- A co teraz?
Kasa Oszczednosciowa nastepstwem Wolnego Handlu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- A is for Anachronism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Experiences of a teacher.
- Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
Malicious Government Prosecution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy.
- Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Information Freedom
They Can't Stop the Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Aaron Swartz was a target of a deliberately vicious, sadistic government campaign in which the federal government wanted to make his pain an example to the entire progressive techie community. What’s more, his death was the outcome of a policy that is a threat to human freedom.
- Abahlali baseMjondolo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
- Abandonando el Interés Público
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2001
- Abandoning the Public Interest
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2001
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Traditional) Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Farsi Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Abandonner l'intérêt publique
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2000
- Abbey, Edward
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1995
- Abolitionism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A movement in Western Europe and the Americas to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves.
- Abortion and Conscience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
I am as in favour of a woman’s right to abortion as I am hostile to Creationism. I recognize, however, a fundamental difference between insisting that all biology teachers teach the theory of evolution and forcing a doctor to perform an abortion against his or her will. I recognize, too, a fundamental difference between defending a woman’s right to choose and insisting that this includes the right to compel a doctor to perform an abortion. Not to recognise such distinctions is to distort the very idea of morality.
- An Abortion Doctor's Jailhouse Journal
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
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, Infanticide, Humanity, Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Abortion is right, and infanticide is wrong, because there IS a moral boundary between the fetus and the newborn.
- Abortion procedures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Abortion Stays Legal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Bill C-43 was defeated in 1991, keeping abortion legal in Canada.
- About Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010 Published: 2011
- About Connexions - Farsi
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- About Connexions - Japanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Academic Freedom Threatened in Ontario Universities
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1976
Proposal for funding for a community media resource unit.
- Access to Housing, A Regional Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- An Account from Madison
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1983
- Accumulation and Control of Labor
Resource Type: Article
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
- Accumulation, Imperialism, and Pre-Capitalist Formations
Luxemburg and Marx on the non-Western World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Acerca de Connexions
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1977
Brochure that describes several organizations dedicated to the delivery of legal service to individuals and groups.
- Action Proposals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Action Will Be Taken
Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article
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 archiving in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
- Activist's Handbook
Resource Type: Article
Articles for activists on organizing.
- Les actualities televisees: le monde recree au service du pouvoir.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Adalen shootings
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1850
- Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1981
- Adivasi Movements in India: An Interview with Poet Waharu Sonavane
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Waharu is a Bhil Adivasi, long-time poet and activist. Since the 1970s, he has been organizing for Adivasi self-sufficiency among his community near his hometown in western India.
- The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues
Resource Type: Article
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
German-born international intellectual, sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. (1903-1969).
- Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1997
Principles of secular humanism.
- Affirmative Action or Class Solidarity?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1857 Published: 1858
An encyclopedia article by Engels.
- Afghanistan 1979-1992
America's Jihad
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
- Afghanistan: the Smell of Defeat
Cut-and-Run Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The United States hasn’t liberated Afghanistan. It hasn’t rebuilt Afghanistan. It hasn’t removed the warlords from power, curtailed opium production, established strong democratic institutions, or improved life for ordinary working people. The US hasn’t achieved any of its strategic objectives.
- Africa in the 1990's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- African-American Socialist Pioneer
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
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
- African Americans' Forced Labor
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
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 Americans Ignored in the Age of Obama
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A truly equal and diverse United States is not possible unless all Americans come to grips with the origins of the race issue, its centrality to U.S. politics, and why African-American issues must be central to revitalizing the civil rights and labour movements — which also requires rebuilding the dream for full equality by direct action.
- African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
This book sets out to place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
- African Mine Workers' Strike of 1946
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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.
- African Odyssey Turns to the South
The Great Migrations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Chronicles the economic hardships faced by Africans and the means they take to alleviate their suffering.
- Afro-Asian Collaborations
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1946
- After the Democrats' Debacle
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1999
What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
- After the Revolution, What?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1976
Critiques of government employment strategies in the urban core/skid row areas.
- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Hell
Entrenching Murder as the American Way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Washington Post has just laid out, in horrifying, soul-slaughtering detail, the Obama Administration’s ongoing effort to expand, entrench and “codify” the practice of murder and terrorism by the United States government. The avowed, deliberate intent of these sinister machinations is to embed the use of death squads and drone terror attacks into the policy apparatus of future administrations, so that the killing of human beings outside all pretense of legal process will go on, year after year after year, even when the Nobel Peace Laureate has left office.
- The Age of Ingenuity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
- Ageism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2008
Publication on the Agenda for Change: The Right to Freedom of Expression in Nepal.
- Agent provocateur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1977
- An Agreement of the Free People of England
Manifesto of the Levellers
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1647 Published: 1649
- Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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."
- AIPAC’s Doomsday Conference
It's the End of the World Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Iran, Israel, and the improbability of nuclear attack.
- Air Force Invades the Rocky Mountains
Sky Grab
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1992
- Akweks Funds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Akwesasne
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1990
- Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article
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
- Alberta rivers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- A Alegria da Revoluçao
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
- Alexandra Kollontai and Red Love
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
Historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. (Born 1943).
- Alienation
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of Terms
Resource Type: Article
The process whereby people become foreign to the world they are living in.
- Alienation, Marx's theory of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1971
- Alinsky, Saul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American community organizer and writer. (1909-1972).
- All cultures are not equal
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1992
- All the World's A Rage?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1980
- Already in Hell: Labor After Communism
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1978
- Alternate Societies
A brief survey on intentional community in European history
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1981
- Alternative media
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
- Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2007
- Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
Resource Type: Article
- Amer Jubran: From Exile to Exile
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2011
- America Likes Democracy, Except In Venezuela
Chavez in the Crosshairs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Venezuelans can be sure that their vote counts. The government in Venezuela has done everything to increase voter registration and participation.
- American Anti-Slavery Society
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2011
- American Blowback
Cop-on-Cop Crime in LA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- American Cartoonists Rap on the Danish Flap
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2012
- The American Economy: Crisis and Policy
Resource Type: Article
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
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 Jacobins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In a recent broadside against the Occupy movement, Alexander Cockburn assailed, among other things, “the enormous arrogance which prompted the Occupiers to claim that they were indeed the most important radical surge in living memory. Where was the knowledge of, let alone the respect for, the past?”
- American Poetry's "Labor Problem" - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Book review of 'Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry' by John Marsh.
- American Primitive in Red, Black and White: Race and Class in the U.S.
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2011
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- America’s Baleful Worldwide Pressure
The Way the Wind Blows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The overweening arrogance of the United States in conduct of its foreign relations is evident throughout the world.
- America's Complicity in Evil
Barbarism on the High Seas
Resource Type: Article
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 Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff
How Today’s Fiscal Austerity is Reminiscent of World War I’s Economic Misunderstandings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An exploration of how today’s fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I’s economic misconceptions.
- America’s Last Chance
One Against the Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The United States is rapidly being turned into a police state.
- America's last taboo
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1979
- An Analysis of the Decreasing Viability of Small and Medium sized Farms in Canada.
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
Published: 2004
- Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
Political movements focused on achieving human liberation through political action.
- Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
A critique of Marxism, with emphasis on its alleged obsession with economics.
- Anarchism, Representation, and Culture
Cohn, Jesse
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1978
- Anarchist communism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
A chronoligical list of anarchist periodicals.
- Anarchist St. Imier International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An international anarchist organization formed in 1872.
- The "Anarcho-Liberal"
Resource Type: Article
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
A form of anarchism which completely rejects the use of violence in any form for any purpose.
- Anarcho-syndicalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Anarchy is struggle for life, freedom and dignity
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1983
- Anderson, Doris
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
- Anderson, Doris
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
- Anecdotes Tell Dramatic Story of British Underground Press
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1988
- Animal Crackers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1982
- Annual Report, 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Annual Report, Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1975-76
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1987
- L'annuel Connexions: Introduction à l'environnement, l'utilisation agraire et la campagne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction à la Santé
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction à l'Économie, la Pauvreté et le Travail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au chapitre de la Paix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au chapitre des femmes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au Développement International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux Arts, Médias et Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux chapitre des Lesbiennes, Homosexuels et Bisexuels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux Droits Humains et aux Libertés Civiles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction la Communauté, l'Urbanisme et le Logis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction sur l'Éducation et les Enfants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Another Immoral Adventure
US Troops to Uganda
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Another Way for Kosovo?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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First Published: 1990
- Anthony, Susan B.
Connexipedia Article
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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
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
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Violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion.
- Anti-capitalism
Connexipedia Article
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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
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
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
First Published: 1996
- Anti-Church Movement Demonstration in Hyde Park
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First Published: 1855
- An anti-clerical policy of Socialism
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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
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First Published: 1997
- Anti-consumerism
Connexipedia Article
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The socio-political movement against consumerism, the equation of personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions.
- The Anti-Coup
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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
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
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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
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First Published: 1923
- An Anti-Imperialist War Resister
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
A international movement against the use of nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
- Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
Resource Type: Article
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-Science: Left and Right Together?
A Systematic Attack on Rationality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The suggestion that left and right thinking may be converging on matters scientific will, no doubt, be offensive to some on the left. After all, the right chooses myth over evolution, and oil profits over climate science.
- Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1992
- The Anti-Nuclear Movement in Review: Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1990
- Anti-Semitism and Socialism
A Reply to Gorelick
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Anti-Terrorism Begins at Home
Viva House refuses to sign United Way "loyalty oath"
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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- Anti-fascism isn't working
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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.
- The Anti-Semitism That Goes Unreported
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Our grandparents knew that the order-enforcement authorities wouldn't intervene to help a Jewish family under attack; we know that the Israel Defense Forces, the Israel Police, the Civil Administration, the Border Police and the courts all stand on the sidelines, closing their eyes, softballing investigations, ignoring evidence, downplaying the severity of the acts, protecting the attackers, and giving a boost to those progromtchiks. The hands behind these attacks belong to Israeli Jews who violate international law by living in the West Bank. But the aims and goals behind the attacks are the flesh and blood of the Israeli non-occupation. This systemic violence is part of the existing order. It complements and facilitates the violence of the regime.
- Anti-statism
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- Antithesis of Capital and Labour. Landed Property and Capital
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First Published: 1844
- Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing
Against The Current vol. 85
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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
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
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a la Educación, Niños
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a la Salud
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a las Artes, Medios, Cultura
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a los Derechos Humanos y Libertades Civiles
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Ambiente, Uso de Tierra, Rural
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de la Paz
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de las Mujeres
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de Personas Nativas
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Desarrollo, Internacional
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First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Apartheid "Peace" Explodes
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Apocalypse and the Left
Endgame or Business as Usual?
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First Published: 2013
- Appeal to the Slavs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1848
When reaction conspires throughout Europe, when it works without stint, with the help of an organization slowly and carefully prepared, stretching all over the land, the revolution should create for itself a power capable of fighting it.
- Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
Resource Type: Article
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
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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
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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
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
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First Published: 1975
Report of the first National Conference of the Skid Row National Coalition.
- Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Article
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
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 Detroit, Targeted Community
Against The Current vol. 157
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First Published: 2012
Since September 11, 2001, the Detroit area’s Arab-American community has become a convenient source of media reports, an object of investigation by government agencies, and a target of hatred for Americans looking for someone to blame for the 9/11 attacks.
- Arab Jews vs. Palestinians: Israel's Refugee Pawns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Israel's attempt to compare Arab Jews to Palestinian refugees.
- Arab Revolt (1916 - 1918)
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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.
- Archiving With May Day Rooms
From the Marx Memorial Library to Cold Bath Fields
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destroys the evidence of our past, its joys, its victories. Clear out the closets, empty the shelves, toss out the old footage, shred the underground press, pulverize the brittle, yellowing documents! Thus neo-liberalism organizes the transition from the old to the new; they must silence alternatives.
- Are US Troops Targeting Journalists?
Incidents Raise Suspicions on Motive
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First Published: 2012
It is dangerous in the extreme to be a journalist covering America’s wars, at least beginning with Vietnam.
- Are We Having Sex Now or What?
Resource Type: Article
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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First Published: 1855
- Arms and the Woman
Resource Type: Article
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
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First Published: 1987
- ARMX on the march
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First Published: 1990
- Arrêtons de se faire des illusions
Le magazine Canadien Dimensions discute du Nouveau Parti Démocratique Canadien
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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First Published: 1847 Published: 1848
- Articles by Engels in the Labour Standard 1878-1881
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First Published: 1883
- Articles by Engels on the Death of Karl Marx
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First Published: 1883
- Articles by Friedrich Engels in La Reforme October 1847 - March 1848
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First Published: 1847 Published: 1848
- Articles by Friedrich Engels in New Moral World October 1843 - November 1844
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First Published: 1843 Published: 1844
- Articles by Friedrich Engels in The Northern Star December 1843 - December 1849
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First Published: 1843 Published: 1849
- Articles by Karl Marx in the New York Daily Tribune
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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
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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
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First Published: 1848 Published: 1849
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
- Articles by Marx & Engels in the Rheinische Zeitung April 1842 - March 1843
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First Published: 1842 Published: 1843
- Artists/Photographers wanted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Arumer Zwarte Hoop
Connexipedia Article
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An army of peasant rebels in Friesland fighting the Dutch authorities from 1515 to 1523.
- The Arusha Declaration
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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First Published: 1978
- As We Don't See It
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1997
- Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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.
- Assessing the Battle of Longview
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
How does the Occupy movement connect with more militant segments of the workers’ movement?
- Assignment 1: LGBT Equality
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
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
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...
- At the crossroads between 'Green Economy' and rights of nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Under the rhetoric of “green economy”, capitalists are actually attempting to use nature as capital, proposing unconvincingly that the only way to preserve natural elements such as water and forests is through private investment.
- At the Dark End of the Street - book review
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle McGuire.
- Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1982
- Atlantic Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Atlantic Provinces' Heritage and Environmental Groups.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
- Atomic Sludge Monster Devours Edmonton!!
Resource Type: Article
The nuclear industry was facing tough times, so they needed to diversify.
- Atoms For War: The Saskatchewan Connection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- Att överge allmänintresset
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- The Attack on American Muslims
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
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.”
- Attacking Gun Culture at Its Source
No Justice, No Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
When you rob people of their self-respect and sense of control over their own lives, use them as means to your own ends, and treat them like garbage, don’t be surprised if you don’t like the destructive methods they choose to assert their sense of self. By all means let’s feel sympathy for the innocent victims when the worm turns — but let’s also never forget who set things in motion.
- Attacks on the press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Attitudes at the Canadian Grassroots
Signs and Portents in the Seventies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
A report on people's attitudes across Canada.
- Atwesasne Notes editor cleared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Auditor raps waste dumping
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Ausserparlamentarische Opposition
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1988
Myles Horton ist der Gründer der Highlander Folk School, einem Ausbildungszentrum in Tennessee.
- Austerity and Resistance: Lessons from the 2012 Quebec Student Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The student strike in Quebec has ended, in a rather clear victory. After a seven month-long struggle — the longest of its kind in Quebec history — students have won a cancellation of the proposed tuition hike, a pledge to repeal the infamous Law 78 that had criminalized demonstrations, and the ouster of Premier Jean Charest and his Liberal government.
- Austerity and U.S. Decline
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2010
Australia rejects politically motivated censorship attempts.
- Australian maritime dispute of 1890
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1992
- Auto Industry Strikes in China
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1994
- Les Autochones et nous: Vivre ensemble
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- L’autodétermination pour qui ?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- The Automated Bread Factory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Autonomism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2003
- Autonomy vs. the Mexican Party-State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
The development of autonomous local governments in Mexico.
- Autonomy zone on Wall Street?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Israeli human rights activists, founders of the Gush Shalom peace movement.
- The Awakening in America
Resource Type: Article
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
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.
- Back in the USA
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
Impressions from a trip to the Soviet Union.
- Back to Marx
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1983
- Background to Bush's Debacle: Iraq and the Empire
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Censoring the Internet.
- Backwards From Back-wards: The Unmet Needs of Recovering Psychiatric Patients in Edmonton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- Backyard Habitats
Resource Type: Article
- Bacon's Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An uprising in which poor whites and poor blacks united against Natives.
- Bad Pharma, Bad Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
‘The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal’, from Ben Goldacre's new book, Bad Pharma presents a disturbing picture emerges of corporate drug abuse.
- Baez, Joan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Folk singer, songwriter and activist. (Born 1941).
- Bailando con la culpa: Los hombres hablando de la violencia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Bailing Out Banks, Smashing Unions
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
Rent freeze organizers state their case.
- Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1977
Bain residents refusing to pay their full rent are to be served eviction notices.
- BAKAUI
Resource Type: Article
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
African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).
- Bakounine contre Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Bakunin, Mikhail
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Russian anarchist and revolutionary. (1814-1876).
- Bakunin on Marx and Rothschild
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1871 Published: 1979
- Bakunin vs Marx
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1984 Published: 1991
Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
- The Ballot and the Bullet
Election Diary, Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The 2012 Venezuelan election, like Chávez himself, is the result of something far more profound that has been developing for decades, and which has accelerated considerably in recent years.
- Ban on disposable diapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- The Ban on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
- Bank imposes 'voluntary' drug tests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Banking on Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious transactions to move through the banking system absent adequate monitoring or oversight.
- Banning Cars from Manhattan
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1966
- Barlow, Maude
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1979
- Barrie deaths investigated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Barter
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
The father of the modern United States nudist movement.
- Barton awards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Barton awards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- A Basic Call to Consciousness
The Hau de no sau nee Address to the Western World
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
- Basics and Tools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
- Battered Women: How to Use the Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- The Battle for Brooklyn
The Abuse of Eminent Domain
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
Resource Type: Article
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
A shootout in the coal company town of Matewan, West Virginia on May 19, 1920.
- Battle of Orgreave
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1977
- Baxandall, Lee
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
A massacre of demonstrators by the Wisconsin National Guard.
- BBC High Court defence against Trafigura libel suit
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2011
The campaign by the establishment press against Julian Assange is intensifying.
- The BBC's 'Bogeyman' Narrative on Hugo Chavez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The changes in Venezuela, and throughout Latin America, over the past decade: the development of peaceful, democratic alternatives to the policies of neoliberalism; standards of living improved for millions of people following a process that has had popular, democratic support, are at risk of being written off as simply the actions of another 'anti-American' 'bogeyman' due to the media's relentless negative treatment of the Venezuelan government.
- B.C. abortion clinic vandalized
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- B.C. Ecologue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
A handbook for study and action on the ecological crisis.
- B.C. Gay Resources Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- A BDS Movement That Works
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In 2005, a call was issued for global nonviolent resistance to occupation through acts of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.They had three goals: an end to occupation and return to the pre-1967 Green Line, equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and recognition of the Palestinian right of return.
- 'Be his payment high or low'
The American Working Class in the Sixties
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Beat Generation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).
- Bebel, August
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1844
- Before the White Race Was Invented
Review of The Invention of the White Race
Resource Type: Article
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
- Begegnung mit dem Schuldbewusstsein
Eine Beobachtung von Männern, die sich mit Gewalt auseinandersetzen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- The Beginning
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1969
- Behind Murder With Impunity
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
Putting profits ahead of human rights.
- The Belgian General Strike
Resource Type: Article
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
Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. (Born 1945).
- A Bend in the Labyrinth - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Book review of 'The Century’s Midnight: Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World War' by Clive Bush.
- Benefit to Canada no longer matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Benjamin, Walter
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1977
- Berkman, Alexander
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
- Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
- Berman, Marshall
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American philosopher and Marxist Humanist writer. (Born 1940).
- Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
Resource Type: Article
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
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
(Born 1925). American philosopher and former Major League Baseball player and manager.
- Berrigan, Daniel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American poet, peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. (Born 1921).
- Bertell, Rosalie
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Canadian-American researcher who has worked in the field of environmental health. (Born 1929).
- Berton, Pierre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
- Berton, Pierre
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
- Bertrand Russell's Last Message
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Exposing an issue that was otherwise overlooked or under-reported by national news media.
- The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Bethune, Norman
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
The actual lives and actions of people themselves reveal a deep-seated belief in the possibility and even the certainty of a better future.
- Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far left segment).
- Beyond capitalist green economy: In defence of Mother Earth and the commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Democratic Left Front calls for action against destructive corporate interests that are driving the commercialisation and commodification of the natural environment.
- Beyond Gay Identity
Resource Type: Article
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
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
- Beyond Radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
What conservatives could bring to the climate conversation.
- Beyond Survival: Healing the incest wound
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Beyond the Ballot
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2010
Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
- Beyond the Fields
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1983
- Beyond the Sacred
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
- Beyond Voting
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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.”
- The Bias of Human Rights Watch
Promoting Injustice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The reports issued by Human Rights Watch over the past decade have increasingly exhibited a bias towards certain rights over others. More precisely, Human Rights Watch repeatedly focuses on political and civil rights while ignoring social and economic rights.
- Bibb, Henry
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Author and abolitionist who was born a slave. (1815-1854).
- Big Bear
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisoned. (1825-1888).
- Big Bear
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisonedt. (1825-1888).
- Big Brother's Getting Bigger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Government surveillance and attacks on the privacy of American citizens were bad enough under the Bush regime but they are getting even worse during the Obama years.
- Big game hunters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Big increases for civil service managers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- The big robo-calling question: will anyone go to jail?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1980
- Billboard Liberation Front Manual
Resource Type: Article
Tactics for improving outdoor advertising.
- Billionaires, Crime, and Corruption
Resource Type: Article
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
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
The variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth.
- Biography of Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1892
- A Biological Walk Down Wall Street
Economics, Symbiosis and Parasitoids
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1990
- Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Bioregionalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Canadian poet, twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature. (1904-1995).
- Biró, András
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Advcoate for Roma self-reliance and founder of the Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance (HFSR). (Born 1925).
- Birth Control
Resource Type: Article
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
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
- Bisexuality
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
A 28-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America,
- B.J. Widick, 1910-2008
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
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.
- B.J. Widick and the UAW
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Black Bloc
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2012
- Black Bloc Provocateurs Set Strasbourg Hotel on Fire
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1977
- Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
African-American organization established to promote Black Power.
- The Black Panthers Reconsidered
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- Black Teachers’ Revolt of the 1960s
Educational Apartheid in Chicago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Chicago’s educational apartheid has a history which includes the racial segregation of its schools, the allocation of resources on an unequal basis and second class treatment for teachers of color. It was Jim Crow North. But there was also resistance, a resistance which grew into a powerful social movement during the 1960’s.
- Black and White on the Inside
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1989
Obituary of Connexions collective member Elgin Blair. (Died 1989).
- Blake, William
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Blaming the victims of sexual assault.
- Blanqui, Louis Auguste
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
French political activist, founder of the revolutionary theory of Blanquism. (1805-1881).
- Blasted in a West Virginia Mine
Resource Type: Article
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 Israe's security state
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2011
- Blinded by the Truth
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2000
Launching your own public relations campaign.
- Bob King and the "New" UAW
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
A Chinese-American author, anti-racist activist and feminist. (Born 1915).
- Bogus, Misdirected and Effective
Resource Type: Article
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
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First Published: 1979
- Bolívar, Simón
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The leader of a popular uprising in Russia known as the Bolotnikov rebellion. (Died 1608).
- Bolshevik Party
Entry in the Marxists Internet Archive Glossary
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The Bolshevik party led the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- Bolshevism and Stalinism
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1992
- Book on transformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Book Review: A Review of Mary Gabriel’s Love and Capital and Some Thoughts Prompted by the Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In Love and Capital, published in 2011, Mary Gabriel makes a really good case that love was at the center of the life of the revolutionary named Karl Marx.
- Book Review: African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Conspicuously absent from the renewed and resurgent discourse amongst anti-capitalist forces and the popular imagination was sub-Saharan Africa, “black Africa,” the Africa of the eternal cycle of dictators, corruption, famine, “bad governance” and debt. African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions ambitiously sets out to remedy this and place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
- Book Review: "Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?" by Wayne Price
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939,1969)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
What makes A History of Pan African Revolt enchanting is the thread of speculative philosophy that holds the assorted anecdotal historical commentaries on labor strikes, anti-racist rebellions, heroic personalities, and anti-colonial events together.
- book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939, 1969)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A small and dangerous volume, this republication of C.L.R. James’s A History of Pan-African Revolt is a concise survey of Black freedom struggles in the United States, the Caribbean, and on the African continent from 1739–1969.
- Book Review: Eric Leif Davin, Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960 (2010)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Book review on Eric Leif Davin's Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland 1914-1960.
- Book Review: John Eric Marot, The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History (2012)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
This is a book review concerning a very important book, one of the very few books published since 1991 on the “Russian Question” that will compel people (this reviewer included), long wedded to different characterizations of the post-1917 or post-1929 Soviet regime, to think through their commitments.
- Book Review: Kevin Anderson, Marx at the Margins (2010)
Resource Type: Article
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 Review: Marixism without Marx: Recent Interpretations of the Economic Crisis
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First Published: 2012
- Book Review: Marxism without Marx: Recent Interpretations of the Economic Crisis
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First Published: 2012
- Book Review: Michael D. Yates, ed., Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back (2012)
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First Published: 2012
Book review on Michael Yates Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back.
- Book Review: Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politivcs of Anarchism and Syndicalism
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First Published: 2013
- Book Review: The Condition of the Working Classes in England
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Reveiw of Nicholas Comfort, Surrender: How British Industry Gave Up the Ghost, 1952–2012 (2012) and Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (2011).
- Book seizures challenged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Bookchin, Murray
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
- Bookchin on Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Murray Bookchin#s arguments for a liberatory technology.
- Books banned by governments, list of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2006
Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
- Books on breast cancer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Boom and Bust... Literally
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
First Published: 1990
- Brazil: Changing Lives Through the Power of Dance
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Health, social problems linked to bread.
- Break-ins against activist groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Breaking the Spell of Stupid Opinions
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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
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German poet, playwright, theatre director, and radical. (1898-1956).
- Bridges, Harry
Connexipedia Article
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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
First Published: 1977
- A Brief History of Connexions
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- A Brief History of Loyal Opposition to War
Resource Type: Article
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 Superpowers
The Neck Irons of Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
From the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 to the “Allies” invasion of Russia in 1918 to the formation of what became the European Union in the 1950s, the great powers of Europe and the world have gotten together in grand meeting halls and on the field of battle to set the ground rules for imperialist exploitation of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, to Christianize and ‘civilize’, to remake the maps, and to suppress revolutions and other threats to great-power hegemony.
- A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
- A Brief Look at Public Alternative Schools in Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- A Brief on Energy Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- A Brief on the Effects of Inflation on Welfare Recipients
Presented to P.E.I. Cabinet Ministers
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1980
- Brief Outline of the Labrador Inuit Association
President's Report for the 1979 Annual General Meeting
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- Brief Presented to the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- A Brief Presented to the Commission of Inquiry on Redundancies and Lay-Offs
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Brief Theory of the Present Crisis
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Brief to NDP Caucus
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Brief to the Board of Directors, The Wellesley Hospital.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Brief to the National Assembly Committee on Natural Resources at Hearings on Energy Policy.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Brief to the National Unity Task Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Brief to the Renewable Resources Committee, the Select Committee of the New Brunswick Legislature.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
- Brief to the Select Committee on Renewable Resources, New Brunswick Legislature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Brief to the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self-Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
- Briefs to the People's Commission on Unemployment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Bring In The Paper, Bring On The Torches
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1995
Diversity provides an opportunity for activist organizations to strengthen themselves. A lot depends on how it's done.
- Bringing the Battlefield to the Border
The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The U.S.-Mexican border has not only become Ground Zero for every experiment in immigration enforcement and drug interdiction, but also the incubator, testing site, showcase, and staging ground for ever newer versions of border-enforcement technology that, sooner or later, are sure to be applied globally.
- Brinton, Maurice
Connexipedia Article
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Libertarian socialist writer and neurologist. (1923-2005).
- Brisbane general strike of 1912
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Britain - Its contribution to Socialism, Marxism and Workers' Organisation
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2011
- The British Columbia Family Relations Act: The Complete Laywoman's Guide (1980).
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
- British Columbia Woodworkers' Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1989
- Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism
Resource Type: Article
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
American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).
- Brown, Rosemary
Connexipedia Article
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Canadian politician, prominent member of the New Democratic Party. (1930-2003).
- Bruce, Lenny
Connexipedia Article
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American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. (1925-1966).
- Bruderhof Communities
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Christian religious communities with branches in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania in the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia.
- The Brutal Tragedy at Marikana
Against The Current vol. 160
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The following statement, “A Brutal Tragedy that Never Should Have Happened,” was issued by the editors of Amandla! immediately following the August 16 shooting of striking miners.
- Dennis Brutus: Honored by the Enemies He Kept
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1990
- Budget spares banks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Budget Woes, Class Wars
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
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
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
A strike in August 1892 by railroad workers employed by three railroads in Buffalo, New York.
- Building a Solidarity City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A Solidarity City is the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and anguish, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for other Montrealers confronting these same realities.
- Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship?
The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940
Resource Type: Article
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
Marxist theoretician, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. (1888-1938).
- Bukharin, Nikolai
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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Marxist theoretician, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. (1888-1938).
- Bukharin, Bunting and the 'Native Republic Slogan'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
- Buller, Annie
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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.
- Burdened with Debt Reloaded: The Politics ofr Devaluation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A series of defensive and sectional struggles at workplaces in the private sector reveal that the Greek industrial capital has already taken advantage of the new institutional framework of the “state of emergency” now ruling in Greece to prop up its profitability or just transfer its own debts and losses onto the workers.
- The bureaucracy remains
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2010
- "Burn the Haystack!"
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
- Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The perversity of Bush's agenda.
- Bush-Gore 2000: No Thanks!
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1992
- Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
The GEO Group Cashes In
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of the region.
- The Butterfly and the Boiling Point
Charting the Wild Winds of Change in 2011
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2005
We aren't obligated to vote NDP no matter what the circumstances.
- Cabbagetown: A Working Class District
Hugh Garner's novel revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
- Cabet, Étienne
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
African agronomic engineer, writer, Marxist and nationalist guerrilla and politician. (1924-1973).
- Cade, Jack
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The leader of a popular revolt in the 1450 Kent rebellion. (Died 1450.)
- Calary's Eastern Downtown Core:
Social Perspectives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- California Greens Advance: The Camejo and Chretien Campaigns
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2010
Discussion of March 4, 2010 Day of Action in California.
- A Call For a Moratorium
Resource Type: Article
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
Boycott Factsheet.
- A Call to Community
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
A proposed community.
- A Call to Justice Today for Our Children Tomorrow: A Declaration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- A Call to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
- Callwood, June
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
- Cambodia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1990
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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 for A Millionaires Tax
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In February 2012, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) launched a simple, clear initiative to raise taxes on Californians with incomes greater than $1,000,000 per year. The folding of this campaign for the Millionaires Tax (MT), following a compromise with the governor, has been felt as a seismic shock for many activists in California.
- Campaigning with Issues
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2008
Interviews with Tod Ensign and Phil Aliff.
- Can the Egyptians Come to Canada to Liberate Us?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2012
- Canada: Activists Face the Future
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Canada and the Global Food System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
- Canada and the Rights of the Chilean People
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Canada -- Beware! Look What's Happened to Peru
GATT-Flyer No. 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Parallels are drwan between the Canadian and Peruvian Oil Industries.
- Canada challenges bylaw
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
- Canada, Namibia and You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet to aid letter writing campaign against S. Africa's occupation of Namibia.
- Canada, Politics and Direct Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Editorial regarding activities of group calling itself 'Direct Action'.
- Canada Post: Profits Before People
Resource Type: Article
- Canada Post raises prices to North
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Canada to allow new arms sales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Canada is expanding its exports of arms.
- Canada-U.S.-Mexico relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Canada World Youth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
- Canada's Imperialism Without Illusions
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1978
See also: CX905.
- Canada's New Immigration Act: A Guide and Critical Commentary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Canada's Secret Constitution
NAFTA. WTO and the End of Sovereignty?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Adapted from Chapter 4 of Clarkson's book Uncle and Us: Globalization, Neoconservativism, and the Canadian State.
- Canada’s Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings.
- Canada’s Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, Indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings.
- Canada's Water: Resource War #2
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Canadian airbase protested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Canadian Alternatives in 1975: a movement maturing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Overview and analysis of the growing Canadian "Alternatives Movement".
- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- Canadian Civil Liberties Bibliography (Indexed)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Canadian Environment Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Canadian Environment Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
A Guide to Selected Resources
Resource Type: Article
- Canadian Environmental Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Canadian firms losing out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Canadian Forum
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Canada's oldest continually published political periodical.
- The Canadian Grain Trade - An Introductory Outline.
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- The Canadian Information Sharing Service
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Canadian links with apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Canadian magazines worried
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Canadian Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1990
- Canadian Peace Ballott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa:
An Ecunemical Concensus Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Paper presented to government officials detailing position on racial oppression in S. Africa.
- The Canadian Student
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Canadian Textile Trade and Hong Kong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Canadian Transport
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Ontario Region, Bulletin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- The Canadian Whole Earth Almanac
Profile of a project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
- Canadian Woman: Her Work, Her Church
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Cananea strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike took place in the Mexican mining town of Cananea, Sonora, in June 1906.
- The Cancer in Occupy
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Cancer, weed-killers linked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- CANDI: An Analysis of the Canadian Nuclear Program
Part I - Technical Handbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Handbook on the issues surrounding the nuclear program
- Canton, December 1927
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1928
In 1927, as a result of a rapid succession of fatal mistakes, the Chinese proletariat lost the strong positions in Shanghai and Hankou that it had gloriously conquered at the head of the national movement. In April Chiang Kai-shek’s coup, which was prepared in broad daylight and should have been foreseen, robbed the workers of Shanghai. In August the sharp turn to the right by the ‘left’ Guomindang, on which had been based inadmissible hopes, robbed the workers of Hankou. In the meantime, the seizure of Changsha, carried out with the complicity of the Hankow government (in which the Communists participated), decapitated the Hunan peasant movement.
- Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Cape Breton Strikes, 1920s
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1984
- Capital Punishment: The most Deplorable form of Deliberate Murder
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1980
An article focusing on the 'invisible work' that non-English speaking immigrant women, in particular, have done and continue to do.
- Captive Nation - Egypt And The West
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 2009
A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
- The Careerists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colourless human beings.
- Ron Carey, Militant Union Reformer
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1976
A brochure that charts the growth of major multinational grain trading companies.
- Cargill Inc.: Making Profit From Hunger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- The Caribbean Left's Legacy
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Sara Abraham interviews Eusi Kwayana of The Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana. 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
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
A poem.
- Carl Oglesby: A Mentor & Leader
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
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
Trinidadian-American black leader active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. (1941-1998).
- Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
- Carol L. McAllister (1947-2007)
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
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
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
English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher. (1844-1929).
- Carr, Shirley
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
- Carrefour International Catalogue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Cars and Class
"A Reckless, Blood-Thirsty, Villainous Lot ... "
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1990
- The Case for Academic Boycott
Resource Type: Article
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
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 Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- The Case For Long-Term Supportive Housing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Book review.
- The Case For Revolutionary Socialism
Resource Type: Article
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
A series of articles making the case for socialism.
- The Case for Staying in Iraq
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
Feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. (1896-1981).
- Cast out of Eden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Castlegreen Co-operative - An Alternative
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- The Catherine Ferguson Struggle
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Nine Catholic activists who burned draft files in 1968 to protest the Vietnam War.
- Causes and Consequences: Inside The Asian Crisis
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2000
Points about electronic communication and online security.
- CAW get GST protection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Cayenne folds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- CBC ad policy criticized
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- CBC advertising may go
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- CBC archives decaying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- CBC budget cut again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- CBC left-wing?
Resource Type: Article
- CBC losing national unity mandate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Ce Matin, A L'Ecole, On Parle Des Mineurs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
Resource Type: Article
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
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? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Israel’s Haaretz has mysteriously deleted a powerful article by Amira Hass headlined “The anti-Semitism that goes unreported,” about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers.
- Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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.
- The Century of Rosa Parks
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Rosa Parks was a veteran militant of many civil rights battles long before she became an icon.
- A Century's Feminist Journey
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
Review of Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Bardacke tells the story of one movement’s evolution from grassroots obscurity to such (relatively little-known) successes as the Salinas Valley (California) general strike of lettuce pickers in 1979—a veritable mass strike in Rosa Luxemburg’s sense—and from there to the collapsed shell of a union nonetheless administering fourteen non-profits with millions in assets.
- C'est a Nous de Decider
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
See also CX1099.
- C'est a Nous De Decider
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
See also CX864.
- Neil Chacker, 1942-2004
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2011
- Challenge, Choice, Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1990
- Changing for Real
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
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
Scientist, educator, environmental advocate. (Born 1928).
- Chaplin, Ralph
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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.
- Characterising the period
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An analysis of the fundamental contradiction today is that between global capitalism and the system of nation-states. In this brief but sharp overview Nigel updates his analysis by bringing it to bear on the global economic crisis and the political reactions it is provoking.
- Charging Peter to Pay Paul
Accounting for the Financial Effects of User Charges
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
- The Charter of Demands of the Indian National Fishworkers' Forum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
- The Charter of the Forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1217 Published: 1225
A complementary document to the Magna Carta of 1215, defining the rights of vassals, freemen, and serfs, reducing penalties, and restoring common land taken by the Crown.
- Chartism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
- Chartrand, Michel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
- Chatting with Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The linguistics professor, political theorist and activist discusses the Occupy movement, Obama’s first term and the economic crisis in Europe.
- Chavez calls for new international organisation of left parties
Resource Type: Article
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
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).
- The Chavez Legacy
The Revolution Within the Revolution Will Continue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Chavez was a leader who, in unity with the people, was able to free Venezuela from the grips of US Empire, brought dignity to the poor and working class, and was central to a Latin American revolt against US domination.
- "Chavs", class and representation
A review of Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Chavs traces the rise of an offensive caricature of the working class: a racist hooligan, an alcoholic thug; women unable to control their vaginas, men unable to control their fists; brainless, feckless scroungers-working class people, as represented by the term chav, are nothing more than parasitic growths on society. Jones demonstrates how the figure of the chav is used to deflect blame away from the structures that create inequality onto individuals.
- Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Cheddi Jagan's Politics and Legacy
An interview with Clive Y. Thomas
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1984
There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
- ChestDoc in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
- Chester, Eric
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Author, socialist political activist, and economics professor. (Born 1943).
- Chevron's Crude Attacks
Court Sides With Big Oil
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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 Teachers Strike Back
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Chicago Teachers Union stage a walkout that leads to an improved contract.
- Chicago's Public Housing: Willful Neglect
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Chicken Game: Eurocrisis, Again.
Washington vs. Berlin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
How does one take an autonomous position against the European policies of social butchery without falling into nationalist, anti-German nostalgia or into rhetoric against “Anglo-Saxon speculation”? How do we put together struggles about rights, work and life with a constitutive struggle on the issue of debt, while avoiding any recourse to solutions “from above” to the risk of default?
- Chilcot Inquiry - The Establishment Goes to Work
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1992
- Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Children's Play and Official Playgrounds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
- Childrens Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
- Chile Report
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1976
Looks at Noranda Mines' copper mine investment in Chile.
- Chile: Return of the Penguins!
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The struggle to democratize Chile’s educational system has, for the first time since the country’s return to bourgeois democracy in 1990, challenged the very foundations of its neoliberal model.
- A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street
The Tangled Purse Strings
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1990
- China in Revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.
- The China Syndrome ... Fantasy or Reality?
Resource Type: Article
- China: Whose Revolution?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
The Chinese Revolution was one of the most momentous events of the 20th century. For a quarter of the human race it seemed to open the way to eradicate the roots of poverty and famine, to build a better society. But whose revolution was it? Few socialists today look to China for inspiration. The illusions of “Maoism” have been systematically shattered. Today China is becoming more and more part of the world system it once seemed to want to overthrow.
- China's capitalism and the crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Coupled with spectacular growth rates since the late 1970s, China’s “soft landing” and apparent rapid recovery from the crisis appear to support claims made by some on the right and the left that the 2008 recession has been a catalyst for the core of capitalism shifting to the East and setting in motion a change in global geopolitics.
- China’s Cyber-War: Don’t Believe the Hype
Net Threat Inflation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Addressing cyber-theft, U.S hypocrisy, and China.
- China's Disposable Labor
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. (Born 1928).
- Chomsky on Civil Liberties, Obama and the Future of Progressive Politics
Left of Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Interview with America's premier political dissident Noam Chomsky.
- Chomsky on Post-Modernism
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
Any of several traditions which combine anarchism with Christianity.
- Christian Farmers Federation Publications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Christian pacifism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Christiansbrunn
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The name of two religious communes in Pennsylvania, active between 1747 and 1796.
- Christmas in the Trenches
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1990
Columbus seen as a conqueror.
- Chronicle of a Labor Victory
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1997
- Church Presentation to the Annual Meetings of Three Canadian Banks
Re: Loans to South Africa
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
- The CIA and Questions of Torture
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2011
- CIA Experiments in Torture
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1990
- The CIA's Death Machine at Work (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- Ciompi Revolt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Was an influential political journal published in Quebec, Canada, through the 1950s and 1960s.
- Cities for People
Resource Type: Article
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
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
- "Citizens Coalition" loses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Citizens Counter-Conference on Energy and Northern Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Report on the proceedings of the '76 "Citizens Counter-Conference".
- Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1988
- Citizens Plus
Resource Type: Article
- 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
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
First Published: 1990
- Le Citoyen -Journal du Rassemblement du Citoyens de Montreal-St Louis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Civic Journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- The Civic Movement in South Africa: Popular Politics, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1992
- Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1847
- 'Civilising' the 'Blacks'; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2003
- Clarke, Tony
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Canadian social justice advocate. (Born 1944).
- La clase trabajadora y el cambio social
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
- Class and Race: Life and Death Situations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Looking at the impact of race and class as health determinants.
- Class and the African-American Leadership Crisis
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Consciousness of one's social class or economic rank in society.
- Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1920
- Class exists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Class Politics in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1993
- Class Struggle in the Unemployment Capital of Europe: Lower Andalucia, 1995-96
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
- Class Struggle in Vietnam: From the Colonial Yoke to Wage Slavery for Global Capital
Wildcat Strikes in Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An alternation of repression and concessions is only one element among many of the whole apparatus of control and domination by the CPV. In the last analysis, it is repression which wins out, ranging from direct military and police force to administrative detention, from constant surveillance of the conversations and writings of the population to an ever stricter control of the use of such modern means as cell phones and the Internet.
- Class Struggle in Vietnam: From the Colonial Yoke to Wage Slavery for Global Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Struggles which have unfolded since the first big strike wave in Vietnam in 2006.
- Class Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905 Published: 1909
- The Class War at Home
The Rich Getting Richer
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Classic Book: Frankenstein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A look at the continuing relevance of Mary Shelley's classic to debates about science, technology and nature today.
- A Classic Study Revisited
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2006
- Client Rights in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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.
- Climate Crisis Threatens Food Security of Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Maldives, Togo, Comoros, and Many Other Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Climate crisis is threatening seafood and fish in gulfs, seas, and oceans. As a result, countries dependent mainly on fish and seafood are threatened.
- The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1980
- Les Clochards et le systeme penal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Close the IMF, Abolish Debt and End Development
A Class Analysis of the International Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1990
- C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heaviest responsibility for me,” is a sententious political statement. It abounds with meanings, standing at once as an alluring paradox and a striking truism.
- CLR James, Frantz Fanon And The Meaning of Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A look at the Haitan Revolution and its place in history.
- C.L.R. James' Visionary Legacy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
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.
- C.L.R. James's Conflicted Intellectual Legacies on Mao Tse Tung's China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
On the evolution of C.L.R. James’s thoughts about Maoism.
- Club War (Cudgel War)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1976
An analysis of developments in Canadian society based on newspaper coverage.
- Co-operative Co-ownership Corporations: Legislative Proposals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- The Coady - Tomkins Experience: The Relevance of the Antigonish Movement Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Coaker, William Ford
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1978
- A Coalition of the Killing
War, media, propaganda and language#
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
War, media, propaganda and language.
- Coal's Ruptured Landscape
Navigating the Ruins of Appalachia
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
- Cobequid Shore Opportunities Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- COCOA
Commodity notes available from GATT-fly
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1976
A look at coffee as a commodity and the reasons for its fluctuating cost.
- Coffeehouses
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An establishment which primarily serves prepared coffee or other hot beverages.
- Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
- Cohousing Characteristics
Resource Type: Article
The main characteristics of cohousing.
- Cohousing FAQs
Resource Type: Article
Frequently asked questions about cohousing.
- COINTELPRO
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 2010
Moral degradation is reaching new lows.
- Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
- Colombia Against All Odds
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2000
In response to military assistance and "emergency" financial aid for Columbia,
Chomsky explores the negative consequences of US intervention.
- Colombian Workers Injured and Fired
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The General Motors subsidiary in Colombia, Colmotores, fired over 200 workers who were injured on the job, ranging from spinal fractures to cancer.
- Colombia’s Agent Orange?
Roundup Not Ready
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A core element of U.S. anti-drugs policy in Colombia has been the destruction of coca fields by aerial chemical fumigation thus impacting the cocaine trade at its source. The continuation of this policy is based on three core myths: (1) That fumigation can target coca fields with pinpoint accuracy; (2) That the chemical used is harmless to humans and the environment; and (3) that aerial chemical fumigation is an effective method of eradicating coca cultivation.
- Colorado Labor Wars
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
A conflict in which police and mine guards attacked striking coal miners with machine guns.
- Comfort, Alex
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2005
- Coming Home to the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1978
- A Commentary from Israel: Peace Camp - Dead or Alive?
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1976
- Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1982
- Commericial shoot
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Committee for an Independent Canada
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A citizens' committee to promote Canadian economic and cultural independence.
- The Committee for the Defense of Democratic Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A British anti-war group set up in 1960.
- Commodity fetishism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Cartel of Québec public- and para-public-sector trade unions formed in 1972 to negotiate with the provincial government.
- Common Ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Common land
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights.
- Barry Commoner 1917-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Barry Commoner, biologist, environmental, socialist, humanist, and one of the central leaders of the anti-nuclear-testing movement, dies at 95. He is particularly remembered for the “Four Laws of Ecology” he laid out in his book The Closing Circle: (1) Everything is connected to everything else. (2) Everything must go somewhere. (3) Nature knows best. (4) There is no such thing as a free lunch.
- Communalism and Socialism in Africa
The Misdirection of C.L.R . James
Resource Type: Article
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
An intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, work and income.
- The Commune, Paris 1871
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1990
Some pointers about how to produce a newsletter that communicates effectively with its readers
- Communique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Communism and the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- Communist League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
On the meeting of the Communist League in June 1847.
- Communist League (Canada)
Connexipedia: Entry in NationMaster Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
A political party in Canada.
- Communist Workers International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
Eurocommunism in practice.
- Communities and Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Community
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1976
A booklet describing the motives and aspirations of the CCEC Credit Union.
- Community development curriculum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Community Economic Workshops
An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- Community Journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Community Land Trust
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- A Community Ministry Theological Statement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Community Noise
Resource Type: Article
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 Organising - A New Part of the Union
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A look at Unite’s community union organizing.
- Community organizing
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Community Shared Agriculture / Community-supported agriculture
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- Companies that Profit from the Occupation
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Testimony of British M.P George Galloway before the U.S. Senate.
- Complicating “White Privilege”
Class, Race and Images of Wilma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Comprendre l'Assurance chomage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Computers for Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- A Comrade and Friend
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1984
- A Concerted Effort From Europe Against Israeli Produce Exporter Agrexco
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1844
- Condorcet, Marquis de
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
(1743-1794).French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist.
- Confederacy Redux?
Why We Should Celebrate Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
- Confessions of a Media Critic
Resource Type: Article
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
- Conflict Resolution in the Classroom
A Curriculum Project
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Overview: Development, International
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Master Keyword Index
for #45 (Volume 11, No. 1) to #54 inclusive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Master Name Index (Author/Title/Contributor)
for #45 (Volume 11, No. 1) to #54 inclusive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Network News items
Issues 45 - 54
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1987
- Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi
Resource Type: Article
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
Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Bulgarian text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Dutch text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Chinese text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Czech text
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Dansk
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia article - Japanese text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Korean text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008 Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Artikel - Deutscher text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
- Connexions Serviços de Compartilhamento de Informaçoes - Wikipedia Article - Portuguese text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
- Connexions Wikipedia article - Esperanto
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
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
Irish and Scottish socialist leader, executed by the British. (1868-1916).
- The Conquest of Bread
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1906
A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
- Conscientious objector
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war.
- Consciousness raising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Form of political activism, pioneered by United States feminists in the late 1960s.
- Consensus decision-making
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
- Consensus decision-making - Arabic text
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Consensus decision-making - Japanese text
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Conservation movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Constitutional Proposals: Not Enough Guarantees For Acadians of P.E.I.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
- The Construction of Communalism in India
Against The Current vol. 106
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Sara Abraham interviews Dipak Malik, Director of the Gandhian Institute of Varanasi, about the anti-communal-violence work in which he has been involved from his base in Varanasi, in the Hindu heartland of the country.
- Constructive Action?
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1982
- Constructive criticism can be a good thing
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
An energy analysis with 28 recommendations presented to Pierre Trudeau and his cabinet.
- Consumer Hell
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- Consumers' Rights
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2000
- Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2000
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2000
- Contemporary anarchism
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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.
- The Contradiction of Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1948
It was worth examining carefully Trotsky's attitude at the dawn of Stalinism, for it enables us to elucidate the (theoretical) policy to which he adhered until his death. I have said that Trotsky represented, between 1923 and 1927, the contradictions of Bolshevism. I should now add that he never emerged from this divided situation. Subsequently he transported into the domain of revolutionary theory the contradiction in which he had become objectively enclosed. Of course, he was forced by events to perceive the counter-revolutionary character of Stalinism, but he was not capable of taking an overall view of the new Stalinist society and of defining it.
- Contradictions of the Iraqi Resistance: Guerilla War vs. Terrorism
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1984
- La contribution de Rosa Luxembourg envers le Marxisme
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1979
- Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Resource Type: Article
- A Convergence of Realities
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2011 Published: 2012
- Converse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
The role of church people in the correctional system.
- Convict Labor in America
Book review
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Convicts, Collateral Damage, and the “War on Drugs”
The Real Crime is the War Itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those smuggle drugs across the international boundary between the two countries. But more importantly what they do is highlight how the ludicrous “war on drugs” produces casualties of many sorts.
- Co-op Du Possible Sherbrooke,
An experience in Co-operative Self Reliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Co-op Housing
Challenge for Change
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1976
A brochure describing non-profit co-op housing in Toronto.
- Co-op housing under attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Co-op programs
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1977
- The Co-operative Movement on the Prairies, 1900-1955
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Co-operative Planning Towarrd a Settlement of the Yukon Indian Claim: Document #1, Janury 21, 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Les Cooperatives d'habitation
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- Co-ops are People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Copperbelt strike of 1935
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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.
- Copyright in Latin America: New Enforcement Measures Pose Major Threats to Internet Users in Panama and Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
After years of being one of the most progressive regions in the world in terms of balanced copyright policy, Latin America is unfortunately sliding into copyright maximalism, enacting increasingly restrictive copyright enforcement measures into their federal laws.
- The Copyright Police
First They Came for the Hip Hop Sites ...
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2011
How freedom of expression is threatened because corporate-owned media in Canada censor and manipulate the news.
- The Corporate State and Manufactured Dependence
Sure, It Can Get Worse...It's Happening Right Before Our Eyes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The ‘resistance is futile’ mindset that supports plutocrats and the global corporations they own assumes the existing order is the only possible order and the costs of resistance are too great because ‘they’ have state power and unlimited economic resources on their side.
- The Corporate Stranglehold on Education
Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1997
Corporate volunteer programs.
- Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's Schools
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Corporations profiting out of food crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The small group of food multinationals that monopolise the world food market are positioning themselves to take full advantage of the crisis: the latest food price hikes threaten to drive more people back into hunger.
- Correcting Common Misconceptions About Nonviolent Struggle
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1992
- Costos y riesgos socializados vs. Ganancias privatizadas
La crisis en los Estados Unidos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- The Costs of McCarthyism
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1979
- Council of all beings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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 the Israel Lobby’s Dominance
Can Jewish Liberals Transcend the Wiesel Doctrine?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The distance between largely secular American Jews and the Zionist establishment is likely to widen. This will weaken the political power of the Israel lobby only if American Jews as a whole are prepared to announce unambiguously their antipathy to their self-proclaimed representatives.
- Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1984
- A Country Of Sacred Cows And Ten Commandments
Resource Type: Article
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 Coup of Coups
Putting the Shah of Shahs on the Peacock Throne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- The court does not sympathize
The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- Courts Back Detroit Scab Papers
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1975
Problems facing agriculture in Manitoba, similar to problems facing Japanese farmers.
- Coxey's Army
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A protest march by unemployed workers from the United States.
- The CPCCA should be reconfigured to combat racism against all peoples
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1999
- Craft Unionism
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1978
- Creating Your Own Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1990
- Creeping contradictions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
News tidbits.
- Crees fine government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- CRIAW conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Crime and Criminals
Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
Resource Type: Article
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
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
- The Crimes of 'Intcom'
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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.
- Criminalizing Truancy
Should Kids be Jailed for Skipping School?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
American jurisdictions are increasingly turning to the criminal justice system to deal with truancy. Students and parents are being fined, and in some cases jailed, for missing school.
- Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA.
- La crise Iraquienne en context
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2002
The role of communications in a crisis.
- Crisis Communications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Being prepared for a crisis is second best only to avoiding one altogether.
- Crisis Communications Checklist
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2007
- Crisis from Pakistan to Motown
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1979
Letter: anarchists must make a choice.
- Critical Mass
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A bicycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month.
- Critical Mass, Conflicts involving
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1977
- Critique of Hegel's Philosophy in General
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1844
- A Critique of Kim Moody's An Injury to All
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1891
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1980
- Crow flying high
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Crowsnest Pass Strike, 1932
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Cruise industry chafes at regulation that would help clean up Alaska's air
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The cruise ship Sapphire Princess will emit the same amount of sulphur dioxide as 13.1m cars as it takes its guests from Whittier, Alaska to Glacier Bay and eventually Vancouver.
- Cry for "Bread & Roses" Still Resonates
100 Years After the Lawrence Strike
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Documents on the Cuban revolution 1959 -
- Cuba's Invasion Fears
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
- Culhane, Claire - Spanish text
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Abolicionista de las prisiones.
- The Culture of Fear
In Javier Giraldo, Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1992
- CUPW 1981: Mother's Rights, Union Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
- The Current Bombings
Behind the rhetoric
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Noam Chomsky discusses his observations on the NATO bombing in Kosovo in relation to the "rules of world order".
- Cut It Out: An Open Letter to Black Bloc Anarchists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Black Bloc tactics actually serve the cause of the 0.1%.
- Cutbacks to Training Allowances & Outreach Programs: Their Impact on Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Cutbacks: Wiping out our Gains.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- The Cuts and the Fightback
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
An encyclopedia published by Ephraim Chambers in London in 1728.
- The Cynicism and the Slaughter
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1977
- Dacke War
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
American ecological economist and professor. (Born 1938).
- Damage Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1972
- Danças com Culpa
Um olhar sobre os homens que olham para a violência
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Why are some men violent?
- Dancing with Death: "Waltz with Bashir"
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1976
Leaflet that asks and answers some basic questions about nuclear energy.
- Danger: sticky yellow notes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
A Thought Police for the Internet Age
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1992
- A Dangerous Lack of Rigor
Cross Examine Authority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Explores two recent events reveal the lack of rigor that has come to pervade our public sphere: the failure of the UN (or anybody else) to question seriously the case for war against Iran, and the first presidential “debate.”
- A Dangerous Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Leaders in the struggle of the Western Shoshone to retain their ancestral lands.
- Darcy, Judy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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 “Green Economy”
Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the “green economy.”
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Just a few years ago, the term “green economy” referred to economies that are locally based, climate friendly, and low-impact. But since the global economic meltdown began in 2007, the green economy has come to mean something more akin to the wholesale privatization of nature.
- The Dark Side of "The Light": Brascan in Brazil
Resource Type: Article
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
American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).
- Data Mining You
How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Joseph K., that icon of single-lettered anonymity from Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, would undoubtedly have felt right at home in Washington.
- Databases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Daughters of India Violated and Abused
A Woman's Lot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Widespread sexual abuse rapes the land and inflicts harm upon the women of India who are isolated from the emerging "New India".
- David Roediger's Working Toward Whiteness
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).
- Day of Mourning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The Day the Internet Died
An Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
When Hosni Mubarak Shut Off Cell Phones and the Internet in January 2011 Was the Moment When More Egyptians than Ever Went Out into the Streets.
- De Leon, Daniel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1980
- The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
Sunni v. Shia
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
The Invisible Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
- Death and Bereavement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Death and Bereavement Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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 Hero
The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
If all this glorification of a military commander had happened in the North Korean or the Soviet-era press, lavishly praising an 'original' who'd given years of 'patriotic service' in wars abroad, it would have rightly elicited scorn and ridicule amongst commentators here.
- Death of a Sacred Place
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1984
- Debate with the International Socialist Organization Continued
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2009
A review of Wobblies and Zapatistas, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
- Debating the NDP
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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).
- Debt: The First 500 Pages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
We need more grand histories, but 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
- Debunking Columbus
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1978
- The “Decent Left” and the Libya Intervention
A Reply to Michael Bérubé
Resource Type: Article
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
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
The process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people or citizen.
- Decisión por Consenso
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1979
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1789
Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
- Une déclaration politique du collectif des socialistes libertaires
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Declarations of a New Canadian Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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.
- Deconstructing The Locavore’s Dilemma
A response to Pierre Desrochers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The book 'The Locavore's Dilemma' constructs a straw man argument while ignoring what the locavore movement really has to say.
- Deep Concerns
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1998
Having just read Michael Lowy's “The Centrality of Self-emancipation for a Critical Marxism”, 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
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
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
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
First Published: 2011
A profile of the radical lawyer.
- Defending Palestinian solidarity
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1994
The case for civil disobedience.
- The Deficit is No Accident
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
The founder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
- Dejemos de engañarnos a nosotros mismos sobre el NDP
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2003
Exploring what Marxist approaches to democracy have offered to contemporary discussions.
- The Democrats' New Scapegoat
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1995
- The Dene - Land and Unity for the Native People of the Mackenzie Valley A Statement of Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Dene Learning For Self-Determination and The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry: (1974-1977), Working Paper #2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Dene Nation: Apartheid?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Depleted Uranium: Scandal Update
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
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
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.
- Deranging America
Drugged, Indebted, Armed-to-the-Teeth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A question worth asking: Who benefit from a more compulsive, hence more violent, population? Well, if you’re pushing eternal warfare, which we are, you’ll need a pool of nutcases who are willing to shoot anyone for any reason, or none at all, and more deranged oafs at home to go “Rah! Rah!” over any bombing run or drone hit. Are we going into Mali next? Why not? Where is it, by the way? There has never been a country fighting so many wars without a serious debate about any of them. And if you want people to buy first, think later, to rack up life-wrecking debts to satiate all ephemeral cravings, then you ply them with poison, flickering television and thumping music. You don’t want a population capable of deliberating, reflecting, thinking clearly or even listening attentively, much less reading, but one that can be jerked around by any sexy come-on or dumbed down slogan.
- Derechos y Libertades
Introduccion al Volumen 9, Número 2 del Sumario de Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Dershowitz to the Rescue?
The Israeli Spin-Machine in Overdrive
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1961
- Designs on equality
City planning is a mechanism of discrimination - it mainly serves the able-bodied
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2002
- Leon Despres, Chicago Rebel
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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.
- Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Our rights and liberties and under ever-increasing attack.
- Destruction and Resistance at SUNY
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1978
- Detroit: Disappearing City?
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1981
- Devastating Crisis Unfolds
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Development Education
How To Do It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980 Published: 1983
- Development Education Project - Canadian Complicity in South Africa and Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Development Education Viewpoints
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1992
- Dewey, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
- Diagnosis, Goals and Methods of Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Outline of several diagnoses of the state of social systems and institutions.
- The Dialectic of Monstrosity - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A review of 'Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism' by David McNally.
- Dialectical Adventures Into the Unknown
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1972
- Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2001
Examining another popular conspiracy theory.
- DID YOU HEAR IT? It’s the sound of their world ending. It’s that of ours resurging.
Communique from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Communiqué of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee – General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Mexico.
- 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
First Published: 2003
- Dietzgen, Joseph
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Socialist philosopher and Marxist. (1828-1888).
- Diez Mitos del Cuidado de la Salud
Entendiendo el Debate del Servicio Medico en Canadá
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- The Difference Between Judaism and Zionism
Resource Type: Article
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."
- The Different Faces of ‘Popular Resistance’ in Palestine
Manipulating History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Apparently, ‘popular resistance’ has suddenly elevated to become a clash of visions or strategies between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and its rivals in Gaza, underscoring an existing and deepening rift between various factions and leaderships.
- A Different Sort of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
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 - Arabic translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- A Different Sort of Democracy - Japanese translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Diggers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An English group of agrarian communists in the 17th century.
- Dignity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Dignity Denied: Unemployment in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits
Six-part article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 2011
Factory occupations, land occupations, and other tactics.
- Direct democracy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1976
Comprehensive list of all agencies serving Metropolitan Toronto.
- Directory of Libertarian Periodicals
5th Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Directory of Women and Global Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- The dirty d-word
Resource Type: Article
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
A movement aims to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.
- Disabled Activists Seek Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
"I'd rather go to jail than to die in a nursing home".
- Disarm and Live
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Disaster and Mental Health
The Palestinian Experience
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1979
- A Discussion Concerning Nonviolence
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1972
- Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
Resource Type: Article
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
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
- Dissecting Congo's Modern Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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".
- A Diversion We Don't Need
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
We know from our own experience that none of us wants to have the Diversity Of Tactics argument again. So why does it continue to happen? Because we radicals and anarchists have unintentionally become a Silent Majority, unwilling for whatever reason to prevent these ideologues, who are only a tiny handful of people with loud voices, from controlling the direction of our meetings.
- Diversity of Tactics and Democracy
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2010
- Dividing the Races to Benefit the Rich
Prison Populism?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1995
Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant#.
- Django Unchained, or, The Help: How “Cultural Politics” Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
On reflection, it’s possible to see that Django Unchained and The Help are basically different versions of the same movie. Both dissolve political economy and social relations into individual quests and interpersonal transactions and thus effectively sanitize, respectively, slavery and Jim Crow by dehistoricizing them. The problem is not so much that each film invents cartoonish fictions; it’s that the point of the cartoons is to take the place of the actual relations of exploitation that anchored the regime it depicts.
- Do I Divest?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 2004
Murray Dobbin replies to the Green party.
- Doctors Under Attack
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2006
- Documents From the Bain Ave. Rent Freeze
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 2003
Are the killings of journalists by the U.S. merely accidents, or are they deliberate?
- Doing Time for Peace
Moral Lights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Hundreds of Americans, young and old, are regularly going to prison, sometimes for months or years or decades, for nonviolently resisting U.S. militarism.
- Dolgoff, Sam
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. (1902-1990).
- Dolgoff, Sam
Connexipedia article - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
- The 'Dollar' Crisis, and Us
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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."
- Donghak Peasant Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Was an anti-government, anti-yangban and anti-foreign uprising in 1894.
- Donia, Pier Gerlofs
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel. (1480-1520).
- Don't be a Time Bandit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Don't waste journalists' time.
- Don't buy these grapes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Don't Forget to Write
Resource Type: Article
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
- Don't Incite Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
- Don't neglect your presentation skills
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1998
The multitude of communications technologies have actually made it more difficult to get in touch.
- Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing!
Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1992
- Dossier Homme Seul Itinerant
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1989
- Douglas, Tommy
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. (1818-1895).
- Doukhobors
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada.
- Doukhobors
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
- Downtown Health and Social Development Centre, Inc. And Emergency Shleter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Downtown: The People Speak Out!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Dowson, Ross
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian Trotskyist. (1917-2002).
- Dózsa, György
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Leader of a peasants' revolt against the Hungarian landed nobility. (1470-1514).
- Dr. Snider's Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Issues facing senior citizens in Alberta.
- Draft dodger
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1981
- DREAM Deferred, Fight Continues
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
What to wear when you're going to be interviewed on TV.
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article
Advice for what to wear when you are going to be interviewed on television.
- The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2012
- Drowning in Noise: Noise Costs of jet skis in America
A Report for the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
An analysis of the value of the lost enjoyment that jet ski noise introduces into beach environments.
- The Drug Store in American Meat
We're Eating What?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989.
- Drug testing case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Drug use, the labour market and class conflict
Resource Type: Article
A social history and analysis of drug use and its relationship with class struggle.
- Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year
Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn’t Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The stubborn resistance against entertaining any other options beyond a fundamentalist adherence to prohibition for dealing with drug use in the United States is cloaked in an arrogant denial of the human costs of the drug war and the possibility that ending it would lead to less, not more, death. The US, by some estimates now spends about $40 billion a year at home and abroad waging its war on drugs and has imprisoned currently up to 400,000 people on drug-related charges — the vast majority of them nonviolent offenders.
- Drugs, Race & the Gulag Industry
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
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
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
American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).
- Dual power
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1981
- Dublin Lockout
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
- Duckworth, Muriel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
- Duckworth, Muriel
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
- Dumont, Gabriel
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
- Dumont, Gabriel
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
- Dunayevskaya, Raya
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism. (1910-1987).
- Dürr, Hans-Peter
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Physicist and peace activist. (Born 1929).
- Düstere Aussichten
Resource Type: Article
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
Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II.
- Dutschke, Rudi
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s. (1940-1979).
- A Duty of Honour
Against Capital Punishment
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1978
- Earth Day 1990
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- The Earth Grabbers
Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
An insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916.
- Eastern Exposure
Misrepresenting the Peace Process
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1985
What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
- Ecofeminism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1990
- Ecology Watch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Poverty has been identified as a major cause of environmental degradation
- Econet on Web: Computer networking for educators
Resource Type: Article
- Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
- Economic Crisis & Fundamentalism
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
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
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
- Economic reality and dialectics of liberation
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Economics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 2
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1975
Various aspects of poverty in Canada, the guaranteed income plan & social justice.
- Economics of the War Economy
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 2009
interview with Robert Brenner.
- Ecosystem research threatened
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Ecovillage
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Socially, economically and ecologically sustainable intentional communities.
- Ecuador 1960-1963
A Textbook of Dirty Tricks
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. (1919-2009).
- J. David Edelstein
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Edmonton Cross-Cultural Learner Centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Educate, agitate, occupy!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
An account of the occupation Visteon factory in Enfield, London.
- Educating Kids for Jobs for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1990
- Education gap divides Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1982
- Education Over Incarceration
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Published: 2002
- Edwards, Henrietta Muir
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Canadian women#s rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
- Effective Media Relations
Nurturing your relationships with reporters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Our relationships with journalists need to be maintained over time in order to be fruitful.
- Effective Media Relations
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1988
Abstracts of bibliographic resources.
- Egalitarian community
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Egypt and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2011
- Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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.
- The Egyptian workers’ movement and the 25 January Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
This article is an exploration of one of the fundamental processes that brought the revolution back to Tahrir: the rise of an organised working class movement.
- Egypt's Aunt Peaceful
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Ghada Shahbender knows the Egyptian Revolution Didn´t Start in January 2011, because she was there seven years ago reminding the government ¨We Are Watching¨
- Egypt's Long Labor History
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Egypt's Year of Revolution
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An interview with Carl Finamore, who went on a reporting trip to Egypt for ten days in 2011.
- Egziabher, Tewolde Berhan Gebre
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Ethiopian advocate for genetic diversity and the rights of farmers and tradiational communities.
- The Eight Best Books for Publicity Seekers
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1988
- 1810, 1910, 2010 and Mexican Labor
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- El Salvador
People in Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- El Salvador's New War: Lesbian/Gay Activism Confronts “Social Cleansing”
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1974 Published: 2010
- The Election, Economy, War, and Peace
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1978
- The Elephant in the Room
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Peace campaigner. (Born 1931).
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- Emergency Shelter in Ottawa-Carleton
An Experimental View
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Emerging Co-operatives in Ontario
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 2012
- The Empire and Ourselves
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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.
- The Empire’s Shill
The Real Mission of the New York Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- Employment and the Single Displaced Person
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- The Empty Press Room - How Corporate Journalism Happily Lost Interest in Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
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
A general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772
- The End of Capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists.
- The End of Gay?
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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.)
- End the Prison-Industrial Complex, Now!
A Moral and Political Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In both political and moral terms, ending this prison industrial complex system is an imperative. As in the 1950s and 1960s, we must organize, mobilize and go into the streets. The existing system is the problem, not the solution.
- L'endettemen: un probleme grave pour de nombreuses familles de notres region
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- L'endettement, nouvelle forme d'exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Ending Poverty As We Know It
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1971
- The Enemy of Nature
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1978
- Energy Board OKs pipline subsidy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Energy Development on Farmland: Statement on target areas for well sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
- Energy Options for New Brunswick
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Energy Planning in a Conserver Society:
Parts I&II to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Energy Probe Material
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Energy: The Fleecing of California
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
Describes the origins, the popularity, and the decline of the English Coffeehouse.
- The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1870
On the treatment of Fenian prisoners.
- The English Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1940
- Enhance your image in novel ways
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1772
- Enseñando a adultos a leer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Entrepreneurs Convert Landfill Gas into an Alternative Source of Energy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
New technology is presenting alternatives for the generation of energy from landfill gases.
- Entrevista con Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Entrevue avec Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- EnviroFair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Enviromental Education Resources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- L'ENVIRONMENT
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Environment 2000
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Environment network faces problems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Environment video resource centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Environmental and Occupational Health: A View from STOP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Environmental data lacking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Environmental Directory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Environmental Forum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Environmental history - Timeline of environmental history - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The timeline lists geological, astronomical, and climatological events in relation to events in human history which they influenced.
- Environmental Infoline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Environmental journalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Environmental movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Term that includes the conservation and green movements, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.
- The Environmental Movement at the Crossroads
Gang Green or New Green?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
There is a growing culture of resistance in the environment movement
- Environmental Noise
The Invisible Pollutant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
The invisible pollutant of environmental noise can be tamed.
- Environmental Noise
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1992
- Environmental Values Education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Environmental Youth Alliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Environmentalists Do Not Support Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Envisioning Economic Justice
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1979
- Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Equal Shares in Caring
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Equality for Women?
Resource Type: Article
David Irving's toxic views.
- Equality Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Equiano, Olaudah
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Canadian Aboriginal politician, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 1985 to 1991. (Born 1948).
- Erfurt Program
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1891
Program of Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands.
- Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
- Ernest Mandel's Legacy
Against The Current vol. 93
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Ernest Mandel was perhaps the best known revolutionary Marxist of the second half of the twentieth century. As an activist and leader of the Fourth International for most of his adult life, Mandel became the living vessel of post-war Trotskyism. Noted for his intellectual versatility, Mandel ventured into the fields of economics, political theory, history, even literary criticism.
- Es kommt nicht auf das Meeting an, sondern auf die Bewegung
Resource Type: Article
- Essay on the art of crawling, for the use of courtiers
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Estevan Coal Miners' Strike, 1931
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Estranged Labour
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1844
- Ethical Considerations - Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Ethical Mutual Funds, Screening the Screens
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1983
- The ethical work of Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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.
- Eugene Genovese (1930-2012) - obituary
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
After his death last year at the age of 82, most obituaries of Eugene Genovese — the historian of American slavery whose masterpiece, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, was published in 1974 — stated that he traveled from left to right, from Marxism to conservatism.
- Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2010
The sixth European Social Forum in Istanbul left something to be desired
- European Social Forum
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1983
- Evaluation, Participation and Community Health Care: Critique and Lessons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Evans, Arthur
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Socialist, trade unionist. (1890-1944).
- Evers, Medgar
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1978
- Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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 Humanitarian Wars
Iraq, Libya, Syria: We have no right to play God
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The West’s duty is not to intervene more but to intervene far less. We already massively arm tyrannies such as those in the Gulf so that they can protect the oil that we consider our birthright; we offer military, financial and diplomatic cover for Israel’s continuing oppression of millions of Palestinians, a major cause of political instability in the Middle East; and we quietly support the Egyptian military, which is currently trying to reverse last year’s revolutionary gains.
- The Evil of the Lesser Evil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Lesser-evilism as a progressive strategy has succeeded -- succeeded in making American politics progressively more and more right-wing.
- Evil Traffickers and Innocent Children?
It's Not So Simple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
One of the most pressing reasons why teenagers like Adri need to migrate for work is because there’s no other way for them or their families to access the money that is essential to life in any capitalist economy.
- Evolution not "Reinvention: Manning Marable's Malcolm X
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Evolution of Evolution - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A review of 'Darwin’s Ghosts' by Rebecca Stott.
- Ex-POW's sue Japan over atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
- Excerpts from the 'Notebooks'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1938 Published: 1944
- Excess Packaging
Strategies for Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Excess Packaging Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Execution Day in Zhengzhou
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
- Executives salaries rising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Exhibitors can get more bang for their buck
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Trade shows are effective marketing vehicles when used well.
- Expand your knowledge by getting advice from the experts!
Resource Type: Article
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
- The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
- Explore Co-opertives and Credit Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Exploring Alternatives: Free Schools
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2011
Israel's preparations for biological and chemical warfare.
- An Expression of the Facts
Resource Type: Article
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
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
- The Expulsion of the Germans
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
Wind farms are provoking fierce opposition from an increasingly organised countryside lobby.
- Eyes Like Blank Discs
The Guardian’s Steven Poole On George Orwell’s Politics And The English Language
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013 Published: 2014
Poole’s review of Orwell is itself a textbook example of the kind of alienated response described by Orwell, Fromm and Schmidt. Whereas Orwell’s essay is the work of an impassioned, outspoken individual opposing 'the machine society’, Poole’s article is the work of a corporate professional operating ‘within the confines of an assigned ideology’.
- Eyes With Legs
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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 Facts in Wisconsin
Progressives and Workers Were Sold Out by Obama and the Democratic Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The time has long since come for labor and progressives to bolt the Democratic Party and coalesce around a new genuinely progressive, working people’s party.
- Facing Fascism in Europe
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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.)
- ‘Factivism’ and Other Fairytales from Bono
The 'Inner Nerd' Gets It Wrong, Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A rebuttal to U2 singer Bono's claims regarding the 'imminent eradication of extreme poverty'.
- Factory Committees and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
Seeing Through the Lies
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1986
- The Failure of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- Fair trade
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1989
- False consciousness
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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.
- The false solutions of Rio+20
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Food production and people's sovereignty in Africa could be seriously compromised by carbon capture projects and the so-called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+) mechanism.
- Falsifying History and Ourselves: Anti-Democratic Propaganda in the Classroom
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1983
- A Family, A Tragedy, A Movement (book review)
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1990
- Family Violence Videos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Family Violence: Report on the Task on Family Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Fanon, Frantz
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. (1925-1961).
- Fantasy and the Counter-Culture
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1977
- Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions - and are fighting to export them
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Farmers vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agricultural Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974 Published: 2012
Originally published in 1974, How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition: (And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You Can Imagine1 remains a vital resource for farmers, agricultural researchers and planners, sustainability activists and home gardeners.
- Fascism and Big Business (excerpt)
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1990
- Fate of the Forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- The Fate of Vietnam's First Revolution
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1989
- FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Dcuments show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
- The FDA and Frankenfoods
Will the Agency Protect Consumers or the Profits of a Few Corporations
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
Was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
- February strike (The Netherlands)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Federal budget cuts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Federalists, Dismantle merge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Feedlots and E. Coli
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
- Feminism and Sadomasochism
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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.
- Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
- Feminist Issues In Prostitution
Resource Type: Article
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
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.
- Feminist Resistance in Serbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Describes the conditions and factors influencing women’s lives in Serbia in 1995, and the ways women have organised to resist violence and assist one another.
- Fernandez, Irene
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Malaysian advocate for the right of women, migrants, and poor workers. (Born 1946).
- Ferreira, Chico Whitaker
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Festival of environmental films
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- A Festival of Radical Energy
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article
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 and Contracted Social Reproduction Today: China and Permanent Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Once gain, as in 1914, capital requires, in order to survive as capital, a vast devalorization of all existing values, however great the destruction of human beings and means of production which that entails.
- Fictitious Capital for Beginners
Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1872
- A field guide to critical thinking
Resource Type: Article
- 15 Benefits of the War on Drugs
Training Your Kid to be a Snitch (Against You)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Mocking the government's 'War on Drugs'.
- The Fifth Modernization
China's Spirit of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Wei Jingsheng, a 28-year-old electrician, posted this on the “Democracy Wall” in Beijing in 1978.
- Fifth Socialist International -- Time for definitions
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
- Filmmaker “Gringoyo” Putting the Fun Back Into Revolution
Harnessing Humour to Build Video Viewership and Social Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
These satirical videos not only talk about movements, they are filmed in conflict zones in moments of political tension. Gringoyo moves in a very real world with the freedom of a cartoon.
- Films About Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Films, videos, AV materials sought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Final Blow to Affirmative Action?
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The current state of affirmative action in the United States.
- Final Project Report: Greater Vancouver General Worker's Co-op
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Final Report of the Canadian Non-Governmental Participation Group (CNGPG) for Habitat
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1982
- Final Report on Sub-committee on Race Relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Final Victory for Geronimo
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1980
- Finkelstein, Norman
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1980
- First a Hand on Your Crotch, Next a Boot in Your Face
False Choices and Airport Security
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
- First All Tribal Council/Groups & Indian Organizations Meeting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- First Choice: Essential Reading On Peace and Disarmamment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- First Draft of Letter To Vera Zasulich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1881
- The First Duty of a Revolutionary is to Survive
An interview with Pat Califia
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1986
- First Intifada
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1849
- Fish and Loaves Gathering
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Fish Missing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Fish or Cut Bait
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Fisherman sues pulp mills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Fishing jobs threatened
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Five Days in Seattle: A View from the Ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
About the 1999 protests in Seattle.
- Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
The Real Welfare Kings and Queens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Taxes represent payment for society’s many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer.
- Five Reasons To Plant Trees Now
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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.
- Five Years’ Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1923
- The Five-Legged Sheep; Michelin Tire in Nova Scotia (Round One, No.7)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- The Fix Is In: Washington's Planned Social Contract Destruction
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Flag, Fetish and Illusory Community
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Patriotism is usually understood as “love of country.” With the help of Marx’s theories of the state and of alienation, we explore what is meant by “love” and “country” in this definition. By viewing society as a contradictory relation between a social community, based on the cooperation required by the existing division of labor, and an illusory community dominated by the interests of the ruling economic class, it becomes apparent that the “country” which patriots love is not the country they actually live in.
- Flags of Convenience
Corporate Anarchy on the High Seas
Resource Type: Article
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
- A Flame Gone Out - obituary
The Legacy of Stephane Hessel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Obituary for Stephane Hessel.
- Flame on the Snow
(1920/1921)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1924
- Flatly Outrageous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
- Flint and the Rewriting of History
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1979
- Flying University
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1981
- Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1982
A special evening watching fireworks in the fog.
- Folk high schools
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Institutions for adult education for working-class and poor people, typically based on a popular education model.
- Folkways Records
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A record label that documents folk and world music.
- Follies of the War
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Three years later, it is hard to believe that a gloating and triumphant Christopher Hitchens could write this (April 18, 2003):
- Follow the Money, Find the Leader
Billion Dollar Candidates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The point is not whether Barack Obama wins re-election as President. The point is not whether Mitt Romney can win. The point is that you can’t dream of contesting without a billion dollars. That figure merely ensures you can run, not win.
- The Follow-Up Telephone Call
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
- Food Among the Ruins
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
A brochure that educates people interested in cutting the supermarket connection.
- Food Fanatics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Ill-informed dogmatism has no place in a healthy lifestyle.
- Food First
Ten Days for World Development
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Food Justice: Monsanto, Factory Farming, And Beyond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
It starts with alternative vision: While the dominant hierarchy drowns in its own hypocrisy, fear, and greed let’s use our energy and passion to create -- occupy -- a whole new cultural model.
- Food Not Bombs
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2009
- For Generations Yet Unborn
Ontario Resources North of 50
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- For Israel, A Reckoning
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1977
- For the Love of Country?
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 1915
- The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob
Bernanke's Double-Whammy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The US government is preparing to bail out the banks once again.
- Foreclosures and the Police State
Hernandez Family Foreclosure Sparks Anti-Eviction Outrage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The story of the Hernandez family, who became local heroes in their determination to keep their Van Nuys home from foreclosure.
- Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- The foreign victims of criminal injustice
Resource Type: Article
How non-UK offenders are often denied truth, fairness and justice.
- Foremothers and Fathers
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- Foreword to A.S. Neill: Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 2009
Why personal change does not equal political change.
- Forging Change, Breaking Chains
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1977
- Fort William Freight Handlers Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
A Jewish-American weekly newspaper published in New York City.
- Foundations
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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.
- Four Conferences on Matriarchy
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The growth of a diverse and broad international wave of feminism has led to the development of what has been called Modern Matriarchal Studies, which includes research both on ancient societies and on existing communal cultures.
- 451 at Zuccotti Park
"Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people."
Resource Type: Article
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
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.
- The Four Laws Of Ecology And The Four Anti-Ecological Laws Of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An exponential growth dynamic is inherent in capitalism, a system whereby money is exchanged for commodities, which are then exchanged for more money on an ever increasing scale.
- Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
Resource Type: Article
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
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
French utopian socialist and philosopher. Credited with having originated the word féminisme in 1837. (1772-1837).
- 14 Years of Injustice
Time to Free the Cuban Five
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Five Cubans fighting terrorism in south Florida have served 14 years of prison, more than enough time for the US public to learn from its media about the horrific injustice done by the US government to these Cuban men. But the media has barely touched the grotesque frame up of the Cuban Five.
- Fourth International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
- Fowler, Cary
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Awad Winner
Resource Type: Article
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
The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
- "Fragging" and "Combat Refusals" in Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
- Franklin, Ursula
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
- Franklin, Ursula
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
- John Hope Franklin's Message
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1979
- Frederico and Ingrid Luchsinger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Fredy Perlman: An Appreciation
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
- Free Higher Education
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1987
- Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Free Trade and Economic Imperialism
Economic Progress Toward Ecological Suicide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Looming global environmental catastrophe renders the last several hundred years of Western economic theory dubious, if not outright suicidal. Economic ‘progress’ that increases dependence on unsustainable economic practices produces catastrophe in increasing proportion to the benefits that even proponents claim will result.
- The free trade disaster: round two
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1987
- Free trade harrassment charged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Free Trade Tapes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Free trade to mean higher pay for execs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- A Freed Political Prisoner Looks Ahead
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1955
Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
- Freedom for Nitassinan Walk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Freedom of information
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Freedom of Information Takes Another Hit in the United States
Keeping Americans Safe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The United States is a land of ill-informed sheep and the home of a bunch of cowards — cowards in government who are afraid of the truth and the open debate over facts and ideas, and cowards among the broader public who willingly allow these steady encroacments on our freedom in the name of “fighting terror.”
- Freedom of Information vs Government Secrecy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Freedom of Speech Under Siege
Resource Type: Article
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
- Freedom of the press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
- Freedom Summer
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Promotes the right to be naked in public.
- Freikörperkultur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1990
- Freire, Paulo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy. (1921-1997).
- The French Anarchists
From Chapter 1 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Published: 2010
- Fresh Water
The Human Imperative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Friedan, Betty
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
- Friendship First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- From 1905 to Our Time
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1985
- From Iron Mines to Iron Bars
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1971
- From Trident to Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet outlining PLC's campaign of resistance against the Trident submarine missile system based in Bangor, Wash.
- From "Triple Oppression" to "Freedom Dreams" - reviews
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Reviews of 'Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995' by Cheryl Higashida, 'Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War' by Dayo F. Gore, and 'Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism' by Erik S. McDuffie.
- From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
Internationally renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. (1900-1980).
- Fromm's sane society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
- Front de libération du Québec
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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.
- Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
- Fuck Love
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- Fuel For Occupy Wall Street's Fire
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1989
- Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- Funding Revolutions?
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
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
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
Speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war.
- Furniture industry hurting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Further Dialogue on Pornography
Resource Type: Article
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 on Marikana Miners
Against The Current vol. 160
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The circumstances surrounding the mass murder in Marikana, and the political wildfire it unleashed for the African National Congress and the trade union movement, are the subject of an ongoing discussion within the South African and international left. Background material on the South African political climate.
- Further Particulars of the Silesian Riots
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1980
- The Fusion of Anabaptist, Indian and African as the American Radical Tradition
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Galtung, Johan
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Peace advocate. (Born 1930).
- Gandhi, Mohandas
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Human rights activist. (Born 1967).
- Garrison, William Lloyd
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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).
- The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy
Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Gates' leveraged philanthropy model is a public-private partnership to improve the world, partly through targeted research support but principally through public advocacy and tax-free lobbying to influence government policy. The goal of these policies is often to explicitly support profitability for corporate investors, whose enterprises are seen by the Gates Foundation as advancing human good. However, maximum corporate profit and public good often clash when its projects are implemented.
- Gates of Delusion: Media Distortions and REAL Climate Scandals
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1987
- GATT-Fly Submission to the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Gay activist's slaying commemorated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Gay Games and Culural Festival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Gay Liberation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
The name of a number of Gay Liberation groups.
- Gay Marriage: End of the World?
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Gay Marriage Yes!
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2002
The gay community has retreated from radical idealism to cautious conformism.
- Gay rights movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
First Published: 2007
- Gaza Freedom March Blocked
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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.
- Gaza: What Would Lincoln Do?
Sasha, Malia: Tell Your Parents About Sara al-Dalou!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The point of invoking Lincoln is not to guess what he might do in Obama’s shoes, but to reflect on what he did when forced to balance political calculus, the rule of law, and moral and humanitarian considerations.
- Gazan Youth's Manifesto for Change
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2009
Gazan children's kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
- Gaza's Shocking Devastation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
A Canadian Jew's visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw.
- GE boycott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Gedanken über Selbstbestimmung
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
Campaigner and worker on behalf of torture victims.
- General Electric boycott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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.
- General Strikes, Mass Strikes
Against The Current vol. 160
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Inspired by the boldness of the movement, activists of Occupy Oakland issued a “call for a general strike” in that city for November 2 — a sign of the movement’s radicalism and its sense of where social power lies.
- Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1991
- German Auto Workers in the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2011
On the origins of "black bloc" tactics.
- German resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 2001
- Get the Internet working for you
Resource Type: Article
A Web site works best when it is integrated into a co-ordinated communications strategy.
- Getting Ink for Your New Product
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Get media coverage of your product.
- Getting Organized
Resource Type: Article
Advice on the basics of Public Relations (PR).
- Getting the Balance Right
Gender Equality in Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Gender equality in journalism.
- Getting The Goods: Information in B.C. - Review
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1945 Published: 1989
On May 10th, 1943, the first period of our bloody history, the history of the Warsaw Jews, came to an end. The site where the buildings of the ghetto had once stood became a ragged heap of rubble reaching three storeys high. Those who were killed in action had done their duty to the end, to the last drop of blood that soaked into the pavements of the Warsaw ghetto. We, who did not perish, leave it up to you to keep the memory of them alive--forever.
- The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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.
- Gimme the Loot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africa’s Gold Coast.
- Ginger Group
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
An independent group of members of Parliament who in 1924 split from the Progressive Party.
- A Ginger Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Grassroots campaigns could break Britain#s corrupt political system.
- Ginsberg, Allen
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
A tragic tale.
- Give Us Our Money Back!
How Harper Protects Canada's Tax Cheats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and order regime of Stephen Harper barely plays lip service to the issue of tax evasion through tax havens. While Harper cuts billions from government programs in the name of deficit reduction, he refuses to go after billions of dollars in revenue lost to tax evasion and avoidance every year.
- Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Give your Sources media profile an extra boost
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1978
- Glaberman and Faber's Working for Wages - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
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
An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
- Glastnost and the Global Village
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Glezos, Manolis
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
Is the broad globalized social movement opposing what is often known as #corporate globalization# and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.
- Global Justice, What We Eat, Who We Are
Against The Current vol. 92
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Sara Abraham interviews Harriet Friedmann, who has devoted more than two decades to understanding the international politics of food and agriculture and to building local food systems that can be sustainable, polycultural in all senses, and enhancing of democratic, participatory communities.
- Global Leveraged Buyout or the "Longest Boom in Capitalist History"?
A Reply to Robert Fitch
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
The connection between militarism and environmental damage.
- Global Sweatshops' Media Spin Doctors
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- The Global Village Voice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- The Global War on Tribes
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1990
- Global Week of Ecology Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Die Globale Teleueberwachung des 21. Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Article
Es entsteht zur Zeit eine globale Tele#berwachung, die sich von allen ethischen oder diplomatischen Voreingenomenheiten freimacht.
- Globalization And Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
First Published: 1990
- GNU Project
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A free software, mass collaboration project.
- Go Down Moses
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1978
- A Goal for National Survival: 50% Canadian TV Content
Resource Type: Article
The destruction of the CBC would be the greatest disaster to befall Canada.
- The God Question
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).
- Goldsmith, Edward
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Was an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher. (Died 2009).
- The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2010
- Goldstone's shameful U-turn
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1980
- Gonick, Cy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian socialist publisher, academic, and politician. (Born 1936).
- Gonzo journalism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
- The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War
R2P and Genocide Prevention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- "Good News," Iraq and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
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
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
American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
- Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1991
- The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
Resource Type: Article
Winners of the 3rd annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
- The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
Resource Type: Article
Winners of the 4th annual Goodwin's Awards for alternative journalism.
- Goodwin's Awards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Canadian labour leader. (1887-1918)
- Goodwn's awards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Gordon, Walter
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer. (1906-1987).
- Gorter, Herman
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Dutch poet and socialist. (1864-1927).
- Gorz, André
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marxist, social philosopher. (1923-2007).
- Gough, Kathleen
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Anthropologist, Marxist. (1925-1990).
- Gould, Stephen Jay
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. (1941-2002).
- Goverment vandalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Government backs down on safety bill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- The government’s attempt to eradicate the travelling way of life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Elly Robson explores the deliberate criminalisation of the travelling way of life by Britian's coalition government.
- Grabow Riot
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A confrontation between timber workers and owners in Louisiana.
- Gracchi (Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 2005
- Graffiti from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
- Grameen Bank
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
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
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. (1891-1937).
- Gramsci & Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
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
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
First Published: 1992
- Grassroots activist and human rights defender Jamal Juma' arrested
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
Resource Type: Article
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
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