia and the RCMP and resulted in the firing of hundreds of workers.
- Forty Years of Defying the Odds
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
My work area is a shambles. Projects I’ve been meaning to get to for forty years tumble from wherever I’ve shoved them.
- Forward, The
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Jewish-American weekly newspaper published in New York City.
- Foundations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Communes, communism, comradeship -- whatever you wish to call the mood of the young both in and out of communal homes -- will die without an understanding of our foundations, in history, where we have been, where we are going, what we are doing here.
- Foundations and Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Corporate philanthropy is money laundering, pure and simple. It is an institution that serves to legitimate ill-gotten gains, and to hide the fact that were it not for our system of regressive taxation, people could hypothetically exercise some sort of democratic control over money stolen from workers and cheated out of debtors and consumers.
- Four Books on Hegemony and Resistance
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
There are times when a key analysis has a wakeup effect. The last year saw the publication of four books that together have a potential of such an event, at least for those U.S. citizens who are motivated to try and understand and change the world. The four were not written with the idea that they would be read together, yet taken together they are, I believe, more thought-provoking than if considered separately.
- 451 at Zuccotti Park
"Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people."
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The books at Zuccotti Park were hauled away in dumpsters belonging to the sanitation department. The pretext of the destruction was “cleaning” the park which, the Mayor said, was filled with “filth”. This is the rhetoric of Mein Kampf.
- Four Futures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Capitalism will end. Maybe not soon, but probably before too long; humanity has never before managed to craft an eternal social system, after all, and capitalism is a notably more precarious and volatile order than most of those that preceded it. The question, then, is what will come next.
- Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
To paraphrase H.G. Wells, modern history has become a race between education and miseducation. There are very few people around who really don't know anything, but there are multitudes who know many things that don't happen to be true.
- Four Years of Disaster
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The second Intifada, now entering its fifth year, has seen the world distracted by events in Iraq, enabling Israel to continue violating Palestinians’ human rights with complete impunity.
- Fourier, Charles
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French utopian socialist and philosopher. Credited with having originated the word féminisme in 1837. (1772-1837).
- Fourth International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
- Fowler, Cary
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Awad Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1949).
- Fragging
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
- "Fragging" and "Combat Refusals" in Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The US Army itself does not know exactly how many...officers were murdered. But they know at least 600 were murdered, and then they have another 1400 that died mysteriously. Consequently by early 1970, the army was at war not with the enemy but with itself.
- Fragile Prosperity? Fragile Social Peace
Notes on the US
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
What needs to be open to critical analysis is not only how dismal present prospects are today, but also a healthy skepticism towards the determining weight of allegedly "objective" factors such as "globalization", "deindustrialization", the declining rate of unionization and others.
- Framing: Primer for a Progressive Revolution -- Part I Philosophy and Rational for Framing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The introduction of framing into the progressive community could well prove to be the beginning of a revolution. But such a revolution can evolve and sustain only with a concerted, impassioned effort by progressive opinion leaders -- executed in such a way that will compel the average voter to IDENTIFY with progressive values.
- Framing the Sixties
Corporate Media Shadows and the 1960s
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
What Really Happened to the 1960s is a look at the role the media played in the presentation and interpretation of the struggles of the 1960s. Simultaneously, it is a consideration of the meaning of democracy in a society where the media is owned by corporations and elites who consider democracy antithetic to their hegemony.
- France: A Sea Change on the Left
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In contrast with the United States, where the political arena has been dominated by two entrenched parties for a century, France has gone through major changes since the end of World War II. Back then, workers' demands were mostly put forward by the French Communist Party (PCF) which had over 30% of the vote, and the fear of a revolution forced the ruling class to concede to demands such as universal healthcare (called Sécurité sociale).
- FRANCE: Battling Over Pensions
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
France was rocked in September-October 2010 by some of the country’s largest protests in recent memory, as workers fought to prevent cuts to their public pensions. President Nicolas Sarkozy’s agenda promised to raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 and the age for a full pension from 65 to 67.
- France: The NPA in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
France's new Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) is in crisis. While only two years ago many on the international left talked about the NPA as one of the brightest lights on an otherwise dim revolutionary horizon, today the Party is hemorrhaging members and struggling to stay afloat.
- Frankfurt School
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A school of neo-Marxist critical theory, social research, and philosophy associated with the original Institute for Social Research of the University of Frankfurt am Main.
- Franklin, Ursula
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
- Franklin, Ursula
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
- Franklin, Ursula
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
- John Hope Franklin's Message
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Three years ago the acclaimed historian, John Hope Franklin, who died in March at the age of 94, discussed his lifelong battle for equality and against racism. Franklin personally knew most of the major African American figures of the 20th Century — W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X -- and lived long enough to see Barack Obama be elected president.
- Joe Frantz, 1950-2009
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Joe Gelders Frantz died unexpectedly on February 4, 2009.
- Fraser River Fishermen's Strikes
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strikes by whites, natives and Japanese fishermen against salmon canneries that lined the lower Fraser River.
- Fraser River Railway Strikes
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Strikes which started in March 1912 when railway workers organized by the Industrial Workers of the World walked out of construction camps on the Canadian Northern line to protest conditions.
- Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster: A `realistic’ answer to the ecological crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Resolving the ecological crisis is incompatible with capitalism. We must build a movement that works against capitalist logic with the aim to overcoming it in favour of a properly sustainable and egalitarian form of society.
- The Fred Victor Mission Experience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Frederico and Ingrid Luchsinger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Fredy Perlman: An Appreciation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The same energy which helped Fredy to describe the horrors of civilization made it possible for him to summon up the forces of life and expectations of hope.
- Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In a sense, Bil#in is the Soweto, the Derry and the Chiapas of the beginning of the 21st century, with two specificities: it is a civic non-violent mobilization and it is based on a strong alliance between the local Palestinian population, the Israeli anti-colonialist movement and active international solidarity.
- Free Association
Revolutionary Committees as a Method of Organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The revolutionary committee "More to Come" elucidates its vision of collective uprising and revolution. While abhoring the use of violence, the group acknowledges the need for defense against reactionary government that would see to overturn the revolution.
- Free association Communism and Anarchism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Free Higher Education
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Interview with Adolph Reed, Jr. Dr. Adolph Reed, political scientist, author and activist, is the national spokesperson for the Free Higher Education Campaign, which calls for free tuition and fees for all students who meet admissions requirements at all two and four-year public colleges.
- Free love
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Used to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women.
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
- Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- Free Speech in a Plural Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
- The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
It is, of course, true that it was contact with the Negro people that inspired the Berkeley revolt. It is, however, also true that the Berkeley revolt, followed by the teach-ins, in turn, changed the climate for free speech on the pivotal question of war and peace for the whole country.
- Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A student protest which took place during the 1964#1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley after student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and solicited donations for civil rights causes, in violation of university policy.
- Free the Cuban Five!
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Political times have emblematic cases. The ongoing Mumia case, Lynne Stewart’s current prosecution, and the two cases involving the U.S. and Cuban governments illuminate the reality of today’s politics in America, just as the Sacco/ Vanzetti case in the 1920s with respect to immigrants and anarchists or the McCarthite anti-communist Rosenberg case in the 1950s defined their eras.
- Free Trade
Issue 33, March 1987
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The free trade disaster: round two
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Standards are being pulled down to the lowest common denominator, allowing the transnational corporations to play countries and their workforces off against each other. Already, workers in Canada are being warned that if they don't pull their wages and other demands down, workers in Mexico will be only too glad to take their jobs.
- Free Trade for British Columbia
Is It A Bargain at the Price?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Free trade harrassment charged
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Free Trade Tapes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Free trade to mean higher pay for execs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- A Freed Political Prisoner Looks Ahead
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Emily Citkowski interviews Dita Sari. In a surprise move by the Indonesian government, jailed labor leader Dita Indah Sari was released from Tengerang prison Monday, July 5th. Dita was jailed in May of 1997 for leading a strike of 20,000 workers. She was originally sentenced to six years, reduced on appeal to five.
- The Freedom Charter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955
Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
- Freedom for Nitassinan Walk
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Freedom of information
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Freedom of Information vs Government Secrecy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Freedom of Speech Under Siege
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991 Published: 1999
Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
- Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Freedom of the press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Freedom of the press is the freedom of communication and expression through vehicles including print and electronic media.
- Freedom Riders
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
When Hillary Clinton expressed dismay over gender segregation on buses in ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem — where women are forced to sit separately — she somehow neglected to mention the Jewish-settlers-only bus system in the Occupied Palestinan Territories.
- Freedom rides
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
- Freedom Summer
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters.
- The Freedom to be Yourself Campaign
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Promotes the right to be naked in public.
- Freikörperkultur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A German movement whose name translates to Free Body Culture which endorses a naturistic approach to sports and community living.
- Freinet Pedagogy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Freire, Paulo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy. (1921-1997).
- The French Anarchists
From Chapter 1 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943 Published: 1967
Of this hard childhood, this troubled adolescence, all those terrible years, I regret nothing as far as I am myself concerned. I am sorry for those who grow up in this world without ever experiencing the cruel side of it, without knowing utter frustration and the necessity of fighting, however blindly, for mankind. Any regret I have is only for the energies wasted in struggles which were bound to be fruitless. These struggles have taught me that, in any man, the best and the worst live side by side, and sometimes mingle # and that what is worst comes through the corruption of what is best.
- French Army Mutinies (1917)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Involved nearly half of the French infantry divisions stationed on the western front.
- French Jews for Palestinian Rights
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The following text (abridged here) was published in the French daily Le Monde of October 18, 2000 accompanied by the signatures of fifty French people of Jewish origin, several of them well-known political or intellectual figures. Citizens of the countries in which we live and citizens of the planet, we do not habitually express ourselves as Jews.
- French Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
- French Revolution of 1848
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
One of a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe.
- The French Riots: Dancing with the Wolves
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In French suburban slang, to "dance with the wolves" means to provoke the cops, make them run and, obviously, to escape without being arrested. The unfortunate reality is much less romantic. The three weeks of recent riots may be seen as a long overdue political response to the profound racism of French society; but in this writer's view this uprising is more an index of desperation of French youth, of all national origins, than the beginning of a new political movement.
- French Students Speak for Themselves What We Won—and Need
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The following collective interview was conducted for ATC by Patrick Silberstein of Editions Syllepse.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Workers Solidarity Alliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
- Fresh Water
The Human Imperative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Friedan, Betty
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
- Friendship First
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- From 1905 to Our Time
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The 1905 revolution consisted of a series of mass strikes which pushed the Tsarist regime into at least the promise of major constitutional change. The focus here, however, is not on the “results” of the 1905 revolution, but on its “prospects”; on what its process promised and still can promise, even in so much less revolutionary times. 1905 was a crucial year not only for its revolutionary content but for its expression of the dynamic, and form, of working-class struggle.
- From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine
"To Exist is to Resist"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The growing support for Palestinian liberation via BDS reminds of small but sure steps towards the full-fledged anti-apartheid sports, cultural, academic and economic boycotts catalyzed by Brutus against racist South African Olympics teams more than forty years ago. Today, these are just the first nails we’re hammering into the coffin of Zionist domination – in solidarity with a people who have every reason to fight back with tools that we in South Africa proudly sharpened: non-violently but with formidable force.
- From Cairo to Madison, The Old Mole Comes Up For An Early Spring
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Individual sectors, even as large as public employees in the U.S., have to reach out to all those who have been ground down over the past forty years. Any working-class movement worthy of the name embraces the interests of the most oppressed, and that today includes the 15-20% of the U.S. population currently unemployed and increasingly foreclosed into homelessness, the casuals and temps, the harassed immigrant workers both legal and illegal, the millions of marginalized youth, white black and Latino, and the three million people in prison. We know very well that not every struggle that erupts can immediately enlist all such people, but a “climate” must be created in which that universal outreach—what we might call a “class for itself” orientation– is understood as a necessity.
- From Central America to Iraq
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Noam Chomsky bitterly criticizes the regular exclusion of America from the principle of universality and the impunity with which the nation acts.
- From Ecological Disaster to Constitutional Crisis
The Long Struggle Over the Xingú Dams Comes to a Climax at Belo Monte
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The master plan for damming the Amazon river system, which includes Belo Monte and the Xingú dams, was originally created in the 1970s by the military dictatorship then in power. It essentially treats the Amazon as a reservoir of natural resources to be extracted without regard for the destruction of its riverine and forest environment or the displacement and pauperization of its indigenous and local Brazilian inhabitants.
- From Hitler to MX: Media Softness on Nazi Zundel Part of Historic Softness on Nazism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
- From Iron Mines to Iron Bars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Exploring some of the consequences of the long-term decline in union membership and the significant shift in membership towards public sector workers.
- From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Under the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process. The treaty necessarily adopts a strict approach. One cannot attack a ship and then claim self-defense if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence. In other words, according to international law, the actions of the Israeli military were beyond the law and those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force.
- From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader -- Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Paul Le Blanc's From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics, while not wholly perfect, is a magnificent anti-capitalist gesture. It is an act of public revision, presupposing not just a Marxist past but a viable and vibrant Marxist future.
- From National Bolshevism to Ecologism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
National Bolshevism, which made its appearance in the German council movement in 1920, was initially created by two ex-militants of the American I.W.W., who played in Germany the same role as anarcho-syndicalism in Italian fascism, confirming once again that non-Marxist anti-capitalism is a sine qua non in the development of fascism.
- From "Occupy" to ...
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The question isn't whether the magnificent “Occupy” movement will continue after police action and the onset of winter have largely emptied the encampments. The righteous rage that made the movement possible, and the enormous social and economic crisis that made it necessary, are not going away anytime soon. Quite the contrary — capitalism’s inherent contradictions, made worse by economic policies in Europe and the United States that seem calculated to maximize the damage, pose the real possibility of a new global financial meltdown and potential world depression.
- From one apartheid state to another: Israel#s secret military alliance with apartheid South Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel regarded the relationship as based on more than just convenience, but on a common position as colonial oppressor, under pressure from national liberation movements. The two countries shared #unshakeable foundations of#common hatred of injustice and#refusal to submit to it.# The #injustice# each refused to submit to was ending apartheid (South Africa) and reversing the Nakbah (Israel), in both cases the subordination of indigenous people to the interests of settlers from Europe.
- From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office.
- From PRI to Foxismo
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Mexico on July 2 experienced an alternation of parties in power at the national level. But the more fundamental shift away from the one-party state had begun already with the Salinas administration (1988-1994), when he tried to replace the ruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) with his own political and patronage apparatus, "Solidarity."
- From Reconstruction to Capitalist Crisis
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The outcome of the Civil War registered the defeat of the Army of the Confederate states, the defeat of the army of the slaveholders, and a victory for the army of the owners of the railroads and big industrial enterprises committed to free, or wage labor. The political party of the big property holders, the Republican party, was supported by the mass of small farmers, urban workers, small business owners and the abolitionist movement.
- From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Capitalism is built on various forms of oppression and structural inequality. But the subordination and exploitation of the working class remains at the heart of the system. A liberatory program and strategy for a remake of society needs to explain how workers can escape the class cage.
- From Tahrir to Palestine
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Nabeel Abraham, a professor of anthropology and director of the honors program at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan, is a longtime Palestinian and Arab community activist. Against the Current asked him to comment on the following question: “What impact do you think the Egyptian events might have on the Palestinian struggle — both against the Israeli occupation and for internal democracy — over the next few months or maybe the next year?”
- From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from below, as opposed to the top down model that encrusted around them and doomed the previous version of their careers. Truth is, there is a direct correlation between the space in the media sphere that gets freed up every time a daily newspaper loses circ or dies and the increased reach that we and others have as we replace them with a better more people-powered model. So don#t mourn the American daily newspaper. Anything you liked about it will continue but from a different set of new media. The time will come when one or more of those publications, or a new one yet to come in the US, will turn to the models that work for the daily Por Esto! or El Libertador or others South of the border, kissing their slavish dependence on advertisers goodbye and throwing their lot in, instead, with the larger multitudes of society.
- From the Editor: Green Living
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
- From the Front Lines of Native Women's Struggles
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
As a longtime Black lesbian feminist progressive who came up through the women’s, anti-racism, labor and environmental justice movements in the United States and Canada, I like to think of myself as fairly well read, and up on my analysis of the historical and current material conditions of women of color and our movements for liberation.
- From the workers: a practical critique of bourgeois sociology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- From Trident to Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet outlining PLC's campaign of resistance against the Trident submarine missile system based in Bangor, Wash.
- From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The "liberalization" and #corporatization# of agriculture under the World Trade Organisation would put at risk the livelihoods of more than 2/3 of India#s 1 billion people.
- From Wikileaks to TSA
Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
- From Wildcat Strike to Total Self Management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Vaneigem’s book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
- From Words to Action
1976 Labour Day Message of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops, Ottawa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Four page pamphlet outlining the message.
- From Yeltsin to Putin: Modern Democrat Gives Way to Modern Nationalist
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The power brokers in and around the Kremlin have orchestrated a transfer of power that could serve as a model for modern democratic rule—the kind of demonstration democracy (demonstrate the form, forget the content) practiced to a high art form in the United States.
- Fromm, Erich
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Internationally renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. (1900-1980).
- Fromm's sane society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
- Front de libération du Québec
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A organization that used propaganda and terrorism to promote the emergence of an independent Québec.
- The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
- FTAA, The Hydra's New Head
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Capitalism in many ways is like the mythical hydra of Greek legend, a gigantic serpent with multiple heads, the center one being immortal; every time an attacker chopped off one of its outer heads, two others grew in its place. It was killed by Heracles, with the assistance of his charioteer Iolaus. As Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaus would burn its neck cavity to keep new heads from growing. Eventually they were able to reach the center head and sever it from the body.
- Fuel For Occupy Wall Street's Fire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Ultimately, the Occupy Wall Street protests have already succeeded. The movement has successfully re-focused the nation's debate on who ruined the economy and who should be targeted, shifting blame away from immigrants, unions, and other groups of working people, like public employees. The protests have also re-fueled working people's energy after the post-Wisconsin letdown, activating the energies of many who want to collectively organize for progressive change in the interests of working people.
- Funding for Native Education
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project # or raises money for just about any public-interest activity # will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
- Funding Health and Higher Education
Danger Looming
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Funding Revolutions?
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Nearly every person I have encountered who is seeking liberation from the various oppressive-isms of this world has asked the fundamental question, “How do I free myself (and others) from such an insidious system?”
- A Fundraising Success
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A popular way to fundraise, increase the enthusiasm and participation of volunteers, and raise public awareness about the Third World.
- Funeral Oration for the Athenian War Dead
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war.
- Furniture industry hurting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Further Dialogue on Pornography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
- Further Particulars of the Silesian Riots
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
The causes of these affrays were the incredible sufferings of these poor weavers, produced by low wages, machinery, and the avarice and greediness of the manufacturers.
- Fury Mounts Among Greek People
"Do you think we are the parasites of Europe?"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Nobody trusts the government or the opposition because people blame them for starting the crisis in the first place.
- Fusion... A Bridge to Nowehere?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- The Fusion of Anabaptist, Indian and African as the American Radical Tradition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
The native American radical tradition, originating ultimately in the radical religious currents who "lost" at the very dawn of capitalism, and their meeting with the non-Western peoples--Indian and African--who shaped early American culture as much as white people, might have something very unique to contribute to the current and still completely unresolved crisis of the international revolutionary left.
- The Futile Undertaking of Palestinian Statehood
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Eventually a state that represents all its inhabitants on the basis of equality and genuine respect and dignity for all its citizens is one that the world will some day celebrate, not a phony declaration that legitimizes the oppressive nature of one and confers false hope on the other.
- The futility of activism using violence as catharsis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The anarchist practitioners of violence are fundamentally elitist. They do violence because it makes them feel good, and they don't care about the fact that it undermines the real work for social change that movement activists are doing.
- The Future of Israel and Palestine - Interview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The first part of this interview with the Israeli human rights campaigner Professor Israel Shahak appeared in our previous issue ("The `Peace Process' and the CIA," ATC 78).
- The Future of Israel/Palestine
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address to both houses of the U.S. Congress in May, 2006 — which until today represents the Israeli government plan — was the clearest, most explicit presentation of Israel’s conception of where it is going vis-à-vis the Palestinians. It is perhaps the most skilled use of Newspeak since George Orwell invented the term in his novel 1984. Just as Orwell’s totalitarian propagandists proclaimed WAR IS PEACE, so Olmert declared in Washington: ISRAELI EXPANSION IS WITHDRAWAL and UNILATERAL REALIGNMENT IS PEACE. (He had help with the language. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel drafted large sections of the speech together with an American advisor who specializes in “Republican language.”)
- The Future of Palestine
Righteous Jews vs. New Afrikaners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Israel lobby is effectively helping Israel commit national suicide. Israel, is turning itself into an apartheid state, which, as Ehud Olmert has pointed out, is not sustainable in the modern era.
- The Future of Public Housing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Galtung, Johan
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Peace advocate. (Born 1930).
- Gandhi, Mohandas
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The pre-eminent political and spritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. (1869-1948).
- Garcés, Juan
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Human rights activist. (Born 1967).
- Garrison, William Lloyd
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. (1805-1879).
- Gates of Delusion: Media Distortions and REAL Climate Scandals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Climate-related storms in a teacup have been appearing in the corporate media almost on a daily basis. This nonsense is distracting attention from a mountain of evidence that human-induced climate change is accelerating and poses a deadly threat to civilisation.
- GATT-Fly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- GATT-Fly Submission to the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Gay activist's slaying commemorated
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Gay Games and Culural Festival
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Gay Liberation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The name used to describe the radical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.
- Gay Liberation Front
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The name of a number of Gay Liberation groups.
- Gay Marriage: End of the World?
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Gay Marriage Yes!
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Any doubts about the meaning of the struggle for the right of gay and lesbian marriage should have disappeared forever when Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco opened the marriage bureau at city hall to same-sex couples.
- Gay Pride is Now Respectable, and the Worse for It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The gay community has retreated from radical idealism to cautious conformism.
- Gay rights movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements share inter-related goals of social acceptance of sexuality and gender minorities.
- Gays and the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The contemporary movement for lesbian/gay liberation was born out of the ferment of the New Left. Its leftist roots were openly acknowledged. Leading theorists identified with one socialist or communist current or another. They acknowledged their debt to Marxism as well as feminism and psychoanalysis. Times have obviously changed. While lesbian/gay movements have grown and won some significant victories in the past quarter-century, the socialist left has shrunk to a shadow of what it was. Unsurprisingly, lesbian/gay spokespeople and theorists are less likely to identify with the anti- capitalist left than they used to be.
- Gaza 2009: De-Osloizing the Palestinian Mind
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The lesson we learn from Gaza 2009 is to harness all effort to fight the outcome of the Oslo Accords, and to form a United Front on a platform of resistance and reforms. This cannot be achieved without dismantling the PA and realizing that ministries, premierships, and presidencies in Gaza and Ramalah are a façade not unlike the South African Independent Homelands with their tribal chiefs. The classical national program, created and adopted by the Palestinian bourgeoisie has reached its end unsuccessfully.
- Gaza: cuidados de saúde e crianças em risco
As crianças de Gaza estão em risco
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Gaza Freedom March Blocked
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Fourteen hundred international activists mobilized in Cairo, Egypt in late December for a Gaza Freedom March (GFM) to break the siege imposed by the U.S., Israeli and Egyptian governments. The marchers were blocked and attacked by Egyptian police and military forces; there can be no doubt that the authorization for these assaults and the orders to block the march from reaching Gaza came directly from the U.S. administration.
- Gaza: Health System in Collapse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military#s destruction of Gaza#s basic infrastructure and Israel#s closure of all Gaza#s borders.
- Gaza Occupation And Siege Are Illegal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Collective punishment is specifically barred under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that the objective of the blockade is to weaken the Gaza economy and undermine support for Hamas. That is a political, not a military, objective, and it is impermissible under international law to target innocent civilians to achieve nonmilitary goals. Actions taken to enforce an illegal siege cannot themselves be legal. Israel's blockade violates the human rights of Gaza Palestinians and must be brought to an end.
- Gaza Peace Protester Is Prisoner In Own Home
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Nine months after he helped to organise protests against Israel#s attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, an electronic bracelet around his ankle to alert the police should he step outside his front door.
- Gaza, The World's Largest Outdoor Prison
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Sara Roy couldn't have predicted the deterioration of Gaza since the 2005 unilateral pullout of Israeli occupation forces and settlers any more effectively than in her book Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. For those seeking a thorough understanding of the failure for peace to spontaneously erupt upon the exit of the settlers from Gaza, Failing Peace is a valuable resource.
- Gazan Youth's Manifesto for Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community!
- Gaza's Kite Runners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Gazan children's kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
- Gaza's Shocking Devastation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A Canadian Jew's visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw.
- GE boycott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Gedanken über Selbstbestimmung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Bei der Unterstützung für die Unabhängigkeit handelt es sich bei ein großen Teilen der Linken um nicht mehr als kleinbürgerlichen Nationalismus. Im Gegensatz dazu hielten es Karl Marx und Rosa Luxemburg für wichtig zu analysieren und nur die progressiven Bewegungen zu unterstützen.
- Gender and the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Families, along with other socially constructed relationships such as race and gender, are central mechanisms for organizing cooperation and coercion. They are also sites of contradiction in the Marxist sense--places where inherent oppositions occur that are necessary to perpetuate a particular process or social system, and yet also undermine that process or social system.
- Genealogies of the Uprisings
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An interview with Adolph Gilly. Gilly is a longtime activist and prominent historian of the Mexican Revolution.
- Genefke, Inge
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Campaigner and worker on behalf of torture victims.
- General Electric boycott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We begin with a rather complex historical elaboration of the context in which a socialist and later specifically Marxist left arose in Japan, China and Korea, first of all to show the importance of the entire region (including Siberia) for the early Korean left, especially after colonization by Japan in 1910 made most legal socialist activity in Korea itself impossible. More importantly, this East Asian left, it will be argued, was as statist as the German-influenced modernizers building the region#s capitalism. There was nothing specifically Asian about this, as it characterized mainstream currents of the international left everywhere.
- General Remarks on the Question of Organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
Organisation is the chief principle in the working class fight for emancipation. Hence the forms of this organisation constitute the most important problem in the practice of the working class movement. It is clear that these forms depend on the conditions of society and the aims of the fight. They cannot be the invention of theory, but have to be built up spontaneously by the working class itself, guided by its immediate necessities.
- General Strike of 1842
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The strike started among the Staffordshire miners and soon spread through the country affecting factories, mills and coal mines from Dundee to South Wales and Cornwall.
- Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, Held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August, 1949. Entry into force 21 October 1950.
- The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West Africa.
- Geonzon, Winefreda
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advocate for prisoners. Responsible for setting up the Free Legal Assistance Volunteers Association (FREELAVA) as a legal aid office for victims of human rights violations, prisoners who could not afford lawyers to act for them and people whose cases had implications for social justice.
- George Bush's Unending War and Israel
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The present U.S. strategy, defined by the neo-cons at the end of the 1980s, is no longer a strategy of stabilizing world order and building a “new Middle East” through multilateral negotiations, but imposing the “American age,” i.e. U.S. total hegemony, by a global non-ending preemptive war. The Israeli war against the Palestinian people and against Lebanon is part of this global war; indeed, it is the United States’ most advanced and important front.
- Georgia Strait conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- German Auto Workers in the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
German auto workers, unlike their U.S. brothers and sisters, were somewhat sheltered from the economic crisis in 2009. Given that it was an election year, the government passed a law last March that supplemented their wages when they worked a “short” week. Between what they were paid by their employer and the government supplement, they earned 65-90% of their usual wage. The government also had a version of “cash for clunkers” so some auto plants were at full production.
- German autonomen: morality police
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
On the origins of "black bloc" tactics.
- German resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The opposition by individuals and groups in Nazi Germany to the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945.
- The German Revolution - First Stage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Through its rapidity and unanimity the revolution rested on the surface of civil society and could not as yet penetrate into the depth of the great masses.
- German Revolution of 1918-19
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The politically-driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I.
- German Social Democracy in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Crisis in German Social Democratic Party (SPD) is now in a historic crisis, one that threatens its very existence as a part of the international progressive movement. Under the leadership of its chairman, Gerhard Schröder, who also heads the national coalition government with the Greens, the party has undertaken a series of neoliberal reforms that represent a sharp blow to its core constituency: Germany’s workers and the poor.
- Germany and European Civilization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1944
From at least the time of the publication of Capital to the present day, all political and social thought, particularly in Europe, have revolved around the ideas of Marxism. And these ideas were nourished, developed, propagated and defended above all by the German proletariat. Not only the revolutionary movement but modern thought owes the German workers a debt which it can never repay. So far has Marxism penetrated into the thought of the time that today the ideas of hundreds of thousands of intellectuals, who consider themselves anti-Marxists, have validity only to the extent that they have borrowed or unconsciously assimilated the very ideas which they oppose.
- Germany’s genocide in Namibia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Germany, which has done commendable remembrance work about the Holocaust, seems to have forgotten or deliberately buried its violent colonial past. A past that hides the first genocide of the 20th century.
- Get a Digital Life
An Internet Reality Check
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
- Get the Internet working for you
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Web site works best when it is integrated into a co-ordinated communications strategy.
- Getting Ink for Your New Product
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Get media coverage of your product.
- Getting Organized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advice on the basics of Public Relations (PR).
- Getting the Balance Right
Gender Equality in Journalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Gender equality in journalism.
- Getting The Goods: Information in B.C. - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Review of Getting the Goods: Information in B.C.: How to Find It, How to Use It, by Rick Ouston. A book valuable beyond the circle of writers and researchers. Many chapters contain pertinent information for the average person who needs a starting point for his or her research.
- Getting the Most from Interviews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Tips from a pro for getting the most from media interviews.
- The Ghetto Fights
The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
- Giants and Immortal Legacies
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Lou Rawls and Wilson Pickett were two of the most distinctive Black voices in pop music. From the 1960s right up to the present, both were major players in that extraordinary scene of the 1960s and 1970s, an artistic and soulful creative renaissance that stretched the boundaries of what could be done with popular culture well beyond the expected. It is a renaissance still remembered, still very much cherished as much outside the borders of the United States as within, even as today’s virulently rampaging lowest-common-denominator commercial pandering tries to overwhelm us.
- Gifts of the IWW
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In June of this year, the Industrial Workers of the World celebrates 100 years of existence—a glorious and terrible 100 years. The IWW experienced the state-sponsored murder of its bravest members, most famously when "Wobbly Bard" Joe Hill was executed in 1915, having been framed for murder. It lived through years of slander and repression; limped along, still proud and singing, through decades when its membership dropped ever closer toward zero; and remains, not only as a piece of history, but as a force in the present and an inspiration for the future.
- Ginger Group
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An independent group of members of Parliament who in 1924 split from the Progressive Party.
- A Ginger Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Grassroots campaigns could break Britain#s corrupt political system.
- Ginsberg, Allen
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American poet best known for the poem "Howl", in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States. (1926-1997).
- Girl Child: A Mother#s Grief
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A tragic tale.
- Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Give your Sources media profile an extra boost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Creating a link from your Web site to your Sources listing boosts your visibility.
- Givebacks in a Deepening Crisis
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What can be called the latest phase of “concession bargaining” emerging in the past year — politically imposed concessions taking back working people’s “social wage” — is historic.
- Global Village? Global Pillage: Irish Moss from P.E.I. in the World Market
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Glaberman and Faber's Working for Wages - Book Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency by Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber (Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Inc., 1998) $26.95 paperback. OVER THE LAST few years I have been privileged to teach a number of basic economics courses to trade unionists-"privileged" because in every case the students' experience, their awareness and critical understanding of what goes on in their lives, has provided a rich fund of knowledge of which I have become in my turn a grateful student.
- Glaberman, Martin
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
- Glastnost and the Global Village
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Glezos, Manolis
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Greek left wing politician and writer, known especially for his participation in the World War II resistance. (Born 1922).
- The Global Battle Against Noise Pollution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Studies done in several European countries have demonstrated that noise can be a major killer. Awake or even asleep your brain and body react to sounds that increase the levels of stress hormones.
- Global BDS Against Israel Is Working
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel's ruling elite is increasingly concerned about the international movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions, but they are unwilling to address the human rights abuses that brought the movement into existence.
- Global Capital and Economic Nationalism (Part 2)
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
A number of aspects of global capitalism changed rapidly at the end of the 1980s. The most obvious was the collapse of most of the Communist states and the initiation of their integration into the world capitalist system. While the impact of this has yet to be fully felt in the West, it is in effect a giant "enclosure" (privatization) movement on a scale and at a speed never before seen in the transition to capitalism anywhere.
- Global Crisis and Opportunity
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis. Mike Davis is a veteran writer and activist who cut his progressive teeth in the 1960s civil rights and antiwar movements. He has worked as a meat cutter, long-distance trucker, and currently teaches history at UC Irvine.
- Global Justice Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Is the broad globalized social movement opposing what is often known as #corporate globalization# and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.
- Global Leveraged Buyout or the "Longest Boom in Capitalist History"?
A Reply to Robert Fitch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Fitch's recent article, while making some good points about the unraveling of the world financial system, is seriously flawed.
- Global Militarism and the Environment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The connection between militarism and environmental damage.
- Global Sweatshops' Media Spin Doctors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
On the whole, there's an imposed silence about the steadily increasing number of low-wage factories being set up in poor countries by wealthy multinational corporations: the "debate" is over.
- Global Synergy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Global Village Voice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Global War on Tribes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The point is not that all tribal peoples pose an egalitarian alternative to neoliberal capitalism. Some (such as Indigenous peoples) certainly do have strong egalitarian principles, but many other tribal peoples -- such as in the new conflict zones -- certainly do not (particularly toward women). The salient point is not that all tribal cultures are paradise, but that they are not capitalist, and neoliberal capitalism cannot stand anything other than Total Control.
- Global Week of Ecology Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Global Week of Ecology Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Die Globale Teleueberwachung des 21. Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Es entsteht zur Zeit eine globale Tele#berwachung, die sich von allen ethischen oder diplomatischen Voreingenomenheiten freimacht.
- Globalization And Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 1998
There is a global capitalist division of labour, but it is not an absolute one. The image of capital simply uprooting and moving to more "backward" zones every time a government attempts to assert some control over its economy is simply false: While it is true that capital has relocated operations, companies do not in general abandon large investments of fixed capital overnight.
- Globalization and Feminism
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In the concluding chapter of this innovative and insightful anthology, Torry Dickinson and Robert Schaeffer argue that “A key development for both theory and politics has been that the intersection of different global hierarchies has led to the rise of global, intersecting social movements. Many of the movements that have emerged are feminist-inspired and women-centered because women have been targeted by male-dominated institutions as new sources of accumulation, profit, and greed.”
- Globalization in the Academy
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
With the social movements of the 1960s, it was a good thing that Marxists pushed their way into the academy after being excluded for so long. Generations of college students were exposed to and benefited from Marxism’s challenge to mainstream social science.
- Globalization of Capital, Globalization of Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Something has escaped the control of the Democrats, the NGOs, the SEIU and the left sects — of official society and those attempting its mere facelift — which will not be easily brought to heel. Hundreds of thousands of people who had never before been in mass mobilizations (or mobilizations of any kind) found themselves confronting the police, facing tear gas and pepper spray, going to jail and learning in the streets what can never be learned any other way.
- The Globalization of Garbage: Following the Trail of Toxic Trash
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Despite a near universal international ban on exporting toxic or hazardous material, most of electronic waste from the United States ends up in China, India, Vietnam, or in African countries like Ghana, and Nigeria.
- Globalization's Damages
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The main argument in favor of neoliberalism is simple enough: individuals will freely exchange whenever mutual gains result. It follows that restricting trade and investment across borders both infringes liberty and prevents people from enjoying benefits. At this point an appeal is made to historical evidence: previously poor regions have lifted more people out of poverty at a faster rate than ever before in human history by opening up to trade and investment.
- Globalizing the Culture Wars
Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Uganda, like many countries in Africa and around the world, adheres to long-standing heterosexual and patriarchal traditions as to what is acceptable sexual behavior. In the West, such traditions are shared by a dwindling minority. The bourgeois capitalist marketplace has reconfigured that which is morally acceptable. Sexual practices among adults are areas of personal erotic experience, protected private activities.
- Globalizing the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
- GM wants U.S. holidays in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- GNU Project
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A free software, mass collaboration project.
- Go Down Moses
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An American Negro spiritual which describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible.
- Go to the People...Some THoughts on Surveying Community Needs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Goal for National Survival: 50% Canadian TV Content
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The destruction of the CBC would be the greatest disaster to befall Canada.
- The God Question
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Why is everyone talking about God? From the English scientist Richard Dawkins to the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, from the leading French thinker Alain Badiou to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, the Almighty is suddenly back on the agenda, summoned back on to the public stage at just the moment when he must have been looking forward to a well-deserved retirement from such a demanding career.
- The God That Failed
The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Perhaps the most striking fact revealed by the global financial crash -- or rather, by the reaction to it -- is the staggering, astonishing, gargantuan amount of money that the governments of the world have at their command. In just a matter of days, we have seen literally trillions of dollars offered to the financial services sector by national treasuries and central banks across the globe.
- Godwin, William
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English journalist, political philosopher and novelist, considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. (1756-1836).
- Going to the Dogs (and Babies)
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Activists are attempting to end the practice of terminating racing greyhounds that run out of the money. The dog-racing industry will retort that that's going to make it harder to motivate the ones that are running. (You don't think they're fooled by that mechanical rabbit, do you?)
- Going to the Public -- Ten public speaking tips
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998 Published: 2000
Advice on effective public speaking.
- The Golden Rule Of State Violence: Terrorism Is What They Do; Counterterrorism Is What We Do
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A defining feature of state power is rhetoric about a ‘moral’ or ‘ethical’ role in world affairs. Errors of judgement, blunders and tactical mistakes can, and do, occur. But the motivation underlying state policy is fundamentally benign. Reporters and commentators, trained or selected for professional ‘reliability’, tend to slavishly adopt this prevailing ideology.
- Goldman, Emma
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).
- Goldsmith, Edward
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher. (Died 2009).
- The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but on the symbolic battlefield of legitimacy that has become global in scope.
- Goldstone Report Dramatized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Goldstone's shameful U-turn
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
This shameful U-turn did not happen this week. It comes after more than a year and a half of a sustained campaign of intimidation and character assassination.
- Golly this is the stuff
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Gonick, Cy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian socialist publisher, academic, and politician. (Born 1936).
- Gonzo journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- "Good News," Iraq and Beyond
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky explores why the issue of Iraq seems to have fallen to the wayside following the 2006 mid-term election. He cites the necessity for diversion of the masses away from (lacking) political options to PR-created "character" and "good news". But he insists that the question of "the clash of civilizations" must indeed remain prominent in the minds of voters.
- Goodbye "Norma Rae"
Eulogy for Crystal Lee Sutton, Labor Hero
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Crystal Lee Sutton was a genuine hero. She will forever be remembered as one of the champions of organized labor, right up there with the Joe Hills, Bill Haywoods and Emma Goldmans.
- Goodman, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
- Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Labour leader, and socialist who inspired the first General Strike in Canada on August 2, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1887-1918).
- Goodwin's Award
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Winners of the 3rd annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
- The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Winners of the 4th annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
- Goodwin's Awards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Goodwn's awards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Gordon, Walter
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer. (1906-1987).
- Gorter, Herman
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Dutch poet and socialist. (1864-1927).
- Gorz, André
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist, social philosopher. (1923-2007).
- Gough, Kathleen
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Anthropologist, Marxist. (1925-1990).
- Gould, Stephen Jay
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. (1941-2002).
- Goverment vandalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Government backs down on safety bill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Grabow Riot
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A confrontation between timber workers and owners in Louisiana.
- Gracchi (Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A pair of tribunes in 2nd century BCE who attempted to pass land reform legislation in Ancient Rome that would redistribute the major patrician landholdings among the plebeians.
- Grace Paley (1922-2007)
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Grace Paley described herself as a “somewhat combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist,” and saw the role of the artist as that of “listener” who would relay stories of those made invisible by society. And she told it plain.
- Grad Student Organizing "19th-Century Style"
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
- Graffiti from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
- Grameen Bank
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit" to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
- Gramsci, Antonio
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. (1891-1937).
- Gramsci & Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In a polemic against the syndicalists, Antonio Gramsci argued that the syndicalists were wrong in maintaining that unions were capable of being organs of workers' revolution. He said this confused a marketing organization of labor within capitalism -- the trade unions -- with an organization for running production in a socialized economy -- the workers councils. Because the function of a union is to affect the terms and conditions of the sale of labor to the employers, he argued, it is an organization specific to a capitalist society.
- A Gran Marcha and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
March, 2006 marked an eruption that hit the streets, showed its strength, and took everyone including its participants by surprise. Millions marched all over the country: 300,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in Denver, 10,000 in Detroit and Milwaukee, 10,000-20,000 in New York, 20,000 in Phoenix—and somewhere between 500,000 and a million in the Gran Marcha in Los Angeles on March 25. As the U.S. Congress and Senate hold their wretched deliberations on "immigration reform," the communities affected have shown they will not be passive objects, but active subjects, in this debate. As this issue goes to press, mass marches have continued and Congress has recessed in deadlock on the issue.
- "Granny dumping"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Grassroots activist and human rights defender Jamal Juma' arrested
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Jamal Juma's is the most high profile arrest within an intensifying campaign of repression of grassroots mobilization against the wall and the settlements. Initially only arresting local activists from the villages affected by the wall, the Israeli authorities have recently begun to shift their attention to the detention of internationally-known human rights defenders such as Mohammad Othman and Abdallah Abu Rahmeh.
- Grassroots Cells, Devil#s Architects Defend Communities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973 Published: 1989
Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
- Grassroots media relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
- Grassroots Power and Non-Market Economies
An Interview with Beverly Bell
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
People are organized across many sectors that have never chosen to step out into the popular movement before. For example, indigenous peoples in the last 10 years or so have made a determination that they could no longer organize just as indigenous but had to become part of the so-called anti-globalization movement.
- Grassroots Power vs. Police Brutality
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Widespread police abuse is a long-time, normally mainly secret side of life in capitalist America, especially for minority communities. Now, in a number of cities, outrageous cases of police murders of civilians and grassroots outrage are forcing the issue into the open.
- Grassroots Power, Women and Transformation: An Interview with George Friday
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
George Friday is an organizer with the Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN)—a national network of organizations working to build alternatives to the two-party system. An African-American woman who grew up in the South, George is currently based in Rockwell, North Carolina, and focuses her work in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
- Grave contradictions of 1979 Iranian Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
In what proletarian revolution, exactly, was the taking of hostages # and not the rulers, but some fairly low embassy personnel # held to be a revolutionary tactic? Since when has war and revolution been made synonymous? Isn't it about time that Marxist revolutionaries labeled Khomeini's endless repetition of "we are men of war" "looking forward to martyrdom" for what it is by citing Marx, who wrote that Napoleon, the ultimate COUNTER-revolutionary, "substituted permanent war for permanent revolution"?
- The Great Bull Market vs. Looming Crisis: On Brenner's Theory of Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The United States is experiencing the greatest bull market in the stock market.
- The Great Fear of Israel's Leaders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The great fear of Israel's Zionist leaders is that ordinary people in all of historic Palestine, no matter what their religion, will define the struggle against Zionism not as Jew versus non-Jew but as a struggle by those who seek equality under the law for all people, no matter what their religion, versus those who oppose that goal.
- Great Game II
From Tallinn to Seoul and Tokyo, by Way of Kiev, the Declining American Superpower Lashes Out on the Borders of Russia and China
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The US is playing the Great Game II from Estonia to Korea as a strategy to keep the Eurasian powers off balance and to preserve the ever-growing mass of nomad dollars from deflation and displacement.
- Great Lakes cleanup
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Great Lakes health danger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Great Lakes Spills Pose Toxic Risks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
As the largest source of fresh water in the world, and a primary trading route, pollution and the possiblity of toxic spills in the Great Lakes have the potentional to adversely affect millions.
- Great Lakes United
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Great Lakes United
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Great Lakes Water Quality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Great Lakes water quality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Great Law of Peace
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The oral constitution that created the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy.
- Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias.
- Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers.
- Great Spirit and Dene Nation - God's Covenant and Indian Treaties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Great Strike at UNAM
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The Great Strike of the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM), which for more than nine months was occupied by students organized in the Strike General Committee (CGH), started on April 20, 1999 and lasted until February 6, 2000. On that date 2500 federal police, following orders given by President Zedillo, evicted hundreds of students from the campus and arrested them.
- Great Strike of 1913
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A near general strike that took place in New Zealand in 1913.
- The great #success# of a carbon trading failure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The #right to pollute# has never been more affordable. Energy companies and market speculators can buy a tonne of carbon for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The low cost gives an incentive for companies to pollute more in the short-term and prices renewable energy alternatives out of the market.
- The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly: A Hopeful Experiment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We are living in a kind of transitional era, where the old forms of working class organization and politics are sorely in need of a replacement, and the theoretical and practical bases of those replacements are still in the process of being born. The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly is one attempt to create a working class institution that tries to address this crisis within the class and on the left on the level of a city, in this case, Toronto.
- GREECE: The Crisis Continues
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What's happened in Greece after the explosive strikes and street protests that erupted over the terms of the European bailout in 2010?
- Greed Beyond Belief
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Greek Resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941-1944 during the Second World War.
- Greek War of Independence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
War of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1829.
- The Greeks Get It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Here#s to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare#the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.
- The Green Book
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the African National Congress National Executive Committee, 1979.
- Green Corn Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Popular uprising against military conscription by poor farmers in Oklahoma aligned with the Socialist Party of America.
- Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
- Green Party Convention: A Party Divided
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In an election year when so many antiwar activists, progressives and even socialists are embracing the “anybody but Bush” (“ABB”) rationale for giving backhanded support to pro-war, pro-corporate John Kerry, the Green Party of the United States emerged from its June convention deeply divided.
- Green politics
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political ideology which places a high importance on environmental goals, and on achieving these goals through broad-based, grassroots, participatory democracy.
- La greve de la United Aircraft
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Grey Owl (Belaney, Archibald Stansfeld)
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Writer: one of Canada's first conservationist writers. (1888-1938).
- The Grim Reaping: Patterns of Racism in the Prairie Region
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Grinding Down the U.S. Army
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Prolonging a stalemated war will, in fact, only mean more hurt for both Afghans and Americans. The hurt to Afghans will undoubtedly be worse, for their homes are the battlefield, but our own hurt shouldn#t be underestimated. More broken bodies and shattered minds. More echoes of the horrifying violence that accompanies war.
- Group marriage
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Is a form of polyamory in which more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit.
- Group wins right to leaflet at airports
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Group: Ontario North Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Growing Boycott of Israel
A Force for Good
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
To join the boycott is good the world#s future in general. It is certainly good for the Palestinians, and yes, it is good for the Jews too.
- Growing Poverty And Despair In America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Increasing homelessness and hunger highlight the growing problem as, in the face of deteriorating economic conditions and growing human needs, administration policies are indifferent, counterproductive, uncaring and hostile.
- Growing Poverty Is Shrinking Mexico's Rain Forest
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The struggle for land has started to pit the Zapatista rebel movement against ecologists who want to save the remains of the forest. The Zapatistas declared war on Mexico's government nearly nine years ago over the poverty of peasants in Chiapas. Today the movement criticizes efforts to conserve the bioreserve as a "war of extermination against our indigenous communities."
- Growing Up ILWU in Tacoma, Washington
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
I grew up with militancy in a longshore family.
- GST another blow to magazines
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- GST discriminates against co-ops
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The GST in... The Big Tax Picture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
When you start talking about the GST, you end up talking about the whole idea of taxation. And when you start talking about who pays more and who pays less, you're really talking about the kind of country you want to live in.
- GST subsidizes U.S. publishers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
- Guatemala Coup Fails
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
While the coup in Honduras was successful, in Guatemala an attempted “cold” coup unraveled. Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered on May 10, 2009; the following day the media ran a video filmed shortly before his death. In it Rosenberg stated that if he were killed, President Alvaro Colom and his wife were responsible.
- Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico#s northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guatemala, where 527 women were killed last year alone.
- Guatemala: The Violence of "Free Trade"
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
On January 11, Guatemalan President Oscar Berger spoke to a group of reporters in Guatemala City about ongoing protests against a World Bank mining project in the northern part of the country. He said that his government had to establish law and order. “We have to protect investors,” said Berger.
- Guérin, Daniel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French anarchist and author. (1904-1988).
- Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009 Published: 20009
The keynote speaker at the launch of the exhibition Gaza's childrens' paintings, referred to the paintings as #a toxic cargo of beautiful but unwelcome images which it is necessary that we see and acknowledge.# Toxic because the blockade and assault on Gaza was, and is, toxic. Toxic because the paintings mirror back to our adult world the poisonous environment we have watched develop for these children. The paintings describe aerial bombardment of apartment blocks, mosques, schools, hospitals, ambulances. They portray phosphorous, helicopter and drone attacks on civilians. Gunboats fire inland from the sea. Bulldozers demolish homes. Everything happens in an enclosed space from which there is no escape.
- Guerrilla gardening
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Political gardening, a form of direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists.
- Guerrilla Tactics for Maximizing the Results of Your Media Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Strategy and tactics for successful media campaigns.
- Guesde, Jules
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French socialist journalist and politician. (1845-1922).
- A Guide to Co-op Alternatives
Diverting Profits from the Banks, Food Middlemen, the Landlords
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Guide to Special Events Fundraising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Guide to the B.C. Women's Movement
3rd Edition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Guest speakers, addresses, transition houses, and more.
- Guidelines for exiled journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.
- Guidelines for successful interviews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Things to keep in mind when going into a media interview.
- Guillotining Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Noam Chomsky briefly depicts the many factors which prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and promote ongoing conflict in the region.
- Guilt of War Belongs to All
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Chomsky discusses the guilt of war and Japan's refusal to apologize for its role in the Second World War.
- Guinea Pigs Spell Independence for Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Raising guinea pigs has become an important means for Peruvian women to earn money to support their families, as well as to learn how to defend their rights.
- Gulf Commentary
A Special Issue on the Aftermath of the War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Gulf Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
In light of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Chomsky identifies two different responses: economic sanctions and the threat of war. He questions the reason for these unprecedented actions as well as what was behind such tactical divisions over essentially shared interests. Noting that policy is dependent on goals, Chomsky illustrates that American action reveals the goal of establishing the rule of force as opposed to liberating Kuwait.
- Gulf War Pullout
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
In a "question and answer" format, Chomsky addresses what he rationally does and does not find to be plausible motivations for America's invasion of Kuwait.
- The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism & the Gulf War (book review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Gun Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Guthrie, Woody
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American singer-songwriter and folk musician. (1912-1967).
- Gutting Cities and Public Education
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Almost sixty more Detroit public schools are to be closed over the next two years — with up to 45 open to being taken over by charter operators. This is the “Renaissance 2012 Plan” developed by state-appointed “Emergency Financial Manager” Robert Bobb. As Bobb’s two-year term ends it appears to have been a pilot project for the wholesale and anti-democratic restructuring of local governance.
- H.O.P.E. Brief to the P.E.I. Energy Corporation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Ha'am, Ahad
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Hebrew essayist and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. (1856-1927).
- Habitat and Urban Core Issues: Report and Impressions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brief report on the participation of the UCSN staff in the 1976 United Nations Habitat Forum.
- Habitat Participation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Issues related to land use, indigenous peoples' rights, nuclear power, etc.
- Hagerty, Thomas J.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American Roman Catholic priest from New Mexico, and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. (Born 1862).
- The Hague Congress of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
The fifth congress of the First International.
- Haiti, Imperialist Disaster
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The pictures and news reports tell the stories of Haiti’s physical destruction, the agony and heartbreak, the heroism of rescue efforts — and the filthy business of “missionary” child-snatchers — reporting the unfathomable scale of the reconstruction that may take decades.
- Haiti in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In 2004, shortly after the coup in Haiti in which President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was removed from office, in the year of the bicentenary of the Haitian revolution, a group of concerned Caribbean Faculty at the University of Toronto organized an emergency public meeting that was exceptionally widely attended.
- Haiti: Racially Profiled!
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
I thank the organizers for this event that places Haiti squarely in our consciousness where it belongs. I am grateful that Honor Ford-Smith, Jacqui Alexander and Alissa Trotz were so insistent that I attend despite my best efforts to excuse myself. A large number of campus units and off-campus organizations came together, and one knows that this is the proper way to approach our subject tonight. Men anpil, chay pa lou (many hands make the load light).
- Haiti - The Broken Wing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The courage and compassion of thousands of people willing to enter a chaotic disaster zone threatened with aftershocks are very real. Compassion arises out of a recognition that 'their' suffering is no different to 'my' suffering. Joining compassion with reason means asking why over 80 per cent of Haiti's population of 10 million people live in abject poverty. Why less than 45 per cent of all Haitians have access to potable water. Why the life expectancy rate in Haiti is only 53 years. Why seventy-six per cent of Haiti's children under the age of five are underweight, or suffer from stunted growth, with 63 per cent of Haitians undernourished.
- Haitian Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The only successful slave revolt in history which established Haiti as the first republic ruled by blacks.
- Hal Draper
Obituary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
American Marxist 1914-1990.
- Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
Insights from Hal Draper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Halper, Jeff
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). (Born 1946).
- HAMAS Under the Spotlight
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In a seemingly dramatic move in mid-2004, Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement which hitherto refused to participate in the Palestinian political system, expressed its willingness to be a part of that system.
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. (1917-1977).
- Hamilton Tenant
A guide to tenants' rights and the Landlord and Tenant Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A guide to the rights and obligations of tenants as set out in the current (1967) legislation.
- Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularly in Egypt and Burma.
- Handling of Oka condemned
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Hanging on by our Fingernails
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The West offers a false sense of security, and we are all at risk.
- Hanging On: Native media are surviving
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Native media are struggling to survice.
- Harand, Irene
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An early organiser of protests against Nazi Germany's persecutions of Jews 1900-1975.
- Hard Core Green
How to Kick Corporate Butt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Two uncompromised green activists and writers completely focused on winning, and utterly void of bullshit.
- Harper: the Grim Reaper of Canadian politics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Harper as Prime Minister would be a disaster for Canada.
- Hartman, Grace
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian labour union activist. (1918-1993).
- Harvey, David
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Geographer and social theorist. (born 1935.)
- Has Europe's Crisis Peaked Yet?
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A discussion with Eric Toussaint, president of the Committee for Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) in Belgium.
- Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1930
Bertrand Russell's 1930 critique of religious morality and metaphysics.
- Hasbara
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
- The Hate Crimes Bill: How Not to Remember Matthew Shepard
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The problem with the Hate Crimes Prevention Act is that it creates a thought crime and also categories of crime victims for disparate treatment. Goodbye to equality under the law.
- Hate Speech and Free Speech
The Wrong Kind of Climate Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Laws against sedition, in whatever guise, are an attack on free speech. Unlike laws against those rare instances of incitement which trigger immediate and actual violence against a present target (as in "get him boys!"), laws against sedition are always couched in vague, open ended terms because the real target is not the alleged "dangers" protected against but some political agenda or ideology that is opposed.
- Hauser, Monika
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German human rights advocate. (Born 1959).
- Have You Got $10,00 to Burn?:
The Commidity Futures Link in the International Food Chain, Who Needs It, and Why Most of Us Don't.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Hayden, Tom
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the animal rights, and the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. (Born 1939).
- Haymarket affair
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Disturbance that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
- Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A prominent figure in the American labor movement. (1869-1928).
- The Hazards of Uranium Exploration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- The Hazards of Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- He who pays the piper...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Community groups have become dependent on government money resulting in an erosion of their community base and their independence.
- Healing Images
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Health and environmental victories for South African activists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In South Africa, major advances in health and the environment during the 2000s were only won by social activists by removing the profit motive.
- Health and Safety conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
- Health care and children in crisis in Gaza - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Health Care Around the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Overview of the various ways health services are provided around the world, as well as accompanying issues and challenges. Topics include health as a human right, universal health care, and primary health care.
- The Health Care Crisis and Kerry-Bush
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A permanent crisis has plagued American health care since 1981. It began with Ronald Reagan, whose tax cuts led to cuts in Medicaid as well as more stringent eligibility rules. The crisis has continued, even through the boom years presided over by Bill Clinton, to the present.
- Health care monopoly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Rather than advocating the destruction of Canada's public health care system, critics should be speaking out against the government's strategy of running the system into the ground by mismanagement and underfunding.
- Health Care Unions at War
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its former section United Health Care Workers-West (UHW) are at war after SEIU’s leadership ordered the seizure of UHW’s headquarters. UHW’s elected officers, deposed in the SEIU takeover, are forming a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
- Health Disparities By Race And Class: Why Both Matter
Health Affairs, 24, no. 2 (2005): 343-352
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
This essay examines three competing causal interpretations of racial disparities in health. The first approach views race as a biologically meaningful category and racial disparities in health as reflecting inherited susceptibility to disease. The second approach treats race as a proxy for class and views socioeconomic stratification as the real culprit behind racial disparities. The third approach treats race as neither a biological category nor a proxy for class, but as a distinct construct, akin to caste. The essay points to historical, political, and ideological obstacles that have hindered the analysis of race and class as codeterminants of disparities in health.
- Health For People in the 1980's A Work in Progress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
- Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
- Healthy Places-Healthy People/Healthy People-Healthy Places
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Heap, Dan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian politician with the New Democratic Party. (Born 1925).
- Heaps, Abraham Albert
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
- Heaps, Abraham Albert
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
- Heartfield, John
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
John Heartfield (1891 - 1968) is the anglicized name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. (1770-1831).
- Hegel Quotes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
150 quotes from Hegel, linked to the context.
- The Height of Kitsch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The attitude of the German government towards Israel is a Sonderbehandlung. It, too, says: the Jews are something special. The #Jewish State# must be treated differently than all other states. That is to say, the Jews are different from all other peoples, their state is different from all other states, their morals are different from those of others.
- Hekmat, Mansoor
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Iranian Marxist theorist and leader of the worker-communist movement. (1951-2002).
- Helicoptering to the cottage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Using the company helicopter to fly to and from the cottage.
- Helping the occupation bloom: An open letter to Cargoflora
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Flowers from illegally occupied Palestinian land are being shipped to Europe.
- Helping you reach the media
How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
- Helsinski Citizens Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Hennacy, Ammon
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly. (1893-1970).
- Here to Stay
A Resource Kit on Environmentally Stable Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Here’s the Key Question in the Libyan War
As the “Humanitarian Warriors” Gloat…
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
My principal opposition to this recent war is precisely that, at a time when even some in Washington were hesitant, the “humanitarian interventionists”, with their sophistic pretense of “protecting innocent civilians”, have fed and encouraged this monster by offering it “the low-hanging fruit” of an easy victory in Libya. This has made the struggle to bring a semblance of peace and sanity to the world even more difficult than it was already.
- The Heresy Of The Greeks Offers Hope
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war rarely reported as such.
- Herman, Edward S.
Connexipedia Article
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Economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. (Born 1925).
- Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Man
RACE, CLASS AND THE CRISIS OF BOURGEOIS IDEOLOGY IN AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE WRITER
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
- The #Hero# of Kronstadt Writes History
Review of The Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
It is only necessary to reflect on the paramount role which Trotsky played in the first thundering years of Bolshevik Russia to understand why he cannot admit that the Bolshevik revolution was only able to change the form of capitalism but was not able to do away with the capitalist form of exploitation. It is the shadow of that period that lies in the way of his understanding.
- Heroes of the Exile
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First Published: 1852 Published: 1960
- Herrin massacre
Connexipedia Article
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Occurred in June 1922 in Herrin, Illinois where 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners were killed in mob action between June 21-22, 1922.
- Herrnhaag
Connexipedia Article
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A communal spiritual center for the Moravian Unity, an early form of Protestantism.
- Het publieke belang negeren
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We are supposed to think that the current crisis in the Middle East has no historical roots.
- The Hidden Costs of the New Economy
A Study of the Northeast Mission Industrial Zone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- A Hidden Story of the 1905 Russian Revolution: The Unemployed Soviet
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The movement of the unemployed in St. Petersburg is a little-known episode of the First Russian Revolution of 1905-7. The movement came as a complete surprise to everyone at the time, since it is did not fit any pre-conceived schema (although, strictly speaking, it had a precedent in the February Revolution of 1848 in France, when the revolutionary government established the "Ateliers nationaux" public-works program).
- The Hidden Welfare System
A report on the personal income tax system in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A critical analysis of the Income Tax Act and deductions that benefit the top 5% of filers.
- The Hidden Welfare System Revisited
A report by the National Council of Welfare on the Growth in Tax Expenditures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Hierarchy of salaries and incomes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974 Published: 1979
The official ideology's justification of hierarchy does not coincide with either logic or reality.
- High Stakes Testing
Why Are They Doing This To Our Kids?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The tests are very destructive educationally. They test students on such a broad range of materials that teachers have to rush through the curriculum; they cannot allow real discussion or in-depth study. Education is reduced to memorization of disconnected facts.
- Higher Education Free for All?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The transformation of our society from one in which few working class people went to college into one in which a larger proportion do so has been accompanied by the growth of "lower tier" colleges, junior colleges and professional schools designed to prepare their students for "careers" in the new global economy that do not pay as much as people with only a high school degree used to make in jobs with a history of solidarity.
- Highlander Research and Education Center (Highlander Folk School)
Connexipedia Article
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A leadership training school and cultural centre located in New Market, Tennessee which provided training to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and many other organizers and activists.
- Hill, Christopher
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English Marxist historian and author. (1912-2003).
- Hill, Joe
Connexipedia Article
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Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
- Hippies
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A subculture which was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world.
- His Right to Say It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Chomsky takes the opportunity to clarify the details of the so-called Faurisson Affair in which he played a catalytic role by signing a controversial petition. He defends his involvement by reiterating and exploring the principle of self-expression irrespective of content.
- Historic Declaration by Palestinians, Israelis in Support of Israeli Social Protest, Anti-Colonial Struggle
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First Published: 2011
Some 20 political parties and social movements from both sides of the Green Line issued an historic declaration in support of the social protests currently rocking Israel and their necessary linkage to the struggle against Israel’s occupation and colonial policies.
- Historic Film Withheld 36 Years
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- The Historical Failure of Anarchism
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First Published: 1996
Day examines anarchism's failure to genuinely critique itself, understand history or theory, and grasp the conditions in the world today. "Anti-capitalism doesn't do the victims of capitalism any good if you don't actually destroy capitalism," Day writes. 'Anti-statism' doesn't do the victims of the state any good if you don't actually smash the state. Anarchism has been very good at putting forth visions of a free society and that is for the good. But it is worthless if we don't develop an actual strategy for realizing those visions.
- Historical Materialism
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- Historical method
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in form of accounts of the past.
- The Historical Moment That Produced Us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg's remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: "The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!" We assert the ongoing reality of communism, "the real movement developing before our eyes," as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel's "knights of history," we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
- Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution
A Discussion Article on the Thesis of the IKD
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Capitalism fetters, i.e., hampers, impedes the development of the productive forces. But it does not bring them to a halt. They move forward by advance, retardation, standstill, but they move forward, bringing the proletariat with them. The theoretical analysis is that the more capitalism increases the productive forces, the more it brings them into conflict with the existing social relations. The more it increases and develops the productive forces the more it socializes labor and the more it degrades it and the more it drives it to revolt.
- Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
New Communities and the Institutional Church
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
- Historiography of the Salon
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Played an integral role in the cultural and intellectual development of France.
- Historique et realisations du Reseau d'Aide de 1974-1980
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First Published: 1980
- History and Realization of the Material Imagination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Questions the currently existing lines between "culture" and "nature" and to posit a possible unitary theory encompassing both.
- History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965 Published: 1971
Paul Cardan's critique of Marxism'.
- History, Culture and the Communist Manifesto--Part 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
History and experience have convinced me that class analysis remains the best way of understanding social change.
- History of Algerian Independence
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- History of the Canadian peace movement until 1969
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
- History of the Hippie Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council, 1972-75.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- A history of the peace movement in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969 Published: 1982
- History of union busting in the United States
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Union Busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, organizing, and strike actions.
- History on the Printed Page
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A small volume could be produced listing the books dealing with the times I have written about here. I will offer only a couple dozen.
- History, Theory, Politics & Invisible Man
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Paul Heideman's spirited critique of my review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling with the Left testifies to the reach of Foley’s study. That the politics of Ellison’s novel would be up for debate in a journal like Against the Current would be unthinkable without Foley’s efforts. In multiple articles going back more than a decade, and culminating in Wrestling, Foley challenges the consensus critical position that Invisible Man was made possible by Ellison’s clean break from the left, and that the novel offers an objective and accurate critique of U.S. Communism.
- The History We Live With
Indian Land Claims in B.C.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Booklet discussing the history of treaties and land claims in B.C.
- History, Culture and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 3
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Historical materialism will remain the overriding framework for any effort that is intended to assist revolutionary practice.
- History's Mad Hatters
The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Tea Party anger reaches far beyond the ranks of the modest Tea Party movement. It resonates with other Americans who understandably feel that political and economic elites, serving themselves at the expense of everyone else, have failed Americans. The big question is just exactly how (or even if) that private and personal rage gets transformed into moral and political outrage.
- Hitler's Bestiary from the Inside
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Over a decade ago, I spent several months poring through the Martha Eccles Dodd papers at the Library of Congress. I was driven to research her life while working on a book about Left feminist culture and anti-fascist resistance in the McCarthy era. I had just read two of Dodd’s novels (Sowing the Wind and The Searching Light) and was driven to find out more about the sources of Dodd’s attraction to antifascist causes.
- Hitting the Maternal Wall
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The “Maternal Wall” is not a new method of contraception, and it’s not the look mom gives when the kids miss curfew. In this slim and accessible book The Motherhood Manifesto, Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner update the two-dimensional “glass ceiling” to describe the maternal wall as “employment discrimination against a woman who has, or will have, children.”
- Hizballah Through the Fog of War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
An interview with Middle East specialist Augustus Richard Norton on the nature of the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group, in which he attempts to dispel some of the shibboleths that hamper Western understanding of its aims and design.
- HMS Hermione
Connexipedia Article
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A frigate which underwent a mutiny in 1782 in which her commander and most of the officers killed.
- Hoffa Jr.: The Real Record
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Many savvy Labor movement activists and observers are understandably puzzled by Teamster President James Hoffa’s sudden and enthusiastic endorsement of the Change to Win Coalition. Within the Teamsters, it’s been the reform movement and Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) who have championed the need for structural reform to free up resources to organize the union's core industries-usually in the face of boos and catcalls from the Hoffa crowd.
- Hoffman, Abbie
Connexipedia Article
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Social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). (1936-1989).
- Holbach, Baron d'
Connexipedia Article
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French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. (1723-1789).
- A Hollowed-Out Keynesian Warfare State
American Democracy Today and Historically
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The Democratic Party today is a party of corporate lawyers. Forty years ago, it was still rooted in local urban political machines and in the unions. A similar gap has arisen between the business elite that controls the Republican Party and the small-town lower-middle class constituency that supports the Republican "cultural agenda" of a backlash against "permissiveness", as on the abortion issue, or the separation of church and state. The entire official political system is mobilized with a "hard" Hobbesian edge against the "social": the program is to close factories, close schools, close hospitals, build prisons.
- Holmes, Sherlock
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A legendary consulting detective - a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887.
- Holocaust survivor - why I support Palestinian rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
For me, the Israeli government#s actions toward the Palestinians awaken horrific memories of my family#s experiences under Hitlerism: the inhuman walls, the check points, the daily humiliations, killings, diseases, the systematic deprivation. There#s no escaping the fact that Israel has occupied the entire country of Palestine, and taken most of the land, while the Palestinians have been expelled, walled off, and deprived of human rights and human dignity.
- Home is Where the Hatred Is
A Conversation With Isabel Wilkerson
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Homefront Confidential, 6th Edition
How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In the days immediately following September 11, the U.S. government embarked on a disturbing path of secrecy. The atmosphere of terror induced public officials to abandon this country's culture of openness and opt for secrecy as a way of ensuring safety and security.
- Homeless and Hungry at College
Falling Through the Safety Net
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First Published: 2010
With students and their family members losing jobs as tuition increases escalate and social services are cut, more and more students are falling through the tattered social safety net.
- Homeless in America
Throw Them Out With the Trash
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary, biologically necessary activities are illegal when performed in American streets — not just peeing, but sitting, lying down, and sleeping.
- Homes in illegal Israeli settlements for sale at London expo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Homestead Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A labour lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
- Homophobic comments from Conservative MPs raise concerns
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Quotes from a potential Conservative cabinet.
- Honduran political murder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Honoring Helen Thomas
A Great Journalist, Traduced By Hacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Helen Thomas was done in because she embarrassed the group of lap dogs who call themselves White House reporters.
- Honoring Mahmoud Darwish
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Mahmoud Darwish lived through every major event in recent Palestinian history, and his experiences and his art made him a hero to his people and a companion of every Palestinian. Beloved and revered, he will continue to move every generation of Palestinians. As Nathalie Handal put it, "no other poet captures the Palestinian consciousness and collective memory the way he does… His work speaks of his internal exile and uprootedness, his meditations on his historical, collective, and personal past."
- Honoring Our Gulf War Resisters
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Facing their greatest recruitment crisis since at least the passage of the 1985 Montgomery G.I. Bill, and perhaps since the creation of the so-called "all volunteer" Army in 1973, the U.S. Armed Forces have gotten hip to the persuasive power of popular culture.
- Honoring Walt Sheasby
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Walt's passing is a triple loss. Personally he was a very dear friend. Second, as we are hearing, in many different ways he was a true stalwart activist, of immense energy and dedication.
- The 'Honor' Killing of Aqsa Parvez
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Feminists and reformist left have for the most part met the spate of 'honour' killings within Canada with disgraceful silence.
- Hope in the Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
Socialism#s development also depends on the normal nature of capitalism, its most intimate essence. Nevertheless, of this development as well that want to hear nothing. They want an abnormal capitalism, unnatural, a capitalism that would be made to endure eternally.
- Hope: The Care And Feeding Of
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Hope is based on uncertainty, on the premise that we don’t know what will happen next.
- Hordes of Vigilantes & Popular Elements Defeat MAI, for Now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Chomsky comments on the failure of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) intended to consider, for example, international environmental and labour standards.
- Horizontal and Vertical - The Dimensions of Occupational Segregation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Horkheimer, Max
Connexipedia Article
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German philosopher and sociologist and member of the Frankfurt School. (1885-1973).
- Horton, Myles
Connexipedia Article
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American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School. (1905-1990).
- Myles Horton
Connexipedia
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- Horton, Zilphia
Connexipedia Article
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- Hospital pays compensation over 'racism' death
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Harinder Veriah's death helped to expose an ugly truth in Hong Kong: that racism is a serious problem. A report "Hong Kong's big dirty little secret" acknowledged that racism was so ingrained that derogatory terms for ethnic minorities such as gwei lo ("ghost people") for whites and hak gwai or ("black ghost") for blacks were barely noticed.
- Hot Wet Holiday Sex
From Wikileaky Condoms to Yucky Zuckerburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Whatever your preferences, do go on some kind of holiday sex adventure. Try not to hurt anyone, including yourself, and whatever your pleasure, enjoy it and infuse it with a sense of *sacred* solstice power, a promise to resist the deadly status quo of depression, perma-war and power-grabs, and a passionate commitment to love.
- Hostels and Homelessness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- House of Cards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Again and again the revolution will bring to the fore the basic question: the general reckoning between labour and capital. And this reckoning is a world historical conflict between two mortal enemies which can be fought out only in a long power struggle, eye to eye, hand to hand.
- The House of Horrors that Jack Built
A look at early childhood literature
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First Published: 1971
- House on Laval Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Housework: An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Housing Co-operatives
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Continuing housing co-operatives emerged during the 1960s as an innovative way to meeting housing needs and foster community development.
- Housing in St. John's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- The Housing Mess
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Despite recent CNBC and MSNBC media hosts suggesting we may be at the ‘bottom’ of the housing market crisis, and Market Watch June 3rd commentary headlines like “Housing market may turn more quickly than you expect,” statistics continue to say otherwise, in sobering fashion.
- The Housing Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
Only by the solution of the social question, that is, by the abolition of the capitalist mode of production, is the solution of the housing question made possible.
- Housing Rehabilitation Guides
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A series of four booklets dealing with housing in Edmonton.
- How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The closeness of the mainstream to dominant economic, cultural and ideological forces means that the mainstream largely functions to promote the interests of the military/industrial/political complex. Yet within advanced capitalist economies, the contradictions and complexities of corporate media have provided certain spaces for progressive journalism.
- How America Determines Friends and Foes
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First Published: 2004
Bush II's approach to "ridding the world of evil" includes treating every nation harboring terrorists as terrorist states. Chomsky ponders what this standard would mean if applied to America.
- How Can We End the U.S. Government's Pro-Israel Foreign Policy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We need to start thinking about building a revolutionary movement and not a reform movement focused just on one issue.
- How Can We Step Outside the Box?
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To sustain our efforts and help them to grow, we need a solid core of relationships and ideas that confirm the best of what we know and do against the pressure of capitalist ideas and values. Building an organization of our own, an organization not dominated by capitalist ideas or by anti-worker ideology or by creeps, is how we step outside the box of corporate and elite domination.
- How Canada Subsidizes Illegal Israeli Settlements
Enabling Crimes Against Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Canada's tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there's nothing that can be done about it.
- How Canada's Christian right was built
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The religous right is organizing hard, and effectively, to get their hands on the levers of power.
- How Change Happens: A Three-Fold Strategy
To build a new economy, we must work on three fronts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The power of authentic culture stories gives civil society the ultimate advantage in the contest for the human future. Stories alone will not, of course, bring down the institutions of Empire. Nor should we welcome the inevitable chaos that the collapse of Empire will bring if we have not first laid a foundation of the new rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy.
- How Dare You Clean Up Our Mess?
Tweedle Destruction and Tweedle Disaster
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On the nauseating hypocrisy of our good friends on the regressive right. You know the rules. One set of sexual standards for us, another for them behind closed doors. Big thumping militarist patriotism when our kids go off to war, rather less when it#s their turn. Itsy-bitsy small government ideology for the lil# folk, Washington as a great big candy-covered sugar teat for them. Etc., etc.
- How 'diversity' breeds division
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Diversity training is supposed to help 'promote good relations' between different ethnic groups and capitalise on workforce diversity. However, there is warranted scepticism about whether such training alleviates tensions or exacerbates them. Much of the content of this training is overreliant on pop sociology and pseudo-therapeutic techniques. Participants are expected to talk about stereotypes they harbour deep in their subconscious, and disclose feelings of harassment and victimisation. Trainers claim to eliminate stereotypes in the workplace, yet in talking about 'different cultural perspectives' they end up generating new and more insidious stereotypes in their stead.
- How does your Web site rank? Alexa tells you
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Find out your Web site's reach and what other sites are popular with the people who come to your site.
- How Embarassing when your messages unravel
The Emperor's New Speak
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
- How Empires Fall
An Interview With Jonathan Schell
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Jonathan Schell discusses non-violent activism.
- How green are your ethics?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
- How I Became a Socialist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1894
Morris looks back over his life and describes his political development.
- How I Became a Socialist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists.
- How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry # and hundreds are feared to be victims.
- How Israel Bought Off UN#s War Crimes Probe
Report#s Fate Sealed by Threats to Palestinian Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Palestinian officials faced threats that Israel would retaliate by inflicting enormous damage on the beleaguered Palestinian economy, unless the Palestinian authority agreed to stop pursuing international action against Israel for war crimes.
- How Israel Created Its Monster
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
How and why Israel helped Hamas to power.
- How Israel Empowers Islamist Movements
Shukran, Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
If Islamist movements come to power all over the region, they should express their debt of gratitude to their bete noire, Israel. Without the help of successive Israeli governments, they may not have been able to realize their dreams. That is true in Gaza, in Beirut, in Cairo and even in Tehran.
- How Israel Silenced its Gaza War Protesters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead.
- How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck
Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases.
- How Labor Loses When it "Wins"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
It is time for unions to stop looking for someone else to save them. They need to find ways to save themselves. Mass picket lines, sit-ins, solidarity strikes, secondary boycotts and refusing to handle struck work are weapons that we need to put back in labor's arsenal. Unions must learn to broadly mobilize workers as a class, even if it means violating court orders and injunctions, to regain the initiative for workers' rights.
- How low will Israel stoop to win the propaganda war?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israel Project#s training manual is an unpleasant piece of work. It recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry. And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world#s civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
- How Many Divisions?
Israel is losing this war
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. The disparity between the forces, between the Israeli army - with its airplanes, gunships, drones, warships, artillery and tanks - and the few thousand lightly armed Hamas fighters, is one to a thousand, perhaps one to a million. In the political arena the gap between them is even wider. But in the propaganda war, the gap is almost infinite.
- How many spokespersons?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Speaking with one voice means your spokespersons should deliver the same message. It does not mean use only one spokesperson. If the news media representative knows your experts are available and reliable, you are more likely to be called and more importantly, to be believed.
- How Media Relations Helps the Marketing Plan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Using media relations to support your marketing strategy.
- How not to understand Islamist politics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- How Oakland Teachers Fought Back
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The record in recent years of public-sector union battles, especially strikes, has largely been one of defensive actions. This is not so much due to anti-union propaganda, which labels such job actions as an attack on the 'public interest,' but because of the overall austerity programs.
- How Offshoring Has Destroyed the Economy
Nobel Laureate: Globalism Has Been Ruinous for Americans
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
All of economics is predicated on the notion that resources are inexhaustible, and that the only challenge is to use them most efficiently. But if resources are not inexhaustible and cannot be replicated by human capital, the world economy is being ruthlessly exploited to its detriment and to the detriment of life on earth.
- How Our Lives Have Been Changed
An interview with Kate DeSmet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
You understand that there's a "common union" and "community," which of course is where "communion" comes from. That's better than what I had before. The best writers write with their own voice; and in this strike I've learned to speak with a voice I didn't know I had, the verbal rather than written voice.
- How Race Fuels Rightist Agenda
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Nearly 50 years after the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights, the conservative movement is mobilizing its electoral base by using the wedge issues of race and racism. The principal targets are not new — African Americans and “illegal immigrants” from Mexico.
- How Smart Are the "Smart" Meters?
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What does it really mean when a corporation calls a new product “smart?” Gas and electric corporations are calling their newest technology “smart meters.”
- How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006 Published: 2009
How the high Internet ranking of the Sources Web site helps magnify the public profile of organizations and companies who are listed in Sources.
- How Strikers Educated Miami University
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The cleaning workers, kitchen workers, and maintenance workers at Miami University of Ohio -- the people who make this place work because they work -- voted on Wednesday, October 8 to end their strike and return to their jobs.
- How Sweet It Is!
GATT-Flyer No.4
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A critical analysis of the financing of a sugar complex for the Government of the Ivory Coast by Canada's Export Development Corporation.
- How the 'black bloc' protected the G20
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The black-clad mob in Toronto has left a lot of people not only in the general public but in the wider nonviolent social/global justice movements in Canada feeling disgusted, demoralized and dispirited. Just the result you want if your goal is to marginalize and stifle dissent. The blocistes, in other words, are the most effective tool on the ground for silencing the valid concerns of the broad social movements.
- How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history.
- How the French pension system works
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Behind the pension reform demonstrations–discontent with politics and politicians, and with the capitalist system itself.
- How the Left Should Frame Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The art and science of strategic frame analysis -- issue framing -- is relatively new in Canada, though the concept of framing is not. The right has been framing its issues carefully for years while the left has been oddly complacent about re-framing issues from their perspective.
- How the Media Can Be Positive For Your Business
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
If both you and the reporter benefit, the chances are you will do business with that reporter again, good business.
- How The Oligarchy Gets Politicized
A Short History of Elite Responses To Political-Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The political activism of the elite is striking in times of crisis, when the latter takes the form either of severe economic contraction or of working-class militancy, or both.
- How the Unions Killed the Working Class Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Unions are vertically organized to minimize relationships and solidarity between union members in different locals, maximize the power of national union staff and officials over local unions, and fractionalize the working class. Away from the workplace the role of the unions is no less destructive. Unions train workers not to rely on themselves as agents of change with direct action, whether on the job or in society. Instead they steer their members into the arms of the capitalist political parties and encourage workers to rely on politicians and courts. The central myth on which contemporary unions depend is that workers# power comes not from their friendships and solidarity but from union structures. The most destructive effects of the unions have been on the self-concept of the working class. Workers have been led to think of themselves as helpless, to believe that their strength comes from institutions outside themselves, and to lose sight of their revolutionary mission.
- How the World Depression Hits Orissa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The recession in the West is having a profound impact on the deep rural interior of Orissa.
- How they shot those campus bums
Review of The Truth About Kent State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
- How to Become a Real Muslim
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
When I was growing up in the 1980s the concept of a #radical# in a Muslim context meant someone who was a militant secularist, someone who challenged not just racism but the power of the mosques too. Someone like me. Today, of course, it means almost the opposite # a #radical# is a religious fundamentalist.
- How to Build a Media List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Often your desired target audiences are diverse so this should be clearly defined before beginning to build your media list.
- How to combat boredom and formalistic thought
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- How to Deal with a Racist Incident
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Pamphlet prepared to help people act rationally, safely, and sensibly in the face of racist and discriminatory incidents.
- How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
- How to Defend Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
Out of the night of national hatred in Palestine, from the ranks of the working class there, there can arise a real Zion # a Middle East in which Jew and Arab build together a workers# world without exploitation and oppression.
- How to End the Tea Party (and Scare Obama at the Same Time)
A Black / Brown Coalition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
One of the reasons the left doesn#t do better is because it tends to view the right's transgressions as a moral issue rather than as a pragmatic problem as, for example, a baseball coach would do if the Tea Party were the other team. In fact, calling someone a racist is not a particularly useful political move whereas figuring out why they#re getting to first base all the time, and you#re not, is. The right keeps it simple. It speaks plain talk, not bland abstractions devised by some third rate branding coach. There is hardly anyone in the country who doesn#t know the right opposes gay marriage, abortion and illegal immigration. Now try describing three primary goals of liberals or the left and you see the problem.
- How to Get What's Yours:
A Guide to Unemployment Insurance for Housewives and Other Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- How to Light a Prairie Fire
The Spell Can be Broken
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If there's one thing I think many people need to understand, it is this: sustained mass movements rarely happen unless many of the participants believe they might win.
- How to Lobby Like a Pro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
To reach government with your message you need to lobby like the professionals do.
- How to Make Your B-roll Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Getting a videographer or camera assigned to your story is a challenge to say the least. If you're lucky, you may get one or two cameras out to your news event. That leaves another three or four stations, not including the networks that will not cover your story because they are not there with a camera. PR practitioners can maximize their TV impact by investing in B-roll and hiring a news videography service.
- How to Make Your PR Photos Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
There is a real art and science to the news photo.
- How to really fight anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- How to Re-Imagine the World
A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
A conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change.
- How to Resist Collection
Or Make the Most of Collection When it Occurs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995 Published: 2005
A practical guide for resistance to tax collection in the United States, as a statement of ethical opposition to the government's advocacy of immoral war.
- How to Write about Haiti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
How to make sure that you stick to the tried and proven cliches.
- How Ultraleftism Divided UNAM Strike
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
MEXICO CITY -- Commandeered buses flying red and black flags and Che Guevara portraits sped through the city on October 2, ferrying students to a demonstration commemorating the 1968 student massacre at the Plaza of the Three Cultures. Led by veterans of the 1968 movement, 60,000 students and their supporters slogged the fifteen kilometers from the university campus up Insurgentes and Reforma, the world's longest urban avenues, to a torchlight ceremony in the plaza. Just five weeks before, on August 28, 30,000 students had marched in support of the electricity workers' struggle against privatization.
- How US Democracy Triumphed Again
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky explores the discrepancies of the Bush-Gore tie in the 2000 elections such as income correlation and the lack of voter participation, revealing meaningful flaws in the democratic system.
- How US Tax Breaks Fund Israeli Settlers
Peace Group Targets Settlement's Charitable Status
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- How We Ended the Cold War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Peace activists' demand for an end to nuclear madness played a decisive role.
- How We Live and How We Might Live
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1884 Published: 1887
Morris sees capitalist society as based on war#between nations, between rival capitalists, against colonial peoples and between classes. Only the victory of Socialist revolution can end all these wars.
- How You Can Help Make A Difference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Your actions can make a difference. There are a host of things you can do in and around your home to reduce pressures on the environment.
- Howard Zinn (1922-2010): In Lieu of Flowers, Organize
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Where other leftish icons have spent these decades gnashing their teeth, lecturing and bemoaning how awful everything that happens up above has been (as if most folks born down below didn't already know that by the time we were eight), Howard answered the call, again and again, to help us do something about it. He walked out to the picket lines every time he was called - by neighborhood organizers fighting against his university's real estate grabs, by striking workers that cleaned and fed the students and professors, by almost anyone who organized and fought that asked, and often before they asked, for his support.
- Huerta, Dolores
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
- Hugo Chávez and the Crisis of the Dependent Countries: Nationalism, Populism & Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
THE SMASHING ELECTORAL triumph of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez, previously imprisoned because of his participation in a failed military coup against the government of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez provoked diverse reactions and much confusion.
- Human Be-In
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A happening in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967
- Human Nature and Social Theory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
- Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Human Rights and Economic Policy ( Draft II)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Human rights books
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Human Rights Education: Resource Booklet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Human Rights in Canada: A Focus on Racism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Human Rights in Canada:
A Focus on Racism.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Human Rights Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Human rights violations in Latin America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Human Rights Week 2002
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky details the meaning behind Human Rights Week, despite the lack of enthusiasm in North America. He highlights, in particular, the achievements of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP).
- Human scale
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A number of characteristic physical quantities can be associated with the human body, the human mind, human societies, and the preservation of human life and well-being.
- Human Settlements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Humanism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Humanism is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity, concerns, and capabilities, particularly rationality. Although the word has many senses, its meaning comes into focus when contrasted to the supernatural or to appeals to authority.
- Humanism
Entry in the Marxists Internet Archive Glossary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The system of views which makes the human being its central value, as opposed to abstract notions such as God, religious or political ideals, abstractions like History or Reason, or sectional interests such as race or gender.
- Humanism and its Aspiration
Humanist Manifesto III, a successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.
- Humanism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
The resumption of the struggle for socialism would also be the rebirth of socialist humanism.
- Humanist Manifesto I
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1933
Outlines affirmations on cosmology, biological and cultural evolution, human nature, epistemology, ethics, religion, self-fulfillment, and the quest for freedom and social justice.
- Humanist Manifesto II
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.
- Humanitarian Imperialism
The New Doctrine of Imperial Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky considers "humanitarian intervention" and "the responsibility to protect" as new norms in international affairs by examining the institutional structures which produced the policies responsible for such developments.
- The Humble Tuna
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The humble tuna, "the chicken of the sea", is an unfortunate metaphor for all that is dysfunctional about our contemporary, western, capitalist world. The story of the Tuna is the story of our triumphant world, and provides a unified theory of its runaway excess
- Humboldt, Alexander von
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Naturalist. (1769-1859).
- Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
One of many revolutions that year and closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Stalinist government of the People's Republic of Hungary.
- Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
- Hunting in Algonquin Park
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Hunting the CIA's Keystone Kommandos
On the Trail of Agency Kidnappers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
You cannot overstate the CIA’s capacity to bungle things. Sheer incompetence explains far more of America’s espionage fiascos than most of us might think. The other point is the importance of hubris in CIA history—the idea that the CIA operates in such a different universe, is so far above the law, that its people often feel they can’t possibly get caught, and that if they do, they couldn’t possibly be punished.
- Hurricane Mitch and Disaster Relief: The Politics of Catastrophe
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
THE LEVEL OF destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch is hard to overstate. While there is no way to know exactly how many lives were affected by the category-five hurricane that devastated the region between October 26 and November 1, early reports indicated that across Central America 11,000 people are reported dead, 15,000 are missing and at least 2.4 million made homeless.
- Hurtig, Mel
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Canadian publisher, author, political activist and political candidate. (Born 1932).
- Hussites
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus (c. 1369#1415).
- Hydro-Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- The Hypocrisy of Puritanism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is, indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change. Puritanism, on the other hand, rests on a fixed and immovable conception of life; it is based on the Calvinistic idea that life is a curse, imposed upon man by the wrath of God. In order to redeem himself man must do constant penance, must repudiate every natural and healthy impulse, and turn his back on joy and beauty.
- Hypocrisy over Cuba's 'political prisoners'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
- Hypocrisy Reigns
Don't Forsake the Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
- I accuse!
Letter to the President of the Republic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1898
Emile Zola's condemnation of the frame-up of Captain Dreyfus.
- I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
The Denial of My Parole
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
- I am Occupied/Yo Soy Occupado
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- I Stand Before You as a Proud Man - I Feel No Guilt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- I was a psychic for the FBI
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Para-review investigates parapathology
- Icarians
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A French utopian movement, founded by Étienne Cabet, who led his followers to America where they established a group of egalitarian communes during the period from 1848 through 1898.
- Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves
Further Adventures in the Territories of Hope
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Capitalism is only kept going by this army of anti-capitalists, who constantly exert their powers to clean up after it, and at least partially compensate for its destructiveness. Behind the system we all know, in other words, is a shadow system of kindness, the other invisible hand. Much of its work now lies in simply undoing the depredations of the official system.
- Icebreaker sunk
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Idaho, Mountain Lions and a Rattlesnake Friend
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
We moved to Pocatello, Idaho three years ago. And there are certainly some mighty friendly people hereabouts. But from the very moment we first arrived, we've been subjected to bizarre harassment—coming obviously from Federal, state, local "lawmen" and vigilante types, and just as obviously stemming from my traditionally Left Native rights/civil rights/labor affiliations and beliefs and history and contemporary activities.
- The Idea of May Day on the March
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1913
The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
- Idealism, Pride & Anger- The Beginnings of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Britain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
A glorious chaotic enthusiasm. At times, shocking. Always unapologetic and defiant. An exhilarating mixture of idealism, pride, anger, bravado and imagination.
- Identity is that which is given
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In this age of globalisation many people fret about Western culture taking over the world. But the greatest Western export is not Disney or McDonalds or Tom Cruise. It is the very idea of culture.
- Identity politics
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Refers to political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of social minorities, or self-identified social interest groups.
- Idiot Bosses and Valiant Women
Labor and Capital in Actual Practice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
No matter what the enterprise, most employees know who the hard workers are, even though it#s not their job to know. They know who hustles, pitches in and lends a hand, who goofs off and avoids work, and who strives to keep the operation going by performing those thankless little tasks that don#t necessarily get noticed by management.
- IDRC Reports discontinued
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
- If I Can't Dance ....
Why is the Left So Boring?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
- If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
There is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
- If This Story Needs Fixing, Don't Call Us - Just Call THEM
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Department of Corrections.
- Ikanan, Evaristo Nugkuag
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Activist working to protect the rights of the indigenous people of the Amazon.
- Il danse avec la Culpabilité
Un regard sur les hommes qui regardent la violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Des théories simplistiques qui sont reliées à la violence à un facteur et seulement un facteur, la masculinité qui sert à décourager un examen sérieux sur la cause qui mène certains hommes et aussi certaines femmes a devenir violents.
- The Illegals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1908
For the anarchist, if he doesn#t care about bourgeois legality and honesty, must above all aim at preserving himself as long as possible for action and realizing to the greatest extent possible for himself the life he desires . His work, rather than appearing harmful and destructive, should be a work of life, a long apostolate of stubborn labor, of goodness, of love.
- "Illegals" of the World Unite?
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
An interview with David Bacon.
- Illich, Ivan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
- The Illusion of Gaza Withdrawal
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
We gather here in difficult times, when it seems that the Palestinian cause has been almost eliminated from the international agenda. The Western world is hailing the new “peace vision” of Sharon’s disengagement plan.
- An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour 1800-1945
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Images
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Images Festival
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- The IMF's Imperial "Reform"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The International Monetary Fund #bailout# of Korea could not be more of a misnomer. The IMF program aims to bail out not Korea, but the U.S., European and Japanese banks that made bad loans to Korean capitalists.
- Immigrant and Visible Minority Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Immigrant Housewives In Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Immigrant Students and Workers Take to the Streets: Outpouring in Chicago
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In late February, word began to spread around Chicago about a protest against HR 4437, a bill passed by the House of Representatives to criminalize undocumented immigration, as well as aid given to undocumented immigrants (for more information on HR 4437, see http://www.ilrc.org/HR4437.html). A humble-looking activist website announced, in English and Spanish, "Unite!.March against HR 4437 General Strike!"
- Immigration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Immigration Act Repressive in The Canadian Student
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Immigration Policy Should Be Social, Not Economic Says Economic Council
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A study conducted by the Economic Council of Canada reveals the positive impact of immigration on the Canadian lifestyle and economy.
- The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
It is clear that mountain biking is harmful to some wildlife and people. No one, even mountain bikers, tries to deny that. Bikes create V-shaped ruts in trails, throw dirt to the outside on turns, crush small plants and animals on and under the trail, facilitate increased levels of human access into wildlife habitat, and drive other trail users (many of whom are seeking the tranquility and primitiveness of natural surroundings) out of the parks.
- Imperial Presidency
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky explores the conception of presidential authority and sovereignty, depicting the dangers of the Bush administration's understanding of these concepts.
- Imperialism 101
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders.
- Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1914
The true cause, the trigger, the author of this war, is therefore not any particular State, but all the States that pursue an imperialist policy and seek to expand their territories: Germany, England, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Belgium and Japan; each one separately and all of them together are its cause. All the chatter of the bourgeois and socialist parties and their newspapers, according to which we are witnessing a war of national defense in which we are obliged to participate because we were attacked, all this chatter is nothing but a trick to dissimulate each country's culpability under a beautiful façade. To say that Germany, Prussia or England is the cause of the war is as stupid and as false as to assert that the cracks which open up on a volcano are the cause of its eruption.
For many years, all the European States have been arming for this conflict. All of them want to satisfy their own rapacity and greed. All of them are equally guilty.
- Impossibleism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Impossibleists want unrestrained sustainable growth in the face of its inevitable impossibility. It is a mystery how they think this way, knowing as they surely do that eventually the bill will come due, and the engine will run out of gas - literally. Think about it - growth that never stops, ever. Even with limitless resources, it is simple intuition that eventually, somewhere, sometime....
- The impoverishment of the Canadian left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Perhaps the most visible phenomenon 9and the most painful) on the scene of social change in Canada today, is the lack of any real left alternative to either bourgeois or liberal radical politics.
- Improve Your Publicity Awareness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Tips on networking for success.
- In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
- In a time of duplicity
From the Diary of Victor Serge # III
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1945
- In Defence of Sex and Science: Review of Kinsey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A review of the film #Kinsey#.
- In Defense of Divestment
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
As an Israeli citizen and former tank gunner in the Israeli army, I feel the need to explain why I, along with many other Jews, support divestment from Israel. We are asking the city of Somerville, as well as other cities and civic institutions, to divest from companies involved in selling arms, bulldozers and military technologies that are used by the Israeli army to commit war crimes against Palestinians.
- In Defense of Leninism: Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists.
- In Defense of the Student Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
In 1971, Chomsky proclaims the student movement to be the one organized segment of the intellectual community that is genuinely and actively committed to the kind of social change needed. However, he outlines what he finds to be the grave tactical mistakes being made by the movement, one being their search for confrontation. Chomsky sees this as "suicidal". However, regardless of his practical criticisms, he continues to express his explicit support.
- In Hebron, a South African Compares Israeli Occupation to Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Israelis have generally blinded themselves to the apartheid in the back yard because if they did acknowledge it they would have to do something. This complacent blindering recalls the American south during the civil rights movement, or the founding fathers during slavery.
- In Memoriam: Beloved Chairman Mao
A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao.
- In Memory of Carl Oglesby
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Forty-six years ago this November, then-SDS president Carl Oglesby stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and told those assembled to protest the war in Vietnam that the men who were responsible for that war were not evil, they were “trapped in a system.” They were, like Antony had told the crowd of those who had killed Caesar, “all honorable men.” Indeed, they were all liberals.
- In Memory of the Proletariat Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
- In Memory of Tim Costello
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Remembering Tim Costello.
- In North Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Chomsky traveled to North Vietnam in 1970 to explore the state of the country and give lectures at the Polytechnic University. While there, he discovered that although the nation had begun to lay the foundations for modernization and development, progress had been dramatically disrupted through the war with America. He reveals that the "air war of destruction" was in fact not as accurate in targeting military points as previously claimed. Yet Chomsky notes the enduring spirit of the Vietnamese who accept each struggle - whether with the Chinese, Mongols, Japanese, French, or Americans - as a succession of victories.
- In Praise of Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Why might Marx be back on the agenda? The answer, ironically, is because of capitalism. Whenever you hear capitalists talking about capitalism, you know the system is in trouble.
- In Print: Maximizing Coverage in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
How to get coverage in community newspapers.
- In Search of Social Justice -- A National Food Policy
One Way Ahead
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Working paper defining NAPO as a special interest group concentrating on legislation and policy surrounding issues of the Canadian poor.
- In Struggle! Canadian Marxist-Leninist Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- In Support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence.
- In the Aftermath of the G20: Reflections on Strategy, Tactics and Militancy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The tactics of the Black Bloc make it clear that, for them, it is more important to smash windows than to try and march with thousands of workers and engage them in arguments about how to move struggles forward or that the problem is capitalism. How radical is it to trash a few windows? For us, radical is about workers gaining confidence and consciousness to fight back, not just at work, but in solidarity with others. Radical is about developing a sense of mass power, organising based on moving others into struggle, winning others to challenge the power in their workplace or community collectively, beyond the individualization of our society. Radical is about going to the roots of the system - not trashing its symbols.
- In The Best Interests of the Child
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- In the Storm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1904
The war destroys the appearance which leads us to believe in peaceful social evolution; in the omnipotence and the untouchability of bourgeois legality; in national exclusivism; in the stability of political conditions; in the conscious direction of politics by these statesmen or parties.
- In Times of Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
As anyone facing a crowded room of reporters during an emergency will tell you, effective crisis communications is paramount in overcoming the predicament.
- In Uganda, Rioters Strip Women Wearing Trousers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Rioters attacked and stripped about 20 Ugandan women who were wearing trousers last week during deadly riots in Kampala. The humiliations were part of a major confrontation between a traditional kingdom and President Yoweri Museveni's government.
- Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1864
Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
- Inclosure Acts
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country. This meant that the rights that people once held to graze animals on these areas were denied.
- Inclusao ou Exclusao?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Enqanto isso acontece, nós vamos preferir acreditar que as #comunidades étnicas# nao tem interesse nenhum em tais assuntos e nenhuma posiçao na luta que está sendo travada em volta deles?
- Inclusión o exclusion?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Inclusion or exclusion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Inclusion or Exclusion - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Inclusion or Exclusion - Chinese Text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Inclusion or Exclusion? - Farsi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Inclusion or Exclusion - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Inclusione o Esclusione?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The state of Israel practises its own, quite violent, form of Apartheid with the native Palestinian population.
- Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
- Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
- Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
- Independent power producers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Indian bands join defence alliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Indian independence movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Encompasses a wide spectrum of political organizations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending British colonial authority in South Asia.
- Indian Rebellion of 1857
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May, 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region.
- Indian Women and the Law in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Indianapolis' Extortion Dome
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The Indianapolis Colts’ new Lucas Oil Dome portends to be exorbitant for the taxpayers of Marion County, where Indianapolis is situated. But the cost is genteelly hidden, so the taxpayers are liable to overlook what this new Dome is going to cost them. This is the new Dome the Colts’ owning Irsay family insisted had to be built for them by public funds, or else they’d leave as they formerly abandoned Baltimore.
- Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913, the Indianapolis Police Mutiny of 1913, and the 1913 Indianapolis Riots began as a workers strike by the union employees of the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company and occurred during November 1913.
- India’s Autoworkers Behaving Like the Old UAW
The Real Deal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
While it’s true that international banks and corporations have their slimy tentacles in everything from foreign governments to foreign armies, the world’s workers have two weapons of their own. One is the crippling, paralyzing effect of no-go dockworkers. The other is the logistical potential of the Internet.
- India's Communalist Violence Against Women
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
In the colonial and post-colonial periods in India, both the state and the religious communities identified women as a site of concern. Yet at the close of the 20th century, the condition of women in India remains deplorable—a condition that should not be belittled on the ground that colonialism used it in order to discredit India's peoples and achievements.
- India's UID And The Fantasy Of Dataveillance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The perils of establishing nationwide identity systems have always been a hot topic of debate in countries that attach great value to privacy and human rights of its citizens. In India, there is not even a whimper of protest from politicians and civil society groups.
- India’s Vanishing Vultures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Can the world’s fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences?
- Indigenous Resistance to Gold Mine Gains Momentum
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Last June 13 indigenous communities in Sipacapa, in the western highlands of Guatemala, voted overwhelmingly to reject gold mining on their lands. Oxfam’s press release announced the results: 2,486 people cast their vote against the mine, 35 voted in favor, 32 abstained and one cast a blank vote.
- Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1944
The history of science is a history of erroneous statements. Yet these erroneous statements which mark the progress of thought have a particular quality: they are productive. And they are not just errors either; they are statements, the truth of which is veiled by misconceptions, is clothed in erroneous and inadequate concepts. They are rational visions which contain the seed of truth.
- Individualist anarchism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and his/her will over any kinds of external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems.
- Indonesia 1957-1958
War and Pornography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
- Indonesia: Reformasi Betrayed
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In complete betrayal of the student-led Reformasi (reform) movement, the ruling judge in the Suharto corruption trial dropped the case after hearing a report by a twenty-three member team of court appointed doctors that the former Indonesian dictator was physically and mentally unfit to stand trial.
- Indonesia Update: An Economic Titanic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
"LIVING IN AN Economic Nightmare" is the headline of Time Asia's cover story on Indonesia (August 3). In one year's time Indonesia's per capita income dropped from $1300 per capita to less than $300. In human terms, this has meant unbelievable suffering for an average working person. According to Indonesian government figures, more than 50 million people have fallen below the poverty line since the country's financial crisis began in July 1997.
- Indonesia's Fraud-Riddled Election
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The elections are over in Indonesia. The international press, calling them "the first free and fair elections in over 44 years," noted the relative lack of violence during the campaign period leading up to the June 7 vote.
- Indonesia's Unfolding Democratic Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
AS WE GO TO PRESS, the pro-democratic forces continue to push their advantage against the weakened army-backed Habibie government. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund agreed to soften implementation of its economic austerity package to give Habibie and the military more time to hopefully bring political stability. In addition, the big Western banks, led by Chase Manhattan, have agreed to reschedule repayment of nearly $80 billion in private debt.
- Indoor Air Quality: No Scents is Good Sense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Establishing a scent-free workplace.
- Industrial Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
In capitalist society you are the lower class; the capitalists are the upper class-because they are on your backs; if they were not on your backs they could not be above you.
- Industrial Workers of the World
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A revolutionary industrial union founded in 1905. Wobblies were mostly unskilled, low-status migrant workers. The IWW advocated the organization of all workers into one body and supported direct action as the only form of protest open to immigrant workers, who were excluded from the electoral process.
- Industrial Workers of the World
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
- Inequalities Are Unhealthy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The growing inequalities we are witnessing in the world today are having a very negative impact on the health and quality of life of its populations.
- Inequalities grow in U.S.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- The Inevitability of Communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
A reaction to Sidney Hook's Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx.
- The 'Inevitability of Socialism'
The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
It is our conviction that the socialist revolution will triumph. There is no question of 'equal possibility.' But this conviction is based on an examination of evidence - in the first place, upon our Marxist analysis of the social forces at work, the truth of which, like all human truth, is tested and confirmed only in practice (in struggle). It is not the same as saying that the socialist revolution is inevitable.
- Infant Formula Controversy Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Infiltration To Disrupt, Divide And Mis-direct Are Widespread In Occupy - Part I
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
This article describes public reports of infiltration as well as results of a survey and discussions with occupiers about this important issue.
- Inflation and Democracy, Thirty Years of Stop and Go
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet discusses Wage and Price Controls and how it affects Canadians.
- The Influence of Social Factors in Child Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1958
f parents really wish that their children be not only successful but also to be mentally healthy, they must consider as essential those norms and values that lead to mental health and not only those that lead to success.
- The Informal Work Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Stan Weir on some of his life experiences at work and what he saw as the "the only organizational form opposed to formal bureaucracies which cannot be captured by them", the informal work group.
- Information and Action for Church IMPACT on Canadian Banks and South African Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Information et Formation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Information Terrorists?
The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
- Inland Terminals threaten Small Towns
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
The threat of American multinationals to Canadian farming system.
- Inmate's Rights
A Handbook of prisoners: Rights and Obligations in Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Inner-City Housing, Rehabliltation and Relocation Committee Working Paper.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Innu acquittals overturned
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Inquiry on Canada's future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Inside Quadro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Inside Rochdale
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
What Rochdale has done is to provide a meeting ground on which those disenchanted with the running of modern society can attempt to work out an alternative environment.
- Inside the Global Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Inside the Global Crisis
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
“The roots of the modern financial system lie in developments in the early 1980s when investors of capital could not find avenues where they could obtain reasonable returns after a decline, from the early 1970s onwards, in the profit levels of traditional companies.”
- Inside The Mushroom Cloud Part1: The "Physics Package"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Inside The Mushroom Cloud Part2: The Human Package
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Inside The Mushroom Cloud: Introduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Insisting on Humanity
The Plight of the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is important that we preserve the distinction between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people, who have held on to their rights for so many years, and unleashed two of the greatest expressions of people's power and resolve: the First Uprising of 1987 and al-Aqsa Intifada of 2000. A whole population taking on the self-celebrated "greatest army in the Middle East" is hardly "powerless". The Palestinian people have printed themselves on the practical discourse of this conflict, and they have proved themselves to be powerful players in determining their own fate.
- Insouciant Americans
Blinding Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed.
- Inspired by Injustice: Scottsboro in History
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
“In many respects this is an archival project,” writes James A. Miller, Chair of the American Studies Department at George Washington University, at the end of his introduction to Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial.
- Institute for the Study of Cultural Evolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
An attempt to make the university of humanity a conscious coordinated effort towards humanity at peace with itself and its environment.
- The Intangible Benefits of Media Training
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
One of the greatest frustrations of media relations specialists, and news media, is the slow response to interview or information requests. Many times I've noticed that executives don't understand the rapid timelines that the news media operate under - they don't understand how quickly something ceases to be "news" or how quickly the media may lose interest in a proactive media relations venture.
- Integracja czy wykluczenie?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Integration oder Ausgrenzung?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Intégration ou Marginalisation?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Keeping the media safe for big business.
- Intellectual Cleansing: Part 2
Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Most ambitious journalists start out on a daily local newspaper owned by one of a handful of large media groups. There one quickly feels all sorts of institutional constraints on one's reporting. As a young journalist, if you know no better, you simply come to accept that journalism is done in a certain kind of way, that certain stories are suitable and others unsuitable.
- Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The tendency to self-deception appears to be greatly increased when we join as part of a group. Groups create a sense of belonging, a "we-feeling", which can provide even greater incentives to reject painful truths.
- Intelligent Design?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky discusses the Bush Administration's understanding of science, touching upon issues such as Evolution, Creationism, and environmental policy.
- Intentional community
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A planned residential community designed to have a much higher degree of teamwork than other communities.
- Inter-Church Energy Committee
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Interactions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976 Published: 1975
Remarks made at a meeting of New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.
- Interior Ministry protection programme for journalists also used for "close-quarters spying"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, has been harassed and intimidated by Colombia's intelligence services, who obtained information about her from her alleged protectors.
- International Brigades
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Republican military units made up of many non-state-sponsored, anti-fascist, mostly socialist and communist, volunteers from different countries who traveled to Spain to fight for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.
- International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political international whose member organisations identify with the Italian left communist tradition.
- International Communist Tendency
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An international centralised left communist organisation formed in 1975.
- International Communities as a Strategy for Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Analysis of the significance of the role of "community" in the struggle toward a more human social order.
- The International Context of Global Outrage
Part I: Looking back on the movements that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- International Liquidity and Class Struggle: A First Approximation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
In my view, the current situation is merely the latest eruption of a crisis in accumulation that first surfaced ca. 1965 in the simultaneous recessions in the U.S., Germany and Japan, signaling that the postwar boom was running out of steam.
- International of Anarchist Federations
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Founded during an international Anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile.
- International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was an international association of left-socialist parties. The member-parties rejected both mainstream social democracy and the Third International.
- International Terrorism
Image and Reality - In Alexander George (ed.), Western State Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Chomsky identifies two approaches to evaluating terrorism: the literal and propagandistic. He further explores various cases, factors and forms of terrorism according to literal analysis, yet concludes by admitting that in order to understand the phenomenon in the context of reality, one must abandon the literal for the propagandistic approach.
- International Women's Day
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.
- International Workers Association
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An international anarcho-syndicalist federation of various labour unions from different countries.
- International Workers' Day
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement.
- International Working Union of Socialist Parties
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political international for the co-operation of socialist parties. 1921-1923.
- The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1864
Rules of the First International, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
- International Workingmen's Association (The First International)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
- The International Workingmen's Association Documents and Writings 1864 - 1874
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The economic context points to the paradox of the Internet as it has developed in a capitalist society. The Internet has been subjected, to a significant extent, to the capital accumulation process, which has a clear logic of its own, inimical to much of the democratic potential of digital communication, and that will be ever more so, going forward. What seemed to be an increasingly open public sphere, removed from the world of commodity exchange, seems to be morphing into a private sphere of increasingly closed, proprietary, even monopolistic markets.
- Internship program
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Interracial Antiracism
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The wide range of topics covered in Romance and Rights: the Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 by Alex Lubin and Stacy I. Morgan’s Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953 converge around the central importance of the Second World War and anticommunism.
- Interrogating the Feminine Mystique
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Stephanie Coontz. Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Dianne Feeley interviewed Stephanie about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.
- Intersectionality Coming Alive
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It's hard to choose just one thing to recommend for a socialist feminist “must-read,” as there are so many writers that influenced my thinking, from Audre Lorde to Meredith Tax. However, when I think about the works that have had the greatest impact on my thinking, I’d have to focus on fiction. While I appreciate reading history and theory, I’ve found that novels give me the opportunity to visualize other worlds in a much deeper and lasting way.
- "Intersectionality" in Real Life
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Interview with Loretta Ross. Loretta Ross is National Coordinator of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a network of 80 organizations.
- Interval House
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Two articles briefly describe the shelter for women and children.
- Interview mit Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood
Democracy & Capitalism: Friends or Foes?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Postmodernist pluralism, just like the old variety, obscures the realities of power in capitalist societies. It also disarms and disintegrates the opposition to capitalism. Postmodernism brings us back to the old and uncritical forms of capitalist ideology, which leave the system fundamentally unchallenged. Marxism -- historical materialism -- is the best foundation for an understanding of the society in which we live and therefore also the best guide in our search for a better one.
- An interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood - co-editor of Monthly Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The strength of the Marxist project is that it does recognize difference, specificities, and grounds its project in a real social word, but that it has a unifying principle - class - based upon lived experience. Obviously class can't cover all emancipatory struggles, but it can provide some sort of unifying principle among emancipatory struggles that's completely lacking in the postmodernist perspective. It can bring together women and men, black and white, based on their common experience of work and exploitation and common interest in a classless society.
- Interview with Gilbert Achcar
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Susan Weissman interviewed Gilbert Achcar for her program, "Beneath the Surface," on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. In the following excerpt, Achcar discusses the questions of immediate withdrawal and civil war in Iraq.
- Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
As every strike, demonstration, occupation or other kinds of anticapitalist activity which ignores the official labor organisations and escapes their controls, takes on the character of independent working class action, which determines its own organisation and procedures, may be regarded as a council movement; so, on a larger scale, the spontaneous organisation of revolutionary upheavals, such as occurred in Russia in 1905 and 1917, in Germany in 1918, and later # against the state-capitalist authorities -in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland, avail themselves of workers# councils as the only form of working class actions possible under conditions in which all established institutions and organisations have become defenders of the status quo.
- Interview with Karl Marx Head of L'Internationale
Revolt of Labour Against Capital # the Two Faces of L'Internationale # Transformation of Society # Its Progress in the United States
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1871
- Interview with Lotta Continua 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Revolutionary actions are directed against the system as a whole - for its overthrow. This presupposes a general disruption of society which escapes political control. Thus far, such revolutionary actions have occurred only in connection with social catastrophe, such as were released by lost wars and the associated economic dislocations. This does not mean that such situations are an absolute precondition for revolution, but it indicates the extent of social disintegration that precedes revolutionary upheavals. Revolution must involve a majority of the active population. Not ideology but necessity brings the masses into revolutionary motion. The resulting activities produce their own revolutionary ideology, namely an understanding of what has to be done to emerge victoriously out of the struggle against the system's defenders.
- An Interview with Patricia Campbell
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Patricia Campbell is President of the Irish Independent Workers Union (IWU), an independent trade union and social movement in both the north and south of Ireland. She is a deputy editor of the journal Fourthwrite, founded by a group of Irish Republicans most of whom are former political prisoners from the Republican movement.
- An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
The Roadmap to Nowhere
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Persistent struggle can have an effect, and can lead governments to act. Such struggle begins with the Palestinian people, who have withstood years of brutal oppression, and who, through their spirit of zumud--sticking to their land - and daily endurance, organizing and resistance, have managed to keep the Palestinian cause alive
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Interview with Ulli Diemer - Japanese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- An Intimate Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Volume 1 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
- Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones
Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones: Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Este Anuario está dedicado a la idea que el cambio es ambos, posible y necesario. Su propósito principal es práctico: proveer la información sobre grupos en Canadá que están trabajando al ras del césped social para crear soluciones positivas a los problemas sociales, ambientales, económicos e internacionales.
- Introducing the Year 1905: Centennial of Struggle
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The year 1905 stands out as the onset of an era of explosive anticapitalist struggle—all the more so 100 years later, when we feel stranded in a neoliberal ice age. Looking back at the events of that year helps give some perspective on how rapidly consciousness and levels of struggle can change.
- Introduction
In Juan Pablo Ordoñez, No Human Being Is Disposable
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Chomsky explores the relationship between America, Columbia and human rights. He touches upon the issues of arms, drugs and America's general establishment of a favourable investment climate in the region.
- An Introduction: Capital's Global Turbulence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
A JOYLESS IRONY of our time is that just as capitalism seemed all-triumphant and the sirens of neoliberalism had declared history to be at an end, the crisis rolling out of Asia has brought the self-regulating global market to its knees. Add to this that at the same time as Marxism as political doctrine has been declared dead, Marxist economics has never been better argued and empirically defended than today.
- Introduction de l'Annuaire Connexions
Un livre d'origine sur les alternatives sociaux et environnementaux
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Introduction: Project Censored 25th Anniversary
In Peter Phillips (ed.), Project Censored 2001
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky examines "Project Censored" and its contents, revealing a telling pattern: the stories all appeal to public rather corporate-state interests. Such an observation poses questions of media ownership and censorship in relationship to democracy.
- Introduction to 'Anti-Bolshevik Communism'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The international socialist movement must of course be an anti-imperialist movement. But it has to actualise its anti-imperialism through the destruction of the capitalist system in the advanced countries. Were this accomplished, anti-imperialism would become meaningless and the social struggles in the underdeveloped part of the world would focus on internal class differences.
- Introduction to Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1932
Marx's book on capital, like Plato's book on the state, like Machiavelli's Prince and Rousseau's Social Contract, owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life. All the economic, political, and social questions, upon which the analysis in Marx's Capital theoretically devolves, are today world-shaking practical issues, over which the real-life struggle between great social forces, between states and classes, rages in every corner of the earth.
- Introduction to Is There a Human Future?
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Following Chris Hedges’ forced retirement as a war correspondent and New York Times reporter (where his reputation was forged by his acclaimed first book War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning), Hedges has emerged as a trenchant and increasingly radical critic of the politics and imperial culture of the United States. His prolific articles and speeches paint a picture of a society well on its way to self-destruction through the dominance of corporate power and sheer greed.
- Introduction to Issue 5
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Introduction to Karl Marx#s The Class Struggles in France 1848 to 1850
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1895
- Introduction to Social Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
- Introduction to Spain's Revolution & Tragedy
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The year 2009 marks a tragic 70th anniversary, not only globally – the beginning of the Second World War, which would claim the lives of tens of millions and give rise to a whole new lexicon that includes “genocide” and “nuclear weapons” — but also the final defeat of the Spanish Revolution and the onset of 26 years of fascist rule under Francisco Franco.
- Introduction to the Connexions Annual - Japanese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1922
Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the 'General Introduction' to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx's shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory.
- Introduction to the Johnson-Forest Tendency and the Background to #Facing Reality#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
- Introduction to the Media Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
- Introduction to the POUM's Seven Decades
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We present this leading participant’s account of the Party Of Marxist Unity (POUM) as an historical document. The POUM was the most important organization of the revolutionary left in the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39. Its historic role is twofold: as a critical political and military force in the struggle against fascism, and as a target of the murderous Stalinist campaign that ultimately destroyed the revolution from within. Wilebaldo Solano was General Secretary of the Iberian Communist Youth — Juventud Comunista Ibérica (JCI) in 1936, member of the Executive Committee of the POUM, imprisoned until 1944 and later elected as General Secretary of the POUM (while in exile). He is the author of El POUM in la Historia. Andreu Nin y la revolución española, and founder of the Fundacion Andreu Nin.
- Introduction to the Red Menace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An introduction to, and the mission statement of, the libertarian socialist publication, The Red Menace.
- Introduction to this issue (#3)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Introduction to this issue (#4) (Vol. 3, #1)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Introduction to When the UAW Was Young
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to Canada's eastern Arctic islands, a circle of more than 300,000 indigenous people.
- Invasion Newspeak
U.S. and USSR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
In 1983, newscaster, Vladimir Danchev, declared opposition to Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. Chomsky comments on the remarkability not just of this opposition, but the use of the term "invade" - a word, he points out, that had not been used in American mainstream media in reference to South Vietnam.
- Invergordon Mutiny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An industrial action by sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet that took place in September 1931. For two days, ships of the Royal Navy at Invergordon were in open mutiny.
- Investing in a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Cerro Gordo community.
- Involve Your Audience During TV Interviews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
People who are watching the news are usually doing something else as well, like washing clothes, eating dinner or helping the kids with homework. It#s up to you to get their attention.
- IPPN Standing Strong in the Storm
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
If I were asked to name the one virtue that best describes the political left in America, I would say “perseverance.” As we know all too well, the long history of the left in our country is a history of frustration, betrayal and defeat, yet also of hope, vigor and determination despite many setbacks and our repeated failure to win any real political power.
- Die Irak-Krise im Kontext
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Iran and Leftist Confusion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Why are some leftists siding with the Iranian rulers rather than the popular demonstrations against the regime?
- Iran in Christian Zionist crosshairs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations has stirred up two leading Christian Zionists, Mike Evans and Joel Rosenberg, to once again open fire on Iran.
- Iran on the Verge of Revolution?
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Interest in the political situation in Iran has grown noticeably in recent months. In large part, this is due to the far more aggressive policies of the current U.S. administration, which has used the attacks of September 11 as the excuse to intervene directly in the region and bring about “regime change” in accordance with its own longstanding interests.
- Iran - The War Dance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Iran: Which side are you on?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Why are some U.S. leftists siding with the repressive Iranian regime against pro-democracy protesters?
- Iran will be the Scene of a Mass Anti-Islamic Offensive
Interview with with Radio Hambastegi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
We have seen in the last 20-25 years the emergence and considerable development of political movements that have organised themselves under the banner of Islam. There are a series of extremely Right-wing, anti-human and violent movements in North Africa, the Middle East and today, in all countries in which the so-called official religion is Islam or which have significant Muslim minorities. Their conduct is primarily in the form of opposition to the freedom of women, women#s civil liberties, freedom of expression in the cultural and personal domains and the enforcement of brutal laws and traditions against people, and even killing, beheading, and genocide of people from young children to the elderly.
- Iran: Youth Protests and the Regime's Crisis
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Against The Current interviewed Ali Javadi, a member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI), on the July protests and ongoing repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran. For information on WPI visit www.wpiran.org. The lives of all those arrested in recent protests and all political prisoners in Iran are in great danger.
- The Iranian Revolution and the Role of the Proletariat (Theses)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Iraq 1990-1991
Desert Holocaust
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
- The Iraq Crisis in Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
- Iraq Crisis in Context - Greek text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Iraq: Guerrilla War in Sadr City
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In attacking first Najaf, then Tal Afar and Samarra, and finally tackling the center of Sunni resistance in Fallujah, the United States was seeking to reverse this process. But these attacks were not designed to restore order; they were, instead, intended to prevent the consolidation of a very orderly anti-American status quo in a constantly expanding set of "liberated" areas. Ironically, the American attacks in the Fall of 2004 underscore the larger contradictions in American policy in Iraq: that the chaos American leaders keep saying there are preventing will, in fact, occur only if U.S. military forces succeed in destroying these nascent city-states.
- Iraq Under Siege
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The German Nazis killed two million Jewish children. The Bush-Clinton sanctions on Iraq have killed over 500,000 Iraqi children with thousands more being added monthly. As a crime against humanity, the scale of death, misery and environmental destruction visited on Iraq this past decade now rivals what the United States did to Vietnam from 1962-1975.
- The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky highlights that while the war in Iraq was being shaped, the voices of the people - neither in Iraq nor Europe - were being heard or considered. This is a clear violation of the principle that people play the main role in democratic societies.
- Iraq: Women#s Liberation and the Struggle Against Imperialist Subjugation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The women of Iraq illustrate the status of most of the world#s women, caught between the domination of imperialism and the oppression of stifling ancient #customs# like the veil, holdovers from a more backward era.
- Iraq's Torture by Sanctions
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
An interview with Kathy Kelly. Kathy Kelly, organizer for Voices in the Wilderness, has been involved in the struggle around ending sanctions against Iraq for the past decade. David Finkel interviewed her for Against the Current in January 2001.
- IRELAND: Slaying the Celtic Tiger
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Like most nations, Ireland has its share of myths and legends. Most of us know a few of them — Saint Patrick drove out the snakes, the Children of Lir were turned into swans, the ancient warrior Cúchulainn took on all comers. And, since the mid-1990s, Ireland and the international community trumpeted a new myth and legend, the so-called Celtic Tiger.
- Irene Morgan, Max Roach: Two Soldiers of Liberation
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Two pioneers of the freedom struggle died in August, leaving legacies for the ages.
- Irish Communist Policy
Letter to Sylvia Pankhurst
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1922
The belief that some foreign power, the State, may accomplish it for the workers by decrees and laws is a social-democratic belief # nay, only the most narrow-minded social democrats believe it; most social democrats in former times knew quite well that the chief force of transformation must come from below. The programme of the Communist Party of Ireland is not only non-Communist because it appeals to the State for everything, but also because it asks from this State only reforms.
- Irish War of Independence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A guerrilla war mounted against the British government in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army.
- Irvine, William
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
- Irvine, William
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
- Is Anti-Capitalism Enough? The New Crisis & the Left
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Whether or not the current economic crisis and a historic presidential election open up hidden potentials for renewed popular protest and collective action, it is obvious that the radical Left has lost a great deal of its size, visibility, élan and influence since the 1970s.
- Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
- Is It Realistic to Demand the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Is It True What They Say About NIEO
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A series of one page articles explaining the New International Economic Order.
- Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The increasing influence and role of Lockhead Martin, the giant weapons corporation.
- Is Peace at Hand?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
In light of the signing of a Peace Agreement by the Central American Presidents in 1988, Chomsky discusses if this step could be the first towards peace in this region of U.S dependencies, investigating primarily the prospects of implementation.
- Is Socialism Really Dead in Europe?
After the German Elections
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
With over 12 percent of the vote, the Left Party became Germany#s fourth strongest, just ahead of the Greens. This was a promising score, considering the way the mildly left Left Party has been ostracized by media and the political class as though it were a reincarnation of the Bolsheviks. For the media, a party calling for a minimum wage and a pullout from Afghanistan is the #hard left# # not fit to be associated with. The SPD and the Greens stressed that they would never consider a coalition with such disreputable folk.
- Is Space Research Corporation (Quebec) Inc. Using Barbados to Trans-Ship Arms to Southern Africa?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- Is The Air Fit to Breathe?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Is the Corporation Obsolete?
Corporate irresponsibility? Predatory behavior? Blame the charter--and rewrite it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The more pervasive the corporation becomes, the less we seem to notice. It's just the way things are, the new normal, and rapidly it is becoming the norm for the entire world.
- Is the James Bay Model Good Enough for the N.W.T.?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An analysis of the $225 million James Bay Agreement forced upon the Inuit and Cree of northern Quebec.
- Is the Media Your Message?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Mainstream media are good for getting exposure, but for social change activists they may not be the best avenue.
- Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
- Is this what a police state looks like?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The corporate security state is not static - it will keep filling more and more space to the extent that they are allowed to by civil society. The police actions in Toronto are one of those key moments, one that we will look back on as a time when the authoritarian governments we now endure tested our resolve. They know exactly what they are doing. There was no spontaneous 'over-reaction.' There were no cops 'out of control' - the obvious fact is they were always in control. The decision to allow the Black Bloc to do its destructive work without any intervention at all was strategic. They were assisted in their work by the Black Bloc, some of them agents provocatuers, all of them enemies of social change.
- Is World Hunger our Responsibility?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Collection of articles discussing how we cause world hunger and what we must do.
- Is Your Web Site Media Friendly?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001 Published: 2005
How to make your Web site media-friendly.
- Iskra
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Russian socialist newspaper published 1900-1905.
- Islam and De-Islamisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
- Islam, Children's Rights, and the Hijab-gate of Rah-e-Kargar
In Defence of the Prohibition of the Islamic Veil for Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
It has been proved time and time again that pushing back religiosity and religious reaction is not possible except through unequivocal defence of human values against religion. It has been proved time and time again that preventing religious barbarism does not come about through bribing it and trying to give it a human face, but through the fight against reactionary religious beliefs and practices.
- Islamic Fundamentalism in Britain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Muslim fundamentalists are a growing threat to gay human rights in Britain.
- Islamic Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
There is not the slightest real and legitimate relationship between the appalling calamities that have befallen the Jewish people in this century and the suppression and crimes committed by the extremist right wing government in Israel against the Palestinians. There is not the slightest real and justified relationship between the sufferings of the deprived people of Palestine and the terrorism of Islamic or non-Islamic organisations attributed to these people.
- The Islamophobia Myth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
- Islamophobia Sets the Terms
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Dutch government didn’t fall in February over involvement in Afghanistan, the unstable governing coalition stumbled over it. But the Islamophobic right wing might be the beneficiary.
- Island Airport Insanity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Airports don't belong in the middle of downtown.
- An Island Lies Bleeding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Chomsky criticizes the major powers for their role in Indonesia's assault against East Timor and cites John Pilger's work as the key to heightened awareness of the situation.
- Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
- The Israel Advocacy Push to #Reclaim# York University
Putting Current Events in Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
York is a longstanding hub for #Israel advocacy# organizations (as they designate themselves). This reality expresses itself in various ways. At the grassroots level, far-right Zionist organizing has been common at York since at least the early 1980s, and seems to have even included direct recruitment for armed settler movements in the West Bank (and more commonly for the Israeli military itself). At the level of university fundraising, York has thoroughly integrated some of Canada#s leading Israel advocacy figures into its main administrative bodies. And at the level of university governance, York has earned a reputation for deep association with the Israeli state and for heavy-handed regulation of campus politics in favor of Israel advocates.
- Israel and apartheid: A fair comparison?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The comparison between Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and to apartheid is a legitimate part of that debate and this is an analogy frequently used by Israelis and also by South Africans.
- Israel and the Arabs: the good guys don't always wear white hats
Review of Israel: A Colonial-Settler State, by Maxime Rodinson
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
The tragedy of two peoples brought into conflict by forces largely outside of their control.
- Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
The #democracy# that can do no wrong
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Paul J. Balles considers the #lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia# inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel#s apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
- Israel: Boycott, divest, sanction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
- Israel boycott may be the way to peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The non-violent international response to apartheid was a campaign of boycott, divestment and UN-imposed sanctions which enabled the regime to change without bloodshed. We should try to follow the same route to a just peace.
- Israel in Gaza: A Critical Reframing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The critical reframing we offer, that of Israelis committed to human rights, international law and a just peace as the only way out of this interminable and bloody conflict, argues that security cannot be achieved unilaterally while one side oppresses the other and that Israel's attack on Gaza is merely another attempt to render its Occupation permanent by destroying any source of effective resistance.
- Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel is losing legitimacy in the world because of what their government is doing to the Palestinians, not because of anti-semitism.
- Israel Is Now a Lunatic State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
What happened with the Gaza flotilla was not an accident. You have to remember that the Israeli cabinet met for fully a week. All the cabinet ministers discussed and deliberated how they would handle the flotilla. At the end of the day, they decided on a nighttime armed commando raid on a humanitarian convoy. Israel is now a lunatic state. It's a lunatic state with between two and three hundred nuclear devices. It is threatening war daily against Iran and against Hezbollah in Lebanon. We have to ask ourselves a simple, basic, fundamental question: can a lunatic state like Israel be trusted with two to three hundred nuclear devices when it is now threatening its neighbors Iran and Lebanon with an attack?
- Israel, Lebanon, and the "Peace Process"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Chomsky illustrates the position of Lebanon amidst the conflicts and interventions belonging to the Israel-Arab contention.
- Israel, Lebanon and Torture
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
An interview with Marty Rosenbluth. Marty Rosenbluth is Amnesty International’s country specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority.
- Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Amnesty International calls for the immediate establishment of a comprehensive, independent and impartial inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law by both Hizbullah and Israel in the conflict. The inquiry should examine in particular the impact of this conflict on the civilian population. It should propose effective measures to hold accountable those responsible for crimes under international law, and to ensure that the victims receive full reparation.
- The Israel Lobby?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Noam Chomsky comments on an article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in which they assert that "the Lobby" dominates over strategic-economic interests in Israel's policy-making. Although Chomsky praises this courageous stand, he explains why he does not agree with this thesis.
- The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- The Israel Lobby and the "National Interest"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Israel's ethnic cleansing does, in fact, serve the elite's interest. It is a classic example of divide-and-rule applied to the population of the Middle East: foment an ethnic war of Arab versus Jew. Israel plays the same role in the Middle East that the Klu Klux Klan played in the American South for the benefit of the South's upper class: keep the working class population fighting each other along racial lines.
- The Israel Lobby's Power Comes from The American Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
By ensuring that the American mass media refrain from telling Americans the true reason (Israel's ethnic cleansing) why Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims take up arms against Israel, the American ruling class ensures that Americans will believe the lie that Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims are hateful, irrational, anti-semitic terrorists who kill decent Israelis "just like us" and would likewise kill Americans if we fail to obey our upper class rulers who protect us from terrorism.
- Israel: Obama's "Bibiyahu" Problem
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Is this the government of Biberman [Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud Party, and foreign minister Avigdor Liberman of the ultra-right Israel Beitenu], or perhaps of Bibarak [Bibi and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak]?
- Israel offered Nukes to Racist South Africa for Use on Black Neighbors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The implication, that Iran must be stopped because it would proliferate to neighbors, may come back to haunt pro-Israeli propagandists, given Tel Aviv#s own secret role in attempting to proliferate nukes to South Africa.
- Israel/Palestine: "It's Complicated" ... Or Is It?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We often hear it said that the Israel/Palestine conflict is complicated. But is it really?
- Israel Seeks Ways To Silence Human Rights Groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel#s winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.
- Israel Shamir and Slavoj Zizek
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Despite my general aversion to Slavoj Zizek, I want to defend him against the misrepresentations found in Israel Shamir’s Counterpunch article from July 14th titled “Doing a Full Monty for Tel Aviv: Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla“. Zizek is not above criticism but Shamir’s article is nothing but a hatchet job.
- Israel Targets Ha'aretz
"A Shin Bet State"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel uses police state tactics to crush journalists who expose crimes committed by the military.
- Israel will withdraw only under pressure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The overwhelming majority of the Jewish public has been determined since 1967 not to relinquish any territory except if forced to do so.
- Israel#s School Apartheid Highlighted By Court Case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Instances of Arab children being denied places at kindergartens and junior schools have become more common in recent years. Now, an Arab couple whose daughter was expelled from an Israeli daycare centre on her first day because she was Arab is taking the case to court.
- Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
"Lost" American Youth Urged to Come to Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
- Israeli agents to screen judges before appointment
Fury as security service gets veto over judiciary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel's internal security service has been given a de facto veto over the appointment of judges.
- An Israeli Anti-Zionist Memoir: On the Border
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Michael Warschawski has written a richly deserved prize winning book On the Border. Warschawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem and a well known anti-Zionist activist, first came to Israel from France before the1967 war, to study at a religious-Zionist Talmudic academy. He is a comrade and the husband of noted Israeli civil rights lawyer Lea Tsemel.
- Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
If Jews in France were required to carry identification cards designating them Jews, could not acquire land or buy or rent homes in most of the country, were not eligible for service in the armed forces, and French law banned any political party or legislation calling for equal rights for Jews, would France be widely praised in the United States as a #symbol of human decency# and paragon of democracy?
- Israeli army#s attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punished
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on journalists working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, especially Palestinians. Israeli officials are unstinting in their criticism of the way the foreign press covers the conflict. The foreign press rejects the criticism and accuses the Israeli authorities of trying to restrict access to information and to influence the way it is treated. Some go so far as to accuse the Israeli army of deliberately targeting journalists.
- Israeli Deaths Matter More
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The reality is that by devoting disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths over Palestinian deaths, the BBC#s claims to #impartial# reporting are simply demolished. With great consistency, lives in the #Third World# are presented as being of far less importance than those who are #like us#.
- Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli human rights groups charge that Israel#s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture.
- Israeli government pays students to spread propaganda online
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Israeli government has launched a program to pay students to promote the Israeli agenda on Facebook and internet chatrooms.
- Israeli guards 'humiliated inmates'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A group of female former Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails have accused prison guards of subjecting them to intrusive and degrading treatment.
- Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court order on assassinations in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli Military Resisters# Tour Hits New York City
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A 19-year-old Israeli military resister explains why she refused to join the Israel Defense Forces.
- Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli Police Impunity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israeli police expect, and usually receive, impunity for using violence against Palestinians.
- Israeli Rabbis Ban Marriage For Jewish #Untouchables#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
New immigrants to Israel from Russia with inadequate documentation have found themselves on a collision course with Israel#s Orthodox rabbis, who regard themselves as guarding the Jewish people#s ethnic and religious purity.
- Israeli refusers follow South African footsteps in the struggle against apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Shministim are conscientious objectors. We are Israeli high-school graduates who refuse conscription into the military, and are repeatedly imprisoned as a result. We will not take part of the occupation of another people, the Palestinians, particularly when doing so goes against human values and cannot be explained on grounds of security.
- Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Israeli Spying in the United States
Full-Spectrum Penetration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage networks targeting the U.S.
- Israeli Violations of Human Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Speech by Professor Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one."
- Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating nonviolent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community. They see non-violent activists as a major threat because they undermine the legitimacy of Israel's occupation and apartheid policies.
- Israel's Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Blacks in South Africa never faced a 20-foot wall dividing their communities. Palestinians' land is still being seized, their orchards bulldozed.
- Israel#s appalling bombing of Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books.
- Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Without in the least derogating this moral indignation at the treatment of the Arab minority, which is richly justified, one aspect of the denunciation misses the mark. The moral indignation should not be visited in the first place against the miserable, harassed, driven Jewish DPs from Europe who, in their fear and need, were used as pawns to grab the land and property of the dispossessed Arabs. They were steered and pushed into this position by those who knew what they were doing # Zionist arms like the Jewish Agency, Zionist authorities in the armed forces and government, both by design and by toleration.
Zionism # the ideology of Jewish chauvinism # showed that it was and is one of the deeply reactionary conceptions of the political world. The child of anti-Semitism, it became the father of another form of ethnic oppression; if genocide means the murder of a people as such, then there should be a word for the robbery of a people as such.
What Zionism created in Palestine in 1948 was the first act of a tragedy.
- Israel's Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1957
Something that is disturbing about those Israeli liberals who do tell the truth about the Arab minority is that they tend to pass the guilt off onto the backs of #the Jewish people.# They ask how could #the Jewish people# do this to #a helpless minority# when it has itself been the victim of robbery and exploitation and has so often vowed itself to righteousness and justice? One must respect the motives of this breast-beating, but the content is distressing. It was not #the Jewish people# who did this but the Zionist authorities, the Zionist movement, and the Zionist government that bear the responsibility; and the difference is enormous.
- Israel's Arab Women Workers Need Not Apply
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel#s private sector is almost entirely closed to Arab women because of discriminatory practices by employers.
- Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Israel's leaders could care less about world outrage. Israel's superpower patron, the United States, supports everything Israel does and keeps supplying money and arms, while the U.S. and Canadian media provide uncritical support.
- Israel's Attack on Us All
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If we needed any evidence of the degree to which Western TV journalists are simply stenographers to power, the BBC, CNN and others are amply proving it. Mark Regev, Israel#s propagandist-in-chief, has the airwaves largely to himself. The passengers on the ships, meanwhile, have been kidnapped by Israel and are unable to provide an alternative version of events. We can guess they will remain in enforced silence until Israel is sure it has set the news agenda.
- Israel#s Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
- Israel's Crimes, America's Silence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
To date, too little mention has been made of investigations that show there is sufficient evidence to bring charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israel's political and military leadership for their actions in Gaza. Recently, two comprehensive independent reports have been published on Gaza, and earlier this month a mission mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, and chaired by South African Richard Goldstone, visited Gaza to conduct a further investigation into Israel's offensive....
- Israel's 'left' apologists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
- Israel's 'mad dog' diplomacy doesn#t make it more secure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel is feeling cornered on every front it considers important # and like Dayan#s #mad dog#, it is likely to strike out in unpredictable ways. These trends are likely only to deepen in the coming months and years. The mad dog is baring his teeth, and it is high time the international community decided how to deal with him.
- Israel#s new #attack on freedom of speech#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a #McCarthyite# campaign against human-rights groups.
- Israel's New Strategy: "Sabotage" And "Attack" The Global Justice Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Reut's analysis vindicates the effectiveness of the Boycot Divestment Sanctions strategy. As Israeli elites increasingly fear for the long-term prospects of the Zionist project they are likely to be more ruthless, unscrupulous and desperate than ever.
- Israel's Struggle Within
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
ATC interviews Uri Davis.
- Israel's vivid act of piracy may yet turn the tide of global opinion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the summer of 1947 a steamer named the Exodus set out from France to run the British blockade of Palestine. The British authorities boarded and seized the ship, and killed three passengers who tried to fight the British attackers. The British succeeded in preventing the ship from landing, but the event helped to turn world public opinion against the British. Israel's attack on the Gaza aid convoy may prove to have the same result.
- Israel's "Withdrawal" Toward Apartheid
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
David Finkel interviews Jeff Halper. “From Sharon's point of view it’s a done deal. Israel has won its century-old conflict with the Palestinians,” writes Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
- Issues, Outcome and Prospects: The Ukranian Events
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Although the Ukrainian presidential elections were front-page news for the last two months of 2004, and no event in the history of Ukraine has ever attracted so much media coverage and analysis, what happened, why, and its significance are questions impossible to answer with certainty.
- It Ain't the Meeting Its The Motion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A guide to conducting productive and inclusive meetings in the context of social change.
- It Doesn’t Matter to Them If It’s Untrue. It’s a Higher Truth.
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
- It makes economic sense to kill people
Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in consumption that would result from death and disease in the third world. Monbiot challenges the ethics of this economic model.
- It Pays to Kick
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A poem about two frogs.
- It's More Than A Matter of Saving A Buck Isn't It?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- It's Your Move
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- The Italian Factory Occupations of 1920
When 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
During the month of September, 1920, a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their workforces took place, which originated in the auto factories, steel mills and machine tool plants of the metal sector but spread out into many other industries # cotton mills and hosiery firms, lignite mines, tire factories, breweries and distilleries, and steamships and warehouses in the port towns. But this was not a sit-down strike; the workers continued production with their own in-plant organization. And railway workers, in open defiance of the management of the state-owned railways, shunted freight cars between the factories to enable production to continue. At its height about 600,000 workers were involved.
- It's Fantasy Economy!
Some Expert Views on What Should Happen Next
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
What happens next should be up to the public. It's striking to note that this is not even an option here.
- It's Imperialism, Stupid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomksy claims that when Bush proclaimed the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction as the premise for invading Iraq, imperialism was, in fact, the genuine motivation.
- It's Not Piracy!
The International Law Framework
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The crimes that Israel committed during its assault on the vessels and civilian passengers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla fall firmly within the category of #high crimes.# The assault, rather than an act of piracy, must be defined as a #crime against the peace# and a #crime against humanity# as Israel subjected #part of the high seas to its sovereignty# in a murderous attack on unarmed civilian vessels. The severity of these crimes is magnified precisely because the criminal actor is not an individual but a highly militarized state.
- It's the Law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The laws of media relations.
- It's the Oil, stupid!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Noam Chomsky questions why the USA is in Iraq. He determines that the suspicion of oil-induced motivation is indeed an understatement.
- It#s tough at the top
So THAT's Why They Can't Afford a Decent Wage Increase...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Top CEOs struggle to get by.
- Jackson, Clarence Shirley
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
(1906-1993). Was a trade union leader.
- Jackson, Wes
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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American agronomist and advocate for sustainable agriculture.
- Jacobs, Jane
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
- Jacobs, Jane
Connexipedia Article
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Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
- Jacquerie
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe by peasants that took place in northern France in the summer of 1358.
- Jagannathan, Krishnammal and Sankaralingam
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Gandhian activists who have protested against social injustice.
- Jagger, Bianca
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and fashion icon. (Born 1950).
- Jails for Jesus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
President Bush wants faith-based programs to take over social services. But what happens when evangelical Christians try their hand at running prisons?
- The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement--An Overview
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- James Bay Development Will Cause Cultural Genocide, Cree Chief Says
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Quebec's James Bay hydroelectric plant construction could be disastrous for the Cree.
- James, C. L. R.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, Marxist, socialist theorist and essayist. (1901-1989).
- James, C.L.R.
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, Marxist, socialist theorist and essayist. (1901-1989).
- James Green's Death in the Haymarket
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
James Green's Death in the Haymarket tells the story of the anarcosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers’ rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886. They were subsequently framed, convicted, and four martyrs hanged by the judicial system of Cook County on “Black Friday,” November 11, 1887.
- Japan suspends some driftnetting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Jared Diamond, Greenwasher
Shilling for Chevron
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Since Jared Diamond and the economists all believe in the inviolability of the capitalist system, there is a certain cognitive dissonance at work in their writings. They harp on the symptoms, but stop short at identifying the root cause. It is what psychologists call denial.
- Jaurès, Jean
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French Socialist leader. (1859-1914).
- Jealousy, Friendship, and Bisexual Chopped Liver
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
According to this theory, bisexuals could never, ever have any friends at all. We couldn#t be friends with gay men, straight men, straight women, lesbians. And we definitely couldn#t be friends with other bisexuals. According to this theory, the fact that we#re attracted to both women and men makes us ineligible to be friends with anybody, of any gender, ever.
- Jeden Glos na Demokracje
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Jeff Halper's Obstacles to Peace
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
“The occupation challenges us all… Can a system of control, displacement, denial of fundamental rights and repression actually prevail? What does it mean if we are unable to end an occupation that is growing continually stronger by the day, before our very eyes, in defiance of international law and more than 200 UN resolutions? If occupation and repression actually defeat a people’s aspirations for freedom and fundamental human rights, then what are the implications for oppressed peoples in other parts of the world far from public attention?”
- The Jericho `98 March: Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Pushing for justice and freedom for political prisoners in the United States.
- Jetskis Should Be Banned
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
To launch a jet ski into the shallow waters that are so important to marine wildlife takes little money, little training, and little energy. Jet skis put our most vulnerable marine and avian wildlife directly into the hands of some of our most biologically ignorant and least responsible citizens.
- The Jewish-Arab Conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
The conflict between the Arab masses and Zionist aspirations can only be solved to the extent that Jewish masses in Palestine renounce Zionist exclusivism.
- Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
- Jewish Combat Organization
Connexipedia Article
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A World War II resistance movement which was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- Jewish Labour Committee
Connexipedia: Article on HistoryofRights.com
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Formed in 1936, the JLC was a front runner in the push for anti-discrimination legislation in Ontario.
- Jewish Peace Activists Defend German Critic of Israel Calling for a Boycott of Israel for its Treatment of Palestinians is not Anti-Semitic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
More than 370 Jewish peace activists from around the world signed a statement defending German politician Hermann Dierkes against charges of anti-Semitism.
- The Jewish Problem After Hitler
Palestine and the Fourth International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
- Jewish Question Since World War II
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946 Published: 1947
- Jewish resistance under Nazi rule
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The resistance of the Jewish people against Nazi Germany leading up to and through World War II, including against the Holocaust.
- Jewish Statement in Opposition to the Geneva Accord
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A false peace is no peace at all. A peace not based on human rights and justice will collapse and rekindle violence.
- Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
- Jews, Arabs & the Geneva Accord
Against The Current vol. 109
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First Published: 2004
Talking publicly about the virtues and hazards of the Geneva accords these days is not an easy task, as the topic is both highly emotional -- rightly so, as a matter of utmost importance -- and highly divisive.
- Jews of All Colors
Against The Current vol. 138
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First Published: 2009
In The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, a long-time feminist activist, disabuses the Jewish left of its most common assumptions: that Jewish culture is Ashkenazi culture and that Jews are white people.
- Jim Crow laws
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
- Jobs and Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Jobs said lost under free trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Joe Hill House
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Catholic Worker Movement house of hospitality in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Jogiches, Leo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany. (1867-1919).
- John Brown, Abolitionist
Against The Current vol. 119
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First Published: 2005
Why do some people take literally the admonitions of our faiths, both religious and secular? We are all advised to “do unto others.” We all hear, from early childhood, that “all men are created equal.” Yet, not all of us abide by these “faiths of our fathers.”
- John Sayles and Working-Class History
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First Published: 1997
Even if we know that community and solidarity will be harder to win than Sayles' newer efforts seem to suggest, the fact that someone is bucking Hollywood forgers of dominant ideology and that audiences are responding may offer hope that even more of American working-class history-and the history of American working-class aspirations can yet be redeemed.
- Johnson-Forest Tendency
Connexipedia Article
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Refers to an American radical left tendency associated with Marxist theorists C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya.
- La Joie de la Révolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
- Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain#s #leftwing# media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the #character# of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking # when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
- Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
- Journalism and the Arms Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Journalism and The Bomb
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Journalism and The Bomb, Words and War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Journalism and 'the words of power'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
- Journalism as a Weapon of War
John Pilger address to Columbia University
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On 14 April 2006, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York brought together John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass for a discussion entitled 'Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire'. The following is a transcript of John Pilger's address - 'War by Media'
- Un journaliste du National Post traumatisé d'avoir à attendre son tour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Jonathan Kay retourne à l'hôpital pour un traitement de suivi, et - horreur - il doit s'asseoir et attendre avant d'être vu. En fait, il nous dit « tous les cas sauf les plus graves » doivent s'asseoir et attendre leur tour. Il n'y a pas - c'est dur à croire mais c'est vrai - de file spéciale pour les nantis et les privilégiés, même s'ils sont journalistes au National Post.
- Journalists assaulted and censored
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Palestinian journalists are under attack from Israeli forces and are also subjected to raids and arrests as a result of political rivalry between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, report the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom (MADA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Meanwhile, Israel continues to target and detain scores of Palestinians involved in protests against the separation barrier in the West Bank with freedom of movement and expression violations, reports Human Rights Watch.
- Journalists, community groups need to develop independent Canadian media
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First Published: 2011
It is shocking that – in the 21st Century – we still have a system under which corporate over-lords – not the journalists who produce the news – control the process that determines the content of mainstream media.
- Journalists Killed since 1992
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
- Journalists' treatment at Oka criticized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Journaux radicaux
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- A Journey from Satire to Legal Suite to Defense of Democratic Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
An account of CanWest's lawsuit arising out of a parody satirizing the Vancouver Sun's biased reporting on Israel and Palestine.
- The Journey of James Neugass
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
At the age of 32, Isidore James Newman Neugass (1905-49), a lesser poet of the Lost Generation crowd who published as “James Neugass,” departed New York City to spend six months mostly on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. In late 1937 and early 1938, Neugass, serving as a volunteer ambulance driver as part of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, was present at Teruel, one of the conflict’s bloodiest battles, claiming over 100,000 casualties.
- Journey of Reconciliation
Connexipedia Article
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An attempt in 1947 to challenge segregation laws on interstate buses in the Southern United States, through non-violent direct action.
- The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
- Jubilee 2000
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Asserting that debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact, Chomsky examines various qualifications for the Jubilee 2000 that called for international debt cancellation.
- Judges Run Wild
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The puffed-up arrogance of many family court judges is born of their unfettered control over our lives.
- Judicial Inquiry Demanded (into Uranium Mining in B.C.)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head.
- The June Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848
The defeated plebeians are tormented by hunger, abused by the press, forsaken by the physicians, called thieves, incendiaries and galley-slaves by the respectabilities; their wives and children are plunged into still greater misery and the best of those who have survived are sent overseas.
- Jungk, Robert
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Austrian writer, journalists and peace activist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. (1913-1994).
- The Jungle at 100
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
When it was first published as a book in 1906, The Jungle’s graphic revelations about the American meatpacking industry, combined with its compelling story of an immigrant worker’s brutal degradation, made it an immediate sensation.
- The Junk Food Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
- Jura Federation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Jurassic Ballot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do their bidding.
- Just a Matter of Gloves
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An account of a work stoppage over the issue of gloves being supplied in a factory.
- Just because they hunt witches doesn't mean we have
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Big Brother defence of WikiLeaks is that if everyone had a camera upon them, society would be a better place. This is a view that fails to distinguish between the need to control those who possess power, and the need to prevent those who possess power from controlling us.
- Just Like You and Me
Images of the downtown eastside, Vancouver
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Photographic and poetic images of the people of the "skid row" area of Vancouver.
- Just say no to Sharia law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism.
- "Just Say No!" to the Robin Hood-in-Reverse Bailout
And What to Do Instead
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The reverse Robin Hood deal to bail out the rich cannot be allowed to stand. It's time to take to the streets.
- A Just War? Hardly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Chomsky identifies the premises of "just war theory". He claims that in both the case of Kosovo and Afghanistan these were not adhered to, thus the foundation for "just war" was absent.
- Justice Demands Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A statement presented to the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Canadian church leaders.
- Justice denied: Latimer case exposes flaws in legal system
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Robert Latimer believes it was his moral duty to save his daughter from a life of unbearable pain. Many Canadians agree with him.
- Justice for Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
- Justice Today: A Conference Outline
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Justification of the Correspondent from the Mosel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843
The press is obliged to reveal and denounce circumstances, but I am convinced that it should not denounce individuals, unless there is no other way of preventing a public evil or unless publicity already prevails throughout political life so that the German concept of denunciation no longer exists.
- Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
- Kamal, Meena Keshwar
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An Afghan women's rights activist, founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), a group organized to promote equality and education for women. (1956-1987).
- Kara Smierci
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Celowe, prawnie sankcjonowane odbieranie z.ycia ludzkiego, jest silnym emocjonalnym totemem, czynem, przez który symbolicznie uczestniczymy w zakazanym akcie zabijania. Nic dziwnego wie;c, z.e debata na temat kary s'mierci budzi tyle emocji, jest tak kategoryczna, uboga w analize; na temat tego, czy kara s'mierci w?as'ciwie ma jakis' sens.
- Karen J. Kassirer: Artist, Friend and Comrade
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Karen was my oldest and dearest friend. We were young women together in Detroit, working for the newspaper of the International Socialists beginning in the early ‘70s. She had moved to Detroit along with IS members from other cities, mostly on the West or East coasts, to help establish our political center and an infrastructure to support our factory and trade union activism.
- Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
What distinguished Kautsky from the general run of intellectuals who flocked to the labour movement as soon as it became more respectable and who were only too eager to foster the trend of class collaboration, was a greater love for theory, a love which refused to compare theory with actuality. Only as a theoretician could Kautsky remain a revolutionist; only too willingly he left the practical affairs of the movement to others. However, he fooled himself. In the role of a mere #theoretician#, he ceased to be a revolutionary theoretician, or rather he could not become a revolutionist. As soon as the scene for a real battle between capitalism and socialism after the war had been laid, his theories collapsed because they had already been divorced in practice from the movement they were supposed to represent.
- Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
For Korsch, all the imperfections of Marx's revolutionary theory which, in retrospect, are explainable by the circumstances out of which it arose, do not alter the fact that Marxism remains superior to all other social theories even today, despite its apparent failure as a social movement. It is this failure which demands not the rejection of Marxism but a Marxian critique of Marxism, that is, the further proletarisation of the concept of social revolution. There was no doubt in Korsch's mind, that the period of counter-revolution is historically limited like everything else -- that the new social productive forces embodied in a socialist revolution would re-assert themselves and find a revolutionary theory adequate to their practical tasks.
- Karl Marx and Religion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
For Marx, to positively assert that God does not exist is childish. “Man makes religion, religion does not make man. ... The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.”
- Karl Marx: Economist or Revolutionary?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Cleaver illustrates how, in the history of Marxist work on the theory of crisis, many have forgotten the revolutionary content of Marx’s own work and thus left themselves open to the dangers of capitalist appropriation. He suggests an alternative approach to the study and elaboration of Marx’s analysis of crisis that makes its political and revolutionary content explicit and thus more immune to appropriation.
- Kashmir: A Brief Background
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Kashmir was divided between India and the newly created Pakistani state in the chaotic division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947-48, with little reference to the wishes of Kashmir’s people. The larger part is occupied by India, with a volatile “Line of Control” separating it from the Pakistan-administered zone. The formal name of Indian-occupied Kashmir is Jammu and Kashmir; the Pakistan-controlled region is known as the Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) and Azad Kashmir. The territory’s largest city is Srinagar.
- Kashmir: A Time for Freedom
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
“Freedom” represents many things across rural and urban spaces in India-ruled Kashmir. These divergent meanings are steadfastly united on one point: freedom always signifies an end to India’s authoritarian governance.
- Kautsky, Karl
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
- Kautsky, Karl
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
- Keep It Down (and Rediscover Silence)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
- Keep raising the issue of democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
- Keeping Books Safe
A Bad Law Threatens Our Past
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Imagine a dystopian horror tale in which virtually all books from the past were destroyed...Books that did not meet the ideologies of the publishers, the demands of the mass market, the trends of the day would be destroyed...That incredible scenario is actually playing out in terms of children's books under a law meant to protect toddlers from lead contaminant in toys. Called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), the law was passed in August 2008 -- quickly, without scrutiny and nearly unanimously.
- Keeping Current
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
With a blog, a piece in the Globe or an appearance on a cable show that only two percent of the population watches, you can get a bounce or multiplier effect. Mainstream networks and cable news shows are reading blogs on the air to viewers, thus giving them legs.
- Keeping Independent Politics Alive
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It's important for us on the left at least to salute the most courageous candidacy of 2008: Cynthia McKinney (former Georgia congresswoman) and Rosa Clemente (Puerto Rican hip-hop cultural activist), the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Green Party.
- Keeping the Record Straight: About Noam Chomsky's Trip to the Middle East in May 2010
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Keeping the Rich Invisible: How Census Bureau Hides the Super-rich
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Of late much media attention has been given to the CEOs who rake in tens of millions of dollars annually in salaries and perks. But little is said about the tens of billions that these same corporations distribute to their affluent shareholders each year.
- Keller, Helen
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).
- Keller's Hatchet Job
The NYT vs. Assange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
For evidence of the sorry state of honesty and integrity in American public life, one need go no further than the New New York Times.
- Kelly, Petra
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
- Kelly, Petra
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
- Ken Saro-Wiwa's Antiwar Masterpiece
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Saro-Wiwa reflects the chaos and lawlessness of the war by introducing the chaos and lawlessness of the language. Of course it only appears to be chaotic. But it creates an idiomatic rhythm that both functions to provide comic relief and the power of a distinctive voice.
- Kengir uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954.
- Kent State shootings
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970.
- Kenya's Opposition Party
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
That the elections in Kenya were rigged is no longer in question. And for most people that the culprit is the sitting president, sworn in so quickly that the ceremony has been jokingly likened to a lightning wedding, is no longer a question.
- Kerista
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A religion founded in 1956 by John Peltz "Bro Jud" Presmont. Throughout much of its history, Kerista was centered on the ideals of polyfidelity (called "responsible non-monogamy") and creation of intentional communities.
- The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
There's just one pathway to happiness in which this deep, human need for power is given pride of place: democracy. By this I mean democracy as a living practice that enables us to have a real say in every dimension of our public lives, from school to workplace and beyond.
- Kicked a Cadillac (Dented a Daimler)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Poem.
- Kicking Ass for the Working Class
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
There it was, staring at me from the AFL-CIO’s very own blog: a black sign with bold red letters saying “KICKING ASS FOR THE WORKING CLASS,” signed AFL-CIO. Surely they meant to say “working for,” or in SEIU-speak “uniting” “working families” or “working people” or some other euphemisms for struggle and class. Had the decline and split of organized labor pushed our otherwise moderate business union leaders to new extremes?
- Kicking Out Corporations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Rural areas revoke corporate "personhood" in order to reclaim self-rule.
- Kidd, Bruce
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Canadian academic, author, and athlete.
- The Kidnapping Of Haiti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Not for tourists is the US building its fifth-biggest embassy. Oil was found in Haiti's waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington's "rollback" plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela's abundant petroleum reserves, and sabotage of the growing regional co-operation.
- The Kids Are All Right: They're Fighting the Corporations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
If the anti-sweatshop movement gains confidence in saying that its goal is revolution to shape the world with the anti-capitalist values of equality, democracy, and solidarity; and if it spreads an understanding that these values are shared by most men and women, football fans and soccer fans, suburban, rural, and urban working people all over the world, then the movement can be unstoppable.
- Kiel Naval Mutiny (Wilhelmshaven mutiny)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A major mutiny by sailors of the German High Seas Fleet in October 1918.
- Killer Coke Exposed
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In their September-October 2006 Against the Current (ATC 124) article “The Real Life Side of Coke,” Camilo Romero and Leslie Gill documented the growing movement of students and labor organizations that developed as a response to calls for international solidarity by victims of torture and intimidation at Coke bottling plants in Colombia starting in the 1990s. Joe Zacune wrote in the same issue about a movement of communities in India fighting to preserve their water and their health from a series of infractions on Coke’s part.
- Killing America's Kids
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Why is the Secretary of Defense so angry at having the war photographed? Easy: Spin control. Spin is so very important in war these days. While America is only barely a democracy, still, if the public, the great sleeping, acquiescent, ignorant beast, ever gets really upset, the war ends. The Pentagon is acutely aware of this.
- Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
While it is often the case that the majority of Americans do see the light#about the need for healthcare reform, a new energy policy or affordable, high-quality day care#the dominant journalistic practices, especially in broadcast and cable news, dim the light in favor of noise. Far-right Republicans understand, almost instinctively, this preference for noise. And they appreciate#and know how to cultivate#the greatest bias in electronic journalism right now: the laziness bias. The laziness bias means you feature sensation over substance, provocative sound bites over investigative reporting, misinformation over fact.
- King, Martin Luther Jr.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
(1929-1968). Was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
- Kinsey, Alfred
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American biologist and sexologist. (1894-1956).
- Ki-Zerbo, Joseph
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Scholar, activist, and advocate for endogenous development. (1922-2006).
- Klein, Bonnie Sherr
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Filmmaker, author, disability rights activist. (Born 1941).
- Knabb, Ken
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American writer, translator, and radical theorist. (Born 1945).
- Knights of Labor
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The major labour reform organization of the late 19th century in the United States.
- Know Thy Enemy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A poem.
- Know-Nothings of 2010
The New War of the Christian Crusaders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Over the last four centuries, Quakers, Mormons, Catholics, Jews and many others have been targets of religious persecution, often the victims of imprisonments, hangings, lynchings and other acts of violence.
- The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity
More Tentacles Surface at Rightwing Front Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Tracking to funding of extremist right-wing groups.
- Koch Entertained Justice Thomas At His Private Club
Supreme Court Scandal Widens
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- The Koch Whisperers
Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A review of documents and tax records for the dizzying, interconnected web of corporate front groups, frequently created, supported and influenced by Charles or David Koch, shows just how dangerous these groups espousing free markets and liberty have become to a free society. The game plan is to devalue the rights of actual citizens by seeking human voices dangling from a corporate marionette string, that might be willing for the right amount of cash incentive to broadcast the Orwellian reverse-speak: liberty means more liberty for corporations (corporate serfdom for real citizens); freedom means corporate freedom to privatize national resources, pollute the environment and fleece the consumer with impunity; free market means the freedom to draw a dark curtain around how the corporations are actually screwing us and stealing our liberty.
- Kohr, Leopold
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advocate of human scale, economist, jurist and political scientist. (1909-1994).
- Kolko, Gabriel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An American revisionist historian and author. (Born 1932).
- Kollontai, Alexandra
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Russian Communist revolutionary. (1872-1952)
- Kommune Niederkaufungen
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
One of the largest intentional communities in Germany.
- Konsensprinzip
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Das Wort „Konsens“ beschreibt oft sowohl die allgemeine Übereinkunft an sich, als auch den Prozess, der zu dieser Übereinkunft führt.
- Kontaminiert: Das giftige Erbe der Kürzungen in Ontario's Umweltpolitik
Ein Artikel über Katastrophe für die Umwelt in Kanada.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Korea: The Elections and Sexual Violence
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In the April 13 South Korean parliamentary elections, the closest the Democratic Labor Party came to victory was in the Hyundai company town of Ulsan. Their candidate was defeated by a small margin (43% to 41.8%) by the Grand National Party, the traditional party of the military dictatorship, anticommunism, and Kyongsang chauvinism (Ulsan is in South Kyongsang Province). The combination of money, regionalism and boss politics still exerts influence in the working class.
- Korean Labor: Protest by Suicide
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In January 2003, Dalho Bae, a 47-year-old worker at Doosan Heavy Industry Co., committed suicide by burning himself. On October 17 Juik Kim, the chief of the metal labor union branch at Hanjin Heavy Industry Co., a ship-constructor, committed suicide after a 129 day-siege on the jeep-crane.
- The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Korea's New Revolutionaries
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Against the background of a rising militant working-class movement, revolutionary socialists in South Korea are undergoing a process of regroupment. An important force in this development are comrades of the Power of the Working Class (PWC) organization, formed in August of last year.
- Korsch, Karl
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German Marxist theorist. (1886-1961).
- Korsch, Karl
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German Marxist theorist. (1886-1961).
- Kosovo Peace Accord
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In response to the Peace Accord achieved between Serbia and NATO, Chomsky questions how peace could be declared or radical change expected considering the lack of institutional or structural adjustment in the region.
- Edmond Kovacs, 1924-2010
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
I first met Edmond Kovacs in the fall of 1961. I was then 19 and he 37. He was teaching a class for the Los Angeles chapter of the Young Socialist Alliance, the youth group of the Socialist Workers Party. He was the SWP’s Southern California Chairman, introduced under his party name, Theodore Edwards. Most of us in those days had nommes de guerre, fake names that we rather optimistically hoped the FBI wouldn’t figure out. It was only years later that I got in the habit of calling him Edmond.
- Kovel, Joel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist. (Born 1936).
- A közérdek mellozésre kerül
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Kronstadt 1921: Trotsky#s Defense. Response to Trotsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
It is in fact in the domain of repression that the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party committed, from the very beginning of the revolution, the gravest errors, those which were to most dangerously contribute to on one hand to the bureaucratization of the party and the state, and on the other to disarming the masses and, more particularly, the revolutionaries. It is about time that we realized this.
- Kronstadt Again
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
Serge charges that, after the rebels had been disarmed, there was a general massacre of prisoners. And that such as were not shot down on the spot were executed in batches by the Cheka, after secret trials, for some weeks after the uprising had been completely crushed.
- Kronstadt rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An uprising of Soviet sailors, soldiers and civilians against the Bolshevik government in 1921.
- Kropokin on Mutual Aid - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
- Kropotkin, Peter
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Geographer, zoologist, and anarchist. (1842-1921).
- Kropotkin Was No Crackpot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- Kruhonja, Katarina
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Croatian peace activist. (Born 1962).
- Kryzys w Iraku - podsumowanie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Kunstler, William
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American radical lawyer and civil rights activist. (1919-1995).
- Kurdish refugees
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Kuruma, Samezo
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Japanese Marxist economist. (1893-1982).
- Kyrgyzstan After Akayev
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Kyrgyzstan’s March 2005 “Tulip Revolution,” if something less than really a revolution, resulted in its president, Askar Akayev, fleeing the country. Once hailed as the most democratic leader in the region, Akayev was overthrown by spontaneous demonstrations of a population angered by corruption, nepotism, economic despair and demoralization.
- Kyrgyzstan's dubious success
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
- LA Sweatshops: Common Threads In Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Seeing how power is exercised by those who have it in this society opens one's eyes to the profound need for power on our side. You recognize the need to build organizational strength and resources. You come to see the need to inflict damage in order to budge those who hold the power. You realize that their ruthlessness knows no bounds. You learn that soft, liberal notions of hoping you can sit down and work it out in a civilized manner are out of this world.
- LA Teachers Face the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Interview with UTLA activist. Against the Current interviewed a longtime activist and current leader in the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) about the impact of California’s devastating budget crisis on public services and on education in particular.
- The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative in their politics than lower paid workers. They point to the example of mostly white New York City construction workers ("hardhats") attacking antiwar demonstrators in the Spring of 1970; and contrast them with the militancy and progressive politics of some of the recent "Justice for Janitors" campaigns.
- Labor at War or in the Tank?
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Steve Early is one of a small handful of extraordinarily keen-eyed observers who see things from within the shrinking world of U.S. organized labor — and who hold nothing back from readers.
- Labor on the Ropes
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition, Kim Moody focuses on why the organized labor movement went into decline and points to potential signs of revival. The author’s explanation begins with the worsening economic situation in the 1970s and a harsher anti-union climate, both politically and in the workplace, as “business refined its ability to act as a class.”
- Labor Studies Under Siege
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
More than a decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, leftists are now more likely to be targeted by the right wing as "terrorists" than as "communists"—yet redbaiting is alive and well in the field of Labor Studies. In recent years, university labor programs have been attacked in the press for their teaching and research, and been targeted by university administrators for drastic budget reductions or elimination.
- Labor's Disaster at American Axle
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The 87-day strike earlier this year at American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) ended in a rout that has devastating implications for the organized U.S. labor movement. Begun on a snowy morning early February 26, the strike ended on May 22, a late spring day just before the Memorial Day weekend.
- Labour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Labour movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour relations.
- The Labour Movement and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1908
Unions and political organizations each have their role in the struggle against capitalism.
- The Labor Party in the Big Picture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
THE LABOR PARTY convention was inspiring. At the Detroit chapter's report-back meeting, locked-out newspaper workers talked about how good it felt to be in a convention hall where everyone would support you, "unlike the Democrats and Republicans."
Authorizing the possibility of electoral campaigns means that, in the places where those happen, we have the potential to attract a whole different layer of members.
- Labor Politics in Action, 1901-1911: The Union Labor Party of San Francisco
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In 1900 San Francisco had an organized labor movement that reflected the unique development of this metropolis of the West. San Francisco did not experience the slow and steady growth of Chicago and other cities of the plains, but became a city overnight in 1850 when thousands of gold seekers poured in from the East and every part of Europe, and beyond.
- Labor Scores at Verizon
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
On August 6 87,000 members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) struck Verizon Communications in twelve states from Maine to Virginia, and the District of Columbia. At the heart of the strike was the unions' attempt to maintain wall to wall unionization in an industry which is rapidly changing, to strengthen job security for workers in the wake of a national merger, and to fight the spread of lean production. The three-year contract we won represents a major victory on all of these issues.
- Labour Spies
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Labor spies are persons recruited or employed for the purpose of gathering intelligence, committing sabotage, sowing dissent, or engaging in other similar activities, typically within the context of an employer/labor organization relationship. Labor spying is most typically used by companies or their agents, and such activity often complements union busting.
- Labour's Day of Protest -- The Issues and the Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An issue sheet examining the biases of the Canadian Press in its coverage of the Oct 14th national Day of Protest against wage and price control policies.
- Labrador: Land Claims Run Aground
Atlantic Issues, Vol. 3, No. 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Labriola, Antonio
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Italian philosopher and socialist, 1843-1904.
- Lafargue, Paul
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist. (1842-1911).
- Laing, R. D.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness. (1927-1989).
- Lambert leaves CPA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- The land is whose land? The Housing squeeze
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Land of Impunity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there#s no justice in Britain.
- The Land of Milk and Honey - The National Report of the People's Food Commission
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Land Study Committee Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Land Study Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Land Tenure Problems and the Saskatchewan Land Bank
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Land trust
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
There are two distinct definitions of a land trust: 1) a private, nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, or by its stewardship of such land or easements Land Trust Alliance website, and 2) an agreement whereby one party (the trustee) agrees to hold ownership of a piece of real property for the benefit of another party (the beneficiary.
- Land Trusts: Land Held in Common
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
With land trusts, we can ensure that the land is used the way we believe it should be used (or not used at all). With land trusts, we can ensure that human beings left behind in the race for corporate profits have a roof over their heads that no bureacrat or business interests can take away from them.
- Land Use
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Critical examination of social concers in a way designed to strengthen discussion and action.
- Land Use and Occupancy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Land Use or Land Abuse?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Landless Peoples Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An independent social movement made up of the poor and landless in South Africa formed in 2001.
- Landless Workers' Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Social movement in Brazil.
- Landsberg, Michele
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).
- Langer, Felicia
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Israeli human rights lawyer, winner of the Right Livelihood Award.
- Berta Langston, 1926-2010
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Berta Langston (1926-2010), a founder and member of Solidarity, died of lung cancer at age 84 in Norwalk, Connecticut on June 23. Born Berta Green on the Lower East Side of New York City, she was one of four sisters. She joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1940s and throughout nearly four decades of activity she was widely esteemed on the Left as one of the party’s most devoted and capable militants, a person who could work with sundry individuals to develop coalitions and political defense committees of national and international import. From time to time she used the party name “Berta Graham,” and she received a Marxist education at the “Trotsky School” at Mountain Spring Camp in New Jersey. During the mid-1960s she served briefly on the SWP National Committee.
- Language death
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A process that affects speech communities.
- Lanlord sues tenant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Lappé, Frances Moore
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
- Lappé, Frances Moore
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
- Larkin, James
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Irish trade union leader and socialist activist. (1876-1947).
- Last Chance to Save Windy Bay
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Last Frontier
Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Afro-descendant communities in Colombia are fighting to retain control of their ancestral goldmines in the face of pressure from private interests.
- The Last Refuge
Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
- The last word (Diemer)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The movement has no need of self-appointed or any other kind of saviours, not even well-intentioned anarchist ones.
- Last Words to the Nation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
This speech was delivered at 9:10 am on September 11, 1973, in the midst on an ultimately successful US-sponsored coup d'etat against the democratically-elected government. Barricaded inside La Moneda, the presidential palace, President Allende gave his life defending Chilean democracy.
- The Lasting Legacy of Florynce Kennedy, Black Feminist Fighter
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Several decades after the 1960s political upheavals, very few people recognize the name of the Black feminist lawyer and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000). However, during the late 1960s and 1970s Kennedy was the country’s most well-known Black feminist. When reporting on the emergence of the women’s movement, the media covered her early membership in the National Organization for Women (NOW), her leadership of countless guerilla theatre protests and her work as a lawyer helping to repeal New York’s restrictive abortion laws. Indeed, Black feminist Jane Galvin-Lewis and white feminists Gloria Steinem and Ti-Grace Atkinson credit Kennedy with helping to educate a generation of young women about feminism in particular and radical political organizing more generally.
- The Late Butchery at Leipzig. The German Working Men#s Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1845
- Latin America and Asia Are at Last Breaking Free of Washington's Grip
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Chomsky discusses the growing independence of these regions from US domination.
- Latin America and Caribbean INSIDE REPORT
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Report to raise the conciousness of citizens to the political-economic-social situation in Canada and Latin America.
- Latin America Declares Independence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
After centuries of foreign domination, South America is rising to shed the dependencies of North America on the continent's resources, markets, and investment opportunities.
- Latin America to Iraq: Greg Grandin's Empire's Workshop
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The decade of the '70s was not good for U.S. imperialism. The American defeat in Southeast Asia led to the development of the “Vietnam syndrome” and with it the reluctance to use U.S. troops in wars abroad.
- Latin America: Women in History - More than Just Heroines
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Women in Latin American struggles.
- Lattimer massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The killing of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, by a sheriff's posse.
- Laughing at the People of Walmart While Class Warfare Rages in America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What is it that POW and the TSG are really selling? Conformity, my friends. You there, in your comfortable suburban house or your hipster urban condo pad, yes, you are one of the cool people. You’d never be caught dead out in public dressed like one of these freaks.
- Lavell, Jeannette Vivian Corbiere
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Native women's rights activist. (Born 1942).
- Law and the wives of others
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
How does a modern, plural democratic society deal with the desire of some minority groups to observe cultural norms at odds with the law of the land?
- The law-breaking MLA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Alberta MLA plans to break the law.
- Law Union News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Lawrence textile strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The strike is often known as the "Bread and Roses" strike, or, "The Strike for Three Loaves".
- Lawson, James
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement. (Born 1928).
- Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Lawyers in a number of European countries are collecting information on Israeli soldiers who are implicated in war crimes.
- Laxer, James
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian political economist, professor and author. (Born 1941).
- Laxer, Robert
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian psychologist, professor, author, and political activist. (1915-1998).
- Laying the Groundwork for Change
A Review of Michael Riordon, Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Michael Riordon's new book (published in Toronto by Pluto Press/Between the Lines, 2011, 242 pages) explores what a just peace between Israel and Palestine might look like and how it might be built. It does so by describing the work of a wide range of NGOs and movements, both Palestinian and Israeli, involved in a non-violent struggle for peace and/or justice.
- Layoffs at CRIAW
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Lazy Journalists are the Darlings of the Corporations
Indian Country and the Lessons of McCarthyism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Lazy journalists are great friends of the corporations. They are known as "armchair journalists" because they sit in comfort and rewrite press releases from politicians and corporations. To spice it up a bit, they dial a few numbers, get a few comments and call it a news story. They are the "darlings of the energy companies," as Buffy Sainte Marie says.
- Leader and Vassal
Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
- Leadership and Democracy
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
I am grateful to Fred Bustillo for the opportunity to expand on the necessarily brief comments on political leadership in my review of Daniel Singer's Whose Millennium? (Against the Current 82, September-October 1999). If we consider the working class and its allies, not abstractly and schematically but in concrete historical and political terms, we find that they do not constitute homogeneous social forces, nor are they likely to become homogeneous even on the eve of revolution. In other words, these social groups are and will likely remain uneven, whether in terms of political consciousness or organizational experience, and with divergent but reconcilable interests.
- Leadership for Change
Toward a Feminist Model
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Leadership in housing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Leading Article in No. 179 of the Kölnische Zeitung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
What are we to make of an article which disputes the right to its own existence, which prefaces itself with a declaration of its own incompetence?
- Leading Principles of Marxism: A Restatement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
Marx's study of society is based upon a full recognition of the reality of historical change. Marx treats all conditions of existing bourgeois society as changing, ie more exactly, as conditions in the process of being changed by human actions. Bourgeois society is not, according to Marx, a general entity which can be replaced by another stage in a historical movement. It is both the result of an earlier phase and the starting point of a new phase, of the social class war which is leading to a social revolution.
- Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
- Leaf Blower Facts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- League for Social Reconstruction
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Organization of left-wing intellectuals, founded 1931-32 in Montréal and Toronto.
- League for Social Reconstruction
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A circle of Canadian socialist intellectuals formed in 1931 by academics advocating radical social and economic reforms and political education.
- League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- League on Rights and Freedom Information Sheet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Learning for the Revolution
A review of 'Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Socialist sunday schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
- Learning from Autonomous Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
- Learning how to live with editors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Pay attention to editorial fit, readership relevance, and good writing.
- Leave the libraries alone. You don’t understand their value.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
I love the public library service for what it did for me as a child and as a student and as an adult. I love it because its presence in a town or a city reminds us that there are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about, things that have the power to baffle the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism, things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination and knowledge and the value of simple delight.
- LeBourdais, Isabel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).
- Lectures on Philosophy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1932 Published: 1933
- The Left & Disability
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
I joined “the crips” 13 years ago, upon being forced to quit work due to toxic exposure at my workplace. “The crips” are not a group you really fight to get into, but they can have excruciating initiation rites, worse than to get into “Skull and Bones.” And you don’t have to come from a rich family; in fact, membership almost always insures that you become poor, and very quickly!
- The Left and the Elections
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Two electoral paths will be taken by those left of center this year, and all the spilled ink in the world won't affect the choices.
- The Left and the Jihad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The left was once the principal enemy of radical Islamism. So how did old enemies become new friends?
- Left Communism and Trotskyism: A Roundtable
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Left Green Meeting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Left-libertarianism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
A doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and egalitarianism.
- Left Nationalism and Working Class Communism
A Review of the Iranian Experience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
No amount of theoretical and political radicalisation can in itself change the social character of present-day communism and bridge the gulf that separates it from the working class. What is needed, if the proletarian communism of the Communist Manifesto is to become a reality, is a real social shift. Communism must be taken back from all those who employed it throughout the twentieth century to reform capitalism, and returned to the working class to be used against capital, for real human emancipation. A worker-communist movement must be shaped; one in which communism is once again an expression of class protest and class activity.
- Left Needs Soul Searching
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The left fears that the people it is trying to persuade and mobilize aren't capable of imagining or accepting a truly radical vision of the future.
- A Left Voice in Pakistan
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Following the October 18 attack on the massive procession into Karachi welcoming Benazir Bhutto back from an eight-year exile, Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, expressed his solidarity with the families of the more than 135 killed and 540 injured.
- Left-wing internationals, list of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist internationals. An "International" # such as, the "First International", the "Second International", or the "Socialist International" # may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical, socialist, or union organizations, typically composed of national sections.
- The Left-Wing Media Fallacy
Jeremy Bowen, The BBC, And Other National Treasures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The issue is not complex, not esoteric: in a world dominated by corporate power we rely on media corporations for news about that world. Future generations will surely be aghast that so few people today are able to perceive the perfectly obvious problem, the very clear source of mass control, that this implies.
- Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of rebellions and uprisings against the Bolsheviks led or supported by left wing groups.
- The Legacy of 1968
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In 1989, the world systems theorists Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein wrote the following five short sentences: “There have only been two world revolutions. One took place in 1848. The second took place in 1968. Both were historical failures. Both transformed the world.”
- The Legacy of CLR James
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Facing Reality is an often maddening book containing a marvellous critique of the pretentiousness of the numerous little vanguards, and at other times a telling naivety about opposition forces in society.
- The Legacy of the New Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
- Legal Lessons From the Green Scare
When the Constitution is No Obstacle to the FBI
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Green Scare prosecutors and their coordinators in Washington are willing to destroy individual lives to score political points, and to trample their own rules in the process.
- Legalize Free Movement of Labor: Viewing A National Debate
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The immigration debate is exposing deep social, racial and class divisions within American society. The arguments are sharp, furious and divide many families - immigrant as well as native born.
- Legalize It!
Why Decriminalization of Drugs Won't Get the 10,000 Ton Monkey Off of Mexico's Back
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Decriminalization is turning into a bonanza for Mexico City cops who have taken to carrying scales to weigh confiscated drugs and shaking down those "criminals" who exceed the decreed limits. Shaking down small-time users and dealers is nothing new in this the most corrupt, crime-ridden, and conflictive city in the western hemisphere. Indeed, crooked cops have been planting drugs on unwary citizens as long as cops have patrolled these mean streets.
- Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage: What is at Stake?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
There are good people on either side of the same-sex marriage debate. Unfortunately, however, it has been one of the most divisive issues in society. Opponents of same-sex marriage perceive the other side as part of a cabal of gay activists and social-engineering judges and politicians, intent on making a mockery of important social values. Proponents of same-sex marriage often perceive the other side as "homophobic" bigots or religious fundamentalists who want to deprive gay or lesbian couples of a right enjoyed by others because they hate homosexuals. The debate over same-sex marriage has divided people who share common values and beliefs on many fundamental questions--war and peace, economic security, democracy versus the increasingly anti-democratic and repressive nature of American society. This divisive debate cripples the ability of ordinary Americans to unite around the things that we agree on.
- The Legend of Marx, or 'Engels the founder'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
- Das Leiden der Kinder im Gazastreifen
Katastrophale Lage im Gazastreifen - Unzureichende Gesundheitsversorgung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Lemke, Birsel
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Turkish environmentalist. (Born 1950).
- Lena Horne & Her Times
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If there were any doubt that the blues could be elegant, Lena Mary Calhoun Horne Hayton (as she signed her name) dispelled it. At age 26, she sang the title song to the film “Stormy Weather” and her sultry, silky voice branded the tune as hers forever.
- Lenin and Luxemburg: Negation in theory and Praxis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
- Lenin and the Vanguard Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1963
To believe that Bolshevism, or to be more precise, Leninism, would under the circumstances advocate or preach the theory of the vanguard party is to continue slander of Leninism, but not to his theory of the party (that is no longer viable) but to his central doctrine # the role of the proletariat in the preservation of society from barbarism. To interpret Leninism as the advocacy of a vanguard party of three million is nearly as bad as the doctrine of Goebbels that Christ was not a Jew. Objective circumstances in Russia forced Lenin into a certain position. He accepted it without apologising for it. He knew what he was doing and he knew also, for he said it many times, what he was not doing. His doubts about it, not only for other countries but for Russia, he made public many, many times.
- Lenin as Philosopher
Some additional remarks to Anton Pannekoek#s recent criticism of Lenin#s book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
Both in his revolutionary materialist philosophy and m his revolutionary jacobinic politics, Lenin hid from himself the historical truth that his Russian revolution, in spite of a temporary attempt to break through its particular limitations in connection with the simultaneous revolutionary movement of the proletarian class in the West, was bound to remain in fact a belated successor of the great bourgeois revolutions of the past.
- The Lenin Legend
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
For Lenisn, socialism was in the last instance merely a kind of state-capitalism.
- Lenin, Trotsky and the Vanguard Party
A Contemporary View
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1963 Published: 1964
- Lenin, V.I.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Russian revolutionary. (1870-1924).
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Russian revolutionary. (1870-1924).
- The Leninist Facade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
In direct oppostion to what Marx advocated, the Bolsheviks tried to institute socialism without democracy. The damage to the socialist movement resulting from this was immense.
- Leon, Abraham
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Jewish Trotskyist activist and theorist. (1918-1944).
- Leopold, Aldo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist who was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness preservation. (1887-1948).
- Lesbian and Gay Studies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Lesbian Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Lesbian Sex Mafia ("l s/m") speakout
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Lesbians, gays and psychiatry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Lesson of Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1945
Hitler's hundreds of thousands of storm troopers represented an enormous expense. They were thugs hired by the German bourgeoisie to fight its battles against the working class. In the years 1930-33 the German bureaucracy engineered election after election hoping to discredit parliamentary government and open the way for authoritarian rule. Despite his immense influence over the petty bourgeoisie, Hitler, by 1932, was on the wane. The German bourgeoisie deliberately maintained Nazism to have some power in reserve against Bolshevism. True, he dominated them afterward. We do not mean for one moment to deny the energy, the inventiveness, the will, the tenacity of Hitler and the other Nazi leaders. We do not deny their skilful use of social contradictions. He himself was obviously a born leader of men and an orator the like of whom Europe has not often seen. But from the time he began, the German bourgeoisie, the military caste, the bureaucracy, all built him up and without their active conscious support he would have been nothing.
- Lessons From Arizona
Direct Action Organizing From 1999 to Now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
What we saw in Arizona over the summer showed a new model of organizing, wherein cooperation between people who are dedicated to different tactics as well as space for accountability within the struggle takes centre stage.
- Lessons from COINTELPRO
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We can best honor those who have been murdered by our government and their agents, not by mourning but by organizing, by building movements that put into practice solidarity across borders that are inclusive in all the important ways - class, gender, race, sexual orientation, language, immigrant status and age - that resist boldly and courageously all forms of inequality and environmental degradation.
- Lessons from the 1905 Revolution
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
1905 was a decisive year in Socialist History in that the working class movement developed two crucial weapons in its armory: Soviets (workers’ councils), which were new, and the general strike, which was not. Since that time both political forms have been extensively used and theorized.
- Lessons from the Tekel strikes: class solidarity and ethnic (in)difference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A worker puts it: “There are no differences between Kurds, Alevis, Sunnis and Turks. We have no party.”
- The Lessons of Amish Agriculture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Amish agriculture offers valuable eco-lessons to those interested in organic, earth-friendly farming.
- Lessons of an Ambiguous Struggle
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The conflict around Congress' granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) signals the opening of important new terrain of political struggle. With the background of the two major mass demonstrations against neoliberalism in Seattle and Washington D.C., perhaps the most significant and interesting political development is the leadership role of the AFL-CIO in mobilizing against the most important policy initiative of the waning Clinton administration.
- The Lessons of Gaza 2009
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
First the numbers: "1285 Palestinians killed, mostly civilians, including 167 civil police officers. 4336 Palestinians wounded, mostly civilians. Two political leaders of Hamas assassinated, Nizar Rayan and Said Siam, in bombs that flattened their home and also killed many of their family members and neighbors. Tens of thousands of people forced to abandon their homes: 2400 houses completely destroyed, and 17,000 semi-destroyed or damaged. Tens of mosques, public civilian facilities, police stations, and media, health, and educational institutions either completely or partially destroyed. 121 industrial and commercial workshops destroyed and at least 200 others damaged."
- The Lessons of Lebanon
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
So what has happened to the Israeli army? This question is now being raised not only around the world, but also in Israel itself. Clearly, there is a huge gap between the army's boastful arrogance, on which generations of Israelis have grown up, and the picture presented by this war.
- Lessons of Life and Death from Henry Spira: By Any Compromise Necessary?
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
A friend of Henry Spira once asked him why he left teaching in New York City, where he was successful and loved by the students, to go into the animal rights struggle. Spira said that humans were more able than animals to help themselves because humans have “freedom in this country” and minds to think for themselves. This statement came not from a naive liberal dilettante do-gooder, but from a man with years of radical activism to his credit, including work with the Longshoremen and the Socialist Workers Party.
- The Lessons of October
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1924
- Lessons of the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The lessons we have learned
Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
- Let Them Eat Cuts
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The good times are flowing again for Wall Street and bank executives, and U.S. corporate profits have rarely if ever looked so lush. But it’s a brutal moment for working people, with much worse possibly to come. These twin realities set the economic and political agenda heading into 2011-12. Everyone knows the Republicans are hell-bent on “making Obama a one-term president,” but few expected that they’d capture the White House in 2010. If that’s an exaggeration, it’s a mild one.
- Let Them Eat Diversity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Alter Benn Michaels says that “'left neoliberals' are people who don’t understand themselves as neoliberals. They think that their commitments to anti-racism, to anti-sexism, to anti-homophobia constitute a critique of neoliberalism. But if you look at the history of the idea of neoliberalism you can see fairly quickly that neoliberalism arises as a kind of commitment precisely to those things."
- Let Us Take Care!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Let's Be Practical
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Building a movement to destroy capitalism and create a society which truly reflects the aspirations of most people, though it may sound scary, is actually more practical than trying to reform a union.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Let’s Talk About Another Burning Color: Black Flame vs. Red Fire Extinguisher?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Class struggle anarchists are not the only revolutionary forces on the left, and are not the only libertarian left revolutionary forces. In my opinion, anarchists can learn a lot from some marxists.
- Let#s wage war for energy independence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Letter - Coleman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Letter - Flosznick
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Letter - Canada#s pride
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
One of the nicest things about my brief visit to Canada was finding Red Menace.
- Letter - Flogging away
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
A great many anarchists adopt a critical stance to Bakunin's legacy as well as towards the anarchist movement generally. Our rejection of Marxism is not monolithic.
- Letter from Baltimore
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Coming to grips with the impact of Occupy Baltimore means not just evaluating what the movement has been able to do or not do on its own terms but rooting its experiences in this larger picture of class decomposition and re-composition that in Baltimore followed in the wake of the same patterns of deindustrialization, suburban flight and disinvestment .
- Letter from New York
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Child poverty and death.
- Letter from Tokyo: In "The Zone" of Disaster
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
On the morning of Thursday, March 17th, six days after the earthquake and tsunamis, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper had just one advertising supplement: a full-color glossy piece from a Buddhist temple, selling grave sites.
- Letter: Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843
Constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
Therefore I am not in favour of raising any dogmatic banner. On the contrary, we must try to help the dogmatists to clarify their propositions for themselves.
- Letter - Manchester calling
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The Red Menace: very stimulating reading.
- A letter of resignation
I refuse to brainwash Canadian students
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Letter - The quoting urge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
A reader submits a collection of quotes from Bakunin.
- Letter - Raised consciousness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Debunking jargon.
- Letter - Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
You can't blow up a social relationship.
- Letter - The good and the bad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
What are the contemporary differences between serious anarchists and serious libertarian Marxists? It is the present historical situation that is relevant, since after all we cannot go back and change the past.
- Letter to a Progressive Democrat
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Dear Progressive Democrat: I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and I'm proud of it. You voted for Nader and you regret it (or, you voted for Gore, even though you liked Nader better).
- Letter to Bracke
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1875
Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
- Letter to Canadian Dimension
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
The left of the NDP consists of a scraggly band of public service union bureaucrats, almost as out of touch with their union membership as the right wing, and a declining number of socialist academics ensconsced in their ivory towers. The traditional NDP left, whose link up with the 'new left' in the Waffle almost defeated the party leadership no longer exists.
- A Letter To Other Occupiers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
We need to act within a wide strategic context, and engage in more than tactical exercises. We need to invite local people to join our ranks and institutions. We cannot hope to win the trust of others, especially others different from ourselves in class background, cultural preferences, race, or gender, unless we stay long enough to win that trust one day at a time. We must be prepared to spend years in communities where there may not be many fellow radicals. In thinking about our own lives, and how we can contribute over what Nicaraguans call a “long trajectory,” we need to acquire skills that poor and oppressed persons perceive to be needed.
- Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
- Letter to Readers
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We are writing you this letter to invite you to support the effort to preserve and renovate the Leon Trotsky Museum (IDA-MCLTAC) in Mexico City as we mark the 70th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, the 35th anniversary of the opening of the Trotsky Museum, and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Institute on the Right of Asylum.
- Letter to Socialisme ou Barbarie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1953
Councils are not only the means by which workers will exercise power after the taking of social power by the workers; we consider them as also being the organisms by means of which the workers will conquer this power.
- A Letter to the ATC Editors
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A brief letter doesn’t allow much space to speak on markets and planning under socialism, but perhaps these few notes will help clarify the issues.
- Letter to the Editor of Canadian Dimension
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Letter to the Joint Clerks of the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Letter to the New Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
- Letter to the Next Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The problem of agency is especially relevant to what remains of the Left today, and it is the part of C. Wright Mills’ Letter to the New Left that is the most problematic.
- Letter to the Red Menace- Unpublished letter (Linnille)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Inquiring letter.
- Letter to the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A letter rasing critical questions about the commission.
- Letter - Useless pastime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Let's get down to the business of really discussing the issues: the role and nature of the State, trade unions, feminism, nationalism, sexuality, etc.
- Letters (Issue #3)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Comments on Wages for Housework, libertarian socialism, workplace articles, etc.
- Letters from an Inhabitant of Geneva to His Contemporaries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1803
I think that all classes of society would be happy in the following situation: spiritual power in the hands of the scientists; temporal power in those of the proprietors; power to nominate those called upon to carry out the functions of the great leaders of mankind in the hands of everyone; the reward for those who govern to be # esteem.
- Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
- Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 1870 & after
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1870 Published: 1895
- Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1850s
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1859
- Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1860s
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1869
- Letters of Marx and Engels: 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Letters of Marx and Engels 1845
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Letters of Marx and Engels: 1846
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1846
- Letters of Marx and Engels: 1847
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847
- Letters of Marx and Engels: 1848
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848
- Letters of Marx and Engels: 1849
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1849
- Letters to the Editor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Letters page is one of the most popular sections of any newspaper, and is therefore an ideal way to keep your name and your core message in front of the public.
- Letters to the Editors: What Are You For? Democracy Vs. Politics
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I’ve been reading Against the Current for a long time. I agree with 99% of it, because we’re against the same things. But what are you for?
- Letters: (Issue #2)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Levellers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political movement during the English Civil Wars on the 17th century which emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance.
- Lewis, David
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Socialist politician, labour lawyer, and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1909-1981).
- Lewis Mumford
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Lewis, Stephen
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Politician, diplomat, author, journalist, labour arbitrator, and former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. (Born 1937).
- LGBT history, Timeline of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The following is a timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) related history.
- LGBT Social Movements
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements.
- Libel Law is dangerous
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
- Liberating Sexual Desire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Everyone is potentially bisexual; the struggle for lesbian and gay equality is about the right of all people to share the joy of same-sex relationships without guilt or anxiety, and without the fear of prejudice and discrimination.
- Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Prospects for democracy are dependent upon the growth of an independent media with wide exposure in the general population comparable to that of the corporate press.
- Liberation News Service
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
- Liberation, Then What?
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In a lucid contribution to our understanding of contemporary Africa, David Seddon and Leo Zeilig recently charted that continent's two waves of popular protest and class struggle over the last 40 years, as well as pointing to signs of a nascent third wave.
- Liberation theology
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Theology of Liberation is a theology in which the salvation or liberation wrought by Christ is examined not only in terms of liberation from individual sin, but also in terms of liberation in other spheres: the aspirations of oppressed peoples and social classes; an understanding of history in which the human being is seen as assuming conscious responsibility for human destiny; and Christ the Saviour liberating the human race from sin, which is the root of all disruption of friendship and of all injustice and oppression
- La "libertad de expresión", siempre y cuando no ofenda a nadie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Libertarian League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A name used by two American libertarian organisations during the twentieth century.
- A libertarian Marxist tendency map
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
This tendency map was produced by Chris Wright for endpage.com, now part of the libcom.org library - it is designed to trace some of the important tendencies in libertarian Marxism. Contains a brief written history with links to key individuals, groups and publications, and a graphic map.
- Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
- Libertarian Socialism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
A socialist political orientation which promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of the coercive social relations of capitalism
- "Liberté de parole" - aussi longtemps que cela n'offense personne
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- La Liberté Speech
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
Citizens, let us think of the basic principle of the International: Solidarity. Only when we have established this life-giving principle on a sound basis among the numerous workers of all countries will we attain the great final goal which we have set ourselves. The revolution must be carried out with solidarity; this is the great lesson of the French Commune, which fell becaue none of the other centres -- Berlin, Madrid, etc. -- developed great revolutionary movements comparable to the mighty uprising of the Paris proletariat.
- Libya and the World We Live In
The Holy Triumvirate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”.
- Liebknecht, Karl
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German socialist, revolutionary, and a co-founder of the Spartacist League. (1871-1919).
- Liebknecht, Wilhelm
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD. (1826-1900).
- The Life and Death of Socialist Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
As a mass movement, Socialist Zionism is finished. One might say that it accomplished its actual goal -- the building of the Jewish state. Unless one identifies "socialism" with statism, socialism was never a goal of Ben-Gurion and his co-thinkers.
- Life and Labour Commune
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Tolstoyan agricultural commune founded in 1921 and disbanded as a state run collective farm in 1937.
- Life Beyond Pamphlets
Creating Effective Words and Images for Health Promotion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- The Life of Death: An Exchange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
- Life of Korolenko
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Rosa Luxemburg wrote this article as a preface to her translation, from Russian into German, of Vladimir Korolenko’s autobiographical novel Istoriia Moego Sovremennika (A History of My Contemporary). She undertook this work during her imprisonment for socialist opposition to the imperialist war from 1915 to 1918. The preface was written July 1918 in Breslau Prison
- A Life of Struggle: Farewell to Hermann Gorter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Life on the Line
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Working on an assembly line in an auto plant.
- Lifestyles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Booklet about over-consumption, vegetarianism, co-ops, and Third World model of co-operation.
- A Lifetime for Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
An obituary of Milt Zaslow.
- Lifting the Burden of Debt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Lifting the Iraq Embargo After Almost 2 Million Deaths
What Have We Learned From the Embargo's Lessons?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A summary of the 1991-2003 Iraq Embargo, and its devastating attack on the Iraqi civilian population.
- Like Recycled Paper? Try Re-used
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Lilburne, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English political agitator before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. (1614-1657).
- The limits of anti-racism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of 'racism' -- over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither 'overcoming racism' nor 'rejecting whiteness' qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the 'revolution' or urging God's heavenly intervention.
- The Limits of State Intervention
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Nation, as befits the preeminent journal of left-liberal opinion, has run a series of articles by Robert Pollin and by James K. Galbraith that have sparked great attention. These, as well as numerous other arguments in a similar vein, mount a spirited defense of job generation through deficit spending as effective counter-cyclical measures.
- Abbey Lincoln and Freedom Now
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Abbey Lincoln — singer, composer, actor — left us on August 14 at age 80. A prolific and multidimensional artist (born Anna Marie Wooldridge), she took her performing name in the 1950s by combining “Westminister Abbey” and “Abraham Lincoln.” Composer and percussionist Max Roach, her partner in life — they were married from 1962-1970 — and in music and in political action, died on August 16, 2007.
- Lincoln, Abraham
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
- Lincoln Brigade
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Volunteers from the United States who served in the Spanish Civil War in the International Brigades.
- The Lion and the Gazelle
On Jewish History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
- List of Canadian Firms in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- List of Groups Involved in Social Action in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
CISS's first list of people networks engaged in Social Action in Canada.
- Listing of Progressive Periodicals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Listing of progressive and alternative periodicals, many that are financially wanting and deserve support.
- Listing of Women's groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Little Brother Watches Back
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of working in the margins is the effect on the mainstream. What innovation in radio, television, journalism, or, for that matter, any social institution or relationship has not first appeared on the margin, only to be adapted and adopted. Margin and mainstream in dialectic move society forward.
- Little, Frank
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American labour leader who organized miners, lumberjacks and oil field workers. (1879-1917).
- Little Rock Central High School
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement.
- Livesay, Dorothy
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Poet, journalist, writer of short fiction, autobiography and literary criticism. (1909-1996).
- Living and Learning
The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
The "Hall-Dennis" Report, proposing new objectives and direction in education in Ontario.
- Living and Working Uncovered
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Sonya Huber. Sonya Huber (www.sonyahuber.com) is the author of Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir.
- Living For Change - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
- LIVING IN THE U.X.A.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn#t working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history.
- Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideological effect on legislators and other organizations' agendas; the creation of strong and lasting coalitions; the development of new worker organizations; and the growth of existing worker organizations.
- Living Wage Campaigns: Part I
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
ROBERT KUTTNER WROTE in a recent Washington Post op-ed that living wage campaigns are “the most interesting (and under-reported) grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement.”1
- A Living Wage in London
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
At a time when the United States is associated with the export of neoconservatism in the form of George Bush, readers will be heartened to read this tale of a more positive export as the living wage movement has leapt across the Atlantic over to the United Kingdom.
- Living Wage Movement: An Update
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Several months ago, a few hundred service workers in Santa Cruz, California won a raise. Workers who work for the city or for private sector firms who perform city services will now be eligible for $11 per hour plus health benefits or $12 per hour without benefits.
- Livingstone, Kay
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Social activist, radio host. (1918-1975).
- The Lobby Up Close & Personal
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
"AIPAC has one goal only," said Lee Rosenberg, "Strengthening the U.S. Israel relationship." Acting on behalf of the Board of Directors of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), Lee welcomed 1600 participants to a conference entitled "AIPAC Presents: The Israeli Summit, Tools for Action".
- Local and Organic Food and Farming
The Real Gold Standard
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When the local chemical grower tells you that local is better than organic, tell them that they should switch to organic so that you can trust their food to be safe, clean, inspected, and environmentally friendly. Local food is not the gold standard, and may not even be safe. Local-organic is the gold standard.
- Local currency
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A currency not backed by a national government (and not necessarily legal tender), and intended to trade only in a small area. This amounts to a formalization of the barter system, a useful tool for raising awareness of the state of the local economy.
- Local Exchange Trading Systems
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Local, non-profit exchange networks in which goods and services can be traded without the need for printed currency.
- "Local" Goes Loco
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Buying "local" has become a popular movement in American agriculture and commerce. Some corporations, however, are taking "local" a step farther.
- Local Harvest for an Urban Landscape
Laying the Foundations for Sustainable Local Food Systems
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
How do you create a locally harvested food system for a city of 100,000?
- Lock 'Em Up
The Prison State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Without a doubt, most of those enmeshed in the (in)justice system are not dangers to society and would not have been in it at all in a society that wasn#t so racist and so shot through with every kind of social and economic inequality. Unfortunately, whatever the reasons why so many men and women have been denied their freedom, once the numbers began to rise dramatically, constituencies came into being#lawyers, police, probation officers, prison guards and staff, drug and alcohol rehabilitation counselors, sex offender counselors, vendors of all sorts, clerks and other clerical support staff, court officers, judges, community service employers#that have a strong stake in milking the new cash cow.
- Locked Out! One Wife's Story of the Staley Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- Logger's death
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- London Dock Strike of 1889
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London which resulted in a victory for the strikers and established strong trade unions amongst London dockers.
- London matchgirls strike of 1888
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike of the women and teenage girls working at a match factory in London.
- Long Before "Boondocks"
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s Black newspapers presented a picture of African-American life rendered invisible by the white media. Like white newspapers, they carried a funnies page where Black readers faithfully followed the foibles of cartoon characters like Ollie Harrington’s “Brother Bootsie,” Samuel Milai’s “Bucky” and Wilbert Holloway’s “Sunny Boy Sam.”
- Long March to Revolution
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Revolutions at first appearance may seem sudden or spontaneous events. But they are also built over the long-haul, through generations of resistance and the preservation in collective memory of traditions of struggle and solidarity.
- The Long Shadow of Mass Incarceration: A Generation Imprisoned
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
This January, the U.S. Supreme Court started what may prove to be a fundamental overhaul of criminal sentencing in federal jurisdictions. In two interrelated cases, Booker and Fanfan, the court struck down key elements of the current federal sentencing system, put in place over twenty years ago when Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act.
- The Long War at Staley
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Staley recounts the epic struggle of workers in a corn-processing plant in Decatur, Illinois in the 1990s and provides insight into how a pivotal struggle ended in defeat. That ending was not inevitable.
- Longuet, Jenny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Socialist activist. Daughter of Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx. (1844-1883).
- A Look at Skid Row 1976 - Where is it Going?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A final report to the Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate on trends in Skid-Row movement.
- Looking at Che Guevara
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
That Che Guevara's silhouette has found its way onto walls and T-shirts around the world is nothing new. A traveler through Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s would have seen Che’s face spray-painted onto walls in working-class neighborhoods. In revolutionary Nicaragua Che graffiti was officially sanctioned, as was the massive outpouring of pro-Sandinista, anti-contra wall art. As a fallen martyr Che symbolized commitment and hope for anti-imperialist guerilla organizations throughout the Americas.
- Looking at Israel from the other side
Book Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A review of two books: Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries, by Suad Amiry, and The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide.
- Looking at the Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
- Looking Back -- and Ahead
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and appalling visual images — street rioting over the Vietnam War and the Martin Luther King assassination; the murder of Robert Kennedy; the debacle of the Democratic convention in Chicago, with police beating heads while Hubert Humphrey proclaimed “the politics of joy” in his nomination acceptance speech.
- Looking for Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
- Looking for Trouble
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can#t afford to use existing reserves?
- Looking North for Labor Revival?
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It isn't news that the U.S. labor movement is in profound crisis, and has been for some time. Readers of this magazine are by now all too familiar with the symptoms: waves of concessionary contracts, eroding labor laws, vicious government and employer attacks, defeated strikes, the precipitous decline in union membership.
- The Looming Crisis of World Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
MARXIST ECONOMISTS ARE famous for having accurately predicted seven out of the last one international economic crisis. Perhaps for that reason, many in recent times have been unusually cautious about once again "crying wolf," even as the evidence of international economic dislocation has mounted around them. Today, however, prediction is no longer necessary. The international economy, outside of the United States and Europe—perhaps 50% of the world—is already experiencing...
- Loosing Another Round
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The strike at American Axle, which we reported on in ATC 134, ended when workers voted to go back under a concessionary agreement. The 25% who voted no didn’t feel they were close to winning but they said they couldn’t look themselves in the mirror if they voted yes. Yet the strike idled nearly three dozen assembly plants and put enormous pressure on GM. The UAW did not develop a longterm relationship with the union at the AAM plant in Mexico. All during the strike that plant produced 6,000 axles a day, thus enabling GM to keep some production going.
- Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
- Loray Mill Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
One of the best known labor strikes in the history of the United States.
- Los Angeles: Assessing D2K Protests
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
More than 10,000 activists gathered in LA for the Democratic convention protests August 5-18. The main protest held Monday, August 12 drew around 10,000 activists. Three thousand had gathered for the Mumia march held the previous day.
- The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The Bus Riders Union began as an outgrowth of the Labor/Community Strategy Center's "Equity in Transportation Project," a policy analysis group which to study the transportation problems of the urban poor. What they discovered was an increasingly polarized allocation of public resources based on race.
- Lost Liberties in the Age of Obama
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
When World War II broke out on September l, l939 the poet W.H. Auden sat in a bar on 42nd Street and penned a poem using that fateful date for its title. He reflected that the past ten years had been “a low dishonest decade.” And so has our last ten.
- Lost, leaking H-Bomb 'no danger'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Lotta Continua
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Italian left-wing organization.
- Louisianans, Oil & Petro-Addiction
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Deepwater Horizon oil horror has again focused the nation on South Louisiana. For the second time in less than five years, we are on the front pages of America’s newspapers. Again, this region is being misunderstood. Easy explanations miss the reasons why this area is so vulnerable, and why we in Louisiana are paying for the American economy’s dependence upon petroleum.
- Lount, Samuel
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Blacksmith, politician, rebel. (1791-1838).
- L'ouverture, Toussaint
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Leader of the Haitian Revolution. (1743-1803).
- Lowell Mill Girls
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Female textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
- Luddites
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested # often by destroying mechanized looms # against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which were leaving them without work.
- Ludlow massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914.
- Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1886
- Lukács, Georg
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, literary critic, and socialist. (1885-1971).
- Lukács, György
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, literary critic, and socialist. (1885-1971).
- Lupeni Strike of 1929
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Near the end of 1928, miners' leaders in the Jiu Valley had begun agitating for an extension of their collective work contract.The two sides could not reach an agreement. A trial, and then a strike ensued. The strike was glorified by the Communist regime as a symbol of the struggle of labour against capitalism.
- Lupercalian Valentine's Day
Whip It Good
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The tradition of honoring all-inclusive, natural LUST around February 14 pre-dates classical times when Ancient Romans celebrated the Lupercalia, an archaic festival of the now obscure old shepherd god Lupercus (or perhaps Faunus, the Roman Pan), and a celebration of communal sexuality, purification, fertility, the rush of hormones, the howl of the wolf, the crack of the whip and the coming of Spring.
- Des luttes et des rires de femmes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Luttons pour des comptoirs de luttes de classes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Lutzenberger, José
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Environmentalist and organic farming advocate (1926-2002).
- Luxembourgian general strike 1942
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A pacific resistance movement organised within a short time period to protest against a directive that incorporated the Luxembourg youth into the Wehrmacht.
- Rosa Luxemburg
A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
- Luxemburg, Rosa
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
- Luxemburg, Rosa
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
- Luxemburg versus Lenin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
On many essential points the conceptions of Luxemburg differ from those of Lenin as day from night, or -- the same thing -- as the problems of the bourgeois revolution from those of the proletarian.
- Luxemburgism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A revolutionary theory within Marxism and communism based on the writings of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Luxemburg’s Theory of Accumulation
How it Differed with Marx and Lenin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Dunayevskaya argues that Luxemburg was on the wrong track in her attempt to revise the conclusions of Marx's Capital.
- The lying silence of those who know
Holocaust Denied
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
- Lynd, Staughton
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American author, activist, historian, and lawyer. (Born 1929).
- Ma Commande Me Fait Mourir
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Maathai, Wangari
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Winner of the1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1940).
- Maathai, Wangari
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Winner of the 1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1940).
- Macdonald, Dwight
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical. (1906-1982).
- Machismo and Its Discontents
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
- MacInnis, Angus
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian social democratic politician. (1884-1964).
- Grace MacInnis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Canadian politician and feminist: obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- MacInnis, Grace Winona
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian politician and feminist.
- MacInnis, Grace
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).
- Mackandal, François
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Haïtian Maroon resistance leader. (died 1758).
- The Mackenzie Valley: Native Land Claims and Corporate Growth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An overview of the demands on the Dene Nation regarding the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline proposal.
- Mackenzie, William Lyon
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
- Mackenzie, William Lyon
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
- Macphail, Agnes
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).
- Macphail, Agnes Campbell
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian polician. (1890-1954).
- Macpherson, C. B.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian political scientist. (1911-1987).
- Macroanalysis Bibliography For Canadian Groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A collection of Canadian materials to accompany a seminar programme to develop social change programs.
- Mad dogs and Englishmen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Mad, Passionate Love - and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Occupy movement had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter. Until they did.
- Madison: Sitting Down for Justice
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
These words aptly describe recent events at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At 2:00 PM. on Wednesday, February 16, 2000, seven students walked into UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward's office in Bascom Hall. The students-Brendan O'Sullivan, Molly McGrath, Mark Brakken, Sarah Turner, Riza Falk and Adam Klaus, chairperson of the Associated Students of Madison-demanded that the university change its sweatshop practices.
- The Magic and Deadly Dust: Asbestos and Your Health
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- A Magical Moment
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Penelope Rosemont, poet, artist and essayist, is the well known author of Surrealist Women. An International Anthology. Her new book is a lively and fascinating document, based on her personal notes from the 1960s, a time when a window to the impossible seemed to open. The story begins in Chicago, and takes us to Paris, London, and back to the United States; the author did not make it to the Seven Cities of Cibola, because they exist only in an Uncle Scrooge comic strip…
- The Magna Carta
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1215
The Magna Carta consists of concessions wrung from the unwilling King John by his rebellious barons in 1215. It established for the first time a very significant constitutional principle: that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant.
- Mailing list know-how
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Your mailing list is one of the cornerstones of a good communications strategy.
- Mailing List of Individuals Interested in Diversion Process
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The main problem with Israel is that it is based on religion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
- Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
- Maintenant qu'est ce qu'on fait?
Établir un mouvement social suite aux conséquences du libre échange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Nous savons que l'accord du libre échange va éroder l'indépendance Canadienne qui est déjà limitée. Ce qui rendra encore plus difficile de résister la croisade néo conservatrice qui tien à éliminer tout ce qui se tient devant un profit sur le marché.
- Maji Maji Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A violent African resistance to colonial rule in the German colony of Tanganyika.
- Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
- Make the World a Home
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet with the theme "Live simply that others may simply live".
- Makers of our Daily Bread
An interview with two bakery workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Makhno, Nestor
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Ukrainian anarcho-communist guerrilla leader. (1888-1934).
- Making a Killing
The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
- Making Connections
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The pressure to view things narrowly and out of context is a form of social control. Without seeing connections, we can#t make sense of the world; and if we can#t make sense of the world, we can#t change it. "Making connections" among the many different issues and areas of our experience is a vital task of the revolutionary movement.
- Making Conservation Strategy: Can Greens Learn from Military?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Making Gay Redundant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Peter Tatchell suggests that gay identity has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with homophobia. Winning gay freedom will make gay identity redundant.
- The Making of Egypt's Revolution
People Power in Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An interview with Michael Honey. The following interview was conducted in November, 2007 by Charles Williams on behalf of the ATC editorial board. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Making Sense of This Economic Crisis
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
While it now is generally agreed that the main source of the 2008 financial implosion was the accumulation of too much toxic debt, there is little agreement on the factors that precipitated the buildup of all that unsustainable debt. Whereas neoclassical/neoliberal economists blame the “irrational behavior of the agents” (both lenders and borrowers), Keynesian economists blame financial deregulation and insufficient public policy.
- Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980 Published: 1990
This popular essay provides a brief introduction to civilian-based defense, a policy in which civilians are prepared to use nonviolent resistance as a means of national defense.
- Making Their Voices Heard
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
- Making Trouble Today
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Activists who read the first A Troublemaker’s Handbook, published by Labor Notes in 1991, recognized themselves in the stories of courageous workers who fought to improve their workplaces and their lives. They were gratified that they were not alone, that there was a whole network of troublemakers out there, and even a handbook that took the lessons they’d learned and made them accessible to thousands of other workers.
- The Malaise on the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Let us take it for granted that meaningful activity needs to be collective, that social transformation needs emancipated individuals, and that the institutional framework of any new society will probably be based, in part at least, on those forms which the struggle itself has repeatedly thrown up at its moments of deepest insight and creativity. What we now need to think about - and to discuss widely throughout the libertarian left - is the political content of an activity that consciously seeks both to avoid recuperation and to be relevant to the conditions of today.
- Malatesta, Errico
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Italian anarcho-communist. (1853-1932).
- Malawi: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Combatting traditional practices that harm women.
- Malik, Kenan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
- Man fired for AIDS gets damages
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Management of protected areas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Managing the Media: A Lesson in Making Publicity Come First
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Case study of media relations strategy.
- Managing Volunteers, Building Consensus, Nurturing Creativity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1987
Techniques for managing volunteers, staff and board members for positive results; how to make everyone more effective; and methods to reduce conflict while building consensus.
- Mandate for Change
Or Business as Usual
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
In light of the newly elected President Clinton, Chomksy illustrates why the key word of his campaign, "change", really meant that nothing would indeed. He covers issues including some which he a categorzes as broken campaign promises and others which escape this label.
- A Mandel for All Seasons
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The German New Left activist Rudi Dutshcke declared just prior to his death in 1979 that his friend Ernest Mandel “continues to surprise and yet remains the same.” Dutshcke’s appraisal draws attention to the appeal of Ernest (born Ezra) Mandel (1923-95), the Belgian Marxist economist and revolutionary activist, for a generation of young people impelled toward Leftist politics in the 1960s era of decolonization, civil rights activism, and the student revolt.
- Mandela, Nelson
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Anti-apartheid leader, first black to be elected President of South Africa. (Born 1918).
- Mandel's Economics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
- Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
- Manifeste de l'Anarchie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1850
Le Manifeste est une intervention passionnante contre la folie politique que, sous le nom de démocratie, prétend que nous cédions nos droits à la liberté et à l#autonomie à des représentants élus pour qu#ils fassent ce qu#ils veulent.
- Manifeste - la Situation economique des retraites au Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- A Manifesto of Emancipation
Marx’s “Marginal Notes to the Programme of the German Workers’ Party” after One hundred and twenty-five years
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The Critique of the Gotha Program contains a condensed discussion of the most essential elements of the capitalist mode of production, its revolutionary transformation into its opposite and a rough portrayal, in a few bold strokes, of what Marx had called in Capital the “union of free individuals” destined to succeed the existing social order.
- Manifesto of Surrealism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1924
Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
- Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
- Manifesto of the Makhnovists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
We must win # win not so that we may follow the example of past years and hand over our fate to some new master, but to take it in our own hands and conduct our lives according to our own will and our own conception of truth.
- The Manifesto of the Network of Alternative Resistance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Contrary to the defensive position in which rebel and alternative groups and movements often find themselves, we believe true resistance must include the creation, here and now, of the ties and pioneering alternative forms of movements, groups and persons who, through an activism for life, overcome capitalism and reaction.
- Manifesto of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1871
Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
- The Manifesto of the People's Global Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998 Published: 1999
We assert our will to struggle as peoples against all forms of oppression. But we do not only fight the wrongs imposed on us. We are also committed to building a new world.
- Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
- Manifesto of the Sixteen
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A document drafted in 1916 by eminent anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Jean Grave which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War.
- The Manifesto of The Socialist League
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1885
Advocating the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism; that is, we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities.
- Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - 1910
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1910
Tthe Socialist Party of Canada is the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.
- Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
- Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism
Writers' statement on cartoons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
- Manifiesto de Cartagena
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1812
- The Manipulation of Fear
Resort to Fear
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky discusses the effects of using fear as a control mechanism to manipulate the population.
- Mann, Tom
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British trade unionist. (1856-1941).
- Manning Marable and Malcolm X: The Power of Biography
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Social movement theorists have written much about the political opportunities, constraints, and levels of organizational readiness enabling or inhibiting popular insurgency. We still know less, however, about the complex framing processes involved in forging and maintaining activist identities and self-narratives.
- Manoir Richelieu Dispute
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Few labour disputes have included such dramatic developments as the eventful Manoir Richelieu conflict, which shook Quebec in December 1985 when the Parti Québécois government sold the property, a renowned tourism heritage site, to businessman Raymond Malenfant for $555 555.55.The new owner maintained that he had purchased only a building and was not bound through the transaction by any obligation to the union or the existing collective bargaining agreement.
- Manorama, Ruth
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advocate for the right of Dalit women. (Born 1952).
- Manual for Amnesty International, Canadian Section Members & Groups.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- A Manual for Tenant Organizers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Manual For The Jobless Worker
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Manual teaches intelligence agency employees how to spy on problem journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The weekly Semana has revealed the existence of an instruction manual for employees of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia#s leading intelligence agency, that explains how they should spy on, threaten, intimidate and discredit NGOs, judges and journalists who create problems for the government.
- George Manuel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Obituary in the Connexions Digest
- The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
- The Many Faces of Bank Nationalization
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Calls for nationalization of the banking industry have been bubbling since at least September 2008, when the current banking panic began in the wake of the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the initial AIG bailout, and the quick absorption of Merrill Lynch-Wachovia-Washington Mutual banks by their larger competitors, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase.
- Mapuches: People of the Land
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Marat, Jean-Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. (1743-1793).
- The March
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
An account of a peace march.
- March of the Vouchers - What Should the Left Learn from School Choice Debates?
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In April, Florida became the first state to adopt a statewide school voucher plan. By a vote of 25-15 the State Senate adopted the absurdly named “A+ Plan for Education” which had previously been passed in the House by a vote of 70-48.
- The March on Blair Mountain
A Historic Day in West Virginia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The coal industry is an industry which has admitted it can not make a profit without breaking laws.
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 at which Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial.
- Marcos, Subcomandante
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
- Marcus Gee's Confusion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The United States didn't 'fair to intervene' in East Timor -- it intervened massively, on the side of the Indonesian invaders.
- Marcuse, Herbert
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist philosopher, political theorist and sociologist. (1898-1979).
- Marek Edelman: A True Mensch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
- Margaret Benston
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- Marguerite has come a long way
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Literacy student writes her own story.
- Mariátegui, Jose Carlos
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Peruvian socialist. (Born 1894).
- The Mark
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1892
A short essay on the primitive form of collective land ownership in Germany and the subsequent development of private property.
- Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
Doctrines and Reality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Noam Chomsky illustrates the importance of considering doctrine against the background of reality. He reveals that the political and economic principles that have prevailed are often remote from those that are proclaimed.
- The market vs. the family
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Marriage and the Capitalist State
For the Right of Gay Marriage...and Divorce!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Gays and lesbians ought to have the right to marry # but they shouldn#t have to.
- Marshall, Donald, Jr
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Accused of murder, Marshall, a 16-year old Micmac, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. After he had served 11 years in a penitentiary, a re-examination of the case found him innocent. (1953-2009).
- Martí, José
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Cuban poet and rebel. (1953-1895).
- Martin Glaberman: 1918 - 2001
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
- Martin Glaberman: La Classe Ouvrière - Préambule
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
- Martin Kramer, Harvard and the Eugenics of Zion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
At Herzliya the cream of the Zionist security elite gather to raise the alarm about Arab births and hear scholarly analyses of family size and fertility rates among Jews and Arabs as 'existential' threats to the State. Meanwhile, in the Israeli Knesset there are elaborate debates on how to define who is a Jew and who is not - along with legislating what extra privileges should be allocated to the former and denied to the latter. It would be hard to imagine another modern country where such discussions are part of the intellectual mainstream, rather than isolated in the more shadowy fringes of racist right-wing politics. Similar attitudes are expressed in the Zionist Diaspora, where bemoaning Jewish assimilation, promoting Jewish childbearing and financing Aliya to strengthen Israel#s Jewish demography are common themes. Early eugenicists (and their successors) once warned against 'miscegenation' and 'mongrelization' as a danger to the White Aryan Race. Today, Jewish charities like the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation announce their prime mission as education against 'intermarriage.'
- Martin Luther King's Speech on Vietnam
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
On January 20, President Bush made a photo-op visit to Atlanta, Georgia, to participate in the celebration of the life of the greatest civil rights figure in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martinique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1902
Written after the volanic eruption in May, 1902 at the port of St. Pierre.
- Marx and Freud
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Marcuse#s book renews the endeavor to read Marx into Freud. Marcuse wants to resurrect the #explosive# revolutionary content of Freud#s theories.
- Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
- Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The real Jewish question in Marx's time was: For or against the political emancipation of the Jews? For or against equal rights for Jews?
- Marx and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1884
- Marx and the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Francis Wheen's 1999 biography of Marx, from which this is extracted, painted a warts-and-all portrait which shatters all the romantic and orthodox-Marxist idealisations of the founder of modern communism, while leaving intact and perhaps clearer than ever, Marx’s essential humanist and critical insights into the trajectory of modernity.
- Marx, Eleanor
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Socialist author and activist. (1855-1898).
- Marx et Makhno à la rencontre de McDonald's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A Paris, les travailleurs précaires qui sont sortis vaniqueurs de plusieurs grèves en ont perud d#autres avec les honneurs à cause des méthodes à la fois légales et illégales des syndicats et des ultra-syndicalistes.
- Marx, Hegel, Ricardo; The "Inverted World" in the Heart of the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
- Marx, Karl
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Brief biography of Karl Marx. (1818-1883).
- Marx, Karl
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. (1818-1883).
- Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
- Marx on the Planet
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
We have arrived at a turning point in human history. Scientists feel that we have until perhaps 2050 before the multiple and massive environmental problems we face will become irreversible. After that, the planet will not support the existing global capitalist civilization.
- Marx, theoretician of anarchism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.
- Marx#s Humanism Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
The 1844 Manuscripts didn#t just #pave the way# for #scientific socialism.# Humanism wasn#t just a stage Marx #passed through# on his voyage of discovery to #scientific economics# or #real revolutionary politics.# Humanist philosophy is the very foundation of the integral unity of Marxian theory, which cannot be fragmented into #economics,# #politics,# #sociology,# much less identified with the Stalinist monolithic creation.
- A Marxian Oddity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1958
- Marxism
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A world view developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th century and further developed by various theorists and political activists.
- Marxism & Alienation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Documents on alienation and Marxism.
- Marxism & Anarchism: Documents in the Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Resources on the theory and practice of anarchism and the unity and conflict between Marxists and Anarchists over the past 150 years.
- Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Latin America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Selected documents.
- Marxism and organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Marxism and the Critique of Scientific Ideology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983 Published: 1992
- Marxism and the Fate of the European Jews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Enzo Traverso's The Marxists and the Jewish Question; is valuable not only for what it says about Jews in one region or one period, though it is particularly strong on Eastern European Jews and their role in the workers movement in the early 20th century.
- Marxism and the Intellectuals
A review of Raymond Williams# Culture and Society and The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
Raymond Williams has shown the origins of British socialism in the history of Britain itself. He has concentrated on the manner in which British writers and the British workers have created what exists in Britain today. He has developed the idea of culture from an exclusive possession of the educated and intellectuals and shown that the only meaning the word has for today is a total way of life of the whole people.
- Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
- Marxism as Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1915
Now is the time to bring to the fore the other part of Marxism which has been so neglected; now, when the workers movement must find a new direction, in order to overcome the narrow views and the passivity of the old era, if it wants to overcome the crisis. Men must themselves make history, or else history will be made by others for them. Of course, they cannot build without taking the circumstances into account, but they build nonetheless.
- Marxism in Japan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Selected documents.
- Marxism in Our Time
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
Every social conflict is also a competition. If socialism is to win out over fascism, it must bring humanity social conditions which are clearly superior. The class struggle goes on. For all the dictators# replastering, we hear the framework of the old social edifice cracking. Marxism will go through many vicissitudes of fortune, perhaps even eclipses. Its power, conditioned by the course of history, none the less appears to be inexhaustible.
- The Marxism of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
James is generally acknowledged to have been one of the most original Marxist thinkers to emerge from the Western hemisphere, yet essential aspects of his identity came from the other side of the Atlantic, from Europe and Africa. He offered penetrating analyses on the interrelationships of class, race and gender, and his discussions of colonialism and anti-colonialism could be brilliant. C.L.R. James also embraced the heritage of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and the working-class and socialist movements of Europe and North America.
- The Marxism of Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1964
- The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1923
It is characteristic of the unity of theory and practice in the life work of Rosa Luxemburg that the unity of victory and defeat, individual fate and total process is the main thread running through her theory and her life. As early as her first polemic against Bernstein’s she argued that the necessarily ‘premature’ seizure of power by the proletariat was inevitable. She unmasked the resulting opportunist fear and lack of faith in revolution as “political nonsense which starts from the assumption that society progresses mechanically and which imagines a definite point in time external to and unconnected with the class struggle in which the class struggle will be won”.
- The Marxism of the First International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1924
On 28 September 1864 it was decided at an international meeting of workers in London to found the International Workingmen#s Association. On 25 July 1867, Karl Marx wrote the preface to the first edition of the first volume of Capital. Within one single period of history, in the 1860s, both aspects of Marxism attained their full realization: the new autonomous science of the working class attained its developed theoretical form in literature at the same time as the new autonomous movement of the proletariat achieved its practical form in history.
- Marxism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Until now the history of revolutionary Marxism has been the history of its defeats, which include the apparent successes that culminated in the emergence of state-capitalist systems. It is clear that early Marxism not only underestimated the resiliency of capitalism, but in doing so also overestimated the power of Marxian ideology to affect the consciousness of the proletariat. The process of historical change, even if speeded up by the dynamics of capitalism, is exceedingly slow, particularly when measured against the lifespan of an individual. But the history of failure is also one of illusions shed and experience gained, if not for the individual, at least for the class. There is no reason to assume that the proletariat cannot learn from experience.
- Marxist Art Historian: Meyer Schapiro, 1914-1996
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Schapiro will no doubt be remembered for his brilliance, for the extraordinary range of his mind, but his legacy as a scholar belongs to those willing to engage his most profound and most challenging work, in particular the Marxist studies he produced during the 1930s.
- Marxist feminism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as the key to liberating women.
- A Marxist History of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A series of articles charting the development of humans from their beginnings to socially co-operative human beings.
- Marxist-Humanism#s concept of #Subject#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Transcendence has, in academia, both a theological and philosophic meaning far removed from practice. But transcendence as a historic category means people abolishing the old, creating the new; indeed it is the only real transcendence; all else is hogwash.
- Marxist Scholars Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Marxist Theory and Revolutionary Tactics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
If the party saw its function as restraining the masses from action for as long as it could do so, then party discipline would mean a loss to the masses of their initiative and potential for spontaneous action, a real loss, and not a transformation of energy. The existence of the party would then reduce the revolutionary capacity of the proletariat rather than increase it. It cannot simply sit down and wait until the masses rise up spontaneously in spite of having entrusted it with part of their autonomy; the discipline and confidence in the party leadership which keep the masses calm place it under an obligation to intervene actively and itself give the masses the call for action at the right moment. Thus, as we have already argued, the party actually has a duty to instigate revolutionary action, because it is the bearer of an important part of the masses# capacity for action; but it cannot do so as and when it pleases, for it has not assimilated the entire will of the entire proletariat, and cannot therefore order it about like a troop of soldiers. It must wait for the right moment: not until the masses will wait no longer and are rising up of their own accord, but until the conditions arouse such feeling in the masses that large-scale action by the masses has a chance of success.
- Marxist Theory and the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
A sketch of Marxist theory.
- Marxist Views of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
We are not discussing the working class because we want to find out what the noble worker is all about. We are concerned with social change. The fundamental problem of how you define and how you view the working class is the problem of whether the working class is a viable instrument for social change.
- Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women#s movement which was undoubtedly the most important one of the kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the Memory Hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
- Marxists Internet Archive Encyclopedia of Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Marxists Internet Archive - Historic Events in the Encyclopedia of Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Marxists Internet Archive - History Archive
A History of the Revolutionary Working Class: Documents by the People Who Practiced It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An overview of the history of efforts of organising workers regardless of race, ethnicity, gender # or border, the effort to organise and create collaboration and co-operation between workers the world over in order to win the world for those who make it run.
- Marx's Marginal Notes on the Program and Rules of Bakunin's International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1868
- Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Marx's unchaining of the dialectic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- The Masked Avenger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Super Barrio is a living comic strip character, a masked man who wrestles with evil slumlords and corrupt politicians.
- Anne Mason-Apps
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- Mass Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1911
No party executive in the world can replace the mass of the party's own energy, and an organisation of a million which, at a great time and in the face of great tasks, would want to complain that it did not have the right leaders would prove its own shortcomings, because it would prove it has not understood the historical essence itself of the proletarian class struggle that consists in the proletarian masses not needing "leaders" in a bourgeois sense, that they are themselves leaders.
- Mass Murder at Colfax, The Bloody Death of Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On April 13, 1873, white supremacists laid siege to a Black Republican stronghold in rural north Louisiana, brutally slaying freedmen and altering the course of the United States. The Colfax massacre happened at the courthouse of newly created Grant Parish, located in a town named after Vice President Schuyler Colfax. Colfax is situated in cotton country along the Red River.
- The Massachusetts Plan: "Universal Coverage"?
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On April 12, 2006 Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed legislation that is being touted nationally as the model for providing health care for all people. The goal of the legislation is to provide health insurance for the State's 780,000 people who have no health insurance, by July 1, 2007.
- The Massacre and the Cover-Up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Without much stronger international pressure than the international community has applied to date, there is every reason to expect Israeli massacres to steadily become more severe, their PR rationales more outlandish. Mild diplomatic rebukes will not sway them. Unless serious costs are imposed for such crimes, much worse is yet to come.
- Massacres - List of events named massacres - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Masses & The Vanguard
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
The leadership principle, the idea of the vanguard that must assume responsibility for the proletarian revolution is based on the pre-war conception of the labour movement, is unsound. The tasks of the revolutionary and the communist reorganization of society cannot be realized without the widest and fullest action of the masses themselves.
- A Massive Crisis in Auto: Delphi, GM, the UAW, and Soldiers of Solidarity
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On December 19, facing a strike threat and pressure from GM, Delphi Corporation backed away from its "final offer" to the United Auto Workers, pushing the deadline back to the end of February. With the demand for a 63% wage cut off the table, complicated horse trading will ensue—but what's clear is that rank-and-file anger and mobilization makes a big difference.
- Master composters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Masterless Men of Newfoundland
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A legendary outlaw society of men escaping press gangs, Royal Navy deserters and runaway indentured servants from Newfoundland fishing plantations.
- Materialism And Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1942
Marxism is not an inflexible doctrine or a sterile dogma. Society changes, the proletariat grows, science develops. New forms and phenomena arise in capitalism, in politics, in science, which Marx and Engels could not have foreseen or surmised. But the method of research which they formed remains to this day an excellent guide and tool towards the understanding and interpretation of new events.
- Mattachine Society
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
One of the earliest lasting homophile organizations in the United States, founded in 1950.
- Matthew Coon Come Speech, September 19, 1994
Speaking Notes for Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come Centre for Strategic and Iinternational Studies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
The status and rights of the James Bay Crees in the context of Quebec secession from Canada.
- Matthews, Peter
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Farmer who participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. (1789? - 1838).
- Mattick Paul
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
- Mattick, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
- Mau Mau Uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An insurgency by Kenyan peasants against the British colonialist rule.
- Max Eastman: One American Radical#s View of the #Bolshevization# of the American Revolutionary Movement and a Forgotten, and Unforgettable, Portrait of Trotsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
- Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
When it comes to getting coverage in the local newspaper, presentation is paramount. Tto maximize your profile and get your story or event covered, give the newspaper what it wants, when it wants it.
- May 1968 Documents
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
- May 1968 Graffiti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
"Don't consume Marx, live him."
- May 1968 in France
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
May 1968, referring to the period when the events occurred in France, saw the largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an advanced industrial country,[1] the first wildcat general strike in history,[1] and a series of student occupation protests.
- May Day
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Occurs on May 1 and refers to several public holidays.
- May Day at 125
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In the spring of 1886 workers at Chicago’s McCormick Harvesting Machine Company struck for the eight-hour workday. They were locked out by the employers, who hired strikebreakers in their place. On May 1 a protest parade was held outside of the plant; two days later police attacked the demonstrators, killing one.
- May Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Class consciousness is the knowledge that emancipation is ours. Class struggle is the fight for it, the fight to be a class, and then the fight to abolish the class system. It is not economistic; it is historical. It was concrete not abstract. It was expressed in real voices, voices of the past and voices of the present. The skill is in the listening.
- The May Days in Barcelona
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
The struggle under way in Spain between revolution and counter-revolution is now entering a new phase, in which the proletariat, educated by the experience of these months of struggle and, above all, by the magnificent May Days, must direct all its forces towards strengthening its class independence, defending the conquests of the revolution and preparing for the taking of power, the indispensable premise for the institution of a socialist regime which will regenerate the country#s economy and establish order.
- Maybe 99% is a bit much, but…
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It is a fact that over the last couple of decades, much of the growth in total income in the U.S. has gone to the upper reaches of society.
- Mayday
The Case for Civil Disobedience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Chomsky addresses the expected "cooling" of the Student Movement in light of negative reviews of the May Day demonstration. He analyzes this cooling as a key factor in US strategy, especially in relation to the Congress and disputes arguments such as civil disobedience is illegitimate in a democracy as decisions are reached via democratic institutions. After his exploration of the numerous questions surrounding the issue of civil disobedience, Chomsky warns that by blocking channels of protest, the government may "bring about a domestic crisis of indeterminable proportions".
- Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico during several days in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed only a little more than a week after a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. President Vicente Fox argued that police had moved in to deal with small cells of violent groups whose presence threatened the public peace. Local residents believed that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport. Others speculated broader political motivation: that the Fox administration's Secretary of the Interior Carlos Abascal Carranza may be using violent confrontations with steelworkers and community activists to create the sense that under a leftist administration led by presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador the country would fall into chaos.
- Mazdak
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A proto-socialist Persian reformer.
- Maze of Injustice: The failutre to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
More than one in three Native American or Alaska Native women will be raped at some point in their lives. Most do not seek justice because they know they will be met with inaction or indifference. Index Number: AMR 51/035/2007.
- MCAS: Why Is This Being Done to Our Kids?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
High stakes tests are meant to legitimize the growing inequality of society. They are designed to drive millions of students out of school so that, if they end up with a low-paying job or no job at all, they will blame themselves instead of the corporate system. Tests like MCAS are not about education but about social control.
- McClung, Nellie Letitia (Mooney)
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. (1873-1951).
- McLachlan, James Bryson
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Labour leader. (1869-1937).
- McNamara's Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
McNamara's Cold War mentality is as firmly fixed as ever. The purpose of American policy in Southeast Asia was to stop Communism, invariably characterized as "Communist aggression." That end justified any means employed. It was just that McNamara and the rest of the best and brightest opted for ineffective means and failed to acknowledge it in time. Only in this tactical misjudgment does he believe that they were "wrong, terribly wrong."
- McNaughton, Violet
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
- The Meaning of Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
- The Meaning of Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961 Published: 1969
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
- The Meaning of the Revolution
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
These are the words of Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old woman whose January 18 blog is said to have helped mobilize the million that turned up in Cairo and the thousands in other cities on January 25. Asmaa’s blog, like the stories of many Egyptian women of this revolution, offer a challenge to two key questions framing U.S. discourse on the Egyptian revolution.
- The Meaning of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A feature of revolutions is that they keep coming around in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Who would have dared predict the eruption that was Seattle in November 1999, when the powers behind neoliberal globalization seemed completely incontestable?
- The Meaning of Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Chomsky believes that no outside power will make the USA own up to the factual account of the war and the domestic resistance it faced. He claims that efforts will actually be made to obscure this history. Consequentially, Chomsky, as a sort of custodian of history, attempts to gather these facts and discuss the ideological conflict over "the lessons of Vietnam".
- Meat inspections slashed
Connexions Digest News Brief, 1989
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
1989 article on greatly reduced inspections of meat products.
- The Media and Civil Defence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- The Media and the Far Right
Showcasing the Crude, the Violent and the Aberrant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year.
- Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
An interview with Robert McChesney
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
- The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common.
- Media Events - Maximizing Your Attendance & News Pick-up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Maximizing your attendance and news pick-up at media events.
- Media Exposure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
- Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Media for Social Change Bibliography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Media Guide addition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Media in the United States
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999 Published: 2009
Media omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US is something acknowledged by many outside the USA, and is slowly realized more and more inside the US. However, due to those very same omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US mainstream media, it is difficult for the average American citizen to obtain an open, objective view of many of the issues that involve the United States (and since the United States is the largest economic and military power in the world, they are naturally involved in many issues!).
- Media Manipulation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
Media manipulation often involves government or corporate propaganda and spin. Sometimes organizations and governments can feed fake news or politically or ideologically slanted stories to broadcasters which depict them as quality news items and journalism.
- Media-MX Deal Denies Protestors' Rights Through News Blackout
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Media Relations (Review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A book that helps you conquer the challenges of dealing effectively with the media.
- Media Relations - Behaviours Unbecoming
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
What NOT to do when dealing with the media.
- Media Relations: Rule of Engagement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Rules for dealing with the media.
- Media Strategy Chart: Advantages & Limitations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Medical Cannabis Victory: A Textbook Case of Organizing and Resistance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Shifting from mere activism and advocacy to a referendum strategy also forced significant swathes of drug policy reform movements to enter a new phase: that of community organizing. Referenda in most states require the collection of signatures, which means advocates had to get out of the circle jerk cycle of endless meetings and internal debate and go out there, door to door, to recruit from the general public. Once they got the proposed laws on the ballot that meant campaigning for votes. This marked a paradigm shift in what had been a self-marginalized reform movement: a wake up call.
- Medicare in Crises - A Submission on Ontario's Health Care System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Medicare: On the Critical List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Medicine & State Security
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Meet the Real Death Panels
44,000 Americans a Year Die From Lack of Health Insurance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
- Meeting Alexandra Kollontai
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
My first encounter with Wikipedia was several years ago when I was looking up some female Bolsheviks — there was very little about them by way of normal Googling, and I had never tried this collective online encyclopedia before.
- Meeting Collectively
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
- Meeting the Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Dealing with the media can be a less than thrilling experience, but it's a necessary one.
- Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
- Meetings with James Baldwin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Stan Weir writes about his relationship with writer James Baldwin.
- Mehring, Franz
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German socialist publicist, politician and historian. (1846-1919).
- Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Over 15 000 people from all corners of Australia and farther afield blockaded the Asia-Pacific summit of the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) in Melbourne between September 11 and 13 in the latest expression of the mood of anti-capitalist action around the world.
- Melville and A Lot More
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
More than a decade ago, an unpublished manuscript began filtering its contents into the minds of a fairly wide circle of erstwhile New Left intellectuals. It was fascinating, like no other theorizing on the text of Moby Dick and its significance; or rather, resembling many others in some of its evidence but ranging far beyond them in its implications.
- Memories
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Regarding 1995 as the year of memories, Noam Chomsky critically accounts numerous historical conflicts before exploring the content of Robert McNamara's memoirs, In Retrospect.
- Memories of [my] Syndicalism
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A handful of friends, old and new, have asked me about the path that my ideas and activities have taken me, some 50 years after I happened across a civil rights picket line in my hometown of Champaign, Illinois in the summer of 1960. The following is a radical memory unusual in some ways, but with many similarities to the memories of my New Left contemporaries in the outcome.
- Memories of the Depression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Daily life experiences during the Great Depression.
- A Memory Of Howard
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
- Men for women's choice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Men's Groups
Towards A National Listing.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Men's Groups
Towards a National Listing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- The Menace of Liberal Scholarship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become agents. Chomsky agrees with Fullbright that this phenomena betrays public trust and states that the subversion of scholarship is a threat to society as a whole. He reveals several causes of this subversion, for example the access to power, shared ideology, and professionalization. Through the presentation of the positions of numerous scholars, he explores this malady and points to the potential of the intellectual community to revolutionize this tradition of scholarship though a more humane, objective, and independent movement.
- Menchú, Rigoberta
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).
- Mennonite Central Committee(MCC), Peace Section
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Julian Mer-Khamis
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We mourn the tragic and senseless assassination of the brilliant revolutionary filmmaker Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was gunned down April 4 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. His documentary film “Arna’s children,” about his mother’s lifelong struggle and her work in founding the Jenin Freedom Theater, and the realities of life for Palestinian youth under occupation, is a masterpiece. The Freedom Theater is a priceless center for resistance as well as the healing of these young people.
- Mercredi, Ovide William
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Aboriginal Canadian politician and leader. (Born 1946).
- Mercury Poisoning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
- Merkel in the Knesset
Israel, Israel Above Everything!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
We are still confronted with the phenomenon that critics of the Jewish State are labeled as anti-Semites or as self-hating Jews, respectively.
- Mer-Khamis, Arna
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Israeli educator and human rights activist. (1929-1995).
- Merry Christmas from an Atheist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
I probably represent one of Archbishop John Sentanu's worst nightmares - I am not just an 'aggressive secularist' but a militant atheist to boot. But I have a Christmas tree in the house, I've sent out my Christmas cards, bought my Christmas presents and I will cook goose on Christmas Day. And I will probably listen to Bach's Christmas Oratorio or to Mahalia Jackson's wonderful gospel singing while I am doing so. Yet I don't have a religious bone in my body.
- Merry Pranksters
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and who promoted the use of psychedelic drugs.
- Merthyr Rising 1831
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class population of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales and the surrounding area.
- The Message and Meaning of Groundings 2005: Walter Rodney Lives!
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Seeking to grasp at the core of Walter Rodney's legacies for Caribbean peoples today, speakers at the recent Groundings in Guyana used the words "decency," "boldness," and "humanity." It was in such spirit that the Groundings were organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Rodney's assassination at the hands of the ruling paramount party, PNC, in Guyana in 1980.
- Message of the Non-Jewish Jew
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1958
The Jewish heretic who transcends Jewry belongs to a Jewish tradition.
- Metacomet (Metacomb)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A war chief of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War. (Died 1676).
- Metalclad vs. Mexico, Toxic Waste and NAFTA
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Last August 25 the NAFTA Tribunal for the case of Metalclad Corp vs. Mexico ruled in favor of Metalclad, ordering the Mexican government to pay US$16.7 million in compensation. It is the first ruling in an investor-to-state lawsuit under NAFTA.
- Metro World '91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Metro World '91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Metropolitan Toronto Task Force On Housing For Low-Income Single People: Final Report
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- Mexican Environment Laws
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Mexico's lax environmental laws.
- Mexican War of Independence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Mexican Women -- Then and Now
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Araceli's gnarled hands knead the corn dough in a smoke-filled lean-to next to her kitchen, as the 5 a.m. sunlight begins to squint through the slats. She will make about 48 pounds of tortillas, as she does every day. By noon they’ll be on the table in houses all over the 500-inhabitant town she has lived in her whole life, half-way between Mexico City and Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico.
- Mexico 2010: The Spreading Crisis
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On July 4, in an atmosphere of widespread insecurity, unabated violence, and an uncertain allocation of authority and impunity,* Mexico held local elections in 15 of its 32 states.
- Mexico at War
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Mexico is at war. The drug war has become all the news this fall: Real war. Bloody war. With bombings, massacres and body counts.
- Mexico in the Grip of Corruption
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Mexico's left of center Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has been shaken by a scandal that could well reshape the nation's political life.
- Mexico: Insurrection and Disintegration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
While Mexico boils at the bottom, it is also cracking up at the top.
- Mexico: The Zapatistas' New Fight
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
"We are fighters, but not with guns," said the man in the ski mask, one of a group of masked peasants addressing us and a dozen other visitors. "We invite all of the common people, who are of the left, who are not with the government, to join us in struggle," he continued, speaking in the Mayan Tzotzil language. "Because we know the government will never hear our word, and will never help us."
- Mexico's Crisis in Context
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In this article I offer an historical context for understanding Mexico’s current economic, political, and human crisis triggered by 28 years of neoliberal economic policies. Neoliberal governments have privatized most sectors of the economy and reduced the Mexican state’s role to one of being a repressive apparatus. NAFTA and related neoliberal policies have left the economy without a dynamic internal market for local products and with a socio-economic inequality that is one of the most extreme in the world.
- Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
- Mexico's PATCO Moment?
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), made up of approximately 43,000 active and 22,000 retired workers in Mexico City and surrounding states, is fighting for its life. The union’s struggle has rallied allies in the labor movement and on the left in Mexico and solidarity from throughout the country and around the world, but if it is to survive the union and its supporters have to take stronger actions than they have so far, and time is not on their side.
- The Miami Model in Your Face
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The major police riot in Miami was an operation undoubtedly as thoroughly planned as it was obscene. This was a deliberate, bare-knuckled threat: Assemble in 2004 against war, “free trade,” the Republican Convention or roundup of immigrants under the police-state monstrosity known as Homeland Security, and this is what you'll get.
- Michael Berg for U.S. Congress in Delaware: A Voice Against War
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On June 8 Americans awoke to the news that the U.S. military in Iraq had killed Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the midst of press coverage that cravenly accepted government claims that this was, once again, a turning point in the war, one voice in the mass media dramatically countered government claims - that of Michael Berg, Green Party candidate for Delaware's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Michael Levine's Ten commandments for Dealing with the Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Rules for dealing with the media.
- Michael Lynch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- Michael Riordon in conversation with Barbara Goslawski
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
"People are not specimens or statistics," says Michael Riordon, author of Eating Fire:
Family Life on the Queer Side.
- Michel Foucault: friend or foe of the left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Examines why a man who was a technocrat working for the state came to appeal to people both on the left and the right of the political spectrum.
- Michel, Louise
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. (1830-1905).
- The Microfinance Delusion
Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
- Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Selective enforcement of alleged software infringement is being used with some frequency in the former Soviet republics as cover to harass independent media. Local law enforcement officials have been given broad powers, in the name of fighting piracy, to raid premises and seize hardware. For the most part, Western companies and governments have encouraged this broadening of powers.
- Microsoft vs. General Motors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
If Microsoft made cars.
- Middle-Class Women Begin to Organise
Chapter 9 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women#s Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973 Published: 1975
- Middle East at the Crossroads
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
The events of the last few weeks (1945) in the Middle East have drawn the attention of the whole world to what is happening in this region. The terroristic acts of Zionist military organizations, the strikes and demonstrations of the Arab masses in Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad against Zionism, and the concentration of British troops in Palestine has aroused numerous questions whose answer will demand an uncovering of the socio-economic roots of the tangle in which this part of the world is involved.
- Middle East Cauldron
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The past three decades of Middle East history present a process of what I sometimes call “permanent counterrevolution,” unfolding under the ever-present reality of imperial domination, rivalry and of course the politics of oil.
- Middle East Diplomacy
Continuities and Changes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
In October 1991 a Conference on the Middle East was held in Madrid. Chomsky compares and contrasts two perspectives on this event. The first praises President Bush's diplomacy skills and accredits this great achievement to US efforts and is the one that dominates public discussion. The other is Chomsky's own which probes such questions as why these efforts came about when they did and were they to mark a new US position.
- The Middle East in Flames
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Andrew Kennedy and Suzi Weismann Interview Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar is the author of Eastern Cauldron and The Clash of Barbarisms, both published by Monthly Review Press.
- Midland Revolt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A popular uprising which took place in the Midlands of England in 1607.
- Midwives Acquitted
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
A historic decision by the Supreme Court of Canada clears midwives on charges in a case of a death during a home birth.
- Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing Politicians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.
- Miliband, Ralph
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist political theorist and sociologist. (1924-1994).
- Militant as Hell on the Waterfront
The Political Thought of Stan Weir
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
- Les Militants et la Police
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Militarization: Obstacle to Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Militarizing Latin America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Establishing US military bases in Colombia is only one part of a much broader effort to restore Washington's capacity for military intervention. There has been a sharp increase in US military aid and training of Latin American officers, focusing on light infantry tactics to combat "radical populism" -- a concept that sends shivers up the spine in the Latin American context.
- Military bases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Military Ethics in Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Military Resister and Conscientious Objector
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
ATC Interviews Camilo Mejia. Sgt. Camilo Mejia, the first active-duty U.S. military resister to be imprisoned for refusing re-deployment to Iraq, spoke at a Detroit antiwar rally Friday, March 18, the day before attending the founding convention of Iraq Veterans Against the War in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
- The Militia and Militarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1899
In militarism, the power and rule of both the capitalist state and the bourgeois class are crystallized; just as Social Democracy is the only party which opposes them in principle, so too, inversely, is the opposition in principle to militarism part of the nature of Social Democracy. To abandon the struggle against the military system amounts in fact to the same thing as renouncing the struggle against the present social order in general.
- Mills, C. Wright
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American sociologist. (1916-1962).
- Milton Rogovin: Portraitist to the People
He Gave Them Respect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
His photography did not turn people into victims, nor did it make them heroes.
- Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools
Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The battle to keep the public in control of the public schools.
- Miners Protest Brutal Beatings
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Five thousand members of the Mexican Miners and Metal Workers Union and their families and other unions and social movements marched five kilometers May 24 to protest the brutal police beating of more than 20 union leaders and activists. The march ended at the port which serves the local steel mills in Lázaro Cárdenas, a steel mill city in the state of Michoacan, blocking it for two hours or more.
- Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
One person#s thoughts on the subject of utopias as we approach a new century and millennium.
- Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
- Mining Peru
Canada's New Territory?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
- Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis.
- Minority publishers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Miramichi Lumber Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Miramichi Lumber Strike began 20 August 1937 when 1500 millworkers and longshoremen along the Miramichi River in northern New Brunswick struck 14 lumber firms for increased wages, shorter working hours and union recognition.
- Mirror Crack'd
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Noam Chomsky suggests that Western powers have regularly induced such atrocities in foreign lands as were perpetrated on 9/11 on American soil. He warns that through pre-emptive military action in Afghanistan, the international society may be in danger of less than attractive consequences in the future.
- The misbegotten 'war against cancer'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Misconceptions About King’s Methods for Change
A Matter of Life and Death
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Nonviolent social change requires long, hard and sustained work, research, development of solutions, and, importantly, on-going commitment. It demands far more than bringing folks together to march and wave banners. Unfortunately, many activists throughout the world seem to be of the opinion that if you are concerned about an issue you should organize huge "feel good" rallies, which is hoped will almost magically result in changes.
- Misguided Missiles:
Canada, The Cruise and Star Wars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- The Misogyny of Welfare "Reform" - Interview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Randy Albelda teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and is active in several welfare rights organizations. She is co-author of Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty (South End Press, 1997) and author of "What Welfare Reform Has Wrought," Dollars and Sense, January/February 1998. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
- Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
- Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
An interview with Julia Buxton about Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, and target of concerted criticism in the western media.
- Miss Calculatsia: Danger of War That No One Wants
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Introducing Miss Calculatsia, that fashionable foreigner, the new star in Israeli discourse.
- Mission and Ministry Workbook: Metropolitan Core
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Missionary Involvement and Catholics in Canada.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report on survey results on missionary activities at home and abroad.
- Mistaken Identity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
- Mr. Bush's truthfulness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The truthfulness-challenged President.
- Mitziton: A community in Chiapas resisting the government road
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Mixing Metaphors and Diluting Memory: Lynching - The Reality
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On October 9, 2005, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter appeared on ABC's "This Week" to defend Harriet Miers, President Bush's confidante whose nomination to the Supreme Court had evoked howls of protest, particularly from the Christian Right. Specter told George Stephanopoulos that Miers' verbal critics made up "one of the toughest lynch mobs ever assembled in Washington, DC, and we assemble some tough lynch mobs." In claiming Washington's penchant for "tough lynch mobs," Senator Specter was not speaking literally—though he could have been. It is unlikely that Specter meant to evoke the actual lynch mobs roaming the streets of Washington D.C. for four days during the "Red Summer" of 1919, attacking African-Americans in a frenzy whipped up by racism, anti-communism, fears of joblessness, and post-war jingoism.
- Mobile Family Service Society.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Mobile Schools Help Nomadic Somalis Fight Drought
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Mobile schools - secular pre-schools which follow these groups as they move to find pasture and water for livestock - are an attempt to help nomadic communities develop more options as the climate becomes increasingly hostile.
- A Model for Nonviolent Communication
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
A description of communication skills to empower us to exchange resources and resolve differences nonviolently.
- A Model of Theological Reflection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Training document to organise analysis of the conditions that foster the existence of skid row.
- Models of Coming U.S. Interventions: Iraq or Haiti?
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis.
- Modern "Gunboat" Diplomacy in the Caribbean
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
There is no such thing as humanitarian intervention on the part of the current U.S. state.
- A Modern Utopia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
- Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
- A Modest Proposal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky explores the idea of having Iran liberate Iraq from the grips of Sadaam Hussein. He suggests that had the genuine goals mirrored those which were proclaimed, this may have been a plausible alternative.
- A Modest Proposal for How the Bad Old Days Will End
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A brief explanation of capitalism and optimistic manifesto for stateless communism.
- Module on Combatting Discrimination: Face to Face: The Self and Others
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Moffatt, Gary
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Canadian anarchist and activist.
- Moffatt, Gary (French text)
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Moffatt, Gary (Italian text)
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Gary Archibald Moffat era un attivista Canadese specializzato nella costruzione di movimenti radicali ai fini di cambiamenti sociali e politici.
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Khatib#s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil#in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees # the leadership of the popular struggle # who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
- Mohawk defense fund
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Mollison, Bill
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Australian who developed the theory and practice of permaculture. Born 1928.
- Molly house
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An archaic English term for a tavern or private room where homosexual and cross-dressing men could meet each other and possible sexual partners.
- Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A group of manufacturing, financial and retail enterprises based in the Basque Country and extended over the rest of Spain and abroad which is one of the world's largest worker cooperatives and one important example of workers' self-management.
- Mondragón Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business#a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
- The Money Gusher
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The oil industry#s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.
- Monogamous Voles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Vole reversal.
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1966
For Baran and Sweezy, capitalist problems are exclusively market problems.
- Montenegro, Raúl
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Environmental and indigenous rights activist. (Born 1949).
- Mooney, Pat
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1947).
- Moral Poverty and the Riots
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Because the right has appropriated the arguments about moral failure, many on the left have rejected moral arguments altogether. The left talks much about the social and economic impact of neoliberal policies. But little about their moral impact. Such willful blindness is dangerous. Morality is as important to the left as it is to the right, though for different reasons. There can be no possibility of a political or economic vision of a different society without a moral vision too. Moral arguments lie at the heart of our understanding of social solidarity, and of the distinction between notions of social solidarity and pious rightwing claims of ‘we’re all in it together’.
- Moral Truisms, Empirical Evidence, and Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Noam Chomsky systematically discusses terrorism and "just war" in relationship to moral standards such as "what goes for others goes for us". He demonstrates that, according to US behavior in the past and this principle, other actors may be entitled to use terrorist strategy against the USA.
- Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality
A Contribution to German Cultural History Contra Karl Heinzen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847
- Morality Policing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power.
- Morant Bay rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
- The More Information The Less Knowledge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
While our short-term quest for knowledge must be related to the immediate problems of saving society from environmental and economic collapse, the long-term goals of learning more about humanity's place in the universe must not be neglected.
- A More Just and Humane Criminal Justice System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Outline of the Council's objectives, goals, history, and programme developments.
- More VIA cuts predicted
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Morgentaler, Henry
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian physician and prominent pro choice advocate who has fought numerous legal battles for that cause. (Born 1923).
- The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them.
Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
- Morris Slavin: 1913-2006
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Morris Slavin, a historian of the French Revolution and one of the last remaining veterans of the American Trotskyist movement of the early 1930s, died on February 6 in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 92. The vast majority of Slavin's years were spent in Youngstown, Ohio, but his childhood took place in Russia.
- Morris, William
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British artist, designer, author, and socialist. (1834-1896).
- Morrison, Norman
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. (1933-1965).
- Moscow Gangsters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
- Moscow sells photos of Canadian base
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned at the weekend they would #remove the gloves# to track him down.
- The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
- The Most Wanted List, International Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Revealing the difference between America's use of the term "the world" and the conception which would actually include the entire globe, Chomsky demonstrates that if the "world's" voice were heeded, other terrorist concerns would likely top the agenda.
- Mother Earth
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature," edited by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, and published. (1907-1917).
- Mothers# milk threatened by trade pact
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
- Mountain Warfare in the Past and Present
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1857
The article was prompted by the Neuchâtel conflict and the plans for the invasion of Switzerland by Prussian troops, widely discussed in the press.
- Mountaintop Removal: Environmental And Human Destruction For Profit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) is an initiative "to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal, to improve the quality of life in our area, and to help rebuild sustainable communities."
- Mounting Repression: Its Meaning and Importance for Quebec and Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Move along
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A personal story of racism.
- Move into the light?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Move-A-Thon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Movement Comes to Jena
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The humid air felt electric as the sun ascended over the hundreds of buses idling a 20-mile stretch of Louisiana Route 49, the gateway to the rural hometown of the Jena 6. It was 6 AM, September 20, 2007 — the day Mychal Bell was initially scheduled to be sentenced for his role in the beating of a white classmate — and northeast central Louisiana, on the border of Mississippi, was looking anything but sleepy.
- Movement for Christian Feminism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- 'The movement is ours!': Lesbian activist critique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
We have recently claimed a right to reciprocity in the support of our struggles, but how many in the Queer rights movement have actively worked for the liberation of those groups whose endorsement we demand?
- Movement Pachamama: Indigenous Movements in Latin America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It is no accident that most of the remaining natural resources are on indigenous land. First the white world destroys their own environment, then they come asking for the last pieces of land they have put us on, the earth we have protected.
- A Movement Without Demands?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
- A Movement's Loss
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Puerto Rico is neither a state of the union, nor an independent nation-state. Its residents are U.S. citizens, go to war, have one representative in Congress who cannot vote or even present a motion, pay no taxes and do not vote for president, have no influence or say in federal law, yet are held to all federal standards. Thanks to this legal limbo, for years the island and its people have been used as testing ground for chemicals (e.g. the pill), war agents (e.g. Agent Orange), and even Monsanto is reaping profits now from transgenic crops (Puerto Rico has the highest proportion of Genetic Modification experiments per land area in the world).
- Mubarak's Last Gasps
From Counter-Attack to Departure Day
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt.
- Mubarak's third force terror tactic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime. The tactics of deploying so-called third forces is a tried and tested method of autocratic regimes, usually utilised when the regime realises that it is on the strategic defencive politically.
- Multicultural Health directory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Multiculturalism Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991 Published: 2000
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
- Multiphasic Bureaucratic Follow the Leader Exam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Mumford, Lewis
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American historian and philosopher of technology and science. (1895-1990).
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Munir
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Indonesian human rights activist. (1965-2004).
- Müntzer, Thomas
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An early Reformation-era German theologian and Anabaptist. (1488-1525).
- The murder of the Mon Valley
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Only the combined struggle of the international working class can overcome the tyranny of capital and transform the world into a place fit for human beings. This must be our goal. Otherwise the murderer of the Mon Valley may become the murderer of humankind.
- The Murdered Women of Juarez
Trails of Impunity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The murder of young women, often raped and tortured has brought international infamy to Cuidad Juarez.
- Murdochville Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
On 10 March 1957 the 1000 workers of Gaspé Copper Mines, Murdochville, Qué, struck for the right to unionize. The conflict lasted 7 months and ended in defeat for the miners.
- Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same “moral panic,” invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” The amalgamation of racial, ethnic, religious and national identities into a demonic Islamic “Other,” has been spreading throughout the United States as well as Western Europe.
- Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same “moral panic,” invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.”
- Museums, Art and the Rackets
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In the late 1990s when it appeared that the laws of capitalism had been suspended temporarily and wealth could be accrued purely on speculation, the New York Times began an annual full-section report on museums, those once fusty and staid zones of quiet suddenly become hot public draws. Its 21 April, 1999, issue extols the role museums play in rebuilding urban economies worldwide. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and new wings of the Metropolitan in New York have been instrumental in fostering urban pride and capital flows.
- Muslims in Britain: After the London Bombs
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Whitechapel Market is in the heart of George Galloway’s Bethnal Green (London) constituency, packed every Saturday wiith traders selling low priced fruit, unreliable electrical goods and cheap cigarettes.
- Mussolini & Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Mussolini succeeded in persuading thousands of syndicalists including the main leaders of the syndicalist movement to support Italy's entry into the First World War. A majority of syndicalists, however, opposed the war.
- Muste, A. J.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A socialist active in the pacifist movement, the labour movement, and the US civil rights movement. (1885-1967).
- Mutiny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An action members of a group of similarly-situated individuals (typically members of the military; or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians) to openly oppose, change or overthrow an existing authority. The term is commonly used for a rebellion among members of the military against their superior officer(s).
- Mutualism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- MUZAK: Music to Whose Ears?
A brief overview of research commissioned by The Royal National Institute for Deaf People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
For many people background music, or #muzak" as it is commonly known, is both irritating and frustrating. For the UK#s 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people background muzak often causes pain, discomfort and unnecessary distress.
- My 1968 in the Heartland
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
“Ezekiel's brother got arrested. He’s a Communist!”
- My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Those of us in the first documented generation of donor babies -- conceived in the late 1980s and early '90s, when sperm banks became more common and donor insemination began to flourish -- are coming of age, and we have something to say. I'm here to tell you that emotionally, many of us are not keeping up. We didn't ask to be born into this situation, with its limitations and confusion. It's hypocritical of parents and medical professionals to assume that biological roots won't matter to the "products" of the cryobanks' service, when the longing for a biological relationship is what brings customers to the banks in the first place. We offspring are recognizing the right that was stripped from us at birth -- the right to know who both our parents are.
- My Studs Terkel, and Yours
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
When Against The Current asked me to write a piece on Studs Terkel, I wondered why me? But after I pondered the idea, I thought, of course me. And you. All readers of his books, Against the Current and other magazines, large and small that serve as a mouthpiece for those with the desire for a better world and anger against the hypocrisy of our times.
- My Year of Transition
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
- Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Obituary.
- Myles Horton
Insights from organizer Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The myth of a free market in publishing and high-tech
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The high-tech industries, in the U.S. in particular, owe their very existence to massive levels of government subsidies and intervention.
- The Myth of Greek Profligacy
Destroying the Livelihoods of Thirteen Million People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The top 20 per cent of the income distribution in Greece pay virtually no taxes at all, the product of a corrupt bargain reached during the days of the junta between the military and Greece’s wealthiest plutocrats. No wonder there is a fiscal crisis.
- The myth of Israeli morality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel has consistently reacted with repression or even extreme violence to cultural and political manifestations of Palestinian identity.
- The Myth of Lenin#s 'Revolutionary Defeatism'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1954
Lenin discovered in practice that the defeat-slogan was incompatible with a living Marxist approach to the problem of the defense of the nation, conceived not in the social-patriotic sense of the 'defense of the fatherland' but in the light of a Marxist class understanding of, and a dynamically revolutionary program for, the nation.
- The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of The Party'
What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Lenin protested more than once that his initial formulations in WITBD were being distorted and misinterpreted by opponents, after which he went on to clarify and modify. If we want to know Lenin's 'concept of the party' we must look at the formulations he came to, after there had been discussions and attacks.
- The Myth of Marx’s Economic Determinism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Karl Marx is often represented as an "economic determinist" who credited economic structures with a basic determining role in just about every aspect of human life, and simple models such as "base"/"superstructure" are often invoked to support this. Whilst it may be true that Marx understood individuals to have the scope for meaningful thought and action determined by their social context, as Peter G. Stillman shows, it does not follow that there is a direct causal relationship between "economic" circumstances and spheres such as religion, politics or culture.
- The Myth of Muslim Conquest
Less Threatening Than Imagined
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It#s easy to mistake the high visibility of Islam in the West for a massive return to piety in Muslim communities. But for the last 20 years religious observance has stagnated, even slightly waned.
- The Myth of Precision-Guided Coercion
From Serbia to Libya
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The weapons makers love the marriage of high-cost precision weapons to coercive diplomacy, because it generates an astronomical need for a never ending flow of money into their financial coffers with orders for new weapons.
- The Myth of ‘Simple Commodity Production’
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Many misunderstandings have arisen from and about the structure of Capital. One of these is that Capital has an historical structure beginning with "Simple Commodity Production." As Chris Arthur shows in this article, Marx knows of no such mode of production. Marx begins with the simplest relation of capital and exhibits the relations of capital by means of a LOGICAL, not a historical structure.
- The Myth of Symmetry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- The Myth of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The persistence of reformism and outright conservatism among workers, especially in the imperialist centers of North America, Western Europe and Japan, has long confounded revolutionary socialists. The broadest outlines of Marxist theory tell us that capitalism creates it own "gravediggers" - a class of collective producers with no interest in the maintenance of private ownership of the means of production. The capitalist system's drive to maximize profits should force workers to struggle against their employers, progressively broaden their struggle and eventually overthrow the system and replace it with their democratic self-rule.
- The Mythology of Corporate Social Responsibility
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
For Dow Chemical, corporate social responsibility means encouraging its employees to volunteer in their communities as long as that doesn't take up company time. It means, according to the Dow website, that "At Dow, protecting people and the environment is part of everything we do and every decision we make."
- Myths of Cultural Dysfunction
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
This is another “blame the victim” book faulting Latino immigrants for not being as prosperous as other ethnic and racial groups, such as the Asians, in the United States. According to the author, the cause is Latino culture, particularly its “counterproductive” values such as living for the moment, valuing and having large families, and, most important of all, resisting and not wanting to learn English.
- Myths of the Exile and Return
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
So where did “the Jewish people” come from anyway? Was there an Exodus from Egypt, an Empire of David and Solomon, an Exile ending in a triumphant Return to Zion? Does any of it matter and if so, why?
- Mzwanele Mayekiso's Township Politics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Given the inadequate media coverage of the new South Africa, it is easy to forget about the ordinary citizens who were always the strength of the anti-apartheid struggle.
- Na przekór wszystkim przeciwnoscia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
- The NAACP at 100
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) marks its 100th anniversary this year. It plans a full celebration at its centennial national convention July 11-16 in New York City.
- The NAACP's Future
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The NAACP is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the country. Founded in 1909, it played a leading role in opposing lynching laws and legal segregation until the demise of Jim Crow three decades ago .
- Nader, Greens and Socialists
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Blaming Ralph Nader for Bush is like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. The Greens ran Nader to end corporate oligarchy, not to support one wing of the oligarchy as a lesser evil against the other wing. Nevertheless, the Democrats, their liberal satellite organizations, and the corporate media are playing the blame game for all it is worth.
- Nader, Ralph
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American attorney, author, lecturer, and political activist. (Born 1934).
- The Nakba - an event that did not occur (although it had to occur)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
- Name change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Naming the Darfur Crisis
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
How can we name the Darfur crisis? The U.S. Congress, and now Secretary of State Colin Powell, claim that genocide has occurred in Darfur. The European Union says it is not genocide. And so does the African Union.
- The Nangle Report - Canadian Businesses In South Africa.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law.
- Naomi Klein's "Courage"
Ain't But One Way Out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In saying that we need to make Iraq safe for democracy, Klein is buying into the US agenda for Iraq.
- Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Naomi Klein provides us with an engaging and easy to read account of the rise and rise of neoliberalism. However, her limited historical and analytical scope are disappointing.
- Narmada Bachao Andolan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An organisation that has mobilised tribal people, adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river, Gujarat, India.
- A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The religion of self-improvement is a way of redirecting criticisms or outrage from socio-economic structures back to the individual, imprisoning any reformist or revolutionary impulse within our own feelings of inadequacy – which is why the process of improving our nation’s schools has taken on the tone of a spiritual cleansing rather than a political reckoning. Now, instead of saying “our socioeconomic system is failing us,” an entire generation of children will learn to say, “I have failed myself.”
- National Anarchism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
National-Anarchism is a syncretic political current that was developed in the 1990s by former Third Positionists to reconcile anarchism with nationalism and in some cases racial separatism. It has philosophical roots in the writings of Julius Evola and the neo-Spenglerian Francis Parker Yockey, and claims Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Max Stirner among its influences. Critics are concerned that national-anarchism may be the potential new face of fascism. They argue that by adopting selected symbols, slogans and stances of the left-wing anarchist movement in particular, this new form of post-war fascism hopes to avoid the stigma of the older tradition, while injecting its core fascist values into the newer movement of anti-globalization activists and related decentralized political groups.
- The National Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Today it is not a question of democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has placed on the agenda is: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy?
- National Catechism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1866
Bakunin sketches out his vision of a social and political revolution, stating that "in order to prepare for this revolution it will be necessary to conspire and to organize a strong secret association coordinated by an international nucleus."
- The National Missionary Council Resource File
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An information package offered to assist in identifying agencies of similar interests.
- National Pensioners and Senior Citizens' Federation Brief to the Governement of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
- National Security in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- The National Security State Cops a Feel
Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It’s finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your “safety” will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
- National Security Through Civilian-based Defense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
This publication offers an introduction to civilian-based defense. It also identifies significant research areas and policy studies that are relevant to advancing the field.
- National Skid Row Coalition Conference, Vancouver May 12-15, 1975
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Description of conference with replections on implications for Calgary.
- The Nationalisation of the Land
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
I do not intend discussing here all the arguments put forward by the advocates of private property in land, by jurists, philosophers and political economists, but shall confine myself firstly to state that they have tried hard to disguise the primitive fact of conquest under the cloak of "Natural Right". If conquest constituted a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them. In the progress of history the conquerors found it convenient to give to their original titles, derived from brute force, a sort of social standing through the instrumentality of laws imposed by themselves.
- Nationalism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1959
Nations, whether #knitted together# by ideology, by objective conditions, or by the usual combination of both, are products of social development. There is no more point in cherishing or damning nationalism in principle than in cherishing or damning tribalism or, for that matter, an ideal cosmopolitanism. The nation is a fact to be suffered or enjoyed, to be fought for or against according to historical circumstances and the implications of those circumstances for various populations and different classes within these populations.
- Native Canadians and the United Church in Winnipeg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A study of the status status of Ministries, Lodge and Indian workers, and recommendations.
- The Native Inmate in Ontario -- A Preliminary Survey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Native land claims make lawyers rich
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Native People
One Sky Information Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Native pollution nightmare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Native press axed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Natives in a class society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Same as CX2835.
- Natives in a class society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Same as CX2826.
- The NATO War and Its Aims
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
A principled Left position must contain a strong, clear denunciation both of NATO's imperialist designs and of the brutal national oppression of the Kosovar Albanians by the Yugoslav regime. The ATC editors' position, "NATO's Road to War/Ruin," does this. However, it does not deal adequately with the arguments of the prowar, pro-NATO left, and it is this aspect I would like to comment on.
- NATO's Road to War and Ruin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
THE CARNAGE IN Kosovo and the United States/NATO air campaign—which, we will argue, is escalating toward either humiliating defeat or a full-scale ground war—pose one of the greatest challenges in a generation to the left's principles, political courage and moral backbone. During most of our lifetimes, it's been unprecedented to confront such a situation of apparent total conflict between competing imperatives: between the need for immediate action to stop the crimes against...
- Nature and the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
What is needed is a broadening of the original socialist vision rather than a rejection of that vision or its amalgamation with something else, like liberal or neo-liberal) environmentalism.
- Nature and Animal Conservation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Conservation of ecosystems and the species within them would help to maintain the natural balances disrupted by recent human activity. Unfortunately, despite the effort put into conservation by organizations and activists, their work can easily be undermined by those who have other interests. This occurs, for example, from habitat destruction, illegal poaching, to influencing or manipulating laws designed to protect species.
- Naturism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A cultural and political movement advocating and defending social nudity in private and in public. It may also refer to a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudism.
- The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye's Demolition of Derrida
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
- Nearing, Scott
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living. (1883-1983).
- Nearly $2 Trillion Purloined from U.S. Workers in 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The upward redistribution has remained as hidden as possible. The forms it has taken—as bonuses, bloated salaries, elephantine stock options, padded consulting fees, outsized compensation to boards of directors, sumptuous conferences, palatial offices complete with original artwork, retinues of superfluous “support” staff, hunting lodges, private corporate dining rooms, regal retirement agreements, and so on—defy exact categorization. Some would appear as profit, some as interest, some as dividends, realized capital gains, gigantic pension programs, retained earnings, or owners’ income, with the remainder deeply buried as “costs of doing business.”
- The Need for a New Socialist Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
- The Need for Alternative Employment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
- The Need for Community Based Programs for Former Psychiatric Patients
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- The Need for Third Sector Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A paper that argues that large centralized government and business are incapable of responding to the critical needs of small communities.
- The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing – the use of sophisticated software to drown out real people on web forums – is on the rise. How do we stop it?
- The Needle is Deep Into the Red Zone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Neeginan: A Report on the Feasability Study
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Negroes in the Civil War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943
The struggle of the Negro masses derives its peculiar intensity from the simple fact that what they are struggling for is not abstract but is always perfectly visible around them. In their instinctive revolutionary efforts for freedom, the escaping slaves had helped powerfully to begin and now those who remained behind had helped powerfully to conclude, the self-destructive course of the slave power.
- Neill, A. S.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
- Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Nelson Small Legs Jr. Foundation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Neocolonial Invitation to a Tribal War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky discusses American involvement and authority in the affairs of Israel, for example, regarding Israel's withdrawal and the establishment of a Palestinian state. He attributes the lack of progress in the region to such intervention.
- Neo-Colonialism and The Canadian Political Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Neocon con game: First deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
Margaret Wente's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
- Neo-fascism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Neo-fascism is a post-World War II ideology that usually includes nationalism, anti-immigration policies or, where relevant, nativism (see definition), anti-communism, and opposition to the parliamentary system and liberal democracy.
- Neo-Racism in the Southwest
The (Mis)education of the Coming Majority
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
What is taking place in southern Arizona deserves our attention as the most fanatical episode in the war against public education.
- Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
- Nettlau, Max
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German anarchist and historian. (1865-1944).
- Networks refuse anti-TV ads
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Networks: The Ecology of the Movements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Neue Zeit, Die
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German socialist theoretical journal of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- Never Be A Soldier
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
[This classic, written in 1915, was one of numerous leaflets by Socialist Party leader Debs opposing World War I. His opponents sent co pies of this and other antiwar statements by Debs to the U.S. Attorney General. See Eugene Debs. Spokesman for Labor and Socialism, by Bernard Brommel (Charles H. Kerr, 1978), 117, and Tim Dayton's review of "We Called Each Other Comrade" in this issue of ATC.]
WORKING MEN ARE forced into war as working women are forced into prostitution.
- A New Age Of People Power: Lessons From The Dongria Kondh
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
With greater power to build alliances across boundaries, the Davids of the world are having more success throwing off the Goliaths.
- The New Blanquism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
The revolution can only issue from the masses, and it is only through the masses that it is carried out. The Communist Party has forgotten this simple truth and, with the insufficient forces of a revolutionary minority, it wants to do what only the class can do, in such a way that the consequence will be defeat, which will set back the cause of the World Revolution for a long time, at the cost of the most painful sacrifices.
- New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
- A New British Provocation in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
British imperialism, for years on end, has attempted to direct the ire of the Arab masses against the Jewish population of the country. For this purpose the policy of Zionist expansion has been supported, a policy which results in the eviction of Arab tenants from the land, drives Arab workers from jobs, and strengthens the Zionist fortress which is determined to establish a Jewish State in Palestine. Imperialist support for Zionism is calculated to achieve two results: One, to establish a power which directly supports it, which will constitute a faithful ally against the Arabs in every instance of an anti-imperialist uprising of the Arabs of the Middle East; the other, to have Zionism serve as a means of diverting the ire of the oppressed Arab masses away from imperialism onto a side issue # clashes with Jews.
- The New Brunswick Forest Industry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
- New Catholic Bishops Report says workers in crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- New Challenges to Tenant Organizing in New York City
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On June 16, 2006, 305 West 150th Street, a rundown 84-unit apartment building in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, sold for $6.95 million. The City of New York has documented 274 housing maintenance code violations on this property, reflecting the presence of leaks, broken front door locks and exposed lead paint. The tenants are mostly poor and working class Latinos from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; many depend on subsidies, such as Section 8, to pay rent.
- The New Chinese Nationalism
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Corporate globalization has been remarkably successful in driving down wages and the welfare of working people across the world. Resistance to this is necessary and inevitable, hence the birth of the anti-globalization movement. The movement is vastly heterogeneous, but internationalist aspirations are strongly visible.
- The New Dark Ages
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
For hundreds of millions of people in parts of the Middle-East, Africa and South-East Asia, the ascendancy of Islamic fundamentalism has ushered in an era of religious obscurantism and intolerance. The liberal, compassionate wing of Islam - although it still has large numbers of adherents - is being forced onto the defensive and increasingly eclipsed.
- The New Dawn Story
An Experiment In Economically-Based Community Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- The New Dawn Story.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- New Democratic Party
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A social democratic party and a member of the Socialist International.
- New Hogtown Press
After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
- New Hogtown Press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
- New Hogtown Press
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
New Hogtown Press était un éditeur canadien de gauche actif durant les années 70 et 80.
- New Hogtown Press - Esperanto
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- A New International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1944
The idea of socialism is henceforth inseparable from respect for the individual, the spirit of liberty, and of really democratic institutions. Socialist ideology demands strict self-criticism, a re-exami-nation of theories, whilst allowing for the scientific learning of the last 50 years and of historic experience. #Marxism is a method and not a dogma.#
- The New Jim Crow: A talk
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Nothing short of a broad-based social movement can address this problem. Such a movement has to be multi-racial: Latinos and women, especially women of color, are the fastest growing segment of the prison population. If we don't create care and compassion across racial lines, then, even if this system collapses, we will recreate it in another form.
- New job for Reisman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The new language of diversity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Racial talk today is as likely to come out of the mouths of liberal anti-racists as of reactionary racial scientists.
- New Left
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The New Left was a loose international political movement of the 1960s
- New Left
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s .
- New Left Caucus (Toronto Student Movement)
A Draft Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Puts forward an alternative to Leninst factions which emerged in the Toronto Student Movement in 1968-1969. The authors state that "We consider ourselves, therefore, Marxists but not Leninists, though we are prepared to work with various shades of Leninists in struggling against the common enemy, capitalism and imperialism. At the same time, however, we will not be cowed over by those who seek to resurrect Comrade Stalin as a hero, or justify the suppression of the Kronstadt Revolut, or the invasion of Czechoslovakia, etc. Our conceprt of socialism is different, and though we have no worked out program as yet, we will not allow the vanguard formations to close our options for us.
- New Legal Landscape Affecting PR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
New laws affecting public relations.
- The New Masses
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American Marxist publication.
- The New McCarthyism In Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a #McCarthyite# campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel#s attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say.
- New Media... Endless Possibilities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Using new media to get your message out.
- The New Movement for Global Justice
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The new movement for Global Justice arose in the last few years out of the convergence of groups concerned with environmental, human rights and trade issues, and the labor movements. While this article will focus on the United States, we might pause to remember that we form part of a broad international movement against neoliberal globalization.
- New name for External
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- New Orleans general strike of 1892
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A general strike in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, that began on November 8, 1892.
- New Orleans' Police Death Squads
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
an interview with Malcolm Suber. Malcolm Suber is a New Orleans community activist and fighter for justice, and a former candidate for city council. Against the Current asked him to comment on the struggle around murders by police during Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing fight over police brutality.
- New Palestine Party Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed
Letter to the New York Times
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
- A New Phase of Economic Crisis
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In early AprilL 2008 the general consensus was that the U.S. economy had clearly fallen into recession. A long list of key economic indicators from November 2007 through March 2008 were all flashing red — from retail sales, job loss, business and consumer confidence and spending to industrial production and other prime indicators.
- New Reasoner
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Left-wing publication edited by E.P. Thompson and John Saville. (1957-1960).
- New Red-Green Politics
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In their preface to the 43rd volume of the Socialist Register, Coming to Terms with Nature, editors Leo Panitch and Colin Leys admit that this edition “has been one of the most challenging to put together.”
- The New Sexual Radicalism
Socialist Feminist Questions About Queer Activism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision # whether implicit or explicit # of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projects as feminism, antiracism, global justice and socialism?
- The New Sexual Radicalism
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
From its beginning in the 1990s in the United States, a “queer” activist current has gradually spread to other countries, including in recent years in Western Europe. In decades when the prevailing trend in LGBT movements has been to orient to legal reforms by parliamentary means, queer activism has constituted a third wave of sexual radicalism, emphasizing visibility, difference, direct action, refusal to assimilate to the dominant culture, and the fluidity and diversity of sexual desire.
- New Strategy and Tactics for Labor in the Airlines: Beyond Bankruptcy
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The airlines have been leading the way in the transformation of labor-management relations. The goal of the owners is the radical restructuring of labor costs and working conditions, to provide the maximum payout to executives and value to major shareholders.
- New tax loophole for the wealthy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- A New Type of Political Organization?
The Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- The New War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Soldiers who enlisted, or were conscripted, for the old war have been quietly kept on to fight in the new war which began without any formal declaration. They have not been asked: #Do you approve this war; do you understand it?# They have merely been detained and will now fight against their comrades. Officially the British Government is not at war with Socialism in Europe though in actual fact British and other Allied soldiers have been fighting it for a long time, and British money and munitions are keeping the soldiers of other governments in the field against it.
- The New Woman Centre: Annual Report
Prepared for the Dept. of Health and Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
This report documents the work of the New Woman Centre for 1976.
- New World Order
A postwar analysis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
- New York Transit Activists' Account: The Strike and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
ATC interviews Josh Fraidstern and Jaime Veve. The transit strike that shut down New York City for three days in December dramatically showed the power of labor, yet ended after three days by order of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 leadership. This was followed by a rank and file rejection of the proposed contract, to universal amazement—with the result that the critical issues of the strike remain unresolved.
- New York Transit Between Old and New Directions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN ATC 74 ("Transit Workers Try a New Direction"), Marian Swerdlow described the fight taking place in Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) between the entrenched Willie James bureaucracy and the reformers in New Directions. Local 100 represents New York City's bus and subway workers. Written earlier this year, Swerdlow's article concluded as the stage was being set for the rerun election ordered when the International TWU was forced to admit that the narrow victory by the...
- New York's Latino Workers Center
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
By organizing around both "labor" and "social" issues-and seeking to transcend this distinction-workers' centers can integrate a variety of unifying issues into their efforts to build an organization that can fight for their members' varied social, political and economic interests.
- New Zealand waterfront dispute of 1951
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The largest and most widespread industrial dispute in New Zealand history.
- The Newfoundland Fishery
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- The Newfoundland Government's rejection of the MicMac land claim
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Newfoundland Loggers' Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
- News and Letters Committees - Wikipedia article
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- News Conferences
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Basic guidelines for conducting news conferences.
- News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
- News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
- News Releases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The hows and whys of preparing and distributing media releases.
- News releases that work -- and those that don't
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Media relations know-how: effective media releases.
- Newsboys Strike of 1899
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A youth-led campaign to force change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer's and William Randolph Hearst's newspapers compensated their child labor force.
- The Newsfakers
Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
YouTube and blogs have made it easier than ever to fabricate events. The media are happy to run unsubstantiated reports and footage.
- Newsletter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- News/Notes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Newspaper boycotted for honesty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Newspapers and the Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1916
The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
- Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press.
- Newton, Huey P.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party. (1942-1989).
- The Next Mexican Revolution
Don't Look Now, But It's Already Started
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If this is to be the year of the next Mexican revolution, the time to move is now.
- The Next Step
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1910
A decision must be made as to whether German Social Democracy, which is supported by the strongest trade-union organization and the greatest army of voters in the world, can bring about a mass action (which has been done at various times with great success in little Belgium, in Italy, in Austria-Hungary, in Sweden - not to mention Russia), or whether in Germany a trade-union organization numbering two million members and a powerful, well-disciplined party is just as incapable of giving birth to an effective mass action at the crucial moment as were the French trade unions, which had been crippled by anarchist confusion, and the French Socialist party, which had been weakened by internal disputes.
- The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The occupation movement needs to build on the creative militancy in the streets of thousands of people (as shown in Oakland, Portland, Seattle, New York and elsewhere) to reach out to that large majority which sometimes seems, a block or two from the street battles, to be going about business as usual. The growing number of anti-eviction and anti-foreclosure actions has made that outreach.
- The Next War on Washington’s Agenda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
It could not be more obvious that Washington’s war preparations against Iran have nothing to do with deterring Iran from a nuclear weapon. So, what are the war preparations about?
- NFB Video Series
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
This week, two respected human rights organisations - one Palestinian, one Israeli - each came out with very full reports into the extent of the damage caused by the assault Israel waged against Gaza last winter.
- Nicaragua Twenty-five Years Later
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Twenty-five years ago, on July 17th — under the impact of an insurrectional general strike — President Anastasio Somoza Debayle fled Nicaragua, leaving the government in the hands of his Vice President Francisco Urcuyo. Urcuyo’s task was to negotiate a “provisional government” and, with Washington’s agreement, implement a cease-fire that would freeze the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) army and National Guard positions.
- Nicaraguan Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Encompasses the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.
- The Nightmare Comes True
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
I was standing on a hill overlooking the infamous Kalandia checkpoint. Below me was a narrow road, packed with Palestinians in the blazing sun, 30 degrees centigrade in the shade (but there was no shade) trudging towards the checkpoint.
- Nim and Noam
Skinner, Chomsky and the Chimp
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
How psychologists abused a chimpanzee in a failed attempt to prove that Noam Chomsky was wrong about language.
- NIMBI
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Nin, Andrés
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Spanish Communist revolutionary. (1892-1937).
- 9/11 and the “War on Terror” - Had the U.S. done the right thing, thousands of lives could have been saved
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In reflecting on the disastrous last decade we might ask, What would the world be like today if the United Sates, Britain, Canada and the other countries using their military might to kill fanatical young people had instead used that money to buy school books, drill wells, educate people, and promote religious tolerance throughout the Middle East – and at home?
- The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The 9/11 conspiracists seize on coincidences and force them into sequences they deem to be logical and significant. Their treatment of eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence is whimsical.
- 9/11: Debunking The Myths
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Popular Mechanics special report on September 11 conspiracy theories.
- 9-11 Loose Change Second Edition Viewer Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories.
- Nine-Hour Movement
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was an international workers' attempt to secure shorter working days.
- Nine Years' War (Tyrone's Rebellion, Ireland)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Ireland 1594 to 1603.
- 1988 Poverty Lines:
Estimates By The National Council Of Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- The 1989 Budget and Social Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- 1987 Poverty Lines
Estimates By The National Council of Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- The 1990 Prague Appeal: Let Us Found a Helsinki Citizens Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The peaceful transition of Europe is unthinkable without the full observance of all human and civil rights.
- 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
- 1992: A White Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
- The 1978 Seminar on Education Finance: Financial Implications of Declining Enrolment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- 1973 Redux?: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The world today is poised between the U.S. and East Asian centered phases of capitalist expansion.
- 1978 Annual Report of San Juan River Salmon Enhancement Program
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- 1976 Prisoner of Conscience Week Booklet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A list of 14 prisoners on conscience. Chosen for Prisoner of Conscience Week.
- The 1960 Sit-ins in Context
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We think of the Sit-In Movement as beginning on February 1, 1960, fifty years ago. In the minds of many this was the initiating event that led to many subsequent developments in the broader civil rights movement, indeed as a turning point in Black, and more generally, U.S. history. But the sit-ins, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s had their origins in vast social changes that began long before.
- The 1960 Sit-ins in Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Civil Rights Movement that we associate with the 1960s was the culmination of a vast set of social and economic changes. The tradition of Black struggle itself, going back to the very beginnings of slavery in the New World, was also part of the context for the new movement.
- No action on human rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Mulroney Tories are doing nothing at all about human rights.
- No base in Goose Bay
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- No Border Network
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Loose associations of autonomous organisations, groups, and individuals in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and beyond. They support freedom of movement and resist human migration control by coordinating international border camps, demonstrations, direct actions, and anti-deportation campaigns.
- No Classes for Torture! Protests Escalate Against “School of the Americas”
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Spurred by an enormous and unexpected victory in Congress, thousands of protesters will gather later this year at the gates of Fort Benning, GA to demand the closure of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), a military facility that provides training for Latin American and Caribbean soldiers and officers.
- No Fixed Address: The Housing crisis in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- No Fooling—Corporations Evade Taxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Closing corporate loopholes so that corporate income tax revenues in the United States match the 3.4% of GDP collected on average by OECD corporate income taxes would add close to $200 billion to federal government revenues—more than five times the $39 billion of devastating spending cuts just made in the federal budget in 2011. Returning the corporate income tax revenues to the 4.0% of GDP level of four decades ago would add close to $300 billion a year to government revenues.
- No Last Frontier
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- No Lasting City
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- No Lasting City.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
- No More Secrets
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- No News is Not Good News
Cops Taping Protesters & Journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If cops photograph and videotape protesters and journalists, it's news if it happens in China, but when it happens in the U.S., as it routinely does, the media are silent.
- No, Not All Bi Women Love Threesomes
Silly Myths About Women and Bisexuality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Being bisexual means that you are attracted to members of both sexes, even if you#re not sleeping with them. Here are some things bisexuality doesn#t mean.
- No nukes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- No olvides escribir
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- No One Else Will Stop The Killing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Because we personally understand what war truly means, we have written, called and demonstrated repeatedly for an end to the killing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- No Outside Saviors!
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Against The Current spoke with Gwendolyn M. Patton as part of our retrospective on the events of 1968 and the surrounding years.
- No platform or no democracy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
- No Platform Won't Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything #establishment# is viewed as a conspiracy. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
- No "Respect" for Class
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In his article on Britain’s ‘Respect Coalition’ in ATC 111 (July-August 2004), Liam MacUaid used the indisputably anti-working class record of the Blair government to justify the highly disputable claim that Respect is a supportable alternative. We want to reply.
- No Rights - No Candu in Argentina
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- No Strikes in Canada over health care
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are very different, leading to different approaches to disagreements, and significantly different outcomes.
- No surrender in Greece
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A member of International Workers Left (DEA), reports from Athens on the May 20 general strike and workers# growing radicalization.
- No Well - The Canborough (Ontario) Success Story
Or - How to Wage an Environmental Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Noam Chomsky birthday greetings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Chomsky's immense contributions have helped me feel more optimistic and thereby helped me keep my energies focused on activism.
- Noam Chomsky: Moral & Social Thinker
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Noam Chomsky is a powerhouse of insightful thought – this book attests to that. So analyzing or even summarizing Anthony Arnove’s The Essential Chomsky is no simple task. A moderately lengthy and notably chronological collection of texts plucked from Chomsky’s enormous output, The Essential Chomsky leaps from linguistics to Palestine to libertarian socialism and back to linguistics again. Given the political nature of Against the Current, we will focus on Chomsky’s views on political philosophy, morality, U.S. foreign and domestic policy, and propaganda, ending with thoughts on the editing. But first, a few introductory remarks on the man himself.
- Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
- Noam Chomsky on 1968
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky explores the milestones achieved in this monumental year, including human and ethnic rights, global solidarity, environmental concern, etc. Despite simultaneously tragic realities of 1968, the results have been long-lasting and positive.
- Noise Busters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves.
- Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth, urbanization, and the associated growth in the use of increasingly powerful, varied, and highly mobile sources of noise. It will also continue to grow because of sustained growth in highway, rail, and air traffic, which remain major sources of environmental noise. The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant.
- Noise, Sovereignty, and Civility
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Noise is caused by people and businesses claiming rights, usually property rights, to emit noise into the air, and by people who do not possess the civility to be good neighbors. While its effects are an environmental health issue, its causes are tied to the issues of sovereignty (who owns the air?) and civility (how should we treat our neighbors?).
- Non-cooperation movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of nationwide people's movements of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress.
- Non-profits get exemption
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- A Non-Dogmatic Approach to Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
As against that altogether dogmatic approach which had already sterilized the revolutionary Marxist theory in all but a few phases of its century-long development in Europe, and by which the attempted extension of Marxism to the US has been blighted from the very beginning, it is here proposed to revindicate the critical, pragmatic, and activistic element which for all this has never been entirely eliminated from the social theory of Marx and which during the few short phases of its predominance has made that theory a most efficient weapon of the proletarian class struggle.
- Non-monogamy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A blanket term covering several different types of interpersonal relationships in which some or all participants have multiple marital, sexual, and/or romantic partners.
- The Nonsense of Planning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
The literature dealing with the problems of a planned economy has attained proportions comparable only with those of the depression which brought it forth. In all this welter of thought, we may distinguish three main currents: one which stands for the possibility of capitalist planning, another which denies it on principle, and a third which hovers between these extremes and finds its champions both in the bourgeois and socialist camps.
- Nonviolent Defence, The Road Not Taken
The Case of India
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
One of the most unfortunate missed historical opportunities occured when India, after achieving independence through nonviolent action, took the course of military defence. Let us imagine what might have happened if Gandhi and other nonviolent enthusiasts had spent their time in prison planning the specifics of nonviolent defence in detail.
- Nonviolent resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The practice of achieving socio-political goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence.
- North End Diversion and Neighborhod Justice Project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Northern Ireland's Marching Season Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IT IS DIFFICULT for those fortunate enough to live in more sophisticated communities to understand and appreciate the deep sense of fear, outrage and humiliation that marks these annual incursions into the little streets of this little town. . . .
So begins an editorial which appeared in the Belfast-based Irish News a number of years ago.
- Northern Ireland's Troubled Compromise
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
August 31 marked the ten-year anniversary of the Provisional Irish Republican Army’s (IRA) cease-fire, and a turning point in the recent history of Northern Ireland.
- Northern Perspectives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
- The Northwest Airlines Strike: Where is Labor Going?
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) strike at Northwest Airlines offers a window into class relations and the state of the labor movement in the United States. What we can see through that window is very grim.
- North-West Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada, which they believed had failed to address their concerns for the survival of their people.
- The Northwest Strike: Acid Test for Labor
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The following speech was given by Malik Miah, a United Airlines Airline representative and editor of Way Points of Local 9 of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), at a San Francisco Airport rally on Labor Day, September 5, organized for striking mechanics, custodians and cleaners at Northwest Airlines.
- Norwegian Pension Fund Divests from Israeli Military Giant Elbit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has excluded the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. from the Government Pension Fund # Global, on the basis of the Council on Ethics# recommendation. The Council on Ethics has found that investment in Elbit constitutes an unacceptable risk of contribution to serious violations of fundamental ethical norms as a result of the company#s integral involvement in Israel#s construction of a separation barrier on occupied territory.
- Norwegian resistance movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.
- Not Another Disaster Movie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Whose will is it that keeps us going the way we are? The will of capital, albeit a capital that’s been refurbished for our modern times. That will cloaks itself in the garb of progress, science and technology. At the same time, it justifies itself by the invocation, in the developed countries and those (like China) on the fast track to development, of an apparently all but incontrovertible need to maintain “our way of life.” That way of life threatens to fairly quickly become a threat to the possibility of life in any form that we would want to be part of.
- Not Bad Policy, But Class Policy
Holes in the Keynesian Against G20 Austerity Plan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Liberal critics of the vicious austerity policies passionately argue against such policies as #bad,# #misguided,# or #unwise# as if the governments that make such policies do not know what they are doing. Accordingly, these critics offer all kinds of elegant Keynesian arguments in favor of stimulus deficit spending that could lead to improved economic conditions, increased tax revenues, and decreased debt and deficit. What these critics tend to overlook, however, is the fact that the governments that impose austerity policies are serving as bailiffs or debt-collecting agencies on behalf of their corporate/financial masters.
- Not Quite "Ordinary Human Beings"—Anti-imperialism and the anti-humanist rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
In our struggle against Zionism, racism, and all forms of colonialism and imperialism, there is no place for antisemitism or the vilification of Jews, Palestinians or any people based on their religions, cultures, nationalities, ethnicity or history.
- The not-so-hidden persuaders
The Israel lobby#s global propaganda manual
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
- Notes from a Revolution Dying
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
- Notes of the Atlantic Workshop on Single Displaced Persons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Notes on Anarchism
In Daniel Guerin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Noam Chomsky explores numerous variations and philosophies associated with the anarchist notion. He considers them in a context of historical development and elaborates with his own perspectives, explanations, and general commentary.
- Notes on NAFTA
The Masters of Man
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Chomsky depicts the negative consequences of protectionist measures such as NAFTA in the wider context of the rights of workers, consumers, and the future generations who cannot "vote" in the market on environmental issues.
- Notes on the Diagnostic Process Review of November 22,29 and Dec. 6, 1977.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Notes on the Fly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011 Published: 2012
A report from Occupy Wall Street
- Notes on the Millenium
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Jane Slaughter interviews Daniel Singer. Daniel Singer specializes in explaining pivotal social movements. His books on the French worker-student revolt of May 1968 and on Polish workers' rebellion against the party-state bureaucracy showed us the real-life workings of movements from below, and their potential to go farther. Best known to American socialists as the European correspondent of The Nation, Singer's elegantly written dispatches are notable for avoiding the false trails of various social democratic election victories.
- Notes sur l'histoire et les conditions de vie des travailleurs immigres au Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Nothing for workers at bankrupt firm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- N'oubliez pas d'écrire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- A Nous De Decider
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Nous, les travailleurs immigrants
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Le Nouvel Ordre Economique International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Une vue d'ensemble du "nouvel ordre economique international."
- Nova Scotia Labour Research and Support Centre - Newsletter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Nova Scotia Micmac Aboriginal Rights Position Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Nova Scotia Worker.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- The Nova Scotia Worker.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- The November 2011 General Elections in Spain: Indignation Trapped in the Ballot Box
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The “outrage” expressed in the Spanish streets, deflated after the electoral ritual, is confronted with the limitations of the movement’s citizen-based abstractions (electoral reform, the affirmation of democracy, denouncing corruption, etc.) when confronted with the reality ( labor reform, social cuts) imposed by capital and its democratically elected administrators. Or, perhaps, indignation has completed its cycle and we are at the beginning.
- Now Is The Time
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The world must be offered the chance to see the good Palestinian, the good Arab and the good Muslim. We must be offered the chance to see the good Jew and the well-intentioned Christians and West. It is all in our grasp, but, we need to take that important leap by acting now with courage and wisdom. A unified vision and strategy on the Palestinian side must lead us toward peace.
- Now is the Time to Prepare for Retirement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
You prepare for retirement in the way you lead your life long before retirement.
- Now that we've burned our boats...
The Report of the People's Commission on Unemployment, Newdoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Now they're going to ruin the economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The geniuses who brought us the constitutional debacle are turning their energies to the economy.
- The Nuclear Death of a Nuclear Scientist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Nuclear Deceit: The Times and Iran
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Is the Times engaged in reporting or propaganda in its coverage of Iran's nuclear program?
- The Nuclear Dilemma
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Nuclear facts and figures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A well-documented account of the nuclear industry in Canada illustrated with lively cartoons.
- Nuclear Power And P.E.I.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Nuclear Power Booklet
The Case for a Nuclear-Free Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Nuclear Testing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Nuclear Wastes - What, Me Worry?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Nude beach
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A beach where users are legally at liberty to be nude.
- Nudity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The state of wearing no clothing.
- The NUHW Revolt
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The largest battle within the U.S. union movement in decades is happening right now. It is an organizing campaign to leave the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for the newly formed National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
- Nutrition and Underdevelopment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Nuts and Bolts of Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- NYC Transit Workers' Fare Strike 2012: Can Occupy Open Horizons for a Frustrated Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Transit workers belonging to New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 exhibit a familiar sight in the 21st century U.S. labor movement: broke, angry, slandered, disillusioned, directionless and top heavy.
- NYC's Workfare Shell Game: An Interview with Heidi Dorow
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
HEIDI DOROW IS director of the Urban Justice Center Organizing Project in New York City. In ATC 73 (March-April 1998) she spoke with Dianne Feeley and David Finkel about New York's “Work Experience Program” (WEP), and her organization's campaign to convince non-profit organizations to refuse to participate in this workfare program. We spoke to her again in February, 1999 to learn about developments in the past year.
- Nyerere, Julius
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African politician and socialist. (1922-1999).
- NYU: Nerds on Strike!
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On November 9, 2005, graduate student employees at New York University (NYU) put down their red pens and picked up their picket signs. After a 2004 ruling by a Bush- appointed majority of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NYU administration seized the opportunity to refuse to recognize and renegotiate with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)/ UAW Local 2110.
- The Oakland General Strike of 1946
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An account of the General Strike in Oakland, California.
- The Oakland Port Shutdown
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A personal account of the growing dialogue between the labour movement and the Occupy organizing, as seen by someone heavily involved in attempting to build these linkages.
- Oaxaca: Autonomy Under Seige
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On April 27, 2010, the Mexican state of Oaxaca again garnered international attention as a humanitarian aid and solidarity caravan comprised of national and international activists heading to the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala was ambushed by state-backed paramilitaries, resulting in the deaths of two activists, leaving several wounded, and others disappeared for days.
- Oaxaca protests 2006
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
- Obama and "I Have a Dream" in 2008
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
As we enter the 2008 presidential election, it is noteworthy that Illinois Senator Barack Obama is still a serious contender for the Democratic Party nomination. I say “noteworthy” because his campaign has been marked throughout with ambivalence among many African Americans.
- Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
- Obama and the Empire
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
As Barack Obama’s campaign shifted focus to battle John McCain following his victory over Hillary Clinton, various observers began to suggest that Obama had begun to “move to the center” in order to get elected. Supporters explained that shift as a necessary pragmatic step; others, airing varied degrees of disappointment, went so far as to suggest that he had somehow “lurched to the right.”
- Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Obama on Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Noam Chomsky criticizes Barack Obama's vague stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict and warns that there is much importance in what he is not expressing.
- The Obama Reality Disconnect
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There is a sharp reality disconnect in the Black community. On the one hand, the Black population continues to support the first African-American president, Barack Obama, by more than 90%.
- Obama signs police state legislation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home.
- Obama's Afghanistan War: Morally Wrong, or Incompetently Waged?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
For our rulers, the point of a war is to make us Americans feel the way only a war can--determined to prevail over a dangerous foreign enemy by supporting our leaders when we would otherwise oppose them over domestic issues. Wars are waged for domestic social control and to justify enormous arms expenditures and contracts. Our leaders need wars to drag on so the enemy can be deemed sufficiently dangerous and implacable and thus the war made to seem important or necessary.
- Obama's Imperial Continuity
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Despite the rhetoric of hope and promises of “change we can believe in” that ushered him into the White House, Barack Obama has offered anything but a marked shift in the fundamental course of U.S. foreign policy. The change Obama has brought — to the relief of U.S. and global elites — is away from the George W. Bush-era fantasy that U.S. military firepower and ideological muscle could unilaterally dominate the globe. But his underlying policy goals are very much in continuity not only with Bush but with a century of his predecessors.
- Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
- Obama's Reform, Recovery Stalled
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Reform agenda of president Obama and the Democrats, such as it was, is exhausted. Two failing wars, a fragile and almost jobless economic recovery teetering on the cusp of a double-dip Great Recession, and an all-out rightwing racial, economic and political offensive have defined the ground for the November midterm election and the period to follow.
- Obama's RTTT vs. Teacher Unions
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The 165 Washington, DC public school teachers terminated for poor evaluations on July 23 may be the first victims of the Obama reform agenda. The teachers were fired because of low scores on the DC school system’s new evaluation procedure — one which ties teacher evaluations to student scores on standardized tests.
- Obama's "We Got No Money" Rap
Why It Augurs a Sinister Banksters' End Game
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Obama is deliberately precipitating another crisis on the advise of his chief lieutenants. Summers and Geithner are steering the economy back into recession so they can implement the same austerity measures and "structural adjustment" programs which have been used throughout the developing world. It's "starve the beast" all over again. As the stimulus dries up, revenue-depleted states will be forced to auction off public lands, resources, parks and other assets to the highest bidder. The banksters and robber barons will feast on the country's treasures while the middle class is crushed by the freefalling dollar, lost home equity, and persistent high unemployment.
- Obituary: Leon Sedov
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
In Leon Lvovich, Trotsky has lost more than a son of his own blood # he has lost a son in spirit, an irreplaceable companion in struggle.
- Obscenity conviction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Obscenity exposed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
- Obsessions of Berlin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
The Russians are Berlin#s second great obsession. The rape of the city is burned deep into the minds of its inhabitants because it is associated with their greatest disappointment. Long before the fall of the city, refugees from the East told horrible stories about the Russians# behavior. So did the radio. But wishful thinking discounted these stories as exaggerations and propaganda. At any rate, it could not get worse than it was. The same hope that welcomed Hitler in exchange for the depression welcomed now the Russians in exchange for the bombings.
- The Occupation and the Anti-War Movement After the Election
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Anyone watching the message on Iraq in George W. Bush's February 3 State of the Union address must be convinced that members of both Houses of Congress, starting with Dick Cheney himself, are definitely making the physical effort needed to sustain their cardiac health. The frenzied rhythm of their standing ovations indeed equaled the most intensive aerobics.
- Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
- Occupation Industries: The Israeli Industrial Zones
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In a climate in which the call for a consumer boycott of Israeli goods is finally gaining strength, one area of Israel#s economy is, as yet, surprisingly under-researched. Most of Israel#s industrial zones in the West Bank are connected to illegal residential settlements and provide an indispensable economic backbone to the local settler economy. Business areas like the industrial zones are at the forefront of Israel#s brutal occupation of Palestine, facilitating ethnic cleansing and acting hand-in-hand with the Israeli state in their quest for territorial dominance.
- Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
- Occupational health centre dumped
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Occupational Health Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1990
- The Occupier Defines Justice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
- Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Occupy and the Urgency of Inclusiveness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Occupy is a social movement that purports to give expression to working class concerns in the absence of working class participation. Occupy has evolved into a form of organization that effectively excludes many who might otherwise participate, and, even worse, may ultimately result in a predominately middle class orientation over time.
- Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics of Popular Self-Management for the Post-Civil Rights City
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis.
- Occupy and Detroit's Crisis
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
What's the new center of gravity on the political landscape? Dan La Botz has provocatively remarked that Occupy Oakland’s November 2 shutdown of the Port of Oakland — one of the largest recent labor actions — was initiated from outside union structures. Earlier, in New York City, on the morning Mayor Bloomberg dispatched police to expel Occupiers from Liberty Park, 5,000 people — many city workers, transit workers and teachers — turned out, forcing him to back off.
- Occupy Isla Vista for the 99%
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Isla Vista is an unincorporated community within the Santa Barbara County, a gentrified ghetto on the sunny seaside of southern California packing 23,000 people within its meager 1.8 square miles. The core is composed of students studying at the nearby University of California, with a largely ignored community composed of Latino/Latina working-class and other permanent residents, including a houseless population.
- Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A report from the 2011 Occupy movement in Los Angeles.
- Occupy Movement a valuable partner
'Idea' to build a united Canadian progressive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The progressive community must learn it has to confront power with power – something we don’t do well in Canada. It seems enough to most Canadians to simply point out that something is wrong, and leave it to someone else to shoulder. This doesn’t cut it any more. We need to stop being nice, and start fighting harder!
- Occupy Oakland activists take up the question of decision-making
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Exclusionary strategies and tactics alienate those of us who are interested in a slower, more solid, more inclusive approach of mass movement building.
- Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown and Beyond–All Eyes on Longview!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Occupy movement – and especially Occupy Oakland – has demonstrated remarkable resilience and an almost unprecedented ability to repeatedly mobilize mass actions against economic injustice and police brutality.
- Occupy Portland Regroups
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Early on a dark and freezing Monday morning, December 12, 2011, more than 800 people descended on terminals five and six at the Port of Portland. Having announced their intention to occupy and shut down the port, the demonstrators arrived to find that the Port of Portland management had beaten them to the punch and closed the two terminals over “safety concerns.”
- Occupy Wall Street vs. Kingian Methods
Where are the Demands?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The students, the labour unions, the working poor, the immigrants, the activists all over the country should come up with the solutions and make the demands. There can be dangerous consequences in organizing efforts when there is no clarity. It’s often a matter of life and death.
- Occupy Wall Street - Wikipedia article
Connexpedia article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
About the demonstrations in New York City, 2011.
- Occupy Wall Street! Observations from a New York Public Sector Worker
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A lot remains to be seen, but if Madison is any indication, upping the ante in this struggle and achieving real results will require more than crowds ... it will require the focused activity of significant layers of the organized working classes, that have the roots and the experience to help leverage the power that is being built against the establishment here and nationally. Even if we don't get concrete wins, this will have been a hugely important protest but there is a potential for it to be concretely effective as well.
- Occupy's A**hole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old Hippie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Watching the OWS organizers struggle with drummers, druggies, sexual harassers, and racists brings me back to a few lessons we had to learn the hard way back in the day, always after putting up with way too much over-the-top behavior from people we didn’t think we were allowed to say no to. It’s heartening to watch the Occupiers begin to work out solutions to what I can only indelicately call the a**hole problem.
- Ochs, Phil
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. (1940# 1976)
- October 7: Defend Education!
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Students, faculty and campus workers across the United States will kick off the 2010-2011 school year with an October 7 national day of action to defend public education. This day of action will attempt to pick up from where last year’s movement to defend public education left off. March 4 represented the broadest point of last year’s organizing, with strikes, major rallies and marches, and smaller local speak-outs taking place throughout California, across the country, and to some extent around the world.
- An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
This appeal from Russian intellectuals and artists on the 90th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution comes to us from veteran leftists, social democrats, artists and even children of Left Oppositionists, most of them politically active at least since the Gorbachev years of glasnost and perestroika. It has been abridged here for space reasons.
- October Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The October Revolution, also known as the Soviet Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution.
- Of Forest and Trees Part Two
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Capitalism is first and foremost a system of accumulation. Value is, if not nothing today, pretty much nothing tomorrow. The reproduction of value is pretty much everything. Swindles, looting, theft certainly exist but only phenomenally, as expressions of moments in the organization, and disorganization, of value production.
- Of Justice, Revolutions and Human Rights: Notes on a trip to Central America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Of National Lies and Racial America
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
- Of Sowing and Harvests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don't know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
- Off the Record
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The reporter always has the upper hand when you make an 'off-the-record' statement.
- Official Report on the International NGO Conference on Discrimination
Against Indigenous Populations - 1977 - In The Americas.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Oh, Freedom
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African American freedom song.
- Oh! How--German is this Revolution!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
- Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
- Ohio Socialist Runs for U.S. Senate
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
I’m running as the Ohio Socialist Party candidate for the U.S. Senate because I believe that the severity of the crisis, and the depth of dissatisfaction and discontent in our society, obligate socialists to put forward our alternative and to organize to achieve it. We on the left need to present the vision of a democratic socialist society, a society which can only be achieved through building a mass social movement and a radically different sort of political organization.
- Ohio Workers, Services Under Fire
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
As in so much of the country after the recent election cycle, a newly-elected Republican administration has taken the reigns of state government in Ohio. The centerpiece of their ambitious austerity agenda is the notorious Senate Bill 5, which will severely restrict the collective bargaining rights of most public sector workers in the state. The bill has galvanized a section of Ohio workers to a degree not seen a decades. On March 31, Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed SB 5 into law, but the movement to defeat the bill still carries on.
- The OIC does not speak for Muslims
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
- Oil & Gas Bibliography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Oil dollars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- The Oil Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- The Old Mole
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
The question of peace is in reality bound up with the unimpeded, radical development of the Russian Revolution. But the latter is in turn bound up with the parallel revolutionary struggles for peace on the part of the French, English, Italian and, especially, the German proletariat.
- Old North End Community Housing Limited
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Olga Document
For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A document written in a series of meetings in Givat Olga, Israel, and titled after the location, The Olga Document. Advoctes coexistence of the peoples of this country, based on mutual recognition, equal partnership and implementation of historical justice.
- Olive oil, opposition and Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Rick Salutin writes about increasingly widespread Jewish opposition to Israel#s actions.
- On 9/11 and the Politics of Language
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Martin Espada. Called "the Latino poet of his generation” and “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors,” Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published more than 15 books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator.
- On a Cross of Coal
How Massey Crucified Miners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Federal investigators investigated the Massey mine disaster in which 29 miners died discovered that Massey Energy was keeping two sets of books (safety logs). One log reflected actual mine conditions, which, alas, were demonstrably unsafe, and the other log was a fictionalized showpiece, a veritable Potemkin village, used to mislead government safety inspectors.
- On Cowardice and Violence
Reflections by a Former US Marine on the Mavi Marmara
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On the morning of the attack I was directly involved in the disarming of two Israeli Commandos. This was a forcible, non-negotiable, separation of weapons from commandos who had already murdered two brothers that I had seen that day.
- On Criticizing Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
MICHAEL LOWY'S ARTICLE in ATC 71 was titled “For a Critical Marxism.”This is obviously a misprint. The original title could only have been “Where Marx Went Wrong.”
- On Darwin's 200th Anniversary
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of his celebrated book On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Darwin left an indelible mark on our understanding of the world we live in and our place in history.
- On Egypt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Historical compromise over an attempt at democratic change.
- On Freedom of the Press (5)
Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in general legal terms what it can carry out in practice through the agency of the censor. For that reason, too, the operation of the censorship is entrusted not to the courts but to the police.
- On Freedom of the Press (1)
Prussian Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imaginary, attitude to the press, whereas the defenders of the press in this Assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending. They have never come to know freedom of the press as a vital need. For them it is a matter of the head, in which the heart plays no part.
- On Freedom of the Press (2)
Opponents of a Free Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press!
- On Freedom of the Press (3)
On the Assembly of the Estates
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly # and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? # precisely for that reason freedom of discussion is not desirable in the province. Because it is desirable that we speak frankly, it is still more desirable to keep the province in thrall to secrecy.
- On Freedom of the Press (4)
As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment of freedom, a positive good, whereas censorship is an embodiment of unfreedom, the polemic of a world outlook of semblance against the world outlook of essence; it has a merely negative nature.
- On Freedom of the Press (6)
Freedom in General
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends!
- On Hal Draper's Zionism
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
I would like to add some more information on the book by Hal Draper, Zionism, Israel and the Arabs, which is the source of the excerpt from his 1948 essay “How to Defend Israel” printed in the May/June 2007 issue of ATC.
- On Handcuffed and Felonious Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law in an extreme and uncompromising manner to any activity, violent or not, that is deemed to be anti-social.
- On Hunger and Capitalism
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
On September 11, 2001, approximately 35,000 of our brothers and sisters died from what is perhaps the worst possible cause of death — starvation. A decade after the 1996 World Food Summit set the goal of cutting the rate of hunger in the world by half, today approximately 854 million people are still starving, which is a great increase in comparison to the 842 million in the year 2000.
- On Immigration and Wages
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- On Imperialist Barbarism & the Need for World Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Four articles in Ideas & Action #16 (Fall 1991):
1. The Destruction of Iraq: Why?
2. The Rise and Decline of the American Empire
3. Every Nation-State is Imperialist by Nature
4. For National Autonomy within a World-wide Democracy
- On Islam And Gender Equality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A review essay on Salbiah Ahmad's book Critical Thoughts on Islam, Rights and Freedom in Malaysia.
- On left-wing dogmatism - a senile disorder
plus, Vanguard, vanguard, who's got the vanguard?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
- On Lesbian/Gay Liberation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The link between the oppression of LGBT people and women#s oppression is key to our understanding and the struggles for liberation are consequently closely linked.
- On Marxism and Method
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE ESSAY BY Michael Lowy, “For A Critical Marxism,”provides a useful beginning for discussion. His subtitle, “The Centrality of Self-Emancipation,”is an important departure from the more vanguardist views that used to prevail on the left, though it remains rather ambiguous and amorphous. But I would like to deal with what I see as two weaknesses.
- On May '68
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Interview with Michael Löwy. Michael Löwy is the author of numerous works on socialist thought from Marx to the present as well as on liberation theology in Latin America.
- On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Capitalism has always been a shock doctrine of selfish predation, as one can discover from Hobbes and Locke, Marx and Weber, none of them saluted by Klein. However there are huge third world economies that have been ravaged by neoliberalism that haven't endured "the shock doctrine" as defined by Klein. Ultimately Klen's analysis is limited and she is too gloomy and pessimistic about the power of capitalism.
- On Oil and Quicksand
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The death of Yaser Arafat, as well as the American assault and ensuing holocaust in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, occurred shortly after our previous issue (Against the Current 113) went to press. The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
- On Palestinian Civil Disobedience
The Google Matrix
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Human rights organizations have documented the forms of repression Israel deploys against villages that resist the annexation of their land. Once a village decides to struggle against the annexation barrier the entire community is punished. In addition to home demolitions, curfews and other forms of movement restriction, the Israeli occupation forces consistently use violence against the protestors - and most often targets the youth -- beating, tear-gassing, as well as deploying both lethal and 'non-lethal' ammunition against them.
- On Pre-Capitalist Social Formations and the Peasantry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- On Religious Cruelty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1769
In this essay I am going to examine the different kinds of religious cruelty. Under this name I include those religious opinions that proceed from this cruelty or give birth to it, those acts of barbarism imposed by religion itself, and those its zealots take as an obligation occasioned by its service and love.
- On Resistance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Several weeks after the 1967 anti-war demonstrations in Washington, Chomsky shares his impressions of resistance - both its possibilities and limitations.
- On Revolutionary Organization: Points for Discussion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1934
- On Richard Wright's Centennial: The Great Outsider
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In the spring of 1940, Richard Wright’s Native Son was published to such acclaim that Black Marxist C.L.R. James decreed the novel “not only a literary but also a political event.” By means of a riveting naturalist fictional technique, depicting the world through the eyes and ears of a 20-year-old unemployed African American named Bigger Thomas, Wright evokes the volatile brutality of poverty and segregation on Chicago’s South Side during the latter part of the Great Depression.
- On Second Congress of Comintern
From Chapter 3 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943 Published: 1967
World capitalism, after its first suicidal war, was now clearly incapable either of organizing a positive peace, or (what was equally evident) of deploying its fantastic technical progress to increase the prosperity, liberty, safety, and dignity of mankind. The Revolution was therefore right, as against capitalism; and we saw that the spectre of future war would raise a question-mark over the existence of civilization itself, unless the social system of Europe was speedily transformed. The fearful Jacobinism of the Russian Revolution seemed to me to be quite unavoidable; as was the institution of a new revolutionary State, now in the process of disowning all its early promises. In this I saw an immense danger: the State seemed to me to be properly a weapon of war, not a means of organizing production. Over all our achievements there hung a death-sentence; since for all of us, for our ideals, for the new justice that was proclaimed, for our new collective economy, still in its infancy, defeat would have brought a peremptory death and after that, who knows what? I thought of the Revolution as a tremendous sacrifice that was required for the future#s sake.
- On Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971 Published: 1975
On the relationship of spontaneityand revolution.
- On the 20th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1891
- On the anniversary of the birth of Erich Fromm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The many articles that poured forth in 1980 when Erich Fromm died on March 18 all praised him only as a "famous psychoanalyst." The press, by no accident at all, failed to mention that he was a Socialist Humanist. Moreover, in writing MARX'S CONCEPT OF MAN (which succeeded in introducing Marx's Humanist Essays to a wide American public), and in editing the first international symposium on SOCIALIST HUMANISM, he did so, not as an academician, but as an activist.
- On the Backgrounds of the Pacific War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
This essay touches on several questions: on Muste's revolutionary pacifism and his interpretation of it in connection with the Second World War; on the backgrounds of Japan's imperial ventures; on the Western reaction and responsibility; and, by implication, on the relevance of these matters to the problems of contemporary imperialism in Asia. WHile Chomsky does not advocate a particular "political line", he does assert that it was the lack of radical political critique which, though not exclusively, contributed to the atrocity of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- On the Clock
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
What happens to people when they become speeded up and hyper-sensitive to the passing of time? Think, for example, of how the pace of life has increased over the past 100 years. We don#t believe anything should take any time at all. Five minutes is too long. We travel now by automobiles or airplanes, covering in hours what once took days. #News# comes instantaneously from around the world # live (and carefully crafted) pictures from both Washington and Baghdad. Our culture has conditioned us to think of speed as #improvement,# as #advancement,# as #progress,# but nothing comes without cost.
- On the Content of Socialism: Part 1
From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955
- On the Content of Socialism: Part 2
From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955 Published: 1957
The development of modern society and what has happened to the working-class movement over the last 100 years (and in particular since 1917) have compelled us to make a radical revision of the ideas on which that movement has been based.
- On the Content of Socialism: Part 3
From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955 Published: 1958
We have tried to show that socialism is nothing other than people's conscious self-organization of their own lives in all domains; that it signifies, therefore, the management of production by the producers themselves on the scale of the workplace as well as on that of the economy as a whole; that it implies the abolition of every ruling apparatus separated from society; that it has to bring about a profound modification of technology and of the very meaning of work as people's primordial activity and, conjointly, an overthrow of all the values toward which capitalist society implicitly or explicitly is oriented.
- On the CP-USA and the Unions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Trade union officialdom, especially its top layers, not only defends the rights of the employer against those demands of the members that can't be met at a given time; it also, and at the same time, defends the gains won by previous struggles. The inability to see this duality accounts for the instability of radicals in the trade unions.
- On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
Two ways are open to the Prussian for the publication of his thoughts. He can either have them printed in his own country, in which case he has to submit to the domestic censorship; or, should he meet with objections here, outside the frontiers of his own state he can still either place himself under the censorship of another state in the Confederation or take advantage of press freedom in foreign countries. In any case the state retains the right to take repressive measures against possible breaches of the law.
- On the History of Early Christianity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1894 Published: 1895
- On the History of Human Nature
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
First, humans have the capacity for love, solidarity, compassion AND the capacity for great aggression and cruelty. Which capacity dominates depends on certain geographic and social conditions.
- On The History of the Communist League
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1885
- On the Irresponsible Handling of the Palestine Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
The American and English working class must not support the Zionist drive for a Jewish State (or what, under existing conditions means the same thing, a drive for Jewish immigration and colonisation) which, while befitting imperialism, opposes the most elementary interests equally of the Arab masses as of the Jewish.
- On The Jewish Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843 Published: 1844
- On the Labor Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The job of socialists today, as in the past, is to help organize a rank-and-file movement within the unions that is critical of the methods of bureaucratic business unionism and promotes militancy, solidarity and union democracy. While today the main job of such a reform movement "from below" would be to educate and organize a "militant minority," rank-and-file groupings can promote an alternative vision of "class struggle unionism" and prepare for large scale struggles in the future.
- On the Legacy of Che Guevara
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Peter Drucker's letter (ATC 144) commenting on Kit Wainer's review of Besancenot and Löwy's new biography of Che (ATC 143) rehearses many of Besancenot and Löwy's arguments that Che's Marxism was some sort of alternative to Stalinism. I, for one, am no longer convinced by these claims.
- On The Non-Formation of a Working-Class Political Party in the U.S., 1900-1945
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983 Published: 2002
Thus the basic thesis presented here is that no major working-class political party developed in the U.S. in the 20th century because in the U.S., in contrast to all other major capitalist countries, capitalism made the transition to the intensive (#Taylorist# or #Fordist#) phase of accumulation without requiring the participation of a working-class political party in the state.
- On the Polish Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848
It is above all our Germany which ought to congratulate itself on this explosion of democratic passion in Poland. We are, ourselves, on the eve of a democratic revolution. enceforth the German people and the Polish people are irrevocably allied. We have the same enemies, the same oppressors.
- On the Question of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847 Published: 1888
- On the Question of Revolutionary Organization: the Case of the NPA in France
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The challenge of creating an anti-bureaucratic, democratic revolutionary socialist party.
- On the Spartacus Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize.
- On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
- On Third Congress of Comintern
From Chapter 4 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943 Published: 1967
I did not feel disheartened or disoriented. I was disgusted at certain things, psychologically exhausted by the Terror and tormented by the mass of wrongs that I could see growing, which I was powerless to counteract. My conclusions were that the Russian Revolution, left to itself, would probably, in one way or another, collapse (I did not see how: would it be through war or domestic reaction?); that the Russians, who had made superhuman efforts to build a new society, were more or less at the end of their strength; and that relief and salvation must come from the West. From now on it was necessary to work to build a Western working-class movement capable of supporting the Russians and, one day, superseding them.
- On to Ottawa Trek
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In 1935, 1500 residents of federal unemployment relief camps in BC went on strike and moved by train and truck to Vancouver, spurred by angry concern for improved conditions and benefits in the camps. They then began a trek to Ottawa, but were stopped by police in Regina.
- On-to-Ottawa Trek
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A 1935 social movement of unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.
- On Troy Davis
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A letter to the editor by Theresa El-Amin, regional director of the Southern Anti-Racist Network.
- On Tunisia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When proletarians are willing to defy the forces of repression with bare hands and not retreat from the bullets of the police, they bring to oppositional ferment a determination that can shake state power, despite the more than 100 deaths reported. This is exactly what happened in Sidi Bouzid during the final days of December 2010 and in the first half of January 2011. Thus, in three stages, the movement which began in the south spread to all regions of Tunisia, to finally conclude in Tunis beginning on January 11.
- On Unions and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969 Published: 1973
Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
- On Walter Reuther: Legends and Lessons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
When we attempt to evaluate the best strategies for revitalization of the labor movement, it is good to know, in an older vernacular, which approaches and leaders were part of the problem and which were part of the solution.
- On Wielding the Subversive Scalpel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
In subversion, we leave behind the interminable argument between the good bureaucrats & the bad ones. By subversion we do not mean, as in its common usage, #overthrowing the government# & replacing it with ourselves. We mean undermining the very addiction, the sick, junkie-like need, to govern or be governed at all. In the end / in the beginning, there are no leaders, no followers: there are only actors.
- On Workers' Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1953
From the stories that we get every day from the shops, we can see a new form of struggle emerging. It never seems to be carried to its complete end, yet its existence is continuous. The real essence of this struggle and its ultimate goal is: a better life, a new society, the emergence of the individual as a human being.
- On workplace organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation.
- Once Again, On Fictitious Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Luxemburg rightly took seriously, as a guide to Capital, Marx's vision of capitalism as a transitory phase between feudalism and socialism, and analyzed capitalism's expanded reproduction of society as meaningful in laying the material basis for a higher form of society.
- Once More: Kronstadt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
I admire Trotsky and accept many of his theories. An article like this # essentially a piece of special pleading, however brilliant # makes it harder to defend Trotsky from the often-made accusation that his thinking is sectarian and inflexible.
- Once More: Kronstadt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
The question which dominates today the whole discussion is, in substance, this: When and how did Bolshevism begin to degenerate?
- One Big Union
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada met at the Western Labour Conference in Calgary and proclaimed support for the Bolshevik and other left-wing revolutions. They decided to conduct a referendum among Canadian union members on whether to secede from the American Federation of Labor and the trades and labour congress of Canada, and form a revolutionary industrial revolution to be called the One Big Union.
- One Big Union
An Outline of a Possible Industrial Organization of the Working Class, with Chart
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1911
This is the first edition of a booklet that was revised and republished many times by both the I. W. W. and Daniel De Leon's "Detroit I. W. W." (later the W. I. I. U.), to which the author defected in 1913. Later editions are available on this site: 1919 and ca. 1924.
- One Dimensional Man In Class Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
- One Earth - Two Worlds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Package of materials dealing with food-related themes.
- One Earth, One Sky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet about the links among all people, historically, daily.
- One Gigantic Prison
The Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Three Canadian MPs report on human rights violations in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.
- 150,000 Jobs lost to Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- 150 Years After the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- 105,000 jobs lost to free trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of "nonviolent weapons" at their disposal. Listed are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. Excerpted from The Politics of Nonviolent Action.
- 101 Web Sites for Inquiring Minds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- 165,000 factory jobs lost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- 150 years of dirty water
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Toronto#s water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded # but that doesn#t mean we should put up with it.
- One Hundred Innovations for Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- The 1% of the 99% and an Anti-Capitalist Alternative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What we need right now is for autonomous political organizing in both unionized and non-unionized workplaces, schools,and in the streets.
- One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
- One Sky Information Kit: Native People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- One Sky needs help
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- One State is Not Snake Oil: A Reply to Michael Neumann
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The income of the 18 wealthiest families in Israel is equivalent to 77 percent of Israel's national budget, which is NIS 256 billion a year. This means that in less than 4.4 years the 18 wealthiest families in Israel could pay the entire debt owed by Israeli Jews living in homes and land stolen from Palestinians. It means that in 4.5 years a fund set up by these 18 wealthiest families could offer every Jewish Israeli who lives on stolen land a million U.S. dollars which they would use either to buy their home from the rightful Palestinian owner or buy another home (probably it would have to be newly constructed) so they could return the stolen one but not end up homeless.
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- One Vote for Democracy - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- One Vote for Democracy - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- One Vote for Democracy - Korean text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- One Year of the BP Blowout
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In the years after Hurricane Katrina, I saw New Orleanians suffer from lack of health care. The storm and subsequent flooding caused immediate illness, with infections from the foul flood water and debris. As time passed, ever-present mold exacerbated respiratory conditions and mental health deteriorated in the face of immense stress.
- An ongoing debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Red Menace is meant to be a forum of dissenting views withing the broadly defined boundaries of libertarian socialism.
- Online encyclopedias: List of online encyclopedias - Wikipedia
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Online World Is Also On Fire
How the Sixties Marginalized Literature in American Culture (and Why Literature Mainly Deserved It)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
- Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1896
We must, first of all, learn how we ought to do our work among women.
- Ontario allows 'monster' trucks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Ontario Environment Network
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) Briefs Dealing with Labour Relations in Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Ontario Hydro: The Rising Cost of Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Ontario Legislature Investigate Nuclear Safety
Why Pickering Safety Systems Need to be Upgraded
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Ontario's Future - Ontario Hydro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
- Opa Nobody
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In Opa Nobody, Sonya Huber — an activist struggling to reconcile her politics with the demands of human relationships and the realities of contemporary U.S. life — undertakes an ambitious task: the political nonfiction novel.
- Opchanacanough
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A tribal chief of the Powhatan Confederacy. (Died 1646).
- An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
- Open Letter to Comrade Lenin
A reply to #left-wing# communism, an infantile disorder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
he tactics that are brilliant for Russia are bad here. They lead to defeat here.
- Open Letter to German Left Party (Die Linke)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The state of Israel does not deserve prizes for its occupation, racist separation and its war crimes. Only international policy which emphasises to Israel that violations of international law are not tolerated will succeed in promoting a just peace for all residents of this land.
- An Open Letter to Latin Americans
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- An Open Letter to the President of the Ford Motor Company of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Open marriage
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Open marriage typically refers to a marriage in which the partners agree that each may engage in extramarital sexual relationships, without this being regarded as infidelity.
- Open relationship
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional, spiritual and/or physical relationships with other partners.
- "Open Skies" Coming?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- 'Open skies' proceeding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Opening Doors
Vancouver's East End
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
- Operation Freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Operation Liberte Becomes a Permanent Coalition and Letter
from Provisional Organizing Committee for Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Operation Liberte Builds Support
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- An Operational Strategy for Development Education in the 80's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Opieka zdrowotna i dzieci Gazy w kryzysie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Opportunism and the art of the possible
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1898
Opportunism is a political game which can be lost in two ways: not only basic principles but also practical success may be forfeited.
- Opposing Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
According to Ulli Diemer, it is dangerous to think that liberation # in this case, sexual liberation # can be promoted by repressive legislation and censorship.
- Opposing Honourary Degree for George Bush
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
We should not uphold George Bush as a role model nor defend his responsibility for warfare bloodshed, international terrorism and attacks on basic human dignity.
- The Opposites Game
All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The surpassing strangeness of the American way of war in distant lands.
- Opposition to U.S. war against Vietnam
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Oral history
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
the recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information, based on the personal experiences and recollections of the speaker.
- The Oratory of Malcolm X
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Spike Lee closes his 1989 film “Do the Right Thing” with two quotes: In one, Malcolm X proclaims the right to self defense and in the other, Martin Luther King, Jr. insists upon non-violent protest. Each quote has the potential to produce a drastically different reading of the film, which ends in a police murder of an African-American youth and a subsequent street riot. Lee, however, chooses to maintain a tension between the two interpretations of the riot, asking his audience to juggle both or to choose for themselves.
- Order Prevails in Berlin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Rosa Luxemburg's last article, written just before she was murdered.
She concludes with the words: "You foolish lackeys! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!"
- Ordinary People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
When we talk about revolution, we aren't talking about pie in the sky or something that's never existed. We're talking about reshaping the world with the very best values that we practice now, today, in our families, with our friends and co-workers, with our students and patients. We believe that the smallest acts of kindness and the most public, collective acts of revolution are on a continuum of struggle to make the world the way we believe it should be.
- Organic Agriculture Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Organic and Beyond
Friendship, Solidarity and Patriotism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Organic is not enough. Organic will be an effective proposal for change only to the extent that it is integrated into the local and global movements that carry on the fight for food sovereignty, climate justice, ecological debt, women's rights and labor organizing; and against enclosures of common goods.
- The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto
What Now?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Unprecedented wholesale and retail control of the organic marketplace by companies employing a business model of selling twice as much so-called "natural" food as certified organic food, coupled with the takeover of many organic companies by multinational food corporations, threatens the growth of the organic movement.
- The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1921
Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
- Organised persecution of ethnic Germans
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Organization of Social Services and its Implications for the Mental Health of Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1926
In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
- Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1904
Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the debate within the Russian Social Democratic movement on party organization and democratic centralism. Luxemburg joins Trotsky in warning of the dangers inherent in centralism and argues against the concentration of power in a Central Committee. From a Socialist Revolutionary perspective Luxemburg puts forward compelling arguments against Lenin's conception of the revolutionary Party.
- Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
- Organizing for the 90s
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
David Harvey says that there is a lot of work to be done to coalesce various tendencies around the underlying question: can the world change materially, socially, mentally, and politically in such a way as to confront not only the dire state of social and natural relations in so many parts of the world, but also the perpetuation of endless compound growth? This is the question that the alienated and discontented must insist upon asking, again and again, even as they learn from those who experience the pain directly and who are so adept at organizing resistances to the dire consequences of compound growth on the ground.
- Organizing for Worker's Power
Beyond Trade Unionism & Vanguardism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
A discussion of the problem of "vanguardism," and the role of leadership in revolutionary organization, and its evolution through different stages of class struggle, by Adriano Sofri of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, with an introduction by militants in southern Ontario.
- Organizing in a Small Town
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
- Organizing Korean Contingent Labor
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Interview with Ae-Lim Yun. Ae-Lim Yun is an activist in Solidarity for the Abolition of Contingent Work, in Seoul, South Korea.
- Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
The newly found "poor" have become a focus for middle class activists. Having learned in the schools and universities that the working class either did not exist or that if it existed, it was co-opted and apathetic and could not possible act as the agent for social change, they found it "refreshing" to locate this new constituency.
- Organizing The Unorganized is the key to building the Union.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Organizing to Stop Police Brutality in Riverside, California: Organizing for Accountability
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
interview with Chani Beeman. Chani Beeman is co-chair of the Riverside Coalition for Police Accountability, whose principles and mission statement can be found at their website (www.ucr. edu/ethnomus/rcpa/rcpa.html). A complete file of articles on the shooting of Tyisha Miller and subsequent coverup can be found on the website of the Riverside Press-Enterprise (www.inlandempire online.com/special-reports/tyishamiller). Dianne Feeley and David Finkel of the ATC editorial board interviewed Chani on September 28.
- Organizing with Love: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Great organizing campaigns are like great love affairs. You begin to see life through a different lens. You change in unexpected ways. You lose sleep, but you also feel boundless energy. You develop new relationships and new interests. Your skin becomes more open to the world around you. Life feels different, and it’s almost like you’ve been reborn. And, most importantly, you begin to feel things that you previously couldn’t have even imagined are possible.
- Origin and Function of the Party Form
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961 Published: 1974
The central thesis that we wish to state and illustrate is that Marx and Engels derived the characteristics of the party form from the description of communist society.
- The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A profile of Chandler Davis, a blacklisted mathematician who served six months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- The Origins of Dialectical Materialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
The myth that Karl Marx formulated a fully worked-out method and philosophical system called “dialectical materialism” is the core claim of Marxism, but it has no basis at all in the writings of Karl Marx and but a slim basis in the writings of Frederick Engels. It is widely recognised now that Marx was not a philosopher and the term “dialectical materialism” was invented after his death.
- The origins of racism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Racism is so embedded in our society that many people assume it has always existed. But, says Yuri Prasad, it is really a modern phenomenon that developed with capitalism.
- The Origins of the Union Shop
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1989
Though the typical union contract nowadays contains some sort of union shop provision, union membership was voluntary under almost all CIO contracts prior to 1942. The dues "check off" was virtually unknown in the late '30s and dues were collected on the shop floor by shop stewards and committeemen.
- Orrego, Juan Pablo
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Chilean environment activist. (Born 1949).
- Orwell, George
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British author. (1903-1950).
- Orwell in the Maze of Memory
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On 23 June 1937, George Orwell and his wife Eileen boarded a train in the Barcelona station, destination Portbou.
- Osceola
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
War chief of the Seminole in Florida who led a small band of warriors in the Seminole resistance when the United States tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands. (1804-1838).
- Oshawa Strike 1937
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In 1937 , more than 4000 workers if General Motors plant in Oshaw Ontario, went on strike to fight for better wages and working conditions.
- Ossetia-Russia-Georgia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky points out the hypocrisy of threatening Russia with exclusion from international society due to the violation of the international principle of respecting other nations' sovereignty. He further explores how to integrate and handle Russia in the context of the modern world order and the threat of a Cold War II.
- Ossietzky, Carl von
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German radical pacifist. (1889-1938).
- The Other World Is Here
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
You see what you’re looking for. Most of us are constantly urged to see the world as, at best, a competitive place and, at worst, a constant war of each against each, and you can see just that without even bothering to look too hard. But that’s not all you can see.
- Ottawa-Carleton Tenants Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Ottawa tightens up information tap
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
- Ou-Vont Les Chambreurs Expulses du Centre-ville
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Our Differences
Interview about Worker-communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
There are two parts to the interview. The first deals with issues of working class and communism at a general level. The second focuses on more specific problems concerning the Iranian left and, particularly, the Communist Party of Iran (CPI).
- Our exclusive right to self-defense
Rattling the Cage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism. And there are no limits on our right to self-defense. There is no such thing as "disproportionate."
- Our future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Our global commitment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Our History Recovered
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
For thirty-six years since its apogee in the late 1960s during the worldwide movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam, the global Left, including the Left in the United States, has been in decline. Globally, perhaps the most significant causal factor accelerating decline at the beginning of the 1990s was the collapse of the Soviet Union as a perceived alternative to dominant capitalist economic and governmental modes.
- Our Life, Work, Struggles
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
At the time I joined Solidarity about a year and a half ago, I had been involved with activist and organizing work for about five years, which comprised most of my post-college life. Specifically, I was active in an organization called Jews Against The Occupation (a Palestine solidarity organization) and working as staff organizer for a housing group. I wanted a way to understand what I was doing in a bigger context, and to be around people who were thinking about how their current work fit in to a much longer term struggle.
- Our Little Victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
It took an issue like Litton to get us working together, and in our little victory we can take a great deal of pride. We were lied to, threatened, denied information and harassed, all in an unsuccessful effort to discredit us as "ignorant" and "of the enemy." American-inspired militarism has mastered the means by which its opposition in this way becomes popularly misinterpreted. It is worthwhile to look at some aspects of the work of The Island Way which enabled the groups to be a credible opposition.
- Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
- Our Promiscuous Prehistory
A Review of Sex at Dawn
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Most otherwise topnotch evolutionary psychologists, primatologists and anthropologists come up with flip, vague or convoluted ways to explain away unpopular evidence. They seem to be trying to squeeze the square peg of monogamy into the round hole of humanity. Ryan and Jethá have chosen a more well-rounded term to characterize the essence of human sexuality as practiced by our prehistoric progenitors: promiscuity.
- Our transportation future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The billions of dollars proposed to be spent on roads would be better invested in electrifying the main rail lines in Canada.
- Our two cents# worth...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Analysis of the Popular Education Conference
- Out From the Shadows
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A bigliography of the history of women in Manitoba.
- Out Lickspittle Press
Doorkeepers to the House of Lies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people’s god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
- Out of School -- Into the Labour Force
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Out of Sight, Out of Trouble
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The UK could tap into vast renewable resources, without any of the aggro caused by existing wind farms.
- Out of the Driver's Seat
Marxism in North America Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
- Out of the Ghetto - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
This book deals with working class, predominately Jewish, life in the East End of London in the years between the first and second world wars.
- Outbreaks of Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
For most of its history, democracy was seen as a degenerate mode of politics, much feared for its reliance on a populace seen as foolish and volatile. Yet since the adoption of representation in the eighteenth century, and the provision of an institutional place for democracy at the level of the state, we have laid to rest those dangerous images of noisy and volatile mobs, constant mass assemblies and endless inefficient talk. With the people being ruled by proxy, and periodically consenting to elite rule in elections, we have found a way to combine legitimacy with decency and viability.
- Outcry Over Israel's War Crimes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Jonathan Cook describes legal actions underway to hold Israel accountable for war crimes.
- Outline of Marx#s Capital Volume I
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1979
Marxism is wrongly considered to be a new #political economy.# It is true that, loosely speaking, even Marxists refer to Marx#s analysis of capitalist production as #Marxian political economy# But #Marxian political economy# is, in reality, a critique of the very foundations of political economy, which is nothing else than the bourgeois mode of thought of the bourgeois mode of production.
- Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
OutRage! therefore consciously tries to make its protests informative and amusing. It projects it's political message with wit, style, humour and theatricality. Indeed, a typical OutRage! action could be described as "radical theatre of the streets".
- Outreach Employment Services, 1976-1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Outsourcing & the Unions
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Why are outsourcing and offshoring hot button issues? The Bush administration defends it; the Democratic challenger John Kerry attacks it.
- Over the hill and picking up speed
An interview by Doug Wilson
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
An interview with three older gay activists about aging and society.
- Overcoming Male Oppression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982 Published: 1988
People join a social change movement in order to alleviate an external problem. Too often we are confronted with the same kind of behaviour we find in our everyday lives. We are all too often stifled by heavy handed authority: bosses at work, parents or spouse at home and teachers at school.
- Overseas placements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn't Racist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Christians.
- Owen, Robert
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English social reformer. (1771-1858).
- OWS and the working class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
As frustrating as this may sound to the left, who are justifiably excited over a revival of radical politics, many workers cannot see the movement’s relevancy to their own lives, yet still feel the pangs of the crisis perhaps more painfully than most.
- Ozone depleting quickly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Pacifism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage.
- Paine, Thomas
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
- Tom Paine, restless democrat
Profile of a radical
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that #my country is the world and my religion is to do good#.
- A Painful Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Noam Chomsky investigates the factors of the Oslo II peace agreement struck between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
- A Painful Struggle for Renewal
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Twenty-one years after the Sandinista National Liberation Front's triumph of July 1979, and ten years since the FSLN government lost power in an electoral upset, Nicaragua's political and economic picture is generally bleak. Widespread corruption, natural disasters made more catastrophic by social and environmental mismanagement, and a debilitating political pact between the top levels of the Liberal government (PLC) and the FSLN have sucked much of the life from the once vibrant popular movements. At the base, these movements are struggling for a renewal and reorientation.
- Pakistan on the Brink? The Real Threat from Within
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The American antiwar movement must understand that what is unfolding in Pakistan bears no resemblance to the “failed-state” proclamations of establishment hacks the world over. The danger is not at all that the country will fall to the Pakistani Taliban, drowned in a tidal wave of instability said to be cascading eastwards from Afghanistan. While sham elections in Afghanistan have hopefully helped clarify the venal, corrupt character of NATO’s efforts there, at times an unhealthy haziness still afflicts the Left’s thinking on Pakistan.
- Pakistan Women's Voices
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An interview with Bushra Khaliq. Bushra Khaliq is general secretary of the Women Workers Help Line (www.wwhl.org.pk) and a member of Labour Party Pakistan.
- Pakistan's Dark Journey
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The recent verdict of a lower court sentencing a Christian woman to death in a “blasphemy” case, and the subsequent murder of the Punjab Governor who supported the imprisoned woman, has posed the very vital question of whether Pakistani society has become intolerant, violent and extremist to the point of incorrigible.
- Palestine/Israel: A single state, with liberty and justice for all
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The notion of religious-ethnocentric entitlement and exclusivity for one people at the expense of another has been rejected the world over. Palestinians reject it and we assert that we are human beings worthy of the same human rights accorded to the rest of humanity; that we are worthy of our homes and farms, our heritage, our churches and mosques, and our history; and that we should not be expected to negotiate with our oppressors for such basic dignities. The two-state solution was and remains an instrument to circumvent the basic human rights of Palestinians in order to accommodate Israel#s desire to be Jewish. Polls show that Palestinians refuse to be the enemies of our Jewish brothers and sisters anywhere, just as we refuse to be oppressed by them.
- Palestine Strike
Arabs and Jews Unite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
The biggest strikes in the history of Palestine far surpassing any other which have taken place, broke out last month (April 1946). 32,000 workers came out, of which 26,000 were Arabs and 6,000 Jews.
- Palestine: Victims of Violence
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Nurit Peled delivered this speech to the European Parliament on International Women’s Day. Nurit Peled is an Israeli peace activist (her father Gen. Mati Peled was instrumental in founding the Israeli peace movement in the 1970s). She and her husband work with Bereaved Families (Palestinian and Israeli).
- Palestinian Democracy
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Few elections throughout the world have been perceived by the local population, as well as international observers, as democratic and transparent as the Palestinian ones. At first glance, Palestine seems to be the perfect example of the “democratization of the Middle East” that President George W. Bush and his administration are fighting for.
- Palestinian Economic Boycott Hits Israeli Settlers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israeli settlers are beginning to feel the bite of an economic boycott campaign launched by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements dotting the occupied West Bank.
- The Palestinian Facebook Movement: Can it take up the baton of revolution?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
At the heart of the new movement is a proposal that Palestinians should return to the methods of the first, unarmed, intifada – similar to what has recently been happening in many Arab states. This, they believe, is the right way to achieve the political and social aspirations of the Palestinians, and an alternative to the two failed strategies previously attempted: armed struggle and futile negotiations.
- Palestinian farmers face settler terror
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Jewish settlers have a long history of terrorising olive farmers, and they are now increasingly resorting to a worrying tactic: poisoning Palestinian water sources.
- Palestinian general strike 1936
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Part of the 1936#1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
- Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
- Panama invasion protest
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Panitch, Leo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian political scientist. (Born 1945).
- Pankhurst, Emmeline
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
- Pannekoek, Anton
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Scientist and Marxist. (1873-1960).
- Pannekoek's "The Party and the Working Class"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1941
- Panoply of the Absurd
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Conspiracy theorists are filling bestsellers with their supposed evidence about September 11.
- Pansexuality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Papanek, Victor
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. (1927-1999).
- Papineau, Louis-Joseph
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Lawyer, seigneur, politician, defender of the national heritage of French Canada. Led the fight for control of the political institutions of Lower Canada. (1786-1871).
- Pappe and Israel's New Historians
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An irony of Israeli political culture is that Zionism is exceptionally rigid in comparison to the democratic philosophy that legitimizes the U.S. political system, yet the breadth of political debate that appears in Israeli mainstream media is much wider than one would find in the United States.
- A Parable of Pigs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
There once was a pig farm that was operated by an old farmer, his son, and a hired man. The farmyard was filled with hundreds of pigs of all sizes, and they all ate their swill from a huge trough.
- A Parable of Women's Liberation
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Interview with Meredith Tax.
- The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6- November 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A growing army of self-styled “sustainable developers” argues that there is no contradiction between the unlimited accumulation of capital and the preservation of the earth. The system can continue to expand by creating a new “sustainable capitalism,” bringing the efficiency of the market to bear on nature and its reproduction. In reality, these visions amount to little more than a renewed strategy for profiting on planetary destruction.
- Parcel of Rogues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A review of the book 'Parcel of Rogues.'
- Parecon & Participatory Society
An Interview with Michael Albert
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Participatory Economics, or parecon for short, is a vision for how to conduct economics in a classless manner. It delivers to workers and consumers self managed say over their economic lives, a condition of solidarity with others, equitable incomes for their labors, diverse opportunities and options, and ecological balance.
- Parent, Madeleine
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
- Parent, Madeleine
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
- The Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1880
Under the name "Commune of Paris" a new idea was born, to become the starting point for future revolutions. As is always the case, this fruitful idea was not the product of some one individual's brain, of the conceptions of some philosopher; it was born of the collective spirit, it sprang from the heart of a whole community.
- The Paris Commune told in pictures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1934
An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
- Paris: May 1968
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
This is an eyewitness account of two weeks spent in Paris during May 1968. It is what one person saw, heard or discovered during that short period.
- Parks, Rosa
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African American civil rights activist. (1913-2005).
- Parlby, Irene Marryat
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Politician, farm women's leader. (1868-1965).
- Parrot, Jean-Claude
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Trade unionist. (Born 1936).
- Parsons, Lucy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Radical American labour organizer and anarchist communist. (1853-1942).
- Party and Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
The belief in parties is the main reason for the impotence of the working class; therefore we avoid forming a new party - not because we are too few, but because a party is an organization that aims to lead and control the working class. In opposition to this, we maintain that the working class can rise to victory only when it independently attacks its problems and decides its own fate.
- Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Russian Revolution of October 1917, the first successful revolution made by and for workers in world history, posed an immense paradox for revolutionary socialists. On the one hand, the combination of the most advanced forms of industrial capitalist development with a largely non-capitalist countryside and autocratic-absolutist state institutions made Russia “the weak link” in world capitalism, the society where a workers’ revolution could first succeed. On the other, Russia’s economic underdevelopment and the minority status of the working class in the population made the prospects of constructing a viable, democratic post-capitalist society impossible.
- Party and Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
We are only at the very earliest stages of a new workers' movement. The old movement was embodied in parties, and today belief in the party constitutes the most powerful check on the working class' capacity for action. That is why we are not trying to create a new party.
- Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
While the pre-World War I Lenin and the Bolsheviks did not leave original theoretical tools to guide the reconstruction of revolutionary workers’ organizations, the study of their historical experience remains invaluable.
- The Passion for Free Markets
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Chomsky discusses the reasons for being skeptical of the WTO and its use as the forum for the export of American values.
- Past Contributors on Unemployment 1976 - 1978
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
A list of organizations abstracted in past issues of Connexions from 1976 through 1978.
- Pat Califia - A Three Part Interview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2001
"If you believe that inequities can only be addressed through extreme social change, then you qualify as a sex radical, even if you prefer to get off in the missionary position and still believe there are only two genders."
- Patent Absurdity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted.
- Patent Folly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
- Patenting human life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Patients' Rights Handbook
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Patricia Isasa's Quest for Justice
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Patricia Isasa turned 16 on April 24, 1976 in her home town of Santa Fe, Argentina. She was an honor student, a delegate of her school and a member of a Catholic group in support of the poor - all completely open and legal activities.
- Patrick Buchanan's Ezola Virus
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Amidst all the turmoil of the Reform Party this summer, Pat Buchanan named Ezola Foster as his running mate for his third bid at the presidency. For a man who has openly questioned the holocaust, and battled to save white America, choosing a Black woman is a little puzzling.
- The PATRIOT Act: Darkness With No Sunset
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A report by Amnesty International released May 13, 2005 concluded that the treatment of detainees being held around the world, including Guantanamo, in the United States' "war on terror," as glaring and systematic violations of human rights, describing the conditions at the Guantanamo Detention Center as "the gulag of our times, entrenching the notion that people can be detained without any recourse to the law." ("Guantanamo and Beyond: The Continuing Pursuit of Unchecked Executive Power," Amnesty International, 5/13/05)
- Paul Buhle's Tim Hector
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Paul Buhle's account of Tim Hector, Caribbean radical of Antiguan origin who passed away in 2002, is provocative and welcome. Its span is broad and appropriate for a general rather than specialist readership.
- Paul D’Amato and the Red Condom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- Paul Mattick Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
- Pauling, Linus
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. (1901-1994).
- Pay-to-Print
"News" Stories for Cash Scandal Rocks India
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On "paid news".
- Paying Dearly
The International Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account freeze
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department.
- Paz, Pan y Libertad/Bread, Peace and Liberty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Peace and Conflict Studies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Peace and Environment Rally
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Peace Beyond Annapolis
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
What are the prospects for progress toward Israeli-Palestinian and regional peace coming out of the one-day conference called by president George W. Bush? One leading Arab-American organization offering a positive vision “hopes to see a just, comprehensive and lasting peace result out of the initial Middle East peace discussions taking place in Annapolis, Maryland.”
- Peace churches
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Christian churches, groups or communities advocating Christian pacifism.
- Peace, Freedom and McCarthyism
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The title of this volume is a bit misleading. It has hardly anything to do with the ideological substance of U.S. anticommunism in its encounter with the African-American freedom movement.
- Peace in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Peace, Love, Respect and the Blues
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Popa Chubby is a well-accomplished blues-rock guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in New York City, and on his CD “Peace, Love & Respect” (Blind Pig BPCD 5089), he’s angry. Angry at the war in Iraq, and its waste of young lives. Angry at Bush and his assault on all of us except the very rich. Angry at the frustration and rage he sees in the ordinary people all around him. Angry at the social pathology that’s his daily lot in New York City, and anymore, seemingly everywhere else (including Indianapolis).
- Peace Magazine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Peace movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.
- Peace Movement (Canada)
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canada has a long tradition of an active and vocal peace movement. During the late 1950s and 1960s, concern over the dangers of atmospheric testing and the debate over the presence in Canada of nuclear weapons provided a focus for Canada's fledgling peace movement.
- Peace Prospects in the Middle East?
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The primacy of economic concerns notwithstanding, the interplay between peace and the Obama Administration’s policies toward the Middle East can be considered a defining measure of the new administration’s success. It was only natural and also telling that President Obama decided to cut the ribbons on his foreign policy making journey by initiating phone calls to leaders in the region.
- Peace tax denied
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Peace Utopias
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1911
What is our task in the question of peace? It does not consist merely in vigorously demonstrating at all times the love of peace of the Social Democrats; but first and foremost our task is to make clear to the masses of people the nature of militarism and sharply and clearly to bring out the differences in principle between the standpoint of the Social Democrats and that of the bourgeois peace enthusiasts.
- The Peasant Question in France and Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1894 Published: 1895
Part of the current debate around agrarian issues in which Engels discusses a policy of alliance between the working class and the working peasantry.
- Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323#1328
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A popular revolt in late medieval Europe. (1323-1328).
- Peasants' Revolt (Wat Tyler's Rebellion)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Revolt in England in 1381.
- Peasants' War
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A popular revolt that took place in Europe during 1524-1525.
- Pedalling Upwind
Why Halting Highway Construction Belongs on the Bicyclist's Agenda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Roads are at the crux of almost every current environmental problem, and hence, halting the expansion of the highway system (and other parts of our auto-dependent culture) is one of the most effective spigots by which we can choke off environmental destruction.
- Peddling miracles and amnesia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect.
- Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Church leaders seem to forget that pedophilia is a felony crime and that, as citizens of a secular state, priests are subject to its laws just like the rest of us. Clerical authorities repeatedly have made themselves accessories to the crime, playing an active role in obstructing justice, arguing that criminal investigations of #church affairs# violates the free practice of religion #- as if raping little children were a holy sacrament.
- Peer Review and the New Teacher Unionism: Mutual Support or Policing?
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
This spring, the California state legislature passed a bill sponsored by the newly elected governor, Democrat Gray Davis, making California the first state to mandate peer review in every school district. Until then, the handful of established peer review programs scattered around the country had been the products of local teacher union and district bargaining.
- La Peine Capitale
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Malgr# les croyances # base #motionnelle, la peine de mort ne dissuade pas. D'un pays # autre, on a pu trouver que l'existence, l'abolition, ou la re-application de la peine capitale n'avait aucune influence visible sur la fr#quence de meurtres.
- Peltier, Leonard
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. (Born 1944).
- The Penal State in an Age of Crisis
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 2 - June 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We may be approaching a moment where it will be possible to open up a debate on the obscenity and absurdity of the present order and its punitive social control mechanisms. Smashing the penal state is job one for socialist politics as we put the neoliberal hell in our rearview mirrors.
- Penal transportation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
- Penguin destroys books
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Penner, Jacob
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian radical. (1880-1965).
- Pensando en la Auto-determinación
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Un buen lugar para empezar ser#a preguntarse si el familiar principio de la Izquierda, "el derecho de auto-determinaci#n" realmente significa algo o si es otro eslogan vac#o cuyo principal uso es que la Izquierda lo puede repetir como mantra y as# salvarse de tener que pensar de manera cr#tica.
- Pensando sobre Autodeterminaçao
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
O significado oculto, a essência real, desse slogan, é a crença de que nao é possível ou desejável por dois ou mais grupos étnicos ou de linguagem viver juntos em um país. Nao consigo imaginar um momento mais pessimista e menos socialista do ponto de vista.
- The Pension Crisis
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
First, wages. Then health care. Now pension benefits.
- Pension Terminations
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Pensions have been an example of a major social wage that most Americans took for granted, both in private and public sector employment. That’s no longer the case. Ask the workers at United Air Lines.
- Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepower in Mexico
The Big Clubs in Mexico’s Drug War Aren’t Slipping Through the Gun-Show Loophole
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The deadliest of the weapons now in the hands of criminal groups in Mexico, particularly along the U.S. border appear to be getting into that nation through perfectly legal private-sector arms exports, measured in the billions of dollars.
- The Pentagon Papers and U.S. Imperialism in South East Asia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Chomsky considers the imperial interests of the USA in South East Asia, claiming that these are revealed in the Pentagon Papers. Then, after a detailed account of the content, he suggests that mere anti-communist goals were not the sole motivation for moving into the region but it was rather the "perceived significance of Southeast Asia for the integrated global system that was to be organised by American power."
- The Pentagon's Secrecy Syndrome
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
After years of duplicity, denial, and cover-up the Pentagon has had to admit that U.S. troops suffered exposure to chemicals and gases following the Iraqi war. Yet even in the face of TV coverage, Congressional hearing and countless personal stories by veterans, the stonewalling continues.
- People and Systems
Multiple Authorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Packet of materials on how the people of Tanzania, Cuba, China, U.S, and Canada are coping with education, health care, religion, work, and the status of women.
- The People and the Land are One
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Outline of the position taken by the Cree-Ojibway Chiefs against granting further cutting rights to Reed Pulp and Paper.
- People, Get Ready
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
There is nothing more necessary for the success of popular struggle in the coming years than a worthy revolutionary alternative to aim for. This alternative must inspire confidence that we can create a truly democratic, humanly fulfilling, successfully functioning new society.
- The People in Gravest Danger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky discusses what makes the Kurds in Iraq the likeliest population to suffer most due to the war in Iraq.
- People of Color Talk is Cheap
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A concept like ‘People of Color’, which obscures privilege and hierarchy within the racial system itself, can often make work harder for antiracists.
- People Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet about over-consumption, multinationals, and developing countries.
- The People v. the Bankers
Greece Today, US Tomorrow
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Greek "bailout" is actually a bailout of the international banks.
- The People's Food Commission, Press Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The People, The Land, Our Hope
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet outlines the plan of the committee to hold land in trust on which to develop a cooperative community.
- The People's Charter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1839
The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
- The People's Petition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1838
The Chartist Petition of 1838.
- The People’s Police Commission
Trial By Amateur Video
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Now we have a people’s police commission of our own. It’s called amateur video. And it will do to criminal scum like Lt. Pike what a whole world of police commissions, pretending to act on our behalf, couldn’t.
- A People's Science
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Historical narratives of science tend to be triumphant tales of magnificent men (and an occasional wily woman) who, through brilliant insight and/or dedicated persistence, changed the way we understand the world and, frequently, how we manufacture our space in that world. An opposite tendency is the cautionary tale of mad scientists aiming to invent ice-nine, the technology that will ultimately spell doom for us all.
- People's Songs
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- People#s struggles in Latin Asia # I # Philippines, colonial protests during the Spanish era
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Philippines was the first country in Asia to be liberated from colonial power. The first anti-colonial revolt against Spanish rule occurred from 1896 to 1898.
- PEPCON
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Perché tante storie per l'omicidio di una ragazza musulmana dalla pelle scura?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- The Perils of Probabilities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Periódicos Radicales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Perlas, Nicanor
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Filipino opponent of corporate globalization. (Born 1950).
- Perlman, Fredy
Connexipedia Article
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Radical author, publisher and activist. (1934-1985).
- Permaculture
Connexipedia Article
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An approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimics the relationships found in natural ecologies.
- Permaculture workship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Permanent Autonomous Zone
A Conversation With Zine Writers Erick Lyle and Jeff Miller
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First Published: 2010
What if our lives were filled with moments of liberation from the everyday? Is it possible to carve out spaces that challenge the dominant logic of the market, where we can pursue meaningful work and actualize our dreams?
- Perpetual War
“Grand Strategy” after 9/11
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First Published: 2011
A decade after the attentats of 9/11, the United States and its European allies are trapped in a quagmire. The events of that year were simply used as a pretext to remake the world and to punish those states that did not comply. And today the majority of Euro-American citizens flounder in a moral desert, now unhappy with the wars, now resigned, now propagandized into differentiating what is, in effect, an overarching imperial strategy into good/bad wars.
- The Persecution of Pfc. Bardley Manning
The Leaker as American Hero
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First Published: 2010
If Manning did what he is suspected of doing, he should be honoured as an American hero for exposing war crimes.
- The Persecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning
A Sick Game
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First Published: 2011
The torture and prolonged confinement without trial of Pvt. Manning are the tactics of a totalitarian state. They are exactly what is done in countries like China, Iran, and Burma.
- Persian Gulf crisis
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First Published: 1991
- Personal Reflections: Saving Social Security
Against The Current vol. 116
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First Published: 2005
My dad died when I was 15. I was going into my junior year of high school, my younger brother was still in grammar school. From then on my mother received a Social Security check for each of us until we graduated from high school, and — since I went to college — until I was 21. Unlike so many students today, I finished college debt free.
- Personal testimony of an Irraeli refusnik
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First Published: 2002
Why would a regular guy get up one morning in the middle of life, work, the kids and decide he's not playing the game anymore?
- Perspective for Conscious Change in Everyday Life
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First Published: 1961
Guy Debord says that to study everyday life would be a completely absurd undertaking, unable even to grasp anything of its object, if this study was not expressly for the purpose of transforming everyday life.
- Perspectives on Canadian Drug Policy Volume 1
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First Published: 2003
A symposium of articles on issues of drug addiction and treatment in Canada. Articles include "Substance Abuse and Crime," "Canada's Drug Laws: Prohibition Is Not the Answer," and "Drug Policy in Canada: War if Neccessary But Not Neccessarily War."
- Pesticides residues and waxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Peterloo Massacre
Connexipedia Article
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The Peterloo Massacre (or Battle of Peterloo) occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000#80,000 gathered at a meeting to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. It is estimated that 11#15 were killed and 400#700 injured.
- Petition for the Immediate Release of all Prisoners of Conscience
1977: Prisoners of Conscience Year
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First Published: 1977
- Petition for the Total Economic Isolation of South Africa
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First Published: 1978
- Petition of Right, 1628
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First Published: 1628
A document setting out the rights and liberties of the subject as opposed to the prerogatives of the crown.
- Petro-Canada to be sold
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot
Why Manning was Within His Rights to Give Secrets to Wikileaks
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First Published: 2010
- Pham Binh's historical survey of demands
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First Published: 2011
- The Phenomenology of Mind: Preface
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- Phil Ochs Lives!
"There But For Fortune"
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First Published: 2011
Phil Ochs and his influence.
- Philippine revolts against Spain
Connexipedia Article
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Revolts during the Spanish colonial period.
- Philippines Organizing and Repression
Against The Current vol. 91
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First Published: 2001
Delia Aguilar interviews Vicvic Justiniani. I first met Victoria (Vicvic) Justiniani eight years ago when she had just emerged from the Philippine underground, where she was immersed in the revolutionary struggle for twenty years beginning at age 16. Vicvic attracted international media attention in 1986 when she represented the women's organization, MAKIBAKA, at the ceasefire talks called by the then newly elected president, Corazon Aquino. At the collapse of these talks, Vicvic resumed her clandestine work until her arrest and release in 1992.
- Philippines: Resisting Gobble-ization
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2011
In his latest book, Epifanio San Juan Jr. uncovers the concealed operations of power and the historic inequalities of political economic systems that have impacted Filipinos in an age of globalized crisis and contradiction. While the definition of globalization is often debated, for the majority of people in the Philippines the process of globalization can be more accurately described as “gobble-ization.”
- Phillips, Utah
Connexipedia Article
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Labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, and poet. (1935-2008).
- Utah Phillips 1935-2008
Against The Current vol. 138
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First Published: 2009
Bruce “Utah" Phillips, who died in May 2008, was a living, singing museum of radical working-class culture. Through his songs and stories he connected three generations to the living memory of class struggle martyrs, hobo lore and life, and the pacifists and anarchists of the early 20th century. In addition to being a world beloved folksinger and performer, Phillips spent time as a peace campaigner, a freight train hopper, and a union organizer. Phillips will be best remembered for his countless renditions of the songs of Joe Hill and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Wobblies.
- Philosophers and Public Philosophy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
In order for Chomsky to address the symposium's topic of Philosophers and Public Policy, he outlines the premises upon which his discourse is based. He claims that the USA faces a crisis that is largely due to "moral degeneration". For example, he asserts that the change of Vietnam policy should have been based on the fact it was "wrong" as opposed to the fact it was merely failing. Chomsky recognizes that philosophers are versed in the analysis of the intellectual culture of society and limits their responsibility to interpreting the world differently; the task of working for actual change is assigned to all citizens. Accordingly, he calls upon universities and professors to analyze the premises and ideologies of public policies - independent of the organs of power - consequentially laying the foundation for reestablishing the integrity of intellectual life, moral perception, and cultural values.
- Phone service
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First Published: 1992
- Photography and the Powerless
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First Published: 1971
A critique of photographers who come to exploit "the poor."
- Picketing
Connexipedia Article
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A form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in ("crossing the picket line"), but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause.
- Pilbara strike of 1946
Connexipedia Article
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A strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for human rights recognition and payment of fair wages and working conditions.
- Pilecki, Witold
Connexipedia Article
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A member of the Polish resistance and the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. (1901-1948).
- Pinkney Fight Continues
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
Reverend Edward Pinkney was ordered released from prison last Christmas Eve while his conviction and 3-10 year prison term — for quoting Deuteronomy in regard to divine punishment of a racist judge — is on appeal. He remains under house arrest and is prohibited from speaking out on racism and corporate abuses in Berrien County, Michigan.
- Pioneers of Resistance
Against The Current vol. 123
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First Published: 2006
Emancipation Betrayed attempts to fill in the historical gap between the end of Reconstruction and the post-World War I period through examining Black organizing in the state of Florida. The author, Paul Ortiz, worked on oral histories for the study "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South" at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His research peeled back a lineage of struggle several generations long, connecting the post-World War II civil rights movement to how African Americans dealt with the reimposition of anti-Black laws following the collapse of Reconstruction:
- Pirate radio
Connexipedia Article
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Illegal or unregulated radio transmitters.
- Pirates of the Mediterranean
Israel Kidnaps Peace Boat Crew
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First Published: 2009
On June 30, 2009, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the #Spirit of Humanity# and kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries.
- The Pittsburgh Reds, 1911-1914: Revolutionary Socialists in Allegheny County
Against The Current vol. 81
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First Published: 1999
The Socialist Party of America reached the peak of its strength and influence in 1912. In that year, the party could claim 118,000 members, and 879,000 American voters (about 6% of the total) cast their votes for Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs. There were some 1,200 Socialist elected officials throughout the United States in 1912, and over 300 Socialist periodicals.
- Place de l'Avenir.
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First Published: 1977
- El placer de la revolución
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First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
- Places in Need - Mountain Bike Damage
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Trails are easily and seriously degraded by mountain bike use # especially when those bikes are ridden on wet or muddy trail.
- Plain people
Connexipedia Article
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Christian groups characterized by separation from the world and simple living, including plain dress.
- Le Plan d'Action 1977
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First Published: 1981
- Plan for Detoxification Center
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First Published: 1976
Proposal given to the Quebec government to establish a detox center in downtown Montreal.
- Planes disabled for servicing
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First Published: 1989
- Planned Parenthood Scholarships
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Planning for Agriculture
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First Published: 1978
- Plant breeder's rights
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First Published: 1989
- The Platform of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
- Platformism & Bolshevism
Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency: A polemic against platformist anarchism
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First Published: 2002
- Playgrounds are only one aspect of the struggle
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First Published: 1972
- Playing the #Anti-Semitism# Card Against Venezuela
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First Published: 2009
Even after the attack on a Caracas synagogue was shown to be an inside job, a robbery perpetrated by employees of the synagogue's security firm, the international media has continued to portray the incident as an anti-Semitic attack, while suggesting that the Chavez government is somehow to blame.
- A Plea for Justice
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- Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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Russian socialist. (1856-1918).
- Plight of Young Black Men: The Scars and the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 122
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First Published: 2006
Recent studies have reaffirmed a long known reality: young poorly educated Black men are disproportionately disconnected from mainstream society. The numbers are significantly worse than for Latinos, Asians and whites.
- The Poetry of J. Quinn Brisben
Against The Current vol. 111
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First Published: 2004
J. Quinn Brisben is known as a retired schoolteacher, civil rights worker, disability rights advocate and former Socialist Party presidential candidate. In publishing a literary historical account in verse, he reveals to us his role of poet.
- Point of order
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Letter on dialectical materialism and on lefty language.
- The Poisoned Pill of Obama's War
Against The Current vol. 144
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First Published: 2010
The Obama administration looked into the abyss of endless war in Afghanistan, considered all its options, pondered the consequences — and jumped. This is a war without honor, or purpose, or hope.
- Poisoning Wells
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- The Police Riot at OccupyCAL
Against The Current vol. 156
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First Published: 2012
I remember as if it were just yesterday. I was linked in arms, peacefully protesting in support and solidarity with the students of UC Berkeley and my friend Meleiza. What I would soon have to witness would leave me traumatized and utterly disgusted.
- Police Violence and Media Coverup
Against The Current vol. 156
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First Published: 2012
Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
- Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy
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First Published: 2011
What clearly sets a number of recent cases apart is not the fact of police violence, but the fact that that violence is being challenged. The controversy, in other words, is not only about violence, but about authority. It is a crisis of legitimacy.
- Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy
Against The Current vol. 150
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First Published: 2011
On September 5, 2010, Los Angeles police shot and killed a Guatemalan day laborer named Manuel Jamines.
- The police vs. the law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
One of the main differences between a democratic society and a police state is that in a democracy, the police have to obey the law. In a police state, they don't.
- Policy Formation on Aspects of Canada's Nuclear Waste
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First Published: 1982
- The Policy of Abstention
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1887
Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
- Policy Recommendation on the Abortion Issue
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- Policy Recommendations on the Abortion Issue
Response of Metropolitan Toronto YWCA to the Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Abortion Law (Bagley Report)
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First Published: 1978
- The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1896
- Polish Righteous among the Nations
Connexipedia Article
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Polish citizens have the world's highest count of individuals awarded medals of Righteous among the Nations, given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews from extermination during the Holocaust.
- Polish underground press
Connexipedia Article
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Underground newspaper with a long history of combatting censorship.
- Political Appeal to American Workers
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First Published: 1912
There is but one issue that appeals to this army the unconditional surrender of the capitalist class. To be sure this cannot be achieved in a day and in the meantime the party enforces to the extent of its power its immediate demands and presses steadily onward toward the goal. It has its constructive program by means of which it develops its power and its capacity, step by step, seizing upon every bit of vantage to advance and strengthen its position, but never for a moment mistaking reform for revolution and never losing eight of the ultimate goal. Socialist reform must not be confounded with so-called capitalist reform. The latter is shrewdly designed to buttress capitalism; the former to overthrow it. Socialist reform vitalizes and promotes the social revolution.
- Political Controls from Above
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
When in 1961 Fidel Castro proclaimed “inside the revolution everything; outside the revolution, nothing,” he left out the key question of who decided what was and who qualified as being “inside the revolution.” The slogan was immediately followed by repressive measures directed not against right-wing counterrevolutionaries but against non-Communist leftists.
- Political Indifferentism
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First Published: 1873
- The Political Mass Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1913
If we want to prove ourselves worthy of the great coming events then we must not begin at the wrong end by attempting to make technical preparations for the mass strike. When the situation is ripe, the tactic of the mass strike will present itself. Let us not rack our brains about supporting it at the right time. What is necessary is that you watch the party press to ensure that it is your instrument and expresses your opinion and your mood. You must also see to it that our parliamentarians feel a mass pressing them from behind.
- Political Persecution in Puerto Rico: Uncovering Secret Files
Against The Current vol. 85
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First Published: 2000
In the summer of 1987 Puerto Rico was shaken by revelations that the island's police was collecting information on so called “political subversives,” and that it was in possession of thousands of extensive carpetas (files) concerning individuals of all social groups and ages.
- Political Protest
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Political protest is the kind of political activity, eg, demonstrations, strikes and even violence, usually but not always undertaken by those who lack access to the resources of organized pressure groups, or by those whose values conflict sharply with those of the dominant elite.
- Political Repression in Russia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When someone in Russia today calls himself a Communist, in most cases it will turn out that what you have is a particular version of a National Socialist; all too many anarchists turn out to be “national anarchists.”
- Political Repression in Russia
Against The Current vol. 150
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First Published: 2011
The full implications of the extraordinary drought that struck the European part of Russia this past summer became apparent only in the third quarter of 2010, when accurate statistics on the human casualties and economic losses became available. But from the outset a solid foundation on which to base projections emerged from amongst the potpourri of facts and expert opinions.
- The Political Situation and the Tasks of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
In the present, unequivocally revolutionary situation the slogan #fight for the parliamentary-democratic Republic# can serve no other interests than those of the bourgeois counter-revolution.
- The Political Slaughterhouse
Statism's Death Knell for Liberty and Democracy
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First Published: 2010
The issue of government coercion has been taken off the radar screen of politically correct thought. The more government power has grown, the more unfashionable it becomes to discuss or recognize government abuses- as if it were bad form to count the dead brought about by government interventions.
- A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
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First Published: 1979
The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
- The Politics (and Anti-Politics) of Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
At present, the occupation reveals a lot about where people's politicization begins in the United States.
- Politics and Memory in the Flit Sitdown Strikes
A comment on Historiography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The General Motors strike of 1936-37 was the most important union victory of the 20th century, but the very meaning of its success was ambiguous indeed.
- Politics and Pensioners Concerned
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Marxists used to be attacked from the right as "reductionists." Today, that accusation has become a favorite of the (postmodernist) left. We've reached a point where any attempt at explanation, any tendency to think in terms of causality, is "reductionist."
- Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 3
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The ongoing purpose of independent revolutionary organization must be to advance in every possible situation the self-organization and capacity for self-mobilization of the working class.
- Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 4
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
As Rosa Luxemburg contended, until a socialist revolution is successful, the most important result of any struggle is the building of working-class self-confidence and organization. This transforms the struggle for reforms in a more radical direction, and expresses an understanding of self-emancipation of the working class as both means and end of a socialist revolution.
- Politics and the English Language
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First Published: 1946
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
- Politics and the Prayer Warriors
Dominionism Hits the Big Time
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First Published: 2011
Dominionism is a totalitarian movement within Christian evangelicalism that aims at taking over the centers of power—law, culture, government and the like—and establishing a dictatorship. Once having gotten power, Christian Dominionists would then impose their religious practices on the rest of America.
- The Politics of Being Queer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Goodman writes: "On balance, I don't know whether my choice, or compulsion, of a bisexual life has made me especially unhappy or only averagely unhappy. It is obvious that every way of life has its hang-ups, having a father or no father, being married or single, being strongly sexed or rather sexless, and so forth; but it is hard to judge what other people's experience has been, to make a comparison. I have persistently felt that the world was not made for me, but I have had good moments.
- The Politics Of Gorter
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First Published: 1952
In the years after 1920, Gorter in contact with the small groups of the extreme left, worked to clarify the idea of the organisation of workers councils and thus collaborated in the future renewal of the class struggle of the proletariat. During this time the socialist politicians of the second international, as members of parliament and ministers, were occupied in bailing out a bankrupt capitalism for the bourgeoisie.
- Politics of Illusion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
- The Politics of Servility
Congress and the Israel Lobby
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Our legislators, fearing their own potential loss of their House or Senate seat, continue to support the desires of the Neo-cons and AIPAC and its fellows despite the condemnation of the world's communities that see nothing but hypocrisy in their behaviour.
- The Politics of South Africa: The Transition to Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
OVER THE PAST few years, South Africa has undergone the dramatic political transition from apartheid to non-racial democracy. As one might expect in a country where racial and economic inequality is so stark, dismantling the economic structures of apartheid has proven more difficult.
- The Politics of Surrealism
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
In the first notebook of his Grundrisse, composed in 1857, Marx predicted that the “romantic viewpoint” would “accompany [capitalism] as its legitimate antithesis up to its blessed end.” He believed that romanticism, with its celebration of the richness — real or imagined — of pre-capitalist life, would remain a perennial reaction to the reification of social life under capitalism.
- Politics of Terror and Scandal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
SCENARIO: AGAINST THE background of a depression in Japan, the economic collapse of Russia and stock market crashes on three continents, a United States president facing imminent expulsion from office for concealing illicit sex in the Oval Office orders retaliatory Cruise missile strikes on two already-ravaged Middle Eastern countries and declares "war on international terrorism."
Take that idea and try to sell it to Hollywood. Forget about it: Even in "Wag the Dog," after all, not only...
- Politics of the Communist Manifesto -- Part 2
Brenner, Johanna; Resnick, Bill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
In the end, when we engage in reform movements, we have to measure success not simply in terms of the good we've done. Although we do need to win real things for real people, we also have to measure success, win or lose, by the quality of the working relationships we've built and whether the alliances made within the reform movement self-consciously bridge existing divisions within the working class.
- Politics of Transportation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Articles on the role of transportation in Saskatchewan society.
- Politics without Democracy, Democracy without Politics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The aim of the Occupy movement is to create a big tent, to represent the 99%, in the name of democracy. But democracy requires not big tent politics, but the very opposite. It requires the drawing of political lines, the engaging in political conflict, the making of political choices.
- Les Politiques Dites "Sociales"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Politkovskaya, Anna
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Russian journalist, author and human rights activist. (1958-2006).
- Polluted Logic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The business of allowing polluters to buy their way out of complying with the law is an innovation with vast untapped potential.
- Polluter wins tax break
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Polyamory
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one intimate relationship at a time with the consent of everyone involved.
- Polyfidelity
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A form of polyamorous group marriage wherein all members consider each other to be primary partners and agree to be sexual only with other members of this group.
- Pontiac
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An Ottawa chief who led Pontiac's Rebellion. (1763#1766).
- Pontiac's Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A war launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War.
- Poor Memory leads to fame
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Researcher Dr. Fergus Craik discusses his life, his work and, of course, his memory.
- The Poor Must Die
Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
For more than 30 years, the world-dominating Anglo-American alliance has been under the sway of factions which, for all their internal squabbling and hair-splitting, are strongly united in their steadfast, unshakeable adherence to the perpetuation -- and expansion -- of elite power and privilege. They have shown themselves willing -- eager -- to degrade their own societies (and destroy many others) in the service of this brutal, barbaric, inhuman faith. The poor have no place in this system.
- Popular education
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An educational technique designed to raise the consciousness of its participants and allow them to become more aware of how an individual's personal experiences are connected to larger societal problems.
- Popular Education Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The level of discussion was brought down to actual examples and practice quite in contrast to the sloganeering and shallow definition of terms that is typical of most formal intra-left gatherings.
- Popular Education Conference - Overview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A report on the Popluar Education Conference.
- The Popular Front: Rethinking CPUSA History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Very simply, the legacy of the Communist movement in the United States points to the need for revolutionaries today to develop rank-and-file worker organizations independent of and opposed to the labor officialdom; to organize independently of the Democratic party and promote independent political action.
- Popular Front (Spain)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Popular revolt in late medieval Europe
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by (typically) peasants in the countryside, or the bourgeois in towns, against nobles, abbots and kings during the upheavals of the 14th through early 16th centuries.
- Population Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet linking the overpopulation problem to over-consumption in rich countries.
- Populism
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Populism mixes elements of core political ideologies, like socialism, liberalism and neo-conservatism, opposition to powerful elites in public life, and advocacy of more real power for "the people." All populisms explain the distribution of power and operation of basic social institutions in terms of a fundamental antagonism between "the people" and "power elites."
- Por que fazer um alarido sobre o assassinato de uma garota muçulmana morena?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Por qué protestar por el asesinato de una chica musulmana de piel oscura?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Porn can be good for you
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
While pornography can be dehumanising and exploitative, it can also be educative, liberating, empowering, fulfilling and immensely socially beneficial. It all depends on how it is made, who makes it, what it depicts and why it is being used.
- Pornography
A brief submitted to the Commission D'Etude sur le Cinema et l'Audiovisuel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Pornography and the Sex Censor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
- Port Chicago mutiny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A refusal by servicemen to load munitions in 1944 in the face of unsafe working conditions which had led to an explosion the previous month in which 320 sailors had been killed.
- The Port Huron Statement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
- Portraits of the Unionista
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Like all women workers, Filipina workers' experiences in the labor force are shaped by gender. Tracked into the lowly-paid service economy doing “feminine” labor, they often have dead-end jobs with a secondary wage-earner status. In mixed-gender unions and labor movements, their status is also secondary.
- Portraying the men and events of our times
The Diary of Victor Serge # II
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937 Published: 1950
- Portugal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution (review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Book offers a clear analysis of events in Portugal 1974-1975.
- The Position and Significance of J. Dietzgen#s Philosophical Works
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1902
A thorough study of Dietzgen#s philosophical writings is an important and indispensable auxiliary for the understanding of the fundamental works of Marx and Engels. Dietzgen#s work demonstrates that the proletariat has a mighty weapon not only in proletarian economics, but also in proletarian philosophy.
- The Position of Working-Class Women in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 11 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women#s Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Capitalism broke down the old forms of social relations both at work and between men and women in the family. Middle-class women found themselves cut off from production and economically dependent on a man: working-class women were forced into the factory and became wage-labourers.
- Position Paper of Moratorium Committee on Prison Construction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Position Paper on Rural Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- POSITION PAPER:Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Possible Connections Between Militant Islamic Fundamentalists and the U.S. Extreme Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Right-wing racial nationalists and antisemites have attempted to spread their conspiracist message to the political left by stressing the anticapitalist aspects of the Third Position.
- Post 9/11 Conspiracism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The tendency to explain all major world events as primarily the product of a secret conspiracy is called conspiracism. The antidote to conspiracism is Power Structure Research.
- Post box rates hiked
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Third Reconstruction?
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
When Union Army troops under the command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler entered and occupied New Orleans in April of 1862, so began the first Reconstruction of the city and the state of Louisiana. The rise and then the defeat of the historic democratic struggle known as the first Reconstruction — discussed in the accompanying sidebar [as well as reviews by Robert Caldwell and Jim Toweill elsewhere in this issue] — sets the context in which we find today’s New Orleans, four years after the levee collapse.
- The Post MFA Era and the Rise of China, Part 1
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing expired in 2005, ending 30 years of a quota system under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). Ending the Agreement signalled the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) promotion of free trade in this sector; but phasing in free trade here has proved to be far from frictionless.
- Post-Modernism Meets the IMF: The Case of Poland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The historical experience of Stalinism has delayed by decades, perhaps generations, the maturation of the historical project, first elaborated by Marx, of a positive supercession of the formal juridical universality of "civil", or bourgeois society, and the commodity status of labor power in that society upon which it rests. Nothing illustrates the weight of the albatross of Stalinism better than Polish society in the past decade.
- Post Office workers have some rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Post-World War II demobilization strikes
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Strikes within Allied military forces stationed across the Middle East, India and South-East Asia in the months and years following World War II.
- Post-Zionism Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
What do we need to do to let go of all fear that separates Jew and Arab, and embrace a truly pluralistic, secular, democratic, multicultural and loving society?
- Postal cuts threaten magazines
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Postal workers bugged
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Postering bylaw
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Postmodern Disrobed
Review of Intellectual Impostures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
An admirable job of exposing the daffy absurdity of postmodernism intellectuals.
- Postmodernism and the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Barabara Epstein provides an overview of the approach and subculture of postmodernism and how they relate to, or conflict with, leftwing ideas.
- Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (excerpt from Chapter 1)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
This whole global, yet American, postmodern culture is the internal and superstructural expression of a whole new wave of American military and economic domination throughout the world: in this sense, as throughout class history, the underside of culture is blood, torture, death, and terror.
- Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract objects -- "language", "power", "justice", "state", "culture", "government", "the polity", "the economy" and a host of others, which are viewed "theoretically" from somewhere way "outside" or "above" them. But it is just this way of looking at things -- from "on high" -- that makes it so difficult to see how people in the landscape are able to create and re-create the world in which they live, and are not simply trapped or formed by it. In fashionable postmodernist treatments of identity or subjectivity, language, as the ultimately hollow and imprisoning object, is put together with the notion that anybody who uses words must be committed to the standard definition of those words, to produce the conclusion that "language" determines the meaning of "identity" words such as man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, natural, normal -- and thus "constructs" (as it is said) human identity or subjectivity itself.
- The Potash Story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An analysis of the exploitation of potash resources in Saskatchewan.
- Potrait of a Strikebreaker
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
It was hard to reconcile this affable young man with the picture he was presenting of himself as a narrow-minded careerist who had found strikebreaking was a fast track to advancement at Gannett. But however he justified his actions, it was easy to see that John's ambitions had made him a willing pawn in Gannett's battle of Detroit.
- POUM - Partido Obrero Unificacion Marxista
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The POUM's Seven Decades
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista (The Workers Party of Marxist Unification, POUM) was founded in Barcelona on September 30, 1935 in a small house in the Horta district. That was 70 years ago. The event was not public, since we were still in a phase of relative clandestinity imposed on the movement after October 1934, so we felt it prudent to limit the number of delegates.
- Pour des conditions de vie decentes: Action collective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Pourquoi faire toute une histoire à propos du meurtre d'une musulmane à peau mate?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
L#Histoire donne de nombreux exemples de mouvements sociaux qui avec le temps adoptent des positions directement opposées aux principes sur lesquels ils ont été fondés.
- Poverty in Wealth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
- The poverty of sociology
A review of James Lorimer's "Working People"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Poverty Profile 1988
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Poverty Report and Recommendations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Power: Building it Without Taking it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Power in Play
Reclaiming Play in the Serious Work of our Lives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
For too long, our culture has 'viewed play as appropriate only for children, and in some rare instances for adults (when they are artists, nursery school teachers, or living out their retirement years). When we dare to question the Protestant Work Ethic and affirm both what feels good, and what works for us, it seems to me that play must be reclaimed from childhood memory and made a reality in everyday adult life.
- The Power of Money
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- The Power of Nonsense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Slavoj Žižek's diagnosis of late capitalism is of genuine interest. His remedies, however -- dictatorship and terror -- are a disgrace.
- The Power of public relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
An overview of the role of public relations practitioners.
- The Power of the Israel Lobby
Two knights and a dragon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
- The Power of Women United
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Interview with Kipp Dawson.
- Power to the (Palestinian) People!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I am not a Palestinian; I am not one of the oppressed. I only hope I can use my privilege in an effective way in order to redeem the gift the people of Gaza have given all of us: the realization that the people do have power and can prevail even in the face of overwhelming power. We may each express our responsibility towards the people of Gaza in whatever way most suits us, but as the privileged we must do something.
- Prague: Reflections on S26
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Even beofre the clouds of tear gas over Prague had dissipated, the mainstream media were eager to declare the September 26 demonstration against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank a failure. According to the New York Times, the international gathering of up to 20,000 protesters had tried "desperately ... and ultimately unsuccessfully, to shut down a global finance meeting."
- Prague Spring
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations I
The process which precedes the formation of the capital relation or of original accumulation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1857
Notes by Marx not intended for publication.
- Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations II
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1857
Notes by Marx not intended for publication.
- Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
- Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1859
Perhaps Marx's most succinct summary of his analysis of political economy.
- Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism # working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
- Preface to the French Edition of #Anti-Patriotism#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1906
In case of mobilization, regardless of who the aggressor appears to be (for, after all, when a war breaks out, one can never tell who the real aggressor is), the proletariat of the belligerent countries should respond to the call to arms, by an insurrection against their rulers, each within his own boundaries, to establish the Socialist or Communist regime.
- Prefigurative politics
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The concept of building a new world in the shell of the old.
- Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
Written as a platform for discussion within the Situationist International, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement.
- Preoccupation with Demonology, Bone-deep Current of Darkness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Prepared evidence for the case of the Committee for Justice and Liberty
before the National Energy Board's hearings on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Various materials to be presented to the NEB's hearings opposing further pipeline development.
- PRESENT AND FUTURE STATUS OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS IN RURAL CANADA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Present State of the Problem of 'Marxism and Philosophy'
An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1930
A fundamental debate on the general state of modern Marxism has now begun, and there are many indications that despite secondary, transient or trivial conflicts, the real division on all major and decisive questions is between the old Marxist orthodoxy of Kautsky allied to the new Russian or 'Leninist' orthodoxy on the one side, and all critical and progressive theoretical tendencies in the proletarian movement today on the other side.
- Presentation by Noel V. Starblanket
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Presentation / Critique of Eamonn Fingleton, In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Fingleton makes possible an understanding of how deeply our experience over the past three decades in the U.S. has been conditioned and distorted by de-industrialization and the supposed triumph of the "post-industrial" "New Paradigm" economy associated with the computer, the Internet, e-commerce and so forth. His book is one big broadside against the feelgood ideologies which have hyped these developments, and provides much ammunition which the radical left can put to its own uses.
- Presentation to a Select Committee of the Ontario Legislature
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Presentation to Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Presentation to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities of Ontario
and the Ministry of Community and Social Services of Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Presenting Insurgent Notes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We take our Marx and Engels seriously. Recent history, beginning perhaps (in the US) with the UPS strike of 1997 and the 'battle of Seattle' in 1999, now quickened by the abject financial and ideological meltdown (Fall 2008) of the three decades of the stifling 'neo-liberal' era, has favored a certain revival of the radical critique of capitalism, by which we understand first and foremost the work of Karl Marx.
"Theory must seek its practice," Marx wrote long ago, but "practice must also seek its theory", and such theoretical ferment expresses the rising tide, in fits and starts reaching back to the 1990's, of an accelerating global reaction to the ravages of the 'neo-liberal', 'Washington consensus' phase of capitalism, after the rollback of what we might consider he last (l968-1977) offensive of the world working class.
- Preserving our Planet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The President and the Presidency
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Chomsky assesses public reactions to the Watergate scandal, dividing them into two categories: cynicism or outrage. He further explores the different perceptions of what in fact Nixon's criminal actions were and discusses the meaning of the principle of unconstrained executive power in relation to democracy.
- Presidential Assassinations Of US Citizens
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Just think about this for a minute. Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests." They're entitled to no charges, no trial, no ability to contest the accusations.
- The Press and the Class Struggle
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Early on the morning of August 19, 1997, the U.S. labor movement experienced something it had rarely known in recent years: a victory on a national scale. After two weeks out on strike, over 185,000 members of the Teamsters Union had reached a contract settlement with shipping giant United Parcel Service. It was hard to paint it as anything other than a win for the union. On almost every major issue, the Teamsters were able to force UPS to agree to their demands.
- Press Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Press Release: United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Press Release: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- La Presse Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Pressing for Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1988
A serious attempt to get press coverage can be a campaign in itself. If you really want it, go after it methodically and shamelessly.
- Pressure Group
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An organization formed by like-minded people who seek to influence public policy to promote an interest.
- Pressures, Problems and Prevention:
Chidren And The Health Care System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Preventive War 'the Supreme Crime'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky illustrates how the US-UK coalition reconfigured the term "pre-emptive" into "preventive" in an attempt to justify the invasion of Iraq despite opposition from the international society.
- The Price of Torching Mosques
Burning Rage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
By reminding Palestinians on either side of the Green Line of their common fate, Israel may yet unleash a force too powerful to control. The price tag – this time demanded by Palestinians – will be high indeed for the Jewish supremacists.
- Prime Time Information Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- A Primer on Immigrant Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The struggle for immigrant rights is one of the most important struggles of our time, and it occurs under a working-class banner.
- A Primer on Immigrant Rights
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In the late 20th century, immigration from Mexico to the United States was at its highest level since the early part of that century. Hunger and poverty, worsened by the inequalities of U.S. trade policies, have forced millions of Mexico’s citizens to leave their homes.
- The Princess and the Press
How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001 Published: 2005
Your relationship with the press might not be a fairy tale, but it definitely doesn't have to be horror story: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball.
- The Princess and the Press: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
How to write effective press releases.
- The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, "there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above."
Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
- Principles governing municipal/provincial financial relationships
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
In past decades, provincial governments have generally recognized the separate nature of local government and have not acted unilaterally in the field of financial relationships, but have attempted to reach amicable agreement.
- Principles of Nuremberg
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1950
- The Principles of Revoltuionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1922
Adopted at the Berlin Congress of Revolutionary Unionist organizations, 1922.
- Priorities For Action
A Report of the National Advisory Committee on Aging
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Prise de décision par consensus
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
La prise de décision par consensus est un processus décisionnel d’un groupe qui cherche non seulement l'accord de la plupart des participants, mais également, une résolution ou une atténuation des objections des membres minoritaires.
- Prison Abolition & Alternatives
Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1976
A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
- The Prison-Industrial Complex
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars#the majority of them nonviolent offenders#mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers.
- Prison Labor: Workin' For The Man
Article in Covert Action Quarterly #54, Fall 1995
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Article analysing the roots of prison labour in America.
- Prisoners' Rights Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice, society has retained the primitive motive in dealing with the offender; that is, revenge. It has also adopted the theologic idea; namely, punishment; while the legal and #civilized# methods consist of deterrence or terror, and reform.
- Private guards block public street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Private Property and Communism
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Private Property and Labour. Political Economy as a Product of the Movement of Private Property
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Privatization by Stealth: Canadian Health Care in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The recent growth of obstacles to getting health care here in the United States has led to a renewed interest in Canada's system of universal access, called Medicare. Premium inflation has accelerated after stabilizing in the mid-1990s.
- Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The corporate sector is the big winner from privatization.
- Privatizing Social Security: Who Wins?
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Over the years, there have been numerous attempts and proposals to privatize the social security system. It was a key Republican platform item in the 2000 election. The idea was subsequently thwarted by the small matter of the stock market bust that wiped out $8 trillion of market value, and caused a 60% drop in the NASDAQ over the first two years of Bush's first term.
- Privatizing the Public Realm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Public spaces are the arenas where the collective, common life which defines us as a society is acted out, and where we come into contact with those who are like and those who are different from ourselves. They are the places where we are all equal and where we are all "home." They are the places where our freedoms of speech and assembly are protected, where we can exercise the precious right of criticizing the government. In public spaces we are reminded of the most important civics lesson: We are all in this together. When private agendas of stratification and control are imposed on those places, the very heart of democratic principle is threatened.
- Privatizing Water, The New World War
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Capitalism and corporate science have colluded to bring us the latest, most insidious crisis. According to the United Nations research, 1.3 billion people in the world today lack access to clean water and 2.5 billion do not have adequate sewage and sanitation. The human suffering and environmental damage that those figures represent is unspeakable.
- Pro-Canada group asks contributions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
An IPS investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organisations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
- A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
- Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
- The Pro-Family Movement:
Are They For or Against Families?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- The problem of autonomism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Direct action is crucial to win – but it needs to be orientated to building a mass movement, through strikes, civil disobedience and occupation.
- Problems of Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labour Force
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Problems Of Immigrant Women In the Canadian Labour Force.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Problems with Red Menace method
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
our attempts to develop a positive alternative to DiaMat Marxism and Marxist-Leninist sects suffers from a polemical method which reproduces the very problem you want to get away from.
- Proceedings of the 1977 Conference of the Institute for Christian Life in Canada (August 21-26, 1977)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Producers' strike at CBC/Société Radio-Canada
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike by producers at Société Radio-Canada in Montréal in 1958-59.
- Production or Reproduction?
Against A Reductionist Reading of Capital In the Left Milieu, And Elsewhere
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Most readers of Capital come to it with a #tool kit# of prejudices acquired from their immediate political and social milieu, (and one of course influenced by the dominant society), a #tool kit# usually imbued with various #hard-headed# ideas about an #early# and a #late# Marx, about Marx as being a completion of the #political economy# of Smith and Ricardo (and not the critique of political economy, as the sub-title of his book suggests), that this #late Marx# was an #economist# in the way that Keynes or Milton Friedman are (in fact) economists, and so on.
- Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A United States trade union which operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following a strike which was broken by the Reagan Administration.
- The Professor of Torture
Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Whitney exposes the hypocrisy of Alan Dershowitz, who claims to support civil liberties while advocating the use of torture. Dershowitz seems to believe that he should be considered a liberal because he says that prisoners should only be tortured by "nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain wthout endangering life." Whitney characterizes this as "barbarism".
- A Profile of East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
JOSE RAMOS-HORTA DENIES he is a bitter man, claiming that he feels only disdain for the invaders of his country. But too much has been inflicted on East Timor, too many of his friends and relatives killed, the diplomatic war he has waged has carried on too long for him not to feel an abiding resentment.
- Profit motives behind sexualization of 'tween girls
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The sexualization of 'tween girls - those between the ages of 8 and 12 -- in pop culture and advertising is a growing problem fueled by marketers' efforts to create cradle-to-grave consumers.
- Profit of Capital
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- The Profits of War: Planning to Bomb Iran
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
It is no longer a secret that the Bush administration has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources.
- A Profound and Jarring Disconnect
The Writing on the Wall
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
How the US government has gone against the wishes of the public majority on key issues.
- Program III - Study, Dialogue, Reflection, Action, on Social Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- A Program Of Action for the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Program of the International Brotherhood
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1869
Bakunin maintains that his revolutionary visions "excludes any idea of dictatorship and of a controlling and directive power." but then goes on to say "It is, however, necessary for the establishment of this revolutionary alliance and for the triumph of the Revolution over reaction that the unity of ideas and of revolutionary action find an organ in the midst of the popular anarchy which will be the life and the energy of the Revolution. This organ should be the secret and universal association of the International Brothers.... a sort of revolutionary general staff, composed of dedicated, energetic, intelligent individuals, sincere friends of the people above all, men neither vain nor ambitious, but capable of serving as intermediaries between the revolutionary idea and the instincts of the people."
- The Program of the Minority
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
- Programme du Centre de Pastorale en Milieu Ouvrier 1977-78
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1880
This document was drawn up in May 1880, when French workers' leader Jules Guesde came to visit Marx in London. The Preamble was dictated by Marx, while the other two parts of minimum political and economic demands were formulated by Marx and Guesde, with assistance from Engels and Paul Lafargue, who with Guesde was to become a leading figure in the Marxist wing of French socialism.
- Progress Against Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- A progressive dialogue on the future: Six questions for leftists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively, and try out some solutions, we would be far more successful. Here are six from my list of the most important questions, as well as my answers, which by their very incompleteness and inadequacy should suggest that more people should work on them.
- Progressive Frames for Taxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
As progressives, we do not believe that taxes are necessarily an affliction. Instead, we think of taxes as investments that give us dividends.
- Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
- Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
- Project Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Project North - The Inter-Church Project on Northern Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Project Ploughshares
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The proliferation of neo-primitives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Neo-primitives prefer an imaginary past to the work of creating a different society.
- Promises......Promises
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Promoting Unity and Solidarity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
I think that the current situation calls instead for a strategy that emphasizes working-class solidarity among a plurality of working-class organizations. This solidarity must bridge the divide between industrial and other workers, union and non-union workers, white and non-white workers, public and private sector workers, and so on.
- The Promotion of Tourism Prince Edward Island Style
A brief presented to Hon. Gilbert R. Clements, Minister of Tourism, Parks and Conservation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Critique of the impact of tourism and its promotion on the people of P.E.I.
- Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
- Propaganda model
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A theory that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product # readers and audiences # to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the people.
- Propaganda of the deed
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A concept that promotes violence against political enemies as a way of inspiring the masses and catalyzing revolution.
- Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla - Part 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We are trained to react to violent acts, not on the basis of their objective legality and human cost, but on the basis of the perceived legitimacy of the people committing the act. Violence committed by authority figures will tend to be viewed as legitimate and well-intentioned. Violence committed by non-state actors or #rogue states# resisting the state will tend to be seen as illegitimate and malevolent.
- The Property Waiver Regime: Nicaragua#s Continued Punishment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Proportional Representation: The Urgency of Real Reform
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The introduction of an electoral system based on proportional representation would allow the left to be represented in government, because it allows for representation without requiring a majority vote.
- Proposal for a Billingual Half-Hour Film
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
On Sudbury women during the INCO strike.
- Proposal for a Participatory Socialist International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A statement endorsing the idea of a new International.
- A Proposal for a Public Seminar on Fundy Tidal Poswer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- A Proposal for the Development of a Community Socio-Legal Clinic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A report on the success of the addition of a Legal Clinic to an established community centre.
- A Proposal for the Legislation to Establish a Self Development Corporation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
- Proposed Communist Settlement
A New Colony for Tyneside or Wearside
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1895
- Proposition d'Ecole Plate-forme revendicatrive pour une ecole de masse a batir maintenant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Prospects for African Americans
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Much of the debate in Washington and Wall Street is about the ongoing world economic crisis and what to do about it. The ruling elites’ solution: cut taxes for the rich, who will “trickle down” their investments to hire more people who will then jumpstart the economy. The fact that this hasn’t worked for the past 10 years is irrelevant.
- Prostitution Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Decriminalization takes prostitution from the jurisdiction of the criminal code. It means private sexual acts between consenting adults are placed outside the realm of criminal laws.
- Protect the Freedom to Shock
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
- Protecting the environment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Protection for Journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Protectionism or Solidarity? (Part I)
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
As the 21st century opened, U.S. labor seemed more energized and more engaged in grappling with the forces that had so long kept it on the defensive. Perhaps it was the fact that over a million workers had joined unions in the last two years and new members outnumbered lost ones by over a quarter of a million. Maybe it was the high-visibility experience of Seattle and the promise of a new coalition of forces.
- The Protectionist Trap
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In July, the United Nations and some fifty large corporations came to an agreement that the companies would all respect workers' rights and protect the environment in their investments around the world. Anyone who believes that this will actually happen is maybe in the market for a certain bridge as well.
- Protest against cruise missile tests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The protest march of September 3—where to?
Efrat, Yacov Ben
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We, workers from all sectors, Arabs and Jews, marched to the square on Saturday with a clear message: Bibi, your time is up, go home! We marched with a socialist worldview, according to which the economy should exist to serve society, not capital. Those who truly struggle for social justice must seek universal justice. There will be no true welfare state until the occupation is ended!
- Protest song
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A song which is associated with a movement for social change.
- Protesters in Eastern India Battle Against Mining Giant Arcelor Mittal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the rural, tribal lands of Eastern India, protesters are going head-to-head with world steel giant Arcelor Mittal. "We may give away our lives, but we will not part with an inch of our ancestral land," the villagers cry. "The forest, rivers and land are ours. We don't want factories, steel or iron. Arcelor Mittal Go Back."
- Protests of 1968
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Protests of 1968 consisted of a worldwide series of protests, largely led by students and workers.
- Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. (1809-1865).
- Provocateur Cops Caught Disguised As Anarchists At G20
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
At every single major summit over the past few years, authorities have inserted agent provocateurs into protest groups in order to spy on them and if necessary, provoke violence to justify oppressive police brutality in the eyes of the watching world.
We have documented numerous different occasions where the leadership of the black bloc anarchists were actually working with the authorities to provide a pretext for a police state crackdown.
During the previous G20 protest in London, black bloc anarchists were allowed by police to smash up bank buildings while being accompanied by more press photographers than other protesters in what was obviously a stage-managed spectacle for mass consumption
- Prussian uprisings
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Uprisings by the Prussians, one of the Baltic tribes, against the Teutonic Knights that took place in the 13th century.
- Przemyslenia o samostanowieniu i niepodleglosci
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
- Psycho-corporal therapy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Psychogeography
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."
- Psychologists’ Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions
The Status Quo of Torture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- The Psychology of Mountain Biking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The first thing one notices about mountain bikers is that they lie continually.
- The Psychology of Political Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
Compared with the wholesale violence of capital and government, political acts of violence are but a drop in the ocean. That so few resist is the strongest proof how terrible must be the conflict between their souls and unbearable social iniquities.
- The Psychology of the Arms Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Psychotherapist out of touch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Touching and hugging are natural behaviour all over the world among people who like or love each other.
- The Public Assistance Food Allowance Increase
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
An analysis of the effect on the Alberta poor of a 9% food allowance increase in 1972-73.
- Public Broadcasting is Cultural National Defence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The role of the national public broadcaster is to do those things which private broadcasters have demonstrated they will not, or cannot, accomplish.
- Public Disinterest: Information Commons Dismantled
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Seventy-five years after the Federal Radio Commission declared there was no room on the public airwaves for “propaganda stations” and denied a license renewal to a station that attacked Jews and law enforcement agencies, the airwaves are filled with both propaganda and venom. Today the airwaves, stripped of commons rules, feed hatred.
- Public Education in California--What's After March 4?
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On March fourth, we marched forth. Hundreds of marches, rallies and direct actions in defense of public education took place on March 4 across California. Now what?
- Public Gives Direction for Clark's Nuclear Inquiry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Public Housing Redesign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
The solution to the specific problems of illegal drug dealing and prostitution is decriminalization.
- Public Ownership and Common Ownership
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
Under public ownership the workers are not masters of their work; they may be better treated and their wages may be higher than under private ownership; but they are still exploited.
- The public reaction to new power lines could kill renewable energy: they must be buried
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Anti-wind campaigners are highly selective. The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, obsessed by wind farms, says nothing about the opencast coal mines ripping south Wales apart. Nor do you hear a word about the destruction of the ecosystems of upland Wales (and England and Scotland) by sheep grazing. These champions of the countryside want to save it from only one threat.
- Public Relations Strategy a Valuable Fundraising Tool
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A case study of using public relations to enhance a charity's fundraising activities.
- Public Universities in Peril
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
It's hare to imagine that only a year ago the privatization of a public university would emerge as a major political issue in Bloomington, Indiana. That is not to say the topic took the community by surprise. As early as 1994, the Indiana University’s Board of Trustees formed various tasks forces to evaluate the university’s potential for privatization.
- Publications List of the Canadian Association in Support of the Native Peoples
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975 Published: 1976
Comprehensive list of publications relating to native peoples.
- La publicite sexise c'est quoi?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Pueblo Revolt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An uprising of many pueblos of the Pueblo people against Spanish colonization of the Americas in the New Spain province of New Mexico in 1680.
- Puerto Rico, The Oldest U.S. Colony
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
When I was a high school senior, my history teacher promised the class that the Americans “would land” in Puerto Rico by the New Year. What he meant to tell us was that, different from most Puerto Rican history courses, our class would spend considerable time studying more recent historical events, and therefore the most controversial period of Puerto Rican history — the American Century. He kept his promise and many of us, including me, left the class with a deep sense of uneasiness against Puerto Rico’s colonial condition under the United States.
- Puerto Rico: The Real Bombers
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Practically every article concerning the Puerto Rican political prisoners repeats one item of information: They were members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a pro-independence group blamed for 130 bombings in the United States that killed six people and wounded dozens of others from 1974 to 1983.
- Puerto Rico's La Huelga del Pueblo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
AFTER FORTY DAYS on strike, several paros (one-day stoppages) in various government agencies and a two-day general strike, Puerto Rico's telephone workers have returned to work without attaining their objective: forcing the government to break its agreement to sell the state-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) to a group of investors led by GTE.
- Pugachev's Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in Russia after 1762.
- Pullman Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A nationwide conflict between labour unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.
- Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
- Pushing Demands at OWS?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A debate is going on about whether Occupy Wall Street should adopt a list of demands. A number of people I know and respect have supported the Demands Working Group in New York and have called for the General Assembly to adopt their list. The draft includes great demands — there is nothing I’ve seen that I don’t agree with, and I’ve worked hard for some of them for much of my life. Yet I keep thinking that pushing the list of demands is not the way to go right now.
- Put it in writing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Top five tips for writing press releases.
- Put it in Writing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advice on writing news releases.
- Put the Palestinians on a Diet
Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel's Deliberate Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”.
- Put the Palestinians On A Diet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”.
- Putin's Contribution to Demcracy
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Behind Vladimir Putin's election are the accoutrements of Russia's 21st century democracy -- a controlled media which smears opponents and lies about the war in Chechnya, journalists who publish their price to regurgitate government propaganda (the going rate is $4000 for a laudatory article), unbridled patriotism and just in case none of this works, filling the voter roster with dead souls.
- Putting Nature First
Principles to Guide the Settlement of Aboriginal Land Claims
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Putting Technology to Work for Palestine Activism
Palestine Activism Handbook Module
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Putting the Fox in Charge: What's Fair About the Fair Labor Association?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
AFTER THE EXPOSÉS in the early 1990s of horrendous conditions in sweatshops producing clothing and shoes for some of the largest U.S. companies, the fight against sweatshops has come a long way. Companies that once refused to acknowledge responsibility for factory conditions by alleging they were “only the buyers” now have codes of conduct, undertake more serious internal monitoring of the factories they buy from, and several companies have begun experimenting with different forms...
- Quaker Prison Committee
A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A look at two case histories vis the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
- Quand Ferment Les Usines: un dossier d'animation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Quand le coeur et la tete sont en affaire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Que es el Socialismo Libertario?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Que hacemos ahora? Construir un Movimiento Social en el Resultado del Libre Tratado
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Cuando creamos un movimiento para cambiar la sociedad, nos cambiamos a nosotros mismos, y al cambiarnos a nosotros mismos, hacemos que los cambios sociales sean posibles.
- Quebec - A Double Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1964
Discusses Quebecois nationalism in the early 1960s.
- Quebec Agrees to Negotiate, Kidnap Crees First But "Negotiate"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Canadians as a whole seem to be unaware of the depth of the double standards advocated by the separatist leaders. We Crees are only too grimly aware of them, however, since we will be the first and most deeply affected community if the separatists ever get a chance to put their current secessionist policies into practice.
- The Quebec National Question and the Case for Socialism
A debate between the International Bolshevik Tendency and the Trotskyist League
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
- Quebec police monitor TV, radio
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Quebec police shop for tanks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Québec Shoe Workers' Lockout
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A lockout of Quebec shoe workers in 1900.
- Quebec: The Struggle of A Nation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A study kit organized for small group study over a period of a year.
- Quebec's two solitudes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Quebec's hopes to chart a smooth course to sovereignty may founder on claims to Quebec's territory by its original inhabitants - claims that could involve as much as 80 per cent of its land mass.
- Queer in a Lean World
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The queer movement has made impressive gains in the thirty-one years since the Gay Liberation Front emerged out of the Stonewall Riots in New York City. It is now possible for many lesbians and gay men to live relatively open lives in fairly supportive environments with access to real community resources.
- Queer theories and militant practices
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A critical look at queer theories.
- Queer Vows, Pros and Cons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Equality ain't liberation, honey, but it's important nonetheless. We fight for the right to jobs, as horrible as so many of them are. We should fight for queer marriage, as problematic an institution as it is.
- Querying Young Chomsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Chomsky offers observations on what a desirable society might look like from the perspective of the heritage of libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist views.
- Qu#est ce que le socialisme libertaire?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
L#idée que le socialisme est avant tout à propos de liberté et donc sur le dépassement de la domination, de la répression, et de l#aliénation qui bloquent la libre circulation de la créativité humaine, de la pensée et de l#action.
- Quest for Justice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
- Questions for a New Movement
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Public universities in California during Fall 2009 saw the eruption of a movement to defend public education — and more broadly, public services and goods — from an onslaught of cuts and fee hikes in the wake of the 2008-09 economic downturn and federal and state budget cuts.
- A Quick Reaction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Noam Chomsky offers his immediate reactions to the atrocities of 9/11, focusing on the need to acquire insight into what may have led the perpetrators to commit such crimes.
- Quicksilver and Slow Death
A study of mercury pollution in Northwestern Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A comprehensive paper describing the causes and effects of mercury pollution.
- Quilombo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, Quilombolas, or Maroons.
- Rabbis Take on Settlers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Away from the media spotlight that focuses on the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians, a group of Israeli humanists is quietly working to break down barriers with their Palestinian neighbours.
- Race and Class: African Americans in a Sick System
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The critical lack of quality and affordable health care is devastating for African Americans. Twice as likely as whites to go without insurance, African Americans suffer chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes at an escalating rate.
- Race and Class: Blacks Still Taking the Hit
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It took ten months before the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) stood up and challenged President Barack Obama. In a surprise move, 10 CBC leaders refused to participate in a key House financial committee vote in December until some more relief is provided to Black businesses.
- Race and Class: Busing and Integration, 1975-99
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In the mid-1970s Boston was a major battle ground for equal education in the public schools. Boston's inner-city schools—as in most urban areas—were less-equipped and in worse condition than those in white neighborhoods.
- Race and Class: Downturn Undermines Black "Middle Class"
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Although the historic election of president Barack Obama has led to big cheers in the Black community and society in general, the reality for the vast majority of African Americans is growing uncertainty if not joblessness and poverty. Cities like Detroit, and the Rust Belt in the Midwest, are reeling under the blows of the recession and structural changes, including overseas outsourcing and shifting work to nonunion companies in “right to work” states.
- Race and Class in Civil War Mississippi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The poor whites of Mississippi who fought the Confederacy alongside slaves did so because of working class values that they shared with slaves. The fact that poor whites may have believed some racist lies about blacks that constituted the dominant ideas of the day is not nearly as important or significant as the fact that their working class values led them to ally with slaves to fight the racist ruling class. Racism came from the upper class, and anti-racism came from the working class--black and white.
- Race & Class: Obama & the Politics of Protest
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Consider the following contradiction of modern African-American politics: We have the first African-American president (he checked “Black” on the new census form) offering hope to millions of working-class Blacks. Yet we see a drawdown of protest politics by longtime civil rights leaders, even though the “Great Recession” is causing the greatest harm Black communities have seen in decades.
- Race & Class: Obama Forgets Black Community
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
What I found most striking about President Barack Obama’s first “State of the Union” address before Congress on January 27 was what he didn’t say. In his 70-minute speech on the economy as the first president of the United States of African heritage, I expected that Obama would highlight the special impact of the recession on Blacks.
- Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
It turns out that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
- Race and Class: The Agenda of Pure Racism
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
There is a sinister aspect of the attacks by the far right against President Barack Obama that does not sit well with me, and with a vast majority of African Americans and other ethnic minorities, no matter our political or ideological point of view.
- Race and Class: The Wealth Gap
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Politicians and government officials point to the historic low unemployment level in the Black community as signs of a strong economy and a future where whites and African Americans will finally have an opportunity for an equal share of the American dream. While it is true that long-term unemployment for the African-American population is in the single digits for the first time, the wealth gap between white and Black families continues to widen. According to government statistics Black households' wealth average one-twelfth that of white households.
- Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
One striking feature of political debate in the country today is that — while every commentator, pundit and political observer talks about and focuses on the concerns of the super-rich and the middle class — few ever talk about the plight of the disadvantaged, those on food stamps and welfare and particularly the working poor.
- Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
One striking feature of political debate in the country today is that — while every commentator, pundit and political observer talks about and focuses on the concerns of the super-rich and the middle class — few ever talk about the plight of the disadvantaged, those on food stamps and welfare and particularly the working poor.
- Race and Class: What Counts in the Census?
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
I recently received two surveys in the mail. The first came from the U.S. Census Bureau, asking me a number of personal questions-some relevant, others intrusive. For the first time, however, the census offered me more options than the "normal" white, Black, Hispanic and other categories for race. I could now identify myself by checking as many ethnic groups as I liked. Progress? Maybe.
- Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Some 50,000 people converged on the small Louisiana town of Jena on September 20. The protest shook up not only the two-stoplight town but sent a loud siren across the country. The 85% white population had never seen anything like this — a Black-led protest against modern-day racism.
- Race and Politics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
THE MID-TERM NOVEMBER elections brought two surprises according to the pundits: the demise of Newt Gingrich and the likely survival of the Clinton presidency. A major reason for this striking turn of events had much to do with the Black voter turnout. It is a sidebar that was briefly commented on before and right after the elections but since has been buried by the impeachment hearings.
- Race and Politics: Blacks in Corporate America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
A Concern of old-line civil rights leaders is how to remain relevant to the vast majority of African Americans. Since the victories won by the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this has been an issue facing the NAACP, Operation PUSH, the SCLC, Urban League and every other group formed in that period and since.
- Race and Politics: Profiling and DWB
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
It's happened to most Blacks at least once in our lifetime. Driving towards home or heading from work on the freeway a cop decides to pull you over for no reason. You wait in your car (you never get out first), hoping it's nothing. As you wait, the tension increases throughout your body. You keep your hands visible and crack no smile. Is it just a ticket? Or worse? (You wonder why African Americans have high blood pressure.)
- Race and Politics: A Color-Blind America?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THROUGHOUT U.S. HISTORY “race” has been a major factor in all politics—beginning with the English occupation and the Westward drive of settlers to conquer and slaughter the native peoples. The justification: advancement of civilization. Racism is as American as apple pie, yet race itself is a political (economic) concept having little to do with biology or science.
- Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
IF YOU READ only the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, or watched CNN, your view of the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia with its 210 million people, would be of Muslims (ninety percent of the population) and Christians killing each other, as well as pogroms against ethnic Chinese, Dayaks attacking migrants and the people of the "Spice Islands" engaging in communal violence.
- Race and Racism in China
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Discrimination against the minority ethnic groups in contemporary China remains significant.
- Race and the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
We need to pay attention to the Marxist traditions that rose out of anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century.
- Race and the Enlightenment
Part I: From Anti-Semitism to White Supremacy, 1492-1676
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
- Race and the Enlightenment
Part II: The Anglo-French Enlightenment and Beyond
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
- Race and Class: Brown v. Board of Education 50 Years Later
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
I found the headline of the May 17 Business Week article on the 50th anniversary of the famous Brown v. Board of Education landmark Supreme Court ruling, that "separate but equal" schools were unconstitutional, most revealing. "A Bittersweet Birthday," it said, declaring "Decades of progress on integration have been followed by disturbing slippage."
- Race from the 20th to the 21st Century: Multiculturalism or Emancipation?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
WHEN I WAS first invited here for a talk three years ago, I had no idea what Pullman looked like. For me, as well as for many students of American history, Pullman was associated with Pullman, Illinois, where the great railroad strike of 1894 against the Pullman Company began. In that strike of the American Railway Union, organized by the now legendary Eugene Debs, he and other union leaders were ultimately arrested and the strike in Chicago suppressed by 14,000 soldiers and police.
- Race Obsession harms those it is meant to help
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Ethnic monitoring does not just produce misleading data. The process of classification often creates the very problems it is supposed to solve. Local authorities have used ethnic categories not only as a means of collecting data but also as a way of distributing political power # by promoting certain #community leaders# # and of disbursing public funds through ethnically-based projects. Once the allocation of power, resources and opportunities becomes linked to membership of particular groups, then people inevitably begin to identify themselves in terms of those ethnicities, and only those ethnicities.
- Race, Politics and Christianity in America
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
11:00AM on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in American life, and the implications of this stubborn fact have been known to unexpectedly erupt into our national political culture. In the invocation at the presidential inaugural, Pastor Rick Warren reminded us that we are not a nation united by race, or blood or religion — but he left our divisions on these grounds unarticulated, despite the role he has played in helping to generate them.
- Race Relations Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Race to the screen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Rachel Corrie Presente!
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The following is an excerpt from a statement from the family of Rachel Corrie.
- #Rachel# screening in San Francisco shows a growing movement tired of being censored about Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A wide spectrum of individuals and organizations attempt to enforce the axiom: there shall be no public criticism of Israel. This platitude ironically goes hand in hand with the view that #Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.# Over the past several decades, self-appointed watch dogs of appropriate Israel discourse have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and poured out enormous doses of vitriol upon any individual or organization that dares to expresses even a drop of sympathy with the plight of Palestinians.
- Racial and Cultural Conflict and the Law Project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Racial Capitalism and the "Digital Divide"
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The dialogue on race and nationality in the United States has always been conducted from the standpoint of the dominant racial group—whites. Not surprisingly, President Clinton's commission on race produced very little to overcome racism, something that would require facing up to the reality of centuries of white supremacy.
- Racism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An overview of racism
- Racism & Conflict at Southern Illinois
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
I teach on a campus that prides itself on its racial diversity; Southern Illinois University is consistently ranked in the top ten among predominantly white campuses in graduation rates for African Americans. Yet the university has trouble confronting racial issues, and has no published policy on racial harassment.
- Racism and Responsibility
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Malik Miah writes in Against the Current 131, “[Orlando] Patterson, and others in Black academia and middle-class civil rights organizations, are right to point to internal problems within the Black community. But the ‘take personal responsibility’ critique targets only a secondary factor. It has little to do with addressing racist attitudes still prevalent among many whites, even as a large majority of whites and society oppose blatant racial discrimination.”
- Racism and Structural Solutions
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
When Barack Obama raised the specter of race in a March 18 speech that went far beyond what one would expect from the Democratic Party, some of us on the left were hopeful. Since the 1970s, race-speech in presidential campaigns has been increasingly buried in coded language like, “welfare moms,” “inner-city,” “street crime,” “states’ rights” and so on. We all welcomed a shift away from such discourse. By dealing a bit more squarely with the issue, the speech had the potential to ignite a national debate that could grapple with the “racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years,” as Obama put it.
- Racism in the Canadian Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Le racisme au Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Racist Outrage at UMass-Amherst
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Over the past decade, students around the country have fought a conservative backlash on college campuses that has sought to reverse many gains won in the 1970s and 1980s. Along with attacks on labor studies, women's studies, and progressive student organizations, this has also included efforts to roll back affirmative action policies and programs for students of color.
- Racist Undercurrents in the "War on Terror"
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Although it is rarely mentioned in the so-called war on terrorism, racism is an undercurrent in every action and decision taken by the Bush-Cheney government. It is a dangerous element that has long-term implications.
- Racist Universities?
New Rules Favor Former IDF Soldiers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticised by lawyers and human rights groups.
- Radical America - Wikipedia article
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Radical Faeries
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A loosely affiliated worldwide network of queer people seeking to "reject hetero-imitation" and redefine gay identity.
- Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
- Radical Political Economics
Event Listing 1990
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Radical Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A report on Occupy Seattle 2011.
- Radio Alice
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Italian free radio broadcasting from Bologna at the end of the 1970s.
- Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Radio in action in Italy.
- Radio Canada slashed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Radio Frequency ID Removes Freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Radio Frequency ID violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is part of the stealthy forging of a police state.
- Rafferty-Alameda: The American Connection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Rafferty, along with the Oldman River Dam under construction in Alberta, only make sense as part of a water diversion to the United States. Because 90 per cent of Canadians, according to federal government study, are opposed to the export of Canadian water, this aspect of the project has not been made public and the Devine government is using the front of a purely localized development to "save" precious water for the dry prairies.
- Raffi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- The Rage of the "Righteous"
On Muslim Outrage at a Danish Cartoon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Over and over, in the wake of 9/11, Muslims (and many non-Muslims) have proclaimed that all Muslims must not be judged on the basis of the few that are terrorists. Yes, it was Muslims that flew the airplanes into the World Trade towers, but most Muslims are not like that. That's very true. Each individual should be judged only on the basis of his or her own behaviour. So then why are all Danes being judged on the basis of one Danish cartoon? Why has an embassy been burned? Why have Danish products been taken off shelves?
- The Raging Grannies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
We sing satire. We aren't very good at singing, but the medium being the message, as grannies in bright colourful clothes fashionable a couple of generations ago, and wearing smiles, outrageous hats and pink running shoes, we seem to have an appeal.
- Rail accidents up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Railroading of Tonya Craft
A New Wave of Prosecutorial Hysteria
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As we have seen countless times before, the media always is ready to run over the cliff with the prosecutors, and no matter how many times the prosecution is discredited, there always is another reporter ready to serve as a PR mouthpiece for a dishonest state official. And it always will be that way, for like the Bourbons, the media learn nothing, and they forget nothing.
- Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Ralph Nader, announcing his presidential candidacy in Washington, D.C. on February 21, 2000, said, "The struggle between the forces of democracy and plutocracy has ebbed and flowed throughout our history ... The earlier nineteenth-century democratic struggles by abolitionists against slavery, by farmers against large oppressive railroads and banks, and later by new trade unionists against the brutal workplace conditions of the early industrial and mining era helped mightily to make America and its middle class what it is today. They demanded that economic power subside or be shared."
- Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 2)
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Our electoral dilemma today derives from a political realignment a hundred years ago, when a faction of populists joined in fusion with William Jennings Bryan and the “Free Silver” Democratic Party. After 1896 the two major parties evolved into what they have remained, electoral machines organized from the top down, from elites to ward heelers and courthouse gangs, as vote-catching operations for factions of big business.
- Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3)
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Ralph Nader has a complex relationship with the historical currents of change before World War I (populism, socialism and progressivism), but it may be his relationship to the Communism of the mid-twentieth century that has shaped his view of reform. Nader readily accepted the prevailing view that the Soviet regime exemplified the definition of socialism, that is, a concentration of bureaucratic power based on government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution.
- Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
- Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
- Randolph, A. Philip
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African-American civil rights leader. (1889-1979).
- Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Suggests rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions.
- Rankin, Harry
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Politician. (Born 1920).
- The Rape of Irish Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A State which had genuine concern for its children would have responded to the report by taking decisive action to remove the Catholic bishops as patrons of primary schools. Three thousand of 3,200 primaries in the Republic have bishops as patrons - with the power to hire and fire and complete control over the school#s #ethos#. No less appropriate category of men could be imagined to have such power over the moral formation of children.
- Rapport Annuel 1977-78
avec le rapport sur la colloque Police et Liberte
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Rapport du Comite d'orientation au congres specail de la CSN sur la question nationale
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Rationalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive".
- Rationality/Science
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
- Rättigheter och Friheter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- The Rawick File: How Do People Revolt?
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
George Rawick (1929-1990) was a powerful socialist scholar in the C.L.R. James tradition, sometimes an equally powerful mentor for young radicals, and also a tortured soul. He is largely forgotten today, because he did not write easily or found a “school” with his methods — or even get along with his friends and allies very well.
- Raymond Williams and the Moral Project of the New Left
A review of 'Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Views Beyond the Border Country is an ample demonstration that activist-scholarship, a concrete political standpoint and the insights of feminism and anti-racism ought to inform the politics of any future left in North America, both inside and outside the classroom.
- Raymond Williams, and Why Culture Matters
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
This year sees the 20th anniversary of the death of Raymond Williams, one of the towering socialist thinkers of the 20th century. A superb biography of him, Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Life, has just been published by Dai Smith, who ranks among the finest scholars of Welsh culture and history of our time. Smith charts Williams's passage from the Welsh border country, where his father was a railway signalman, to Cambridge and then into adult education, a vocation he chose for political motives along with his New Left colleagues Richard Hoggart and E.P. Thompson.
- RCMP (Recent Coercive Methods of Pacification)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Strike, Vol.2, No.8
- RCMP unit disbanded
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Reactions a l'ordonnance sur les conges maternite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Read before attacking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Letter: too quick to attack.
- Reading Red: Art & Social Revolution
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Throughout much of the 20th century, distinguished painters and muralists were habitually adjoined to revolutionary movements, sometimes producing monumental works expressive of socialist dreams, as well as of the aims and struggles of working people and anti-fascist fighters. One thinks immediately of Spain’s Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973), Mexico’s Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), and the Russian avant-garde of the early Soviet Union.
- Reading Red Women Writers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Coiner makes a cogent case for class studies, decrying the way in which discussions of "race, class and gender" usually only actually deal with race and gender.
- Reading the “unreadable” Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Many who have not read Marx have heard that he is “unreadable,” but in this article Humphery McQueen celebrates the colour and humour of Marx’s writing, the use of metaphor, paradox, pun, irony, classical allusion and all the devices of the writer’s art. True, there are passages! the endless manipulation of prices and quantities of coats and cloth in Capital which often add little to the point already made, the obsessive, almost paranoiac bombast of works like Herr Vogt, but some of his prose ranks with the best of its kind, and should be enjoyed. It seems that Marx used these literary devices to achieve a depth of analysis which the normal “scientific” mode of exposition could never achieve.
- Reading, Writing and Union Building
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. It will undoubtedly change even more during the next four years — although just how remains to be determined. There has never been such a convergence of yawning crises facing an incoming U.S. government, including a collapsing credit system and the near-death spiral of the North American auto industry. It’s an entirely open question whether the sheer scale of the objective emergency might impose serious structural changes on the way capitalism is administered in this country.
- The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
- The Real Costs of Empire
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Vietnam all over again? Yes, it is. The massacres by United States military forces of unarmed civilians in Haditha and, as is finally being revealed despite official lies and coverup, numerous other Iraqi towns, are showing tens of millions of Americans what this war is, and part of what it really costs. The highest costs obviously are borne by the ordinary people of Iraq; but American society will pay for decades as well for this dirty conflict -- and worse is yet to come.
- The real costs of transportation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- The Real Expenses Scandal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry#s two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
- The Real Merchants of Death
The Global Arms Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The global arms trade is a $60 billion yearly business, of which the U.S. controls nearly 40 percent, and a political and economic juggernaut that defends its turf with the ferocity of a junkyard dog.
- The Real Motive Behind the Gaza Flotilla Attack
Sabotaging Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel's leadership is committed to "a dynamic state bent upon expansion". The greatest threat to continued expansion is the threat of peace. Whenever Israel's leadership is faced with the threat of peace, it initiates violence designed to stop it.
- The Real Value of Diversity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The real failure of multiculturalism is its failure to understand what is valuable about cultural diversity. There is nothing good in itself about diversity. It is important because it allows us to compare and contrast different values, beliefs and lifestyles, make judgements upon them, and decide which are better and which worse. It is important, in other words, because it allows us to engage in political dialogue and debate that can help create more universal values and beliefs. But it is precisely such dialogue and debate, and the making of such judgements, that multiculturalism attempts to suppress in the name of 'tolerance' and 'respect'.
- The Realities of Chicago School Reform
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In Chicago, the current round of school reform efforts began in the late 1980s. They were ostensibly sparked by the November 1987 public pronouncement of William Bennett, then-Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan, calling Chicago schools "the worst in the nation."
- The Realities of China Today
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Interest in the post-1978 Chinese market reform experience remains high and for an obvious reason: China is widely considered to be one of the most successful developing countries in modern times. The Chinese economy has recorded record rates of growth over an extended time period, in concert with a massive industrial transformation. Adding to the interest is the Chinese government's claim that this success demonstrates both the workability and superiority of "market socialism."
- The Reality of the "Geneva Accord"
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Geneva Accord was signed Monday, December 1, 2003, amid great media and political fanfare. The fifty-page document lays out a plan for a presumed “peace agreement” between Israel and the Palestinian people. We, the undersigned, consider this initiative as inconsistent with the prerequisites of a just and durable peace.
- Reasons to Fear U.S.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky reveals that since 9/11 the US has failed to address the roots of terrorism and has instead waged war rather than striving to achieve peace.
- Rebecca Riots
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Rebecca Riots took place between 1839 and 1843 in South Wales and Mid Wales. They were a protest against the high tolls which had to be paid on the local turnpike roads.
- The Rebellion in Bolivia
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
From the inspiring rebellion of the indigenous and popular classes of the Bolivian altiplano (high plateau),(1) the eruption of the 690,000-strong shantytown of El Alto, and the popular neighborhoods in the hillsides of the capital La Paz in the “Gas War” of October 2003, emerged the “October Agenda,” a list of popular demands to remake the country in the name of the poor and the indigenous majority.
- Rebellion of the Remences
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A popular revolt in Catalongia against seignorial pressures that began in 1462.
- Rebellions and Black Wealth
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
What is a working-class family’s most valuable asset? What does every family seek to own?
- Rebellions of 1837
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Rebellions of 1837 took place in both Upper and Lower Canada. In lower Canada the rebellion was in large part an expression of a resurgent French Canadian nationalism. By comparison the Upper Canada rebellion was a more limited affair. There was growing discontent with the network of officials, erroneously described as the family compact, who dominated the administration of the government and controlled the distribution of patronage throughout the province.
- Rebellions of 1837
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 and 1838.
- Rebick, Judy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).
- Rebuilding the Antiwar Movement
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
First, thanks to David Grosser for starting an important discussion. However, as two socialists who have been involved in antiwar organizing, we think the problem is more complex than he suggests. Further, the specific solution he calls for would mistakenly shift the focus of the movement away from mass action as a strategic orientation.
- Rebuilding the International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1915
The only real safeguard for peace depends on the resolution of the proletariat to remain faithful to its class politics and its international solidarity through all the storm of imperialism.
- Rebuilding the Left in a Time of Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The type of organizers we need to develop need to be those who have developed the skills and capacities and depth that allow them to be good at taking a defensive struggle and saying ‘we can both fight it, and maybe fight it more effectively, if we can link it to a set of demands that are forward looking. They need to be visionary in terms of a socialist strategy.
- Rebutting Israel's "We don't kill civilians on purpose" argument
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The difference between intentional and accidental killing is only relevant when the aim of the violence is a just one. Accidentally killing civilians in the course of using violence to stop oppression is one thing. Doing it in the course of using violence to oppress people is a very different thing. In the case of Israeli violence, the question is not whether Israel intentionally kills civilians. The question is: What is the purpose of Israel's violence?
- Recent Class Struggles in the USA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Recent Nuclear Moratorium Announced in B.C.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Rechte und Freiheiten
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Keiner ist Frei, wenn wir nicht alle Frei sind. Jegliche Einschränkung der Rechte und Freiheiten ist gleichzeitig eine Stärkung der Macht des Staates darüber zu entscheiden, welche Rechte in Zukunft ausgeübt werden dürfen und welche nicht.
- Reclaim the Streets
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A collective with a shared ideal of community ownership of public spaces. Participants characterize the collective as a resistance movement opposed to the dominance of corporate forces in globalisation, and to the car as the dominant mode of transport.
- Reclaiming the Commons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment.
- Reclaiming Toronto's Don River
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Reclaiming Utopia: The Legacy of Ernst Bloch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Bloch's Marxism was from the start unorthodox as the result of his abiding interest in the notion of utopia. This notion was held in disdain by many orthodox Marxists.
- Reclus, Élisée
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French geographer, writer and anarchist. (1830-1905).
- Recognition of the Dene Nation Through Dene Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Recollections of Harry Press
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Harry Press, a veteran of the U.S. Trotskyist movement and the American Socialist current, died this year at age 94. In recent years he was a loyal reader and made several very generous donations to this magazine. These recollections of Harry Press were told to Carl Finamore for Against the Current.
- Recommended Changes in Canada's Refugee Status Determination Procedure:
A Brief to the Hon. Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- A Record of Resistance
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Here is a stunning book, filled with photographs that record the suffering and strength of the indigenous population in the Guatemalan countryside over the past 15 years. In short essays and photos Our Culture Is Our Resistance records the harsh life of those who survived the army’s “scorched earth” of the early 1980s and fled to isolated areas of the country.
- La Recouverture de Centre Meurling
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Recovering Forgotten Voices
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A lover of American literature will come away from reading Alan Wald’s Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade excited about the prospect of investigating a long list of currently unheralded writers who collectively constitute a voice that deserves to be recognized as major.
- Recovering the Sandinista Murals
Review of The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1992 by David Kunzle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Obliterating the artifacts of the revolution is an important task for those who want to rewrite history. David Kunzle's book, The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1992, is thus more than a catalog -- it's a weapon in the struggle to keep the promise of revolution alive.
- Recovery from sexual assault
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Recycling Council
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Recycling council
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Recycling Symbols Discussion Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Recycling week
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Red Clydeside
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A term used to describe the era of political radicalism that characterised the city of Glasgow in Scotland, and urban areas around the city on the banks of the River Clyde such as Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley.
- Red Menace #1
Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1976
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The first issue of The Red Menace
- The Red Menace Interviews Prime Minister Trudeau
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An exclusive interview with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, published in The Red Menace and nowhere else.
- Red River Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Name given to the events surrounding the actions of a provisional government established by Métis leader Louis Riel in 1869 at the Red River Settlement in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba.
- Red River Rebellion
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Red River Rebellion (also known as Red River Resistance), a movement of national self-determination by the metis of the red river colony in what is now Manitoba, 1869-70. The inhabitants were continually in conflict with the HBC, particularly over trading privileges.
- Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
- Redress for injustices to Chinese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Reed International:
Profile of a Transnational Corporation.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Reed, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American journalist and communist activist. (1887-1920).
- Reesor Siding Strike of 1963
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A labour conflict which resulted in the shooting of 11 union members.
- Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
- Reflections for the US Occupy Movement
From Barcelona's Neighborhood Assemblies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The deeper a struggle’s historical roots, the greater its collective knowledge.
- Reflections on a Political Trial
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
In wake of the sentencing of 4 of the 5 men on trial for illegal activities against the draft, Chomsky explores the details of the so-called "Spock" case as well as its meaning for both the "peace movement" and the state of American democracy. Though the issues of legality, legitimacy, and resistance must be, according to Chomsky, considered in the context of the democratic system, these were not addressed in Court. Chomsky reveals the flawed-nature of America's institutions, observing that if the outcome of this trial were to be taken as a guide of conduct, citizens would have to avoid all public acts undertaken jointly with others who share his views in order to avoid risk of prosecution.
- Reflections on October 7th
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Students, workers, teachers, parents and faculty throughout the country participated in the October 7th National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. As part of a growing movement, activists from 25 different states were involved.
- Reflections on the 7th Special Session of the U.N. General Assemly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Overview and critique of the U.N. conference dealing with the New International Economic Order.
- Reflections On The New Brunswick Farmers' Tour Of Bolivia.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Reflections on the New School Occupation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
On November 17th, 2011, the Study Center at 90 Fifth Avenue, an office building leased by the New School University, was occupied by participants in the all-city student assembly in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
- Reflections on the Occasion of Dimitri Roussopoulos# 70th Birthday and Public Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
- Réflections sur l'autodétermination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Pour Panitch et ses compagnons l'autodétermination n'a qu'un seul sens: celui de la sécession. Ils disent aux Quebécois: "Vous avez le droit de partir. Alors dépêchez-vous!" Il ne leur passe pas par la tête que les Quebécois peuvent choisir une option différente de celle de la sécession.
- Reflexions sur le role de l'Etat et de la Police Series: On Vous a a l'Oeil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967 Published: 1968
An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
- Reform Is Not A Tea Party
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Nobel peace price notwithstanding, Barack Obama’s presidency, contrary to the hopes of many, has not produced a big political space for the left, let alone “a seat at the table.” Most visibly, it has been the right wing that succeeded in seizing the initiative, in some truly grotesque ways that have thrown a spotlight on the deep paranoia — and straight-up old-style white racism — that persists in this society, and on the ways it can be opportunistically pandered to and manipulated. The tea-party mob phenomenon, however, cannot be dismissed as merely a freak show created by rightwing talk media and massive covert corporate funding, although that is certainly part of the story.
- Reform or Revolution?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1896
Socialism knows that revolutionary upheavals and transformations proceed from the rock bed of material needs.
- Reform Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The #new Canada# that Reform Party leader Preston Manning is proposing is a mean-minded society based on the survival of the fittest. It simply ignores the fact that the majority of Canadians do not play on a level playing field. It is a select few who have the power and the influence.
- Re-Framing Dissent As Criminal Subversion
Paradigm Shift and Political Repression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
When our national security interests are perceived as threatened, secrecy becomes sacred, and the ends justify the means. Since the end of World War II, the techniques of political repression recur, banal and predictive, like the musical theme that signals stalking in a grade-B thriller. Those organizations and individuals targetted for repression are portrayed as enemies of democracy; those investigating and attacking then assume the mantle of democracy's guardians. Because of the covert nature of campaigns and the enormous difference in resources between government agencies and dissident/reform movements, it is often impossible to document or prove the existence of an organized campaign of political repression in its earlier stages. In case after case, however, later investigation has revealed illegal government surveillance, harassment and public opinon manipulation, as well as media complicity.
- The Refugee As Neighbour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- The Refugee Experience - Perspectives On Refugee Issues.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Refugees at Home and Abroad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Refund on tires suggested
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Refundable Child Tax Credit:
What it is...how it works
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Regina Committee for World Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Six one-page articles discuss Energy Production in the Third World.
- The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
- Regroupment & Refoundation of a U.S. Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Perspectives for socialist renewal in the 21st century.
- A Regulatory Agenda for Solid Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Reich, Wilhelm
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. (1897-1957).
- Rejected for jury duty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Discussing the effectiveness of the policies of the "war on drugs" -- in the courtroom.
- Rejecting the "Vanguard" Party
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In the September-October, 1999 issue of Against the Current (#82), Sam Farber's review of Daniel Singer's book Whose Millennium? deserves a few comments. Like Farber, Singer and numerous other revolutionaries, I also reject the Leninist concept of the "vanguard party." As you probably know, it was not Lenin who authored the concept that working people can attain only trade union consciousness as a result of their own practical activity, the material basis of the vanguard concept as defined in What Is To Be Done?
- A Rejoinder on Antiwar Strategy
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Let me first restate as concisely as I can the main points of my essay “A New Strategy for Antiwar Organizing: Going Where the Millions Are”.
- A Rejoinder on Respect
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Respect has provided a place in the political ecosystem for those with an inclination to substitute anecdote and slander for an analysis of what’s happening in British politics today. Bywater and Ismail have chosen to make this their habitat.
- Rejoinder to Criticism of Chomsky: Asset or Liability?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
One can learn much more about Chomsky’s actual views from the real Chomsky than from reading about some imaginary Chomsky which some critics have manufactured.
- A Rejoinder to Joel Kovel
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Joel Kovel is to be congratulated on the successful struggle to overturn the outrageous University of Michigan Press decision to halt distribution of Overcoming Zionism. To whatever extent the controversy has boosted the book’s sales and stimulated discussion of the issues it raised, so much the better.
- A Rejoinder: Strategy or Doctrine?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
MIKE GOLDFIELD HAS presented above a succinct left critique of the popular front line of the Communist Party, both of its principles and of its practice. He echoes the accusations of James P. Cannon that in promoting this line the Communists diverted the working-class movement into the arms of the Democratic Party, thus fundamentally betraying both the class struggle and the Afro-American struggle.
- Rejoinder: The Dynamics of Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
ONE COMMON ERROR socialists tend to make when discussing unfolding revolutions in other countries is to offer programmatic analysis that has little to do with the real situation on the ground. Comrade Steve Bloom makes that mistake in regards to “the relationship between the democratic and the socialist revolutions”in Indonesia.
- Relax a Little!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999 Published: 2001
Learning how to relax can mean the difference between a serene sense of accomplishment and a pounding headache.
- Release To Those In Prison
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
An attempt to elucidate "classical anarchism," a la Proudhon, Kropotkin, etc., so as to repudiate "neo-anarchism," with its emphasis on "escapist individualism" and "action for the sake of action."
- The reliable tyrant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
- Religion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
- Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Historians and other scholars have given Detroit plentiful attention, including some very important books, yet in this vital new study Angela Dillard manages to approach the Motor City’s past in several crucial yet previously neglected ways. What’s most valuable about the book is her attempt to encompass such subjects as race, labor radicalism, Black religion and the civil rights movement all in one narrative.
- Religion, The Golden Rule, and Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Why is it that all of the world's great religions, though disagreeing greatly about theology, nonetheless concur on the Golden Rule? The explanation must be that there is something common to all human beings that is captured by the Golden Rule and reflected in all of these religions.
- Religion is Part of the 'Lumpenism' in Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Liberation theology is the name for Christian priets who are prepared to say something against Latin American dictators. This is what they call liberation theology, but by definition no theology is liberating. Theology is the antithesis of liberation. It signifies keeping people ignorant, obstructing their independent thought and consigning them to an unknown creator and world. Liberation theology is nonsense.
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A religious movement, whose members are known as Friends or Quakers.
- A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
- Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I think it was in 1963 that I first became aware of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). My older sister Patty had married a very nice guy named Earl Brecher, with whom she went to Liberia as one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, in a program, sending idealistic college graduates to “help” downtrodden areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, launched by the Kennedy administration.
- The Remaking of the American Working Class
The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981 Published: 1999
Today, one can only be practical by posing contemporary problems where they have, in fact, always been located: not in the "factory", the material condensation of the capitalist juridical entity par excellence the enterprise, but at the level of the total worker (Gesamtarbeiter) and his alienated phantom, the total capital.
- Remember the '80s
Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
- Remembering a Revolutionary Artist: Vlady Presente!
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Vlady Kibalchich, born in Petrograd, Russia in June 1920, died on July 21, 2005 at home (in his studio) in Cuernavaca, Mexico after a difficult battle with cancer which began as a melanoma, but spread to his brain. He was 85.
- Remembering Another Occupy
Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- Remembering Barbara Zeluck
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Remembering Barbara Zeluck
- Remembering C.L.R. James
A review of C.L.R. James, A Political Biography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Worcester's biography of James is both critical and yet sympathetic.
- Remembering Dangerously
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy.
- Remembering Dave Dellinger
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Dave Dellinger’s death on May 25th of this year, at the age of 88, marked the end of a remarkable life. Most readers know him from the event that, more than any other, made him a public figure — the infamous trial of the Chicago Eight, following the riots that marked the Democratic Party’s 1968 convention.
- Remembering Dorothy Healey: An Activist with Vision
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Dorothy Healey had a grand vision of a world in which there was no poverty, racism, or war, a world of genuine democracy. To me she represented what was most appealing about the Old Left — commitment, dedication, selflessness.
- Remembering Jim Campbell
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Canadian anarchist.
- Remembering Manning Marable
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Malcolm X has been getting quite a bit of the attention lately, especially with respect to A Life of Reinvention — and deservedly so — but as Professor Marable himself would tell you, no one shaped his intellectual development more than W.E.B. Du Bois.
- Remembering Michael Manley
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Manley, who had entered the decade of the Seventies with so much hope for changing Jamaica, departed bitterly at the end of it.
- Remembering Milt Zaslow
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Milt disdained inflated revolutionary bravado, but time and again his group were the first to put themselves in harm's way when activists in Southcentral or the Eastside of Los Angeles were under attack.
- Remembering Pinochet's Coup: A Taste of Justice for Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
AS FORMER CHILEAN dictator Augusto Pinochet languished in British custody facing possible extradition to Spain, I have thought often of the democratically elected president he overthrew twenty-five years ago—Salvador Allende. At the time of the September 11, 1973 coup I was living in Chile and a translator for President Allende.
- Remembering Spain's Revolution
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On the second page of Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell's memoir of the Spanish Revolution, he writes, “I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do. The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing….it was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.”
- Remembering the Paris Commune
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
TThis spring marks the 140th anniversary of the revolt that led to the establishment of the world’s first workers’ government, the Paris Commune of 1871. The Paris Commune has always had a special place in the hearts and minds of revolutionaries, and can inspire today’s activist generation with the potential for “power to the people.”
- Remembering the War and the Movement
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
February 28, 1991. Thinking that weeks of war and antiwar organizing were still ahead (not my only mistake during those months!), I took a Canadian vacation at the end of February 1991 with my lover Christopher. On the morning of February 28 I got up in Vancouver in the friend's house where we were staying and went to collect the Globe and Mail from the front stoop.
- Remington Rand strike of 1936#1937
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike against the Remington Rand company.
- Remote-Controlled Killing
The Spot-and-Shoot Game
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Israeli military is increasingly using remote-controlled weapons to kill Palestinians. Israel's remotely controlled weapons systems are in high demand from repressive regimes and the burgeoning homeland security industries around the globe.
- The Renaissance and Rationality
The Status of the Enlightenment Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
- Renewable energy conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Renewable Energy conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Renewing Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Ellen Meiksins Wood's Democracy Against Capitalism offers a sophisticated interpretation and defense of the core concepts of Marxism. The vision of socialism as the most radical democracy was always a minority understanding, but it was Marx's vision and it has appeared again and again throughout history. Ellen Wood has made a most valuable contribution to the struggle to realize that vision.
- Renewing New York
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Howie Hawkins. Howie Hawkins, a Green Party and socialist activist, ran for Governor of New York State. Dianne Feeley interviewed him for ATC.
- Rensburg, Patrick van
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African educator.
- Rent of Land
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Repertoire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- A Reply on Overcoming Zionism
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
David Finkel and I see eye to eye on most basics where Israel is concerned, and he is generous in praising my recently published Overcoming Zionism. For years I have known him to be a stalwart anti-Zionist and one of the best-informed people on the socialist left concerning this most vexing and intractable of conflicts.
- Reply to A Reviewer
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
My old friend Paul Buhle has developed a neat general formula for reviewing the books he is out of sympathy with. Paul begins by making laudatory comments and concludes by expressing overwhelmingly negative judgments. But he has gone too far in his review of my The Rousing of the Scottish Working Class by falsely accusing me of using “a club to beat [E.P.] Thompson.”
- A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
- A Reply to Nelson Lichtenstein: Assessing Union Leaderships
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
What is the relation of even the most liberal bureaucrats to capital (why do they inevitably downplay the fight for equality, why are they so much in favor of collaboration, corporatist approaches, in contrast to class mobilization)? It is important to carefully dissect the approaches (without sentimentality or holding back) of those groups that purported to be for class solidarity and opposed to capitalism and capitalists.
- A Reply to Robert Brenner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
WHAT HAS ALWAYS distinguished serious economic analysis from mere ideological cheerleading is the effort to understand the general economic laws that govern capitalist societies, and how these laws have manifested themselves through capitalism's historical development.
- Report - Canadian Enquiry into Human Rights in Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Report and Recommendations for Government Action and Statement of Concern:
Housing for Low Income Canadians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The report identifies maldistribution of income as the prime factor in the housing problem.
- A Report Card on Women and Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Report Confirms Gang Rapes at Canadian-Controlled PNG Mine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
One of the world's largest mining organisations, Barrick Gold, is in damage control this week following the release of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report outlining longstanding incidents of sexual and physical violence at the company's Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) mine in Papua New Guinea.
- Report from Dubai
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Dubai — This gulf emirate is shaping up into a key tourist destination. For golf, luxury hotels and high-end shopping, it is firmly established as a key player in the Middle East region. Dubai’s geographical location means it can position itself as a meeting point between east and west, a global business hub for the 21st century.
- Report from Moscow from Otto Rühle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
The Russian tactic is the tactic of authoritarian organisation. It has been so consistently developed and in the end carried to extremes, by the Bolsheviks to the fundamental principle of centralism that it has led to over-centralism... Centralism is the organisational principle of the bourgeois-capitalist age. With it the bourgeois state and the capitalist economy can be built up. Not however the proletarian state and the socialist economy. They demand the council system. For the KAPD#contrary to Moscow#the revolution is no party matter, the party no authoritarian organisation from the top down, the leader no military chief, the masses no army condemned to blind obedience, the dictatorship no despotism of a ruling clique; communism no springboard for the rise of a new Soviet bourgeoisie.
- Report from Spain: On the May 15th Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A brief account of the culmination of the “May 15th movement” in Barcelona in 2011.
- Report from Winter Soldier
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
On Friday, Day 2, testimony began at 9 AM with a panel about the "Rules of Engagement". Speakers from the Army and Marine Corps recounted the atrocities that they not only witnessed but participated in. The stories they were telling about the rules of engagement they learned while training at boot camp, or on a military base "back home," were the same as what I had heard from my son. I broke down sobbing. The photographs they were showing on the five viewing screens of bloodied bodies torn apart by close gunfire, 50-calibre Machine guns, rocket launchers, and every other damn weapon our great military industrial complex has created, were all too familiar to me.
- Report of Canadian Assembly on Disarmament
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Report of Church Persons' Seminar
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Report of Question Period of Annual Shareholder Meeting of Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Report of the Committee Studying Residential Services in Saskatchewan with Long Term Psychiatric Illnesses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- The Report of the Newfoundland Medical Association Committee
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Report of the Panel of Public Enquiry Into Northern Hydro Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Report describing the evidence to the public enquiry concerning the Nelson-Churchill River Diversion of Northern Manitoba.
- Report of the Task Force on High Risk Pregnancy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Report of the Work Group on Civil and Political Rights: Church Persons' Seminar
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Report on Conference on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment for Women Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Report on Noranda Mines Limited.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- A Report On Noranda Mines Limited.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- A Report on Recent Struggles in Greece
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In periods of crisis, such as the current period of overaccumulation crisis, capitalists use the politics of #public debt# in order to devise new ways to intensify exploitation. In contrast with capitalist upturns when the private debt is increased, downturns are characterized by the increase of the #public debt#.
- Report on Services to Homeless Men: Working Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Report on Skid Row
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Report on Sydney Street.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Report on the Assemble Generale de U.C.S.N. au Monteal of May 4,5,6, 1976
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report of a workshop designed to aid individuals involved in urban core issues.
- Report on the Conference; Vancouver 1975
May 12-13, 1975
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Conference on stategies used on Skid Row, focusing on Vancouver organisations.
- Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency#s Conditions of Organization and Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1957
Founding manifesto of the Situationist International.
- A Report On The Media Coverage Of Our World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Report on the Potential of Consumer Animation for Energy Conservation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Report on the Winnipeg Workshop, May 4th-8th, 1977.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Report to the Civic Authorities of Metropolitan Toronto and its Citizens
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- A Reporter's mindset
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
- Reporting Gender Based Violence
A Handbook for Journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
- Reporting the Realities of Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
- Reports from the Occupy Wall Street Events of Mid-November
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- The Repression at Belgrade University
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
During the 1960s, the philosophy and sociology departments of the Belgrade University in former Yugoslavia began discussing general social issues such as the meaning of technology, of freedom and democracy, of social progress, and of the role of culture in building a socialist society. In response, authorities tried to repress these discussions. Chomsky presents the background, developments, and situation of the conflict.
- Repression in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Repression Strengthened Us!
Letter From Bolivia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- The Reproduction of Daily Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Republic of Dunces
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
For its entire 142-year history, the University of California has served the state’s wealthiest businessmen well as a taxpayer-funded R&D facility. Its graduates have gone out into the world to serve as their mining engineers, attorneys, inventors, weapons designers, and business associates.
- Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says "Nazi"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The cause du jour for the Republican Party is to make as many rapid-fire comparisons between the Democrats and the Nazis as humanly possible.
- A Request For More Effective Regulation of jet skis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Jet skis produce noise pollution, water pollution, adversely impact wildlife and aquatic plants, and pose serious safety risks.
- Requiem for a Fourteen-Year-Old
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1959
Pierre Berton's poem, Requiem for a fourteen-year-old, appeared in the Toronto Star on Oct. 5, 1959; six days after 14-year-old Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang.
- Rescue of the Danish Jews
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
When Hitler ordered that Danish Jews be arrested and deported on 1#2 October 1943, many Danes took part in a collective effort to evacuate the roughly 8,000 Jews of Denmark by sea to nearby neutral Sweden.
- Research Bulletin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Research Bulletin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Research funding draining awasy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Reshaping History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
- Reshaping Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
- Resignation from IMF
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The modern supermax regime is an aberration in American corrections. Based upon a penitentiary model that was dismissed as unsound more than 150 years ago, it was resurrected in the late 1970s and ’80s during the greatest period of growth of the penal state, and at a time of government anxiety about the rise of radical political movements, both in and out of prison. However, the enormous expense of supermax-style solitary confinement and its evident failure to decrease prison violence or recidivism, combined with lawsuits alleging abuse and a rising tide of public anger at U.S. complicity in torture, predicts its eventual demise.
- Resistance during World War II
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Resistance in Gaza: Young Palestinians Find Their Voice Through Hip-Hop
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Making music is a form of resistance to war and occupation, and also a tool to communicate the reality of life in Palestine.
- Resistance on the Mexican #Riviera#: The Zapatistas Visit Manzanillo, Colima
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
- Resistance Stirring Again
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In 1968 the worldwide explosion of struggle, from the battlefields of Vietnam to the streets and factories of France and Czechoslovakia, opened a new opportunity to challenge the capitalist system. In the United States, the Civil Rights struggle against racism sparked a wave of radicalization and struggle to challenge a whole host of American capitalism’s inequities — from its war in Vietnam to its sexism, homophobia, and class exploitation.
- Resistance with the Scent of a Woman
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
“They're afraid of us because we’re not afraid. They think, act, and are going backwards as they stay behind their military armor. They see us laughing, struggling, loving, playing as they watch us from behind their military armor.”
- Resisting Agent Orange
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Following an early April round of visits in private residences and care facilities with children suffering from a range of debilitating birth anomalies, classified by the Vietnamese government as “victims of agent orange,” a delegation of six American veterans sponsored by Veterans for Peace (VFP) was received in Hanoi by Nguyen Tan Dung, the Prime Minister of Vietnam.
- Resisting the Gutting of CUNY
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
New York state is experiencing its worst fiscal crisis since the 1970s, with profound impacts on the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest urban public university system. CUNY has been under public scrutiny since its founding in 1847 as The Free Academy, an institution dedicated to the experiment of providing education to “the children of the whole people” at a school “controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few.”
- Resource and Development in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
This pamphlet traces the history and inequities of Newfoundland's development of resources.
- Resource Kit - Consultation on Racism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Resource Kit on Northern Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Introduction to issues surrounding Native rights and northern development.
- Resource/Reading List 1987
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Resources are Important
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Resources - "Awareness towards Action"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Booklet to provide parish Youth Corp groups with essential information for dealing with issues of social justice.
- Resources Exchange Project: 1973-1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Respect Bathurst
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
A protest against inviting a Harris Tory to speak at the closing of Bathurst Heights Secondary School.
- Respect is a Two-Way Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
There is a whiff of hypocrisy among some Muslims who, in the name of being spared offence, want to censor other people's opinions.
- Responding to Washington's Haiti Coup
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Caribbean People, representatives of Caribbean organizations and people of Caribbean descent meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday March 20th, 2004, unanimously agreed to call on CARICOM Governments to take the following steps as a matter of urgency. In addition we committed ourselves to immediately begin to mobilize public opinion and action in the Caribbean region ourselves, to oppose and reverse the deadly threat to democracy in the Caribbean resulting from the violent overthrow of the Aristide Government by criminal forces supported by the United States of America and France.
- Response
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Oldtimers, across geographical space and chronological time, tend to swat at each other, responding to insults both real and imagined, long past and present. I know that in my family, Ma and Pa did it with increasing vigor over the years. Probably not all of the swatting within the greatly diminished U.S., UK or any other Left can be attributed to political disappointment.
- Response from Alexandra Devon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- A Response on "Critical Marxism"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
I'M VERY HAPPY that my article provoked debate among readers of Against the Current. Several of the remarks seem to me very relevant and I'll try to answer at least some of them.
- A Response on NATO and Kosovo
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
"Finally, in the military conflict that now dominates the ruins of former Yugoslavia, let's be clear: There is no side to support, neither Milosevic genocidal post-Stalinism nor NATO imperialism. Neither side is a lesser evil. Freedom for Kosovo! Abolish NATO!" ("A Letter from the Editors," ATC 80) Globally, I agree with those three dimensions of ATC's editorial statement. Here are some comments for further debate:
- A Response to Critics
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
David Finkel's comments (ATC 122) about my book Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, and about my position against immediately withdrawing the US military from Iraq, were well-informed and fair. So were the judgments of Gilbert Achcar in his interview with Susan Weissman, though his focus was on the withdrawal issue in general and not on my essay specifically. Likewise, Michael Schwartz's current ATC response reflects an impressive familiarity with Iraq and the Middle East, and his critique of my analysis is well-taken.
- Response to George Fish
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
George Fish raises an important point about the “taking personal responsibility” debate taking place within the Black community, especially at the academic and leadership level. But his criticism of my argument that it is a “secondary factor” to prevalent institutional racism is way off.
- A Response to Norman Finkelstein
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A response to Norman Finkelstein's attack on the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Tilley says that Finkelstein's insistence that the movement has to adjust itself to mainstream public opinion is bizarre: "Since when do human rights campaigns adjust their arguments to please mainstream opinion? Changing mainstream opinion is their very task. If activists took mainstream opinion as the proper guide to moral action, we would never have had the anti-slavery abolition movement, or the women’s suffrage movement, and apartheid would flourish in South Africa to this day. Indeed, we wouldn’t have most human rights campaigns. The toughest ones, which are often the greatest ones, must often start small and grow slowly."
- A response to Paul LeBlanc’s “Marxism and Organization”
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We need to be flexible tactically and organizationally while remaining steadfast on our goals.
- Responses to "People in Action"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.
- Responsible Polyamory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
- Rethinking Educational Failure and Reimagining an Educational Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
If we start not from the goal of acculturating most children to the demands of an economy which promises only to make things worse, but from the goal of preparing all children to live in a world worthy of human beings, we will find a very different kind of education reform to advocate for. It will have some things in common with some parts of current reform efforts
but it will go beyond and transform them.
- Les retraites et pre-retraites parlent au ministre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- The Return of Debtors' Prisons
Reservations for the Poor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Nearly a quarter of the people spending time behind bars on Riker’s Island in 2008 - one in four inmates - were there because they didn’t have the money to pay bail on a misdemeanor charge. These unfortunate souls may have been presumed innocent of the criminal charges by the judge, but they were nonetheless jailed for being poor.
- The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
Police War on the Poor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
APD is at war with the poor because it has come to equate any expression of poverty or drug addiction not as an effect of structural inequality, but rather as another opportunity to dispose of what its officers call “human waste.” Like elsewhere being poor, suffering from a mentally illness or battling a drug addiction is a crime.
- Rev. Edward Pinkney Imprisoned
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The corruption and deceitfulness continues in the Berrien County, Michigan courthouse. My husband, Reverend Edward Pinkney, leader of Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) was convicted in March 2007 by an all-white jury motivated by something other than the truth. He has now been thrown in prison for writing an article about the case and the injustices in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
- Revered Rabbi Preaches Slaughter Of Gentile Babies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Rabbis who are among the leading idelogues of the growing fascist movement in Israel say that violence against non-Jews, including the killing of babies, is justied by religious law. According to Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, Jewish law permits the killing of non-Jews in a wide variety of circumstances. In a recent boo, they say #There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us".
- Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The groundswell of broad support for Barack Obama (both among Blacks and whites) is a phenomenon that deserves a serious analysis and understanding. It cannot be down played by passing it through the lens of pure-and-simple lesser-evilism.
- Review: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
Myrdal#s dilemma is his theoretical attempt to combine irreconcilable, namely, a capitalist market economy with authoritarian controls designed to subject capital production to actual social needs. This forces him to misunderstand both capitalism and socialism, and to provide them with features they do not possess. It induces him also to assume that it is actually possible to treat the development problems of South Asia in relative isolation from the problems of the capitalist world economy.
- Review: Cyber-Marx - Aufheben
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Aufheben critically review Nick Dyer-Witheford's Cyber-Marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism and its basis in the flawed theories of Antonio Negri.
- Review Essay: Reutherism Redux
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Despite stepped-up union recruitment, farm workers and poultry processors still haven't taken over the AFL-CIO. But the old guard's fear of being swamped by low-wage workers—expressed by this AFT delegate seven years ago—has materialized in other ways (even while organizing among "strawberry pickers and chicken pluckers" generally flopped).
- Review falsifies history
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
It is only because Canada's electoral system is profoundly undemocratic that it was possible for the Mulroney Tories to form a majority government with only 43 per cent of the votes. They then used that majority to force through the free trade deal even though a majority of the electorate had voted against it.
- Review: International Socialist Review on "Contemporary Anarchism"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The word "anarchism" is a rather vague word that covers such a wide variety of political views and approaches it is often hard to see how they have anything in common. This means it is also probably not very productive to produce "critiques" of anarchism that lump the many different viewpoints together.
- Review of #Karl Marx# by Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
In conspicuous distinction to many other interpretations of Marx, this book concentrates upon the essentials of Marxian theory and practice.
- Review of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman
by Alonzo L Hamby
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Chomsky criticizes Hamby's biographical attempt claiming that Truman - regardless of how his achievements are regarded - deserves a better account.
- A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
In wake of the end of the Kosovo conflict, Chomsky attempts a dispassionate analysis of the crisis, differentiating between two approaches available to the international community in such situations.
- Review: Riding the Bus to Freedom
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The 1961 Freedom Rides challenged a racially segregated society by openly defying its customs, riding in interracial groups on interstate buses going South and desegregating the stations’ facilities. Asserting their constitutional right to travel, participants employed direct action in the face of intimidation, violence and police complicity with the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens’ Councils.
- Review: Political War Over Palestine
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
It has become impossible to review titles like these, or discuss the issues they raise, without reference to the rise of an exceptionally vicious campaign against critical activist voices and academic scholarship on Palestine and Israel.
- Reviewing Red: Love and Revolution
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
At the dawn of the 1960s, the modest tradition of novels depicting men and women active in Marxist movements morphed abruptly from a comparatively marginal to a mainstream phenomenon.
- Reviews from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Politisch-ökonomische Revue
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1850
The periodical#s aims were to assess the results of the 1848-49 revolution, to reveal the nature of the new historical situation, and to develop further the party#s tactics. Altogether six issues were published; the last issue, a double one (5-6),came out at the end of November 1850. All further attempts to continue publication were blocked by police persecution in Germany and lack of funds.
- La revision du code civil attente aux droits de la femme dt du couple
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Revisiting 'Black Power,' Race and Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
There is no such suprahistorical abstraction as racism. In each historical period it was something different. It was one thing during slavery, another during Reconstruction, and quite something else today. To further insist that "Whatever their political persuasion," "All Whites" are "part of the collective white America" so that the U.S. has "180 million racists" is to blur the class line which cuts across the race divisions as well as to muffle the philosophy of total freedom which has created a second America.
- Revisiting the partition of Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
- The Revolt of the Aganaktismeni
Huge Popular Uprisings in Greece
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The 'Outraged' movement is getting more and more rooted among lower classes against a Greek society that has been shaped by 25 years of total domination of a cynical, nationalist, racist and individualist neoliberal ideology that turned everything into commodities.
- Revolt of the Brotherhoods
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A revolt by artisan guilds against the government of King Charles I in the Kingdom of Valencia which lasted from 1521-1523.
- Revolt of the Comuneros
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An uprising by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles V and his administration between 1520 and 1521.
- Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1851 Published: 1896
- Revolution in Paris
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848
The bourgeoisie has made its revolution, it has toppled Guizot and with him the exclusive rule of the Stock Exchange grandees. Now, however, in the second act of the struggle, it is no longer one section of the bourgeoisie confronting another, now the proletariat confronts the bourgeoisie.
- The Revolution in Russia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
- The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
The revolution is not a party affair. The three social-democratic parties (SPD, USPD, KPD) are so foolish as to consider the revolution as their own party affair and to proclaim the victory of the revolution as their party goal. The revolution is the political and economic affair of the totality of the proletarian class. Only the proletariat as a class can lead the revolution to victory. Everything else is superstition, demagogy and political chicanery.
- Revolution of '89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Noam Chomsky explores the asymmetry between the resistance developments in Central America in relation to US power, and in Eastern Europe in relation to the Soviet.
- Revolution of the Deaf
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Revolution of the Snails
Encounters with the Zapatistas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Give the Zapatistas time -- the slow, unfolding time of the spiral and the journey of the snail -- to keep making their world, the one that illuminates what else our lives and societies could be. Our revolution must be as different as our temperate-zone, post-industrial society is to their subtropical agrarianism, but also guided by the slow forces of dignity, imagination, and hope, as well as the playfulness they display in their imagery and language.
- Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
- Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance
The Power of Story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Revolutionärer Optimist
Ein Interview mit Martin Glaberman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
The impetus of the Negro movement toward the revolutionary forces, which we have traced in the past, is stronger today than ever before.
- Revolutionary Catechism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1866
Bakunin believed that workers were very far from being able to attain revolutionary consciousness on their own. To imbue the masses with this consciousness and to prevent the deformation of a resulting revolution, Bakunin felt that the only alternative was to organize a secret International Fraternity headed by himself. Bakunin was convinced that this kind of vanguard movement was indispensable to the success of the Social Revolution.
- Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
1905 was a landmark year in the history of Guyana, as it was for several places around the world. In Russia, the Tsar and his troops shot workers delivering a petition in St. Petersburg. In Bengal there were communal shootings; in South West Africa the German massacre of the Herero people was in full progress.
- Revolutionary France
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Documents on revolutionary France 1789 -
- Revolutionary Optimist
An interview with Martin Glaberman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
- Revolutionary Organization
Versus Bureaucratic and "Democratic" Centralism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969 Published: 1973
An advocacy for democratic, "uncentred" socialism as an antidote to Stalinist repression, elitism by workers' leadership and blindness to the "understandings of today's reality." Also included is a short article by Anton Pennekoek, on "Party and Class".
- Revolutionary Organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
We here wish to examine one of the most fervently adhered to dogmas of the "Left": the need for a tightly centralized socialist party, controlled by a carefully selected leadership. The Labour Party describes this type of organization as an essential feature of British democracy in practice. The Bolsheviks describe it as a "democratic centralism". Let us forget the names and look below the surface. In both cases we find the complete domination of the party in all matters of organization and policy by a fairly small group of professional "leaders".
- Revolutionary Spain
Articles by Karl Marx in the New-York Herald Tribune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1854
The series of articles Revolutionary Spain was written by Marx for the New-York Daily Tribune between August and November 1854. Marx observed all the symptoms of the revolutionary movement in Europe and paid much attention to the revolutionary events in the summer of 1854 in Spain. He held that the revolutionary struggle there could provide a stimulus for the development of the revolutionary movement in other European countries.
- Revolutionary "Termites" in Faridabad
A Proletarian Current In India Confronts Third Worldist Statism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Kamunist Kranti/Collectivities: Presentation and Critical Dialogue
- Revolutionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Speech at Chicago, November 25, 1905
- A Revolutionary Woman in Mind and Spirit: The Passions of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
IN THESE COMMENTS on the spirit and mind of this great revolutionary thinker and activist, I think it makes sense to begin with a focus on her gender. It isn't clear that Rosa Luxemburg herself would be inclined to agree. She had, after all, refused to occupy a “safer”and marginalized position as a women's spokesperson in the socialist movement.
- List of revolutions and rebellions
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
This is a list of revolutions and rebellions
- A Revolution's Heritage (book review)
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
S. Sándor John's Bolivia’s Radical Tradition explores in detail the emergence in Bolivia of what became the strongest Trotskyist tradition in the Americas, thanks in large part to militant tin miner unions.
- Revolutions of 1848
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of political upheavals throughout the European continent. Described by some historians as a revolutionary wave, the period of unrest began in France and then, further propelled by the French Revolution of 1848, soon spread to the rest of Europe.
- Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
"Germany" at the time of the Revolutions of 1848 was a collection of 39 states loosely bound together in the German Confederation. As nationalist sentiment crystallized into resistance to the traditional political structure, repeated calls for freedom, democracy and national unity came to threaten the status quo.
- Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states
Connexipedia Article
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- The rich get richer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Rich Man, Poor Man: Who's the Thief?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Richmond, CA vs. Chevron
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
There was no shortage of attention-getting politics in the fall of 2008. Yet even in the context of the history-making national election, the local city council campaign and vote on business license fees in Richmond, California should be of interest to readers of a national magazine.
- Riel, Louis
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
- Riel, Louis
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
- Right and Wrong Responses to Palestinian Suicide Bombers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Israeli government hypocritically seizes upon every suicide bombing to justify the far greater Israeli state terror against Palestinians. To side with Israel in this hypocrisy is as morally bankrupt as it would have been to side with slave owners or the genocidal U.S. cavalry or the apartheid South African government because of objections to terrorism.
- Right Livelihood Award
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An award presented annually to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today".
- Right Livelihood Award Recipients List
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
List of Right Livelihood Award Laureates.
- The Right of Return & Transformative Justice
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
By most accounts, the issue of the Palestinian refugees and their right to return to the part of Mandatory Palestine that now constitutes the State of Israel has been the most obstinate stumbling block preventing the resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
- The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
- Right on the Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The shared vision articulated by Ulli Diemer will never attain an organized and effective form unless it can be concretized into a series of political programmes, and eventually made real through one or many political organizations or parties.
- The Right to Food First
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Right to Housing - A Human Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- The Right to Housing - A Human Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Right to Life - Ghouls and the Schiavo Case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Exploiting the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
- The Right to Offend
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
- Right to poster upheld
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Right-Wing Assault, Liberal Retreat
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The heat is on the Obama administration. The energized conservative base has taken over town hall meetings on health care. There are “birthers,” “deathers” and just pure haters. President Obama has been personally attacked as a racist, socialist, communist, Stalinist, fascist, Nazi, Pol Potist, foreigner and every other name the right finds in its vocabulary.
- Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo
'Yell,' 'Stand Up And Shout Out,' 'Rattle Him'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
- Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
he Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom."
- Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The right is never truly defeated; its leaders are patient, and they learn from their errors. When they're out of power, they stay busy, building institutions and mailing lists, all the while waiting for their moment to strike.
- Righteous among the Nations
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An honorific used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
- Rights and Liberties
Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- Rights and Liberties - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Rights and Liberties - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
- Rights and Realities: Discrimination and the Gay Women and Men of British Columbia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- The Right's Fringe Festival
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Milling around the crowd, it was impossible to miss the references to issues as disparate as blocking investigations of CIA torture, promoting assault weapons and God "judging" America for homosexuality. Confederate flags were flown, Obama was told to "go back to Kenya," and so forth and so on. The crowd itself was almost exclusively white--and its members had come to get their country back.
- Rights group criticizes Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Rights on Condition: Association for Civil Rights in Israel State of Human Rights Report 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In Israel, the entire spectrum of rights is dependent on what we say or believe, what ethnic group we belong to, how much money we have, and more.
- Rights vs. Privileges
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We now owe our 'liberties' to the good will of the government, which can withdraw them at any time, rather than to our ability to force the government to respect them.
- Rightwing Manipulation of the Wisconsin Revolt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Manipulation of opinion surveys is easy enough for those seeking to muddy the waters of political debate regarding the current war on unions.
- Rigoberta Menchú: A Witness Discredited?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
This January, the charge that the Maya human rights activist and Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú had lied about her past hit the U.S. reading public like a ton of bricks. Anthropologist David Stoll published a book claiming to have unearthed not only Rigoberta's lies, but also the deceptions of the entire Latin American left from Zapata to Che and beyond.
- Riot and Revolution
Speech by Rosa Luxemburg on Trial for Inciting to Riot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1906
- Riots, List of - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
This is an incomplete chronological list of events characterized by at least one source as riots.
- The rise of humanism and secularism in Iran
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The backlash and opposition in Iran is at its essence strongly humanist, secularist and modern. You can see it clearly in the rational, popular, and spontaneous acts and the
establishment of hundreds of organisations outside government structures and restrictions that are non-religious and purely for the defence of the human being via reliance on human will.
- Rise of the Left Party: Germany's Election and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On September 27, 2009 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered its worst electoral defeat since 1945. After four years of governing as a junior partner in a “Grand Coalition” with the right-of-center Christian Democrats (CDU), the SPD garnered only 23% of the vote (down from 33% in 2005) and now appears to be a shadow of the party that had taken the reins of government in 1998.
- The Rise of the Tea Party
Where Did They Come From?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Tea Party has never been a genuine social movement or political outsider but rather an elite-dominated group that was closely linked to the Republican establishment from its inception.
- Rivera, Diego
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Mexican artist. (1886-1957).
- The Road from Copenhagen
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The handwriting about the long-anticipated Copenhagen climate change conference has been on the wall for months, and its message is not promising for our human civilization or the thousands of species we may take down with us. By the time of that frantic final day of backroom arm-twisting, blackmail and president Obama's lead-balloon speech, it no longer really mattered whether the conference's failure would be openly admitted, or thinly disguised behind a “political framework statement” without serious mechanisms for implementation, measurement or enforcement.
- The Road to Civil War
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it.
- Roback, Léa
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Union organizer, social activist. (1903-2000).
- Robeson, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Musician, actor, speaker, lawyer, radical. (1898-1976).
- Robin Hood
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English folklore hero.
- Rochdale College
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Canada. 1968-1975.
- Rocker, Rudolf
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
(1873-1958). Anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist.
- Rocket Attacks on Israeli Civilians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
I challenge anybody to show how attacks on Israeli non-combatants help defeat the Israeli ruling class. It is as clear as day that it only strengthens our enemy. If the Israeli rulers didn't have rockets landing in Haifa and other civilian targets, they wouldn't have nearly the support for their war on Gaza and Lebanon that they unfortunately enjoy today from the Israeli Jewish population and much of the North American and European population, gentile as well as Jewish.
- Rockets from Gaza
Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups# Rocket Attacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Documents rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by armed groups in Gaza.
- Lester Rodney: The Long Ball Hitter
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
I am writing this piece after reading the New York Times obituary of Lester Rodney, where both the role of the Daily Worker and Lester’s role as its sports writer were given their due credit in the fight to integrate major league baseball. Irwin Silber’s book Press Box Red has previously told Lester’s story in depth, and Dave Zirin’s recent articles round out his significance to sports in a more contemporary fashion.
- Rogue States
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Chomsky investigates the meaning of the term "rogue state", its conception, and its role in international relations and policy-making.
- The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
People have not finished talking about the Russian Revolution, its problems, its degeneration, and about the regime it ultimately produced. And how could one? Of all the revolts of the working class, the Russian Revolution was the only victorious one. And of all the working class's failures, it was the most thoroughgoing and the most revealing.
- The Role of Economic Competition in Canadian Society
A Statement to the Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs, House of Commons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1994
"Nonviolent action . . . is capable of wielding great power even against ruthless rulers and military regimes," writes Sharp, "because it attacks the most vulnerable characteristic of all hierarchical institutions and governments: dependence on the governed." Abstracted from Sharp's classic three-volume work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, this monograph summarizes the core concepts behind the technique of nonviolent struggle.
- The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Stan Weir compares wildcat strikes in Poland and San Diego and their basis in the 'informal work group'.
- Rollback
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Chomsky investigates the meaning of the "the triumph of conservatism" against the background of democracy, human rights and civil society.
- Romanian Revolution of 1989
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the Government of Nicolae Ceausescu.
- Romero, Oscar
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. (1917-1980).
- Rooming House Tenant Project, Toronto Christian Resource Centre
Progress Report: January 1, 1977-January 30, 1978.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Root of the Mid-East Conflict and the Reason Our Government Supports Israel#s Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
How should decent people respond to the Middle-East conflict? We should support equality, not Zionist ethnic cleansing. Equality is the way to make a better world for ordinary people from Watertown to Ramallah to Tel Aviv, and it is the only way to end racist ideologies such as anti-Semitism and Zionism.
- The roots of anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
There are reasons why the discrimination against a certain race suddenly bursts forth into the lynching of an individual Negro. There are reasons why discrimination against another race takes the form, in late 19th century France, of a single wronged individual as happened in the military conspiracy against Dreyfus, whereas in another country, like Tsarist Russia, it took the form of anti-Jewish pogroms.
- Roots of Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
- Roots of Israel's violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Looking back on my own experience in Palestine I can see how today#s horror grew from small beginnings. Zionism, Jewish separateness and the belief in a Jewish homeland, have developed into state violence. My parents were pioneering Zionists, leaving Russia for Palestine in 1902 to join a total Zionist population of a few thousand. I grew up a Zionist, but Zionism didn#t have the ugly face we see today. However, there was always a fundamental crack between the Zionists and the Arabs. This same crack split Zionists from ordinary people in their countries of origin.
- Roots of Militarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Roots Of Militarism.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Roots of U.S. Capitalism (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
This is a thoughtful, learned, stimulating, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century.
- Rosa Luxemburg and the Global Violence of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Rosa Luxemburg & the Mass Strike
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Russian revolution of 1905 sparked strikes and protests all over Central Europe. In Germany the workers took an active interest in the Russian situation and demanded the presence of the SPD’s (Social Democratic Party) inspiring speaker, Rosa Luxemburg. For Luxemburg, the upsurge in strikes symbolized the revolutionary spirit of the working class. She became increasingly disillusioned and frustrated, however, with the SPD’s lack of support and the Trade Unions’ attempts to prevent strikes.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Her Fight Against the German Betrayers of International Socialism
Introduction to the Second Edition of the Junius Pamphlet, The Crisis of Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
It is as though Rosa Luxemburg, in anticipation of her sudden end, had gathered together in the Junius Pamphlet all the forces of her genial nature for a great work # the scientific, penetrating, independently searching and pondering mind of the theoretician, the fearless, burning passion of the convinced, daring revolutionary fighter, the inner richness and the splendid wealth of expression of the ever struggling artist. All the good spirits which nature had lavished upon her stood by her side as she wrote this work.
- Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Rosa Luxemburg: Speech to the Hanover Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1899
In its struggle, the working class has no greater enemy than its own illusions -- and those who foster illusions.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1898
Luxenburg criticizes Eduard Bernstein's comment: "The final goal, whatever it may be, is nothing to me: the movement is everything!" with the reply "Anyone who says that does not stand for the necessity of seizing political power. You see that some comrades in the Party do not stand for the final goals of our movement, and that it is necessary to express that fact unambiguously."
- Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital
New Perspectives on Capitalist Development and American Hegemony
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
From a Luxemburgian perspective post-war capitalism developed in two phases, each of which was possible because class-struggles and international conflicts had opened non-capitalist environments for capitalist penetration. The first phase gave rise to consumer capitalism and neo-colonialism; the second was characterized by accumulation by dispossession that rolled back welfare states in the North and developmental states in the South, while also integrating formerly state-socialist countries, notably China, into the capitalist world-system.
- Rosa Luxemburg's contribución al Marxismo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Yo veo a Rosa Luxemburg como la marxista qui#n hizo lo mas que pudo para mostrar la teor#a-revolucionaria de Karl Marxs en el periodo despu#s de la muerte de Marx y Engels.
- Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution in the Twenty-first Century
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform and Revolution, written at a high point of socialist struggle, contains invaluable lessons for today's new generation of activists as they confront the political and organizational challenges of the day.
- Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
- Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009)
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Poet, artist, historian, editor, labor militant, musician, amateur ornithologist and surrealist activist Franklin Rosemont, who died on April 12 at age 65 refused the limitations that civilization, especially under capitalism, attempts to imposes on us all. Not a “one dimensional man,” he was inspired by Charles Fourier’s ideas of what humanity could aspire to. He wrote, “All I know defiance and dream, the rest just comes naturally. A ‘Success in Life’? Don’t make me laugh! If you’re looking for me there, you’ll have to look elsewhere.”
- Rossing Uranium Limited: Fact Sheet on Rio Tinto-Zinc, Rio Algom, Nuclear Power and Namibian Uranium
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Rote Fahne, Die
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German socialist newspaper.
- Rothbury Riot
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An incident in which police shot into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales.
- Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
Completed by Raya Dunayevskaya (1910#87) on Jan. 26, 1961, these Notes comprise one of the few studies by a Marxist covering the whole of Hegel's Logic.
- Rowbotham, Sheila
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British socialist feminist theorist and writer. (Born 1943).
- Rowley, Robert Kent
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Trade unionist. (1917-1978).
- Roy, Arundhati
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).
- Roy, M N
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Indian communist leader. (1887-1954).
- Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike and mutiny by Indian sailors of the Royal Indian Navy on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay (Mumbai) harbour in 1946.
- Royal Moments in Broadcasting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939 Published: 2007
- Rühle, Otto
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German Marxist. (1874-1943).
- Rule change may hide executives' pay
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Runaway Industries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Study of transnational corporation investments and its affect on international union solidarity.
- Rupert's Empire of Slime
Murdoch's Knife in the Heart of Journalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In the name of freedom of the press Rupert’s Fox News and commentators spew verbal venom on notions that smack of socialist, pink or liberal thought – like taxing billionaires and regulating their corporate and banking behavior. Indeed, the Foxers promote billionaires not paying taxes as an example of virtue and freedom. “You don’t want your government squandering taxpayers’ money.” Sure, imagine life without cops, firemen, schools, road repair service, etc.
- Rural Mental Health
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath
Kenan Malik's "From Fatwa to Jihad"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Rushdie affair is shrouded by myths—that the hostility to The Satanic Verses was driven by theology, that all Muslims were offended by the novel, that Islam is incompatible with Western democracy, that in a plural society speech must necessarily be less free.
- Rushdie rails against Islamic 'totalitarianism'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
- Russell, Bertrand
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Philosopher, logician, mathematician, pacifist, social critic. (1872-1970).
- Russell, Dora
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).
- Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955
We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
- Russia – How the Revolution was Lost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
- The Russian-Georgian Clash
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny.
- The Russian Revolution in Retreat
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The relationship between “Leninism” and Stalinism has been a highly controversial topic between the political left and right as well as within the left itself. The “totalitarian” school of thought, historically associated with the political right and with many liberals, has held that there are no qualitative differences between the two regimes and that the main source of Stalinism was the Bolshevik ideology and politics that existed before the October Revolution.
- The Russian Revolution Ninety Years After
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia was the most influential political event of the 20th century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had strong echoes in colonial countries. Between 1918 and 1921 union membership and days lost in strikes everywhere reached new heights, while the ranks of the revolutionary wing of the socialist movement swelled.
- Russian Revolution of 1905
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
- The Russian Revolution Revisited
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION is dead. The last of its veterans and contemporaries are gone, and the working class of today has little or no connection to the revolutionary movements of the inter-war generation that were inspired by the Russian Revolution. Revolutionary leftists may still debate the "Russian Question," but the workers and students of the present have little idea what the quarrels are about.
- The Russian tragedy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
There is only one solution to the tragedy in which Russia in caught up: an uprising at the rear of German imperialism, the German mass rising, which can signal the international revolution to put an end to this genocide.
- Russia's Chechnya Syndrome
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The near-genocidal war that Russia's Putin-Yeltsin government is waging in Chechnya is cynical on many counts. Some might compare it to U.S. efforts to end the “Vietnam syndrome” by engaging in small wars certain of victory without U.S. casualties.
- Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS in Russia is a trigger for the world-wide decline in stock markets and currencies rather than its cause. Russia has been in a sharp economic crisis for a decade, since Gorbachev passed the Law on the State Enterprise, which first introduced market disciplines to the USSR. On the other side, the world is in a supply glut with too many products and not enough buyers. The Russian debt default looks like the first of a number to come.
- Ryerson, Stanley Bréhaut
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Historian, Communist. (Born 1911).
- Sabotage
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In a workplace setting, sabotage is the conscious withdrawal of efficiency generally directed at causing some change in workplace conditions.
- Sacco and Vanzetti
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Labourers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed in Massachusetts in 1927.
- Sacco and Vanzetti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1929
This struggle marks the real history of progress. Its heroes are not the Napoleons and the Bismarcks, not the generals and politicians. Its path is lined with the unmarked graves of the Saccos and Vanzettis of humanity, dotted with the auto-da-fé, the torture chambers, the gallows and the electric chair. To those martyrs of justice and liberty we owe what little of real progress and civilization we have today.
- Sacred Roots of A People's Music
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The goal of Timothy Brennan’s Secular Devotion is an ambitious one, to create an historical map of African culture’s influence on the social politics of the Americas in general and the United States in particular.
- The sad, sad world of Israel?s big-time liars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Stuart Littlewood views Israel’s propaganda minister, the self-confessed racist and squatter Yuli Edelstein, and takes a close look at the manual to which Edelstein and other Zionist propagandists work, the “Global Language Dictionary”.
- Saddam's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
If Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destruction, he would certainly use them now with the U.S. posed to invade.
- Safe streets
Not pedaling can kill you
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Not pedaling can kill you.
- Safer Parks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Saga of Stella D'oro, Inspiration and Lessons
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The powerful labor struggle at the Bronx-based Stella D’oro Biscuit Co. recently came to an abrupt end after 14 long, hard months. The 136 workers at the plant, all members of Local 50 of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers (BCTGM) International Union, withstood 11 months on the picket line before winning a court order in July that returned them to work under the terms of their previous contract. But the workers and their supporters were unable to prevent the factory’s closure.
- Saga of the Neptune Jade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1997, a container-ship sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay and tied up at the Yusen Terminal in the port of Oakland. This precipitated an international drama that ranges from Liverpool, England, Vancouver, Canada, and on across the Pacific to Japan. The battle involves British, American, Canadian and Japanese longshoremen, college students, labor supporters, and the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).
- Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
- Edward Said's shadowy legacy
Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
- St. George's Night Uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of rebellions in 1343-1345 by the indigenous Estonian-speaking population of Northern and Western Estonia against rulers of foreign (mainly German) origin.
- Saint John, Vincent
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American labour leader and prominent Wobbly. (1876-1929).
- Saint Louis general strike 1877
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Generally accepted as the first general strike in America, the 1877 Saint Louis general strike grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The general strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.
- Saint Max
Chapter 3 of The German Ideology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1845 Published: 1846
- The St. Petersburg Declaration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
- Saint-Simon, Henri de
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French utopian socialist thinker. (1760#1825).
- Salute e bambini in crisi a Gaza
I bambini di Gaza sono in crisi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Samizdat
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A key form of dissident activity across the Soviet-bloc; individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader, thus building a foundation for the successful resistance of the 1980s.
- Samois
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A history of Samois, the first public organization devoted to lesbian sadomasochism and a key player in the early phases of the feminist "sex wars".
- Samuelson#s #Transformation# of Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Somehow, and for reasons known only to himself, Paul A. Samuelson cannot leave Marx alone.
- San Francisco Transit Fight
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
- Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It#s Time
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
- Sanctions on Israel: If not now, when?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
How much longer are we prepared to watch Lebanon and Palestine burn, before we act?
- Sandino, Augusto César
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Nicaraguan revolutionary. (1895-1934).
- Santas, Apostolos
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Greek veteran of the Resistance against the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II. (Born 1922).
- Saro-Wiwa, Ken
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Nigerian human rights activist. (1941-1995).
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
French philosopher. (1905-1980).
- Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike against the introduction of medicare by Saskatchewan doctors in 1962.
- Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, CLC Brief to the Federal Cabinet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Saskatchewan's Stake in the Politics of Separatism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Satyagraha
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A campaign of nonviolent protest against the British in colonial India in 1930.
- The Save Public Education Fightback
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Coalition of University Employees (CUE) represents workers on ten University of California campuses and one national laboratory. We have been involved in bargaining statewide for the last two years, with no end in sight. For several years our members had not received raises. Additionally there had been hundreds of layoffs on campuses and at the Office of the President.
- Save the Carmanah Valley
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- SAVE tour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Saving Corporations, Sacrificing Workers
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
President Obama’s March 30th report on what General Motors and Chrysler must do to obtain further government loans demands that all “stakeholders” make additional sacrifices.
- Saving the CBC
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Savio, Mario
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American activist. (1942-1996).
- Say "No" to Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Say It Loud, Say It Proud: There is No God
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Scamming Social Security
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Susan Weissman interviews Michael Hudson. Susan Weissman, an editor of Against the Current, interviewed author Michael Hudson this past April on her program “Beneath the Surface” on radio station KPFK, Pacifica in Los Angeles. Many thanks to Walter Tanner for transcribing. The following is an abridged and edited text of the interview.
- Scargill, Arthur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
- Scenes from the Uprising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Noam Chomsky calls upon his visits to Israel and Nicaragua to explore the nature of popular struggle in regions under occupation.
- Margaret Schirmer Remembered
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Progressive Pilipinos lost a steadfast friend in Margaret (Peggy) Schirmer when she died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 8 at the age of 89.
- Schmeiser, Percy and Louise
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian farmers and opponents of GMO crops.
- Scholarly method
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Scholl, Hans
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. (1918-1943).
- Scholl, Sophie
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A member of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. (1921-1943).
- School Drop-Outs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
A list of proposals for reducing the school drop-out rate.
- School of New Economics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- School Reform and the Attack on Public Education
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The education reform movement is part of a wider corporate and government plan to undermine democracy and strengthen corporate domination of our society.
- School Vouchers Scam Goes Down
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
A key achievement in the November elections was the defeat of school voucher schemes in California and Michigan. California's Proposition 38 would have offered every child in California a $4,000 voucher to use at a private school of their choice; a more modest proposal in Michigan would have provided vouchers worth $3,300 to public school students in school districts with the highest drop-out rates. The fact that both were defeated so resoundingly (with seventy percent voting against) may sound the death knell for other voucher schemes around the country, as well as other efforts designed to pave the way for privatization of our public schools.
- Schweitzer, Albert
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. (1875-1965).
- Science fiction is more than just Buck Rogers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Like most modern literature, science fiction is concerned with the alienated human condition, yet it articulates this concern in a distinct manner, as a form of literature concerned with the implications of the problems engendered by industrial society.
- Science spending eroding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Scientific method
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning
- Scientific method: Timeline of the history of scientific method - Wikipedia
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Shows an overview of the cultural inventions that have contributed to the development of the scientific method
- Scientific skepticism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A practical, epistemological position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.
- Scott, Francis Reginald (Frank)
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Founding member of the social-democratic movement in Canada. (1899-1985).
- Scottish Insurrection of 1820
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A week of strikes and unrest, a culmination of Radical demands for reform in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Scottish Workers in History
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
So much has happened to the world’s working class in the last 30 years that we oldtimers may, perhaps, be forgiven for losing focus on the deeper histories of industrial life and struggle. Thanks to the publish-or-perish academic reality, ever more studies in social history actually appear, but fewer treat the labor movement as an important part of that history. Working people are more often seen as victims, too often self-victimized in myriad ways.
- Searching
Research In Small Countries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Searching:
Research in Small Countries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Season of Travesties
Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Noam Chomsky criticizes the elections in Lebanon and Iran as being inherently flawed - unlike the "free and fair" election held in Palestine in 2006 for which the people were punished for voting the "wrong way". He tries to illustrate a general picture of the health of democracy and freedom in those areas which are of most concern to the US.
- Seattle General Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A general work stoppage by over 65,000 workers in the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington in 1919.
- The Seattle General Strike of 1919
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919 Published: 1972
From February 6 to February 11, 1919, nearly 100,000 Seattle workers participated in a general strike. This pamphlet is a history of the strike, written by the History Committee of the General Strike Committee shortly after the end of the strike.
- Seattle: The First US Riot Against "Globalization"?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The brief, ephemeral opening of the sense that "nothing will ever be the same" experienced by some in Seattle and in the wake of Seattle will close again quickly without a strategy for a real internationalism, an internationalism in which criticisms of slave labor in China or child labor in India are joined to, e.g. a practical critique of the mushroom-like proliferation of sweatshops and prison labor in the U.S.
- Seattle: "What Democracy Looks Like"
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Susan Weissman interviews Dana Frank, Leone Hankey and Lisa Fithian. The explosive significance of the mobilization against the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle has altered the terms of the "free trade" debate. We present here brief edited excerpts from a discussion broadcast on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles, on the program "Beneath the Surface" hosted by Suzi Weissman, December 13, 1999.
- Second Birth: St. Andrew's Place.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
- The Second Fall of Aristide
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Many observers in the progressive community have argued that the forced departure into exile of Haiti’s former President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, had little to do with his own policy failures or the country’s domestic class structure. Instead they blame the international community and especially American imperialism. While there is some truth to this argument, it is ultimately flawed; it ignores Haitian agency and exaggerates the omnipotence of U.S. hegemony.
- Second International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Organization of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889.
- Second Intifada
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000.
- Second-wave Feminism (USA)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted throughout the late 1970s.
- Secrecy and Revolution
A Reply to Trotsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938 Published: 1963
Whether Trotsky wills it or not, no limit has been set to the analysis of the Russian revolution, which he has served so outstandingly, so tremendously # despite the measure of responsibility which must be laid to his name for certain tragic errors.
- The Secret Secret
Of Wikileaks and Literacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret prisons, air strikes, etc.), our collective behavior towards other nations and peoples (foreign policy discussions) and more are often obscured by state secrecy. Like the medieval clergy, those holding classified clearances are the sole legitimate interpreters of the 'really important' knowledge. In effect, they are a caste that guides our political and technological cosmologies.
- The Secrets in Israel's Archives
Evidence of Ethnic Cleansing Kept Under Lock and Key
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel has extended the time limit for releasing documents in its archives to 70 years, to prevent disclosure of evidence of widespread ethnic cleansing. The state#s chief archivist says many of the documents #are not fit for public viewing# and raise doubts about Israel#s #adherence to international law#, while the government warns that greater transparency will #damage foreign relations#.
- Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
- A secular-democratic state
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
What is needed is a secular Arab-Jewish state based on socialism and democracy in all of Palestine.
- Secularism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The concept that government or other entities should exist separately from religion and/or religious beliefs.
- The Secularization Yet to be Done
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1887
The secularization of primary instruction, which our bourgeois republic doesn#t want, is nothing but the substitution of one religion for another. It#s a matter of placing the capitalist faith instead of the Christian faith in the brain in process of formation of working class France, for the greater security and profit of the economic and political exploiters.
- Securing the Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Security service probes Innu
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Seeger, Pete
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American folk singer. (Born 1919).
- Segregation and Black Labor Before the CIO:
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
C.L.R. James urged listeners at a 1971 Institute of the Black World event in Atlanta to study W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction as a way to understand the meaning of Marxism, the Civil War, and emancipation. James implored his audience to grapple with Du Bois’s statement that Reconstruction was “the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution.”
- The SEIU as Case Study
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
About 40 years ago I had a job in a rubber molding factory in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where the union in the shop was the IUE (International Union of Electrical Workers). We all knew that there were negotiations going on between the Company and the Union, but we were never told what was happening.
- The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment
Ignoring the Victims of State Crimes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
“Human rights” doctrine has devolved into a mere tool used by the U.S. to carry out its imperial aims, and many times by means (such as war) which cause many more human rights violations than they purport to solve.
- Selective Memory and a Dishonest Doctrine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky highlights the fact that the crimes for which Saddam Hussein should have been held accountable in international court took place in the period of US-UK support. He criticizes the adopted doctrine which claims ignorance and handles the past as something irrelevant.
- Selective Outrage - Iran And Libya
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- Selective Sympathy
War’s Mayhem and Murder is Somehow Less Hard to Bear than the Humane Termination of an Injured Animal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
How strange that we as human beings can be so sensitive and warm-hearted about an animal, and yet can be so detached from reality and so compartmentalized in our emotions and our moral sense that we can simply dismiss as “collateral damage” the lives of tens, hundreds or even thousands of innocent men, women and children who, for cold, calculating geopolitical reasons of dubious merit, will be killed by our or our allies’ actions.
- Selective Vision: Iran, Israel and Nuclear Arms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
For many years, the corporate media has been amplifying supposed "fear" in the West about Iran becoming a nuclear-armed nation alongside the US, the UK, France, Russia - and Israel.
- Self-Defense Against Peace
Israel's Unjust War on Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Legally and morally, an aggressor cannot rely upon self-defence to justify violence against resistance to its own aggression. The most plausible reason Israel is fighting Hamas (and the PLO before it) is 'self-defence', not against rockets and mortars, but against having to make peace with the Palestinians on the basis of the pre-1967 borders as required by international law.
- Self-Determination for Whom?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Pierre Bourgault could set us an example by speaking out himself in support of the right of self-determination for all the people of Quebec, including those who don't want to be part of an independent Quebec.
- Self-Liberation
A guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Self-Reliant Defense without Bankruptcy or War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
In this booklet, Sharp discusses the potential of civilian-based defense for the Baltics, East Central Europe, and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- Selfish Activism or Equal Rights for All?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
The separatist agendas of women, gays, black and disabled activists are divisive, and undermine the campaign for equality.
- Selling Earth Day
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Selma to Montgomery marches
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Three marches in 1965 that marked the culmination of the voting rights movement of the American civil rights movement.
- The Semantics of Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant. Whether they are school children, passing through checkpoints, or citizens from other countries bringing medicine and food to Gaza, Israel will garner an astonishing degree of unconditional national and international support for harming them if they call them terrorists.
- Separation and Divorce Have Been a Boon to the Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Stable marriages and families are considered harmful to economic growth.
- Separatism
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The September 11 X-Files
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
One problem with conspiracy theorizing is that it can distract from the true and (sometimes mundane) misdeeds and mistakes of government.
- 9/11 and the Clash of Atrocities
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Responding to the terrorist attacks of September 2001, Against the Current’s “Letter from the Editors” made an impassioned plea that the alternative to war was a political movement for social justice. Like many on the left, the editors pointed out that only an agenda for social justice could save the people of Afghanistan and Iraq from America’s military wrath and help curb the attraction of individual terrorist solutions.
- Serfdom in a Free Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
- Serge, Victor
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Writer and revolutionary. (1890-1947).
- Serious Guns and White Terrorism
Two Unasked Questions in Tucson Mass Murder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- A serious newspaper should not confuse Jews and Zionists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On the eve of the 62th anniversary of Israel, it is important to remember that it was the Zionist minority of Palestine's inhabitants that issued the unilateral declaration of independence. Israel is a Zionist state, not a Jewish one, another important distinction to make in future articles on this burning subject.
- Service Accessibility and the Multiracial Community
in Canadian Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Services for Immigrant Women: REport and Evaluation of four Workshops
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexions
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
Connexions (nome intero Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexion [Connexions Information Sharing Services]) è la biblioteca centrale online e l'archivio dei movimenti per i cambiamenti sociali del Canada.
- Sesana, Roy
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A spokesman of the Gana, Gwi and Bakgalagadi #Bushmen#.
- Seth Farber's Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
My grandparents came to America from Hungary in 1912. My family who stayed there and the Hungarian Jewish population were mostly killed by the fascists in the bitter winter of 1944, some 800,000. Twenty thousand alone died of the cold and disease, huddled in the great unheated synagogue, the largest in the world, on Dohany Street in Budapest.
- Setting the Record Straight
Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Critics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
There is a hope a bi-national soluation will be brought about through political discussion and agitation within both left and liberal circles, especially within the United States, a much less timid Israeli peace movement, and a Left within Israel and among US pro-peace Jewish activists, that courageously embraces the possibility of bi-nationalism and, of course, a Palestinian resistance that works to overcome the nationalism within its own ranks and forges a democratic alternative to the Arafat fraud.
- Setting Up a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
How to mobilize a community to declare itself a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone.
- Settlement Model, Document#4, July 14, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Settlement workers conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The settlers' retreat from Gaza was the theatre of the cynical.
- Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course - some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.
- Seven golden rules for more effective speaking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999 Published: 2001
Tips to be a more powerful, memorable and successful speaker.
- Seven News: Principles & Purposes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Statement of principles of Seven News, a community newspaper.
- Seven Public Sector Myths
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
Fact and fiction about the public sector.
- Seven Reasons Why Capitalism Can't Recover Anytime Soon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
There is a larger disease in the international economic system, a disease that cannot be cured by politicians who swear allegiance to this deteriorating system and to the wealthy elite who benefit from it.
- Seven Reasons Why I Advocate Parecon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As economies all around us gasp and constrict, more and more people are willing to seriously recognize what has always been evident - that even at its best and certainly at its worst capitalism is a decrepit monstrosity of a system. As a proposed replacement for capitalism, Parecon rejects: Private ownership, Authoritarian decision-making, Remuneration for property, power, or output, Corporate divisions of labor, and, Markets and central planning.
- Seven Things Nonprofits Can Learn from Profits
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Lessons for non-profits from the for-profit sector.
- 7 Tips for Effective Speeches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
How to make your speeches more effective.
- 7 Ways to Get More Mileage from a Case Study
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Case studies are a valuable addition to your public relations' arsenal. They not only explain the success of your product or service in action, they also tend to have high editorial acceptance and readership rates.
- 72,000 jobs said lost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Severe Handscaps Alliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Sewell, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
- Sex & Iran's Upstoppable Resistance
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Since Iran's presidential “election” in June 2009 and the protests that followed, the world has caught a partial, albeit highly mediated, glimpse inside that country and its politically active citizenry. The state, frequently misrepresented as a monolith and in neoconservative circles tarred as “Islamo-fascist,” is now more accurately understood as a diverse and fractured set of actors. The reform movement that had ushered in President Khatami suffered defeat by the hardliners with Ahmadenijad’s 2005 election, and hailed by many as dead, has come back to life. To many, it appears unstoppable.
- The Sex Industry and Its Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
An article discussing the various components of the sex industry and the various forms of sexual services that have evolved from prostitution.
- Sex Workers' Rights in Kenya: "It's Better to Be a Thief Than Gay in Kenya"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
"It's better to be a thief than gay in Kenya," says a gay sex worker. Both are often punished by death, but being the latter means never revealing yourself to the public and remaining perpetually closeted. It means dealing with homophobes at day and pleasuring them at night.
- Sex-role portrayals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Sexing Susan Sontag
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The death of Susan Sontag, one of the most acclaimed intellectuals of her time, on December 28, 2004 immediately inspired controversies about her sexuality. Many writers rightfully questioned major newspapers’ studied silence in their obituaries on her relationships with women.
- Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle
Lorena's Tale
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The working conditions of many domestics, which include 18-22 hour days and violent beatings, cannot but be described except as virtual slavery. Apparently among the items of the "job description" of a domestic slave in Saudi is being forced to minister to the sexual needs of the master of the household.
- Sexual revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Encompasses the changes in social thought and codes of behaviour related to sexuality throughout the Western world.
- Sexual revolution in 1960s America
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Attitudes to a variety of issues changed, sometimes radically, throughout the decade. The urge to 'find oneself' the activsm of the 1960's and the quest for autonomy were characterised by the changes towards sexual attitudes at the time.
- Shadd, Mary Ann
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A key figure in the Underground Railroad and a subscription agent for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. (1823-1893).
- Shadow Boxing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Multiculturalists and clash of civilization warriors both start with the question: #Can Europe be the same with different people in it?#. They give different answers. But the question itself is the problem. It assumes that minority communities are homogenous wholes whose members will forever be attached to the cultures, faiths, beliefs and values of their forebears.
- Shadow boxing in the drug ring
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The "war on drugs" and its simplistic nature.
- Shahak, Israel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Polish-born Israeli chemist, professor, radical political thinker and author and activist for the defense of the human and civil rights. (1933-2001).
- Shakers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The United Society of Believers in Christ#s Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, was a Protestant religious sect.
- Shame on you, Mr. Harper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group.
- A Shared Experience: Bridging Cultures, Resources For Cross-Cultural Training
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
A manual about immigrants and their adjustments to a new environment, addressed primarily to community workers who respond to the needs of immigrants.
- Shari Belafonte's Eating Tips
Cut the Fat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Sharia Law in Britain – A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
One Law for All says that Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals are in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights.
- Sharia "Socialists"
I.S. Upholds Anti-Woman Religious Courts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
It is mind-boggling that self-styled leftists would champion a campaign by the most reactionary, anti-woman forces in the Muslim community to have their religious law backed by the authority of the capitalist state.
- The Sharia socialists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
- Shays' Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787.
- Walt Sheasby: An Activist Life
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
During the late 1960s Walt Sheasby not only organized for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in California, but also helped the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, worked against the Vietnam War, and advocated for and became a volunteer organizer of the Peace and Freedom Party.
- Shifting the Balance: Ten Tips for Consumer Campaigning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advice for consumer advocates.
- Shimabara Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An uprising largely involving Japanese peasants, most of them Catholic Christians, in 1637#1638.
- Shining a light on the black bloc, part 1: Italian autonomism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The combination of autonomist thuggery and Red Brigade terror had a lot to do with the implosion of the Italian left. While the Italian bourgeoisie was ready to carry out a repression even if the left had been far more intelligently organized, this was no excuse for carrying out tactics calculated to drive the average working class person into the arms of the government in the name of “security”. Revolutionary politics is really a project that is designed to win people to a cause. This involves patient explanation. Once someone develops a revolutionary consciousness, there is little that the state can do to vanquish it. A broken window can easily be replaced, but a revolutionary mind is permanent.
- Shiva, Vandana
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author. (Born 1952).
- Shiva, Vandana
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Environmental and women's activist. (Born 1952).
- Shock and Au-sterity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Scared to death that all the lights were about to go out after pulling the plug on Lehman Brothers, the bourgeoisie rolled up its sleeves, girded its loins, crossed its fingers, and reached deeper than deep for that thing of all things, that relation of all relations that is the life of all lives for the bourgeoisie—OPM, other people’s money.
- The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative way to cash in on the incarceration surplus: private for-profit prisons.
- Shooting Back
Young Palestinians With Cameras
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
For the past three years, Btselem, the Israeli human rights NGO, has provided cameras and training to young Palestinians as part of its camera distribution project, to collect video evidence of abuses and misconduct by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
- Shooting the Hippo - Book Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Review of Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths.
- A Short History of Big Brother
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Interview with Christian Parenti.
- Short History of the World Working-Class Movement from Lassalle to Neo-Liberalism
The Distorting Hegemony of the Unproductive Middle Classes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
This essay is a kind of "thought experiment", attempting to trace the career and impact of the "man of negation", ultimately theorized by Hegel as the "Prussian monarch" who "universally labors" in the realm of the state (and hence art, philosophy and religion) but whose "labor" does not transform nature, does not engage in what the Theses on Feuerbach call "sensuous transformative activity".
- Shorter Hours Now!
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The bumper stickers say, "Unions: the folks who brought you the weekend." For almost a century, the success of workers' drive to shorten working hours and increase leisure time was considered a sign of progress and humanity. After all, "we work to live," not "live to work."
- Shot at Dawn Memorial
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A British Monument in memory of the 306 British and Commonwealth soldiers executed for cowardice and desertion during World War I.
- Shot in the Back
Did the IDF Execute Mavi Marmara Victims?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the Israeli commando assault on the Gaza aid flotilla, if victims were shot in the back or in the back of the head, then one is left really with only two possible conclusions: either the shooters, who were the Israeli commandos (according to Israel, no Israeli soldiers were themselves shot, plus all the recovered bullets were 9 mm, the type of shells in the Israeli weapons, making it clear who had the guns), fired at people who were fleeing from them, or alternatively they shot people from the front, and later executed them with shots to the back of the head, which is maybe even worse (certainly a war crime).
- Shot in the Head
Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestinian Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In the past 10 years Israeli forces have killed at least 255 Palestinian minors by fire to the head, and the number may actually be greater, since in many instances the specific bodily location of the lethal trauma is unlisted. In addition, this statistic does not include the many more Palestinian youngsters shot in the head by Israeli soldiers who survived, in one form or another.
- Should People Opposed to Bigotry and Anti-Semitism Support Israel?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
That the Zionist project is bad for Jews as well as for non-Jews is an idea which, for many decades, has been suppressed. It is time good people -- of all faiths -- rediscovered it.
- Should There Be A Jewish State?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The very concept of ethnically pure states is divisive and destined to stoke conflict. The so-called "two state solution" in the Middle East # establishing a Palestinian state to counter the Jewish state # is a conceptual and political trap that prevents Arab and Jewish working people from uniting around their common interests and values. The situation in the Middle East cannot be solved within this framework; it leads nowhere except to more destruction and hate and more elite control.
- Should Uranium Stay in the Ground?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Should we 'take down' the banks or try to save the best of capitalism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
If Canada is to rid itself of the destructive neoliberal Conservatives, perhaps the best that we can do, given present conditions, is to push the New Democrats and Liberals to embrace some aspects of traditional liberalism and combine those policies with some tough, new measures to protect the public.
- Shunpiking
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The term shunpiking comes from the word shun, meaning "to avoid", and pike, a term referring to turnpikes, which were roads which required payment of a toll to travel on them. People who often avoid toll roads sometimes call themselves shunpikers. Shunpiking has also come to mean an avoidance of major highways (regardless of tolls) in preference for bucolic and scenic interludes along lightly traveled country roads. For some, practice of shunpiking involved a form of boycott of tolls (rather than just avoidance of them for financial reasons) by taking another route, perhaps slower, longer, or under poorer road conditions.
- "SiCKO," Are We Sick, Or What?
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Years ago, when I worked the sports unit of a commercial TV station, I spent many hours in a van traveling to various games with a lot of folks who were all smarter than I (pilots in their spare time, people who repaired and operated sophisticated video equipment), which didn’t keep me from getting into political arguments because I was younger, dumber, angrier and relatively new to the finer points of Marxism.
- Side with the Living
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A note to those who would demonize nature.
- Silencing the Workers
Censorship in the National Film Board
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
- Silent Coup
How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Silvia Baraldini Wins Return Home
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
On June 11 the U.S. government agreed to a longstanding Italian request to allow political prisoner Silvia Baraldini to serve the rest of her term in her native country. The move, announced by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Thomas Foglietta, appeared to be an attempt to appease Italian public opinion about the U.S. army plane that sliced a gondola cable when flying too low and too fast in the Italian Alps on February 3, 1998, killing twenty people. The pilot, Marine Captain Richard Asby, was recently acquitted by a U.S. military tribunal. In that case Italy returned the pilots involved in the Cermis tragedy and allowed them to be tried in their country of origin.
- Simple living
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A lifestyle characterized by minimizing the "more is better" pursuit of wealth and consumption.
- Simple Truths, Hard Problems
Some thoughts on terror, justice, and self-defence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky discusses the truth behind commonly rejected moral truisms. This rejection, according to Chomsky, has serious human consequences.
- Sinclair, Upton
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American author and muckraker. (1978-1968).
- Singer, Daniel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Socialist writer and journalist. (1926-2000).
- Single Displaced Persons Project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Outline of the efforts of individuals from various church related institutions to change the system of services that is seen to perpetuate skid row.
- The Single Parent News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Sit-ins
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest.
- The Situation of Left Communism Today
Interview with the Korean Socialist Workers Newspaper Group (SaNoShin), November-December 2007
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Situation Reversed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Situationist International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A group of revolutionaries, founded in 1957, which developed a radical Marxist critque of life under advanced capitalism. They suggested and experimented with the construction of situations: the setting up of environments favourable to the fulfillment of human desires outside and against the economy of markets and wage labour. The SI analyzed the modern world from the point of view of everyday life and attacked the capitalist degradation of life and the fake models advertised by the mass media and proposed a revolutionary alternative which integrated politics, art, critical thinking, desire, and play.
- The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Our task is to link up the theoretical critique of modern society with the critique of it in acts. By detourning the very propositions of the spectacle, we can directly reveal the implications of present and future revolts.
- The Situationists and the Occupation Movements (1968/2011)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In what ways does the Occupy movement of 2011 resemble the French Situationists of the 1960s?
- Sivaraksa, Sulak
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Thai democracy activist. (Born 1933).
- Six Questions for Augustus Richard Norton on Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
Questions concerning the 2006 abduction of Israelis to trade for Lebanese prisoners being held in Israeli prisons.
- 6 Tips for Writing a Successful VNR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
A video news release(VNR) is essentially a press release on video. The key difference is how it is planned and written.
- Six True Things Politicians Can’t Say
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
How One-Sided Reporting is Facilitating Escalation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.
- The Sixteenth Puerto Rican Political Prisoner: The Case of José Solís
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
On Friday, March 12, 1999, a new name was added to the list of fifteen Puerto Rican political prisoners currently held in American jails: José Solís Jordán. That day, a federal jury in Chicago found Solís, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and father of five, guilty of bombing a U.S. Army recruitment office in that city in 1992. No one was killed or hurt in the bombing.
- The 60-Year Unemployment Scandal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Since the 1940s, the jobless rate for blacks in America has held remarkably, if grimly, steady at twice the rate for whites.
- Skaggs, Joey
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. He is considered one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. (Born 1945).
- The Sky is Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn
Class Struggle in the US from the 2008 Crash to the Eve of the Occopations Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
We can safely assert that for most working people, the “recession” has never ended, and is about to get worse.
- Slamming the World Bank and IMF
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
- Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- Slave rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An armed uprising by slaves.
- Slave Wages Paid To Working Psychiatric Patients.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Slavery and the origins of racism
International Socialist Review Issue 26, November–December 2002
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Racism is not part of some unchanging human nature. It was literally invented.
- The Sleeping Giant Awakes
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Los Angeles—Pressure is building. Times are getting nastier. The stakes are incredibly high. And on the streets, during this time of unseasonable cold for this city, the "sleeping giant" of Latino and immigrant communities has begun to awake.
- A Slice of Death in Rafah
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
from an International Solidarity Movement report. Tel Es-Sultan, Gaza Strip--Death has become something usual in Rafah. The invasion would not be successful if the occupation army didn't kill dozens of Palestinians. At least 20 Palestinians were killed up to now, and more than 60 injured in the past 12 hours. Last week 16 were killed during the invasion of Block O.
- A Slice of Socialist History
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The following correspondence sheds light on a lesser-known period in U.S. socialist history during the 1950s. Frank Fried was a member of the Socialist Union, led by Bert Cochran, following the “Cochran Faction” expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1953. He wrote this letter in response to a query from Hal Smith, a student engaged in research in the history of the Trotskyist movement. The subsequent comment by Lester Rodney, the longtime journalist who waged a long campaign in the 1930s and ’40s to break the “color line” in Major League Baseball, offers further perspective on the politics of the Communist Party in the period. Both are retired and living in California.
- Slums, 21st Century Wars
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
How have homo sapiens managed to achieve a highly technological, seemingly advanced “civilization,” while producing the horrors described by Mike Davis in Planet of Slums?
- Small Claims Court
Is it Really a People's Court?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Small country, big struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Swaziland suffers a repressive and corrupt regime.
- Small Is Not Beautiful: Life at the Bay Guardian
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Smearing Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The deliberate use of outrageous lies to smear others is a favourite tactic of hate propagandists.
- Smooth Talking! Explore the Paid Speaking Market
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Becoming a professional speaker.
- Snake Oil in a Computer: The Pseudo-science of Transportation Modeling
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Planners, politicians, and other decision-makers want to know what effect their projects will have on the environment. In many cases they don't really want to know, but want to convince their constituents that the results will be beneficial, or at least neutral. In both cases, computer modeling is being used to "answer" the questions.
- Snapshots of the Bolivarian Revolution
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
This summer I traveled to Venezuela with my family and these are some impressions. Thanks to my friend Fred Rosen for correcting some errors of fact and offering some useful information. My colleague Susan Paulson was also kind enough to read and comment, as was Deborah James of Global Exchange. I alone am responsible for the views presented here.
- SNCC at 50
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is vitally important not just for learning and understanding the past but, more importantly, for imagining and working for a more righteous future.
- SNCC: Same Lesson, 50 Years On
Power Yields Nothing Without Demand
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The SNCC lesson is that power yields nothing without demand and the guts to back it up.
- SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference was convened April 15-18, 2010 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina — where the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was born on Easter weekend in 1960 — celebrating SNCC’s legacy and of course the historic sit-ins. About 300 people had pre-registered. In order to advance the “passing of the baton” intent of organizers, students were allowed to register without paying the $75 registration fee.
- SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Celebrating SNCC#s legacy.
- So be it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Rejoinder from Sam Dolgoff.
- So Different Yet So Familiar
Book Review by William Bowles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A fascinating and extremely readable account of a life now vanished, destroyed by the insatiable appetite of capital and told with acid wit and great style making it enjoyable to relish the language but not too much, it's not a travelog but a rare account of life that most of us are barely aware exists.
- Social Anarchism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Social anarchism sees individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid.
- Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
- Social centre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Community spaces are used for a range of disparate activities.
- Social Democracy
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Social democracy could be defined by its opposition not only to capitalism but also to communism. Social democrats are resolute in their defence of individual rights and constitutional methods, and in their repudiation of the Marxist concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
- Social Democracy and Communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919 Published: 1927
Once again, as in the time of Marx, communism as a revolutionary and proletarian movement confronts socialism as a reformist and bourgeois movement. And the new communism is not just a new edition of the theory of radical social democracy. As a result of the world crisis, it has gained new depth, which totally differentiates it from the old theory.
- Social Democracy and Parliamentarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1904
Parliamentarism is far from being an absolute product of democratic development, of the progress of the human species, and of such nice things. It is, rather, the historically determined form of the class rule of the bourgeoisie and – what is only the reverse of this rule – of its struggle against feudalism.
- Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1896
In foreign policy as in domestic politics, Social Democracy can adopt its own position, which in both spheres must be determined by the same standpoints, namely by the internal social conditions of the phenomenon in question, and by our general principles.
- Social Democracy and the Paradox of the Vanguard: Rudolf Hilferding's Odyssey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE NAZI SEIZURE of power in the winter of 1933 marked the total failure of the reformist project of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and brought about the party's virtual destruction. From exile in Prague and Paris, the defeated socialist leadership now had to grapple with the implications of this catastrophe for the party's strategy and form of organization. In the face of nazi barbarism, it was clear that the old legal methods would no longer suffice and that new ideas were needed to...
- Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Marxist political party founded in 1893.
- Social Development Vol. 6, No. 2.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Social Ecology
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Social Gospel
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Social Gospel was an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1890s through the 1930s.
- The social impacts of computerisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- Social objectives for the 90's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Social Organization of Family Violence:
An Ethnography of Immigrant Experience in Vancouver
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Social Reproduction for Beginners: Bringing the Real World Back In
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
We can grasp the social reproductive dimension of the post-1973 crisis in various phenomena in the U.S., but none stands out more sharply than the disappearance of the one-paycheck working-class family.
- The Social Security Non-Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky reveals the conception of Social Security trying to be sold by Bush administration. He claims such reformers encourage people to think solely of their own interests rather than caring for the community.
- Social Security--Why It's Under Attack
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
A CHILD BORN in a middle-class family in Europe or America today has a fair chance of living to 85. In one way his/her life will be divided into three periods: First, twenty to twenty-four years growing up and getting educated. Second, about forty years making a living. Third, after 65, come twenty years of retirement.
- The Socialisation of Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
A socialist society needs human beings from whom each one in his place, is full of passion and enthusiasm for the general well-being, full of self-sacrifice and sympathy for his fellow human beings, full of courage and tenacity in order to dare to attempt the most difficult.
- Socialisation (Part I)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
Marx never spoke of socialisation: he spoke of the expropriation of the expropriators.
- Socialisation (Part II)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
Socialism cannot be achieved by avoiding the class struggle. Socialisation which is devised to spare the profits of the capitalist class cannot be a path to Socialism.
- Socialism and Anarchism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1889
Morris repudiates the anarchist view that freedom from authority means the individual doing what he pleases under all circumstances. This, he says is "an absolute negation of society".
- Socialism and Religion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1907
In declaring that religion is a private matter, we do not mean to say that it is immaterial to us, what general conceptions our members hold. We prefer a thorough scientific understanding to an unscientific religious faith. But we are convinced, that the new conditions will of themselves alter the religious conceptions, and that religious or anti-religious propaganda is unable to accomplish or prevent this.
- Socialism and The Churches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Social-Democracy in no way fights against religious beliefs. On the contrary, it demands complete freedom of conscience for every individual and the widest possible toleration for every faith and every opinion. But, from the moment when the priests use the pulpit as a means of political struggle against the working classes, the workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their liberation. For he who defends the exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of misery, he is the mortal enemy of the proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the police.
- 'Socialism in One Country' Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary 'Anti-Imperialism'
The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Today's climate of "anti-imperialism" compels us to turn back to the history of such a profoundly reactionary ideology, deeply anti-working class both in the #advanced# and #underdeveloped# countries, by which any force, no matter how retrograde, that turns a gun against a Western power becomes #progressive# and worthy of #critical# or #military# support, or for the less subtle, simply #support#.
- Socialism or Barbarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961 Published: 1969
The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
- Socialism Reaffirmed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
"The emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves". The working class cannot entrust its historical task to anyone else. No "saviours from on high" will free it. The class will never achieve power, its power, if it entrusts the revolutionary struggle to others. Mass socialist consciousness and mass participation are essential. The revolutionary organization must assist in their development and must ruthlessly expose all illusions that the problem can be solved in any other way. Moreover the working class will never hold power unless it is prepared consciously and permanently to mobilize itself to this end.
- Socialism: The Ends and the Means
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1886
Shall we waste our wealth or use it? Why do we waste it now? Because we are cowards and therefore unjust. The wealth was made by all and should be used for the benefit of all; but we in our fear have forgotten what is meant by all.
- Socialism, the Family and Sexuality
Chapter 13 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women#s Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Socialisme ou Barbarie
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A French-based radical libertarian socialist group of the post-World War II period which existed from 1948 until 1965. Socialisme ou Barbarie was critical of Leninism, rejecting the idea of a revolutionary party, and placing an emphasis on the importance of workers' councils, and saw the daily struggles of working people as creating the true content of socialism.
- Socialismo libertario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
El socialismo libertario es una forma de socialismo que apunta a crear una sociedad basada en la descentralización política sin clases sociales. El socialismo libertario posee un concepto colectivista e igualitarista de la sociedad y aboga por la socialización de los medios de producción, mediante la abolición de las instituciones tales como el capitalismo o la propiedad privada, con el fin de que el control directo de los medios de producción y los recursos sean compartidos por la sociedad en su conjunto.
- Socialist anarchism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Social anarchism sees "individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid
- The Socialist Crisis in France
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1901
"The Republic is in danger! That is why it was necessary for a socialist to become the bourgeois Minister of Commerce. The Republic is in danger! That is why the socialist had to remain in the cabinet even after the massacre of the striking workers on the Island of Martinique and in Chalon. The Republic is in danger! As a result, inquiries into the massacres had to be blocked, the parliamentary investigations of the horrors perpetrated in the colonies had to be discarded, and the amnesty law accepted."
- Socialist Feminism bibliography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Socialist International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A worldwide organisation of democratic socialist, social democratic, socialist, and labour political parties. It was formed in 1951.
- Socialist Labor Party of America
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Party advocating "socialist industrial unionism" # a belief in a fundamental transformation of society through the combined political and industrial action of the working class organized in industrial unions.
- The Socialist League and the Struggle for a Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
The Socialist League is a democratic centralist organization which views its main tasks as gathering cadres for the future mass revolutionary party.
- The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Helen Keller became a member of the Socialist Pary in 1909 and by 1912, she had become a national voice for socialism and working class solidarity.
- The Socialist Party's Appeal
Candidate of the Socialist Party for the Presidency of the United States
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
The Socialist party challenges the right of capitalism to longer exist, and proclaims the program of socialism as the legitimate successor of the present order.
- Socialist Reconstruction of Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Without political organization, the labor movement cannot triumph; without economic organization, the day of its political triumph would be the day of its defeat.
- Socialist Reformism and "Evolutionary" Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
While Pittenger does not provide us with an explanation for the evolutionist degradation of socialism--which is of course not an exclusively American phenomena--his book is a most insightful rediscovery of a forgotten chapter of U.S. socialism.
- Socialist Studies Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Socialization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919 Published: 1920
Socialization according to Bauer's recipe is legal expropriation without economic expropriation, it is what any bourgeois government might propose. The capitalist value of enterprises will be paid to the employers in compensation and henceforth they will receive in interest on bonds what they formerly received in profit. This socialization replaces private capitalism with State capitalism; the State takes on the task of sweating profits from the workers and giving it to capitalists.
- Socialized Penis, The
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Society and Mind in Marxian Philosophy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
- A Society to Be Transformed, 1977 Pastoral Statement on Social Justice.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part I: Class conflict in the workplace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part II: Class conflict outside the workplace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
- Sofri, Adriano
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Italian radical intellectual, a journalist and a writer. (Born 1942).
- Soft-Powering Cuba
Regime-Change in a Box
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
How the U.S. uses "soft power" to undermine governments abroad and democracy at home.
- Soil removal a possibility
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The soil in the South Riverdale area is so contaminated with lead that it may be necessary to remove it.
- Les soins de santé et les enfants en perturbation à Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Wilebaldo Solano, 1916-2010
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Wilebaldo Solano, the last member of the original leadership of the Partit Obrer d’Unificació Marxista (POUM — Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification), died in Barcelona on September 7, 2010, at 94. As an anti-Stalinist communist party, the POUM helped lead the Spanish Revolution of 1936.
- Solid Waste Management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Solidarite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Solidarity Alliance: A Call to Action
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A historic alliance was born at UC Berkeley on August 28, 2009. Lyn Hejinian, Professor of English and a member of SAVE, a newly formed faculty group, had issued an invitation to student groups and the union coalition to come together and share our plans to fight the cuts.
- Solidarity As We See It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
- "Solidarity" Beats Austerity
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The tumultuous month of November 2011 marked the emergence of a powerful and widespread movement on public university campuses throughout California. Brutal police repression of Occupy encampments at UC Berkeley and UC Davis gained national media attention and sparked massive solidarity actions among social justice movements around the nation and the world.
- Solidarity For Ever! Can These Bones Live?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A newsletter that looks at the agricultural Labour meovment.
- Solidarity fund
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- "Solidarity, Not Charity" - Revolution in the Ninth Ward
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In New Orleans, the people have stopped being patient with false choices. They have stopped trusting in politicians who represent only themselves and their contributors. They have chosen the common good, and they have bypassed the system that failed them in order to reclaim their lives through direct and positive action.
- Solidarity (Polish trade union)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980, the first non-communist party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country.
- Solidarity (UK)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom.
- Solidarity (US) Founding Statement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Adopted at the founding national convention of SOLIDARITY in the Spring of 1986.
- Solidarity with Iraqi Labor
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The first delegation of Iraqi labor leaders to visit the United States—and one of the few Iraqi groups of any sort not sponsored by the U.S. government—addressed more than 70 meetings across the country this June. The group included representatives from the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) and General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE).
- Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Polish trade union.
- Solution in Sight
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Chomsky presents the steps that must be taken in order to obliterate the threat of a potential nuclear apocalypse. Naturally, they do not include military solutions.
- Some Big Things Ha-Joon Chang Doesn’t Tell You About Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Chang exposes deadly falsehoods in many of the prevalent neoliberalism’s supposedly self-evident “free market” truths. But Chang’s book is plagued by key difficulties that belie its claim to iconoclasm, suggesting Chang’s own conservative adherence to dominant Western power structures and doctrines.
- Some Communities in Toronto.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Listing of selected communities in Toronto, Canada, North America and Europe.
- Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
- Some Facts About BRIC, Black Resources and Information Centre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Some ideas about organizing from Citizens for Local Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Suggestions about starting a local group which will focus on issues of local democracy.
- Some Lessons of the Toledo Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
There will be no unions worth the name unless the militants build and maintain them. Without fighting unions the workers will presently be made the object of an attack which will make 1929-35 seem like #the good old times#.
- Some Native Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Some of my best comrades are friends
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The left#s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
- Some Perceptions of the Ethics of Generating Electricity by Nuclear Fuel
National Conference on Nuclear Issues in the Canadian Energy Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
- Some realities to remember
An exchange on Adventure Playgrounds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
- Some Reflections on the Evolution of Canada's Political Economy
and its Implications on its Families and Communities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Some Remarks on War Spirit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
How under modern conditions can we wage peace instead of war? We need a vast increase in the opportunities for initiative and making important decisions. This involves considerable decentralization of management, in industry, in government, in urban affairs like housing and schooling. It involves the use of our productivity to insure minimum subsistence, but otherwise the encouragement of individual enterprises. We must forthrightly carry through the sexual revolution, encourage the sexuality of children and adolescents, get rid of the sex laws and other moral laws.
- Some Thoughts on Organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
What type of organization should anarchists, libertarian socialists and libertarian Marxists be working towards?
- Some Thoughts on the Re-organization of the Revolutionary Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
It is not true that without revolutionary theory there is no revolutionary practice. It is not true that certain opinions and ideas, that a certain quantity of consciousness are the absolute precondition to struggle. It is the other way round! Many times, it has been stated that the "theory becomes a material force as soon as it takes possession of the masses." However, a theory is never more than a recapitulation of the experiences of the past and of its consequences. Not because of a certain theory does one have new experiences of the struggle, but new experiences that arise from the struggle give birth to new theory. This is a continuous process.
- Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Something's Fishy: Public Policy and Private Corporations in the Newfoundland Fishey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Song of the Free
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A song written in 1860 about a man fleeing slavery in Tennessee by escaping to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
- Sons and mothers vs. sacred cows
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
A growing movement to refuse to serve in the Israeli military and especially in the occupied territories.
- Souchy, Augustin
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German anarchist, antimilitarist, and journalist. (1892-1984).
- The Soul of Man under Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1891
Pleasure is Nature#s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
- Soundbitten
The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Sobieraj argues that activist groups' efforts to get media attention for themselves and their concerns often ends up undermining their capacity to communicate with ordinary people.
- Sources Archived News Releases 1977 - 2008
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977 Published: 2008
News releases from 2008 and before.
- Sources Index des Sujets
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
- Sources media training
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Media training to ensure that you are ready to handle media interviews. Topics include Message making, Staying newsworthy, Safe spokesperson techniques, Preparation and relaxation techniques, Media ethics and expectations. Simulations of all media venues including talk shows, double enders, stand-up interviews and scrums, print columnists, videographers, and editorial boards.
- Sources News Release Archive 2008
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
News releases from 2008.
- Sources News Release Archive 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
News releases from 2009.
- Sources (portail pour journalistes et écrivains)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sources est un portail d#information pour des journalistes, écrivains indépendants, rédacteurs, auteurs, et chercheurs.
- Sources (portal for journalister og skribenter)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Sources er en informationsportal for journalister, freelance skribenter, redaktorer, forfattere og forskere som især fokuserer på menneskelige kilder: eksperter og talsmænd som er parate til at svare på journalisters sporgsmål eller som er disponible til live interviews.
- Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
An information portal for journalists, freelance writers, editors, authors, and researchers, focusing especially on human sources: experts and spokespersons who are prepared to answer reporters# questions or make themselves available for on-air interviews.
- Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article - Russian
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
- Sources (Portal für Journalisten and Autoren) - Wikipedia Artikel
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Sources ist ein Informationsportal für Journalisten, Redakteure, Autoren und Forscher mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Personen als Quellen: Fachleute und Repräsentanten, die bereit sind Fragen von Reportern zu beantworten oder sich für Live-Interviews zur Verfügung stellen.
- Sources (portal för journalister och författare)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sources är en informationsportal för journalister, frilansskribenter, redaktörer, författare och forskare som fokuserar främst på mänskliga källor: experter och talesmän som är redo att svara på reportrars frågor och vara tillgängliga för radiointervjuer.
- Sources (portal para jornalistas e escritores)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
- Sources - Portal para Periodistas y Escritores
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Sources es un portal de información para periodistas, escritores independientes, editores, autores e investigadores, especialmente si están enfocados en recursos humanos: expertos y portavoces quienes están preparados para responder preguntas de los reporteros, o se disponen a ser entrevistados en los medios de comunicación.
- Sources (portál pre novinárov a spisovatelov)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Sources (portál pro žurnalisty a dopisovatele)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Sources (portale per giornalisti e scrittori)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sources e’ un portale informativo per giornalisti, scrittori, editori, autori e ricercatori che si concentra soprattutto sulle risorse umane: esperti e portavoce, pronti a rispondere alle domande dei giornalisti o a rendersi disponibili a delle interviste in diretta.
- Sources (Red Menace #2)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Sources (Red Menace #3)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Resources for anti-authoritarians.
- The SOURCES SELECT Online Story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A history and overview of SOURCES SELECT ONLINE, the online information resource for journalists, editors, and writers.
- Sources Wikipedia article - Esperanto
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sources estas vestiblo de informo por j^urnalistoj, sendependaj verkistoj, eldonistoj, au(toroj kaj investigadores, speciale se estas enfokusigitaj en homaj rimedoj: spertaj kaj proparolantinoj kiuj estas pretaj por respondi demandojn de la raportistoj, au( ili disponas al esti intervjuitaj en la amaskomunikiloj.
- Sources Wikipedia Article - Arabic
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Sources Wikipedia Article - Chinese
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Sources Wikipedia Article - Farsi
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Sources Wikipedia Article - Japanese
Connexipedia
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- Sources Wikipedia article - Korean
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2011
- Sousa Mendes, Aristides de
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Portuguese diplomat who ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II. (1885-1954).
- South Africa: A Time to Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- South Africa: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Maternal health has been under the spotlight in South Africa after an analysis of maternal deaths was released in July showing an increase in the country#s maternal mortality rate. Researchers found that nearly four out of every 10 deaths (38.4 percent) were avoidable. They identified non-attendance and delayed attendance as common problems, together with poor transport facilities, lack of health care facilities and lack of appropriately trained staff.
- South Africa Windows on Washington
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The World Bank! Haai! Is the Devil! Haai haai! This was the chant -- accompanied by that South African activist war-dance, the toyi-toyi -- that my comrades Trevor Ngwane and Molly Dhlamini introduced to A-16/17 week gatherings in Washington, D.C., ranging from Direct Action Network spokescouncil meetings to activist sessions, as well as the street protests and on stage at the main rally.
- South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
- South African Workers Tackle Neoliberalism
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Can the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) be credited with a sudden high-profile career change — from central banker to academic — by Tito Mboweni? The Reserve Bank Governor made a mistake in May when he refused to take a petition from thousands of Numsa members marching to the Banks’ Church St. headquarters. In July Governor Mboweni was rewarded with early retirement.
- South Africa's Deadly Decade of HIV Denial
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The African National Congress has returned to power with an overwhelming majority in South Africa's third post apartheid democratic election. With millions of South Africans dying early because of AIDS, however, the question posed in the header of this article remains.
- South Africa's Political Change
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
On December 5, slightly less than half of South Africa's registered electorate went to the polls, and Thabo Mbeki's ruling African National Congress (ANC) emerged with just under sixty percent support -- down from the two-thirds received in the 1994 and 1999 national elections -- and control of all major cities aside from Cape Town.
- South America: Toward an Alternative Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
With the death of Chilean dictator, Pinochet, and talks about a continent-wide union resembling the EU, Chomsky discusses the potential of South America to move in a new direction.
- Southern Africa News Clippings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- The Soviet Threat: Big Lie of the Arms Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- The Soviet Union Versus Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Noam Chomsky explores the relationship between the two great systems of propaganda - socialism and the society created by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. In response to a certain doctrine assuming a relationship between the two, Chomsky argues that if this is indeed true, it is the relationship of contradiction.
- Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German socialist students' organization.
- Spadina's Life Blood --- A Picture of its garment industry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Spain Excludes Settlement University from Academic Competition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The "University Center of Ariel in Samaria" (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and corporations involved in or profiting from Israel's illegal Wall and colonial settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.
- SPAIN: Women's Crises
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Over the past three years there have been numerous debates within the Spanish political and social left about the impact of the current economic crisis on working people, and the (in)efficacy of the measures the government adopted to ameliorate them. There has not been much talk, however, about the specific consequences that both the crisis and governmental response have had on women.
- Spanish Dock Workers Build Union Without Bureaucrats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Containerization has devastated port labor throughout the world. Spanish struggles over containerization have been unique becausea "socialist" government has spearheaded port reorganization and it has met stiff resistance from the revolutionary union of longshoremen, La Coordinadora.
- Spanish Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A workers' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
- Spanish Revolution 1934 - 1939 - History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Documents on the history of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War.
- Spartacist uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A general strike (and the armed battles accompanying it) in Germany from January 5 to January 12, 1919.
- Spartacus
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Leader of major slave revolt against the Roman Empire. (c. 109 BC-71 BC).
- Spartacus League (Spartakusbund)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German revolutionary movement.
- Speak no evil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Speaking the truth to Jews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Many perfectly legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy are blanketed as attacks on Israel's right to self-defense and therefore as attacks on Israel's right to exist and, therefore themselves as anti-Semitic.
- SPEC
Canadian Scientific and Environmental Control Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A brochure that describes the objectives and activities of SPEC.
- The Spectacle
A Skeleton Key
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
An anarchistic meditation on the bankruptcy of contemporary life. Specifically the role of "spectacle" in representing reality has led to a complete dearth of presence in everyday human interaction.
- The spectre of socialism for the 21st century
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Building socialism is the only alternative to barbarism.
- Speech at anniversary of the People#s Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1856
The so-called revolutions of 1848 were but poor incidents # small fractures and fissures in the dry crust of European society. However, they denounced the abyss. Beneath the apparently solid surface, they betrayed oceans of liquid matter, only needing expansion to rend into fragments continents of hard rock.
- Speech at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
I realize that I stand in the presence of those who in the past have fought, are fighting, and will continue to fight the battles of the working class economically and politically, until the capitalist class is overthrown and the working class are emancipated from all of the degrading thralldom of the ages. In this great struggle the working class are often defeated, but never vanquished.
- Speech by Aubrey Golden to the N.F.U. Convention
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Speed-up at Boeing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- The Spider and the Fly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Spies for Peace
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A group of anti-war activists associated with CND and the Committee of 100 who publicized government preparations for rule after a nuclear war.
- The Spirit of Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
REVOLUTION, AS ALL readers of the liberal and intellectual press know, is irrelevant now, an outdated dream long abandoned by its former practitioners who have moved on to more mature projects. Take 1968: Isn't Daniel Cohn-Bendit, "Danny the Red" of the French student uprising, now a prominent proponent of the unified European currency?
- Spithead and Nore mutinies
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797.
- Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
- Spontaneity and Organisation
From #Anti-Bolshevik Communism#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Although Lenin counted on, he simultaneously feared, spontaneous movements. He justified the need for conscious interferences in spontaneously-arising revolutions by citing the backwardness of the masses and saw in spontaneity an important destructive but not constructive element. In Lenin#s view, the more forceful the spontaneous movement, the greater would be the need to supplement and direct it with organised, planned party-activity. The workers had to be guarded against themselves, so to speak, or they might defeat their own cause through ignorance, and, by dissipating their powers, open the way for counter-revolution.
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Sporting Boycott of South Africa
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Sports & Resistance
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The two most famous fists in American history belong to Tommie Smith and John Carlos. In 1968, Smith and Carlos finished gold and bronze, respectively, in the 200-meter dash competition in the Olympic Games in Mexico City. Just months before, the two African-American men, both members of the Olympic Committee to Protect Human Rights (OPHR), had been considering a boycott of the games with their fellow OPHR members.
- Spot The Difference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
When I first brought up the similarity between Prussia and Israel (in a chapter dedicated to this theme in the Hebrew and German editions of my 1967 book, #Israel Without Zionists#) it might have looked like a baseless comparison. Today, the picture is clearer. Not only does the senior officers corps occupy a central place in all the spheres of our life, and not only is the huge military budget beyond any discussion, but our daily news is full of typically #Prussian# items.
- SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders.
- Spring peace action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Spry, Graham
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Journalist, diplomat, international business executive, political organizer, advocate of public broadcasting. (1900-1983).
- Spurr, Richard
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English cabinet maker and lay preacher who was imprisoned for his part in leading the political movement Chartism. (1800-1855).
- Squatting
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential.
- Sri Lanka: Behind the Massacre
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
An interview with Ashok Kumar.
- Sri Lanka: Fifty Years On
Censorship, Conflict and Media Reform
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Report examining the impact of the conflict on freedom of expression and in particular media freedom in Sri Lanka.
- SS Columbia Eagle incident
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A mutiny that occurred aboard the American merchant vessel Columbia Eagle in March 1970 when crew members seized the vessel and sailed to Cambodia.
- Ssangyong Motors Strike in South Korea Ends in Defeat and Heavy Repression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The hard-right Korean government is signaling with these measures -- its latest and most dramatic "take no prisoners" victory over popular protest in the past year and a hal f-- its intention to steamroller any potential future resistance to its unabashed rule on behalf of big capital.
- Staatlichkeit & Anarchie in der Spanischen Revolution
Proletarische Revolution statt Staatsverneinung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Staff at 'Grinch' KPMG well looked after while advocating 'workers' comp' cuts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
KPMG – which operates across Canada and internationally – performs “hatchet jobs” for governments – often governments that don’t have the nerve to take the lead themselves when they want cutbacks.
- Stage Writers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Stagnation and Progress of Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
Only in proportion as our movement progresses, and demands the solution of new practical problems do we dip once more into the treasury of Marx's thought, in order to extract therefrom and to utilize new fragments of his doctrine. But since our movement, like all the campaigns of practical life, inclines to go on working in old ruts of thought, and to cling to principles after they have ceased to be valid, the theoretical utilization of the Marxist system proceed very slowly.
- Staley's Legacy of Struggle, Lessons of Defeat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Local 7837 should be proud to have chipped away at racism and sexism, setting an example for other locals to do the same. It takes an openness to risk criticism and allow the fight to be for everyone. Local 7837 should be proud of those who gave of their lives for thirty long, grueling months and left workers and labor history forever changed.
- Stalin and German Communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
- Stalin's Frame-Up System and the Moscow Trials (Review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1951
Trotsky#s own indignation over the Moscow Trials, although understandable since they were directed against his followers and fellow-oppositionists, was nevertheless inconsistent with his own political outlook and conception of dictatorship. The terroristic system he came to bewail was after all originally headed by Lenin and Trotsky, and was proudly defended by the latter in his book Terrorism and Communism.
- Stanley Crouch, Neocon or Ellisonian?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Crouch clearly feels isolated within progressive circles, but it is the Left that most desperately needs to retain the message about building a cohesive democratic society. With that instinct for improvisation and bricolage which Crouch and his gurus most admire about Americans, we must read Crouch closely and adapt whatever points in his work we find correct and useful.
- Star-Phoenix Special Report on Literacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Starhawk
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American writer, anarchist activist. (Born 1951).
- The Star's biased reporting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The Star's Orwellian journalism.
- The Start Chart
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Starving the Poor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Chomsky demonstrates how deficits in the international order and its policy-making can lead to negative effects, especially for the poor. One such example is the promotion of biofuels.
- The State as Protection Racket
Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to #follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
- State Capitalism and Dictatorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
One can raise the question : is not state capitalism the only #way out# for the bourgeoisie ? Obviously state capitalism would be feasible, if only the whole productive process could be managed and planned centrally from above in order to meet the needs of the population and eliminate crises. If such conditions were brought about, the bourgeoisie would then cease being a real bourgeoisie.
- The State in Revolutionary Periods
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
- State Lawlessness on the Rampage
The Menu for 2011
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As 2011 dawns, public discourse in America has the country primed for a fascist dictatorship.The situation will be worse by 2012. The most uncomfortable truth that emerges from the WikiLeaks saga is that American public discourse consists of cries for revenge against those who tell us truths.
- The State of Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1845 Published: 1846
- The State of the News Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
- State-Sponsored Violence Against Women
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The words of Latin American women continue to have no value to those who legislate, govern and administer justice. The permissiveness and omissions of state laws, institutions and functionaries in response to the violation of women’s rights are part of gender violence. The advances have been minimal and the need to dismantle this theater of illusions is urgent.
- Statement by Jewish Activists and Organizations active in BDS against Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A Jewish response to the February 2011 Statement of Jewish Zionist Organizations on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
- Statement of Christian Clergy and Religious Concerned for the Extension of the Protection of the Ontario Human
Rights Code to Homosexual Women and Men
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Statement of Claire Culhane, Provincial Court, New Westminster, B.C.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- A Statement of Goals Respecting the Yukon Indian Claim: Document#2, March 8, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Statement of Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1890
Advocates "an essential change in the basis of society: the present basis is privilege for the few and consequent servitude for the many; the further basis will be equality of condition for all, which we firmly believe to be the essence of true society."
- Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1964
Our view of socialism is both democratic and revolutionary, both humanist and working class; and it is only as a revolutionary-democratic movement of opposition to the Establishments that socialism can present a third choice for the world, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security.
- Statement of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain Regarding Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
To increase the pressure for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, and the removal of the separation wall and the illegal settlements, we will support a boycott (where trade union members should not put their own jobs at risk by refusing to deal with such products) of those goods and agricultural products that originate in illegal settlements -through developing an effective, targeted consumer-led boycott campaign working closely with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign -and campaign for disinvestment by companies associated with the occupation.
- Statement on Government Defense Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Statement To Shareholders of Noranda Mines Limited
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Statement to the Court
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations which I and those who believe with me may encounter on our journey. Nor imprisonment or death can stop our ultimate victory.
- The Statutes of Revolutionary Unionism (IWA)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Steel strike of 1952
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike by the United Steelworkers of America against U.S. Steel and nine other steelmakers.
- Steel walls cannot contain the struggle for freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If siege is an act of aggression and war, then breaking out of it by any means is an act of self-defense and resistance.
- Stephen Harper opens door to prison privatization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Whatever Harper has in mind for the prison system, one thing is for sure: There's little chance he'll unveil any plans for privatizing prisons before the next federal election. Unless Harper wins a majority, it seems suicidal for him to take a chance on such a controversial idea.
- The Steven Truscott Case: I am a Canadian . . . hero?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Stieg Larsson in the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Stieg Larsson came to support the Vietnamese liberation struggle in 1968, when he was only 14 years old. He joined the Kommunistiska Arbetarförbundet — (The Communist Workers League), the Swedish section of the Fourth International –– around 1974 in the northern town of Umeå. There he distributed the party’s paper for soldiers –Röd Soldat (Red Soldier) — among the conscripts in his infantry regiment.
- Still Got the News
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
As a student activist at the University of Michigan in the middle and late 1980s, I was part of a coalition of activists who planned and carried out a democratic takeover of our school's newspaper, The Michigan Daily.
- Still OK to use "Green"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Still, William
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist. (1819-1902).
- Stirring Up Racism
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In an attempt to discredit the progressive candidates, the Richmond Police Officers Association (RPOA) put out a flyer which claimed the Latino community and particularly undocumented immigrants were the source of Richmond’s drug and violence problem and that the progressive candidates opposed police efforts to control it.
- STOL lands again
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The proposal for a major commerical airport on the Toronto Islands appears to be back on the agenda.
- Stone, I. F.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American investigative journalist. (1907-1989).
- The Stones Cry Out: The Power of the Occupation in the City Square
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Gathering in the city, taking strength from its history, remembering its past and our past, we stand firm.
- Stonewall riots
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
- Stop Sweatshops-Linking Workers' Struggles
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Nike made a mistake when it aggressively entered the college market through lucrative licensing contracts and exclusive promotions deals. In hindsight, it amazes me that the company never considered the potential for scandal when it linked itself to institutions that purport to be moral leaders.
- Stop Terror & War!
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The wave of terrorist attacks across Russia, culminating in the bloody tragedy at Beslan, has reminded us all that there is a war taking place in this country. Russia’s rulers depict this as the “intervention of international terrorism” and compare it with the events of 11 September 2001.
- Stop That Shit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Stop the Destruction of Chechnya!
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
As we enter the 21st century, Russian society is confronted with the shameful fact of the bloody colonial war in the north Caucasus. The whole might of the "democratic" Russian state has been thrown into subjugating a small people that volunteered to join neither the tsarist or Stalinist empires nor Yeltsin's "federation." Tens of thousands killed or physically or spiritually maimed; masses impoverished or turned into refugees with no rights; towns and villages reduced to ruins-this is the price paid to satisfy the political ambitions of a Russian ruling class bent on reinforcing and redoubling its dominance.
- Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline!
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Keystone XL is a proposed 1700-mile pipeline that would transport tar sands oil (also called oil sands) from Alberta, Canada into the United States, crossing six states from Montana to Texas and Louisiana. The proposed pipeline, which has a price tag of $7 billion, would add to the extensive existing network of oil pipelines, carrying tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
- Stop the Sale of Canadian Uranium to the Philipines:
A Statement of Unity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Stories of Mr. Keuner (exceprts)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Storming Heaven
1968 Revisted
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The eruptions of #68 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
- A Story About Making a Sex Movie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
- The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Story of Profit
The Coalition for Energy Price Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A report of the actions of 17 groups in Quebec fighting unfair energy price increases.
- The Story of the Christmas Truce
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World War I, German, British and French soldiers disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front. German troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas." "You no shoot, we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across no-man's land strewn with rotting corpses. Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. A shudder ran through the high command on either side. Here was disaster in the making: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight.
- Strata in the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
Many of the lowest union officials have been separated from the ranks to some extent and try to keep their jobs to keep the protection and favors which the job gives them. The lowest layers of the union leadership also develop a legitimate organizational loyalty to their union. They are the conscious union propagandists. But while this is a necessity in the building and maintenance of any organization, in times of crisis this loyalty can temporarily retard good union militants from striking out on a new road.
- A Strategy for Antiwar Organizing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There is a paradox here: The organized antiwar movement’s effectiveness has declined, even while public opinion polls showed that antiwar sentiment among the public as a whole has grown steadily. A movement which declines while opportunities for growth are becoming more favourable is a peculiar one indeed.
- A Strategy for Antiwar Organizing
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
According to a recent CNN poll, “American support for the war in Afghanistan has never been lower” and “only 37% of all Americans favor the war, [while] 52% say the war in Afghanistan has turned into a Vietnam.”
- Strategy for Labrador Straits: Aiming for Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Strategy of Development for the Canadian Housing Co-operative Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An analysis of trends and outcomes of four strategies employed in developing co-operative housing.
- The Strike and Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission.
- Strike Lessons from the Last Twenty-Five Years: Walking Out and Winning
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Labor's strike effectiveness and organizational strength have long been connected. Throughout history, work stoppages have been used for economic and political purposes, to alter the balance of power between labor and capital within single workplaces, entire industries, or nationwide. Strikes have won shorter hours and safer conditions, through legislation or contract negotiation.(1) They've fostered new forms of worker organization -- such as industrial unions -- that were badly needed because of corporate restructuring and the reorganization of production. Strikes have acted as incubators for class consciousness, rank-and-file leadership development, and political activism.(2) In other countries, strikers have challenged -- and changed -- governments that were dictatorial and oppressive (plus union leadership no longer accountable to the membership).
- The strike that led to Tahir Square
An act of courage that launched a revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
- Strike Wave Sweeps Brazil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Workers in Brazil—in heavy industry, services, the public sector, and agriculture—are involved in a series of strikes and mass protests such as the country hasn’t seen in decades.
- Strikebreaker
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strikebreaker or scab is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers are usually individuals who are not employed by the company prior to the trade union dispute, but rather hired prior to or during the strike to keep production or services going. "Strikebreakers" may also refer to workers (union members or not) who cross picket lines to work.
- Strikes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
State power acquires now an important function in organizing business life. In the devastated Europe it takes the supreme lead; its officials become the directors of a planned economy, regulating production and consumption. Its special function is to keep the workers down, and stifle all discontent by physical or spiritual means. In America, where it is subjected to big business, this is its chief function. The workers have now over against them the united front of State power and capitalist class, which usually is joined by union leaders and party leaders, who aspire to sit in conference with the managers and bosses and having a vote in fixing wages and working conditions. And, by this capitalist mechanism of increasing prices, the standard of life of the workers goes rapidly downward.
- Strikes
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work.
- Strikes and Lockouts
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike is the withholding of labour by workers in order to obtain better working conditions; such withholding of labour is generally accompanied by demonstrations, such as picketing, parades, meetings. A lockout is the opposite, being the temporary shutdown of a business by an employer to compel employees to accept certain conditions.
- Strikes in South Korea 1996-1997
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996 Published: 1997
In December 1996 and January 1997, South Korea experienced the largest organized strike in its history, when workers in the automotive and shipbuilding industries refused to work in protest against a law which was to make firing employees easier for employers and curtail labor organizing rights.
- Strikes, List of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).
- Strip-Searching Children
Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
- Strong Meat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The meat-producing system Simon Fairlie advocates differs sharply from the one now practised in the rich world: low energy, low waste, just, diverse, small-scale. But if we were to adopt it, we could eat meat, milk and eggs (albeit much less) with a clean conscience.
- Structural Adjustment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The economics of structural adjustment in Canada.
- Structuralism as Defense of the Bureaucratic Status Quo
A Dialectical Critique of Althusserian Theory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Althusserian theory is deeply conservative and puts obstacles in the way of seeing the truly revolutionary currents that exist in the modern world.
- The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
Russia must be placed first among the new totalitarian states. It was the first to adopt the new state principle. It went furthest in its application. It was the first to establish a constitutional dictatorship, together with the political and administrative terror system which goes with it. Adopting all the features of the total state, it thus became the model for those other countries which were forced to do away with the democratic state system and to change to dictatorial rule. Russia was the example for fascism. There is an unbridgeable opposition between bolshevism and socialism. Nationalism, authoritarianism, centralism, leader dictatorship, power policies, terror-rule, mechanistic dynamics, inability to socialize-all these essential characteristics of fascism were and are existing in bolshevism.
- The Struggle for Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
A socialist critique of late-60's/early-70's British society and economics, with emphasis on the distortion of resources' availability and use, as well as capitalism's inate predilection for war. Is concludes that the only recourse is socialist revolution.
- A Struggle in Solidarity with Others: Lessons from a Student Campaign Battling a Giant Corporation
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I am a graduate student from India, studying at a university in Michigan. Some time ago, I became involved in a campaign to kick the Coca Cola company off the campus because of their treatment of workers and the surrounding community at their plants in India and Colombia.
- The Struggle to Stop Female Genital Mutilation
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
In January, 1999 the Senegalese parliament joined several other African nations imposing a ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At the time of the ban over 700,000 women -- approximately twenty percent of the female population -- were estimated to have undergone some form of FGM in Senegal.
- Student-Labor Activism Advances
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
University campuses displayed an impressive mobilization around labor issues last year, from United Farm Worker (UFW) strawberry campaigns to living wage movements to the anti-sweatshop sit-ins.
- The Student Movement of the Thirties
A Political History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if #the thirties# represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
- Students and Labor Together
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
On behalf of my fellow campus organizers I would like to thank the AFL-CIO leadership and all of you for this opportunity to speak with you. I have a new slogan for you: "Whose University? Our University!!!" That's what we were chanting three weeks ago when I and hundreds other University of Wisconsin students and workers took over our administration building.
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.
- Students, Labor Getting Together
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The idea that students demanding their rights at work and at school might have a place not just allied with the labor movement, but in the labor movement, is a powerful one that undergraduate activists should examine closely.
- Studies on the Left
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Journal of New Left radicalism in the United States published between 1959 and 1967.
- The Study of a Russian Factory
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
This book is a study of the Moscow Hammer and Sickle metallurgical factory between 1905 to 1932, based largely on four factory-specific archives that became available to Western historians after the fall of the Soviet Union. Its main focus, covering two-thirds of the book, is the post-revolutionary, post-civil war period.
- Study on Housing Needs of Single Women in the Downtown Eastside
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Studying State & Capitalist Development
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Given the dominant neoliberal ideology of our times, it is assumed in most quarters that state intervention in the economies of the post-World War II era was an utter fiasco. This argument is taken as even more self-evident in the case of the countries of the capitalist periphery or “Third World.”
- Stupid Opinion #1: All Opinions are Equal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
People say, "Don't be judgmental" - as if we shouldn't evaluate behavior, from amazingly loving to atrocious. Many intone, "No one has the right to judge opinions" - as if racist opinions, say, had the same validity as anti-racist opinions.
- Submission by Inuit Tapirisat of Canada to the National Energy Board
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Submission by the National Farmers Union to the Comprehensive Development Plan for Prince Edward Island.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Submission of the Farmland Defence League of B.C. Select Standing Committee on Agriculture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Submission to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Task Force on Sex-role stereotyping
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Submission to the Government of Canada
Proposing Economic Recovery through a Full Employment Program.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Submission to the Government of Canada on the Subject of A Food Strategy for Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Submission to the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Submission to the Hon. Dr. Bette Stephenson, Minister of Labour, Concerning Proposed Occupational Safety and Health
Legislation for the Province of Ontario.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Submission to the MacDonald Commissionon the R.C.M.P
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Submission to the Ontario Government on the Employment and Housing Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A brief arguing that housing should become a regulated public utility.
- Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada:
How Social and Economc Justice Can be Improved in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Submission to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Submission to the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary Systems In Canada Hearings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Submission to the SW Need Hearings of the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Sub-Prime Market Crisis
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
It wasn't until I flew to the United Kingdom on Saturday, September 15th, that the globalized nature of the sub-prime contagion really hit home, as it were, for me. On my flight over, I grabbed a copy of the UK Telegraph newspaper, the front page of which looked like something shot at a Great Depression bread line.
- Successful Event Marketing Strategies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Tips for marketing your events.
- Successful news releases: 7 must-know tips
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 1999
Make it short, make it make, make sure it's important.
- Suck It Up: Using Our Pride Against Us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Suffrage (Voting Rights)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right.
- Sugar and Sugarworkers: A Popular Report of the International Sugarworkers Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Sugar World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Sugihara, Chiune
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Japanese diplomat who helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. (1900-1986).
- A Summary Of Actions
Access To Health and Social Services For Members of Diverse Cultural And Racial Groups in Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Summary of Presentation to the Mayor and City Council of Edmonton, Alberta
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Summary--Cluff Lake Board of Inquiry Local Hearings in Northern Sask
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Summer of Love
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
- Summit Protests Are Obsolete
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
I can understand why a lot of folks went to the G20 protests in Toronto, sincerely wanting to stand up and be counted against savage global capitalism and its consequences. The problem is, almost nobody who didn't participate, especially those who only heard of the protests through the media, has any idea what the protests were about, or why the protesters were there.
- The Sun Behind The Clouds Gives A Voice To Tibetan Dissidents
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam's The Sun Behind the Clouds is the latest offering in a long line of documentaries about Tibet. The distinctiveness of this edition derives from its willingness to portray the internal debates of the Tibetan movement and in the movie#s attempts to give voice to Tibetans living in Tibet. These features moved the film from a typical propaganda piece about the oppression faced under the brutal grip of the People#s Republic of China (PRC) to a serious examination of resistance strategies in Tibet and in its influential Diaspora.
- Sunday shopping conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
- The Supermarket Tour: A handbook for education and action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Support CUPE-Ontario's Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Support for Farmers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Support the Iranian people, oppose Tehran#s clerical fascism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Tragically, the leadership of the UK and US anti-war movements have been sleep-walking into making the same mistakes over Iran as they made over Iraq. They are silent about the regime#s despotism and oppression. Mirroring the neo con indifference to human rights abuses in Iran, they refuse to show solidarity with the Iranian peoples# struggle for secularism, democracy, social justice, human rights and self-determination for national minorities. There is nothing remotely left-wing about this is sad and cruel betrayal. Put bluntly: it is collusion with tyranny.
- Support the New Freedom Riders
End US Support for Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Palestinian Freedom Riders are seeking their rights to be treated as equal human beings free to move about in their own land.
- "Sure, Stick It In"
Who Will Organize the Organizers?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
One has to recognize when the movement is all there, ready to go, and just needs a little impetus.
- Surrealism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.
- A Survey On Development Education In Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- The Survival of Education
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I remember reading Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities as a student activist, when becoming a teacher was an abstract and somewhat romanticized idea floating around my head. I was moved by the politically sharp but also deeply humanizing way in which Kozol documented how institutional racism and class inequality shape the experiences of students in American schools, a reality that all of us who have been educated in this country have experienced first-hand in one way or another.
- Surviving and Thriving in a Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Surviving and thriving in a crisis means joining hands for support and sharing information clearly, effectively and with respect for the human condition. Remember, you're never alone in a crisis # it just feels that way.
- Surviving When the State Disappeared: Community vs. Katrina
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Suzi Weissman interviews Mike Davis. Suzi Weissman interviewed author Mike Davis for her "Beneath the Surface" program on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. The discussion was transcribed by Alice Taylor and edited for publication.
- Survivors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The enormous role played by Jews in the events of May 1968 in Paris and their aftermath is striking. All currents of the far left, anarchist, Trotskyist, Maoist had Jews among their primary leaders. Though they did not act as Jews, that they were Jews, and occupied a particular place in post-war French society because of this, cannot but have weighed in their participation.
- Sustainability as if we mean it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Sustainable development conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Sustainable development conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Suzuki, David
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. (Born 1936).
- The Swing of That Truncheon Thing
The Nature of the Beast Revealed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Historically, police violence is a fact of life in every society. In a society based on a capitalist economy, the police serve those that have the most money and property. When the authorities and their policies are under attack, the police will always be called in to protect the former. No official should be shocked when the police act brutally. There is a reason the most thuggish of the uniforms are often the ones called to disperse angry crowds.
- Swing Riots
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A widespread uprising by the rural workers of the arable south and east of England in 1830. The rioters, largely impoverished and landless agricultural labourers, sought to halt reductions in their wages and to put a stop to the introduction of the new threshing machines that threatened their livelihoods.
- Syndicalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Synopsis of Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1868
This is a synopsis of Capital, Volume I, written by Engels in 1868. Upon Capital's release, Engels began constructing a comprehensive summation. Engels' synopsis serves two useful contributions: First, Engels was a far more rapid writer than Marx, and more readable. Second, Engels could distance himself from the massive web of ideas without "losing his place in it", and identify primary points to be made. This text was published in Fortnightly Review. Engels only summarized the first four chapters of Volume I of Capital.
- Le système électoral faux du Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Les Taches Liees Au Soin Des Enfants
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- The Tactic of Calling People Anti-Semitic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Instead of calling people who criticize Israel and US policy towards it anti-Semitic, a morally committed response would be to face up to the reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine and do our best to remedy it.
- The Tactical Utility of Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
What place does violence have in the struggle to overthrow the capitalist system? What place does it have in any struggle? Is the current definition of violence as accepted by the ruling regime and the loyal opposition relevant or realistic?
- Tácticas desesperadas: Acusaciones falsas de "antisemitismo" para silenciar reproches a la conducta de Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of #anti-Semitism# - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
- La tactique du désespoir : Utilisant de fausses accusations de l'antisémitisme comme arme pour faire taire toute critique sur le comportement d'Israël.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Tailoring to Needs: Garment Worker Struggles in Bangladesh
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The class struggle in Bangladesh is fought at a consistently high level and concentrated in the ready made garment (RMG) sector, the country’s dominant industry. Mainly unmediated by trade unions, struggles frequently assume an explosive character.
- Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group#s path to success with director Ben Fine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
- Take Back the Land
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It is immoral for human beings to be forced to live on the streets while perfectly good structures stand vacant, sometimes just blocks away.
- Take Back The Land, Give Root To Democracy
Book Review by Alex Knight
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In many ways, Take Back the Land is a direct heir of the bottom-up, Black self-empowerment, civil disobedient, movement-building tradition, and is one of the most inspiring examples of a group renewing and developing that tradition today.
- Take Care! Human Rights In The Eighties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- Take Israel To International Criminal Court
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is imperative that the international community view the Israeli response to the Goldstone report as a blatant attempt to whitewash its crimes in Gaza, and refer the matter to the ICC without further delay. To do otherwise will only continue to encourage Israeli intransigence.
- 'Take me to your leader'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- "Take This Test and Shove It!"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Open resistance to high stakes tests is an important development: it can be the first step in a movement uniting students, teachers, parents, and others against the corporate assault on public education and for a democratic society.
- Take your partners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Monogamy is not necessarily the best policy.
- Taking Back Homes From The Banks: Exercising The Human Right To Housing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right
to housing. With the millions of homeless living in our communities and the millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to put them together. Organizations across the US are engaging in #housing liberation# and #housing defense# to exercise their human rights to housing.
- 'Taking back the media', effective campaigning required to empower Progressive Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Taking Control of Our Future
Clerical Workers and the New Technology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Taking liberties: When elite representatives define 'national security'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Most reporters assigned to the national security beat are not physically embedded within the RCMP and CSIS in the way those covering the occupation of Afghanistan seem to become stenographers for the Canadian military. But they tend to write as if they were, buying the assumptions created and sustained by those who benefit most from them while generally ignoring the fact that these agencies have a historical profile that reads "pathological liar."
- Taking on the Religious Right
A review of God and His Demons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Michael Parenti confronts the dangers of religious fundamentalism.
- Taking the Scents out of Sensitive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Many people are adversely affected by the chemicals in scented products.
- Taking What's Ours - everywoman's guide to welfare and student aid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Taksim is not Tahrir—yet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Much of the talk of “neoliberalism” coming from such leftist organizations is often a call for a return to state-administered enterprises under “workers’ control”, which is nothing more than bureaucratic state capitalism. It should be remembered that even under the most intense periods of nationalization in Turkey, often glorified among the social democrats and the like, was fought against by the working class.
- Taktyki Desperacji: Uzywanie falszywych oskarzen antysemityzmu jako broni uciszajacej krytyke zachowania Izraela
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- A Tale of Two Offices
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
- A Tale of Two Social Forums
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
From June 22-26, 2010, fifteen thousand social movement activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan for the second United States Social Forum (USSF). Less than two months later, about half that number met at the other end of the continent in Asunción, Paraguay for the 4th Americas Social Forum (ASF).
- Tales of Tyrants: Ben Ali, Mubarak & Suleiman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
On the overthrow of Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Mubarak.
- Talk on Anarchism and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Talking Back to the Right
A guide for community activists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
- Taniec z Wina: Jak mezczyzni patrza na przemoc
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Taplok Press, A New Flame
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Reading Left books has become somewhat of a trend in Indonesia. Although the struggle for democracy is far from won, overthrowing the dictator Suharto in 1998 has brought a lot of positive changes for people. One of the most important changes is the ability to openly explore political ideas and the access to information.
- A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988 Published: 1989
Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
- Targeting Earth First!
Dave Foreman and the First Greenscare Case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The war on environmentalism.
- The Targeting of Walter Rodney
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On October 15, 1968 the government of Jamaica barred Walter Rodney from returning to the island. A lecturer at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Rodney had been out of the country attending a Black Power conference in Canada. The Guyanese-born Rodney was no stranger to Jamaica, having graduated from UWI in 1963. He returned to his alma mater as a faculty member at the beginning of 1968, after doing graduate studies in England and working briefly in Tanzania.
- Taser Company Uses Facebook, Blogs to Improve Image Amidst Lawsuits
Stun-gun maker Taser blogs to beat bad buz
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The company, whose main product is a lightning rod for criticism, is increasingly using blogs and social networks to promote new products and dispel anxieties about them.
- Tauschkreise
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Tauschkreise (auch Tauschring oder Local Exchange Trading Systems, kurz LETS) sind lokal initiierte, demokratisch organisierte, gemeinnützige Gemeinschaftsunternehmen, die als Informationsdienst für die Gemeinschaften agieren und Transaktionen aufzeichnen, wenn Kunden Güter und Dienstleistungen austauschen (mit Hilfe der eigens kreierten LETS Krediten).
- Tax breaks only for free traders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Tax Facts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Tax Havens; Undermining Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Tax housing speculators?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Tax reform makes poor poorer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Tax resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The refusal to willingly pay a tax because of opposition to the institution that is imposing the tax, or to some of that institution#s policies.
- Taxes for Peace, Not War.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- TCL'd pink: 20 years of solidarity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
- TCLSAC MATERIALS
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- The Teabagger Anti-Socialist Purity Pledge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Teach for America, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher’s unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end-in-itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.
- Teach-in
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs.
- Teachers, Parents, Community Together
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
interview with Joshua Pechthalt. ATC interviewed Joshua Pechthalt, an activist who is Vice President of the United Teachers Los Angeles/American Federation of Teachers and President of AFT Local 1021. He also sits on the Executive Boards of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and the California State Federation of Labor.
- Teaching adults to read
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Becoming literate is an important way for people to gain more control and power over their lives.
- Teaching Underdevelopment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Tear Down the Dam; Restore the Commons
Temacapulin Fights for Its Survival
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Over 47,000 large dams around the world have displaced some 40,000,000 people. The World Bank has invested more than $60 billion in 600 dams.
- Tearing Down the Gates?
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Peter Sacks describes Tearing Down the Gates as a work about the staggering injustices in the American educational system. Sacks utilizes a seldom-employed tool to analyze the educational system in the United States: the role of class. Importantly, Sacks understands class in a multi-faceted way, discussing not only the money a family has but its income-producing capital and its educational background and what he describes as its “cultural capital.”
- Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
Manifesto 2007
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Techno-Fantasies of Evo Morales
The Consequences of Modernization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
There are two different Evo Morales: the one who makes international eco-proclamations and the one, at home, who is pushing dams, uranium excavation, cell towers, and mega-highways.
- Technological Change and Working Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Technozealots, Indians and Information Technology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Tecumseh
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
- Tecumseh
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
- Telefilm Canada frozen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Tell your story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Telling it like it is
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Telling it like it isn#t
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall.
- Temagami ruling dangerous precedent
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Temping Down Labor Rights: The Manpowerization of Mexico
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The continuing erosion of labour rights and labour standards in Mexico.
- Temple, William Horace
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian politician, trade union activist, businessman and temperance crusader. (1899-1988).
- The Temporary Autonomous Zone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985 Published: 1991
- Ten Best Censored Stories of 1988
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Documenting the failure of the mass media to provide Americans with all the information they need to make informed decisions.
- Ten Days for World Development 1977/Leader Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A kit designed for those who plan activites for the Ten Days for World Development programme.
- Ten Days for World Development, Study Issue, 1976
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
"Lifestyle" issue points out global realities call for a less consumer-oriented lifestyle.
- Ten Days That Shook the University
On the Poverty of Student Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1966
Published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste.
- The 10 Dumbest, Most Offensive Political Ads in Recent Memory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Not a single election cycle goes by without some attempt to use fear of the "other" to win votes. Sadly, the results are sometimes successful.
- Ten Health Care Myths
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
- 10 Health Care Myths - Chinese Text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
- 10 Health Care Myths - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
- Ten Points for the Occupied Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Against Wall Street’s culture of economic exploitation, environmental degradation and human oppression we stand together to testify that another world is possible, a decent and humane world, a democratic world of liberty, dignity and solidarity.
- Ten Years Later: We're Less Free
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The abuse of government/police power in this country is not a new or recent phenomenon — as evidenced by the government’s court-sanctioned internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during WWII, the red scare of the 1940s-1950s to repress the labor movement and other progressive causes, the use of grand juries and COINTELPRO during the ’60s to repress the civil rights and anti-war movements.
- Tenant Handbook
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Tenant Research Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Tennessee: Another Battle Front
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
As attacks on public sector workers heat up around the nation, Tennessee has experienced its own battles over collective bargaining — even though few segments of the public sector workforce belong to unions.
- The Tent Intifada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The bug that had spread from Tahrir Square in Cairo to Del Sol in Madrid now landed in Tel Aviv. The slogan coined in Cairo, "Social Justice!" became the main slogan in Israel.
- Terkel, Studs
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. (1912-2008).
- Terror and Just Response
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky explores different interpretations of the question regarding the proper response to terrorist crimes and of the broader problem of determining their nature.
- Terror As It Was and Is
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Despite the centrality today of “terrorism” as a political phenomenon, justifying a re-ordering of global power relations as well as the suppression of dissent and civil liberties domestically, it is in fact a far older phenomenon, as Nivedita Majumdar’s wonderful anthology of writing on the subject reminds us. The work excerpted in The Other Side of Terror includes fiction, poetry, and essays on the subject of terrorism by South Asians over the course of more than a century.
- Terror in Italy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
I have known Toni Negri since 1964, when we met at the University of Padua. I have many disagreements with his theories and his formulations. But I am certain that he is innocent of any complicity with the Moro assassination and/or the Red Brigades. And I am also certain that he deserves a trial that is fairer than the Italian government seems to be willing to give him.
- Terrorism and Communism
A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
- Terrorism in Palestine
Are the Terrorists Anti-Imperialist?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Terrorist activity in Palestine has been revived on a larger scale than formerly, calling the attention of the entire press to the organisations of the Hagana, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Stern Gang and their activities. Socialist internationalists must answer the question: what is the character of these organisations? Are they an anti-imperialist factor in the liberatory struggles of the colonial peoples?
- Terselic, Vesna
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Croatian peace activist. (Born 1962).
- A Test of Our Courage
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Mike Davis was interviewed by Jon Wiener on KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, on March 29, 2006. The interview has been slightly abridged for publication.
- Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. In other words, if we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we'd save nearly $400 billion annually - more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans.
- Textbook Tempest in California: Who Speaks for Hinduism?
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Decades after their arrival in the United States in significant numbers following the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, Indian Americans are entering the political fray. Like other ethnic communities, Indian Americans are not a monolithic group. Yet the most conservative Hindu elements have had some success in claiming to represent the whole community in recent debates regarding the certification of sixth grade history textbooks in California.
- The Textile and Clothing INdustries in Canada: A Profile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Textile workers strike (1934)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states.
- Thatcherism for kids
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- A Theater for the Poor
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Each phase in the nine-year-history of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) now reads like a chapter from a cautionary tale for future generations of young radicals.
- Their Methodology and Ours
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Self-introduction of the sole issue of the journal Strategy, which appeared, and disappeared, in the spring of 1977.
- Their Multiculturalism and Ours
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Reactionary interpretations of multiculturalism ignore, tolerate or excuse prejudice and abuse in the name of pluralism and diversity. They foster social division, moral confusion and double-standards # often to the detriment of the most vulnerable: minorities within minority communities. Progressive multiculturalism is about respecting and celebrating difference, but within a framework of universal equality and human rights. It is premised on welcoming and embracing cultural diversity, providing it does not involve the oppression of other people.
- Theological Reflection Re: Skid Row
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Reflection on the conditions that foster the existence of Skid Rows in Canada.
- Theological Reflections on the P.Q. Victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Theology of Connexions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
- The Theology of Respect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
What the new theology demands is, in fact, not respect but obedience. 'You will only say or do what we think is acceptable' has become the credo of the multiculturalist censor. It is an attitude that turns the notion of respect on its head.
- Théories et militantismes queer : réflexion à partir de l'exemple français
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Theories of Stalinism
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Karl Marx and his comrades deemed their own approach “scientific,” as compared to “utopian” intellectual efforts on behalf of socialism, because they believed that practical efforts to challenge and ultimately replace capitalism with something better must be grounded in a serious study of economic, political, social, historical realities and dynamics.
- Theory & Practice
A polemic against Comrade Kautsky's theory of the Mass Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1910
Rosa Luxemburg confronts Karl Kautsky on the crucial questions of the General Mass Strike and on the relationship of spontaneity to organization, as well as on the unity of theory and practice. This crucial 1910 debate in German Social Democracy led to Luxemburg's revolutionary break with Karl Kautsky and foreshadowed the collapse of the Second International at the outbreak of World War I.
- The Theory of Alienation: Marx's Debt to Hegel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
One hundred years before Hiroshima, Marx wrote, "To have one basis for science and other for life is a priori, a lie." We have lived this lie for so long that the fate of civilization, not merely rhetorically, but literally, is within orbit of a nuclear ICBM. Since the very survival of mankind hangs in the balance between the East's and the West's nuclear terror, we must, this time, under the penalty of death, unite theory and practice in the struggle for freedom, thereby abolishing the division between philosophy and reality and giving ear to the urgency of "realizing" philosophy, i.e., of making freedom a reality.
- Theory of Knowledge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1926
- The theory of the collapse of capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1934
Struggle is never simple or convenient.
- There Are Realistic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Developing realistic alternatives to war and other violence.
- There are Reforms and There are Reforms
Or, Two Sorts of Reforms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1908
Those who believe that we will manage to gradually realize socialism by social reform within the current regime misunderstand the class antagonisms that determine reforms. Current social reform, having as a goal the preservation of the capitalist system, finds itself in opposition to the proletarian reform of tomorrow, which will have the contrary goal: the suppression of the system. The organic connection that exists today between reform and revolution is completely different. In fighting for reform the working class develops and makes itself strong. It ends by conquering political power. This is the unity of reform and revolution.
- There's no such thing as a slow news day
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The news media are always looking for news.
- These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As I see in threads on my articles, the online sabotaging of intelligent debate seems organised. We must fight to save this precious gift.
- These Weapons of Mass Destruction Cannot be Displayed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Finally, the evidence!
- Theses for Discussion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Programmatic points.
- Theses for Discussion - Korean text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Theses of the Workers Opposition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1921
Advocated the role of unionized workers in directing the economy at a time when Soviet government organs were running industry by dictate and trying to exclude trade unions from a participatory role.
- Theses On Feuerbach
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1845 Published: 1924
- Theses On The Fight Of The Working Class Against Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
Extension of the strike to ever larger masses, the only tactics appropriate to wrench concessions from capital, is fundamentally opposed to the Trade Union tactics to restrict the fight and to put an end to it as soon as possible. Such wild strikes in the present times are the only real class fights of the workers against capital. Here they assert their freedom, themselves choosing and directing their actions, not directed by other powers for other interests.
- Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
- Theses on the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
- They forgot the bicycle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- They Found Nothing. Nothing.
The IAEA, Iran And ‘Fantasy Land’
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What is so breathtaking is that the apparent consensus on Iran, like the case against Iraq, is a fraud.
- They Showed the Way to Labor Emancipation
On Karl Marx and the 75th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Marx drew a great theoretical conclusions from the experience of the Commune. He showed that the capitalist army, the capitalist state, the capitalist bureaucracy, cannot be seized by the revolutionary proletariat and used for its own purposes. It had to be smashed completely and a new state organized, based upon the organization of the working class.
- They#re Going to be Stuffing Our Kids
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Will technology in the classroom be a boon to educators in the future, or a disaster waiting to happen?
- They're Recharging Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Thieving Sons of Bushes
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
“Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco. The D.C. protest was the largest one at a presidential inauguration since 1973 -- at President Nixon's second term.
- Think Rail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Thinking About Equality
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Back in 1937, as fascism seemed poised to seize power in much of Europe, George Orwell noted in A Road to Wigan Pier that a “genuinely revolutionary socialism” would have no chance of reversing the tide unless its supporters put aside their factionalism, ceased using jargon that few people could understand, and mobilized around propaganda stressing justice, liberty, and the plight of the unemployed.
- Thinking About Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
- Thinking Outside the Box
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or faith and creating conflicts by institutionalising such differences in public policy.
- Third International (Comintern)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919, and disbanded in 1943.
- Third Position
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Third Position is a nationalist political strand that emphasises its opposition to both communism and capitalism. Advocates of third position views present themselves as neither left nor right, instead taking a more syncretic stance.
- Third Servile War
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The last of a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic. (73-71 BC).
- The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
- Thirty years on, the holocaust in Cambodia and its aftermath is remembered
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his epic dispatches and documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, and that Cambodia was again "punished" when its liberators came from the wrong side of the cold war and the Thatcher government send special forces to train the Khmer Rouge in exile.
- This book explains how things don't work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
There a lots of guides explaining how things work. This one explains how they don#t -- and why they don#t.
- This Is About Us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
- This Is What Complicity Looks Like: Palestine and the Silencing Campaign on Campus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The campaign to silence Palestine solidarity reaches its annual crescendo during Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
- This vacation do something meaningful
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Thomas More and his Utopia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1888
More can only be understood in the light of his age, to comprehend which a knowledge of the beginnings of capitalism and the decline of feudalism, of the powerful part played by the Church on the one hand, and of world commerce on the other, is necessary.
- Thompson, E. P.
Connexipedia Article
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English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. (1924-1993).
- Thompson, William
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Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the Cooperative, Trade Union and Chartist movements. (1775-1833).
- Thompson, William
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Born with the proverbial silver-spoon in his mouth, William Thompson (1775-1833) devoted his life to ameliorating the condition of those less fortunate than himself.
- Thoreau, Henry David
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American author and poet. (1817-1862).
- Those Bush Two Blues
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The imperial investiture of George W. Bush was celebrated with corporate-financed balls through the night. Half a world away in Iraq, the empire burned, and bodies from the Indian Ocean tsunami continued to be retrieved from the surf and the muck of shattered villages from Aceh to Sri Lanka to India to Somalia. The cost of the coronation, a few tens of millions of dollars (but who's counting?), could have paid for a warning system to save the lives of many of the 250-300,000 victims.
- Thoughts Of A Secular Sufi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Chomsky recalls the thoughts and words of the Pakistani antiwar-activist, Eqbal Ahmad, critic of "the twin curse of nationalism and religious fanaticism".
- A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
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First Published: 2006
Review of a book on Jewish Orthodox opposition to Zionism.
- The Threat of the Tag
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Tracking anklets for convicts are not a good way to alleviate prison overcrowding.
- Three Decades of Iranian Women's Activism
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Before the June elections and the protests that ensued, 2009 was hailed as a milestone in Iran for another reason: it marked the 30th anniversary of the 1979 revolution.
- $300,000 for government video
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- 3 Keys to Keeping Your Marketing and PR Writing on Strategy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
How do you ensure that your marketing and PR piece isn't just pretty prose?
- Three Ways Labor Can Fight Back
Time to Declare War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Unions need to streamline their message, make it less cerebral and more visceral.
- Three Years After "Yes We Can"
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
No, he didn't. That’s the epitaph on the tombstone of liberal and left-wing hopes that greeted the historic election of Barack Obama in November 2008. Did anyone imagine then that the election itself, more than anything he’d do in office, would be the high point of the Obama presidency? Or that three years later, the power of “Yes we can” would be the eruption of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) spreading to one city after another — essentially nothing to do with President Obama?
- Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
- Throw it in the garbage myself
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
I will not have anyone tell me or my children what we can or cannot read.
- Throwing Out the Master’s Tools and Building a Better House
Thoughts on the Importance of Nonviolence in the Occupy Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Diversity of tactics does not mean that anything goes and that democratic decision-making doesn’t apply. If you want to be part of a movement, treat the others with respect; don’t spring unwanted surprises on them, particularly surprises that sabotage their own tactics—and chase away the real diversity of the movement.
- Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
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A series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the PRC beginning on 14 April. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world.
- Tide Turning in Latin America?
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
- Tim Flannery: "It's Over to You"
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The twenty-first century will be either the century of a “sustainability revolution” — extending the industrial and scientific revolutions of the 18th through 20th centuries, bringing their benefits to all humanity while eliminating massive global poverty and inequality, and in the process beginning to repair the massive damage wreaked on the environment by blind industrial expansion and capital accumulation — or else the century in which the progress of human civilization goes into reverse and faces the real possibility of collapse.
- Time for a New Divestment Campaign
From South Africa to Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years # as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
- Time for Civil Disobedience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The lesbian and gay movement should be committed to a strategy of non-violent civil disobedience to force the repeal of Britain's discriminatory anti-homosexual laws.
- A Time for Learning
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I don't recall being aware of the events in France in May-June 1968. I was in college, beginning to get radicalized on several fronts, notably the war. Something called the “Free University” was started in Washington, D.C., and I signed up for a class on communes. I remember well a presentation that spring, in which the speaker kept referring to “the Establishment.”
- Time to Abandon Gay Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Thirty years after the Stonewall Riots, comprehensive human rights laws - not gay rights - are the way forward.
- A Time To Disarm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- A Time To Stand Together... A Time For Social Solidarity:
A Declaration on Social and Economic Policy Directions for Canada by Members of Popular Sector Groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Time to Stop and Think
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Timeline of labour issues and events
Connexipedia Article
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- Timeline of the Congo Conflict
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Tin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An Analysis of the economics of tin from mining and production through marketing.
- Tips for Getting the most from E-mail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996 Published: 2000
The E-mail I receive from journalists seeking assistance with their research and from organizations listed with Sources is often puzzling. Many messages are unaddressed, unsigned and written in haste. Some queries require detective work before I can send a proper response.
- Tips for Making the Call
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Tips for making follow-up calls to the media.
- Tlatelolco massacre
Connexipedia Article
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A government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968 in Mexico City.
- To be Intimidated is to be an Accomplice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Nazi judeocide of should not be used as a cover to commit crimes against the Palestinian people.
- To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country's apartheid system. If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to and from Israeli banks offers an instrument to help bring about a peaceful resolution of an intractable conflict.
- To Establish a Kingdom of Justice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- To Rebuild Teamster Power
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Sandy Pope. Sandy Pope is the candidate for General President of the Teamsters Union in the election this coming October, running against incumbent James Hoffa Jr. She’s a longtime member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and president of Local 805 in New York City.
- Today#s Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx#s Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Far from #ownership# alone determining the class relationship, Marx, from his first break with bourgeois society in 1843, through his leadership in the Workingmen#s (First) International Association in 1864, to his death in 1883, never varied from #dead labor dominating living labor# as the determinant of capitalism.
- Tokyo Letter: After the Disaster
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Just before 3pm on March 11th, I was standing in the intersection of two small streets in central Tokyo, saying goodbye to my partner before leaving for a work trip to the United States. Earthquakes are common in Japan, but we knew right away this one was different. The earth rumbled and rolled, shifting back and forth and around, the intensity rising and falling and rising again.
- Toledo, Francisco
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Mexican community activist. (Born 1940).
- Tolstoy, Leo
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Russian author. (1828-1910).
- Tompkins Square Riot (1874)
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On January 13, 1874 when police crushed a demonstration involving thousands of unemployed in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
- Tony Karon on Growing Dissent among American Jews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
- Too Damn Old!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age -- sometimes as early as 40 -- and it can make the victim feel unwanted, unneeded and oppressed.
- Toolkit for a New Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
- Top 50 US War Criminals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Brief profiles of men and women who planned wars of agression and other war crimes.
- Top Ten List of Media Relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Top ten recommendations for becoming (and remaining) media friendly:
- Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
- Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
- Top Ten Things to do Before a Radio Talk Show
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First Published: 2006
Be prepared when you go on a talk show.
- Tories to Negotiate with Mexico/U.S.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Free trade is on the agenda when the Canadian government meets Mexico and the U.S. in 1992.
- Toronto Before the G20: A History of Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The notion that Toronto is “a city with little history of violent protests” is laughable. Newspapers across North America have spent more than a century reporting on eruptions of violence and protest in Toronto’s past.
- Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival#s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.
- Toronto Pride 1981 - setting the historical record queer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Pride event in 1981 would not have taken place without the new political and social context created by the massive resistance that took place against the bath raids that year. Thousands of queer men, lesbians and our supporters took to the streets on a number of occasions.
- Toronto Ravines - Ours to Preserve
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Toronto's ravines are a treasure; it's up to us to preserve them.
- Toronto's Finest
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
- Torture by Taser
When police abuse their newest #nonlethal# toy, people die.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
- The Torture Memos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Chomsky comments on the revelations of and reactions to the White House report. He examines the proposed justifications and reasserts that despite the idea of "American exceptionalism", allowing instances of torture to be forgotten lays the foundation for future crime.
- Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama's Gitmo
Obama Bravely Takes on a Tortured Child Soldier
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Give our government credit for breaking new ground: no nation has tried a child soldier for war crimes since World War II, and the decision to prosecute Khadr has drawn protests from UNICEF, headed by a former U.S. national security adviser, as well as every major human-rights group.
- "Total Capital" Rigor and International Liquidity: A Reply to Robert Brenner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
- Total Self-Management
Chapter 3 of Raoul Vaneigem’s book From Wildcat Strike to Total Self-Management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Vaneigem’s book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
- Touching a Nerve
No apology for fighting homophobia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Defending OutRage!'s decision to campaign against the homophobia of Lord Jakobovits.
- Tourists of the Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
- Toward a New Beginning - On Another Road
The Alternative to the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
To Marx, any organization was a sect if it set up any special set of view (including Marx#s views) as its organizational boundary; if it made this special set of views the determinant of its organizational form.
Neither Marx nor Engels ever formed or wanted to form a #Marxist# group of any kind # that is, a membership group based on an exclusively Marxist program. All of their organizational activity was pointed along a different road.
- Toward a New Constitution?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Toward A New Socialism
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Richard Schmitt and Anatole Anton correctly insist in the introduction to their anthology Toward a New Socialism that we are in need of a new socialism for the 21st century. This claim has little currency in contemporary academic or even activist cultures. “To speak of ‘socialism’ in today’s academy in the U.S.,” says Anton, “is to betray a lack of academic breeding.”
- Toward A Queer Marxism?
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Scholarly approaches to sexuality since the 1980s have become increasingly divorced from practical sexual politics, and both have largely given up on earlier attempts to engage with Marxism. Now this may be changing. A stimulating new book by Kevin Floyd maintains that people in queer studies are paying more attention to Marxism’s “explanatory power.” From the activist side, Sherry Wolf of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) has made an impressive effort to sum up LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) theory and practice from a Marxist perspective.
- Toward an Authentic Canadian Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Recent developments have only further revealed what has been evident for a long time, namely, the impotence and irrelevance of the Canadian left; the fact that it is minute, factionalized and unable to mobilize people around critical issues, or day-to-day problems.
- Toward Preventing Alcoholism and Alcohol Misuse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Toward Tidal Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Towards a #Israeli War Criminals Watch#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It is upon us, every woman and man, in Israel and abroad, who fear for international public hygiene and international law#to unite forces in order to place before those war criminals the dilemma: risk being tried if they are found in countries in which the law permits this or remain locked in Israel.
- Towards a Method for the Revolutionary Reconstruction of Everyday Life
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First Published: 1972
On the critique and transformation of everyday life as a key part of the struggle for revolutionary transformation. Published in Liberation magazine April 1972.
- Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
A summary of four case studies dissecting the relationship between the health of an individual and that individual's social living circumstances.
- Towards A Red Feminism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Red Feminism contests all forms of institutionalized feminism: from cultural feminism (which is making a comeback in the name of a commonsense fear of the "new," the "alien" and the technological) to postmodern feminisms with their bourgeois reifications of the pleasures and desires of commodity capitalism. Red Feminism challenges the effectivity of the new localist, "transnational" feminisms and calls for a renewed internationalism--with a historical and strategic use of the nation-state--to fight global capitalism. It insists on the priority of production and class struggle in the emancipation of women and reaffirms the solidarity of humanity on the basis of shared needs. Red Feminism thus moves away from individualistic desires and the limits of identity politics toward the collective struggle of international socialism.
- Towards an Extra-Parliamentary Opposition in Canada
Published in Our Generation, Volume 6, Number 4
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
- Towards an Understanding of Sidney Hook
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Precisely because he remained a communist and revolutionary Marxist, Hook was unable to submit to the authoritarian and monolithic form of discipline that had been demanded from him by the Communist Party.
- Towards 21st Century Democracy
Interview with a Proportional Representation Activist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
- Towns take Post Office to court
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Toxic dumps in Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Toxic fuel scam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Toyi-toyi
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A dance that became famous for its use in political protests in the apartheid-era South Africa.
- TPTG's Conversation with George Caffentzis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- Tracking the News that Wasn#t
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
- Trade Union
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Trade Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
The narrow field of trade union struggle widens into the broad field of class struggle. But now the workers themselves must change. They have to take a wider view of the world. From their trade, from their work within the factory walls, their mind must widen to encompass society as a whole. Their spirit must rise above the petty things around them. They have to face the state; they enter the realm of politics. The problems of revolution must be dealt with.
- The Tradition of Scientific Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
John Holloway challenges the myth that Marx promoted a “scientific socialism” in the positivistic understanding of “science” and insists rather on the “negative” and critical aspects of science. For Holloway, the notion of fetishism is central to Marx’s critical approach.
- Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
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First Published: 1983
- Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Raises the issue of freedom of religion being denied to Native prison inmates who are not of Christian origin.
- The Tragedy of Norman Finkelstein – Time to Say Goodbye
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Norman Finkelstein seems to have moved from an anti-Zionist position to believing that the best we can do is create a Palestinian bantustan while Israeli remains as a state where Jews rule and Palestinians remain legally and economically oppressed.
- Tragedy of the anticommons
Connexipedia Article
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A coordination breakdown where the existence of numerous rights holders frustrates achieving a socially desirable outcome.
- Tragedy of the commons
Connexipedia Article
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A dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest will ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long term interest for this to happen.
- The Tragic Ironies of Breivik's Terror
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We need to challenge neo-fascism and anti-Muslim bigotry, just as we need to challenge Islamism. But in both cases we also need to keep a sense of perspective about the nature of the threat.
- Tragödie von Walkerton
Connexipedia
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Die Tragödie von Walkerton ereignete sich im Mai 2000, als das Wasser im kanadischen Walkerton (Ontario) mit e. coli-Bakterien verseucht wurde.
- Trail Damage Caused by Irresponsible Mountain Bikers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The damage caused by each mountain biker is much greater than that caused by a hiker, firstly because of the extra weight of the bike, and secondly because the soil is impacted continuously along the trail, while a hiker's feet hit the soil only at intervals.
- Training for Freedom in Senegal
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Mark Brenner interviews Amsatou Sow Sidibe. Amsatou Sow Sidibe is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for the Study of Peace and Human Rights at University Cheikh Anta Diop at Dakar, Senegal. She is also a member of the National Elections Commission in Senegal and President of the West African Working Women's Network (RAFET).
- Traité du Savoir-Vivre for the Occupy Wall Street Generations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Once upon a time, twenty thousand people descended on Wall Street, the capitol of capital, occupied it nonviolently, and won exactly what they demanded. This is not a fairy tale. It really happened. This is the story of how it happened.
- Transfer payments cut
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- A Transformed Force
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The following essay is a translated and edited version of a recent op-ed piece by Félix Córdova Iturregui, a veteran socialist activist, member of the Taller de Formación Política and the Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico, and ex-President of the Association of University Professors of the University of Puerto Rico. In this essay, he argues that the massive popular demonstrations after the assassination of Machetero (Popular Puerto Rican Army) leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, occurred in a context where U.S. institutions, particularly the FBI and the U.S. military, are in a rapid period of deterioration, which is being particularly felt in its colony, Puerto Rico.
- Transforming Apathy and Denial
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
- A Transforming Influence - Native Peoples and Northern Development, Social Justice and the Church
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Transgender Activism After Falls City
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The critical acclaim for Kimberly Peirce's film "Boys Don't Cry," and Hilary Swank's Academy Award-winning performance in it as Brandon Teena, have focused public attention on a real-life hate crime that both galvanized the nascent transgender activist movement in the mid-1990s and highlighted tensions between that movement and other parts of the queer community.
- Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.
- Transit Union Shuts NYC Down: Standing Up for Our Rights
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
What do you get when you mix 35,000 angry workers, an arrogant management, a union leadership under pressure from its membership, a decades-long drive to shrink the public sector, a racial divide between bosses and workers, and miscalculations?
- Transition House-How to establish A Refuge for battered women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- The Transition Initiative
Changing the scale of change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
People never need communities more than when there are threats to security, food, and lives. The Transition Initiative recognizes how much we need this scale now, because of peak oil and climate change. But beyond this concrete need, the lack of a sense of community has negative psychological impacts on individuals across the 'developed' world, as people report persistent and widespread feelings of loneliness, isolation, dispossession, alienation, and depression.
- Transition Initiatives Primer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
A comprehensive document about embarking on a transition journey. A Transition Initiative is a community (lots of examples here) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
- The Transition to Socialism
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In his January, 2009 speech commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, President Raúl Castro, known popularly as Raúl, repeated Fidel’s oft-quoted 2005 speech to University of Havana students: “This nation can self-destruct… those who can’t destroy it are them [the U.S. imperialists]; we, yes, we can destroy it and it would be our fault.”
- Transitional demands
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Transition movement aims to move us from oil dependency to local resilience, using the power of community.
- Transnational Capital and the State in China: Partners in Exploitation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The destruction of job and income security, the sacking of tens of millions of workers, and the withdrawal of government subsidies and protection for local industry serves the interests of a ruling elite that is in partnership with transnational capital.
- Travails of U.S. Labor
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class is an excellent introduction for the “workers and students” whom Paul Le Blanc commendably defines as its principal audience. The language is clear and accessible, the text enlivened by illustrations, and perhaps most distinctive and useful are the many pages of reference at the back of the book. These include a bibliographical essay which cites movies as well as books (135-157), a nineteen-page glossary, a timeline of the period from 1775 to 1990, a U.S. labor history chronology, and an unusually comprehensive index.
- Traven, B.
Connexipedia Article
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The nom de plume of an enigmatic twentieth century novelist.
- A Travesty of Justice: Why Peltier Remains in Prison
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
“It's 1999. Why is Leonard Peltier still in prison?” These words were on the huge banner behind the speakers' table for last summer's gathering of forces at Haskell Indian Nations College & Institute at Lawrence, Kansas.
- Treading the Borders Between Life and Death
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
During Israel#s Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 # January 2009, Israeli forces killed 16 emergency medical staff and injured 57. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), perhaps hundreds of those killed could have survived if emergency services had been able to access them promptly#the access denied to them can be defined as a deliberate violation of the Geneva Conventions and therefore a war crime.
- Treatment Action Campaign
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A South African AIDS activist movement.
- Treaty still valid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Tree sitting
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down.
- Trefann Short Term Community
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Tresca, Carlo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Anarchist, newspaper editor, and labour agitator. (1879-1943).
- The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
- Triangle Fire Remembered
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
March 25 is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 145 workers, mostly young women immigrants. The factory, located on the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of the Asch building near Washington Square in New York City, employed 500 workers.
- Tribal News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
News pamphlet written primarily to raise the social and political awareness of native people in B.C.
- A Tribute To American People#s Historian - Howard Zinn
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
With the death of Howard Zinn there is no doubt that the anti-war and peace movement in the USA has lost one of its best activists and an honest historian.
- A Tribute to Mario Savio and the FSM
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Mario Savio was a brilliant leader because he was careful to lay out the principles and choices before you. To follow Mario was to make your own choice, to know what you were doing and take responsibility for yourself.
- The Trickledown Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The first step towards re-imagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination#an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfillment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for the survival of those who may look like the keepers of our past, but who may really be the guides to our future.
- Tripartism. Special Issue of Labour's Side
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
- Trophy Photographs
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Americans have a fascination with photographs! I remember the very first trophy photograph that I saw. It was a hunter who killed grizzly bear, and he stood there standing over his dead trophy with a proud simile on his face. This was when I was a child and didn't truly understand the human psychology behind such photographs.
- Trotsky, Guest of the Revolution
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
“Infamous and impotent handful of vile assassins and traitors!” “raging dogs that must be brought down with no pity!” These were some of the words that Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet Prosecutor General, pronounced on August 24 1936, against four founding members of the Bolshevik Party, among them Zinoviev and Kamenev.
- Trotsky, Leon
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Russian revolutionary. (1879-1940).
- Leon Trotsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1940
Trotsky's works, and most of all his History of the Russian Revolution, will immortalize his name as a writer and politician. But there is a real need to oppose the development of the Trotsky legend which will make out of this leader of the Russian state capitalist revolution a martyr of the international working class # a legend which must be rejected together with all other postulates and aspects of bolshevism.
- Trotskyism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
- Trotskyism and the vanguard party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
One of the most consistent achievements of the Trotskyists over the years has been to drive people away from radical politics. The number of burned-out and alienated ex-Trotskyists greatly exceeds the number of active Trotskyists. Their transparently manipulative tactics in the organizations they infiltrate tend to drive ordinary members away, forever wary of anyone identified as a Trotskyist.
- A truly fragile identify
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
- Truscott, Steven
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian who was sentenced to death in 1959, when he was a 14-year old student, for the allegedly murdering a classmate. (Born 1945).
- Trust Me
A Handbook of Tory Contortions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003 Published: 2011
Satirical bites from Ontario’s past — 1995 to 2003. They expose the Common Sense Revolutionary backgrounds of some of Canada’s highest-ranking conservatives currently on the scene.
- Truth About Global Warming
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
- The Truth About the "9/11 Truth Movement"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A rebuttal of some of the claims made by 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
- The Truth About the Drug Companies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion) [in 2002]. Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way.
- Truth Against Truth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Challenges the myths, conventional lies, and historical falsehoods on which most of the arguments of both Israeli and Palestinian propaganda rest. The truths of both sides are intertwined into one historical narrative that does justice to both. Without this common basis, peace is impossible.
- The Truth Behind The Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists # and I'm including the BBC's pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships # are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli journalists are writing about the killings with the courage that Western journalists should demonstrate.
- Truth in Chains
The Arrest of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Tell a truth that discomforts power, that challenges its domination over our lives, our discourse, our very thoughts, and you will be destroyed. No institution, public or private, will stand with you; the most powerful entities, public and private, will be arrayed against you, backed up by overwhelming violent force. This is where we are now. This is what we are now.
- Truth, Sojourner
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. (1797-1883).
- The Truth Will Always Win
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
- Trying to Arrest Madeleine Albright
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
I used to cringe every time I'd be in a demo and hear the chant, "You can't run. You can't hide. We charge you with genocide!" But in the case of the sanctions against Iraq it really has become genocide: hundreds of thousands of civilians have been deliberately killed through the intentional crippling of Iraqi water treatment system and the sanctions that prevent Iraq from selling enough oil to cover essential civilian needs. Clinton, Albright, and Cohen are-in a very literal sense-war criminals.
- TSA's Gestapo Empire
A Greater Threat Than the Terrorists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is a far greater threat to the lives and freedom of Americans than the 'terrorists' it claims to be protecting them from.
- Tubman, Harriet
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. (1822-1913).
- Tunisia, Then Egypt
Why Now?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Under what circumstances does passivity turn into revolt?
- The Tunisian Intifada
"Yezzi Fock!" (It's Enough!)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Túpac Amaru II
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish occupation of Peru. (1742-1781).
- Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
- Turner, John F. Charlewood
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Advocate for the rights of people to build, manage and sustain their own shelter and communities. (Born 1927).
- Turner, Nat
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American slave who led a slave rebellion in 1831. (1800-1831).
- Turning Children Into Consumers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into lifelong consumers with brand loyalties and that can be profitable for decades to come.
- Turning Estates into Villages
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.
- Turning Point?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Chomsky examines if Obama's speech in Cairo can reasonably be understood as an indication of a turning point in US Middle East policy. He expresses doubt in consideration of the intricate relationship between America and Israel.
- A turning point for the US solidarity movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We have learned that change will not come from above. It will and must come from the grassroots, the people, those who have nothing to lose but their prison walls, the daily humiliation of life as a refugee, a second- or third-class citizen, or a non-citizen.
- Tutu, Desmond
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
South African cleric, activist and opponent of apartheid. (Born 1931).
- 12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
As Occupy Wall Street protests spring up in cities across the country, authorities are thinking up creative ways to contain this peaceful and inspiring uprising. Although laws and municipal ordinances vary from city to city, there is a consistency in the tactics being used to stifle the movement.
- 12 Reasons You'll Be Hearing More About The Commons In 2012
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
"We Power" stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends.
- Twentieth convoy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Transport 20 (XXth convoy) was a Jewish prisoner transport in Belgium organized by the Nazi Germany during World War II. Members of the Belgian Resistance freed Jewish and Gypsy civilians who were being transported by train from the Dossin Barracks.
- 25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
- Twenty Million Jobless by the End of 2009
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Throughout the past year, U.S. government statistics have consistently underestimated and underreported the extent of joblessness. The techniques by which this has been done were described in prior articles on the subject by this author. With November 2008’s Department of Labor report of 530,000 additional workers losing their jobs, it would appear that the government was finally reporting the true extent of rising unemployment in the United States.
- 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
- 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Climate Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Capitalism's glorification of competition and thirst for limitless profit are destroying the planet.
- Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel#s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government#s line on the Middle East conflict.
- The Twitterest Pill
Policing Dissent in the Information Age
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Who judges the legitimate and illegitimate uses of communications technology in social movements? Which networked alliances have State-sponsorship, and which ones face criminalization and State-crackdown? Social media are relying on open network access, but this openness too easily sugarcoats itself in democratic notions (participation, interactivity, freedom). At the same historic moment, we are also witnessing an expansion, integration, and refinement of sovereign police power. When the two converge we begin to see an increase in repressive intervention into, and pre-emption of, information use.
- 205 Arguments and Observations in Support of Naturism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Two Main Trends in Anarchism
Alternate Tendencies of Anarchism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The broad anarchist tradition of class struggle anarchism overlaps with libertarian interpretations of Marx.
- The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1907
To be sure, revolutions and revolutionary struggles cannot be transplanted artificially, by means of ‘good intentions’, into a country. But the examples and lessons of a neighbouring revolutionary country can at least shake the belief that treading softly is the only method of achieving bliss. And well they should.
- Two Miners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Two Months in LA's Solidarity Park
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Occupy Los Angeles was the largest of the “Occupy” encampments: In the space of two months, we grew from around 50 to nearly 500 tents. Our camp developed neighborhoods, tribes, collectives, a print shop, a library, a people’s university, a wellness center, a meditation tent, a kid’s village, and all sorts of fascinating community problems to go with them. This is the particular joy and struggle of being an occupation, and not a traditional group of community organizers; the internal conflict of a commune or a family was playing out simultaneously with our movement and message-building.
- The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960 Published: 1970
It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of Socialism and Democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory which sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being, in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
- "Two State Solution" Equals Racism
Palestinians and Jews CAN Live Peacefully as Equals in One Democratic State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The mutual fear and distrust between Jews and non-Jews in Palestine today is no more innate to these people than the belief in anti-black stereotypes so widely accepted by white Americans in the past was innate to white people. The animosity between Palestinians and Israeli Jews was deliberately fomented by Israeli Zionist leaders with the help of British and American leaders for decades. It was not the presence of Jews in Palestine, per se, that angered the native Palestinians; rather it was the intention (and then the reality) of Zionists removing non-Jews from their homeland to turn most of it into an exclusively Jewish state.
- Two Systems of Justice
One for the Corporate Class; One for the Rest of Us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We have two systems of justice. One for the corporate class. And one for the rest of us.
- 2004 Elections
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Chomsky explores potential implications of the 2004 election results in America, concluding they are, in fact, of little significance. For insight, he points instead to those public opinions which were not included in the process.
- 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marches, rallies, performances, demonstrations, exhibits, and acts of civil disobedience in New York City to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention and the nomination of President George W. Bush for the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
- 2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The support provided by Israel#s primary media to the security and political moves of the government#any government#is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of the #public#s right to know,# in numerous cases even against strong currents that demand the silencing and concealment of information, serves more as a title for academic conferences and less as a rule that guides the media establishment in Israel. Not only this, but the journalists# association adopted the official governmental approach in relation to international forums concerned with human rights. This approach places obstacles of suspicion and hostility before anyone who does not follow the official line of Israeli patriotism. Legitimate criticism of unprofessional and unethical conduct of media that volunteers for national or military service is countered with the contention that the source of criticism is anti-Semitic.
- Two Years Later in Oaxaca
Commentary from Oaxaca
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A sketch of what has changed since the brutal repression of the 2006 social movement’s five month control of the city of Oaxaca.
- La tyrannie d'une absence de structure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
- The Tyranny of False Consciousness
Know-Nothings of 2010, Part Two
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Today#s nativists are beset by the crisis of capitalist globalization and its accompanying waves of forced migration. Sadly, nativists refuse to acknowledge the relationship between capitalism and migration. Instead, they seek to resolve the mounting social crisis by returning the country to a fantasy way-of-life that never existed, a white Protestant homeland. Rightwing ideological hacks promote this fictitious solution, setting the stage for a far deeper neo-fascist, racist (and anti-Muslim) upsurge.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Unstructured groups may be very effective in getting women to talk about their lives; they aren't very good for getting things done. It is when people get tired of 'just talking' and want to do something more that the groups flounder, unless they change the nature of their operation.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
- U.S. Bombing: Murder as Usual
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- The U.S. Military Under Stress
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- The U.S. Embargo against Venezuela
The State Department#s Mock Indignation Gives a Bad Name to U.S. Diplomacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
A discussion of the 2006 U.S. arms embargo against Venezuela.
- U.S. siphons Canadian taxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- U.S.-Mexico free trade talks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The UAW Contract's Downhill Spiral
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
- UEP - Union des Étudiants pour la Paix
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- Uganda: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- UI benefits to be cut
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- UI premiums up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Um Voto Para a Democracia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- Un Dossier Noir su la Police Politique, Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Un enunciado político de los Socialistas Libertarios
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- The UN in Israel's Crosshairs
Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 vote pour la démocratie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- Un Voto por la Democracia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- UNCED '92W
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Underdevelopment in Canada
Notes Towards an Analytical Framework
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Underdevelopment in Canada Volume Two
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
20 articles discussing underdevelopment in Canada.
- Underground press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
- Underground Railroad
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Understanding Class and Species
A Lesson From Thaddeus Russell
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
University remains a rigidly class-based institution—not only in what it teaches but also in how it operates.
- Understanding Genocide
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 Imperialism: Old and New Dominion
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 the Bush Doctrine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Undisputed Success
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Unemployment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Unemployment and Youth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Unemployment Manifesto in Briar Patch, Vol, 6, No. 7, PP.23-27
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Unemployment rise deliberate, CLC says
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Unfair Shares
Corporations and Taxation in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 Unfolding Arab Uprisings
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Suzi Weissman interviews Mark LeVine.
- The Unfolding Epic Recession
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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."
- Unintended Consequences
Beware the Hate Crimes Bill!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 busting
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Union in Academia
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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 organizer
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A union organizer is a union representative who "organizes" or unionizes non-union companies or worksites.
- Union Security - UAW Statement to Ontario Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Union Studies Worker Buyout of CN
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Union urges fish boycott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Union Woman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Unionism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 Attack Quebec Law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Unions Confront A Restructured Industry
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Unions vs. Workers in the Seventies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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.
- Unitary urbanism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Critique of status quo urbanism employed by the Lettrist International and then further developed by the Situationist International
- United Church Requests Rate Increase for all Categories of Social Assistance
Documentation Packet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- United Farmers of Alberta
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- United Kingdom general strike of 1926
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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 General Assembly Resolution 3092
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
- The United States and Gaza
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 the "Challenge of Relativity"
In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- United States History Archive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- United States: The Ultra-Right Pot Boils Over
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Unity Begins Somewhere
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- The Universal Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
- Universal Programs:
What we lose
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- The Universality of Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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
- University of Minnesota: Dignity vs. Cutbacks
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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.
- The Unknown Slave Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- An Unlikely Alliance: Indigenous and Campesinos Build an Alliance for Self-Defense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The effects of Wikileaks in showing the public what is really happening.
- Unmanning the trenches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Unpacking for a Disaster
What You Need to Survive the Unexpected
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 Unpersuadables
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
- The Unruly Revolution
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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."
- Untying the Knots
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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.
- An Update on Indonesian Political Prisoners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Upper Big Branch Mine and the Race to the Bottom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A widespread uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic government.
- 'Upstanding Citizens' Escape Justice in Tory 'In-and-Out' Scandal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 Traffic In Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Urban Cavemen (Living Life out Of Balance)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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 annual conference 1982:
The disappearance of affordable housing for people on the margins
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Urban Honey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- The Urge to Surge
War is a Drug
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Englehardt describes the effects of the US surge addiction with the military issue as an example.
- Urgent Appeal from the Philippines: End Violence in the Movement
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Uruguay 1964-1970
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
- US and Colombia Escalate Attacks on Liberation Church
In the Lion's Den
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The war on liberation theology.
- U.S. & Israel: Dog Wags Tail Wags Dog
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 Them
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- U.S. claims jurisdictions abroad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- U.S. Discovers Soft Energy Salvation in Probe Post
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- U.S. Funds False Sex Lessons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Facts about sex you never knew.
- US Government Systematically Spying on Citizens
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The US government has been systematically violating the privacy rights of U.S. citizens.
- The US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom
Hillary the Identity Thief
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- US-Haiti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 Justice on Trial
Why Cameron Should Tell Obama to Get Stuffed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The US justice system and extradition treaty.
- U.S. Labor in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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 Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli Attack
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- U.S. Poetry and the Politics of Form
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- U.S. Social Forum in Detroit
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- The U.S. Social Forum in Detroit
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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. Socialists and the Mexican Revolution
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 tax-exempt donations fund Israeli settlements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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-UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking'
Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
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 Workers Starved Into Military Service
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- USAS Makes Kathie Lee Cry Again
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Useful Work versus Useless Toil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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/Report/Letter
Published: 1994
- A User's Guide to Détournement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Détournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose.
- The Uses of an Earthquake
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Using a Black Icon to Sell Apartheid
Israel's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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 History to Write Powerful Leads
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Using history in writing marketing and PR communications.
- Using the Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Utopia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An ideal community or society.
- Utopian Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- The Utopists: Owen, Saint Simon, and Fourier
Chapter 13 of Socialism From The Root Up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1888
- Vain Hopes, False Dreams
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
In a time in which hopes and dreams seemed to be fading from American society, Chomsky systematically explores the theory that the reason for JFK's assassination was his intention to withdraw from Vietnam.
- Valencia-Mondragon Study Tour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Vallieres, Pierre
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Writer, radical. (1938-1998).
- Valuable Clues to Finding What You Need to Know
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Review of books about online research.
- Values and Education
A Study of the Spanish-Speaking Latin American Children in the Junior Schools of Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- The Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements
With introductory comment by Bernard M. Daly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Final text of the declaration, with comments on the parts the Canadian delegation opposed.
- Vancouver general strike of 1918
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The first general strike in Canadian history, held 2 August 1918, organized as a one-day political protest against the killing of draft evader and labour activist Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, who had called for a general strike in the event that any worker was drafted against their will.
- Vancouver Island Coal Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike that began in September 1912 when miners at declared a holiday to protest the firing of a worker.
- Vancouver Status of Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Brochure that describes the inner workings of the Vancouver Status of Women organization.
- Vancouverites Stage Picket Against Israeli Shipping Company
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Dozens of activists set up an information picket at Deltaport on August 24, designed to slow the transport of containers belonging to the Israeli shipping company Zim.
- Vaneigem, Raoul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Belgian writer and philosopher. (Born 1934).
- Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A monthly libertarian communist journal published in New York from 1932-1939.
- Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Published in the May 1972 and August 1972 issues of Liberation magazine.
- Vanunu, Mordechai
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Israeli nuclear technician who publicly revealed the extent of Israel's illegal nuclear weapons program and was subsequently kidnapped and jailed by Israel. (Born 1963).
- Varity pulls out with taxpayers' money
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why ‘improper’ or ‘bad’ veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan ‘neither veil nor submission’ has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
- A Veiled Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We certainly need to challenge the iniquities of Islam and refuse to bow to Muslim blackmail that certain debates are off-limits. But equally we need to keep the problem of Islam in perspective and not pretend that it is the root cause of every social ill.
- Veiled Values
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is important to defend liberal social values, the secular society and the heritage of the Enlightenment. But we cannot do so by promoting illiberal policies.
- Velvet Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government in 1989.
- Venezuela from Below
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Venezuela: Voices on the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In mid-June 2010, we caught up with three revolutionary socialist activists, Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges, and Luis Primo in Caracas, Venezuela to discuss their views on the contradictions and prospects of the Bolivarian process.
- Veolia tries to bail out of one apartheid project, two to go!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In 2005, just after the publication of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, Palestinians began calling for an international boycott campaign against Veolia, a company involved in the Citypass Consortium, a scheme to build a tramline on occupied territory in the West Bank. Veolia is a huge multinational, that arguably has the biggest financial commitment of any international company to Israel's colonisation of the West Bank.
- Veolia's dirty business: The Tovlan landfill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Ever since the first Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel in 2005, French multinational Veolia has been on campaigners' list of boycott targets. Corporate Watch has investigated the impact of Veolia#s Tovlan landfill on occupied land.
- Vergonha
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Vergonha is being made to reject and feel ashamed of one's (or one's parents') non-French language through official exclusion, humiliation at school and rejection from the media as organized and sanctioned by French political leaders.
- Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996
The Right to Produce and Access Land
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Food is a basic human rights. This right can only be realized in a system where food sovereignty is guaranteed.
- Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 2001
Our World is Not for Sale. Priority to Peoples' Food Sovereignty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
- VIA shutdown meets opposition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Victimizing Domestic Workers
The Last Post, vol. 6, no. 6
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Victims of the European revolutions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
European gypsy communities have historically been, and remain, the most marginalized social group.
- Victor Serge: For Our Time
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- The Victors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
An assumption was adopted in America that domestic issues were so close to being resolved that it was time to focus attention to sharing the nation's "basic spiritual principles" with the globe's underdeveloped regions. Chomsky critically evaluates regions where the benefits of American involvement should be obvious, revealing that such aid is usually motivated by self-interest and only incidentally reaps positive results for locals.
- The Victory for Workers' Rights in Honduras
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Progressive followers of politics in Honduras have had little to celebrate recently. The June 28, 2009 coup that toppled president Mel Zelaya — a democratically elected reformer, though never the radical populist depicted by the mainstream media — was a terrible blow to democracy, echoing the worst chapters of Central America’s dark history.
- Victory in Chicago: Republic Workers' Occupation
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
“For once in our lives we had the perfect storm. Usually we don’t get any support from politicians or any coverage from the mass media...but this time, everything came together,” said Tim Curtin, International Representative for United Electrical workers (UE).
- Vidal, Gore
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, actor and politician. (Born 1925).
- Video News Releases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Video News Releases (VNRs) are just that: broadcast-quality videos intended for release to television stations. They typically contain a "story" in television format, complete with reporter, just as a news release imitates a news story.
- Viellir Chez Soi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Vieques After A Year of Struggle
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Thirteen peace encampments prevented the U.S. Navy for thirteen months from using the Puerto Rican island of Vieques for target practice, until they were forcibly cleared by FBI agents and federal marshals on May 4th, 2000. In the meantime, two Atlantic Fleets had to suspend maneuvers and the U.S.S. George Washington and the U.S.S. Eisenhower, two gigantic aircraft carriers headed for Vieques, had to turn around and go elsewhere.
- Viet Peace will come with victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
The burning determination of the Vietnamese to control their own future deserves our full support.
- Vietnam
How the government became wolves
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
In note of the fact that the American administrations never deviated from the basic assumption that communism must be defeated, Noam Chomsky describes how the image of the USA as a noble and virtuous political leader that is "bewildered and victimized, but not responsible" had been concocted.
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A national veterans' organization.
- A View from Israel
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Michael Warschawski, a founder of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, spoke with The Real News Network on Israeli reactions to the Egyptian uprising.
- The View from the Press Room
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
How charities can sell their stories to the media.
- A View of the Occupy Wall Street Movement from the Inside
A Participant’s Critique of the Occupation of Wall Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement was supposed to be a revolt against a hierarchal, dehumanizing oligopoly. In reality, all that was created was a microcosm of the same system, but with new leaders. Like our nation’s leaders, Occupy Wall Street’s leaders listened to everyone’s grievances, then decided upon a pre-determined plan of action that cleverly borrowed the language of their constituency.
- Viewpoint: Transnationals After Seattle
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Mass politics in the streets disappeared in the United States between 1970 and 1973. In retrospect, it is clear that the years 1964 to 1970 were not a “pre-revolutionary situation,” but anyone who lived through those years as an activist can be forgiven for thinking it was. Any number of people in the ruling circles shared the same error of judgment.
- Viewpoints
Where now for capitalism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Noam Chomsky discusses the failure of financial institutions to calculate costs to those who do not participate in transactions and the effects of this in the wider context.
- Vigil for disarmament
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Vigilante Man, 2005 Style
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The vigilantes are back. In the 1850s they lynched Irishmen in San Francisco; in the 1870s they terrorized the Chinese throughout the West; in the 1910s they murdered striking Wobblies in California, Washington and Montana; in the 1920s they organized “Bash a Jap” campaigns; and in the 1930s they greeted the Joads and other Dust Bowl refugees to California with teargas and buckshot.
- Le Viol du Courier/Violation of the Mail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Violence and the Newspaper Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
To those who still allow their anti-union biases and their exposure to employer misinformation to cloud their perception of reality, I would pose the following question: If the employer and its supporters are really the victimized peace-loving martyrs that they pretend to be, why are the union members the ones who always end up in the hospital?
- Violence Goes to College
Are We Going to Hell?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The priorities of the campus are clear. An Assistant Professor earns an annual salary in the low $60,000 range; a Lieutenant in the campus safety department (the man who fired the pepper gas, for instance) brings home $110,000.
- Violence in the Home
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Servants' uprising over inadequate food.
- The Virigina Declaration of Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1776
Drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent natural rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. The Declaration was adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776.
- Vision Canada - Unmet Needs of Blind Canadians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Visioning a World Without Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As leftists we have something infinitely more precious to win from our rich history than sentimentality and sectarianism, as we struggle to renovate the revolutionary tradition in the twenty-first century.
- A Visit to Laos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Chomsky shares an account of his 1970 visit to Laos, revealing the heavy atmosphere owing to foreign power presence. "The US has penetrated every phase of existence (as well as destruction).#" He explores Laos' recent political history in the contexts of the Pathet Laos and American involvement, as well as the difference between the local and American understandings of where the source of conflict lies.
- Visualizing Justice for Labor
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- ¡Viva la Revolución!
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Mexican revolution, which began in 1910 and ended in 1940, transformed Mexico. During the course of those 30 years, tens of thousands of men and women fought in battles in many regions of the country to end the Porfirian dictatorship and to determine the course and goals of the revolution that had overthrown it. In a nation of 15 million, a shocking one million were killed while two million migrated to the United States to escape the violence (many of them subsequently returning), a movement which established the paths of future migrations.
- ¡Viva la Revolución! Part 2
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
While the most violent stage of the Mexican Revolution was over by 1920, the country faced a series of new crises in the 1930s. The era opened in 1928 with the assassination of former President Álvaro Obregón, killed by a Catholic militant opposed to the secularizing Revolution in the formerly officially Catholic country.
- Vlady: ¡Presente!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
He belonged to a unique generation who saw clearly, fought tenaciously, but were defeated. Vlady was generous of spirit and intellect, an artist and a revolutionary to his core; he refused compromise yet socialized in wide circles of poets, politicians, writers, artists and dignitaries.
- The Vogeler Senate Campaign
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
With just four months until the general election, Green Party candidate Rae Vogeler has established herself as the main opposition to millionaire incumbent Senator Herb Kohl. Vogeler's campaign took off last September when the mother of two decided that Wisconsin needed a Senator to stand up for working people, end the war, and fund good jobs, quality education and affordable health care.
- A Voice of Our Own
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Voice of Women, Canada, to the Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence
House of Commons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Voice of Women/La Voix Des Femmes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Voices of Asian Americans
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Asian Americas: The Movement and the Moment is an anthology of some 30 entries written by Asian Americans who initiated or participated in social and community movements in the late 1960s and 1970s. It is about how they perceived the world, how they became involved in the movements, what they think they accomplished and learned through their involvement, and how their experiences and lessons shaped their own lives and can be linked to present-day struggles for social justice.
- Voluntary Organizations and their Businesses: Issues & Opportunities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Voluntary Organizations and their Businesses: Factors Influencing Success
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Voluntary Simplicity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
If I could summarize in a few words what I#ve learned about voluntary simplicity during twenty years of globetrotting, it would all boil down to this: Enough really is enough. Take the time to see how our neighbors on this planet live. Remember that old cliche: #Experience is the best teacher.#
- Vorkuta uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A major uprising of the concentration camp inmates in Vorkuta, Russia in July#August 1953.
- Voter ID Laws, Voter Fraud
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The close primary election inside the Democratic Party between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shows that every vote counts. The fiasco in the 2000 presidential election because of “hanging chads” also proves that every vote “not counted” does matter. And voter suppression under any circumstances — not just when elections are close — is a crime, a violation of basic rights and an attack on democracy.
- Voting Patterns and Abstentions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky analyzes the phenomena of low voter participation and income correlation with election results as symptoms of an unhealthy democracy.
- VOW meeting (and party)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Voyage en Icarie
(excerpt)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
- VTR - Edmonton Chinatown...A Beginning...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Report on the use of video tape to facilitate Chinese community's role in shaping the direction of their community.
- Waffle
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A group established in 1969 as a left-wing caucus within the New Democratic Party.
- The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
- Wage & Price Controls
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Canadian working people have now joined the ranks of workers in other western capitalist countries who have been subjected to a statutory incomes policy.
- Wage Labour
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Wages for Housework
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
'If women were paid for all they do, there'd be a lot of wages due', sang women campaigners in the 1970s. But demanding money for unpaid domestic work is a sad indictment of the Women's Movement, argues Zoë Fairbairns - because it demonstrates that feminists have lost the battle to force men to do their share of the cleaning.
- Wages for Housework Committee Materials
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Wages of Labour
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
- Waging the War on Slavery
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The settlement of Lawrence in the territory of Kansas, summer of 1856: Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers are trying to colonize the territory. The former want a slave-soil, the latter a free-soil state. Armed pro-slavery gangs from Missouri are harassing and attacking the free-soil settlers. The U.S. government and U.S. Army are pro-slavery.
- Waihi miners' strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A major strike action in 1912 by gold miners in the New Zealand town of Waihi.
- Waiting to Inhale: Culture Wars or Unfinished Gratification?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
WITH THE END of the impeachment proceedings, it is surely time for the left to offer analyses of the crisis which press far beyond those on offer in the mainstream press, and which do considerably more than offer a hold-your-nose defense of the President's “privacy.” Here is one such attempt.
- Walkerton Tragedy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Brief overview of the Walkerton water contamination incident.
- Walking: We Ask Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
An essay from the book We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere Collective.
- The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
- A Wall as a Weapon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Chomsky discusses the debate surrounding the Israeli motion to build a wall of security. He acknowledges that the process in the Hague will unlikely bring about any change, even if the wall is determined to be illegal.
- The Wall Must Fall
End the Occupation and Violence in Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005 Published: 2007
A resource for interested union and community members featuring voices from the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements often shut out of the mainstream media. By highlighting the progressive peace movement, The Wall Must Fall demonstrates that this issue is not a Jewish vs. Palestinian one, but one of basic human rights.
- Wall Street occupation ignites mass movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The simple, horizontal structure originally created around a GA using modified consensus has become a barrier to practical and political work by the occupiers and those involved through working groups.
- Wall Street's Role in Narco-Trafficking
"Business is Booming"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Every major bank in the US has served as an active financial partner of the murderous drug cartels.
- Wallenberg, Raoul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. (1912-1947?)
- Wal-Mart's Real Cost
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The long-brewing struggle between retail giant Wal-Mart and those concerned with reforming its corporate practices burst onto the mainstream consciousness of the American public this past November. An unprecedented convergence of labor, small business owners, environmentalists, activists and communities of faith blossomed into a full-scale movement to change the world’s largest retail company.
- Walter Reuther, 'Social Unionist'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The book is full of self-serving quotations from Reuther and others that are accepted at face value. There is a very superficial understanding of the auto industry, of life in the union and on the shop floor, and of the left. The huge number of quotations and citations tends to conceal a high degree of inaccuracy and misunderstanding.
- Wanted: A Hackers# Charter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Wanted a Leader for America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky depicts how the issues concerning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including the pre-determined risk of 9/11, went ignored under the Bush Administration which focused instead upon global domination ambitions.
- Wanted: A new model of public ownership
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The challenge to the left is to develop an alternative model of ownership.
- Wapping dispute
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A significant turning point in the history of the trade union movement and of UK industrial relations.
- War and the Culture of Violence
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
- War Colleges
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
One consequence of the increasing militarization of American society can be seen in changes that have taken place in public and higher education. Schools have become the testing grounds for new modes of security and military-style authority.
- War Crimes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Corporate media can#t ignore photos the way they ignored protests. The real reign of terror we face is much closer to home than we dare to think.
- War Crimes Airbrushed from History
Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A report written by a respected Israeli human rights organisation, one representing the country's Arab minority not its Jewish majority, has unearthed evidence showing that during the 2006 Lenanon war Israel committed war crimes not only against Lebanese civilians -- as was already known -- but also against its own Arab citizens.
- The war everyone forgot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky probes what prompted the issue of Iraq to disappear from the agenda following the 2006 mid-term election.
- The War In Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Noam Chomsky examines the military action of the US in Afghanistan, exploring America's breach of international law through the refusal to obtain Security Council authorization.
- War in the Gulf
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
- The War is a Double Terror: Stop the New Stage of the Chechen War!
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The recent barbaric explosions [at apartment buildings in major Russian cities], which caused hundreds of deaths amongst Russian citizens, were used by the authorities to resume a campaign of searching for "entire enemies" and, exploiting our grief, to hide the real perpetrators.
- The War Is Over (song)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An anti-war song by Phil Ochs.
- War Is Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it's hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States is a war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere at any moment.
- War is the Health of the State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Once the State has begun to function, and a large class finds its interest and its expression of power in maintaining the State, this ruling class may compel obedience from any uninterested minority. The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class.
- The War Isn#t Over, But Israel Has Lost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israelis # and their backers in the American political establishment # appear incapable of grasping that which is empirically obvious: Hamas and its ilk grow stronger every time Israel seeks to eliminate them by force.
- War of the Killer Robots
Four Realities About Drones
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Drones are "killer robots," they do make war easy and game-like, and therefore likelier, drone strikes do kill too many civilians and they do violate the International Law of Armed Conflict. I am puzzled and disturbed that some feel that the debate over the use of drones in warfare can be enhanced by denying these facts.
- A War on Black Children?
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Two montrous events have opened a window on a daily reality: In the name of safe streets and schools, an undeclared war has been opened on a generation of African-American children. In affluent suburban Oakland County, Michigan, a nearly all-white jury convicted a 13-year-old youth of second-degree murder, tried as an adult in a shooting that occurred when he was 11 years of age. In Decatur, Illinois, seven Black students were expelled from high school by a nearly all-white school board, against the opposition of the only Black member, for a brawl in the stands at a football game.
- A War on Wikileaks?
Unhinged at the US State Department and Pentagon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
- A War Plan Scuttled?
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
As the Bush era draws to a close, there been increasing speculation on whether or not the United States will attack Iran. Spurred by the posturing and rhetoric coming from the White House and a subservient media, much of that discussion has narrowly focused on Iran potential nuclear threat and the character of the current administrations in Washington and Tehran.
- Warrior Society criticized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Wars of Terror
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky explores the nature of terrorism, focusing on four main questions posed by the 9/11 tragedy.
- War(s) With No Exit
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The raging debate on “war policy” between the corporate presidential campaigns has come down to this:
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.
- Warsaw Uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A struggle by the Polish Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi German occupation during World War II.
- Was the Bolshevik Revolution a Failure?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
As soon as the Bolsheviks recognized that the proletariat was too weak to establish state capitalistic systems favorable to Russia in other countries, and also that the bourgeoisie was no longer willing to risk anything in a struggle against state capitalist Russia, that is, about 1920, the Bolsheviks ceased to support revolutionary movements in other countries and instead prepared for a peaceful side by side existence with the other capitalistic systems.
- Was There an Alternative?
Looking Back on 9/11, a Decade Later
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11. The “crime against humanity,” as it was rightly called, could have been approached as a crime, with an international operation to apprehend the likely suspects. That was recognized at the time, but no such idea was even considered.
- Washington's Magical Realism
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A coup becomes a coup — for U.S. magical realists — when Washington defines it as such. On March 10, 1952 Cuban General Fulgencio Batista grabbed power and sought to legitimize his coup by holding fake elections. Magically, the coup makers won; Washington recognized Batista.
- Washington's Post-Cold War Coup
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The pretext for removing Honduran President Manuel Zelaya — that holding a civic consultation to replace the Constitution of 1982 was his power grab, enabling him to run for a second term — doesn’t hold water. Such a document could only have come into effect well after his term of office ended.
- Wasting Our Future
The Effects of Poverty on Child Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
- Watchdog journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A type of investigative journalism. It refers to forms of activist journalism aimed at holding accountable public personalities and institutions whose functions impact social and political life.
- Watching the News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
- Watching the Pentagon Channel
The New Socialist Realism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The oddest aspect of the Pentagon Channel is how completely they shield their audience#potential soldiers, current soldiers and former soldiers#from what they are defending, which is to say: capitalism.
- Water Exports: The New Gold Rush?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Water shortages have become an top issue in the U.S., and it appears the nation will look north of the border for help. In Canada, opposition is growing.
- Water Management conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Water War in Bolivia
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
¡Cochabamba! is a window on the potential for liberation, and on the strategic challenges, of our times. Oscar Olivera, one of the key leaders of the struggle, and Tom Lewis, a member of the editorial board of International Socialist Review (U.S.), have done a tremendous service in writing this book. Although some basics of the Cochabamba story and considerations on strategy are recounted here, you can only get the Full Monty by reading the book.
- Watergate
A sceptical view
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Noam Chomsky asserts that in light of the other telling symptoms of an unhealthy democracy - such as Kissinger's murderous war ambitions - the Watergate scandal should not have come as a shock to even the least cynical. He illustrates why Nixon's small-scale coup attempt and the revelations which followed should not be the focus of skepticism, noting that there are other issues which deserve more attention.
- Watershed management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Watkins, Mel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian political economist and activist. (Born 1932).
- Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Inuit leader, activist.
- Ways and Means
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
- We all like to save on our taxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- We are All Complicit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Chomsky responds to Oliver Kamm's critique of his "crude and dishonest arguments". He illustrates that many people remain committed to complicity despite the crimes of the state for which we are all responsible.
- We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
- We are the Student Movement?
Remembering the Rise and Fall of the Canadian Union of Students 1965-1969
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- We Can Get There From Here
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
We pose the following question: Is the capitalist system really meeting our needs or is it undermining our needs by giving us artificial motivators which actually result in feelings of inadequacy and isolation?
- We can learn to live free (Clark)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Give the human race a little credit. We can surely learn to live free, neither dominant nor submissive.
- We Can Save Social Programs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991 Published: 1992
We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
- "We don't have films you can eat"
Talking to the D.E.C. Films Collective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
An interview with members of DEC Films, a distributor of progressive films in English-speaking Canada.
- We Must Act Now to Prevent Another Hiroshima -- or Worse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Noam Chomsky explains why society should be concerned about the threat of self-destruction, citing, for example, the failure of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- We must speak out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
- We Own the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007 Published: 2008
The whole debate about the Iranian #interference# in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
- We Shall Overcome
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A protest song that became a key anthem of the US civil rights movement.
- We stand on guard for whom?
A study of Corporate Control over Resources in the Northwest Territories and Brazil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A study of Corporate Control over Resources in the NorthWest Territories and Brazil.
- We Stand with the Teachers of Oaxaca
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The values and aspirations of teachers and families everywhere are the same: to see the healthy, secure, peaceful development of their students and children to the fullest of their abilities in an environment of mutual support and respect. Everywhere these values and aspirations are under attack: in Mexico, throughout Central and South America, in the United States and Canada, and across the globe.
- "We Went into the Mall and Began 'Looting'"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Peter Berkowitz is a long-time Monthly Review subscriber. He was in New Orleans bringing his son Ernesto to begin his freshman year at Loyola when they were caught in the hurricane. Peter and Ernesto spent five days on the street by the Convention Center.
- We're Changing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Feedback from our readers leads to changes in Connexions.
- Wealth, Illth, And Net Welfare
http://www.countercurrents.org/daly151111.htm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Wellbeing should be counted in net terms — that is to say we should consider not only the accumulated stock of wealth but also that of “illth;” and not only the annual flow of goods but also that of “bads.”
- Wealth in America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The greatest wealth transfer in America history goes on – into the bank accounts of the nation's 2% upper crust from the increasingly threadbare pockets of the lower 85% - to the sounds of silence.
- The Weapon of Theory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966.
- Weather Underground Organization
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An American radical left organization.
- The Weavers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American folk music quartet.
- Leonard Irving Weinglass
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Len was not a ’60s radical. He was something more unusual, a ’50s radical. He developed his values, critical thinking and world view in a time when non-conforming was rare. He told a newspaper interviewer in Santa Barbara in 1980 that “I would classify myself as a radical American. I am anti-capitalist in this sense — I don’t believe capitalism is now compatible with democracy.”
- Weinstein, James
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American historian and journalist. (1926-2005).
- A Welcome Prison Victory at Youngstown
Hunger Strike on Death Row
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Three death-sentenced men were on hunger strike in Ohio State Penitentiary on January 3 to win the same rights as others on death row in the state.
- Welcome to Orwell's World 2010
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and diffuse enemies". He called this "global security" and invited our gratitude.
- Welcome to the World’s First Bunker State
Room for Jews Only in Israel’s ‘Villa in the Jungle’
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The bunker state is almost finished, and with it the dream of Israel’s founders is about to be realised.
- Welfare Office
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Trying to get welfare.
- Welfare Practices and Civil Liberties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report, based on 2-year survey of welfare recipients and administrators, identifies a number of serious problems.
- The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It’s the definitive neoliberal triumph: the monetisation and marketisation of nature, its reduction to a tradeable asset. Once you have surrendered it to the realm of Pareto optimisation and Kaldor-Hicks compensation, everything is up for grabs. The well-intentioned dolts who produced the government’s assessment, have crushed the natural world into a column of figures. Now it can be swapped for money.
- The Welsh Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Why are radical politics electable in Wales but not in England?
- We're Being Cheated!
Corporate and Welfare Fraud: The Hidden Story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
We've allowed our corporate dominated media and politicians to sell us a bill of goods that welfare farud is the big problem. Meanwhile, corporations continue on their robber baron path, virtually untouched by enforcement of our social rights.
- We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.
- We're Winning -- Don't Ask Where!
Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- West Bank land belongs to Jews says Israeli judge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Major Adrian Agassi is a senior Israeli judge who first served in the legal department that oversaw the confiscation of land in the West Bank to build Jewish settlements and was then appointed to the military court that decides -- and almost always denies -- Palestinian appeals against the seizure of their property, and that also rules on legal disputes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians. Judge Agassi maintains that people like himself, a Jew born in Britain, have more right to live in Palestine than people who were born there. He denies, however, that his beliefs affect his ability to make fair and impartial rulings.
- West Bengal Women Oppose Giant Dam
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Maitree is a West Bengal-based network of forty-two women's organizations, NGOs and individual women activists concerned with women's rights. Maitree supports the struggle of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and of the people of the Narmada valley for their right to survive in a manner of their own choosing. Consequently, we express our grave concern at the recent Supreme Court judgment [to permit construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam to proceed], which ignores the problems of rehabilitation and environmental degradation.
- West Coast Longshore Strikes, 1923 and 1935
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Strikes by members of the International Longshoremen's Association.
- West Coast waterfront strike 1934
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The 1934 West Coast Longshoremen's Strike lasted eighty-three days, triggered by sailors and a four-day general strike in San Francisco, and led to the unionization of all of the West Coast ports of the United States.
- West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
- West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A confrontation between striking coal miners and coal operators in Southern West Virginia
- Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa, formed in 2000.
- Western Federation of Miners
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.
- Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910#1911
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A strike by coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America, is also known as the "Slovak strike" because about 70 percent of the miners were Slovakian immigrants.
- The Weston Group of Companies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A profile of the Canadian bakery and its extended holdings across North America and around the world.
- What a Fair Trial for Saddam Would Entail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Chomsky identifies the actors and issues that would have to be included in the Tribunal process if Saddam Hussein were to be given a fair trial in international court. These include key members of the Bush I administration who were active during the years of Hussein's most atrocious crimes.
- What a Way to Treat Your Mother: Women and the State of the Planet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Our planet is in crisis.
- What A.G.A.I.N.?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Adequate Guaranteed Annual Income and Skid Row.
- What About a Right of Reply?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Concern about press intrusion is overshadowing the need for a 'right of reply' to redress inaccurate and inflammatory reporting.
- What about the Greens?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- What Americans Have Learnt --and not Learnt-- Since 9/11
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
While the American people seemed to have been shocked into awareness as a result of 9/11, Chomsky still identififes a lack of focus on the relevant issues.
- What are Journalists for?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Does the world you read about bear much resemblance to the one you actually live in?
Who, or what, really writes the news?
Are there any facts, or is there only spin?
Is news inherently conflict-driven?
- What are the Leaders Doing?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
It is a revolution with all its externally chaotic development, with its alternating ebb and flow, with momentary surges towards the seizure of power and equally momentary recessions of the revolutionary breakers. And the revolution is making its way step by step through all these apparent zig-zag movements and is marching forward.
- What Are the Origins of May Day?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1894
As long as the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie and the ruling class continues, as long as all demands are not met, May Day will be the yearly expression of these demands. And, when better days dawn, when the working class of the world has won its deliverance then too humanity will probably celebrate May Day in honour of the bitter struggles and the many sufferings of the past.
- What Bakunin said (Jewell)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Letter quoting Bakunin.
- What Bhopal Started
From Union Carbide to Exxon to BP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Bhopal marked the horrific beginning of a new era. One that signalled the collapse of restraint on corporate power. The ongoing BP spill in the Mexican Gulf -- with estimates ranging from 30,000 to 80,000 barrels per day -- tops off a quarter of a century where corporations could (and have) done anything in the pursuit of profit, at any human cost.
- What Did They Know...?
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What did they know and when did we know it?
- What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Which is the more remarkable -- that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of any attack or threat of attack from the intended target? Or that for an entire year the world has been striving to figure out what the superpower's real intentions are?
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- What Does a Reporter Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
What does a reporter what when they interview you?
- What Does the Spartacus League Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The proletarian revolution requires no terror for its aims; it hates and despises killing. It does not need these weapons because it does not combat individuals but institutions, because it does not enter the arena with naive illusions whose disappointment it would seek to revenge. It is not the desperate attempt of a minority to mold the world forcibly according to its ideal, but the action of the great massive millions of the people, destined to fulfill a historic mission and to transform historical necessity into reality.
- What Ford did to the Ramapough Mountain Indians
Ford, the feds, the mob: Making a wasteland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Ford repeatedly dumped in poor communities and failed to clean up its mess. Documents reveal that Ford executives knew as early as 34 years ago that its waste had contaminated a stream that feeds the Wanaque Reservoir. They show that the company tried to evade responsibility by presenting tainted land as a “gift” to the state. Organized crime played a key role in a vast assault on the environment. An analysis of public records and interviews with truckers who hauled Ford’s waste shows mob-controlled contractors dumped anywhere they could get away with it. They bribed, threatened, even murdered to maintain control of Ford’s trash.
- What Happened - and Didn't: Behind New York's Transit Strike
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Early on December 20, 2005, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, representing some 33,000 of New York City's subway and bus workers, called a strike. When dawn broke, there was no public transportation in NYC and millions of people walked, hitched rides, rode their bikes, or stayed home.
- What Happened to Better Read Graphics?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Four members of the Better Read Graphics collective (identified only by their initials) explain the political differences which led the collective to decide to dissolve in the summer of 1976.
- What happened to the SWP (U.S.)?
Recent memoirs stir discussion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The goal of socialist political cadres must be the development of a broad team leadership working together in a democratically functioning organization, practically united in strategic perspective and tactical projects, allowing multiple tendencies and pluralism, thus balancing out strengths and weaknesses over time and in different places.
- What has happened to the Iranian revolution?
Has it already run its course into its opposite, counter-revolution? Or can it be saved and deepened?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
The Iranian Revolution has not yet run its course. The Iranian masses have not had their last word.
- What have the working classes to do with Poland?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1866
Engels wrote these articles after controversy developed at the 1865 London conference of the International concerning including a demand for Poland#s independence in the upcoming Geneva Congress. In order to substantiate the position of the Central Committee on the #nationalities question,# it was necessary to deal with 1) the Proudhonists who contended politics and national liberation movements have nothing to do with the working class, indeed, detracted from real working class issues, and 2) reveal the demagogic essence of the so-called #principle of nationalities# that helped the Bonapartists make use of national movements for their own political ends.
- What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
- What Is a Liberal to Do?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Seventy percent of African-American voters in California voted for Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage. Liberals, however, say that opposing same-sex marriage is a form of bigotry no better than the racism of those who wanted inter-racial marriage to be illegal and Jim Crow laws to remain. How, liberals wonder, can African-Americans--the victims of racism-- switch from being champions of equality to champions of bigotry? It is a true paradox. Liberals, by definition, support the victims of racism. But how can they do that when those very same victims are bigoted against gays? Oh dear! What is a liberal to do?
- What is anarcho-syndicalism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Libertarian syndicalism interprets liberty as self-management or control over one#s life, and believes that freedom for the working class requires the elimination of working class subordination to capitalist or state bosses.
- What is Anti-Semitism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Inflating the meaning of 'antisemitism' to include anything politically damaging to Israel is a double-edged sword. It may be handy for smiting your enemies, but the problem is that definitional inflation, like any inflation, cheapens the currency. The more things get to count as antisemitic, the less awful antisemitism is going to sound.
- "What is Class Consciousness?" -- A Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
- What is Cohousing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- What is Consensus?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Consensus evolved from the meeting process of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is a non-violent way for people to relate to each other as and in a group. Successful use of a consensus process depends on people understanding the idea and wanting to use it.
- What is education for?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
There is a fundamental difference between being a student and being a consumer. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process, a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual. When someone buys a car or a hamburger, he or she is purchasing a pre-packaged, readymade commodity to satisfy a specific need. Education is about creating critical thinkers whose skill is precisely the ability to challenge ideas that are pre-packaged or readymade or designed to satisfy such a need.
- What is gentrification?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
- What Is Important?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
It is necessary to demolish the monstrously false idea that the problems that workers see are not important, that there are more important ones which only "theorists" and politicians can speak about.
- What is Libertarian Socialism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
- What Is Missing From the World?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The lack of a revolutionary alternative to capitalism has had a very negative effect on people#s ability to organize a new movement for change. If there is no alternative to capitalism, then it seems we will forever have to give in to the companies# demands for jointness or pay cuts or two-tier systems and all the other claims made in the name of "competitiveness." With no alternative to capitalism, we cannot oppose its logic.
- What is Public Relations?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
PR should be the guardian of an organization#s brand, and that concept of brand is not just reserved for a private sector, product-oriented company. The concept of brand, what an organization is, what is it about, what it wants to say, is the organization#s being, and PR is often its protector.
- What is Socialist Feminism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
- What is the New International Economic Order?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Overview and critique of the New International Economic Order.
- What is The Red Menace?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
About The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist publication.
- What isn't wrong with Sharia law?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
To safeguard our rights there must be one law for all and no religious courts.
- What It Takes to Build a Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Activism = self-expression; organizing = movement-building.
- What Kind of Society Do We Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
In a society based on solidarity and trust, the economics of producing and distributing things would be like sharing within a family, rather than buying and selling for profit in a marketplace.
- What Makes a Good Story?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
- What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
- What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View
Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
What is worth fighting for? Perhaps this severe recession offers us an opportunity to ask this question. This crisis has revealed the rotten foundation of our economy and called into question the neoliberal policies and ideology that have deepened the rot.
- What Now?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
We must now give battle on all fronts in the Reichstag to the nationalistic clap-trap that dogged our every step in the election campaign and that lurks in militarism, naval policy, colonialism, threats of war and personal rule.
- What Obama's Victory Means About Race and Class
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
There was euphoria in every Black community household November 4. High fives and tears of joy. No one could believe it. It didn’t matter Obama’s politics. A Black man had won! The election of the first Black president of the United States has a dual meaning: social and political.
- What progressive groups must do to defeat, or stymie, the Harper regime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Canada’s progressive community needs to make some significant changes if it hopes to slow down the assault being carried out on the country by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and their right-wing allies.
- What Should American Workers Do About Illegal Immigration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- What Should Be Done in Palestine
Israel Shamir's Talk at the Ankara Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Indeed, the whole story of Palestine is a story of immigrants taking over a country. Such things happen: immigrants from Britain took over North America and Australia. This is a sad thing, but it happened. Now it is not realistic to hope that they will sail back to England - they won't. It is wrong to try and create an 'independent state' for the native Americans - such independent states are called 'reservations'. The right answer is equality for native and immigrant alike. Some Jews would complain that they want a state of their own. We shall answer them: you have built on sand, and a house built on sand can't stand forever. If you want a state of your own without anybody else, find yourself a lonely uninhabited island. Palestine was, and is, populated; the best you can wish is to be equal citizens in Palestine with everybody else.
- What Should I Do?
Selfishness, Happiness And Benefiting Others
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Motivation is not a problem for anyone who accepts the extraordinary truth contained in Yeshe Aro's ncient prescription for happiness: "On this depends my liberation: to assist others -- nothing else."
- What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Clueless desk editors like those at the New York Times titled these conflicts "Riots in Honduras." But you don't need to be able to understand Spanish to see and hear that, distinct from rioters, the young people of the neighborhood that came out and violated the military curfew to defend their neighborhood from this police invasion know and have memorized complicated political slogans and rhymes which they chanted in unison. "Riots" are disorganized explosions. This neighborhood, and others like it, however, have been forced by the realities of the coup to organize themselves to a greater extent than ever before.
- What the Grocery Defeat Means
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Exhausted and broke after four-and-a-half months on the picket line, Southern California grocery workers voted overwhelmingly on February 28-29 to accept a two-tier wage and benefits system with a cap on employers' contributions to the health care benefits plan.
- What the Left Should be Learning From Iran
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
There are those on the left who mirror neocon thought: They argue that since Washington is in opposition to it, Iran must therefore be considered a 'good' government, worthy of solidarity. Others argue that if the Iranian state offers social programs and even if it only somewhat resists global capitalism then therefore its violent and authoritarian actions can somehow be justified, forgiven or denied.
- What the Media Does Not Say About the Anti-Iran Leaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The media is interested in one and only one subject: advancing the anti-Iran narrative that is advocated by the neoconservatives, the War Party, and the Israel lobby.
- What We Mean By Social Determinants of Health
International Journal of Health Services, Volume 39, Number 3, Pages 423-441
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
Analyzes the changes in health conditions and quality of life in the populations of developed and developing countries over the past 30 years, resulting from neoliberal policies developed by many governments and promoted by international agencies. Critiquing a WHO report on social determinants of health, Navarro argues that it is not inequalities that kill people; it is those who are responsible for these inequalities that kill people.
- What We Say Goes
The Middle East in the New World Order
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
In response the President Bush's actions in Kuwait, America was deemed by a Catholic weekly in Rome to be "the surly master of the world". Chomsky explores the meaning of this accusation as well as America's vision for the New World Order.
- What Will It Take To Win?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Our current strategy engages people in an arena # history and events in Palestine/Israel # far from their direct experience. We are the experts on a topic they know little about. We ask people to learn from us about something far away, and to take some local action (like voting for divestment) to express their agreement with us about it. There is a limit to how many people will be interested in doing this. A revolutionary strategy, in contrast, engages people in the arena which they know a lot about, and into which they have tremendous insights from direct personal experience.
- What's Canada Doing in Brazil?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- What's the Matter with the System?
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
All the News That's Fit to Slant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
- What's all the fuss about the veil?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
- What#s at stake in Copenhagen
The crucial debates at Copenhagen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoliberal economics.
- What's Behind the Economic Upturn?
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Department of Commerce announced on October 30 that the U.S. economy had grown at a 7.2% annual rate in the third quarter of 2003. Since these statistics are constantly being revised, one wonders what they really mean.
- What's in a name? In a racist society, everything
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In our society refusal to contemplate a relationship with a person from another ethnic or religious background is described and denounced as racism or bigotry. In Israel it is protected by law.
- What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush#s push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.
- What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
- When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Aren#t these conspiracy theories too silly to address? That should be the case. But, sadly, they do attract people.
- When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
- When Drones Come Home to Roost
Monsters, Human and Mechanical
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The use of remote-controlled killing machines by the United States guarantees that in the future these same technologies will be used to strike targets in the U.S.
- When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
- When & How to Hold a News Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
So before you decide to call a news conference, make sure that the circumstances meet ALL of the criteria.
- When Human Beings Are Illegal
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Once the government assumes the task of separating citizens from "impossible subjects," historian Mae Ngai points out, "the border" is everywhere, not just between countries. Thus, the border has come to the Midwest. In the two years since the immigrant rights marches of spring 2006, there have been federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids of workplaces, especially meatpacking plants, in Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska.
- When journalists forget that murder is murder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
- When Push Comes to Shove
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When the police are ordered to move against the OWS demonstrators, we must move to counter the police. Our response should be that workers in all different kinds of jobs act immediately to interrupt business as usual-regardless of what union leaders say or do. For example, transit workers should refuse any request to assist in the transport of individuals who are arrested. Truck drivers should refuse all deliveries to city agencies-other than those providing health care or emergency services. The more interruptions, the better!
- When Qaddafi Was Our Friend
The CIA's Libyan Helpers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It was counterterrorism cooperation, together with Qaddafi’s abandonment of his nuclear ambitions, that cemented U.S./Libyan ties. Qaddafi’s intelligence services opened their files to the CIA, were given CIA training, and took in the CIA’s prisoners.
- When the UAW Was Young
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
- When to Contact the Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Advice on when to contact the media.
- Where Do Postmodernists Come From?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Eagleton argues that left intellectuals have adopted postmodernism out of a sense of having been badly defeated, a belief that the left as a political tendency has little future. Culturalism, he argues, involves an extreme subjectivism combined with a deep pessimism, a sense that it isn't worth the effort to learn about the world, to analyze social systems, for instance, because they can't be changed anyway.
- Where Is Indonesia Going?
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
For both admirers and critics of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, the picture is disturbing: At the presidential palace in Jakarta there are signs of a new “royal court” in the making. Officials converse in Javanese, not the national language Bahasa Indonesia; Wahid himself borrows from mysticism and ancient tracts to plot political strategy; and family and friends are acting as gatekeepers and facilitators, in some cases for businessmen hoping to curry favor. Some analysts describe it as a form of “benign Suhartoism,” a throwback to the disastrous last decade of President's 32-year rule.
- Where is Phil Ochs When We Really Need Him?
There But For Fortune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Where is the Alaska Highway Pipeline Taking Us?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Where Is Venezuela Going?
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Steve Ellner's latest book, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics, is an important contribution to our understanding of Venezuela under Hugo Chávez. It brings a deeply historical perspective to the topic, something almost universally lacking in the growing number of short-sighted texts on the country’s politics. It also offers the opportunity for a discussion of the complexities of the “Bolivarian process” as it unfolds.
- Where to Occupy Next?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2012
I truly don't want to be another sob story. But when the rare opportunity comes along to tell my story and affect many, like a stone cast into the water, it is necessary to at least attempt to grab the hearts of people who will listen.
- Wherein We Meet Genial Radicals by the Shores of Lake Champlain
The New Secessionists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Secession is the next radical idea poised to enter mainstream discourse#or at least the realm of the conceivable. You can#t bloat a modest republic into a crapulent empire without sparking one hell of a centrifugal reaction. The prospect of breaking away from a union degenerating into imperial putrefaction will only grow in appeal as we go marching with our Patriot Acts and National Security Strategies through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and all the frightful signposts on our road to nowhere.
- Where's the Iraqi voice?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Despite the "shared beliefs" identified amongst Iraqis, for example the belief that the presence of foreign troops is a main cause of the escalation in violence, only the conquerors - in this case America - can decide when troops should be withdrawn.
- Which Path for Labour in the Fight for Jobs and an Independent Canadian Economy
...Collaboration or a Militant Class-Struggle Fightback?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Which side are you on?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The women's question has haunted the Islamic regime from the start. The Islamic Republic has been in continuous conflict with the women's liberation movement, which has grown considerably in the past decade in opposition to the misogyny and gender apartheid of the Islamists. Despite brutal assaults on this movement, the regime has not succeeded in silencing it.
- A Whiff of Jim Crow
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Republican party and its rightwing base are on a concerted drive to suppress the vote in coming elections. The targets are African Americans, other ethnic minorities, the elderly and young.
- While Everyone Else Went to College, I Went to Jail
A Conversation With Saad Nabeel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- White, Bob
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian trade unionist. (Born 1935).
- The White Cop and the Black Professor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Police are trained to act as authoritarian thugs when they are dealing with people who are not obviously of, or loyal to, the very wealthy elite who rule the nation. The police are trained to enforce law and order in an unjust and unequal society, and a big part of doing this requires that they make ordinary people obey them out of fear.
- White Flag Deaths
Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Documents incidents where Israeli soldiers fired on civilians with small arms during Israel's military operations in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. These attacks killed 11 civilians, including five women and four children, and wounded at least another eight.
- White Rose
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor.
- Whither Diversity?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We love race - we love identity - because we don't love class. That is, the upper income groups in society, including many liberals, prefer to believe that a fair and just society can be realized primarily by celebrating and embracing diversity -- but excluding class considerations.
- Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
- Who are the Global Terrorists?
in Booth & Tim Dunne (eds.), Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
In light of President George Bush's declaration of "war against terrorism", Chomsky attempts to determine who the opponents are and what the appropriate response to their crimes would be.
- Who Are the Zombie Masters and What Do They Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
- Who Calls The Tune?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Whose interests do the violent actions of the black bloc benefit? The interests of the general public in using free speech as a means of political change? Or the interests of the authorities in providing the perfect pretext with which to crush and outlaw that free speech? You can#t overthrow the entire system by smashing one bank and starting a bonfire. Real political change takes generations of struggle, decades of building respected educational platforms, and a gargantuan grass-roots movement focused on taking power on the local level and expanding upwards. Throwing a brick through a window isn't going to achieve anything other than making the vast majority of the general public despise you even more, and support the very systems of power that you are supposedly opposing. The black bloc sect exist to provide the media with violent footage with which to demonize legitimate protesters.
- Who Gets The Work: A Test Of Racial Discrimination In Employment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
- Who is Afraid of a Real Inquiry?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If a real Commission of Inquiry had been set up into the Free Gaza Flotilla attack (instead of the pathetic excuse for a commission), here are some of the questions it should have addressed.
- Who is Polar Gas? - A Basic Data Sheet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Who Killed Ekaru Loruman?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Climate change arrives in a world primed for crisis. The current and impending dislocations of climate change intersect with the already existing crises of poverty and violence. By this “catastrophic convergence,” I do not merely mean that several disasters happen simultaneously, one problem atop another. Rather, I am arguing that problems compound and amplify each other, one expressing itself through another.
- Who owns knowledge?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
- Who Pays? Who Profits? Food Production in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Who Should Bomb Iran First?
The Myth Of Left-Leaning Media Bias
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Mainstream media discussions of media balance are limited to a single question: Is the media too critical of powerful interests?
- Who threatens us most – peaceful campaigners or a private militia run by police chiefs?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The people challenging corporate power are often defamed as destructive anarchists. Yet they are seeking to defend the fabric of our lives from the anarchic destruction of market fundamentalism. The police, on the other hand, are fighting – often without obvious justification – to shield destructive companies from both unlawful and lawful challenges. They are defending neoliberalism’s atomising, kleptocratic projects from those who question them.
- Who's in Control?
Issue 14
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An examination of the phenomenon of corporate power.
- The Whole World is Watching
Chinese Diggers?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Thousands of villagers at Wukan, in China’s Guangdong province, are protesting the theft of their communal land by a corrupt local government in collusion with developers.
- The Whole World Stopped Watching
"Diversity of Tactics", Repression, and the RNC protests in St. Paul, Minnesota (Part I)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I must engage those of my activist friends who believe in the "Diversity of Tactics" framework, the now established modus operandi of summit and convention protests. I have come to believe a sorry record of repeated protest failures must be laid squarely at the foot of this ideologically tainted utopia.
- Whom Should We Support in Iran?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The people we should support in Iran are those who are trying to make Iran more equal, more democratic and more friendly to the principle of solidarity--concern for one another. Since we want the world to move in this direction, we should support those who are pushing it in that direction. The people doing this are working class Iranians.
- Who's afraid of the BNP?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
How should a liberal democratic society respond to an organization such as the BNP? Should the political mainstream ostracise the BNP or engage with it? And if engage, how?
- Who's Dysfunctional Now?
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The good news is that the Republicans and the Tea Party movement not only lost the health insurance reform vote, but made such a obscene spectacle of themselves that everyone now knows who and what they really are. The bad news is that the Democrats now take credit for passing “health care reform” when in fact they’ve gutted it — hiding who and what they really are.
- Whose Detroit? A City's Upheaval
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
On July 15, 1970, James Johnson Jr., a Black autoworker at Chrysler Eldon Avenue Plant in Detroit, shot and killed two foremen and a fellow worker. Forty-five minutes into the shift he had been reassigned to the ovens, where the heat that day was more than 120 degrees.
- Whose National Security?
Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Examines RCMP monitoring of trade unionists, Left-wing political groups, students, gays and lesbians, feminists, consumers' associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereignists.
- Whose Stupid War Was This?
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The Rambouillet Accord was an ultimatum for a war against Serbia, and the terms of the ultimatum demonstrated that if the Serbian government accepted Rambouillet they would very likely face a crushing attack in the future from NATO forces on Yugoslav soil.
- Whose Wipeout? Whose Bailout?
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Is this what 1931 looks like? Years ago, we recall, two themes for popular cinema were people trapped in burning skyscrapers ("Towering Inferno") and market sharks engaged in financial manipulations ("Wall Street"). After September 11, 2001 the former disaster movie genre suddenly seemed much less fun, and we suspect that after September 2008 the spectacle of stock market crashes on the big screen may not be so entertaining either.
- Why Americans Should Care about East Timor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Noam Chomsky describes the situation in East Timor and the way in which America was directly involved. In turn, he calls for sufficient popular reaction in order to end the disaster for which the American Administration is significantly responsible.
- Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
- Why Are Families Under Attack?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The media are full of very sophisticated anti-family messages, which can come from both the right and the left. Liberals denigrate the value of families in which children are raised by their real mother and father, and they sometimes suggest that such families are often patriarchies with abusive fathers. Conservatives often call for "family values" in which women are subordinate to men and inequality prevails. Neither liberal nor conservative views reflect true family values of equality and commitment to each other.
- Why Are So Many People Out of Work?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Why aren't people voting?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There is much ado about “voter apathy”, with a focus on young people, who in creative and desperate ways are urged and “mobbed” to vote. Unfortunately, much of this effort is barking up the wrong tree: unless we can guarantee that hundreds of thousands of Canadians who are eager to vote can actually do so, we are subjecting them to a nasty piece of Catch 22 where the victims of voter obstruction get the blame for being apathetic and not doing their civic duty.
- Why aren't people voting?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Changes in the voting system have create subtle but effective ways of eliminating troublesome voters, students, Aboriginals, the poor and the elderly alike.
- Why bananas are a parable for our times
Amost unnoticed, bananas are dying
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The corporations that control the banana industry have created a giant monoculture. Disease is now destroying the fruit, and because natural genetic diversity has been eliminated, there is no remedy.
- Why both sides are wrong in the race debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
For all the talk about culture as fluid and changing, multiculturalism, no less than old-fashioned racism, invariably leads people to think of human groups in fixed terms.
- Why Boycott Aroma?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010 Published: 2011
Our boycott call is part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
- Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
- Why Cuba Is Different?
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
First, we have to address the United States’ stance toward Cuba for what it is since 1960: four and a half decades of state terrorism against a country and its people. Anyone who supports the right of self-determination is obliged to oppose and fight all forms of U.S. government intervention against Cuba, as if there were no issue of political repression inside Cuba.
- Why Detroit Needs Justice and CPR
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
If anyone doubts that the modern American City has become the center of all forms of oppression, consider the list of injustices that Detroit residents confront everyday in a city governed by African Americans. Although Brush Park residents were granted funds for renovation some five years ago, the city has taken the money from the senior citizens and transferred it to the big developers and city attorneys to help evict the seniors.
- Why Do Communities Fail?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The strains that take their toll on community groups.
- Why do we still believe in race?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Races are difficult to define and there are no objective rules for deciding what constitutes a race or to what race a person belongs. People can belong to many races at the same time.
- Why Do Women Do Nothing To End The War?
Canadian Feminist-Pacificsts and The Great War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
- Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least one American expert.
- Why has the left gone soft on human rights?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
A perverse interpretation of multiculturalism has resulted in race and religion ruling the roost in a tainted hierarchy of oppression. In the name of "unity" against Islamophobia and racism, much of the left tolerates misogyny and homophobia in minority communities. It rejects common standards of rights and responsibilities; demanding that we "make allowances" and show "sensitivity" with regard to the prejudices of ethnic and faith communities. This attitude is patronising, even racist. It judges minority peoples by different standards.
- Why I am a Marxist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
For the Marxist, there is no such thing as 'Marxism' in general any more than there is a 'democracy' in general, a 'dictatorship' in general or a 'state' in general. There is only a bourgeois state, a proletarian dictatorship or a fascist dictatorship, etc. And even these exist only at determinate stages of historical development, with corresponding historical characteristics, mainly economic, but conditioned also in part by geographical, traditional, and other factors. With the deferent levels of historical development, with the different environments of geographical distribution, with the well-known differences of creed and tendency among the various Marxist schools, there exist, both nationally and internationally, very different theoretical systems and practical movements which go by the name of Marxism.
- Why I Am Listed in Sources
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The majority of high-profile experts that I have interviewed are listed in Sources year in and year out # a clear indication that they feel that they#re getting a lot of bang for their buck.
- Why I Stand with Occupy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- Why Is BDS A Moral Duty Today?
A Response To Bernard-Henri Levy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The reality of the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
- Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
- Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
- Why Israel Won't Survive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power # Western support and complicity # is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
- Why Israel?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
A routine strategy of Israel's defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of 'humanitarian interventions' that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council -- sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
- Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
- Why Israeli Leaders Love Qassam Rockets
A Reply to Michael Neumann
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli leaders want Jews to believe that they are surrounded by violent anti-Semites. This is how the billionaires and generals and politicians who rule over the Israeli population get away with what they are doing: getting richer and more powerful while driving the rest of the population down economically. They need the Israeli population to believe that the rulers of Israel are protecting Jews from the "real enemy"--violent anti-Semitic Arabs. To make sure the "real enemy" remains credible, non-combatant Jews must die at the hands of apparent anti-Semites.
- Why Kosovo But Not Palestine?
The Right to Exist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Barak Obama pretends that he is vetoing UN recognition of a Palestinian state because it did not come about as a result of negotations. But meanwhile the US has recognized Kosovo, which came into being without negotations, and in violation of international law.
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Chinese version
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Korean version
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
- Why NGO Monitor is attacking The Electronic Intifada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
NGO Monitor has launched a campaign targeting a Dutch foundation's financial support to The Electronic Intifada, accusing the publication among other things of "anti-Semitism." NGO Monitor is an extreme right-wing group with close ties to the Israeli government, military, and West Bank settlers,
- Why No Reporters in Suez?
The Real Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What is happening in Tahrir Square Cairo has been built on the backs of millions of Egyptian workers who waged 3,000 strikes over the past eight years.
- Why Not Sanctions for Israel?
Gross Violations of Human Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The US led the imposition of sanctions against South Africa because of South Africa#s apartheid practices. The sanctions forced the white government to hand over political power to the black population. Israel practices a worse form of apartheid than did the white South African government. Yet, Israel maintains that it is #anti-semitic# to criticize Israel for a practice that the world regards as abhorrent.
- Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
To most environmentalists, bicycles have always been the epitome of good. We are so used to comparing bikes to cars, that it never occurred to us that the bicycle would be ever used for anything bad. Indeed, replacing motor vehicles with bicycles deserves our adoration. But anything can be used for good or evil, and using bikes to expand human domination of wildlife habitat is clearly harmful.
- Why Our Government Supports Israel's Government, and Why We Shouldn't
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Israel's Leaders Harm Both Jews & Palestinians.
- Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1940
The working class is going into this war burdened with the capitalistic tradition of Party leadership and the phantom tradition of a revolution of the Russian kind.
- Why #Pick On# Israel? Here#s Why
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
There are a lot of excellent reasons for singling Israel out, and none of them have anything to do with anti-Semitism. Israel is the only nation that self-righteously accuses any critic of its ethnic cleansing of being a bigot (anti-Semite.) It is the only nation that insists that its racist policies are #a light unto the nations.# If we let Israel get away with this we are contributing not only to its actual ethnic cleansing, but to its glorification of the principle of ethnic cleansing, which aids and abets this crime everywhere in the world.
- Why Publicity Sometimes Fails
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
You've done everything you can think of to publicize your new product launch, event, or small business. But nothing seems to work. Barbara Florio Graham explains why.
- Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
- Why Socialism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
- Why Strikes Fail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943
Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.
- Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Excerpted from the book "Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit".
- Why the French Hate Chomsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Chomsky's criticism is laden with facts, a substance that seems to elicit ennui among contemporary French thinkers. No doubt the importance of the essay in the French educational system has bred a world of 'philosophers' whose skill at manipulating fact-free ideas was the guarantee of a distinguished career. If the social object is to entertain, then the French school reaches its goal -- mystification is often far more entertaining than straightforward descriptions of reality. On the other hand, if the object is to help readers reach their own understanding of reality, especially political reality, then their first need is to be provided with the basic relevant facts, which most people do not have time to ascertain through their own research. Thus Chomsky is useful to citizens by providing them with the raw material to develop their own ideas in a way that the purveyors of ready-made but flimsily supported ideas are not.
- Why the Industrial Working Class Still Matters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
It is evident today that the vast majority of the population (perhaps 80% of the workforce) live and reproduce themselves only through wage-labor that produces surplus value, regardless of the nature of the commodity (good or service) they produce. Whatever the changing weight of the industrial sector of this enormous, working majority, it is clear that the working class as a whole is proportionately far larger today than at the time of classical Marxist writers.
- Why the Leninists will lose
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Leninist groups may still have the ability to disrupt the left, but they are long past the point of being able to achieve any kind of success in their own right.
- Why the Leninists Will Win
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
- Why the Revolt in Egypt?
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Why has the Arab world suddenly erupted in revolution from Tunisia to Egypt, from Bahrain to Yemen? Above all, why Egypt, the largest and most important of the Arab nations?
- Why the Swedish Left Lost
An Analysis of the Electoral Fiasco and Lessons for the Democrats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Analysts and political leaders on the left focus on how the right wing#s lies go unfiltered by the establishment mass media. The media bias theory has some plausibility but the limit to the media-bias argument is that the extremist Sweden Democrats largely faced a media blackout but still managed to be one of the biggest winners in the electoral system.
- Why The U.S. Government Hates Venezuela
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Having lost in the realm of ideas, those supporting capitalism must compensate by other means.
- Why the zoo shot its tigers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A discussion of the practice of - and motivation behind - culling and conservation in the one of the worlds foremost science and conservation zoological facilities, the London Zoo.
- Why There Are No #Israelis# in the Jewish State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as #Israelis#, a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country#s self-declared status as a Jewish state.
- Why They Call It King Coal
A Killer Industry Continues to Call the Shots
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Political corruption first puts coal workers at risk of death, trapped by circumstances: either work underground for King Coal and risk your life, go fight our wars in the US military and risk your life, or work for the government defending King Coal and its prerogatives. For working class West Virginians, that's the economy in a nutshell, accompanied by plaintive Civil War violins.
- Why They Voted For Obama But Against Same-Sex Marriage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
People who think that it is wrong to make same-sex marriage legal because it would give social approval to the practice of using sperm or egg donors to conceive children who will, by design, not know their biological mother or biological father are, according to liberals, "hateful and bigoted." In the world of these liberals, placing the welfare of children before the desires of adults is "hateful and bigoted."
- Why Voters Aren’t Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An introduction to cognitive policy – the values, frames, and arguments that make sense of the political process.
- Why We Can Change the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Many good people support the "diversity" concept, because they see it as a way of building unity and respect for each other across cultural divides. But diversity is about "celebrating and respecting our differences." Despite many people's best intentions, it's not really about finding what we have in common, but about focusing on differences as if these supposed differences are what define us as human beings. Diversity as a framework, as a way of thinking about each other, will always stand in the way of the goal that most of us share, of multi-racial, multi-ethnic unity. Diversity in fact is no different from the basic capitalist view that society consists of various groups competing for their own interests. Such a view does not present any threat to capitalism or to inequality but reinforces it.
- Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something that the farmers did not create. Instead, it is the polluters who caused the emissions who destroy the natural cycles. So, we small scale farmers came here to say that we will not pay for their mistakes. And we are asking the emitters to face up to their responsibilities.
- Why We Loved the Zapatistas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It would be absurd to admonish the Zapatistas for failing to overcome generations of poverty in a single sweep, but is it too much to ask their privileged supporters abroad to pay more attention to the material conditions in Chiapas and less on the innovative ways they use their laptops to conjure “resistance”?
- Why we need the Fourth Communist Workers# International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1921
The language as well as the composition of the Third International can no longer be distinguished from that of Social Democracy. No longer will it set aside any manifestoes as opportunist; the call to participation in the reconstruction of Capitalism resounds ever more clearly as the official Moscow policy.
- Why we walked out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Students across the US are protesting a public relations campaign that brings soldiers from the Israeli army to speak on campuses. These tours are an attempt to justify recent war crimes committed by the army.
- Why We've Been Targeted
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Jose Maria Sison must take us for fools. He and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leadership compile a list of living and assassinated “counterrevolutionaries,” disseminate it among CPP members, then claim this is simply a harmless exercise in information dissemination!
- Why Wikileaks is Good for Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The US has been going in the wrong direction for years by classifying millions of documents as secrets. Wikileaks and other media which report these so called secrets will embarrass people yes. Wikileaks and other media will make leaders uncomfortable yes. But embarrassment and discomfort are small prices to pay for a healthier democracy. Wikileaks has the potential to make transparency and accountability more robust.
- Why Wikileaks Matters
The Lies of Diplomats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
On the secret diplomatic cables disclosed by WikiLeaks.
- Why You Should Question Your Bank
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Widerspruch gegen linkes Lavieren
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israelische Linke rufen in offenem Brief an die Linkspartei zu Dialog über Nahostkonflikt auf
In einem Offenen Brief an die LINKE haben über 100 linke Israelis ihre Erwartungen an eine solidarische Politik der deutschen Linkspartei deutlich gemacht und Kritik an Teilen der Partei geäußert, die die israelische Politik im Nahen Osten unterstützen.
- Wife Assault: The Silent Crime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- A Wikileak on the US and Al-Jazeera
Blaming and (Killing) the Messenger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A Wikileaks-released cable from the U.S. embassy in Doha, Qatar, shows that U.S. officials were angry with Al Jazeera in the wake of Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza, because, alone of news networks the world over, al-Jazeera had actually shown what was happening on the ground to Gazan civilians besieged by an unrelenting Israeli air, artillery, and ground attack.
- The Wikileaks Afghan War Diary
Reason for Celebration, Cause for Concern
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The release of Wikileaks acquired records from U.S. forces in Afghanistan is an event of major significance which in some ways deserves to be celebrated by those opposed to the war in Afghanistan, but there are also some serious problems with the records and with the way Wikileaks released them.
- Wikileaks and the Free Press
Exposing the Futility of US Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Wikileaks published documents from sources US journalists should have cultivated instead of behaving like White House stenographers. Exceptions like Seymour Hersh and Dana Priest only dramatize the point: the fourth estate has become an arm of national security policy.
- Wikileaks and the New Global Order
America's Wake-Up Call
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The impression of a world running out of American control has become a theme touching all our lives over the past decade. The US invented and exported financial deregulation, promising it to be the epitome of the new capitalism that was going to offer the world economic salvation. The result is a banking crisis that now threatens to topple the very governments in Europe who are Washington’s closest allies.
- Wikileaks and the Truth of the Af-Pak War
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the aftermath of the much-discussed leak of the Afghan war documents, few aspects of the Af-Pak imbroglio have been as scrutinized as the supposed duplicity of the Pakistani security establishment. The New York Times editorial board, for example, promptly declared that of all of the revelations, the reports detailing the “cynical collusion between Pakistan’s military intelligence service and the Taliban” were the “most alarming.” (This, too, from a paper that had been privy to the leaked material for some time before the database went public).
- WikiLeaks Begins Publishing 5 Million Emails From STRATFOR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
- WikiLeaks continues exposure of predatory US foreign policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the face of an unprecedented campaign of US harassment and intimidation, the Internet-based WikiLeaks group is continuing its efforts to expose the predatory role of American foreign policy around the world, releasing secret diplomatic documents every day.
- WikiLeaks Copycat Reveals Indonesia's Bloody Secrets
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On Friday, December 10th IndoLeaks, Indonesia’s very own version of WikiLeaks, went live. Over the following weeks the site has posted some sensitive documents including a conversation between former President Suharto and former US President Gerald Ford as well as four autopsy reports of the victims of the infamous 1965 coup attempt.
- Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press
Documents Show NYT and Washington Post Shilling for US Government on Iran Missile "Threat"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A key Wikileaks document which should have resulted in stories calling into question the thrust of the Obama administration's ballistic missile defense policy in Europe based on an alleged Iranian missile threat has instead produced a spate of stories buttressing anti-Iran hysteria.
- Wikileaks is Good for America
Get Over It!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning did not create the mess we now find ourselves in. But what they have had the courage to do may just eventually let enough sunshine in for change to happen.
- Wikileaks - The Smear and the Denial
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that journalists monopolised the means of mass communication. Dissent was restricted to a few lonely lines on the letter’s page, if that.
- Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Wilberforce, William
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. (1759-1833).
- The WILD conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Wild West Journalism
Outlaws, Cowpokes and a Eunuched Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Journalism is not dead nor is anthropology. Both are undergoing seismic transformations while under attack from a neoliberal culture that devalues the public and disparages the truth.
- Wildcat I
From The Factory Songs of Mr. Toad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1994
- Wildcat Strikes in China
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
- Wildlife conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Environmentalism can most simply be defined as the extension of the Golden Rule to include other species. Wildlife must be given top priority, because they can't protect themselves from us.
- Wilebaldo Solano As I Knew Him
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
I first met Wilebaldo Solano in Paris in 1997 after corresponding with him since the late 1980s. I had translated an article Wilebaldo wrote about Victor Serge and the POUM,(1) and finally meeting him was an inexplicably emotional occasion, a moment of warmth, solidarity and enthusiasm for us (Wilebaldo, his wife Maria Teresa and myself).
- Wilkerson, Cathy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American radical. (Born 1945).
- Will the Candidate Please Explain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Will the real Stephen Harper please stand up?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A citizen#s guide to comparing election campaign promises to deeply held beliefs.
- William Godwin
A Biographical Study
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
A biography of the influential writer and thinker described by Woodcock as the first prophet of libertarian socialism.
- Williams, Jody
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1950).
- Wilson, Edmund
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
American writer and literary critic. (1895-1972).
- Wilson opposes publishing safeguards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Wimps Can't Win
The Sissy Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
When did we on the left forget how to fight back in dark alleys?
- Windsor Strike 1945
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Windsor Strike, 12 Sept-20 Dec 1945, at the WINDSOR, Ont, plant of Ford Motor Co. There was really only one strike issue at Ford: union recognition. The united automobile workers demanded it; the company refused to grant it.
- A winning formula
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Intelligent community-based campaigning exposes the BNP for what it is, as well as providing a defence of civil society.
- Winnipeg Declaration of Principles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
- Winnipeg General Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labour reforms. In March 1919 labour delegates from across Western Canada convened in Calgary to form a branch of the "One Big Union", with the intention of earning rights for Canadian workers through a series of strikes.
- Winnipeg General Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In Winnipeg on May 15, when negotiations broke down between management and labour in the building and metal trades, the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council called a general strike.
- Winnipeg Walkathon For El Salvador.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
- Winstanley & The Diggers
The Spirtual and Political Story of a Seventeenth Century Communist Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Spritzler sets out to show that the resistance to the Hobbesian ideas that rule our lives today is as old as those ideas themselves. Hobbes' basic assumption is that men are necessarily locked into a struggle for power over one another This assumption is also the basis of the most powerful political forces at work in the world today. Winstanley, and many of his contempoaries, defy this dominant paradigm.
- Winstanley, Gerrard
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
English Protestant religious reformer and political activist, a member of the True Levellers. (1609-1676).
- Winter cities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Winter Cities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Winter of Discontent
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Whole communities are being plunged into a poverty culture that is very difficult to escape.
- Winter of Discontent
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A term used to describe the British winter of 1978#1979, during which there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay raises for their members.
- Winter Soldier 2008
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
- A Winter's Tale Told in Memoirs
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Socialist Workers (SWP), now a curious sidebar in the history of radicalism, is a linear descendant of the political movement initiated in the United States by pro-Bolshevik followers of Leon Trotsky on the eve of the Great Depression. For 45 years, until the mid-1970s, the movement associated with the SWP was at the crossroads of the Far Left.
- Wisconsin and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
As the last decade or more have demonstrated, unions don’t grow incrementally as a result of their patient, even persistence efforts to recruit. Rather, unions grow more or less rapidly in periods of intense conflict and labor upheaval. Such was the clear experience of the 1930s. In a somewhat more uneven fashion, the period from the mid-1960s through the 1970s saw rising numbers of strikes, increased rank and file rebellion, and the addition of four million members to the ranks of organized labor.
- Wish you were born rich!!?? Now you can be!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Witch Hunt vs. Academic Freedom
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
I appear before you today because of a campaign of intimidation to which I have been subjected for over three years. While this campaign was started by certain members of the Columbia faculty, and by outside forces using some of my students as conduits, it soon expanded to include members of the Columbia administration, the rightwing tabloid press, the Israeli press, and more locally the Columbia Spectator. Much of this preceded the David Project film “Columbia Unbecoming,” and the ensuing controversy.
- With A Little Help From Outside
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
- Within and Against the Market
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Radical initiatives which take subversive action from within the system.
- Wklad Rózy Luksemburg do marksizmu.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
- The Wobblies Heritage
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The cover of this Against the Current issue features something new that is also a century old: a Wobbly icon. This one is an image, on a banner (one of twelve made by labor muralist Mike Alewitz), foregrounding the old “Sabo-Tabby” of sabotage, backgounding the striking coal miners’ tactic of putting nails in the path of cars and trucks bringing scabs to work.
- Wobblies on the Southern Home Front
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Most readers of Against the Current know the Industrial Workers of the World by their imaginative and daring radical tactics and campaigns in the Northeast and the West — the Free Speech campaigns; the Lawrence, Massachusetts Bread and Roses textile strike, made colorful by its propaganda, and especially the pageants and children’s evacuation that brought the strike publicity; their organizing of itinerant workers and hoboes; and the Wobblies’ clarion calls for direct action and sabotage on the job, as well as loudmouthed boasts of violent action in response to the bosses’ violence.
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
British writer, philosopher, and feminist. (1759-1797).
- Woman-Centered, Activist Agendas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Raising and politicitizing our demands for human rights, including the sexual and reproductive rights of women internationally, will contribute significantly toward improving women's health and respecting women's rights as human rights.
- Woman fights for pollution information
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The fight against the world's biggest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, is being waged from a tiny tea stall in Ranchi, eastern India.
- Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
- Women and Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Women and Environments
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Women and Global Capitalism
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Women are affected in unique ways by current forms of global economic integration. Their experiences, concerns and needs must be a central part of the groundwork for understanding and transforming this global economy.
- Women and Poverty: A Report by the National Council of Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Women and Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Women and Socialism - Accounting for our Experience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Women and the Constitution: The Next Five Years
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Women and the Law in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976 Published: 1977
- Women and Trade Unions
Chapter 12 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women#s Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Women and Unemployment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Women Are Not Wallpaper
Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli interview filmmaker Erik Gandini
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.
- Women at Work in Nova Scotia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A pamphlet that examines the struggles and realities of working women in Nova Scotia.
- Women Enslaved by Islamic Reaction
Taliban: Bitter Fruit of U.S. Imperialism#s Anti-Soviet War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
There is nothing progressive or #anti-imperialist# about being shrouded in the veil. Nor is it, as some liberals would maintain, a quaint cultural attribute. You wouldn#t think you would have to be a communist to see that wrapping a woman in a veil and secluding her in the home is a hideous oppression crying out to be wiped from the face of the earth. The veil is a physical symbol of the submission of women to men and the imposed affirmation of their inferior status.
- Women in a Neoliberal Order
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Feminists and historians of the Middle East were a bit surprised last year when Laura Bush made a radio address defending women's rights -- in Iraq. An unlikely champion of women's causes at home (The Economist of London, not a radical magazine, rates her “low” on feminism) from reproductive freedom, affirmative action or equality in employment to social services women need, Ms. Bush found in women's rights a convenient pretext for boosting her husband's imperial crusade in another country.
- Women in the Paris Commune
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
During the Seige of Paris, women organized their own Vigilance Committee in Montmartre, the political center of the working class. La Révolution politique et sociale devoted a major portion of its pages to reporting on the Vigilance Committee and a variety of women’s clubs and societies. This included the Union des Femmes, the women’s union that was a section of the First International.
- Women in the Venezuelan Revolution
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In the referendum of 15 August, 2004 Venezuelans reaffirmed Hugo Chávez as president by a vote of 59% to 41%. We know that the 59% was overwhelmingly the voice of the poorest, not only reaffirming Chávez in power but insisting that the program of change continue and increase.
- Women of the revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Thirty years after the toppling of the Shah in Iran, Azar Sheibani looks at how Iranian women have defied the reign of misogynist terror.
- Women on "Skid Row": A Proposal for a Shelter for Alcoholic and Homeless Women In Montreal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A proposal written to funding bodies requesting financial assistance in setting up a women's shelter in Montreal.
- Women Recycle for Income and Environment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
- Women, Revolution and the Future
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Valentine Moghadam is director of the Women’s Studies Program and a professor of sociology at Purdue University. She responded to some questions from Against the Current early on February 11, 2011, shortly before the announcement of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation.
- Women Rising, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
"In the black of the winter of nineteen-nine,
When we froze and bled on the picket line,
We showed the world that women could fight,
And we rose and won with women's might."
- Women Stand Up, Fight Back
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
What would it mean to truly end gender-and-race-based violence? How can radicals acknowledge the totalizing violence of white supremacy while also accounting for the very diverse, and sometimes conflicting, experiences and survival strategies of Arab, Asian, Native, Latina and Black women?
- Women Take On the Orthodox
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Increasing religious domination by the Orthodox is increasing conflict within Israeli and tension between American Jews and Israel.
- Women & War in Sierra Leone
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
While I was doing research in Guinea in the summer of 1999, a village woman informed me of a legend told throughout West Africa. “It is not good to send your children to America,” she said, “for in America, they bury Africans in shallow graves.”
- The Women Who Gave Us Christmas
Exposing America's Greatest Crime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In 1834, African American and white men and women members of William Lloyd Garrison’s newly formed Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society saw Christmas as an opportunity to expose a hypocritical republic that proclaimed liberty yet held millions of African men, women and children captive as slaves. Women assumed the lead, boldly defying a society that denied them a public voice or political opinions. To finance the abolition cause, these women organized Christmas bazaars that sold donated gifts, and trumpeted anti-slavery messages.
- Women Working
Issue #6
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Examination of many of the issues facing women in the working world.
- Women, Immigration and The Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Women's activism publications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Women's centres temporarily reprieved
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Women's Freedom League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigned for women's suffrage and sexual equality.
- Women's History Prize
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Women's Humour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Founded 1915 in The Hague, the Netherlands, by women active in the women's suffrage movement in Europe and North America. They sought to end the war and seek ways to ensure that no more wars took place.
- Women's Labour Leagues (Canada)
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Women's Labour Leagues emerged in Canada prior to WWI. Their purpose was to defend the struggles of women workers and support the labour movement.
- Women's liberation, then and now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
- Women's Movement records
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Women's Petition for Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Women's programs cut
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Women's Space, Contested Terrain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Lately I am struck by how easy, still, for men to behave however they desire. That in spite--indeed, sometimes because--of the women's movement, men still control so much of our public space with an arrogance that astounds me.
- Women's Suffrage (Canada)
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Suffrage campaign in the late 19th century which aimed to achieve votes for all women as a democratic right.
- Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
In any society, the degree of female emancipation is the natural measure of the general emancipation.
- Women's suffrage: Timeline of women's suffrage - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Timeline of women's suffrage activities around the world from the 18th to 21st century.
- Women's Trade Union League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
- Women#s work devalued
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981 Published: 1991
An examination of the global failure to recognize the value of women's work.
- Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise # climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Marxist scholar. (Born 1942).
- Woodsworth, James Shaver
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Methodist minister, social worker, politician. (1874-1942).
- Word for Word
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Negative effects of public waste reduction policies.
- Words and Deeds
Canda, Portugal and Africa.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- Words have failed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
- Words that Count Women In - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.
- Words, words, words...
Diemer, Ulli
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.
- Worede, Melaku
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Ethiopian seed conservationist, winner of the Right Livelihood Award. (Born 1936).
- Work & Daily Life Intro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A forum through which people can communicate what they feel about their jobs and the others things that happen to them every day.
- Work and Technical Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
- Worker Buyouts
The Role of Trade Unions and Community Organizations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- Worker Co-operatives
An Introduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
- Worker Resistance in Telecommunications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
LABOR RESISTANCE SEEMS to be spreading, capturing public support, and even winning some gains here and there. Such diverse groups as New York cabbies and construction workers, California nurses and transit workers, UPS and GM workers have gone to the streets against the affects of work intensification and industry reorganization.
Less and less are today's strikes characterized by tiny dispirited picket lines, and more and more by mass actions. Job security, work time, work loads and...
- Workers and Environmentalists Unite!
Obama Has Betrayed Both
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When there are zero jobs available, any job will do. This fact has been exploited by corporations now re-labeling themselves ”job creators,” since being a job creator in a time of depression brings a religious status similar to a rain god during a drought. Democrats and Republicans have lavished eternal praise on the “job creators” and in consequence have created a political atmosphere that is rabidly pro-corporate “job creators” and anti-everything else. In practice this means that ANY new law or regulation that hinders the power or profits of “job creating” corporations is instantly attacked as a “job killer.”
- Workers’ Assemblies: A Way to Regroup the Left?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Herman Rosenfeld is a member of the Canadian Socialist Project and the General Toronto Workers’ Assembly, a new initiative aiming to reinvigorate working class and radical politics in the city. He spoke to Tom Denning about the methods and activities of GTWA and the challenges it faces.
- Workers# Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
- Workers' Council
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Workers Councils (1936 article)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
Fighting for freedom is not letting your leaders think for you and decide, and following obediently behind them, or from time to time scolding them. Fighting for freedom is partaking to the full of ones capacity, thinking and deciding for oneself, taking all the responsibilities as a self-relying individual amidst equal comrades. It is true that to think for oneself, to think out what is true and right, with a head dulled by fatigue, is the hardest, the most difficult task; it is much harder than to pay and to obey. But it is the only way to freedom. To be liberated by others, whose leadership is the essential part of the liberation, means the getting of new masters instead of the old ones.
- The Workers' Fight against Fascism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1941
We do not propose to discuss the #task# of the workers. The workers have already too long done other people's tasks, imposed on them under the high-sounding names of humanity, of human progress, of justice, and freedom, and what not. It is one of the redeeming features of a bad situation that some of the illusions, hitherto surviving among the working class from their past participation in the revolutionary fight of the bourgeoisie against feudal society, have finally been exploded. The only #task# for the workers, as for every other class, is to look out for themselves.
- Workers Film and Photo League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A loosely knit alliance of local organizations that provided independent visual media to people in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world.
- Workers Guarantee the Egyptian Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The middle class, which sacrificed much in this astonishing revolution, faces the task of choosing an ally at this critical juncture. If these young, educated people choose the army and the Muslim Brotherhood (who are also part of the middle class), the result will be the foreclosure of freedom. However, if they choose their natural ally, the working class, they will discover a powerful partner in protecting the achievements of the revolution and in building a new democracy.
- Workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
I think self-activity is the response of working people to the nature of their lives and work. Sometimes it#s good, sometimes it#s bad, sometimes it#s quiet. Part of the reality is that we#re going through a considerable technological revolution, which means that experiences, even jobs, that people depended on and know about, begin to disappear. To expect workers to say, #Yesterday, they automated my factory; today, I know exactly what to do about it,# is Utopian. It takes a while. It takes a generation. Workers will learn.
- Workers Industry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- A Workers' Inquiry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1880
- Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Power can't be "abolished" any more than gravity can be. Rather, building a self-managing society means a shift from hierarchical structures that concentrate power at the top to new structures through which the mass of the people collectively exercise the power to control their work and the society as a whole.
- Workers of the World Caress
An interview with Gary Kinsman on gay and lesbian organizing in the 1970's Toronto Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Workers' Opposition
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled to achieve workers rights and trade union control over industry.
- Workers' Opposition
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedaa of Marxism Glossary of Terms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled to achieve workers rights and trade union control over industry.
- The Workers' Party and Political Crisis in Brazil: Lula at a Crossroads?
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In June 2005, the first allegations of a rogue politician in a rightwing party in coalition with Brazil's governing Workers' Party (PT) seemed spurious enough. The politician himself, Roberto Jefferson, had a long history of allegations of corruption, and of narrowly escaping indictment in Brazil's last corruption crisis in 1993. According to celebrity magazines, he had had a makeover, including plastic surgery, before coming forward with the allegations of a "payment for votes" scheme in congress in which the ruling PT doled out a monthly allowance for sympathetic politicians in congress.
- Workers Power and the Russian Revolution
A review of Maurice Brinton's For Workers Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
- Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987 Published: 2006
- Workers' Revolts of the 1970s
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In my world as a teenager becoming politically aware in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the issues that mattered most were the war in Vietnam and race relations at my school. The events that shaped my high school years included fights between Black and white students, watching the families of white friends leave the city for Ferndale and Oak Park, the racially charged mayoral race in 1969, the election of the city’s first Black mayor in 1973, and my own increasing involvement in the movement to end the war in Southeast Asia.
- Workers' self-management
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A form of workplace in which workers themselves make the decisions.
- Workers Unity League
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A national trade union federation that was formed in 1929 on the initiative of the Communist Party of Canada in line with the decision of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1928 that communists break with their previous policy of working inside existing labour parties and labour unions to push for more militant stances.
- The Working Class and Social Change
Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's.
- A Working-Class Hero Is Something To Be
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
As a 35-year veteran of union activity in America, I can personally attest that Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers (OCAW) was a rare bird, perhaps the last of his kind.
- Working Class History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Working-Class History
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The story of the changing conditions and actions of all working people.
- Working For Wages
The Roots of Insurgency
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
one of the crucial elements of our subject is contradiction. It is the element that is most difficult for traditional social science to comprehend and deal with. As a result, the conclusions and findings of academic research tend to be tentative and conservative.... The ordinary understanding of working-class activity is based on the idea that consciousness leads to, or causes, action. It would seem more valid to say that action leads to consciousness or, more precisely, that activity and consciousness interact in ways that are rarely predictable.
- Working Girls: Prostitutes, Their Life and Social Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
An analysis of prostitution laws in Austrailia and a discussion of the need for decriminalisation.
- Working Hours
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
In this article written around 1972, Guido Viale, a member of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, discusses the struggle for less work and shorter hours.
- Working in a supermarket
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
- Working in an office -- for a while
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The first thing that strikes one about working in this particular office is how little actual work ever gets done.
- Working in Nonprofit Organizations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If people want to work in jobs that provide some satisfaction and flexibility, nonprofits jobs can be good for a while. They’re also a way to learn some skills. But don’t have illusions about nonprofit organizations. A job in a nonprofit organization is still a job. A nonprofit job is not a good way to make a contribution to revolutionary change and it’s often not a very good contribution even to smaller scale reformist change.
- Working Paper on Technology and the Family Farm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
- Working Paper on Technology and the Family Farm.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
- Working Together
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Working together for peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Although English and French-speaking Canadians are sometimes at odds, the call for peace is universal. It is a language that all can agree on.
- Working Towards Appropriate Development - Report of the Second Eastern Ontario Workshop on Rual Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- A World at Financial War
Will Greece Let EU Central Bankers Destroy Democracy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The crisis for Greece – as for Iceland, Ireland and debt-plagued economies capped by the United States – is occurring as bank lobbyists demand that “taxpayers” pay for the bailouts of bad speculations and government debts stemming largely from tax cuts for the rich and for real estate, shifting the fiscal burden as well as the debt burden onto labor and industry. The financial sector’s growing power to achieve this tax favoritism is crippling economies, driving them further into reliance on yet more debt financing to remain solvent.
- World at Gunpoint
Or, what's wrong with the simplicity movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Global warming (or global climate catastrophe, as some rightly call it), as terrifying as it is, isn#t first and foremost a threat. It#s a consequence. we#ll have a better chance of succeeding if we recognize it as a predictable (at this point) result of burning oil and gas, of deforestation, of dam construction, of industrial agriculture, and so on. The real threat is all of these.
- World Bank: It's the Pits for the Poor
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In early May, a National Reparations Conference opened by Njongonkulu Ndungane, the radical Archbishop of Cape Town who succeeded Desmond Tutu, resolved to demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund compensate South Africa for apartheid loans long ago repaid. What is the line of argument?
- World Council on Religion for Peace/Canada
A Report and Statement to the Third Assembly of the World Council on Religion for Peace(WCRP) in Princeton, NJ 1979
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- World Cup 2010: Showcase South Africa
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
September 15, 2007, marked the beginning of a 1,000-day countdown to the 2010 International Federation of Football Associations World Cup hosted by South Africa, the first African nation ever to host the event. President Thabo Mbeki calls the premier soccer tournament “a golden opportunity to showcase Africa to the world” and adds that the South African government is determined to “show that the African renaissance is upon us and Africa’s time has come.”
- World Cup Woes for South Africa
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The overspending, crony capitalism and increased poverty the majority of South Africans now suffer are taking the fun out of the beautiful game, soccer. According to leading researcher Udesh Pillay of the SA Human Sciences Research Council, in 2005 one in three South Africans hoped to personally benefit from the World Cup, but this fell to one in five in 2009, and 1 in 100 today.
- World evil with its roots in the North
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Good drugs and bad drugs: the evolution of drugs and government, and implications for those suffering as a result of unfair trade policy.
- World Military and Social Expenditures 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
- World Naked Bike Ride
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
International clothing-optional bike ride.
- The World Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1923
Russia is now a horrible picture with its revolutionary double nature. It lies there like a huge wreck on the shore, broken up by its revolution. There was a moment when a small lifeboat was sent out to save Soviet Russia. That boat was the KAPD, the best and largest part of the Spartacus Bund, with its new and really revolutionary policy for the world revolution. But Russia with its Bolshevik Government despised the KAPD and declined its help.
- World Revolution and Communist Tactics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
World war and rapid economic collapse now make revolution objectively necessary before the masses have grasped communism intellectually: and this contradiction is at the root of the contradictions, hesitations and setbacks which make the revolution a long and painful process.
- World should intervene to end the Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Transcript of a speech given in South Africa addressing the circumstances of the Palestinians and the Israeli apartheid.
- World Social Forum
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An annual meeting that defines itself as "an opened space # plural, diverse, non-governmental and non-partisan # that stimulates the decentralized debate, reflection, proposals building, experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidary, democratic and fair world....a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism".
- The World Social Forum, 2004
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The fourth annual World Social Forum (WSF), held January 16-21 in the Indian city of Mumbai (what used to be called Bombay), drew 100,000 activists from over 130 countries. For three previous years it had been in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, to which it returns in 2005.
- World Socialist Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An international organisation of socialist parties created in 1904 with the founding of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
- World War II and Ethnic Conflict in LA
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, Scott Kurashige provides new insights into the struggle for racial equality in Los Angeles by focusing on collaboration, and competition, between African-American and Japanese American residents of the city.
- Worlds Apart: Economic Relations and Human Rights - Canada - Chile
Economic Relations and Human rights - Canada - Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
- Worse Than North Korea
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The reality is that we are dealing with a pariah state, no better at this point in its respect for international law and basic human rights (where non-Israelis are concerned), than North Korea. And maybe worse. At least the North Koreans fired their weapon at a South Korean military vessel. The Israeli Defense Force attacked a vessel filled with civilian peace activists, including elderly Holocaust survivors, members of foreign parliaments, and young children.
- Worst Companies for Union Organizing Highlighted for International Human Rights Day
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) has released #Working for Scrooge: Worst Companies of 2009 for the Right to Associate# # a list of the four worst multinational corporations for union organizing.
- The worst polluters in the U.S. for 1988
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Worthington provokes election controversy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.
- Wrestling with Ellison
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Nathaniel Mill's review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling With the Left (ATC 152, May-June 2011) raises a number of very important issues for understanding the politics of Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece, and by extension 20th-century African-American literature as a whole. In particular, Mills’ criticisms of Foley’s neglect of potentially liberatory moments in the text foregrounds the crucial issue of how revolutionary critics should go about the task of investigating novelistic politics.
- The Write Stuff
All you ever wanted to know about letter writing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The basics to effective letter writing lies in a little research on the writer's part and their ability to point out weakness in their targets.
- Write to us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Red Menace welcomes writers# and artists# contributions.
- Writing a Successful Case Study
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Readers love a good story. That's why these chronicles of success will often stand out on the editor's desk while press releases, media kits and other media communications fight a tough battle just to get noticed.
- Writing for broadcast
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Avoid the common pitfalls.
- Writings by Marx and Engels on the U.S. Civil War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1861 Published: 1862
- The Writings of David Roediger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Roediger criticizes Marxists for too often reducing racial discrimination to conflicts over resources, such as jobs or housing, that are manipulated by a society's upper classes in order to divert attention from the real sources of inequality. Such a focus, he argues, ignores the manner in which race and racial consciousness is integrally tied to class formation and working-class consciousness.
- WSF Youth Camp
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
First, a picture of the World Social Forum’s Youth Camp in Porto Alegre, Brazil: Imagine an unending sea of tents and tarps, hammocks hanging from the trees-all of it baking under the sun. Dirt paths divide the camp and are lined by a colorful array of vendors hawking soap, food (“Refri, agua!” was the constant chant), marijuana plants, and jewelry.
- The WTO's Nude World Order
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
It got intoxicating that Tuesday (Nov. 30, `99) in Seattle, without chemical assist. That capitalist machine that has looked so mighty and irresistible, for that day was stopped and defeated. Seattle marked the emergence of the next new left, a wildly diverse and creative bunch. And they will be operating on a changing terrain, where not just corporate misbehavior but capitalism appears the problem, and can be fought.
- Malcolm X
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. (1925-1965).
- The Year America Dissolved
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A vision of collapse.
- The Year of Awakening
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
- A Year of Banking Bailout
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Welcome to what to what I call the Second Great Bank Depression. Why that name? Because this period of economic chaos, loss, and global financial destruction was manufactured by the men who shaped the banking sector.
- The Year One of Hoffa Junior
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
One of James Hoffa's first initiatives after assuming the office of Teamsters General President was-no giggling please-to announce that he was launching a "self-policing" anti-corruption effort called Project RISE (Respect, Integrity, Strength, Ethics). A few months later, to lend his effort sorely needed anti-corruption credentials, Junior Hoffa hired former U.S. prosecutor Ed Steir and ex-FBI official James Kossler to front for Project RISE as "advisors."
- The Years of 9/11
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The decade that opened with the attacks of September 11, 2011 may have symbolically closed with the elite U.S. death-squad assassination of Osama bin Laden. But the turmoil of these post-9/11 years, notably the self-inflicted wounds of U.S. capitalism, have exceeded the terrorist mastermind’s wildest dreams. There are the wars that George W. Bush, with the support of congressional Democrats, launched in Afghanistan and Iraq — wars that the government promised wouldn’t have to be paid for — leading to a major U.S. defeat in Iraq, a defeat all the more damaging because it is not acknowledged as such, and a quagmire in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Yellow journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Yes - Questions and Answers on Sovereignty-Association
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
- Yes Means No?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.
- Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel
An Answer to Uri Avnery
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The BDS campaign was initiated by a broad coalition of Palestinian political and social movements. No Israeli who claims to support the national rights of the Palestinian people can, decently, turns his or her back to that campaign: after having claimed for years that "armed struggle is not the way," it will be outrageous that this BDS strategy will too be disqualified by those Israeli activists. On the contrary, we must all together join to "Boycott from Within" in order to provide Israeli support to this Palestinian initiative. It is the minimum we can do, and it is the minimum we should do.
- Yetiskinlere okumayi ogretmek
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Fakat Ontario nun bir gercegi bir milyonu askin fonksiyonel cahil insani olmasidir - Bunlar geri kalmis okuma becerieri oldugundan ciddi problemler yasamaktadirlar, ornegin gazette okuyamayan insanlar.
- You are a threat to the security of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
- You Are What You Think
Markos Moulitsas' "American Taliban"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
America#s main international enemy#Islamic radicalism#favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
- You Can Run, Not Hide, From Great Gumshoe Greene
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Profile of an independent sleuth specializing in missing persons.
- You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship
The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979 Published: 1981
An Australian socialist-libertarian response to terrorism in the aftermath of the 1978 Sidney Hilton bombing, and a meditation on the inferior logic of terrorist-based politics.
- You either believe in freedom or you don't
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Speak out for human rights by joining the European Community and the majority of the United Nations in calling for a free East Timor.
- You, Sources, and Getting the Most Out of the Internet Including Six Internet Fictions to Consider
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The Internet is part of a communications strategy but it can't be the only part.
- You'll Never Be Good Enough: Schooling and Social Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The remarkable thing about the public schools isn't that some teachers become demoralized and "burned out," or that some students drop out or do poorly, but that so many teachers and students achieve so much in the face of a system designed to fail.
- Your Money, Or Your Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Single Payer will save lives, but it also will save money. The exorbitant salaries of Insurance Company CEOs will be eliminated. The profit motive for investors will be eliminated. Administrative costs will be reduced because one single payer will replace a large number of insurance companies - all with different forms, different standards, and different requirements for an endless stream of mind-numbing paper work.
- Your Rights as a Tenant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A booklet providing information and simple explanations of the laws governing landlord and tenant relationships in Ontario.
- Your virtual storefront: Your telephone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998 Published: 1999
Don't let a poorly thought out phone system interfere with your media relations.
- Youth Confront California's Prop 21
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
When it became clear early on the evening of March 7 that California's Juvenile Crime Initiative (Proposition 21) had passed by a wide majority, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco, converging outside the Mission district police station. Earlier that day, more than 500 protesters shut down San Francisco's Hilton hotel, protesting at the hotel's support of the Initiative.
- Youth International Party (Yippies)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A youth-oriented radical and countercultural offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s.
- Youth Subdued
8 Ways Young Americans Have Been Dominated
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. But now young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it.
- Yugoslav Left Oppositionists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
- Yugoslav Partisans
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A Communist-led World War II resistance movement engaged in the fight against Axis forces and their collaborators in Yugoslavia from 1941-1945.
- Yugoslavia Dismembered
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
All of the various international plans for Bosnia, from the ill-fated Vance-Owen arrangement to the current Dayton Accords, codify ethnic cleansing. In each scenario, Bosnia is to be partitioned along national lines. The logic of this is to continue the population transfer processes in order to carve out contiguous territories dominated by the right nationalities. How artificial are these new borders which carve up a mixed republic into ethnic cantons! Yet the enforcers of this round of ethnic cleansing are not the nationalist militias but the NATO peacekeepers.
- Yugoslavia's Post-Milosevic Paradox
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
At first, the media described the fall of Milosevic as "a popular uprising against a tyrant." Then, mass mobilization was played down, and the movement to oust Milosevic was reduced to a staged drama with, behind the scenes, the puppet-master forces of the "West."
- Zanj Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A series of revolts by some 500,000 slaves against their Muslim owners and rulers, 869-883 AD.
- Zapata, Emiliano
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910. (1879-1919).
- Zapatistas
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Revolutionary group based in Chiapas, the southernmost, and one of the poorest, states of Mexico.
- Zasulich, Vera
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Russian Marxist and revolutionary 1849-1919.
- Zebra mussels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
- Zebra mussels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
- Zehn Mythen über das Gesundheitssystem
Hintergründe über die gesetzliche Krankenversicherung in Kanada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995 Published: 2009
Eine Übersicht über das kanadische Gesundheitssystem im Vergleich mit dem der USA.
- Barbara Zeluck, 1923-2010
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Our comrade Barbara Zeluck died at her home June 5, 2010 in New York City.
- The Zero Garbage Lunch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Preparing lunches that produce no garbage.
- Zetkin, Clara
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German socialist. (1857-1933).
- Zetkin, Clara
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
German socialist. (1857-1933).
- Zimbabwe: Mbeki to Mugabe's Rescue
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Consider these wise words from a leading African National Congress politician: "As we speak, the neoliberal orthodoxy sits as a tyrant on the throne of political-economic policymaking. The dominant social and economic forces are doing their utmost to hegemonize the discourse — both materially and in respect of how developmental processes are to be institutionalized and theorized. Among other things, they use such transnational governmental organizations as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization to shape the discourse within which policies are defined, the terms and concepts that circumscribe what can be thought and done."
- Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The one-party system of Zimbabwe.
- Zimbabwean feminist speaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
If one looks at the experience of women in Zimbabwe and one looks at the role of the state in relation to women#s lives, the state has never had the interests of women at heart. Women are only considered citizens when the state has something to gain.
- Zinn, Howard
Connexipedia Article
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American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).
- Zinoviev, Grigory
Connexipedia Article
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Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Communist. (1883-1936).
- Zionism doesn#t define Jews: It divides us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Zionist theory denied the legitimate presence of an emerging, indigenous nation in Palestine. Zionist practice ensured its dispossession and exile.
- Zionism - tried and failed: Interview with Akiva Orr
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In the end, the Zionist thing is basically, from a Jewish point of view, a failure. It's not safe and it doesn't preserve the Jewish identity.
- Zionism vs. Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Mainstream and right-wing Zionism has always been tangled up in this catch 22: wanting to be normal, yet at the same time wanting to be seen as totally unique, singled out, attacked more unfairly than any other nation and, thus, quite abnormal. The more Israelis have tried to become normal by naming and defeating their enemies, the deeper they've entrenched themselves in their myth of being the uniquely persecuted people.
- Zionism's Many "Returns"
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Zionist historians — like their counterparts in Australia, South Africa, the United States and other settler societies — hold the dispossession of the Palestinian people to be extraneous to their general history, rather than the integral part that it is. Studying Israel’s foundational myths and historiography through the lens of comparative settler colonialism allows Gabriel Piterberg to keep the Palestinian half of the relational history ever present.
- Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla
Doing a Full Monty for Tel Aviv
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
As long as we misunderstand the importance of Palestine for the world’s future, we shall be trapped in an endless “Middle East Crisis”.
- Zola, Émile
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French writer. (1840-1902).
- Zuccotti Park's Burgeoning Micro-Neighborhoods May Indicate Deeper Divisions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
- Zwiazek Organizacji Wojskowej
Connexipedia Article
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An underground resistance organization formed by Witold Pilecki at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940.
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